A.J. has always been tough on himself. He has always expected to make every shot and make every play. It's great, to a certain extent, to be he hard on yourself as long as it doesn't affect you or get you too impatient.

Their kids are signing NBA contracts. My kids are sending out resumes.

For the first time all year, we have nothing to lose. We can take a deep breath and relax and play because nobody's giving us a chance.

Can we compete? Absolutely. Can we win? We'd love to find out. I don't think these guys will have any fear.

I hope for Coach Calhoun that everything goes wrong.

I'm proud of him. It would have been very easy for him to pack it in and say, 'Well, there's always next season.' I just think he really has done a good job of continuing to work. He's shooting after practice, he's working hard in practice.

I'm sure there's going to be some nervous energy on our end. This is new to us, and (Vermont) has the experience of doing this before.

I'm 62 years old. Never in my life have I experienced anything like this. My family and I were all in bed. All of a sudden, the house just started shaking. It was so strong and so loud. My son yelled for us to get downstairs, but by the time we did, it was all over.

I'm not concerned about scoring at all. We could miss every shot we take, but I think we'll get shots. My concern is, can we rebound with them? I think we can guard them a little bit. I'm very concerned once the shot goes up because I don't know if we can consistently rebound.

I want to make sure they're as focused as possible, and that's very difficult to do with all the hype around (the players).