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He played with the energy and the enthusiasm and threw his body around out there, things that we want to see players do. That helped us. I thought he ran out of gas at one point in that fourth quarter. Otherwise, I probably would have had him stay on the floor.
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We're exploring life without Shaq, ... and enjoying it, too.
Phil Jackson
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We had a blowout in the third quarter and we never recovered from it. Give them credit Mobley and Brand were productive players out there.
Phil Jackson -
They're all big (games) for us. We have 10 home games, three road games and we feel like we have to win really a high majority of those games to finish where we have to finish if we want to go forward to gain momentum for the playoffs.
Phil Jackson -
We were unhappy with the first 18 minutes of the game, and we weren't reacting defensively the way we like to see them react. In the second half, we stepped it up defensively and were able to get out and run.
Phil Jackson -
We got in a situation where we were waiting for Kobe is hand to get hot. We started trying to force it in to him and that hurt us. Kobe had a hard time chasing Dixon around screens.
Phil Jackson -
I didn't get any satisfaction from their reasoning.
Phil Jackson -
I am pleased with Kobe and how he controlled the offense. We had people open because they were doubling him and that got some people open and we found them.
Phil Jackson
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He (Brown) had a lot of offensive rebounds out there and did some things defensively and got some offensive things working for him, and that was good. And Luke had a stellar floor game and got some points.
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We couldn't stop their second chance points down the stretch. I thought we had a good shot at winning the game. It was well fought.
Phil Jackson -
Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.
Phil Jackson -
Determined, dedicated, disciplined. I think he's ready to play. For Kobe, it's about re-establishing his dominance in the game.
Phil Jackson -
The road to freedom is a beautiful system.
Phil Jackson -
He just has to finish, ... He's doing everything right but the final act and that's finding some strength and finishing and finding a good base and putting it through the hoop. I just told him, 'You're going to have to dunk the ball.'
Phil Jackson
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You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.
Phil Jackson -
We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.
Phil Jackson -
We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.
Phil Jackson -
I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
Phil Jackson -
It was a really nice game. He did a lot of things well for us tonight. He has been saying he has been getting more comfortable playing in the offense. We asked him to do a variety of things, and that sparked his game tonight. His rebounding has been a great asset for us.
Phil Jackson -
That was all well and fine, but there was still some unfinished business, I felt, with the Lakers.
Phil Jackson
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The two teams were both tired, but we were able to ride a little energy in the second half. We were able to build a lead that was tough to overcome.
Phil Jackson -
It was a real disappointing defensive effort by our team. So we talked a lot about that.
Phil Jackson -
There's going to be games like that, games that are going to be up there (offensively), especially with the accuracy on three-pointers that they did tonight.
Phil Jackson -
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
Phil Jackson