If teams are going to play him that way, we've got to make them pay. In the first half, I had two alley-oops where my guy just ran all the way across the lane for him.

The kids played very well in the first half. But we didn't play real well in the third.

It's pretty tender right now. It's kind of frustrating. It was just starting to feel really good.

He wasn't the biggest, strongest guy, but he always used his body well,

As long as it's a king-sized bed, I'm OK. I just sleep diagonally.

It has to be a balance for us. Kobe is a special player, but there is no way that he can shoulder the load himself. We played well together in spurts, but Kobe really was the man.