We definitely want to try and get him to touch the basketball in big possessions.

I don't know if we're consciously trying to do that but we talk about valuing the basketball and the possessions are longer. We've made the possessions longer defensively, playing some zones, and offensively our possessions are longer, too. In years past we just let Alvin Cruz push it up there and try to find somebody quick.

There's been a half-dozen possessions and we can be sitting here 14-1. But when we've been in close games we do not make good decisions. Game in and game out, when we handle the basketball and if we can keep our turnovers somewhere between 15 or 16 instead of 22 or 23, we can play with anybody.

I'm really happy for our team. They work as hard as any group of kids I've ever had. I just can't say enough. Our players did it all.

They wore us down physically. They're the strongest team in the league. They're good at pushing our guys off the block. They're very physical. We wound up shooting jump shots. There's nothing we can do about their strength.

We seem to make that turnover and don't get that bucket when we need it. ... It was a basketball game right down to the end.