445 Quotes by Phil Jackson

The star of the game obviously goes to Tim Thomas.

Kwame did a great job in a lot of aspects of the game.

The team played well enough to win it, but they didn't finish. When you're on the road, you have to do some things to win, because it's a bit extra special.

Kobe was waiting for his game to get hot and it never happened, and we tried to force the ball into him and it cost us.

Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.

Kobe?s going to have a lot of detractors. Unfortunately, we?re not 10 games over .500. We are going to be in the playoffs, that says something about his performance.

Teams have streaks, they get on a run, and this is fortunate for us because this team had been dying to do something like this for a couple years now.

Kobe played a game in which he really controlled the offense from his position. He really doesn't play guard very often. We had people open because he got double-teamed. In the first half, Cook hit his shots.

Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.