“Taking Care Of Business.” | Chris Finch Postgame Sound | 4.3.24

“Taking Care Of Business.” | Chris Finch Postgame Sound | 4.3.24

Chris how important is a win like this to rest players to get different guys in before you guys head out on the road uh yeah you know taking care of business uh taking advantage of a severely depleted team um and just you know kind of just kept kept growing the league growing the

League growing the league um you know that was a challenge at halftime was to to play against our own standard um and you know guys I thought for the most part did did a great job of that all game long and did you feel like kind of

Got back to normal here yeah absolutely I thought uh stepping into a shot um you know just rising up and taking it um I love the fact that he took 12 of them you know just to try to shoot himself back into some Rhythm um so yeah that was really good to

See Chris uh one of the better Monte games do you think just in terms of aggression and just playing in a flow yeah I think that was definitely a silver lining um with Mike being out today uh that we really hoped for that Monte would get out there get some

Extended minutes get some uh run with some different lineups you know um J M has been playing so well and some of those lineups have been playing so well that um you know he’s been a little hemmed in on some lineup combinations and um you know I think it’s definitely

Affected him at times uh he’s been playing great but just the opportunity hasn’t been there um so you know just getting him out there with different guys it was good to see so just in terms of his overall fit like what have you learned about how he fits specifically

With this group and how you can kind of deploy him going into the playoffs um I’ve said it’s about other players and good fits around some of our guys is you need like low usage high impact you know guys that don’t need the ball in their hands but when they do have the

Ball in their hands they’re always making the right play and being efficient with it um so he he plays seamlessly on or off the ball um and um you know I like to see him be even a little bit more aggressive when he has his opportunity

With the ball at times early in the offense just to try to get to the heart of the defense uh and you know his defense I’ve been said this before I’ve been really impressed with the physicality uh at which he guards beat him a standup guys particularly bigger

Guys um but yeah know he’s he’s been he was a huge acquisition for us and um you know we’re going to need him to play like this coming down the stretch for sure so did seem like every bucket to start theame was assisted was that especially maybe like the first quarter

And a half really like a really strong continuation of what you guys have been doing on that end yeah for sure just keep continue to move the ball um we knew we’d face different looks um you know we seem to be handling switching a little bit better now I think guys are

Understand that you defeat it with the pass and the movement rather than just the the bounce um uh but yeah guys really looking for each other for the most part I mean Nas was hot um and and ant was you know you could see was being extra aggressive trying to work through

His issues but other than that you guys were really moving the ball and playing Wells pretty okay with that just kind of trying to work through that shot a reason for that yeah 100% you know um I thought he stayed within the flow of the game you know I thought there were some

Other plays to be made for him but I was happy with him being that aggressive tonight for sure no doubt Leonard Miller has been pretty productive in his couple of minutes he’s gotten to play this year what have you seen from his progression from where he was the first day of

Training camp to today well like most rookies his first day of training camp you know his head was spinning um everything’s moving fast he’s trying to learn and catch up um and just you know once he has uh an understanding what we’re trying to do um game kind of slows

Down for him a little bit um so so that’s definitely different um but what we like about Leonard is just he’s Fearless you know he comes in he just plays makes basketball plays he’s just kind of hooping out there right now um but he’s got he can do a

Little bit of everything you know he can can playmake he can you can knock down enough shots um got a nose for the ball both ends of the floor um that’s what we loved about him in the draft and and we and it’s held true right now you know so

We just got to keep polishing him up and you know keep getting him getting better with his understanding and everything like that and kind of figure out who he is best but the the raw materials are certainly pretty intriguing a couple of years ago um you decided to diversify a little bit away

From the high wall because you needed more looks for the playoffs yeah um now I mean you’ve got enormous amount of looks is there a point where you need to start cing uh to kind of focus in on what you need for the playoffs or is it

Um I mean we’ve gone through so many different looks of The Season’s gone along I don’t feel like we have to kind of just force things into the game right now um just for the sake of working on them um but you know there are things we

Are continuing to brush up on when we do get those moments to practice uh but yeah I mean just being able to employ different things get confidence in that it’s huge right now so but not so much in the games just for the sake of it you know try to do what

The game says is finishing out the regular season that separate from preparing for the playoffs you think I mean you taking it one at a time or is it kind of now blending yeah I think uh for for us it’s all about you know playing in our best best Rhythm and just

You know we talked about what playing at home court means for us I think you know we got a c a couple games coming up here that are really meaningful I mean there are possible playoff opponents um those teams are fighting for their lives you know it’s going to

Be a great test for us so I think I think the more that we can go through those things all all the way to the end the better for us

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