Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 1.3.24

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 1.3.24

So just what were uh what were they able to do fourth quart or third quarter excuse me to to score 47 points and kind of start that quarter 20 to six run and really kind of flip the game turn the game um they came out of you know came out of

Hal time played extremely hard set the tone move the ball Miss some shots we did not we did not take care of the ball also and just started you know like um we have to do a better job you know coming out of a halime setting the tone

And attacking first but we didn’t was wasn’t able to do tonight then that’s why I just SC for seven points uh you mentioned the other night not really losing four times in a season to teams I mean I don’t even know at any point in your career but just to have that happen

Just what do you feel like the Pacers take advantage of against you or kind of what leads to them being able to go out and win four games against you guys they playing harder they’re being more physical they’re executing better they’re making shots they’re playing together they’re playing

Fast they crashing the board the garding the’re loading they are double teaming um and they’re rebounding the ball you know that’s why I was able was able to win four in a row not four in a row four times this U season but at the end of the day like

I know right now it feels like the end of the world but it’s not the end of the world it’s good because like going to have we’re going to play with more urgency we’re going to respect opponents more um going to execute better and now we I

Think we realize as a team that this teams out there that can beat us four times in a row not in a row sorry four times in the season you know now you you you have that uh and you think about it now when you go back home and you sleep and you

Wake up you think about it now when you go back and uh work out you think about it in the osta break when you’re going to be in a exotic uh beach with your family I hope you think about it when you’re about to get freaky at

Night you think about it you know um but at the end of the day it’s good because now it gives us time to fix things um um gives us time to fix things we have to we have to get better everybody starts from me I have to be better I have to be

More aggressive I have to be way more aggressive like the double team cannot take me away from the game you know I try to facilitate as uh much as I could but um I have to be more aggressive guys have to play better we have to execute

Better we have to move the ball side to side we cannot do it on on our own coaches got to coach hard you know we have to be better better and uh this game this game um proves to everybody I don’t think anybody from this lock room living here tonight

Doesn’t believe that we have to get better so that’s not a bad thing it’s a good it’s a good thing uh they’re the number one offense in the league right now you guys are somewhere around 20th in defense what do you feel like is the potential of this team Defensively we’ve been we’ve been a lot of uh I’ve been part of uh teams that they’ve been number one in uh defense but at the end of the day defense is all about pride and effort um if you have no Pride you you don’t put

No effort in it you don’t get no results uh and at times I think we we have a lot of Pride because we know that we’re extremely good and uh we we play hard and at times we we don’t you got to figure out the way how

Can you just keep on keep that engine going you know for longer uh uh but again sky is the limit I I believe if we if we lock in as a team and uh figure out that we cannot let we cannot let a team score 40 points on us and we trying to

Score 142 like he cannot be consistent that way so we have we have to be able to guard we have to do better job guard as they switch to that thre man wall strategy on you after the 60s something point game what did you think of the effectiveness of that and for you

You just talked about being more aggressive is that the adjustment for you to beat it in a more significant way um the world doesn’t doesn’t um I’ve seen that my whole career doesn’t doesn’t really affect me at this point of my career because I have great teammates you know I can pass

The ball and um they can knock down shot it’s more like once you started getting into your move you see guys you know loading and um coming for the Trap you know that gets you out of the r like you’re trying to be aggressive but like

At the end of the day I’m like a pass first kind of guy I always or so when I see the double team like I my first SE get get rid of it so that kind of sometimes M with your Rhythm you know those are times I’m like okay now I got

To be aggressive and then I try to be aggressive then I I see the triap coming but the world does not uh doesn’t work me

Giannis Antetokounmpo speaks with the media following the loss to the Indiana Pacers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

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