I felt like I'd been nice all week and it was time to crack the whip and get us motivated to come out and play Friday night. Coaching really is a constant mind game.

He (Golden) is our go-to-guy and down the stretch he delivered for us.

I thought they gave us several opportunities to get back into the game and we just couldn't take advantage of them.

In all honesty I hope they're in because if they're not we're probably not. They've beaten us two out of three times so they deserve to go, even though both of them were on their home floor. They deserve to go as much as we deserve to go.

It stinks. I just wanted us to all be on the same time. What's wrong with the whole state being on one time? It's stupid.

Yeah, we're together another time. I'm really surprised because I didn't think they'd let us stay with six (teams).