At the beginning, I thought we could hang with them. But I think we just got tired at the end. They just kept going inside and going inside. We just got tired and couldn't hang with them.

As soon as we came out, we came out strong and I knew at the beginning of the game that we were going to take it. We were neck-and-neck for so long, you gotta give them props.

No doubt about it, facing Jackson is a tough test at the beginning of our season, ... But we're ready to line up, put our best against their best and see what happens.

We're just going to put (Forrest loss) out of our minds and concentrate on the game coming up. No one thought that we would go this far.

I never thought I would win (this many tournaments) before the beginning of the year.

I thought that McDyess and Evans played extremely well. (McDyess) has been extremely effective. I said in the beginning of the year, we have six starters -- and I consider him one of the starters. He's playing like that right now.