George Karl Quotes

"I like the way we played. It was the most complete offensive performance we've had all season."

"He felt it would guarantee that it would remove the pain. Eddie has been playing so well and been such a factor with his defensive aggressiveness, he wants to continue at that level."

"I think it's probably a list of five or six things. It's pain, it's not scoring, not being more involved in the offense, not playing more minutes. The list is incredibly long, probably."

"It's a bad hand you're dealt when your best player is in foul trouble and you're down 15 and 20 points."

"The circumstances that happened will energize us or de-energize us. I'm hoping we'll all stay strong and stay together and hang together. My gut tells me we're going to do that, but only Thursday night will tell us the answer to that."

"He needed help. He needed someone else to help space the court, space the defense away from him. We never could find that guy."

"I thought in that 45-minute conversation, we moved towards each other."

"We've got to slow them down. We've done some good things. Consistency would be good there. I would take just shooting the league average on open shots tonight."

"I'm tired of excuses. I think it's playing with your heart, playing with intensity and playing with a commitment that, even if you lose, you can be proud of."

"He's a young kid who is going to be asked great questions, and he's not always going to have knowledge to answer them. But he wants to be a leader. I really like that."

"If we make that extra pass, we'll find the 3-pointer and hit them. At times, we don't trust that extra pass. But you can say the same thing about 25 of the other 30 teams in the league."

"It was not a give-and-take conversation."

"It's a huge disappointment. This is not a team looking to play in the right direction."

"We were a happy team, but not a serious team. They were a playoff-serious team who knew they had to win this game."

"This was as intense a game as we've had all season long. There is an intensity between these two teams as a result of the playoff series a few years ago."

"I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball."

"I don't think I was as vocal with the four-letter words as I normally am, but I still got a few in there."

"I don't think there's anything other than a hard hit to the head. He had trouble getting his equilibrium back, but I think he's going to be fine."

"We've always worked through it. We've always picked ourselves up. I trust this team is going to do the same thing on Thursday."

"I thought we had to win out (before Wednesday). Right now, our destiny is going to be difficult."