On the main things that didn't go well tonight:

"Turned the ball over, gave up a lot of offensive rebounds. Everybody just seemed a little step slow in my opinion, including myself. We definitely allowed our offense to affect our defense tonight. Wasn't hitting shots, you know, that's also a part of it. Yeah, I think those are the main things."

On why the team was a step slow tonight after being so strong since the All-Star break and during the win streak:

"I think a little bit of human nature kind of took over in my opinion. Our schedule's been pretty tough in terms of the travel and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, we're pros. We're going to figure it out. We're going to get back home. Got a game tomorrow, another big one tomorrow. So we're going to figure it out. From what I felt and what I could see from my teammates, you guys were just a little step slow. But I think that's what led to the offensive rebounds and the turnovers, the mental lapses. I think we just, it happened, we move on, and now we focus on tomorrow."

On the mindset in the locker room after the loss (both teams on win streaks, similar to the Miami game):

"Move. We move. We can dwell on it, but it's not going to do us no good. We can have our conversations about it, what we could do better, what we got to make sure we don't do going into tomorrow and in the rest of the season, but yeah, we don't want to dwell on it too much or let it compound. We understand those guys are good. They're on a roll right now. Nico played a hell of a game tonight. But we move. We got another one tomorrow."

On the challenge of facing the Thunder tomorrow (the best team in the league right now):

"Those guys are a well-oiled machine. We just played them earlier this year. We kind of got a feel for how they play and what they do. So watching a lot of film and then just mentally just going into this game understanding that we can't have the mental lapses that we had tonight."

On whether cutting the lead down to 14 late can build momentum heading into tomorrow's back-to-back:

"For sure. For sure. It's a 48-minute game. No matter what the score is, you always want to try your hardest to play the right way. And we went on that run late game. So I think we're going to definitely use that momentum going into tomorrow. We can definitely use that going into tomorrow for sure."

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