Hornets vs Nuggets: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability

Hornets vs Nuggets: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability

Well no I just told you know I told him in the you know the huddles too is you know in the first in the first half you know we had really good ball movement you know we were getting the ball going towards the basket we had good unselfish

Play in the beginning of the third we did none of it you know we’re coming down playing ISO the ball’s staying on one side of the floor and you know they’re too good and too disciplined you’re just not going to get good shots that way and then you know we missed

Some right we got some open looks and then we had some drives that uh you know we didn’t finish so um you know that to me and the turnovers you know it’s hard to beat a good team when you turn the ball over that many times I think

There that’s what I just talked about right there yeah obviously with with Terry being I’m not able to I well you know he’s sore because he I mean listen I’ve only been here with him a little over a year and he’s played four or five times when you know Joe say

Like it’s going to be hard for him to play and he just plays so uh I don’t think I don’t think they think it’s significant but you know obviously for him to not play then you know he didn’t feel good I know this happens a lot now

You get a player back you lose a player a coach how can you mentally not get exhausted this happen yeah I mean you know the thing is like tonight is you know like that I I don’t know if it was the best but that may well have been our

Best defensive game you know they’re really good offensively um we had a different look a different intensity we protected the rim better I mean we had well to me took four or five charges um we didn’t get all the calls which you’re not going to but uh you know um Mike I

Think that door might be locked I think somebody’s trying to get in uh but you know I mean our defense was obviously more than good enough to win in the third quarter you know we just got away from the things that you know helped us and you know Nick Smith Nick scored 19

Points on 12 shots now that’s efficiency you know and he got us back in the game so uh you know there’s some things obviously that are positive and that’s why you have to look at it going off of that what were some of the things you thought your team did well defensively

For well our defense was actually pretty good well the third you know but again I think the third was more byproduct of our offense you know one of the things if you watch our league now because we missed I would say easy in the first five six minutes five or six drives the

Miss layup is the killer man you watch every game every night you miss a layup and the team is gone every team so everybody’s running and the Miss layup is just the crusher and you know we missed four or five and that led to some of their you know open threes in

Transition so um you know that was a part of it and and again the turnovers offensively you just you know right now with it doesn’t matter I mean no matter what you’re going to have 18 turnovers you know you got to have fir power and we don’t have that kind of

Team I don’t have the exact number but you open game straight possessions attently of work yeah I mean you know I mean any pick and roll with the fiveman that’s what you trying to do every night is kind of a staple of what everybody does right um and a lot

Of our baskets early in the game were more more in transition or semi-truck and rolls or dribble handoffs Flash game like they do you know so that they again great offensive player you want him to have to defend too you talked about Nick and his efficient night how much of a

Springboard and confidence going to be for him going into the holiday and the G Ro when you guys come out of them yeah I mean listen he’s confident anyway I mean he doesn’t need a big boost but it’s you know he’s one of the first guys in the

Gym he’s a hard worker he’s a very committed player and uh you know hopefully then you know this can be the beginning of something for him Coach with the you know obviously the injuries and all that especially at the guard position how much confidence it doesn’t give you especially watching

That fourth quarter and seeing you noted know his efficienc shot but how much you know confence really give you to potentially have you know another I have confidence in him anyway I mean listen I’m just going to say this to you guys I mean it’s one game you know I just look

I could give you stories from my 20 plus years in there of guys that you guys wouldn’t have heard of that had 28 on a night or things like that this happens these guys are all good um he’s a younger player that’s his strength you know he knows that he’s got to get

Better at the other things you know so that you know the team functions well when he’s out on the court he knows that but he’s a shot maker you know and tonight he got going coach you currently your last 10 games at least you’re 27th in Pace in

The NBA you guys were flying today and it seemed like that kind of allowed win those quarters youy to yeah part of it was though tonight we always tried to run me early in the year we were like second third in Pace right for a long time when you you don’t get

Stops you’re you’re you’re not going to play fast you know our defense has been so bad or actually our defensive rebounding has been so bad when you’re constantly taking the ball of the net you’re not going to play fast and that’s been our biggest problem I think on

Misses um although we did spend some time on it yesterday you know we’re not playing as fast as we were you know with melow one of the things with Melo is Terry gets up ahead of the ball a lot you know now Terry’s back there and so

We don’t have guys who are natural Runners ahead of the ball and Nick Richards has been running well um but you know playing ish more um you know ish is UPS a temple but the biggest difference in our running game tonight was our defense was good

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