It's tough to throw over Shawn Marion. If you throw it over Shawn Marion, you're probably throwing it out of bounds.

I don't know if there's another guy that you could say 'Well, he guarded Yao Ming and then the next night he guarded Tony Parker. I don't know if there's anyone who asks a guy on their team to do as much as we ask Shawn to do.

Dan's high school used to have this shirt that said 'organized chaos,' and that's pretty much what it is. There's a method to what we're doing, and Steve is great at reading situations and creating opportunities for guys.

Every night, you can pencil in 20 and 10, and now all of a sudden you can pencil in 25 and 11. That's a pretty big jump for a guy that's already putting up massive numbers.

For the most part, you just have to fight through it mentally. Once you do that, you can deal with the physical part. . . . But I think Mike really has a great feel for when guys really need to work and when they need to save their legs. That helps us tremendously.

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.