Willie Green recaps win over Dallas | Pelicans-Mavericks Postgame Interview 1/13/2024

Willie Green recaps win over Dallas | Pelicans-Mavericks Postgame Interview 1/13/2024

Congrats coach thanks what does this say about your team’s medal resiliency to oh yeah yeah you know first of all just grateful um thanking God to for for the opportunity to coach these guys we we we got a ton of depth and uh Griff and his team have done an amazing job of

Bringing the High character guys that come in every day and work with the coaching staff the performance team and get better and it was displayed tonight and um it show it says a lot says a lot about this team the mental toughness to

Be able to get in late and um not use it as an excuse and go out and just lay our effort on the floor um we’re extremely proud of him career night for Hawk Jose Kim up in the postgame interview and yell was not your average rookie put on

Your analyst hat for me what did you see out of Haw and perhaps speak to the growth from the beginning of the Season till now he was terrific um he was locked in from the very start of the game um the game his game plan discipline was

Off the charge his ability to hit shots but not only hit shots just continue to make the right play on both sides of the basketball he’s getting better better and better before our eyes and um he’s making my job extremely difficult yonas one ofed two starters to

Play last night and tonight when he goes out and battles like that sets a tone like that what does that do for the rest of your young Squad it sets the tone right away JV is is uh he’s one of our leaders and he’s a

Tough dude and you see it right he he wasn’t going to miss this game to save his life and um he went out and battled you know difficult first half you know for him individually but he he got it together in the second half we we went

To him in a post and he really anchored our offense uh towards the end of the game since offense came in he’s just seemed you know pretty unfaced by speed of the game I mean what have you just thought about I guess his his overall approach you guys talk to

You he’s a Hooper um and that’s what we’re seeing but his approach is that he wants to play and he’s showing that every time he gets an opportunity he is displaying it and uh like I said he’s making my job difficult which is you know you want that you want guys that

Make it hard for you and they come in every day and they look to get better and they’re carving out space and time for themselves and we don’t win this game without his scoring and his ability to to make plays for us I mean how do

You manage as a coachable I got a lot guys you can play there’s only n or 10 I have no idea how we’re going to manage it but you know we’ll that’s that’s that’s the fun part we’ll figure it out and um continue to communicate to our

Players that they all have helped us win games and that’s the key is just continue to do the things that help us win you give a fist pump there at the got that yeah you praise this team all year for just the the way they battle through adversity just just you know how

Much that kind of add to your belief in them the way they perform tonight it’s a huge confidence booster and you need some wins like this um when you have guys out and other players get an opportunity to step up and play a bigger role and it it just boosts the

Confidence of our team and then for me I love our ability to be mental mentally tough um tough G game in Denver coming off a loss we get in at 4 in the morning um and we got to show up tonight and and play against a really good

Dallas team and our guys went out and battled and that’s the that’s the key now we got to turn around and do it again but we’re going to celebrate this one just just consistently getting good minutes now from Larry as well how much does that add to you guys just having

You know that guy behind JV coming off the bench Larry is so important to our team on both ends of the floor uh first defensively his ability to switch m screens um to provide some shot blocking and rebounding and then offensively we put the ball in his hand sometimes at

The top of the floor and he becomes a point guard orchestrating our offense making the right plays and then a lot of times we’re driving getting to the paint and we’re throwing it up to him for finishes so it’s great to have Larry back have him healthy and and playing

Some of his best basketball speaking of doing it again coach we talked pregame about it being this baseball Series assuming the four guys who didn’t go tonight can go Monday does that give you some sort of can you use that as some sort of competitive advantage to have

Those fresh guys that the Mavs haven’t seen yeah I I definitely hope so I think that you know having some fresh legs um next game will be extremely helpful for us and you know but this is the NBA this this is what it’s like you know you you

Win a game you get to enjoy it and then you got to turn around and you know game plan again for those guys I thought our coaches did a great job of of having the guys ready to play play Coach jiren Collins and Casey Hill they did a great

Job with with the game plan and to our guys credit they executed it you mentioned uh as the game went on going to JB and the post more what was it in the game that allowed you guys to actually like do that down the stretch was it like just like kind of Hawk

Shooting the way he’s been shooting that open up things for him well we we we went to it once and we saw right away that they were double and JV and what it does is it it allows us to orchestrate shots from the post and even though he

Didn’t necessarily get the shots himself because they’re doubling they’re they’re in rotations now so now you got guys going to the basket you got Shooters in front of them and it’s up to JV just to to make the right plays which he did as you guys like play different sets of

Games like how much of it is it where you like test opponent defenses in that kind of situation you’re like oh like you know we gave the ball JV this is how they’re going to play it like is there some kind of like discovery that happens across games where you’re trying to

Figure out how they’re and like attack certain situations we watched him from last game so we knew that they more than likely they’re they’re going to double him in the post they did it last time we played them and um it’s it’s a way for us to generate offense with with JV once

Again you throw it to him he’s going to score get to the foul line or we trust him to make the right play coach Dallas ends the first half on a 14 and three run take like a six-point lead but you guys come right back uh and kind of

Punch them back in the mouth Jordan Hawkins and Kyrie kind of go back and forth a little bit can you speak to like the maturity of the young guys that kind of do that usually young team kind of fold and almost like yeah um these these guys are they’re young but they’re

They’re exper they have some experience playing in big games all of them played in big games in college and um it’s it’s definitely something that we look at and when they went on the Run we didn’t we didn’t Panic at all we know that it’s a

Long game Let’s lock in let’s execute um I wanted to make sure I use some of my timeouts to to get our guys some rest uh but they you know give them the credit you know all of our guys Jose nii dice herb JV Hulk Kyra JRE all those guys

Came in Larry and they executed over and over again and that’s what it takes to win Jordan Hawkins and and JB uh almost like a Twan uh you know JB would get it in the post but he’d kick it right back out to Jordan but he reposted you talk

About a young guy seeing that hey yeah I I didn’t swing it let me give it right back to him doesn’t that say like this this young rookie is matur in front of our eyes for sure for sure and um it’s beautiful to watch uh he he he does a

Great job of coming in working with Coach Cory Brewer watching film they’re on the floor um working on this offense but also on the defensive side he’s getting better and better he knows that he’s got a guard to stay on the floor and he fought he battled his tail off tonight

When you know at the end of the game they seemed to be running Hawk off the line a lot uh he was able to get downhill and get to the free throw line a lot is that something you guys were actively like instructing him is that something that’s like natural to his

Game or is it you know like part of the film that you’re talking about it’s a little bit of a little bit of all of it but really it’s him is he understands that okay I’ve made six threes tonight probably turned down a couple open ones but they’re running out they running out

To me I’m going put it on the floor and attack okay thank you

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green’s postgame interview after the Pelicans’ game against the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday, Jan. 13 during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
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Herbert Jones #5 Forward
Kira Lewis Jr. #13 Guard
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CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
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Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
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