Trail Blazers vs Timberwolves Saturday, 11/21/09 AT 07:00PM

Trail Blazers 106, Timberwolves 78: Postgame Quotes

11/24/09

Written by: caseyholdahl

COACH NATE McMILLAN

On what Webster brings to starting unit
“With that first group, a spreader. Brandon and LaMarcus and Greg are seeing double teams when they play and you need a guy who can keep that defense honest. If they don’t, he has the ability to hurt them with the three point ball. If they play single coverage, our guys should be able to take advantage of that. He really helps when you have guys out there spreading the floor.”

On lineup change
“I just wanted to get back to that lineup and get Martell in the game and get us a balance. I wanted to try and get Brandon some touches and get Andre with that second group, running that second team. I thought he did a good job tonight running some sets with Martell, Bayless was in there for a bit, Rudy, that group. I think it balances the rotation. Without Travis being in the lineup, I really need Andre to be more of a force with that second group. Tonight, he was basically quarterbacking, running sets looking for Rudy and Martell. We had LaMarcus come back with that group.”

“I think we can take advantage of Andre posting and running the team and running some sets with those guys for that group.”

“It’s been a while since we’ve seen guys make shots. Tonight we were knocking down our shots, open looks, shots we’ve had in other games. Tonight we were knocking those shots down. We’re very capable of knocking those shots down and we just have to keep taking them.”

On wins vs. teams with poor records
“Those are the games that you have to take care of and that’s the schedule. You play the schedule and you try and improve every single night but a game is a game and all of them mean the same regardless of who you’re playing or where you’re playing. We try and win those games and I thought tonight we came back after losing that game last night and did a much better job taking care of the ball – only 10 turnovers tonight.”

On lineup going forward
“This is the lineup we’ll go with.”

STEVE BLAKE

“As a team we started playing better defense. Guys just started making shots. Martell was playing great, had a good all around game. Brandon started taking over and Rudy… It was a total team effort.”

“As a point guard that’s what you love… to be able to throw the ball to any guy anywhere on the floor and they’re able to make the play, so I’m definitely lucky to have that.”

“Unfortunately we can’t play our best every night. I wish we could. Games like last night happen but its how you rebound from it. I was impressed with how our team came back and played strong tonight. “

“We did take a step in the right direction. Guys played their role really well and I think we had a good flow to our offense. Our bigs were making great passes out of the post when they got doubled and the guards were able to make plays with them.”

COACH KURT RAMBIS

“The Trail Blazers are a very talented team, and they have players that can bail them out. They get in tough situations and they put the ball in Roy’s hands and he just does a great job of getting them over the hump…they cause a lot of problems for a lot of teams defensively.”

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