Chris Finch on loss to Clippers: ‘We just didn’t make enough shots’

Chris Finch on loss to Clippers: ‘We just didn’t make enough shots’

Yeah man it’s extremely tough you know uh felt like we had some good looks couldn’t get him to go down it’s a tough game I mean neither team shoots over 40% from the field but um you know that’s on me I got to take a timeout get us

Organized and that uh whatever second to last possession that we had there so um but uh yeah it’s just U you know hard fought game just didn’t make enough shots and Leonard had all of their first points on the board and just really a lot of them tonight of course with 32

How difficult was he to contain this afterno well I mean shot 12 for 26 one for four from the three-point line we foued him a bunch he went eight times to the free throw line um you know I I I thought we did a pretty good job on him

Kind of let him get to his spots a little bit too easy in at one point in the game to start the second but you know um yeah I didn’t think that was necessarily the key to the game so Chris on that on that last possession that you

Guys had what what were you looking for there and how did you see that the one that you had after the time yes yes well we had a couple things going on we had the quick two if we wanted it I thought we had to Quick two I thought we had to

Catch and go quick two we had to pull you know pull behind and then you know we had some outlets for three um you know we knew we had another timeout so the quick two would have you know wouldn’t you know would have set us up there foul again and then Advance the

Ball so that’s uh that was ideal um you know so that’s that but that didn’t happen so we we got it too late in the clock so you you had a much better start today was it Powell that really kind of got them into things I mean yeah I mean

He was awesome he was great for them um he was huge uh we we had a hard time containing him he made all the shots he needed to make including the one at the end of the third we just could never get after they came back into the game we

Could never like control the game uh whether it be through rebounding um chop making or or or containing pal so and then from an offensive standpoint did you like the shots you were getting they just weren’t going or was it a was it just a rough like felt felt like we

Rushed them you know so but for the most part I thought they were okay shots you know on the the LA on ant’s last bucket is there a point where the two becomes too late to take yeah I mean I mean if you could get a quicker foul you know

Then but with 3 seconds left I mean if you’re going to play the play the you know the foul game you got to you got to try to take the quick two right away so just with with kind of how the the the game was played what made it maybe a

Little tough for some of your other guys to get going like Mike 0 for four Nas 0 for7 um didn’t get a I thought Nas had great looks I I don’t really you know I don’t know um what what that was until I go back and look at it again I didn’t

Think it was anything like that they particularly did from a tactical point of view um you know uh they switched the matchups a bit so they you know had a little bit more size on on Mike at times so um but yeah I don’t until I look at

It again I I can’t say that that was like the thing yeah when somebody like Kawai gets put on Ant and it makes it a little more hard for ant to create advantages and what I what where does the offense go from there where would

You like to see it go from well I thought you know I thought in the pick and roll we you know the kawhai was on them and they came up and they put two on the ball and we just we had a couple turnovers and late bad pass is that you

Know those things need to be on time on Target and then you can make the next play um you know obviously we we can we can go Rudy Mike we can go cat you know um we can go a lot of we can go several different places at that point in time

So Sita turning on days like today when the offensive glass such a huge thing turning those offensive rebounds into more Second Chance points than they seem to tonight for us yeah I mean just finishing I mean just like composure strength we got we get the ball and then

We just flop it back up there you know we just got to take our time you know or kick it out for an open three you know so Chris with uh Carl uh they they’re bringing the doubles on him it seemed like he was doing a good job of of

Getting off that I think he had eight assists in this game here is that kind of what you want to see is that awareness of the double yeah absolutely thought it was really really good for him you know made the simple play lot of more skip passes wide open shots so got

To keep doing it questions coach they took five points from nas one on the three that was kind of unusual he makes a three and then they come back and say no basket yeah I mean um that happens from time to time it’s it’s unfortunate but I

Guess he stepped out of bounds I don’t really know so they can re they can review that uh if you step out of bounds on a shot they can take it away um just like they can change it if you step on the three-point line but what’s

Interesting to me is that if you step out of bounds and they miss it in any other part of The Possession and you continue to score they don’t take those points away so you step out of bounds you step out of bounds should nullify the whole possession not just on the shot so

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Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch reacts after loss to Clippers.
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