It helped that we played the same defense from the time we were in the AAU program to when we were in high school. It's a big-time advantage to have that much practice.

If you play with a guy for seven or eight years, you know his tendencies. You know what he's going to do next without thinking about it. It helps you play with a lot more confidence.

Some of the plays we ran (in high school) were plays we'd been running for eight years.

Tonight was a great start for the defense. It's time for this defense to step up.

So often, our offense gets a lot of credit. They've done great things, but it's time for the defense to get a name for ourselves and play hard and be just as good as our offense.

In the second half they changed their defense a little and that's when the guards had to step up. So we had to score a little more and do what we needed to do to keep that lead.