This team is having a hell of a lot of fun. This team is loose and excited about playing basketball.

The league itself has so many good players on every team that the quality of basketball that?s being played on a consistent basis, I believe, is at an all-time best. It?s certainly the best in my nine years in the league.

We're having so much fun, it's not like we're in a situation where we're nervous or have any kind of fear. These guys have played basketball their whole lives. They enjoy being with each other and enjoy executing the plan on the court. And as long as we can just continue to do that, anything is possible.

That was a hell of a basketball game, for sure. Our team did everything tonight that I asked of them to give ourselves a chance to win.

Everyone is a critic right now; everybody is a mastermind of basketball. Flip is a hell of a coach. Flip doesn't shoot the basketball, doesn't get one rebound. I can't abide by that [criticism]. We believe in Flip; he believes in us.

That was a hell of a high school basketball game.