Are you good?
The problem.
You guys, any common threads you see
from this three game winning streak?
Anything you guys have done
in each game? I
think defensively we're bringing
it for sure every every last.
Three nights we brought it defensively
and that's how we started off.
Like I don't know how many
points we got in transition,
but it was just deflections all night
and and pushing it to the other end.
And with all the speed and
talent we got I think.
Come in, you think it's hard to
guard us and and and you know,
if we're gonna make it up and down game,
I think that's how we want it.
Do you feel
like this team is built to be that
kind of defensive team with a long
range? I think we've got
a lot of good defenders,
and you know, we've been shooting
it pretty well too lately.
And if we can do that,
play defense and choose the
bottle was a 50% tonight from 3.
I mean every night is not going to be 50%,
but if we can if we can shoot
the ball at a high clip and and
and play defense the way we are.
Will be a hard team to be will
sneak up on a lot of people.
I think there was a 16 point third
quarter you had, but Portland cut
18 points because yeah,
it kind of helps you when you're.
Survivors, droughts I guess.
Yeah, those like those little Lowe's
we have sometimes it felt like we
couldn't buy a bucket but the defensive
end you know kept us right there.
You know out of a arms length they couldn't.
I don't think they cracked
us within like 12 points.
I don't think they cracked within
12 points so you know it kept his.
Gives some some some good distance from
him and then you know it just takes.
You know few good passes,
a few good shots and the
games cracked wide open again.
So I think if we can we can he playing
defensive like defense like this
and getting deflections and being
active and pushing in transition and
and and I think one thing we did
well too was just moving the ball.
I think DJ did a great job.
Derek did a great job,
Trey when he was in there and it just
makes the game easy for us, you know?
So I think I think is it's come down to,
you know, playing great defense,
transition and moving the ball.
Have you ever had the night
like you had tonight?
Don't play in the first half
and 18 in the second half.
Yeah, this happened a few times.
Yeah, I mean I don't know about
18 and second in the 4th but.
I've had some big games and not really
played much in the first or first half.
Stay in the mindset or even just stay
ready for those for those moments.
Really trying not to trip much
about much of anything you know.
Just take it as it comes and ride the wave,
but do what I do at the best of my ability.
So that's really my mindset.
And you feel like that's a way you
can really help because pop puts
you in there in a moment where
nobody was making anything right?
Like that's the way you can help kind of
get that lid off the basket a little bit.
Absolutely, you know, that's what it.
I've been pretty good at doing that.
My whole career is just getting hot.
You know, out of nowhere.
You know, and I can make shots, you know.
I'm 42 from my career, so it's a pretty
good chance the ball is going in.
From here you guys go on play.
The Warriors were kind of activity
and one of the best teams in the
league again early in your career.
That was the Spurs and warriors were coming.
They knocked us out the
playoffs my first two years.
Remember about those battles back then,
60 win teams going back and forth.
Their movement makes
them very hard to guard and
like their unselfishness.
You know guys like like Draymond
makes makes them so much better.
You know it just like not his not scoring,
just his like knowing what he does
well in in in bringing that to
the game and affecting the game
like defensively screens like just
finding ways to get stuff open.
Getting creative like you know he'll be
open and just find a way to get stuff open.
So you know that makes them pretty
hard to guard and then obviously
they have some of the best shooters
the best shooter ever played a game.
It's one of the best scores
I've ever played a
game, so it. It makes it difficult,
and then they've got a lot of young guys that
are playing very well, so you know,
but I think if we if we do it we we've
been doing the last few games and
we bring it to them. I think we'll
be in a good place.
Michigan, Michigan State.
I mean, I don't know if his Michigan
State or just how he's built there,
you know. But yeah, now he's a.
He's a great player so. Alright.