Luka Doncic, Daniel Gafford & PJ Washington Discuss Dallas Mavs Team Meeting After Loss vs. Pacers

Luka Doncic, Daniel Gafford & PJ Washington Discuss Dallas Mavs Team Meeting After Loss vs. Pacers

Where did the defensive problems start um since the beginning of the game how can you guys fix the defense I don’t know honestly uh we know we got to fix it Luka how do you feel about the communication and the trust with the teammates oh that’s good that’s

Fine uh just you know on defensive end we got to do something better do you like do you feel like the schemes could work if you guys are executing them right yeah for sure I mean the coaches work hard every day uh there’s a lot of coaches that work watching film all that

Stuff so uh I think we got to just be better man I know defensively we got to be better seven days or 10 days ago you guys were riding a seven game winning streak and since then the results have been so dramatic has that surprised you I mean

It doesn’t feel good I don’t know yeah obviously surprised me yeah but like we got to do do something we got to do better for sure in rough times like this what’s the message uh in the locker room you guys give me uh positivity uh you

Know Keith spoke uh he’s always you know uh speaking helping us a lot uh a lot helping me too so uh you know he’s the voice in the locker room and we all should listen to to L you’re put up his monster numbers three straight 35 Point Tri loseing you

I mean how how frustrating it doesn’t matter I I just want to win man that’s it you talked a lot about your your defense your defense this year and how how it has been better for much stres how would you assess it tonight I there’s no individual here we got to all

Be better at the all five people that are on the court we all got to play defense team um Team defense so all Five Guys on the floor what what do you see as the difference when you guys have played good defense versus what’s been happening probably you know really since

The break I mean it was way easier to play basketball it was easier to get wins uh it was just easier and we were having a lot of fun you know we get stops we have a lot of fun uh we have open cor transition and so it’s easy on

Offense too hey what makes this Pacers team so difficult to defend specifically they’re Pac I think uh they are one of the fastest SP in the league uh and they just just get it out and run uh I don’t think they run much plays they just go at it what do you do

Differently starting tomorrow for the next game on Thursday how do you go from here I don’t know we got to play better defense so you think the efforts so far in these last stretch of games sorry think the effort’s been there I honestly think uh not the whole game but not a

Part of the game he was uh I think we had it Luka the improvements for y’all’s defense that obviously doesn’t all rest on on you but is there anything specifically that you can think of that you can do better on that end of the floor play better

Defense overall what do you think is going wrong the defense um drop my aod my apologies um I would say it’s just you know overall effort and communication the end of the day it’s more of a trust factor I would say with the team that

Has to kind of like you know level up for sure if we want to at least like make that push to kind of at least get out of bottom 30 in all honesty but those are some of the main things that I’ve kind of seen those are some of the

Main things that we’ve talked about in practice and stuff too you one of the ones that was bringing a ton of energy it looked like even the in the rough points of the game did you feel like your energy was contagious to your teammates oh yeah for sure that’s one of

The main things that I want to do I want to be the teammate that if we don’t have any type of energy on the floor I just come in and I just you know work and like you said it’s contagious it goes from one person to the next and it helps

Us kind of make that push down the stretch the results have been so dramatically different the last five six games as opposed to the seven game winning streak are you at all exasperated um I mean with this league it’s tough to win games like consecutively for sure everybody’s going

To give us their best shot night in night out they’re going to give us 110% effort we have to be ready for that especially if we want to make that push to be just like that playoff team we say we want to be can you put a finger on

Why the the results are so dramatically different I really can’t put a finger on it you know on the night night basis I would say it’s just you know our mentality on coming towards the game and all honesty I just you know it’s a blur

To me hey Daniel did anyone step up in the locker room just now and maybe say something after this effort or yeah it it usually is majority of the Vets Mark moris he said a lot of stuff that kind of like stuck I’m pretty sure with a lot of guys tonight for

Sure and how different is the communication now from where it was in the first four games when y’all were here and you were holding teams to 105 and just blow and blowing people out I’d say it hasn’t took like a real bad down like down slot for sure but

It’s just you know it’s always kind of like that one moment that it’s like everybody I would say struggles with and that’s kind of like if we mess up and everybody panics at the end of the day we have to stay Poise so I would say that kind of leaks into the

Communication side somebody messes up now it’s like okay all eyes on me and I mean um when it came to one of the meetings that we had before with the team just you know being able to understand each other understand like players tendencies players weaknesses so

On and so forth and we just have to be there for each other at the end of the day and I would say we’ve kind of lacked in those areas these last couple of games when you say Panic what do you mean like how do you see that um you can

