It was the way the game played out. We had guys open, there were situations that were going right.

The star of the game obviously goes to Tim Thomas.

Some players, you say at the end of the game, maybe it'd be a higher percentage. But he hasn't shown he makes that shot at the end of the game.

They knew how intensely they had to play. They knew that there had to be a win. We just said that we're going to win this game regardless. I'm going to play the players that have to play to win the game. They buckled down and did the job they had to do.

It seemed like I was going to keep stopping the game until we got it right. It was slipping away from us.