Kevin Durant couldn’t believe Embiid dropped 70 points, FULL Postgame Interview

Kevin Durant couldn’t believe Embiid dropped 70 points, FULL Postgame Interview

It’s a fun game fun game man um Chicago presents a tough challenge because they press you all game they they top five in the league and turn and turn the teams over they got small guards that can penetrate and shoot so you know I feel like this whole week we’ve been having a

You know play against so many different types of teams that’s just preparing us to you know as we you know head down to this you know second half of the season so um it’s a fun game do you get it do you take a moment to enjoy those

Moments or you know like I thought you celebrating with the crow take a chance to to like digest you know celebratory way or I mean if it’s a timeout or something you know and get a chance to take it in for a couple seconds as I’m

Walking to the Huddle and then it’s I got to worry about the next play you know so um try to have that next play mentality but also understand and stay present uh understand what I’m doing and also stay present you know and you know try to keep that momentum I have have as

Well so um it’s a balance you got to have but I like the next play mentality that I grew tonight last thing I had was the pass from Nerf how big was that for you to scramble a little bit in finding huge huge I mean everybody in the gym

Knew the ball was coming to me and especially Caruso he’s such a smart Defender he jumped it him and D rozan I think kind of shadowed it a little bit out you know out of- bounds pass and nerk made himself available and we work on that back door so many times in game

And practice so I seen kuso flying too so I had to double pump just a little bit um but I’m glad it went in after coming off a back to back you guys kind of started off a little bit slow defensive rotations were a little bit slow what was a s s a

Moment in the third quarter that kind of snap things back place for you guys I feel like I could have early in the game I had like three or four wide open threes in the first half that I thought could have settled us down or guys making great plays penetrating to the

Lane get me a three and I just Breck it and I felt like that’s you know a couple of those they ran out for layups as well so I felt like that was the momentum right there if IID hit two or three of those threes we’ have went into the half

Down probably 10 or nine and that’s just a whole different game so it’s a makeover Miss League I always say that they made shots in that first half they got hot may I think 10 threes that first half and um we couldn’t get none up we

Couldn’t make any and you know it was a it was uh I was 0 for six in the first half and six for 15 so we made 14 threes as a whole and got back up to 40% from the three I think we made shots in that second

Half was that improvising or did you guys have play yeah I mean we was going to run the same play again I just got it out top and just go we knew they had a foul to give so we knew they were going to foul um but like I said Caruso is a

Smart Defender and he’s seen the play coming and they jumped it a little bit so nerk being smart as he is you know to always flash when I get denied and I was able to get a nice back door you remember moment maybe back in training camp when you realized you had that

Chemistry with n and you were going to be able to move uh yeah I mean I feel like we both know each other games from playing against each other for over the years I know he’s he likes to pass over the top he um and I’m sure in the Scout

Reports playing against me that back doors you had to be wor worried about my back doors coming out the anywhere on the floor so yeah and then once the first time it happened it just been we just been you know it’s been an easy connection since then I think it’s

Preseason the first time we did it you were in your normal shooting motion move the ball forward was that cuz you felt yeah I I happen to see him late I’m like oh they going to give me a wide open pull up in the left and and at the at

The elbow and um and then I just for some reason I just seen him on my peripheral I just seen somebody flying so hard and I just tried to just try to get a good one up and um you know it felt great leaving my hands that’s not

Something you practice right n no I mean but I mean you seen you seen the Kobes and the Michael Jordans when you get a good contest they so I try to watch them a lot and if you know guys guys contest me pretty well so sometimes I can bring

That out Kevin congrats on the game winner you backtack 40 point games just won Western Conference player of the week can you talk to me about how you’ve had such good longevity throughout your career um just great teammates great coaches great teachers and mentors that

Poured into me and um I love the game I love to work out I love to play in the summers in my offseason so I’m always thinking about the game too so I think that just keeps me in it keeps me energized it’s about your energy level

At this point as you get older and you know I enjoy coming in to work every day the crowd really responded to that Tech on drumond and then Drew himself responded how do you see both the crowd and guys yeah I mean that’s the point of emphasis if Andre gets you under the

Paint in a you compromised position try to wrap him up as much best as you can and put him on the free throw line and U I understand why Dre I play with Dre I understand why he um you know uh that foul was pretty hard I can understand

Why he was upset at it and I understand why Drew took the foul as well so it’s just part of the game and sometimes the ref need to get in there and give us some text just so we can kind of clear that up and they got past it and was

