Very surprised. Shocked, actually. Very, very surprised. |
We are a much better team right now. We are playing really well and executing very well. We are moving the ball and defensively we are working hard, hustling and closing out the shots. |
We are a young team and we played extremely well tonight. We just take it game by game and we are starting to see more success. |
We are going from the bottom to the top all together so it's important for us to enjoy the journey, and that is what we are doing right now. We have four days off coming up here, and I would have been sick as a dog if we would have lost this game. I just wanted to step up and inspire us to play well, and it turned into something special. |
We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man. |
We botched the play up and didn't execute it right. The spacing was messed up. We had a nice screen and roll situation. ... We just didn't execute if properly. |
We both do what we need to do to win the game. In my case, we have a young team, so in a lot of circumstances, I've had to carry the load for us to be competitive in ballgames. But I hope [Iverson] in Philadelphia and I in L.A., we can get to the point when we won't have to score that many points. |
We both know what we need to do. And we're both determined to make it happen. |
We can have all the excuses in the world. You can say we're young, we have guys hurt, but we just have man up and be ready to play every night. |
We did a good job of digging in defensively. We just tried to keep them uncomfortable. Try to take them out of their sets and try and take them out a little bit of the things they like to do. |
We didn't execute. Tonight they stepped up their pressure. |
We didn't hit any shots tonight. And last night, it seemed like we were hitting every shot we took. |
We didn't match it. We didn't contest their shots. |
We didn't play very well and we couldn't make shots. We didn't execute and we couldn't match their energy or their effort. They outworked us tonight. |
We didn't play very well and we couldn't make shots. We didn't execute. |