We're really focusing on defense. It really hurt us early on. We've been pressing, trying to get stops. Now, we're locking up and playing better helper-to-helper defense.

We set a precedent that we can play a good team, we can play defense and we're one of the better teams in the league. I saw [Borders] was ahead of me in scoring, and I wanted to let him know I want to be the top scorer in this league.

Unforced turnovers hurt us and they did a good job of capitalizing on them.

Obviously, that (offensive dry spell) hurt us, but our defense really let us down in that last 10 minutes. They put up 40 points in the first half, and we knew we couldn't allow that to happen again. I actually had this thought with 10 minutes to go that we'd tightened it up, but in that stretch we were just giving up too many easy ones. ... Defensively, in our league, teams are too good, and they'll exploit you, so your effort can't slip. Whether they were wearing us out, or what, it was just a very bad stretch.

We had these guys, but special teams hurt us a lot. We couldn't stop them as well sometimes on defense in situations. We've just got to make more plays.

I think what hurt us tonight was our defense. They really exploited us with the dribble and our turnovers. You're not going to beat anyone with turnovers.