They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.

I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.

I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."