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He is the most dominant player in the area. Ask any coach that played against us how much they had to game plan against him. Any coach that says he doesn't want him is a liar.

I have very high expectations for myself, and a lot of people outside have them too, ... I like it that way. It keeps me on the ball and pushing for perfection. I wasn't happy with the way I played in the second half. I think I might have been pressing a little. I think everyone is very eager to get back out there because we didn't put on the show we wanted to put on against Kentucky. So we want to get out there and show everyone what this offense is all about.

We're so uptight half the darn time. And you can't blame us. We're playing at a level where we had three big games against three great teams and we needed to play hard. We played hard; we didn't make shots. The shots will come. We can't stress here and think we're not going to make any more shots for the rest of our lives.

Both teams started out real sluggish. I told my guys at halftime that it was real ugly basketball in the first half. We were ahead 17-14, so we had played well defensively and had the lead. In the second half, we finished well. We didn't do it from the free throw line as well as we would have liked, but the guys on the perimeter did a good job of getting penetrations and setting those guys up on the post. We made a lot of good passes inside against their zone defense.

Both of those matches could have gone either way. Three of the seven matches were three-set matches that went against us. That's three 4-3 losses in a row. You lose, but that's OK. We're right there. There's a lot of parity.

I think any time you have something related to money and taxes on the ballot, it can work against you,

He's given himself some better at-bats against some tough right-handers. He's come a long way there. He's responded well.

Both guys pitched great. That's the type of game we all expected. Young gun Jake did what we needed, threw zeros up there, because Roger was on top of his game. That's a fun game to watch, the young guy going against one of the best.

I wanted to increase his playing time against right-handers and he started struggling a little there against right-handers (in recent games). That's why we're going back to the way we were.