Ime Udoka on Alperen Sengun’s 37, Jabari Smith’s surge

Ime Udoka on Alperen Sengun’s 37, Jabari Smith’s surge

Um alred had a career high obviously what did you think of his physicality tonight specifically against alen chunis I think it was good he obviously was extra aggressive um you know got him in foul trouble um baited you know their team into a lot of rotations and got other

Guys shots besides himself but yeah we needed that every needed every Point obviously and um need him to come out and be aggressive like that from the start understanding how they’re guarding him they’re going to swarm him go after him they’ve done that twice preseason in

Our first game and um you know he he obviously six assists as well so he got guys involved and we missed some using shots as well so needed what he brought tonight and that’s our team every night it could be somebody different and tonight was his his turn jabari’s been

Working on his shot mechanics he told us um a couple days ago what have you seen as far as his shot getting a little bit more consistent yeah you can tell he’s very confident in it getting to his spots using his size and length to to

Rise up over guys and um you know he’s puts in the work he’s done that since I’ve been around him all summer and um you know it’s only a matter of time that he gets to this level and does it on a consistent basis because of all the work

He puts in but um very confident another great night obviously four for five from three and 10 for 14 overall and like I said to come back all those points were needed um we had a great defensive fourth quarter what did you see from the second unit during that stretch when you

Put them into the beginning the fourth quarter yeah they they kind of got us you know got us going got some life uh obviously got them into the bonus early so they were aggressive getting out running got some stops and that’s a when we play with that team it’s usually a

Faster unit so they got on transition quite a bit there and just kind of stem the tide until guys came back in and so you know fought it hard in the third quarter they did their job and you know cutting into the lead a little bit there

And till we could get back and so uh great job by by them as well what about winning back to back how much does that mean specifically with you know having a young team yeah it’s it’s it’s a good thing I mean obviously yesterday it doesn’t really matter how you win them

Yesterday was a you know blowout win and we got to rest some guys but now NBA especially you know going into the Christmas break I guess uh you know not not a game for two days guys could have that on their mind but they came in with

The right focus and um you know it’s good to get one on the road against a quality opponent and so he been two hot two F hot hardfought games against this team obviously they weren’t whole last time but uh tonight we had to really dig

In and get it and I think um shows the maturity of the group The growth in general to come in off of you know back to back getting in late and and carve this one out tonight so uh great job by everybody and um you know you can see

The growth especially on the road in the last few games thanks thank you

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Ime Udoka speaks to the press after the Houston Rockets stunned the New Orleans Pelicans on the road 106-104 on 12/23/2023. Alperen Sengun scored a career high 37 points and Jabari Smith Jr continues his great offensive play.