“You’ve just got to be very focused, knowing that you can’t blink, that you can’t let the other team get on a run, get confident on a run. It’s going to be a really tense game with a lot of adrenaline. Fans are going to be going nuts. So it’s going to be a very fun game to play.”
“We’ll see if we thrive on pressure after Monday’s game. We still don’t know. It’s a great test for both teams. A lot of pressure, as I said before, and we’re going to try to be the ones that respond to that pressure the best way.”
—Manu Ginobili
“I don’t want today to be our last practice. I don’t want tomorrow to be our last shootaround. I just felt I needed to let them know and hopefully they feel the same way.”
—Byron Scott
“We can forget about what’s in the stands. Inside the court, we are going to be 5-on-5. We’ve got to make the shots. We’ve got to guard better than them. That’s it.”
—Manu Ginobili
“If we can’t keep it close, experience can’t help us.”
—Tony Parker
“We need a good beginning, good middle and good end.”
—Michael Finley
“As trite as it sounds, it’s about playing well for 48 minutes. It’s about keeping composure, continuing to be aggressive. At that point, players play well or they don’t, or you make shots or you don’t, and you live with the outcome.”
—Gregg Popovich
“Walking around the city, everybody’s talking about how much they want to win and how nervous they are. But I’m not nervous, to tell you the truth. I have the ultimate confidence.”
—Chris Paul
“It’s intense. One game. One of the teams gets to play (on). Loser goes home. It’s going to be very intense, a hostile environment down there in New Orleans, but it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
—Kurt Thomas
