Both teams played great games.

In our league every game is important because there are only five games. The key to our season last year was beating Turlock.

It's tough at his size. What he brings to the table is his attitude and his athleticism. He gets to the paint and he finishes.

I think both teams played their hearts out. We had a couple chances to finish, and actually got looks, but we just didn't hit the shot.

We had 67 replay games (that year), a little over 9,100 plays, and we shut it down 43 times. And of the 43 we shut down, we reversed 21. That tells you the referees ain't bad. They get most of them right.

You don't always want to wait until the ninth inning to win games, but we haven't had that. That propels us, to know we can win at any time. You don't want to go into the postseason scuffling.