Kyrie Irving Talks Mavs Game 3 Loss & Luka Doncic Fouling Out vs. Celtics | Full Press Conference

Kyrie Irving Talks Mavs Game 3 Loss & Luka Doncic Fouling Out vs. Celtics | Full Press Conference

let’s go um eighth row on the left hi Kyrie uh joshb money ball.com um feels like Boston in this series is doing everything they can to take away Gafford Lively lobs and Washington corner 3es what do you feel like now three games in is is there is there a counter to that for you guys or or or how do you feel about that going forward in the series uh I mean they’re a good team they’re going to make adjustments they know how uh much of our offense uh over the you know this playoff run been predicated on getting easy looks for our bigs uh so they’ve been taking it away putting guards on the bigs and not really helping off them um a lot of one-on-one defense so just about us finishing and then hopefully that creates uh some space where we could throw the lob Dwayne on the right Dwayne price maps.com Kyrie when when Luca fouled out what was the M mindset of the team and also did you feel like at that time you had to take over the game I mean I don’t think I really had a choice um you know it was unfortunate that the foul was called um you know Luka picked up his fifth and sixth and I think in a matter of a 3 minute span or a two-minute span so it’s tough um but we still had to uh figure out a way to win the basketball game uh we put our best foot forward uh especially being down 21 um you know we easily could have packed up and folded um but we didn’t give up we kept playing and the guys that were out there we kept competing and we felt like we gave ourselves a chance to win uh down the stretch they obviously made some big plays some big shots so you got to give them credit um but we got to play the way we played uh you know being down 21 the whole entire game playing with that pace playing with that that Pride um you know that’s what’s got us here today um but when you’re going against good Juggernaut offensive team like Boston C going to make you pay for mistakes and you got to give them credit second row here on the left Steve uh Steve ashburner nba.com uh when Luca did fall out I mean you know what you have to do the building kind of sagged did you did you search your teammates faces and body language to make sure that they were up for you know what was left to this game yeah uh but it was a quick look I mean we’re in we’re in NBA Finals you know I’m not really thinking that I got to tell my guys that we still have a chance to win the game we’re only down by three points um but yeah I I think you know probably in that that stretch um I definitely could have done a better job of just uh settling them um you know for what’s coming you know Drew was picking me up full court they knew that they were going to pressure me um you know to get the ball out of my hands so I just tried to make the right plays and make sure guys were in the right spot and um you know have them understand that we still have a chance to win this basketball game um that that was all I was thinking not just even before Luca fou out just you know the way we started off the fourth quarter giving up those uh you know two baskets where it went up 21 um again we could have folded but we kept playing right here in the middle hey Kai in the middle Blake Elliott uh 1053 The Fan it’s been shared that uh teams going to go up three 0 no one’s come back from that what is Kyrie Irving’s mindset on staying positive within himself and then within the team to push this to a seven game series uh man I I just really think about going home and just uh you know this is a metaphor here so uh just be ready uh just go home get the ammo ready get the Bazooka get the 50 cal ready you know get everything ready cuz it’s you know when we come into game four we know that we got to shoot our gun we got to shoot our shots and we got to do it with an aggression and defensively we got to continue to do the things that um creates that separation for us um you know we’re playing against them they shoot a lot of tough threes they really rely on their three-point shot to create that separation for themselves offensively to play with a comfortability but um you know we just got to stay positive and you know for me personally again I’m just going home just you know dusting off the tools and just getting ready for a you know a tough game four fifth Row Third he done Kyrie Jake fiser with the yaho sports Luca’s dealing with a lot of injuries right now and has this massive offensive workload but what have you seen from his struggles defensively with how often Boston’s targeting him both on Ball and an off Ball action uh well it’s not the first time a team has tried to Target Luca on the defensive end um you know so for us we’ve just um trying to put a a great shell defense around um not only him but the rest of the team um you know it’s going to be a great defensive challenge for anybody to guard Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown and then you have uh you know other guys that are playing roles that um are pretty much you know great team roles that they fulfilled Drew holiday and Al Horford they’re great offensive players too but when you have those guys on the