You can't think of a worse team to play on a back-to-back than Phoenix, especially when it's away. Just their style of play, it's tough. You don't feel it so much in the first quarter, but you can feel the pace in the third.

I do feel for him. It's an unfortunate time for him to go down, but if he has to, better to do it now and get back and concentrate for the regular season.

How many games are left? I don't know. It sucks. We still lose games like this and we haven't learned how to win them.

Get back down low. Rebound the ball. Run the floor. If I go out and do more things, then of course more stuff will come my way.

I didn't think it was that severe of a hit. Glad it's only one game. ... He is our catalyst and we need to step up collectively as a group to make up for his absence.

I don't know how he got that through.

That's all we've talked about is defense, defense, defense, ... Now we're coming out and backing up our talk.

They hit big shots for us at the end of the game, got us back in.

It was a good speech, the kind he used to give us my freshman year at Notre Dame. I've heard it before.

It's safe to say this will make or break our season. We need to win the vast majority of these games.