We had lapses in our defense, and Portsmouth took advantage of it. Barton and (Irish) did a number on us. They really worked hard, but again, that?s not unexpected here.

In the third quarter they just took us out. We were buffaloed. We scored six points, and they were just beating us in every phase of the game.

If our pitching and defense can keep us in ball games and we use our team speed and timely hitting, we could get some wins early which will help our confidence.

Especially the young lady who is clearly interested in using guns for self-defense, that's extremely important since gun owners will use a firearm in self-defense about 7,000 times a day. Obviously, that's people's best defense in a moment of crisis.

Laval is a very, very fine basketball player. He fits his role, and he plays good defense. Everything depends on how well we play defense. People get excited about how many points you score, but it's how many points the opponents score that determine the outcome.

She always ends up going back to defense.