Those teams are so much alike. They have veteran squads, smart players and play great defense. Both believe the championship is theirs and nobody else's.

He sets the standard of hard work, that hard-hat mentality the Spurs have, with his defense. He never gets the headlines or stories because he doesn't score a lot of points, but the Spurs would suffer without him.

I think Tony will step up because he knows he has to play well. He had his ups and downs before, but he's playing with all the confidence in the world right now.

We'll run through (the opponent's) offense, then we'll play our defense. Just keep doing it and doing it.

We were real happy with our play early. The kids were really coming off the ball, playing excited on defense and offense.

At times, we got some solid play inside from Sebastian Scheibe. He's beginning to get more aggressive on defense.