Mavs’ Jason Kidd Speaks After Loss vs. Timberwolves: Dec. 28, 2023

Mavs’ Jason Kidd Speaks After Loss vs. Timberwolves: Dec. 28, 2023

Be pleased with yeah um we we we’re never satisfied with losing but there are a lot of good things that we can take from this I thought the energy and effort guys competed uh the bench was really good tonight um but you look at what Hardy

Did for us starting um um you know just we put we slid Timmy back into his his role he was good for us tonight but I thought the group fought um we had some good looks there um and then when you hold a team to 20 points but we only

Score 19 and a fourth there’s just some Tire tired bodies and we just tried to keep rotating fresh parties in there and we just came up short you guys fell behind 37 or 19 18 call timeout shortly after that is there anything that was said that kind of pulled you guys

Together or what do you think happened from that point well I think it’s you know turnovers were hurting us we we need to get shot attempts and uh we just talked about that in the timeout uh I thought every three that they shot there in the first five or six minutes went in

And we needed to take them off the line but um I thought again we were moving without the ball we were setting screens um and sometimes that will take uh some of the um energy away from you on the defensive end but we had to move bodies

They wanted best def they’re the best defense in the league so we just had to you know move without the ball and set screens I thought the group did a really good job um you know doing that and hopefully that’ll be a carryover to Saturday what do you see from Tim as far

As it just seemed like he was taking good shots not forcing anything yeah yeah I thought you know coming off the bench um you know he’s back into uh his role um you know I thought again uh playing out of the uh the dhos and and

Being able to get you know the split game going um I thought the group did a really good job of setting screens for him and then I thought he did a really good job of uh reading the defense being able to pull up or race the uh big for a

Layup um again DP setting screens I thought DP was great you know not just the 12 points but the 14 rebounds but I thought Timmy was that again as I started off I thought the bench did a really good job we talked before the game about likely and you know you

Mentioned can’t get S fouls got his fourth or committed into the fourth into the second half it was a loose ball which you call that a just bad luck bad luck yeah I mean that’s just bad luck that you know he picked up his uh fourth there but you know the big

Thing is uh again uh he’s a rookie um he didn’t maybe have his best game tonight but it’s going to happen um but I thought his effort and energy and mindset was in the right place tonight it’s just unfortunate that he he got in foul trouble what was the big biggest

Difference you saw in Jaden from this start from the last one in Houston he looked a lot more comfortable yeah I think uh one we kind of played him off the ball in the sense of having Curry handle and and kind of had him in his natural position um and so he was

Comfortable he was aggressive he was making plays um but again uh being able to you know tell him to look to score but I thought he also made some great plays for his teammates and uh again um playing 30 minutes after not playing last night um he was a positive and so

Uh again we you know we needed that tonight and and and hopefully we can get him in the game on Saturday obviously it’s hard to contain a great player in multiple games and it works 44 tonight you guys were effective last game in guarding him what was

Working for him tonight that may not have worked yeah I think uh one he had a bad bad game so I think he was going to make sure that he didn’t have two against us he was aggressive uh from the start um and so he’s a great player um we talked

About that before the game um shooting the three getting to the free throw line um when you you shoot 18 free throws that’s going to help you get to 40 um so he was aggressive tonight you got to give him credit than

Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd spoke to reporters about the 118-110 loss against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

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