Coach Malone Full Post Game Press Conference vs. Thunder 🎙

Coach Malone Full Post Game Press Conference vs. Thunder 🎙

Coach what did you feel or see change during that 20 to2 run end the third quarter into the fourth quarter yeah they’re uh you know they got Ultra aggressive obviously I thought during that stretch I mean we were it’s funny I looked we made 15 threes tonight and we

Could have made 30 we had a number of like great looks and we talked about it at halftime how every time we drive the ball there’s five guys in the paint we got to drive and kick you got to make yourselves available and I I I felt you

Know we we generate a lot of great looks that we just didn’t convert U so yeah that was a really big 24 to four run to close that third start to Fourth where they became the aggressor and they got the crowd behind it all that being said though I thought

This game c came down to our inability to Rebound in the fourth quarter they had seven offense rebounds the fourth quarter for 10 points I mean we get a couple of key stops late and they just can’t Corral the rebound so you give them extra opportunities the other thing

Is we had five turnovers in the fourth quarter for eight points so that’s 18 of their fourth quarter points uh 32 fourth quarter points that were off of offensive rebounds and turnovers so if you’re going to beat a really good team on the road you can’t have those kind of

Mishaps very very proud of our group I thought we competed we played extremely hard but you know we’re the reigning world champions there are no moral victories that’s a game that you know we had chances to win we just didn’t close it out what you sort of attribute the

The ability to flip the switch to in the fourth after that big run a lot of teams probably buck after 20 to2 or 204 244 run like that toward the end of the game you guys make a push we’re the reigning world champions man we’re not going to

Just you know lay down for anybody so we have a lot of guys that are battle tested and have a lot of Pride you see from Aaron especially without Nico here tonight just kind of the stat put up but also just the intensity yeah I mean like

Uh I really I wanted that game for a lot of our guys but I really for Aaron I thought he was just phenomenal in terms of the effort and the aggression the playmaking the shot blocking the defense um we we we asked a lot of him tonight

You know we we we played guys heavy minutes but I thought Aaron was just uh phenomenal across the board tonight and uh it’s unfortunate that we weren’t able to get the win but we got to go home get a little bit of rest and I think we have

Two games at home against Portland coming up so uh you know try to continue to protect their home court at a high level but AG was fantastic tonight can can you learn anything from this game that you maybe know about about your team or reinforced about what you think

Of this team yeah I mean what we have to learn is that you got to finish off the possession with a rebound I mean if we rebound we win this game simple as that I mean you can’t give up seven offensive rebounds in the fourth quarter wi it’s a

One to two possession game you know so that’s the thing that my biggest takeaway without having watched the film is that um on the road against a quality opponent all the details matter you know they they they jump off the screen and we had too much ball watching they were

Diving crashing going after the ball we were kind of ball watching and they were corralling some of those and then obviously some of the turnovers um you just can’t you know beat yourself while trying to beat a good team and I felt that’s what happened you know a little

Bit too often in the fourth quarter so we’ll watch film we’ll learn from it uh you know again very very proud of our group for for the fight we just got to be a little bit more detailed you you’ve talked the last week or two about Christian about you know

Points of whatever going to come I just the play hard tonight I thought he did what you wanted him to do and yet the point still came to yeah I mean he was you know effective that’s you know 10 points made a couple of Threes I think

He had four boards five rebounds rather so um you know Reggie had some good moments out there um yeah that’s what Christian needs to do man just be aggressive play with confidence if you’re open shoot the ball if not drive it kick it make a play for a teammate

And make winning plays he went out there got a couple of big offensive rebounds and uh you know you you could feel him on the court tonight which is which is how it needs to be each and every night for him what you mean Jamal’s game I

Know you say whenever you don’t have Joker that you guys you want to maintain the same kind of style of play but do you feel like there’s room for him to be more aggressive tonight or just how rate his performance I mean it’s hard when

You got L Dort japed all over you I mean it’s yeah you might say that but you know I I understand what he’s fighting out there I mean he’s got all five guys are game planning to stop Jamal Murray and every time we took Jamal out put him

Back in Lou Dort went back in so um yeah Jamal’s got to be more aggressive I mean we have to do a better job of getting him open and we drew up some plays to try to get him looks where he just didn’t screen you have to get L

Dort off of his body to give him a chance to play uh and I give Jamal credit man he was um you know he’s definitely battling through you know bumps and bruises like everybody at this time of the year but you know proud of his uh his toughness

For you know being able to play the way he played one more question did did Jam need to get looked at or anything after the will screen in the second quarter half check on it yeah I think he went to the back really quick to get looked at

Quickly and then um you know came back at on the bike felt good and was able to get back in and uh once again like we we do every day we’ll go home and kind of get a check in on all of our guys tomorrow to see how he’s feeling you

Know but uh the kid’s a warrior there’s no doubt about that thanks everyone

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Coach Malone Full Post Game Press Conference vs. Thunder 🎙