Cam Thomas | Post-Game Press Conference | Chicago Bulls | 3.29.2024

Cam Thomas | Post-Game Press Conference | Chicago Bulls | 3.29.2024

Cam when everybody’s got it going like they did tonight are you guys aware that you’re setting and tying setting franchise records and tying NBA records for three-pointers no it was actually crazy uh the first half you you would expected you wouldn’t even expected that so I

Mean it just just to shows that just keep playing full game them shots going to fall eventually and E just told me that we was like 18 for 24 and the second half from three like you’re not going to lose too many games like that so you know that’s just crazyit to

Everybody sticking with it you know the shots weren’t falling for nobody in the first half except for sh sh kept us aoat but I mean nobody’s shots were falling but then we all just kept playing locked it on defensive end and shots to started to fall for us was it contagious though not

Defin definitely U when you getting stops like that and then everybody’s getting rolling from behind the arc I mean you know it’s contagious and then you know everybody just feeds off that you know do hit two uh you know he’s been struggling a little bit but he came

Out hit two three in the second half uh sh had to going all night kale got it started in the third quarter start third off he got it going for her so you know it was just a good Collective win for the team and you know was that three in

A row so try to make four on Sunday uh you admitted it didn’t look like that at halftime I’m just curious in your mind what triggered that change from first half to second half was that the looks you guys were getting one or two guys got hot and everybody fed off

That what in your mind was the key there uh just our pace of play um I noticed our pace of play uh you know they Chicago really goes all in on like packing the paint uh preventing drives from mid-ranges so we cuz in the first half we were playing little too slow we

Was playing in their hands that’s that’s how they want to play they want to play slow slow the game down getting a half court game so we just had to pick up the pace make it a little you know transition kind of game whether it was like slow transition when the half court

Just get some Pace going and you know as y’all see we got amazing looks in the second half with the pace we got where we got the mid-range threes dribble hand off threes like we was just it was click in the second half and that’s how we need to

Play you mentioned Sher just being on fire I guess when you guys you guys knew he was a good shooter but since he’s here he’s been on a on a tear since the allstar break what what did you guys see have you guys seen from him leading up

To now where he just has the green light and he’s hitting it like this I mean yeah he’s playing he’s playing really well um put really well for like you know he just got traded here he was you know still learning some stuff but at

The end of the day we just got to play and help him out but you know we’re just going to feed off him he’s the point guard so we’re just going to feed off him you know he’s talking to everybody getting us in sets and then you know

What had 27 the night he was pushing the pace for us getting Us in the pace again us Great Looks running the offense really well so it was he’s definitely playing really well for us so I’m glad we have him Cam in in a season like this to have

A moment like this what does just do for the team’s Spirit over these last eight or so games yeah man it’s good um you know I mean it’s been no mystery we all it’s been a tough year no matter what it is you know everybody seen it it’s been

Tough not win as many game as we want or a lot of other stuff but you know to finish off these last nine or eight games however many is you know and just be playing well like we are right now it’s good I mean it’s good fuel you know

Just to finish every game up like this so you know but we just can’t really you know get happy off these three games we got another one Sunday and a back to or back to back coming up they said so we got back to back coming up so we can’t

Really dwell on these three wins we just got to you know look at the stuff we doing good and see and show that’s how we need to play but we just got to watch this and then get ready for the Lakers as you mentioned with you know what’s happened previously in the season

It still seems like the locker room the guys you’re having fun out there I mean especially on a night like this but I think anybody who’s been around the team kind of gets that impression what is the difference between you know sort of the outside perception and the inside what’s

Inside the locker room of sticking together and how you guys have just been able to do that yeah I feel like uh this is one of the well since teams I’ve been on one of the better teams as far as far as like being together like during tough

Tough times being together we all just sticking together I mean obviously the wins haven’t resulted in that I mean but at the end of the day we just we just got to keep finding Solutions and just try to win every game we can but I feel

Like you know when times get tough we don’t really we haven’t really like Tred to point fingers at each other and stuff like that but I mean you know just to have like some moments like this just have moments like this and the um last

Few games is good um even tonight in the second half we everybody was rolling threes moving the ball getting transition uh finding Nick on the lives do getting the threes kale getting the threes sh everybody even Tren coming in giving us minutes I mean just just shows

Like the connectivity of our team of everybody being ready to play no Matter What Noah everybody so you know good it’s good so I’m just glad everybody’s ready to play and we just gon to try to finish the season strong Eli Daniel the next PR team they put out great notes

Every night and one of the notes is that your month of March most points you ever had most rebounds you ever had most assists you ever had do you realize how great this month has been for you and what’s been the key to your success no I

Didn’t really know that I’m just playing honestly just you know getting the minutes and producing in my minutes that’s all I can do you know I’m getting the minutes so I just want to produce so I didn’t really know that though that’s good it just shows that my work is paid

Off in the off season and my work from the first two years you know playing in and out sporadically and just learning learning all the different stuff from all the guys I played with and just applying it this year so I feel like you know I just credit that to my hard work

And then you know me learning the first two years so I mean I just want to keep it up finish this last most strong and then you know whatever happens happens even this season like early on we were talking about how you had never been blitzed before now we’re 40 50 games

Later do you feel the difference do you see the game slowing down for yourself yeah definitely definitely with the blitzes um I probably say the only time I got caught off guard with the blitz was the Atlanta game it’s cuz I was I think that was my like first second game

Back from injury and I wasn’t really expecting the team to Bliss me second game back from injury so you know you look at the film and then you see where you can attack where you can you know get your own shot find shots for others

So I feel like from that game on it’s been I’ve been really good at finding the guys on the blitz finding the B on the pocket you know the weak side you know shake back pass and then obviously passing get the back and getting my shot

As well so just reading the game and just looking at the film and seeing where I can attack and get other guys shots should

Cam Thomas spoke to the media following the Nets vs. Bulls on March 29, 2024