Hornets vs Magic: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability | 3/5/2024
Looking at the box was the turnovers the biggest thing well I mean it really for both teams I mean that was not a what you’d say an aesthetically pleasing NBA game to watch right I mean it was 37 turnovers it was pretty sloppy on both ends
Um you know I mean you know that was eight and 13 nights for us and we looked like it that’s the first time with this group actually all year we haven’t had many games where we didn’t play with the right amount of energy but obviously we didn’t tonight is that more just
Physically not having I think so yeah I mean like look we we’re in a stretch here we go 14 out of 18 on the road in out in out um and we haven’t had two days off for a while tomorrow will be the first time and we’ve also had two sets of
Backto backs in like the last week and a half so um I mean it definitely played a part and I thought to start the second half we triy to get our energy going but you know we just couldn’t get there coach Shand a little bit this game you talk
About you know both of them y played really good uh thought Trey played well um you know it’s hard to you know when you have that many turnovers you know it’s hard to to um to put a good game together you know for 48 minutes I mean they scored 23
Points off our 18 turnovers and I think even like our defensive numbers will be pretty good because even though they shot 50 fors misleading because they scored so much off our turnovers our half court defense wasn’t bad you said after the second Milwaukee game last week you weren’t happy with your shot
Selection as a team few games go by here we are third since then has that gotten better well I’ll be honest and the the other Factor now is that was with Cody and Seth so I mean now we’re you know we have a lot less offensive kind of shot creation shot
Making in the group so I mean it’s look there’s going to be some nights here that if we’re not really really on it you know we’re not going to score a ton of points that’s where we got to be little turnover we got to be smart uh we
Got to be super purposeful and our defens is going to have to continue to be good at after the deadline you got a lot of new addition still not a lot of size I know it’s not necessarily a new thing post deadline but they had a bunch
Of dogs especially in the second half yeah we’re I mean we’re look you know we’re tiny yeah I mean by NBA standard and it’s not just at the four and the five I mean we’re tiny everywhere but we also have strengths that way you know so like um like for instance playing Grant
At the five actually that’s our best offensive and defensive group you know because he gives us so much more versatility um and and again in the big picture um you know so much as this is evaluation you know but to truly evaluate which our guys are doing we
Have to play to win which you know we did we just we lack the energy tonight but I I you know like those things you’re talking about it’s it’s just where we’re at you know I mean um we’re going to be smaller here for the rest of
The year and um so you know we’re going to have nights like we did against uh Philadelphia right where you know like the biggest difference in the game was offensive rebounding points for them you know but you know it will give us a good chance to evaluate a lot of guys and see
Where we’re at going into the summer though can you talk about how you’ve seen opposing teams guarding Brandon Miller tonight they play bigger guys they’re double teaming they’re taking all his picking roles away um you know even when we’re doing screening action off the ball you know
They’re more baselining it send it to the rim sending all the Cutters towards the five men so um you know he was good in the first half but what I have to do that part of that is me too like in the second half you know this we don’t call
As many play calls as we used to like you know when I was here before but in the second half I’m just going to do that we’ll slow it down and get the ball in his hands because he’s too good and you can’t let teams just do that you
Know so he would you know I think in the first half tonight I think he had only taken like four or five shots and we can’t have that Ste filling in for Cody tonight what do you think about his contribution I thought he played well I
Thought he was very much on the attack in his pick and roles um he had a bunch of good finishes at The Rim you know and he’s he’s also uh you know very good passer Creator you know they collapse the paint so much that a lot of he’s
Good at hitting the role and the way they you know play they’re so big that’s not there a lot so he didn’t get as many of those but I thought he played very well
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