Udonis Haslem Quotes
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We wanted to take away his penetration and keep him out of the paint, and he hit his jumper.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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It's kind of like fool's gold. We're definitely making plays at the end of games to win, but at the same time we don't want to have to rely on that going into Detroit or with the playoffs coming up.
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My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.
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Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
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I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.
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He mentioned one thing, one time and we went out and responded. He didn't have to keep telling us and drilling us like little kids. He made one statement about it this morning in the walk-through and we came out and took care of business and that's the sign of a good team, coming out and making adjustments.
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It's very important to execute down the stretch and get the stops, but by the same token, we want to put the games away a little earlier.
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We came out and took care of business and that's the sign of a good team, coming out and making adjustments.
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We didn't deserve to win that game. If we would have won that game, it would have defied the laws of basketball.
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It is one of those situations where I have to step up and stick on the shooter and let the guard take his chances down there. I am thinking a step ahead. I am thinking if somebody rotates, then I have to rotate.
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I would never approach an official in a physical manner or throw anything at them. I could see how it looked that way.
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I don't think it will take long. We understand what the game plan is every game going out. The transition more than anything will probably be defensively, because everybody played different defensive schemes, and our scheme is probably one of the toughest schemes in the NBA because we work a lot harder.
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I agree with him 100 percent. Watching film everybody is making minor mistakes and I just think being half a step earlier, or being one step over the left or one step over to the right could change the whole outlook of the play as far as the other team getting an easy bucket or a wide open look.
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I think we understand what we're going up against when we go on the road. When we go on the road, it takes two times the concentration, two times more effort to win.
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Anytime you start out slow like that it's a concern. You don't want to have the reputation of being a slow-starting team because you're not always going to be able to come back. We've been fortunate we've come back and won, but it could easily have gone the other way.
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It is a game I'll never forget as long as I play the game of basketball. Obviously it's always in the back of our mind, how close we were last year.
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We just kept pounding it and pounding it inside. We took advantage of their size and took it to the basket. Everything was just clicking.
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He's the most dominant player in the game.
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There's not a time we're in that building that we're not doing some type of conditioning. We never really have a day off.
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We're two different players and we can bring two different things to the table. If we put that together, we should have a pretty good tandem.
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We haven't been beating top-10 teams. We felt kind of desperate to get a win. We can beat anybody; we just haven't been doing it.
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They pretty much had us dead in the water.