When you blow a nine-point lead like that you definitely lose your momentum. We continued to battle until the end, but we fell short.

It was a nine?point lead, but it didn't feel like it. It was so back?and?forth. They missed shots, and we missed shots.

When they came back and scored, it squashed the momentum we had been building up. We had a handful of good scoring opportunities from numerous players, but we couldn't put it in the net.

We had a 15-point lead in the second quarter and probably could have put them away. But we made some poor decisions tonight.

It's a tremendous blow. To lose anybody it is, but when you lose somebody at the top of the lineup, it affects everybody else because everybody else has to move up.

That just took an eight-point lead and cut it in half. The momentum changed the other way.