LIVE: Pelicans vs. Clippers Postgame Interviews 1/5/2024

LIVE: Pelicans vs. Clippers Postgame Interviews 1/5/2024

All right coach um fast start for your team yeah uh you got out quickly and then it just it seemed when Russell Westbrook came into the game that changed the whole complexion of it and their defense was really really good tonight yeah they were they were good

They were the more forceful team like you said graph I thought when Russ uh entered the game their second unit they they played with a lot of force and um just thrust up and down the floor and and to change the game you’ve had some teaching moments this year you know

You’ve been a resilient team after some tough losses is this going to be one of those teaching moments again to to respond after a game like this for sure it’s definitely a a teaching moment you know you lose a game and you want to see

What you did well and see what you need to improve on but at the end of the day we don’t want to we don’t want to be an emotional team and hang our hats by every single win and loss we got to stay the course and tonight they were the

Better team yeah you guys put up uh 15 points in the second quarter it looked like just the offense kind of dried up those last six minutes what do you see overall offensively in that quarter uh they they were physical they were aggressive they had their hands on us

They mixed up their defensive coverages they they Blitz some pick and rolls um they switched some pick and rolls on us and it just it just took us out of what we wanted to do and you know we we we were a step slow tonight uh Z stayed on

The bench um at after coming out with that right leg contusion was that more just a kind of precautionary thing you guys get ready for this road trip or anything like that I’m not sure I just know that you know he pulled himself and you know it’s a right leg contusion

That’s as far as I know right now and it was something that happened in the third or was it before halftime uh I think it was before halftime yeah uh what did you think about just the the way they executed in half court that’s the area y’all have been really good in half

Court defense but it seemed like they just had a lot of success uh slowing the game down and getting the shots they wanted yeah they were good uh their isolation basketball is is you know superb their ability to shot fake Drive kick get open threes um give them credit

They came in and they did what they needed to do to win they were a more forceful team they executed uh a bit better than us and um it wasn’t our best game at all coach you mentioned that the force was missing tonight yeah what

About the pace how do you feel about the pace I don’t think you guys got your first uh fast break points until third quarter it was slow you know we were step slow and um look I can look out on the floor and you know maybe it’s fatigue or something like

That but at the end of the day I don’t want to take anything away from the Clippers they they dominated the game after the first five minutes we have to be better we know it our guys in the locker room know it and um we’ll come in

Tomorrow watch film get on the floor and work coach Midway through the second quarter when they started making that run seemed like there’s a chance for a timeout five five and a half minutes left but you let them play through that you know their issues like to I have

Left just that your thought process on letting them play through those issues especially since the regular season now and learned the the learning the lessons for Life yeah for sure I think sometimes it’s a field thing there’s times that you know you take a time out to get

Reorganized and with the way we’ve been playing lately I wanted to give our group a chance to play with some flow and some Rhythm and get up and down a court and not call A Time timeout and let their their half court defense get set so um none of that stuff stuff

Worked um they were the better team once again yeah and to that half court defense you started out hot but then only two assists the rest of the first quarter I think over the whole first quarter you made two pointers inside the three-point AR on that second quarter

Just what were they throwing at you that kind of got you off your rip they’re they’re handsy they’re a handsy physical defensive team and if we don’t play with Force slip screens get into our offense quickly and we want to play isolation basketball that could be difficult

Against this type of team you got to move them side to side you got to shot fake Drive kick d Drive kick and then the dominoes will fall and and tonight um we didn’t do a good enough job of that and to rec clarify the Zion did you

Say he pulled himself like it was his call on going back in and out he checked himself out there yes yeah yeah yeah he he just was like uh you know I’m not I’m not going back in So coach you talked about not becoming too emotional after wins and losses but

Do you kind of use games like this as a barometer to kind of see where where your team is especially against a team that was playing so well coming to here we definitely we definitely wanted to meet the challenge and we we it was we didn’t we didn’t meet the challenge they

