Ime Udoka | Postgame Houston Rockets Vs Phoenix Suns | 2023-2024 NBA Season

Ime Udoka | Postgame Houston Rockets Vs Phoenix Suns | 2023-2024 NBA Season

You kind of alluded to this before the game but with as many different Shooters they can have around the court if Eric get going like that is it very difficult to take them all the way yeah I mean um my recognition of who the shooters are was there it’s our

Attention detail and getting guys off the lines and we showed that I think it was five for eight in the first half and all five were short Closeouts we want to this guy we want to run off so um having that attention to detail be there we

Know they have Shooters and they have two obviously El leite scores that we have to pay attention to but um our scrambling got to be more on point behind it what do you see from Jaylen that allowed him to get going to it it was aggressive uh you know hunting his

Shots uh looking at the basket more aggressively getting downhill but just making the right reads and so with their big back he got some easy ones early on and kind of got got snowballed from there got aggressive looking for the three and so what we want him to nightly

Basis what do you think of Cam’s minutes tonight good I think you know in general that group in the fourth quarter you know obviously with Cam even in the first half with him um he was good he was aggressive he guarded well you know he’s going to make a Miss shots and like

I said he’s always going to be aggressive but I was good to see him get out there and I think um his St you know get some live action help him prepare him for tonight with Jaylen trying to get out of this sort of slump he’s been

In and you mentioned the reads he make how much of it is just to try and not take the really tough shots that he can get at any time and he has to take against the shot CL just try to eliminate those until you get going yeah

I mean like I said if you pass up the easy one or the first one sometimes you don’t get a better look and um what we wanted to do with the whole group in in general not just Jaylen is eliminate that stuff that they did for the last

Year or two you know tough contested shots low efficiency shots and yeah to your point you know know if you take those tough ones and you’re not hitting those and then it gets harder and harder you want to get open looks or find your teammate loosen things up for yourself

But um yeah I think he’s gotten a lot better at that how much do game the defensive game plan change when KD comes out as a facilitator well we kind of made him a facilitator we went after him a little bit and um you know we were like I said

We wanted to do some different things on him and see if others you know could beat us and they they hit their threes especially in you know first half I think him and Booker at 10 and n if I’m not Mist mistaken and um Gordon had 21

And and Grayson Allen had 10 or 11 so it was the others that were hurting us uh we want to be gr on him and credit them they made the shots but we weren’t as sharp as we needed to be behind it with this being the first game is there

Anything in particular that you saw this team was missing without the services of Brooks yeah I mean the physicality and Jan did a decent job on him early on Durant early T did some of the same when he came in but um you know against a high level score like that Dylan’s a

Perfect match for that but you know I mean a lot had to do with our offense um you know lack of scoring early especially and so that’s not strictly on Dyan I just think tonight tonight looked like we were a little flat and didn’t have the pop in the juice that we

Usually have just felt like the first game tonight where guys looked a little bit tired when when a guy like KD comes out and is kind of beating the game plan you set up for him is it difficult to maybe want to Veer away from that game

Plan Midway or just stick to it throughout the whole game no we we took it we we were less aggressive on him in the second half you know all those shooters were you know kind of eaten off of him of his decision making there and so we scaled it back some and we’re

Going to live with some of his contested shots and as you know he can make those and so he had him and Booker had a I think had a better second half yeah both of them how jaar heard his ankle I did not see it you have any sort of idea of

How he’s doing no to get Ali and Jaylen kind of going offensively on the same night does that kind of show you what you guys can do offensively what you can be yeah but it’s now you know you want to get everybody on the same page and so

They’re going but you know Jabari has a lesser night than usual um Fred as well so you want to get everybody kind of firing all all cylinders as far as that not just one or two guys and um you know as much as they were going we looked a

Little stagnant in the first half and obviously weren’t scoring as well as we should have so um we like to get the perfect storm of everybody playing well at the same time did you think it was better at all in the third quarter for us for General I think that’s that’s

What we came out with a little more juice and tried to fight our way back and got it to I want to say nine a few times and then offensive rebounds led to three Eason so from there we were kind of scrambling but we had our chances how

Do you view the sort of challenge that is now ahead after a couple losses and a couple injuries to starters yeah we got to obviously um have performances by the guys that are available biger bigger performances but um we’ll see you don’t I don’t know the status of Dylan or

Jabari or anybody but we’ve deal with with it a little bit this year with guys in and out and I’ll be a little different when you have starters missing um other guys will get the opportunities and that’s where the depth comes in and so uh keep doing what we’ve been doing

All year playing with the effort like I said tonight was the night we lived a little flat compared to the other games this year but um get a day of rest and bounce back and get ready for Philly previously we’ve seen defensive game plans against joic Luca where you try to

Take away the passing from those guys and just let them do the brunt of the scoring what went into the decision to try and make ktie if at tonight just U the I mean obviously the scoring um you know had some success in the past and um a game or two ago you

Know teams were trying to take him out and the others did not shoot it as well us tonight so when those shots go in obviously can snowball there a little bit in the first half but mainly that second quarter when Gordon got going I you know the rotations were there it was

Short Closeouts on a guy that’s a spot up shooter and a guy that we know well enough that we should get him off the line thanks Co thanks Co

Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka postgame interview after losing against the Phoenix Suns 129-113.

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