His half-court man-to-man defense put the clamps on us. We started rushing our shots and lost our composure.

We just played really good defense. They can flat run. This is a team that came out and scored around 80 points on us the last time we played, and we held them to 55.

I thought our defense was good the whole game, our guys stayed under control, they didn't turn the ball over much and we rebounded well.

We did what we had to do down the stretch, but those Shine boys are tough. They really make us go.

Twice (late in the fourth quarter), we had one-and-ones, and we got the rebounds. That's big. We get that rebound, there goes another 10 seconds off the clock.

Honestly, this is why we worked so hard to get the number two seed, to get this first game.