In basketball, you want the players to be at the right level of arousal. If they are pretty highly aroused, it is useful for doing certain things like jumping, running fast, playing intense defense. But when you step up to the foul line, you want to pull all of that down and get calm.

I have worked with a basketball player who said he was always told to get up before a game. Then he would go to the game and in the first five minutes, the ball would fall off his hands. He learned that before the game, rather than getting excited, he needed to do things to settle himself down.

We're pretty confident. We're playing great basketball right now at the end of the year, so we're looking to get a win.

Right now, I've been in it about seven weeks - pretty long seven weeks. I think we've done everything with the calendar and state Legislature, the Office for Civil Rights and everybody else jumping in the brawl in the seven weeks here. But when I look around the table, I'm pretty humbled by the group here because so many of you I've worked with for so many years.

This one was decided early, and we're starting to play some pretty good basketball right now.

Pleasant Hill just has too many horses, they're a good basketball team.