LIVE: Pelicans vs. Hornets Pregame w/ HC Willie Green 1/17/2024

LIVE: Pelicans vs. Hornets Pregame w/ HC Willie Green 1/17/2024

Sure sure nothing to you from Detroit huh uh when you flip on the film what do you see lamelo ball bringing to this Hornet Squad versus last Adam yeah um I’m G answer that question just before I do though my heart my heart and our prayers uh is going out to the Warriors

And their staff and their organization and coach uh milich’s family um devastating news and um where we all feel it um just young um 46 years old and uh just want to make sure I mention that before before we get going that uh you know that’s just we have to enjoy

Life it is definitely not promised and um just want to make sure we we send our thoughts and prayers to them so did you know him from your time there I didn’t know him but uh I I still know a lot of the coaches there and they talked about him and and

Raved about his his personality his presence and what he meant to the players and the coaching staff and the organization so um as far as lamelo and the impact he’s having on this Hornet Squad uh he’s a he’s a dynamic talent and um you know I’m sure that they’re

Glad to have him back uh you know 67 can handle you know point guard can see over the defense uh can shoot the ball as a playmaker so he he’s you know you have to make sure that you keep him in check um from from the start of the game

Because he he makes their team go Brandon Miller questionable but if he goes tonight defensive priorities from uh three-point line on him yeah he’s another young uh talented player that you know can get it going um on both ends of the floor he’s solid he he can

Knock down shots he gets his his mid-range and so you know for us it’s about coming out with a a defensive mindset first we continue to talk about it and then that allows us to have a better offensive game when we can get stops and rebound you mentioned shoot

Around today and about the long road trip thing and coming back in that first home game back why is that why is that a thing in the NBA it just seems to be one of those deals where you might be a little flat coming out I think it’s

Human nature it’s fatigue you you’re gone away for a long time and then you come back home and you know it’s just you’re trying to resist your own human nature to be fatigued and um that’s just a part of the NBA every team has to go through it where they’re they’re gone

Graph on on a road trip and then they come home and it’s like that first game back it’s it’s it’s always a tough game so you know we we have to resist that as best we can and go out and and continue to execute played uh 10 guys on in Dallas on Monday

Um do do you feel like with the rotations you want to give that like a couple of games is that something that could like change from from game to game just where you at there yeah I think it’ll change from game to game but I like 10 during the regular season you

Get a chance to see um what all your your substitution guys can do you get to mix some mix up some rotations um and then as we progress you know we may talk about you know being at nine or what have you but right now it’s really game

To game we got 11 guys in in our minds that 11 plus that can come in and help us so and we’ve seen Matt Ryan do like some shooting some jogging just off to the side is there anything you can say just about how he’s progressing yeah

He’s getting better and better um like you said he he’s he’s on the floor now he’s shooting he had a one-on-one game recently um so he’s getting there he’s getting closer and obviously CJ is a good shooter but just what are you seeing just the way yall are operating

Offense and the way he’s playing that’s allow him to shoot such a high percentage on three three-pointers this season yeah I I think it goes back to CJ’s offseason commitment he was committed to being in Elite conditioning U he was in the gym four or five days a

Week multiple times a day and it’s it’s led to his efficiency this season and and his he he gets an opportunity to play off bi and Z’s gravity and when those guys are pushing and attacking the paint he’s the recipient of their kickouts and he’s shooting the ball at a

High level it seemed like uh at the end of that Denver game and throughout that Dallas game Z had a different type of Bounce in the step just the way he was moving around what are what are you seeing just the way he’s looking out there physically and just how he’s

Progressed throughout the season well I’ve seen him get better uh and and really it’s it’s on on the defensive end I’ve seen him make strides defensively make strides rebounding the ball and um when he’s attacking on both ends of the floor he’s tough to deal with and as the

Game progresses the last couple games that you mentioned I’ve seen him you know get it going more and more as the game has progressed and and we need that from him Willie you talked about after yesterday’s practice late game execution was a big part of that practice is that

The biggest priority right now in trying to get that turned around trying to you know those minutes uh it’s definitely one of them you know I try to be careful uh as a coach we have a tendency to want to fix everything and you know we definitely

Want to highlight some of the things that we’re doing well we we still chopped the season up in in 10 game increments and so we went seven and three in in the last 10 um our defense was ranked first offense six so we’ve done some things well but that’s an area

That we continue to look at because because we know we can improve and take major steps if we take care of the basketball and make our free throws okay thank you

New Orleans Pelicans vs. Charlotte Hornets pregame interview with head coach Willie Green ahead of the Pelicans’ game on Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 7:00 p.m. CT during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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