Derek Fisher Team Quotations

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

We're still learning as a team how to finish a game. We had an opportunity but didn't get it done. We have to keep learning from these setbacks.

I don't know and I guess I've been around too long to say we deserved it when we didn't win. The team that wins oftentimes deserves to win, so you can't take credit away from them for continuing to make plays down the stretch. I'm very proud of the effort of our basketball team that we put out there tonight. It's frustrating because we've been in this position so many times this season.

I feel like it's my job to step up my game to whatever level is needed for the team to be successful while guys are out. I don't know if I'm better; just different.

We may have gotten a little bit tired. They played great defense, and I think when you're playing a team like T.C., your margin for error is very small.

I think we're finding this team can win basketball games, even when we don't score 100 points.

This was a team win tonight. We needed it. I was just trying to get to the rim and I did.

We got off to a good start, but we couldn't sustain it. We've experienced that several times this year and we've experienced it against this team before. We haven't been able to put together a good complete game in quite sometime. It's frustrating.

Coach Popovich is a very intelligent coach. He must have felt that his team needed to get some emotion while playing the game.

It's just in terms of our team -- the talent that's been put together, the contracts that have been put out -- whether or not the timing is going to allow for him and us to continue to mesh. That's the only pressure.

It tells you something about this team that we were able to start the season off correctly after that first half,