AARON BROOKS Game Quotes:

(on his missed shot late in OT): I just missed it. Great play, I got to the rim and I make that shot 9 out of 10 times. The ball kind of slips and that’s how it goes.

(think he was clear on the lane violation?): Definitely. I surprised myself, surprised the ref, surprised everybody. So maybe something had to be wrong. It’s a hard play – a hard call to (make). But that’s how it goes, I guess.

(did you make the decision to try it or did it come from the coaches?): It came from the bench. I’ve tried to do it in practice but I don’t think I’ve ever done it where it came right back to me, so it surprised me a little bit. I almost had it.

By the time I caught the ball, I thought I’d shoot a jump shot or a get a little bit closer. I was getting ready to move. I don’t think he blew the whistle right away. I think he kind of delayed a little bit. I was getting ready to dribble the ball but I don’t know. You make a call and you have to live with it. I’m not complaining about it.

They said I stepped over the line. I know the rules. It’s been the same since I was in elementary school: you can’t step over the line until the ball hits the rim. But I didn’t move, the ball just came to me.

It felt like this game should’ve been ours after Trevor hit that shot. We’ve had 2 or 3 overtime games and we’ve done pretty well in them, so we figured this was our game to win and we were feeling good. But that stuff happens. Two inches to the right and little less power and we would’ve been up. But that’s how it goes.

(On playing the Suns) “The style that they play, they allow you to get back in the game. We kept battling and we got some stops. We were able to get some points on the opposite end. We shot the ball terrible, terrible in the first half. We shot the ball terrible pretty much the whole game but I think our defense is what allowed us to stay in the game. To keep them (Suns) under 100 points in regulation, that’s a tough thing to do with that team. I think we did a good job and at the end of the game they hit some big shots.”

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