Each and every day in practice, I'm checking the best players between Ben [Gordon] and Kirk [Hinrich] and [Jannero] Pargo, guys who are great scorers, ... They prepare me every day to play against guys like Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis.

They (non-starters) are really getting better. When they are going against the starting five every day in practice they have really gotten better. I really think our bench is going to help us down the road.

We're in a professional sport, and it's a business world, so we have to do the same thing business people do each and every day.

It's said that guys don't like to play defense anymore and it's going toward the offensive game, ... Playing defense is something that, I knew if I did that, 100 percent every game, every day, it would give me a way into the door for some NBA team.

I really don't know why he resigned. It was the practice after the Clay County game that I found out.

Awesome. Aside from Ted Williams, he's the only guy I'd pay to see in batting practice.