It's always hard. I've been through this before. I was just working hard and waiting for the day that I get back on the court and help my teammates in any way I could. Definitely, it's frustrating.
You're definitely more familiar with the players and you know who you need to stop and who you need to be ready for.
It's never easier. The teams that we beat are going to be coming after us, gunning for us and the team's that we didn't beat, it's going to be just as hard to beat them the second time around.
As the games go on, we need to separate ourselves from those other teams. We need to keep winning so that by the end there won't be a three-way tie. We need to keep moving up the ladder.
We knew coming in that New Hampshire was a good team. They had a similar record to us and I wouldn't be surprised if it was a playoff game down the line.
We knew coming in New Hampshire was a good team. I wouldn't be surprised if it was playoff game down the line. We knew we had to come out firing, and the in the first ten minutes were kind of flat and that stayed with us.
We want to learn from every loss we have. We don't want to forget about it because it's still a loss, but we don't dwell and we want to come out strong in the next game.
The most important thing to me is respect and to know that they can look up to me. If I don't lead vocally, then lead by example. I want them to know that they can come to me whenever they need anything as far as help with the play or even anything outside of basketball.
The offense isn't going to come, the defense isn't going to come without me going out there and busting my butt every day. Whether it's in practice or in games, if I'm not scoring, I'm hoping that I'm doing other things to help.
I'm as close as I think I'll get to 100 percent. I still have knee problems and other things going on. But on any given game day, I'm going out there feeling like I can do anything I want to do.
