Troy Murphy Quotations

We can count on him every night for at least 20 points. The way he plays every night -- he plays hard, he plays hurt. He does a lot of great things for us.

If they decide that this team can't get to the playoffs, then hopefully they'll do something.

I'd be surprised. I mean, you hear your name in a lot of rumors, things like that.

He'd be great (for us). It's too quiet around here.

This was a game we should have won.

We were looking to win four out of five on this trip and get back in the playoff hunt, and so far it's been disastrous for us.

We still felt the effects of the loss in Chicago and wanted to make sure they didn't outwork us. It was nice to get a lead and maintain it through the fourth.

We put ourselves in a bit of hole the last couple of weeks so all these games are a must for us. We're still trying to sneak in there. There's still a third of the season left, so we'll see what happens.

We just have to salvage this trip and play well. If we don't, we could lose by 30.

The playoffs will still be on our mind until we are mathematically eliminated. We're trying to sneak in there. We still have a lot of the season ahead of us. We'll see what happens.

We've put ourselves in a bit of a hole the past couple of weeks. All these games are a must for us.

We tend to finish the season well. I don't know why. Whether we have 15 wins going into the last couple of months or whether we have 25. Hopefully this will be another one of those years.

We just got our butts kicked tonight. This game really let us know where we stand. We have to have more of a sense of urgency and bring some focus to each and every game.

We got open shots at the end of the game. You want an uncontested shot, and that's what we got.

It would've been huge. It's unfortunate. We came in and laid an egg. But the trip was a success.

That took a little bit of life out of us.

It's tough on Adonal to be taken out of the starting lineup, because it might look like that's the problem when it really isn't. Everybody's struggling. It's unfortunate for him, but he's a team guy and always plays hard and will provide a good spark coming off the bench. And he played really tough in practice today.

It's safe to say this will make or break our season. We need to win the vast majority of these games.

It was a good speech, the kind he used to give us my freshman year at Notre Dame. I've heard it before.

They hit big shots for us at the end of the game, got us back in.

That's all we've talked about is defense, defense, defense, ... Now we're coming out and backing up our talk.

I don't know how he got that through.

I didn't think it was that severe of a hit. Glad it's only one game. ... He is our catalyst and we need to step up collectively as a group to make up for his absence.

Get back down low. Rebound the ball. Run the floor. If I go out and do more things, then of course more stuff will come my way.

How many games are left? I don't know. It sucks. We still lose games like this and we haven't learned how to win them.

I do feel for him. It's an unfortunate time for him to go down, but if he has to, better to do it now and get back and concentrate for the regular season.

You can't think of a worse team to play on a back-to-back than Phoenix, especially when it's away. Just their style of play, it's tough. You don't feel it so much in the first quarter, but you can feel the pace in the third.