De’Aaron Fox says the Sacramento Kings are ‘continuing to focus in on’ their defense post-ASB

De’Aaron Fox says the Sacramento Kings are ‘continuing to focus in on’ their defense post-ASB

Not that long of a break but how’d it go oh it was great uh guys got after each other obviously try to know run out whatever you got in you um I think we had a I think we had a really good price today what um would you like to see the

All-Star break longer um I don’t know I think there’s uh you definitely don’t want it to be too long I mean I think we have when do we when was our last game third Friday Wednesday Thursday Wednesday what’s today Tuesday I mean I think that’s long enough obviously if

You’re an All-Star like you don’t much of a break but everybody else you had a great time yeah and having experienced it last year I know there’s so much competition or so much conversation right now about the level of competition in that game I was just curious where

You kind of land on that do you have any thoughts on just what this game might look like in the future I just saw a score I saw it 200 to like 190 something or 180 something uh I don’t know I don’t really have a I don’t really have an

Answer for that yeah how do you feel starting the second half uh I feel great feel confident obviously uh you know the last game that we played um I think we did I think we did a great job on the defensive side of the ball so uh

Continue to focus in on that obviously and uh control the things that we can control and that’s being a better team defensively especially guarding the three-point line obviously we don’t give up a lot of Threes but uh teams are shooting almost 40% against us and

That’s like unheard of so uh we have to be better in that aspect and if we can be uh we could be a really good team talk about that uh oneman scoring run that you Wi on scoring those last 10 points of that game is that something a

Little sample we going to see going forward uh I mean I’m trying to be aggressive obviously um I mean some of those baskets like HB sets a double screen on on uh on Ag and Michael um I got downhill once domas set the cour tot screen on on uh yic like

I’m not the only obviously I get a Ste and go down and then uh jumper but um when I’m getting baskets like it’s not just me doing that it’s those little things that are happening that give me uh the space to get downhill and then

Just just try to be able to finish the play so um I mean I want to continue to be aggressive and obviously my teammates continue to help me the the mid-range stuff like you know you had that bread and butter jumper free throw extended is it because of your ability to shoot the

Three these days is it that kind of few a little bit more few and far between from moments that I mean I haven’t shot as many but obviously you want to you want to continue to be efficient from all areas of the game so um as far as

Efficiency goes I just have to be able to go up there and make the shot like that has nothing to do with anything else besides just missing so um I mean I still have the confidence but for me um obviously I need to I mean just make the

Shot there nothing nothing more to it really dearen going into the break we saw you have some shoulder issues uh getting hit quite a few times this year and and not only that but just the the mental aspect as well how much should you need both the mental and the

Physical break away from everything uh I definitely just need a couple days away obviously you know with the issue that I have like 5 days isn’t going to solve it but um you definitely want definitely need that that type of break in the middle of the Season obviously that’s

Why the NBA always has it and uh obviously it’s not super long and you don’t want it to be super long cuz you don’t want to get out of a Groove that you’ve had um obviously you know I play almost 36 minutes a game uh like you’re

In the best shape that you’re going to be in so you don’t want to be you don’t want to sit down uh for too long and obviously working out like it’s not the same as playing a game so uh you want to try to obviously get that rest but try

To stay in as much Rhythm as you can is that a terror I’m sorry Jam there on my shoulder no I mean uh I don’t I don’t know if we got an MRI I don’t I don’t think we ever got an m on it but it was

Never serious enough for me to to do that something with the labor though I I have no idea I know what a laborum is because I heard people tear their labor but I know it’s not that for Sean yeah I hey you uh you popped off for 70 points

Over the last two games do you feel like you found yourself a little bit in those games and is that going to carry over hopefully I mean obviously of course I want to carry it over but like I said for me it’s just trying to continue try

To be efficient uh in what I’m doing and um I want to do that to try to help my team win games uh continue to be better on the defensive side of the ball for me personally and as a team uh I think we’re like 18th in the in the league um

