April 29 Playoffs Quotes
Darrell Armstrong“I’m just happy for the city of Orlando, but we’re not finished. We have to go up to Detroit and finish Game #5 and try to close them out.”
“We’re going to have to bring everything we got, play solid on both ends of the floor, and play for 48 minutes. We’re not going to knock them out in 24 minutes or the first quarter, we have to make sure we do the things that we’ve been doing to get in this situation. We just have to be focused and go up there and just play basketball, Magic basketball.”
“Yeah you have to expect them [to play desperate], but we’re expecting to go up there and win too. We’re expecting to close them out. You know they’re going to be fighting, they’re trying to survive, they’re trying to keep their playoff hopes alive, and we know they’re going to try to throw everything at us, including the kitchen sink.”
“I’m excited, very excited, but just ready for the games because we haven’t won anything, we haven’t won the series, but I’m happy with what we’re doing right now and we’re really playing well as a team, but the biggest thing is we’re playing defense. And when you play defense like the way we’ve been playing, we can win any game.”
“Hopefully we just build on this and keep going, take the pressure off of Doc, and take the pressure off this organization, and just try to keep winning, and that’s what we’re going to try to do. We’re not trying to worry about if we get knocked out of the first round, second round, third round, we’re trying to worry about one game at a time and the way that we’ve been playing, that’s what we can worry about and control.”
Drew Gooden“I think that second game was unacceptable on our parts, being scorers, me and Gordan, I mean that’s what they brought us in for, and we disappeared offensively, but then again we didn’t get the looks like we usually get. Coach told us to slow it down, get in the half-court set, and get guys involved, which is particular me and Gordan and Pat Garrity, and Darrell Armstrong has been doing a good job too. I think it takes a load off T-Mac and we have been winning games since then.”
