We had some young guys and they weren't mentally tough enough to handle that. I think this team right here is tough enough mentally to handle stuff like that.

Their guards did a good job, and they were the key. We knew we were low on guards, and they had two quality guards.

We did have pretty good spacing.

It's been tough this year, it's been tough. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you a story. It's been tough, and our kids struggled. But it's a tribute to them how they hung together.

That's what we wanted to do, get it to him as much as we could.

He told us before that regardless of what happened, he would come back and finish out the year with us. We said OK. J.J. is one of us, one of our own.