Mike Browning Game Quotations

We're growing as a team and that means having poise in pressure situations. When things get tight at the end of a game like that, you have to get a shot every time down the floor, make it a good shot, and knock in your free throws. We did that.

We've taken one game at a time and we are not going to do anything different. We've won a few games this year that we may have lost last year.

If this was a playoff game, (James) would have taped it up and he'd be playing.

If this was the regular season, I would be (concerned). The game isn't won in the first five minutes. To give up as many points as we have early on, it could be a concern. Some way we have to right that ship.

We executed our game plan on both ends of the floor fairly well. This was a good first step in a long process.

Wow, you call that an instant classic. It's two great players taking over the game for both teams. What a show. I'm happy we won, but I enjoyed watching two great players go back and forth.

You have to take your hat off to Kobe. Kobe hit some tough shots. We double-teamed him and I thought we were there and contesting the shots on the four jumpers he hit. Down the stretch, he won the game for them.

We were really flat coming out. But we got mentally tougher as the game went along.

This is not an individual game so we need the other four players on the team to step up for us.

This game had absolutely nothing to do with our shooting. This was about not being able to guard.

This is a game I'm glad to be done with. There is a lot of familiarity with my guys and these Victorville guys who have grown up playing together and against each other.

Damon is a great shooter with range. He can break a game open like he did tonight.

The Bears could play in this game every year. We have the most hall-of-famers.

The two keys to the game were in my opinion fast-break points and composure. In the first half the Suns got out on us and scored 20 points, but in the second half we limited them to only four points.

It was just a great game. It's probably the best game we've played this year.

I'm not looking at it as a three-game series. I'm looking at it as we have to win the game (tonight). We have to focus on the things we need to do in order to win that game.