We're going to play hard and we're going to defend you. We were happy to hold Nick to 14 points, which not many teams are going to be able to do because he's a big-time player.

We are going to make a game ugly. We are not going to let you play and do what you want to do.

When his jumpers aren't going in, then it really hurts our inside-outside game because teams start jamming and converging on the post players. So he's going to have to hit the open shots. He's going to have to make the big baskets. And he has to come through for us.

Rashid Cann is our best defender, I mean by far. There isn't anybody even close as far as an on-the-ball defender. I do know that when somebody starts cooking that I have to put Rashid in the game to hopefully turn the oven off.

We're starting to do some things but we can't let up. It's a do-or-die situation, so the players are playing with a sense of urgency.

I think he's had an up and down season. Some games he's really going after people and then there are some games when he's kind of faded.