Vladimir Radmanovic Quotations

I don't think we're going to play football in the playoffs. Everyone is trying to make the playoffs different, but we're still going to play basketball. Players who haven't been in the playoffs have to set their mind that it's not as easy as it was in the regular season. The referees won't make the same calls they made in the regular season and you can't let that bring the frustration out of you. That's the biggest adjustment.

It is all up to the coach, ... If I am coming off the bench, I guess I don't have a choice. There is a training camp, and that is the place to get a starting position, and I am ready for it.

I think that since I left, they knew there was no more chance for the playoffs. They've been playing younger players and trying to build the team up for next year. It's hard to see that, but I'm really happy that I'm in the playoffs.

I still remembered about how to play basketball. (Friday) was tough, I'll have to admit it. But you have to respect coach's decision. Nothing surprises me anymore, so I am trying to be focused.

Winning makes everything easier and sometimes things that are wrong you don't even notice them. Winning covers it up. When you're losing some things just show up.

Finally, I had a good day I can be proud of, but it would have been better if we'd won.

What's the use in talking about what we have to do anymore?

Everybody knows that if the United States were ever to have its best players playing in the Olympics, then it would not be close. You can talk all you want about the rest of the world closing the gap, and that's true. But when the best players in the world are on one team, you're not going to beat them.

There's nothing I can do but go out there and play, whether it's five minutes or 30 minutes. I can't worry about that.

Really, I don't think about it any more. I signed a one-year deal, ... My game is going to show what needs to be shown.

There's 20 of us on this team and we all probably have the same opinion of what's wrong. But I'll let somebody else tell it this time. I'm not going to analyze anything anymore. What happens, happens.

It was really hard. I think that's what we missed. That's probably the reason why we didn't play the way we're supposed to play because we all like to practice easy, but sometimes you need somebody to push you a little bit in order to get better.

It's a great feeling to have a guy like (Brand). Especially because he's a low-post guy and he can shoot the mid-range jumper. It's great to play with him, he opens up a lot for everybody else.

It's a pretty hard situation for everybody, to be 30 games into the season and you have to change everything, but they were not going the right direction. It was the only logical thing that was going to happen. We all feel bad for coach Weiss, but it was probably time for changes. Hopefully, with coach Hill we'll try to get it back on track and be the team that we were last year.

It was one of those games we had to come in and play hard from the beginning of the game and that is what we did. They didn't have a field goal for about the first six minutes of the game. We showed them how we were going to play and it paid off.

The last 30 games, to be honest with you, I don't feel like a basketball player. It's really hard and frustrating, but I tried to stay focused mentally and physically, be ready when I was called.

I'm glad I've been able to do that for this team. It's all about putting the pieces together, and now I think we have almost everything. I'm really enjoying it. I wish I came here before this.

I'm just glad we won a game. I am happy to be here and play with all these guys and have some fun and hope we can do something great.

Hopefully, we're going to close out this season the way we're supposed to and go into the playoffs and do something good there.

I don't think I said anything bad about Bob. I'm still here and trying to do my best. This is not the time to talk about minutes.

I don't see it as a gamble. I just hope I'm going to stay healthy and try to be better than I was last year. I'm ready mentally and physically.