Everyone was jacked up. Everybody was ready to give a championship mentality.

We looked tired out there. They were boxing us out so we couldn't get second looks, which is what we usually do really good with our offense.

It's great to have experience and knowing what's going to happen.

We are treating this like a road game. We are trying to prepare ourselves, obviously, for a different court and different fans.

We just didn't play well [at USC]. We shot ourselves in the foot, and tonight we helped each other out.

We're just comfortable in our gym. This is where you practice 90 percent of the time, and it's a routine -- we get to sleep in our own beds. We never take for granted being at home.