Willie Green recaps win in Sacramento | Pelicans-Kings Postgame Interview 1/7/2024
All right coach I know you hunt for the perfect game and it’s very difficult especially in the league I know it got a little disjointed at the end but that was as close to a perfect game as you could play yeah it it was beautiful um
Same thing I said to the guys in the locker room just wire to wire it it was fun basketball to watch they execute it on both ends of the floor and uh you know you have games where it gets that way you continue to show your resilience
As a team the bounce back after the game the other night you’ve been doing it all year long and it happened again today yeah we got a Brazilian group and um to their credit you know we watched the film of the Clippers game and we knew we
Could be better our spacing can be better more force and our guys came out tonight and we executed you moved the ball you had 30 plus assists uh you’re knocking thre CJ just talk about him how he’s shooting the ball it it just I don’t know if he’s been in this good of
A rhythm in his entire career for sure CJ he he did a great job of uh just just taking quality shots uh and then once he got it going his teammates did a great job of finding him I thought bi did a great job uh just finding his teammates
Playing fast playing with Force he really set the table for everyone else and and collectively all the guys that stepped on the floor today they they played uh with an intent also maybe under the radar a little bit uh the rebounding you out rebound them 51 to 25
That’s their season low in rebounds and the key was when they were missing shots they weren’t getting Second Chance opportunities that’s the key for us we know our defense can be solid and if we can finish possessions it allows us to get out in the open floor we had 19 fast
Break points uh probably could have had some more but that’s the key if we can finish possessions rebound the ball like we did tonight um it allows our offense to be at its best we had a chance to talk to Jordan uh postgame and just ask him about going to Birmingham and coming
Back and just a really mature young man he knows about his opportunity but just to see him you know play the way he did tonight since coming back and and taking advantage because he’s going to keep getting his opportunities he is and um it’s what we liked about him from the
Start is you know he he has the ability to face adversity and he’s extremely confident uh and he puts the work in and so you every time he he gets an opportunity he takes advantage of it whether it’s in Birmingham or you know here with us and you know he he’s going
To be a key fixture on our team coach green it appears you know um the Kings had lost 14 times four of those games are to the uh Pelicans so I would say that Nola has uh their number what what what is the success in that you know in
Being this team this that many times in 35 games them playing 35 games yeah it it’s hard to beat a team four times we we understand that but you know there’s certain matchups in the NBA that are suited uh for certain teams and we just
Seems to we seem to match up well with Sacramento and uh you know we got to play him again so I’m sure when that time comes you know they’ll be ready we’ll be ready but you know we had a good night tonight we we played well we shared the basketball it started with
Our defense and uh you know we’ll take it and was that pretty much you know the game plan going in here because you were up about 50 points at one at one point and you guys didn’t ease up off the pedal at all well the the key was for us was uh
To have a bounceback game after the Clippers game um to play with more Force make sure we get to our spacing make sure our defense is sound we’re finishing possessions and we did that tonight and um like I said it happened to be against Sacramento but no matter
Who that was we wanted to come out with with that type of uh intention is is to play our style you just mentioned too I try to make this my last question too you shot 61% from the floorida T night uh 30 or more points in each quarter how
Do you feel about your shooting it was fantastic you know we we we’re we’re a team that’s capable of shooting the ball well uh we’ve been trending in the right direction the last 15 games or so so it was good to see the guys come out and
See it go in and like I said it started with our defense our ability to guard Fox and Monk and herder and sabonis and all those guys they have Sacramento has a really good team and uh we know that this is a challenging building to come
In and play in and uh our guys were locked in coach I was career you help Fox tonight points that’s pretty solid defense on guy like hey shout out to Herb Jones all right thanks coach
New Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green’s postgame interview after the Pelicans’ win against the Sacramento Kings on Sunday, Jan. 7 during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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