I just wanted this game. I was going to do anything to win. It didn't matter what. I think we just had more energy and we wanted it more than they did.

I don't think I have been rebounding the way that I should [be]. I decided that I had to [Sunday] because we really needed it.

We're finally doing the things we need to do [to win]. We're growing as a basketball team and if we continue to play like this then we are going to go far.

Guys like Nomar (Garciaparra) and (Todd) Walker, we faced him in the American League, and we're like, 'I don't remember him being like that.'

You want me to lie for you?" Aidan asked, watching them.

"Believe in me, the way you did in my mama."

Aidan wheezed and sputtered. What did she know 'bout him and Miz Garnett?

"Please." She sounded like a young gal and a grown woman too. "Believe in me."

"That's the most a person can do for another," Aidan said.

"I believe in you too.

It's not the role we want to be in, playing the spoiler, ... but it's all we've got.