NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: SPURS v SUNS

May 28, 2005

Tim Duncan

TIM DUNCAN: We were very happy with that. I think as good as we are we think we can play better. We had situations - too many layups, those guys are so good, seemed like every time they get an open 3, they knocked it out. I know we will see that tomorrow in the film session, I want to get it a little bit better. I love the effort, love what we did, on the glass, give up very few second chance points, just all around pretty good job.

TIM DUNCAN: No, I think we understand what we have to do here. I don't think anyone wants to go back to Phoenix, a lot of respect to Phoenix, I know they are going to come out and give a heck of an effort. We want to finish this thing here and in the next game. Everyone of us has that focus.

TIM DUNCAN: It is a wee bit scary, a little bit. As long as we don't fall into it to the point where we're exchanging points back and forth with them, I think we're fine. I think Popovich will pull the plug real quick on that but first quarter we did a pretty decent job of getting stops and using that as our running opportunities. So in that respect, we'll continue to run, we'll continue to push. I think that fourth quarter early on we actually stopped running a little bit and we stopped pushing the ball up and we let them get set and they did a good job on defense there for a couple minutes while we were kind of -- were back on our heals, we want to stay in that mode, continuing to push the ball up, continue to flatten them out and find ways to score in opportunities like that.

TIM DUNCAN: Just respect, respect the guys, understand that the effort that they are going to come with and be able to match that effort. I think we understand this team is a very good team and we have played very well against them, and they are going to do all they can to win this last game here, but we're going to respect them and we're going to come out with the same intensity and game plan like we did for the first three games.

TIM DUNCAN: Thank you for bringing it up.

TIM DUNCAN: -- ever.

TIM DUNCAN: I don't know what it is. I feel comfortable with my setup. I feel comfortable with my shot right now. I am taking my time up there and taking it on my own schedule, and instead of rushing it and want to get off that line and as it works and it continues to work I am going to stick with it.

TIM DUNCAN: Doesn't enter my mind because we want to close them out. To think about it, it is a long time, really long time, and we have been in situations like that and it can work for you and against you. There's no way to really know what it's going to do to your team. You get into a rhythm, you want to kind of continue on with it, so I don't know. We have got some guys dinged up, is the time good, bad, either way.

TIM DUNCAN: It is a great problem to have.