NBA FINALS: PISTONS v SPURS

June 23, 2005

Richard Hamilton

RICHARD HAMILTON: I mean, the one thing that we want to do, we just want to continue to run our offense. We don't want to worry about mismatches and things like that. We want to really try to take our time and come down and execute our offense, you know, get Sheed back in the game, try to get Sheed some touches and things like that. That's it.

RICHARD HAMILTON: It was different because Tony is not going to grab and hold as much as Bruce does. He's pretty much going to try to use his speed and chase me around screens and things like that.

RICHARD HAMILTON: Like I said, it's tough. You've got to give a lot of credit to the Spurs, they did a great job tonight. They had to make plays in the fourth quarter, they hit a couple big three-point shots and things like that, so you've got to give a lot of credit for them.

RICHARD HAMILTON: It's tough. You know, like I said, it's tough. You've got to take the good with the bad. We came here to give ourselves an opportunity and we did that by winning the last game and going into the fourth quarter up by a point, we gave ourselves another opportunity, but we just came up short.

RICHARD HAMILTON: Who knows? Like I said, we played basketball until the last possible day that anybody could play basketball. So probably right now you just want to get away, get away from everything, rest your body, take time off and get ready for next year.