For such a young team, the schedule worked out perfect. It really gave us a lot of practice time.

We didn't give up, which is nice. These kids want to win; they are just young in a lot of ways. I told them that when you watch an NBA game, you don't see guys running around confused about what they're doing.

When he's scoring a lot, we're not at our best. When he's letting the game come to him and getting other people involved, he's making his teammates better.

If we have kids who can put the basketball in the basket and take care of the basketball, we can do the other thing. It's kind of hard to teach kids to put the ball in the basket.

They're good students ... and good role models around the school.

It was really weird. I talked to my wife -- I think we were 10-6 (when the rumor took hold). All of a sudden, we finished 11-15. I don't know if that had anything to do with it.

It's just hard to tell where you're at till you go through conference.

We're widely regarded as having the most stringent and complete sour gas regulation in the world.

They hurt us early inside. I think the bottom line is they did what they wanted to do.