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Yeah, of course. We appreciate it. So, I don't know. It's hard to evaluate. I know you guys are all about developing players and, you know, et cetera, and we got some studs. But, man, some of these games, it's frustrated to watch when we can't close them out. I know you don't want to win too much, but I like to win a couple of these, Will.

Yeah, no, for sure, for sure. I think you hit it on the head like this year's about player development, and we're super excited about the growth that a lot of our players have taken. Specifically, you see the jumps that Alex and Keish out have made. but again, we knew it was going to be a year early on with the tough schedule and the travel and everything, playing young players as much as we're playing them. I think it's like 60% of our minutes are guys, 22 and younger. That was going to be hard to win some of those games. But like you said, we've been in a couple and overtime in a couple, had some leads in the fourth quarter, so those are the growing pains that we have to go through and definitely find a way to win a few of them. And I think you'll see that as we turn the corner of those guys get a little bit more exposure, but we have to be in more games, to be honest, to help us learn and how to grow and how to win. Will, how is Coach Keefe dealing with the fact that this wizard's outfit gives up

129.6 points per game, by far the most in the league.

Like, we know he preaches defense, he wants his players to be good defensively, but

we're not seeing those results through 13 games.

We also know coaches, Will has told us that they have individual meetings all the time.

They have individual goals.

Sure.

They have, you know, defensive goals, you know, all that.

We know you go over all of it all the time.

No doubt.

No doubt.

Coach Chief and his staff, they are on it.

They're teaching the right principles.

They're working through the right things.

I think what you see from us is good moments defensively, but not enough good quarters, which

turned into good halves, would turn into good games. So the defensive side is a side where we have

to improve. There's no doubt about it. I would say that he's playing a lot of different players and a lot of different

lineups.

You'll probably see that number of 11 guys start coming down now that we've given some

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