We talked at halftime about character, composure and about this being a season-defining game for us. When I said that, I hoped we'd win.

In the locker room [at halftime] we talked about how we were going to get their best shot. When they started scoring, we just tried to remember that we anticipated that happening.

When we lose our composure, when we don't play our game, we're going to lose.

It was mentioned. We talked about it, getting back to what we were doing early in the season, when we were getting stops and it was leading to easy baskets.

It was the exact same thing we talked about at halftime. You're going to have those spells. We just had some mental lapses.

We played a very explosive ball game. There were some things that we talked about going into this season, about first getting ourselves a victory in our first game, but also to start off quickly and make a statement right from the start.