The second quarter killed us. They outscored us 10-2. Their defense forced us out of our sets. They had more team speed, more depth and I didn't think we had our legs under us tonight. Playing three games in one week hurt us.

When you go back to last year and look at both teams, their defense presented the biggest problem for us. They're so solid that you have to do things right against them, and when the opportunity arises, you have to be able to take advantage.

Our focus was to get a good start.

We had to throw out our offense. They trap and press, so we had Kelvin attack when he beat the press. He did a great job against the press with the dribble and the pass.

I told him to miss the second free throw. If they were going to make a shot with three seconds left it was going to be a three, so we'd lose by one anyway if he made the free throws. I didn't want them to get set.

Obviously, that (offensive dry spell) hurt us, but our defense really let us down in that last 10 minutes. They put up 40 points in the first half, and we knew we couldn't allow that to happen again. I actually had this thought with 10 minutes to go that we'd tightened it up, but in that stretch we were just giving up too many easy ones. ... Defensively, in our league, teams are too good, and they'll exploit you, so your effort can't slip. Whether they were wearing us out, or what, it was just a very bad stretch.