If you take a play off against those guys you get dumped on and made fun of. You have to be on your toes.

It was a great thrill, and the reason I wanted to play in the game, having it here, in my hometown. The other guys got the butterflies out (he started the game on the bench), and it gave us a chance just to come in, slow down the tempo, take better shots, and that helped us get back into the game.

It was a great thrill when I found out I was playing. I was at home when I got the invitation to play, and I was so excited. You look at all the other guys in the game before me, and you realize what a privilege it is.

That really turned the game around for us. We are tired of losing to teams that shouldn't beat us.

They were denying me real well. It got frustrating, but I had to do other things to stay involved.

Coach was stressing on getting me the ball more. We've been working on setting more screens and running more set plays. We just stressed setting more screens, and it gave me more open looks.

When the game is on my birthday, it means a little more. We are undefeated and we want to go all the way through the rest of the year that way.

We do that (run out and dunk) a lot in practice. When we can do that in a game, for some reason it seems to pick our team up a lot.

It felt good to jump on them in the first quarter the way we did. They haven't been scoring a lot on anyone else, so we thought we could shut them down with our defense.

Our timing was off on the screens all night. Sean Hughes got some great screens for me at the end.