Brian Keefe PostGame Interview | Cleveland Cavaliers vs Washington Wizards

Brian Keefe PostGame Interview | Cleveland Cavaliers vs Washington Wizards

Great um we obviously had multiple bodies go down Denny not playing balal go down five minutes in the game and then Cory you know it got sick during the warm-ups wasn’t feeling good so credit to our guys to keep battling and showing the resilience that we want to

See out of them um I thought Jordan and Kyle really stepping up pushing us but then we had great contributions from you know Patrick Balon Jr Johnny Davis Jared Butler those guys came in and great us Great Men ran Holmes who was new to our

Team team so like the whole team was a team effort to get us to the end and uh I was proud of the guys kept fighting how are Cory and Below feeling now uh Cory we’ll see you know we’ll see how he feels tomorrow uh balal you know we got

Injured during the game so we’ll you know we’ll we’ll know more information as we go coach uh what did you see from Jordan uh tonight and his performance and what do you think uh he has to do to establish a baseline of consistency to you know kind of help him finish out his

Season strong I think one of the things I said uh you know a couple days ago Jordan has been one of the highest net ratings since I’ve coached so like Jordan has played well for us um now we’re seeing him in a different type of

Role the ball in his hands a little bit more and I see we’re seeing incremental gains in the last three games from this and I think we’re going to continue to see that and that’s what I expect from him Brian uh how limiting was the absence of size on the wing and maybe

The lack of size defensively down the stretch um I you know it probably played the factor um but our guys battled like they hit some tough contested threes over us it wasn’t like they manhandle Us in the paint when was offensive rebounds and stuff I thought our defense was

Solid we contested some of those threes and they made them and that’s sometimes how it goes but I thought our guys battled you know and you know we did a a pretty good job on Garland and Mitchell um those guys didn’t shoot what they usually do and don’t didn’t score what they usually

Do what specifically did you like about Jordan’s performance um like I told Jordan when from when I started coaching I want him to be aggressive to be in attack mode and he did that and he did that for himself and he did that for others obviously he made his shots

Tonight you know which was great but like the process has been good I’ve liked what the process has been lately for him coach the defense on Mitchell and Garland was good from our perimeter guys but Allen and Moy each had over 20 points how do you plan on um correcting

The paint defense in the future some of that was Bas us a little bit of what we were doing trying to get the ball out of those hands so a little bit is they were going to get receiving end passes um so they they were going to probably have an

Uptick but we would live with some of that we made mistakes we’re going to look at it tomorrow and get better at it but we wanted to make Mitchell and Garland passers you mentioned the defense against Mitchell and Garland how do you think Johnny Davis did in in that

Situation I thought he was great uh got caught with the one foul and you know went for the pump fake but other than that Johnny’s been great the last three games his defense has been great his defensive rebounding has been great he brings great energy um but that’s kind

Of the role we envision for him he’s been a positive on the defensive end Coach uh as a as a leader what uh type of message do you give to the team to you know kind of keep their spirits up and and hopefully try to try to try

To get out of this uh rut that they’re in uh that you shouldn’t be happy we lost we’re never happy about that but we should be about the process so that reminded us that you know we didn’t have two good games over the trip coming out of the

Break but that looked like the team that we have been building and if we keep stacking those type of habits repeatable actions that we showed tonight that will lead to the win so we’re focused on the process on how to get there and I thought our guys made a great step in

That direction tonight thanks thank you everybody safe travels

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