When we play defense with that kind of energy, we're as good a team as I've ever seen.

We definitely draw off our defense, and when we play good team defense we get energy.

Sometimes you fight back like that and it takes all your energy. We needed to play better defense in the first half.

He's basically responsible for history. He had some talented kids, but his ability to get the superstars to buy into my system was absolutely paramount.

If he was at a Midwest junior college... he would have ended up at a top 10 program. He wanted a coach that would let him lead. He hasn't lost in about two years. It's not in his DNA.

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.