Ime Udoka: I Wish Teams Guarded Tatum and Brown like Rockets When I was Celtics Coach

Ime Udoka: I Wish Teams Guarded Tatum and Brown like Rockets When I was Celtics Coach

How much of tonight was just about running out of gas as the game went on because of yesterday’s performance I think a little bit but um we were trying some different coverages and things that we haven’t worked on a ton and um that can take some energy as

Well to to execute those and so um they shot it well in the first half and we were in kind of in scramble mode a lot of times and so that’s going to take some extra energy but yeah you can say a little bit of that but um yeah didn’t love our competitiveness

When we came out in third quarter and you got to be better than that obviously down 10 or 12 at halftime still in Striking range and got ugly pretty quick from there what allowed jayen to get going the third quarter way Jaylen um I think they just we we turned it over

Some they got out on the break and I think just like I said our lack of you know competitive competitiveness at times I said that to the group is like there can be schemes there can be coverages and things like that and where you just got to guard and start with the

Competive iess and effort and so um us not getting matched up us tur the ball over a little bit and them getting out and get some easy breaks but um I think we did a better job showing him bodies in the first half and like I said it got

Ugly pretty quickly in the third quarter how do you think his first game it was good I’m happy with how he looked and it was good to knock the rust off and get ready for the rest of this road trip and um you know wanted to play him extended

Minutes a little bit even when it got out of hand and just to get just get him ready for the Philly and New York game what were the coverage tweaks talk to that just showing more of a crow for Jason more bodies on Jason and Jaylen

Early um you know por zingus mixing in pops and rolls so we can kind of rotate from there I think our rotations were really slow in the first half and like I said it take does take a lot more effort to do that and um but our rotations were

Slow behind it and allowed them to get some some early threes off the threes allow have been trending up for a little while not to this degree but up is there something that you’re seeing that isn’t the way it was earlier or has Ed to this kind of change yeah no Dylan no

Tar so what do you do you got one back but yeah get everybody fix yeah I mean that’s a big part of it and they’re two of our you know Elite Defenders but in general there has been some slippage I think with um us pursuing and getting

Over the top which we did an excellent job of early and then Alin you know bringing him up to the level and he was really good at start of the season and had dissipates little by little so we got to continue to when we can practice that and remind guys because you know

Young guys tend to slip back into some old habits and so um the practice time is good the film sessions are good but we got to execute it when game time comes speak sh a bigger picture s what did you know of him or think of him

Before you got to Houston what has he shown you over the first two or three months of the season I knew he’s a skilled big that um can do a lot of different things passing wise U scoring from different places initiating offense um got to learn a little bit more when I

Dug in to the know process of interview process and watched him a lot more and so I’m extremely happy with how he’s been and uh like I said he’s had a big jump on the defensive end to start the season but offensively he’s kind of what

I thought he was and um I would say one of the Premier low post scores in the league and surprising with some of the things he can do in the the amount of times he has an advantage on a night toight basis so very happy with how he’s been all

Year yeah I mean he fits into what they’re trying to do on the offensive end uh you know he’s uh somewhat of a deterrent down there I mean from the size perspective I think you can get into his body a little bit there and so um I think he’s trying to

Buy into the defense and being an anchor there but um obviously fits into what they’re doing offensively and with the spacing and shooting ability was experience your foras yeah I mean it’s it’s what I saw for a year anyway the way they you know are talented and can score and play um I

Didn’t love our physicality and understand understanding um how we made them a little bit too comfortable and a lot of those walk-in shots were just uncontested and so knowing that you want to try to break their Rhythm be a little more physical with them um I would loved

For people to guard them the way we guard them tonight when I was here are you glad are you glad this game it doesn’t matter to me at all face him again next Sunday this use as motivation or will you do some some different things yeah I think it will be

Some I know you know just having guys back um you know we’ll see about tar but even Dylan back in a little more comfortable and in the Rhythm himself but um it was a tough one coming off the Detroit game playing guys 40 minutes you

Know we had to fight and scrap for that one and when you’re playing Fred and certain guys that many you know it’s going to be a little you’re going to be a little more tired um tonight so although we have them on the second night of a back toback as well when they

Come to Houston um should be a little more fresher with with the days off leading into it the ball out of bounds he runs into kind of gives you a hug what was that like was on court kind of you do talk on court yeah no it’s this

Guys like I said I it’s not my first time seeing them you know we we around each other everybody’s in LA in the summer and and like I mentioned the weddings and this and that but I was just catching him honestly more than a hug he’s a strong guy we mentioned that

There wasn’t time to put in defensive adjustments you wanted you got another game in like 36 hours is it appropriate to have a schedule with the back toback followed by I mean it’s tough obviously and everybody has to go through it they just went through it with the overtime game

Against Minnesota they had to go to Milwaukee so you know we had a lighter schedule with a lot of days off where we could get practice time in early in the season and now it’s kind of catching up to us as far as you know three and four

Nights in the back Tob backs but um it is what it is everybody goes through it I think it kind of balances out and um for us it’s you know it’s getting a full day of rest 36 hours or whatever and kind of getting back on track um I think

Fred and certain guys will feel better you know you know it it it was a tough turnaround from yesterday and at times you think about wrestling guys and looking a big picture but they’re very competitive group that they all want to play when you say a lack of competitiveness or a

Lack of physicality how do you address and kind of fix those things you know going forward going into the next game yeah it’s understanding personnel and game plan we we dig in heavily to personnel and and we we say certain guys need space or want this Rhythm and this

And that and then we’re doing the opposite and falling under the three-point line on guys that shoot a lot of three-pointers you know lack of a attention to detail and just physicality that we need to have on a night toight basis which is what got us to where we

Were early in the season thanks coach thank you thank you

BOSTON — Rockets Head Coach Ime Udoka expressed dissatisfaction with how his team physically defended against Brown and Tatum, though he took into account the challenge of playing back-to-back games. Meanwhile, the Boston Celtics continued their unbeaten streak at home, securing a 145-113 win over their former coach Ime Udoka and the Houston Rockets on Saturday night.

“I would have loved for people to guard them the way we guard them tonight when I was here” Udoka said about how his team guarded Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.

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