79 Quotes by Derek Fisher

People feel like we've brought it to the point where a position has to be made: OK, what are we going to do? Are we going to win and make the playoffs? Are we going to make a trade? Who's going to be coach?

Coach Popovich is a very intelligent coach. He must have felt that his team needed to get some emotion while playing the game.

As a veteran player, you hate to be out there in that situation, but tonight was about the other 29 games.

That's what this league is about - you have to counterpunch. And we got punched. But we punched back.

The missed free throws gave the first half a funky kind of tone.

You see arguably our best player going out there to do everything he can possibly do to win a game even though his ankle is probably still a little bit sore. I hope that it does make the rest of us feel like we have to do something to help.

It's just in terms of our team -- the talent that's been put together, the contracts that have been put out -- whether or not the timing is going to allow for him and us to continue to mesh. That's the only pressure.

It's a belief in progress. Wins like (Tuesday's) help build that belief and that confidence that you can win against good teams in their building. Road wins always give you that extra belief.

That's our roadblock. So even though we could be down a couple bodies, I think it's definitely a good way for us to really get a feel for where we are.