The ball, just when he throws it down, guys just swing and miss or they hit grounders. He's in a little bit of a tough spot with us. We have a very full, veteran staff but we certainly like what we see.

The one thing that I'm really excited about is when he hits the ball, he runs like his pants are on fire. I love that. Our team is not very fast. ... But when [Crisp] comes out of the box, they better get it in or he's going to go to second. That's an aspect that we haven't had a lot. That will be fun to watch. You can already tell by the way he plays the game. He's going to do it every time. It's part of his game.

If we would have hit our free throws, we would have won. When you miss 17, that's 17 points we could have had.

He hit two lasers, and that's a good sign.

Here, the hitting coach said see the ball and hit it, and swing how you want to. That's what I'm doing now.

I wasn't too pleased about it. Derek got hit with a split. We knew it, they knew it. It just happened. ... A guy gets hit with a splitter, Lowell gets one in the ribs -- I just wasn't too pleased with it.