Quotes About Intensity

When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.

I think it should be hard to get into the playoff. It really should.

Less is always more in a playoff game.

I've been to NBA playoff games.

You go through playoff series and people forget about them. Nobody forgets about a Rangers-Devils series. It's demanding.

Every playoff game is kind of like its own movie.

The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.

A lot of things change in the playoffs.

It's the Playoffs. This is what you play for.

The playoffs are a different animal, and any team can beat you on any day.

It's the playoffs; you have to pick up the intensity.

Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.

In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

You just want the highs to start once the playoffs start.

The NBA playoffs have the highest ceiling in all of sports.

Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

The playoffs bring the best out of people.

It's all about the playoffs for me. I don't care about the regular season.

Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you're in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it's like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they're so down. 'You can't do anything right! Then everything's going your way!'

If there's a loose ball, dive on the floor. If you can take a charge, do that. The playoffs are all about scratching. Whatever it takes.

It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.

The playoffs is when I'm at my best.