The guys have really responded. Defensively, they've taken it more personal, played a lot harder and a lot more together.

We took an enormous number of threes, more than we ordinarily want to take. The shots were there. We had a lot of open threes, but they just didn't go down tonight.

Billy?s doing a great job spreading the floor and making you guard them.

It stretched us pretty thin.

To win the championship, that could be the team we have to beat [in the league's tournament].

Overall, I thought this was probably our best stretch of man-to-man defense that we've played all season. Now, we just have to keep working at that. We've been playing better. The last four games, I think we probably are playing our best basketball. It's coming together.