"If you're going to play like playoff basketball, you got to take care of the ball and execute," Brown said.

"We've been very fortunate in the past to not have to go as long in the early rounds, but this is typical playoff basketball."

Tips are down 20 percent from last year and there will be no playoff basketball.

In playoff basketball you've got to come to expect that.

This is playoff basketball, and we knew that coming in.

"We have to come and have a desire and something that looks like playoff basketball," Houston said.

I'M surprised by the number of people who should know better, talking about ugly playoff basketball.

"It was just like playoff basketball - you're in the close games, doing the small things, that's what you got to do."

I know playoff basketball is different, but, yeah, you can.

"But we've been playing playoff basketball for the last three weeks."