Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Sound | 3.7.24

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Sound | 3.7.24

After the game dcad kind of said that he thought that your guys’ defensive problems in the first half were really more about your offense the ball not moving floor balance getting out of control just what did you see from that aspect um I think they had like 20 points over our turnovers

Um no we cannot allow our offense to dictate our uh defense um at the end of the day like we got to be better to scor 125 points in the half they had 78 in the first six minutes of third quarter I think we were uh came aggressive being physical we making them

You know shoot tough shots you know and they had like in the first couple minutes they had like five five to eight points I don’t remember but we we get back to the game after that you know the moment that the ball is not moving you know we not you know everybody’s not

Touching everybody’s not getting energy now our defense is not as good okay you know it’s uh it’s one game game uh we’ve played I think we’ve played uh 6 and a half good games um we have another one we have three in this road trip got to

Go to the next one hopefully we can uh be lacked in play better move the ball better and um win the game do you feel like those are the moments you guys kind of Miss Chris like when you’re not you know on the second set action it’s not

Chris it’s not a guy like that that can keep moving or when you guys are getting out of control it’s not Chris out there to be like hey guys like it’s just come sure he’s a he’s a great player he thrives in those moments we can we can run our offense

Through him we’ve run our offense in the past 10 years 11 years through him so having the guy that c out there is always uh a plus but at the end of the day it’s it’s about the guys that you know on the court played

Um we we we are better than what we show tonight and I’m going to go back watch film and hopefully we can me better next game I’m going back to the start of the game honest questionable with the Achilles you missed last game after warm-ups just kind of when did that kind

Of flare up for you initially and just how did you work through that last game and pregame today I’m I’m I’m fine fine um what was it last game last game yeah um you know last game did not feel 100% you know I’ve tried to play as many

Games as I can this year that was my third game that I missed um but I want to be out there on the court try to build chemistry with the guys try to build chemistry with Dame uh I think the more we play together it benefits

Us uh but at the end of the day like if I don’t feel like I can protect myself out there um try not to put myself at risk because I feel like the moment you have things that linger uh then you put yourself in another especially the way I

Play um this game warmed up felt good ready to go um the kick ahead to the third quarter 195 start defensive Energy’s up ball does move a little bit um doc thought after the timeout maybe the ball stopped moving was it just that or was there

Also an element of it’s it is a quite a deficit to try to come back from to get over the hump you know you’re still down six at that point and then you know they hit a couple threes and all of a sudden it’s 11 again they’re basketball players

You know they’re going they’re going to play hard and you know they’re not going let us go in 30 no run um but I think we we set the tone in the third quarter like we played the right way I think in the after in the last four four minutes

Of the third quarter the ball was not moving they made the great defensive plays um then in transition they went out there and ran was able to get open thre was able to get some LS it was able to get in the paint so it was kind of hard it was kind

Of hard but I didn’t of the day you learn from this I think the team did what they’re supposed to do but we fell we fall short um hopefully we can learn from this and go to the next one Brooke was saying that he felt like you guys

Were overthinking at times as a collective how do you get over that mental hurdle when you feel that happening during a game like this uh I wasn’t overthinking I don’t know if guys was overthinking uh it’s nice to play the game without uh overthinking that CH

Things take over was it also just a case of the Warriors tonight just really wanting this game because they so badly to the Celtics on Sunday they did I don’t watch basketball I don’t know if the last two points really that’s that’s incredible uh at the last by 52 yeah

Good job Boston Celtics um obviously when you a team like that lose especially a team that has a winning mentality uh you know that they’re going to get ready going to go watch film get ready to practice and come out and set the tone and I think I didn’t know that

That happened that took place but uh now that you were saying that it makes sense why you know starting the game played really hard they moved the ball really well everybody was involved there were guarding they were talking they were like on the same page so usually when

You um you know lose by 30 by 40 whatever 50 uh the next game uh the team tried to set the own it goes without saying they’re obviously a great offensive team right you have stuff carry around um defensively for you how much more difficult was it to do the

Things that you’ve been doing well this year uh since do came around against their offense with all the movement with all the off ball Cuts with the kind of what they do I think he has to be with the matchups too you got to think about

The matchups um like if you’re in a guy that’s capable of making open shots it’s kind of hard to do your job to roam around and try to help and uh try to be in the pain and try to disrupt their offense um I’ll say in the second half it was a

Little bit better because SE the match up I from um went from wig to kuminga and he was able I was able to roam a little bit more um but again that’s not that’s not uh that’s not the excuse that’s not the reason we last by what 25 what we lost

By 35 35 that’s not the that’s not the excuse

Giannis Antetokounmpo talked with the media following Wednesday nights game against the Warriors.

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