There's a lot of emotion involved in this game.

It's the whole testosterone thing. We like to shoot guns and blow things up.

I did it in the last series against Smith because we saw an emotion that we could tap into ... I won't be doing it to Marcus.

Coach Popovich is a very intelligent coach. He must have felt that his team needed to get some emotion while playing the game.

I think we were too emotional to start the game. We got that big lead more on emotion than substance. And once the emotion wore off, we struggled.

He's been injured most of the season. You saw an awful lot of pent-up emotion when he scored. He's spent a lot of time in the treatment room and gym.