One of the good things about the NBA is that if you don't have a good game one night, you can come back the next night and get a win against a team like Boston. We were supposed to beat Atlanta, and we had to come back and get this one.
For us, we've got to treat these final 20-some games like they're our playoffs. We haven't thrown in the towel. You can question our execution, but not our effort. Things didn't go the way we wanted this season, but you can use this time to get ready for next year.
We need to take this momentum and roll it over like cell-phone minutes next season.
The challenge for us is to close this season out on a positive note and carry into next season. We've got a very young team and hopefully we can just keep everybody together because I think everybody has accepted their roles.
It's a long shot to think we can win the next nine. It's not like we had the button turned off all year, and we just clicked it on. But we've got young guys growing up quickly. Anything is possible.