LIVE: Pelicans vs. Jazz Postgame Interviews 1/23/2024

LIVE: Pelicans vs. Jazz Postgame Interviews 1/23/2024

Uh 153 just huge number you guys offensively tonight uh you guys started this with that conversation we had earlier about the offense exploding so we wanted to make sure we we held we held up our into the bargain but um it was it was just an incredible

Performance uh by the guys in that locker room you know sharing the basketball touching the paint kick out for threes rebounding the ball and and um I continue to say it it goes back to our defense when we can get stops when we can rebound and we play play in the

Open floor it’s some of our best basketball it’s really fun game to be a part of and you guys got two days of practice there like was there anything you guys tried to work out an adjustment wise that you felt like you put into that game and you saw it out there or

Anything like that um play harder that’s number one we we have to play harder and consistently no matter who we play against um we know we’re more than capable defensively play together communicate finish possessions and offensively share the basketball continue to play with confidence and share the basketball

Tonight was a good step in the right direction you talked about the three-point shooting doing practice on Monday but it seems like you know shooting is contagious you guys make 26 threes CJ has nine of them how much did his individual explosion lead to the entire team get in a flow yeah CJ

Ignited the whole group uh he got us going early um he did the same thing last time we played here he got going early shooting the basketball with confidence guys start to look for him and it’s it’s like you said it’s contagious now other guys are getting a

Part of it and you know it’s once again it’s beautiful basketball to be a part of and it’s fun to watch and since the start of training camp you talked about the importance of increasing the volume of three-pointers one one of those teams and you guys have experienced some ups

And downs with that but just seeing how consistently just been going and up throughout the course of the Season how gratifying has that been it’s extremely gratifying to see the team buy into what we’re trying to accomplish um we go over it over and over and over again on film

We get on the floor we work on it and um it it’s great for them to come on the floor have some practice days and then have that carry over in the game where we continue to trust that these shots are open for us we’re going to take them

I thought CJ Brandon Z they do a great job of finding their teammates Z would 11 assists to to tonight career higher for him so that’s what it’s about for us continuing to get stops and and make sure all all the guys are involved yeah I was about Z you talk their practice

Yesterday about getting the ball in his hands early career hiring assist how much did that kind of play into that him just getting involved early getting the feel for it and kind of being able to put his in on the game you know it as we

Continue to learn our team put the ball in his hands for the first few minutes of the game is is important because now you have bi and you have CJ you got herb who shoot the ball well too all of those guys are spaced uh it allows Z to

Attack attack the basket touch the paint and if they help he’s going to make the right play uh 99% of the time and and that’s what he did tonight one of the things we saw from you guys was was going to Larry there to start the second

Half you just explain what went that decision there um we’re we’re continuing to evaluate our our first unit and um we want to try to as best we can continue to help that group be the best that they can in in the minutes that

They play and um that’s a a way that we can shorten the minutes and and see how Larry looks with that group you know JV will continue to start but you know sometimes we’re M Miss kind of matching the groups up to to get the best groups

On the floor together well you had franchise High assist like to 4 one but what you what’s kind of been your message thisam make them so un like trust uh that’s what it comes down to all of us our players everybody on the staff the coaching staff like

Everybody just continue to trust trust in each other and you have to do it even more when you play against the best teams like Phoenix um when I say Phoenix that was our last game continue to trust each other continue to trust that if you make the

Right plays on both ends of the floor the guy next to you is more than capable and and the energy the ball finds energy so I’m proud of our group we all are we’re proud of this group um you know having the response that they had after

The last game and we want to continue to build on it they could have cut it to six her makes the block and what what about that sequence I mean I I think that changed the game for us in the second half herb like you said he makes

The block on Collins we go down score I think they take the ball out he gets the steal dunk timeout now it’s a 12-point game um or 10-point game something like that it changed it changed the game for us it changed the momentum and you know you

Don’t want the game to come down to those plays because we were playing well they got back in it but herb Jones made two incredible plays that really changed the momentum of the game I know you just talked about it being bu with regards to the last three games it’s 47 attempts 42

