 Coach down 22. What did you see from that group with Alize claxson TLC Bruce and Landry just activity hustle. You know they worked for each other both ends of the floor scraps and they were able to kind of recover the momentum and play really well. Did you consider at all. Tyree at some point given how close the game got down the stretch a little bit a little bit you know what. I thought about it but really you know we you know I didn't want to take the group out there was doing so well they put their starters back in. I think I wanted to reward those guys for playing as well as they did. Kyrie did it was amazing for us tonight but you know he also is that a few days off. I didn't want to put him back in and risk getting sort of returned to play injury so overall you know I'm just proud of the way they guys played and they're happy that we kept him out of just kept everyone healthy throughout the game. Alex Schiffer the athletic. Hey Steve what do you think of the job you guys did on the beach. You know he almost had 40 but in the first day of it seems like he was really working for his shots. Yeah I mean it's a testament to how good a player is. I thought we were doing a pretty good job and you look up and he's got 30 in like 22 minutes so I thought DJ was really good did a really good job stuck to the game plan. That's a good one-on-one possessions with them and also stuck to our game plan also but that's a testament that's why he's an ADP candidate. Malika Andrews ESPN. Steve I know there are no moral victories but when you're watching and watching the way that the guys who are maybe usually closing or usually the ones in the spotlight in the moment cheer on the guys who are not. Does it feel anywhere close to if there were moral victories what that would be. Yeah. I think what you're saying is true though we feel we feel good about the way we played tonight we played hard we played together you can tell our group fought for each other you can see the guys on the bench cheering for that bench squad that was in there in the second half. This shows that our connectivity and our growth is a group and these guys care about each other and that's really important so we're going to lose you know that's that's something that we don't want to ever be in doubt. And so to see that tonight in a performance tough loss made us all feel really proud of the group. Christian Winfield New York Daily News. Hey coach how does DJ as a lob threat open up things for the rest of the offense. Well it does it puts the center if they want to play in a drop in a difficult position. The center's got to contain the ball and theoretically defend the lob so I mean it is a threat over the defense and behind so you've seen it this year where him and Nick have been able to get behind the defense the lobs and it is a big threat for us. David Chinolato. Hey coach. I'm curious about what you're what you're most proud of out of your group. From this game considering all the absence is you you guys have. Yeah I mean I think the connectivity and the fighting spirit you know they came out tried to win the game. I thought they played pretty well in the first half against an excellent team. Second half the game got away from us a little bit but we didn't give up scraps and that connectivity and that fighting spirit. You know those are non negotiables. It's hard. The season with so many games and so many things thrown at us to continually dig deep and find that but our group did it again tonight. We didn't get the win but I thought the performance was solid. Last question Alex Schiffer. Steve you kind of just touching this a little bit but I mean you guys had a back to back you weren't expecting and as you said you were within striking distance the whole game it just couldn't close again. How much do you think maybe fatigue or unexpected fatigue maybe caught up with you guys there or was it just you weren't able to get stopped. So the shots you wanted there. Yeah you know they're really good team and they played well. You know they they made they made threes tonight. So they had a pretty well rounded performance and they got separation and that's to be expected when we're short handed we're not as deep as we normally are with playmakers. So overall you know I thought the guys were great to find a way to get back in the game. I had a couple chances to cut it to three almost and four or three or four and you know just proud of the fight. You know you're not going to win them all but if you play like that you're going to improve all the time and give ourselves a chance to get better.