 tonight. Bruce Brown entered the starting lineup for Brooklyn and Steve Nash. Out of the first six games this season he played 13 minutes, had four DNPs. Tonight he plays 23 minutes, scores six points, has six rebounds and five assists. He filled it up, played great defense and moments ago he met the media as well. Bruce, what was your reaction and how did you find out that you would be in place in the starting lineup tonight? I found out right when we were doing the line-ups pregame going through their personnel. I just started smiling and I knew I was ready. My teammates knew I was ready so I just got to go out there and bring energy and I'll do well. Solid performance, can you expand on that? What were you trying to bring the team and with your play tonight? Just energy man. I think we were playing a little slow out there and now Kev's not here so that's another score down so just bring energy, push the ball, have some pace and just do a little bit of everything. Brian Lewis, New York Post. You consider how many games you had started through your first two years? I'm just curious how difficult was that for you? You're trying to stay ready but you're not getting your opportunity. Yeah it was definitely difficult because I just said I started most of my career but it was adjustment. I was ready for it. Stay ready, group kept me ready. We worked hard. Those guys, we played ones, five on five. We knew our time was going to come and I just want to go out there and play with energy and do well. Christian Winfield, New York Daily News. Hey Bruce, I've got two here for you. One, do you cherish those matchups against like all-star guards, especially a guy like Don if I let you pick them up basically the full length of the court and you're kind of his primary matchup defensively. Just what do those types of matchups mean to you? And secondly, can you just talk about what it's like playing with Kyrie? It looked like you two guys were kind of on the same page all night long. I definitely look forward to those matchups. That's what I'm here for. So I leave the scoring to Kyrie and everybody else who scored a ball. I'm here to play defense and make the hustle plays. I'm kind of pissed I didn't have a steal today. I think I need to start. I need to get more, more steals to help us out on the defensive end. But Ky, man, I just push the ball, try to find him, get him the ball. He's going to score, man. Any way possible. So just try to get him the ball. He was hot. Yeah, that's really it. Blake Andrews, ESPN. Hey, so Steve told us that you guys hadn't spent any time together as a group with this particular lineup heading into tonight. You wouldn't practice together any of that. So was there a moment as you were smiling that you looked around and said, huh, we're just going to have to, it's trial by fire here? Just go out and play. We all know how to play basketball, man. So we just go out there, play hard, give energy. We know our plays. We know our personnel. We know how each other plays from practice and training camp. So just go out there, play energy, push the ball. And then Kyrie just went crazy today and carried us there. So they carried us and J A to Tom Dowd, Brooklyn Nets dot com. Hey, Bruce, you talked about coming out with some energy and with this new group. Did you guys just did you feel like you really had them on the heels from the beginning? Was that kind of a focus just to really aggressive from the start? Yeah, definitely just bounce back. We lost a few games. So we just want to bounce back, get out there, have fun. DJ said that in the huddle before the game, have fun and play with energy. And we did that tonight.