We just have to go about business as usual. It's unfortunate. We've got to find a way to win despite that. It won't be easy.

Obviously there were some good parts; we were up 20. But the glaring similarity to last game is we let another team run at us and make it close in the fourth quarter. If we keep going like this, we're going to end up losing a game we should have won.

Whoever's in or whoever's out, we just keep plugging away.

It probably hits him like a freight train, ... This was kind of a perfect situation for him. His wife ( Angela ) is from here. The kids are in school, kind of established, home, and then to move all the way to Toronto, that has to be difficult for anybody.

We're playing a lot less random, a lot more structured. We're pushing, still getting stuff in transition. But when we don't have it, we're finding Yao in the paint, going inside/outside. ... Usually we depended on someone like Tracy doing it all and making plays for us, but now we're just playing basketball and getting the job done.

You're out again? You're supposed to be our bus driver and now both of our bus drivers (Yao and Tracy McGrady ) are underneath where you keep the luggage. Giving us no help. Look at this, there's sweat on me and there's none on you. You're lying in the bed, taking it easy for six months. I had a cracked rib, and I was back in three weeks.