Tim Duncan Game Quotations

I was looking before the game and I'm like 91/2 years older than him. That is just crazy. (Howard) is just so talented, so developed. He doesn't look like a 19-year-old. He has so much promise and I'm just glad that I will be out of the league when he is peaking.

I got a couple of shots to go down tonight, and that is good because they haven't been going down lately. It makes the game a lot easier.

He was great tonight. He made all of the shots down the stretch and made some great moves. His play down the stretch was the difference in the game tonight.

It was a huge key. He really hurt us last time. We decided to come after him and make them change their game a little bit.

Tonight was a good game for us because we were able to grind it out and find a way to get a win down the stretch. I was able to get some shots to go, and when they doubled me, I was able to find my teammates.

Defensively, I thought we were pretty solid. Our game plan was there, but it?s just about putting some balls in the hole.

We attack the game in many different ways. Some nights it's interior, but a lot of it is our pick-and-roll and finding our shooters. If they're going to play the pick-and-roll a certain way or double team in the post, our shooters are going to have wide-open shots, and we have some of the best in the league.

They did a great job double-teaming me. I got in foul trouble, my shots weren't going down, and things just weren't working my way. I tried to be as aggressive as I could, but they were defending me very well. I finally got some shots to go down late in the game when it seemed like it didn't matter anymore.

They hit some great shots. We did not have the game locked up, but we thought we had it in the bag. I went 1-for-6 (from the line) in the final (three) minutes and made some mental mistakes. But lesson learned, and it was a cheap one because we got the win.

You could definitely see the game change when (the Pistons) were all out there together.

It (stinks) - especially because we really feel like we gave this one away. The last game we got beat pretty good. Tonight we come out and try to sure up a couple of things, and we still get a bunch of turnovers and missed free throws, and we still have a chance to win down the stretch and give it away.

It's a big game for us. We'll come back a little more energized and ready to go.