We're not going to finish at point-blank range with him standing there, so we're not even going to try that crap this year.

Obviously, we didn't do very well with the big boy last year. We're certainly going to have more emphasis - not that we didn't last year - but we're going to make sure our kids are surrounding him and try to make somebody else beat us.

From a preparation standpoint, the fact that we've been there is going to help us this year.

We're happy to have the opportunity to get back down here with such a young team. We're going to have to play our best game of the year to beat them but . . . who knows?

We're going to have to shoot the ball well. Everybody says that; nobody seems to be able to do it against that tough defense. We're going to have to knock some threes down and really make them score in the half-court. They do a great job scoring in transition.

We knew we could help in certain places and focus on (Sims and Johnson). We have a bunch of smart kids who know how to play basketball. I'll take our guys to any team when it comes to doing the dirty work.