Hornets vs Cavaliers: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability | 3/27/2024

Hornets vs Cavaliers: Coach Clifford Postgame Media Availability | 3/27/2024

You guys obviously got off to a good start especially offensively ball was moving and then uh probably assuming what you’re most pleased with there was the defense down the stretch I think he held him to two points maybe in the final 530 6 minutes um what did you kind of noticed most

About that stretch um you know what we get our defense set our pick and roll coverage was better and um we played right out of our base you know we got in trouble early trying to um you know we were trying to double team Garland and and

You know he just like he did the other night he’s so comfortable playing against the second Defender it kind of took us apart and you know the end of the game we did nothing special really we just played out of our base and the guys did a good

Job you spoke a little bit about BR for the game obviously all season but um 31 points S3 I think get the floer there with two minutes left to tie scorer I think then the three at the end too just what’s did do you about the way he play

No he made the big I mean he made he made big plays but he got going in the in the second half um and I think in the you know in the stretch where we able to play from ahead I think he had a stretch where he had like six out of eight

Points there too so um you know like another really good performance coach we don’t see many teams deploy two big man lups that much in the NBA can you talk about the I guess the problems or anes that can T yeah well I think it’s why their def

It’s one of the reasons why their defense is so good um and moob skilled enough you know so he’s not knocked down from three but you know he’s I think he’s like 32% so it’s not like you can disregard him out there you have to close to him

Um you know and it makes them balanced I mean so if they found ways to do it they’ve this is something they’ve developed if you remember a couple years ago they were playing a lot of Zone you know till they got comfortable and now as they’ve gotten older um they still

Have a Zone in but they’re playing more manto man and and they’re good at it I feel like those bigs are also great screamers having an extra big guy out there to scream for guys like Mar and Street run around talk about the coverers and kind of eliminate that the

Second 100% no no I mean that’s a big part of it and they do more you know Flash game where they cutting off The Bigs what you’re talking about I think they’re like top three in the league in how much they do it and their efficiency

Is good and that also leads to those dribble handoffs where you know like streu Merl those guys come off and they just pull and they made some of those in the first half did you notice I mean after what happened with these Cleveland were guys um a little more ready to play

Tonight just uh I mean I don’t yeah I don’t I mean not really now I mean like the other night once it happened it was no big deal um I think that you know Know they the fans were great obviously and um I think they helped the guys get going and they were obviously a big part of the defense in the fourth quarter so it’s you know we have a great fan base here and and it’d be great if we could

If we could play well here in these next seven games and finish the year at home strong good

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