If we play good defense, by the end of the year, we'll be a pretty good team.

Considering we started four new faces, we played a pretty nice game. It was our first game and I thought some guys played better than they have in practice. It was a good start.

It's a controlled happiness. One of my concerns was the defense and it's been erratic.

Our defense fell apart for one quarter, but after that, we played them pretty even. If we had played all four quarters like we did the first, we would have been fine.

We play better defense than we do offense. We try to score off our defense. We concentrate a lot more on our defense. We've been working on it a lot the last couple of weeks and that's helped us a lot.

We didn't play really good defense. That's why we were down 4-2. But the guys realized that after the first, we had to play better. We had to tighten things up.