Ime Udoka | Postgame Houston Rockets Vs Boston Celtics | 2023-2024 NBA Season

Ime Udoka | Postgame Houston Rockets Vs Boston Celtics | 2023-2024 NBA Season

Okay how much of tonight was just about running out of gas as the game went on because of yesterday’s performance I think a little bit but um we we’re trying some different coverages and things that we haven’t worked on a ton and um that can take some energy as

Well to to execute those and so um they shot it well in the first half and we were kind of in scramble mode a lot of times and so it’s going to take some extra energy but yeah you can say a little bit of that but um you

Didn’t love our competitiveness when we came out in third quarter you got to be better than that obviously down 10 or 12 at halftime still in Striking range and got pretty quick one there what allowed jayen to get call in the third quarter the way he did jayen um I think they

Just we we turned it over some they got out on the break and I think just like I said our lack of you know competitive competitiveness at times I said that to the group is like there can be schemes there can be coverages and things like

That and or you just got to guard and start with the competitiveness and effort and so so um us not getting matched up us turn the ball over a little bit and them get out and get some easy breaks but um I think we did a better job showing him bodies in the

First half and like I said it got ugly pretty quickly in third quarter how do you think Dylan looked his first game back it was good I’m happy with how he looked and it was good to knock the rust off and get ready for the rest of this

Road trip and um you know wanted to play him extending minutes a little bit even when it got out of hand and just to get just get him ready for the Philly and New York game what were those coverage tweaks that you talked about Just sh

More of a coral for Jason more bodies on Jason and Jaylen early um you know for just mixing and pops and rolls you can kind of rotate from there I think our rotations were really slow in the first half and like I said it take does take a

Lot more effort to do that and um but our rotations were slow behind it and allowed them to get some some early threes off the threes allowed have been trending up for a little while not to this degree but up is there something that you’re seeing that isn’t the way it

Was earlier or has led to this kind of change had no Dylan no tar so what do you do now you got one back but is that to fix it yeah I mean that’s a big part of it they’re two of our you know leite Defenders but in

General there has been some slippage I think with um us pursuing and getting over the top which we did excellent job of early and then Alin you know bringing him up to the level and he was really good at the start of season and dissipates a little by little so we had

To continue to when we can practice that and remind guys cuz you know young guys had to slip back into habits and so um the practice time is good the film sessions are good but we got to execute it when game time comes speaking of shingun in a bigger picture sense what

Did you know of him or think of him before you got to Houston what has he shown you over the first two or three months of the season I knew he’s a skilled big that um can do a lot of different things passing wise um scoring from different places initiating offense

Um got to learn a little bit more when I dug in to the process of interview process and watched him a lot more and so I’m extremely happy with how he’s been and like I said he had a big jump on the defensive end to start the season

But offensively he’s kind of what I thought he was and um I would say one of the Premier low post scores in the league and surprising with some of the things he can do in the amount of times he has in advantage on night toight basis so very happy with how he’s been

All year about some of the new elements on the like way they’re able to enance what they do on the other yeah I mean he fits into what they’re trying to do on the offensive end um you know he’s uh somewhat of a turn down there I mean

From the size perspective I think you can get to his body a little bit there and so um I think he’s trying to buy the defense and be an anchor there but um obviously fits into what they’re doing offensively and the spacing and shooting ability what was the experience like

Coaching against you be a former team you know so guys you know J and Jason just trying to slow that grp yeah I mean it’s it’s what I saw for a year anyway the way they you know are talented and can score and play um I didn’t love our

Physicality and understanding um that we made them a little bit too comfortable and a lot of those Walkin shots were just uncontested and so knowing that you want to try to break their Rhythm be a little more physical with them um I would love for people to guard them the

Way we guard them tonight when I was here glad are you glad this game over doesn’t matter to me at all matter and is there any advantage you face him again next Sunday will this use his motivation or will you do some mix some different things up yeah I think it will

Be some I know you know just having guys back um you know we’ll see about tar but even Dylan back and a little more uncomfortable in the Rhythm himself but um it was a tough one coming off the Detroit game playing guys 40 minutes you

Know we had to fight and scrap for that one and when you’re playing Fred and certain guys that many you know it’s going to be a little you’re going to be a little more tired um tonight so although we have them on the second night of a back Tob back as well when

They come to Houston um should be a little more freshh with with the days off leading into it you chasing the ball out of bounds he runs into you kind of gives you a hug was that like you was was on court kind of B you do talk on on

Court yeah no I say guys like I said it’s not my first time seeing them you know we we around each other everybody’s in LA in the summer and and like I mentioned the weddings and this and that but I was just catching him honestly more than a hug he’s strong guy you

Mentioned that there wasn’t time to put in the defensive adjustments you wanted you got another game in like 36 hours is it appropriate to have a schedule with a back toback followed by a day game I mean it’s tough obviously and everybody has to go through it they just went

Through it with the overtime game against Minnesota they had to go to Milwaukee so you know we had a lighter schedule with a lot of days off where we could get practice time in early in the season and now it’s kind of catching up

To us as far as you know three and four nights in the back Tob backs but um it is what it is everybody goes through it I think it kind of balances out and um for us it’s just getting a full day of rest 36 hours or whatever and kind of

Getting back on track um I think Fred and certain guys will feel better you know you know it it was a tough turnaround from yesterday and at times you think about wrestling guys and looking a big picture but very competitive group and they all want to play when you say a lack of

Competitiveness or a lack of physicality how do you address and kind of fix those things you know going forward going into the next game yeah it’s understanding personnel and game plan we we dig in heavily to personnel and and we say certain guys need space or want this

Rhythm and this and that and then we’re doing the opposite and falling under the three-point line on guys that shoot a lot of three-pointers you know lack of attention to detail this physicality that we need to have on a night toight basis which is what got us to where we

Were early in the season thanks coach thank you

Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka postgame interview after losing against the Boston Celtics 145-113.

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