Rick Adelman Played Quotations

I don't care if we're playing home or not. We just ran into a better team. Their starting five has played together for a while. They executed very well, and they shot it very well. We looked like a team that is inexperienced playing together.

I thought out guys played hard. We missed ton of shots in the last seven minutes, open shots.

We played at a frantic pace instead of the way we wanted to play. We quick-shot it, we turned it over -- we just fueled whatever they were trying to do. We have to be a smarter team than that.

We played solid all the way through. We beat the best team in the West at their place. If we keep playing at this level, we are going to put ourselves in great position for the playoffs.

We played seven and all seven had double figures. We've been playing better and better offensively. We're getting more used to each other and our young guys are playing better.

(Webber) rebounded the ball well. Chris is always going to make shots because he has a great feel for the game. I thought he played well.

Tonight, Kobe hit the big shot in the corner which he does all the time. And Kwame Brown got too many second-chance points and tip-ins because we were forced to help on guys. I think we played hard but not good enough.

We had a great trip. We played consistently, and then came out today and played very well offensively. I just felt that if we could make a few stops and maintain our concentration we could pull away. We have put ourselves in pretty good position going home.

We had a great trip. We played consistent and then came out tonight and played very good offensively. I just felt they were going to have a hard time guarding us and that's what happened. We have put ourselves in a pretty good position going back home.

We finished the season strong. We had three days off before the playoffs, so we had an extra day. It wasn't fatigue tonight, it was the Spurs. It is going to be a battle. I think that we are a better team than we played today.

They played hard down the stretch to make it a two point game and gave ourselves a chance to win. We missed shots and then Nash came back in and controlled the last couple minutes. Those other guys were getting rattled and he came back in and controlled the offensive end.

I have nothing against the way we played (Thursday).

I just thought in the first quarter (that) we made a lot of mental mistakes defensively that we can't make against this team. And in the second quarter, they shot it so well that it just snowballed. We got very impatient offensively, and that just played right into their hands.

I don't know how he played and fought through that. If you saw him yesterday, he was hardly walking, and then he came out here (and played). He doesn't care that he had nine points, he had a real presence on the floor defensively.

I don't know how he played and fought through it. (On Saturday) he wasn't even walking very good. He came in, and they were just amazed how spry he was.