He has put together a career for the ages. Part of what people need to do is start appreciating him, not only for the season he's having, but for the career he's put together.

He's having a year for the ages.

The biggest, most glaring thing that we thought we could teach was getting off to a good start. We didn't in those two games, and it obviously cost us. We have to do that to give us a chance to win.

[At the start of the game] we played with a collective focus and energy. We talked about getting off to a good start, and, to our credit, we did.

You can't be all things to all people. I'm sure if Herb had his way, he'd like to have more rebounds. But when you spread the court like that, and you have more perimeter players, you do give up something.

We got real stagnant and started sitting in our zone. We weren't guarding people in our area, and they were attacking, and we didn't respond to that challenge. . . . The assignments that we were taking care of the first 30 minutes, we just forgot about the last 10.