Aaron Brooks had a bad game. He's had three fabulous games and he picked a tough night for us to have a bad game. We put Brandon in and he settled us. And he did a good job.

That's going to be a good battle for us, and we'll be ready to go.

He always brings his 'A' game against us. He plays well every night, but he has had some spectacular games against the Wizards.

It wasn't a very good night for us shooting. You have games like this. It's just too bad that it's tonight.

We've won (18) games and the fans are there every night pounding on the glass and cheering for us.

All year, the thing that has kept us in games is our defense. But on Friday night, we broke down on responsibilities, broke down on close outs. It was by far the most 3s we've given up in a game. They were extremely hot, but at the same time, we didn't do anything to stop it. We just kept daring them to shoot it.