80 Quotes by Raja Bell

You see a guy and kind of bait him into taking that drive. Then at the last minute you step in there and they already have a full head of steam.

You never know what he's going to do. You can watch him on film, and obviously everyone has their tendencies. But you really never know what he's going to do.

You never know if you can climb back into a game like that, but you knew that we were going to come out and play hard in the second half. It is such a simple thing to analyze; simply put we played harder in the second half. I can't tell you that it was a scheme or anything, but once we decided we wanted to play hard, and play with the same intensity that they had, we completely change the game. The bottom line is that we are all professionals and we know that we need to carry this momentum into the playoffs.

They set a double screen and I sent him high. I switched with Shawn and I grabbed Lewis. Shawn did a good job of contesting the shot. We didn't want the shooter to necessarily be Allen, but you definitely want them shooting from eight feet above the 3-point line.

This is the time when we'll see what we're made of. These are five games that we should win. It's going to be a long trip. Everybody will have to make sure we pay attention to detail out there on the road, get out to some good starts early hopefully. This is going to be a critical span of games for us here.

It was funny. You know, Manu's a competitor, and I do a good job, I'd like to say, on him, but he's a tough guard for me. So it's just a respect level. It's cool to hear somebody thinks you're that way, especially being the All-Star that he is, so it was flattering.

It was critical for us to get off to a good start against a team that was a little undermanned. I shoot the ball. ... People who know and watch the game know what you can do. If you get praised for it or not, it is irrelevant for me.

It was embarrassing. We were getting beat pretty good. I had been struggling. I guess I had been moping a little. I just decided I wasn't going to do it anymore. . . . At this time of year, it's about being in attack mode. Win or lose, make or miss, you have to be on the attack. We have to be like that in Game 3.

It's a fun building to play in. They've got some really rowdy fans and its one of America's teams.