AARON BROOKS Game Quotes:

It’s real tough. It was a game we pretty much controlled for three quarters. They got hot at the end. The difference between this game and last game is last game we got up 10 and we put Memphis away. This time we let them hang around the whole time and, when you do that, teams get hot, start hitting threes and start feeling good about themselves and kind of run away with it.

They picked it up and then picked up the defense. We had a hard time getting the post guys the ball. We missed a lot of open shots and that was pretty much the game. We couldn’t get Carl the ball in the post and we’ve got to work on that. It’s kind of like, when we had Yao last year, we had a tough time getting him the ball in the post, so it was kind of like that today. We have to work on finding a way to get him the ball and get him more touches.

It’s not surprise – Carl’s our go-to guy at the end of the game. We worked it and tried to get it into him. We gave them multiple looks. We had pick-and-roll looks. We had the shots we just didn’t knock them down. This game was full of momentum. They did a good job and got the momentum in the fourth quarter and ran away with it.

(let down when Kyle went out?): Definitely. Kyle is our sparkplug and he relieves a lot of pressure off me and the other guys. When he went out, it put a lot of pressure on everybody to step up. That was our energy guy who comes off the bench to lift us. When he went out there was a little bit of a let down.