Aaron Gordon Post Game Locker Room Interview vs. Thunder 🎙

Aaron Gordon Post Game Locker Room Interview vs. Thunder 🎙

What did they change up that ultimately led to them coming out with the win tonight I don’t think they changed anything too much I think um you know we had too many costly turnovers uh and allow too many offensive rebounds what were some of the things

You guys could have focused in on or what caused the lack of focus I guess down the stretch in that fourth quarter um it’s hard to say you know we just had a couple of miscues and um you know when when you had when not you’re not playing with a guy like

Joker um you know we need those you know Joker is so good that you know you can make some mistakes and he’ll make up for them just because he’s so damn good when you don’t have a guy like that all of those little mistakes they come back to

Bite you at the end yeah ultimately you starting at center tonight what was your approach to filling into that slot I’m not even sure it’s just play hard um I know we’ll probably go to that lineup a little bit more um closer to the play playoffs so um I mean I like

The lineup it’s nice you know we we get to switch one through five um we get to get out and run we’re really fast um bogs them down on defense but there’s some things that we can tighten up um ultimately like I’m I I don’t like I don’t like moral

Victories you know what I mean um I think that um if we do a couple of different things here that we win that game so you know I wish we we had that one back Aon you you mentioned in Boston too sort of expecting that you guys will do that

A little bit more closer to the playoffs but can it be helpful to have a game here or there where you have to play that role throughout the season just in terms of I guess kind of staying in in the mindset of being able to play that

Role when the time comes Yol needs some rest everyone in know how big fow got to rest and he got to he needs uh to keep himself healthy and we got to be able to step up and hold down the fort and uh I’m disappointed that we weren’t able to

Do that tonight how much tougher is it to play that five role when against a team like OKC that really likes to shrink and and play they play small they have four guards and a a stretch five so um it would be harder if they were playing like two bigs you know you

Mentioned joke Joker needing some rest do you feel like you need some rest like are how are you feeling physically no I’m good I’m good yeah I’m ready to go we can run it back were you any more intentional coach M always says when Joker’s not

Playing he still wants you guys to play the same style were you any more intentional about intentional about making sure the ball was still moving yeah I wanted to I wanted to get to over over the head pass I I didn’t get it get to it

Yeah I think it’s a little bit of a different style and um you know everybody kind of has to pick and choose their spots a little bit because we play so much through Joker but I uh appreciate coach Malone for putting the ball in my hands um more on

That left block um yeah I just I just wish we could have gotten a win tonight kind of on that note how much have you how how much do you feel like your game has grown or evolved through watching Joker play and how much do you take of

His game when you have opportunities like this and try and play like him oh a ton a ton you know but it’s it’s more like the game within the game um just kind of like just how how I like see the game how he sees the game um

It’s not so much more like the skill set cuz he does things that are like like only he can do in the entire world you know so but just like U yeah just just how he sees the game I’m uh really um benefited from being around him and like

My basketball IQ has gone up just from being around a lot of these guys you know um we got some really high basketball IQ players on this team it seemed like you were playing like you really wanted this one was there any extra motivation for you personally

Being out there yeah we just wanted to hold it hold down the fort for Joker you know um that’s it what do you think when you say that you felt like you should have had this one what do you think will sort of be the difference as you look

Back on it whether it’s the rebounding or the turnovers down the stretch in terms of I mean it was really more of I guess that four minute stretch in the fourth but like closing quarters opening quarters uh went like 10 run or something like that I thought we had the

Game pretty much in control except for the the end of the third and the start of the fourth um yeah I wish we had that one back thanks

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Aaron Gordon Post Game Locker Room Interview vs. Thunder 🎙