280 Quotes by Maurice Cheeks

They're just fighting to get a second seed. We're trying to get a seed so it means a lot more to us to go out there and play the way we've been playing the last few games.

I was hoping it went double or triple overtime.

I think he's been better than I anticipated,

At halftime, I felt like we had to will this one. We had to go and get it.

I thought he was more aggressive than normal, for whatever reason.

It's kind of been the same story for a while.

I thought Kevin played well. I think he had our offense going a little bit, but on the flip side I think sometimes you want to bring Kyle in to stretch the defense and give Allen Iverson and Chris (Webber) a little more room to operate.

It's just a little more attention to detail. It's realizing if we're going to have a chance to win games, we're going to have to defend.

We need one. We're entitled to one, I think. We've been going down to the wire a lot of games. Sometimes it feels good for the players and myself to play a game where you don't have to worry about somebody getting an offensive rebound or making a last-second shot to win a basketball game. For us, we needed that.