Media Availability: Wes Unseld Jr. and Marvin Bagley III | 01/18/24

Media Availability: Wes Unseld Jr. and Marvin Bagley III | 01/18/24

I thought um you know our competitiveness the effort you know I thought we really played well and you know you give yourself a chance and they stretched it a little bit I think seven or nine and we were able to kind of respond so it showed some

Resilience um struggled to make you know some some shots but I thought our process was positive um created open looks and you know uh I can live with that where you you create easy offense or you know good offense it now becomes or Miss but I thought overall our defense was solid

And obviously Brunson had a night um he’s a hell of a player but trying to do some of the things we we talked about you know pregame minimizing Second Chance points um taking care of the paint you know we did we did some of those things two question know big night

For Marvin and his debut just what did you make of that and and was it an easy decision just given some of the depth issues you guys have right now to start him against maybe going small or playing uh yeah it was a uh uh very long-winded conversation that we

Had about you know how we would start but just made sense you know um size differential you know um he showed us in limited time you know practice and a half that uh he could pick things up and that’s a heck of a start for him you know um I thought

He had a well balanced game offensively defensively um you know even things that happened on the Fly I thought the group in general helped talk him through situations to keep him organized so but that’s uh that’s growth for us said the defensive lingo pregame was maybe the

Biggest learning still had get these F but Ste three blocks what did you make of that given you knew that was going to be part of the learning yeah I think just just his effort and energy you know his overall awareness um you know multiple effort to get uh get to the

Paint make those plays um so no credit to him he had a really good night it seemed like there was a long stretch in that fourth quarter where you guys would get it to two Brunson would score get draw a foul something do guys get frustrated like we’re doing everything

But one guys hurting us time and time again yeah it’s it’s it is frustrating and to his credit he’s he’s a hard hard one to guard um very Shifty being able to try to guard him without fouling um we Tred to get the ball out of his hands

At times um like I said it you know a little difficult for you know Marvin to do things on the Fly that we haven’t had a ton of time to practice but uh you know overall uh he got going in that fourth quarter um but first two third

Quarter I thought we did pretty good job on him was tus kind of struggled from the floor T night shooting the ball but set a new career high with assists what did you see from him tonight yeah just tus being tus I mean I’m not worried about

Him making shots he’s he shot the ball particularly from three very well this season so I think that you know just an off night in that area but to his credit quarterbacking offense keeping us organized um you know reading flow time score you know he’s done that his whole

Career and High assist low turnover guy really helps you your overall efficiency first for both teams kind of Prem think both guys shot around 20 what did you like about your defense and what was making it tough for you guys to get him on you like the looks that yeah we we

Generated quite a few in the corner you know some of those in transition um and then those are just say you just don’t knock them down but um I think when we can find those type of plays that’s positive you know and just reinforcing encouraging you know finding those

Actions I think is important regardless of you know result is not being able to play was there an idea the right situation you’re going to try to get him some run or was it you obviously run curve yeah I think um and it’s hard cuz you know you play

10 guys and you know usually nine and a half 10 is is kind of the max end of your rotation he’s going to work his way in you know that’s just the nature of the league uh minutes and opportunities will open up you know at some some point

Um but you know we’ll see how it goes I think he’s going to find his way and eventually make his way to the court what it seemed like a lot of Marvin’s baskets came on like Dives to the hoop where a guy finds him um is

That kind of where you see him thriving with this team yeah I think he’s um you know he’s shown that he’s got really good touch feel um round the restricted area the paint um you know I think he can stretch it you know his his um his

Shooting from the corners open up the three a little bit but he feels very comfortable in the pocket you know as a facilitator as a playmaker um obviously he’s finishing pretty well for for himself so uh when that ball finds him I think he he’ll make the right decision I

Think I did I did pretty good man uh kind of started off a little slow on rebounding um just trying to get in better position um but came out second half got better position and just try to go get every one that I could get and

Everything else kind of fell in line um you I wish we came out with with that win um you know over for five from the free thr line I got to be better than that I’m usually am but you know it happens you know get back to it but

Overall I think I did pretty good um just just learning on the Fly continuing to learn the system and just keep keep you know stacking days when did you find out you were starting I found out I yes probably I had idea and yesterday in practice um I was with that

With that group uh Gaff was out so uh kind of had an idea um but officially this morning um before we watch film before a shooting round I found out officially so um yeah man I was I was ready you know it was different and U

Not used to playing you know that many minutes you know this this year um coming from Detroit so you know to go out there and play it felt good and uh like I said my body’s going to adapt to it and just got to keep continuing to

Push it was a back and forth game the whole time I guess just what do you think was a difference to you um difference in what like Jack a lot of lead changes like what was the difference with the loss um I mean I think we play solid I

Think we play good defense um throughout the the um throughout the game and you know they went on runs we went on our runs and uh we give ourselves a chance to win and uh I mean when you compete like that you can live with the result

Obviously you want to win but um know we competed so that’s what’s important and then uh we going watch film and watch film on what we can do better and just keep continuing to grow with learning the new system and kind of acclimating yourself have the guys outside of film

And walkthroughs and whatnot have the guys talked to you about positioning angles screen angles all that stuff to try and put you in a position to succeed tonight yeah yeah they’ve been doing a great job at that um past couple days practice and even during the game today

In half time they they’ve been telling me um know where to be on some of the plays some of the play calls coaches was calling they telling me what spots to be in um and that helped out a lot um but yeah like I said continuing to learn the

System learning the plays um it’ll come to me quick um pretty much all of it is the same things but just call different things and now I just got to rewire my brain to kind of you know to the terms of this system and um once that once

That happens then I’ll be way more comfortable and it’ll just be more smooth when it comes to learning curve would you say you a bigger curve with the offensive side of things or the defensive side of things learning the terminology and what um I feel like offensively is the

Same thing I feel like defensively um they do a few things different here than in Detroit so um I think I did a pretty good job tonight um with the with the couple walkthroughs I had and the practice that I had so just continuing like I said rewire my mind

Wire my brain and the terminology to the this system um like I said it’ll it’ll it’ll come but day won um glad it made it through healthy glad uh we competed the way we did which we won but you know we just got to keep uh continuing to

Fight like that and build on it is there a common lingo with both systems to where maybe your brain had a moment tonight where something was called and you thought maybe this is the Detroit version of this and not the yeah I was a couple times I called things that I’m so

Used to running um you know especially on defense on the defensive end just my calls on that on that side of of the ball was uh just habit uh but you know once you know I I checked myself quick you know my the guys did a good job

Talking to me um so it’s it’s like I said just just adjusting to that and once I once I get that um I feel like it’ll I’ll be more more settled in and uh just keep getting better from there only one like guess what was your comfort level from going into the game

To where you finish like was that even like just one game just a pretty marginal difference given how much when you got uh what do you mean like just from comfort and fing did you feel like over the course of the game you just even though you still have a lot of

Learning to do like it it was even it was still becoming somewhat second nature as much as yeah no I mean it’s basketball I mean it’s the same game uh now just go out there play hard compete and um my mindset is do my best play

Hard like I said go out there and do what I can do to help the team and whatever the result is I can live with it um and that’s my mindset man as as as the game went on kind of got more comfortable and you know as playing with

The guyss and being in the right spots and um like I said those rebounding positions just kind of know figuring out where to be at I got comfortable uh as the game went on but it was it it started slowing down for me a little bit

And like I said that’ll it’ll be even more slower as I get more acclimated to you know the system and and terms and um to where I could just go out and play without even thinking about things like that

Coach Unseld and Marvin Bagley III spoke to the media following Thursday night’s matchup against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

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