Able to play a physical clean game after that and I think Drew’s Drew’s minutes tonight were so incredible love what he did he just turned the game for us on both ends finishing around the rim being aggressive in pick and roll I just I love what he did and hopefully we

Continue to keep building on that you mentioned the turnovers and how they can do that to you guys I think you guys only had seven tonight and I know you’re range in some of these games but that’s a really low number what do you think was the key there I mean 32 assists

Seven turnovers man I mean we P we stayed patient we didn’t try to run into a crowd and like I said coaches that was the emphasis before the game and that this team is some of the one of the best teams that turning you over they got some of the

Best guards uh in the league on the defensive side with JC Javon Carter kuso iio you know they do such a great job of getting their hands in the passing Lane so I guess we were just extra cautious tonight and instead of turn over we got

Shots up J sorry if you’ve already been asked this but you guys didn’t take your first lead until about six minutes left in the fourth quarter what is it about this team that just allowed you to stick with it and get it done yeah I think we

Were confident because we we well I was missing threes I think we we got some we were like two for or four for 14 or something like that in the first and they had made 12 of them I think or 10 I don’t know the number but it was double

Digits and when you look at that and and pretty much everything pretty much even and you see that they just making more shots than you I think we were confident that we generate the same looks we’ll knock him down in the second half and we also changed our pick and roll coverage

And got a little bit more pressure on the ball and we was able to get some stops and force him in tough shots and get out on the break that high high pick and roll Kevin that you guys run with you or B or be how’s that facilitate

What you yeah I mean just try to um put the defense in a tough position they got to make a decision they going to play off of play a drop coverage and we can come down clean and get our shots off and get in the paint or they going to

Trap us out Out 3 32 33 feet from the basket and now our bigs are making decisions now in the pocket either they can get a layup or kick out for three you seen that’s what Drew did to get us the lead up three to Grayson they

Trapped it and he swung it quick and we work on that every day um and so we we try to make teams pay if they going they going to Blitz us all way out there how aggressive with the uh challenges what you think about aggressive that was I

Think the one on dear yeah yeah um um it was one where the refs were uh I mean where the coaching staff was like no I don’t Challenge and and Frank still challenged it and end up winning I think that was that was that was incredible on

His part to you know stick with it and uh you know try to put us in in a good position and he’s been great with the with the challenges all season to be honest and I feel like he doesn’t call him unless he for sure knows that we

Going to win and that was a huge play t wins longest roacher for the season coming up right after this how much can this do for a team in your experience getting on the right yeah that was important for us to finish this off before we go on this long road

Trip this is an important trip for us where we get to Baltimore as a team but also showcase on on the road and the tough environments what we made of and uh our last couple of road games we play New Orleans and I forget who we played

Before that Portland you know we we played two solid games on the road so we try to build off of that and keep that momentum and uh love we are I mean 25 and 18 man just a week or so ago we were it felt like we were one game

Two games over 500 so you know we trending in the right direction you said recently that you embraced a struggle this game like this where second quarter down head and your body langu kind of type of example my body language was bad like out ofs you analyzing my body language that

Deep yeah I mean it’s a tough game and sometimes you can’t help but the drop your shoulders when they make a tough shot or we get a turnover I think that’s just natural human reaction and I’m not going to be excited and smiling if we if

We get down 20 points you know what I’m saying so but we got good intentions always we try to just you know go out there and play hard every possession and see what happens and it was able to turn for us and coaches did a great job of uh

You know implementing game plans that’s going to help us you know get back into the that helped us get back into the game simplify the offense um and defensively we were more aggressive so yeah I mean you know once the game started to turn our crowd got into IT

Crowd was insane tonight insane and they could have booed us early on they did that before in the season and we understood but they stuck with us and and gave us extra some extra energy to finish this game out Kevin I don’t know

If you saw Jo scor 70 c had 6 70 yeah Jo 70 today he had 70 so what did night like tonight me I seen C had 40 a half I mean the skill level in this league is insane and and and actually the coaching the

Schemes on offense is insane you seeing so many different sets being run uh for Bigs to get threes I mean coaches are being way more creative to put their best players in in great positions to get those numbers and you got Shooters all around the floor you got penetrators

I mean this is a peak of basketball in my opinion you seeing it with guys doing I Manan come on man I B we got bigs in the league getting 70 and 60 making n 10 threes shooting pull up jump shot I mean it’s insane what we got going on

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