Chauncey Billups Media Availability | Portland Trail Blazers | February 6

Chauncey Billups Media Availability | Portland Trail Blazers | February 6

Coach uh we’ve talked a little bit about da since he’s been back he and Aunt continuing to work on that connection have you seen that game to game yeah they’re getting better um they’re getting better together you could just tell that they’re starting to get to

Know each other’s game a lot more um but obviously it’s those ants has the ball a lot of times um but it’s not just those two like I think everybody’s more figuring da out more and and learning how to get him the ball and where to get him the ball um and it’ll

Just keep getting better and better and for you it seems as though you like to get him early early and often to kind of get him started do you feel like that works for him yeah I do I do I’ve always felt that way about big man um in

Particular big man that you know have the ability to score and stuff like you try to get them going early um they just they they do more for you everywhere defensively offense like they just you feel involved you you feel appreciated you do more for people so there’s no

Different uh in in this game you know so we try to get him the ball early um and see how it’s going and you know he’s been great DA has been he’s been awesome for us we were just talking about earlier today in our podcast how impressed he’ve been with his passing

From the paint have you noticed that as well yeah his his decision making has been pretty good from uh from the paint when he KS that ball in the pocket which is where he most of the time gets it especially if he’s in the picking roll

With ant um Andor Malcolm you know he catches it in the pocket a lot and he’s doing a good job of reading that low man Defender you know um and he’s making a good passes man he’s he’s been doing a good job what if you thought about um

Scoots ability to draw fouls lately and get to free throw it seems like that’s something he’s improved upon in the last month or so of the Season yeah U it’s his aggression you know it’s his aggression I I I always believe that the aggressive person the most aggressive

Person in that matchup usually will win um and he’s aggressive the whole time trying to get to the basket trying to get to the paint um and it’s working for him you know um and it works for us you know we love when we get teams in the bonus

With 6 seven minutes left in the quarter you know we can kind of control the temple um and Scoot that’s been that’s been you know one of the things that we tell him like you should be on the attack all the time and that’s just the

Byproduct of that you know it also seems too that maybe he’s getting a little better at at going to the room and knowing what he’s doing there so cuz it seemed like maybe initially he was maybe I w’t say trying to avoid contract but trying to you know like get up finishes

That that seem like might be a little difficult for him when you just kind of go straight to the basket and go up like you’re more likely to get the call in those situations yeah what you’re seeing with him is just you know experience you know he’s just starting to experience

These things and starting to understand and know how to get foul you see guy on the drive he know he’s out of position he can just run right into you know he’s he’s just starting to figure those things out um the biggest thing is you you you can only figure him out through

Playing you know and experience so he’s he’s sco’s been doing a really good job of that there’s a lot of Buzz around the your first two trade deadlines this one was kind of quiet any discussions you’ve had with the team about dealing with this type of week or

Kind of no I haven’t I haven’t really had to um this year you know um to talk to anybody um the guys you know that names will be out there you know the malcolms and those guys have been a part of this thing for a long time um and they

Understand they the maturity levels totally different it doesn’t change anything for them so no I haven’t had to have that conversation with the guys this year what about with this being such a young team and a lot of these guys haven’t not not that any of the

Younger guys are really in any of those discussions but none of them have really been through this part of the business aspect of it before is that are you kind of seeing any of those guys you know see that stuff and get caught up in that

Stuff no not really I haven’t seen it I haven’t seen any anybody differently or act differently or anybody down or excuse me I’m sorry um so no it’s it’s it’s been cool it’s been cool it’s been pretty quiet you know um so we we’ll see if it stays that way did

Uh did Shaden go through practice today no no I didn’t what uh what were your biggest takeaways from Chris Murray’s performance I thought Chris did a good job with his opportunity uh I really did um Chris is a player that he just he doesn’t make very many mistakes man he

Does it right all the time um you you know you have a Chase down block here offensive rebound here he’s going to do something to impact the game um is what you always going to get from him um and I think his confidence is just starting

To pick up you know the more he plays the more confident he becomes and uh I thought he was good I thought he gave us some positive minutes both nights

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