Willie Green recaps win over Philadelphia | Pelicans at 76ers Postgame 3/8/24hia
Two yeah let’s start with the first half what did you like how did you do such a great job at setting the tone getting out in transition which was a major point of yours at a practice yesterday yeah the first half was uh just a beautiful display of basketball getting
Stops defensively def deflection steals rebounding the ball we got out played in the open floor you know the ball is moving we’re playing with force and in the second half you know you you know they’re not going to go away they’re going to take pride play in this
Building on their home floor and give them credit um they got physical with us took us out of some of our actions they were driving the ball a bit more and um we just got kind of stagnant but great you know I’m grateful that we hit some
Shots down the stretch got a couple stops and was able to win the game is there a way you’d like your team to handle physicality differently when other teams start getting into you like they did tonight in the second half well in in this particular game when you got
Your foot on the team’s neck you keep it there and you don’t allow them to get back in the game and get a rhythm and get momentum and you know give them credit but some some of the ownership on the second half is on us uh but I still
Go back to the fact that it’s hard to win in the NBA super proud of our group in the locker room um walking out of this building with a win no matter who it is and you know we’ll we’ll get back to practice watch some film and kind of
Build from there how Na’s contributions tonight Naji was huge on both ends of the floor his energy was at a high level he hit shots he was all over the place defensively it was great to see him come out and have a have the performance that
He did tonight Z had a key block on UB with like three minutes left what do you think about just the defensive plays that that Z was able to make in this game yeah see Z did a fantastic job on defense tonight like you said that that
Block was huge UB was kind of getting it going he got down the lane and Z came over weak side help huge block we secured a rebound I believe we go and score from there herb hits a big three late uh but Zion was big for us on both
Ends of the floor I mean how does it help you when he’s just being a defensive playmaker like he was in this game it helps it helps a ton and you know that effort that mentality is what we we need to have for 48 minutes and um
When Z’s playing like that he he’s really difficult to stop yeah you said the physicality kind of turned the tide of the game but late the the Press really gave yall a lot of problems what did you kind of see with that and you ended up putting Jose in there at the
End to kind of help you know deal with that as well we we didn’t handle it well you know and a lot of it had to do with us walking the ball up the floor not being aggressive you know the game’s not over it’s 48 minutes
And you know we did a great job of building the lead I told the guys in the Huddle you know that’s a credit to them don’t give it all away by getting too relaxed and I just felt like we got a bit relaxed and they they pic they turned it up and uh
Just we talked about it all season but herb you know making those two plays at the end the the play where he throws it off campaign out of bounds and then hits the three in the corner uh just what do you think when you see him make those
Type of plays uh when you really need it he’s been big time for us since he walked in our building and we’re we’re all grateful to have him and um you know even with the second half not being as great as we want to uh it’s still a
Blessing to get an opportunity to coach these guys and you know we’re all enjoying it and and now we can get back and watch some film and continue to grow from here yeah I asked you about the Press but once y’all were able to get into half court offense what did you see
That kind of made y’all struggle so much in the second half to kind of execute on that end of the Court we we got to go finish you know if they’re going to PR press us don’t bring the ball out and run a play we have a mismatch we you
Know we have three on two or four on three we we need to continue to attack that’s that’s what got us the lead that’s what helped us um kind of take the momentum of this game and then the press and the physicality we kind of pull the ball back out now we playing
Against the shot clock possession after possession that’s not how we want to play okay thank you
Philadelphia 76ers vs. New Orleans Pelicans postgame interview with head coach Willie Green following their game on Friday, March 8 at 6 p.m. CT during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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2 Comments
That 's why you call timeout dame
Why? Because you want to play Naji Larry and Jose. But if you played Hawkins or Matt Ryan those 3 point shooters would have put them out of their misery. Larry cant rebound cant hold anybody but them your favorite players and in the playoffs your decisions gonna kill this season and team.