Kyle Korver Quotes (25 Quotes)

It's just playing together. When we do that, we are a good basketball team. When we don't, we are not a good basketball team. It's as simple as that. That's all there is to say.

We wanted to make a little statement, but it didn't happen. It was all about pride. We didn't want to get blown out on our home court, or on TV. We fought back, but we're not taking any moral victory out of losing to Miami by seven. We wanted to win this game.

Its hard. Hes such a good guy, its hard to just watch it. Youve just got to pray for him. But its Willie Green. Hes gonna do everything he can to get back on time. Hes just a natural athlete. Im sure hell heal quickly. He came back from his thumb injury w

We've just been playing harder. I don't know why this has all of a sudden clicked like it has. We've said all along we have tools, we have talent. For a while, our effort just wasn't there, but I can't put a finger on why it was that way.

We all feel bad for him. We don't know the whole story. We're just going to wait and see what happens with that. Obviously, we're thinking of him a lot. He's a great guy and a great teammate.

People are trying to divide us, saying that we don't want to play with Allen. That's not the case. Allen provides so much for this team. There's this perception that we don't like playing with him ... We love playing with Allen and Chris Webber.

We've talked more about defense in practice. When we watch film, that's all we watch is defense -- we don't even watch our offense right now. (Defense) has just been our focus. We're playing a different style of basketball right now in terms of slowing it down. We're playing well.

The first season didn't go the way we wanted it to. Now we have three in a row, and we've got 27 games left.

We've been looking for something to get us going for a while. We had some long practices, we had some long meetings. But we got back to having fun out there. When you're having fun, you're going to player harder. When you're playing harder, you're playing better defense.

He hit that (three-pointer) over me in the first game of the season. I thought I contested it so hard the first game and he still made it. I was, like, 'Not again.' But he missed it.

I don't want to make too big a deal about this because it's only one game. Let's see how we do Sunday (in Minnesota).

We didn't turn the ball over and we got good shots. We didn't just rely on isolation plays and that was something that was different tonight. We just finished it off really well.

There's this perception that we don't like playing with (Iverson) or something, and that's not the case. I still can't figure out how he can miss that many days and come back and play like that.

That was a crazy, ugly, exciting basketball game. It seemed like it was up and down, with turnovers, long rebounds we weren't getting. I don't really know how we won, to be honest. I thought we were kind of sloppy, but we found a way to win.

We're going to have to bounce back because Detroit is better than these guys. We've got a couple days to get ready and give it what we got.

I just can't figure out how he can miss that many days and come back and play like that. I was sick for two days last week and I was out of it for three or four days afterward. I couldn't get into a rhythm at all.

I went to games as a spectator and I saw the fun that it was. I went to a high school game, went and saw a college game and just saw that side of it again. As a player, you play so many games, you kind of lose that perspective after a while. I think once I saw that side again, it was like this is a fun game, its the game of basketball, I get paid to do this, lets just go out and have fun and whatever role they ask you to play just go out there and do that -- and thats what Im trying to do.

It was just to have some team fun. We don't have fun around here right now. It seems like every time we go to practice, it's so uptight and everyone's worried about stuff or whatever. We just needed to have some fun.

Shooting threes is always what I do best. If it's not what I do best, something is wrong with my game.

We kept saying in the huddle that we're not going to lose to this team four times.

This team has heart. I think a lot of people have kind of been questioning us, but I don't know how you really can. We're not always doing it right, but we're trying hard.

We gave up 86 points in an overtime game. We've given that up in three quarters a lot of times lately.

We've just been a little more focused. We're not giving up easy baskets like we were. A lot of it was just we weren't paying attention to details. We just have a new fire. We just accepted playing a different style of basketball a little bit.

It hurts a lot, but Chicago has to come here too. Hopefully Miami can help us out and set them back. We just have to worry about tomorrow. We have to regroup. It's a must.

We feel like we have all of the tools we need here. We really, really do. We've showed that at times.