You've mentioned that it's okay if your team makes mistakes provided the effort is there.

How would you assess the effort tonight?

I think the effort for the most part, was there.

I thought we got a little demoralized in the second half.

We battled in the first half, came back from a big deficit early.

And then third quarter.

You know, we started to get blown out and I could see some heads hanging.

But the guys at the end, you closed the game playing hard, and and that's, uh that's what we're gonna have to stay on them about.

Just the you know, that the young guys on a night like tonight, which is gonna happen again.

I mean, this is not, you know, not a one off thing is that this is the reality.

There's gonna be nights like this this year, so you gotta play through it and you've got to keep fighting and keep getting better.

And that's that's the plan.

Is loony re aggravate his same hamstring injury.

That's, um my understanding was that there were some tightness.

Is that, uh okay.

And that obviously heard us.

Moon did a great job in the first half and, you know, defensively without him, um, we really struggled to say the least.

Did you get any explanation from dream on exactly what happened with the elbow thing?

That not nerve, the nerve issue.

Um, but he's doing He's doing fine stitches.

How would you characterize the defensive play?

Uh, over a world.

Things is what you saw.

The preseason was this worse.

Was this something that really troubles you?

Um, I'm thinking about John McKay's old line.

Why would you think of your defensive X here?

Your team's execution.

I'm all for, um I'm sorry.

That's poor taste.

And this was this was bad.

But, you know, give the Clippers credit.

They've got a hell of a team over there.

And they showed that Tuesday night, and it came in here, knock down everything.

Um, but when you, uh when you have a ce many young guys as we do, um, there's gonna be a lot of situational stuff that they haven't seen and they they don't recognize.

And so we're gonna come in tomorrow, watch a lot of film, and, uh, there's gonna be some growing pains like tonight, But, you know, we've got.

We've got to fight through it.

And we've got a teach these young guys and help them grow.

Help them learn and just try to get better as we go forward.

Coach, the guy is one, you know, for the last five years.

How do you handle it?

Not great.

It doesn't feel very good.

Losing steaks.

It's no fun.

But, you know, you just, uh this is this is more of the reality of the n ba then.

You know, the last five years we've we've been living in a in a world that isn't supposed to exist, You know, five years that basically was record wise.

I believe the best stretch if anybody's ever had over five years.

So this is reality.

99 guys 23 or younger.

And, you know, we're starting over in many respects.

So we've got a patient and we gotta fight.

We gotta, uh, continue to teach as a staff, and the players have to continue to absorb and learn, and we'll get better.

I know that, Coach.

What did you think about Jacob Evans night?

Was he kind of a silver lining to Jacob played well, you know, we knock down some shots and you can see, you know, the experience of of Jacob, you know, having a year under his belt.

He just looked a lot more comfortable out there than he did a year ago.

And I thought I thought he played well.

Um, did a good job.

But obviously, in a game like that, nothing really stands out.

You know, it's we I got blown out.

So it's tough to talk about individual performances.

Steve, what happened on the last time out there said you didn't have any.

I instinctively just take a time out whenever we give up over the top, Um, transition basket.

If if we let somebody behind us, it's an automatic time out and actually thought we had one left.

And so since I called it, you know, the true Yoder like coach, we don't have any more left.

Um, didn't matter.

It was I wanted to get the low out of the game to game was over.

Um, and, uh, but yeah, I was I'd be lying if I said I knew I knew that.

You know that we didn't have any love.

I thought we had one left.

So it goes Steve Fall so far behind, right out of the gates, and I know that's the first quarter.

But to plug away at that is that Is that hard, too?

And I mean, when they come out like that e.

I mean, yeah, it's but But we did.

Our guys battled back.

I was 14.

Nothing.

And then, uh, and then our guys battled back.

We got right back in the game.

So So a good sign.

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