I got a team around me. They're solid when I'm not hitting. That's what gets lost in all this.

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it.

I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.

Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that.

I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.