They haven't been playing good, and we wanted to keep them down. We came out aggressive.

I don't expect to get hit like this. Normally, I see him coming. I hit him kind of awkwardly.

We got whooped last year. We had to return the favor.

I hope I can play, but I don't know. The two days off will help.

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.