March 7, 2008 | AmericanAirlines Arena | Miami HEAT - 99 | Golden State Warriors- 134
HEAT Head Coach Pat Riley
On the game:
“We just couldn’t keep pace with them. Eventually it just kept getting away. I thought we did a good job in the first half keeping them out of the paint. They are a kind of team that if you keep letting them get lay-ups, you let them get post-ups and they start making threes, it’s going to be very difficult, and it was for us. Besides the fact that we are outnumbered with their style and their pace, it was just a matter of time for us to get down.”
“Guys are going down left and right. Then a guy gets suspended. Dwyane (Wade) couldn’t play tonight. We’ll have more guys coming back tomorrow.”
“I thought our guys came with the right attitude tonight. We just got absolutely outplayed by a better team. They shot the ball well. They drove it - that’s it. Sometimes you can overcome that. I think we will at times when we have all of our players. Even though tonight was the same result, it was a little different. You can’t take any consolation to that. Right now it’s just a very difficult time for us.”
On Whether Dwyane Wade will play tomorrow night:
“I really don’t know. It will probably be a game time decision. He’s just really sore today.”
HEAT Center - Forward Mark Blount
On the game:
“They know how to play and they went out and just got it done. They just helped each other out there, offensively and defensively. They do what they do and they do it at a high level.”
HEAT Guard Chris Quinn
On the game:
“Back in the AAU days was the last time I played with seven guys. It is what it is and we are still all NBA players.”
“I think there are moments of every game where you’re having fun out there. It is obviously not a good time to get beat as bad as we did.”
HEAT Guard Dwyane Wade
On how he feels:
“Like I told Coach (Pat Riley), the last week, every time I make a power move I kind of hurt it a little bit.”
“It (aggravation of his injury) goes back Sacramento (Kings), the Mikki Moore play. It went back to that.”
On the season:
“It’s one of those seasons where everybody is looking for a way out… It’s tough, it’s tough.”
HEAT forward Shawn Marion
On the game:
“It’s frustrating. It’s hard. I don’t have any answers and I don’t know what else to say. It’s a tough situation to be in. We still have a good amount of games left. We have to go out there and try to do the best we can.”
“They (Golden State Warriors) are very good. Don Nelson has them doing exactly what we used to do in Phoenix. When someone scores, don’t sit there and think about it; take it out and run it back up their throat. That’s the best thing to do… It’s hard for teams to adjust on the fly. We did it a few times. We just got our head down when they scored and we didn’t try to run it down their throat. We were out there fighting. We were in there for a little while in that first half. In that second half it seemed like we couldn’t get over the mountain.”
Warriors Head Coach Don Nelson
On winning the game:
“It’s nice when that happens, it hasn’t happened near enough this year, but everything was clicking and we played an awful good game.”
“It’s a good thing to win, it doesn’t matter against who.”
On the bounce back from a tough loss:
“That is what I was looking for and I was looking to not having to play my regulars all the way down to the end, because we have a game tomorrow. So we should be relatively fresh and we’ll see what happens tomorrow.”
On the Heat’s loss:
“It’s no fun, I feel bad, one of those situations where you have to go through it, I went through about three years in Dallas.”
Warriors Forward-Center Al Harrington
On tomorrow’s game against Orlando:
“I think we’ve been looking for that eight or nine-game winning streak, and we’re still striving for it, but we’ve got to take it one game at a time. Orlando is a very tough team at home. We know that, but we really can’t have those lapses, like having a slow start, and then expect to try and make a comeback. We’ve got to get focused in on what we’ve got to do tomorrow.”
On the game:
“Tonight, we knew that they were undermanned, and those are dangerous games also because those guys have nothing to lose. Two or three guys that played out there know it. Our biggest thing is to not allow that to happen.”
“The biggest thing is that we don’t want to lose two games in a row. Since the beginning of the season, after we had that first six-game losing streak, we’ve been doing a great job of not losing two games in a row. We have to stay focused on that, when we do lose games, we need to keep responding.”
Warriors Center Andris Biedrins
On the game:
“It was kind of weird. I think they gave up a little too early. We got up by 12 at the half and then in the third quarter, we made a little run and that was it for the game. I was kind of surprised they gave up so early. I think we played pretty well too, and we made a lot of good shots, a lot of 3-point shots and that is why we had a big lead.”
On his first game back following appendix surgery:
“This was kind of a good game for a first game after my surgery. He (Don Nelson) subbed me in for five minutes, took me out for five minutes. It was really good for five or six minutes. Then I came out, that was enough, and every game we’ll build a little more. But it was good.”
“We just need to get at these teams when we play, because now, it’s really tough. Every win counts, but we can’t allow ourselves to lose to a bad team, because it will just cost us later.”
Warriors Guard Baron Davis
On the remainder of the regular season:
“You’re going to lose games in this league. There is no team that is completely sorry. You have to honor and respect everybody. I know that sounds like a cliché, but it’s true. Sometimes it strikes that fire and a sense of urgency because you know you let one get away. So you have to find one of those games to make it up.”
“These last road trips are going to be tough. It isn’t getting any easier from here on out so we definitely have to come with some resolve and come with the intensity that we need.”