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Alston really smoothed things out in the locker room following the game, telling the media that he was tired of getting into it with my teammates and my coaches. ... might not even play the rest of the season.

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That was the best trade out there. There was no better trade.

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I think if you look at us on paper, we probably will not win as many games as last year.

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No one is going to force me to make a trade. I've made it very clear the only way I would trade any player on our team is if it's a trade that makes us a better team.

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But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

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He gives us insurance at the point guard position and will help our younger players develop.

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It just made sense to do it, ... He was the least likely of them to get any playing time.

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Chris, along with Rafer Alston and Jose Calderon, would give us flexibility in the guard positions. Chris was the starting point guard for a playoff team in Chicago and won a national championship with Duke. At just 23 years of age, he offers a lot of potential.

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We still have a long way to go, but we have the guys here now who see what the plan is, and they understand it, ... They realize that there's no cutting corners, that it's going to be a lot of hard work, learning to play as a team, doing things the right way ... Our guys are starting to get that and things are turning around.

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He's a real man who has a strong character. He's not one of those guys who will come in and complain that they aren't staying in a five-star hotel.

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We pursued all the trade scenarios we could (to try to move Murray). With that in mind, the timing of this is out of respect for Lamond and his family. This hopefully gives him a reasonable opportunity to catch on with another team.

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Even bad teams have optimism. The Bad News Bears' coach wouldn't even tell his team that.

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When we looked at the other (free-agent) point guards who were available, we determined a lot of them weren't worth the money. And of the ones we were interested in, we had to ask ourselves, do we have enough money left to make a serious bid So at that point we said, okay, let's sign Matt, who we wanted to keep anyway, and we likely will go with a minimum-salary guy to fill that spot as our third point guard.

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He was the logical choice. We're loaded at his position. He wasn't going to play that much so this makes sense for both parties.

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We certainly would like to have him back on our basketball team. But we have to take a look at everything when the season ends, that gets into money situations, roster spots, draft picks. We have to look at all the different things, so it's too early to tell anything.

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As you know, I don't comment on trades. I will say we've had discussion with them. I can't go into specifics other than we've had discussions.

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We had expressed some interest in him, sure. I'm not trying to hide anything. We spoke with his agent. But he falls directly into that category where we determined we don't have enough money left to make a serious bid.

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There will be growing pains, no doubt about it. We more or less have the same team back with the exception of Donyell Marshall, who was an integral part of our team last year. We're replacing him with rookies.

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Waiving a player never is easy, because you essentially are firing someone, ... But looking at our team, this was the most logical choice.

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Matt is more than just a good basketball player. He is the consummate professional who places his team first and gives a total effort every night.

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Other point guards in his range are not likely to want to come in here and compete with Rafer and Calderon, ... He wasn't afraid to come in here knowing what we had.

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Toronto's Jalen Rose, appearing on Best Damn Sports Show Period, ... I'm pretty sure I've never heard anybody in professional sports make a comment so negative that early in the season. ... The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell them that.

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It's unrelated, since we still could have signed another player now without waiving anyone, ... That's not to say for sure that we won't sign someone next week. But we still may wait until just before training camp, depending upon what happens.

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