We definitely picked up the quality of our play in games two and three.

I think he's got to, at some point, learn how to play long segments of games and learn how to win when you don't feel 100 percent. In the playoffs, if you want to win one or two rounds, you have to go 10, 15 games in a row and find ways to win when everything isn't just right.

Isn't it amazing? There's some guys [for whom] it's not a big deal to play in big games, and they always come up big for you.

We were fortunate to win game one. We didn't play very well, and we squandered a lot of point-scoring opportunities. We really dug ourselves into a hole. Fortunately, Ben got hot; they couldn't handle his serve, and we were able to make up a lot of points in a hurry. That's something we don't do very often, but when we do, it's a pleasant surprise.

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

It'll get people to want to manipulate the market or play games.