Juwan Howard Quotations

He's one of the top three players at his position. That's a great compliment. There's Shaq in front of him and who else? Take your pick.

We can't be focusing on who we have out there or not. We've just got to go out there and play hard and be aggressive. If we have one or two guys that are out, we've got to roll up our sleeves and go to work.

I didn't see it happening. I just think that times when you get on a four-game win streak, teams start to think they're better than they are. We can't have that attitude. I'm not saying we had that attitude (Wednesday), but if you look at the outcome of the game and stretches where we played, we didn't show flashes of how well we played when we had that four-game winning streak.

I can recall teams I've been on that have been in situations like this. You try to find ways, no matter what part of the season, to get wins. Sure enough, this late in the season, to get two wins over two good teams ... it has to boost your confidence and morale. Everybody starts to feel good.

I'm pretty sure everyone in this locker room has been through something like this where the home team's crowd gets excited, the energy level rises, the other team uses it to play with confidence. I don't think (we) felt pressure.

That's totally awful. It should not happen. Every guy in this locker room is responsible. We didn't secure rebounds. We didn't guard the pick-and-roll the right way. It's unacceptable.

When the whole team is making shots, it feels great. We've noticed in the past, when we missed shots, guys have really gotten down on themselves. We're trying so hard. And we've lost some ballgames. It becomes frustrating. But tonight was the total opposite.

It's kind of weird that we're a different team on the road. Some may say our focus is different, we play with more energy, more passion. ... We have to make teams fear coming into our building.

We got our butts kicked. It's embarrassing to experience something like that.

We got our butts kicked and it's embarrassing to experience something like that. It's very disappointing for all of us that really care about what's happened to this team. The fans aren't happy, the organization's not happy and each and every guy on this team and the coaches are equally disappointed.