What Went Right

Malone: "There are going to be nights where you struggle to make shots, but if you can get stops on a consistent basis, you'll be able to hang around and we were able to do that and, obviously, we got going in the fourth quarter a little bit tonight to score 33 points. So great defensive effort, that's just another example of when you win, we defend. And I was really happy to see Nik Stauskas kind of become a man in the NBA tonight. He grew up tonight: 15 points, 8 rebounds and you saw him becoming more and more aggressive as he saw the ball go in and I think that's all he needs is just that little bit of confidence to get him going."

What Went Wrong

Stauskas: "They got a lot of fast-break points. I think they got 29 of them, so that's definitely an area that we probably have to clean up."

Landry: "We can't have fast break points … and that comes from shot selection sometimes. A bad shot turns into bad defense. So we have got to do a better job of continuing to move the ball, take good shots and get back in transition when the shot goes up.

Thompson: "We can limit our fouls, they got in the penalty really early. At that point it was like 5-1 early in both quarters in the second half, so obviously can't have that because that's easy baskets for teams and gets them into rhythm. But other than that, just got to finish with rebounds, which I think we did later in the game."

What's Next: Los Angeles Lakers

Thompson: "You can't have him [Kobe] get it going, but obviously it's a team game too so you can't have other guys be factors. You know he's going to get his, you just can't have it affect the game that much where they have more points than us, so got to get stops and attack them."