Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 1.31.24

Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | 1.31.24

I couldn’t hear you you don’t have a mic no I heard you yeah we got what we were looking for Dame Giannis had a great pick uh Dame came up I thought he was going to pull it and go a little quicker uh Brook was wide I I led to look back

To Brooke uh probably should have fired right back to Dame if he wasn’t going to take it so we got what we were looking for just didn’t work out yeah 4 seconds you know uh we anticipate they’re going to foul someone we actually if we could get yanas make the

First one and then his ability with no one in front of him to miss the second one we liked our chances on a Miss free throw because that’s what we’re going to look for yeah that was the difference in the game you know right now in so far in the

Two games that I’ve done we had we’ve had these two or three stretches in every game where we just have bad offensive possession uh and a lot of those bad off offensive possessions are turnovers that lead to buckets um when you’re playing at a thin line the way we

Are right now until we get our defense right and things like that those those changed the game I thought that was the biggest point in the game those six possessions I think it went from tied up one to to down 10 uh that changed the game I loved how we fought back

Though well the look was for Dame let me say that all right he was coming off we wanted Dame to take that or be aggressive uh but Dame made the right play and that’s one of the things we’re talking about if a guy’s wide open throw

It to him you know um I haven’t seen the film so I have to watch it I thought Brooke was open uh for the three and then he he pump faked that’s when he probably should have got back off the ball awful yeah I thought well they just beat

Us off the dribble uh and I thought we had poor communication three or four times guys back pick we didn’t switch when we were supposed to um one thing we have to get better we have to be a better talking team for sure uh we have

To be a better help team for sure I thought in the second half our defense was completely different uh you know you always say that like as a coach same game same team and then second half what we held him to 40 51 points um you know

Below 50 shooting that’s what you have to do for two halves uh it was almost like we had a sense of urgency defensively in the second half uh and we didn’t have that in the first and we also made some changes yeah he was great in the second half you

Know listen Simons makes a tough shot uh that was just a better offensive player than defensive player on that one um you know we told m don’t worry about your fouls uh be aggressive get into the ball uh when you was switch it on Grant you

Know if you’re going to be small then you can’t fall back you got to go attack his dribble I thought he did that a couple of times so uh very proud of him just sporadic I mean we haven’t been consistent defensively yet so uh it’s

Going to take a minute um I have seen us with the ability to get stops when we need to get stops we did that tonight uh that’s a great sign for your team moving forward you got down by 10 right you need stops we got them and we got back

In the game uh that’s big for our guys to see yeah well the difference to me is simple like and that’s not a selfish thing every we went in that stretch where we the turnovers every guy was trying to win the game for us that’s great but it

Doesn’t work you know you can’t just do it on on your own you got to keep playing with each other and and we’ll do that the thing is we have guys that want to do that uh but we have competitive guys that want to win too and so we have to figure that

Out feels intentional what are you to see from that well it’s a regular season is is what I’ll say and because we have minute restrictions on some of the guys um we got to navigate through that that would be my best answer I can give you on

That yeah he played better than I I thought he could I I I don’t know listen these games are tough games um the the home team always wants to beat the star coming back that’s 100% you can see in their Jubilation after the game um Dame I don’t know how many directions he’s

Been pulled over the last 48 hours hours you know coming home getting to spend time with his kids um getting a court uh named after him with aidas you know seeing his family I I don’t you know when I came back to Atlanta as a player and then one said

Hi you know what I mean like I I don’t imagine I was talking to a couple of the guys who have gone through that uh and it’s it’s rough it’s tough but I thought Dan weather did pretty well thanks guys

Doc Rivers spoke to the media after Wednesday’s game in Portland.

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