Mikal Bridges on importance of Nets adapting playing style

Mikal Bridges on importance of Nets adapting playing style

You uh the way this kind of got away quickly do you chalk this up to maybe guys Minds were already in the All-Star break even before you hit the All-Star break or um no not not really um think is a lot that just kind of came with tonight

Um you know I think effort for us you know especially defensively I think we didn’t have that effort you know you whatever the game plan we had up there I think we just execute it as we should and um but then again it’s just it’s difficult it’s tough

Um just the scheme sometimes just you know being in mismatches a lot you know switching everything and then offensively then again it’s tough again cuz guy like Ben who plays and it’s not here today it’s a different Dynamic when he has it you know what I’m saying and it’s

Um I mean no nobody plays or guards Ben like anybody else really on our team unless it’s a big and Ben has it a lot and even when we have Ben is not really um a super offensive run it’s like he gets it goes and we kind of play off him

And you know guys back up so he could dribble and then dribble hand off and stuff like that but we don’t have him out here so it’s kind of like we can’t play like that we can still play fast but kind of get us in set and do stuff and

Think we going to have that tonight as far as just the effort I mean what do you think that was attribute to is it just Boston being able to drain it slowly or just things that you guys could control a little bit I mean just effort I think just the effort we have

We control that I mean that’s that’s the biggest part um like I said like whatever the game plan was I think we have to do that with effort and we didn’t have that especially in the beginning and they ran up and then offensively like I said we if you don’t

Know what we’re doing offensively then the offense looks bad and now they getting out of transition and now they’re going to keep scoring we’re trying to you know especially without no the effort we have they’re going to keep scoring then they’re going to keep getting stops because it’s just like I

Mean you guys watch the game it’s like like probably sitting there like what the hell’s going on this and that so it’s tough but definitely the effort with the defense you know starts with that you almost need a a with game with Ben game plan and without Ben game plan

I he’s so influential for how you guys want to play I mean for sure I mean it’s and that’s it’s like having a obviously it’s extreme but it’s like say you got Philly with B I mean with um with Joel like when he’s not playing you

Don’t play the same style and so it’s like it’s a you got to know how we play with that and and stuff like that how much of it is you know things are still new things are still new with shter too guys are still learn how to play with

Shter guys are still learn how to play I guess just this new scheme I guess with jock how much of that do you think is part of the the difficulty with the picking things up and executing yeah I mean that’s tough too just with with Dennis you know coming here

Um and then because where he didn’t start last game and being in a lineup it’s you know he doesn’t know what we’re in you know he’s new he doesn’t know we’re in and he has the ball so it’s tough as well not knowing what we’re doing and kind of running around and I

You know you play Team like Boston you can’t just be freestyling you know they’re they’re a really good team and they detail to on both ends to the highest level cuz that’s where they’re at and you can’t just run around and with like a chicken with your head cut

Off you got to have stuff you know prepare for them and what we’re running and all that and like I said it’s tough for Dennis because he hasn’t been here so it’s like he doesn’t know and then kind of go off that now we’re running around spacing is bad and then goes from

There how do you I mean you guys only get I mean so you have the break you only get I mean you got a full practice I guess before you start that road trip maybe a light practice before that how do you accelerate that process of you

Know getting the new guy a new guy who’s got the ball in his hands on the same page with everybody had to accelerate that process I mean we got to we got to know what we’re doing we got to come as a team with coaches and and figure out a

Game plan and can’t be the same with everybody can’t be the same it’s every everybody’s different you know what I’m saying like I said with Ben out there it’s a different he could dribble hand off and stop because how teams guard them you know we can’t we got four

Guards out there with CLA it’s a different game so just kind of know how to play that way and andjust off that the last two two months or so just been kind of a a tough stretch for you guys so how do you not let this sink in and

Linger after the break where you guys obviously are now trying to fight for this playing spot um yeah I mean you got to learn and and and fix the issue that’s pretty much what it is you can’t just let this one go and thinks like oh

Like Let It Drop Like no like yeah maybe if you maybe lost towards end but you got beat by 50 is not just let it go a lot of is is not right and you got to fix it

Mikal Bridges discusses the Nets’ difficulties heading into the All-Star break and how the team can overcome key absences to adapt their style of play. Subscribe for daily sports videos!

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