Even Coach said, You know that that anyone who doubted this team's mental toughness and sort of stability was going up going in the wrong place.

And and tonight you lose.

Tyler or Coach said 17 seconds before his pregame meeting is when he found out.

What does it say about this team through all the adversity Here you are back.

Four game winning streak.

What it does start to this road trip and maybe finding your way finally, while also finding the victory.

Man, I think it's It's the norm now, guys.

Missing games, It Z Not a good thing, obviously, but like always, so we still expected to win.

We've got guys that are capable of doing what other guys are doing, whatever they're out.

So that's the best thing about this team.

Uh, we're just gaining more and more confident.

We know we're capable of.

We know what we gotta do.

So moving forward, keep this thing wrong.

The triple double was there something you were aware of?

And is there a satisfaction in the stat of a triple double?

Just because it shows you did a lot of everything?

No, not really.

I'm all about a win.

Um, that's how I really care about I'm happy for Mats.

You've got a hell of the game.

Um, kid is always in the gym working tries Thio do right by everybody and there.

And I would say he had just as much to do with us winning his idea.

And the third quarter, you guys talk about you gotta hang your head on defense.

You know, you load it up with some stats there, but you held them to 10 points in the third quarter.

Does that show who you are?

Is that sort of a nice Touchstone to say, Hey, we can do this now?

Let's do it again.

Thank you.

I don't think it shows who we are.

I think it shows what we're capable of who could become, But we gotta do it more often.

And given they missed a lot of shots that they normally make, you can't say that We just got to stop every single time.

But they missed some shots and we capitalized on it.

Eso it looked really good.

Next we have will Mansoa.

You may want to follow up on what you said about Max.

Max said after the game a couple different times, Jimmy in particular, all the confidence in me.

But you in particular says to me, Hey, shoot the ball when you get the ball.

He's a young guy who hasn't played much.

I know it's one thing to say you have confidence, but how do you have that confidence in the young guy like that?

Because I see him shoot the ball.

When nobody's looking like the amount of reps that he puts in, I want you toe, do what you're comfortable doing.

Uh, obviously turned the corner and jammed it on John Wall.

But, um, that's what he does is shoot the ball.

I've seen him do it every single day.

Carrie, somebody's in front of you.

If I pass you that bad, baby van passes, you could get your shot off.

Get your shot off because that's what you do.

That your role on this team.

And he's really good at next we have Nick would wsvn Channel seven.

Hey, Jimmy, how important was it for you guys to start off the seven game road trip with a win?

No matter.

You know, if you guys want to call it ugly or in the mud.

Just how important was it to get that win to start off the seven game trip?

I mean, every game is important.

Every game is must win.

It doesn't always go like that, but yeah, we wanna win.

We want to keep this street going.

We just gotta take it a day at a time.

Now, we're moving on to our day tomorrow.

Nothing we got.

You talk to that.

So for right now, you know, enjoy this one till midnight.

Wake up and get the work tomorrow.

Next up, we have Zach Allen with ESPN Radio Houston.

Hey, Jimmy.

Great win tonight.

Great triple double, by the way.

But how does it feel?

Even though tallyho didn't play tonight, how does it feel to be surrounded?

Guys like Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson.

And I'm Max, try shooters like that.

Yeah, You basically just named all the white guys on our team, which I love you for that.

But we got some good players, man.

I'm telling Tyler, um, he could really put the ball in the basket, get everybody else involved.

Duncan, We all know where he can do what he did last in the playoffs.

last year as a whole, and Max is a surprise people.

But he's not surprising us.

Um, I love playing with those guys, obviously, is a dam there like an automatic assists, But I love the fact that they want to do right by everybody.

They compete, they play hard as hell, and they just wanna They just wanna win, just like I do.

I'm next.

We have Barry Jackson, Jimmy, Five straight games of at least nine assists.

10 tonight comes off last year when you had a career high in assists.

How much joy are you taking in that part of your game?

Oh, I love the pass the ball to my guys do.

I'm comfortable with them taking any and every shot.

I just I just know that when they shoot, the ball is gonna go in.

And if it doesn't the next time that they get the ball, whether I throw it to him or not, I think it's gonna go in.

I got so much confidence, I got so much faith in these guys.

I know that I can't do it by myself.

I definitely need my guys when thank you.

All right, Jimmy, that's it.

Thank you.

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