Kevin Ollie on a tough loss

Kevin Ollie on a tough loss

THOUGHTS OF THE HEAD COACH. >> Meghan: KEVIN THIS GAME WAS A PHYSICAL AND INTENSE GAME. WHAT DID YOU SEE THAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE MAKER ESPECIALLY THERE IN THAT FOURTH QUARTER WHEN THE TIMBERWOLVES KIND OF PUT IT AWAY. >> THEY WAS MAKING SHOTS AND WE WASN’T, IT JUST COMES DOWN TO THAT SOMETIMES.

WE BEAT THEM ON THE BOARDS, WE WAS PHYSICAL THE WHOLE GAME, WE HUNTED. I THOUGHT WE DID A GREAT JOB COMING TOGETHER AS A TEAM. AND FACING ADVERSITY THROUGHOUT THE GAME. WE GOTTA MAKE SHOTS, 6 FOR 36 IS GOING TO BEAT YOU EVERY TIME. AND WE HAD GREAT LOOKS AND I

JUST TOLD THEM, KEEP BELIEVING. WE KEEP THOSE LOOKS OVER THIS PERIOD OF TIME, THESE NEXT GAMES, WE WILL WIN. WE JUST GOTTA UNDERSTAND THAT PROCESS. >> Meghan: WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THE MILE CONLEY THREE LATE IN THAT FOURTH QUARTER THAT CAUSED ALL OF THE FRICTION? >> YEAH, I UNDERSTAND WHERE

DENNIS IS GOING. IT’S LATE GAME. YOU KNOW, HE’S A VETERAN, SO I KNOW IF HE HAD TO DO IT OVER AGAIN HE WOULDN’T TAKE THAT SHOT. >> WHAT, HAVE YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO BEN OR DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE CLARITY ON HIS SITUATION? >> NO, JUST KNOW IT’S A KNEE

SITUATION, WE DON’T HAVE NO CLARITY ON IT YET. WE’LL GO BACK AND GET SOME TESTS AND MAKE SURE HE’S OKAY, I DON’T KNOW HIS AVAILABILITY FOR MONDAY. >> SO HE WILL GET IMAGING? >> YES, HE’LL DEFINITELY GET THAT. >> AND YOU SAID IT WAS KNEE; IT’S A KNEE ISSUE SNOW. >> YEAH.

IT’S A LEG ISSUE. >> OKAY. SECOND GAME OBVIOUSLY TRANSITION DEFENSE, THEY HAD 25 FAST BREAK POINTS. WHAT WAS THE ISSUE THIS TIME AS FAR AS TRYING TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, NOT BEING ABLE TO SLOW DOWN MINNESOTA IN TRANSSYNCHRONIZATION. >> YEAH, IT’S JUST US GETTING BACK, POINTING AND TALKING, GETTING IN FRONT OF THE

BASKETBALL, A LOT OF THAT STUFF HAPPENED IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. US MAKING SHOTS TOO. WHEN YOU MAKE SHOTS, THEY GOTTA TAKE THE BALL OUT, SO US MISSING A LOT OF THREES, LONG REBOUNDS, THEY GETTING IN AND PUSHING IT PUTS US IN A BAD POSITION, SO MAKING SHOTS ALLOWS THEM TO TAKE THE BALL

OUT AND WE GET TO BE ABLE TO SET UP OUR DEFENSE, SO THAT CAUSE AS LOT OF SITUATIONS. I THOUGHT WE HANDLED THE BALL, TOOK CARE OF THE BALL FROM THE TORONTO GAME TO NOW 11 TURNOVERS, BUT I THINK JUST THE MISSED SHOTS ALLOWING THEM TO GET OUT ON THE BREAK,

FUELED THE OFFENSIVE TRANSITION. >> AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE RANKED TEAM IN THE LEAGUE BUT SECOND GAME IN A ROW YOU GUYS STRUGGLED OFFENSIVELY. DO YOU SEE IT MORE AS GUYS STILL GETTING USED TO EACH OTHER WITH SETS, OR CONFUSION OVER PLAY? WHAT YOU TOO SEE THESE ISSUES

THE LAST TWO GAMES OFFENSIVELY OVERALL? >> IT’S JUST STILL, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER’S STRENGTHS, YOU KNOW, THE BALL, I JUST THOUGHT WE MISSED A LOT OF SHOTS TODAY. WE GOT SOME GOOD LOOKS. THE OFFENSE WAS GIVING US GREAT LOOKS. I MEAN C.J. MISSED A COUPLE OF THEM, PERFECT PLAYS, AND YOU

KNOW, PERFECT BALL MOVEMENT, PEEL AND PLAY, JUST WHAT WE WANT. SO WE JUST GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE THOSE SHOTS AND IT WILL TURN AROUND. I DON’T THINK THE EXECUTION WAS BAD AND WE GOT BETTER FROM THE TORONTO GAME F. YOU LOOK AT THE GAME IT WAS SOME WIDE-OPEN SHOTS THAT WAS

MISSED. >> NOT TO BEAD A DEAD HORSE, JUST MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND, SO BEN IS GOING BACK TO NEW YORK. HE’S NOT GOING TO BE ON THE REST OF THE TRIP? >> NO, HE’S NOT GOING BACK TO NEW YORK. >> OH, HE’S NOT. >> NO. NO. >> OKAY.

>> COULD I ASK FOR CLARITY, IS IT A LEG OR KNEE ISSUE, JUST TO BE SURE? LEG? OKAY, THANK YOU. >> MM H

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