When you're getting your ass kicked, you take it, and you go on to game four. They were very good and they were kicking our ass. And then we began to look at the officials. To me, that's not something you want to do.

When you're getting your ass kicked, you get on to game four. That's what it's about.

When he came to the Lakers, Bob McAdoo told me how much the game meant, how it changed everything, how it opened up the world for black kids in the South. I guess I never really thought of it that way, that we were such a big part of history.

We got our ass kicked.

I think our guys remember that. I think they do remember getting embarrassed and humiliated in that game. It wasn't much fun.

When is it going to start? That's the question I posed to them tonight. When are we going to start beating quality teams? It's time to put up or shut up. That's how I look at it.