By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.

Minnesota's a great city.

God could care less whether I can shoot a jump shot.

There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine.

My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.

By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.

I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive rebounds. I thought in the second half they got so many second-chance opportunities they could really run. It just seemed like they were going up our guys' backs. When you don't get any offensive rebounds and they start going the other team's way, it's almost like a snowball effect.