you know, that journey is impossible without the support that we have from so many different people.

I also want to take the opportunity to thank that many, many people that work for the thunder.

There is a tremendous amount of effort and intention that goes into everything that we're able to do to put a basketball team on the floor.

And that goes for the business side as well as basketball operations as well.

And then I also want to thank everybody in the media.

You guys have covered us for a decade now.

And we're really appreciative of the efforts that you guys make to create a positive working environment

and then also to build authentic relationships with the people around our team and our players.

And that's been just a constant and we hope that they can continue in the future.

With respect to the season, as I said earlier,

I'm going to make a couple opening statements on some key points. I'm sure you guys will be

able to kind of hit on anything that I'm leaving out. I'll do my best to answer any questions

that you have and then we'll move on from there. So I thought I'd start with just the season in general.

I feel like kind of look at the season in three different segments.

First being, you know, when a team comes together the way that ours did, you know, the first 20 games, if you look historically,

we kind of expected that to be a little choppy.

You know, we expected our team to shoot the ball a little bit better obviously defensively we were really consistent

and pretty good for through the first 20 and then from there historically that starts to kind of

trend forward you start to work out some kinks and And once we got into January, I really felt like

we were playing at an elite level on both sides of the ball and playing with rhythm. And I thought

we were at a really, really high level and balanced. Clearly, you know, the reality of situation is, you know, once we took the injury to Roberson, it, you know, the reality of situation is, you know, once we took the injury to Robertson,

it was really disrupting to us. It disrupted the progress we made. With all that being said,

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