No, Allen and Chris are not going to play tonight. |
Our defense was not great, but I thought our rotations were good, [and] they continued to pass the ball. We have to guard for 24 seconds and that can beat you down, wear you down a little bit. |
Sam is working his way back in the lineup. I don't know when. He will be back starting at some point. I just want him to be consistent; I want him to be aggressive, that's all. It has something to do with Steven; it has something to do with us as a team. |
Some guys did not come in there ready to play the way we should have. [For] that magnitude of a game, anybody should not have to have somebody tell you how to get ready for that game. |
That was very shocking. I think it says something for the Boston fans; if we were getting beat [by the Celtics at the Spectrum], they wouldn't be hollering 'Beat LA,' that's for sure; they'd holler something else, but not 'Beat LA. |
The ball will be in Chris' hands a lot, and guys will have to cut and move off him. Allen is a player, a guy who can go get his own shot; tonight we have to utilize Chris a lot to help get guys their shots. |
The reason why we built the lead we had was because we got dribble-penetration and we were able to the foul line and make some foul shots. The fourth quarter, they packed it in on us and it was poor, poor execution against a zone. |
The way we're going to play without Allen Iverson is the way we played tonight. When you have Allen, you can put the ball in his hands a little bit more. When we do not have him, you have to spread it around and hope you get three or four guys who can score. |
They shoot 58 percent, that's pretty uh, that's not the best defense you can play, let's put it that way. I'm certainly not happy. |
We just have to endure it and somehow find a way to change it. |
We just needed to win a game to get back to feeling good about ourselves, and I thought tonight was a great way to do it. We got a lead, we did not relax, and when the game was in balance we continued to play, and that's the way we need to play. |
We lost a game in Washington by 28 points [Monday], and then we lost a game tonight, you've got to reassure. It's us trying to stay together, No. 1, which we will, and to keep working. Keep working to figure out how to win games. |
We'll see how he feels [today] and then on Thursday and we'll go from there. |
We're a work in progress. We're trying to get there [and] we're gonna get there. We're working our way toward getting better; we're going to keep trying, that's what I can tell you. It's not turning [around] overnight; we've just got to put the effort in. |
We're going to try to make more of a concerted effort to get him a little more involved tonight. When you're a young player and you're playing with two veterans [Allen Iverson and Chris Webber], you're going to defer to them from time to time. So it's up to me to put the ball in his hands a little bit more. |