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The second broadcast on FSN was much better than the first for me because they gave me some headphones. With just the ear piece, I couldn’t hear anything in that first game at all. There was so much crowd noise, I couldn’t hear what Fred and Scott were talking about. And I would panic because Fred would go, “A.C.” and I would go, “What? I can’t hear ya.” So they’d cut to me and I’d just start talking about whatever was on my mind. Sometimes I just kind of ad-libbed…I had to do a lot of improvising. So they gave me the headphones and now I can hear everything…

I think LeBron’s doing a great job of assessing his ankle situation. He’s not shooting a lot of jump shots now. Everything’s about going to the basket and being around that basket and that’s making a huge difference. Like I’ve said before, to me, the injury possibility cuts way down when he’s attacking around that basket. When he’s out front, and he gets up that head of steam, the momentum can cause a lot of injuries. Whereas, when he’s around that basket, it’s just a bump-a boomp-boomp-boomp-boomp and a shot. It’s not a “fly in there situation,” you know, so, I think injury-wise he has less chance of getting injured by playing around the free-throw line and in…

I think a lot of things stem back to Larry’s running of the point, as well. He makes sure that the right guys get the ball at the right times. And he’ll back off his game to, like, keep Drew going. You’ll notice they kept going to Drew, he and LeBron, kept going to Drew, going to Drew – then it was Z’s turn and boom, boom…

That 15-footer by Z, I’m telling you, that’s gonna be a huge shot for us going down the stretch. Because, whoever we may play in the next round, if we get through this round – or once we get through this round – will have to game plan for Z now AND Gooden AND LeBron AND Larry, then you’ve got Sasha slipping in the back door. So, I mean, there’s a lot of different avenues and the key for us is to figure out who they’re game-planning for and who’ll be the open guys. And if those guys are hitting, it’s gonna be tough to stop us…

I think this team will rise to the occasion in D.C. because I think they understand the importance of getting this series over with as quick as possible. The Wizards are going to play the same because they know the slow-down game is the only way they can beat us and then maybe take us over in the fourth quarter like they tried to do last game. So you know that’s what they’re gonna try and do…

And you know I think at home one or two of those guys’ll shoot a little bit better. Their best line-up, I think, is a small one; when they go small that’s when they seem to make their runs on us. But we rebounded great Wednesday night. They didn’t get hardly any second shots for a long time. So we gotta keep that edge, that rebounding edge, and use that to get out on the open floor as well as from defensive turnovers…

What we have to do is continue our focus on defense and make sure that when we get out on the open floor that we get some easy baskets. You know, five or six, seven easy baskets, five or six easy points in a quarter, that adds up to about 20 points, man, and that’s a good way of winning the game.