But even though you lost, it seemed like in the fourth quarter you guys were flying around diving on loose balls and, um, just playing really, really hard, considering all the adversity you guys they're going through here in the playoffs.

Um, how proud are you of your guys tonight?

Very, Probably.

They They played really, really hard and gave it everything they had.

And, um, I just ran into a better team tonight.

Toronto played an excellent game, made big shots every time they needed to.

We never could get over the hump every time we've fought back and kind of got it.

Teoh, 67 read.

Whatever it was, they made big shots.

So they outplayed us.

They deserved it.

And But I'm very proud of our effort and we just got a bounce back and hopefully get back here in here Friday night.

Hopefully get, get a little healthier and get some guys back.

But we'll see.

We'll see how that goes.

But main thing is, just got to play better step performance tonight.

One of the best you've ever seen stuff that stuff was incredible.

Stuff he does is he does things that honestly, I don't think anybody has ever done before.

The way he plays the game, the way he shoots it and the combination of his ball handling and shooting skills, it's incredible to watch.

He was amazing.

Second row on your right, Coach.

Trista Creek, USA Today.

You obviously want to air on the side of caution when it comes to injuries.

But was there any of the mentality of lose the battle when the war as it relates to sitting clay tonight?

Well, the whole point was to not risk.

Ah, bigger injury that would keep him out of the rest of the series.

So, um, that was the decision we made, and I feel very comfortable with it.

I never would have forgiven myself if if I played him tonight and and he had gotten hurt.

So you live with the decision.

You make a wise decision, the wisest when you can.

Then you live with it and you move forward.

So the good thing is, Clay, it has done well the last two days.

Now he's got another couple of days to heal.

Hopefully, he'll be out there Friday.

Tim, over here.

Keep him.

Cal calm the athletic, the decision on quite that it really come down the last minute or had basically been made maybe even an hour or so or maybe even earlier, not to play him.

Um, that's, you know, internal business.

Jared on the right side, Jared Greenberg.

And be a TV based on how many guys you do have out whether it be in the game tonight or as you start to look forward to Friday.

Were you at all concerned about minutes and usage of Steph and DaMarcus and some of those guys?

Uh, yeah.

Um, you know, it's one of the reasons we, you know, didn't have Andre on the floor at the end of the game.

You know, for those last five minutes, he was up over 30 minutes, and you know, this is the only These are the only two games in the series where there's just one day off.

So we tried to watch Sean Livingston's minutes and, uh, you know, the markets had had something going on late in the game.

He left the bench to get checked out.

And so, you know, we the guys we pushed were dreamin and stuff, but they're there in the primes of their lives, so they're capable of handling them.

You I think he's fine.

And I think he just He went to the locker room with about maybe 34 minutes left to get checked out.

I think he's fine.

We're from the center.

Coach.

Rick Total 95 7 a game in sports byline when you were trying to think of where you're gonna get these points tonight without Katie and without Clay, if you had known that stuff was going to go for 47 Draymond for 17.

17 did you think maybe that would be enough?

I just knew we were going to score 109 points because that's all we're gonna do the rest of this series.

Um so if we're gonna keep scoring 100 9 we got to keep them to 108 and that's the biggest thing.

They scored 100 and 23 points scored, shot 52%.

So, um, it was more about their play.

Their execution Offensively, they're shot making our offense could have been better.

Obviously, we didn't shoot it.

Great, but, um, give them credit.

They outplayed us.

Our Joanna from Brazil.

Typical result was about to ask you about the 190 points that you score pretty much in all the games in every games.

Did you see this as a coincidence that he chose?

What does it show to you that is more like you want with this score and you lost with the same score?

So it's more about like stopping the Raptors.

Yes, defense defense wins in the playoffs, especially in the finals.

So we got to play better defense, Dan on the right side.

Coach Dan Devine from the ringer you mentioned there, Right over here.

You mentioned you know, their execution on offense being a real problem for you, especially early.

Kyle Lowry seems to be a real bellwether for that.

You know, you've helped Sort of held him down in the first couple of games.

Breaks loose tonight.

What did you see from him?

That sort of as he what kind of problems that he give you tonight.

I think I'll set a tone, played a great game for them and set a really good tone early, Made some shots, controlled the game.

And, uh so he was.

He was a huge factor for them Played a played a fantastic game.

Art Last question Second, Steve Arts Pander the maven.

Everyone assumes you missed clase points, but wasn't his defense is important.

And perhaps that's why they shot so well.

Well, yeah, I mean, plays one of our best offenders, so we missed his defense.

But again, that doesn't matter.

You know, guys, guys hurt, doesn't play.

Then you play the next guy.

And, uh, as I said, I'm very, very proud of the way our guys competed and played.

We didn't play well enough and we ran into a team that played an excellent game.

So long.

Siri's got a bounce back.

We'll move on from here.

Thanks.