Morris Peterson Quotations

When we were off to our 1-15 start I think that's when they did the poll.

When things are clicking and going right for us, I always thought we were a pretty good basketball team.

I wish Chris was healthy, but unfortunately he's not. We're just going to keep doing the things that we have to do. It's going to take more than me, Charlie (Villanueva) and Mike. It's going to take the whole team.

We jumped on them and I thought out defense played an integral part. We didn't shoot the ball exceptionally well, but we got a lot of lay-ups and second chance shots.

We had a lot of turnovers. We didn't push the ball up the court and we stood around on offence.

We have to learn, once we get a lead, we have to bury teams,

We played well, we played well enough to win the game. Down the stretch we allowed them to get second chance shots. We allowed them to hit three pointers and get back into the game. Against a team like that who's so dangerous offensively we've got to step up and make plays, and on the offensive end we did. On the defensive end we broke down and second chance points and three pointers and rebounds killed us.

Today was probably the first day I thought about it. I do take pride in my work, pride in coming in every day but I just want to continue to do that.

We made a conscious effort to not make mistakes at the end, just play basketball and defensively we wanted to get some stops.

Tonight in the end I started feeling tired. I don't know where I got that last burst of energy from. I just want to go home and sleep.

We should be learning be learning from this. ...We're definitely angry.

We should be 3-0 on this road trip, but we're 0-3. There are no moral victories here.

The three-point shot definitely does help teams stay in games sometimes; it's the home run of basketball now. I feel that it's a good part of the game. Do guys sometimes tend to rely on three-point shot too much? Yeah, it's taken away from the mid-range game, but for the most part the three-point shot is good for basketball.

Coach is always animated, but he was probably a little more animated than normal. He got on some guys and challenged some guys. That's what we needed.

At home, it's all about pride, and to lose so many at home at the start of the season, that was telling was that we had no character.

They reviewed everything and looked over everything and felt like there isn't going to be a fine.

It started on the defensive end. I got a couple of stops. I was able to get guys involved and, after that we were able to get a comfortable lead. A team like Charlotte always plays hard and never gives up. Whenever we would make a run, we knew we had to turn it up defensively.

It's a lot of minutes. We want the younger guys to step up. But when I'm out there, I'm not really thinking about it. When I go home at night, that's when I really feel it. I've got to get my rest.

If you get an open look in this league, you've got to knock down the shot and we were knocking them down tonight.

I know I didn't touch him. There was no contact there but Jess (official Jess Kersey) made the call.

Charlie has an unbelievable knack of scoring. It looks like he's not playing hard but that's just his demeanor. He plays hard and tonight he hit some big shots for us. He's coming along well and he's going to develop into a great player in this league.