They’ve been playing well we’ve been playing well um and they came in and I mean just kicked our butts okay thank You cber team has been playing really good basketball lately um just what do you think about them from I guess a um execution standpoint in the half court I mean they have really talented guys um you know everybody knows that um so I mean it it was tough especially when

They making shots you know it was it was uh tougher to defend and I think they attacked a lot of the switches you know um and we I think we did the best we could to uh support our guys that was on the ball I mean they

They just made a a ton of shots yeah what they do to just make it difficult for you guys to to score in the second quarter I mean and they switched a lot you know switching it doesn’t allow you really to uh attack the paint um and I

Think as the game went on we tried to you know do some different things to try to attack the paint but I think that they did a pretty good job tonight defending us we just got to watch some film and get better yeah the few moments

You guys did have life tonight was when you were getting out in transition and scoring some buckets but they didn’t allow it as much I guess what were they doing that made it tough to really get out and get some of those fast break buckets uh they made shots um I mean

It’s tough to get out in transition when you know you’re taking the ball out so we just tried to do the best we could on the defensive end you know to get out and transition but like I said it’s tough to get out in transition when they making shots

And third game of forn nights coming off of road back to back how much do you feel like kind of just the te was maybe just a step slow a little bit fatigue kicking it in this one I I don’t really uh blame anything on fatigue I try not

To um I mean I expect you know our guys to show up every day and give it you know they’re all each time we step on the court so I wouldn’t attribute it to any fatigue um I just think it was one of those nights tonight and we ended up on

The you know on the on the bad end of it um like I said we just got to go back watch film and get better stay in the gym and her Willie talked about how they play with a lot more Force basically could you feel that out

There I mean you can see it uh but I mean you know when you when you’re making shots that that gives your team some juice um and it’s I mean you know you you try not to let it affect you defensively you know when you’re missing

Shots or not doing as well on offense but um I think that that was kind of the case tonight uh you know we was missing shots we weren’t really getting what we wanted on offense and I think it kind of affected us defensively and her I wonder

If you know what happened to Zan I think all Willie knew is that he got some kind of sustained bruise before halftime then he tried to play through it but couldn’t do you know when he got hurt or anything like that during the game that is thanks always get a tough

Lch uh what what they do in the second quarter just to make it difficult for you guys to score well they were uh more physical more physical than us more physical than the first quarter uh they just you know pushed us out of our spots and made it made a life really difficult

For us how has adding James Harden made that team different do you think well they they playing high level basketball right now you know they they you know strong individually strong as a team you know they playing good basketball right now yeah with the Harden addition how

How tough do they make it on you to defend them in those half court situations when they spread the floor and play play Pick and rooll with him at the top of the key you know it’s uh it’s tough to guard pick and roll when they have like a good handlers and uh

Shooters all over the place you got to be we got to be better than today and I guess uh when they’re bringing that physicality early on I guess what do you want to see from the team to kind of respond especially on the offensive end well we got to respond

As you you said we just got to respond with physicality you know today we did for some SP of you know sometime but it wasn’t wasn’t enough you know you can’t ask 48 minutes to play amazing basketball but but what we did it was not enough to Will’s Point seemed like

You guys tried to do that in the third quarter I think you cut the their lead from 22 to 13 but do you feel like like you just said it wasn’t enough you guys for whatever reason didn’t have it in tank I’m I’m not blaming a tank or or or

Something we got to blame ourselves you know everybody who stepped on a court you know we got to just be better you know we showed that we can play really good basketball in Minnesota um at home against Brooklyn it was really good basketball and today that was kind of

Step back but again we got practice tomorrow we got to clean up some stuff and you know go to Sacramento and be better than today thanks sir thank you all right good go I

New Orleans Pelicans vs. LA Clippers post game interviews with head coach Willie Green and Pelicans players as they recap their game on Friday, Jan. 5 during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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