Mo Cheeks Allen Quotations

No, Allen and Chris are not going to play tonight.

If Allen is hurt to the point where he can't play, you know he's really, really hurt.

Down the stretch, when we needed those two guys to score the points, that's what they did. We got into the penalty and Allen continued to drive the ball, and Chris had wide-open jump shots because Allen continued to drive the ball, and that's what those guys have to do late in the fourth quarter.

When you have an Allen Iverson, you can put the ball in his hands when you're struggling. When you don't you have to spread it around a little bit and hopefully get three or four guys who are going to score.

The way we're going to play without Allen Iverson is the way we played tonight. When you have Allen, you can put the ball in his hands a little bit more. When we do not have him, you have to spread it around and hope you get three or four guys who can score.

The ball will be in Chris' hands a lot, and guys will have to cut and move off him. Allen is a player, a guy who can go get his own shot; tonight we have to utilize Chris a lot to help get guys their shots.

Anytime you can rest Allen and Chris it's big, realizing how many games we have coming up this week. Those are tough games, and anytime you get to rest those guys is a huge plus for us.

I just thought that everyone had to pick up every phase of our game because Allen wasn't playing. We did that on the offensive end and the defensive end. We shared the ball and we did a lot of good things team wise.

Allen is one of the few guys who can tolerate a lot of pain, and at game time you know he really wants to play. We take him for granted.