Attempts 46 attempts two of those nights you you know youve made over 23s is is there something I guess like more specific of a catalyst or like was there like more urgency stressed on getting this number of attempts up that’s that’s a lot of attempts and you guys are

Generating more than pretty much ever have you’re breaking franchise records yeah uh it it’s definitely we we’re making a conscious effort to score um when we have opportunities to and and the way the league is is that you we want a balanced offense and we

Know we can get to the paint we know we can get to the free throw line we have to do better at shooting threes is what we came out of last season with excuse me but it’s a credit to our guys they’re buying into it we’re showing it and they

See the results and that’s the biggest thing is when you get results early when they see the difference and when we when we shoot threes and when we make them um you know it’s it’s hard for teams to to stay in games with us you think it’s

Easier or more difficult to balance the floor when it comes to transition defense when you’re taking versus you Tak TW it’s it’s difficult it’s difficult to balance the floor when you have guys spaced especially with the driving capabilities of Zion of Brandon you can throw the ball at JV in the post

CJ can he’s a three- LEL score herb you got guys that can all Drive the ball but they can all shoot it’s difficult to match up well it seemed like you had Utah on their heels all night and you notic Larry n Kim in the first quarter

Seemed like every rebound he grabed he’s trying to push the pace right after that when Zion reentered the game he was really pushing the pace too after that is that really the identity not only getting stops but then just getting up up the court as fast as you guys can it

Was our emphasis uh coming out of the last loss you know we watch film on it and we got on the floor and work and and that’s the deal is when we get stops we we let’s get up and down the floor and let’s play Fast let’s play together and

Um tonight was a was a great example of that and does it look like Zion to you maybe has more energy when he yeah going up and down the court like this and this type of game has the ball more in his hands he does um it’s something that

Like I said we’re learning more and more with our group and how to keep defenses off balance and especially with the starting group putting the ball in his hands early helps us and so we’ll continue to look at it but um we like what we saw tonight coach you talked

About bouncing back you did it after the uh Nuggets game also after the Clippers game and now tonight after Phenix game how do you like how your team’s responding to tough losses with big explosive games right after we we we enjoy it we enjoy taking on the

Challenge of you know we didn’t we didn’t play our best game and let’s come back and and be better and um it’s a credit once again to the character in the locker room I’ll say it again I’m extremely blessed to have an opportunity to coach this team uh Griff and his

Staff they did they’ve done an amazing job of bringing in High character guys and um they make they make our jobs easy but that’s what you see when these guys go and respond they care about each other they care about the game that was that was crazy the one

Hand dunk was was uh that was pretty spectacular but you know he can do things like that and and I I I don’t get used to it for sure I do not every time I see it I’m amazed I know you got multiple Allstar level

Players but you know I think CJ is now perhaps the highest uh scoring average guy for a guy who hasn’t made an allstar game just what do you think about his candidacy for for a guy for what he’s done this season and just you know he’s

Been able to his career yeah I mean he’s he’s the conate pro he all he he’s done it all his career and um we would definitely love to see CJ get an opportunity to be an Allstar uh but I think he he’ll agree with this more importantly you know we want

To have a deep run into the to the postseason and playoffs and have have an opportunity to do some damage um in May and June hopefully and so we want those things to happen for all of our guys but more importantly we want them to continue to do everything it

Takes to contribute to winning which they’re doing thank you 153 was a uh franchise record for points for you guys what do you feel like uh worked well offensively for yall tonight I mean we was just sharing the ball um trusting in each other and taking our shots with confidence or

Making our reads with confidence yeah I mean I know coming off of last season like just getting more threes up was was an emphasis um for you guys as a team like do you feel like you know you’ve you’ve kind of seen that these last few games of like just just super high

Volume yeah I mean that that’s kind of a you know like you said our point of emphasis on getting up more threes uh to open up the lanes for you know our guys that they get to the rim and uh for you 22 points tonight uh shooting the ball at a really high

Level these past couple weeks what do you think just been the biggest difference for you this year on the offensive end just kind of progressing and kind of taking that next step I mean I’m just showing up and putting my work in uh living with the

