We have to overlook the friendship part of it. With our size, we just have to play basketball.

It's a long season and we have to get better. We still want to do what we said we planned to do in the summer -- win that state championship.

We want to do more than just go back and lose again. We want to come back up Highway 69 with the state championship trophy.

The other night I told Larry he doesn't have to score every possession. He should be getting double-digit rebounds and some assists.

He could easily have gotten more time early, but he didn't understand our defensive philosophy. The one thing we say here is if you don't play defense, you don't play. You can always have an off night shooting, but you can always play defense.

We're ready to rock 'n' roll. We got all the negative stuff out of the way the last few weeks. We're playing beautiful right now.