They hadn't been produced yet. |
They pound us on the boards every time they play us. If we can do a better job of rebounding the basketball and close that rebounding gap, we'll be all right. |
They were cutting into our lead due to our mistakes, ... [But] we have guys capable of making big shots. |
They were trying to show me L.A., ... But I knew more than they did. That was my city. |
They're more physical than we are. They really have a great game plan when they play against us. They know what they want to do. They know where they want to attack us and they exploit them. And they pound us in the boards every time we play them. |
We came out like gangbusters, ... It's going to be exciting. You can see it. |
We came out like gangbusters. It's going to be exciting. You can see it. |
We didn't really do a good job of shutting down anybody today. |
We finally started to move the ball and we found a way to exploit them at the offensive end, but in the fourth quarter, we got away from it. |
We had the game and we let it slip away. We were in control of the game pretty much with a minute to go. From that point on, we've got to manufacture points and make plays and get stops, but we didn't. |
We just played in spurts. You can't play in spurts on the road and expect to win. |
We stepped our intensity up, played better defense, applied the pressure, |
We were not as sharp as we usually are, ... They have very good one-on-one players, and down the stretch we couldn't hit our open 3-point shots. |
We're a rhythm team. If we're not playing to a certain rhythm, a certain beat, a certain pace, then we have to make adjustments and I think tonight we let the Lakers dictate, dictate, dictate and then we got down and then we tried to force the tempo. |
We're getting there. We're trying to keep ourselves in ballgames. We just got to close it out. |