Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 03.21.24

Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 03.21.24

D comes up with those two steals late just what do you think of kind of the team finding that will late to get a couple stops uh you know it’s funny you know at halftime I was telling our coaches it’s going to be a tight game

You just feel it um you know they had so much more energy they were here sitting there watching us play last night uh late in the season um you know you just could feel it I swear you could um and so I liked how we kind of gathered oursel they took

The lead we came back we got stops uh d defensively was phenomenal tonight all game you know um he’s a very competitive guy um and you could see that tonight I think in the third quarter they’re outscoring you 23 to 11 and then AJ hits a couple threes late you kind of

Salvaged that third quarter just we didn’t play well at the beginning of the third you know we we came out kind of flat didn’t play with any Pace you know we the first half the ball was hopping it was beautiful and then we kind of

Went back to that old you know hold the ball no movement Style which we’re talented enough to get away with it but it’s not the way you’re going to win in the long run um and and we had to play ourselves through that and I thought we

Did that um that kind of happened too in the second before AJ came in is he like sort of an automatic ball mover because it feels like the guys are looking to get it yeah it helps because he knows how him and Pat Conan are probably the

Two best guys as far as just moving without the ball um and that helps your offense at times you know uh I do think we got to get Malik some more more movement stuff he doesn’t have a lot of like you know a lot of his stuff is

Catch and shoot and so you know we’ve been talking about putting him in Malik together AJ and Malik together and running you know some actions because I do think they can create an offense with their with their ability to shoot the ball and move without the ball um Yannis

One today just what did you think of uh of just how he played in his impact in the game especially early yeah was great you know he was the one that was sitting there with Brooklyn you know so uh we used his energy uh to our I mean he was

He was as fresh as the days he was running down the floor and I thought he got a little tired at the end I used that timeout uh I think with with two4 uh left uh because of that and I wanted to save that to be honest but I

Asked him you need one he said yeah so I gave him gave us a timeout uh to start tonight it looked like it was a priority to try to post up Brooke uh that’s something that you guys haven’t done incredbly well but but they’re putting Smalls on them and we

Got to get them to keep rolling like you’s got to keep rolling uh and I thought our guys made a conscious effort of you know if they’re going to put a smaller you set a pick you roll down the middle of the lane and we’ll get you the

Ball I thought uh the first group did a great job of a couple times I even thought they forced it down there uh but it’s good for Brooke another night with double digit says from Dame just what have you seen from him kind of taking on

A bigger part of that role as yeah it’s just he has the ball in his hands more you know and uh the more he has it the more confident he is to run the team you know I don’t think Dames run the team this year now he’s running the team uh

With him and Giannis and I think it’s a good combination what’s a more specific definition of ball movement is it consecutive possessions is it certain opportunities or what are you for me it’s balling people uh if you’re just moving the ball around the horn you know

What are you getting but you know we kept saying we have we called it our our exchange action after you come off and swing it can someone cut can someone move I I’ve never heard our bench more the second half like dive cut move cuz everyone was standing uh sometimes

That’s fatigue honestly uh and you can see a little bit of it going off of that I know that one of your uh mantras is good to great and that’s something we saw tonight with the ball movement passing up a good shot for a great shot

What does that mean for you as their coach to see that it just means they’re giving themselves to the team whenever you see that that means they they you know we I have a good shot that I can probably make but that guy has a great

Shot and you know it’s like the heat check thing which I hate um a guy makes four in a row but if you’re you get the ball and then the guy’s wide open you still should throw it to him I don’t believe the heat check thing and I

Thought uh couple times we actually did make the extra pass even when a guy had it going that’s a good sign for our team thank you guys who had Oakland are you being honest that’s a good pick there that’s a good pick you’re rolling then

Doc Rivers speaks to the media following Thursday night’s game vs. the Brooklyn Nets.

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