 First of all, we saw you kind of pass some ball with Lonnie doing some drills. Once a point guard, always a point guard? You just love being in the gym, Evan. I think you get a chance to, I don't know, get on the floor and be with these guys. I envy what they do for a living, for sure. I mean, you live there too, so it's kind of fun to enjoy, not live through them, but kind of get the juices flowing for you a little bit too. Yeah, it's just a great space to be in when you're in the gym, in between games, get to be on the floor with guys, getting better, and work on your craft. Not a lot of things can replace that, man. Are we going to come in and see you running? No, no, no, I'm smarter than that, Joe. I'll get smarter as I get older, huh? Dearon confirmed he's going to be back tomorrow. Where are your expectations for him? Yeah, we'll just see what his minutes look like. Overall, he'll be on a minor restriction also with the rest of the guys, but it'll be good to have another big body available to play tomorrow. What do you see, like, you know, obviously he's going to be on a minstriction tomorrow, but as we move forward, how do you see the chemistry between like him and Truder and that second unit? Yeah, it's interesting just because you saw what Dennis can do from the point guard position, whether he was the connection he had with Nick, which will need to grow that also. But, you know, Dearon gives us the ability to be in different coverages as well, so we'll see how that fits. So we got a little bit of makeup ground as far as figuring out both on both ends of the floor. Any updates on Cam Johnson? Cam Johnson, not available tomorrow. He's doing stay ready today. We'll see with that, how he comes out of that tomorrow and just move on from there. But positive steps that he is doing stay ready today. You guys just have him doing the slight, slight follow and follow stuff? Yeah, so which is good. Just get a chance to be around other bodies and then see how his body responds tomorrow. Is that a good sign for the break day as it approaches up? You know, Dearon's healthy, Cam is getting back. Is that a good sign that you guys are starting to get a little close to the hole? Yeah, that's a player thing. That's a player thing. All the players get healthy right before all-star break. It'll be things so they can have their all-star break. No, but for us to get healthy is the most vital thing for us going forward. And it gives us a chance to figure out our combinations, who's going to play, rotations, to use our depth and to figure out on both ends of the floor what's beneficial. And so it is a good sign, Evan, that we're getting healthy going into the break. And then with like 30 games left now, I think in the season, you guys have that R&D camp time. Just talk about like, you know, guys can't mess around now. Do you sense the guys are even more locked in knowing that the break is coming in? Time is getting short? Yeah, I hope so. Historically, games pre- and post-break, you've been able to make up some ground, whether a team is not focused, not ready to play, thinking about the break too early or still in the break after you're done with the break. So you see that on both sides. So it's definitely something I've stressed to the group. How are we going to approach these 30 games and with a relentless effort and ability to focus? Against San Antonio, how quickly were you to adjust from player combinations that you wanted to see going into the game versus sticking with what was working? I'm a pretty adjustable guy, Luke, is I think going into the game, we definitely have scripted one of the best combos out there. But I think it's always vital to feel the pulse of the game, whether there was a stretch. I think I ran Cam Thomas in the third for like 11 minutes, whether it was an early sub with Jay Wilf, since Nick had two fouls and I was going to have to bring him back with those positions. So those things happen in the course of the game that you got to adjust to. And how much was the Dennis backcourt a part of that going in and how much of it was you just realizing that they were really having a positive impact? That was me wanting to see that. So I subbed those two at the same time to come into the game to get a sense of can they in fact play both together, what the rhythm felt like, who was going to bring it up, can they both defend bigger than their positions and so all those things I did want to see. How do you think having similar-ish guys, similar skills at least, interior passing, pain pressure, ball pressure, how do you think those not just coexist but can they like compound and produce like some greater than the whole? We hope so and that is where we're hoping to make some money is interesting as we get hold it was 240 minutes in that game that you got to divvy up between guys and maximizing that it's going to be the test for this group is some nights you might play 12 minutes, some nights you could play 22 minutes, the different combination and the realization we got to win every single game that would be the mindset going into that game. How much of a challenge is closing out the first half against a team like that with back-to-back games? Yeah it's interesting just having the same team that you're going to play twice. I think overall it's just a heck of a challenge for us. They'll make you focus or you'll pay for it on both ends of the floor. They're just so good at manipulating matchups and using their skill set to get shots that they want and then they figured out how to cover for each other on the defensive in the floor. Guards that are big and strong and use that ability to get you where they want to. So this is a game of want and purpose for sure. Given how well Dennis looks barely getting to see anybody on his first game, how much was it to see him in practice kind of getting that chemistry today a little bit more? Yeah that's the goal. These guys got a feel and sense because he just has different movements than a previous pick and roll. Could look different than a week ago than it does with Dennis. And getting our bigs to feel that you got to go through practice with that a little bit. You just take the two passes. He threw a bounce pass to Nick that Nick has to be ready for and have vision with that to catch it. And then the pocket pass he threw to Dorian also the ability to read that sense with the weak side looks like like you got to practice and have some days together to get that real feel. And when's the last time you had a point guard that wears a beanie throughout practice? You know what man? It's crazy. I love it. It's amazing how I tell people when I came into the league, Coach Sloan, you couldn't enter over there from the locker room if your shirt tail wasn't tucked in, if your shoes wasn't tied. Like don't even come on the court. And now you can have your jewelry on, you can have your do rag on, you can have your beanie on. This come hoop CJ. That's it. That's where we come from, man. Amazing. Coach Sloan would have kicked me out. I was going to ask you about that one trending sequence where he had a rotation at the rim and he ran the floor and dished it off to Ben who got fouled. Is that the type of stuff he needs to do more coexist with other ball handlers to be in the rotation? Yeah, it's interesting. You know, his just becomes, again, it's a matter of minutes and then the combinations that you can have out there on the floor form. You see that he's probably most effective when he has the basketball in his hand so he can play DHO, he can run keeps. We ran away from him, which he kept and turned and turned the corner. So the combinations around him have to be like on point for him to be maximized. And that's always going to be the challenge. High IQ guy. But again, the shooting combinations and the other guys around him becomes essential. And then just we asked Nick after the game about pick and roll kind of synergy with Schroeder and how good it looked. Do you think that just having two guys that know how to play that can be a little overstated or does that really need time guarding a big? No, I think he'll get a good hold of it, plan with Dennis Moore and understanding that there's some things that he probably didn't get in the pass like that pocket pass, he wouldn't have got that. It wouldn't have been on time on target at his hip ready for him to finish. So he'll be looking for that now. And then we'll do some breakdowns like we did today with those two and try to force that synergy quicker than later. But when bigs know they're going to get the basketball, they'll roll, they'll be ready to catch it. All right guys, thank you. All right guys, thank you.