You don't want to go in cold. You don't want to go in and think you can just flip the switch and think playoff hockey is in your blood. You need to go in hot, you need to go in with an edge.

I don't think it's a coin flip,

We try to flip on the switch too much. We think we can just turn it on. We've got to flip the switch on when the game starts. We can't feel like we can turn it on when our backs are against the wall and come back.

Flip is the best coach available out there, a great guy, and I think he's going to make the Pistons better.

I didn't think we matched up too well with Pepperell anyway. Then the coin flip really was disheartening.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.