Coach Mike Brown Post Game Interview Loss vs Timberwolves 110-98

Coach Mike Brown Post Game Interview Loss vs Timberwolves 110-98

Uh I thought uh early in the game um we didn’t do a good enough job shrinking the floor and uh um Rudy Gober got loose for a couple of uncontested dunks and you know we were hugged up to our guys and this is a team that you got to you

Really got to play the percentages uh when you have a guy 72 that’s a you know multi-time Allstar you have to pay attention to him you have to get to him early and I thought that uh um our shrinks weren’t good to start the game

He got loose a little bit uh and they ended up scoring uh I think 44 points in the paint in the first half which helped them get to that big lead and that’s what they do uh they’re a great defensive team with all the length that they have and athleticism and and then

They’re a team that that scores it well in the paint and uh and we kind of played into their hand hands uh also a couple of long rebounds that uh that they came up with and got out in transition you know again to give up 28

Fast break points we we on the backtrack we did a better job protecting the paint in the second half I think they ended up with 22 points in the paint we did a better job of of understanding that we can’t hug up on certain guys and that’s

Why you know the young fell McDaniels ended up hitting a couple of Threes And you know you got to pick your poison and obviously the smartest thing to do is try to eliminate a a dunk by a 7 fo2 kid and and and then contest late to a guy

Like McDaniels or somebody else that’s not hot on the perimeter so we did a better job in the second half with that uh I like seeing that from our team because we talked about it at halftime uh but the the other thing that I would talk I wanted to talk about was their

Their ability to get out and transition you know they were really good in transition happened because they got a couple couple long couple of turnovers we didn’t have a ton of turnovers but uh a couple of long rebounds that they were able to get and just beat us down the

Floor by throw throwing it over the top and and to in my opinion those two areas uh were the ball game we I thought we took pretty good shots throughout most of the night that didn’t go in but you got to give them credit uh they they’re they’re long they’re long they’re

Athletic and they fly around and you feel a little bit more pressure to get that shot off a little bit quicker even though they’re not going to block a most times a perimeter three-point shot but they make it tough on you and this is a

Game that you got to go in with a lot of uh U mental resiliency because no telling what can happen throughout the course of the game with their length and the way they scramble and the protection that they have at The Rim uh but know we we fought gave ourselves a chance and

They they got the W so you take your hat off to them Mike more on Minnesota’s defense I think this is the ninth game that they’ve held a team under 100 points um when you’re looking at a team like that that’s doing some of the things that you’re trying to get this

Team to do how much do you borrow or are you inspired or do you try and take from what the D wolves are doing and and apply it or try to apply it to your group it’s I mean they have different they got different personnel with this

You know they got a center at 72 was you know defensive player of the year I know once maybe twice before so he’s a high level guy on that end of the floor you know you you got some length and you got some athleticism you’re talking about

Playing NZ Reed at your four and he’s shooting 40% from the three Kyle Anderson at 69 Jen McDaniel can guard one through four and some fives at 69 610 uh when you have that length in athleticism um you can do a lot of things differently you know I met when I

Was coaching in San Antonio uh and we had Tim Duncan and David Robinson back there uh we we even we we started Danny fair at the small for and we told Danny just to press up press up because we wanted their wings to drive by us we got

Two guys 71 and 72 protecting the rim so there are a lot of things that you can do different with with the type of length that they have so does some of it translate some of it does but we have different Personnel than than them and

So we have to play a certain way based on our Personnel but uh Finch does a uh a f fantastic job with that group and I mean Tim connley he he doesn’t get enough credit but he’s done a fantastic job putting that team together Co how um

How much did you guys miss Malik being out there today uh you know we missed him a lot Malik generates a lot of offense for us and I thought uh I thought in the first half you know we struggled a little bit offens defensively because our looks weren’t as

Easy because Malik’s a guy that can go get it off the dribble he’s going to draw a lot of attention especially in the pick and roll uh in transition um and then you know he’s another highle shooter to have out on the floor so uh missing him definitely

