Our guys are tough. We've been battle-tested. We've had overtime games in the season, double-overtime games, so the close games really don't rattle us at this point.

I have been coming to these games for 20 years.

It wasn't as bad as you would have thought ... Sometimes things went on that wouldn't happen in other games. (But) for the most part we kept it clean on both sides, until the end there.

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

We just try to encourage him. His No. 1 job is to shoot, and we know sometimes shooters aren't always on, but the best way to come out of a shooting slump is to keep shooting, and that's what we encourage him to do.

It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. It's exciting for the kids and they are really looking forward to it.