DeMar DeRozan Postgame Interview | Cleveland Cavaliers vs Chicago Bulls – 12.23.23

DeMar DeRozan Postgame Interview | Cleveland Cavaliers vs Chicago Bulls – 12.23.23

You know we had to go with two bigs you know with d v out there you know some we we rely do um all season you know and that’s you know they they played to their advantage they took advantage of it you know long G gave himself um Second Chances to get shots

Up and you know that kind of that kind of hurt us what do you think happened if the start of that game it just seemed like you guys K weren’t moving the ball like yeah I mean yeah I mean it’s just I hate to say it you know um it’s just you

Know one one of those games you know where you know it felt like you know we had the right intent in our mind but it just wasn’t coming out with the output that we we needed to be you know and we found oursel you know fighting uphill

Throughout the whole game you know um we we made a couple pushes here and there but you know get them credit they played extremely well played extremely hard moved the ball um had us all over the place um you know it just you know one of those tough games

Plus what do what do you want your team to take away from this experience today I mean he just bounced back you know know we’re not going to play Perfect every single game you know you can’t go out there expect to win every single game you go out there and play but

Understand you know learn from it you know now we got a couple days kind of could decompress mentally emotionally from it all and kind of could refu refuel oursel with you know with the family and everything and get ready to play two days from now I mean you’ve

Played a lot of tough games recently close games hard games against good teams did you just think that caught up to you guys I mean it’s just one of those it’s just one of those games man you know um you know um like I said you

Know we we try to go out there and expect to win every every single game but you know reality you know sometimes luck not going to be on our side sometimes you know we’re going to be a step slow sometimes you just got to give the other team credit that they play

Well you know and they play well without you know um two three three of the best players you know you got to get those guys credit move the ball played extremely hard Tomar I know it be hard to tell your body this right now but a lot of people think that Christmas is

When the NBA season kind of gets serious at least what have you learned from this team so far and what what does this team need to do at this point on the calendar I mean we’ve been resilient you know it’s been first part of the Season like you know

I’ve said it before was a lot of emotions you know a lot of frustration and you know we dug oursel out of that hole and found found a positivity to lean on and kind of you know thrust oursel towards the right direct Direction and you know we got to continue to do

That you know um understanding you know we just played a these last few weeks we’ve been playing together been playing Amazing the energy positivity everything’s been there just come back two days from now um and you know feed from that and understand we can go into the new New Year’s with a whole

Different type of you know outlook for this team to rebounding was like a big focus in the opening weeks of the season and it felt like it got shored up a little bit do you feel like you guys have made the necessary growth in that

Area or do you feel might is going be a reflection of still having some growth down I mean yeah I mean we’ve been well but you know not too often you you know they was forced to play Big you know we don’t like I said we don’t see that too

Often you don’t see Dre and foch out there too often to be able to just help us kind of smooth out that that rebounding aspect of the game so you know tonight was just one of those you know weird games that was a first time adjustment for us um you know got to

Learn from it in case we end that position again um you know and just build from it do you feel like the you know last 11 games or so like the ball’s been really popping yeah and uh you know at times obviously you can slow down but

Do you feel like you have as a group kind of learned how to harness that a little bit yeah yeah yeah yeah I think we got a good feel for it you know we we executing better we understanding what we need to do how we need to do it when

We need to do it you know and and and still things we still got to clean up so we get a lot better with it you know every single game is a process every single game is a is a another way for us to find a different type of Rhythm

That’s going to continue to make us better on both ends too than J

A drag of a game. CLE’s size was a problem for Chicago tonight