Ime Udoka after Alperen Sengun suffered knee and ankle injury

Ime Udoka after Alperen Sengun suffered knee and ankle injury

Is it how do you leave the court a big win like that I guess got to feel good over it but then with that sort of hanging over yeah I mean you hate to see that especially that late in the game but um you know he was making a play

There to try to obviously get back and get a defensive stop um but doesn’t diminish the win in general I think it was one of our best road wins and he had a huge part in that obviously um and we’ll see what it is from there but you

Know hate to speculate or whatever it looked like he landed awkwardly with the ankle and he might have rolled it but um we’ll see what the x-rays say what did you think of jaylen’s performance tonight yeah it was great another one he’s stringing together a really good

Group of games um you know not just offensively but all around making some great passes some great uh reads out of the pick and roll and like I like I said when him and Fred can be the Dual handlers it opens everything up up for us and then defensively you know they

Got really two really good scores and fox and uh Monk and he did his part there you know Fox 7 for 21 across the board I think it was a little bit of everybody but he was on him quite a bit and did a great job on defense coach and

I did want to ask you you know um how you feel about you know the defense on Fox he had 16 points in the first half two points in the third quarter none in the fourth quarter where he uh normally does his damage how do you like your

Team defense on him alone yeah like I said it was multiple guys um you know you put Dylan on him you put Fred on him you put jayen at times you different looks and I’m in obviously is kind of a ball Hawk and then our bigs uh execution

Being up to the level with him was really good I think alrin and uh jock did a good job showing that crowd and making plays on him and um at times we went after him made him get out of his hands and um you know held him in check

So uh great job to everybody but you know it wasn’t just one guy I think a full team effort there it feels like jock has also strung together some really good games what does that say about his ability to wait for his opportunity and then really take

Advantage of it yeah he’s uh I mentioned his professionalism he’s always stayed ready uh you know a lot was due to injury and nothing that he did not do it was more so um you know we were playing with different lineups Jeff was playing really well we were switching a lot more

With the backup group and um you know with as with the case with Cam or whoever it may be guys get opportunities they always taking advantage of Aaron as well when our men was hurting so U Jeff went out for a minute there and and he’s taking advantage of that Ali had the

Foul trouble in the Phoenix games kind of opened up things there but love his energy and effort and um you know his approach was the main thing keeping his mindset prepared for when he got the right opportunity in general after that first six minutes how do you feel about

The defense and what it the impact it had on this game yeah it was good I think uh you know at times we kind of get caught up in offensively missing some shots and we had really good wide open looks uh I think four wide open threes they got out in transition I

Think they had nine in the first quarter and 15 for the game so we kind of got that in check their transition offense um but at times not letting our offense uh you know dictate how we’re going to play the rest of the game I think we got

Over that after the first quarter um saw that we were guarding well enough enough and only being down I think it was seven and a half time without or five might have been five uh without playing that well we felt good about our chances going the second half if we increased

Our physicality intensity and still took the right uh approach offensively coach I know we talked a little bit before the game um right now you’re four or five uh you won four your last five games and you know these last two on the on the

Road uh you got to be feeling good about you know your team I guess you could say that you’re playing really well what do you have to say about that and in their effort yeah I think we we had really good stretches we said that um coming

Into the game it felt like really good halves we wanted to put a whole one together and other than the first quarter I think we were you know put three together tonight and so um you know I don’t look at the Miss shots if you’re getting wide open looks you’re

Getting the right looks but our transition D wasn’t on point early and then we got back to it and so um you know like I said you take the Blazer second half the Clipper first half the Phoenix first half and second half in those two games and you’re playing

Really good stretch as a basketball but we want to be more consistent and get a whole four quarters and when we do do that we feel we’d be in a good place but um you know we still have played really good basketball at times and just want

To put a full game together and I know it’s been months apart you know since you last played this team though but uh was anything different you know that you know coming into this game that you know you want to uh uh put emphasis on it to

Make sure that come out with this win yeah Fox that was the main thing you know me that he didn’t play and so um they’re going to play the same style regardless but with him obviously leading that break and attacking there um you saw the games he had recently the

Big scoring numbers we know he’s uh him and sabonis said you know two-headed monster there and so without playing him those first two games we knew the pace was going to be increased and he’s a guy that can really get it going and carry him but I think that was

A a focal point and we did obviously a good job on him especially in the second half thank you thank you thank you thank you

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Ime Udoka talks to reporters after the Houston Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings on 3/10/2024. With less than a minute to go, Alperen Sengun suffered what appeared to be a serious ankle and knee injury. Jalen Green hit a clutch three with just over a minute to go to essentially ice the win.