We are getting our feet a little bit. A little desperation time, but we are a young team and we are fighting.

Some of it was a lack of killer instinct or focus or desperation. But sometimes the ball just bounces the wrong way. You hate to put it in simple terms. A couple times we were there, and it just bounced the wrong way on us.

(Nash) didn't haven't his 'A' game but when it come down to crunch time, we put him on Ben Gordon and I thought he did a terrific job. He's turned into a heck of a defensive player and I'm not saying that tongue in cheek either. The guy has played defense the last couple months as good as anybody.

James needs to set his clock. He has it on Eastern time or something.

Every time we play these guys, a good game breaks out and that's got to be exciting for the fans. They score baskets that you can't guard, and I think we do the same thing. Tonight, we just happened to score more than they did, the reverse of last time.

We've been flirting with this for a while and this time it bit us. Yeah, they shot the ball well, but everybody is against us lately. We have to be more careful. We're running out of steam and now we have to find some second energy and gut this out a little bit.