<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>At the end of the day, we know who we want to face off against in the playoffs: Cleveland.</p> You want to play the exciting teams that have the same type of talent and the same type of up-and-downess (I don’t even know if that’s a word). You want a team that plays at the same pace as you. If you’re an up-and-down team you don’t want to play against a team like Chicago and grind it out. That’s the worst. Using a Marbury phrase, “great kudos” to Chigago, but that’s the one team you don’t want to play in the first round. If you play them in the first round, most likely you aren’t going to get further then the second round because they will beat you up so bad that you will be tired and it will take everything out of you just to beat them that series.</p> I remember them in 2004-05 when we had to play against them. It took all of our energy out to beat them and when we got to the second round against Miami we didn’t have anything. That’s the one team that you can say that you don’t want to face in the playoffs and that’s Chicago. They’re a brutal team and they’ll bang you, they’ll press you full court, 24/7 for seven games.</div></p> Gilbert Arenas / NBA.com</p>
