We told (center) Robert Swift at the walkthrough this morning and tonight that Ely is going to take two dribbles to the middle and shoot a jump hook. And that's exactly what he did and he scored 21 points in the first half.

I'm not so sure Robert Swift doesn't deserve to start.

He was somewhere else tonight. I don't how else to explain it. He turned it over, couldn't make a shot.

Not to diminish their win, but we had some guys go down tonight on top of the other guys that we have that are beat up right now. The Spurs are a great team. They are long, they play together and they are a deep team. They are built to win a championship.

I told them that when they signed that contract they were agreeing that they would cooperate with whatever we wanted to do. I expect them to play hard. I'm not going to coach effort, but I want them to play hard and play good.

I told Robert (Yates) before Dover -- I went out on a limb and I promised him that I would get this 88 UPS car back in Victory Lane before the end of the year,