Mike Brown on Kings losing streak, De’Aaron Fox & how team is holding up

Mike Brown on Kings losing streak, De’Aaron Fox & how team is holding up

Coach how do you think the bounce back was today in practice especially with the day off yesterday uh it was good I I tell you uh our guys have been engaged uh are connected they they’ve done stuff together since the summertime uh all that stuff I’m not concerned about obviously uh for me

There’s some ex’s and O’s that we can clean up and and stay engaged with longer than what we’re doing you know we watch film for at length today and the guys could see we showed a couple of clips of them not doing it we showed a

Couple of clips of them and I told him hey look these clips that I’m showing out it could be a Webster’s Dictionary defining how we need to defend this action and so to embrace uh little things to where it’s monotonous because you’re doing it over and over and over

And over again uh is going to be big for us going forward Mike you talk about that is there like in games are you seeing a little bit of focus issue here and there with the this where they’re not following through on a second or third action or where they’re missing

Free throws and seems like there there might be just a little bit of lack of focus I don’t know if J I don’t know if I’d call a lack of focus uh I don’t know if we fully embraced the details that you have to embrace in order to uh stay

To be and stay at a high level you know cuz it we all know no matter what you do no matter what Walk of Life you’re in there are details that are extremely important that if you do them over and over and over again it can get kind of kind of boring

You know and uh and and it’s hard sometimes to continue to embrace it as long as you need to in order to come out on top and maybe you can say lack of focus or whatever but I would be more uh have to say if you embrace it and you

Really appreciate it can help you lock in for 48 minutes a little bit better than what we’re doing right now it seems like a lot of times a different some of the big differences in defenses how you’re executing on as you have labeled hot or not and the Closeouts varying on

That and obviously it’s sort of player dependent but from your experience and how many people you’ve coached how difficult is that to stay locked in with everything happening so fast well it it’s a lot harder today than what it was uh two years ago or 10 years ago or 20

Years ago because the offenses were uh completely different and I said this in my press conference the other day and I again I wish I would have found it to to talk more in depth about it but again there there are six or six seven eight teams maybe that are on Pace to

Historically break what was already a historic offense last year you know we’re around the same area as we were offensively this year year and and and I say that cuz we’ve had a lot more injuries and we’ve had a lot more stuff that we had to deal with this year than

We have in the past but we’re still relatively uh in the same area offensively but we’re 13th I think and you know like last year if we if we were in season last year we’d be a top five probably for sure top 10 offense but possibly a top five offense based on our

Numbers this year and we don’t think we’ve played well on that end of the four so uh I would say it’s it’s it’s more a product of everybody’s offenses getting a lot better and being a lot harder to guard because in the Milwaukee game we didn’t do a good enough job

Getting their hot Shooters off the line they have a lot of them and they played a lot of them uh last night um like TJ it was TJ getting off the line even our close outs to him at times our angles weren’t good and he’s great player uh

Especially for everything that he brings to the table physically but you’d rather see you youd live with a late contesta on a three so that means you you close out short trying to catch his rightand Drive than anything else uh but he was crafty enough and quick enough to do

What he wanted to do whether it was us closing out to him after being in a strength position or him coming off of a ball screen and us guarding him in a one-on-one situation because it was a small small and we were supposed to switch at that time coach how important

It is you know have a few days off you know until Monday you know compared you know having that road trip and coming back in then have to play had to be a little refeshing you see yeah you know obviously everybody plays at 82 and everybody has a tough schedule uh but

The last stretch and that’s what makes the the game so tough you know you you you you hope you get the Milwaukee but you don’t on a last second shot you hope you get Phoenix but you don’t because we weren’t great defensively down the stretch uh nor were we good offensively

Down the stretch but we we you know I got to give our guys credit I I mean I can’t sit up here and say I’m I’m pissed because we didn’t do this if we would have won both the Milwaukee game and the Phoenix game uh you know I’d have to

Give them credit for the way that they played but while o pointing out things that that we could have got better at you know and we did enough to win both those games we just didn’t close it and then uh same with Indiana I just thought

