Rick Barnes Quotes

"(Kelvin) lost some games when he didn't have his whole team there. Coming in (to the season) they were like us, a team that was up there. And they're a good basketball team."

"With four or five games left in the season, (a win) can swing a whole season around for anybody in this league. There are teams fighting for postseason play, and we make your résumé look pretty good."

"Fran and I spent a lot of nights watching summer league games throughout the D.C. area. I've got a lot of respect for him. You've got to marvel at the job he's done once he arrived there. His teams are very intelligent. They're not going to beat themselves. They're going to play extremely hard. They're probably more athletic than people think."

"That may have been one of Brad's best games because he helped out in areas other than scoring on a tough shooting night."

"You could probably make a case today. (But) there's too many games this week. It's an important week for a lot of people. It depends on what we do these next couple of games."

"He had it going. It hurt having them over there [on the bench]. But you have to deal with it. That's where we have got to have help from our bench."

"He's a totally different player. I think if he hadn't gotten hurt, we wouldn't be watching him right now. He would be playing in the NBA."

"If he hadn't gotten hurt, we wouldn't have watched him play tonight. I think he'd be in the NBA."

"A year ago we were fighting to get into the NCAA tournament."

"We told him all year to play more disciplined. It?s just a bad habit of him reaching. He is too good a player to let that happen."

"We realize we're in the middle of a conference race. We're not going to take anything for granted."

"What you like about opening the tournament in Dallas is the travel. Everyone's had to do a lot of traveling at this point of the year. It's nice to just take a bus trip up I-35."

"We had a tough night shooting the ball."

"Every game in this league, as you know in any league, that night you've got to be ready to play. We've got to continue to improve. There are areas we definitely can improve in."

"He was a little jumpy the other night, and we got him for it. He had a great response. He definitely had a different perspective on things."

"I didn't know how P.J. would react. What he went through the other night was tough. We spent a lot of time to tell him he could bounce back. I told him the best thing would be to get lost in the game defensively and thought he was really good."

"We're a better offensive team than we were the other night. We turned down some open shots, so we need to be aggressive. Being aggressive is taking an open shot."

"I look at it, and we didn't have a good night shooting the ball, but we still scored 82 points. There really were some good things."

"I think it was a situation on this night that (Tech) missed a lot of shots. We were obviously taller and longer, so we could get those rebounds."

"I was impressed with his physical conditioning. He's like a mountain stream of running water. It goes up against one rock and turns another way — it never stops flowing."