Intro:

Postgame sound after the Los Angeles Clippers blew out the Houston Rockets 128-95 on Sunday (10 May) to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinals.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English): Doc Rivers, Los Angeles Clippers head coach:

"Well, obviously I love where we're at but the series is not over. I mean we gotta keep playing, we gotta finish, you know? You know they're not gonna just get out of our way, you know, so we have to keep playing, we have to keep trusting, we can't think about winning the series, we have to keep thinking about how we play and then everything else will take care of itself and I think our guys have done a pretty good job with staying within themselves."

SOUNDBITE (English): Kevin McHale, Houston Rockets head coach:

"We did not, you know, we, they beat the hell out of us. I mean, I really don't know what to tell you. I mean our game plan was starting off the game we really wanted to go to Dwight (Howard) and he got in foul trouble there and then we were trying to just attack them. You know, like we say, we said, 'Well, let's just foul them for a while and see if we can slow the pace down' and stuff like that and try, you know, to make it into a second half game and then we came out in the second half and, again, we missed some shots - missed a couple lay-ups, couple tip-ins and they came out and just ran us out."

SOUNDBITE (English): Chris Paul, Los Angeles Clippers guard, on if they are thinking about getting time off between series:

"No question, no question. We think about it too, it's a closeout game. You know we gotta go there, be hungry and, you know, in this situation you can't give teams confidence, you can't give them life and we know they're going to come out ready to play Game 5 and we gotta stay the hungrier team."