It takes a certain mental toughness to maintain a lead like that. These guys are really committed to playing defense and we knew how important it would be to get off to a good, quick, solid start.

He is capable of playing both guard positions because he is our best shooter.

He has the skills, the intelligence, the leadership ability. You put all those things together and you've got a pretty good basketball player. He's such a competitor and he's going to get better and better.

The thing about Brett is that he wants to play. He's confident in his abilities that he's going to take the opportunity to compete at the highest level and get better.

We haven't been in that situation very often. Typically we come out strong and make shots early. I think we settled for some shots that this year we haven't. We got the ball inside but I thought we settled for jump shots early on.

I know Lance well, and he's a great coach.