 this is the first time you DJ and Chris Paul were on the floor at the same time or have been in the building at the same time together since you guys were teammates, what's it like to be on the floor with all three of them again? You know it's great, we had a lot of great years, you know the ups and downs obviously were there but you know whenever you spend that much time and you go through that many like battles with somebody you know it's special so you know it's great being teammates with the Andre again and you know it's it's always fun to compete. Will you get Andrews with ESPN? Good Blake, defensively the numbers over the last couple of weeks show you guys improving, show you guys on this uptick but I'm wondering if you're when you're out there do you feel it is it a tangible difference? Yeah I think so I think we have stretches you know there were stretches in the first half today where I didn't really didn't we didn't really feel it but we got it together you know we've been able to find it and that's the that's the most important thing for the most part we've even if we haven't you know started the game that way or we have a stretch where we don't play well defensively excuse me we find it along the way and that's the that's the most important thing. Greg Lovind with Newsday. Blake you guys have a league best 20 and 6 record against the Western Conference so when you have a game like this and KD is back can you just describe the level of confidence that you guys can take from a game like this against that team? I mean Phoenix is a great team you know they've they obviously you know I've played really really well this season so you know right now especially this point of the season it's about working on us you know we haven't all been on the floor together you know and we're coming down the stretch here we really need to tighten things up so you know it's great to get a win great to get it going against the Western Conference team but it's more about how we do it and the things that we execute on. Alex Shipper with The Athletic. I got two for you as well just given Kyrie's poor shooting performance on Friday against Boas I mean would you make if his hot start I think it was 16 of his first 20 of you guys first 20 points he had and he wasn't really missing for a while. Yeah he was unbelievable I mean he's a I mean even when he's not hitting shots you know he has so much he affects the game so much just because of the attention he draws but you know when he's like that tonight you kind of just give him the ball and let him do his thing and that's a luxury to have you know is one of our top three guys you know just him being able to go get a bucket it's huge so he was great tonight but even when he's not when the shots not falling the same I mean they still think he's great. And just in the first quarter first half I mean you guys they were up by maybe 10 12 with you guys where do you think you guys were getting the most trouble from them in the first half before that one for half I thought we we you know we get up some second chance points we also turn the ball over and you know missing some shots so I think they had 12 more shots at halftime so anytime you know that's one more shots and we were down to so anytime you can limit those those extra shots those unnecessary shots you know just by taking care of the ball you get back and get to set your defense I thought in the half court we did a pretty good job transition they killed us and you know second chance points I thought in the first half they had they had the advantage so we cut down on those and very much