Derek Fisher Quotes (30 Quotes)

I don't know and I guess I've been around too long to say we deserved it when we didn't win. The team that wins oftentimes deserves to win, so you can't take credit away from them for continuing to make plays down the stretch. I'm very proud of the effort of our basketball team that we put out there tonight. It's frustrating because we've been in this position so many times this season.

I think it's that we got a chance to practice a few days, give ourselves a chance to focus on how we want to get our shots and where we want them to come from. I think we're doing a better job of slowing down offensively when we don't have anything initially in transition and calling our sets and getting to the spots we want to get to. At least for the most part we're not forcing Baron or Jason or somebody to make a play against the shot clock every time.

We had an opportunity to win. That's what you want to do in this league. You can't plan on how you're going to get to the end of the game - whether you're going to be up five, down five, up 15 or down 15.

People feel like we've brought it to the point where a position has to be made OK, what are we going to do Are we going to win and make the playoffs Are we going to make a trade Who's going to be coach

Everybody just looks at his scoring, but as he's developed into that player he is now, a lot of it is just his presence. That helps our team. It gives us energy and gives us aggressiveness, gives us the ability to do certain things out on the floor.

I was just trying to do whatever I needed to help us win. That was the objective. Today we needed extra offense and at times, I provided that. Just not enough to get a win.

I definitely believed that we could get that stop down the stretch. It wasn't that they didn't have enough time to get the shot off, but I felt like we kept fighting and we were going to be able to get that last stop and take it to overtime and pull it out.

In the first half, we didn't give them a lot to get excited about other than the explosions in the introductions.

You see arguably our best player going out there to do everything he can possibly do to win a game even though his ankle is probably still a little bit sore. I hope that it does make the rest of us feel like we have to do something to help.

I think we're finding this team can win basketball games, even when we don't score 100 points.

Warriors point guard Derek Fisher noticed it way back in the preseason. It seemed like every time he jabbed his arm out to hand-check an opposing dribbler on the perimeter, he heard a whistle. More scoring. That's what the league wants, ... Calling those fouls up front leads to more penetration, maybe more free throws. It's one way to get more points on the scoreboard.

We haven't given up. It's our responsibility to finish the season as if we have the best record in the Western Conference. The ability is there and the talent is there. We have to continue to work hard and figure out ways to put wins together.

We got off to a good start, but we couldn't sustain it. We've experienced that several times this year and we've experienced it against this team before. We haven't been able to put together a good complete game in quite sometime. It's frustrating.

But for me it might not be improving percentage-wise, from 28 percent to 45 percent or 55 percent. It might just be that Im able to knock down shots at different times, or maybe making stop at the defensive end.

That's the type of personality he has. But he does it in a way that's respectful of his teammates. He's never trying to show someone up.

Inconsistent performance at a high level -- not because of any one guy or two guys, but as a team. I think the fast start gave us a false sense of security, actually. We thought we were already good, as opposed to still working toward being good.

It's a belief in progress. Wins like (Tuesday's) help build that belief and that confidence that you can win against good teams in their building. Road wins always give you that extra belief.

We know that we aren't playing our best basketball, but we've done enough to win games. What would feel real good is to get the game in Chicago. I think that would really show a lot of growth on our part if we can stay focused and disciplined enough to get that game.

I allowed my teammates to do what they do. The key to our success tonight was balance and the fact that everyone was able to get comfortable on offense.

He's in a position now where he gets to make those plays every night and every time. He's just showing the ability he's always had. He's just doing it on a nightly basis.

There's still a possibility, and that's what we're playing for. This game felt really good. This was some of the best balance we've had in a long time. It's nice to win one of these games without Jason having to score 99 points.

We're still learning as a team how to finish a game. We had an opportunity but didn't get it done. We have to keep learning from these setbacks.

As a veteran player, you hate to be out there in that situation, but tonight was about the other 29 games.

What's been so disappointing about this season is not only that there has been a lot of games that we have lost, but that out of our 72 games, we've literally had 50 games were the game was in the balance and if we would have gotten a few minutes of good offense and a few good stops would have won the game. There has been a lot of games that we lost just like we lost today's game.

We did that because we don't want kids in foul trouble. We try to match up on their better shooters and we came in trying to tilt our zone. We were fortunate they missed a lot of shots.

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In the past it's come up maybe in the middle of the year, after we'd lost some games, or been frustrated. The fact that we haven't played a regular-season game yet makes it different.

For most fans of the league, they'll find it admirable. He didn't go in to start anything. He didn't go in to make any trouble. He went in to make sure his wife was OK.

That's the key for us. Being able to really tap into this team's scoring potential, figuring out the sets that we have and the offense that we run, how to be more efficient. Against good defensive teams, you can't game in and game out take difficult shots with guys flying at you and having to get into the lane and create your own shots every time.

For most guys, those are difficult shots. But he has the ability to make those kind of plays. The best you can do is make it difficult for him.