Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.14.24

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.14.24

I think Maxi has 29 Points in the first three quarters um just one point in the fourth quarter would you kind of like about what you guys were able to do to him in the fourth I think kind of Bobby said the tone um obviously the guard was

Doing a good job you know um making it t for him but I think Bob kind of said the tone in like every every uh pick and row he was up there he was trying to Blitz try to uh get the ball out of his hand

And make somebody else make a play and then uh in early in the fourth quarter that was the tone I think when I subbed in for Bobby or Brook I think maybe Bobby I’m not sure we tried to do the same thing we tried to get the ball out of

His hand and make somebody else make a play after the game talk said you know Brooke was able to do that too and it was nice to see Brooke you know be able to do something new sorry sorry sorry that Brook did it too not just B but to

See Brooke do that I mean we’ve talked about him kind of expanding his Horizons throughout his time here just was it like to see him execute another defense and do another thing defensively it’s it’s it’s awesome you know he can be in a low drop but he can be also High drop

You know the end of the day he does whatever it takes to win he was so active block shot contest EV every single uh Drive uh he was unbelievable and uh we needed him to be up there because you know uh tyes had it going and he was up

There for us um let’s start the game working through the hamstring early uh just went to that pop up did it affect you at all early to get you know you have to get warm a little bit popped up he popped up uh sorry against the Clippers because the

Clippers you cannot you don’t you don’t play with Cales and hamstring you know it’s uh they’re shaky you know like you know if you have like a strain or whatever the case might be you know it’s here say it gets bigger and bigger and big like you know so um that says pretty

Much you’re going to be longer out so you don’t mess with stuff like that but uh you know I felt in a good place um I think I was 100% maybe not but but I felt in a good place that I was able to compete was able to control myself so

I’m happy that I did did um did it take you a little while to warm up or get like feel like you had your legs under you at all I had to warm up like um there was no you no shape or form I could you know

Compete the game if I wasn’t 100% warmed up from the Geto you know like um now it takes a little bit to get your balance and get your you know steps but um you know uh but uh my body was warm my body was ready to go like you don’t play with

Stuff like that you have to be on uh there other times that your body might feel good and you might like kind of as the game go goes on you warm up through the game but this wasn’t one of those games I had to be like uh a th% ready to

Compete this game is that kind of why you jumped on the bik bike early I guess that’s coming by warming up like just in once you got in the game and the stop start of timeout substitutions Etc um yeah I did jump on the bike and the

Reason you jump on the bike is because in stuff when you have lingered and stuff like that like you have to stay warm if you don’t and you get uh cold um now you got to warm up again from the beginning it’s hard and that’s that uh

Three two to four minutes that you step on the floor and you try to get yourself going again that where damage might happen so you have to stay warm throughout the whole game uh the bike was good but the bike did not uh didn’t

Like I didn’t like the way I felt when I started walking on the floor when I got stabbed in but I had you know had my physios and people taking care of me give me some hit pads and um you know try to stay you know try to stay warm as

Much as possible no matter how much you guys Trail tonight your your teammates and the huddles on the bench stayed very positive they were very vocal when I asked doc about that he said that’s some of the best that he’s ever coached some that he’s ever seen what do you see from

Your teammates in regards to encouraging one another no matter the score um it’s good we have to we have we have players that can be vocal throughout the game we need players to be vocal um no matter the outcome of the game no matter the circumstances that we are uh if we’re up

Be vocal if we’re done be vocal like um the voice is very very very very important especially we have guys that can do that from Jay Pat um Chris Bobby Brook like we have guys that love to talk you know so um uh I think it was it was really good tonight there

Was times that we thr by 11 there was time we thr by nine but we kept our composure we kept talking to one another kept yelling that we got to get stops got to make it more tougher to them you know we kept saying that we have to

Focus on working we have to work work like we that’s all the the words that could hear that we have to work this game you know and I think guys did um what they’re supposed to do they went out there and they worked throughout the

Whole game we were able to get the lead kept the lead and uh got few stops and won the game uh in my opinion excuse me that a very physical game um at the start of it I don’t know how well you guys dealt with it but it felt like as

The game went on you dealt with it better what do you see from you guys being able to handle the physicality of that game I think uh at first we were kind of take it back to it um you know um but then we knew in the

Second half they going to be physical I think we were ready for it we were crashing every single possession Bobby was crashing I was crashing uh Brook was crashing you know uh I think we kind of you know match their energy Mar physicality was able to fight

Through it um early in the game I don’t think we were ready for it do you think that more physicality has been allowed recently coming back since the allstar Break um uh I don’t know I don’t know um I don’t know I got I gotta watch we got to watch

The games back or watch film I don’t know uh how have you seen AJ grow in this Ro particularly when since doc took over where he’s getting a little more burn under doc but these I know it’s easy to say stay ready but he is one of

Those guys who might not play for two games there’s a game like tonight where he’s closing with you now what um what have you how have you seen him just sort of react to that ready he stays ready no matter if he plays or if he doesn’t play

He he’s always ready to go and um that’s that’s a skill you know that’s a skill some people get checked out he never gets checked out he’s ready to go if he’s going to play 2 minutes he going to play 10 minutes if he’s going to close

Out the game he’s ready to do his job and uh he knows his job he’s accepted his role that he got to space the floor and knock down shots and be a be a beast defensively get into guards bodies you know uh try to get deflection box out

Rebound and space the floor for us and he’s been doing his job like you know move moving forward uh he might be a big piece of you know big part of what we what we are trying to accomplish here you know uh we need we need his energy

We need his shot making we need his toughness we need that he’s he’s ready to go and you know you cannot for a guy like that second year guy you cannot ask for more

Giannis Antetokounmpo talks to the media following Thursday night’s win over the Sixers.

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