Hornets vs Pacers: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability | 2/12/2024

Hornets vs Pacers: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability | 2/12/2024

The uh fourth quarter holding that team more offensive League just 22 points in the fourth quarter seemed like defense really kind made the plays they needed to and also rebounding as well those two of the things that that kind of stuck out to you yeah I think so before and I

Think even our defense in the first half was good the turnovers killed us because I think we had 12 turnovers at halftime for like maybe 14 15 points um but I felt like our defense for most of the game was good I mean halberton those pick and rolls with halberton and Turner

Now those are hard you know he rolls or he flares halberton is a great pick and roll player so it puts a lot of pressure on your defense uh coach going off that a little bit in the third quarter seemed like you guys going tra caliber kind ofing the

Ball out of his hands you just talk about that sequence yeah we started in the first quarter doing it and it didn’t go well and then we took it off and then we came back in the third I just think the guys like him you can’t just play

Out of your base he’s too good and you can’t trap him the same way all the time he’s too smart so you know sometimes mixing it up at least you can get a couple possessions out of the game you know but what you like out of what you

Saw from Seth Curry as a ball hand scor oh he he got going I mean you’ve seen it you know he’s done that obviously his whole career but um he got going tonight in picking roles you know he can score a lot of different ways but uh he got

Going in pick and roll game and I mean he made some tough you know the step back to his left hand there uh over a bigger player but he’s done it a lot man he’s an experienced veteran player and um people I don’t know you know I I

Had got watched him obviously that year in Brooklyn he’s a great competitor he’s a great you know you want on your team guys that you don’t worry if they’re going to try hard or not you’re never going to have to worry about him tough guy and he wants to win overall these

These five guys I mean how do you think you’re playing I mean seems like a huge Fusion of energy well yeah and you know we’re so we’re more experienced we’re much deeper right which is to be honest is a big thing and then the other one is you know

Right now when we’re playing Five out um I just want to see what the you know so tonight Grant’s plus4 and you know even the big play I think it was seven in the fourth miles made the great drive you know and a lot of that is just

Because Grant’s at five you know it’s it’s you have so much more room on the floor miles made a great play but if you have a traditional Center in there he’s probably not going to be able to get all the way to the basket two straight this

New two straight games one more time why you got to be so negative man two and 0 you know just wonder your perspective how much has the energy I guess changed the last couple days yeah I mean the the the thing about these guys coming in

Here four of them are veteran guys right so they’ve been through playing for different teams they’re used to walk into a different locker room they know how to adapt quickly to a new team and um they just want to know what are we doing what’s the coverages what are the

Plays and they want to play so I think that that’s good um I think it’s good for all of our guys and um and obviously you know what we have is we have a lot of skill out there right now and a lot of IQ you know so um we’ll see

I mean we can get a lot better obviously I mean there’s a lot of things tonight the first thing we do have to do if we keep turning the ball over 19 times a night we’re not going to win just not so we have to get so we’re taking care of

The ball better but there’s obviously a lot of good and a lot to build on Coach you talked a lot this season about third quarter W tonight you score I guess 33 and a third most most of all four quarters we just talk about I guess the

Response after half time it was good in our offense I felt like was really good the first I think at 6:30 there was a timeout and they had already scored 17 so our defense when we started scoring at the beginning third I didn’t like but then you know when we broke the lineup

And and that’s when Seth got going too right uh I think that was that was obviously a big key in the game Steve as well as well as these guys play together in two games you excited inms what can add get prce yeah because you know like

Tonight like with the you know ability to double team Halbert you know we weren’t super organized with that that hurt us a little bit in the third quarter um that’s with this group I think they’ll pick things up quickly we’ll be able to do that better um we’ll

Have more offense in you know like although tonight again except for the turnovers and we didn’t shoot the ball well from through you know the biggest thing is we’re moving the ball you know the ball is moving everybody’s passing the ball to each other and uh it’s

Contagious either way you take an NBA team where one guy won’t pass the ball it’s going to stick with everybody when one guy passes it particularly the best players everybody will pass it and right now we’re moving the ball coach the closing lineup was different than the

Starting lineup you just talk about what you saw out there maybe want to keep J and some of those other players out there yeah um it’s the same actually it’s the same lineup we finished all with the other night too right so uh that could

Be I think with this group that could be game to game you mentioned the veterans impacts on the FL but what kind of impact have they had on the young guys in lot I think I think probably good you know I stay out of there to be honest with you

Um you know I kind of feel like that’s their space you know um and uh you know so I don’t go in there too much but I got to think that I mean of all of them the one I’ve the only one I’ve ever really been around is Seth but just

Having a little time to spend with each of them you know I met with Trey this morning we talked for a while I’ll get all of them in the next few days just so we get a chance to talk more but they’re all come as you know very high character

Guys which you know is important you know like one of the biggest things in this league is you got to be able to handle disappointment feeli you know and have a good attitude about it and you know when you play 82 games and everybody doesn’t get the number of

Shots they want and all that if you don’t have good guys it can get it can be hard good

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