Brian Goorjian Quotations

One of our focal points going into the game was the boards against Brisbane and to stay competitive. And I thought Benny Knight was absolutely outstanding with 16 boards - I can't remember him playing a better game than that for us.

One thing that came out of Sunday night's loss was that we didn't show Anstey enough respect when it came to him shooting the ball from behind the three-point arc.

I have a responsibility to protect my team and I thought it wasn't taken care of during the game.

If it goes up a level from the regular season, it's going to be an unbelievably intense physical battle.

He was kind of out of it (unfit) when he joined us but Ian's improvement has helped to make us legitimate.

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

We didn't really have a great week of practice, we've had a lot of stuff on the road and there was a bit of flatness about everything, I guess with Christmas and everything.

We probably need another big, we probably need to add another if we want to get here again.

We didn't take a backward step. We can bump and grind with the best of them and they're the best of them.

We didn't have a good finish to the year. Now it comes down to how we play. For us, it's a youth situation, we'll be spreading the court out, it'll be a small style of game.

With Al, you've got to take your hat off to the guy. He handled himself so well. You can tell the team loves playing for him. I'm happy for him, I enjoyed the competition and I'm man enough to say I love the guy.

Tonight, it wasn't spectacular basketball, but it was an absolute dogfight.

There is a lot of pressure on us to win gold. We want to come out and play great basketball on Friday, and win well.

We are going to go up there and go for it. It's going to be a battle.

There's no doubt the worthy champion this year was the Melbourne Tigers.

Rowdy's (Sheridan) in trouble ... but I think C.J. will be OK.

It wasn't good. It's obviously one of the risks you take playing in these games. For him to have an injury that something because I've never known him to get hurt.

It was borderline last year and we went for Rogers, which in hindsight was probably the right decision. But we told Luke we were looking at him for the future.

I know he's disappointed, but he didn't have a great game tonight and he's capable of stepping up.

Chris (Anstey) is huge in this series and he's a huge match-up for us and also D Mac. Chris relies on D Mac and so that's a factor as well.