Al Horford: Celtics Wanted Sam Hauser to Break 3pt RECORD | Postgame Interview

Al Horford: Celtics Wanted Sam Hauser to Break 3pt RECORD | Postgame Interview

Pretty impressive uh pretty impressive and the the most impressive to me was that everything was within the flow of the offense you know it wasn’t like you know he was hunting the shots or anything like that like we just played our game and uh and guys were mindful

You know when he was there you know get him the ball but it was just playing so it was uh it was pretty impressive to see him and and I mean I was hoping he was going to go for 15 um you know even break the Celtics record but also go for

The league record he just had such good Rhythm um so it was pretty cool to see were there conversations about that like knowing where he was and how yeah well we knew he had um seven at halftime um so we we definitely you know wanted to

Make sure that uh we just kept them involved in the offense when you when you got it going like that when you’re that hot shooting you know you want to keep it going so uh JT and Drew were very conscious of trying to find him did

You look up the record at halftime or do you just know that um the Celtics record well and the 15 yeah no I knew I mean well 14 is the record right so 15 is to break it so yeah we know you know we we

Know that like I mean I know Clay did it and it was pretty impressive and he did it in was it three quarters maybe so I’m like I was very impressive so like I mean you know I was Shooters we know those records um so uh and then the

Celtic one I knew last year cuz Derek White came out hot and hit like you know like seven or eight ended up like with nine threes or something like that so uh we’re very aware of it um and and pulling for Sam you guys have talked

About getting the ball to you know a hot hand but doing it within the flow of the offense how do you go about you know when he has five or whatever it might have been getting him more looks running plays for him stuff like that yeah I

Just think that we we just got cut up and just just playing our game what the defense gave gave us that’s what we took and within everything we just did it and Sam is the kind of guy that he doesn’t care like he came in at Hal time he

Didn’t care he he just wants to play the right way he wants to make the right play and that’s what he’s going to do and uh and and as you could see all the shots that he took were were good shots it about a year ago you guys were down

Here Christ STS had a big game against you guys you remember like just kind of what stood out to you about him that night and obviously you didn’t know you were going to be playing with him next year but like just where he was at in

His career and like how good he had gotten at that point um yeah you know uh that was one of those games that you know we come in here and we expected to go one way and mental focus wasn’t where it needed to be and um but but besides

That with christop what was impressive was you know just his ability how much pressure he put on the inside uh in the paint and then also stretching the defense out um and those were you know two things that after that game I just remember was like man it’s really tough

When he’s when he has that both of those things going at the same time and yeah I would have never thought that you know he was going to end up here along those lines the mentality you guys come in here without three starters what impressed you most about the way you

Played from the jum um I think it was uh our Focus um you know this type of game they were missing some players and in the past we’ve talked about it like it uh you know the performance kind of goes down we kind of relax a little bit but I

Felt like our guys we were on edge from the beginning um you know we we came out very determined very focused and that’s that’s what I like most about our group we were ready to play and we showed it um throughout the game even at the end

We I feel like the guys continued that for for the whole game this this team hasn’t been a situation like this this um early in the year where basically you’re pretty much clinched into number one um what’s going to be the focus over these next like 15 16 games what’s the

What do you want to get out of that kind of moving forward for for us just continue to play good basketball uh continue to play the right way and um uh really just you know take it a game at a time uh one of the good things that we’re doing

This year as a group is that we’re really just locked in on on the task at hand and we’re not necessarily looking too far ahead and um I feel like that’s that’s helping us had very few of those let down games this year you know against maybe like a team like this at

The bottom of the League what do you think there’s the biggest difference just in terms of taking care of business that consistently against them uh I just think like I mentioned earlier I think it’s the focus level um I think that uh you know you come in and uh we came in

Tonight and I felt like you know we respected our opponent and and we uh we were very um you know prepar and on edge and continue to play the right way you know there wasn’t a thing that guys are deviating or trying to do different things like we stayed with the game plan

We executed offensively and we just kept doing that over and over Al sorry one more um Joe said he feels like Payton right now is an underrated part of this team do you agree with that um I think so I mean I there’s so many um players

That you can look at on our team or that get highlighted constantly um for the things that they do and um and Payton’s been um just uh very mature but also um I feel like he kind of goes under the radar with some of the things that he

Does and um I personally think it’s probably a good thing um I mean he’ll start coming up in big moments and people will see it people will feel it but um um but but I believe that he’s um he has the right mindset the right attitude and he’s one of those ones

That’s going to have a you know a big game coming up and um and it’ll be it’ll be fun to watch

WASHINGTON — Sam Hauser’s impressive performance, featuring career highs of 30 points and 10 3-pointers, propelled the short-handed Boston Celtics to a 130-104 win over the Washington Wizards on Sunday night. Al Horford expressed his admiration for Hauser’s shooting, saying, “I was hoping he was gonna go for 15, even break the Celtics record but also go for the league record.” Unfortunately, Hauser’s night was cut short due to an ankle injury.

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