CJ McCollum on starting off hot | Pelicans at Warriors Postgame 1/10/24

CJ McCollum on starting off hot | Pelicans at Warriors Postgame 1/10/24

Oh goodness goly oh CJ just getting two wins like this to start off the road trip uh just what do you really like about just where the team is right now and the way y’all been able to dominate these last two games I think we just been doing a great

Job of executing the game plan starts with how we defend um getting off the good starts in that first quarter defending at a high level taking advantage of transition playing inside and out sharing the ball think we had 39 assists tonight um doing the little things that are

Necessary to win on the road defending not getting up Second Chance opportunities and then you got to make a lot of Threes especially in the league the way it is today and I think we’ve been doing all those things collectively and and this was a night where y’all

Started off really hot from the three-point line and then the second half it was JV in the third and then Z in the fourth really dominating the paint uh just how dangerous is this team where y’all are able to do both yeah we got to take advantage of match up take

Advantage of opportunities some nights it’s your night some nights it’s going to be somebody else and you know whenever the game kind of gets bogged down or team goes in a run you know you can throw the ball inside and take advantage of you know the elite players

We have on this roster third quarter JV had great matchups try to get some pick and roll to get them kind of moving and hit the pocket allow him to finish just kind of throw it in and let him go to work especially if they going to play on

Um in the fourth quarter did a great job of controlling Pace finishing on the basket he set some great screens rolled we got some side to side movements uh with some flare screens for Trey U some dribble handoffs for hawy and I think that’s what it’s going to take for us to

To to win games uh everybody’s going to be be ready to contribute uh coaches got to continue to give us a great game plan then we got to go execute it I think y’all are like second I want to say in defense since Vegas uh just what have

Y’all really done on that and just to find success yeah just sticking to the basics one possession at a time communicating more effectively you know taking advantage of our switch lineups where we can switch one through four one through five and then the biggest the biggest thing is getting the rebound

It’s hard to gu guard guys in this league so when you get a stop you got to secure the rebound and you got to play uh with Bas off misses and I think we’ve been doing that outside of that Laker game we I think we had two losses that

We probably shouldn’t had we’ll call it three in Memphis Memphis Houston and then we we drop a egg or lay egg at home against Clippers but outside of that like you said we’re playing great basketball we’re being consistent for over a month now and um want to continue

To stack those days how much how important is it that y’all have been a able to have just some consistency with the lineups and having guys out there uh you know instead of the way it’s been the past couple years Health matters man it matters it matters for Game Plan it

Matters for practice it matters for camaraderie chemistry execution you got to be used to playing with guys to to get the results that you want I think we’re getting there CJ when you you guys got off to that great start as we mentioned earlier with those three-pointers almost taking a page out

Of their game was the mentality to really keep the foot on the gas the entire 48 minutes against the scam where they have guys like Steph and Clay who can you know try to take over a game was that the mentality going forward especially after that first period or

Excuse me first quarter yeah we just wanted to get off to a good start we want to be dominant throughout the entire game and that’s just more of a mentality uh playing with Force playing with Pace um everything starts at the defensive end for us um we’ve been a

We’ve been a good defensive team all year we’ve been an elite defensive team the last you know 40 days and we know for us to win games it comes down defense especially in the roow offense you can figure it out you can run pick and roll you can run uh motion you can

Run auto we got a lot of options on offense and a lot of players that can score but for us to be successful we got to guard at a high level have game plan discipline and respect your opponent and I think we’ve respected our opponents throughout and you know this is a

Championship caliber team historically who is going to respond to runs and they’re a great third quarter team so we just wanted to kind of you know stem the tide and and then run away and get a victory in a row you know mentioned the the chemistry of this team really coming

Together over this last month do you feel like now this this is you guys are starting to hit your stri and this is the time for you guys to make a run and be that team that makes the playoffs and becomes an Contender now uh we just got

To continue to put together good days man we got goals that we want to accomplish collectively winning on the road is is a part of the process beating teams under 500 is a part of the process and then continue to play at a high level um when you’re playing against

Teams over 500 so this will be a good road trip for us and this will be a good month for us to kind of see where we’re at and kind of gauge what we need to improve on and what we can continue to do better

New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum speaks to the media following the team’s win over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday, January 10, 2024.

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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
Brandon Ingram #14 Forward
Herbert Jones #5 Forward
Kira Lewis Jr. #13 Guard
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

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