Kristaps Porzingis: I Wanna Be at My Best for Playoffs | Celtics vs Thunder Postgame

Kristaps Porzingis: I Wanna Be at My Best for Playoffs | Celtics vs Thunder Postgame

Um to be honest my legs are a little bit better um but uh mostly it’s just uh starting to like turn up a little bit more you know um understanding that we have like playoffs soon uh I want to be be you know at the best like best moment um for the

Playoffs and yeah just getting into that mindset and and uh and yeah finishing the regular season strong that’s that’s what I’m trying to do then when you first got here you were doing mostly deep drob coverage on pick and rolls and you’ve started to kind of pick up every type of

Coverage you’ve been switching even more lately at what point of the year did you start to feel like you kind of had the whole system down and felt comfortable doing everything uh of course the main thing we try to do is have me around the

Rim as much as possible but um you know there’s going to be different coverages for us as a team that we can go to we can you know switch and and and Joe has been putting me in those kind of situations to get more and more comfortable uh switching being up more

Different coverages on the go just so we can practice all kinds of stuff and we’re ready for all kinds of scenarios during the game um and and and that’s what it is mostly Chris ABS on that defensive point uh you and Al out there when you’re out there together what have

You learned about playing with him and what you guys are able to do together in the defensive end when you’re out there with him yeah oh Joe I mean Joe uh Al is uh one of the you know most experienced players that I’ve ever played with and

Even like in timeouts when he speaks up like everybody listens you know we he has so much experience and and um and and so much knowledge about the game on both ends uh he’s he’s very very valuable for us and and uh and yeah both of us playing together uh knowing that

Um no there’s somebody behind me or I’m behind him you know it’s also a a good thing good like thing to know while you’re out there and uh and I think we will we work well together you mentioned ramping up to the playoffs how how close to 100% physically do you feel after

Coming off the you know last injury there yeah yeah I’m getting there I still think I can you know be even better uh but uh but yeah I I I look forward to like have um have my engine going on all cylinders you know when when the playoffs

Come Chris tops uh this team has won 60 games uh your best record in the NBA clinch do you reflect a little bit on what that means to this group it’s it’s an achievement no we we worked hard all season long and I think we deserve this

Um it wasn’t a you know specific goal for us but as the year went on we just kept on doing our job job kept on working hard and winning games and and and we end up at this point and um and and I think we deserve it and um yeah

And it’s you know it’s it’s possibly going to matter uh um if if we follow through with the vision that we have for ourselves sort of sort of along those lines um a lot of times when we asked Joe about those things you know seating

All that he says you know takes care of itself but tonight he said you guys were aware and you wanted to treat tonight’s game like a clincher like a playoff Clincher what what would that look like to you and what was kind of the meaning of

That uh no yeah I mean you know we have to find like uh for each of these games know as as we’re heading towards like the end of the season to some sort of motivation you know and tonight was was the night where was like okay if we win

This game we’re we can achieve something you know and and uh and and yeah and Joe just uh um um you know kind of poked us a little bit and and you know got us going for the game knowing that that we can clinch it and um and yeah we

Went out there and and took care of business Chris dos Joe said that he viewed this as like a teaching point for how to attack switches uh what’s how do you go about attacking those matchups when they switch smaller forwards on to you yeah definitely I think I didn’t

Start the game off uh perfect uh I think I was allowing them to to go underneath a little bit those uh switches and then I have to fight a bit more to get a better uh position for the postup um and then talking to DJ at one of the

Timeouts he said to to to set it and and and set it at a better angle so I just make my life easier you know as I started doing that um it just you know created more Advantage for us either I was getting in in a lower position or

Even holding the guy on my back or as I was like kind of rolling and holding the guy on my back somebody else pulled in and we had a somebody open on the other side so those are small details that matter and and uh and I think uh Joe and

And the coaching staff and DJ um have been doing a great job and and they deserve some credit as I’ve said before um Al was explaining that you had that 257 run in the fourth quarter he was explaining like you guys wanted it you they they call the timeout and you

Sat down and you’re like no let’s go let’s let’s win these next few minutes he take us inside that like kind of mentality turning it up and it’s kind of something you’ve talked about recently but like do you just feel like when you guys all say okay we want this that

There’s kind of like nothing that another team can do yeah I know and and we want to feel that way you know we want to feel like in these moments when we turn up we want to feel like Invincible like nobody can mess with us

You know um and yeah we have we have that level that we can go to and uh we did it today again and uh and I think that’s something that um Joe has done a good job of like developing for us you know and kind of putting that in our in

Our minds and in our like tool boxes and uh and then opening it uh when we need I don’t know that’s that’s that’s you know that is uh that is crazy to him you know and that’s and all the coaching staff again you know they they’ve really

Done a great job and and uh and you can see the the result on the floor oh thank you

BOSTON — Kristaps Porzingis was instrumental in the Boston Celtics’ resounding 135-100 victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night, contributing 27 points, 12 rebounds, and five blocks. This win solidified the Celtics’ position as the team with the best regular-season record in the NBA, securing home-court advantage for the playoffs. Looking ahead, Porzingis commented on his performance and preparation for the postseason, stating, “It’s just starting to turn up a little bit more, understanding that we have like playoffs soon. I wanna be at the [my] best … for the playoffs.”

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