LIVE: Pelicans vs. Suns Pregame w/ HC Willie Green 1/19/2024

LIVE: Pelicans vs. Suns Pregame w/ HC Willie Green 1/19/2024

Coach hey how are you good with Matt Ryan approaching returning have you given any thought to what that second line will look like from Beyond The Ark when you’ve got Hawk Trey and Matt Ryan all back um I I haven’t really given it thought but the one thing that we we all

Want is um for all of our guys to be to to be full strength and to be healthy as a team so been watching him work on the floor and he’s getting better and better and getting closer and closer so we’re all happy about that when you look at

The Suns team a lot of changes KD Beal how do you attack tonight where does it start on the defensive side for you um it just starts with you know the mindset number one um coming into the game you know being the more physical team um making sure that we’re getting stops

Getting contest heavy heavy contest on these guys um really good mid-range Shooters um so making sure we get the Grayson Allen he’s been shooting the cover off the ball lately and then finishing possessions all the things that we continue to talk about from a defensive perspective and we realize

That this is a talented team a talented Phoenix team and it’s starting to play better how is nurkic filled into what aton’s role was how their games compare and contrast I mean they both both really good rebounders um you know now in the NBA you hit you hit the the five man in

The middle of the floor and they become a facilitator and uh nurk just really good at you know moving the basketball 0 five making passes from the top diveing he can also go down to the to the box and finish in the post so definitely some similarities these these last 15

Games you guys have gone from like 20th and three-point percentage all the way up to third is there is there anything you see besides guys just getting hot um but behind I guess yall knocking the three down right now so consistently no it’s nothing that I feel

Is necessarily changed uh we just are willing to trust it and that’s the key for us trust getting into the paint um finishing or making good decisions when you get there which is if guys are open kick it out to them and we got to continue to trust him knock down um open

Threes part of uh Phoenix’s comeback in in Sacramento was Kevin Durant at the five is I mean I know you know his game really well that’s something you guys are you know maybe anticipating tonight of like Fenix could ghostball or anything like that I’m sure they they

They may go back to that lineup at work for him so we’ll see hey coach looking at Devin and just him becoming now more of a facilitator what do you think about that transition obviously you saw him sort of moving towards that with Chris getting some

Stuff from him but what do you see with him doing that now yeah you know I feel like he’s done it pretty much his whole career he’s had moments where he’s had to play not had to but just rightfully so you put him in a position where he

Can bring the ball up and he can facilitate he’s more than capable and he’s doing it more with this group um and then they can put the ball in Kevin’s hands and get him off the ball uh so I’ve seen him do both um like you said when there’s times when we didn’t

Have Chris we would put the ball in his hands a little bit more and he can facilitate and do things like that so definitely more than capable for sure all right thanks coach all right thank you

New Orleans Pelicans vs. Phoenix Suns pregame interview with head coach Willie Green ahead of the Pelicans’ game on Friday, Jan. 19 at 7:00 p.m. CT during the 2023-24 NBA season.
#NBA #Pelicans #neworleanspelicans

New Orleans Pelicans Roster
———————————————–
Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
Brandon Ingram #14 Forward
Herbert Jones #5 Forward
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

Subscribe to the New Orleans Pelicans YT Channel: https://bit.ly/PelicansSubscribe

Latest Pelicans News and Updates: https://www.nba.com/pelicans

Latest NBA News and Updates: https://www.nba.com/

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PelicansNBA/

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PelicansNBA

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pelicansnba/

Find us on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/pelicansnba

Get the App: http://apps.yinzcam.com/nba/nop