When Sam hit that first shot, it scared them a little bit. When he hit another, it froze them.

You can't make mistakes on them and we made some mistakes. (The Pistons) were desperate. We didn't have Sam so we were missing 20 points. The rest of the guys came together and we did pretty well. It was definitely a good trip. We have to go home and take care of business now.

We have to capitalize on what we have, with Sam, myself, both of us coming in as veterans. We've been around, been to the playoffs. We have to bring that atmosphere here to these guys.

I wasn't going to come to some place where we were going to lose, ... I knew we were going to be good. We got guys who can win, who have won. But talk to me at the All-Star break.

Even early in the season this was a huge gut check,

I learned the system and got better with it through the year. But I was only there, what, like four months? Those guys had been together for three years.