Tonight was a great start for the defense. It's time for this defense to step up.

So often, our offense gets a lot of credit. They've done great things, but it's time for the defense to get a name for ourselves and play hard and be just as good as our offense.

It helped that we played the same defense from the time we were in the AAU program to when we were in high school. It's a big-time advantage to have that much practice.

We just didn't really have that jump in our step tonight, we were very passive.

In the second half they changed their defense a little and that's when the guards had to step up. So we had to score a little more and do what we needed to do to keep that lead.

It was a little bit more relaxing knowing our defense was playing well. But we have to get more competitive as a defense when those bigger games come and I think we're going to be great.