32 Quotes by Nate McMillan

Letdown is written on this game. For us, we have other factors that should motivate us, not so much that we played a good game against the Lakers. We only have 11 wins. This is an opportunity for us. Just as those guys are missing some pieces over there, they also see opportunity.

Some nights you just get beat. You do the right thing most of the time, but you just get beat. I think this is one of those nights.

No defense at all. There was no commitment at the defensive end of the floor. Whether it was rebounding the ball, containing the ball or defending the perimeter, we just stopped playing. We quit.

I am encouraged that we've been in control in two games against good teams. Now we have to figure out how to win those games.

We've got to play better defense. We can't keep digging holes for ourselves early in the game then try to fight our way out of it.

When they got hot, I thought we tightened up a bit.

We lost our heads a little bit late in the ballgame. We're right there with two minute to go, then they knock down a three, and I think that really took the air out of us.

I thought we looked a little fatigued early in the first half. I thought we scrapped and fought to keep ourselves in the game, but early, they were just quicker to the ball.

I thought those were the shots that we dropped our heads. That's the first thing I said in the locker room, that those were two big threes.