You take away that poor start, and we played really well the rest of the way through. We have to start early.

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

He did his job, and we didn't have anyone else to step up and hit shots.

We played really well from beginning to end. We hung in early, and then in the second half we increased our pressure and cruised coming down the stretch.

The first seven or eight minutes, we dug ourselves a hole. We called a timeout and went to a man-to-man defense and did a much better job than in the zone. We settled down and started to hit some shots.

It's great that we're being competitive, but at some point we have to start winning these games. In two years we've closed the gap, but a loss is a loss. There are no moral victories anymore.