Intro:

Reaction as the Houston Rockets defeat the Dallas Mavericks 118-108 on Saturday (18th April) in Game 1 of their opening-round playoff series.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: Jason Terry, Houston Rockets Guard

"Well, you've got to understand this is the playoffs, we're at home, we must come out and maintain a certain level of intensity and that's my job as a point guard to set the tone for us. I do my job out front, Dwight does his behind me and so, with that said, we just have to continue to play with the sense of urgency on both ends of the floor."

SOUNDBITE: Dwight Howard, Houston Rockets Center

"They're a well-coached team you know, so they're going to come back with different schemes to try to throw us off and the main thing is if we come out, you know, hit them first, get, jump on them early we should win."

SOUNDBITE: Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks Forward

"You know, just you can't really ease into any half, or the second half at this point - teams are too good. If you're a step slow for a few minutes that's a 10-0 run for the other team, especially how this team gets out and can score. So we just, you know, just got to be a little more ready. Even if we don't score the first couple possessions we have to get back and force them into some tough shots. I thought there was a couple things too easy there when we got a step slow."

SOUNDBITE: Rick Carlisle, Dallas Mavericks Head Coach
"I think we're going to see some obvious things we need to do better. I think we're going to see some positive things we need to build on and from there we gotta come back in here Tuesday and get a better start to the game - that was a real key part of the game as well. We got down double digits very early and had to dig out and that's tough."