Coach Fowler told us just to take five seconds of silence to put everything in perspective. We just needed to settle down and remember what we were playing for.

In games like this, you don't even know where you are on the court. You just want to do whatever it takes to win.

That's one thing that we really do well. We're a great passing team. We work on it all week in practice. And you see it out there. We kept finding opportunities because we kept getting the ball to open players.

You have to kind of put it in perspective and really think about it. I think about I'm hurting my family more than myself. So that's where I think, this can only be good, this can only good.

Silence

It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It's ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It's golden they say.
But no one tells us it's addictive.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.