Juwan Howard Quotes (13 Quotes)

I can recall teams I've been on that have been in situations like this. You try to find ways, no matter what part of the season, to get wins. Sure enough, this late in the season, to get two wins over two good teams ... it has to boost your confidence and morale. Everybody starts to feel good.

We've been working hard to get a victory. Hopefully this is a turning point for us.

After I missed my first three, the boos got really loud, but I stayed positive. When I played here, the boos didn't help at all -- they had you second-guessing your ability. It was frustrating, but that was a long time ago.

This means a lot to us. It feels great to get a victory. We lost four in a row before this and it felt like an eternity. Night after night we have come up short, but tonight we hung in there and didn't give up.

He's one of the top three players at his position. That's a great compliment. There's Shaq in front of him and who else Take your pick.

Unfortunately at times things don't work out your way and tonight we came out with a lot of fight, start to finish, unfortunately we just couldn't pull out the victory.

When the whole team is making shots, it feels great. We've noticed in the past, when we missed shots, guys have really gotten down on themselves. We're trying so hard. And we've lost some ballgames. It becomes frustrating. But tonight was the total opposite.

We hit a big-time drought in the fourth quarter. We kept our poise. We got some stops and rebounded the shots. In the past we folded.

I shrugged it off. I thought it was indigestion.

I didn't see it happening. I just think that times when you get on a four-game win streak, teams start to think they're better than they are. We can't have that attitude. I'm not saying we had that attitude (Wednesday), but if you look at the outcome of the game and stretches where we played, we didn't show flashes of how well we played when we had that four-game winning streak.

It's kind of weird that we're a different team on the road. Some may say our focus is different, we play with more energy, more passion. ... We have to make teams fear coming into our building.

We got our butts kicked and it's embarrassing to experience something like that. It's very disappointing for all of us that really care about what's happened to this team. The fans aren't happy, the organization's not happy and each and every guy on this team and the coaches are equally disappointed.

I'm pretty sure everyone in this locker room has been through something like this where the home team's crowd gets excited, the energy level rises, the other team uses it to play with confidence. I don't think (we) felt pressure.