I felt more back to normal as faras the motion on offense ability to come off pin downs, ball screens and see some daylight.

A big adjustment from last series with their big fellas.

You know, switching everything.

Mykonos put it on the floor and do all work within the three point line.

So it felt good to get nine threes in high volume for me and stuff in No way.

And I keep going out of my way to point this out about Portland.

I'm not ripping a man, but they just played a seven game series in that last game and two days ago in Denver's at altitude.

Did you sense that there was maybe the gas light was on and that team in the fourth quarter, in terms of just what they had his energy wise?

Yeah, it's natural toe.

Come in a little down, but it's the West final.

So I got you.

We knew they would be up and you can't worry about what happened the past.

They had a amazing Siris in Denver and we had a tough one in Houston.

Well, you got to forget about all that and it's time to, you know, take care of business and try and go to our fifth championship.

What?

Yeah, but see, that's what I'm getting at.

And clay you be You're just so much more familiar with that than they are.

And I just wonder how much value there is in having played so many more games collectively this time of year.

Then they have What do you How do you think that maybe reveals itself?

Um Well, uh, with the blazers, you know, they're so dependent on that backcourt as they should because they're so dynamic and score in Bunches, they can score the best of them.

So we knew if we make those to work as much as possible, right, they'll try.

Might have tired legs at 20 in the game and try and make their old guys be this little more.

But I can't give you all the secrets of our strategy.

I'm not asking you to.

I'm not asking for, like, the recipe, man.

I just But when you guys sit down at the you know, at the, uh, you know, for the interviews I see everybody always looks at the box going.

Peru's with the other guys do.

If McCollum and Dame go 11 for 31 they're not being you guys.

How satisfying is it to have played the kind of defense you all did tonight on that fantastic backward?

It feels really good.

Don't get me wrong, but that's the trick of the playoffs.

You know, you feel good tonight.

If you read the media, you see all the articles, all the warriors of great that no one can stop him.

But that's which conflict quickly if we don't take care of business on Thursday and come out with the same edge.

So we try not pay attention of the noise because we've been here before.

We know.

So we know it's a roller coaster, it's a marathon, and we can.

We're not just gonna put this team away just cause they had a bad shooting night.

We know those to come out firing Thursday, and I just anticipate that play much better and shoot the ball better.

So for us, it's not about relaxing about never being satisfied.

So he always hoist the Larry O'Brien last Really dumb question.

I'm gonna ask you, you had a chance on a dunk there and you always do this.

There's this weird thing you do at the last minute where it's like you got it with two hands and then there's, like, a one hand like unearthing like What are you doing that?

What are you thinking about?

Doing something like you're gonna show out.

Or you like, what is happening when you don't the ball?

No, I know what you talk about.

It's kind of like a momentum thing, like, kind of bringing yourself to the rim.

And I'm not the biggest levers.

So I needed much momentum as I can possibly get right.

And, uh, I just get so happy when I get a dunk.

Master.

Rare occurrence.

But tonight I got one.

I looked up, my family and I was pumped and hopefully I can have more.

It sounds like that throughout the series because those really make me happy.

I understand.

I mean, because look as Stephanos man, if you get if the rim gets you on a dunk like the Internet never forgets right?

So you cannot have never forget.

No, that's new age MBIA than Internet will never forget its undefeated, but whatever.

That's why we get paid what we do because we like to get, you know, mean on the Internet are made fun of.

It's part of the game.

You Scotland average showing the jewelry, man.

It's all flight.

Hey, thanks.

As always.

Thank you for sitting down.

I appreciate you.

We'll talk again.

All right.

All right.

Thanks.

God, You got it.