We finally did what everyone else has been doing to us. We packed it in pretty good and made them shoot from the outside.

We had a game plan to pack it in and make them beat us from the outside, and we pretty much stuck to it. But for about five minutes there (in the second quarter), we forgot what to do.

He's a pretty good player and does a good job for us. He is a tough out and puts the ball in play. He is quick too, which puts pressure on the other teams' defense.

That was a pretty big deficit to try to dig a hole out of. They went inside on us to start the game. We tried fronting the post, but that didn't work, so we ended up playing behind them, and we got into some foul trouble after that.

We do feel that the competition is closing in on us but we had a pretty dominant run in the spring and I think there's room for improvement. We're going to start with the same set-up we used in June and then try some new things to see what works best. We need to get the momentum back that we had in the first half of the year and this could be the race to do it.

I think we are ready. We want to take one game at a time. We are playing a pretty good team. They finished fourth in the region, but could have finished second.