Raptors Blowout Mavs 110-88: Postgame Quotes

Did Rick just use the undoing phrase?

Can this day get any worse

from DMN

“It was disgusting,” Jason Terry said. "I don’t care who you’re playing, you got to come out prepared to fight. Our second unit comes in the game and thinks it’s going to be easy.
“Figuring out what went wrong and then doing something about it is two different things,” Terry said. “Our bench cannot go out and have production like we did tonight. It’s embarrassing.”
 “If you can’t get stops and you can’t score in the half-court, you’re in trouble,” said Dirk Nowitzki, who had 19 points. "Some nights you have to outscore teams. Some nights you have to grind it out with defense. We didn’t do either one.
“Anytime you get blown out by a team that’s barely .500, that’s not good. Our offense has basically been garbage all season long. But we prided ourselves on defense, and that’s how we were getting wins and were second in the West all this time.”

and from the house of Earl K. Sneed….

SHAWN MARION

What? I am the best available player on this team capable of driving into the paint? Brrrrrr.

It is frustrating especially with this long road trip we have got. I thought we started the game off pretty well and they made a run. It seemed like they made some changes. It is frustrating but it’s a loss and we have to focus on tomorrow.

What did Toronto do different in the second quarter? I wouldn’t say that they did anything different, we made some subs, they did as well and I think they came out and outplayed our bench. That made the difference in the game and we were playing catch up after that. It makes it that much harder being on the road, they have the momentum going and the crowd was behind them. It happens.

RAPTORS HEAD COACH JAY TRIANO

Of course these are my kids. What did you think they were?

Thoughts on the defence against Dirk Nowitzki… The one thing with him (Amir Johnson), as well, is we tried to show Dirk (Nowitzki) as many different looks as we could. We tried to get in front sometimes, tried to switch and just make it difficult because we did not want him getting any type of rhythm going. Amir was a big part of that, as was Antoine Wright who played a lot of minutes. He had to do both, he had to guard Dirk Nowitzki and he had to guard Jason Terry and chase him around. They were two different assignments and two tough assignments.

Was Antoine Wright a little bit more pumped up today because it was the Dallas Mavericks? Again you go back to guys playing against teams that they were with before. Whether it is ‘I want to show you’ or ‘I know you’; I am not sure. Jason Terry is a tough guy to stay with and he (Wright) is a bigger guy and he was able to do it I thought for a good part of the game.

Do you run plays for Amir Johnson? Everything he gets is hustle. Roll hard to basket and if they don’t collapse he is going to finish the play and if they do collapse he is going to get somebody on the weak side open for a jump-shot. I thought he did a real good job of creating both those opportunities for us.

Thoughts on the team… As long as our energy is good and we keep contesting and playing on the defensive end, I think we can find ways to score.

JOSE CALDERON

Winner of the annual cheesy smile contest

Thoughts on the game… I think we play much better when we play like a team. It was a good win for us against the second best team in the West. I think we played for 48 minutes and everybody was ready to play and to do good things on the court.

Thoughts on running the second unit… I am feeling pretty comfortable. We are winning and that is the good thing about it. I am feeling good, feeling healthy and that is the best thing. I feel nothing from my leg so that is great.

Thoughts on the second quarter… I wanted to be aggressive. We knew we had to run those guys and try and put them in as many pick and rolls as possible and I think we did. I was playing pick, they couldn’t cover it the right way and I was finding my guys wide open.

AMIR JOHNSON

The life of a role player

Thoughts on your performance… I know my role here. When I come off that bench, I pretty much just run the floor, try and get guys open and get rebounds. I will do anything I can do to give our team a lift. But we pretty much didn’t need it today because everybody had energy and we played hard today.

CHRIS BOSH

Let me take a dump before i take a dump…

What was the momentum for your team especially against a team like Dallas? It was great for us to defend our home court and we really needed to start beating good teams, especially here. To get where we want to go we have to win big games and today was a big game. We came out prepared and I’m really proud of my guys for the way they played.

Do you think this is the best the Raptors have played? I don’t know, I wouldn’t put a mark on that. We’re playing pretty good basketball right now and we’re just trying to keep it going. We want to win games and we know that we have the chance to make some ground up in the East. We just have to continue to play and try and win every game.

How important was it to be able to contain Dirk Nowitzki? That was very important. He’s their best player; he’s the main scorer for them. Just to be able to not let him get anything easy was important.

For the second unit to come in and play the we did — it’s embarrassing.

For the first time all season, Jet is right on the money.