I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.
I think I have a lot of room for improvement. I just got to keep striving to work hard everyday and I think good things will happen. As long as we get the win it doesn't matter what I did.
We had our backs against the wall. We showed great character. If we hadn't worked so hard in practice we would have lost that one by 30,
We didn't want him to go off for 50, but he shot the ball so well coming out that it's was kind of hard to stop him. Other guys didn't get involved in the second half and that keyed us.
To be honest it is going to be hard for him. Teams are going to sit on him and make him pass the ball. Teams know they cannot allow Michael to score 30 or 40 because it keeps us in games. So they are going to make him pass the ball. At the same time we need more from other players.
That's what we spoke about in the locker room, character in an NBA game. It's more crucial to play hard in the last minute than the first 39. Anything can happen in the final minute of an NBA game.
It's kind of hard to adjust to their style of play. We tried to throw some different looks at them, but at the end of the day, it wasn't really up to us. It was up to their missed shots.
We win this game, everything changes. That's the story of our season. We make things very hard on ourselves.
It's frustrating. We don't play Phoenix many times, so it's kind of hard to adjust to their style of play.