I think our changing defense is really unsettled,

At this point, we're taking it as a one-game season. Right now, that one game is Minnesota.

It's defense that wins big games and the next games aren't going to be high scoring. They're going to be battles, ... If you can hold teams down in that scoring range, you're going to be in a good situation.

Talking about Maria at this point is irrelevant.

Take care of our home court and see if we can get a win or two on the road.

It was disappointing to lose this one. But we have to go up to Seattle and hope things fall in our favor.

It wasn't pretty but it was a 'W,' ... Minnesota outplayed us in the first half, there's no question our perimeter defense was really poor.

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Down the stretch, in the last six minutes, we had some great looks. We just couldn't hit open shots when we needed to and it was tough to come back.

We always knew it was going to be tough with the schedule we had at the start and with the absence of players.