When you play a team like Miami, you cannot start the way we started. You put yourself in such a hole, and you have to climb out of it. You can't do that against a good team. They space the floor, they have a great post player. ... Then they spread the floor with their shooters.
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You have to transform yourself, ... As a player, when theres something you dont want to do, or you dont want to do these interviews, you have other guys that they like talking to more anyway, cause you like those jovial guys. You can pass that off. As a head coach, you dont have anyone you can pass it off to.Maurice Cheeks
Coming into a building like this, playing a very good basketball team like this, you know if you get up 20 points they're going to make a run. They had a chance at the end. But our attention to detail was big, from the first minute of the game to the last minute.
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Any time you don't have a player like Allen play for four consecutive games, you're going to miss him. You're going to miss his scoring, his drive, a lot of things.
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They're just fighting to get a second seed. We're trying to get a seed so it means a lot more to us to go out there and play the way we've been playing the last few games.
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People talk about him shooting the ball a lot, but it's not a selfish thing. If we get down, he takes a lot on himself to go and win the game. I've seen his maturation in the way he tries to will his teammates to win.
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Their execution down the stretch was the key. They advanced the ball quicker up the court than what we're normally used to.
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