Hornets vs Pistons: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability | 1/24/2024

Hornets vs Pistons: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability | 1/24/2024

All right coach if you can just kind of walk me through the final minute and a half you guys had I think a 106 103 lead and then where did you see things maybe break down in their favor High pick and roll defense bonovich hited three then

He created another three in the corner uh then he got all the way to the basket and scored a layup so we actually got decent shots we didn’t make them but High pick and roll defense you know you can’t you don’t want the ball handler shooting the screen of shooting or them

Getting a good shot off the first pass they got three in a row records clearly aside why is it always to battle with this team well listen they I mean you know they if you look at their scores they’re in every game every night now so I mean

That’s not surprising at all but closing out games that was something that obviously Terry roier was a big part and do you feel like you’re going to have to find a way to organize and manage the final few minutes of a game now without

Him well the big thing we have to do is tonight in the fourth quarter we stop moving the ball and for three quarters our ball mov was good we do not have an ISO team that’s what I just told them none of them uh you know we we are a pick and roll

Ball movement team when that’s happening we’re good if we want to stand out there and pound the ball’s going to be hard against anybody one positive note though Nick Richard’s first game back he had a career high how much do you feel like he’s been able to impact the game well

Big strong guy and you need that against a team like them thanks coach thanks fourth 20po game obviously he’s going to have more opportunity with Terry gone how do you feel he can take advantage of that I mean just continuing played the way he’s played I mean he’s been on a

Streak here lately um I think after he came back from that last injury they more energized playing like he did early in the year so I played well and I know Ashley mentioned this uh Nick Richard’s 21 Point career high how big is it for him to be back after being injured well

You need size in our league you know I mean we got to straighten out our pick and roll defense that was our biggest problem late in the game but it’s just good to have him back and you got to have size and physicality in this league

Where you have no shot thank you were you happy with the the looks lamelo is getting it looked like he had a lot of open he had a lot of open shots yeah he’s he’s still finding in his rhythm look he’s not missed a lot of time and

Can’t expect him to come back and play great right away he’s trying to find his rhythm get his conditioning to where it needs to be and uh he’s going to be nights like this until he gets there so it’s totally understandable

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