Um, did that affect much early in that how they were gonna use Hunter and Collins was there was there in a, you know, building a lead.

But did it affect you guys defensively it all with how Collins and Hunter actually gonna play and play off one another tonight?

Um, I guess it would tray out.

We you just kind of think that shots have to be dispersed through whoever.

So you probably thought that Hunter and, uh, shooter and Cam, they were going to get more touches, especially with the guard like Rondo who loves to pass and facilitate.

So ah, just maybe just be a little more aggressive and even I know is a player like knowing that I'm getting more shots up.

I feel more comfortable playing out, right?

Collins had 30.

I mean, he doesn't come in as a three point shooter, uh, six of nine, I guess in situations like that is is that one of those where you kind of got a I think that there will be a regression to the mean to a degree or do you have?

If he is making it that night, there needs to be a better reaction to contesting him or getting them off those spots, Making them uncomfortable.

Yeah, I think after you, uh, again, this is the MBA.

This is These are professionals.

So if they they if they start hitting two and three in a row, I feel like you have toe at least contest that maybe just a little bit more.

And guy athletic is as Collins.

You don't want him to drive either.

So again, I feel like we we stick.

We stuck to what we're doing defensively.

Hey, made some great shots and a lot of threes.

But at the end of the day, we did.

We were supposed to dio Doris Stevenson got a two parter here for you draws, You know, looking at the stats in the third quarter and you see kind of the discrepancies was shooting percentage and how you are were you know, the bench was producing so much more than their bench, but the score was still relatively close.

I think it was like, you know, 10 points at the time, so I'm wondering what from your vantage point was keeping them in the game and then would allowed you toe pull away kind of in that fourth quarter.

I think in the third, our intensity was was pretty low.

Um, I feel like we would come in on the third and just kind of threw a hand backer at him.

The game would have been different.

We probably could have went up 30 but, like our intensity was low and and, um, sometimes that happens.

But we'd like to correct that.

And and every third quarter we want to come out, especially for the same way that we did in the first body.

Eric name.

You got to play with Tory a little bit tonight.

Just what was that, like getting to play with him?

I know obviously you might know him better than the other guys since you were both in the Western Conference in previous years, but just that was kind of his first run with with the main group this year.

Loved it, Um, a guy on defense that you can switch with and guard one through five.

Somebody who's a who's a really good, really good defender and offensively, I feel like he's underrated.

Hey, got some music buckets today.

Some some tough ones, too, but really, just trying to get him acclimated.

But he looked.

He looked like he did all right out there.

He looked like he was pretty funny.

I'm curious for you just watching Dante.

I know the big He's kind of like the fifth starter, right?

Like, he's gonna be that other guy that has toe pick up some of the scraps offensively with you guys.

What have you seen from him is like, as a playmaker and, you know, taking the right shots and kind of doing the right things offensively.

Um, honestly, I just felt like his value is priceless.

Hey, does kind of kind of like what you said.

The little things, um, rebounds, he defends, defends.

Great.

So and he can shoot, man.

Hey, can facilitate more than better than I think people think that he can, Um, but you know what?

The first group sometimes it gets hard because we have so many ball handlers.

But I actually playing with data go to Christos and Greece.

Hello, Drew.

Congratulations from the wind.

I would like to ask you Do you believe that the tonight we're starting the game with the right mindset.

And how worried about the second half of the game?

Uh, yeah.

I think in the first half way definitely came out with that intensity and kind of jumped up on it and really push the lead up.

But, um, the beginning of the second half, we didn't feel like our energy was low and there was a letdown.

So that's definitely something that we have toe that we have to fix.

And we can't have that, uh, with any team, if it's the Lakers or its Atlanta or Charlotte, whoever.

How important for you was toe return on the winning track?

Um, it's huge, really.

Just to get that just to get that field back?

Um, the feel of winning?

Um, you know, we had a tough couple games, a tough couple, teams that we played against, but, um, these are games that we feel way should win and and getting this win, no matter how it is, um, is a plus.

But, um, if we would have done it in the fashion that we felt that we could, it would have been even better.

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