(The rebounding) speaks to our stick-to-itiveness. And on a day when our defense really didn't play up to its potential, our rebounding margin really carried us.

They both can shoot the ball, they both can handle the ball, they both play defense. The fact that we rely on our guards so much means that we've got to make sure we control some of the things they do well to give our guys an advantage.

We got really stagnant in the last 10 minutes of the game (on defense). The assignments that we were taking care of the first 30 minutes, we just forgot about in the last 10.

We're not the deepest team or the most experienced team, so we've tried to implement an understanding of playing defense and rebounding the basketball. We're trying to be as tough as we can and thus far they have bought in to that. We're starting to believe that's the way we need to play in order to get some wins.

We had stages where we picked up the pace of our play. But we've got too many things going against us, and our margin of error is too thin to have to play the game that way. We need to be on point with everything we do, on every single possession, especially in this league.

I'm no fool. I understand how important guard play is.