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Steve Marketing and Barry in Israel.
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But look, like there are a lot of times throughout the game and guys airplane in mud.
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What do you think contributed to that overall?
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It playing in mud, playing in mud?
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Yeah.
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What do you think contribute just overall execution?
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Uh, well, their defense was great on dumb.
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You know, it wasn't our best night, but, uh, we just got outplayed so simple as that move onto the next one.
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And how's, uh, how's on the radio?
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I think he's doing OK, but we'll we'll we'll have an update tomorrow.
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Next question to John in the front row in right.
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John Dickinson, 95 7 The game.
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What in particular made SIAC, um, and Gasol so effective against you guys tonight?
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We'll see how come was brilliant.
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I mean, he was hitting shots from everywhere.
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He hit four threes.
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You know, he had been struggling from the three point line in the last couple.
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Siri's.
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So he got he got back to go on.
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And, um, I think, uh, actually, I'm wrong on that.
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He had two threes, but Gasol, we left a couple times early in the game and didn't rotate way just gave him a couple of dare shots and and he knocked him down.
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So you know, there's gonna There's gonna be some openings Those guys made their plays, made their shots.
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Biggest thing for me was our transition defense was just awful on bats.
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The game.
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That's the number one priority.
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When you played Toronto, you have to, uh, I have to take care of their transition and we gave up 24 fastbreak points.
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We turned it over 17 times.
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So that's the game, really?
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The other stuff.
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You know, guys, you're gonna make shots, Miss shots, we're gonna have good games.
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They're gonna have bad games.
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But it's kind of the, you know, the key points that you can take care of that that are the most important.
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And we didn't take care of that.
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That transition last row on the right side to Tim's Steve Tim Reynolds with the A P.
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I know you guys have been through long breaks before and without credit to the Raptors defense, of course.
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Did you feel like rust was in any way a factor for you guys tonight?
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Not playing for a week and 1/2?
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It doesn't matter one way or the other.
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Um, you know, So if we had won, the story would have been that we were well rested so that we lost.
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So we're rusty, so it doesn't matter, Anthony.
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Go ahead.
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Right side.
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Anthony.
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Cider with the Light.
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Would you think of DaMarcus in his first game back on?
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Is there a possibility you're thinking about maybe increasing his playing time?
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I thought DeMarcus did a really nice job, Made some great passes.
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We could run some offense through him.
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Um, you know, it's so early in the process for him.
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I played eight minutes and, um, I thought his minutes were good, but it's a huge adjustment to play after a six week, seven week absence, especially at this level in the N B.
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A finals against a team that that's pretty fast already.
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So I thought he did really well on.
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We'll look at the tape and we'll see what we decide to do with his role going forward.
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Left side, Tim, Cal Poly Steve, Tim Kawakami, the athletic.
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Over here, you played against these guys.
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You know how long and athletic they are.
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But was it a little bit of a shock to the system.
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You think for your guys offense lead to play against that kind of length?
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And do you think maybe you figured some things out or found some more space as the game went on?
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Well, I think that, you know, the biggest thing coming in is we really didn't feel like we knew this team very well.
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Wave.
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Obviously, we only play them two times a year, and this year's team is is different with Kawai and the to meetings that we had with them.
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A lot of guys were missing, including Kawai in Oakland.
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He didn't play on then.
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I think Steph missed the game up here.
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Other guys were missing.
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So it's It's going to be really good for us to have a game on tape where we can really pick it apart and see what we can do better.
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I thought we made made a good effort in the second half, got back in the game.
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Our guys did some good things but made too many mistakes to actually go ahead and win the game.
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Left side.
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Second row Steve Video coach Michael Pena, Espy Nation kind of jumping off that question.
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What problems.
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Does Toronto's defense pose that you haven't seen in this postseason run?
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And even in the last four vitals runs that you've been on?
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Um, I don't know that I can sit here and compare them to every playoff team we've played, but they're very long and athletic.
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They're tough, they get after you and, you know, they play well together.
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They got a lot of versatility.
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I think there are actually a lot like our team, you know, they can switch guard, different positions in that sort of thing on DE.
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So I thought they did a really good job.
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They made some big shots.
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Danny Green's three at the end of the half contested right in front of their bench, was a big one.
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Siaca made a three out top right down the stretch.
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So the game went from, I think, to afford to 10 at the end of the half and then they made a couple other big ones in the second half, so give them credit.
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I thought they played a great game.
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They deserved to win and we got to play better.
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If we're gonna we're gonna beat him left side in the back on the side.
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Ryan Dorsey, San Francisco Examiner.
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Early on, when they were kind of, they were not giving Clay any open looks, and they were really sort of making life difficult for Steph.
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How much does say Kevin Durant floater or a Kevin Durant spot up?
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Jumpers changed that offensive dynamic that point for you guys, Um, again, I'll go back to my earlier answer.
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It doesn't matter until he's out there, So if he's if he's out there, it's pretty good.
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So but if he's not out there, we play.
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We play with guys we have and we've got enough.
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We've won the last.
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Whatever.
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Six games without him.
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56 games.
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Um, so we have enough.
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But you play with the guys who are healthy and you go, so we'll see what happens.
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Final question.
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Right side in the back.
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Dan Dan Devine, the ringer to that point about having enough.
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You went, I think, 11 or 12 deep pretty early in the game.
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But some of those lineups in the second beginning of second quarter beginning of fourth quarter kind of fits and starts.
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And maybe because of DaMarcus coming back, what did you see out of your depth today.
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Do you feel confident that this is another Siri's where you can and we'll need to play?
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A lot of guys are.
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Bench was great, you know, Jonas hit a couple threes.
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Quinn Cook came in, did a nice job.
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And you know the way we've played our bench.
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We've since Kevin on DeMarcus have been out.
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We play a lot of guys, but they don't play big minutes.
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So we're trying to find combinations.
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Were trying to find guys who can step out on the floor for a few minutes, make a shot, make a play.
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And I thought the bench did a fantastic job tonight.
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They were really good.
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Kept us in the game.
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Um, but again, um, give credit to Toronto.
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They played a great game.
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They made a lot of shots, difficult shots and our, uh, transition defense and turnovers.
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That stuff, it's really hard to overcome, especially on the road.
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So we got to get better with that.
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Thanks, everybody.
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Thank you, Steve.