Willie Green talks Western Conference standings, upcoming Suns game | New Orleans Pelicans
From that kind of the focus in fil um we got off to a great start the biggest focus is that we got to continue to up our level defensively rebound the ball make make sure we’re communicating challenging shots and then offensively playing fast playing with Force sharing the basketball obviously our ability to
Drive the ball and get kick out threes uh was great last night will we have close the Western conferences in the middle how important are games like this tomorrow all of these games are important to Point um it it’s extremely close and very competitive in the west
Of season so you know you just continue to take it game by game reevaluate where you are and uh we look at the positives and then try to add a couple areas that we can improve and we talked about it last night but going from 23 threes
Attempted to 25 made in the next game I gu before you’re watching it what’s kind of the cause of such a a big gap from game to game for you guys sometimes well we we sometimes we just fall into these moments where we don’t take them uh and
We come back back the next day we watch it on film we talk about it and we we to the guys credit they’re more you know responsive in the fact that they get on the floor and they look for each other and they’re willing to take those
Shots we we’re trying to be more consistent and I feel like we’re getting better at taking threes attempting threes especially Corner threes obviously the last time the suns were here in New Orleans uh couple entertaining games really good games obviously for the Pelicans what just always makes this match up between the
Pelicans and the Sun so entertaining your well they they’ve been a highly competitive team for the last five or so years uh different team than they were though now you know different coach uh added Kevin Durant and you know different players I think booger is the
Only guy left from the team that we played last season uh but we still anticipated being a highly competitive game and we look forward to the challenge for sure you mentioned KD I mean what’s what’s it going to take to limit him tomorrow night you got to make
Everything tough on him and you got to make him work on both ends of the floor he’s going to catch the ball he’s going to get some some shots just make every shot difficult for him and make him have to work for everything when he touches the floor you noticed how well they’
Played since they’ve become fully a fully healthy team now with Bradley Devon and uh Kevin yeah I mean that’s the key is is for most of these teams is when you can be fully healthy you can figure out what you have and sort of like us you know when we were able to
Get to full strength you know we’re we’re more dynamic team on both ends of the floor and they’re doing the same thing they’re getting better and better as as they get healthy but uh like I said we look forward to Friday night’s match up and it should be a fun game to
Be a part of you talked about how you like having a 10 man rotation and Jordan’s replace I guess looks like Jose Alvarado for the time being have you had to have any kind of conversations with Jose just for the time being that this is how it’s going to be for right now
Absolutely we’re we’re in constant communication about his role his importance to our team like I said said before all of these guys have earned an opportunity to play Jose included and uh it’s just hard to play that many guys and be productive on the basketball floor so right now we giving this group
A look and my communication with Jose is continue to do what you’ve been doing you know stay positive we’ll continue to talk about it and it usually comes back around so he’ll get another opportunity for sure and now you had a chance to to
Look at it for a few games what are you noticing in those minutes when it’s Z Trey and haulk out there together and how they’re kind of execute more spacing more spacing and Z’s attacking he’s kicking out he’s trusting and um we we’ll continue to look at it
But we like what we see so far really is Larry n okay he took a bit of a shot from romelo last night then he came out of the game yeah he’s he was fine he went through a full practice today
New Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green’s post-practice interview on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center.
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Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
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Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
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E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
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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
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That’s good thou,take charge Coach trust your eye, just make sure Jordan become a more solid aggressive defender but more importantly than that trust him to grow into that and his body💪🏿💯