Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 2.9.24

Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 2.9.24

Played harder I thought uh we set a tone defensively you know it was great to hear our guys at halftime you know uh talking about you know we made defensive runs guys we got stops and got out in the Break um uh we were flying around

Tonight uh our energy was High um I I thought our defensive execution um I didn’t see our guards get picked tonight like they got over picks tonight you know uh last night um if you watch the tape we just got picked every it just melted on every pick and tonight we were

Phenomenal so you know like I said after the game now you proved you can do it we just got to keep working on it you know so it’s a good win for us I think there’s a first quarter possession where there’s a couple switches Dame ends up

Picking a pass in the middle of the floor just what do would you like out of Dame and Malik that they were executing those switches that’s yeah and Malik tonight was phenomenal um and I think most people would say shooting and we will say defense he he was he was

Phenomenal defensively and we talked about that like you do your job defensively the basketball guys will will reward you with open shots and uh that happened tonight for him um he had one Poss where he got picked twice and stayed in there and got his hand on the

Ball I mean uh guys wanted to come out tonight A Lot which tells you playing hard is exhausting you know and that’s a good thing for us to understand that uh Patrick Beverly got 12 minutes tonight in his debut just what’s process with a guy coming in last night and well you

Can’t do is call a play from when I Coast him with the Clippers that made no sense tonight uh which he did and then the other four guys are looking around like what he called Oklahoma I haven’t called that had that play in my playbook since I was coaching him with the

Clippers and it was pretty hilarious they ran it which is even crazier you know uh so uh but he’s just he’s just positive energy um um holds holds his teammates and himself accountable um really just wants to win and I think our guys see that I bet they’ve learned a

Little bit about him already like it’s not just BS talk he’s trying to get everybody to buy and win it’s a good talk for us where did you notice his impact um immediately tonight particularly in the Huddle as far as like communication yeah just um being

Another voice you’d hear um me or one of the defensive coach say something then you could to hear him repeating it to everybody um and even the young guys you know uh Taytay learned the lesson that they even sitting in the seat doing film and Pat told the video guy to stop and

He said you you sit right in front of the TV you don’t get to sit on in a chair uh and it was just little things good stuff for him you know um I thought he was very impactful offensively too with his what is just trying to organize

The team so good for him one of the rotations that you did tonight it was uh very heavy on defense uh Pat Bev excuse me Pat Bev Dre Pat conaton Bobby and Jay Crowder what do you envision for that particular unit and what did you see from your team

Defensively Yannis created that rotation with the extra fou that he committed which we didn’t want uh but I just felt like that unit I didn’t know if we were going to score a lot but I know we can get a lot of stops at that unit um and and they this was

More of a defensive energy game for us so that’s why we did it uh just with Chris did you have an update on his ankle situation not yet I mean he’s just going to be out for a minute I can tell you that uh I don’t

Know what a minute means you know but um yeah I don’t see him in the next couple for sure um want to wait till after game to ask this you you’ve spent more time on the road probably than here um what is this weekend kind of mean for you to

Have I don’t I’m guessing tomorrow’s kind of an off day for the players but to be home for two days maybe there’s a practice but just in terms of evaluation the team the coaches Etc it’s like um know it’s one of the refs are asking me

You know when the ref asked you late in the game he said uh are you adjusted yet and I said heck no I said I’ve been on the road more than I’ve been at home I said I don’t have a home yet I’m still in the hotel if anybody wants to rent me

A good place guys I’m looking um you know so for me it’s nice that we can get we’ve got through these seven games and whatever day I’ve never seen a back toback after a West Coast trip I just have never seen that um and tomorrow we

Get to rest uh then we get a practice where we can actually have a practice and that practice is all of them are important for us but you know after seeing all these games now there’s things that we definitely have targeted that we’re going to work on and that’ll

Be fun at least for for us by the way how’s it going with 11 assist assant coaches everybody every player gets their own coach or it’s a lot of them you know I I I got to tell you I my first day I was like I’m I’m

Going to learn the players names first that’s what I told my coaches so I said if I call you by the right wrong name I’m sorry but players first and then I’ll I’ll get to everybody else but it is a lot of coaches

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