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We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
Allen Iverson -
I got us off to a bad start from the beginning of the game. The magnitude of the game and being in so many games like that, for me to be the one to act like I had never been in a game like that is unacceptable. I fully take responsibility for this one.
Allen Iverson
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Iverson: Man look, I hear you... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game... the actual game, when it matters... We're talking about practice ...
Allen Iverson -
When you have a half like that, nine times out of 10, you're going to have a good lead.
Allen Iverson -
To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.
Allen Iverson -
You know, I've always told him (Larry Brown) I wanted the relationship that Michael Jackson... Michael Jordan, I'm sorry. … I wanted the same relationship with him like Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan had.
Allen Iverson -
We tried it different ways in the first half of the season and now we just have to do it the way Mo Cheeks wants it done every night.
Allen Iverson -
I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.
Allen Iverson
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I had my popcorn just like probably everybody else. I was watching, and I was calling people up on the phone to make sure they were watching it. It's like, when you see a game like that, you're so much a fan ...
Allen Iverson -
We aren't playing defense and we aren't rebounding the basketball. This has gotten off to a bad start, but we have to find a way to turn it around.
Allen Iverson -
We had a real good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out be-cause it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team. I look at the stats and see that they still shot 50 percent and they almost scored 100 points and that's not something we want to give up. That's something we've got to look at as negative even though we got a win and try to improve on that.
Allen Iverson -
I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.
Allen Iverson -
We weren't ready to handle the back screens and all the cuts. They execute their plays to the fullest and get the best shot possible.
Allen Iverson -
It makes it that much easier for me, especially when he gets that attention on the post and people double him, and I get the entry pass. I get people running out at me, I can drive to the basket or hit that shot. And running the pick-and-roll, when guys try to take the ball out of my hands, all I do is make that one little pass at the free throw line. And when (Webber) is knocking it down, it?s tough for a team to stop us.
Allen Iverson
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Yeah, I came down wrong. But we've got a game tomorrow and we've got to come to play.
Allen Iverson -
Every game is important for us. We didn't act like it tonight.
Allen Iverson -
When you work hard, good things happen.
Allen Iverson -
It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to where you don't play so much with your physical ability all the time. You have to think the game out a lot more. That's where I'm a lot better. I know the game a lot more. I see things before they happen a lot.
Allen Iverson -
Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.
Allen Iverson -
Honestly, we know that we're fighting for a playoff position. I just don't want to settle for the eighth spot. If we play these games out and win most of them, we can get up to the seventh, or maybe even the sixth spot.
Allen Iverson
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It was a great feeling, man. My first time being here, people embracing me the way they were. It's something I'm going to cherish ... It kind of made me more nervous, just wanting to give them a good show.
Allen Iverson -
If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?
Allen Iverson -
This would have been a bad one to lose, man, because we did put our effort on defense. We did play one of the best defensive games that we played.
Allen Iverson -
We thought we had chances to get back into the game. We turned the ball over here and there, and they did what great teams do - they took advantage of it. When you are playing against a good team like (Detroit), you have to take advantage of the opportunities and you can't throw the ball away.
Allen Iverson