Jarrett Jack Quotations

If we come and play for 48 minutes the entire game, we can compete with anybody. We've got to come and play hard every night and hopefully we can get out of this slump.

We can talk about it all we want to. But if we're not going about it with the effort and the focus it takes to play good position defense, then that's going to be a problem all year.

I think we're coming out and throwing the first punch instead of waiting back and seeing what our opponent is going to do. We've been coming out aggressive, very sure of ourselves, and we're just playing with a confidence and air about us right now that is just easy and contagious.

For that to happen on the biggest game, on the biggest stage is tough to swallow.

This is a different feeling right now. I've always played in the post-season. It hurts.

It's tough. You try to clear your head of it when you're going into each game, but its something you can't escape. Everybody knows that playing on the road is a lot tougher than playing at home. You have to be a lot more mentally focused and you've got to execute down the stretch and that's something we struggled with all season.

It was a game where we were kind of embarrassed. We didn't have the great performance that we wanted to. It's good that we have them with that game still in our memory.

It's nothing that none of us are used to. It's going to be an adjustment for all of us trying to play off the ball when we're so used to having the ball in our hands.

You look at this team and the Clippers and the roles were reversed a couple of years ago. Now they are like our teams were. The guys here are trying to get established as players. Our effort tonight was strong but we still came up short.

It was just a clinic showing us how the game is played. They really shared the ball. You can tell they enjoy moving it around. It doesn't matter who gets the buckets or gets the assists.