Keyon Dooling Quotes (26 Quotes)

If we would've taken care of business early in the season we wouldn't be in this position. Our team was a little different then.

You lose games in the NBA. That's the bottom line. Sometimes you're going to lose games you win on paper. They're getting ready for the playoffs. They're hitting their stride. I think they'll be all right.

I just feel like if we do our job and take care of what we have to take care of, everything else will work itself out. We dug ourselves so deep a hole in the beginning of the season, it's going to be tough for us to get in. But nevertheless, there still is a chance.

We got stops in overtime when we needed them. Iverson is so tough to stop and you're never really going to stop him. We tried to make him take tough shots and make them take tough shots. It's a big win for us. To come on the road and keep this winning streak is great. It's very satisfying to get this win after working like we did tonight.

We just have to get better offensively. It's definitely frustrating. We have a game plan, a job to execute it and for whatever reason, it doesn't happen.

For us, we've got to treat these final 20-some games like they're our playoffs. We haven't thrown in the towel. You can question our execution, but not our effort. Things didn't go the way we wanted this season, but you can use this time to get ready for next year.

Basketball is an emotional game. Sometimes you don't think, you just react and tonight was one of those nights.

There was no trash-talking going on. I don't know if he was frustrated with a couple of missed calls or something like that. That's not what I was out there doing. I was just playing basketball.

It's gratifying for all of us because you just don't know who is going to do it from night to night. At any given time anybody on this team can make a play to win the game for us.

I pretty much knew I'd be tired after the first two minutes. You can call me a prophet, because I was. But it was just fun. My adrenaline was running. Once the lights come on and the popcorn starts popping, I just love it.

I wish I had the remedy for this. Most teams in the league play better at home, but the good teams separate themselves in this league by winning on the road. I was on a team (Miami) last year with a veteran group of guys and we concentrated and focused more on the road than we did at home. We're a young team and we've still got a lot to learn.

If you ask around the league, people will say we are good guys. It was just a mistake on both our parts. I wish I could take it back.

Everybody wrote us off. It's nice to keep proving people wrong.

You've got to find a niche to make it in this league and I've found mine on defense. Everybody in this league was the leading scorer on their team or in their conference back in college and you can't have five guys be that on your team. Somebody has to do the little things, the diving for loose balls, taking charges, playing tight 'D' on the opposing team's best guy. That's what I do. That's what I bring to this team.

They have like an unspoken language when they're playing together. They're a great team, a championship team, the best team in the league.

Chemistry is probably the most underrated thing in basketball. When you have good chemistry, your team usually goes out and executes on both ends of the floor.

Good teams are going to make runs at us, but we just had to stay focused. It's gratifying because we stepped up and collectively got it done.

I think he was the most important guy who got caught up in the trade deals.

We're building chemistry every day, and we're really figuring out how to play with one another. What we're doing now is just going to be a great stepping stone to the future for us.

It was a basketball fight, that's all it was. There really isn't anything else to say.

When you're playing a good team like that, you've got to take care of the basketball.

You have to defend your home court if you want to be a playoff team.

He was like a community father. He was more than a serious role model for us young cats.

One of the good things about the NBA is that if you don't have a good game one night, you can come back the next night and get a win against a team like Boston. We were supposed to beat Atlanta, and we had to come back and get this one.

Our guys are too competitive to throw in the towel now. It's way too early to talk about us packing it in. Miami came back two years ago and New Jersey did it last year, so we just need to get on a roll.

One of the best teams in the league came in here and everybody probably wrote us off. But we took care of business tonight.