Postgame Quotes: Suns vs Memphis - 01/02/2010


Head Coach Alvin Gentry
Amare Stoudemire
Jason Richardson

Lionel Hollins
Rudy Gay
Marc Gasol

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Suns Head Coach Alvin Gentry

The only way that you can put it is we just got our ass kicked. We can sugar-coat it and we can say different things but they beat us in every phase of the game. They were tough on the boards. They made plays. They made shots. They were better defensively. Just putting it in layman’s terms we got our ass kicked. I don’t know any other way to say it. A lot of the credit goes to them. They did a really good job. Lionel (Hollins) has those guys playing great. He’s got them believing in themselves. They are going to be a tough team. They have good, young players. I think Zach Randolph has found a home where he feels really comfortable and they believe in him. He’s a really tough low-post player and a tremendous rebounder. Gasol is really playing extremely well, and OJ Mayo did really well tonight. They just played an overall really good game. Most of the credit goes to them.

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Suns Forward Amare Stoudemire

We didn’t bring the effort tonight. We didn’t play hard, we didn’t shoot well and with that being said, it results in a loss. We’ve got to do a better job.

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Suns Guard Jason Richardson

I'm not surprised at all [on the loss]. This is the NBA – any team can beat any team on any given night. (Memphis) is playing really well the past 12 or 13 games and they have a lot of young guys who are up-and-coming stars. If you don’t come out and play, that’s what’s going to happen – any team can beat us like this.

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Grizzlies Head Coach Lionel Hollins

That was a proud moment as a coach to see the whole group focus on our game plan, even the guys who came off the bench. I don’t know if we could prepare any better for a team and have it come to fruition the way it did. I think that in this game here we had 7 turnovers and that kept them from getting run-outs. We didn’t take a lot of bad shots early in the game which didn’t allow them to get run-outs; and when we scored we made sure we had two or three people back so they couldn’t get layups. The last time we played them they got layups. After we scored they would get a layup; and they do that on a lot of teams. Our focus was to make sure that we took away a lot of that stuff and to see if they could beat us with their three’s and with their offense; and tonight they didn’t shoot the ball as well (some people), and I just thought we did an outstanding job.

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Grizzlies Forward Rudy Gay

We're pulling together and starting to use all of our weapons. OJ (Mayo) had it going today for the most part in the second half. The second half Z (Zach Randolph) went out there and did his thing which made it a lot easier for us.

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Grizzlies Center Marc Gasol

We came here today very focused, and we’ve been here a few days. We played good basketball and shared the ball well.

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