I look at it like I've been playing basketball for about 18, 19 years. I think every basketball situation is the same. Either you're going to hit the shot, or you're going to make the pass or you're going to get the defensive stop. Basically, this is a whole other level and it's all about repetition.

In the fourth quarter, they started to fatigue. We don't ever want to be the team that fatigues.

I'm just comfortable around him. I look at him like just one of the guys on the team. I wouldn't be afraid to laugh and joke with coach Case or tell him that his hat is funny, something like that. Just having a sense of humor, being able to have a relationship between your coach and point guard, it's always good.

I'm pretty sure they knew what they were doing when they got me.

I'm a basketball player. I understand this is a business.

It was a good team win and we'll take it any way we can get it.

It was a big shot and I took it. My teammates had confidence in me.

It's a lot of teaching, a lot of bonding from Kevin (Garnett) and the other guys on the team. Today was really like the first day of practice. It made it really fun.

It's a little bit tougher on the road. Basically, it comes from not closing the games out. We're doing a better job at home than on the road. We just have to carry that out to the road.

This means we're growing. A couple of games ago we couldn't do anything as far as closing out a game. Now we're starting to put this thing together and looking forward to the future.