No doubt just talking about the locker room, All right?

Like, I think it's killing Johnson.

Somebody sing with their white.

That was terrible.

Looking like he's about to reach out and found just a little quick on on the read.

I got stuck on the same.

We're in the same place twice and tried to get very similar.

Look, I try to take a different route.

Uh, really was kind under the pressure of trying to get the ball in about four or five seconds and kind of one of the bang bang plays that if it works, it's amazing.

It's a freedom line, maybe title game with three free throws.

Or at least make sure you get the foul gets the line extend again.

They just didn't work out that way so well by stuff.

You guys air 12 and 12, and you should have more wins in that column.

There was some close games.

What are how do you manage your frustration and what exactly are you frustrated with?

Losing sucks.

We all know that no matter what the the reason is and you can kind of nitpick each game and see all No turnovers or fouls are mhm.

Uh huh.

The offensive rebounds or whatever the case is on a nightly basis, whatever it is, at least the law.

So, uh, you know, we don't wanna be in a situation where we get usedto thio losing.

Feeling that's not who we are is not what we're about playing well enough, you know, as a plate to be in most games on down the stretch, uh, just have never get it done for a very myriad of reasons.

So it is frustrating.

Um, obviously no secret about that.

You know, all that walking off the court win tonight was just kind of one of those weird nights were back and forth.

We had a pretty good momentum going into the fourth, and they made a couple more plays down the stretch.

So tough, Tough night.

He was just in here talking about, you know, your minute total and they're gonna keep it steady around, you know, 34 35 36 ish.

Are you okay with that?

I mean, I'm particularly on nights, um, like, tonight Where or maybe pushing it in the fourth could get you in.

Yes, The topic comes up a lot.

We had pre season, you know, every game that is closed, like 23 minutes here.

Five minutes there.

Of course.

I wanna play many minutes.

It's possible.

Of course.

I'm gonna keep, uh, suddenly like putting, you know, let them know how I feel based on the night tonight basis.

But we gotta be in a position where we do things about 48 minutes that, you know, that plan of attack works more nice.

And not obviously if we have to make certain raising decisions.

Uh, period, kind of make those calls, but can't be in a situation that, you know, the night, the conversation, this every two games.

So we obviously know that, but sorry for ourselves.

In position with eventually turned the corner where we build moment momentum.

How are you feeling on a broader note?

So you tweak your ankle early.

The minutes are what is the balance this season, though, of, you know, not necessarily trying to burn out when you guys don't have clay, but obviously, I mean, you wanna win this much as possible?

I mean, We shouldn't have played, like 40 plus minutes to win.

We gotta do things.

Yeah, I meant about Game two to put ourselves in position.

We obviously wanna win.

Players want to win street.

We have to, you know, make those adjustments as a group in the first six minutes of fourth quarter, tonight was tough.

We were up for when, you know, uh, went down, though, that they just made a small run and find a way, you know, be able possession data on the stretch.

So there was just like I said, it's a nightly conversation of what we need to focus on what we needed.

Better to win.

Eventually.

We just got extra gonna be a team that was supposed to You have done this this this year already, but what are the benefits or negatives to playing a team on?

Back to back nights are two consecutive times.

I mean, it's helped us twice earlier this season.

Uh, I think at home, you know, played against some good teams.

We lost the first came back, made adjustments on the second one.

Uh, you know, we're gonna have to be that team tomorrow night.

Uh, find a way to get away and get home with on a good note.

So it just allows you to kind of focus is that many playoff type situation where win or lose, you gotta make adjustments or prepared for adjustments that the other team's gonna make?

And really, the second game is mostly execution.

Yeah, team excuse better usually wins.

So we gotta be that team.

What?

What?

What leads to just this kind of snowball effect of turnovers tonight?

20 of them.

Are you subconsciously thinking, uh, I don't want to turn the ball over?

Or is it just something that happens in the course of the game?

And what leads Thio tending up on with the night with 20 turnovers?

I mean, it just depends.

Tonight was we're tryingto we had really great attention across the board, were playing pretty fast.

You know, San Antonio was trying to be physical and trying to play passing lanes and all that type of stuff, you know, mostly, it's just either making a read that's just not there or trying toe make a decision for somebody else and where they should cut or not.

Sometimes you just make the right pass and you just don't execute.

You know it's basketball.

Those nights second tend to happen.

Yeah, ones that are tough is when you give a live ball turnovers and they're coming down.

Given these layup or it turns into a three on the other end.

Those are the tough ones we had.

You know, my memory like four or $5.

So those itself, especially on the road when Yeah, Stephan, there's been times when you lobby Steve a little bit more.

Um, have you given up on lobbying him, or do you think you'll be lobbying him down the road at all this season?

We Once again, it is.

That's not the conversation.

Every night we know that there's certain situations that you could press the issue a little bit and I'm always again ready to go.

Bye.

Good teams find a way states that game for and execute on a nightly basis.

So you're not in that and that's we're not there.

So that's Ah, I mean, I'm basically trying to say is I don't We're not talking about that, E No, I'm not gonna I'm gonna play.

Everyone's gonna play.

Everybody is getting familiar with their rotations.

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