Quotes About Playoffs

We owe it to the fans and we owe it to ourselves to give it everything we have to try and put ourselves in the playoffs.

Everyone in the League wants to play in the playoffs; I am no different.

When you're with a team and you're comfortable there, everything seems O.K. You play a lot of minutes. You make the playoffs. You don't miss practice - all of that stuff. So when you leave for the summer, you're like, 'See you next year!' You expect maybe some changes, but nothing involving you.

The team that can be consistent - for the most part all year - is going to be the team that is going to get into the playoffs.

I'm trying to go to the playoffs. That's my goal. Everything else is going to fall in place.

I am confident that I am a young coach that continues to improve and continues to get better and have been able to find success in the regular season and haven't been able to find it in two completely different circumstances in the playoffs.

You have to be ready for anything in the playoffs.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

In the regular season you always say, 'Take it one game at a time.' But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.

Going forward, what I can accomplish, I always have seen myself playing in the playoffs, playing deep, and winning. I want to be part of that and feel that.

When you're playing a good team, not too many point guards want to go one on one. When you're playing a not-so-good team, teams that are fighting to make the playoffs, guys are going to want to try and get their own. It's just a different read of each team.

You apologize for losing in the playoffs, but you don't apologize for getting in.

I've played in every type of situation. But to not have one run in the playoffs where you just make one of those magical runs? That's what I want.

There is just something about the playoffs and the atmosphere, and feeling like it's you against the world, that gets you going.

When I came into this league, it was a Phoenix Suns team consistently going to the playoffs, and they had aspirations to go deep into the playoffs. People were always harping on sacrifice, what you have to give up for the success of the team.

Yeah, I think when you don't make it to the playoffs and you're watching those games, I think there's envy in every game you watch.

Playing pretty big minutes in the playoffs and having career games in the playoffs is something you dream of as a kid but never really think will happen.

It's the NHL playoffs, I'm 20 years old, I'm finding it out the hard way that playoffs aren't easy.

You look at it every year, how many teams are in and out of the playoffs, and how close the league is, it seems like every team is not too far away.

When I come off the bench, I have that intensity and that effort. That's something all of us guys are trying to bring, but especially the guys off the bench. Because we can play a role in any game, let alone the playoffs.

We went through a whole lot in Washington, from winning 28, 29 games to going to the second round of the playoffs in two years. That was a tough time and a great time as well. Early, like my first year, it was really tough, because to be honest with you, I didn't want to be there.

My journey of self-discovery and self-acknowledgement began in my hometown of Los Angeles and has taken me through two state high school championships, the NCAA Final Four and the Elite Eight, and nine playoffs in 12 NBA seasons.

I mean, nobody wants to lose. And nobody wants to be playing at the end of the year when you don't have a chance to make the playoffs.

I want to be in the playoffs.