Mike Brown on Kings’ Q4 collapse to Suns: ‘We couldn’t score … We couldn’t guard’ | NBA on ESPN

Mike Brown on Kings’ Q4 collapse to Suns: ‘We couldn’t score … We couldn’t guard’ | NBA on ESPN

You got to give Frank Bogle and the entire Phoenix Suns team a lot of credit uh the reality of it is they went small uh and we couldn’t score uh we couldn’t score inside uh KD did a heck of a job uh or we took some bad shots I thought we

Drove in traffic two or three times and instead of playing the way we normally play you drive the ball you touch the pain if help comes play off of two and spray it uh we try to go for the foul and shoot over uh two or three guys at

The Rim um and then we took some tough threes and they forced us into tough threes uh we had no Pace in the half court to end the game uh we were holding the ball a lot and so uh their ability to play KD at the five and still match

Up with us uh because we couldn’t score uh really slowed us down and we have to figure that out because that’s happened to us in the past so great great uh Learning lesson for us all uh and and then on top of the tough shots and the

Inability to score in the paint uh Andor spray the ball at the right time uh we just we just kept turning it over we had some bad turnovers I thought we were really uh lazy a couple of times with the ball instead of making sure we were

Passing on time passing on target with two hands and and uh it was just a recipe for what uh what happened and uh hopefully it uh it’ll be something that we can learn from uh in the future because we’re going to face teams that

Uh that uh go small and put a small guy on domas like that first half then I’m sorry the last thing too is they were able to hit threes down the stretch because uh they had five Shooters on the floor five Playmakers and we didn’t want

To switch a guy like domas on to uh Devin Booker or switch a guy like domas on to Katie so we had to Blitz and we couldn’t switch one through five to just keep bodies in front of bodies and and when we’re blitzing were running all over the place and they got great

Shooters and they made us pay when we blitzed but go ahead uh I mean total opposite in terms of those halves I think the first half was 23 assists and three turnovers how how tough was it watch to to watch that just kind of unravel over the course of especially

Again I I thought we played a a pretty good we played a good 42 minutes of of a basketball game so they’re they’re a really good team they got three 20 plus SC on their team so you know they’re going to go on a run uh we’re going to

Make some mistakes we had three turnovers at the half okay uh so you know that’s going to happen what was disappointing is the stuff that I said in the last six minutes you know we took some tough shots at The Rim we couldn’t score at The Rim uh instead of just

Continuing to move the ball and move bodies um everything was really really really stagnant offensively uh we turned the ball over and then on the flip side uh you know we couldn’t we couldn’t guard them defensively we had to Blitz uh because like I said we we we couldn’t

Just switch one through five to to counter because all they were do was coming down and playing pick and roll they were putting domus in the pick and roll and and daring us to Blitz and and uh so we did and uh they moved they just

Moved the ball and and shot open threes and made them at the right time so I I mean I I I got to say that I I I I’m pleased I was pleased with our guys and what they did up to a certain point in

The game and then the last 6 to seven minutes you got to give uh Phoenix credit because uh they did everything that they needed to do to win a game and and we we we did not finish the game like I know we’re capable of that’s what’s that’s what makes it

Tough more King social um you not going to like this map Tim Reynolds Sons were down 22 have we said with 810 left and the beat the Kings it’s the biggest fourth quarter comeback in the NBA since the [Applause] Bubble

Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown addressed the media following the Phoenix Suns’ improbable 22-point fourth quarter comeback to defeat the Kings, 119-117, to mark the biggest Q4 comeback since 2020.

(Courtesy: “Kings/NBC Sports California”)

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