Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 2.3.24

Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 2.3.24

Start off I think down what you see first quter and then after that just what you guys I think no one panicked I thought that was big for our team like I didn’t Panic nobody panicked we just kind of hung in there I thought watching it our defense was not

Very good in that stretch and more importantly thought our offense was bad in that stretch we missed layups I at halftime we showed a video of Miss wide open shots and I thought in the first quarter it affected how we played guys start getting down guys wasn’t getting

Back and they outcut us they out moved us they did everything right and made every shot where we didn’t do everything great but didn’t make any shot and so I felt like we can get back in the game you know I did I told him that um in the

First quarter and we just hung in there and slowly started doing it and once it got up to 10 it was a game and we felt that gianis obviously playing the you guys swich more what do you like about def I love the switching but I love the

The trapping you know we put that in yesterday we literally worked on uh that defense yesterday um not for this game as part of our defense that’s what they were all after the game it’s it’s called something and they’re all yelling at after the game because they they enjoyed

It um it’s it’s not um you know it’s guys come from different spots it’s hard to predict where guys were coming uh I thought you could see LC at times just holding and trying to figure out where they were coming from uh and I got our

Guys enjoyed that like it was fun for them it was like chess for them and that was fun so how does it feel to earn the honor of coaching Easter Conference allars that is ridiculously bad uh it it really is um well Adrian’s gonna get

Some money that’s for sure and a ring um you know it’s one of these quirky things I think there should be a rule somehow that someone else does it other than me maybe I’ll send my staff and and I’ll go on vacation run that by Adam I’m going to

Run that by Adam Silver I think he’s a he’s you know Adam’s a good man I think you’ll understand I don’t know what kind of percentages you like on assists to field goals but 34 assists 54 field goal especially when you look at Janis DNE with shot attempts yes the ball was

Moving the ball was moving and every stretch it didn’t it you know what’s great it’s so obvious and you see that right it’s so obvious when it doesn’t it’s night and day on our team and if we can get to those stretches you know where it’s 43 minutes of that we’re hard

To guard when we get to those stretches where the ball sticks and everyone knows where the ball we’re not hard to guard and it’s it literally is that simple for us and we just got to keep seeing it I thought Dame and yanis were aggressive and move the ball at the same time

Tonight and when they play like that everybody gets involved uh AJ came in and gave us a huge lift by the way um really really proud to see that um you mentioned the traing what why call it when you did because it felt like down that early was kind of going

Yeah I mean it obviously worked out but were you kind of waiting on that to yeah it’s we wanted to get it towards the end of the first half uh and honestly we wanted to get into the second half because it’s hard to make adjustments once you get past halftime uh and trust

Me our my defensive guys like I was like once we cut it to like 12 in the third second quarter I thought let’s let’s wait let’s hold it and I thought it was good for us when you look at that they throwing some Z at you guys different

Defensive think guys patience I thought we were great uh you know my favorite player of the game was they called Zone and we ran a man play and we talk about that all the time it doesn’t matter if they whatever they call you run your stuff move the ball you’ll get a shot

And that was the one where Bobby got the end one uh it’s just great when you’re patient like that and ball you’re going to find the right guy you mentioned the trapping defense where else tonight did you see what you feel like transition d uh I thought after the first quarter uh

They got very few breaks we got under the ball uh for three quarters and that’s a even more than a trapping if we can do that every night if we can make teams play against our size uh that’s a big thing for us D’s 10 11 yeah what do you feel

Like just patience took the shots he passed when he should pass uh he shot when he should shot uh shoot the ball and and I loved how he played Chris doesn’t have the best off but he took that the head guy yeah listen Luca wears you out and

And we put Chris on Luca and that absolutely affected his offense you know that’s why you don’t see great players guard guys all game because that happens um and then Chris did have that one stretch where we posted him a bunch and he got us some buckets there but he he

Was tired uh we knew that but what do you think of Def he was great he was solid you know especially once he knew traps were coming and where they were coming from that really allowed him to be more physical gu conversing with J get three fouls in a tech in the quarter

But yet to be able to finish and I realize he’s played a long time but how important was him being able to yeah I thought I thought I thought a lot of guys were frustrated you know Jay uh rightly so they came out in t him in

Halftime they pushed him uh and you were right but you always say okay then does he get his Tech back you know uh I thought Chris even got thought he got foued a couple times and you know we talked about that at halftime as composure like hey guys listen things

Aren’t going your way uh but we have a whole half just hang in there I thought our guys did that you mentioned the patience that your team had and that no one panicked what does it mean for you what does it do for you as a coach when

You see a team be open and honest in their communication while they’re trying to B back well open and honest in any relationship is important and not panicking either uh is good but this is a veteran team but we do have some young young guys on it and the more uh

Patience the veterans show the better that our young guys can play and I think that’s important thanks guys got’s stat present later this year oh is that right I didn’t even know that wow about that it’s awesome you know it should it should be like he

Is I mean he he means a lot obviously to the Lakers uh but Kobe is not just a Laker he’s like an NBA guy like we all own a piece of Kobe if you know what I

Postgame sound from Coach Rivers following the game on Saturday.

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