He's a guy who understands the coach and his different moods, the day-to-day stuff. For everybody else, he has sort of been the voice in the locker room. . . . To me, it would make sense if he was one of the captains.

He told me as soon as he passed it to me to shoot it.

The costs are going to be astronomical. We need to be much more vigilant about focusing on prevention efforts and acute stroke therapy in this rapidly growing, high-risk community.

It's a lot louder here than what I'm used to. But that's not a bad thing. You can feel the energy, the nervousness, in our locker room before a game. Seven or eight of the guys haven't been at this level too much before, so they're going to be excited.

That third quarter was it. It was a close game, but they really hit us.

As this population ages and gets larger, the impact to the U.S. public health system will be tremendous.

We did a great job in team defense and we shut down Vince. Richard Jefferson still had a big game, Kidd was a little off. You can't let all three of them have great games or they'll hurt you.

We were getting some wide-open looks, and we just weren't putting them in the basket. Against a team like that, you're not going to get much as far as calls or breaks or loose balls. So any little thing you do, you have to take advantage of it, and we didn't do that.

When you're growing up and developing in this league and you're on a team like San Antonio, you're exposed to a lot. A lot of the things we did down in San Antonio was winning. And that's one of my main things I want to bring with me here ? is a winning attitude.

I think it will be real easy. One of the first things that Kevin O'Connor said to me is 'You're going to hear a lot of the same adjectives.