He's our leading scorer and he had no legs at all. He's averaging about 16.5 points per game for us and when he's not in rhythm like that, something is not right.

We're just trying to get it to another level. We've been working a lot on defense, playing a lot of really tough competition is the key to it. We're starting to hit our stride. That's our 20th game. We didn't come out focused against LCA. A couple of guys had some things going on outside of basketball, some distractions. It really cost us.

It's a lot more pressure this year. There's a lot of expectations and there's a lot of seniors and from Day 1, I think the expectation has been there for us to get back to the state. Hopefully we can get over some of this sickness, these illnesses, and get ourselves back in playing shape.

I think our defense was the key thing. I think we got up on their guards, and forced them to do some things they didn't want to do.

I tried to get a copy of that tape but he won't give it up.

The first thing that happened leading up to such a large spill was that at about 6 or 7 in the morning the telephone alarm system crashed and we don't know why. It's operated by the phone company and we are working with them to understand why that happened. The telephone alarm system monitors about 20-plus self-operating pump stations west of the Long Beach Freeway.