They punched us in the mouth tonight, but we overcame our nerves, and we're starting to get it.

We didn't hustle tonight. We didn't play our game. We basically let one dude (Carter) beat us. And we missed shots that we usually make.

I wasn't going to come to some place where we were going to lose, ... I knew we were going to be good. We got guys who can win, who have won. But talk to me at the All-Star break.

Even early in the season this was a huge gut check,

We have to capitalize on what we have, with Sam, myself, both of us coming in as veterans. We've been around, been to the playoffs. We have to bring that atmosphere here to these guys.

I learned the system and got better with it through the year. But I was only there, what, like four months? Those guys had been together for three years.