We're always a team that people push aside, but we're the team that finished No. 1 in the West.

It was great being a part of it, we were really choked up at halftime when Ruthie spoke. She's meant a lot to me, she's been a real inspiration.

I laugh every day, ... Him having a daughter? Three daughters? Him actually being (formerly) married? He cracks me up. He always has something to say. He has that attitude where he feels that even though he's a short person, he has a big ego. And he's always doing stuff, getting people fined, eating other people's food ...

Even though we won, our backs are still against the wall, ... Houston has four great players and we know they're not going to quit. We know that.

We were happy in the locker room, but I was disappointed that we let our lead go away so easy. This has got to be a lesson for us.

We got to lace up our shoes and do the best we can possibly do against four of the greatest players to ever play. If we continue to work hard, play together, come Game 1 we're going to be OK.

Whiz deserves Coach of the Year. He's accomplished a lot with this team. No one knew how we were going to fit together. But he had confidence it would work.

We have to jump out on them early. Not let them get a big lead on us, because it's tough playing our defense coming from 14, 16 points down. It's tiring.

It was a dogfight from beginning to end, ... We knew L.A. wasn't going to give up. We kept our composure, but we can't turn the ball over like that. I hope we learn from this.