Doc Rivers Press Conference | 3.25.24

Doc Rivers Press Conference | 3.25.24

I I guess just for you guys um what do you feel like you can build off up defensively from last night or is it just opponent opponent doesn’t matter it’s got yeah just keep building everything you know um our scramble yesterday was phenomenal like a lot of

Times you know um the help uh created the next help and Oklahoma’s one of those teams they move the ball great um they challenge your defense and they really do and I just thought uh the late contest you know Pat Beverly got two blocks Brook

Uh one time went from the top of the key all the way to the corner the challenge you know that’s what it requires that if if you want to be a good defensive team uh I thought our switching was the most physical um you know still uh on the

Ball we still we’re way better uh you know I said three or four games ago we’re back to getting into the ball still we showed uh there’s still times where you know we have the say if you’re off the body you’re dead and there was

Four or five of those that were off the body so we’re just getting better at it see reached another level after firsts or yeah just what changed nothing really I thought we did it in the first half honestly too um you know um we just got

You know we took it to another level but you know sometimes uh you could play great defense for the first two and a half quarters and it does nothing and eventually uh it speeds the other team up they start missing shots you know it takes time sometimes and I thought that

Was the case of it yesterday today um you mentioned pre the trickle down economics maybe on offense but in terms of the the minutes and the rotations I know you said for the third it was a little different cuz you wanted to kind of ride that group having the hole how

Much how helpful is that as you look forward as okay Jay patev PC Bobby you kind of know you’re you’re four there and where to fit them yeah and even AJ uh you know is either AJ or gal or neither one uh some nights you know uh

It does give you a lot of flexibility uh for sure but we also want to ramp guys up now too like we want to extend minutes you know um you don’t want to go in the playoffs well a lot of teams do that and then they’re exhausted you know

You don’t want to go in the playoffs and everyone’s average 30 minutes and used to and then you’re playing 40 tonight and you can’t sustain it so we’re we’re talking about ramping guys up now more than ramping them down I think D mention the other the

Game just kind of playing split so many kind of destroyed him with just Chris him with just young like that sort of you can see it last night I but kind of put it all together of how that helped him have you seen that in their experience yeah yeah I mean it can

Because he hasn’t had them all year this is Dame’s first year you know um I’ve had him now three games you know total so um you know and and they all have to get used to like certain things you know ego wise I’ve always said this when you

Got three guys everyone’s numbers drop a little bit and then you know from the outside you know Dame or jannis is only averaging 27 not 29 and you’re like yeah but Chris is averaging 18 and you know you’re actually scoring more points and you have to be able to handle that you

Know some guys can this is a very adult group so I’m not worried about that uh then the second part is that getting used to not Haven in as much you know Chris brought it up some yesterday um so and we got action out of that we worked

On that today like what happens when he brings it up what what’s the second side action what when we you know that’s all we’re talking about uh because we’re learning each other still too it was maybe the biggest you know results wise last night compared to that January end

Of January when they all play like how how different is something well I think we know what we’re doing now you know we wasn’t sure then I think um everybody’s playing uh the more knowledge and comfortable you get the more free everyone plays and I felt like last

Night you can see no one forced anything it was just Freedom uh and playing and playing the right way um I don’t know if you could find two point guards that are maybe different than pev and Dame like pev is trying to get ball on his hands

All the time yeah and trying to facilitate and just keep D wants it in his yeah how have you seen everyone kind of get used to Pat that’s been good because they know when Pat has it that uh he’s not going to keep it P’s just

Trying to uh create pace and that’s what he’s doing and that’s what you need him to do we don’t want Pat to be think of himself as a scorer we want him to think of himself as pH facilitating scor uh where Dame we want him to score you know

We need him to score and so it’s a lot different Tom does it make it easier with the second G when P up isn’t necessarily think about scoring that like Chris can take more of that yeah we want our guys like we Define Rose uh right after hallar break and and we were

Very honest about it like this this is your score this is who you play through now this scores your job is when they double team or when you don’t have a shot be responsible and get someone make someone else who maybe not a score a score you know and and I think we’re

Starting to do that for sure with d how’s he feeling I don’t know if he was here today but just how’s he feeling after AJ yeah he’s feeling good he was here you know so um I don’t know what F poisoning or whatever so he’s back okay

Yeah um with kind of going back to as you said ramping guys up do you think and Jay had mentioned this a little bit with role definition for J and and Pat Bev I mean at their age I like and you want them through June playing yeah but

It’s more it would be more the key guys you’re ramping up for the other for those for though it’s like sort of defensive matchup type guys yeah energy guys uh when they come in like I thought they changed the intensity of the game every bit as much as our starting unit

Uh when that unit came in it was straight intensity um and you know if you can get a a second group that’s completely different in some ways from the first group it’s a great you know knuckle ball to throw in and that happens with that group they come in you

Know Bobby and and whoever else is probably going to be uh Chris a lot of times on the floor they’re they’re they’re coming in with energy and and they’re they’re going to contest shots they’re going to play a power game uh and so they know

What they want to do it’s good for us you know a couple of the guys that mentioned that they feel like uh after the allar break there’s been more physicality love officials uh amen Dame was kind of you know complaining about it offensively yeah I’m curious have you

Felt like in the last week or so he’s kind of used that to his Advantage defensively yeah I think we all everybody’s using it to their advantage not just our team uh they’re allowed to play defense again you know they’re not Belling out offensive players for fling

You know um you know what they’re reing they’re ring like me in practice now uh and and our guys hate it already if I ref in practice I’m not giving you a foul if it’s a bad shot I know it’s a foul I would say that it’s a foul but

There a horrible shot I’m just not going to give you the foul and they you know that’s the first couple they like the other day something happened and jannis turned around and looked at me and just start running down the floor like I’m not giving you that that you don’t

Deserve it uh that’s of the old school refs now you can’t do that obviously if a guy gets filed you got to call it uh but I like that they’re and they’ve been wrong some like there are times guys are getting fou but overall you just can’t

Bail guys out that plays into what you’ve the identity a little bit of this team that’s been forged like to get back to the defense you kind of jok about like the the mud wrestling versus trap me yeah you’re bigger smart and veterans that have high IQ um so that kind of

Plays into a little bit yeah we’re hoping it continues we’re worried that they get another memo and it goes the other way and then we’re like no fair allar G footage over say you want this yeah I think that may have played a role in it yeah

Doc Rivers speaks with media following practice on Monday afternoon.

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