Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.26.24

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.26.24

Regulation you guys don’t score in the final 3 minutes and like 25 seconds um just what do you feel like have happen down the stretch offens let’s move the ball I think um start start of the game we move the ball really well side to

Side um there was a lot of people that was touching the ball before we shot the ball I think in the last couple of minutes of the game it was like one pass shot you know a lot of ISO game um now I don’t think you was uh

Intention L Le I think uh they did a good job just you know playing great defense switching just having us play one onone uh so yeah we we didn’t move the ball at all so wasn’t able to move them side to side when you don’t move a team

Like that side to side it’s hard to score on them uh Damon mentioned that both you two and then Chris are just so talented that a lot of times you see it you’re like well I’m GNA end this like all right like I got this I can do it

Myself how do you try to stay away from that when throughout your career all three of you have been able to do that to be able to B shot to close off or do you get what I’m saying like to that I just I just try to be a

Basketball player you know um obviously we have guys that can make a big shot can take a big shot not just make a big shot take the shot and make it play down the stretch and make something happen and you just got to be a basketball player you know there’s going

To be times that chis going to want the ball there going be times that D wants want the ball and um you just got you know just got to play Le the game and just try to fit way you can the only chance you had to win to win it was

In regulation just what you see on that play what you read there uh yeah um I don’t know I think Chris threw the ball I went out to get the ball I want I don’t want to get fined you know um but I was out to get the ball for some

Reason I wasn’t able to get the ball uh and wasn’t able to you know end the game um defensively I think in that second overtime Rees gets open for a three just kind of on the left wing and D said you know miscommunications can happen but not in those situations um so

Just what do you see maybe defensively for you guys not he doing a good job man um he did a good job I feel like sometimes we were up two or three it wasn’t to get us stop you know we send the free throw line one time another

Time we were U they got the open three or the open three um yeah we you know like we got to we got to be able to finish the game we got to be able to get a stop we literally maybe four or five times a stop away from winning the game

And wasn’t able to get that stop so uh but that miscommunication obviously they went I think they went up three on that shot uh um yeah and it’s a big big momentum shot like everybody’s tired you know uh second um second overtime uh hitting a shot

Like that you get the momentum now you guys were obviously feeling good about the way Sunday went and the way you played there anything about tonight and losing this league may just kind of like reveal or show some of the work you just need to do I guess over the 10 days or

Things that you still want to improve on before playoff time yeah there a lot of things that we got to improve on um got to keep on getting better and this game was really good game we got to watch this game learn from this game watch what wasn’t able to get a stop

Watch why the ball wasn’t moving you know down the stretch uh watch why we lost the game uh watch why there was a lot of 50/50 balls and wasn’t able to get them uh watch why they came off the half and uh they had couple offensive

Rebound in a row and that lead to open three just watch all those stuff so we can get better uh but there’s a lot of things that we we have to get better on and we will we will get better I’m sorry um D mentioned the fact that you know

When you open up an 18-point lead at the half that that should turn into a 30-point lead and it just didn’t in that third quarter is that a situation where you didn’t come out focused enough to to start the second half or I won I W yeah

Yeah yeah both um I think is a mixture of you know not being 100% focus and uh you know a little bit of uh bound bounces like you you’re not you don’t want the ball to bounce the wrong way you want you want it to go you know

Bounce in your hands but sometimes it’s just going to bounce in the opponent’s hands so at the at the end of the day I feel like in the third quarter uh we lost that quarter by what three or two we were still up 16

17 so yeah um we we we could we could do better I think we could have done a better job just setting the tone the first you know four five minutes I feel like if we have done that it would a whole different game uh but we we didn’t

You know they make couple shots they got some offensive rebounds you know got some layups you know got a dunk now it’s it’s a eight-point game now they feel good yeah you gone against Anthony for your whole career at this point I mean you played I think all but four minutes

50 something minutes 30 something shots I mean um blocked Dame shot at the end of the first overtime just what was that physical contest like tonight cuz clearly they were leaning on him to do a lot um offense defense no he’s he’s been in the league for a lot of years what is

I think this is like 12 year been great his whole career offensively and defensively always help his team win games uh you know but I think what makes him special is that he’s a two two-way player you know like he can he can score the ball and he can help his team and

Put his team in the right position and help his team execute you know plays in the offensive end but uh defensively he’s like really really good he can black shots re on the ball for them it pretty much does everything you know he’s always a great challenge you know going against him

Um yeah he’s been great he’s did it make that lob uh you know where Chris tried to catch you on the inbound where you spin around him I mean obviously he knows you do that but you’re going to do it what was that what did you feel on

That play and maybe how did he affect your does it looked like you were head to fall away a little bit and try to to catch that um no I just I just did not catch the ball just did not catch the ball I think cre threw a great

Pass right on point and um for some reason I was off balance I don’t know I don’t know the reason I got to go watch the

Giannis Antetokounmpo talks to the media following Thursday night’s game against the Lakers.

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