I'm proud of him. He really came out and played well today. We need him to score to beat teams. He is explosive and can score in bunches.

We've had to preach to be aggressive, but to do it within the context of our offensive system. We can't have someone come down and throw up a 3-pointer. We are still learning to get away from that.

It's hard to go into a game like that without all of your bullets.

It worked for a little while. We slowed every thing down, but it was too hard to hold onto the ball with their 1-3-1 zone. We couldn't hold onto the ball and their pressure got to us.

We had opportunities. It is frustrating. We only put up 20 points and that wasn't good enough today.

It was so good to get on the mound and feel how I did today, ... I didn't have all my strength, but that's normal when you've taken some time off. I was about 80 to 90 percent on some pitches, with no pain on any pitch.