There's no question whether this team is tough or not. We just need to have more defensive intensity in the first half. Everyone on this team is tough. We just came out flat.

He just really taught us to play together. At the beginning, when we were losing a lot, we just weren't playing together. And now we're just playing together, playing good defense, and kicking people's butt -- and that's what we came to do.

Kirk came in and was great on the boards. He made shots. He was a good sixth man off the bench. He definitely helped me out (being in foul trouble).

It came down to me wanting to go into the league and be effective and walk in with a kind of confidence and swagger that I am ready to play at a high level.

I tried to hit Staf (Mustafa Shakur) and Chris (Rodgers) came up and I thought I could get it to him.

We had a lot of ups and downs but I think we handled them well. There's a lot of maturity on this team. We handled things well. And we came together at the right time.

We've needed that all year, coming and not missing a beat, so whoever came in we knew it was the same intensity.

We came here and bounced back with a good, solid win.