Kyle Korver Playing Quotations

We?re just playing together, we?re playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he?s the key. He?s the leader and he?s been playing great. He?s been a lot more vocal. He has a different look in his eye. And when he has that look, he?s pretty tough to stop.

It changes everything. They're two guys with the same athletic makeup. They're blocking shots and getting rebounds. Second-chance points are something that's really hurt us this year. And when those guys are both playing like that, (the opponent) isn't getting any of that. It really does change a lot of things for us. This is really what we had envisioned at the beginning of the season.

We've talked more about defense in practice. When we watch film, that's all we watch is defense -- we don't even watch our offense right now. (Defense) has just been our focus. We're playing a different style of basketball right now in terms of slowing it down. We're playing well.

We are playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he's the key. He has a different look in his eye. When he has that look, he's pretty tough to stop.

We've just been playing harder. I don't know why this has all of a sudden clicked like it has. We've said all along we have tools, we have talent. For a while, our effort just wasn't there, but I can't put a finger on why it was that way.

We've been looking for something to get us going for a while. We had some long practices, we had some long meetings. But we got back to having fun out there. When you're having fun, you're going to player harder. When you're playing harder, you're playing better defense.

It's all about fitting together and playing together. If we do that, we really have a nice team. That's the key for us. If everyone feels like they're playing at both ends, they're going to play harder.

Allen just comes out and performs, and the numbers he puts up are great. He's just playing really really well right now.