Michael Malone on confidence when trailing Because history will tell you that when we have a big lead we tend to relax I still would like to stop giving ourselves double-digit deficits as we have in games 1 amp 2 so hopefully we get a lead but its not too big of a lead

Paolo Banchero on why the Magic have struggled in the second halves of games Teams adjust at halftime we don't really adjust to their adjustments

Mike Brown on first tech of the year One of the things that I wanted to get across to the guys is we're good enough to win despite whatever the officials are calling out on the floor the growth in that area trying to leave the officials alone was something that I pointedly tried to do

David Adelman reflects on the loss to OKC in overtime It's a good learning lesson we may have to change up who plays whenthe way I'd like to play them isn't available right now

Anthony Edwards mentions the first lost to the Old Heads was a motivation to win the championship gameWe thought we had won the game we thought it is the first to 40 so I had hit a 3 to give 40 - we thought the game was over And then Fox came back and hit a 3

Charles Barkley doubles down on his Nuggets prediction guaranteeing a Lakers loss despite their 11-point halftime lead

Nikola Jokic on Nuggets clutch struggles I'm definitely concerned because we are losing the games We are losing the games and we are not creating open looks So that's something that we need to change I don't know what it is but we need to figure it out