Ime Udoka on Rockets misfiring in loss to Minnesota

Ime Udoka on Rockets misfiring in loss to Minnesota

Chang started really them under control then they they out a lot of what they wanted I would say Nas Reed in recognition of Nas Reed and Kyle Anderson um you know we have very specific rules for specific personnel and we didn’t really follow those obviously we guarded well enough in the

First quarter um but to give up 38 in the second and you know due to a lot of uh lack of discipline with with game plan specific um that was a big thing um and I mean really nasb broke us down broke our guards down broke everybody

Down either got baskets or got shots for guys and so um that was a big part of it in third quarter um second quarter and then Kyle Anderson um you know how we want to guard guys and help off certain guys and he really impacted the game as

Well what did you think of Cam’s effort second game back he didn’t look super tired how do you assess his performance tonight he was solid he um you know gave us a nice scoring punch when guys w not shooting it well um you know we had a tough we we didn’t guard specifically

Well one-on-one defense and we weren’t scoring so that’s a bad combination obviously um you know that 22 Point second quarter 23o first quarter so he gave us a nice punch there but um I think across the board most guys were not on point with specifics in game plan

And then personnel and so he had his mistakes too a lot of guys did but gave us a nice uh boost as far as scoring having had to push so hard through March and some real close games at the end of that streak is there some fatigue setting in at this

Point I mean uh I wouldn’t can tell you that specifically I know we are not making shots in a lot of wide open looks that we were making uh you feel those uh you know 5 for 22 at halftime and had a ton of wide open looks and you know our

The game plan was to play Fast play with Pace um kind of spread them out understanding they’re going to give a bunch of threes and knock those down so you know sometimes it’s as simple as making shots and if you know fatigue this late in the season maybe a factor

But I love the looks we got and if you make those make I mean 14 for 48 you make two or three more it’s a completely different ball game you’ve said all along that you haven’t been talking about the play in race and the standings but the team you’re chasing is the next

One you play is there some e regardless of what it ends up meaning or not meaning some excitement about taking on that team that you’ve been trying to catch I wouldn’t say any more than these last few games um you know we understood the importance of Dallas and Minnesota

And you know Golden State Miami the stretch here so it’s not specific to Golden State obviously um you know that’s a team in front of us but um these games were just as important honestly in my opinion um to get Dallas to get Minnesota to continue to put

Pressure on the person in front of you and then it can really mean something but have to do our part with this with the things in front of us first and um that’s Golden State now thank you thank you

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Ime Udoka talks to reporters after the Houston Rockets lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves on 4/2/2024. Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, Jabari Smith Jr. and Fred VanVleet shot very poorly from three, which put the Rockets back early before a late flurry by VanVleet got them to within one late.