Results um that’s kind of all I can credited to I don’t think I’m doing anything differently um I’m just trusting in my work and taking my shots with confidence can you kind of just uh walk us through that sequence where you get the block still in the behind the

Back pass to Z kind of a a big momentum changer right there it was just kind of all instincts um I think Colin we didn’t get matched up in transition and I just tried to get over and you know put out the fire and luckily passed it to John Collins and I

Got the block but the steel I had kind of seen it before it happened because Colin was calling for the ball and uh I think Chris dun didn’t see me and so I just trusted my instincts and believe in what I saw and her Z had 11 assists

Tonight a new C high for him I think bi had six you I think you had five is this the best version of the Pelicans when you guys are really looking for each other trusting each other because there’s so many weapons on this team for sure um you know as long as we’re

Sharing the ball and playing for each other you know I think we can compete with anybody in this leag and uh what do you think really got you guys going in that first quarter know that Larry was really grabbing a rebound trying to push a pace then Z

Started doing it I think I saw you do it a couple times as well is that what drives this team where you guys then are able to play with the most force that you can by stopping guys first and then getting out and running yeah I think it

All starts on the defensive end um it allows us to get out in transition and uh I think we you know do a good job of converting our our transition opportunities what do you make of the job that CJ has done this year changing his top profile just like really embrac

Him being uh a deadly threat from three and the success he’s had I mean I think you know CJ can always shoot the ball um I just think he’s getting up a lot more threes now and it’s just kind of showing that you know I know before I think he shot a lot

Of mid-ranges um but I mean he can shoot the ball it doesn’t surprise me at all and just in general he’s been like a career 20 points per game guy hasn’t made an allstar game yet you make of his his candidacy just based off the year I I don’t think CJ really cares

About the accolades I think CJ just wants to win and and do whatever for the team that he needs to do to win and put us in the position to win so you know I know he’ll stay consistent in what he’s doing um moving forward but I mean c

Just you know he’s just a winner he he just wants to win like he he’s doing whatever it takes to win you had a a fast break dunk I think in the fourth quarter where you kind of just gently put it in the basket I don’t

Know if you noticed that Jose gave you two thumbs down that he wasn’t happy with that that dunk did did he or any of the guys say anything to you about about no they they know me two points is two points I appreciate it appreciate y

Uh 153 was a uh franchise record for for points for you guys just what do you think you guys did well offensively in this game we made shots we made him at a hot clip to be honest but uh a lot of that was just transition getting stops going

And when we ran our offense we uh we ran it with Force what just I mean you had 11 assists career high what helped you just get into like kind of a a flow as a playmaker tonight uh just my coaches and uh my teammates trusting me to kind

Of be Point Zion um throughout most of the game I would say that definitely helped me just kind of get a feel for the game and just get a feel for where my teammates going to be at yeah did you feel like there was more of those kind

Of of opportunities like the the points ey and opportunities and things like that absolutely would have told us one of the things y’ worked on the past couple of days just kind of getting you involved early getting you some touches early just to get you going how did y’all kind

Of just uh come to that conclusion collectively that y’all wanted to uh kind of put that into the game plan um honestly I think it was just kind of over the course of the past few days the coaches different coaches would come talk to me when would ask like what is

Your mindset in the beginning games and I my mindset is just kind of get the lay of the land really see how the defense is guarding me and when I can attack and when not too um and I’m able to do that cuz I have like CJ and bi out there so

You know they usually get it going early but you know the coaches spoke to me and just told me I need to be more aggressive to start the game yeah last year we talked a whole lot about y’all wanting to be a team that shoots more

Threes being able to open the floor for you and now that y’all are successfully doing it how has that kind of changed game for you uh I mean it makes the game easier I can’t lie uh you got dudes out there like Hawk murf CJ B and even I mean even

Herb and JV and Larry we just really we really got Shooters across the board and we’re on the court I mean anybody is capable of running off two or three threes in a row and Z you got to your 10 assists before you got 10 points did you ever

