This was playoffs personified. This felt like the Eastern Conference Finals last year (with Miami).

We consider Miami one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference so we see it as a test each and every time. They beat on us last year in the playoffs so we wanted to come out and see how we could fix it and just compete with them. We competed with them before but we just weren't on their level.

I don't know who's going to be there in the Finals, ... but Miami is just as good as we are.

It'll be very competitive. Miami and Eastern could be favored over us.

That's between the University of Miami and the conference. They're probably going to say, 'Hey, what do you want to do?' But it won't make a lick of difference what we say.

At the start of the year, I felt that given the machinery, there were bound to be places where I would win because of sheer chance. I didn't want to rely on that because I knew I had to show my ability. So I looked at the season and made an assessment as to where my best opportunities might come.