Doc Rivers Post Game Press Conference | 3.12.24

Doc Rivers Post Game Press Conference | 3.12.24

Doc I know um to start the trip you thought offense kind of led to some of the issues in Golden State what same same tonight exact same you know listen it’s going to say they shot 53% but and we listen Malik had some wide open shots

Over the pat Conan but that’s all foods go the ball didn’t move tonight we took difficult shots um Sacramento overh helps a lot because they have to they’re they’re they’re uh and we didn’t take advantage of it at all uh the few times we did it we did get good shots but I

Thought the way we played uh offensively I thought we chase points all night everybody first player of the game I think uh player pump Fay got in the paint we told him that run at you kick it out we take contested twos so we deserved it tonight um you know my fault

I didn’t get them prepared the way they should mentally I thought um our shoot around just you know we guys talking about uh planes and leaving um we as a staff we talked about that to shoot around I was like if our focus is not better than this morning it’s going to

Be a long day and it was a long day so that’s on us um what did you see them do with with Dame or try to do with Dame in terms of either making it that much more difficult on him over the half court and maybe preventing some they just

Pressured them a lot they got into him um you know I think every team tries to do that but they were very successful at it tonight give Alis credit I thought he did a great job on day you talk about those first two quarters of King scored

38 in the first first and then s then that kind of you know no I still thought it was due to our offense you know they they didn’t have to take the ball out all game I mean they were running down our throat off of misses you know um

Didn’t establish our post play I thought we had a big Advantage every time down the floor we just didn’t have a very smart game uh today uh I’m not going to overplay it it’s one game but we had two of them on this trip you know uh and

Blue one now this trip could have easily been two and two um but it’s not it is what it is and we have to deal with that uh after that loss to the Warriors Jay had talked a little bit about how you guys didn’t find the pace

Of the game until the second quarter felt like that happened again tonight I didn’t think we ever found it I thought we had the one stretch where we cut it to six I think uh and then in the third I thought we cut it again uh then we

Went right back to taking bad shots so I didn’t think we learned our lesson tonight we just kept uh having self-inflicted W wounds so uh you’ve talked about how this is an older team it’s not a quick team it uses its length in games like this do you feel like this

Is can be a problem playoff time with teams that I worry about it yeah I think um that’s what we’re going to have to improve you know uh teams that play with pace and move the ball we have struggled against all year you know Indiana Pacers

Being that as an example and so we have to figure out the right formula uh to do that we will uh but we don’t have it right now you alluded to that but just one and three on this road trip you had been feeling like you guys were making

Steps in the right direction how do you sum up I still do I mean you know again as I said when we won whatever in a row I said I’m not judging us by that uh let other people I’m not um um I said then

We wern’t ready yet and we still not but we will be uh you mentioned teams are going to try this on Dame a lot they have in the past some nights you’ve been more successful you weren’t tonight what do you find is successful when teams do pressure him well if they’re going to

Pressure him and and trap him um if we space the floor move the ball we work on the drill every day uh we should be able to pick it apart think about it if they’re trapping Dame that’s Giannis in the middle of the floor uh we didn’t

Take advantage of that tonight we we really just didn’t move the ball tonight um and it’s that simple uh you mentioned not being able to take advantage of your size that’s something you’ve kind of struggled with since you’ve taken over not being able to find brook down there

What are you seeing as the problem with that we we got to throw him the ball he’s got to go down there more too but that’s on us we got to get Brook down there if they want to put a guard on Brooke we got to start posting Brook

More how do you feel about the uh the ball handling tonight it seemed like you gave up a few of them in the steals yeah we just we’re sloppy I mean we really were um it’s a sloppy night so there’s not much you can do about it

Doc Rivers talks to the media after Tuesday nights loss to the Kings.

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