Think you’d get double digit assists Four Points scoring that amount of points in a game uh when I was younger and I was like only playing point guard yeah I probably probably did that a few times but in the league no I I never saw that you remember the last time you had

A 11 assist probably high school yeah I’m going say probably high school was the last time I had 11 assist this one mean a little bit more um me personally uh individual stuff I always say it when we win uh stuff like that will come with it uh I’m

Just glad we were able to get a bounceback win after our last loss at home um so I think that’s what I’m most excited about and there were a number of great plays in tonight’s game but what did you think of herb coming up with I think a

Key steel grabbing in M court and then he got down to court VI F to him and he flipped it behind the back to you for a dunk I don’t uh that was an amazing play but uh the block he had where he just I was I was there and I’m like man

It just kind of happened so fast and it wasn’t until I went and sat down BR I was like yo did you see that like that man just went up and just grabbed it uh but that’s herb uh herb lives for plays like that um and he’s unselfish where he could

Have easily had went up and finished layup or dunk all he was unselfish and made the pass so I mean I show what kind of dude herb is you often talk about playing point guard when you were younger but who are some guys you kind

Of looked up to it as far as just passing just watching that uh Magic Johnson uh Kenny Anderson um I know one y’all ain’t going to know uh I feel like only people out of ball really know this one uh a brother named skit wise um I would say those three and just

My stepdad just kind of teaching me the game on the two alleyes you had tonight just I don’t know if you if you watch the replay of it but can you kind of talk us through that first one the one you caught with one uh the first one I

Caught uh I was kind of in a position where I was going to be falling out of bounds and it was kind of like one of those game time decisions where should I go up with two hands or just go with one and it was just one of those it I’m

Going with one uh I was able to make it uh the second one was kind of just a chest move the first one I kind of did a meetti cut got the foul uh so uh Kelly was uh looking for the meetti cut so I just did a ghost cut

And CJ found me and I was able to finish I know you spoken about how it’s you’re going to take the season it’s going to take the season to kind of get back in Rhythm and stuff now that in the second half or entering the second half

Of the Season just how where would you say you’re at physically mentally and I guess all the above how you feeling about 88 88 90% uh I’m getting there uh and my body feels good and I’m personally I’m just I’m just happy to be on the court

Miss a lot of time and I’m just glad to be out there is it is it real force and reward in that like you know as as you um are also getting back to to where you want to be um you’re having success but the team is also having success you you

Guys are having a good season uh in in the playoff race and stuff is like is it rewarding refor that P off to absolutely uh CU I always say in interviews we all have the same goal here and that’s the win so I feel like we’re continuing to

Put ourselves in positions uh to win and gotta be consistent with it JB JB had 17 and 13 in in 23 minutes can you talk about just how tough he was to stop in the paint Andor there was a play where he fought off like two guys and ended up

With a dunk you know the paint and the coaches all went crazy what did you think of just his performance that’s a man like JV is JV strong I know I’m strong but uh I got to build my Force JV is just strong so when I see him do stuff like

That I mean part of his him being strong and part of his uh IQ uh him knowing where to position himself to get those rebounds uh he probably would have had 17 and 17 had he not uh missed those few minutes in the third but I mean that’s

JV he’s a pro as Pro there is there a story behind the shirt that you wore today and like why you wore it or you just happen I I know it’s Dre I know man I wish I could give y’all a good story on why I wore this shirt

But uh it was my boy Rico he uh put the shirt out I was like man that shirt dope we went with it and CJ had 33 points nine threes he’s had a number of big games for you guys especially in your wins would you say he’s allar a deserving

Allar a direct quote from CJ he said it last year he get paid like an Allstar what you guys put up that 153 tonight I think the NBA should give us three days in between games more often um it was nice to be able to work

Out you know kind of have real practices scrimmage uh be intentional about what we want to improve on and um allow it to translate into the game Z had 11 assists just what do you think about the way he spread the ball around did a good job of

Being aggressive getting down heill um taking advantage of whatever the defense gave him guys made shots obviously uh I stepped out of bounds that I was one assist I cost him and then I missed it wide up in three so he should have had 13 but I think he did a

