At the beginning of the season it was nerve-racking. I couldn't get open.

I really learned about leadership from them. They told me things that maybe sometimes at first I didn't listen to, but come to find out it was true. It made me want to play hard for them.

It made me feel good to have the teammates I have. I knew I could kick it to this player or that player, and they'd knock down the shot or do something great with the ball.

Last year everybody focused on Tyler. This year it was the opposite, it was me. I'm not saying I was the best player out there, but a lot of times their best defensive player was on me.

By the middle of the month, you'll really see a beginning of a nucleus of an Iraqi government with an Iraqi face on it that is dealing with the coalition,

We're trying to stay mentally focused at the beginning of singles. We need to put an exclamation point on the doubles, and we did a better job of that today.