36 Quotes by John Salmons

We stopped being aggressive and taking the ball to the basket. We settled for a lot of jump shots. We missed ours and they made theirs.

When we went up early, I think we kind of thought that was it, that they were going to give up. You've got to take your hats off to them. They kept on fighting.

We were supposed to switch everything. We went small so that we could switch. I'll take the blame on this one; it was on me.

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

We?re 5-2 after the break. If we could go 5-2 every seven games, we?d have a good record. We just have to stay up and not get down.

Whatever makes great players, that is exactly what he has. I don't know what it is, but he's got it.

Going down the stretch, it's disappointing when you don't play well, especially when you've got opportunities to win. Just about every game we've played down the stretch, we just couldn't pull them out, so it's more disappointing than anything. The Bulls keep losing, so we're still in the playoffs. We've got 16 games left, got to stay with it, just can't quit and keep trying.

We made some mistakes. If we cut out those mistakes, we have a chance to win the game.

I was looking in their huddle, they were laughing, joking, they knew they were going to come out with the win. There's just that confidence of been there, done that. They know how to win games. They're not worried.