What they said after the Hawks’ 99-95 loss to the Timberwolves Wednesday:
"He got loose and made a couple shots. He hasn't been shooting that well this year necessarily but he is somebody can space the floor and make a shot. He was very big for them in the fourth quarter." - Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer on Timberwolves' Damjan Rudez
"I thought we had a couple of looks, a couple of good shots, that if we made them maybe our lead goes from five to eight or six to nine. Sometimes it's a make-miss league. Rudez made some big shots. LaVine made some big shots. We weren't able to counter. When we needed to make some, we didn't." - Budenholzer on failing to get separation
"I thought both Thabo and Lamar, they were on (Wiggins) most of the game, individually they did a good job on him. We are always asking our bigs to help and be active. I thought they did their job when it came to Wiggins. A few other guys just got away from us." - Budenholzer on defending Andrew Wiggins
"Overall, as a team, I thought we competed and played really hard. Some nights you can't make any shots. It felt like we had some good looks and some open 3's and even some layups. It happens sometimes in back-to-backs. I'm not as down as I've been after some other losses that we've had lately. I thought the effort was there. Some nights in the NBA, you can't make a shot. That happened to us tonight." - Kyle Korver on loss
"A little bit. They tried to get physical with us. Whether they are fouling us or not, we have to be physical with them and match their physicality. I think a lot of teams are going to push us to that limit. That's the attitude we have to have." - Paul Millsap on getting angry after technical foul
"I got some great looks. They just didn't fall. Other guys, you can say the same for them. We couldn't score the ball. It's frustrating." - Al Horford on Hawks' misses
"I have confidence in our guys. They were following the game plan. We were getting shots that we wanted. We were doing things defensively. Why take them out? It's an 82-game season. I told the guys after the game, it's not that Karl (Anthony-Towns) or anybody else did anything wrong. It's just that the group of the floor were executing so well on both ends of the court, it was hard to take them out of the game." - Timberwolves coach Sam Mitchell on his lineup late in game
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