Kobe Bryant Extremely Quotations

From the start of the series we've been playing extremely well, moving the ball, reading the defense well. It's been a progress.

I think that from the start of this series we have just been playing extremely well and we are moving the ball around really well. We have just evolved into this from the start of the season, it has been process. We are just playing so well together.

I think their experience kicked in and overwhelmed us a bit tonight, ... We kept fighting back and did some great things with our execution. Our inexperience on defense hurt us, as they were spreading the floor extremely well and getting good looks at the basket.

We are a young team and we played extremely well tonight. We just take it game by game and we are starting to see more success.

We've been joking with him because he's gotten extremely close in a bunch of games. He's in a great rhythm. He knows where shots are coming from, he knows where the assists are coming from, how to set the table. It's fun to watch.

We really hustled, we got after them, played with a high energy level and rebounded the ball extremely well.

We're a young team. We tend to be very up and down, which you expect with a young team. Sometimes we play extremely well, sometimes we don't. The main thing is when you go through stretches when you don't play very well is to try to stop the bleeding before it starts bleeding profusely.

All in all, we feel like we're playing extremely well.

That is experience and age. They are veterans and knowing what they need to do within their system to maximize the whole. They have guys who are extremely talented.