(The losing) got old really fast. Now that we're having success, we don't want to go back to the way it was. We're doing everything we can to continue being successful.

It's real frustrating, I'm not going to lie. We keep practicing so hard, then keep losing. We just have to find a way, we can't start pointing fingers.

It feels great to finally break the curse of our (playoff) losing streak. I've been on this team six years and every year we've made the playoffs and lost in the first round. This is an amazing feeling.

They were trying to cope not only with losing a leader and a friend, but they had also witnessed his death in a rather horrific way,

They were losing hope,

When you're trying to get off the losing track, every game is a big game. Our success is going to come from playing as a team. We just need to be more consistent. We still have 10 games left on the schedule, and we will get better.