Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame vs Brooklyn Nets | March 23, 2024

Toronto Raptors Media Availability | Postgame vs Brooklyn Nets | March 23, 2024

That moment like for you oh it was very exciting especially for me and my family um I feel like I prayed on the moment to happen like this and I’m I’m just so thankful um that this organization gave me a chance so and then today you know col fber Kobe

Is getting the 10day contract he SP go have this dog guy what was it like to see him get this chance you know and share this moment with him too um it um I was excited for him U when I found out the news yesterday so um for him to just

Come in and just continue to build play his game um I was just happy to see it have you been able to kind of uh take some positives from this top stretch for the team um we could just keep building honestly um I feel like the uh us

Younger guys out there could just keep building and working um with each other each and every day and by the time either uh end of next year or beginning of next year we’ll be fine what kind of message have you got from the coaching staff in terms of

Growing your game as a facilitating point guard like you know clearly you can get kind of get tropen you can score at all the levels but you know those some kind of the nuances playing point guard what’s what are they trying to get you to work on and impr proove um just

Relax out there um I know it’s fast-paced game out there but um just take my time and be able to get what I want so before the game asking quter in his absence turns out I guess he’s been being investigated by the league uh for a gambling

Issue um is there anything you know about that and when so when did you become aware of um became aware of that today pretty much like anybody else and um um caught me off the guard but uh at this point I really don’t have any

Comment on that the two games that he um pulled himself out of one was an iury and the other was illness did anything seem unusual to you in those instances uh no because uh for my perspective as a coach of the team I never uh doubt uh injuries I never doubt you

Know honesty from players obviously I never had situation like like this before and uh you know so I did not jicho did you have a conversation with the team after you found out that there was an investigation or or what did that look like uh I did not it really

Happened right before the game uh and the News broke out and we were focused on on basketball we were focused on a game tonight and I was trying to get our guys ready for the game tonight is this kind of distraction difficult like did people did your players seem

Upset I did not to talk to players so I do not know their reaction um I just don’t know I I just know that nobody wants those kind of uh situations to happen to anybody to any team and um we just got to deal with it have you Jamie Baker St made some

Comments a little while ago about how he’s had you know threats to himself because of people calling him I think tyes howbert made comments have you had any interaction with people kind of of that El has there been any impact of gambling on you in that respect uh no I

Never gambled in my life um I have 18 or 19 NBA Summer leagues uh with the different teams I never gambled one dollar in uh in Las Vegas so that’s definitely out of my zone of Interest or or knowledge but and I did not have any any contacts from anybody nobody has

Like you know threatened you or anything or come to you say why didn’t my player play more minutes because I needed the process never had those uh those situations I’m not using social media so I’m not checking any of that if somebody tried to reach out or anything but no I

Did not have that experience yet RJ and Emanuel were both on the bench tonight uh when do you expect them back uh they’re just uh now in a process of reconditioning and we’re going to take it uh day by day um and see you know as a group we’re

Going to evaluate when they’re going to be physically mentally ready to to join the team and play on the uh Lighter Side of things you guys set the franchise record for assists in a season I know it’s like 11 losses in a row but speaking to the overall of the offensive

System how do you feel that kind of endorses what you’ve been trying to teach and trying to coach all season um I think overall for for a season as a team uh we’re doing pretty good job of of moving the ball uh uh you know having

A lot of players a lot of different lineups out there I think it speaks uh a volume of commitment of our guys to try to play to to that style and I think it’s just like we talked about the other day planting the seeds and good seeds uh

For for the future of of our team I asked you before the game about Kobe how did you feel you fit in tonight um you know what uh joining a team uh after you know 71 game and you know new teammates and everything overall I thought that that he did uh

Well um during the course of the game I was trying to coach him on a spot to recognize some of the situations offensively and defensively I liked his initiative to pick up full court and you know to to play some aggressive defense and I thought in the half quarter he had

A couple of really good drives uh some of those finished with layups or assist some of those he had the potential to to make a little bit better decisions but all of that to be expected at this point thanks for watching the Toronto Raptors YouTube channel check out our latest

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Javon Freeman-Liberty and Head Coach Darko Rajakovic speak with the media following the Raptors’ 96-88 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Monday #Raptors #torontoraptors

00:00 – Javon Freeman-Liberty
01:21 – Darko Rajakovic