Keyon Dooling Team Quotations

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.

If we would've taken care of business early in the season we wouldn't be in this position. Our team was a little different then.

I wish I had the remedy for this. Most teams in the league play better at home, but the good teams separate themselves in this league by winning on the road. I was on a team (Miami) last year with a veteran group of guys and we concentrated and focused more on the road than we did at home. We're a young team and we've still got a lot to learn.

When you're playing a good team like that, you've got to take care of the basketball.

It's gratifying for all of us because you just don't know who is going to do it from night to night. At any given time anybody on this team can make a play to win the game for us.

Chemistry is probably the most underrated thing in basketball. When you have good chemistry, your team usually goes out and executes on both ends of the floor.

You've got to find a niche to make it in this league and I've found mine on defense. Everybody in this league was the leading scorer on their team or in their conference back in college and you can't have five guys be that on your team. Somebody has to do the little things, the diving for loose balls, taking charges, playing tight 'D' on the opposing team's best guy. That's what I do. That's what I bring to this team.

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.

They have like an unspoken language when they're playing together. They're a great team, a championship team, the best team in the league.