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Conundrum

On the comfort level of coming in to start the second half:

“It felt fine. I came back [to the locker room] in the second quarter and warmed up and shot a little bit, went through my pregame routine. It was different. It was something I asked for. It’s almost like the Basketball Gods said, ‘Here you go for that dumbass idea.’ That was worth a shot.”

On if the game would have been different if he started the game regularly:

“It’s hard to tell now. Obviously it’s easy now to say that was a stupid idea or whatever else you guys are going to say.