Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 1.1.24

Giannis Antetokounmpo Postgame Press Conference | 1.1.24

Really good in the final 5 minutes of games this year I think with 547 left it’s tied at 101 and I think about two three minutes later they’re up nine um just what do you feel like kind of happen in the final five minutes from an offensive perspective uh offensive I

Don’t think it was bad I think okay yeah we turn we did turn the ball over one time if I remember well oh but it was like we couldn’t get a stop you know um okay uh TJ M you know went downhill went to the free throw line just some fatal

Was ped us up you know I was able to you know get what they want down the stretch and um we wasn’t uh didn’t that feel like it was a stop stops game wasn’t able to get stops and uh they were able to get them win what do you feel like that two-point

Guard look kind of did to you guys defensively like when they had both point guards in um you know you have guys that can make plays for themselves from ties coming off the picking Road shooting the tough twos with the floaters from um TJ you know nashing it

You know looking for passes or just going all the way and try to make something happen like just just tough it’s tough to guard you put up huge numbers against the Pacers this season but they’re three and one against y’all what is it about this team that’s

Giving yall as a team trouble do you think think I don’t know I don’t know if I knew we’ll fix it I don’t know we got to figure it out obviously play Fast move the ball real well they W shoot a lot of Threes today they shot 40% from 3o line

Not well but they still was able to win uh we got to do a better job sprinting back keeping guys in front of us rebounding the ball I think they had a lot of offensive rebounds but we we got to figure it out you know because you never know you

Might see them in the playoffs you might we going to see them again in two days so um at the end of day this makes us better makes us better you know we got to go watch the tapes figure out what they do well against us and try to stop

It and if we cannot stop it I probably lose again it’s hard to imagine that they won’t be confident heading into the game on Wednesday especially with them being at home how do you shake that confidence in their Arena that doesn’t matter basketball is basketball the same

Way we were confident coming in here wasn’t to get a win it’s same thing going to Indiana they might be at home they might be more C they might be more relaxed thinking that because they’re at home they’ll you know win easier or whatever the case might be but basketball is

Basketball sometimes like when you when the when you play play of basketball when you’re locked in the the crowd doesn’t really pay you know uh we don’t really pay too much attention to the to the crowd just focus on the things that we we can control the basketball court

So going to uh Indiana for sure it’s going to be tough they might feel more confident more comfortable playing at home uh we just got to go out there set the tone play good basketball don’t turn the ball over defending the best of our ability don’t allow them to go for a big

Runs and uh keep as much as we can guys in front of us you know and if we were able to do that maybe we have a chance to win I think 11 assists what um how how did you see them react to you in terms of maybe some

Earlier doubles and how do you think you’re able to handle that and and spread the ball around I feel like King I don’t remember posting up today I couldn’t you know they were double teaming so I knew that or whenever I drove the ball they were like well

Sucking in um so it’s opportunity for my teammates to you know be aggressive make shots and for me to make the right play to them um that’s pretty much it I wish I could a little bit more one-onone but I couldn’t but you I think you had nine

Assists like Midway through the third quarter and then in the fourth quarter there weren’t I think just one or two assists for you um Chris said he thought the spacing off of the doubles that they were giving you wasn’t quite as good in the fourth quarter did you kind of see

That as well uh I think that the ball wasn’t rotating as fast I’m not I’m not going to say the space wasn’t as good but I feel like whenever I kicked the ball it wasn’t like Swing Swing you know to get the open shot um it was almost

Then swing and they was able to kind of get back and keep the ball in front so you know when you double team and you have the advantage the ball got to move fast you got to get to the corner or you got to get to the 45 as fast as possible

So that guy can get open shot and if he if he doesn’t you know then you swing it right back and then I can play oneon-one but in this game I think the ball did not rotate as fast as we could you know bizley is supposed to shoot more threes

Pat supposed to shoot more threes Chris supposed to shoot M these I feel like usually in the past the first guy of the double team that you make the pass was the one that was getting the shot but now maybe Dame cannot be the first pass

Like he has to be the weak side you know he cannot be the feeder no more because we need Dame to get the shot we need chis to get the shot you know uh but we we’ll watch tap and we’ll we’ll see we’ll figure out is that what the other day

You were talking about you talked about the sport that like at a certain point it’s going you guys are going to get to a point where you don’t have to think like is that kind of what you’re talking about like um there’s times that we there’s times that we obviously you have

To think the game we cannot play the game without think about like our intins take over you know there games that have our istin have take over like the Cavs other stretch I think we played extremely well was able to get stops was able to make

Shots was able to get in pain like we played extremely world you know today we did and it’s okay um obviously it’s not okay to lose three times in a row not three times in a row three times from the same team uh but it’s good it’s it’s it’s a

Lesson man I I don’t think it’s bad because sometimes you go into the playoffs you’re like oh yeah there’s there’s no way a team can beat us four times at all but what day today Monday on Wednesday There’s a chance of a team beaten us four times in the regular

Season you know it’s it’s a lesson you know like you got to be more more aware more urgent play with more urgency you know take the ball take care of the ball down the stretch make a little bit more shots because yeah the teams out there they

Can beat us four times in a row so if you don’t play the the best basketball we can play they’ll they’ll beat us Tyrese I know averages 20 points per game but6 yeah so I know he scores so but it felt like tonight it was he he

Still set guys up and then it was late I think he had nine points in that stretch in the four where so what did you maybe see from him in particular that that allowed him to maybe Shake loose in that way or did you think maybe he was a little more

Aggressive looking for his own at in that that fourth quarter I’ll be very very honest with you I feel like um in the first uh half we did a good job on him on the switches um he wasn’t able to get down here like most of the points that he scored if you

Saw that there was lobs and there was with Brooke you know when Brooke was back he was able to come of the picking roll and shoot the pocket to or the pet the floater you know but was able to kind of like keep Brook away from him

And uh kind of pre rotate and you know whenever Brook was coming out then I’ll take him more maybe my leag took him or I I take him the 77 and I switch and then we did not allow him to get down here like in the

First half we did that very very well but um in the second half we didn’t I was in a weak side uh he was was able to play you know in a single Side by himself with Brooke and he was able to you know get to his

Uh his float and his shot and the end of days like it’s not Brook’s fault like Brook is doing his his job but like a guy like him what he likes to shoot is that is the three or that packet two or that floater you know so when you play

The difference that we play he kind of benefits him like he takes advantage of it I think down the stretch he took advantage of that um but I think well I’ll be honest with you early in the in the game we did a really good job on him

You know he was he was facilit like he was passing the ball he passed the ball credible but um he wasn’t as aggressive he made couple floaters but he wasn’t as as aggressive he had a lot of opportunities to be aggressive

Giannis Antetokounmpo speaks with media following Monday’s game.

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