Bruce Bowen Quotations

I think so. Not to disrespect them (Magic), but it's not like you're going up against Phoenix right now. You expect their numbers to be up a little bit, but they scored 54 points in the first half. I don't care how you look at it, that's not defense to our standards.

We did a better job in the second half of the game tonight.

We thought about the way we played them last time at home, because when you get smacked at home, you don't like that. You go back to the drawing board and figure out what you can do to turn it around.

It's always a good test when we play them. In their system, if there's 22 seconds left on the shot clock and somebody's open, they're going to shoot it.

Whenever you allow a team like Dallas to shoot more than 50 percent, things aren't good for you.

It was a playoff atmosphere out there tonight. We were pressing some in the first half and didn't play that well. We picked up the intensity in the second half.

They have a wonderful economic-development program here, and they actually recruit gun businesses.

We had more people distributing the ball in the second half and I was the beneficiary of some of those passes. When we do that, somebody is going to hit the wide-open shot.

I did what I did and I'm sorry for that. But there's nothing I can do to take it back.

You have to understand that all we did is what we were supposed to do tonight. They are going to be a better team when they come out the next time, and we have to be ready for that.