I think it's safe to say the first quarter made the difference. It was a phenomenal first quarter. It was unbelievable.

We had a great first half and a super second quarter, and then we just held on.

That was the difference. We shot well enough in the first half (51.2 percent) to be up by more than three.

That started in the first quarter, but it actually goes back to the Seattle game. I don't know if we think we can slug it out with people offensively or what, but we just can't do that. We have to get back to some hard-nosed basketball and we're going to do that.

We had a great first half and a super second quarter. Then we just kind of held on. It is expected in the middle of the season to have our ups and downs.

You can't guard him. He's phenomenal. We had nine turnovers in the first quarter and you can't guard him in transition. I think once we got better control of the tempo, we did a better job.