Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 1.29.24

Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 1.29.24

Yeah two two bad turnovers if you remember one um we didn’t get the ball inbounds to the right guy and a broken play and the second one Chris had a it was the right decision uh they just got their hands on it we had a guy wide open

On the right of him so I wasn’t I was fine with that I didn’t think overall like uh I our guys anyone who told you you couldn’t play defense lie uh you proved that tonight uh you competed tonight and you know they got 15 points off of our turnovers if you take that

Away our half court defense was excellent and we fought tonight um I thought tonight was an offensive loss like I didn’t I didn’t think we were um Cris offensively we had stretches where the ball was humming and hopping and then we had stretches where it didn’t uh

And that’s those stretches we have to clean up but overall I was very happy think 19 points in the third quarter turnovers I think in the quarter just what you see that led to same thing um you know when the ball stuck um and we didn’t space right uh it led to bad

Stuff you know I did think that I thought in the first half the second group were got crushed and then in the second half our second group crushed theirs and you know we talked about it at halftime uh campaign you know he’s not done this before but we told him

You’re picking the ball Up full court I thought that changed the game for us it it really did now he was exhausted and and this may be the worst place to tell someone you have to pick the ball Up full court um but uh and same thing with

Bees like bees didn’t help us a lot offensively he didn’t get a lot good shots but he fought defensively so the fight is there um that something really encouraging moving forward mentioned second unit you changed rotations a little bit Yeah second so I guess what went into your plan there to sort of

Amend things yeah I didn’t like in the first first half when we had Dam man jannis off the floor uh I thought that’s when they made their little run I know we’ve been doing that I think you can get away with that against some teams but you can’t do that against a good

Team um and so we switched it uh in the second half but even at the start of the game like Dame this is the first time he hasn’t played a full first quarter yeah yeah was that altitude in Denver or was that something you were no that was

Something we talked about uh we talked about it uh my first day um you know I really want Dame and Giannis to be in when we get into penalty uh but I don’t want Dame to be tired when we get into penalty so our our plan is to take them

Out and bring them both back in so they can end quarters you said that you felt like this was an offense loss what type of adjustments do you tell your team to make when it is going that way not much just move the ball trust each other um

The trust you know it goes in and out it’s it’s in the flux you know what’s funny it’s it’s what I saw from afar uh it was really interesting I this is exactly what I saw from TV you know uh sitting on the couch and uh the good

News there you know is very fixable because you have guys that want to get it right so um listen Dam and Yannis have played 40 games together in their life you know uh Joker and and and Murray have played you know and if you looked at the game tonight down the

Stretch they had it going our guys couldn’t get it going and that was the difference you know um I told our guys like today we’re going to spend longer shoot rounds uh we have to catch up to that you know you’re never going to catch up to that but you can get it

Better and we’re going to have to do it through practice what did you like about your defense tonight just we had fight um you know we we scrambled well uh loved our switching down the stretch getting uh you know scramming Dame out a lot um I thought Dame fought like so you

Know the cats out of the B they all proved they can do it so so now we have to do it every night is there any yeah I’m happy we we’re going you know I you know I just know for a while it’s going to be a tough like especially

Offensive calls you know I had to turn uh to Joe and DJ a lot cuz uh me and Y you know I bet three what’s that play where where Bobby you know um that it’s going to take a minute um I mean I I bet I’ve watched our offense 50 times over

The last two days yet you’re still just going to take time to have the right Rhythm to make the right calls we scored a lot out of atos um I wish we could have you know that was made my stuff but I wanted to score I’d rather score off what we run

Because they know the second and third options of those um the defensive I guess with Joker to make him work looked a little bit like last year at least the way it started did you pull from that especially the way with Brooke and and then using Bobby

And some doubl yeah Brook and Bobby double uh uh Giannis uh Gard him uh heard us when he picked that fourth foul That was cuz we were about to go to him guarding we were actually going to go small um jannis only big with with Brooke you know make Joker would have to

Guard him in transition but then he picks up his fourth foul so sometimes you have plans and you just they don’t work how did you feel like your guys responded to your coaching tonight oh they’re great they’re they’re very coachable team they’re they’re adults

You know this is not uh this team is so far I mean uh but they are they’re very coachable uh that that will never that won’t be a problem with this group um y taking 25 shots to get 25 points yeah is that kind of like the perfect that’s

Exactly what we need like he had to fight for his points tonight uh difficult points uh but he’s still really good you know um but when he takes 25 shots it means a couple things number one he couldn’t find guys the way he wanted to um and then number two that

Means he had to force a lot of tough shots that’s what our defense has to be

Postgame sound from Coach Rivers following the game on Monday.

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