Darvin Ham POSTGAME INTERVIEW Los Angeles Lakers fall to Grizzlies Memphis 127 113

Darvin Ham POSTGAME INTERVIEW Los Angeles Lakers fall to Grizzlies Memphis 127 113

Three uh last time you played they did as well uh what did you see from the coverages and like what were you what were you trying to get to defensively in this one tonight uh we just decided to go uh one through five red you know try

To keep the ball in front of us and you know they they hit some deep ones they hit some ones that were contested you know we right there in their face just you have to be more aggressive I mean take your hat off to them um they shot

The hell out of the ball um some guys that came in with lower percentages the from Team the whole team to certain individuals and they knock him down you know it’s it’s been see it seems to be you know the the the pattern you know people are stepping their game up when

They come in our building and we got to be ready to meet force with Force I thought for the most part I saw a lot of improvement from last game you know coming in halftime with only four turnovers with no points but again third quarter certain balls got away from us um

And you in a team like that they’re getting back hold and they were able to take advantage of some opportunities and so a couple guys got scorching hot but um you know that said I’m in this thing for the fight and and I’m not off to you know hang my head

Or anything I’m disappointed we l we lost disappointed that we have lost you know multiple games now in a row but it’s just only going to make that fire bigger in my chest to try to figure this thing out and I that was my message to the team

After after the game you know we we we got to fight i’ I’ve been through much much worse um and you know we’re going to figure this thing out for sure you know just look at the film keep tighten it up seeing what we can get better we

Improved up on our turnovers in the first half again they got we from us in the third quarter some in the fourth uh missed some free throws but overall I thought it was a much better performance and you know obviously it it stings but that that irritation should cause you to

Want to do better and be better better and we will Darin you mentioned kind of the the pattern of of you know I think of Dante aom and and different things like that that have happened over the course of this season have do you think as a team

You guys have been slow to to flip when is there a judgment I guess that says like I know Marcus Smart is shooting 24% or whatever on the season but he looks hot tonight like we need to change our coverages well what’s that sort of line

I don’t know if it’s more I don’t know if it’s a coverage more so than cuz you still have J out there you still have Des Bane out there you still have jiren Jackson out there like I don’t know if it’s coverage related I just think closing out harder closing out to his

Body forcing them put the ball on the floor and you know during the course of the game the game is topsy turvy um but that’s the main thing just being better on your close out closing out harder and we’ll look at it on film and try not to

Make the same mistake going forward but having said that these our NBA players he is a a proven score in big games I’ve seen him do it against us when I was working with the Bucks in the playoffs you know with with elimination on the line for them when he was with the

Celtics so he’s very capable um hadn’t been shooting it well so we wanted to be able to crowd j a little bit more whatever but yeah he made us pay that’s what NBA players do when you talk to your guys about keeping the fight what are you sensing

From them what are you seeing out of their reaction to your comments no they just ra to be done with this like and done with this slide um obviously no one wants to lose disappointing to lose but we can’t make the dis the mistake of getting discouraged like everybody is

Going to nitpick at me the staff the players the organization whatever whatever we got to block out all the noise like block out all the noise don’t pay attention to it focus on how we can be better whatever the mistakes are whatever went wrong look at it analyze

It and try to you know correct it and that’s that’s it you have to be solution based and you definitely have to be numb to whatever is going on outside if they’re not Lakers then don’t pay attention to it just lock in on us and

Try to see how we can be the best version of ourselves through our work our daily work Darin you mentioned the Closeouts you mentioned the effort does it feel more effort based in terms of that than I guess technique based in terms of the Closeouts not being

Effective as desired I mean you know at the end of the first half Dez Dez B bang took one from the logo his heels was on the logo so certain shots like that the teams Catch Fire um who knows they they’ll probably the next game make nine

Threes who knows but at the end of the day you know we just got to realize that we got to play with aggression all over the place uh and play with multiple efforts and I thought we did that during the course of the game again they got

Hot from three you had job went under a couple his pick and rolls trying to keep him from going downhill he made some threes salute things are going to happen again it’s a disappointing loss but we can’t get discouraged we we got to stay positive keep you know get our spirit

Together and and and really push forward and get ready for a game on Sunday you mentioned it with the spirit did you feel like their shot making affected kind of your team especially late in terms of seeing you know guys drop their heads seeing those types of

Things and do you view that to be a tonight issue or is that a culmination of the last games I think it’s just you know whenever you play good defense high level defense and guys are able to knock down shots especially guys that you know have coming in coming into the game

Hadn’t really shot the ball well for the opposing team or you play Perfect Defense with 23 seconds that 20 you know 22 seconds that 23rd second the shot goes up and they hit it and it is what it is it’s the NBA man this is a

Marathon and you know you have to look at the totality of the picture I’m tired of people living and dying with every single game we play I’m like it’s it’s it’s ludicrous actually it’s like come on man this is a marathon and we’re hitting we hit a tough stretch you know

It’s the same team that you know we played some high level games a little while ago and we just got to get back to that we got to keep the fight though we cannot lose our fight let’s go