Steve Clifford: Celtics Have 3 of the Premier Defenders in the NBA | Hornets Postgame

Steve Clifford: Celtics Have 3 of the Premier Defenders in the NBA | Hornets Postgame

Talent especially the offensive side B had it was going to be tough to kind of uh keep track of everything was there anything in particular that stood out that you guys had particularly tough time yeah we didn’t I mean I thought the biggest thing we didn’t get our defense

Set the whole game so the you know the fast break points are totally misleading you know they only had seven they had us on our heels for so many possessions because we just didn’t get ahead of the ball and get our defense set which to me

Watching them play you have to do so you know they’re like maybe 10th in Fast Break points but they get the ball up the floor and into things quickly and those were our worst possessions tonight had a good first quarter but with a team like Boston how hard is it to kind of

Have a complete Game full 48e game against a team that t yeah you can’t you just can’t get possessions away and and even then when we you know when we went to the bench there with like three minutes left in the third quarter I think it was eight and then uh you know

We just you know blone set and blown coverages there we had like three minutes of just totally disorganized NBA basketball which never works when you have a player like Jason Tatum um a lot of times we found Trey man on him and I know that’s like not

The ideal situation but when it comes to pick and roll situations what is your ideal coverage for a guy like T well Trey man was only on him because they forced the switch so he never guarded him so there’s no yeah so uh there what

We were doing is going back to get Trey off them you know um so you know it’s it’s different with Jason where it was on the floor we mixed up coverages the whole game but that what you’re talking about is not a coverage that’s a mismatch that created by a coverage and

Then we played our way out of it goings it’s a huge part yeah I mean although I’m going to be honest it’s not nearly as big a part of the league as it used to be yeah yeah with Boston with how the defensive versatility how what

Do you do on offense what’s kind of your game you can’t really isolate any yeah they don’t I mean no they you know I mean listen they have you you know three of the Premier perimeter defenders in the NBA and there’s you know I mean Jaylen Brown

Didn’t play tonight but I think Drew holidays as good as it gets Derk White’s an all Allstar Cal I mean all Defender caliber um as is Jaylen so there’s not a way a lot of ways to go and their bigs are versatile um and they too they have

The ability you know when Al Horford’s at the five for instance you can switch one through five a lot of times Steve you talking about mismatch hent no I would say it’s just because we’re more freewheeling I mean this used to be the NBA used to be a matchup

League I mean when I first got again I’m going to show my age in the old rules every possession was a matchup you know if you had a good M you went to it and your whole offense was built on ways to get to that now everybody does the same

We have three or four you can use a pick and roll get the matchup you want and play from there so I’m not saying the playoffs are much more matchup driven um than the regular season is but what the mat you know what it does obviously is

Like a switch like that it slows down flow and everybody’s so concerned about Tempo and flow that a lot of times they’ll play through mismatches whereas before again it was a total matchup league coach we talk about having Grant at the five obviously we’ had some success there this season on defense but

Just what you saw from him tonight oh he you know except for the early fouls I mean he played great um both ends of the floor I mean we’ve been with him at the five in our defense we’re playing these teams right now and you know our defense went down a lot

After Cody and Seth got hurt right when they were there I think we were like fourth in defense after the trade but he was a huge part of it playing at the five even though he’s under siiz because of his physicality his talk his intelligence

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