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| Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Final Score: New Orleans 123, Houston 115 Hornets Post Game Quotes
On the game: “We're very happy with the way we played and finished off the season. I was pleased with our offensive execution and our passing. David West had a great offensive game and we scored a lot off his post up positions.” On the team's play this season: “I think we showed our biggest change in our transition game and our offensive flow. We became a real scoring threat in the open court. We had to work extremely all year to defend the paint inside. That's where most of our problems came from.” On the Rockets season: “Houston was outstanding all season when you consider their injury situation. The adaptability they showed early in the season was key. They pushed the pace and their scoring increased.”
On the season: “Obviously I'm disappointed the way the season turned out. We had some lessons with chemistry and how the key came together. We are not where we want to be. We played very hard but we didn't get where we wanted to. We are in the catch-up mode and we have to get better. I don't know what's missing. When you miss a guy like C.P. (Chris Paul) for 37 games it is just too much to be able to make up.” On the game: “We finished the way we wanted to. We wanted to come out with a good effort and we wanted to feel good about ourself. We felt like we would play with high intensity. We are comfortable playing against Houston.”
On the game: “We wanted to come out and get a win in the last game. Houston has very good guards and I wanted to compete against them. I thought as a team we showed growth all season. It's frustrating to not be in the playoffs.” On defending Brooks: “He is one of the top point guards in the league and I really enjoy watching him play. He is an extremely good player and you want to do your best against him.” Rockets Post Game Quotes
On the game: “A very disappointing way to end this season. I thought we would come out with more energy than what we did tonight. It’s just typical of what happens with this team is that we just have to come out with energy and everybody aggressive and we didn’t do it. They (Hornets) got off to a great start and they never slowed down. They had two guys that were killing us. (David) West just killed us. (Darren) Collison killed us. They shot it very well. They didn’t make the 3’s, they just got it going. We talked about it all year with our team. If we didn’t bring it, if we didn’t have the effort, that’s going to happen to us because we have a lot of issues defensively. I’m still proud of this group.“ On the season: “As a coach, they (Rockets) generally competed all year long. You get the last game of the year, you never know how it’s going to go. I don’t think either team did too much defensively. I think they really came together early and had a great start and at the end it was disappointing but it was still a pleasure to coach these guys and I’m proud of the way, for the most part, how they competed all year long.”
On the Rockets being close to being competitive: “I’m optimistic that Yao (Ming) is going to be back and that we’re going to have a great year and that we’re going to be right there fighting for a ring.” On the Rockets effort this year: “I am pretty proud. I think it was a good year. We’ve got to be happy. We lost today but we didn’t want to finish this way. We’ve got to be happy for a lot of things.”
On the season: “This is definitely a time to reflect on the season and from being picked to win only 35 games, I think as a whole it was a successful season.” On the outlook for next year: “The first thing I think about is definitely being a contending team but as I’ve been telling people and I think Adelman said the same think, it looks great down on paper but we have to work hard this summer and we’ve got to come into training camp and we’ve got to click right away.”
On the game: “The way we played today, we came out and we didn’t play hard and we let up today and I don’t know why that is. The year was pretty good.” On the Rockets potential for improvement: “Hopefully, we will continue to get better. We built it and we haven’t done anything yet so we don’t have anything to hang our hats on. We haven’t won a championship or made it to the championship or anything like that. We haven’t accomplished anything. How I feel is we gotta come in this summer and work hard and get better individually and then come back.”
On his outlook for next year: “If everyone’s healthy we will eventually be a more dangerous team, especially with Yao (Ming), Shane (Battier), the guys that we missed this year, David (Andersen).” On what he takes from this season personally: “I did a lot of growing up this year. I see what it’s going to take to be the player I want to be. I’ve got to go this summer and work on my game and get better.” |
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