Willie Green on Brandon Ingram, team defense | Pelicans vs. Raptors Postgame 2/5/24

Willie Green on Brandon Ingram, team defense | Pelicans vs. Raptors Postgame 2/5/24

I think Brandon hit five of those in like two and a half minutes or so at the end of the third quarter just what do you think about that uh explosion at the end of the third from him uh dominant performance by Brandon um when he shoots the ball like that

He’s capable of doing that night in and night out uh you know they it puts the game away and that’s what he did and then just the the total effort from our group from W you know from the start of the game was a wire to wire businesslike

Mindset knowing that we getting ready to go on a tough road trip so you know credit to the guys in the locker room for coming out and playing hard playing together playing with joy was fun to watch yeah I know one thing you always talk about is that you going a long road

Trip the first one at home could be could be tough I mean what you what you like about just your your response after four on the road uh I loved it I loved it you know it’s that time of time of year you know you pass halfway point

Um you know you’re kind of glancing at the standing here and there but the the the thing for us is to focus on each and every game and tonight was no different um coming off a road trip it could be a let down game but we didn’t

Let it we didn’t let that happen we came out with the right mindset from the beginning and we dominated the game from the start and what was it like just saying just how he went about getting his 4 his all jumpers and barely anything in P just just putting on a

Shot Mak display well we we’ve we we’ve been on our guys to shoot more threes and uh bi especially and so you know he has it in him and tonight he sees what happens when when he shoots the shots that are open Catch and shoot and then he he just

Caught it he he just caught fire and the guys continue to find him in transition find them off pin downs and any one of our guys when they shoot the ball like that you know it’s going to be tough to stop us and I’m not sure what the final

Was but I think through three quarters it was only three turnovers yeah you like way y execute even Beyond just you know shoo impressive and you talk about bi eight for 11 from three 41 points but he also had nine assists and so Not only was he scoring but he was making the

Right plays offensively finding his teammates and it’s a reason we had 36 assists and seven turnovers collectively as a team you know trying to take care of the basketball is one of our Concepts but then making sure we shareed and um tonight was a great example of that well

It could be easy look past the Raptors they’ve been falling out of the standings theyve Cara away some of the better players could you go and talk maybe more about the preparation that Brandon takes you know for every game and especially like for tonight’s game I

Saw him working with JB watch video for 10 minutes and he put up shots with Fred three-point shots Brandon is meticulous about his work and you know behind the scenes when people don’t see him he’s working he’s coming back at night you know getting free throws in shooting

Shots working on his game and practices one of the first on the floor one of the last to leave he’s in the waight room he does all the things that you want your players to do in order to give themselves a chance to be successful and um when you see these performances by

Any of our guys but bi especially um you know it’s rewarding it’s rewarding I’m sure for him it’s rewarding for for us as a organization and for his teammates to see it as well I know um you guys had an offensive exposion but tonight your defense was really really especially

Early you can tell there was a lot of rotations um Z ends up with a block I think that was a huge possession there can you talk about the the effort you guys kind of put for tonight defensive yes it starts with our defensive mindset and that allows our offense to flourish

Is when we’re defending and we’ll we’re continuously working on it um working on ways that we can get stops get rebounds and uh when we play in the open floor like we did tonight you know we’re a hard team to stop uh so our offense is is definitely predicated on our ability

To get stops and this is a team that we know they score in transition they get in the paint they offensive rebound and I thought we did a great job on all those categories tonight CJ had 20 Z had 16 for your stars to lead the way how important was that especially knowing

Just how much they had gone through the night before with a double overtime yeah um it’s it’s important for those three to carry our team on both ends of the floor and our our second unit and substitution guys they all come in and they play hard they’re going to play

Together they’re going to be a great Supporting Cast but those three guys are going to carry us and tonight and even go back to the Spurs game they all played well and that’s what we want we want those guys to continuously play unselfish share the basketball lock in defensively rebound and we’ll give

Ourselves a chance to be a good team now going back on the road for four more what’s the most important thing most important thing on this road trip continue to lock in on our principles and take it game by game and that’s the that’s the mindset for us you know we

Know we got four four games on a row but it’s really a cliche but take it game by game and let’s have a business-like approach to it tonight was uh 50th game of the season Ian how much of the Pelican success so far this year has just been Brandon CJ and Zion

Availability from those guys and just being out there you know night after night this year health is is extremely important and that’s for any team that’s in life whatever you do you want to have you want to be healthy and um a credit to you know our training staff and

Medical staff they’re doing a fantastic job and then all of our guys doing all the extra things that it take um to to be available to play on the floor and that combination allows us to have an opportunity and you know things can happen and you can’t control all

Everything but the things that we can control um it feels like we’re doing a great job in that area I know you just said that you’ve been preaching taking more threes but preaching is kind of a like a leap of faith so to say you know

You believe in it and and you want your players to believe in it but D nights like tonight does it make it more tangible for somebody like Brandon to say it’s not a leap of faith it’s real and you can do it and you should do it

For sure it it’s definitely not just a leap of faith um there’s analytics that go behind it and there’s film work that we put in and then there’s work that we get on we get on the floor and we work towards how do we generate these type of shots for our

Team and so all of those combinations and then you win like you did did tonight allows our guys to see why we want to take you know 40 you know 38 43s a a game because we shoot a great a good percentage and we have guys that

That are capable of making those shots it’s hard to beat us when we are I think the more surprising fact isn’t just that he made 8 we took 11 three point shots you take into account his shot attempts and the emphasis on the team make all these three point shot attempts how much

Of is this just seeing the J bgo system really take his fruition this point of the season it’s it’s a combination for sure uh coach bgo has done a fantastic job of you know giving our offense some clarity and looking at some of the numbers what do we do well we want to

Continuously to do those things well well and um this was an area of growth for us a team that you know the last couple Seasons we we dominated the paint we got to the free throw line we got got out and transition but now we’re adding

A three ball to our group and it’s a credit to our players for trusting and continuously to buy in um so the guys have been playing really great against some of the more man manageable teams um to say but they’ve been having a much tougher time

Against some of these top teams um what do you think this team can do to kind of break that barrier and start winning against these um top teams as we’re getting later in the season yeah you you’re you’re absolutely right um we’ve talked about it as a team um if you we

We thought about our you know not to be negative but our last five losses were all against playoff caliber teams and that’s an area of growth we’re talking about it we have to bring the competitive spirit and our our room for era is less when you play against the

Better teams and this road trip will will be a good test the first couple games at least okay thank you

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Willie Green speaks to the media following the team’s game against the Toronto Raptors on Monday, February 5, 2024.
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Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
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Herbert Jones #5 Forward
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
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CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
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