Good job of just playing aggressive being intentional with his decision- making and being forceful uh with with how he tried to make plays an emphasis for the pel coming off last season was we just need to take a lot more threes like did you did you intentionally come

Into this season and be like I mean you already took them but like you’re like I want to up even more yeah I mean I’m a career 40% three-point shooter so um I’ve been shooting threes for a long time I just played to the offense when I

Was in Portland I I played off the ball alongside Dame and then I would play on the ball as backup point guard so a lot of pick and rolls a lot of flare screens and I’ve been in the league for a long time where they give you the mid-range

Shot you know early on in my career they kind of give you that shot so that’s the shot I kind of mastered and worked on and obviously I could always shoot threes but just kind of take what the defense gives me understanding how our offense was going to be this year and um

How it was going to be utilized we played a lot lot without Z or without bi um last year so the role was different how I was utilized was different and you I know how to adjust I’m a pro I know how to work on my game

And figure out how to be um intentional with uh my my preparation and the communication with with Willie was that I was I’m going to need to shoot more threes and I said that’s fine with me three is more than two so I have no problem doing that just just being

Intentional with the preparation how I work finding the spaces getting comfortable um shooting threes when you’re tired especially off the dribble um so that’s just conditioning that’s working certain spots being able to shoot two feet off the line three feet off the line uh I had a little drop and

My percentage you know from 25 ft and up is like a 10% drop so I had to just get back in the lab and kind of work you know those areas understanding that I should shoot like 42% from three so what’s the threshold for that how many

Reps do I need a day in the summer how many reps do I I need during the season how much should I left so I can maintain um the strength the balance the stability to to be able to produce and I’m doing the work so that’s the result

What’s kind run through your mind when you see the play where her is the block and the Ste yeah I mean herb is a fantastic player man great teammate the guy goes eight for nine tonight Corner threes you think he’s last 84 85 games he’s shooting Dam there

40 from three um that right corner he going miss in that right corner he shoots the ball really well from there he does his he does his work on a day on a daily basis uh he prepares he’s a great defender upside on the ball off

The ball and you know I think the way he plays is is is something that I’ve never really seen before from especially from a young player just selfless just does all the the dirty work um and doesn’t doesn’t often get the credit he deserves especially from the media um especially

From the league in terms of voting he should be first team on defense and just uh see just how he’s progressed offensively how much does that help you especially with that start and knowing that a lot of yeah uh it’s just a conversation that we’ve had in spacing spacing is

Important and as he continues to get more comfortable in those Corners uh he’s going to really help our team he’s going to make a lot of money and he’s going to be a game changer cuz he can also attack the basket got better at finishing he’s a good passer he makes

The right decisions and always plays under control so we can hit them Corner threes um it’s going to it’s going to change the the game for him and for us franchise or excuse me 41 assists tonight 153 points with 35 fast break points how much would you say honestly

Did those two practices help you I know you mentioned of course having days off help but how about the practi well it helps when you get your butt kicked um like we did against the Sun so you just got to figure out like how do we get how

Do we move forward and get better from this and you learn some some things about yourself positive POS positives and negatives in terms of how to prepare better so the practices helped losing helped it’s always good to respond well after a loss CJ when you say it’s you

You mean as as the team right yeah yeah yeah just your brain a little bit on your process how much of it you know you talked about the preparation when it comes to lifting and looking at everything how much was it kind of looking at hey uh if I adjust the amount of

I you know my expected values go up here expected values is funny I think it was a combination of things like I’ve gradually increased my three-point attempts on year year over as the game has evolved as the defenses have changed and um I can make midies I still will

Take some I just understand the numbers I understand the spacing I understand the unit that I’m playing with and somebody got to shoot threes right like being honest like Z’s going to play in the pain be will shoot him but he’s more midies he’s more Rim herble shoot Corner

Threes but like I’m a 40 plus I don’t know what I’m shooting I’m probably shooting 45 from three right now on high volume so it’s like why would I not shoot threes if I’m only be able to if I can get five catch and shoot threes a

