Let's be honest, we made shots. When you make shots, the whole game looks prettier.

When we did get looks we weren't knocking them down, and they were hitting their shots and locating their shooters.

We started getting better looks. We got better shots (in the paint), so when that happens you get good shots from the perimeter.

Needless to say, we feel a heck of a lot better than we did after the Southern Cal game the other night. I thought we were really active defensively in the first half. If we had been flying around and having that intensity last Wednesday, the outcome would have been a lot better.

Sometimes you want to get out of Dodge when you're there. Like Coors Field, it's the same game. You want to keep the ball down.

A lot of guys, when certain things start going south on them, they fold and give in. That youngster didn't do it. He refocused again, played even harder and did an even better job of being a leader for us.