"In crunch time situations the Rockets' coaching staff now leaves it up to Battier and Artest to figure out the matchups. In this case Artest feels it is time. 'Once a guy starts heating up, I make the switch,' he tells me after the game, adding definitively, 'At the end of the game, I go on the best guy.' Then, since he is Ron Artest, he contradicts himself by adding, 'I always go ask permission from Shane first.'"
- Chris Ballard, The Art of a Beautiful Game