This is my first time working on the floor, so it's getting better. Hopefully, I'll get to practice one of these days and see how it feels.

We heard about that all week before we came up here. So in practice, all we did was work hard on conditioning to make sure that we could prove to people that they run, but we run better.

I think it's that we got a chance to practice a few days, give ourselves a chance to focus on how we want to get our shots and where we want them to come from. I think we're doing a better job of slowing down offensively when we don't have anything initially in transition and calling our sets and getting to the spots we want to get to. At least for the most part we're not forcing Baron or Jason or somebody to make a play against the shot clock every time.

Just today in practice, coach (Marc) Trestman was getting on me, saying, 'Derek run your mouth' ... Talk to (Herndon). Tell him what's going on. You're a veteran. You know this.

It was tough sitting out the 10 games; I just tried to work hard in practice and make the other players get better because I knew I wasn't going to be able to do anything out there.

We had a marvelous potion we took after practice. It was called beer... 16 ounces of cold beer.