Head Coach Jacque Vaughn after the Nets’ loss over the Clippers

Head Coach Jacque Vaughn after the Nets’ loss over the Clippers

LOVE IT, WAY TO GET AFTER IT. WE DID SOME REALLY GOOD THINGS TONIGHT. I THINK YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE FIRST THREE QUARTERS, WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD A LEAD, GOT US TO THE FOURTH QUARTER, WHERE OUR COMPOSURE AND POISE WAS TESTED, AND YOU GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR MAKING A

LOT OF PLAYS. BUT IT’S NEVER, YOU KNOW, IN MY EYES, ONE PLAY. WHETHER IT IS YOU’RE UP 18, GOING INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER, AND YOU DON’T COME UP WITH A REBOUND, AND WESTBROOK SHOOTS A THREE IN THE CORNER. NOW IT’S 15. SO ALL THE PLAYS MATTER FOR US THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE

GAME. YEAH. >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR OFFENSE, COMING INTO THIS GAME BEING ABLE TO KNOCK DOWN SO MANY POINTS, YOU GUYS, ABLE TO KNOCK DOWN, MAKE SO MANY SHOTS, DEFENSIVELY WAS THERE ANY ADJUSTMENT THAT THE CLIPPERS DID MAKE TO KIND OF CONTAIN YOU GUYS IN THOSE LAST FEW MINUTES?

>> NO I THINK IT WAS ON US, REALLY. I THINK WE SLOWED DOWN, WHICH WAS TO THEIR ADVANTAGE. WE TRIED TO PICK OUR MATCHUPS, AND JUST THE NBA IS THE NOT GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO DO THAT. THEY WERE ABLE TO LOAD UP AND START BLITZING US A LITTLE

BIT, SENDING TWO PEOPLE AT A FEW GUYS. BUT WHEN WE WERE PLAYING FAST AND MAKING THEM REACT TO US, WE HAD THE ADVANTAGE. WHEN WE SLOWED THE BALL DOWN IN THE FOURTH QUARTER AND LET THEM USE THEIR SIZE, LENGTH AND STRENGTH AGAINST US, THIS IS WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN,

THIS IS WHAT I TOLD THE GROUP. >> YOU CORRECTLY POINTED OUT IT’S NOT ONE THING, A BUSTED COVERAGE OR BLOWN CALL. WHEN YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES LIKE THAT, WHERE YOU GUYS DIDN’T SEEM TO HAVE A MENTAL RESPONSE, A WAY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO STAUNCH THE BLEEDING, HOW DISAPPOINTING IS THAT THIS

DEEP IN THE SEASON THAT A RUN LIKE THAT COULD GO ON THAT LONG WITHOUT A RESPONSE? >> OH, I THINK IT JUST TELLS THAT YOU OUR GROUP IS STILL LEARNING LESSONS, SO WHETHER IT’S BEING ORGANIZED AFTER A FREE THROW, WHICH YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO BE ORGANIZED

AND GET INTO A SET, GOUT THAT PIECE OF IT. WHETHER IT’S TAKING THE SHOTS THAT YOU WOULD NORMALLY TAKE THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE GAME THAT YOUR TEAMMATES EXPECT TO YOU TAKE, THAT PIECE OF IT. WHETHER YOU’RE UP SIX, WHETHER YOU’RE DOWN SIX. SO THOSE ARE LESSONS FOR US TO

LEARN, ESPECIALLY ON THE ROAD AGAINST A REALLY GOOD TEAM. >> DEFENSIVELY, YOU GUYS KIND OF HELD QIE AND GEORGE IN CHECK A LITTLE BIT, BUT THEN HOW WAS QIE ABLE TOE GET GOING OFFENSIVELY AGAINST YOU GUYS? >> YEAH, I THINK SOME OF THOSE FREEBIES, SO WHETHER WE MISSED

A SHOT AND THEY WERE ABLE TO GET KNOCKOUT TRANSITION THIS GROUP DOESN’T REALLY GET KNOCKOUT TRANSITION, THEY PLAY PRETTY SLOW AND METHODICAL AND GET IN THEIR SETS. I THINK THEY TOOK OVER ADVANTAGES, 20-SOME FAST BREAK POINTS TO GET OUT AND RUN, SO THAT PIECE, GET THEM GOING LAYUPS-WISE, AND AT THE END OF

THE DAY THOSE DUDES ARE SHOT MAKERS AND MADE SOME TOUGH SHOTS, GIVE THEM CREDIT. >> DEFENSIVELY YOU’VE BEEN IMPROVING SINCE THE PARIS TRIP, BUT TO GIVE UP A RUN LIKE THIS HOW I GUESS DISAPPOINTING AFTER YOU GUYS MADE SO MANY STRIDES DEFENSIVELY THE LAST THREE OR FOUR GAMES OR SO?

>> YEAH, I THINK WE MADE STRIDES TONIGHT ALSO, IT’S NOT ALL OR NOTHING. THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS YOU CAN SAY WE WERE PRETTY GOOD, WE GAVE UP 40-PLUS POINTS IN THE FOURTH. SO THAT PIECE OF IT, SO I THINK THERE WERE SOME GOOD THINGS THAT WERE DONE TONIGHT THAT WE CHALLENGED OUR GROUP

W. UNFORTUNATELY NIC GOT THE IN FOUL TROUBLE THAT HURT US A LITTLE BIT ALONG THE WAY, BUT IT DOESN’T TAKE AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT WE GOT BETTER TONIGHT AND WE ARE GETTING BETTER DEFENSIVELY. >> FOR THREE AND A HALF QUARTERS YOU GUYS PLAYED WITH A LOT OF PACE.

BOTH IN HOW YOU WERE RUNNING AND ALSO HOW YOU SCRAMBLED DEFENSIVELY. IN YOUR MIND, DID YOU GUYS SLOW DOWN? OR DID THEY DO SOMETHING TO SLOW YOU DISMOWN. >> NO WE SLOWED DOWN. WE SLOWED DOWN, TRIED TO MANIPULATE MATCHUPS. AND THAT’S NOT GOING TO WORK. NOT FOR OUR GROUP. WE CAN TRY IT.

AND SEE IF WE CAN BEAT DUDES ONE ON ONE, AND BUT THAT’S NOT HOW WE BUILT OUR LEAD. THAT BALL WAS PINGING AROUND. THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHO TO GUARD. MULTIPLE ACTIONS. RANDOMNESS. THAT PIECE OF IT GIVES YOU THE ADVANTAGE, WHETHER IT’S A CLOSEOUT, WHETHER IT’S A BLOWN COVERAGE.

BUT IF YOU LINE UP AND YOU AND I JUST SWITCH ANDRE STAY IN FRONT OF ME, THERE ARE SOME LONG, STRONG DUDES ACROSS THIS

Head Coach Jacque Vaughn breaks down the Nets matchup against the Clippers.

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