291 Quotes by Avery Johnson

He's proven he can go two weeks and jump out there and do something, but as we get closer toward the end of the season, I'd like to try to plug him in here and there. You can't expect him to always get out there and be Superman.

We had to get more physical on him in the second half.

I thought Diop did well with limited minutes ... and I thought Dampier came out and contributed off the bench.

We had three of our top scorers shoot 12-for-40 from the field, and that won't happen many nights. We were really fortunate to win this game.

He's not underrated in our book. He does a lot for us. And when you do things on a more consistent basis, you tend to catch people's attention.

I thought Damp (Erick Dampier) really shut down a lot of their penetrations in the fourth quarter. He got a couple of blocks, rebounds and I thought he was the reason we won the game.

He's made some improvement, but we don't know how bad it is yet. We just know he's out (Sunday).

This team doesn't like losing one in a row.

I was concerned about this game. Byron Scott has done as good a job as anybody in the league, and they have that team in playoff contention.