81 Quotes by Mike Dunleavy

It's just frustrating. We did everything we needed to do to win it and we were one free throw short. It makes it tougher to take.

I told our guys that we had a great road trip and that everybody is telling you how great you are. The reality is, we have 35 games left and we have to take care of business. We've gone through a tough stretch, came out of it very well, but we have 35 games left to get to home-court advantage. We've got 35 games left to catch Phoenix. There are all kinds of things out there left for us to do. Right now, our goal shouldn't be to make the playoffs. Our goal should be to get home-court advantage.

It's really the toughest part of our schedule.

It's probably more gratifying to them because of what they've been through, not that it's been their fault. I'm sure it was frustrating for them to go year after year and not be able to compete in the playoffs.

It's our maturity. We know defensively that we're good and that we can make stops.

It's not even a question. If he's not an All-Star they better line people up for some kind of testing. He's got all of the requirements.

That hurt us obviously, because at the end of the game he would have been the guy playing the pick-and-roll at the top. He's our best guy at getting over screens and shutting that down.

It was a game we felt we had to have. We built up a big lead, and then we let them back in the ball game. We started taking shortcuts in our execution. We had too many turnovers.

It was a game we felt we had to have, in regards to our playoff seeding.