The first trial was successful. It was good to get out there, get my legs under me a little bit. I didn't get as fatigued as I thought I would. That explosion to the basket – I've got to get that. |
They haven't been playing good, and we wanted to keep them down. We came out aggressive. |
Transition is a key for us. We can run with the best of them. |
We are used to playing a certain way against the Kings, so it was different with players like Price in there. He game them some quality minutes. We knew he could shoot. He can knock down some threes, so you have to pay attention to him. |
We got whooped last year. We had to return the favor. |
We just tried to make every catch tough. We tried to fight him in the post, try to make them throw him a lob and try to squeeze him from the back side. He was struggling to get the ball and having to step out and take some poor shots. To me, that (Bryant yelling at his teammates) just let us know we did our job. |
We just tried to make other guys beat us. We tried to take away a lot of his penetration and his splits on the pick and roll. I think we picked it up a lot. |
We play 12 guys, so no one is more important than anyone else. Coach makes you believe that. He was one of those role players, so he knows how important they are. |