Nate McMillan Good Quotations

Letdown is written on this game. For us, we have other factors that should motivate us, not so much that we played a good game against the Lakers. We only have 11 wins. This is an opportunity for us. Just as those guys are missing some pieces over there, they also see opportunity.

I am encouraged that we've been in control in two games against good teams. Now we have to figure out how to win those games.

I saw us get tight. We looked like we knew we had possibly given this game away. But we made plays down the stretch to win it -- two good defensive stops, which was the difference.

We were aggressive and made them work for the most part. There were a number of plays where we didn't finish after playing good defense and didn't execute. But it wasn't just one play like Devin Harris' steal and bucket. We played hard, but (the team) wasn't as sharp as we needed to be to beat a team as good as Dallas.

We've had some good days. We've got to get better in that area. We've been working on that, and hopefully we'll continue to improve.