I have always been accustomed to that role, even going back to college. But the great thing is, I have a backcourt mate who's accustomed to it, too. So teams really have to pick their poison as far as who is going to take that shot.
I thought we were great defensively. We pressured the ball, got in passing lanes, forced everything baseline. That's what we wanted to do tonight. We weren't worried about our offense. We wanted to come out and try to make a statement.
I'm in a great rhythm. I feel good. It really doesn't matter to me, because the playoffs are a whole different thing.
We got the win. They played great and we just kind of traded baskets with them until the end.
We pressured the ball, we got into the passing lanes and we forced everything to the baseline. We were great defensively, and that's really all we worried about. We really weren't worried about our offense. We just wanted to come out and make a statement on the defensive end.
We just knuckled down. We still felt we had an opportunity to win. Our bench did a great job of keeping us in the game. When we came in the game in the fourth quarter, we just wanted to execute every time down the floor and we did that.
We just want to keep it going, ... Guys here are very energetic. Everybody's pulling for each other. We want to win as many games as possible, and we did a great job tonight.
We just want to come out and stay focused and try to win each game. I mean, it's a great streak. But to us, it's a game. We don't look at what the Chicago Bulls did or anything like that. We just want to get home court advantage throughout the playoffs.
We just wanted to put on the gas when we got a lead. We did a great job with that.
You go against these guys every night, there's not a whole lot of conversation. To get an opportunity to be on the same team and have fun with 'em is a great thing.
This is the best Lindsey has looked, with his energy and his pressure on the ball and getting the ball to the right guys at the right time. I thought he really looked great (Saturday). This is the first time of him not being sick, not being hurt or anything else.
They're a good team, man, no doubt. Michael Redd is a great scorer who can really hurt you if you don't guard him right. We're going to have to play tough to make sure he doesn't get off on us.
It was a great night. We missed a lot of opportunities to put them away. I think we missed a lot of wide-open shots. But at the end of the night when it was time to dig down we did.
He's just a great coach, we love him to death. We just wished him luck.