We started great. Our guys understood what was coming and handled it well. But being pressured over time has an impact. You have to take great care of the ball against that system.

When you play a team that is going to press you for 40 minutes, you would certainly like to have your starting point guard. We have to attack them collectively and not have one individual handle that pressure. We really have to share the ball. They really extend you physically. I hope our depth will be a variable that will help us.

That's certainly the conclusion everyone is drawing.

Playing a team of that caliber again so soon is going to be awfully difficult. I looked at the pool of teams and there isn't anyone I would be excited about playing.

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