Defensively, we stepped up our intensity. We were bringing up the pressure on our traps in our full-court press.

We'll definitely be ready by then. It's been a full-court press to get ready. We've been blessed by some very good weather and everybody, from the very beginning, has been singularly focused on completing the project by opening day.

We need to handle their full-court pressure. If we can shoot the ball well, take care of the ball and make things difficult on the interior, we should be OK.

The idea behind full-court pressure is not necessarily the idea that you?re going to get turnovers every trip down the floor. But it has a wearing-down effect over time.

It was expected the way both teams played in the first half, after the delay and one team sitting on a bus for an hour.

I was pleased with our defense. We made some adjustments at halftime to correct some mistakes and it really improved us defensively.