We feel like we won a really tough basketball game against an outstanding team.

We approach Wake as a very good basketball team. There have been more close games in the league this season than I've ever seen, and Wake is one of those teams where four or five games could have easily gone the other way.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.