He doesn't tell people how to play. Silence is a good thing. If he's happy, he doesn't say much.

Terence was one of the people I was listening to a lot back then. After I worked with him, I thought, man, if I had to get a gig, that's who I would like it to be with.

He does a great job of getting people to play their best. One of the reasons we are such a good team is that every day in practice is like a game to us. Everything we do is competitive, and everything we do we want to win, no matter what the drill is. He knows you have to coach everyone differently.

He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he doesn't need to tell us what to do.

I wanted us to play hard for 32 minutes. I thought except for that little three-minute stretch in the fourth quarter where we had three or four turnovers in a row that we played real hard.

Some people don't think we're as good as some people say we are, so we have to silence all the critics. We have to show we're the Cherokees and go out there and perform on the level we know we can perform.