Lots of good stuff here; I especially like this quote:

"I think that it's a long season, and you can't overreact to any one game or any one road trip," Ricketts said. "I think the biggest difference is that now that we kind of know some of the players personally, it's harder when you see them struggle or have something go wrong, you just know how hard they're trying, and you know badly they want to win. It just adds kind of a personal twist on something like that."