Zion Williamson: Celtics Showed The Type of Team They Are, a ‘Great One | Pelicans Postgame

Zion Williamson: Celtics Showed The Type of Team They Are, a ‘Great One | Pelicans Postgame

Yeah what you just see uh in the third quarter when they really you know created a lot of that separation um kind of goes back to what I kind of say over past few press conferences uh they up their intensity and we we didn’t match it and when we

Started to match it the game was kind of out of hand at that point um but it just shows what type of team are a great team yeah I mean what do you just think about like the how the pieces fit one through five and they’re starting line up ARG

Just the best um they can switch one through five um especially when they have uh a starting unit out there um they can switch one through five uh they don’t really have like a a pigeon you can really pick on you and if they do you have to watch film

And see where it’s at but um n they just they’re all like size and they can switch and will talked about kind of answering that in the fourth quarter by just playing no Center kind of playing you at the five for most of the time uh

With those units what are you kind of seeing out there and how I guess how different it is when it’s you and pretty much four perimeter players um it allows us to play faster U but it also allows us to kind of switch one through five and not really have someone

To pick on so but the small ball unit it works for us but the third quarter when they up their intensity we we should have matched but we didn’t and kind of getting a chance to measure yourself up against you know the team with by far the best record in

The league what do you kind of see some of the things that makes them who they are that y’all kind of want to get to at some point um they consist their consistency on a uh nightly basis um you know the things that they mess up with they don’t

Mess up twice um and you you can see it in their record um they know when to pick up their intensity they know when they’re playing sloppy and uh they make adjustments quick and that’s what makes them great you got off to a fast start on the offensive and then like you said

They kind of turn things up defensively what were they doing to kind of make it tough for you on the offensive end um you can just see it uh where we were starting our offense from we were starting our offense near half court versus starting close to the three-point

Line so just them making that small adjustment by applying pressure higher up uh it changes the offense for anybody you play against um so then you know we’re not really getting the shots we won’t we’re just kind of forcing up shots their their coach talks about the

Law of averages when it comes to leaving Guys open from three I know every team kind of does that to an extent but seems like the Celtics really really Hing in on a couple key players and they’re just going to live in die by like if they’re

Hitting shots just what do you make of of that kind of like defensive strategy and just stick into that aggressive of a game plan just no matter even if a guy’s hit um I think that’s just the mindset of if they lose like that they’re

They’ll be able to sleep at night but if they don’t lose like that then they they look at film like n that wasn’t okay so I mean if that works for them I mean their record shows it but you know I think that’s the route they go it works

For them so it yields results got to give them that respect as you mentioned the not matching their intensity are you surprised by that considering you know kind like what’s at stake this season um yeah uh you know coaches talked to us about when we start the third quarter

And starting it faster with more momentum and uh we started slow and they didn’t um but you know it’s not even just about intensity just making basketball reads we uh we became stagnant and they didn’t you talked about where you’re starting the offense from but a couple times in a game Boston

Went big where you saw hor for pinkas together then tman was out there with one of the other bigs did that present any kind of more challenges to you personally or to you guys running that offense um did you feel that I wouldn’t say so I was just more

Or so say just that that third quarter for us uh that kind of was the game for us we we didn’t come ready to play in the third quarter did the end of the second quarter at all kind of affect what happened in the third quarter you guys

Were I think leading 55 51 you stepped a free throw line and before you knew it they’re walking in with a lead in a halftime um I mean that’s basketball it’s a game of runs and that’s halftime it was what one two-point game so there’s nothing to go in halftime

Worried about is when you start that third quarter and we started SL and they didn’t and they were able to get like a 10 13o lead you guys have a great night

NEW ORLEANS — Following the New Orleans Pelicans home loss to the Boston Celtics, Zion Williamson commented on the game. The Celtics, bouncing back from consecutive defeats to Atlanta, secured a 104-92 victory over the Pelicans on Saturday, with a strong performance in the third quarter. Williamson praised the Celtics, stating they showed the type of team they are.

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