Chucky Atkins

Teams (like Minnesota) that aren't playing for anything are always dangerous because they play loose. You always want to jump read more

Teams (like Minnesota) that aren't playing for anything are always dangerous because they play loose. You always want to jump on teams like that and not give them a chance. We knew we had to put the heat on them quick.

Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed read more

Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed from there.

A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or read more

A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its seven or eight best out there.

My role is come off the bench, run the team and do whatever I have to do to keep us read more

My role is come off the bench, run the team and do whatever I have to do to keep us flowing, ... With Gilbert, myself and Antonio, we pretty much have three guys who can run the point but all of us can also can penetrate and get to the basket or create shots for our teammates.

We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the read more

We've been doing a better job these last few games of keeping our defense up the whole game. That's the key for us.