Media Availability: Wes Unseld Jr., Kyle Kuzma, and Deni Avdija | 01/13/24

Media Availability: Wes Unseld Jr., Kyle Kuzma, and Deni Avdija | 01/13/24

Uh the start to to the Finish I thought we uh started the right way and played well throughout um just our overall energy uh connectivity offensively you know 30 plus assists pretty decent number on the turnovers but that ball was moving and it really helps our overall efficiency play with the right

Level of force you know on both sides pretty much defended without fouling till that fourth quarter but uh I thought we did a really good job Denny was great on uh on Trey you know made him work uh and they missed some shots you know that they probably would make

But you know that’s that’s part of it so but a credit to those guys early for setting a tone defending him and Murray uh just making making things tough for him what the same type things you know I thought we were well organized you know we did a nice job of targeting certain

Actions um things that we kind of knew going in these would these would be efficient actions for us um you know you know he and JP were really good you know not only quarterbacking but taking the right types of shots uh facilitating when necessary and I think that just

Kind of just bleeds into you know the rest of the group so they were aggressive but at the same time they were very efficient you know I think that’s that’s helpful well we did some good things honestly that’s they’re still a really good offensive team you know they hold

Them under 100 uh you expect them to shoot you know as poorly as they they uh did but um I thought our overall disposition on the ball was great we were in the right spots you know that led to some of the turnovers and fast break opportunities um you know minimized the

Offensive rebounding which I thought was great we wound up uh I think plus five or plus eight on the glass but won the offensive rebounding battle with 22 Second Chance points so we able to kind of capitalize in that area but it it was a team effort you know getting all Five

Guys on the glass and um you know minimizing some of that impact well you know it’s one of those things you know be looking at trying to get guys opportunity you know he’s been up he’s he’s been with the go at times and hasn’t gotten a ton of minutes so

You know we have him here wanted to throw him out there and see what he had and I thought he played really well took aint lead I think very early never off how proud you you guys never yeah no that’s um you know that’s something we talked about is at times

We’ve had issues you know where you kind of have a little momentum um whether you start a quarter a little bit slow or you have one of those lws that allows um you know the opposition to get a little momentum back into the game until your point we didn’t do that tonight I

Thought we stayed aggressive we came out second half and really uh kind of put our foot down a bit and stretch that lead which was you know that’s growth for us I thought he played well honestly I think um you know the pace of the game I

Think slowed for him you know as we’ve seen thus far um he’s gotten valuable minutes you know with the go- go and playing at a high level I think just getting an opportunity to play you know in a similar fashion you know I think it’s easy for him to apply now uh being

With us so you that’s paid off and he looks comfortable um there weren’t any coverage mistakes or you know I thought we were able to Cross Match a little bit and do some other things with him which were good good for us defensively so the

Fact that he could kind of take some of those things and and run with them that’s that’s great yeah I mean it’s it’s going to happen you know it’s you know those weren’t traditional matchups we’ve had in Cross Match a lot of the four uh to

Minimize some of the pick and roll um and it was good for us defensively but it put it puts him in a tough spot it’s a challenging thing for him to have to go from guarding of five to now mobile four but we want to press him and see

What he’s what he’s got what he’s capable of and I thought at times it was good um yeah maybe quite a bit you know I think just it’s an opportunity to try some different things and different lineups um you know stretch some boundaries a little bit certain guys and

And see what they have uh I think I mean defensively we held them under 100 uh for most part of the game so um probably before the game maybe I don’t know remember the score but I think um that was probably one of the hugest things we’ve done um played as a team

Defensively um this season we haven’t so um obviously shot ler than you would expect them they’re a good off how I mean they’re a little off they’re coming from a back to back Trey young hurt um I mean it is what it is you know

We’ll take a win for sure you I think for us we’ll take any win we’ll take any type of you know good Juju and I think today uh we just did a good job moving the ball uh playing together as a team and we hit shots

So uh I just try to get to it play play my game uh haven’t been playing up to my standards lately so um you know just try to go out there play free uh play for my teammates play hard run out try to get easy buckets um that’s one thing I

Really try to do tonight is try to get easy buckets a lot of times um getting the easiest of looks so um tried to find him as much as I could get to the line and um had a good game so you alluded to

It but how how much of a lift was this win how needed was this win uh I mean any win for sure you know for us we haven’t got too many of those so that was win number seven and um you know all is always better when you win so big double

Double what um being physical and don’t get easy easy uh easy stuff easy fouls cheap fouls know I feel like a lot of times he goes to the line and he draw fouls and I try to stay solid and then really like contest his like his shots and he

Struggled a little bit today feel like he struggled and uh we did a good good job like teammate my teammates were in shrinks uh everybody played defense for each other today and it was great um as T mentioned big double double what did you guys do well on boards tonight uh I

Feel like I feel like first of all everybody boxed out um you know the ball fell in my hands but I mean everybody is like a collective I feel like rebounding especially for us as a team is just like hidden bodies and uh making sure uh we box out and then

Come away with with a boards and today was me and the other day can be anybody on team so you guys been talking about kind of finding a level of consistency your energy across the board uh for sure I feel like the energy was great today honestly I felt it since the morning

Honestly I said it and after after the game um that the energy is really good the Vibe was great today I feel like everybody was positive everybody’s like work together and like that’s what helped us get this win for sure of the season was it how

Much it it’s I feel like now we hold ourselves to higher standards like we we know what we’re capable of right now you know what I’m saying like we know we can do it we know we can play in a high level um I’m not saying going to win

Every game this like throughout the season but uh for sure it can be better than what we are showing so I’m excited to get better and and um that’s it

Coach Unseld, Kyle Kuzma, and Deni Avdija spoke to the media following Saturday night’s win over the Hawks in Atlanta.

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