1-10-24 Phoenix Suns Practice Media Availability: Frank Vogel, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant

1-10-24 Phoenix Suns Practice Media Availability: Frank Vogel, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant

With all available okay yeah so this will be first time game the first time everybody’s helpy right yes how was that I mean I see the smile but how’s that resonate to do that this is the first time and is it like crazy that it’s this deep in the season

Yeah it’s it’s unusual to get this deep in into it without having everything but and we still honestly Damen Lee Dam Lee is not healthy not fully everybody but um we’ve had the you know the bulk of our uh our main rotation healthy for

A couple games now so um it’s not a big difference but I’m I’m eager to b b had picked up some momentum with some you know positive three games and we’re excited to to get him back in there when you look back at the film is it pretty

Much what you saw occuring or there a couple things that they like okay I didn’t really recognize that at the time but we need to we got we were either better at that or we were worse than what I thought uh I mean it’s it’s just really

Like every game you evaluate things you did well and you try to reinforce them with your team the next day and you all the little habits on both sides of the ball and then you identify some areas where we where we failed and um you address those as well what are the what

Are the solutions you know what I mean so um I think you find that with every game whether you have a tough loss or whether you have a a blowout win there’s always lessons in every game to help your team move move things forward curious with um I don’t know if you saw

Darko comments after the Laker game I did see them yeah what you think good for him for standing up for his team do you do you you’ve been on the other end of a free thrill Prosperity so you can relate to what he was trying to abolutely you know there

Always a time time and place to to speak up when it’s egregious like that you know I I commend him for speaking up and stand up first team because the reason I asked because Davis is a guy that gets to the line and he can have one of those

At any moment moment in time is that a concern when you’re playing the Lakers that he’s the one that can generate tree bills like that I play those guys without fing very difficult to do how challenging is it to figure out the best rotations and then your team really

Hasn’t been healthy like you said it’s kind of like game one it’s fun it’s part of exploring your roster and seeing what you guys can and can’t do and how the pieces fit together you know um sometimes at least the wins you see things you like sometimes you look at

Some things that it aren’t working you have to go away from it obviously you know LeBron and AD extremely well so now that you go against them like how challenging is it um for you to go against them as supposed to be on the same

Side uh not about being on the same side anymore uh anybody that goes against those two guys in for a very difficult night they present a lot of challenges and Bron’s you know uh computer alone you know and his ability to read the game and you know he’s one of the all

Just the the guys in this league that impacts winning as much as anybody in the league you know because of his his ability to think the game you know and ad’s when he’s at his best he the best center in the game you know so uh they

Create a lot of problems I find interesting how are you able to stay this way when you’re in the team and you got there going I’ve been on teams where I didn’t believe we were going to get it and we were going to be dominant and I don’t believe that with

This group I I believe we are going to be dominant and we are going to get it and it’s going to come we got a strong belief in that um it’s no fun losing tough game either getting blown out in the fourth quarter or losing a lead

That’s no fun there’s a lot of lot of suffering that goes into it for a head coach but you know when you look at what we have uh I got so much belief in this group confidence in this group that um I’m enjoying the challeng the reason I

Part of the reason I because some coaches might do a reset with the rotation with everybody else others that collect all the data and figure it out how do you approach that now I’m doing that right now collecting all the data and looking at ways we can

Be better with the group that we have whether that means tweaking rotation or not tweaking a rotation and twe how we play Within that rotation you know but it’s uh again whether you have a tough loss you win by 20 you have the same process you know move move the uh

Forward and um for right that’s all I got know what cuse he’s talking about um but you know you got to love that out of your coach the reason to ask is because a obviously you know him yeah and then B you’ve been in games where the free

Throw distur he was off the rock so I’m assuming you can relate to what he what he get yeah you know we’re we’re all emotional we’re high level Char I mean um we’re all high level athletes and um a lot of preparation a lot of time goes

Into it and he obviously felt cheated and it’s not a good feeling curious um bouncing back from most of you guys loss have not been like that so how do you guys respond and bounce back um I mean clean things up you know we had off day

Yesterday so you know time to sit with it and come in the gym today and talk through things and you know just put it in the P move forward curious when you look back at F what things are you you talk about clean up what are couple things you that immediately you feel

Like need to be cleaned up uh I always start on the defense side of the ball um just competing um making teams uncomfortable um and then the rest to figure itself out from there I think it was a four five point game in the fourth quarter it just slipped away at the end