Defensive rating and we’re looking we’re giving up we’re shoot team are shooting 40% for three against us and I think they said if we were League average which is around 36% we would jump all the way up to eight so um we’re doing some things right defensively but we

Know that our Achilles Hill at this point in the season has been not giving up a lot of Threes but obviously you still can’t let teams shoot 40% I think that would be the worst ever so um if we could just be League average and giving up in in a three-point percentage then

We could be a top 10 defensive team in the league and you know who knows where we’d be as a team so um like I said we want to continue to focus in on that uh control the things that we can control and that is getting teams off the

Three-point line making them fill us and uh let the chips fall where they may after that how do you do that and and is it something like schematically with what you guys are doing defensively that’s allowing the open threes oh I mean at times our Closeouts are times

Where we close out well there are times where we’re not and like I said you know we’re not giving up a lot of Threes so we’re doing something right uh but with Team shooting forward present obviously there has to be something that changes how do you look at just the remaining

Schedule ahead I know you guys are so involved in the dayto day but lie all I know is we play Spurs first I think play Clippers y one of the first three cers that’s all I know so Clippers are Sunday are they Sunday isn’t like the back back

The back to back are they the second game of the back to back first game first game they’re the first game oh see hey I don’t look too I don’t look too far I I didn’t even know that I don’t look too far ahead but um maybe it’s

More of like a competition the way the W every game matters obviously there are games that we’ve dropped that uh we probably shouldn’t have dropped and that’s why we’re in the position that we’re in right now and then a lot of times we’re going to play teams who are

Right there with us and that could be a full game swing whenever you’re playing those teams so um obviously you want to take this one step at a time one day at a time and um obviously we don’t want to be in the playin no team wants to be in

The playin I think that’s made uh the League even that much more competitive uh but like I said just continue to focus on those things continue to try to be a better defensive team and I think that we’ll be in a in a better position as you start the second half what are

You telling your teammates especially since you’ve been here for so many seasons oh I mean well one uh I was telling Kobe because actually me Jordan and Kobe was like our first defensive drill today and um we were talking about like this being the first practice uh

Coming out of the break and I was like well at least we’re fighting for a spot there could be a lot of there are teams where you come in here is like it’s a countdown like you’re cting down the day so the season’s over so I’m like at

Least we’re not in that position uh we know that we could be a good team and we know that we’re fighting for a playoff spot so um it could always be worse like we we’ve had some bad games and some bad stretches this year but it could always

Be worse as someone who likes to tease Keegan a lot what did you make of his outing in the rising stars oh I looked at Keegan I said Keegan I didn’t see a second of your game so I have no idea I don’t he he told me that he said I’m

Just glad we lost first game so get out of there I don’t know how they do I have no idea how they do the r i I remember last year it was what three four team three teams last year four four but yeah see I don’t they’re doing a lot they’re

Doing a lot I don’t know you’re obviously very bought in on defense is there some discussion though about ramping the offense back up to to where you guys were a year ago um as far as like just trying to get back there I mean like where was I mean we’re close

To like where our offensive rating was last year but it’s like obviously every year like the League leaders it ticks up so um uh one thing that we’re really um talking about offensively is our Pace our free throw rate and success rate obviously we know we need to be a better

Free throw team uh free throw shooting team and then our offensive rebounding because for the most part everything else that we’re doing offensively we’ve been pretty good at so uh getting to the line more making more free throws and then just getting our Pace up and I

Think all of that kind of coincides with each other once when we get our Pace up obviously you’re getting to the paint a lot more which will get us to the free throw line a lot more and then after that it’s up to us and uh I think that’s

Pretty much where uh we’re really trying to obviously not change things offensively but uh things that we really need to FOC focus on on that end than

Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox spoke with reporters Tuesday night following their first practice back since the All-Star break. He discussed using the break to rest (his shoulder and ankle), where they can improve in the final 28 games of the season, his conversation with Keegan Murray about the Rising Star’s Game, and more.

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