Lawrence Frank Team Quotations

I think this win shows our mental toughness, because it's mind over matter. You have Jason Kidd who played 46 minutes last night, and then plays 40 tonight. This is something our guys can look back on and is a good experience for this team. Denver is one of the best homecourt teams in the league. Things worked for us. We got fortunate that Carmelo got hurt.

Vince is such a selfless guy. He'll do whatever it takes to help the team win. It's never about Vince. It's about what's best for the team.

As a coach you try to put yourself in their shoes and see what you're doing and how they may counter it, and see if there's anything you can do to be one step ahead without driving your team nuts.

Those things are beyond our control; we know on our team what he means. Jason makes this whole thing work. He's the pied piper. As a coach, he's unbelievable to have - a leader who is your most unselfish player and your hardest worker ... The guy is selfless and he really wants to win.

This game was a huge test of will. The mental toughness that we showed in the overtime, of starting fresh and living in the moment was unbelievable -- a true team win.

We had numerous opportunities. The game was in the balance for either team to take, so we are not going to look at the officials for the reason we lost the game.

The heart and will that this guy has is unbelievable. His defense on Kobe, his assertiveness on offense -- he would not let our team lose tonight. He put us on his back.

There are no excuses. We've got enough players on our team to play better than that.

Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

It's hard to win games when a team shoots 62 percent from three and you shoot 37 percent overall.

I am an optimist, and why not today? It just goes to say how quality an organization Dallas is. They've been an elite team for a long time and we want to be up in those ranks.