Coach Brown, Trey Lyles & Malik Monk Postgame Pressers | 1.10.24

Coach Brown, Trey Lyles & Malik Monk Postgame Pressers | 1.10.24

Good good road win by our guys um I tell you what um the last you know if you take out the first quarter yesterday um our last seven quarters have been pretty good defensively you know anytime we can hold a a team to below 100 points and and uh

Below 41% shooting that that’s that’s a good night that’s a good night for us uh our guys kept the ball moving we tried to get out and transition did a good job with that we had a lot of guys step up obviously we had a lot of guys score the

Basketball for us um Malik continues to be big for us off the bench and it’s great having the luxury of him coming off the bench because you can plug and play with him anywhere at any time he can play the one he can play the two he

Play some three you can go to him to score you can go to him to facilitate and and uh his communication on the floor has gotten a lot better uh same with Trey uh those two guys just give us a huge punch Off the Bench that uh has

Been good for us the whole year so uh good good good road Wi on the backto back uh night uh and you know again Malik’s continuing to lay continuing to lay his his stake for six man of the year uh with his play uh in the two two

Back-to-back 20po games but uh good uh back-to-back wins for us and uh now we move on to Philly this team in the past has had a habit of maybe playing down in the competition or at least not playing their best against teams with with not

So great records to do what you did last night and tonight you know obviously their records are with there but to win the way you guys did what’s what’s that mean for you guys just well it means that we’re starting to knock on wood round into who we think we’re capable of

Being night in and night out and and you know we can talk about it all we want uh we got to go out there and we got to prove it on a daily basis and uh I do I I I like our spirit uh I like the way that we’re just flying around

Defensively I like how we’re trying to play Fast offensively still and how we’re sharing the ball you know um those bod well uh especially when you’re on the road but those B those things bode well for the quote unquote Dog Days of the season because there’s a lot of

A lot of teams at this point in the year and uh usually carries up the allstar break who are kind of figuring out if they want to play or not and then after All-Star break they figured it out the ones that don’t want to play you you’ll

See it uh and the ones that do they’ll keep playing as hard as they can and so for us to Trend in the direction we’re going uh I’m excited about it um we just held each other accountable we knew what we had to come in here and do uh we owed

Them one we gave one away at home so we had to come out here and handle business and that’s what we did tonight do you guys talk about the backto back thing I know this is not your first one not so much uh I guess in the group but we know

As a consensus uh we haven’t been good in back-to-back situations but tonight you know we came out and and we made a statement we made a point to be better and we were what was working for you guys defensively uh we were just talking and being in the right positions just

Like last night we were there for one another rotations were on point talking was on point communication was on point and as long as we can do that we’re going to be good defensively with your shooting in the last couple weeks just what’s been the key to you

Maintain uh just continuing to shoot not worrying about makes or misses uh that’s what they want me to do and if I’m open or hands are down I’m continue continue to shoot the ball last year sorry last year you guys kind of bust on to the scene ises

Everybody in that will but this year you know we expect you guys something good just how’s the morale in the Lo out this year compared to how it was last year was kind of a shock um I think at the beginning of the Season we were kind of

Uh lacad isical um but as the season has went on we’ve we’ve become you know more uh accountability um you know holding each other accountable on both sides of the floor and knowing that we’re no longer hunting people they’re hunting us now just after our last year and how we’ve

Been able to come out this year and and we still have a good record but we’ve led a lot of close games and games we should have won go um so you know we’re just holding one another accountable and and you know trying to do the best that

We can do to to continue to be great and late in the first half they were up five know 310 bur seven three-pointers and I think a three-point play I me see like everybody shooting I mean sharing the ball wasn’t one particular guys is that

Kind of the way you want to play yeah you know uh we’re better team when we share the ball we when we make the the easy play coach calls a hitting singles um so when we’re able to do that we go out there share the ball hit the open

Guy shots are going to come you know we have domas and dear and Malik those guys and Keegan are going to make shots and take shots and then everybody else just has to fill in and you know take the shots and opportunities when they present themselves and we did that

Tonight what’s it I what’s your perspective on seeing domas put up his his numers asist I mean he’s been doing that his whole career so I mean that’s that’s what we expect from him and that’s what he expects from himself so you know it’s good to see him continue

To to go out there and Thrive and and do it what he’s supposed to do and he’s helping us win games how much do you enjoy coming back here specifically and putting together performance like that I don’t think I had one yet so that was good um to to come back and kick

Their ass like we did put that out there too um but no it feels great um especially all the all the love I get here um and they ain’t see me I ain’t SE me put on a good performance in a minute so it it felt good from from a team

Perspective you guys obviously had Sunday yesterday got off to a little bit of a rocky start but have a clean performance like you did tonight just what’s that do for you guys going into the rest to the real trip oh man we won the back to back two of them so uh that

That that just boosters our confidence um we won the one back to back um with Orlando but lost the first game and we were able to get two games now so we just going to build on this and what what were you guys able to do defensively tonight those those

Effective uh limit Terry and Miles as much as possible um and try to make those other guys score but um those two guys going to get theirs um it’s kind of hard to stop them completely so um we just held the other guys um under

Control and I think that got us a win so that’s actually what I was going to follow up with too since you know Terry and Miles personally play with them a couple Seasons just how do you think that benefits your team now and like knowing their Tendencies and all that oh

Yeah um I knew most of the plays um I was with Cliff too he was he was my coach in my rookie year so they run most of the same stuff so um it was a little easier um spotting the spotting the plays and calling them out um and that

Helped us sue a little bit plus you guys obviously took the lead by storm last year everybody being at 3C going to the playoffs I was it feeling any different now Tre talked about a little bit I AR Go the table that you know obviously are

Being hunted now yeah they they they Ed us everybody at us Man U we get everybody best shot now um that just makes us lock in a little bit more um makes us play better so we got to continue

0:00 – Coach Brown
2:54 – Trey Lyles
5:28 – Malik Monk