Speaker 1: Just catching up.
Speaker 2: Like, I know you've been dealing with any issue a
Speaker 2: lot of the season.
Speaker 1: How is it feeling at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this season was a little bit tough because, like
Speaker 3: you said, I deal with a couple of issues.
Speaker 4: But at this time I feel good.
Speaker 3: I feel good, I feel better, and I think every
Speaker 3: little injury or every little issue, why now behind me.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy to just being with the team and
Speaker 3: my teammates and also feel health.
Speaker 2: So yeah, something that's really jumped out to me in
Speaker 2: this playoff run is how many different.
Speaker 1: Players have played a roles.
Speaker 2: How hard is it at times when you're not always
Speaker 2: starting to then be able to come in off the
Speaker 2: bench and you have a good performance.
Speaker 3: That's why we got maybe twenty four to twenty five
Speaker 3: players UH in in UH our locker room. So every
Speaker 3: every single guys matter for for us. So you just
Speaker 3: have to have to be ready when the opportunitives and
Speaker 3: it comes to you and and try to help the team,
Speaker 3: to help your teamate and do the job. Of course,
Speaker 3: everyone wanna want to start. I wanna be involved as much,
Speaker 3: but the coach make his choice and we gotta respect
Speaker 3: that and be ready at any moments. So I think
Speaker 3: like we like we did on the first one, every
Speaker 3: guys on the on the team impacted the play.
Speaker 4: So we we we go a lot.
Speaker 3: Of good player on our roster and everyone matters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like in your position, especially the team
Speaker 2: has four starters essentially with you and Dax and bart
Speaker 2: Os and j and you guys are all different. How
Speaker 2: do the four of you guys pushing each other trying
Speaker 2: to play more?
Speaker 1: How do you guys get along?
Speaker 4: Sometimes we we we give we.
Speaker 3: Give advice to to to someone else and we we
Speaker 3: compete in the right way. On the training session, we compete.
Speaker 3: Everyone everyone of us got a good relationships. So if
Speaker 3: we if we got to push each other to be better,
Speaker 3: we will do it. And the the.
Speaker 4: The only only one only purpose.
Speaker 3: It's to help the team to to to win win, win,
Speaker 3: And this is the only only the things will matter.
Speaker 3: So no matter who's gonna start, if it's gonna be Jay,
Speaker 3: but that's on me, I know, on the person the guy,
Speaker 3: the guy's gonna do the jumps. So yeah, but the competition,
Speaker 3: the competitive activity is good. We got like I said,
Speaker 3: we got good relationship between us.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it feels like those relationships with this team
Speaker 2: have really gotten strong as the year has gone on.
Speaker 2: You guys fight for one another, You've got each other back.
Speaker 2: Is that just something that comes with time and comes
Speaker 2: with the moments that you guys are dealing with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because, uh, this season was difficult because we fight,
Speaker 3: We fought for to be on the on the playoffs,
Speaker 3: we we play. Playing against against Montreal was a tough moment.
Speaker 3: And also the game against Orlando when we beat them.
Speaker 3: I think this kind of this kind of games and
Speaker 3: create some some memories and build some stronger relationship. And
Speaker 3: but there I think the relationships between some guys came
Speaker 3: a little bit played because we this season, we go
Speaker 3: your players, so Ba take it's just his first season
Speaker 3: with us. Duk's also channelso so sometimes we need time.
Speaker 3: We need time to to adapt, to to knowledge your
Speaker 3: your your teammates and and create a good feeling, good relationships.
Speaker 3: Sometimes he may, he may he made time. But I
Speaker 3: think at this time we are in in a good
Speaker 3: position and we are where we want to be.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I interviewed.
Speaker 2: Rob yesterday and talked about how since the Montreal lost
Speaker 2: at home, the team's for one and one one of
Speaker 2: the best runs of any team in the league this season.
Speaker 2: Is there anything that that you think about other than
Speaker 2: just you're in a must win situation that maybe changed
Speaker 2: after that Wednesday game against Montreal to the way the
Speaker 2: team started playing after.
Speaker 4: For for us, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say something really changed because for us,
Speaker 3: see it was always the same.
Speaker 4: Just just try.
Speaker 3: To win the game, win the next game, leave the
Speaker 3: on the present moment and uh and do the the
Speaker 3: best thing we can we we we can do. After
Speaker 3: that ef we have we know, noise outside of the
Speaker 3: of the old.
Speaker 4: Groups, no, no matter.
Speaker 3: For for us, the important thing is to to stay
Speaker 3: together and fight for what we can control. So yeah,
Speaker 3: now it's when what we can contrave is to to
Speaker 3: train and prepare for the next game properly. And I
Speaker 3: think this is what we were doing well. So I'm
Speaker 3: I'm really confidence for the for the next jamp.
