Billy Donovan Postgame Interview | Milwaukee Bucks vs Chicago Bulls – 3.1.24

Billy Donovan Postgame Interview | Milwaukee Bucks vs Chicago Bulls – 3.1.24

Do you feel like they kind of got in your guys’ heads a little bit yeah I mean I don’t know about that I I I I do think that you know um we have to you know look at how you know we can respond in those situations better um how we can

Control the emotional level better um you know I think that uh you know for for both teams in in in in a large respect um not everybody got every call that they wanted you know so you know we’re going to have to be able to overcome that you

Know I think in the first quarter it was 10 nothing at the free throw line and you know that that sometimes happens you got to try to you know work to overcome it you know there’s nothing there’s nothing else you can do you know other than that so

You know we needed to be better you know in those situations um you know of controlling controlling when we when we maybe did get frustrated ated or felt like we were defending ourselves or standing up for ourselves where it doesn’t get in the way of us losing

Concentration and focus of what we need to be doing what do you think about the defense they played on dear I mean obviously he had a nice assist total but he struggled a little bit from the field was it yeah I just thought more in the

First half a little bit he was 0 for six but I you know I think if you look at dear’s first half he’s always kind of like his reading the game filling out the game I think he’s much more interested in getting other guys involved and then I think once the third

Quarter came you know we off to a good start to start the third he was a big part of that but he’s always going to read the game and not force it I think it was probably a little bit uncharacteristic to see him go over for

Six but I think in a lot of first half he hasn’t necessarily taken a lot of shots as much as he’s tried to facilitate and just play Within the flow of how how the group’s playing did you uh did you not bring him back in you

Know after early fourth Co of the margin or because he was like kind of upset the margin you know it was more more the margin he’s absorbed a lot of minutes was a 26-point game I think with six or seven minutes to go it’s obviously a long uphill battle he’s been

Unbelievable with the amount of minutes he’s had to absorb I know he wanted to be out there I played him the whole entire third quarter a couple you know possessions into the fourth then got him out put him back in and then that’s when that whole thing happened he paid maybe

A few more possessions after that but I just thought it was an opportunity to kind of save him because certainly at that point in time was not a game that we were probably going to be able to find a way to win have you ever

Seen vit get a kicked out of a game like that no he say anything I mean kind of surprised I would just say this you know like I I I I I’m not going to say what I said but I I I made some comments to the

Officials early in the game about where this was going and I’ll just leave it at that well I not to follow that up that was private but it seemed like this sort of all got going toward like three or 4 minutes left in the third quarter with Beverly’s

Sort of aggressive play on Demar and then iio it seemed like seemed like that kind of kicked things up what did you see yeah and I but I also think too that I think in those situations you know it is what it is and you don’t have control

Over it you know what I mean and and do I think they’re fouls absolutely I think they’re fouls do I think they should have been called absolutely um but at the same point that they weren’t you know so you’ve got to find ways to overcome it and like I said earlier I’m

Sure that there’s plenty of times for Giannis or Damen Lillard or you know Lopez that you know they felt like calls were missed you know so it’s going to happen in the game you got to be able to control yourself you know um you know better than we did in in in those

Moments we talked a little bit before this game about how you guys were going to counter the buck size and that’s obviously just kind of an ongoing quadrate for you guys how did you feel about how that worked tonight obviously drum and F were struggling with fowls in

The ction yeah I mean I listen you know I I I Andre you know was so unbelievable um last game against Cleveland you know and the big lineup was had a huge part to to to us winning you against against Cleveland and you know it’s obviously it’s too bigs but

They’re different than you know Moy and Jared Allen I I thought that you know we would just okay with that group you know but I can’t sit there and say that we had like maybe a lot of groups that were great um for the game but certainly with

The way those guys have played together you want to give them every opportunity to to go out there and play and um you know I thought we had a chance maybe it to be a little bit better in the second half um in some aspects it was but

Overall it wasn’t great but again like I said I I I don’t think that there was any lineups out there you know that were great obviously the the team for the most rep that closed when was Kobe and iow and those other guys you know they I

Thought played pretty well you know when we got down by 25 or so thanks coach okay thank you

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