That uh uh at the beginning of the game uh we gave them confidence and uh you know they’re in the NBA just like us and anybody else and when a team gets confident or individuals get confident at this level uh it’s hard to stop so we we’ve done some some really good things

And and I mean I I I sit here and I’m watching the film I’m watching the game and I see it then we kind of go away from it from a little bit and then we get back to it and it’s not enough to win the game and so uh that’s what makes

It tough having said all that uh yeah you take the rest so you can kind of sit back and take a deep breath clean up some things you can get a little rest mentally and physically for your you for for the next stretch and then you go

Forward but again everybody kind of goes through it did uh you you employed the uh the uh the Trap full court press in the last 2 or 3 minutes of that Indiana game I how how you feel about that too because it was working to a Perfection I

We got a couple stops in there and um close game into about three and stuff how how you feel about that type of Defense at that that range well that I I don’t I this just me personally I don’t think you can do that for an entire game

Um uh cuz you’re going to give up some wide open looks so you’re going to give up possibly some dunks uh at teams execute ver that uh well and and you’re going to Tire your guys out if you try to do it for most of the game uh but

Again I I got to give our guys credit and you know there’s there’s no moral Victory here but we’re down double digits and our guys literally fought until the end of the game and and and they gave us a chance to win by bringing it to a one possession game so uh they

Did a a tremendous job of actinate uh flying around trying to cover for one another going for steals at the right time uh there was one time that they called a foul on Kev that uh I don’t know if it was a foul or not but you

Know that that was tough cuz they weren’t scoring and it gave them a chance to get two two points really easy uh with a lot of time still left but other than that uh I thought our guys did a fantastic job of fighting and trying to give ourselves a chance uh uh

At the end of the game daren’s uh efficiency has dropped a little bit this month obviously he was you know scoring 30 a night um how’s he doing is he is he a little dinged up right now how do you think he’s holding up at this point in the

Season I I think it’s it’s fine I mean this is you know a long season 41 games uh we’re at the 41 game Mark um he he probably is dinged up but uh everybody is you know and and I know I’ve played him more minutes than I’ve wanted to and

I got to be conscious of that uh same with domas I probably played him more minutes than I’ve won into as well and and maybe Malik too in terms of the length or the stretch of the minutes uh but uh Fox isn’t going through I don’t think anything that uh other guys are

Around the league are going through right now at this point in the season sure good yeah Mike um the last couple of games have been close losses Y and you had a lot of lopsided losses before that is there a lot more as a coach to

Look at and to talk about when you have these tight losses and you can point to specific things where you can clean up as opposed to some of the the bigger losses where you know sometimes you just want to burn the tape yeah 100% that you

Know first of all Jam you know nobody no I don’t want to lose nobody wants to lose okay but with the law with some of the losses that we’ve had and we may have them again I don’t know but uh you know you don’t like to see that uh

Because it can be really disheartening and more importantly what I think is extremely important is it can impact your belief uh because again everybody’s in the NBA and a lot of times uh and so that everybody’s a really good player and or a really good team they have the

Potential at least and a lot of times what it boils down to is who has the strongest belief when you have two good teams and when you have a little law do you have when you hit a little lull during the course of the game are you that confident do you believe that

Strongly in yourself in your group that hey they just made their run now we’re going to make our run and and so tight ball games allow that belief to really stay there if you continue getting beat over and over again by 2025 again it’s not the end of the world but

It’s harder to hold on to the belief that you are a good team or that you have a chance to be an elite team and that’s what bothers me more than anything else in those types of losses you you still teach and you still try to

Work to get better in the blowouts but at the end of the day you worry more about the belief part than anything else and that can have an huge impact on uh where you guys finish at uh in the season uh than if it’s a tight ball game

And you’re teaching and you end up losing situations like that Mike any NFL predictions for D I’m head down there now baby I wish it wasn’t right but it’s okay let’s go ners let’s go ners cool thank you

Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown talks about the Kings four-game losing streak, what they have been struggling with recently, how De’Aaron Fox is feeling and how close they are to turning things around.

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