On Klay Thompson:
“The guy is a heck of a player, a prototypical shooting guard. Great at coming off of screens, thought he was aggressive taking high percentage shots and he was unselfish. Defensively he’s underrated because he battles – I thought he played an outstanding game.”
On The Final Few Possesions:
“We made some mistakes and we are going to makes some mistakes when you think about being down to our third string point guard and not having a backup point guard and asking Dominic McGuire to play point down the stretch. He’s a guy that has played every position for us this year. The thing I like about is even after David Lee got the five second call we were in the huddle saying ‘it’s OK, it’s alright…let’s get this stop’ that’s what winning teams do. It’s easy to point the finger and to say ‘Why didn’t you cut? Why didn’t you come to the ball? Why didn’t you toss it inbounds?’ the dialogue in that huddle was ‘Ok, let’s get a stop’. That’s what winning teams do and it was awfully impressive.”
On Charles Jenkins:
“He can flat out play. Every time I have asked him to be ready, he’s been ready. He’s a guy that shows up early, stays late, puts the extra time in and he’s figuring it out. He made two dynamic passes to David Lee – I thought he played very well and he battled defensively.”
On Changing Tactics Defending Demarcus Cousins:
“We battled and we decided to play some zone and give him different looks- the zone was very effective. The guys did a very good job of multiple effort plays and by that mean, our perimeter guys were able to tag him or soft double team him and keep him off balance and stay at home on their own man. A lot of the time you get guys not committed and they only do one or the other; tonight we were locked in and helped each other. It was a thing of beauty the way we communicated.”
On Mickell Gladness:
“I thought he played very well. A big body, went after every shot - a big live body. He rebounded, finished at the rim – I thought he played very well and it was good to see.”