“Bench Was Great.” | Rudy Gobert Postgame Sound | 01.20.24

“Bench Was Great.” | Rudy Gobert Postgame Sound | 01.20.24

We saw some great defense from you guys tonight holding OKC to 39% from the field but the turnovers were too much coach pinch was saying how did you assess it that’s the game f uh I mean we they created the game plan defensively we did

A great job on the balls you know I thought we did a great job pretty much for the most part not fing them um you know but yeah turnover us a did tougher on us and I think need a better start too you know we play from

Behind early on and uh spend a lot of energy to to come back in the game and then we got to lead at the end and uh yeah we didn’t finish the game yeah it felt like the starters had a hard time getting rolling the bench came in and

Did some nice things in the second quarter bench was great you know energy was great um yeah just uh just got to keep keep doing it over and over you know and uh a lot of things don’t go away tonight uh you know but regardless

Of that you know the things that we can control we got to you know we we have the game in control regardless Revenge quite where Happ to West long I think just uh just making the simple play you know we we already knew uh the way they collapse in the paint so

You know we got to fight ourselves to yeah just space for one another and and then uh and then make the simple early right play and when we did it you know they couldn’t they couldn’t really guard us every time we did it but when we

Didn’t uh you know we it a lot of time at least to turnovers seemed like you played with a lot more physicality in the third quarter was that in the loer an idea if we just come out and like get on hit bodies a little bit

More happen out of the RH we definitely wanted to yeah we definitely didn’t like the way we started the game uh and we we try to pick it up you know second quarter too third quarter was even better and uh and yeah I thought the physicality was good you know prob the

Game I thought you know just the turnovers and and sometimes we had a lot of fast breaks that we didn’t capitalize you know uh on you know a lot of times we got two on ones three on twos and we turn it over or you know we missed and I

Think if we finish those we get up third we get up 20 you know at some point and mik had than usual night from field what M Miss shots yeah I mean you know it’s basketball uh he had a lot of great shots tonight they didn’t go in uh but

You know I like the way we I thought he had some great shots so I know he’s going to make them uh when we need them Ry you you talked about being a big team and a team that plays smaller and needing to punish that these last two

Times against Oklahoma City that hasn’t been something you guys been able to do what in this matchup do you need to do to kind of impose that that size a little bit more I think uh I mean they were doubling Cat every time he he touch

The ball um so it’s it’s on him to keep making the right play you know and I think we got to maybe put him put him in different positions too when sometimes doesn’t need to be a postup it can be just a ducking where it’s hard for them to double so um that’s

Something we can think about for sure for him or for me you know and usually leads to fouls or baskets and if they collapse uh on a ducking like it’s it’s more likely to be easy to find the open you know open guy in the corner so there’s a

Lot of things we can do uh but I think tonight we even with all the things we’re doing we should have won the game how do you feel about uh matching up differently in this game you were after chatting the first two times you were a

Giddy did I mean it was a good defensive game I feel like that was the the right play there yeah yeah I thought I thought you know I thought a g game plan uh was good I thought you know a half defense was good good um you know it’s just uh

Yeah just the the other little things you know the fast break and turnovers and um and then the Yeah couple fouls that I think we can avoid uh and the start of the game you know we TR have start like this against in a big game

Like that against a good toam like that

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