I’m not gonna lie. I have no motivation right now. I just want to fast-forward to next year. The games left on our schedule, I know we have to play them, but it’s like, Why?...

We played them hard and played them well. We just ran out of gas.

If we play this hard, we can beat just about anybody.

They play together as a team. It’s very tough to play against them. You can’t gamble [because they all shoot 3-pointers] and you can’t give them any daylight.

Everybody was really fired up. (His guarantee) was a big reason why. … A lot of people forgot how it feels to win. We didn’t get used to losing, but we hadn’t won in a...