 couple of people talk about how much just you love to play and when you finally get to come back today's is it hard at all you got to wait as into the second quarter before you finally get back on the quarter you're able to be patient like that easily yeah yeah I knew I knew I was gonna be able to I was gonna play at some point and play a certain amount of minutes so it all worked out for the best and I'm excited I get to be out there my teammates again. Bruce Beck with NBC New York. Kevin did you feel like there was any transitional period just getting back out there or was it like riding a bike again? Yeah it's like riding a bike you get your your foot in right and you know you just get your rhythm going and I think my teammates did a great job of looking for me all game and I just wanted to you know resort back to that work that I put in just the shots that I take in practice and shoot around try to get to those as much as possible to grant game my rhythm and you know I started to get a little bit more creative as the game you know started progress so it was it was a good start hopefully I built on this game and keep going. Greg Logan with Newsday. How do you feel about the strategy for managing your minutes you know sitting out the first quarter and then winding up playing 20 out of 24 minutes in the second half and basically staying warm how does that work out for you do you think? I'll just deal with it and adapt to the situation. Coach asked me today if I wanted to start or come off the bench and I felt like it would be a bigger challenge for me to focus in and lock in if I came off the bench so I just wanted to see how that worked and if I were to shot bad I probably would have been pissed that I came off the bench but I was able to knock down some shots in but it was a it was a solid exercise for me to ease back into the swing of things. Christian Winfield with the New York Daily News. Hey what's going on Kevin welcome back. The Suns are what second in the West and I think they just beat the Bucks not too long ago and then also beat the Sixers do you look at this type of game as kind of a measuring stick for where you guys are and where you guys need to go or is it just another game? Just another game I think they look at us as a measuring stick too you know they're fresh on the scene as a elite team so you know this is pretty new to them you know so we want to gauge and you know take that physicality that they bring and that toughness and that quickness as they bring but that's all it was another another dead to office. Alex Schiffer with the Athletic. Hey Kevin obviously a 24 year 28 in the second half just what what do you think got going for you guys offensively it seemed like even though you were having shots with Blake going in the second half a few other guys just once you got once you started hitting them. I felt like the whole first half we were down like 12 shots like they had more shots than us the whole first half and I think we cut that down in the second half you know I might not turn the ball over and not taking quick shots you know so we you know early on they even if we made a shot they were pushing it out for the break and they got easy layups and three pointers because we're not focused so I think we just kept balling our hands made good shots made good reads and you know we were able to get back into it. Dana Jacobsen with the CBS News. Hi Kevin I'm going to take you away from today's game just a little bit curious about a program you guys have had going on all season with John Michelle Basquiat and the uniforms you've had the court what you knew about him maybe before the program or learned and then what you think of using a sports arena to introduce an artist like him to people. Yeah I mean he was a very impactful artist and a lot of you know had a lot of fans throughout his day and I think it's an honor for us to represent him and his family and where he comes from through our jerseys and on our court and you know a lot of guys say they want to they want to try white jersey next year the Basquiat jerseys so we you know it's a part of who we are and you know Biggie, Basquiat, Jay Z, those guys like that, artists like that really are in our DNA as a team and as a organization and as a city so it feels good to represent a guy like that. Had you known him before? Yeah for sure I mean obviously huge fans read you know newest story try to look for some of his arts hard to get but it's good that we can represent him in some way and have our own little art piece on our jerseys as well. Steve Lichtenstein with WFAN. Kevin first of all good luck at the Oscars tonight I want to ask about Lee Griffin and what you are seeing from him and how he's impacted the team. Well his IQ is through the roof he knows how to play the game of basketball on both levels I mean both sides of the floor and on all three levels on offense you know in the paint could knock down that floater in the midrange and could make threes now so we just need Blake to continue to be aggressive to score the basketball and make plays and tonight was one of those nights and he's getting comfortable each and every game. Last question Matt Brooks with Nuts Daily. I'm just curious about the pick and roll defense tonight it felt like you guys were switching a little bit more just to sort of take away those midrange shots for Chris Paul and Devin Booker just curious if that was the process and what you felt like that did for you guys. Yeah I mean we didn't you know when they come out CP loves to shoot you know when your bigs aren't a drop and off that pick and roll and that's that quick offense sometimes they get down 10 to 12 points CP would come up pick and roll and just pull up and they'll get them back into the game and I think we took some of that stuff away and made them dribble probably five or six more dribbles after he come off the pick and rolls now so the rhythm was all for him a little bit and they still great players and they made shots over top of us but we rather them try to shoot over top of us to get easy baskets in that pick and roll.