When you are a young team, it is hard to compete with a team that has won one championship and almost won another. It's a mental thing. It gets into your head, because you know what those guys have done.

I don't (fill a bracket out) because I'm gonna lose. I can't go on the numbers, because there's always upsets. I don't want to predict because I don't watch basketball. Or I don't watch enough of it.

Rip is on one leg out there, so we have to pick up the slack.

I think there's a lot on this game. With how we lost in the Finals last year, we're definitely going to be fired up wanting to get a win. We also want to prove to everybody that we belong.

He just made it so easy for me to score. He's such a good passer. I kind of knew where his passes were going to be at any time. Not even looking, I knew where he was going to throw it and when he was going to throw it.

They definitely believe in getting up and down the court.