Without a doubt, the swagger level goes up, ... Sam Cassell has been talking trash as soon as he came here. That's what we need. We need somebody that's confident like that, saying, hey, jump on our bandwagon or get left behind. We haven't had that.
We had a good chance to win. We don't take any positives from this, even though we came close against a good team.
We had them. We built a 20-point lead, but they kept fighting. It's a lesson-learned. Overall, we came out with a victory.
It's embarrassing. You can't get embarrassed on your home court like that. You have to play with some pride and some intensity. We came out in the third quarter with a sense of urgency, but you've got to start the ballgame off like that.