We knew Shen has that ability.

She was reincarnated tonight. A player of her talent finds a way to play through the pain.

When you are winning, your strengths show and your weaknesses don't. We can't dwell on this; you can only loose a game once.

I told the kids at half we had to try to get the lead under 10. The big reason why we couldn't do that was we never got a stop on the (defensive) end.

It was our ability to pressure their guards so they couldn't quite run their offense. Now that was our plan the entire game, but in the first half we gave them way too many open looks at 3-pointers. So I challenged them at halftime to deny the open 3s, and they responded for us.

It's important to communicate with the big, big donors, but also with the average fan who doesn't have the ability to donate heavily. They're going to be e-mailing that athletic director, too, and probably the head coach. There are a lot of expectations, but that's the name of the game.