We felt for two or three possessions, we wanted to pull them out of the zone. We thought we'd try that. We just weren't as consistent as we normally are.

I thought our league was very tough and did a great job of preparing us for this. I kept telling our guys to, 'Play your best basketball in February and March.' I think we're doing that. We're playing very well right now.

(Carlisle) limited our possessions tonight and that's to their credit. I thought it was a hard fought. They came prepared. I thought we made adjustments and put it away.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

I thought the start of the third quarter really hurt us. We had three, four, or five possessions with pretty good looks at the basket and we just didn't score. You can't hold off good teams three or four possessions in a row.