What those five guys have is a lot of versatility, ... When you look at our program and our philosophy, I think those are the kinds of guys we've tried to recruit, guys who have a lot of versatility about them.

No one can ever duplicate that. It's the first group that you spent four years with at the place where you like being at and the place you hope to coach at for a long time. You never forget that group.

When almost half your team is new faces, it's very beneficial [to get away].

It was like someone snapped their finger and the hypnosis was over, and he went back to being Jon Brockman.

Mike is the kind of guy, if he hits his first couple shots then he doesn't think he's going to miss, ever, for the rest of his life. It seems to uplift his entire game. Because of that, I think it helped him concentrate even more on the defensive end.

You want to say anytime you lose a game, that is how you are going to lose — you gave it your all. I thought for about 46 minutes, we did.