The energy was crazy, ... I wasn't expecting that at all.

I looked and Vince Carter, he played like 20-something games one year. I looked at everybody and a lot of high-profile players have missed a lot of games. A lot of them bounced back. So I can think to myself, 'OK, they did it, so I can do it,? and I don?t feel like the biggest loser.

If you fill your team with people that are used to winning, the tendency is that they will get the team to win, somehow, someway, eventually,

If you don't think you can make the playoffs, then what's the point of even stepping on the court to begin with? Will we make the playoffs? Who knows? But that's our mentality.

I'm obviously disappointed. As a player you want to be out there playing hard, having fun in front of our fans. But the situation is what the situation is.

I'm obviously disappointed. The player in me, the competitor in me wants to be out there with my teammates fighting hard and out there having fun playing ball in front of our fans. But the situation is what the situation is. You have to act accordingly.

I like challenges. The fact that he's 7-feet, a completely mobile guy, it's going to pump me up.

At times they were playing so long out there. Ostertag (7-foot and 280 pounds) is just hard to move. Once you run around him, he's already got the ball in his hands.

After that first day I questioned whether or not basketball was for me.

It seemed almost surreal. I'd envisioned myself in this position a million times, and yet it didn't feel like it was really happening.