We showed that we can play with the big boys. We gave it as good an effort as we possibly could.

It's a split effort between the two of us.

On the boys side, we gave a good conscious effort.

We quickly learned each player would have to qualify for an Italian passport, which meant some of them had to go back in their heritage as far as we could go.

They told me ... well, I'm not exactly sure how it was chosen.

You have to understand that was the first outing he's had all spring. You're probably not going to have your best command in your first outing. I thought he kept us in the game and that's all we really wanted from him.