Hugh was a fine boy. He was a good all- American boy. He was tall, slender and played basketball. He was the center. We were real close.

I have worked with a basketball player who said he was always told to get up before a game. Then he would go to the game and in the first five minutes, the ball would fall off his hands. He learned that before the game, rather than getting excited, he needed to do things to settle himself down.

I think we're playing our best basketball of the season. Defensively, we've certainly made some upgrades. ... We've become more aggressive on the defensive end.

You know, we have to learn to button it up, to be quiet and just play basketball. The refs seemed to be looking for things a little, though, but it is up to us to keep our mouths shut.

It was an epic high school basketball game. Anyone who missed this game, missed an instant classic.

It just blossomed from there, ... He worked with my son with basketball. I ask about his kids and his wife, and he knows about my kids and my wife, so we call each other periodically. We are just friends. It is cool. But we knew in the heavyweight division, even after sparring with each other, we knew we are going to have to fight each other eventually.