Game I’ll shoot 44% from three cuz I’m gonna make two out of four on a off night I’m gonna make two two out of five off the dribble so like I like the numbers I like the margins but it’s also understanding a deep two like it’s a

Tough shot for me I’m 6’3 it’s a hard shot for me on the move so like I just got used to floaters paint finishing short mides so this year my diet is more short midies I don’t take a lot of them but if I get in the paint I’ll stop and

Shoot shoot a short midi if I’m if I’m at a at a if I’m under 15 ft I’m trying to get my feet dirty and get in the paint if I’m above 15 ft I’m trying to take a three so if I’m dribbling if I’m moving around I’m looking I’m I’m

Gauging the spacing it’s like playing the numbers um and that’s what you work on in the summer is how do I get back behind the line or just get downhill make a play for somebody else so that’s kind of how I approach this season it

Was like no more deep tws unless I have to then I’ll do it but I don’t want to shoot deep twos I’m shooting the media it’s Chris Paul and in so that’s like 14 feet and in trying to get as close as possible to the paint um otherwise I’m

Trying to shoot threes did did the staff have a discussion with you going season or you kind of reflected upon your own season combo combo I have a lot of people that I work with who break down film for me um so from um a guy I worked with in the past

Uh John John y to AJ digs and then I bring it all back and then me and Casey sit down then me and Willie sit down I’m like this is how I feel like can be more successful they tell me how they feel I can be most successful Willie said I

Need to shoot 10 threes a game he said you need to come in the best shape of your life basically was like we got to work on our shot diet uh we got to get better at paint finishing we got to get better at our pick and roll our points

For possession got to be higher and if I making threes and pick and row that’s three points in The Possession if I can throw the lob to Z getting downhill that’s helpful so it’s just understanding the game and understanding how I can be successful um for this season and beyond

For my career um if you can shoot threes at a high level this is hard to guard you I can get to the cup I can make plays so it was just a a really smart decision on how to be more efficient if I’m not gonna get free throws I gotta

Make threes and layups you’re probably aware of this but you’re having a career year in a number of different categories obviously tell me about them well you you’re let’s talk about it you’re having a career year in a lot of advanced metrics you know a lot of those allinone

True shooting true shooting keep going your point rates that at highest your wind shares you know all that wind shares that’s a good one what’s my plus minus yeah your plus minus is also you know uh anyways you’re having a career year in in a lot of those numbers um is

It is it rewarding to see hey like I the work that I’m putting in my thought process is actually you know coming yeah I I sacrifice a lot to be um able to do this I spend a lot of time working on my game eating right going to sleep early

Normate Tech PT work massage in the gym at night in the gym in the morning work after practice I sacrificed a lot to be successful at basketball um when I was doing three days in the summertime I knew um this was an important year for myself and my

Family and I didn’t like how last season ended and I didn’t like um how I played obviously I was hurting there’s a lot of things going on um from from from our team standpoint but I said you know what I’m just going to control what I can control and that’s you know taking

Advantage of a long summer that I’ve never had before I never had that much time to get better usually I was in the playoffs so I got to re have and then I started my two days and I started my three days and I said all right this is

How I’m going to be good throughout an entire season and so far it’s worked out pretty well at the end of the game were you think about chasing 11 I didn’t know how many threes I had until I came out I acally said nine I said uh I missed four

In I missed three threes in and out and the last one was wide open so I said I could at least had 11 but I’m just trying to win games and go home CJ we saw Joel go for 70 last night cat had 62 but you think maybe the best version of

This team is when you guys are all running together pushing you know with pace and then looking for each other because there are so many weapons yeah I mean some sometimes it’s going to be different people um as long as we play fast and make the right decisions the

Best players the cream rise to the the cream going rise to the top so you don’t have to try to score it’s just going to happen organically as long as you’re playing aggressive that’s when you get the doubles and you make the right play that’s when they don’t double and you

Shoot it and sometimes you shoot over the double but I think for us it’s just about playing hard and executing game plan it’s going to be what it’s going to be

New Orleans Pelicans vs. Utah Jazz post game interviews with head coach Willie Green and Pelicans players as they recap their game on Tuesday, Jan. 23 during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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