backside making decisions and playing high IQ they’re going to make you pay for your mistakes and then you got Derek white catching the ball you know by his waist or above his head and still shooting the threes and making timely threes um so again you got to give him credit but I think still we we have a belief that we can win one game at a time and um you know take this series a little bit further front row here on the right uh MC Engle for wor Star Telegram you guys had 15 assists do you think your ball movement was significantly better to get a higher number or are they just guarding you guys too well and taking away other opportunities off passes that’s a great question I I think when you see us out there um you know there are a lot of shots at The Rim that are contested by one person or two people uh I think at this point you know it’s more of a pride thing for us to go and finish and when we have a one-on-one match up we like we can take advantage of it uh so that could be part of their game plan where um you know while we’re out there I can hear them yelling certain things like don’t contested just just let them play one-on-one so there there’s a little bit of cat and mouse going on uh just seeing if we can finish our shots and um I feel like we’re getting Great Looks we just got to convert them Tim here in the middle Tim Koo from the athletic uh I wanted to ask you about Derek Lively um you know he talked about his games ones and and and two were were not uh you know he he felt you know he described himself as just not being his best you know overwhelmed by the moment um you know he’s a a 20-year-old who has played more minutes at his age than anybody in NBA finals history what you saw from him in game three the way that he rallied and and looked more comfortable close the game is that just another step of of maturity or another step that you know he has made in in this very impressive rookie season of his for sure for sure the journey is a reward and I’ve always told him that this mission is bigger than us um you know it’s not just solely focused on this year we we have a future together where we’re going to continue to grow as teammates and um for him to take accountability like that after game two to be 20 years old that’s a big step uh I definitely wasn’t there emotionally or mature wise so um he definitely deserves his flowers and um he rallied us tonight um came to the bench and just told us to keep believing and when you have the youngest one of the youngest guys on the team if not the youngest guy on the team speaking like that I mean you know it’s one of two choices we can either uh follow his lead and um you know continue to ride his energy or uh we fold up and I think that we made the the former choice and uh we kept playing and kept competing and uh it just wasn’t enough but I got to you know give a big shout out to di live for just keeping us uh at Bay and keeping us at peace man that that’s that was special that was special and those are moments that you remember forever and that you carry on as a teammate that can help you uh down the line to here on the right uh Kyrie to is AR with clutch points uh I’m just curious Midway through the third late in the third qut I think the shot distribution between you and Luca was like 20 a piece and the rest of the guys had like three each uh given how you know the count mouse that you talked about how they’re kind of playing you guys what are you seeing out there that that could be done differently um again given the way they’re defending you guys uh we just got to convert uh I feel like we’re getting a lot of shots that we like and when you have Luca going against pton Pritchard or D white in the post or somebody else in the post we feel really good about it um you know now isn’t the time to hold our head on you know not converting shots that we normally have made majority of this playoff run we just got to keep attacking and um nights like tonight you know you you can you kind of could expect that we were going to be very aggressive um you know we we want to win and uh our teammates want to win alongside us so for us we just got to convert and be more efficient and um you know see where it goes from there last question here Tim Tim MCM ispn obviously a frustrating night for Luca especially having to watch the last four plus minutes what what do you say to him tonight uh you just got to let it breathe a little bit um let the human emotions come out and you know just give him a hug That’s it man um you know it’s easy to uh point the finger at just him and say you know you could be better and that’s easy to say I think he knows that um but yeah it’s just reiterating that I got his back and we all have his back and you know it’s a tough game and it was a it was a tough call um we we could have probably you know done a little bit something different on this fifth foul uh just to give us a little bit more of a grace period to set our defense and get him on a matchup but um you know hindsight 2020 um but we just got to wash our hands with this and get ready for game four thanks Gary

Kyrie Irving’s full postgame press conference after the Mavericks loss to the Celtics in Game 3 of the 2024 NBA Finals.

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