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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

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You have to watch out from mentally flirting with something you did for 22 years and being nostalgic in any shape or form.

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We don't want to go through what we went through last year. My whole thing is about maintenance right now, but not at the expense of complacency.

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I don't want to go through what we did last year with injuries. It's a matter of managing maintenance with complacency.

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Maybe something happened at the other end, but I don't like that. There's got to be some dignity at the end of the game. I've got to talk to him about it. I didn't like that.

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Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

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They just kept hanging in there and then we finally opened it up in the second half.

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I think people got a view of absolute greatness, back and forth. The bigger the moment, both of them stepped up even bigger and bigger.

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There's gotta be some dignity in the game.

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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

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He's grabbing the ball strongly. He's catching the ball in traffic now. It's positioning. It's conditioning. It's getting your head under the rim.

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A game that could have been very, very ugly for us turned out to be a win, and that's all that counts.

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He'd go a week and he'd be OK, and then he'd get hurt again. So I just hope he's healthy now and I can use him in that role.

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I'll reserve (judgment on) that.

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If we had come back with the same team as last year, it would have been a disaster. We didn't have the firepower to sustain what we needed in this conference. Last year was a honeymoon year. A couple players had career years. I didn't believe we had the core of players like the core we have now. We have a lot more versatility now.

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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

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I didn't even want to get into that subject. We have been over it, under it, on top of it. I don't know, you can just see it coming off his hand better and he feels confident.

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I'm tired of hearing it. Tired of hearing about how, well, we keep shooting ourselves in the foot or we're not doing this or we're not doing that. Somewhere, you've got to take responsibility for who you think you are.

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It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.

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For four years it was really something. We went through our down years and rebuilt, and New York is going through its now.

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Antoine is somebody that I definitely haven't handled well from an offensive standpoint. 'Catch as catch can' isn't good enough. You have to go to him more.

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His injury is not very good.

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The argument is they know what they're supposed to do. At least they tell you, 'We know what we're supposed to do.' So you back off a little bit on the real big muscle work that could cause them injury.

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I know he had fun and he was a major part of this. But in order to get something good back, you have to give up something good going out. I wish him nothing but the best.

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He's had a very consistent year, with the exception of the last couple of weeks, and I think he's getting worn down a little bit. He's got a little bit of an injury, so we're trying to work through that, but it is what it is, because he has to play now with Jason out.

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