There's only one place to go when you're up top and that's down. We just didn't want to continue that downward spiral.

All of a sudden we went from the penthouse to the outhouse.

It should have been our ball underneath.

I just hope we haven't peaked. I still see room for improvement. We've been playing basically five kids and they could get tired this time of the year. But they just have to suck it up and get through it.

(Westbrook) plays hard and they don't quit. This is the kind of game where you get in and you think you're just going to win it and then you make a few mistakes and you're not going to have a good game. We wanted to show tonight that we can play and to get ready for the next game.

We played pretty well defensively in the second half and tried to hold their scorers down a little bit.