Curious with the the all that we talk about you Brad and Kevin playing again I think it’s just six games is not enough being made about that number or is too much being made about that number about only playing six I don’t I mean I don’t know that’s s you guys

Um you know we’re just trying to get better every day obviously we have some things to figure out and you know we’re working through it the reason I ask is because you know that continuity part the team that you have been successful on that has been huge with that and

That’s why I’m getting that is that something that makes you feel good about at least okay about where you guys are at because that number is just at six game uh yeah we showed it in spurts um you know I think it’s just putting it all together and beauty of this this

Long season is you get right back to it we got one tomorrow we got another one Sunday all these games are just opportunities to get better and figure out that chemistry in flow yeah do you feel the chemistry getting better with each game they having been many but yeah

I mean I’d say it’s in spots um sometimes it’s getting better and I feel like we take you know step back um sometimes so it’s just figuring that out being forceful and everything we do what comes out to you whenever you’re going against LeBron I mean it’s just star pile um you

Know those guys are going to have the ball in their hands a lot um especially late in the game contining to make plays um I mean they’re both for you know they’re going to put pressure on the rim at all times um ad not only offensively but defensively disrupted things so super

Talented team obviously they need some figuring out to do and they’re they’re kind of in the same situation as us right now he did you see that and be what you think of what he actually yeah dark I I co Darko coached me uh for a

Few years OKC he’s been at intense since then and he was like a rookie coach you know and he was he was still at intense so I appreciate appreciate that from from all coaches and I didn’t see the game so I can’t really assess how the fouls were called or what what really

Happened throughout the game and I think you know uh people have to watch each fou to really see what it was like um you know and it’s tough it’s tough being a ref it’s tough being a player in some of those players so uh we don’t if it

You know comes down to us we don’t want to put the the you know have the ref be involved in the game at all we want to just kind of control it ourselves the players control it ourselves so um but I I will I go back and watch and see and

See how those guys played last night the reason I ask is because you guys just played the leg I think the foul has just pretty even but is there a concern when it’s Davis and he gets to that line like you did it’s just on us to not foul it’s

On us to play solid basketball on the defensive side and and not and not even have a rep the ref have to make a judgment call you know sometimes you know we leave it up into their hands and play a little too physically now they

Got to make a call so how can we not even have them blow their whistle and make guys can shoot over us or have to make a tough shot over us and you know that’s a challenge of all NBA teams to try to figure that stuff out out the

Foul so what we stay conscious of it we know this team gets downhill gets to the r with E and um it’s easy to put your hands on them so we got to play smarter what what comes out to you every time you face uh Lebron and AD just a ath the

Length and athleticism on both of those guys I mean obviously um you know ad being a younger player but braon still aspry and and athletic and still moving up down the FL and it’s not just them you you got to Prince you got cam reddish you got V big long lineup you

Know Jackson Hayes you know they got long athletic guys up and down the line up um with big guards as well so with Austin and D’Angelo so we got our work cut out for us but it’s been a challenge every game and I feel like we’ve been

Right there every game and just you know trying to get over the H Now Kevin RS has such a tremendous resume and skill set but just how have you seen him navigate all the just different moving pieces with you with the injury and you know trying to get some chemistry me

He’s hand it like a true Pro that he is you know it’s been fun being around Brad seeing his mentality and IQ for the game um when you around teams that don’t do success don’t you know have successful postseason runs like he was a part of the last few years people tend to

Question your IQ and your intelligence for the game but when you’re around Brad he sees and knows everything and he hears everything out on the floor so that’s always good to have when you got another guy that can just kind of survey the game the way you survey it and

That’s just from experience around the league been around the league for so long so he’s navigating like a pro it’s only going to get better it’s only going to move up from here what you just said about just this great IQ are there other things that leave you encouraged even

Though it’s been such a small sample I was never discouraged so it’s like I don’t even think about it you know that you know I just been on the I just think that uh we all trying to you know we been in out the lineup trying to figure out our

Rhythm coach trying to figure out the Rhythm with different players you know it’s it’s been a wacky season as far as you know rotations you know so and that’s tough on players and coaches so but the beauty of it is we still get to do this

Every day and still try to figure it out we got more games to play and uh and we’re healthy right now so we got to just lean on that just keep building

Head Coach Frank Vogel, Devin Booker, and Kevin Durant speak to the media at the Phoenix Suns Practice Media Availability on January 10th, 2024 before their game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

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