They came at us. I kept waiting for it to happen.

August was very good for us, but we lost some momentum in the last few days due to Hurricane Katrina.

We had to play a zone because we didn't match up with them, and we did a great job with it in the first half.

I thought we did what we wanted to do in the first half. We spread the floor and got good looks. Once they stepped up their pressure, we really couldn't do anything.

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

Years ago, John's dad was yelling and screaming at us; he was like, 'Goddamit, I can't understand a fuckin' word you're saying,' ... And John was like, 'You know what? That's how I should sing. I should just take it to the next level and make it so freakin' brutal that you can't even understand it.' And when he did that, it just jelled with the music that we were playing. The more we tried to make it heavier, the better the songs came out.