Doug Christie on becoming Sacramento Kings Summer League head coach
can’t wait to see what he comes up with for tomorrow hopefully it’s at least three and a half hours of interviews as it will be myself and Chris for L but he had a chance to sit down with Keon Ellis we’ll have that in about 10 minutes right now it is our good friend Doug Christie joining Jason Ross head coach Doug Christie I know you like the sound of that don’t you it’s it’s an interesting one uh just as long as you get the Doug Christie part right I’m good yeah so I’m watching you on Friday’s game not not the best game we don’t have to fully evaluate that game but as a player I watched you mistakes happen but you guys are I don’t know if you’re just Mark um you just move on to the next there’s stuff looks like it’s eating you a mistake as a CO how come you can’t get that as a like what’s the difference as a player as a coach for you um that’s an interesting if I made my sense there on that no you totally did it’s an interesting question because I think there’s um a level of responsibility as a coach that it might even not even be that might not even be the right way to say it might be I have to think on this one that’s a good question man because it does look like it wears on as opposed to okay you turn it over as a player like on to the next I’m I’m moving on I’ll say it this way I have to establish who I am and what I’m going to tolerate and that is unacceptable because that is mental and energy based and I’m not down with that now there are points and I told them I need to be better for you but when it comes to energy I can’t help you with that one you got to help yourself all the rest of it if you’re playing with the right energy and stuff so um the mistakes like 31 turnovers like you the cousins of the poor game you you’re not winning that one with 31 turnovers and some of them are like fast break off your foot like the and I will say this I’ll give the guys credit the balls that we played with were like these sticky almost rubber synthetic leather balls like I guess they made a mistake and CU our balls are leather okay so we’ll see hopefully they they switch that up so yeah listen No No Excuses uh we we have to be better um I have to be better for them and you know going forward make sure that they the way I want them to play they have to be well rested so we’re not g I’m not going to kill them it’s more mental practices right now and execution and high level understanding of what happens when you see this how about the challenge whether you had five players with you in California classic or here in Vegas or two split squads in 25 how’s that challenge for you when you’ve got just a lot of different people shuffling in and out yeah it’s it’s tough because there’s a lot of different voices um which now as a head coach I understand that that’s not a good thing um um I would say it’s a lot of shuffling around like I I don’t know if this was the first time that’s ever been done but it was it was it was a tough one you know and like if we had split into two teams and I just kept the team in Sacramento it probably would have been a lot easier because I hadn’t seen that team that showed up yesterday so I was really stunned like Memphis hit me as hard as they hit the guys so uh that is a that’s a big deal is like everything’s moving around it’s a lot of different voices you got one coach talking to him in San Francisco I’m talking to him in Sacramento then they leave and the team he had comes to me they played fantastic you know we didn’t that was their a team this is our second team and and they played at a really really high level for me so no complaints at all but getting them all back together and then continuing to implement stuff so you got all these different things and they’re not excuses and like I told them it’s like look guys the way you feel right now this is how an NBA player feels but the guy across from him is like the best player in the world figure it out right yeah so I’m thinking back to when you’re a Pepperdine when you’re in the NBA playing for adaman playing for all the different guys coaching now in the league as a had coached for a few games with Mike Brown to like whose voices do you hear when you’re in a practice when you’re in a huddle when you’re film session like Who Who Are You channeling um or is there one yeah uh it’s a weird combination it’s uh Pat Riley yman coochi wow that’s a good list that is no it’s it’s a great list but it’s also like polers in a lot of ways because there is a fiery side to me that is Pat Riley there’s a discipline side that is Pat Riley there’s a teaching side that is coachy and there is a continuity and togetherness that is Adam and try to bring all that together like I explained to them like what I’m saying and the way I’m coming across uh it’s it’s from love understand that and I I don’t want to um turn them off totally I have to figure out the fine line of using bullets at certain times to get a point across and at other times backing up and trying to let them learn on their own and that’s that’s the hard part because as a as a ex player there certain things that I see out there that I’m like I mean you know you that’s you know that should you should have that but not everybody does and you gota you got to understand that how much I mean for Kings fans they really want to see Devin Carter not out of your control out of his control how much does that hurt you just well want to see what he can do well if you tune in you see him I mean usually has a really nice hat on good hair uh good hair yeah yeah he’s in a sling right now uh you know but you want you’d love to have him oh my God man like he is um he’s I I I love my dogs and he is definitely one um yeah I I I don’t know when that’s going to be but from the standpoint that uh it’s good to have a player like that and you know that once he gets right he’s going to bring everything that he has uh yeah I’m with it I know you’re engrossed in this and you’re working every day on these guys but you know adding to Mar what you got coming back how excited are you for the upcoming year I am um you know a lot of times everything is on paper and I it takes me to our team like you know dick vital used to always say like oh with all airport team and all these right so like you would see us walking and you’d be like whatever yeah but then once we get the ball it’s like whoa hold on what happened and that’s what I want to see with us like looking at the names and everything is is one thing but when they hit the floor together what is the what is the the sacrifice and the continuity and all that stuff that’s the exciting part for me and I’m thinking there probably the exciting part part for Kings fans as well I know you’ve wanted to do this has it been what you wanted to do or what you thought coaching would be uh not sleeping uh stressing lots of coffee uh lots of that’s in your real house yeah it it is man like um I’m really having a good time I am I’m uh as much as you might see that is as much as I feel the pride to try to be the leader of men and send them out there um yeah this is um this is the the Pooky you can’t let the secret out that’s how hard you worked on the show nonstop endless hours video all that stuff you know oddly enough you did every from Radio um when I was doing pre and poost in my son’s closet to pre game to radio with you to it like I’ve just kind of taken the same approach every time is like over prepare and it makes me comfortable and if I don’t I feel like poop so I yeah I have to I have to do it it’s like uh I got the OC D daa AB DS ABCs all the alphabets yeah
Jason Ross sat down for an exclusive interview with Sacramento Kings legend Doug Christie, who is sitting in the head coach chair for the NBA Summer League.
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