Chauncey Billups Postgame Interview | Portland Trail Blazers 134, Brooklyn Nets 127

Chauncey Billups Postgame Interview | Portland Trail Blazers 134, Brooklyn Nets 127

Just why you decid to go that direction and kind your thoughts on the way those plays played out yeah well the one you talking about the inbound where he missed the the yeah uh that was a play that was the first time we ran that play

Obviously is you know 1.3 seconds on the clock there’s not that much you can go to but um they did an excellent job of executing on that play they really really did and shayen almost made a miraculous play the way that he can so I was just more happy with the execution

Knowing that hey man we just missed a tough layup um but shayen was you know he was locked in and with them again trying to take an away if if they’re going to put two on the ball then we got to be comfortable wherever that ball

Lands at you know um I made a adjustment kind of late you know the ball landed with two uh in the corner he wasn’t really ready to shoot that ball so I boom I sub got Malcolm in you know what I’m saying if that’s what they’re going

To do take him away let me get you know some experience and some shooting in the game and um I thought they that Malcolm and the guys did a great job of finding him touched a little bit earlier on Mal briefly but like big picture for the

Year what do he meant for you guys like in the locker room man so much um Malcolm is just a he’s just a I say it all the time he’s just a grownup man he’s a grownup um on the floor and off the floor he’s kind of

Like you know our voice if you will you know or one of our you know um leaders that when he talks you listen you know um and he’s in a tough spot here you know cuz he’s coming off the bench and sometimes he comes off to the

Bench and don’t have the ball in his hands and he’s a point guard but he’s he he just he’s he said I understand where we’re at I understand what we’re doing when he plays he does things like this you know um he’s always a plus player you know um so I’m just

Loving having him here he’s like an extension of of of me out there and even in that locker room you know he’s just a leader um so his presence is is felt every day U I’m we’re lucky to have Malcolm SC didn’t play the final fourth quarter time

Yeah we were playing well we were playing well and like I said you know we finally got some continuity we finally got it going it was nothing that he didn’t do um to not play but you can’t play everybody you know how it is when you get these two guys that are rolling

We just got to ride it out and see sometimes he’s going to be one of those guys you know sometimes he’s not going back sharar no no um I’m okay where I’m at right now he was a b in a trouble but you put him back the beginning of the fourth it

Shows the confidence you have in his mindset to be a to defend falling yeah I’m very confident in uh in Tani and I want him to always be aggressive um even the last play of the game Bridges hit a heck of a shot but I

Put two in the guard him you know um he he had a tough shot but I thought it was good defense and I trust tumani you know in those situations um like I said is one of our better defensive players and rebounders and you know he he he plays with the

Spirit that I have you know um with his toughness and stuff so I thought he was good coach I know this is won by your team and their play but we have sat here numerous times this year down the stretch and talked about how coach’s challenges on either side have played

The role first time that I’ve heard cheers for Jason who works in video because you guys years advantage to how big of a role did they play yeah it’s a big deal I mean it’s it’s it’s so much that goes into those challenges um there’s really a chain of

Communication that has to happen you know the play happens and then we review it behind the bench you know with Jacob and Eli and uh they’ll kind of give me what they see and then I I I just trust them I trust them and so every single

Time if they give me the thumbs up I’m going for it even if we lose it you know um I trust them uh they know the plays that we want to challenge uh the type of plays you look at we did a good job of managing our timeouts today so we had

Some wiggle room in those late game situations and um I thought they were excellent today so I don’t that that credit don’t really go to me you know um that’s to to Jacob and Eli um those guys were excellent

Chauncey Billups shares thoughts on win over Brooklyn Nets on January 7, 2024.

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