Postgame Interview: Bam Adebayo, Haywood Highsmith

Postgame Interview: Bam Adebayo, Haywood Highsmith

Bam how do you explain the turnaround from what we saw on Friday to what we saw tonight made shots uh now I feel you can you can definitely tell was a different sense of urgency during the game and you know obviously making shots help but we was really active on the defensive end

Getting steals getting deflections and turning them in offense I was about to ask you that question but the defense how much are that kind of fuel what you guys did on offense tonight just getting those easy buckets like I always say man let our defense be our

Offense B against a against a pick and roll combo like Darius and Jared Allen when you’ve got a pull-up guard and and a guy who can roll and finish how much has the Reps you’ve had in new different coverages over the past year and a half

Kind of helped you manage and shut down a combination like that uh we just know how to make him shoot difficult shots force him into difficult shots uh get the ball out of his hand as much as possible and then you live with that result um you know for us is really just

Giving that extra effort I oh hi Bam um you’re still very young what does it mean to you that you get so early in your career a third time in heat history the double double leader with 168 third place yes dang uh I mean still mad at spoke cuz he

Ain’t let me really play my first two years uh but it just shows the the the trust that you know obviously the coaches having me to go out there and produce um but also myself believing in myself that I can be you know top five in everything in the franchise

Um so yeah just keep working towards my goals and uh keeping our head down hey this kind of games uh taking in mind that you’re approaching the the playoffs and the CBS can can be one of the teams that you have to face these kind of games mean something

You you think in the future mentally for you and for them uh I mean for us it was a it was a it was a good rest for the fourth quarter uh I feel like a lot lot of us needed it but you know you see

Teams like that in the playoffs and when it gets in the playoff the these games don’t matter game slows down possession by possession it starts looking a lot different so for us we know we can beat them uh it’s just if we get there and we

See them you know it’s it’s a different ball game yeah B SPO talked about even though you’re young in age you seen so much you know playing in so many playoff games throughout your career how much does that experience so early in your career help form the player you are

Today uh you start to get familiar with it you start to understand the the ins and outs of the playoffs obviously you know for me it feels weird if we don’t make the playoffs because it’s like I don’t know what to do with that summer um but it’s just the experience of it

You know there’s nothing like it you know regular season and the playoffs are totally different like I just said it’s possession by possession and when you when you have to think like that everything matters you know turn over steals uh Miss shots you start think about everything um you know so for for

Me as a young age it’s just great to have that opportunity one more question uh because of your threes is that something that you specifically specifically kind of working at it at the moment or is it just coming up naturally that you’re starting I woke up one day and just felt like shooting

Threes not even going to lie I just woke up one day I was like I’m going to shoot threes today yeah man I mean it was either go back in up 40 or uh or try to attempt it I was like ah I sit this one

Out Heyward what does it feel um having played uneven minutes with so many guys out tonight to get a chance and not only get a chance but to make the most of it um be honest just happy we got the win um I mean obviously I want to play you

Know consistant minutes for sure but um you know we was just having fun out there like I said you moving the ball playing great defense playing great offense and uh you know it resulted into a great bounce back win that we needed Hey what how vital is just an easy one I

Mean you guys have been through a lot lately how much did you guys just need goad go ask the question again Terry to why is Terry the way he is how much did you guys need just just one like this you guys have been threw awful lot

Obviously the last couple weeks how yeah I mean um I think our home fans really like deserve this to be honest with you um you know we haven’t been playing the best basketball at home um so you know they deserve our best version of basketball and tonight was definitely

Fun for them a show for them so it was just nice to do this in our own building and um kind of you know just build off of this you know cuz we have a nice little home stand coming up so yeah how the defense fuel the offense tonight

Just with the turnovers and get an easy basket very very very active um a lot of stals a lot of deflections bam had like five stals something like that you know Jimmy was uh very active as well Terry had some stals and you know the Zone was

Really confusing him a little bit and the pressure in the zone so um you know just been active on defense getting out and playing off turnovers um that’s when we not our best for sure talk about your connection with D at the top of the press and you know the Cs were shooting

With like 15 16 kind of getting their action with that much time on the shot clock just have you kind of of buildt that that connection D is a great great defender um you know can really move his feet well um pick up 94 ft I remember we

Playing against him he us do the same thing to us so um you know him at the top of the zone is very difficult to um you know to navigate through obviously know got me Kayla got a lot of guys who can do it so just add never got like d

Right just a big Advantage for us um you know he’s very active a lot of deflections a lot of activity so definitely needed that

Mar. 24, 2024 – Bam Adebayo and Haywood Highsmith speak to the media following Sunday night’s game vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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