Chauncey Billups Win Quotations

When he's aggressive and he's playing like he's playing, it just takes pressure off of everybody. Rip (Hamilton) doesn't have to worry about scoring so many points, I don't have to worry about (it). It just takes pressure off everybody, and we can really spread that offense out. Everybody can get 10, 12, 14, 15 points, and you win going away.

I want to win the game, don't get me wrong. But mostly, I am just trying to stay healthy. That's the most important thing right now; that and trying to lock up that home-court advantage.

That was a good win. We had a big win (Tuesday night against Dallas) with a lot of emotion and we were able to push that all aside and focus on this one. That was good by us.

We're just trying to win all the games we're supposed to win, and not play down to the level of the competition.

We're just looking to be consistent now. Hopefully we can keep being good defensively and keep working offensively. That started a few games ago; we had a good win last night so we just want to keep it going.

Strange as it sounds, we get bored sometimes being able to win so many games so easily. It's not something that should happen, but it's what did happen.

Both teams wanted to win this game in the worst way. It was kind of an ugly game, but the intensity was there. This was a playoff game. It really was.

I like games like this much better than the ones we win by 10, 15 or 20 points. I don't like playing games like that.

This is a very disappointing loss for us. We have to win these games and we know that. We slipped up tonight and they played hard. This is a game where we feel we beat ourselves. We've done a good job of not doing that very often this year and when we have done that, we have picked up right away.

It was just another game for us. We're just trying to win every game we can to gain home court through the playoffs.

It was a good win for us, especially coming off a tough loss to Miami. You've got to be proud of what we have done so far, but our work is far, far from over.

It was a good win for us. To come back, especially after a tough loss against Miami (Sunday) and playing a team that beat us a couple weeks ago. We came out focused today and took care of business.

For me, it was like, whatever happens, just let it happen. I was tired of it. We was holding out hope that he would be back, but what can you do? I wish all that wasn't circulating when we was trying to win a championship, you know what I'm saying, if it had just happened at the end of the season, but it didn't really affect us.

That's the first time he's seen us in a tough, tough grind and seeing how we really win games, ... He'll learn more as we get in these tough grinds, he'll learn more about what we've been telling him.

We felt we had a chance to win this series, but nobody else felt that. We knew we were the only ones who believed in us.

It was really an ugly game. We missed so many lay-ups. But when you're a good team, you win ugly games.