The thing I'm most pleased with was I thought you saw an intensity level and an effort level that we haven't had for a couple of weeks. Second of all, there were things we prepared to do, and we executed them. ... It was some good stuff.

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A great defensive effort. I always go with the same thing: We want to make the game hard for the other team, and we did today.

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