 the bench. Here's Nick, Nick. You got to ask me and the other day it was Bradley and Russ. Um, I got to ask tonight, what was it like, uh, defending CJ and Dane? CJ. Um, actually, Portland was the first game I played last year. So I remember defending him. So I just use what I knew from garden last year and Dame. She got a slide slide your feet and be ready for whatever. Honestly, you know, he got a lot. He has a lot of different stuff in his bag. Get down here. But just staying sound defensively stand down on pump fakes and stick it to my principles and know the outcome will be on my side most of time. No one you were gonna be shorthanded as a group. Once again, you know, what does it say about collectively? How you guys were able to put together a performance like this and beat them in their own building? Yeah, this is a huge, huge win. Like said, we're shorthanded and we knew we had to come out and as a team, just be be together and defensively. That's where where it all started for us. We're gonna score points. They they knocked down a lot of shots and Kenner was a dog and rebounds today. But no, we got the job done. We got to win at end the day. And it's a huge win. Greg Logan, Newsday. Nick from from the end of the third quarter into the fourth quarter, you guys had a 29, 21, nine run to take control. You had 10 points of that. Was there something in particular that you're looking for? Was it just chemistry with Harden? And and how do you feel you're adapting to this late game role that that you've seen in the last couple games? Yeah, I would say that it's more so just chemistry with hard. He's fine to me. I'm running a floor hard. And the game is pretty easy offensively. I don't have to do much. Honestly. So just me being more comfortable out there and defensively know that speaks for itself. I'm I'm able to switch one through five as you see. And that's just my game. And I look forward to continuing to just polish everything and get better. Like Andrews ESPN. Nick earlier this season, Deandre Jordan was talking about how he takes it on himself individually to maybe change the defensive reputation that this team has, which is that it is wanting on the defensive end. I'm wondering how much you identify with that that you want to be a person that helps to change that thought that this isn't a defensively built team. Yeah, I feel the same way. You know, a lot of a lot of teams and people will say that that's a weak spot of our team. But no, when I come in, I just try to be get a quarterback of the defense, be as vocal as I can be switch guard everybody one through five. And we scramble, we're moving around. And I think that it creates a lot of problems for the opposing teams night in and night out.