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I enjoy playing against Ray. You're playing against one of the top guys in the league as far as perimeter players. I respect him a great deal for his ability on the court, that's why I have to prepare for him the way I do.

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They've made a sacrifice for us, to protect us and our families. I think more than anything else there's a profound appreciation for them.

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Night in and night out I look forward to playing the other team's top player. You have to pay attention to every detail when you are defending James. ... He's going to get his shot. You just have to contest it.

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They scored 14 points in the last 39 seconds. It didn't end on a high note and that's our attitude about this game right now. It puts a damper on tonight's game. We didn't accomplish what we wanted to as a team because of what happened at the end of the game.

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They're rolling right now. They're not the same team we saw earlier, and they have nothing to lose. They're playing really good basketball right now, and you have to give them credit for what they did. But we should have given a better effort tonight.

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They have a wonderful economic-development program here, and they actually recruit gun businesses.

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Flying under the radar is great. I could care less if anybody talks about us. We're still doing what we try to do, which is win a championship.

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I think so. Not to disrespect them (Magic), but it's not like you're going up against Phoenix right now. You expect their numbers to be up a little bit, but they scored 54 points in the first half. I don't care how you look at it, that's not defense to our standards.

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It is what it is. I was wrong for what I did. The league has a decision on that. I have to deal with the consequences of my actions, and I do. I accept the consequences that come.

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We players understand we have the best lives in the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fans, everyone who supports us.

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Even when he failed to make the play successfully, Duncan was actively involved. He determined where Detroit's defense went, certainly helped lure Detroit's big men into big foul trouble. And when the Spurs saw Duncan being Duncan instead of some reluctant all-star, they were transformed back into champions themselves from a bunch of guys who'd lost three of four games in the Finals and were reeling. What did they do differently to get him jump-started We said, 'Here Mr. Two-time Finals MVP . . . Here's the ball, ... That's all it took. That's not a major adjustment. 'Hey Tim, here.'

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I've played against Iverson and with him, so I know a little more on guarding him than Tony does right now. I feel that with my quickness, that if I give him space, I can beat him to the spot on defense.

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I can't allow that to take my edge off. Whoever is going to play his spot, I have to look at them as I do him.

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When (Owens returns), that's five pretty strong players. They've got to play their best but when they do, they could give (Severna Park) a run.

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Spurs forward Bruce Bowen echoed Hamilton's assessment of Big Ben's stellar play. When asked on Wednesday who had made the biggest difference for Detroit, Bowen didn't hesitate. I think Ben did, ... The first part of the game, Ben gets a steal, the dunk. That's not how you want to start off a game away from home. That just energizes their team. That picks their team up and makes them more heightened and more hyper.

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It was a playoff atmosphere out there tonight. We were pressing some in the first half and didn't play that well. We picked up the intensity in the second half.

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It's always a good test when we play them. In their system, if there's 22 seconds left on the shot clock and somebody's open, they're going to shoot it.

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It's not a matter of we were playing a game, and then we had to stop the game, ... It was just coming into warming up, so we can always get warmed up.

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Tim is Tim. He's what makes us go. The media try to come up with something new and improved to say about Tim, but he is a wonderful player and that's who he is.

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We had more people distributing the ball in the second half and I was the beneficiary of some of those passes. When we do that, somebody is going to hit the wide-open shot.

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I was wrong for what I did.

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You have to understand that all we did is what we were supposed to do tonight. They are going to be a better team when they come out the next time, and we have to be ready for that.

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Kobe is the ultimate competitor, so any time we can hold him in check, we're happy.

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To leave that and become disciplined to the point where you realize, 'OK, maybe now is not the time to take one in transition'... him getting that is huge.

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We thought about the way we played them last time at home, because when you get smacked at home, you don't like that. You go back to the drawing board and figure out what you can do to turn it around.

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