Speaker 2: One other thing that kind of watching the team from
Speaker 2: Afar and seeing how beginning of the season you guys
Speaker 2: wanted the ball, wanted to dominate possession. It was very
Speaker 2: focused on that, and now the team is very comfortable
Speaker 2: without it and defending solidly. How does that change somebody
Speaker 2: like you and your role and how you have to adapt.
Speaker 4: You have to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good question because me, I'm a kind
Speaker 3: of player who like to get the ball and play, play,
Speaker 3: build the situation from the back, or play with the midfielder.
Speaker 3: And but you just have to to adapt. I think
Speaker 3: we we we we made a couple of mistakes this
Speaker 3: season with the ball, so we try to be more
Speaker 3: pragmatic and play more directly. And for me, it's not
Speaker 3: really a prop them because I already play. I already
Speaker 3: play like that. So so you you just have to
Speaker 3: adapt on your on your teammate, on on what the
Speaker 3: coaching staff ask ask to and yeah, but yeah it's different.
Speaker 3: If I if I can compare between the the beginning
Speaker 3: of the season and right now, how how we we play,
Speaker 3: how we how is our game plan? Yeah, it's a
Speaker 3: little bit different. But for me still still the same
Speaker 3: because I love fighting. I love may make a tackle
Speaker 3: fight with with my opponents.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that you said pragmatic.
Speaker 2: In in English and especially maybe from England, pragmatic has
Speaker 2: become like a negative word and it's to be defensive.
Speaker 2: I don't think this seems defensive. It's it's interesting, like
Speaker 2: less possession, but not defensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, less position.
Speaker 3: Like I say, is I don't know how in here
Speaker 3: you you the world pragmatic one of the means, But
Speaker 3: for me, pragmative is just okay, you don't need to
Speaker 3: do I don't know, maybe fifteen or ten, ten passes
Speaker 3: to go to trying to read the opponent. If you can,
Speaker 3: if you can do it in two or three passes,
Speaker 3: we will do it. But we're also able to play
Speaker 3: and build with a couple passes, ten passes. I remember
Speaker 3: the goal, the first goal or yeah, the first goal
Speaker 3: against Montreal. We made a great pre creation, great combination
Speaker 3: with I don't know, maybe fifteen fifteen passes, and after
Speaker 3: that we score. So sometimes it's just finding the good,
Speaker 3: the good balance between between build, keeping the ball, keeping
Speaker 3: the position, or just goes to it straight straight ahead
Speaker 3: to the to the goal. But it's still always the same.
Speaker 3: The purpose doesn't change. The purpose is to earth the
Speaker 3: opponent and try to score. So yeah, if if you
Speaker 3: if we can do it in one one way or
Speaker 3: other way, we will do it.
Speaker 2: I know it's kind of early in the week getting
Speaker 2: ready for Orlando. You've seen them recently on decision day,
Speaker 2: the team tad get success against Orlando. When you think
Speaker 2: about this game on Sunday, is there something that Atlanta
Speaker 2: has to do really well to make sure they get
Speaker 2: a resolve?
Speaker 3: Of course, I think it's one of the games who
Speaker 3: gave us a lot of confidence.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And you know, when you play against one team and
Speaker 3: you you beat them, it creates some I don't a
Speaker 3: little bit of a monthly advantage, you know. And I
Speaker 3: think we we gotta we gotta take some some some
Speaker 3: things we did on on this game and try to
Speaker 3: to build a game plan on on that. But he's
Speaker 3: going to be a playoff game.
Speaker 4: It's going to be totally different. It's a we know,
Speaker 4: go home.
Speaker 3: So so so I think the preparation mentally is going
Speaker 3: to be a little bit different.
Speaker 4: But of course we we will.
Speaker 3: We will try to keep the right things we did
Speaker 3: against them on the regular season, and yeah, we will.
Speaker 4: We will help on that.
Speaker 1: Feels like the team doesn't want to go home yet. No, No,
Speaker 1: I love the fight in the scrip rights been a
Speaker 1: lot of.
Speaker 4: We still want more.
Speaker 3: We're still getting angry and we don't want we don't
Speaker 3: want to to send back to phase retainments.
Speaker 4: We love him, we we we we love him as
Speaker 4: a teammate.
Speaker 3: As a as a leader on the on the team,
Speaker 3: and I think we need him uh again again. So
Speaker 3: maybe after the end of the season we'll see that
Speaker 3: now we need
Speaker 1: Excellent h.