We didn't take a backward step. We can bump and grind with the best of them and they're the best of them.

It wasn't good. It's obviously one of the risks you take playing in these games. For him to have an injury that something because I've never known him to get hurt.

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

One of our focal points going into the game was the boards against Brisbane and to stay competitive. And I thought Benny Knight was absolutely outstanding with 16 boards - I can't remember him playing a better game than that for us.

We didn't have a good finish to the year. Now it comes down to how we play. For us, it's a youth situation, we'll be spreading the court out, it'll be a small style of game.

I have a responsibility to protect my team and I thought it wasn't taken care of during the game.

We are going to go up there and go for it. It's going to be a battle.

He's the sort of player who's probably more suited to the NBA, where he could end up guarding Shaq [Shaquille O'Neal] or Yao Ming. He's a good passer, he's got nice touch and he's a very smart player.

It was borderline last year and we went for Rogers, which in hindsight was probably the right decision. But we told Luke we were looking at him for the future.