Mark Daigneault TALKS after OKC Thunder BEAT Minnesota Timberwolves
Question coach Nick Al casy Thunder uh Mark your defense held him to just 14 points in the fourth quarter uh what did you like about the way that your shell kind of all worked together in that last quarter yeah I thought um we just had great you know resilience tonight uh
It’s one thing you know to defend like that but it’s another when you’re shooting the ball so poorly you know we just we had a really hard time cracking and they played great defense in the second half uh and I thought even the group to start the fourth we just had a
Really hard time scoring but we were able to string together stops and it kind of kept the lead at whatever it was eight or nine uh and then we loosened him up a little bit Midway through the quarter we had scored him 23-9 I think down the stretch um but I just thought
Our ability to defend despite an imperfect night you know showed great mental toughness by our team this is the 25th time in the last two seasons so season and a half really that you guys have come back from a double digit deficit and one is there a muscle that
That you guys over the course of of time here have been able to build up to have that type of patience and resilience and faith that you’re talking about yeah I just we just want to be a 48-minute team you know and we want to play through the
Finish Line regardless of circumstance I thought a couple years ago when we lost a lot of games by a lot of points I thought we we did a great job of playing all 48 minutes and uh it kind of set a tone for the type of team we wanted to
Be and uh now we’re carrying that forward you know and showing great you know like I said mental toughness to just run through the finish line on a game that was really really tough you know they put a ton of pressure on us tonight obviously Mark you don’t you
Don’t force I think you force one turnover in the third versus you know the other quarter fourth and like six seven eight slow the game down to make it like an especially nasty half court game and then you force I think seven in the fourth just what do you see you guys
Get back to in that fourth quarter to to kind of change that aspect of it yeah I I mean we obviously got off to a great start both ends uh and then we we were like in mud in the middle of the first half you you know we started and
Finished the half pretty well third quarter was similar you know they just they tightened things up on you and it got hard for us you know they they really force you into tough shots and they’re a great defense so um you know I thought the the turnovers were just
Defense you know our activity it’s never a goal of ours you know turn people over it’s a goal of ours to make teams uncomfortable and I think that might yield turnovers at times but fourth quarter we were on it we were really active but the game was tough you know
We really had to stay in it the whole time yeah I guess like you can call that that finish like relatively strange between the the L foul an missing those three free throws just what was your point of view during that that final sequence yeah I mean we were we were
Going to file up three and they Advanced it with a pass you know you hope to make them catch it in the back court it’s a good lesson for us um you hope to make them catch in the back court so you can give it while they’re dribbling um you
Know and they Advanced it it was kind of a weird play I just didn’t think we calibrated it uh and then we filed them obviously not good execution by us great execution by them um and then you know he missed the first one and at that
Point it became about the rebound um and you know I just thought we hung in there you know we weren’t perfect we missed some free throws down the stretch we shot 39% from the floor but I thought for the most part you know we just had
Great resilience like I said at the end of a long road trip and we’ve talked like early in a road trip just about Shay’s efficiency and and maybe people questioning you know whether this week was to the standard he’s he’s played all season and then in the fourth quarter
Tonight he he goes four for six has 11 points I just wonder what you saw from him late and just the kind of that version that he can get back to of himself yeah I mean he’s obviously a great player um you know there’s 82
Games you know we’re in the middle of a this is a month you know in terms of travel opponents uh the tightness of the games you know five and seven we have two five and sevens we have multiple back Tob backs it’s a lot of different
Cities uh no one’s feeling great and no one’s feeling great in the NBA you know this isn’t unique to us like I’ve said before the game but um I just thought we just show great toughness tonight you know we just kind of it was mind over
Matter um him included but it was really everybody and it really was just defense rebounding the rebounding was outstanding against obviously a huge team so um great win for us this is the the fourth straight opponent just a high level opponent really intense game just with this road trip in particular what
What can you guys kind of take away and learn from these these four different games here yeah we’re going to be a better team because of these games you know including the losses you know the Lakers loss uh was a game where I thought we were a little off track and
They did a really good job planning for us the Clippers loss was a game that they controlled the whole time we were able to stay in it but we saw you know a a real scheme in that game um the Utah you know obviously they were white hot
Coming into the game and then tonight you know they speak for themselves with the season they’re having so um those are great barometer games you find out kind of What You’re Made Of they don’t always feel good you know it feels great when you’re like zipping it around
Scoring 130 points but um you know you have to be able to execute you know in in games like this and I thought you know they brought the best out of us tonight and um you know we have to learn the lessons from all these games and
Continue to plow forward here we got a lot of season left job Mark is is there something that you see from your group when they are down especially in the fourth quarter in terms of what brings about that resilience I guess or the the mindset
And the mentality to not let go of a rope to not you know and to really kind of dig in the way they seem to do yeah their their AFF effect is always kind of the same you know up down you know they’re they’re very even um you know
From a temperament standpoint which I think suits the NBA well there’s a lot of ups and downs in a game there’s a lot of ups and downs in a season um and then the other thing it goes back to what you asked before the game you know in terms
Of the connection of the team um you know we win together we lose together we struggle together we come together in adversity I mean they they just do everything together and that’s a beautiful thing um including when it’s struggle and you know when we’re knocked down I mean it’s
Not a perfect season and uh there’s a lot of adversity but uh they endure that stuff together and you know the answer to your question is is the togetherness of the team you know and they kind of stay in character on that you know pretty consistently and what was the key
To limiting Edwards opportunities I mean he only had 10 shots I think he was stuck in single digits for most of the game what what worked well to just at least keep them from going off yeah team effort uh it’s always a fiveman defense for us you know systematically and also
It’s always got to be a fiveman defense against a player of his caliber we have great respect for his talent and what he’s capable of um so it’s that and then it’s Dort you know D’s D’s something else man you know he’s he’s an irritant you know I don’t think people like
Playing against him um and you know similar to what I was saying before the game on chat you know he he’s he’s going to take punches he’s boxing against the heavy weights of the NBA every night uh but he just eats them you know eats the
Punches and he keeps coming and uh it’s impressive to watch night after night you know and I thought you know he was into the game tonight for sure anybody else thanks coach thank you Guys
Mark Daigneault TALKS after OKC Thunder BEAT Minnesota Timberwolves
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