How much do you see in Verdells confidence to step up in big situations?
Oh he wants the ball- absolutely. He wants the ball and the good thing about Verdell is that he’s getting better every time with his decision-making. Even tonight when we broke the press once and Devan [Dumes] took it in and he had challenged shot. He knew right away that that was a challenged shot and to me that’s growth. He knows I’m going right back to him in those situations and he had to play extended minutes with Jeremiah’s foul situation. In answer with Verdell, I think he’s among many. Their confidence is growing all the time and I think that’s really important as we move forward. Talk about the two big offensive rebounds that [Christian] Watford had. They were big. Every once in a while when you don’t think that Christian is going as hard he uncoils and there he is. We asked him to play different positions tonight, he had to come in at the three, we took him out for a few minutes so he could get some water and then make sure that we had three or four things that he could run f
