Jim Boylen We need to keep playing the way we are playing which is hard and together. The wins will come. Wins are always good. But we're building this thing, we got the blocks being laid. And umm I liked our effort tonight, I liked our togetherness.

Brunson talks belief in Knicks through rough patches of the season I see these guys every single day You guys only see the finished product Obviously there's ups and downs That's basketball That's sports That's life It's all about how you move on and how you move in a positive direction

Paul George after the Game 1 loss - We had breakdowns tonight but they also shot the s--t out of the ball They were hot they came out hot they came out on fire But it's a game of adjustments we'll make adjustments They don't get any extra points for going up big tonight

SGA The way basketball works usually the more physical team and the team that imposes their will more just wins Thats probably why we won tonight and why we won the last game

James Harden What chatter I play basketball and whatever this team needs me to do Im gonna go out there and do it Win the game and thats what we did

Moore Jaylen Clark when asked about the Wolves energy becoming their identity - Definitely I feel like we got a lot of crash outs so yeah But that's beautiful it's cool I feel like people don't want to poke us

Kenny Atkinson in the postgame of Game 1I thought they hit some really tough shots in the 4th quarter we got a little unlucky quite honestlyI'm super proud of the way our group played We played great basketball tonight for 3 quartersHe blames fatigue for the drop