Uh was a factor because of his ability to make the game easier for his teammates Mike aside from the outcome did this matchup feel any different than the one you had a few weeks ago in up in their place uh you know again I the young kid Jaden

McDaniels he’s a he’s a special defender in my opinion um he he does a lot of things that don’t show up on the stat sheet uh especially on the defense end the floor and he didn’t play in that game you know and I thought uh you know

Obviously he scored 20 points on eight to 16 from the floor which is which is too many to to to for him to score uh especially when they have a guy like Anthony Edwards on the Flor but having said that he he defensively his impact

Is a lot higher than what it may show in the stat sheet or even in some analytics you know and and that’s probably the biggest difference he didn’t play up there and and he plays here we had Malik up there and we don’t have Malik here

And you know so it’s a it’s a little bit different ball game Mike you guys were a lot closer in this game than you have been in the other back-to-backs do you feel like they’re starting to either figure out how to manage their energy or they’re

Getting in better shape or do you think that it’s just the team you’re playing no you Minnesota’s 21 and five or whatever they are for a reason they’re a really really good ball club and uh I I thought our guys did try to bring it tonight um and you

Know the areas that we can control I thought just again from the it test coaching the game I thought we tried to control them I thought our communication was pretty good uh I thought our physicality at times was good now the one area with the physicality

Uh one area in in the one thing with physicality we could have done better is when Rudy rolled to the hole in the pick and roll situations we could have been there sooner we could have hit him sooner not allow him to catch and go for

The steel or not even go for the steel just allow him to catch and dunk it so we could have gotten to him earlier on his roles earlier in the game uh but besides that I thought uh our physicality was was at an okay level and

Then for the most part I thought our multiple efforts were good so um I thought the controllables we did a decent job of and previous backto backs uh you know I know especially against the Clippers I didn’t think we did a good job in that area so you know it’s

Against long long season we have plenty of backto backs left uh I know we’re not going to go 0 and 15 on them uh but tonight uh definitely for us especially based on us being 0 and three in these situations it was a decent job Mike you’ve talked about Minnesota

Kind of how they’re built and their size and their length for for quite a while um do you is that part of the is that part of the conversation like internally with you and Monty and West when you look get like the future and roster building and and things that that you

Guys might need going forward uh you know you always look for length you know but um for us right now no we’re not talking about that it’s I mean it’s just it’s it’s obvious you look at every everybody looks especially at the current NBA champions you know when I

Was in Golden State everybody wanted to play fast and shoot a lot of Threes you know you want the mimic even when we were in San Antonio the way we played offensively people try to mimic that you look at the current NBA champions the current NBA champions I mean they’re

They’re their point guard 65 their two guard 66 in in kcp and then they probably go 610 610 71 72 it’s a long team uh you look at the the West is tough and you look at the West right now and they’re 72 7 ft you know 610 and and so

What you do is you’re like okay well maybe there’s something to it uh but you know you have to take and build your team the best way that you can based on how you play and uh and the pieces that are around it so you know for us to sit

Here and say yeah if we can get everybody wimy size and that talented yeah you know maybe we’ll look at it but you know it’s not anything that you just consciously go bring a seven-footer in here or a six 11 guy in here just to be

Bigger it have they have to fit they have to be able to play they have to be able to play the way you want to and so it’s it’s a long process to try to get there but you know the reality of it is current NBA champions are big and and

These guys are big and so there has to be something to that yeah coach on that topic when you are undersized what do you feel like you need to emphasize to to compensate for that uh for us playing fast we we we got to play fast for sure and and then

You you know the physicality of the game we we have to protect that paint you know and like I said we gave up 44 points in the paint in the first half and we didn’t do a good job protecting the paint that was you know there were some Laps on on

Our on our on our side that we could have done better which we did doing the second half and that’s why we had a chance at the end of the game because we were we were doing a better job protecting the paint you know and and again they’re going to get more

Three-point attempts because we’re protecting the paint and got to hope they miss some but most of them you got to try to fly around which I thought we did we even contested did a nice job contesting late on some of those things so playing fast the protecting the paint

Are are probably the two biggest things with one being on each side of the ball that you emphasize thanks everyone thank y’all

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