LeBron James Game Quotations

I don't think we were ready to play from the opening tip. Once you get to the point where every game means the same, where every game you play for 48 minutes, then you become a great team. Right now, we are not.

I don't think we have had a defensive performance like that this season. We came in with the mind-set to get stops. That was the key to the game for us.

I think Charles Barkley kick-started us. I heard at halftime he said the game was over. I'd like to thank Charles for kick-starting us.

We have to (win on the road). It's a tough place to play. We have to have the same mindset (we had in Game 1).

(The All-Star Game is) over and done with. We have to come in (tonight) and concentrate on Orlando. We've been (above .500) a couple times this year. We haven't been 11 or 12 games (over .500). It's time to make a run. We have a different mindset from last year.

We didn't want to get blown out on national TV. All in all, this is a game and we just want to have fun, but you know we're all competitors and our competitive nature kicked in at one point.

Yeah both of them. I mean I saw them live too, we were sitting watching the game , we were sitting in the training room, unbelievable. You know it shows us how far the women's game has come.

Drew goes with the flow. When he gets the ball, he produces. We don't run many plays for him. He had a hell of a game for us. We'll need him to do it again Friday.

Everybody that came into the game attacked. We have some things to work on, but we got the win and that's all that matters.

It would have been a disaster if we couldn't win this game after being up by 25.

It was a perfect miss. That sounds crazy, but I missed it perfectly, and I followed it and got fouled, and we were in a position to go to OT, but I lost the game for us. I've never practiced that but I know how to hit the back of the rim and make it pop out.

Tonight was a big effort. We executed all through the game even when the reserves came in the last eight minutes. Those guys executed.

We wanted to be mentally focused and not give a team like Portland back into the game. We closed the game out.

Coming off a back-to-back after a big win against Indiana, it was easy for us not to bring the intensity tonight. You can't win a big game like that and then lose a game like this.

This game had playoff intensity and it was good to see us respond.

I had a lot of fun. The All-Star Game is supposed to be fun and it was.

It's all about the team. We won a big game on the road. This was a game that had playoff atmosphere, especially late in the game.

That's something we stressed more today in practice. (We'll) try to work inside out and, hopefully, that will open the lane a little more. Z has had a tough time in this series, but he hasn't had an opportunity to have a good time. We are going to get him the ball early in the game and see how it goes.

It's about having intensity and playing at both ends for as close to 48 minutes as possible. You really can't put in a good game plan against a great team, you just have to go out and play.

We had to bring our 'A' game and that's what we did.