Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.1.24

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 3.1.24

You started off facilitating early four assists and then doc said hey like you were able to find some angles find some stuff that worked I think you called it feeding the pig um just what I guess what did you begin to see offensively where you know you kind of okay this was

The night to to kind of do this and be aggressive to certaint your will um so I feel like I had a little bit um had a little bit of energy last two games played that out 20 something uh minute um I was back to back

I love playing on back to backs I think it kind of Cals me down and I’m not in a rush when I play um I was just trying to make a good plays um you know when Dame starts the game you know hard making shots not all

The attention shifts today and then you have a time to facilitate attack angles get Brook you know play uh in the pain so I was able to do that uh but at the end day just another game I just was yeah able to be aggressive my teamm has

Helped me put me in a good spot and that was it what does it mean to have a coach call your number like that like just over and over again like no we’re not we don’t want to go anywhere else like this is the action that we want we want you

To keep going downhill like how does that change things or do anything for you yeah it’s uh it’s kind of unusual um like he he loves whenever we scor in a play uh the whole team loves not just him but run it again run again like we run it five six seven eight

Times until they stop it and uh sometimes because we are so good offensively we can make plays sometimes we come down we run two plays then hit two threes and all a sudden just go away from it instead of running it until they figure a way to stop it you know and um

When a guy gets it going like just just feds it feds and feds and the whole team understands you know we we have we have have answers to the test now you know if you go under if you go Blitz if people try to go over if people try to beat me

To a spot um if people are um having the big on Brook like we we we know how to you know uh play offensively in any situation now there’s going to be times that we’re going to make shots and there’s going to be times that we’re not

Going to make shots today are times we made shots was able to be good so off off of that like answers to the test like Doc changed up minutes in rotation so in the fourth it’s you AJ P it’s it’s not a usual lineup and then that’s the lineup that breaks the game

Open what so what I guess did you like about that lineup but then the idea that Doc is willing to sort of put you in different spots to react and and adjust in that way um I’ll say first of all I love it every L that’s up there I think

Everybody in this L room can make plays and the great players but I think the specific moment of AJ driving the ball and getting fou hard and getting up and knocking down the two free throws just gives us a lot of juice and then um you

Know it talks a lot about trash like in the fourth quarter usually when Dame is not in I try to facilitate more try to make plays for myself Bobby AJ Pat whoever is’s out there but like you know takes a lot about I give the ball give

The ball to Pat Pat Beverly he came down knocked up some shots hit a Florida hit the right layup like he he was the one that gave us the the lead and um him and AJ so everybody can make plays in our team we just got to trust one another we

Can do that at times I feel like sometimes we don’t we don’t trust one another sorry what what’s been the biggest key that you’ve seen the last four games with you know four four straight games in a row now with less than 100 points allowed I think I think

It’s five five straight wins four I think four St four in a row under 100 we had Minnesota under 100 it’s like 107 close ah okay okay okay so you’re right no it’s uh we defending we defending better you know uh giving guy giving teams 20 points 28 points in the half uh

16 points in a quarter um like we are defending we are defending every possession that they scor on us we we hope f it they’re not scoring on me they’re scoring on the whole team so we just got to everybody be on same page it was uh two threes early in the first

Quarter that we didn’t rotate as fast and like the whole everybody was on the same page like it was one was me and one was D and we went back to the timeout and the bench and everybody Jay was talking to us Pat was talking to us you

Know uh was talking to us the coach was talking to us like everybody has to be on the same page I feel like the last couple of games we’ve been doing that and that’s why our defense have take uh a step hopefully we can keep it

Up we have a very good team coming in great scorer you don’t even know where you’re going to get it from from Paul George James Harden uh Russell Westbrook um Ka Leonard zupa Norman pow all these guys they can play so we have to do a

Better job just being on the string um taking that individual pride and just making as stuff as possible just for them for the next people team we play uh the more we can do that the more we at at our best our offense become easier you said a new franch record tonight you

Are the winningest buck in franchise history passing Sydney monrie 489 and that’s regular season and playoffs how do you feel knowing that that’s playoffs too no way it’s not playoffs just it’s both together combined I recognize better recognize now you know better recognize um now uh

It’s it’s fun it’s fun man it’s um something that I can uh I can tell my kids you know and and uh I think last year I played the most games no most games or most minutes I don’t remember most games most games so now most games win so it’s good it feels

Good I’m always out there try to give everything for the team uh and God have blessed me with Incredible teammates incredible coach staff that allow me to do what I do and you said earlier that you guys are on the same page what is helping your team chemistry right now

What is it like what’s the secret sauce right now just trust we just got to trust one another that’s it win or lose because now we’re rolling feeling good you know it’s it’s got to be it’s got to feel the same when we’re losing obviously it’s going to stink but we

Have to have the same trust we have to play the same way we have to have the same effort to same you know so I think it’s trust trust we got to try keep on trusting one another not there been a few games recently where Marcus Johnson has said that you look extremely

Confident in your jump shot I counted also tonight three no look passes do you feel that confidence in your shot and in your distribution now like more than you’ve ever in your career it sure looks like it um I don’t know I I’ll say my jump shot

No I think I had the year two three years ago that I was shooting in a high high percentage from the two shooting more threes I shoot like four threes a game or something um but I feel like I’m just over myself um like have a great alltime great teammate you know

That I have to pick my spots like he cannot just be I cannot be all over the place anymore it’s not just me out there and like I have a guy that can score at at will at any time that he you know and then he wants

So um uh my passing I think my pass was was always there nothing think I’m more willing I’ve become more willing passer this year because my teammates are pretty freaking good you know but I think I always good pass that was coming to the league that was

My my thing that separated me from but you we didn’t had a lot of TV games a lot of people didn’t pay attention to Milwaukee so you know people see me do one a pass now oh he can pass I’ve been passing I’m the alltime leading assist

Uh what you leader in Milwaukee and there oh he can Passat of course I can Passat you know but um the thing is that I think become more willing passer because I’m here I’m here to win I want I want to win and guys are making shots everybody’s feeling the ball everybody

Gets that energy and um that’s the only way this can uh work you know where your teammates are you don’t even have to look they have to be they have to be there that’s that’s a that’s a thing that’s a very good question actually nobody TR them yeah like this year I

Throw the ball there’s many times I’ve throw the ball to the corner without even looking and I know they will be there and that’s speaks a lot for the guys that run all the way down to the corner from Beasley Pat from J uh J uh AJ like Bobby when he

Pops or Brook when he pops like I know exactly where they they are going to be and I can throw it blindly you know and there’s going to be times that I throw it there and they’re not there but this year they’ve been there every single time for me that’s a good question

Actually I’m not trying to say fighting is good yes but it does seem like you have a lot of dudes on this team that if you start to get into something like that they will stand up for their teammates what does it mean to be surrounded by a team full of guys

Bullies be surrounded by bullies hey man um it feel it feel it feels good not uh not to disrespect the game in any way but uh I feel like I have a lot of passionate players from Bobby from P from Jay from AJ from bizy from every

Everybody Brooke we have we have passion in us and we want to win and sometimes you know we might sh and push you know uh or be more physical than usual but it’s good to have U A Team like that uh kind of we kind of trying to change the narrative around here

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