Jason Kidd Quotes (144 Quotes)

I don't think we were surprised. We are fighting every day to be consistent.

That set the franchise in a whole different light I think. I think it helped get rid of whatever the negative vibes of being a Net were. If we had never gotten out of that game, we would have never known how good we could be.

I thought Vince had some great looks. He missed some bunnies. But we'll live and die with Vince taking some shots.

I do that all the time, ... I'm here to work on my game as much as these other guys want to prove themselves. It wasn't anything special. The move presented itself and I just took advantage of it.

This was a more pivotal game than most people think because of (it coming) after the emotional game against San Antonio, not playing our best. To come out against a team that is playing well like Milwaukee with nobody coming due to the weather, I thought we handled ourselves quite well.

I just thought at that point we tried everything except going small. (Bosh) was getting all his points on the perimeter. I just suggested it to the coaching staff. I didn't know if they would go to it.

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

He used every piece of the rim. He was the guy if there was someone we could come off of and make him take a jump shot.

I never play 82 games, not with the way I play. My body takes such a pounding. When I came in this league and didn't play 82, so it's not that important to me now.

It started when we gave up 36 points in the second quarter. We were playing uphill from that point. We got it down to five, and I thought I had a good look on a 3 that went in-and-out, and they came down and hit a 3 and the rest was academic.

I think this team thrives in the half court, more than the first three or four years I was here, when our offense was in the open court, and we struggled in the half court. I think we can score in both situations.

You heard so many horror stories, ... There was a gentleman holding onto his family and onto a pole. His wife was saying, 'Let us go.' There was nothing he could do but he held on and did everything he could to save his family.

In that third quarter, we fell asleep at the wheel and they kept playing and they got easy baskets. When a team like Detroit gets easy baskets, you're in for a long night.

As you get older you appreciate the triple-double a little more. It would be really nice to get one and its always good to get one against those guys.

The big thing is to be healthy and mentally and physically fresh and ready to go. The way Coach presented it to us after the game, we don't have much time to practice. So you got to use each situation as practice and each day to get better. That is the way we have to approach it.

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I think a veteran team never panics, and we did not panic. They made a run, and we expected they would make a run. We answered it and kept being aggressive.

(Streaks) can be dangerous, because you can get complacent and feel like you turn it on and off at any time. (Tuesday) was one of those nights. We have to understand that we have to play 48 minutes.

It's at the right time of the year. The big thing is the quality of the teams. Everybody's playing for something, jockeying for position, and we've made a stand. Hopefully we can keep getting better and not get satisfied.

We tried to execute but they picked us apart. We just didn't execute the game plan tonight.

The season's too young. It's 14 games into the season. Nobody will remember this one.

He has a chance (to catch him) if he stays healthy. I think he could be an Oscar Robertson-type player where he can go out and average a triple-double for a season.

We have to understand that if we don't play defense, we don't have a chance to win.

I hope everybody still is confident that we can turn everything around. But in this league everybody becomes fragile when things don't go well. We'll soon find out.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

We had a stretch where we ran it through him five or six times in a row. And that's just the confidence we have in him. He can step out and knock down a jump shot or he can put the ball on the floor.

He did a great job for us. For him to take a week off and come back, I am happy to see that he is healthy and that it didn't have any negative effect. Hopefully he doesn't miss another week.

You won't see a game like that from Shaq, very rarely. We were waiting for him to take control of the game.

This was a big character test for us. This could have sent us reeling in the wrong direction. We acted like we couldn't play on the West Coast. Then we come home and give them a run for their money.

It was kind of like we didn't miss a beat tonight.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

We were playing pretty good basketball here. Six minutes left and we were tied and we were confident. But we didn't make baskets or stops.

We play through (Carter). He can make tough shots and create his own shot but he was playing with injuries.

We're a team. We've played without guys that have been hurt for six weeks. Guys are going to have to step it up coming off the bench.

If we can stay healthy and try to get better each time, hopefully we can be there in late June.

I rather it happen now than Game 7 in the Finals or an important game. I am not trying to downgrade this game as not important but those type of things happen. We have counted on Vince in the two years that he has been here and he has room for error.

I thought Vince had some great looks.

We'll take the shots that Vince takes out there on the court because we all have the confidence in him.

This is a funny game. I was telling (Chauncey) Billups that we acted like we couldn't play on the west coast. Then we come home and we give them a run for their money. And we won a big ball game.

Collins is huge for us. He helps out defensively. He might not show it in the offensive stats, but he gets guys open. He's very solid. That's what you need, someone to be consistent and he's that on both ends.

The All-Star Game isn't to make your season. You have to look at it that you get the break and time to make a run in the second part of the season.

Again, I think the numbers speak for themselves in that respect. Lawrence goes on and wins 13 12 games in a row. So if there was a mutiny, I think it was the right time for a change - not for me, but for management - because we weren't playing up to par.

It doesn't matter if it's Game 1, Game 2, Game 3 or a Game 7, they're all important. We'll have to try to eliminate our mistakes and get ready for Game 4.