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Trying To Make The Western Conference Finals
Posted by Deron Williams on May 15, 2007, 1:00 p.m. EDT
I want to thank you Utah Jazz fans. We’re happy to be back in the playoffs
for you all and hopefully we’ll bring home a championship.
MY FIRST PLAYOFFS HAVE BEEN EXCITING
The Playoffs are definitely exciting. It’s been a great experience so far
trying to get ready every day and learn new things every day. It’s just a
different intensity from the regular season. Guys are playing so hard right
now and leaving everything out on the floor. It’s a lot more physical right
now, a lot more fouling going on. It’s tough because we’re playing teams
four, five or six times in a row. Everybody knows everybody’s plays, so it’
s just whoever can execute better and whoever can make the plays and shots
down the stretch is going to win. We just need to keep winning. That’s the
main thing — we just need to keep winning.
I don’t really get nervous, but my first game against Houston I was excited
and wanted to get the win. To get ready for each game I try to do the same
thing as I do during the regular season: On the road I go to shootaround.
When I come back I always watch a movie and go to sleep, then get up, eat and
go to the game. I do the same thing every game. At home it’s basically the
same, but at home I don’t really watch a movie, I just play with my kids or
whatever and go to sleep.
ON WINNING GAME 4 IN OAKLAND
It was huge to get a win out there. They had been so good at home. We knew we
needed to try to steal one to have the advantage and we were able to do that.
We had a great fourth quarter. It was a total team effort. Our guys hit big
shots for us and we closed out the game, which is something we struggled with
during the season and we’ve been able to do in the playoffs which is great
for us as a team.
Any arena right now, in the playoffs, is going to be loud. It’s going to be
tough to go into and get the win. You have to have mental toughness. When
that crowd gets going, you have to do something to quiet them: hit a big
shot, get a stop or something like that, like we did in the last game. We
took a lot of the energy out of their fans in the fourth quarter.
TRYING TO CLOSE OUT THE SERIES TONIGHT
Getting the win tonight is definitely important. Tonight we consider it a
must-win for us because we don’t want to give them any more confidence. We’
re up 3-1 now and a win in our building would do a lot for their confidence
and it would hurt us a lot. So, our mindset tonight is that we have to come
out and have a strong first quarter and first half and get the win.
KEEPING PACE WITH THE WARRIORS
We like to run. We like to get out and get layups and things like that. But
if we don’t have a layup or a good, wide-open shot, we’re going to pull it
out and run our offense and make them guard us. That’s how we play. We can’
t get into a track meet with them because we can’t win at their pace.
I think it’s a misperception that we play a slower game. People don’t watch
us so they just think because we’re the Utah Jazz we don’t score. We
averaged over 100 points a game in the regular season. We still do
pick-and-rolls and all that, too, but we get out and run.
WINNING GAME 7 ON THE ROAD AT HOUSTON
It was definitely hard because we hadn’t gotten a win all series on their
court. We came close but we just couldn’t get it done in the fourth quarter.
We found a way to hunker down and we made all the plays. We made the stops
when we needed them. And we got a win. It was huge for us, huge for the
franchise and it definitely gave us a lot of confidence.
Thanks to all the fans. Keep supporting us. We’ll keep going and hopefully
we can get this thing wrapped up and get onto the Western Conference Finals.
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