Shawn Faust Quotations

It is a priceless experience playing against them and seeing the world as well.

If you think about it, it's like four years of college basketball. You just have to pace yourself. We come out, play hard, try to win and go at it. But you have to pace yourself too. We work out, run and stay in shape. So that definitely helps us along physically and mentally. It's just as much mental as it is physical out here.

It just depends on the games and how they're playing or how we're playing. Some games are closer than others. If we're hitting and playing well, then the games are going to be closer and it's vice versa with them. They're a lot bigger, but we definitely have a fun time. It's hard because we play seven days a week. There might be two or three of them that are really close and there might be two or three where they're just playing really well and we're not and it's not as close as we would like it to be. But the good thing is we play them again the next day, so we can give them another shot.

We had the opportunity to play on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, definitely a great experience there. You get to go out every night and play against one of the best teams in the world and you get to travel and see the world doing it. It's a hard gig to beat.