Postgame Interview: Erik Spoelstra
Take us to the Finish was it just key offensive rebounds again was it Kyle uh I mean there were a lot of different things um you know defensively after that first quarter I thought we did a lot of really good things on the road um definitely enough things from a
Energy um toughness standpoint to put ourselves in a position to win um yeah there was a Long offensive rebound I don’t think it was a misc I think we were trying to to crash a little bit of a long rebound there Kyle did hit uh a
Big you know three and the Up and Under you know for sure um but we we struggled to score I we did have some uh looks at you know at that point it becomes maker miss you have to make those uh you know to make the full comeback um and we weren’t
Able to do that I thought we had a couple clean looks um our guys really wanted you know obviously to get this game um um we just weren’t able to get it done and uh you know we had some some tough possessions offensively either getting blocked or you know um missing um you
Know moments or missing some plays uh we’ll just have to get to work on that and um and improve uh on that side of the floor but uh yeah it’s disappointing but um that’s not from an effort uh standpoint our guys laid it out there you you could see the basically in the
Full core press you know from after this first six minutes of the game we were in it for for the rest of the game um I know dunan left early because of the back injury but what did they do to limit his DPO opportunities before that
And do you have any more on his back yeah you know I mean it was just an unfortunate thing that’s why you have to just you you absolutely love Duncan he couldn’t move coming into the game you know um just the workload everything last night I don’t know the flight or
Whatever um he just he just couldn’t move but uh you know he’s a competitor and he was like whatever whatever we need I’ll I’ll be out there um and you know it was tough I mean they were playing him physical Batum was was uh being really physical on his off ball
Movement and anybody that’s had back you know spasms if you can’t move and cut and uh you know feel like you can be yourself it’s just it’s it’s a tough thing to manage and and he’s a big part of our offense you know as as we know um
Just the the the space the shooting the U the movement the overreactions U and even when he was in there it was it was a fraction of what he can normally do just in terms of how he can move defenses around bam did not get
A shot in the fourth quarter how why um I don’t know um you know I think we had some decisions you know in the paint uh you know they were packing the paint like crazy um almost daring us to shoot from the three-point line um we had to
To shoot some of those just to keep them honest post-ups there wasn’t really anywhere to go elbow catches or any kind of pick and roll throw it back to them there wasn’t anywhere to go because they had they were just sending multiple defenders in into the paint um I think
If we could have knocked down a couple more I think that would have opened things up um and even he was contributing to that spacing you know they were very committed to taking away the pain and he was able to knock down a couple threes Thomas knocked down a
Three and uh that wasn’t by accident that that was what was open you know for large parts of the game how costly were those turnovers at the start of the second half where they kind of broke the game open there before you guys come back with yeah I mean those weren’t
Great but that’s what they do and uh we still brought it all the way back you know so you know that that game was in the balance it was there you know to take either way and um you know I thought we we had enough defense and stops going down the stretch
You know to put ourselves in a better position to win this game um but our offense was pretty uneven you know in that second half not just the turnovers weren’t really as much of an issue um in that fourth quarter but um you know making the right play and then and then
When we did generate you know shots we weren’t able to knock those down all right thank you
Mar. 15, 2024 – Erik Spoelstra speaks to the media following Monday night’s game vs. the Philadelphia.
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How in the hell do you lose to the stinky sixers.Come on,give them the gentlemen sweep in Miami,on April 4 .Get em out .sixers aren't doing crap out west,they really are not a good team.We got to beat the Cavs.Forget sixers stink.
Batum was holding Duncan like he was his wife all game no call the refs were terrible someone got paid for this game
It’s hard to watch other teams score easy baskets and everything we get is so hard
You think if we can hold a team below 100pts we will win . But we can’t score 100pts ourselves is a problem
Say what you want about Miami failing to score enough points, some blame goes to refs swallowing their whistles on BLATANT fouls. There was one sequence where Philly fouled 4 times and nothing was called. That takes players out of the game when you're being aggressive, getting to the rim, getting fouled but not getting the calls and then Maxey is on the other end throwing his body and running into people and getting the whistle. Can't win games if your attack isn't getting rewarded.
Bring back Dan Craig for the offense
Spo the supposed great coach allows Maxey to have a super game – and he’s the only consistent scoring player the 76ers have at this time. I don’t get why he keeps Swider with no rythum sitting on the bench. This kid should be playing maybe off the bench every night. He’s a shooter and get at least 10 15 points, which which has been the difference in all these lost games.