"Look at the play before (halftime), Williams drives from halfcourt all the way to the paint with five seconds left. We still have time, and we just ... shoot a running 3-point shot. That's like, 'How much do you want to play?' "

-- Yao Ming said before Game 5

"It looks like they have a chance to beat us at our house, but we don't have a chance to beat them in their house."

-- Yao Ming said after Game 4 loss in Utah in the first round of the NBA playoffs.

"Forget the free throws. You can't count on somebody [referees] to help you win games."

-- Yao Ming said about his four free throws in Game 4, a stark contrast to the 44 trips combined in Games 1-3.

"It's really frustrating that we still have this. In the regular season, it happens. I did it before. Somebody else did it before. But coach (Jeff Van Gundy) gives us the play, and then we run to the wrong position on the first play. That's happened before in the regular season. Then it happened again on the first play of the second half."