Mavs’ Jason Kidd Speaks After Loss vs. Sixers: Mar. 3, 2024

Mavs’ Jason Kidd Speaks After Loss vs. Sixers: Mar. 3, 2024

And the effectiveness that you guys saw in the fourth quarter there for the first three no prob no game um you look at being desperate you know understanding uh you have no room for for air I thought the guys in the fourth quarter played at a high level um the

Execution defensively a lot of our schemes uh we didn’t do until the 4th and when we did execute them they uh they went the way we thought and then offensively I’ve said this early in the year our offense is our defense when we score we’re going to be one of the best

Teams in this league when we don’t score we’re one of the worst teams and so um When we struggle to score we we tend to not do anything on the defensive end and we’re trying to find a way to score and we’re getting Great Looks um but they’re

Just not falling for us and in the fourth we have a 40-point quarter it’s one of our better defensive quarters of of the games you know this have to know is it so you have a new game is is there anything I was Jing okay is there

Anything more you can do to motivate this team to to get them engaged for you know the whole 48 yeah I think uh again with the with being healthy you got to go through um a rhythm and and understand we got guys coming back um we’re looking at different combinations

And we’re still trying to win um we got two new guys we’re trying to you know get them used to the schemes um and so there’s going to be some breakdown and we got to continue to keep working through that um the one thing that we

Are trying to encourage our group to do is talk um we can’t take our phones out there to text one another we can’t look at Instagram or Twitter while we’re playing we got we got to be able to to talk to one another to help each other

And uh right now or this afternoon it was at a low and so we have to be better um talking to each other and being able to take that criticism and be positive to move forward are there any specific adjustments or anything you plan to implement moving

Forward yeah well right now I got to go back and look um we all know um Timmy’s not shooting the ball well um maybe we watch Major League get some Kentucky Fried Chicken and uh and put that in his locker um but um no we trust him he’s

Going to get out of it you know that that’s the beauty of sport is you got to fail to to be successful um we just were in Boston I give those guys a lot of credit they didn’t just start off warning um and going to championships

They had to struggle and right now we’re struggling and we got to stay together and stay positive and understand when the ball goes in the basket for us we’re really good so the next step is if the ball isn’t going in the basket how do we

Get stops and uh and that’s what a young team is going through and that’s what we’re going through right now you mentioned the sense of desperation in that fourth quarter does is there a sense the this team doesn’t feel that sense of desperation where they are in

The standings and The Time of the Season yeah I think um a lot of this is new you know we got uh we got two guys who have taken on the world and Kai Luca and and understand what it means to be hunted and what when you’re playing for your

Life um some of those guys in that locker room haven’t been in this situation so we’re we’re going through that right now and we’re we’re trying to help them understand that you got to try to win every possession you can’t just take one or two off and and uh as a team

Will be stronger by going through this uh every team goes through a SE a part of the Season where they struggle where things just seem like they’re not going to go right it’s just a test a game test basketball will test you to see if

You’re a True Believer um and so in that locker room we got a lot of guys that believe and we’re going to we’re going to work our way through this Luke and Kyrie both had Fairly good stat lines a lot of turnovers but do you feel like

You’re running out of options to turn to to try and get that offense going when they’ve got it going but nobody else do yeah I think uh it’s just you know um understanding that those two are going we did have um a lot of turnovers when

We are one for one and assist to turnovers that that’s not going to be a a recipe for uh success so we have to be better we’re a team that doesn’t turn the ball over here of late we’ve been having some turnovers this afternoon we

Had a lot of turnovers so if you’re not getting shots that’s going to put a lot of pressure on your defense and so uh we have to be better with the ball and then we’ll be better on Tuesday you talked so much you know early this season about

Increasing the pace um is this an example of a game where it would have made sense to to dial it back is is that something that you guys are able to still toggle between oh we can slow it down with the best of them mhm that’s not the issue if

If we could play with Pace um and just understand that taking care of the ball like tonight or this afternoon but uh Philly anytime you’re going to touch the paint they’re going to reach and uh Low’s going to give benefit of the doubt we got to understand that when you drive

It Lowry is in the game he’s going to be there for a charge we have to do better recognizing who’s in the game and what they can do um again I thought D Jones was great for us um we’re going to need that again on Tuesday um but right now

We don’t have someone who’s been consistent you know as your third score you know PJ’s trending in that way we’re going to need him um but looking at what you know Timmy the way he’s shooting the ball right now he he’ll be better Tuesday you know we need someone else to

Be able to step up Jason you mentioned the struggle your team’s going through right now with with leading them through this how much of that that Dynamic is within your control and how much of that is just on the players yeah it’s it goes

Both ways uh my job is to put the guys in that can help us win and uh who are playing um but you never turn your back on someone if they’re struggling you know Timmy is struggling we know that and uh our job is to get him open shots

Um try to get get him some easy ones but uh you know when you’re playing the opponent is not just going to let him shoot so you know we we got to continue to uh put him in a position to be successful uh today with the turnovers that’s just you know something that

That’s not what we do you know we normally take care of the ball and this afternoon we did not so we have to be better there um but I thought our Pace to start the game we came out you know um in in in the right energy right

Spirit um but for 48 minutes our energy you know was it was a roller coaster and we got to be consistent with our energy

Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd spoke to reporters after the team’s loss against the Philadelphia 76ers on Mar. 3, 2024.

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