After how well things went in Salt Lake, everybody really wanted to get [to the Olympics] badly. So it pressed everybody to really lift their level.

Honestly, it feels much more diluted than Salt Lake. Almost like it's a big city that is hosting the Olympics, but it's almost an afterthought.

Salt Lake has a shot at the playoffs, and we are the team standing in their way,

It's important that everyone feels they have a role on this team. They told me in 2002 (in Salt Lake City) I would play at least one game and I was really excited. Just to have that chance ... and hopefully these guys will feel the same way, that they'll play one game or two.

Sometimes, people just slaughter it, like Marcus.

It was huge for the mainstream part of our sport, getting a following. We didn't even know what we'd done. We all just thought, 'Wow, we did so good.' So it was, like, people telling us we had made history and us being pretty clueless.