Because, according to him, (hockey) was a white man's game and I should be playing basketball because I was the second-tallest person in our high school.

Once he gets into basketball shape, he'll help us a lot and give us some strong post play. He's a presence inside.

That was a great junior high basketball game. It was a great atmosphere between a couple of great teams. It's really great to be moving on.

There's been all kinds of scenarios that I thought would never happen in basketball. Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice, so it couldn't happen too many more times.

We just want to play great basketball. We still have work to do, but this is a fun team to coach.

Tracy was our leader tonight in getting our inside game going. It's the proudest I've been of him all year. We wanted to get our post game going and we did that.