Chris Finch after win in Brooklyn: ‘It was a gutsy win’

Chris Finch after win in Brooklyn: ‘It was a gutsy win’

Chris just a a tense finish there but how how did you see that whole fourth quarter play out you know uh first of all good win by our gutsy win it was I mean our it’s it was phen our defense was phenomenal it was good to see that

Back all game long really um and I thought for most of the game we played really well offensively but you know this is our fourth quarters of late we just turned it over at a high volume and that was eight turnovers in the fourth quarter and they they came in pretty

Typical ways you know and then when you put some iffy shot selection on top it um that’s why things are snowballing against us and uh We’ve we’ve got to fix that or we’re not going to be able to take the next step as a as a team so

Seemed like when everyone was missing shots Carl came up with some big offense and then the lob to Rudy just how did you see him take control as yeah I mean we missed the lob the Rudy on one before I thought it was like the right play

Just uh you know the pass was a little bit of Target um and you know they’ve got a great connection and keeps growing and growing and we just needed something easy at that point in time it was pretty physical out out there there were you

Know there was a lot of holding going on and we just had a hard time separating um you know then then um you cat had the the the the drive or whatever when he gets fouled and you we just needed he had a very good game tonight and um you

I thought for the most part uh you know I was trying to go to him I didn’t think that there was a great matchup for him out there um you know and then they started you know wrestling and all that kind of stuff so probably bogged us down

A little bit but um you know yeah he he came up huge when we needed him and what was the difference defensively that did allow you to to kind of close this one out where you hadn’t been I mean they you know we held him 30% from the

Three-point line um you I thought you know we were I thought we were into him ball pressure was relentless on our Pursuit uh fought through all the you know screens uh Rudy was huge at the at the bottom of the defense for us and and we rebounded extremely well you know so

What were we doing maybe better earlier in the season when it comes to fourth quarter execution that’s not I mean we weren’t turning it over in the fourth quarter at this rate you know I think that and you know we were finding the open man we we had more movement we more

Execution um you know we were finding open guys um you know right now we’re we’re just too much ISO ball at at times and too too stagnant um you know and that that’s on me as much as on anybody else but um we need to use those situations to create gravity and then

Move off of it and and you know when they put two on the ball so were those two an shots kind of what you’re talking about when it comes to the the the iso yeah I mean absolutely yeah yeah that you were kind of talking about the

The crunch time defense before the game tonight um did you sense whether it was extra effort motivation anything along those lines or was it a point of emphasis like in huddles to say hey we haven’t been good on this end of the floor at this moment in the game Let’s

Change that no I I mean no I didn’t didn’t think that was necessary to I feel I just you know we kind of talked about the that the things we were trying to accomplish in timeouts like what we wanted to do defensively what we what were the points of emphasis were you

Know keep guarding a three-point line um you know be really clean on our switches uh that type of stuff but you know there was a sense of you know defense throughout the whole game that you know I didn’t have to kind of you know rally them to play defense so at least maybe

Fit into the the kind of mindset for all the offensive troubles the defense backto back um and you still come out here with the win kind of on the back of your defense down down the stretch yeah absolutely I mean that’s who we’ve been and um you know we uh that’s that’s who

We’ve been that’s who we have to be and you know the offense will come and go and you know the defense has to be there every single night so Chris did you see like Jaden rebounding especially in the first half seemed like give you a little

Lift too with his active defense yeah I mean I thought he was really really good tonight you know battled Bridges everywhere um again you know he got clipped off by a lot of tough screens um kept coming kept coming um you know really good really good uh effort by him

It was good to see cuz um you know ball pressure was huge by him um and that’s when he’s like that it’s it’s a big tone Setter for us

Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch reacts following win over Nets.
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