LIVE: Pelicans vs. Jazz Pregame w/ HC Willie Green 1/23/2024

LIVE: Pelicans vs. Jazz Pregame w/ HC Willie Green 1/23/2024

Hey how y’all doing pretty good pretty rare during the season you get this many days off how do you take advantage of the of the time and and able to get in the gym and and practice try to have a good balance with rest and work and um

We had a good day off you know still short practices but we we can get a lot accomplished uh in an hour 15 so you know get up and down a little bit work on some Concepts some things that we’re doing well a few areas that we can

Improve in and you know continue to watch film and and just grow and and have an opportunity to use these days uh to catapult you into the next few games four time you played this team you know they were all tough games uh is getting on the defensive glass really the big

Key to to trying to get this team yeah they do a great job of offensive rebounding um they’re playing well you know picking up some momentum getting some wins uh they have shooting with marketing and oen and Clarkson and and those guys um toughness with Dunn and

And Colin seon so you know they’re they’re a well-rounded team they play hard they play together and uh you you got to bring it against this against this team yeah it’s just been a team that uh has been a challenge for guys each of the past two seasons or anything

Like you can look at as like why this is uh one of the tougher match ups for you uh just just the way they play they space the floor um they have guys that can play multiple positions and they just continue to come at you all game

Long and any team that puts on their hard hat and play like that they’re going to present problems for teams uh every night and and a credit to the the Jazz they do that you first got them kind of first began to turn I think they

Were 4 and 11 when first what do you see as you look at them and how they’ve evolved since that first week you played them twice to where they are today I think that the continuity is there and um they’ve just they’ve grown more confident as they’ve had an opportunity

To work together get healthy as a team they’ve gotten more confident as the season progressed and um they’re just they’re building on the momentum they had last season and uh we’ve asked you this a couple times just year just about the the scoring explosion in the league last

Night we saw 70 from 60 from C just it like just seeing how much the game has changed and how offense is is so different than it was even like five years oldo yeah I think it’s great for uh fans to to watch the game and see the

Scoring at the level that it’s at um I go back to 2005 finals San Antonio and Detroit I think the score was like 79 to 85 or something like that final score so you know it the game has evolved to the to the point where you have talented guys

They can can score um the league wants more scoring you know teams are still playing defense but it’s tough to stop some of these guys with the way that they get to the foul line and and how talented they are and we know you down

To your cor you want to be a good defensive team you prioritize that just how hard is that to to be a good defensive team in today’s NBA with the score and the way the game effici yeah you know is definitely a challenge but um it’s Collective it’s not one guy

Going out there and locking down everybody it’s collectively that has to be your mentality as a team that we have to do this together we have to help each other um throw different looks at certain guys and and look give them credit sometimes you do all of that and

They still end up with 40 50 70 whatever it is so um you know but that’s just the way the NBA is is set up right now but we do want to maintain a good defensive Foundation because we feel like it can help us in the long run I believe in the

Last 10 games you’re the third best off the NBA What’s um the biggest thing is sharing the basketball playing with force and our spacing and um when we do those things we give ourselves an opportunity to be good offensively is there sort of a sticker shock to how good those

Offenses got so like you know 10 years ago if you scored 110 points in game high offensive game has there been like an adjustment from you or just in general where you’re like you know what that was a good defensive night they only scored 110 yeah know you definitely

Leave the game feeling like that if a team scores 110 on you that was a good defensive night I mean you know the way the game is evolved like I said that the three ball is so important you know getting to the paint and finishing at the basket getting to the free throw

Line getting Second Chance opportunities all the teams are doing the same thing and they’re looking at those numbers and we’re trying to um build our teams around the way that you can score more and and that’s what we’re seeing in the NBA not to put you on the spot uh about

A pier but have you seen anything like what has happened in Milwaukee where you know they’re 30 and 13 uh they’re letting go of a coach midseason acoss any score like um I mean not off the top of my head I have him but you

Know it’s kind of the world we live in in in professional sports well everyone talks off disos but I haven heard a lot of people talk about the coaching and that’s because coaches are talking about so they’re probably humble watch every night there’s creative sets you run a bunch of great

Stuff I see coaches put things in just for a night to exploit a player and they work like how much of this is actually the offensive coaching in this league is super Elite it is it’s it’s extremely Elite we have some really good coaches um you know I’m I’m blessed to have JB

Casey Hill and and Fred Vincent who and Ryan Frasier who kind of work on our offense and I work with them together but we’re always looking at our team and ways that we can be um what what are we doing well first that’s number one let’s keep doing it

And then what some areas of improvement how can we take advantage of the talent that we have on our team making sure that we’re balanced and our scoring and so it it the coaching is is the coaching and and the players you know that that matters in this league for sure thank you

New Orleans Pelicans vs. Utah Jazz pregame interview with head coach Willie Green ahead of the Pelicans’ game on Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 7:00 p.m. CT during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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