Postgame Interview: Erik Spoelstra

Postgame Interview: Erik Spoelstra

All right let’s start with the cliche question of that’s how you drew it up uh um no but there’s a Karma to it um you know sometimes in in this game um bam was just outstanding for us you know especially defensively all the things he was doing and on the glass um and

Creating a lot of different triggers you know for us um you know uh Duncan ended up being a beneficiary of a lot of his screens or handoffs or um misdirections um and then you know that that final stop uh you know of course that’s that age-old question do you take a timeout

Or not um I saw the ball go into Terry’s hands so I thought he was going to be able to race it up the court and um you know those are kind of like freebies um whatever we’re going to diagram if we had to like try to work it for the last

Shot I don’t think it would have been as open you know as this one was I anticipating it’ be a bam Trail three no uh I thought Terry was able was going to be able to get Coast to Coast or get to one of his step backs um hopefully

Without any time left um when it’s tied you know that that’s a a safer play um but again sometimes there’s a Karma to it and um you know the ball just happens to find you know the guy who’s doing the most things defensively you know the most things that that are keeping our

Our team connected and um you know to be in a position to win on the road like this and it was great to see him knock that one down I look I I’ve seen our Centers do three-point shooting contests you know all the time they end every

Practice and every shoot round with that um and Bam you know for the last whatever they’re going to debate this but the ones that I’ve seen you know he’s won um the last few um and he’s really been working on that and uh we’re just glad to get this this W how

Much good stuff was happening whenever Duncan was involved in an action tonight yeah for sure uh you know he came out super aggressive behind the three-point line and then that opened up a lot of different things you know from there once he knocked down a few then we were able to to run

Offense through him uh and then you know play off of some of their aggressive coverages you know trying to get them off the line uh and that’s a big part of our menu you know and you take out Jimmy you don’t have Tyler you know you have to uh

Be able to to maximize your next best you know actions whatever they may be bam is always going to be involved one way or another whether it’s in the post at the elbow at the top of the floor but Duncan has evolved you know and grown so

Much as a player um he basically hit every aspect uh of the game offensively um the threes the catch and shoot threes the spot up threes the catch and goes the curl Cuts uh the passes you know from aggressive coverages that was one of the biggest plays of the game was the

Pocket pass that ban for a dunk uh when they were making their run um but you know Duncan you know just works at it tirelessly he’s really improved with his entire skill set again being so short-handed needing something from other guys um D not since February 29th

Comes in defends um Thomas comes in gives you the energy just your thought of of the we have enough Mantra yeah those guys were so important and here’s what the average you know um spectator may not understand is they’re only looking at shots made points scored uh but dlon and

H uh and Thomas were in there in that second quarter when we really made a run and they were flying around defensively I mean it was it was disruptive I mean that was uh like um the old um Richardson Arkansas teams of of pressing full CT uh you know 40 minutes of hell

Those guys were really activating our defense and and that created some Karma and and created uh an energy shift in the game and uh that’s the point of this you can impact you know winning and impact your unit in so many different ways uh if if those guys didn’t have the

Contributions that they had you know we’re not winning this game on the road um and that’s part of the depth and and the versatility that we’ve talked about for a long time it’s it’s in moments like this um where guys are out and other guys have been able to to step up

And really contribute to a win that’s that’s the most important thing all right thank you

Mar. 17, 2024 – Erik Spoelstra speaks to the media following Friday night’s game vs. the Detroit Pistons.

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