“This Team Believes In Each Other.” | Chris Finch Postgame Sound | 03.12.24

“This Team Believes In Each Other.” | Chris Finch Postgame Sound | 03.12.24

Didn’t really say uh anything to sparkk him we just you know kept trying to find a you know our defense and um wasn’t really there we got on Rudy a little bit to step up be a better rim protector than he had been he rose the challenge

Um we were more into the ball a little bit more disruptive um you know we wanted to try to take the three-point shot out of the game and they had they were eight for 11 from three to start the game and so we weren’t accomplishing that so just attention to details we

Just kept reminding them of the game plan um and really was you know I thought the combination of nille and uh and and JM who came in and gave us all the energy and turned that game around and then uh we were able to take off from there so

That’s the biggest comeback in team history in 12 years um so what does it maybe say about this team kind of fighting through the first 18 minutes or so and and finding a way to turn the game around yeah I mean this team believes in

Itself um you know I think when you play defens the way were able to play defense um ball was really moving I thought at times too um got out in transition we really haven’t seen us in transition like that those are things that we have

Had to do to try to turn that game around and it kind of fed itself so but this team believes in in each other and no matter who we put out on the floor um they root hard for each other and you know um it’s good for us to get a win

Like this because you know um you know we we’ve been kind of struggling a little bit in the last couple games to try to find some consistent energy and and tonight uh you know we definitely had it so CH what did you see afterwards I just

You know it was It was kind of getting it was a little slow to react getting getting beat down the floor I mean getting beat you know down the lane um you know didn’t challenge stuff early enough was a little hesitant um you know just kind of you

Know Ang goal was bad just kind of letting the game come to him and um you know and then he stepped up he got a big block um from there and then kind you know he’s such a driver of our kind of a defensive intensity too so if he’s

Playing like that then we feed off of it coach about as far as your uh ability to coach how much deeper do you have to dig within yourself to bring out the best in your team I mean you know I mean my job is obviously to you know get them ready to

Play every night um with this team you don’t have to dig so deep to kind of motivate them they’re pretty motivated um you know we just focus on what we got to what we think we need to do to win and just keep reminding them of those messages we we also have to

Remind ourselves of who we are and why we’re good um you know sometimes with with a team believe it or not you might forget that during the season you got to stick to your identity and we’ve lost we lost our identity the last couple games and we found it again tonight so it’s

Defense it’s defense on the ball and it’s defense at the rim and we got a lot of guys who can really guard on the ball and um you know they didn’t do that in the Lakers game and they didn’t do that for the first you know quarter and a

Half tonight but then they they showed up and started doing it again so Chris when you’re down 22 in the second is it alarming or in in this NBA is it doable I mean it’s clearly doable we we see it almost on a nightly basis now um 20po

Leads are the new 10-point leads um you know it’s uh way the way guys can shoot the pace of the game um you know just a lot of different things feed into these big runs that we see right now um but yeah so it’s it’s just important to just

Kind of focus on the game focus on the game plan uh and adjust if you need to but there’s a lot of basketball these games are long kind of seen every every nights taking on a different flavor in the four games you play with with cat

Out ant goes crazy one night n’s career high now na goes for a season High tonight I guess just kind of is it kind of this one of these things where you’re you’re seeing different guys Step Up try to try to fill this this void um on a

Nightly basis that’s happening I think um for sure and you know we’re going to need it to happen I mean that we have a very deep team and you know that depth helps you in a lot of ways um it can help you when you have injuries or foul

Trouble but it also needs to help you by spreading the production you’re never going to replace cat’s uh you know skill and On Demand scoring um but you know the ball is really moving right now we’re getting a lot of stuff in transition we’re driving it multiple

Times you know they’re putting two or three guys on Anthony at times he’s making the right play uh and that’s unlocking a lot of great offense for his teammates you’re all one of 82 but given where you guys are no Carl stand where you were in the standings especially

Related to these guys coming into tonight how important of a win maybe is tonight yeah we talked about it beforehand um it’s a tiebreaker game and you never know how these things are going to shake out so every Advantage when the when the race is as tight as it

Is every Advantage is huge um we definitely framed this game as a huge game for us as a bounce back from our performance the other night um team’s not lost three in a row all year and I think that was important to him as well so there was a lot of reasons that

This was a big game what’s the update from Dr free on Rudy uh yeah some left rib soreness so don’t ask me which rib it is thanks guys thank

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