Brandon Ingram on return from illness | Pelicans Bulls Postgame 2/25/24

Brandon Ingram on return from illness | Pelicans Bulls Postgame 2/25/24

How tough was it just to come back from that illness coming out all bre um a little wind a little wind so started off I started off good and U got a little fatigue in that second half a little bit I was trying to get my wind back but it

Was it was hitting me pretty hard and just having an execute out there you know with no CJ no dice no na no Jose you know ball handling un and Z had to do how much how tough was that on y’all tonight um it’s pretty tough I know they sent ball pressure the

Whole game they picked up pretty much 94 ft just to try to Tire us out a little bit when we got the half court and um they did did a good job of they try to make us play with a um 15 second shot clock or 13sec shot

Clock they just did a good job of having some uh for pressure would you say when you say you were fatigued did that probably lead to some of the mistakes that you probably normally wouldn’t make out there sure um but I don’t like to make excuses um just got to be better

Got to um you got to be um more decisive with the basketball passes got to be on Target and know got to direct the team better and just uh just just execution late in games will talked about you know free throws defensive rebounds and uh turnovers being something that’s been

Talked about all season how much do you see that being a consistent issue you know some of those late game situations where the game in close um it happened more I feel like it happened more early in the beginning of the season I feel like we’ve gotten

Better more consistent at the end of game trying to figure out how we can win um you know tonight was a different lineup and we just didn’t F away but uh we’ll continue to to look at it we know we know we’ll probably have some more

Guys out when we go to New York so we got to look at it and see how we can be better uh I know will we was talking about you know Miami and then this game those are games where it felt like you guys could win if you just make you know

Few plays down the stretch what will it take so this doesn’t kind of snowball as you you know you’ve got a couple of good teams coming up um what does it how do you kind of keep that from making sure that doesn’t you know go south just got to lock in

Um every player every player has to lock in and do their job we got to um Express the importance of everybody coming in and doing their job to the best of their ability and I think if if we come in and everybody does that then we will have a

Really really good chance to win um we know everybody wants to win in this roomes so we got to all do something um to make it happen and be what goes on in your mind when you see Z attack the rim consistently and he yet he only gets to

The free throw Lane like tonight just twice um you know there something that’s been happening for a while now um since I’ve been here and uh it’s crazy you know especially when you when you have um dear pulling up for mid-range jumpers and getting fouls and going to the rim

And getting fouls and and Z goes to the rim about 15 times a game he gets hit on the hit on his body he has to be um the bigger person because he’s bigger than everybody um and you know it it takes a word on him every I

Mean every time he goes down the lane he gets hit and um they don’t call it and he has to continue to try to um make the Reps make a decision uh it takes a word on him you think to to kind of change that that constantly you guys like have

To kind of put that out there like hey like may not be getting these calls like because I mean this is now like I mean it’s been all season pretty much where you know you’re seeing free throw disparities he’s not getting to the free throw line is that is that one way of

Trying to get extra calls or you have any solutions how to get him to the free throw line not sure we had one he’ll be there 10 times a game I guess we send these clips in to the to the referees uh we continue to try to express ourselves in their language um

And see if we can figure out a way to get them to see the same things that we see

New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram speaks to the media following the team’s game against the Chicago Bulls on Sunday, February 25, 2024.

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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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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
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

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