Willie Green recaps win over Brooklyn Nets | Pelicans vs. Nets Postgame 1/2/24

Willie Green recaps win over Brooklyn Nets | Pelicans vs. Nets Postgame 1/2/24

It started early you jumped out but again your defense was just outstanding from start to finish yeah um such a blessing to be able to get another home win um we talked about it earlier but everything ignites from our defensive uh accountability and the guys started the

Game great on both sides of the ball well you really jumped out early in the last couple ball games and you put a lot of pressure on your opponent from just an offensive standpoint especially with the threes going in early yeah that’s for us um you guys have been watching us

Since the season we haven’t had a ton of great starts uh but it’s it’s definitely something we’ve been working on and it’s good to see us share the basketball get to the paint kick out knock down open threes and just the force in the pace that we’re playing with is much better

Yeah just a little more to that what allowed the starters to to jump out to that 163 lead I think it was it starts with our defense um our game plan discipline was was pretty High tonight finishing possessions we talked about it earlier in the press conference when we

Can rebound the ball when we can get stops and rebound that’s our best basketball we play in an open floor you got guys spaced out we’re sharing the basketball we’re knocking down threes and um that first quarter you know we saw it 32 to 18 A lot of it was that

Just getting stops and playing think CJ said uh like maybe two weeks ago he’s like good NBA teams take care of the teams they’re supposed to have you found that to be true in the NBA definitely and Brooklyn’s a good team you know they they they have a ton of Talent on that

Team um we know that they haven’t been playing as well as they want to lately but it was important for us to get off to a great start maintain it get a win on our home floor we know we got a back toback coming up so uh we took care of

Business tonight yeah we talked a lot about the the big three and their scoring but how good was it to see just uh everybody getting involved tonight and being able to went by such a big margin without anybody’s even reaching 20 points yeah it was a it was a shared responsibility tonight offensively

Collectively all those guys they they moved the basketball they were unselfish um but it starts with those three even though the scoring is double digits with seven guys you know it starts with those three setting a tone early and um we’re extremely proud of of our game tonight

And also part of just the offensive execution was just everybody getting up three-pointer so I think everybody basically accept Z got up a three tonight uh I guess how important is that with your ball movement body movement just being able to create those shots

It’s how we want to play um when we can play that way it’s hard to guard with as many guys as we have that are capable of making shots and we just got to continue to do it continue to watch it on film work on it work on it in practice in our

Shooter rounds come out during the game and execute it no matter who we’re playing we just have to continue to trust it in tonight it it looked well it looked good good you know across the board coach with less than 2 minutes left in the third quarter your team

Forced the 24 second violation no in the fourth quarter Dyson Daniels uh denied somebody the ball his assignment are you seeing what you want to see out of this team competitively to where you feel like not only are they playing maybe at their best and their highest level of

The season but they look like they might be ready for what’s going to be a daunting road trip we’re getting there I’m definitely seeing us come out and have more of a sense of urgency across the board uh like I said a lot of it is all of our guys the whole

Staff having discussions being honest about what we want where we are and how to make steps towards being the team that we know we can be and tonight was another step in the right direction and what do you think of the play where I think Zion got a technical for arguing call where

You know on replay looked like Mel Bridges grabbed him behind the referees missed that I thought he got fouled and you know they got to make make that call you give any thoughts youd be will to share just on like why the Z sometimes seems like he gets a tough

Whistle I don’t know why um you go back and watch and you can clearly see he he’s getting hit and he’s not a guy that normally even argues the calls but tonight it was really clear and you know they got to they got to call those um it

Doesn’t matter his size and strength he’s getting fouled like the next guy coach January 2nd of 2023 uh the PS had just beat the Philadelphia 76ers number two in the west and then you go through January um and January kind of turned the season upside down now you’re

January 2nd 2024 you’re going on this kind of January road trip uh how does last year kind of prepare you for this year’s January I think the biggest lesson that we can learn from last season is when you go through adversity you go through hard times you know it it’s it’s how you

Build character how you build strength it’s how you build um who you’re going to be as as a team but also individually as as men and what I loved about our group everybody our players staff we all stuck together we went through a a tough stretch where we lost I think 10 games

In a row after being number one in the west we stuck together um we C we called each other up to be better and we finished the season strong and now we want that carryover into this season and those are the steps that we’re building towards

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green speaks to the media following the team’s win over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024.

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