Joe Johnson Played Quotations

I think we came into this game thinking that they were going to roll over because they played last night and they were tired. You've got to give them a lot of credit. They're a hard-fighting team.

We've been having letdowns in the fourth quarter. They made a little run, but we managed to come back and counteract it with our own run. I thought we played big in the fourth quarter.

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

We didn't know our roles (then). We were just out there playing. Tonight everybody knew what their roles were and we played them to the end.

Both team's fought hard, but in the third quarter it seemed like they wanted it a little bit more than we did. We played well in the first half but we had too many turnovers in the second and couldn't put them away.

They came in with some energy we really hadn't played with the whole night. It hurt us, we let them back in the game. They made some big plays and from that point, it was like a battle.

The first time we played them, we came out tentative, knowing they were the best team in the league. Tonight we came out with some pride and dignity.