380 Quotes by Scott Skiles

That's what's a little bit odd about this, that it's back-to-back afternoon games. I don't know what time we'll get in, but we'll get up in the morning and have a breakfast-type meeting and get ready to go again.

That game had a little bit of everything. It was a hard-fought win.

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

We liked Stephen. It's just that we wanted to take a look at a big guy also with the 10-days. It's good for them and it's good for our guys to know we're not afraid to bring somebody in and give them a look.

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that question... wait a minute, I do have a dollar for every time I've been asked that question.

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense picked up. We clawed ourselves back into the game.

I can't allow us to be blaming other factors for the way that we play. There's a very simple thing to do under those situations, and that's play better. We've done that a little bit too much this year: blame the refs, blame other situations, and that's not a belief system that I can endorse n ever.

A little bit over 4 percent. But knowing the guys like I know 'em, it would be shocking to me if they didn't believe in themselves.

It appears what is happening to us when we finally do decide to really get after it for two or three possessions (is) we don't have the energy to go get the ball. That's distressing for sure.