Instead of treating it like another game, they treated it like a championship. Instead of playing to win, they played not to lose.

We blew everybody out (in the league), and then when we played Regis it was an unnecessarily close game. I told my team, 'How is it that we can blow everybody out, Regis struggled with everybody, and we can't blow Regis out?' And they sat back and they thought about it.

We treated it like our championship game.

I played this game to win a championship. I?m a champion and I think the last stop is here, in Detroit.

This was very important. From now on, every game has to be played like it's a championship. Every game. ... It feels good to get back on the winning track.

At the end it felt like we played not to lose instead of playing to win.