Stung by a crushing 109-84 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA's Western Conference finals at the AT&T Center on Wednesday night, the blossoming superstars blasted some of their teammates by questioning their heart and suggesting that some of them need to be traded before next season.

"Guys need to figure out what's right here," Williams said, tracing his heart.

The second-year point guard strained to play Game 5 on a sprained right foot, and scored a series-low 11 points while San Antonio's Tony Parker took advantage of him defensively. But Williams said "I'm going to play hard, regardless."

"I like to win," he said. "I've always been that way. I've always been a competitor. Winning drives me, and there are some guys on this team that are like that. There's some guys who aren't like that."

Boozer agreed, saying that several teammates - presumably center Mehmet Okur, forward Andrei Kirilenko, guard Gordan Giricek and perhaps others who played poorly most of the series - literally already had made vacation plans while veteran guard Derek Fisher was arriving at the game at halftime after returning from New York, where his daughter was having treatment for a rare form of cancer in her eye.

"We have some guys already having vacation plans," Boozer said, "and on the other side of the spectrum you see a guy like D-Fish who went across the country to take care of his daughter and fly all the way back just to make it to the game. It's sad to have that.

"You have a couple guys on vacation," he added, "one guy having some real life stuff going on and still trying to make it back and give everything he has. That's a problem and we need to get that fixed this summer. We need guys that are always going to give everything they have. We need guys that have a championship vision. When you have your vacation plans already, that's not a championship vision."

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