 Steve going into tonight's game we talked about it being important to build on that defense getting back to your habits and getting to your Good spots. How would you just describe the defensive effort in the mindset of the team tonight? It was a disaster. I mean, how do you? How else did you say it? I mean, I didn't see the will didn't see the desire Or the connectivity necessary to get stops and get rebounds Following up on that. I mean, you're usually in here two questions very quickly What was the message that you were imparting to the team after that was it? You know, we just got to make a bigger commitment. It's got to mean more and we got to care more and Obviously you've talked repeatedly about You know making sure that the team is staying together and not pulling away from the game plan defensively I mean, are you worried that somehow your message is just simply not getting through? I know you're repeating it. Are you concerned that they're not hearing it? No, they're hearing it I mean, they're they're arguing with each other about missing coverages and the lack communication out there so, you know, just too many errors too many errors on top of lack of effort at times and You know, sometimes you just it's not even about schemes. It's about fighting, you know, whether it's You know any defense if you let a guy run in and grab an offensive rebound Unopposed I mean, it's it's hard to get stops. You know, they're just gonna get two or three chances at the basket Coach, so where do you guys go from here? We have to look deep deep inside ourselves and what we want to do what do we want to accomplish, you know, do we want to Give up on this Because it's been difficult early or do we want to stay the course and start to build something? you know, we've had a lot a lot of really good days here early in the season and You know when we've lost a couple games and it's it's shook our mentality shook our mentality hard and you know We're not seeing the same competitive spirit and same purpose and if we don't clean that up It's it's it's not gonna get better. That's the only way to get out of out of difficult positions is to have character in competitive spirit Steve you talked about the lack of will I mean Indiana came in to think only 1011 guys no miles ton Would you think some of that maybe was from overlooking them or does that come from somewhere else? That's a good question. I mean anyway slice it, you know when you're one and four you got an opportunity to win a basketball game Offensively, there's not really too many problems. You know, I think we shot 36 from three But you know it's a night where we had a ton of good looks could have been up You know it could have been up 15 or more at the half We gave them 20 points in the last four minutes 19 points last four minutes of the half Just took our foot off the gas and and then their confidence was high Obviously they shot it exceptionally well, but you know, there's still got to be a point where you say enough's enough You know if you can make threes, but we're gonna make it hard on you. We're not gonna give you any rebounds We're not gonna get lose our matchups and transitions so that you're You know wide open lining it up when you've already made 23s in a game Steve you talked about the belief and the will you're in there every day with them Do you get the sense that they want to dig down that deep right now? You know like I said there's been so many days where we've challenged them and they've responded You know what it was the Miami game in the preseason You know it was the Pelicans game. We came back against Toronto and then you know We had a really good half in Memphis and you know when things don't go our way. We haven't had enough kind of Resilience to fight through and that's that's what we're seeking right now Is some resilience some character and being able to continue to find a way to play for each other Do the little things selfless acts that it takes every day to try to get possessions in your favor and to get stops Get rebounds help your teammates play together offensively. You know, we've obviously seen tons of glimpses, but not enough Sustainability and you know without that sustainability of effort without will you know, it's it's not going to turn So we got to make some decisions. I know you got to watch the tape You were standing out there watching it. Why do you think tonight the effort was so poor? Well, it's I mean we're getting it's it's you know, it's interesting. I mean like tonight a lot of their threes were one-on-one threes Same in in Memphis, you know, it's happened to us a little bit so ability to guard the basketball one-on-one to sort of The effort it's not always effort physically it's the effort mentally to make sure we're clean on our calls taking it for granted not talking to one another having causing confusion and And guys are getting too many good looks and and as you can see what happens when they get confidence their lights out so Yeah, we dug ourselves too big a hole and we have to really think hard about how committed we are to doing this