33 Quotes by Shawn Marion

Man, it was a rough finish, but we came out and pulled out the win in the end. It's a tight race with us and the Clippers right now and we're just trying to get better each game.

That's what happens. We didn't give up shots, we gave up rebounds tonight. Teams are trying to go big on us, crash the boards on us. That's our biggest weakness. Our defense has got to pick us up.

We just came out with a little more energy in the second half. We were more aggressive.

We just came out with a little more energy in the second half and we were more aggressive. We started getting deflections and we get more active in the passing lanes and that opened the game for us in the third quarter.

We came too far to give up now. We've got to go out and come together as a team. We know what it is, and everybody's got a challenge to play better defensively.

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

Our defense ain't where it needs to be. I don't know if it's because we're trying to fit new pieces in right now or what but we've got to find a way. It's causing us to not get out and run so it means we're getting less and less possessions on the offensive end.

A couple of them were fouls. The referees called the game to their momentum. They had the momentum, so they gave them the calls they liked. But more power to him.

It seems that when I get things going early and I've been knocking down my shots, the results have been big scoring games.