It's very important. It's paramount. He rebounds, passes and scores. He does a lot of things for our team.

We are still getting better. We are becoming a good team and it is good to see that...We need to approach games like we do at home, which is difficult, but once we get to that point we will be much better.

We did not want to get blown out against a team in the Eastern Conference.

We didn't want to get blown out or get embarrassed, being that it's an Eastern Conference team. We picked it up.

We are two All-Stars. We don't want our teams to lose the game. It was unfortunate that one team had to lose, but I am happy I was on the winning side. It was a great performance by myself and Gilbert.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.