Josh Smith Quotations

We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half.

We're playing defense tremendously well. Our zone has been a high as of late. We've been playing well as a team and we're having fun. I think that's why were getting better.

When I've had to score, if they leave me open, I'm going to try to make them pay by hitting the jump shot like I did tonight.

I got the ball, was open and had to take it myself and hope for the best. My form was all right. I just prayed that it would go in.

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

I don't care what the numbers say, I'm telling you we're getting screwed. We play hard and I think we deserve the same calls anybody else gets. We play aggressive on both ends of the floor. We don't get that respect on the defensive end because every time we touch somebody it's a foul. Then we go out there on the offensive end and get hacked and it's not a foul. Anybody can see that something is not right.

He felt like he was held back here. He had an opportunity in Phoenix, and he's playing to his potential now.

Joe is really a clutch performer. We knew he would give us a lift.

It could have been avoided because obviously a fan isn't supposed to dehumidify a room.

I think the crowd will be behind Robinson because when I see somebody that short getting up like that, I'm thinking the same thing. It gets my attention. I think I'm the underdog even though I won it last year.

I think we are (better than last year). We're starting to find ways to win basketball games.

I think the third quarter beat us. We came out kind of flat, and they took advantage of it. Chucky Atkins knocked down some threes early and got the lead to 20 real quick.

Kyle is our work horse. We put the ball in his hands, and I think he did a great job. He left a couple up, but the boys stepped up behind him and gave him some confidence.

I think if we don't make it that will be a big disappointment for all of us.

I thought I had a good block when they called the foul. I wanted to be in the game at the last minute.

You can either pay someone to drive around or you can pay for a computer to scan the area.

We can play with the best we beat Detroit, San Antonio. We just couldn't come up with the win tonight.

We shot a lot of outside jump shots and we thought we could put a little bit of pressure on their defense. On the switch-offs we had a lot of mismatches and we didn't take advantage of them.

We knew we?d have to really step up tonight. It was an amazing game by both teams.

There is probably some pressure on all of us. You don't want to have a sophomore slump and you want people to know that you were drafted for a reason. But we've all dealt with pressure before. And we'll deal with it now.

Every time it was close like that, Joe stepped up big.

We seem to have their number this year. They are a playoff team, so it feels good to beat them, especially that we could beat them four times.

We've had a lot of adversity, a lot of stuff said about our team. We've got to ignore that stuff. Coach is a great coach and we hate to see him go down that path. We're trying to play as hard as we can to prevent that from happening.

We figured out a way to win. In these last two wins, if you look at the assists we had in those games, they were kind of high. The best thing that you can do is just pass the ball and get everyone involved, and we'll win games.

Doubling our win total from last year is a big accomplishment for me and for all the people who were here last year.

And they didn't look back. If we played in the third quarter like we did in the second quarter it would have been a different game.

The win gets us prepared for our next game and gives us a lot of confidence.

I've never seen them run that fast. It was like they were running from the police. It was so funny.

Sacramento is a good team, but everybody is beatable on every night. It's just on how you play, and we didn't play together tonight. That's one of the reasons why we lost (Friday).

Coach has put confidence in me. He knows I've been working on my jump shot, so he doesn't have any problem with me taking it.

They said I grabbed the rim and pulled up to get the rebound. I was shocked.

They played off of me and I took every opportunity to take it to the basket. They really can't match up with any of us man-to-man.

(Assistant coach) Larry Drew kept telling me to shoot my shot because it's right on target. The opportunity came, Al (Harrington) swung the ball to me, and I knocked down the jump shot.

It was really neat. You got to interact with a whole lot of different groups of Indians.

Don?t be like all the other Lions coaches, how they got fired and stuff. Be a good coach and be supportive.

That's the first time we've won three in a row since I've been here.

It was nice to sleep in my own bed.

It was like they were running from the cops.

It was one of those nights. You've got to feed the guy the ball.

It's very rare for Joe. This is my first time, honestly, seeing him play like this.

They are on fire right now. People were counting them out, but I believe they can make the playoffs.

They are just on fire. They beat Miami and Detroit so they are probably the hottest team in the league right now since New Jersey lost their winning streak. People were counting them out and I believe they can make the playoffs.

It was great for other players to score to take pressure off Kyle.

It was just one of those nights were I was feeling it. As of late, the team has been unselfish. They've been finding the hot man and it was me and Salim.

It's really quite easy and a no-brainer. It's a low-cost way to provide aircraft security.

I know that Nate is going to be really strong because he's so short and has athletic ability. It's going to be hard for me to win it again.

I really had a lot of fun on the trips. I got to see a lot of new cars.

All the beds were moved out. The bedroom was torn apart. It took us an hour and a half to two hours to put the bedroom back together. It's only been a few days, but everything looks good still.

All the information said to dress warmly. I brought three coats.

I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.

It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

And the cool kids always had a stop sign in their bedroom. Which means: "I don't care if people die. I want my stop sign." At least the assumption was that they took it down from somewhere and now there are old ladies hitting each other head-on somewhere.

It's a stage with four lights clamped to it with walls made out of plywood. And then my name's in the center. It's the type of thing that can be made over and over again. It's not like a Michelangelo sculpture.

I have a streak in myself, like, I'm an exhibi- tionist. There's a side of me that really wants to show off and share parts of myself with others. I mean, that's why I live in New York, and that's why I'm an artist who shows 10 times a year.

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do you mean? It's a flower!" But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it's like, "Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?"

I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?

It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop.

I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.

I do, but I don't like doing that. I would do it out of hate or anger. I would do it because some- one was pushing my buttons, but really I don't want to break my back in some European city while everyone else is drinking espresso. I only do it because someone refused to pay for the shipping, or something like that. I don't want to let a whole city of people down.

It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.