I'm getting a lot of deep touches. And when I screen, they kick it out and I'm open. I'm making all the easy plays. I'm not trying to make anything hard or overdo things.

When you've got somebody whose game is hot, you don't want to get him as many touches. We wanted to try and (pass) a little more because we were getting into the quick shot mentality.

When we were little we used to say we are going to kick some butt.

I feel it's been a very productive spring training for me. Things kick in when you're facing major-league hitters and you're pitching in front of 40,000 to 50,000 people.

We didn't get him touches then because of what they were doing (on defence) and what we were doing up front. It's just how it happened.

I was willing to kick it, but it was a wide open lane, so I went straight down.