“We Can Do Something Unique Right Now. Let’s Do it.” | Rudy Gobert Postgame Sound | 01.18.24

“We Can Do Something Unique Right Now. Let’s Do it.” | Rudy Gobert Postgame Sound | 01.18.24

Good about me please I don’t know I don’t know if you deserve first three quarters you guys had a little hard time just getting your arms around it like what were you feeling in that process and what allowed you to kind of get control of it in the

Fourth I think just being resilient you know stay with it obviously we came out a little we came out a little slow uh they came out very aggressive you know uh J Jackson had a great first quarter and they were making shots you know and we they were a little too comfortable and

Uh you know um like an you know n and n all the guys came came off the bench gave us a a great boost of energy and and then second half you know we just uh we we found it you know we knew how important it was for us to to pick pick

It up uh communication the intensity and uh we did you know and uh the ball was moving we were to score our defense and uh and it’s a big win I know we’ve talked about it all season but to see Mike be able to give you what he

Does second night of a back toback and that like just how do you kind of put into words like what it is that he’s able to do at this stage of it’s invaluable you know uh the things that he does for our team and uh

You know we we don’t really look at age you know it’s more about the mindset I think when you you know whatever you put your mind to uh you can do it and you know he’s doing it he looks younger than he did uh 3 years ago in Utah you know

So he’s playing uh I mean he miss what one game this year MH uh you know playing every back to back and uh and not just playing is dominating too so uh love it love it and it’s it’s contagious he was telling us that he doesn’t know

How much longer he’s going to play and like he feels you know a real urgency to win Can You Feel The how much he wants it of course of course I mean it’s like I said you know it’s contagious and and uh you know and we always talk talk

About it you never know how you never you never know if you’re going to get another opportunity to win a championship you know uh doesn’t matter if you’re a young team if you’re a team experience you never know you know uh this league so many things happen uh you

Know you you got to embrace the moment and make make the most of every situation and I think that’s what we we’re trying to do you know and we try to you know carry that over to the to your younger guys and and you know and it’s

Fun because they embrace it you know and not trying to waste any time you know we we can do something unique right now and you know and Let’s do let’s do it guys lead the western conference right now um with the goal obviously being the winning Championship how important is

Getting the number one seed to attaining that goal for you guys um I think it’s great to be able to to have home court you know over the course of the the whole playoffs uh you know I think it’s great to yeah to to learn how to win learn how

To overcome anything that comes our way you know throughout the season which is a long season you know 82 games uh so yeah let’s keep try to win as much as we can uh and uh and obviously the most important thing more than that is to to

Be at our best you know when it matters in in April in June hopefully Ry there were I think in the third quarter back-to-back possessions where it was you and ant two man game first one was a lob to you and the next one he went

Through and got an and one you had a big celebration after that do you feel like that’s kind of what it’s about is like the F the first one to open up something and kind of those two things kind of playing off of each other does that make

Sense I mean I keep I keep telling him you know obviously he has all the abilities to score isolation and and and you know at times we we love it but uh um I feel like when I when I do a screen for him uh it makes his life so much

Easier and it makes it so much harder for defense he he allows us to to get wide open threes to get layups to get dunks to get foul you know and um and tonight he did a great job embracing that you know making the right play not

Settling you know just attacking and uh when he does that we have I love the Synergy that we found you know it’s uh I just know when I’m R into the basket I can sit off my man give give him a layup I I know that if my man gets helped

Early get get the love if they try to double him you know he gets rid of it uh then it’s on me or whoever you know get the ball to make the right play and uh and you know if he keeps keeps doing that is our team goes to to another

Level and we have so much talent around them that uh it’s impossible to game plan against I mean whatever they can switch we punish them the the blitz with the doubling we punish them they they in the drop we punish them and at some point you know it’s demoralizing for the

Defense you guys haven’t been a high volume pick and roll team since you’ve been here but it seems like you’ve started to turn that up more and more of the last month because of those re like is that why that’s happening I just think that’s our best offense uh you

Know it’s be able to with my gravity and the screens that I’m able to set um you know it gives us an advantage immediately and uh and and and then you know like I said ant with his unique abilities he going to use that advantage and make it a bigger Advantage you know

Uh and then it’s on him to just make the right play and and stay aggressive and it’s the same with Mike it’s the same with everybody pretty much you know uh and I know who I’m screening for the the way I need to screen I know I usually

Know the coverage is so I know when to hold the screen when to get out uh it’s a science you know it’s it’s uh people don’t really pay attention to it but it’s a science and you know you know um I’ve learned over the years how to

Maximize that and when it comes to you know when when you play against teams that are much better guarding oneon-one uh it’s a huge weapon you have some nice conversations with elama out there seem like yeah yeah yeah yeah we speaking Spanish and stuff was working on my

Spanish he seem to enjoy it did it did you had a good time I mean I had a good time too you know but uh it’s a good kid I respect him awesome

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