In the second half, we came out and just played very solid, very unselfish. We did a good job of getting up and down the court and I thought we did a great job defensively, so I'm just pleased with the overall effort.

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 took some good shots, they just didn't fall. It took us a while to get in a groove. Defensively we played as well as we have all year.

In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I quickly saw that he wasn't, that it was just a scheme to get money out of me. So, I went to the authorities and got them involved because I knew if I paid him, he'd be back in a month. I knew I wasn't going to do that the rest of my life.

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

It was magical. I felt the power and the drama.