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Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you’re at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.
I don’t want to get dunked on too much, and I want to make it to the playoffs.
Eli Manning is the one man I just don’t want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.
In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.
I just want to get better, compete for the playoffs and have that lead to a championship.
There’s a lot of guys in this league you’re not going to stop. You can contain them, so the best bet, especially in the playoffs is try to contain most teams’ All-Stars or their superstars and limit their role players.
The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and focused to win.
I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.
I get excited for the regular season also, but it’s just added excitement when the playoffs start.
When games get tight in the playoffs, especially in the Finals, there’s no space. There’s no clean looks.
For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.
It’s cool to make the playoffs. It’s not cool to lose in the first round anymore. The goal is to make the Finals.
Do I want to play for a contending team? Yeah. Do I want to go to the playoffs? Yeah. Do I want to win a ring? Of course I do.
You have to be able to win on the road if you want to win in the playoffs.
That’s what the playoffs are about. our superstars are going to play well. It’s what your others do.
Yeah, I think when you don’t make it to the playoffs and you’re watching those games, I think there’s envy in every game you watch.
Coming to Denver, that’s all we talked about – championship and going to the championship. Playoffs was not even a problem. We knew that we were going to the playoffs every season.
I’ve played in every type of situation. But to not have one run in the playoffs where you just make one of those magical runs? That’s what I want.
The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don’t think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It’s very unique.
My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.
I fumbled my senior year in the playoffs. It just annoyed me.
In the playoffs, the best players are supposed to play better. I did. It made no difference.
When I come off the bench, I have that intensity and that effort. That’s something all of us guys are trying to bring, but especially the guys off the bench. Because we can play a role in any game, let alone the playoffs.
Teams that can run the football, stop the run and take care of the football will win in the playoffs.
I’m a big believer that if you can have success in the playoffs, when it means the most and when the game is at its highest pace, it always carries into the next year and it gives a player confidence.
It doesn’t bother me to play on the road except in the playoffs or in domed stadiums.
Especially when it comes to the Finals and playoffs, your team needs you mentally and physically.
I just want to win as a team, take road games, play some of the top teams and beat them to make the playoffs.
MMA is not one of those up and down basketball seasons where you have a ton of games and you can still make the playoffs. It doesn’t work like that in MMA. You get a couple losses, you get washed up, you get the door slammed behind you and they bring in the next person behind you who is here to take your place.
When you have a tough year or a year that didn’t go the way you wanted it, especially the playoffs and all that and not being able to take advantage of our team and our talent on our team, you feel that. And whenever something is taken away from you like that, you definitely cherish it more.
You just want the highs to start once the playoffs start.
There is just something about the playoffs and the atmosphere, and feeling like it’s you against the world, that gets you going.
I haven’t been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It’s been a while.
Whatever you do during the regular season doesn’t matter once you get to the playoffs.
I think as long as you have Kobe Bryant on your team, anything can happen in the playoffs.
Playoffs, you know, defense is elevated even more.
I’m tired of thinking about playoffs, playoffs, six, seven, eighth spot. I want to think about championship. That’s something that we always thought when I came to Denver. That’s what I felt as soon as I came to Denver coming from New York where we were not winning.
Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.
The most important thing is not the regular year, it’s the playoffs.
On the personal level, it’s hard for a goalie. You don’t get awards for save percentage or anything like that. Your work is really put into how many wins you can get, how many times you can get your team in the playoffs and all that. So I took a lot of pride in winning.
I thought the playing time I was getting during the season was getting me ready for the playoffs. When it didn’t happen and Coach Riley never told me why, I thought, ‘Maybe I’m just being used as a pawn in the game.’
For me, playoffs was always the goal.
I am confident that I am a young coach that continues to improve and continues to get better and have been able to find success in the regular season and haven’t been able to find it in two completely different circumstances in the playoffs.
It’s fun running out onto the field. It’s much more fun playing in the playoffs.
It’s one thing to make it to the NBA. It’s one thing to make the playoffs your first year. It’s one thing to make the playoffs your second year. But if you want to be great, you’ve got to continue to work.
I’ve been to playoffs before. That should be everybody’s goal is the playoffs.
Usually I’m nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.
Once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times… we all had to deal with the Raiders.
Getting to the playoffs and going to a Super Bowl is the goal.
In the regular season you always say, ‘Take it one game at a time.’ But the playoffs, they kind of make you do that.
Certain games aren’t going to be my game. Certain games aren’t going to be other people’s games. As long as we win with the main goal to make the playoffs, that’s all that matters.
We don’t tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
You don’t sell the team short and say, ‘We’re just trying to make the playoffs,’ or anything like that.
It’s all about the playoffs for me. I don’t care about the regular season.
The biggest thing for me when I got to L.A. was everybody wrote us off to make the playoffs. That was one of my goals. Put that on my mirror. We did it as a team. And that’s my thing: Wherever I go, I’m going to win.
When you make the playoffs, it’s like you’ve done your job for the team. I’ve got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.
You always take rest over rust in the playoffs.
Any chance a rookie gets to go play in the playoffs, that should be a boost going into summer league. That should be a boost for the rest of your career. That’s something that a lot of rookies can’t say they did.
We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it’s totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.
There’s nothing that can teach you about the playoffs besides going through it.
When you don’t make the playoffs, or you’re not producing a product that you’re proud of, then, yeah, it’s tough on everybody… it’s tough on the fans all the way down.
The Process is never going to end. It’s an ongoing thing. I don’t think it’s ever going to stop. As I have explained before, it’s a process for making it to the playoffs, it’s another one to make the conference finals, another one to actually go to The Finals and win the championship.