Just tell by the body language at the end of the day you know just watch guys guys hold their heads down guys get frustrated so on and so forth you know so you mentioned the trust Factor mhm explain that how do you mean how does that sort of manifest itself on the

Floor when in terms of not thinking a guy’s going to be behind you on a drive or something like that it’s just like going into war on a battlefield you know you’re going out there with a lot of other people that you expect to be able to protect your back on the battlefield

Too you’re in the trenches and there a lot of things that are going to be coming towards you you always got to have somebody to have your back at the end of the day no matter who you are you know and so with that being said that’s

Kind of like how we put it for sure and so once we get to that point to where we have the backside to where it’s like okay I trust the guys that are behind me just in case I get broken down get drove past something is around the basket or

Just if anybody’s beside you you know every time we step on the floor it’s a fight and you got to have all Five Guys on the same side and on the same page to really just kind of like be able to withstand that fight too when you’re going through tough stretches like this

And you got to step up in the locker what’s the gist of the message I mean is it sticking together or is there strategies or what it’s most definitely sticking together but at the same time it’s the mindset on coming out night in Night Out Kyrie said

It markea said it we have a Target on our back at the end of the day we one of the you know best teams in the league and we have to you know understand the fact that it’s going to be a lot of things that are thrown at us on a night

Tonight basis you know like tonight it was just like a lot of traps it was a lot of just it was a lot of things that wasn’t going our way and we just have to stay poison in those situations because it’s team that we want to be that’s the

Team that’s going to be able to like withstand those punches and then throw something back Daniel I won’t ask you to speak for the team but personally where do you go what do you do when you need to reset regroup and refocus I mean I just go home and try to forget

Everything you know you can’t worry about the things that’s in the past because it happened just you know even if it happened a couple of seconds ago it’s in the past we got to worry about you know putting one foot forward and not worry about the one that’s behind us

We just got to keep moving forward at the end of the day tough loss you know it’s not something it’s not the outcome that we wanted of course but when it comes to just how I deal with it it’s on to the next because the next game is the

Most important game and we just take it one game at a time Daniel you mentioned Mark Keef and Kyrie said something did Coach have a spe a specific message and if so what was it pretty much the same as Kyrie and Marie you know just finding

Ways to stay together finding ways to be able to come out night in night out and playing as like a full team you know from the guys that start the game to the guys are on bench you know at the end of the day it’s just we want to be better

As a unit so that’s what it takes all good all right thank you EJ about 10 days ago you guys had a seven game winning streak and now youve lost five or six what would you say the mood is of the team at this point um obviously I mean we’re not too happy

About losing but at the end of the day we still have a lot of games games left and we still got to be focused on the next game at hand and uh just be better how can you guys fix this defense um just being able to do all the little

Stuff uh being able to talk on both ends of the floor and uh I think it’s just will um and we want to on that end um we can’t it’s going to be impossible to win games if they’re scoring over 30 points in every quarter so no matter who the

Team is um we can score 120 points every game and still lose so for us it’s just that end and uh we got to make that a point of emphasis did you feel like you were doing that in the first few games when when you that you were talking

There was communication defensively and if if that was the case then why is that not the case now I’m not sure but uh we have to get back to it um we got to get in and uh watch a lot of film and understand where we’re messing up and uh

Just try to make it uh better next game obviously and um just go from there was it the case the first four games I mean was there communication defensively yeah I mean there’s there’s been communication every game but for us I mean we have to communicate more and

You have to do all the little things rebound not give up Second Chance points uh fast break points it’s a bunch of different aspects of it you mentioned will do you think it’s a matter of just effort on defense um yeah defense is effort um effort I mean

Knowing where you’re supposed to be being able to talk uh being able to play Team defense so it’s a bunch of different aspects that come into it but um at the end of the day we just had to be better I I know I know you know you

Can only control your own effort not anybody else’s is is there some level of contagiousness to that that you know if if you’re if you’re providing effort that it can uplift everybody else on the team yeah for me I mean uh on the defensive end I just got to be able to

Talk more and be more vocal on that end and uh just help guys figure out where they’re supposed to be and uh put us in the best position for us are Dallas’s defensive schemes much different than what you had in Charlotte um not really honestly I mean everybody’s defense is honestly uh kind

Of the same a lot of switching um but I mean it it just changes based on who you’re playing uh you got to know everybody’s Tendencies and what they like to do so just being able to be locked in and being focused so you don’t feel like there’s been a big transition

From that standpoint for you not for me no anything else thanks thank you oh

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