We got the monkey off our back. It feels great.

We finally got the monkey off our back. It feels good.

We can exhale now. It feels like we got a little monkey off our back and we can gear up for Sunday.

It feels like we got that monkey off of our back. Now we can start playing and building momentum for the Pac-10 tournament.

My situation couldn't get any worse in Detroit. I was playing what, six minutes? I was just there. I was a little annoyed, you know? But I got through it. Our job is to maintain ourselves ready to play, take advantage whenever called. Hopefully I will get that opportunity here.

I wish it never happened. Not so much for myself - I can handle it on my own - but it involves my family. They're trying to adapt to a new city. Now that I have a daughter, it's way different. That's the sad thing about the whole thing. You leave friends and people you're really close to behind.