Xavier Tillman Previews FIRST GAME For Celtics vs Bulls

Xavier Tillman Previews FIRST GAME For Celtics vs Bulls

Can you ask uh can you can you ask West West how you doing all are man so uh how how’s the knee how you kind of recover from that over the last couple weeks and you know spend the Break um knee’s good knee’s good went to Phoenix with my

Family just got some good family time with my brothers and my sisters and my cousins and stuff like that so that was good um but he’s good Le what’s the process been like of you know getting prepared for playing tonight and you know getting used to all the different

Things that the team does on both ends of the core were you talking to coaches during that time studying film whatever that might be everything that you said studying film talking to coaches having them you know help me with their lingo and how they like to talk um principles

Are kind of similar to to what I did in Memphis but just like the way they say it is a little bit different so just getting used to that um and then getting used to how we play offensively you know having all the guys that we do who are

Who are such offensive weapons being able to play off them and and keep them involved and stuff like that did they kind of tell you what your role might be tonight what St might be like for you you know in this game no I mean my role

Here as far as what I can do is definitely you know bringing energy you know crashing the glass defending at a high level um and getting those guys open with my screens and stuff like that but as far as like my stint and stuff like that we’re we’re a get ready team

So or stay ready team so that’s what we do what was the issue with your knee uh I had some swelling going on um in there and it was just really painful to bend it yeah so once I got the swelling out I was good to go is that

Something you’ve been dealing with all season or is it kind of cropped up uh the no this is this one kind of crept up I had something else early in the season and then will you have any minutes restriction or is there have the trainers told you about any time limits

WR yeah good to go man was this an unusual like Allstar break for you in that sense that like a lot of times guys just want to get away and chill but you’re kind of still learning this and figuring it out with this team no it wasn’t unusual I still went on my

Regular vacation like everybody else so it wasn’t unusual for me no I just worked out before and after that’s it so it wasn’t like you weren’t like communicating with the coaches while you’re gone no no no no a break it was a good break it was a good break it’s your

First time joining a new club what what is it like when you transition to a new team just like kind of like jump in the middle of the season with a group that’s already been together for a while yeah it’s very interesting um you come in

There and you don’t want to shake the tree right you want to figure out how you can just you know help the team do what they’ve been doing as far as winning and stuff like that so you know for me when I got here my goal was

Mainly just to watch for a little while just to see how everybody interacts what’s the vibe you know and then see where I can you know make my impact you know I’m still learning too like I’ve only been here for like two weeks so still learning for sure what have been

Your impressions of this team like everyone talks about how great the locker room is just being around this SCP what’s what’s that kind of been like um I feel like uh we’re really good at keeping basketball basketball not involving it in your real life that makes sense like everybody clocks in and

They go to work but you can see that nobody takes it home with them and it’s like you know coming in with their head all kind of messed up over the last performances everybody’s kind of FR minded and keep everything on the course so it’s pretty cool to see before you

Left for allar break were you able to find a place for your family to stay they been able to go to uh they they’ll be there on uh pretty soon we got some uh some stuff set up they’ll be here pretty soon yeah I can’t wait what’s the

Biggest difference you’ve know from a basketball standpoint like what do you think is the biggest thing you’re going to have to get used to here um we post up a lot we post up a lot we didn’t post up very much in in Memphis at all except

With jiren um but here we got like four different guys to post up so we post up a lot over here is that part of your game yeah yeah post it posting up is definitely part of my game for sure um yeah does that excite you as to like

Find a way R yeah I would say so I would say so um but it’s it’s interesting know cuz I post up right um obviously Smalls and whatnot but like you know the game like I said revolves around those four guys talking about KP and JT and JB and

Well really DWI and Drew it involves around everybody over here you know so um in terms of posting up I definitely have that my skill set but like the game’s revolving around them and it’s it’s like how can we get them open so then they can create because they’re

Really really good at creating for everybody else when you got into the league post-ups are pretty much like like out of the game and it’s really really come back these last couple years why do you think they’ve come back so much and how is that how have you had to

Adjust as a Defender yeah I mean I don’t know why I really went away me always growing up posting up was just like the easiest way to get a bucket you know you’re already that close to the hoop you know as long as that person post

Enough can hit free throws I mean now the team’s got a double team or or they got to find somebody who’s strong enough to hold up you know in the post so I don’t know growing up I always posted up and and enjoyed teams that post it up

You know that’s kind of the mindset I guess going from a team that obviously guys had a lot of injuries ler in the standings to like a championship Contender like how does that kind of switch like a kind of a flip in your mind that hey I’m look had kind of maybe

Like a deep playoff R um I guess I was always my mentality was always getting better when I was um with Memphis especially once we saw that the season probably is not going to go the way we want to um and over here it’s more so of playing to my strengths to

Help us win you know obviously you want to expand on your game but at the same time like we’re on a mission to do stuff as well so it’s like playing to my strengths and then sprinkling in stuff that I want to expand on my game for sure thank you

Xavier Tillman talked about his knee injury, all star break and how he’s adapting to the Celtics before his first game with the team after getting traded from the Grizzlies at the deadline. Tillman will make his debut vs the Bulls in Chicago on Thursday.

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