Austin Croshere Playing Quotations

With the way things have been, we don't want to get too excited. It's fun to be playing basketball now. It wasn't there for a while.

We're not playing our best basketball of the year, but we're definitely closer than we were a couple weeks ago.

We're just not playing very good basketball. It's hard to put a finger on exactly what it is.

When you lose seven out of eight, many people are upset with many things. One game or victory like this doesn't make up for the way we have been playing in the past. This is a step in the right direction.

That's when we started doing things the right way. And that's when we started playing better as a group.

Even given all of the situations we've been put in, we still should be playing better than we are. I felt the same way last year, so maybe that's just me.

I'm not saying I completely agree with him, but Detroit should be the favorites because they went to the Finals two years in a row and they won a championship. I can't disagree with him on that. I think there's no doubt one of our biggest concerns is playing as a team. We know we have a lot of individual talent. It's a matter of playing as a team. I give him credit for calling it how he sees it.

The last two games, we're playing better, happier for each other, more assists and less turnovers. It's fun to be out there. It's fun to be on the bench for the first time in a while. I certainly think things are headed in the right direction. But it doesn't take away from the problems we've had. I don't think anybody is pretending the last eight games didn't exist.