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I feel confident about Wednesday night. With a big win Monday, with coming home, with this team playing with confidence, we should be able to take care of business. We play better at home, we have more players who get involved in scoring at home than on the road, and that’s gonna cause a problem for New Jersey. Our home court’s been our sanctuary. And you know the crowd’s gonna be into it...

You have to have confidence in the playoffs, but you temper that with the fear of defeat and that keeps you sharp and makes it so you don’t get complacent. Because that’s the worst enemy you can have in the playoffs is complacency. As a player, I always wanted to feel the butterflies, feel the nerves, and fear defeat. That way I knew I was going to be on top of my game. I used to almost panic before a game if I didn’t feel the butterflies nor feel the fear...

But Coach Brown's been grooming these guys for this moment all season. He coaches one game at a time, one day at a time, building toward the playoffs. He sets his team up for this time of year. It’s the lineage he’s come from, from Popovich on down, that you’re offense comes from your defense, and the only thing that the Cavaliers need now is to get their half-court execution a little better. Otherwise, they’re a well-rounded team and everything else is falling into place...

New Jersey still has life, but they realize that they have to beat us three straight times, twice here, once there. Plus, there’s only one day rest; Carter’s banged-up, Kidd’s banged-up, Jefferson’s still coming off an ankle situation. They may see a light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s a blurry light. Still, you have to beat them; they’re not gonna give it to you...

I definitely look for New Jersey to come out swinging. They're gonna come out strong. Sasha and LeBron both are taking the challenge of a physical game. Driving to the basket, anticipating the contact, inviting the contact, then adjusting to the contact and getting the and-one opportunity. But that’s what you want. I always wanted to be in a physical game because then you focus better. I always focused better when it’s a grind-out-type game. And to me, the playoffs are all about grinding it out...

We don’t want to get over energized and get too speeded up. It comes back to letting our defense do the talking and dominating the boards. When we beat them on the boards, we win. It also helps us loosen up the game. We want to have two or three minutes each quarter where we’re foot-loose and fancy-free and get some separation from them. When we run off of turnovers and good rebounding that’s when we’re at our best...

If we win tomorrow, the playoffs actually will begin for us with the next series. We’ll have done what we’re expected to do. Now it’ll be time to take it to the next level in the next series...