When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.
The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.
It's the Playoffs. This is what you play for.
The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.
It's the playoffs. Everything kind of amps up a little bit.
When games get tight in the playoffs, especially in the Finals, there's no space. There's no clean looks.
When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.
In the playoffs, all eyes are on you.
Players are under such pressure in crucial moments, especially at the highest level with what is on the line.
In the playoffs, it's win or you go home.
You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.
In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'
Every moment is big in the playoffs.
It's the playoffs; you have to pick up the intensity.
It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
I mean, that's playoff hockey. You're not going to dominate every game, you're not going to score every goal.
When you're part of a World Cup, it's always now or never.
It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.
A lot of things change in the playoffs.
I just want to go deep in the playoffs and be put in that situation where I'm locked in and the game and the season is on the line.
Game 7 is what you play for. It's what you work for.
I love the fact that I get to play against the Los Angeles Lakers in a Game 7 on the road.
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 couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.
Any time you go into the playoff game everyone's adrenaline is high and tensions are going, stuff like that.