I thought Silver Creek gave a lot more effort than we did.

We did make it hard on her. She got winded early but she got a second wind. As you could tell late, her shot was off.

I thought our guys came out and gave a good effort defensively tonight. These guys were playing great coming in and to hold them to 36 percent (shooting) is a good thing.

We just didn't execute down the stretch. I thought we got the shots we wanted. I liked our effort.

The thing I'm most pleased with was I thought you saw an intensity level and an effort level that we haven't had for a couple of weeks. Second of all, there were things we prepared to do, and we executed them. ... It was some good stuff.

I thought our effort, when the chips were down, was 10 times better this year than last year. In the end, they made a few more plays than we did.