Our defense really came through for us in that second quarter and maintained it the rest of the half.

It definitely affects us. Jermaine plays a major part of what we're trying to do offensively, and in establishing our identity as a team. So definitely it's a setback. But we have a lot of guys, so we expect guys to step up.

Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries - we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined - this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a burden than a benefit. They allow the Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver.

They played us great on defense. Melissa is our big gun and they took her out of the game with their defense. We also had overcome their height advantage, but we're young and young teams make mistakes. Now we have to mature.

There were a couple things that we tried. They played good defense and took a few things away from us.

We stepped up the defense in the second and third quarters. That kind of got us to where we wanted to be.