Ime Udoka | Postgame Houston Rockets Vs Indiana Pacers | 2023-2024 NBA Season

Ime Udoka | Postgame Houston Rockets Vs Indiana Pacers | 2023-2024 NBA Season

Coach it seems like Jones in the midst of a real struggle has there been any thought to potentially bring him off the bench get him going with the second unit or that no we had not thought about that am man got some pretty early run

Tonight a bit of a spark what led to those early minutes and what did you see out of him in those minutes well we want to look at some different combinations uh different guys some of the starters and um we like the we knew he was going

To be in with we knew their rotations and like the guys you know we want another Defender out there when H Burton’s in so just taking a look at some different lineups and it did look good second unit look really good coach what are some of the issues with the three-point

Defense our three-point defense tonight the same thing I heard of s Atlanta and San Antonio and or any other team that slips screens we don’t communicate stay we don’t stay lock locked in with our guy obviously if you don’t get hit with a screen you’re not switching and

So that could that non-communication and them slipping out led to wide open threes from there with scrambling and they’re a good team obviously moving the ball and they spread it out with Shooters obviously five is you know a very low number much fewer than usual

But in general do you feel like you need to get more threes out of this offense than you’ve been getting absolutely I think you like get around the 40 40 mark you know we’re I think we’re in the mid 30s or whatever we like to get probably

Six more at least um passed up a few tonight and then uh sometimes the game presents that to you they’re one of the better teams that get people off the three-point line and funneling them into to their bigs down there especially Turner and so what we did have some open looks obviously and

Wide open looks that we missed and you know it was a shock shocking at the point the way we played in the third quarter and the amount of Threes they hit that we were still in the game at that point to take the lead 117 115 just

Under two minutes to go and then go scoreless the rest of away just how did you feel about the offensive execution over those final two minutes it was okay I think we um when we went into Ali in the post um he has to bait a little bit

More be more aggressive there knowing they’re going to come after him and um we got to kick out three to to Jabari not a lot of movement off of that we wanted to slash somebody and get the rotations that we got the other three uh

I think to Aon out of it but just got to be more aggressive initially knowing they’re going to come after him and and just bait it instead of holding it there and get a little bit more moving so um what worked well for us last game going

Into in New Orleans like I said they came after him a little more aggressive and we did like a rotation behind it they the stun and stay in one place and pretty much got a contested three out of it on those Halbert and thre specifically with him did you think your

Guys were out up far enough on him and then on that last possession why the decision to double him on that yeah yeah the the three he got um I think Jabari we’d like to be a little more aggressive on that switch um one the play prior

Play alurn jumped up and you know we didn’t switching out there and they got the the pass down the lane to Turner I think javar is a little flat on the other one we want to be more aggressive with that red there the three hit and

Then went after them there to try to speed them up and um get them to shoot it earlier on the shot clock and our rotation behind it we got driven um you know if we get out get it out of his hands on that point um I think it was

Jan got driven by uh NIMH har there you know it’s kind of what we want to do make somebody else beat us and they made us pay surprised that there are still isues defensively it’s as good as it seems defensively yes it’s it’s I don’t think it’s basic um you know switching

In some things that certain teams do but but obviously the teams that slip out a lot have heard us this year and so yeah something we’ve gone over talked about new they were very similar to Atlanta and the fact that they switch or slip out of everything they probably set

Screens 10% of the time so um you know if you don’t get hit by a screen you don’t switch it and so we worked on that talked about it and to your point it still H us so it’s a little surprising because is uh I think other than San

Antonio might have been Denver somebody else hurt us with that there this year and we got to obviously be better in that regard any update on Dylan by the way no I with uh Jaylen do you think it’s more about him not being aggressive enough or not recognizing what defenses

Um are playing against him or is it just that he’s in a shooting slump that every player goes through I would say the um not the ladder not really the shooting SLP I I don’t know if he’s getting the best looks but second guess for sure you

Can see that um you don’t want to be aggressive initially but you have to be able to do both and I think it’s time struggling to read what they’re doing you know pass up some looks and you know Force some others and so um just kind of

Continue to improve in that area read the game and take what it gives you at times you know if if you have the open shot the first look you get is is a lot of times the best one and so um there something to grow into and get better at

But um teams are putting one of the better Defenders on them and paying attention to them and obviously with him playing that way if he was playing the other way we’ obviously wouldn’t struggle as much offensively and have to lean on other guys as much or play other

Guys minute so continue to keep him confident continue to you know improve in certain areas and he’ll take a step eventually thanks thanks Co thank

Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka postgame interview after losing against the Indiana Pacers 123-117.

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