Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.12.24

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.12.24

Like at the start of this trip against the Warriors again tonight uh you guys didn’t really find the pace that they were playing at early in the game just what do you feel like gives you guys problems about that teams that play fast like that I’m just got to got to match that

Energy find the pace as you said um especially like in early in the game like if you’re not locked te not able to match the same energy that as them you’re going to have problems you know I think like you know starting the game he

Sets the tone for the rest of the game you know you know that there going to be a track M you know they’re going to play fast you know they’re going to shoot the ball with 17 seconds on the clock um you you’re not locked in from the

First second you’re going to have problem it was locked in U DC mentioned that also happened earlier in the year against the Pacers um and you know in the playoffs teams are going to be thinking about ways to try to find an advantage of you that might be it how do

You feel like you can get that under control if you you start to feel it slip away early um got to find ways to manage the game you got to like have rules in transition defense like who’s going to crash who’s going to sprin back you got to make got

To make shots when you make shots it slows down the whole thing um but I like I’ll be very hon with you going to the playoffs got what 15 games left I don’t think that’s going to be way for teams to find advantage against us I believe you know when you

Play playoff basketball kind of might be more physical but kind of slows down you know the pace slows down um there’s going to be times that teams going to play fast and try to you know take advantage in transition you know basketball play transition basketball against us but um

I think the game slows down and the it’s crazy first time in my career that that might be our strength you know with the games can slows down uh but we have to be better man got to be better got to do a better job setting

The tone we got to do a better job you know getting back U um transition defense we got to do a better job keeping the ball in front of us I feel like it wasn’t just aition defense like guys were just beating us off the dribble too um that’s pretty much

It 13 uh the Kings sport 13 turnovers and they got 11 steals that what you mean by you know keeping the ball in front of you ball handing no I mean defensively like guarding the ball keeping the guy in front of you do not allow straight line drives

Or sometimes like whenever you don’t give the ball in front of you like the break down our defense and to make something happen and they have a great guys that can make that floater they can play make they have a great big that you know when you know a guard is playing

Two against one they have you know sabonis out there it’s kind of kind of hard so you got to keep the ball you got got to contain the ball as much as you can and I think we wasn’t able to do that as well tonight when the ball gets

Sticky kind of Doc mentioned that against gold state to where the ball movement just isn’t maybe where you think it should be or want it to be is that a a bucks thing or is that an element of what Golden State and Sacramento does bus bugs bucks bugs bugs

Got to move the ball but you know it’s kind of hard to I get it I get why it’s happening you know uh especially for example when you when you get double team every single time in the in the post like you you want to play

You want to impact the game you know you cannot just be passive and just passing the ball you know you got to impact the game in a way you know sometimes you got to beat the double team you know sometimes you got to make something happen and you know when they blitzing D

Every single time sometimes he’s going to hold the ball try to see if he can find a crack you know to make something happen like I get why it’s it’s happening uh but we we have to work on we we’re going to see that in the next game we

Going to play against Philly we’re going to see that in the next game we going to play in the playoffs like we got to be able to beat the teams from the post when they double team us we got to be able to beat teams when they Blitz us

You know find the right Outlets you know guys get to the middle of the floor try to spread it out to the corners guys making shot like you have to find ways to be effective no matter what the defense does uh do I believe that the

Ball was sticky T not 100% it was it was sticky you know um but again we we didn’t make shots either so what are what are you going to do you know when you’re when you’re the leader of the team what what do you do

When you’re D what do you do when you’re Yan what do you do you just keep on giving it or you try to make something happen so that’s the struggle of you know being a leader of a team so at the end of the day today was a game that the

Ball was taking maybe next game we can be better we can make shots the ball cannot be like it’s easy when everybody’s feeling the ball everybody’s making shots and the ball is moving that’s when it’s easy the Kings they uh stopped the 14 game loser streak was

Most of your career did you kind of like feel like you know 14 15 I think yeah you guys beat him 15 straight but which is most of your career did well you I don’t think you knew about that I have no idea I I had

No idea so we’ve beat them 15 15 times straight straight which is to your career you Hest wow wow wow wow you you you jinxes I Jinx no I’m joking I’m joking um no they played great they played great uh they played with great Pace they played with

Intent um everybody that came in scored the ball Fox Malik monk sabonis everybody that Barnes everybody that touched the ball scor the ball tonight was a team win for them um played great I have to ask you you know you had a little discussion out there with Sasha

How do you I know he hasn’t been playing for the last six seven weeks though but uh how do you feel about him you know being in the league I’m happy I’m happy for him you know um uh wish him you know fast recovery to get back healthy and uh

Help his team in U in any way possible he’s a great player he know to play the game and um it’s a great guy to have on your team

Giannis Antetokounmpo talks to the media following Tuesday nights loss to the Kings.

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