“There was a lot of fake trash talk by both teams, And there was great execution by us. With Ray playing the way he did, it takes great execution by all of us to make that happen.”

“When we play badly it can be because of what we do on offense. We’ll turn the ball over, and take the first shot available. But tonight we got a lot of good looks, and I was on the right end of it.”

"Once he gets it going, he's tough to stop," Rivers said of Ray Allen. "It's very difficult to run and chase him around screens. Paul hates doing it in practice. We thought we could get him shots, he just had to make them."