 No, I thought we had you know ample opportunities. We were back in the game the whole second half We had a ton of good looks at the end of the game probably didn't execute as well as we'd like. We still got good looks You know, we didn't make Didn't make any of them it felt like but just one of those nights where maybe we didn't execute well enough Didn't have enough poise but plenty of stuff we can work on and and get better at Alex Schifrin with the athletic Hey Steve, would you make it your guys defense especially given as you said even though you weren't hitting shots You're still able to stay in the game for most of the first half despite that. Yeah, we were pretty solid again I mean just three games now where I thought our defensive effort was good You know, it's it's it's interesting that we we lose a game because of our offense, but uh You know, it's just tough game. We just couldn't find a rhythm You know a great opportunity for us to learn and grow from this And the defense was solid though, but we got to clean it up both ends of the floor, but particularly offense And if I could just follow up it looked like Bruce was holding his groin or his hip late in the game. Is he all right? Yeah, I think he's fine Malika Andrews with ESPN I'm wondering if you saw any specific adjustments from the bus that you thought allowed them to Play differently or if it was more effort-based in your estimation Yeah, I mean look there just fatigue You know, I guess you could say these are two elite offensive teams that played in the 80s, so You know, they had a better start than us You know, I felt like they got a better quality of shots at times than we did You know, but I mean it could have gone either way, you know, we had we we were really cold at the end of the game And you know, we'll pick it apart. We'll look at it. We'll try to execute better Look at ways that we can learn from this game and move forward. I mean You know, it's a tough tough playoff game where neither team was really shooting the ball well creating good opportunities and You know, it was it was someone was gonna win ugly and it's them tonight Brian Lewis with the New York Post You talked about looking at the execution down the stretch Is it fair to say that you did actually get the looks that you wanted and just didn't hit them? And if that's the case with that legs Yeah, I mean You can always go back and look at a game and be like You know, we wouldn't like this player to shoot or whatever it may be, you know But in the moment, I thought we still were able to create some good opportunities very makeable opportunities You know, you look at it's only one or two buckets in the last three or four minutes that we needed to fall They just didn't we I thought plenty of opportunities now, you know What I want Kevin or Kai shooting every single ball, of course, but that's just not always the way it works out But we can learn from it. We can grow we got good looks at times that just didn't go in for us and You know as a uncharacteristic knight in that respect But also a knight with that is a new experience for us you know on the road It gets in the lead team and hostile environment and it was very physical game and you know at times I thought we You know, maybe you just slow down a little bit have a little bit more poise and get to our spots Greg Logan with news day I Think it shows me defended well You know, we we can always improve in the defensive end, but it was a really solid game We gave ourselves a chance because of our defense and our offense just couldn't keep up tonight We you know, we're basically a bucket or two short and you know We'll have to clean up the offense, but the defense was pretty solid. It's gonna have to continue to be solid Rachel Nichols with ESPN Yes, Steve I've had some coaches in the past say that their teams learn more from losses than from wins Especially when the team is a bit new to each other You guys I guess fall into that category just with all the injuries this year Have you found that with this team? And if so, what do you think today kind of taught everyone to do for the next game in the series? Yeah, I definitely think it's it's much easier to learn from losses, you know, I think wins sometimes you can sweep things out of the rug You know, I think we just got a look at You know the way we executed, you know throughout the game I thought that um, you know, we we didn't make shots We had some looks that we just didn't make that we normally make but I thought our execution could have been better throughout So great experience for our guys. They're you know, it's like we said a new group. They're still learning They're still figuring things out together. And so it was a great experience for us. Even if it was a painful one Thank you Last question in begli with SNY Steve the the two possessions late where Bruce Brown ends up with the shot You know, do you tell the group just to play free in that scenario and get the best look you can or do you tell them? Hey, let's look for Kevin or Kyrie Well, we all know that we won Kevin and Ky to shoot the ball But if they don't get free, you know, they got to make the right play. So we made the right play You know, you get some credit to the bucks and Um, you know, still we got some makeable looks We can get better at executing we can get better at handling those moments And it was a great test for us tonight and I think it was a lot for us to learn from