Doc Rivers Press Conference | 2.11.24

Doc Rivers Press Conference | 2.11.24

You do know there’s a Super Bowl going on right okay just check was Chris able to do any on court work today no not much nothing so um you guys had a bumps of bruises was everybody else able to yeah everybody went we didn’t I mean we did a lot of

Work we didn’t do any uh you know contact work but uh needed good practice uh just for you not having Chris here for probably you know Str here yeah what is the difficulty in all that well it just takes one of the scores off the floor um you know obviously you know our

Lineup with Chris in it is as good as anybody starting lineup in my opinion uh with Chris out then that hurts you just like any team you know um who misses guys you know the the thing with Chris out you can’t have one of the other guys

That’s what you learn you know uh foul trouble or injury I mean you know we didn’t have a Dame and a Chris and a brook for couple that’s that’s not a good sign that’s not good for but you take three guys off of any team you know

It’s going to hurt them so um the only the only thing that’s tough obviously than just missing Chris is putting stuff in uh like today we put a bunch of stuff in um and that having Chris on the floor that clearly hurts it you know uh but we still did it

Anyway I was going to say the the last time you guys put up in is before that Dallas game you guys executed well do you feel like how well that went helped the Buy in yeah yeah I mean they they bought in to the defense they know they

Don’t have it yet uh but they they’ve completely bought into it they they love what we’re trying to do um they you know it’s an interesting group very keep using the word grownups um they want to be coached they want they want to be told um you know at

The other night um after the Minnesota game you know film wasn’t fun I can tell you that our talk after the next morning was not one of their better mornings uh but it wasn’t like I was Bobby Knight I mean I was just being honest and you

Know they want you to be honest and and be held accountable uh and you can see the energy the next night defensively I was probably our best defensive night of the year um I think we got over 80 uh percent of all pick and roll screens uh

The night before we got over 5% you know that’s a hell of a jump you know but you can’t allow yourself to keep getting picked all night and and that’s more us than them and they did that so that was good you said the other night Chris was

Going to at least the next couple going to miss is there anything more definitive than that no just you know it’s bad ankle spring uh they ain’t going to heal any soon uh quickly you know maybe at 21 you know so uh and again you know with Chris

Um probably all of our guys but more the veteran guys me my listen I want to win every game right now but I really want to be great at the end of the year and at the bottom line is for me uh we want we have to be healthy and that’s

Basically you know sitting with our medical people that was the first thing I said I I’m not the coach that will push guys to play I’m the coach right now that’ll sit guys um and train and and prepare uh because no matter what happens if we win them all and aren’t

Ready or lose them all and are ready I’ll take that you know that’s that’s got to be our mindset we want to win every game I’m competitive as hell I don’t like losing games but we want to be prepared so what’s the balance CU Jay said the other said the same thing the

Other day whereas as players we do want to see progress yes but we also are judge that wins a lot we want to win so what kind of the balance is win uh but learn uh and and you know while you’re learning you may not have great

Continuity you know it’s going to take a minute um but they’re clearly doing it also conditioning listen they were exhausted the other night uh because they they played more defense they they got back they were fighting over screens I mean three different guys uh gave me the signal to come out that hadn’t

Happened in any of the games you know we’re joking about it after the game and I said okay so when you I’m going to see this more right CU I want to see that more I want you to play until tell I need a blow I’ll put you back in um you

Know it was good for him it was a lot of good things the other night no matter what the who the opponent was um you know I asked uh Malik how many times did you bring the ball up the floor he said zero said how many points did you have I

Said and the point we’re trying to make to guys if you get into your spots and run to the right spots and do your role you’re going to get playoff of Dame play play off of Giannis uh that’s in playoff of Chris when he’s playing and you don’t

Need to search it’ll come to you because they’re so great and I think offensively that’s what we’re learning and then defensively play through exhaustion is there a obviously there’s a downside to Chris not being in but is is there a you’re going to look for a positive or

Benefit the D Yannis stuff that you’re trying to work on yeah yeah maybe yeah maybe um you know and you know uh Jay has not played a lot and so he needed to get in condition and now him playing more minutes maybe a way of conditioning

Him um so you know the other way would have taken longer uh the Giannis Dame thing is is coming but it’s ways away uh but you can see it like even today in practice they had two or three times yesterday in the game where they were

You can see them trying to figure out the two-man game the the thing is they’re both Elite and so when yanis comes off a pick that’s it when Dame comes off a pick that’s it right they have to learn okay maybe that’s not it maybe there’s I can get a better shot if

I throw it back and play play the Twan game longer um and that’s going to take they’re so good it’s almost bad in some ways you know for them when they’re together but man when they get it it’s going to be tough to guard talk about how precious this practice time is

Because you weren’t going to have many opportunities how different are these practices than maybe if they probably a little longer I’m I’m still as much as I uh you know it’s funny uh Dave and Rex wanted to go live and I was like we’re not going live you know we’re just not

Going live but they really wanted to do live stuff and I said no just not going to do it we can do it out a skeleton uh we can do it at you know full speed but with no one guarding them you know I put

Coaches on to guard them just cuz no you know now maybe at some point we’ll be able to have a live practice may be coming out of Allstar break that’ll be our first live practice you started yeah crazy god it feels longer yeah so what have you

Learned about your team uh you know I don’t know what I’ve learned like I always I’m always ask I don’t know I’ll let you know they’ll tell me what I’ve learned uh you know you you watch them and it’s good because we’re playing a team of second time um and you know that

Game was a we were in there uh I thought our second un got hurt in that game and so we have to be better in that for sure um we’re a better team we’re going to be a better team every day in in my opinion we’re just going to keep getting better

And you feel that your team has gotten better yeah definitely definitely you talked about the two D to throw a honest doesn’t quite what have you seen from that just a awful lot can we just say that but the thought was perfect and I showed them I

Said the thought was perfect uh the execution of it wasn’t the best and Dame’s a great LW Pastor so uh and then he actually threw one on the floor where he actually should have thrown it up he actually they both were doing this afterwards so they’re seeing it uh the

Next step is getting it and then like them right now instead of you know this um skill development Generation Um is great but how about skill development with someone and so like right now uh they’re doing together stuff you know instead of going to their basket taking

Their shots like every like and that’s one of the things we’re trying to change here like put three of the young guys together run something make we need to teach them how to play basketball you know this new skill development everyone’s teaching guys how to be the

Star you know you see them step back jumpers and like if that guy took that shot in the game some of those guys we take them out you know but if you learn how to cut and move and set pcks that’s what we’re trying to teach our guys

Summer is skill Development season is team development I guess it would be the best way yeah

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