“Uh yeah, you don't execute down the stretch, you pay for it.”
Adam Morrison
“Guys just stayed with it and executed. We didn't execute down the stretch and came into overtime and just executed everything we tried to run . . . Guys are in shape. We've been running a lot in practice and preseason, so that was our goal, to come out and try to wear them down.”
Ricky Davis
“They executed much better than we did down the stretch and they got big plays when they needed to, and we did not make the stops when we needed to.”
Kobe Bryant
“Call it being lucky, call it being good. You just have to execute down the stretch.”
Trent Johnson
“I was proud of my guys for coming back in the second half, but Rice executed down the stretch and we came up a little short.”
Jeff Davis
“We didn't finish. We didn't execute our offense down the stretch and they did.”
Nick Lewis
“We ran out of gas in the fourth quarter. They executed better down the stretch than we did.”
Greg Gavich