Tony Jones

I thought Jalen Tyson did a really good job in his point of attack defense.

I think that he did a really good job of not conceding switches.

So, you know, Tyrese couldn't take advantage of, okay, now I have Donovan Mitchell or Darius Garland.

There wasn't a lot of those matchups.

And Evan Mobley looked like some Duncan out there.

Yeah, I think that he's bought in and I think that it helps him buy in from the fact that he's getting on the floor and he's he's feeling like himself and he's looking like himself.

So, you know, I think that, you know, there's a there's a train of thought that's like, OK, you know.

We don't know when the bottom falls out.

The bottom can fall out.

But right now, I'm myself.

Right now, I can play in the All-Star game.

I'm still good enough to play in the All-Star game.

So, you know, you see a lot of guys mentally check out when they aren't themselves.

and when you know the realization is oh my god i'm like actually washed like dude like there's nothing left in the tank um and joel's clearly not there so you know it helps him that helps him buy into yeah i can let tyrese maxi cook and i can let vj cook and you know and paul knows

um, pretty definitively that he's a third option and he's really comfortable with operating as a third option in the offense.

So I think all of those things have worked, uh, so far, you know, I think the offense has been clunky, um, you know, to start out, to start the journey has gotten a little better of late.

It was terrible tonight.

Um, but you know, maybe that's a one-off, um,

You know, I thought that it was really telling that Vijay Achkham, one of the first times this year, kind of really didn't have it, you know, because he's kind of always bought it, you know, especially energy wise and defensively wise.

And, you know, and I thought that it was demoralizing that that Donovan Mitchell came out in the third quarter and just cooked everybody.