Chris Kaman Quotations

No offense to Kenyon, but I think (his absence) helps them. Look at their record without him.

I don't know what the situation is, but if I get the ball in good position I try to do the best I can to score.

He's able to sustain longer minutes in the game. He's more powerful, and he's able to hit the jumper a lot better; he worked real hard on that.

It'd be a pretty cool situation. It seems like it's becoming more and more possible each game.

Reputations stick with you. It's harder to forget about stuff you do in this league, because somebody's always going to bring it up ... Sometimes guys get bad reputations but they don't deserve it.

We haven't been in the playoffs since 1997.

We played them good, we had them going. We've got to keep the pressure on, punish them. We didn't do that. I think it was a little bit of jitters, maybe.

There are some solid teams that we've beaten -- and there's some teams that we should have beaten and didn't. It's just frustrating. I think we play better against teams like this and we get more geared up for them. I think they bring out the best in us.

We didn't play soft. There were a lot of fouls called. Some that we weren't used to and some that I haven't seen in my whole life.

We play such good defense, and they struggled all series shooting the ball. I thought they came out with fire in the third quarter. Then we fought back and put them in the ground. They gave up.

The second quarter is what killed us. Hopefully we'll get to play these guys in the playoffs because I think we match up well with them.

We've have chemistry that we've been building with him not playing, so we're trying to fit him in. People can't be so critical of him. I mean, let him play three or five games. Corey's a great player, but he hasn't played in three months, so you've got to give him some time to get back into the swing of things.

We did a good job defensively. We didn't turn the ball over much. It was really more of a team win.

Defensively, it was probably the best game I've played with the steals, the blocks (three) and the rebounds. I play hard, I play with a lot of energy. Some nights I don't have the energy, and you can obviously tell the nights that I don't. I just try to play hard and go after the rebounds the best I can, and they were coming to me tonight.

They struggle shooting the three-pointers, so you kind of pack it in a little bit.

I know we went from Buffalo to San Diego to here, and I know we (stunk) all the way.

I'm not happy with the way we played late in the game. The last quarter, we were terrible.

Every time you turned around, there was a foul. Free throws, free throws. Maybe one or two baskets, then free throws again. It just slowed the whole game down, big time.

He's our guy. He's the key to our success.

It just seems like we couldn't close it. We were up by 15, 17, 18 and we just kept letting them back in it. It's kind of disappointing, but we got the win.

You know what grandeur is? It's awesome.

I think someone who would watch this would think there is something wrong with me and something wrong with my friends.

I hate rap! Can I say that?

It's, like, a rule. You can't have Christmas without snow.

Any kids out there, I'd tell them try and do what you can. If you need the medication, you need the medication. I didn't want to take a pill for the rest of my life.

It's just kind of frustrating, somehow we can never get these guys. I don't know if it's mental, obviously too many turnovers tonight was a big thing. I had five myself in the first half, that's just unacceptable. We're not preparing ourselves the right way for the playoffs like we need to. We've got to step it up.

It's frustrating to lose like that. The defense wasn't there at all tonight.

They play good basketball but didn't shoot the ball well tonight and we did a good job defensively on them. They had good energy but the shots weren't going down for them. I don't know if it was because Ray Allen was out but they normally shoot the ball better than that.