It?s been kind of mysterious, really, ... Maybe if I was on TV, pleading my case, I?d be better off. But I guess that?s not really my style.

But we've all made spur-of-the-moment decisions that maybe we look back on and wish we hadn't made.

We kind of felt at halftime it was one of our poorer halves in quite a while. But it was a great second half for us. We were much more aggressive defensively and had at least 25 points off turnovers. It was a quality win against a team playing as well as anyone in the league right now.

I think our guys kind of stepped it up and maybe wanted it a little bit more and won some 50-50 balls in their third of the field. That's how we kept the pressure on them.

I would never commit ahead of time that he wasn't going to play. I would hate to tell somebody they're not going to play or their minutes would be limited, then all of a sudden 6 minutes into the game put him out there. That wouldn't be fair. I think it's better that he stayed ready, but unfortunately he didn't get in.

We were soft. It's baffling.