Business demand consistently exceeded our expectations throughout most of calendar year 2000, and in an effort to meet our customer expectations we continued to increase our inventory and capacities to keep up with rising demand.

To end the way it [did], he blames himself. This is a team effort. Everybody's got a lot of expectations and he's supposed to better than everybody else. It's not going to work like that. You just have to come to the ballpark and do your job and do the best you can.

We've come a long way with these kids, ... The effort is there. They're hungry. They have high expectations.

With all the pressure on him and all the expectations, he's done an unbelievable job. He's an unbelievable talent.

I?m not happy we lost but the effort was there, ... That?s the kind of intensity we?re looking for.

It was an excellent game, a total team effort.