It really took the wind out of their sails. It would have been like us losing Andy Miller last year for the year.

After they kinda settled in and got back on their feet. They really knocked us around for a while.

Fran was averaging about 30 points a game for us in the summer leagues, so losing him was a really big blow for us.

We talked about that a lot this week -- about being focused on the road... We kinda tried to treat it like a playoff game.

I was concerned about playing a game on the first day of school. We've always thought one of our worst days of practice every year is the first day of school.

Our kids came out and really executed well in the early first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter.