Chauncey Billups Postgame Interview | Portland Trail Blazers 105, San Antonio Spurs 118

Chauncey Billups Postgame Interview | Portland Trail Blazers 105, San Antonio Spurs 118

Chy you’ve kind of um you know you’ve talked about a bunch you because wait to scrap in some of these games you’ve done some sort of maybe motivating out here in front of us I’m sure you’ve done a bunch of it in the locker room how do

You keep having these nights where you don’t show up in the first 8 10 minutes yeah I mean shoot it was it was tough I mean I think the biggest thing I felt like we we were ready to scrap and you know ready to get off to a good

Start I thought the turnover was really just hurt us man it just hurt us uh to start the game I mean start the game you got to try to that’s when you’re trying to establish yourself you know on both sides of the ball and turnovers live

Ball turnovers you know we got off to I mean just a lousy start and um you know you get 14 points in the first I didn’t I didn’t know we’d make it to 10 you know it was so bad out there um and then

I was proud of us from that point on I was proud of us for fighting I mean there was a couple instances where we were very close to getting over the hump you know uh but I tell us our guys all the time we’re just we’re not good

Enough um to just get behind all the time we’re just not we’re not good enough right now to be able to do that and we try but it was it was uh it was unfortunate uh getting off to such a bad start man do you feel like it was it took you

Guys a little longer than you hoped for to adjust to Vic’s presence it seemed like a lot of guys were taking a step pulling up a step shorter than they normally do because they just weren’t used to that you know and I thought you know I wanted to obviously it’s

Everybody’s first time playing against him so there there’s an adjustment period you know and there was one time out in in the in the I think in early in the fourth quarter when I caught I said guys we have to understand it looks open

But it’s not we put our head down and we get to the basket and once we take off that it’s not open this kid is there every single time so you know it’s tough to see that you know when you in the you in the middle you trying to do your

Thing you looking at one or two guys in front this and he just appears you know um so you know uh I thought it took all of us like you said too long to adjust to it but shoot man that’s that’s the beauty of having somebody like that you

Know um you just never know where he’s at but just just know that he’s going to be right there you know um and I thought his his presence defensively um was incredible you know those seven blocks he had and so many other things that he just changed

Up you started scoot um numberous career high 25 points but a lot of that game after the game was kind of Out Of Reach how would you assess his performance I thought he struggled early I thought he struggled early but um you know one thing about scoo is he’s going to keep

He’s going to keep grinding the whole time you know he struggled a little bit early with his decision making but I also thought his fire and his fight are the things that kind of helped us and change the game for us in the second quarter so um you know that’s kind of

The gift and the curse with a young point guard right now is it it took him a little bit to to calm down but when he did he gave us everything everything we needed I mean we were really struggling to score and then he goes on a little

Run uh scoring for us so that’s just the you know that’s just the ABS and flows of it young point guard but I thought overall Sho he had a career high he kept attacking the whole time you know I thought overall he played a good game John bonji gets his first real minutes

After getting his debut the other night can you discuss the difference between not only how he played tonight but just how different he is from Summer League until now yeah he’s he’s growing I mean EO is really really growing in front of us um and this is what we envisioned for

Him you know having him as a two-way and then bringing him along um he’s he’s a he’s a BigTime shot blocker you know you’ve seen that tonight but not only that I mean he goes and gets nine rebounds he’s he’s he’s active he’s a live body you know um he tries his

Behind off so I was really really happy and proud uh of EO in this game today man it was that that’s what we’ve been envisioning for him what do you think being able to actually play in the G League this year has done for him a ton

A ton him being able to get those minutes in the G League um has been a big deal you know I always just believe that basketball most of it is confidence and you only get that from actually going out there and doing it and proving to yourself first and foremost that you

That you can do it and then when you do that you just there’s a confidence and a Swagger that you have to have at all times then you can start making Believers out of everybody else and I think with Ebu um him being able to go out there you know

Um and just prove it every single night in the G league if you will that you know he’s going to be he’s a human eraser out there you know um in that g league and then him coming T night and being able to go block a few shots I

Thought he had a huge block in that first half um on Zack Collins you know one of those plays that I’m sure Zach thought he had a layup and Ebu just kind of appeared you know um just big- time plays like that um and I think a game

Like this will even have his confidence even saring a lot higher all right

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