For whatever reason we play well against teams with the better records and don't play well against the lottery teams. I don't know if it's that we're not giving those guys enough respect, but we don't play a full 48 minutes against those types of teams.

We haven't had much success against losing ball clubs, and being on a five-game losing streak, it feels good to finally get a game in the win column.

We know now we can't take any team for granted. The energy level wasn't where it needed to be against those teams earlier. They would come out and play hard, and we had a tendency of putting ourselves in a hole and found out we couldn't just turn it on. . . . Due to the fact that we're short-handed, it's definitely going to take a full game for us to come out with victories.

After backing him up for two years I know him pretty well. I feel pretty good about my success against him the last two years, but now it's the playoffs.

I've had pretty good success against J. The times that I have been able to get him off-balance, I've been able to get by him. J is still a great defender. But if my number is called, I have no trouble stepping up to the challenge.

It was a great win for us. That's the type of game that had been going against us this year.