DeMar DeRozan Postgame Interview | Sacramento Kings vs Chicago Bulls – 2.03.24

DeMar DeRozan Postgame Interview | Sacramento Kings vs Chicago Bulls – 2.03.24

On Zach and you know him being out for the rest of the season hands on deck going forward all right it’s time for us to hear from DeMar D roen back in the locker room in our Infinity game report Mark first if we could just give

Your thoughts just kind of on on Zach and you know him being out for the rest of the season what that what that does to you guys and kind of your thoughts for him personally um first and foremost just no worry about his health I’m getting back um % getting itself

Together more so than anything you know situations like that you know I always try to look you know pastes basketball you know um it’s a lot a lot we go through as athletes and you know when you go through a situation like that you know um pretty sure it’s it’s frustrating

It’s tough on him um it’s a whole different type of mental hurdle you know he got to go through with that so you know um hope the best for them for that you know as far as you know teammates um you know going to suck not having him you know

What I mean it’s it’s Zach at the end of the day you know what I mean um one of the key players for this team we’ve been battling for a while without him you know I think it just you know it sucks to you know know he’s out you know um

For the rest of the year you know more so of me just knowing how much he want to play you guys have been shorthanded like you just mentioned a lot this season how much is that kind of catching up with you guys I mean you’ve been

Absorbing a lot of minutes and um I man this party game it’s part of game at this point in the season it’s a lot on everybody you know especially teams that’s battling for something you know where we at you know we we battling for something so of course it’s going to be

A lot you know um especially you know going into to that break how much do you take from this game the first half and how much do you take from the second half what happen I mean everything I mean everything you know for us to get

Down 28 you know to battle back like we did you know it just shows the key mistakes that we you know we afflict on oursel to put ourselves in the situations that that we end up in whether was first half or even late in the game with you know a couple mistakes

Here and there turning the ball over you know fouling you know um just mental mistakes you know it it fall it fall back on us you know we played extremely hard we competed you know we didn’t you know um put our heads down I think when

We was down 28 you know we came in a huddle and everybody just was telling each other you know stick with it man one thing at a time let’s just leave it all out there on the court you know so um it’s just about staying mentally

Locked in to the things we could control what did you guys think you did in that next sequence I think they had like five turnovers right after that we was just aggressive we just we just was going out there playing you know all out you know being aggressive

You know picking up trying to make everything tough on him which you know you got to come out the gate with that type of attitude but you know I’m proud of the guys for you know sticking through it um and fighting not not to get you in trouble or anything but speak

Of tough that last Drive of yours was kind of tough you know could have could have been Bas you know could have been something there yeah I thought it was something I’m just trying to be aggressive I knew you know the foul previously you know we was hoping we got

A stop you know it would have been a three-point game you know think we was down five um when I came down I was just trying to be aggressive hopefully stop the clock get to the free throw line thought I got fouled but you know um it

Is what it is you know the seems like every time I look on Twitter somebody’s saying the need to trade everyone before the deadline they need to blow it up you know what’s your feeling about this team’s future and obviously you could may or may not be a part of it I mean

The guys that’s in here compete got the utmost confidence faith in them that we’ go out there and compete with anybody you know we showed it you know it sucks that we’ve been played with so many injuries um you know especially you know today hearing you know Zach out for the

For the season you know losing Patrick um for a couple of weeks um you know it was good to get TC back tonight but you know um for where we at for what we’ve been through from how we started you know it gives me the utmost confidence

In this group of guys that you know go out there and play against anybody you know so for me I got the most confidence

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