Maurice Cheeks Knew Quotations

Nah, it wasn't that bad, ... Twenty-seven percent, c'mon. When Kyle misses a foul shot, I knew we were in trouble.

We needed this one badly. We knew coming in here we were just playing a team that beat us on our home court.

We knew we were coming in here playing a team that had just beaten us on our own home court. I told our guys that until we are mathematically out of this we need to keep up the effort.

Us coming off back to backs and playing a team that gets out and runs was going to be a challenge for us. I'm not totally upset about this game. We knew it was going to be a tough game just based on the way they play.

Everything we did tonight was energized by Allen not being there. We knew we had to raise our game on the offensive and the defensive end.

I knew Randy would be on someone's bench because he's a very good basketball coach. That's not a secret.

I knew it was gonna be a tough game. The essence of that game was that they played harder than we did. ... It was our first quarter and third quarter that put us in the hole.

I knew it would be a lot like the last three games we had, and we'd have to win it down the stretch. We had a lot of guys step up when AI went down.

Any win is big. Realizing where we are and the situation that we're in, we can't afford any let downs. We knew coming in that we had to have these two wins and I just think that we focused on them.

They knew we played an overtime game last night. They came out pushing the ball and running the floor to keep us on our heels. That game was embarrassing for me and it was embarrassing for the players. It was an embarrassing loss.