22 Quotes by Chucky Atkins

Tonight was a good practice for us for the playoffs.

This team has a lot of good basketball in it. We're what, 20 games into the season? We still have time to get things going in the right direction.

We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series.

You gotta be a guy that really wants it. You gotta be a guy that's willing to take constructive criticism. You gotta be a guy that's resilient. A lot of things aren't going to go the way you want them to go in this league, so you gotta take that hit and be even stronger the next time.

The Wizards can shoot themselves in a game, and they can shoot themselves out of a game. At least that's the way it was when I was there.

The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.

Teams (like Minnesota) that aren't playing for anything are always dangerous because they play loose. You always want to jump on teams like that and not give them a chance. We knew we had to put the heat on them quick.

A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.

Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed from there.