Patrick Williams Postgame Interview | Memphis Grizzlies vs Chicago Bulls – 1.20.24
Pck is this kind of the formula you guys need to play with with with Zach out you had seven and doubles tonight over 30 assists is that what you kind of want to see from you guys moving forward um I mean yeah for sure I think it’s uh
Always you know next SC mentality and we kind of showed that tonight um you know getting stops downhill I think I think we’re really good when we do that you know whether he plays or not how does your mindset change if it all with with
Zach out and and you move it back in the certain lineup um I think for me it’s just being involved in a lot more actions you know what I mean I think naturally um the actions that he was involved in other guys you know are now a part of
You know whether it’s pick and roll or um Step Up or just getting downhill um so I think it kind of changes for me and you know Chang for everybody else and I think we’ve kind of shown that we can you know be effective in that in in that space
Too how do you explain the confidence that this team plays with theide um I mean I believe we have the same confidence with him you know what I mean but um for sure without him like I said it’s it’s always next next C mentality you know I mean trying to
Figure out how to win games without him you know what I mean um I think that that would be the case for anybody you know what I mean I think know when T Craig comes back it’s going to be the same you know with with him um and
Everybody wants to play 82 games you know what I mean that’s just the the competitive nature everybody but you know it doesn’t happen a lot of times you know what I mean so um it’s it’s up to the coaching staff and the rest of the team to figure out how to still be
Effective and you know win games with when when whoever’s out but when he was out for that stretch Z that stretch you know in December or so what what did you guys learn or did you guys you know what that you’re able to build on I guess
Confidence wise or just in general team wise that to kind of continue play well yeah you just you know find a way you just find a way um you got to find what works what doesn’t work every DT shut up man you got to find what works what
Doesn’t work um you know how like I say how to be effective you know what I mean the the the end goal is to win the game regardless of who’s playing you know what I mean who’s not playing you know what I mean that’s the job as a team
That’s the job as a player is to win games you know what I mean so you know we’re all trying to find a way to do that um and would love to have him here um can’t wait till till he gets back but we got to hold down the fort till till
That’s you know possible how does your ankle feel we won long as we keep winning I’ll be good how does your ankle feel long as we keep winning I’ll be good when it when it cures off are you getting treatment on a daily basis or
Th% I think uh you know during these you know January right before the allar breaks kind of the dog days of of the Season you know nobody feels 100% you know I mean you don’t feel 100% the entire season you know everybody’s kind of dealing with something um it’s all
About your routine and you know how how you approach it um and how you kind of handle it you know playing through it or um if you can’t play through it you know kind of voicing that making that known and and and you know doing what it takes
To to to be able to do your job what time in the Day do you know if you’ll be able to play that night like do you wake up saying yeah I’m good today or does it take treatment later in the day to figure it out um my mindset is always
You know to play you know I mean I just mentally um I I don’t think you can kind of go through the day 50/50 and then play 100% mentally you know what I mean so um throughout the day my mindset is always I’m playing and then if you know
If if if I go through you know shooting around and practicing I just don’t feel like I can do my job during the game then I’ll call it then but my mindset is always you know to play I think that’s my mindset waking up every morning going every practice every game so Patrick
Billy just explained to us that he took you out early in your first stand because he felt like you could have attacked close outs rotations better first what has your progression been do you feel like developing attacking close outs and rotations when the ball spa to
You um I think it’s all you know with reps um I think it’s it’s you know game reps I think definitely I felt it um so I didn’t even he didn’t have to tell me that you know what I mean I already knew what it was and you know a lot of my
Teammates were already on me about you know just shooting the ball they they were super heavy shift team they kind of gave up the threes and D you to shoot threes you know what I mean obviously naturally wanted your first shot to be layup you just get to your spots but
They were kind of Daring us to shoot threes that was a game plan um I think know just coming into the game um you know slowing down on those on those reason those closeup but it’s all with reps you know what I mean I think um you
Know just being involved more in those actions having those dialogues whether it’s him taking me out or um know guys getting on me just you know that’s I think development and learning is all about it’s not always going to be pretty you know what I mean but now I can go
Back and working you know how that felt during the game you I mean what what I felt during the game what I saw during the game go back and watch film on it I think that’s just the development piece
Pat talks about his mentality when Zach LaVine is out of the lineup.
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We lit …..”You know what I mean “