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All three of their guys had good games last night, and the Nets still lost. So they must be scratching their heads now. What do we have to do? Do all three guys have to get 30 for us to win?

I was really encouraged to see how we executed when we had to down the stretch. I mean, we just kind of slowly got stops and just kind of took over the game once we figured out how they were defending us. You could see in the second half when we made the run…

We’re more suited to a playoff half-court possession game, run when we get the opportunity, whereas the Nets kind of look at it as, they’re always a running team. But I think we’re controlling the pace of the game so well basically because if you give up as many offensive rebounds as the Nets gave up – I think 20 in the first game, 19 last night – it’s hard to be a running team. You can’t run…

If you noticed last night, Jason Kidd was trying to run off of made baskets. He was trying to push the ball up the floor, but his teammates were behind him so there’s not much he can do up there by himself…

I was really surprised by Jason Kidd’s 8 turnovers. He was anticipating where his teammates should be and they weren’t there. That’s basically what it was. Also, that steal that LeBron made shows you how well LeBron is on what’s going on out there.

Jason Kidd had been making that pass the last two games where he would be on one side of the floor and he’d flip it all the way back to the other side of the floor and catch the guy coming down in transition. And LeBron had noticed that and all of a sudden he waited on it – I saw him out of the corner of my eye. He saw that guy coming and you could see LeBron was retreating, then all of a sudden when he saw Kidd, he stopped. And then he started coming back to the passing lane and – boom – he got the steal and was gone. That tells me how aware he is of what’s going on out there…

Our crowd has really become a basketball crowd now. They’re learning how to incorporate themselves into the game. It’s becoming close to the Miracle year as far as the volume of noise and how long the noise lasts...

In our Miracle year and the year after, it would start an hour before the game and you can almost see now, once that game starts, once that introduction starts – and our introduction is one of the best in the league – it just seems like it never stops now. And that’s when the crowd is starting to understand how to interject themselves. The crowd is starting to understand that together they’re becoming like a sixth man out there. When you can’t hear anything, when you make the other team communicate by signals, man, that’s when you really have an advantage out there on that floor…

They knew we needed defense in that fourth quarter, and they started defensive chants and it never stopped – it just kept going, kept going. And when you don’t have to be prodded to do something and you do it automatic, that’s when you’re starting to become a real fan base…

This weekend, New Jersey’s gonna shoot better. They're at home. Now the key is, if we continue to rebound the ball the way we are, especially on the offensive boards, I don’t see how they can run the basketball against us. You can’t run without the ball. And if we keep getting it and putting it back in the basket or getting extra possessions, now the Nets are focused on something they’re not used to doing.

Our front court has been dominating most of the NBA all year as far as rebounding’s concerned. And the Nets front court is not a good rebounding front court, so they have to get their rebounds from Kidd, Carter and Jefferson. That, to me, takes a lot of energy out of the offensive end of the floor. So now they’re fighting themselves.

The Cavaliers have to continue to make them fight themselves, because the Nets are gonna shoot better. They will shoot better and have a little bit more energy at home. That first half – if we don’t get ourselves in trouble in that first half of game three, I think we have a good chance of winning game three.

And that’s the game I want. Then we got them where we want them.