duncan228
12-03-2008, 12:23 AM
Video here (http://www.nba.com/spurs/gameday/081202.html).
Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich
On the game - “I thought tonight we played very poorly, very unwisely. We need to have more people play well. We have too many people playing poorly at this point. The most disturbing thing is that we were very soft. I think Detroit intimidated us. I think they ran us all over the court, with their aggressiveness and physicality. It was really sad to watch in that respect. I thought we totally folded to their aggressive play, thus the loss.”
Roger Mason
On the game - I don’t think it was just the fourth quarter. All game I think they just had more aggressiveness than we did and it showed. They got the loose balls. They got the extra rebound. They got the extra play. That’s something that we can control. You can’t always hit the shots, but you gotta be able to control [the aggression].””
Was this the most disappointing performance by the team since you’ve been here? - "Yeah, I think so. This was a disappointing game because I think we just didn’t have the effort…we didn’t have the juice, the intensity that we needed to compete at an NBA level.”
On Pop’s comments about the team being “soft” tonight - "I think they were the aggressor. I don’t think we played aggressive enough for sure as a team. You can’t come out like that and think that you can compete.”
Tony Parker
On the game - "I think they just out-performed up. We just didn’t play well. They out-played us…shot the ball better, played more physical than us, and we just didn’t play well tonight.”
Is this the most disappointed you’ve been all season? - “Definitely. This has got to be one of our worst games of the season. We just didn’t perform well. We can’t afford to do that against a very good team like Detroit. They played well. Everybody was aggressive and they played very physical. They out-played us at both ends of the court. They just played better than us.”
Pistons Head Coach Michael Curry
On the game - “I thought we responded well to how we had been playing in our last few ballgames. Both offensively and defensively we didn’t try to figure things out. We just played harder than the other team. If we do that consistently, then our timing, getting on the same page, all those types of things, will take care of themselves. All those things work out when you do that.”
On defending Manu Ginobili - “I thought we stepped up to that challenge. Offensively Ginobili is tough to guard and we played him tough and gave ourselves a chance to win. Some guys came off the bench for us and they played well and then we got a group out there at the end that held it down and finished it off.”
On Rodney Stuckey - He’s been doing such a good job lately. We run a lot of pick and roll through him and he’s settling into that role. And the longer he’s in, the better he’s getting. At the end of the day, we’re going to need him to be the team that we want to be.”
Allen Iverson
On the game - “We felt we did some good things in the first half but we just buckled down and did those things even better in the second half. We just executed our game plan better. We wanted to play more aggressively. In the second half we did that. We hit them first on the defensive end and that transferred down to the offensive end.”
On Rasheed Wallace - “He’s always fired up but after the tech he really took matters into his own hands and that off with huge dividends for us.”
Richard Hamilton
On the game - “We just have to trust each other more and tonight’s game is a great example of that. You saw tonight that late in games we don’t have to push it. We can just bare-down and find the mismatches. When we do that, look for the mis-matches and exploit them, we’re tough to guard.”
On Rasheed Wallace - “When’s he’s mad, there is nobody in this world that can stop him.”
http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/quotes_081202.html
Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich
On the game - “I thought tonight we played very poorly, very unwisely. We need to have more people play well. We have too many people playing poorly at this point. The most disturbing thing is that we were very soft. I think Detroit intimidated us. I think they ran us all over the court, with their aggressiveness and physicality. It was really sad to watch in that respect. I thought we totally folded to their aggressive play, thus the loss.”
Roger Mason
On the game - I don’t think it was just the fourth quarter. All game I think they just had more aggressiveness than we did and it showed. They got the loose balls. They got the extra rebound. They got the extra play. That’s something that we can control. You can’t always hit the shots, but you gotta be able to control [the aggression].””
Was this the most disappointing performance by the team since you’ve been here? - "Yeah, I think so. This was a disappointing game because I think we just didn’t have the effort…we didn’t have the juice, the intensity that we needed to compete at an NBA level.”
On Pop’s comments about the team being “soft” tonight - "I think they were the aggressor. I don’t think we played aggressive enough for sure as a team. You can’t come out like that and think that you can compete.”
Tony Parker
On the game - "I think they just out-performed up. We just didn’t play well. They out-played us…shot the ball better, played more physical than us, and we just didn’t play well tonight.”
Is this the most disappointed you’ve been all season? - “Definitely. This has got to be one of our worst games of the season. We just didn’t perform well. We can’t afford to do that against a very good team like Detroit. They played well. Everybody was aggressive and they played very physical. They out-played us at both ends of the court. They just played better than us.”
Pistons Head Coach Michael Curry
On the game - “I thought we responded well to how we had been playing in our last few ballgames. Both offensively and defensively we didn’t try to figure things out. We just played harder than the other team. If we do that consistently, then our timing, getting on the same page, all those types of things, will take care of themselves. All those things work out when you do that.”
On defending Manu Ginobili - “I thought we stepped up to that challenge. Offensively Ginobili is tough to guard and we played him tough and gave ourselves a chance to win. Some guys came off the bench for us and they played well and then we got a group out there at the end that held it down and finished it off.”
On Rodney Stuckey - He’s been doing such a good job lately. We run a lot of pick and roll through him and he’s settling into that role. And the longer he’s in, the better he’s getting. At the end of the day, we’re going to need him to be the team that we want to be.”
Allen Iverson
On the game - “We felt we did some good things in the first half but we just buckled down and did those things even better in the second half. We just executed our game plan better. We wanted to play more aggressively. In the second half we did that. We hit them first on the defensive end and that transferred down to the offensive end.”
On Rasheed Wallace - “He’s always fired up but after the tech he really took matters into his own hands and that off with huge dividends for us.”
Richard Hamilton
On the game - “We just have to trust each other more and tonight’s game is a great example of that. You saw tonight that late in games we don’t have to push it. We can just bare-down and find the mismatches. When we do that, look for the mis-matches and exploit them, we’re tough to guard.”
On Rasheed Wallace - “When’s he’s mad, there is nobody in this world that can stop him.”
http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/quotes_081202.html