Willie Green talks getting Zion Williamson involved early | New Orleans Pelicans Practice 1/22/24

Willie Green talks getting Zion Williamson involved early | New Orleans Pelicans Practice 1/22/24

What’s the reaction been like back home just seeing Detroit make it all the way to nness Champ it’s um it’s history for us we haven’t done it in a long time and it’s great for the city of Detroit happy for the all of the fans there and the

People and obviously happy for Dan Campbell to coach there and and the Lions players and the organization has been fantastic to watch and and be supportive of you remember where you were the last time they won the playoff game what was it 1991 like was I I don’t

Know where I was uh I’m sure Barry Sanders is probably playing around that time but N I don’t remember you’re Big Barry guy growing up I was I was I was and still am yeah you talked about just with these off days just having more time to to

Work on stuff kind of what’s been the focus now that y’all been able to get up and down a little bit in practice um mix being really tight with our defensive coverages and our rotations when we do go adjustments um making sure we reiterate the importance of taking care of the basketball

Offensively spacing um putting the ball in Z’s hands a bit more to start game so just those are some of the things we’ve been working on the last couple days what do you feel like that’s something you guys are going to try to do a little

Bit more just get the ball in Z’s hands to start games you know I think it it helps us with our spacing um on misses got we guys play we got a little bit more freedom but really when we on makes when we can get a a play call putting the

Ball in his hands a bit more to the first few minutes of the game it helps spacing it’s hard to come off bi it’s hard to to help off CJ and now he’s attacking and finding guys and getting us off to early starts you guys had a

Stretch where you’re over like 10 games where you’re one of the best if maybe not not the best three-point shooting team in the league and obviously Friday was a was a down game when you look at some of these games is it is it just a matter of missing or is there a

Difference in the quality of the three-point shots you get from game to game or you think it’s just one of those things that you can’t explain you’re right uh we’ve been shooting shooting the three-point ball well uh it’s been something that we’ve talked about one of

The concepts that we wanted to make sure we we locked in on this season proud of our guys for the what we’re doing so far uh but to your point there’s some games that you shoot them and you get the same looks you don’t knock them down that was

The case in Phoenix give them some credit they had us a bit out of Rhythm a bit stagnant offensively but we still took 42 threes um the game before we took 40 plus threes we made 25 of them against Phoenix we make 10 sometimes that’s a difference in the game it’s

Been a couple days now since you guys have played but going into tomorrow’s game how are you able to take advantage of the time off and what do you want to see from them just to kind of get back right well we all needed a day after

Coming off that stretch where we we had five games 10 11 Days on the Road come home quick turn around with Charlotte so we needed a day um it was good to get a day of rest and then we had two good days of work so what we want to see is

Our team come out with force with energy and playing with the spirit that we know we we play with for the majority of the season and take advantage of being at home the next few few games com to your point earlier I mean if you’re going to

Be a team that takes 43s like there’s just going to be variant no matter who you are I mean do you just have to like live with that and just know the nights where you make 23s there might be a night when you make nine of them or

Whatever there’ll be night like that um you still want to give yourself an opportunity to win those games by touching the paint getting to the free throw line but you’re going to have some nights where you don’t you just don’t shoot it as well as you want to and you

Know that was one of those nights against Fenix where we had some really good looks and we didn’t make him how close do you think uh Matt Ryan is to being able to play he’s getting close um we should have an update you know in the next few days but he’s getting really

Close thank you all

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green’s post-practice interview on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024 at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center.
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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
Brandon Ingram #14 Forward
Herbert Jones #5 Forward
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

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