Everyone is a critic right now; everybody is a mastermind of basketball. Flip is a hell of a coach. Flip doesn't shoot the basketball, doesn't get one rebound. I can't abide by that [criticism]. We believe in Flip; he believes in us.

That was a hell of a basketball game, for sure. Our team did everything tonight that I asked of them to give ourselves a chance to win.

I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do. Since I was a rookie I was groomed to make shots down the stretch.

I just told him, the first day I got here, I'll make his job look easy. The stuff he does, I'll make it come easy to him.

Mike expects so much from us, and I think it's the first year that he really has that feeling it's something special. He has the right to feel that way because he's been around for a long, long time, coaching and playing the game. He understands what it's going to take for us to be successful.

Vince Carter is such a great player that we need two guys to try to stop him. When we got there to try to stop him, we got there too late and he either made the shot or we fouled him.