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Mark Montieth: You had stated at the last press conference that you're done with personnel moves. Has anything come up since then that you considered, or that you might want to do in the near future?

Kevin Pritchard: There's always chatter throughout the year. Some teams are looking to maybe clean up their roster. Maybe they've added something and their depth chart changed. But in late July or early August we made the decision this is our team and we're going to stick to it. We're going to give these guys a chance. Our whole theory was, let's keep the top seven in terms of minutes played. I'm not saying terms of importance, but minutes played. And then in terms of the bench, we really felt we needed some depth help. We needed scoring with that second unit.

Tyreke's (Evans) a really good playmaker and Doug McDermott is underrated as a scorer. He knows he's got some weaknesses and we've got to work on that. And Kyle (O'Quinn) … we spend time with these guys before we sign them and we lay it out. Sometimes I wonder how guys come here because we're so transparent. With Kyle we said, "We don't know if you're going to play a minute or 500 minutes, but there's a role that Al Jefferson held last year that was a tremendous role for us that's so important." Leaving that dinner I thought, 'We were so honest with him, I don't know if he's going to come.' And then in an hour he said, "I want to be part of that."

Once we signed those guys after the draft, we kind of knew we were done. There's always offers coming in. We're not making any outgoing offers. We like our team right now. Those seven guys who came in here last year and overachieved according to expectations, I feel they deserve to be together and see what they can do with continuity. Continuity ... there's been studies on it many times, about coming back with your seven, eight, nine top players, and trying to assimilate some of your other players and see if you can get them to conform to what your culture is about. We work on our culture. We're probably over-concerned at times with how things will fit. We're not a team that looks at players and says, "This is the best talent, throw them out there." We talk about how guys fit together.