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Yeah, Taylor, obviously a wild finish
there. Can you just take us through

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what was going on at the end? From your
perspective? Uh Great defensive stand

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had a transition opportunity, got a
wide open three ticket every day of the

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week. Uh Super proud of how our guys
played today the fight. Um You know, a

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couple of possessions love to have back
at the end, you know, crucial turnover.

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Um You know, Dez had a good look at
three, maybe just lost his balance, but

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loved the defense. Um came up with a
stop, we had an advantage, we had a

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wide open three, take it every day of
the week.

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Yes.

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Um Taylor. So, uh career night from
Santi just an opportunity for him to

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showcase his versatility. Just how does
not only just this game but the

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opportunity with a lot of these guys
out. How do you see that? Just

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enhancing his development as a player
and to the vision that you're hoping

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that he becomes off the bench? Yeah, I
mean, tonight was great. I think he

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played uh 34 and five for us tonight um
with, you know, foul trouble and

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changing lineups in the media of the
game. Um He was awesome career night,

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um, you know, 12 rebounds, six assists,
uh, six made threes, just been talking

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about just playing with a lot of
aggression. You know, we talked about

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that coming out of the summer. Um, he's
got so much versatility, uh, just

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really proud of the offensive effort
tonight. Um, we needed that. I mean, it

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didn't matter what his, you know,
position was, you know, he started at

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the three slid to the four, I think
with our second unit then had to play

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some five and he can be a playmaker for
us. Um, so really impressed. Um, but as

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I said, the aggressiveness, especially
from the three point line something,

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he's been working a lot on since the
start of the season, talked to him the

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other day about it just really
impressed with just how he, you know,

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really was in attack mode tonight.
Close outs driving and kicking, uh,

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really impressive.

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The

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given the quality of the game Santi was
having, how do you as a coach react to

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a play like that pass, bad pass
turnover he had in the last minute.

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Yeah, I mean, he knows it. Um, you know,
it's, uh, it's one of those ones that I

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know he, he would love to have back.
We'd love to have back. I mean, he was

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playing a great game and, uh, it's a
great learning opportunity, you know,

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he immediately afterwards was, you know,
saying my bad to his teammates and

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understood, uh the impact, but we still
gave ourselves a chance with one

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possession. He was a big part of the
reason we haven't even had a chance to

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win tonight

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just in general. What was your takeaway
from this performance, you know, all

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around today, uh in this game? Yeah, I
mean, second night of a back to back,

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uh you know, different guys stepping up.
Um You know, we were, we were piecing a

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lot of stuff together throughout, um
throughout the game. You know, we're,

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we're, we're trying to find chemistry
with our lineups, uh feeling out who's

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playing well in these games. Obviously,
the Celtics, one of the best teams in

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the league, it's gonna be a tough
matchup, but to hold them to 100 and

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two points, number one, number two
offense in the league, super impressed

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with our defensive effort. I mean,
there was definitely plenty of things

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we could have cleaned up some, you know,
breakdowns and coverages, um not

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rotating, you know, I can't remember
remember how many, how many dunks they

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had on us tonight, you know, that
that's inexcusable, but, you know,

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still gave ourselves uh a great
opportunity, but the fight is really

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what jumps out, you know, the guys
playing with edge, we're, we're trying

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to establish a better edge, you know,
defensively, offensively, you know,

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trying to find chemistry is a little
hard, you know, right now, given some

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influx with our, with our uh rotations
and, and the depth that we got, but our

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guys are playing hard. We got 28
assists. That's why I told man, this is

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a game that you have to play fast. You
gotta move the ball, you know, come up

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with 5050 balls, 21 2nd chance points.
Uh We put ourselves in a position of uh

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when a ball game came up a little bit
short, but it's not because of the lack

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of the fight.

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Um Taylor. So, uh Vince Williams shot
rotation minutes tonight. Just what did

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you make of his uh defensive efforts
and his energy, especially considering

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the types of assignments that he was
taking on there. Yeah, I mean, I love

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the physicality he was playing with,
obviously knocked down, uh, you know,

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two big threes for us, but, uh we were
switching a lot tonight, you know, had

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a lot of confidence, you know, in his
point of attack defense. Um You know, I

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just love the physicality he was
playing with. It's something we're

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challenging our group with, but I
thought he, he did a really good job in

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one on one situations uh when they were
playing in transition, his shift to

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then build it out to the three point
line, um, guy that stayed ready, you

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know, and, uh told him before the game
be ready to go out there. Um You know,

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obviously this, this was a great
performance for a guy that hadn't been

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in the rotation, but just knew I gotta
go out there and set my mark

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defensively and just play within the
offense. And when the ball found him,

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he shot with a lot of confidence,
really impressed with Vince staying

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ready and the impact he had tonight
plus say he knocked down shots. But

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again, the defensive effort was really
impressive.

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Great. Thanks everybody.