Chauncey Billups Postgame Interview | Portland Trail Blazers 112, Denver Nuggets 127

Chauncey Billups Postgame Interview | Portland Trail Blazers 112, Denver Nuggets 127

Johnny what do you take from a game like this where you’re short-handed you throw different things at yoke and he still does that yeah um there are certain players in the league you know that it it it don’t matter what coverage you play you know they’re just too good and they can they

Figure you out there’s not a coverage he has never seen um but you can put two on them if you want you know you getting up a three or you giving up a l or you’re giving up a layup to another player so um yeah you

You just you know you go to the game saying we’re going to try several things there’s a good chance that none of them work right just is what it is but we want to we want to play fast we want to run it down you know we want to make

Them work on the other end and you got to hope that you can play fast enough and create shots and make shots cuz you got to be able to shoot it out with teams like that um and if you can’t chances are you going you’re going to

Lose the game in the game how do you kind of how do you bounce those changes like what is there what’s kind of the process you go okay you’ve got your coverages and the things you’re going through and then balance that with your guys like trying to keep them up or keep

Them engaged when he’s not missing a shot lot a lot of things going to it you you know um foul trouble for one goes into it you know you start off the game not going on him you know just kind of digging digging digging it now if da

Picks up a quick foul boom we got to go um who’s playing who’s on their team who’s in their rotation you know do they have their starters in there with all the knockdown shooters or do they got a couple other players that you can kind of te check their temperature that night

If they do boom maybe you maybe you start being a little more aggressive um so there there’s just so so many different things that go into it uh those decisions in real time you know as the game is actually going on um but yeah that dude is just he’s

He’s he’s a two-time MVP for a reason he’s one of the he’s one of the best we ever going to see playing this game you know um doing what he does so I don’t like going to these games saying like man if we don’t hold Joker down we

Got got no chance I can do I can’t do that that’ll be really kind of unrealistic to be honest with you so um for the most part I thought we play pretty good that team is better than we are you know um and they’re world

Champions and I look here we shoot a 100 shots in the game you know uh we made some threes in the second half which was good but the team is just they was just better man how do you think how do you think Chris looked in his time with the

Starting unit yeah I thought he was okay I thought he was okay um you know he he he did what what Chris does you know he has some rebounds in there um he’s going he does a pretty good job in close out situations catching and going and going

And catching things like that um yeah it was it was a it was a Chris Murray game I thought he I thought he played good have you had a conversation with him about being more aggressive it seemed like in this role he looked for a shot

Maybe more than he has when he’s coming recently yeah well well when I talked to him earlier today when I told him I was going to start him you know I just told him I said Chris just just play a game man you know play a game be aggressive

The ball’s probably going to find you um and just attack and be ready to go you know no matter what happens you know whether you missing making don’t even matter don’t change how you play just keep playing aggressive um and have fun you know um and I thought he did play

Aggressive in the game today when you’re playing as big as you kind of were with the starting lineup with an being the smallest guy there all the wings in da it it seem like you guys are flooding on the offensive glass a lot is stylistically if you can play that big

Is that kind of the idea of what you want to do is is attack the offensive glass like that regularly I would love to I would love to um especially I think for a team like ours who a lot of times we’re playing young out there um if we

Can have that type of size we struggle to score you know and we don’t have the best shooting team in the NBA so we need to find other ways to get baskets and I think going to the offensive glass is one of them it’s been a pretty good

Weapon for us um and you know ironically most people think differently but when you do go to the offensive glass you usually slow teams down on the other side because they’re so worried about blocking you out so that’s almost kind of helps our form of transition defense

As well um so yeah we’ve we’ve we’ve kind of focused on that all year long no matter who’s out there playing but naturally when you got a bigger lineup you you got a chance to have a little more success I mean shoot man we get 18 offensive rebounds in the game that’s a

Big big number you know um so that’s just one of the one of the areas that that we try to exploit

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