Raja Bell Good Quotations

He's so good at breaking down defenses and making them collapse that all you have to do is find that open seam and get in his vision. You trust that once you're in his vision, sooner or later he's going to find you, and from there it's being in rhythm and shooting. His presence out there is what opens that whole thing up.

That's a good question. It's been a challenge for us to be ready to play every night. What you're seeing (now) is a team that's not necessarily ready to go when the jump ball goes up.

They set a double screen and I sent him high. I switched with Shawn and I grabbed Lewis. Shawn did a good job of contesting the shot. We didn't want the shooter to necessarily be Allen, but you definitely want them shooting from eight feet above the 3-point line.

We've pitched in by committee, and it's translated into everybody having a good year.

He was barreling, barreling and started pushing me so I just pulled him down with me. It's a good thing the ref saw him pushing me first because I just took him to the ground so he wouldn't get a rebound.

It was funny. You know, Manu's a competitor, and I do a good job, I'd like to say, on him, but he's a tough guard for me. So it's just a respect level. It's cool to hear somebody thinks you're that way, especially being the All-Star that he is, so it was flattering.

It was critical for us to get off to a good start against a team that was a little undermanned. I shoot the ball. ... People who know and watch the game know what you can do. If you get praised for it or not, it is irrelevant for me.

We understood that we had to come out and establish ourselves early and make sure they knew we were here to play. It's easy to let down going into the All-Star break, but we wanted to guard against that, and we did a good job.

This is the time when we'll see what we're made of. These are five games that we should win. It's going to be a long trip. Everybody will have to make sure we pay attention to detail out there on the road, get out to some good starts early hopefully. This is going to be a critical span of games for us here.

Its always nice to shoot a high percentage but I think we have to understand why we were able to shoot a high percentage - our floor spacing was awesome, we were running the floor and really playing unselfish. You're not going to shoot that well every night, we got to understand why we knocked them down, and that's a good thing to take away from the game.