The key to stopping those two is playing defense early. You've got to front the players and prevent them from going where they can get off a high percentage shot.

We were attacking them in the first half and playing good defense and in the roles reversed in the second half.

You feel like a second-class citizen when you have the No. 1 offense and the No. 32 defense year in and year out.

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it -- and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist -- is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me."

I told everyone we needed to start working together as a team, playing better defense and passing around to find the open man. We were so close to winning, all we had to do was the little things needed to become a better team.

We needed to start playing better as a team and play better defense. We also needed to start communicating better. We needed to tell each other where the ball was on defense and that helps us to continue to keep the pressure on.