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Uh

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Santi just, you, you started today but
kinda in a different position. But I

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mean, you played everywhere. 3450 kind
of two questions and 11, what's

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different if anything when you're at
those different positions? And then two

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what was it like joining that starting
lineup, you know, playing at the small

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forward position alongside of Jaren and
uh Biz Mac Biana. Yeah, I mean, it's, I

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mean, it's very different, obviously
playing 345. Uh obviously with the

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three probably, well, especially today,
you were just guarding smaller uh guys

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and faster guys. So it was obviously a
challenge. Uh But I just think the

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spacing factor is, is pretty big. I
think obviously having B out there, it

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gives us a lot of uh size, but also
having me and Jaren, they can shoot.

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Well, it's, I think it opens the floor
and obviously being so tall, it's just

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really hard to guard and, and yeah, I,
I like obviously joining the starting

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group, I think uh we got off to a slow
start with that six year run. But then

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after that, we, we kind of like figured
it out and, uh, you know, I think we

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just gotta get used to, uh, having
these like three, almost seven footers,

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uh, on the floor. But I think in the
long run, especially if we're able to

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switch one through five. I think it's
gonna be good for us

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sane. Uh, obviously you guys were going
against Marcus's old team. You know,

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he's in the huddle talking to you guys.
Was he able to give you kind of any

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tips insight into, you know, you
guarding Jason or, you know, whatever

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it might be, uh you know, given how
well he knows them. Yeah, I mean, I

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think in the pregame talk, he, he talks
for like 10 minutes straight. Uh he

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knows these guys, uh like, obviously
he's a guy that studies a lot of film,

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but he's played there for like, like 9,
10 years and he, he knows them better

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than anybody, probably better than
themselves. He gives, uh gives, uh give

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us a lot of insight and especially
guarding, you know, Jason who's a great

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player backs down smaller defenders
into the post and then has all these

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tricks. So really trying to, trying to
see how to guard them without fouling.

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And just obviously having Marcus in
itself is, is a privilege, but having

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him playing against Boston just I think
that gave us like a better chance of

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winning the game.

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Uh You played 39 minutes ties a career
high, six assists, a career high, only

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one turnover, but the one turnover was
that pass in the last minute, I think

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it seemed a little forced. What were
you trying to do with that? Yeah. Yeah,

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that was, that was a bad read. Um, I
mean, I was driving, I saw, uh,

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somebody come over so I was really
trying to find the open man. I know I

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told me he was cutting, uh, and I think
I was just, I, I should have probably

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stopped and I was, I jumped off of 1 ft.
So I was uh I put myself in a bad

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position and I knew John was open, but
obviously Jalen was was going back to

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him. So I just tried to find him but
like if I would have stopped with 2 ft,

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I would probably find, found Zaire and,
and got on the dunk. So just, just

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gotta be better at reading that
obviously, yeah, one turnover but

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pretty important one. So just, just try
and learn from that.

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Um Santi just, you know, you've talked
about the, the position thing but also

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too just the responsibilities that
you're having to play with, you know,

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you're initiating offense, doing stuff
off the dribble, you're spotting up,

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you're defending all these different
guys. How do you see that all that

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ultimately helping your, your growth as
a player, especially as guys start to

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get healthier and return to the lineup.
Yeah, I think uh the more positions you

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can play, the more situations you can
be in is, is great. Uh, obviously I'm

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lucky to have teammates and a coaching
staff that trust me. Uh, obviously

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coach told me before the game, you know,
like stay being aggressive, but

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obviously knowing that I was gonna
guard smaller guys, like crawl up into

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them and trying to be more aggressive.
Normally, I use my length, but if I'm

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trying to use my feet now and guard
smaller guys, if I wanna play the three,

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I think that's key. And I mean, like I
said, the, the, the more situations

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you're in the, the more you're gonna
learn the, the better overall player

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you're gonna be. And also I think I'm
in a, in a position with my teammates

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where they trust me. I think I missed
like two threes early on and, and

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literally, like right after that des
found me wide open, uh, and, and

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trusted me for a shot. I told him like,
thank you for trusting me because

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obviously I, I believe in my shot, but
every everybody does and that way we

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can just get the ball moving, trust
everybody and, and really play a good

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overall game, obviously didn't come up
with a win, but I think we should be

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proud of how we played. So in the back
two questions first, um, what do you

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think about the responsibility they
asked you to have tonight being more of

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a aggressive score. A and also having
to play multiple positions with Bismack

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and Jaren getting into foul trouble.
And then can you take us through that,

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that last sequence with the three? Yeah.
Uh I mean, just having more

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responsibility is good, not necessarily
scoring, which obviously II I took more

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shots today but just trying to make the
right read, trying to uh find the open

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team. And I think for the most part, II,
I do that, but I think today there was

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probably like certain shots that maybe
were a bit forced and uh you know, I, I

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pride myself in trying to make the
right read and I think I could probably

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be better than that in some, some areas.
Uh but yeah, playing with, with Biz and

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Jaren, like I said before, it just,
it's good. I think there's some like

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adjusting we gotta do and obviously, I
mean, we, we've rarely played together

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with Biz Iii, I mean, we've played like
what, six games together with Jaren. Uh

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we've played together more but same, we
haven't played 34 and five where you

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have three guys that can play the, the
four and five. So it's some adjusting

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but, but it, it's fun.

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Alright, thank you.