It's been a demanding season on our players. They're finding out that this is what it takes to be a successful team.

We had a solid season. Obviously, we were one game short of where you want to end up. You always want more until you can be the champion.

We are becoming battle tested. A season is a long hard process, with peaks and valleys, I think we are working our way up the mountain again and hopefully our best basketball lies ahead.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

We know we can win against them, but over a season the differences are more demanding. But compared to last season we now have a bigger and better squad and I believe we can manage the games in a different way.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.