Opening statement“We’ve had a little bit of a break here, and I’m anxious to see how we respond. We’ve tried to zero in on a couple areas that we’ve really got to get better at offensively. They’re things we’re going to be have to be able to do if we want to be the kind of team everybody keeps talking about. But I’m really pleased with this group. I say it all the time: They’ve got a genius. Their genius is their basketball ability, their athleticism, their length and all those things that are just not normal. Yet they’ve got great hearts. They’re kind to each other, they’re selfless and that’s why you see what you’re seeing. Everybody (is like), ‘How you get them to play together?’ Well, they’ve got to accept. They’ve got to allow us to do the things we’re doing, the platooning and the other things, and they are.”On Willie Cauley-Stein’s progression this year …“The greatest thing – everybody wants to zero in on players that have stayed with us one year and really improved in a year but stayed one year. But they get away from the kind of guys like Willie and some others who have come in here and really grown year to year. His growth from last year to this year is amazing. And a lot of it becomes that confidence and his mentality – his mental toughness, his ability to push through when it’s not going great, his ability to push through comfort levels, to practice and go hard when he doesn’t feel like doing those things. He now has become a player, not only defensively but offensively, who can do some things. He didn’t play great against Louisville, but they’re not machines. He’s not gonna play great every night out. But I’ve been really pleased and proud of him, the way he’s grown on the court and the way he’s grown off the court.”On the importance of the bond between Tyler Ulis and Devin Booker …“Well, you can’t do what we’re doing unless you have another point guard. What we’re doing, we have two outstanding point guards. And they don’t play great every night out, neither one. But they come and you know you got two guys. The tie with Devin and Tyler is that they’ve always wanted to play together and they play off of one another. But the biggest thing those two add to this team is their absolute competitive fire. Every day in practice, whatever drill, however we scrimmage, they want to win. A few days ago they beat the Blue platoon like four straight times, and really beat them good. The next day the Blue platoon stepped on the gas and beat them every time. And Tyler made a couple play, turned it over and he apologized. ‘My fault, guys.’ And he was really upset with himself because he wanted to win that scrimmage. That’s why, when you see how hard these kids play, you see them compete in games, it’s because they compete that way in practice. And Devin and Tyler have really driven that part of the culture that we have here.”On what he is zeroing in on offensively …“Well, there’s areas that I’m going to zero in on every week to 10 days until we get it right. Before we played Louisville, our biggest issue was our defensive rebounding. Our percentage offensive rebounding was off the charts. Nearly 50 percent of our misses we were rebounding. But defensively it was off the charts the wrong way. We were 13th in our league so we zeroed in on it. Now there’s a few areas that we’re looking at, like OK let’s now keep these players engaged and get them to focus on a couple areas, which is what we’ve done the last seven, eight days. And obviously I’m not talking about those things, but you’ll see them.