Postgame Quotes: Kings @ Warriors
January 8, 2010 by kingsconnect
Coach Paul Westphal
“They played a messy first half and a better second half, and unfortunately we did just the opposite. They kept attacking, and we stopped attacking. They took over the game and there was nothing we could do about it. We stopped executing, we stopped playing together, we stopped playing good defense and when you do that, you lose. We didn’t run our offense and we acted like we didn’t know where we were supposed to be.”
(On Monta Ellis)
“We went away from our game plan in regards to guarding him. He can do so many things that it takes a team to play defense to stop him, and that’s what we didn’t do. He got rolling. I thought our defense broke down and stopped the initial pass, and he took advantage of that.”
Tyreke Evans
“We came out strong, but they came out in the second half and turned it up. We have to play better defense than we did tonight or we will not win many games. We started getting into a one-on-one contest and got out of the team concept. We can’t continue to use the excuse that we are a young team, because this is the NBA and we can’t have that mindset. We have to be better at closing out games. We knew that they weren’t going to stop playing, but we stopped.”
(On Monta Ellis)
He is explosive. He kept pushing the ball, and along with Corey Maggette, they kept us backing up. We didn’t stop him before he got the ball, and he was able to get the ball early enough in the offense to make plays.”
Coach Don Nelson:
“It was a fun game to win. Some games you just don’t know how you do it but some how we came back. Like I said we need support from our fans and boy did they give it to us when it wasn’t looking good for the Warriors through three quarters. The force was with us and it was one of Monta Ellis best performances. It just wasn’t his scoring but he willed and helped our team win. He just kept focused and trucking like the energizer bunny.”
“The biggest play of the game was the three by (Anthony) Morrow set up by Monta (Ellis) called by my coaching staff. It’s not a play we run often. (Morrow)He couldn’t pass that up. We have a rule when a shot is set up by your teammate it must be taken. It was one of those situations.”
Monta Eliis:
On the Home Crowd:
“I think when we were down 18 and they were still into the game. They were still telling us ‘Defense’ still into the game, still rooting every time. We just thought about it and got to the sideline and we were like ‘We can still win this, we’re at home’ and we started on the defensive in, got some stops and got back to running, getting to the free throw line and made some jump shots.”
On The Warrior Defense:
“We got stops, forced them to shoot a lot of jump shots…they didn’t make them like they did in the first half, they made some. But the biggest things for us was to get some stops, rebound and get back out there and start running and that’s what we did”
Anthony Morrow:
On the Comeback:
“We just battled. I was saying the whole game ‘let’s just keep fighting, let’s keep playing, keep grinding’ and everybody did that. Monta (Ellis) had a great game as usual, Corey (Maggette) did as well and everybody else kind of had to get in where they fit in, and everybody did their job.”
On Hitting the Three:
“Well first of all I had to get the guys off my back after that Boston game, that shot I didn’t take. That was a good way to get them off the back. It was just shot I knew I could make, I knew when Monta (Ellis) went right my man was probably going to leave and help because he’s been scoring all night so he kicked it out and I just lined it up and knocked it down.”
On Monta Ellis:
“It’s unbelievable. They say he’s 6’3 but he’s not 6’3 he’s a little guy but he can play hard. He’s got a lot of heart and says a lot about his character.”
oh man… i cant believe it happened again
these losses are starting to get worse and worse… i hope this isnt a sign of things to come
I guess this is just who the Kings are right now. A young and dumb team that has trouble focusing on the game in the second half of games, Too bad because they could have easily won this game. But if you dont play hard and bring the fight to them, you are going to lose on the road. This loss FEELS like the worst loss of the season so far…
haha.if i know these team will not win 20+ games this season.LOL,if they could better start now winning games.Tyreke Evans didnt get the opportunities.if you gave your game you should steal this game.even in the Warriors they lose.i think the games that they win are lucky ones.o think these loses will go on if they will not compete.im losing hope better stop watching games for them to realize.haha
being beat by the lowly warrior i think even new jersey can beat the kings.tyreke evans should be aggresive as he can and pass the ball if his teammates are open.if they will not compete they will not win for sure 100%,i think they getting BIG HEADED.they hadnt prove anything yet.they are over confidence at all.
MAN this kills me…. http://www.myspace.com/7rockstar... Im all the way out in VA Beach…. Really respect the Kings and all involved with this team, but come on guys!!!! Golden State did not win this game; the KINGS gave it to them. WE ARE WAYYYYYYY BETTER THAN THIS…. AND IF YOU THINK NOT, WELL YA CAN KICK ROCKS!…. YA'LL NEED TO STEEP UP WHEN IT COUNTS…. STOP THIS CHILDISH BEHAVIOR, BE MEN… be KINGS…. be KINGS… LET ME SAY IT AGAIN!!!! BE KINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
be competetive again to win games!
let beno hold the ball kings wil win
i dont like tyreke evans at all too selffish beno is better
Need to get K-mart and Cisco back on the court. The rookies might be starting to feel the sting of the nba season. Playing against the best players in the world night-in and night-out is much to get acclimated to. Omri coming off the bench is better for the team much like Bobby J. We need his boost off the bench more than his stats as starter. A steady veteren playing in the last minutes in a couple of these recent heart breakers and we probably above .500 right now. Imagine how scary this team will be when they learn how to play with each other!!!!!
there all starting to just shoot instead of passing. tyreke, beno, jt, casspi. all too confident for a team that won 17 last year
this team is young and not very good at all alot of this games are going to be like this not only this year but next year 2012 willbe our year for know we are choking and LOOSERS the truth is painfull
we have 6 more wins thats all so we will get alot of this
Yes. While Cisco and KM are on bench, I believe the Kings have to run the roster to rest the starting line up for the 4th quarter. Many of the Kings team just sat on the bench without any play time. Please run the roster.
Go Kings.