Media Availability: Brian Keefe and Kyle Kuzma | 02/09/24

Media Availability: Brian Keefe and Kyle Kuzma | 02/09/24

I mean obviously we were made a new lineup adjustment because of some of the circumstances um I loved how our guys competed tonight we came out we defended as best as we could in the first half and we played really fast and we wanted

To get up a quite a bit amount of Threes And we did that so we our execution was pretty good for about 36 minutes right the third quarter was was a little tough but was great for our group was that we responded in the fourth and we were

Resilient and those are things that we talk about a lot going back to playing fast you could kind of see it was pretty early in the first quarter when there was the realization that like oh we need to get out ahead who do you kind of credit that to is that something that

You’re yelling from the sideline how does that adjustment happen it’s just something we’ve talking about we’re learning how to do it play at that pace um we’re talk about as a group constantly but it’s it’s our whole team our running habits we got out we were looking and when we passed the ball

Ahead and we did that quite a bit tonight we got a lot of easy baskets Jordan bounced back after tough night the what can you say about his performance this is who Jordan is like I have have the Timo faith in Jord as a basketball player this is a champion um

I know he would be respond the way he did he really gave us a huge surge in the first half but I you know that this is who he Jordan is and always will be so I I expect things like that from Jordan obviously been guarding some of

The best guys in the NBA All Season how have you seen him learn to adjust from game from the first time you guarded Ted today basically yeah I think this is a great experience for him we put him out there to guard the best players he’s learning their Tendencies what they like

To do so like these are all new for him but each one he grows from and I think that’s the biggest thing we’re looking for balal and he’s shown it like he learns from game to game passic game experiences versus certain players and we’re going to keep putting him in those

Situations sucess the first OB the best defensive team in the league right uh obviously third qu what this group what can this group learn about themselves and about going going forward about competing against a team like that two allars better hold for the first half home sure I think it’s a

Every team that we play that each game that we go through is a lesson this is a great team we knew that they were going to come out in the third quarter and try to get physical with us it affected us a little bit but we had growth within the

Game we they got up I think what they got up I think of maybe 15 or so in that cour at the end and we pushed it I think we got it to five six at the end was four so we we battled back and that’s

Part of the growth for us is that resiliency to keep playing the whole thing we end up winning three of the four quarters this we had a tough third yeah I me super huge he’s very important to what we do what we try to do um with

His leadership the way he controls the game um he’s super unselfish um you know he just he just helps bring the common sense to the court so this starting group that’s got Bal obviously you’re playing without Martin and everything like that but what do you notice about

The balance is it about getting Bal more minutes as a young guy what do you like about it I mean the lineup was great I think it was cool um I think our just next step I think we’ve done a great job of of um bringing more competitive

Spirit to the game and effort but we just need to use our minds a little bit more um you know just certain like kyp knowing your personnel um understanding rotations and um you know just continue to make the right play um because we gave ourselves a chance tonight so you mean like

Defensively not necessarily decision yeah yeah defensively yeah defensively just like knowing you know if somebody’s a foul Merchant you know knowing they want to sweep through don’t fou them those type of things so um Brian is talking about how much growth he saw this game especially in you guys like

Battling back and the fourth and and all the things like that what’s your take on that I mean he’s absolutely right I mean um it was great you know it’s just all about like having those the lapses that we have just uh continue to minimize them as much as possible so

Interim Head Coach Brian Keefe and Kyle Kuzma spoke to the media following Friday night’s matchup against the Celtics in Boston.

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