Right now, let's bring in Dante D. Vincenzo with teammate, the All-Villanova back court,

28.6 boards, five assists. So we had two games here in Charlotte, 28, 25.

Dante, anything particular in this city that inspires you?

No, not in particular. Just go out there and try to make open shots and just be aggressive. That's off.

What was you thinking prior to the game with you found out OG wasn't going tonight?

I mean I didn't find out really until the meeting.

So, I mean, first and foremost, you want him to get healthy. But then we knew, you know, they're big, they're long, so it was gonna be a collective effort. I think Precious, you know, he was great for us tonight. Really was, you know, on the perimeter a lot, rebound and he was just doing everything for us. So we knew that he could step up and you know we just did what we needed to do

You seem so much more comfortable now obviously you know it takes a while to get to that real high comfort level that you have

But the overall team there's a connection with with the players now that that it's so noticeable to even the fans and certainly to us

Tell us about the development of that how that happened and what's going on. You know, it takes time when I think it starts off the court. Communication, little things, playing music together, talking on the plane, just little things to, you know, build that chemistry. So when you're on the court, you can get on one another when you make mistakes, but also you celebrate each other and you really push each other and challenge each other every single day, and that's what we've been doing. What was it feeling like tonight? You run on the court and you see a sea of orange and blue and the ovation that you guys received. Yeah, I mean, I just told Coach Rick Burson, I was like, man, Knicks fans travel.

You started hearing, let's go Knicks. And that's, I mean, we have the best fans in the league. So, you know, no matter where we go, it feels like a home game for us. One last quick question, Dante. You've watched Jaylen Brunson play. He's been your teammate for a long time for Villanova. what do you think about what he's doing right now?

I mean, he's just an off star.

I mean, there's nothing else to say. He's the top whatever guy in this league, but he's, he's an all-star in this league, and I'm really happy for him. Great job tonight. Thanks, Dante. I appreciate it. Anthony 6tho coming out of that two minute mark timeout with the starters had me shook.

Him laughing while he emptied the bench, felt like he was purposely trolling us.

Hashtag three seed.

You're like, what's the thought process there?

So we had them in there for one additional defensive possession and one additional offensive possession.

The defensive possession, did they score on the defensive position?

I kind of think they did.

I want to go back and look at that right now.

And on the offensive possession, it wasn't even like a good possession because you're just like,

please don't get hurt.

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