Hornets vs Nuggets: Coach Josh Longstaff Postgame Media Availability | 7/16/2024

Hornets vs Nuggets: Coach Josh Longstaff Postgame Media Availability | 7/16/2024

the team is 5-0 Sumer we play I know it’s not about you know records per se but to have a 5-0 record at this point like what does it mean for you guys to try to change the coacher I guess around here right now yeah you know I think when we started training camp in Sacramento Coach Lee it just kind of talked about what we judge ourselves on and we want to be obsessed with daily Improvement and these guys are improving every day we want to be relentless competitors they’ve competed through you know being up being down practice games they’ve done a great job of that and we want to be the most uh together team and I think they really showed the last two games against New York at the end like they stuck together through the ups and downs and then today another close game in the fourth quarter they did a really good job being connected being together and I thought that we handled the end game situation today better than we did against New York and it just uh kind of speaks to their character and for Tan I mean he had I think zero points in the first half he had I think four rebounds or so but to come out and get a double double still um to be able to execute the way the second half what you can you say about his performance and how he improving for you guys out there so far yeah I mean again he’s he embodies who we’re trying to be and he is working hard every day to get better he got better throughout the game which was great to see and he’s just has this passion and to compete and a lot of times he Wills his way to an offensive rebound or he almost Wills the three and the big three that he hit um he gets out and he runs on offense and he’s just you know he’s he’s scratching the surface of who we think he can be but it starts with who he is as a person and a competitor and he just shed that today then what about Nick Smith Jr what do you see from him um so far seem like every game he’s getting even more he accomplished anyway Nick but just he’s out there just playing PR out there what you think about what he’s doing so far yeah I mean Nick has you know he’s been great and he’s been very coachable he’s been very open-minded uh to what our vision is for him and I think like we know he can score he could shoot he shot better last game than he did today but he did a lot of other things today to impact winning and that’s really what we want to see from Nick and that’s leadership and I thought in the fourth quarter especially he really dug in uh defensively and you know offensively he moved the ball he made the right play and then he made the two threes in the fourth and I really felt that the game rewarded him for playing the right way and then what do you think how does it make the players feel to see main roster guys like lamelo Brandon Miller like we had 10 guys out there watching them like what do you think that does for everybody it’s amazing you know I it really starts from the top like uh our ownership had a dinner last night for the vets that are all here and the whole team is here the summer league team was there basketball Ops was there um and it was unique like I’d never seen I’ve been in the league 15 years those things matter you know a lot of people kind of speak like they want to do it the right way and I really think that the Hornets are trying to to do it the right way and show that they care and it really starts there and then to have all the Vets sitting there they’re coaching the guys up they’re cheering them on they’re spending time together speaks volumes and it’s all part of the process

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