On a player that good, the best defense is not to let him get the ball in hands.

We did everything possible to win the game. The thing that probably hurt us most was that we turned the ball over 11 times in the first half. We shot 59 percent in the first half, and that's 11 times we didn't get a shot. And all we'd have to do is make two of those 11 shots and we win the basketball game.

We have to value possession of the ball. At least we should get a shot off instead of just giving the ball to the other team.

They must have talked about playing some (defense) at halftime because second half they came out and played a whole different kind of 'D' than we saw in the first half. They were out in the passing lanes ... everything was hard.

We came out with a lot of intensity on defense and got our hands in the shooters' faces.

We run the same defense as Western. It's basically just a get-together for all the coaches.