When Marbury gets 15 assists and one turnover without Jamal in the game, you realize why we won. He was phenomenal.

We said he was feeling good, so we just let him go. He had 37 points, nine assists, one turnover -- I mean, that's a pretty nice statement for the All-Star team, or whatever.

If you don't examine yourself after every game there is something wrong. I don't get too caught up when we win. I don't get too caught up when we lose. But I do try to evaluate where we're going. ... And then the thing that I never thought I'd see, I don't think we've matched our opponents' energy in a number of games. That's disturbing.

We had some slippage. We were careless with the ball, our shot selection wasn't as great, but when the game was on the line, we got back and sucked it up.

I'm glad he won the slam-dunk contest, but I don't think they have a scoring system like that when you play a game. And I think he's smart enough to understand that when you have Marbury and Francis and Jamal, you can't play everybody.

It changes things a lot when one of the best pitchers in the game gets ejected. I think you'd see a lot of teams roll over in that situation.