Chris Finch on loss to Kings: ‘We’ve been getting off to really slow starts’

Chris Finch on loss to Kings: ‘We’ve been getting off to really slow starts’

Coach everything was a fight tonight the most lead changes you’ve had in a game this season um how would you describe this one in the end in that overtime I mean you know uh it was a great game you know well played by both teams all credit to

Them they made enough of the buckets and plays when they needed to um you we had a couple key breakdowns in overtime that really hurt us um but uh yeah we just kept finding a way to you know with the big lineup I really liked

It it was good so brought us back in the game so especially jadden McDaniel is a huge second half for him a season high scoring night would you think of his performance yeah I mean it was great you it was real confident stepped into a

Shot Let It Go I think we did a uh you know we needed it too we really needed to someone else to step up and score for so excuse me Chris the uh Second Chance point so allowing is that kind of one of the things that allowed the Kings to

Yeah I mean it’s 14 offensive rebounds there was a bunch of 50/50 balls that we kind of watched you know in the middle of the floor down the stretch if we just secure those we can probably control the end of the game better um you know with

The sides we out there had out there that’s really kind of inexcusable so and then did you uh on the one three that monk got was were Rudy and Nas a little crossed up there did you see Rudy tried to switch himself back out of a matchup

From the bottom of the floor it’s can’t do it you know so kind of felt like a Kings Pace game they really trying to run you know the the whole time what what didn’t work or how did that hurt you guys their Pace there I mean you know they they I mean

This 19 and nothing fast break points you know kind of tells the story in that regard but you know we’ve never been a team that like puts up a lot of Fast Break points I thought there were times in the game when usually when they

Surged ahead it was uh you know was in transition when we made it a half court game you know I thought that we were able to come come back in so yeah I mean they did a good job getting out in transition at times but I didn’t think

That that was the thing that hurt us as much as like offensive rebounding after three quarters I think cat and Mike had one three combined was that something the kings were doing or just yeah I mean they were um yeah you know they were pretty aggressive on the

Ball they were tra in pick and roll um you know I thought the ball thought we did a good job of kicking out uh for the most part you know sometimes we did and sometimes we did but uh you know they didn’t really leave cat’s body they

Rotated around him which is why Jaden and and Nas had so many clean and open looks tonight how far away from 100% is Rudy right now do you think uh physically yeah uh I don’t know maybe maybe uh 85% or something like that Chris it was uh 14 nothing in the first

Quarter against Memphis the other night it was 152 tonight is there anything that stands out to you point yeah we’ve been getting off to really slow starts because we’re back to fighting the game right out of the gate you know this is what we did in January um you know we’re

Going into a crowd we’re not we’re not making an easy pass you know we’re trying to get our get ourselves going rather than get the offense going um and it’s just there’s no ball no flu uh fluidity to no nothingness there so s you guys have been pretty successful at

Home this year Sacramento’s beating you twice here um with some of their personnel um taking that ant was out for the second half and fox was out for them tonight though do they present different matchup problems for you with their personnel that maybe other teams do uh

Not sure we like how we match up against them um you know they move you around a lot so it puts uh cat and uh Nas in a lot of action but you know we were when we had the big lineup out there um is actually when we were able to contain

Them best so you know I don’t I don’t really know what to make make of that so um but yeah know they they they have an identity they play to it every single night um you know we know what works and what doesn’t work against

Them and um you know tonight I think our slow start and the offensive rebounding were you know things that sunk [Applause] us

Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch reacts following loss to Sacramento. 
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