Jordan Ott on playing small ball with Miles Bridges at the five: "We're searching, we're searching for that. We need 48 minutes of great five-man play, like we talked about. Since the injuries, this owns a piece of that." Oso Ighodaro missed second straight game with right oblique strain. (Thunder) size, you know, at times when they're catching it over the top of us, our guys are fighting, like hell to try to get the rebound and try to keep them from just tipping it in. You feel for them, you feel for them there. So that's why we go back big. Again, our pick-and-roll defense, again, that's another reason why we decided just to switch some of that. We're going to keep searching. We need to find that 48 minutes of great center play. We have big wings that we can try to get there. Ideally, you know, we have something else there. So keep searching." On Khaman Maluach (season-high 12 points, 7 rebounds, four fouls, four turnovers): "I think at this point, it's not game-by-game for him.. It's a long scope of who we believe he can be and know he will be. He's catching a lot, a lot at him at a time. Tonight it was zone or playing pick-and-roll defense. We changed our pick-and-roll defense to a different coverage to try to handle what they were doing to attack us. So those two guards (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Ajay Mitchell) are fantastic with the ball in their hands. (Isaiah Hartenstein) is an elite screener. So you're fighting to try to take them away from the screen at times, or over the top. He's an elite screener. So a lot of things that Man-Man is learning on the fly. And we'll be right with him every step of the way. He's gonna have some games where his impact is for every second he's on the court and some where he's gonna have some wanting some plays back. So, best thing about it is he'll continue to work and get better." #Suns #ThunderUp