Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | “Our Fans Were Unbelievable” | 3.4.24

Doc Rivers Postgame Press Conference | “Our Fans Were Unbelievable” | 3.4.24

533 left Paul George hits the three they go up 9690 then you guys get six consecutive stops yeah um to up the game just what do you see defensively you know the whole second half obviously we were much better we went Zone a lot in the second half we switched everything

And honestly it’s a make Miss league as well you know they they miss some shots that they normally make uh you know maybe their timing was off because of the Zone I I thought it did help for sure uh and then I thought our execution offensively was unbelievable down the

Stretch we got the ball to the guys that we wanted to get the ball when they trapped we moved the ball we kept the game simple um just with that zone I know you guys have sprinkled it in a little bit but what kind of gave you the

The confidence to run with it as long as you guys did because it slowed their their action down you know Ty run so many good things and we just felt like you know they’re going to run their zone offense and and that was it and you know

Um it was easier for us to guard that then their manto man stuff be because of you know that having Giannis and that having Chris out on the floor um we needed to go to it it allowed us to keep our Shooters on the floor um by going

Zone and our size um just with Dame what you think of his ability to when he sees that trap kind of stretch the defense out to half court and that yeah it was awesome we worked on it this morning for and yesterday so two days in a row

Working on uh Dame getting trapped Yannis getting trapped uh running jumps uh um anticipating that on this trip more there’s a bunch of teams we knew they do it but there’s other teams that do it coming on this trip and it paid dividends today that’s what the guys

Were like man those two prac we worked on it the entire practice and that’s what we got and you can see how calm guys were uh Dame was great but once he got rid of the ball I thought the guys who made the decisions were great um

Without Yannis or Chris Dame’s going to have to carry a heavy load on offense how do you switch up the offensive scheme when it’s just just more pick and roll obviously uh more step UPS um you know and then we needed another score like and that was Bobby you know putting

Bobby on the post tonight was huge for us because they were going to say small uh and we wanted to go big I I thought that the game changed for us when we post Brook up those first two times uh and then it went from Brook then we

Started posting Bobby up and you can see our guys knowing that we know we can get either a bucket or they’re going to trap and we’ll get a shot out of that I thought offensively the game changed for us at that point what gave you the confidence that put AJ Green out there

For the for the he can shoot you know uh he’s he’s he’s not scared of the moment you can see that um I thought because we were going to start posting we needed another shooter on the floor and that’s why we put AJ in hey coach just

Dovetailing off that just in your time here in Milwaukee just how have you seen AJ progress well um a ton I mean I I believe in him me I shown that and um you know guys that can shoot like that affect the game you know it’s funny

Right when you walked on the floor you can hear the Clippers like shooter shooter shooter you know uh that’s a good thing even if he doesn’t get shots it means when we drive someone’s standing next to him and that gives us spacing um what we’ve worked on the most

Honestly is on the defensive end and he’s proven um that he he’s a fighter like he he hung in there I thought defensively he was fantastic tonight uh one thing our fans were unbelievable you know they we’re down 15 and there’s no um Giannis there’s no Chris you know a

Lot of fans go home at that point our guys kind of hung in there and didn’t uh their noise and their Spirit uh really helped us tonight I’ll say that uh you mentioned that just down 15 no Giannis no Chris for your team to rally and come back what does that tell

You I mean or just uh you know it just tells me what we know like we we can hang in and I kept saying it guys they’re going to make runs I said it in the first half don’t don’t be rattled by it they’re a great team they have great

Shooting they’re going to make runs I kept I bet I said that 15 times tonight don’t worry they’re G they’re good I kept saying they’re going to make shots don’t overreact to it just hang in there and we’re going to make a run and and

And we did it was good but we made a defensive run as you said and that gives you more confidence uh and then do you expect to start this road trip without jiannis and Chris as well do you have any idea I have no idea way to bring the

Mood down though we’re in such a good mood hey Doc I know you mentioned Pat was an instigator just what did you think of his ability in the fourth quarter to really bring out the momentum and and just him and Bobby just the the fight that they brought the fourth

Quarter yeah both of them are instigators uh sometimes hilarious uh just I mean they’re they have so much energy in them both uh they tonight were feeding off of each other um you need that you just need guys like that on your team and the fact that we have both

Of those guys are great for us uh you mentioned AJ’s not being Fearless you know 30-footer off the pass from Dame yeah he could have took another heat check one on the left wing and instead he gives it to Bobby and Bobby scores just what did you like about that good

To great good to great I mean that was as good to great as you can get because AJ could have shot that they were going to close out on him uh but to make the next pass you know we we show it that’s when we start every film session since

I’ve been here with good to great good to great good to great um and that is U you know you can’t get a better good to Great action than that one right there um and then just with Bobby the guy he’s going through a lot of time is Qui

Leonard and that’s not to say he doesn’t have a size advantage or anything like that but that is as good of a Defender as you can get just Bobby’s composure in the fourth half yeah and you know what’s funny he had one in the first half he

Remember he shot a quick fadea away we have this joke with with Bobby because he rushes sometimes you know we always say they they’re not going to grow you know if the guy was 67 when you got it if you wait three other seconds he’s

Still going to be 67 uh just take your time and he’s starting to do that uh and it’s good to see

Doc Rivers spoke to the media after Monday night’s comeback win against the Clippers.

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