close games, because you aren't going to get many stops. You can't afford any turnovers, and you have to shoot a high percentage, because you opponent is going to score on most of their possessions.

With the defense we've had recently, we needed to have a comfortable lead in the last couple of minutes in order to win. And it looks like this year's defense is more or less the same as what we have seen (perhaps a little better--that remains to be seen).