Kings Head Coach Mike Brown Praises His Team After Beating the Los Angeles Clippers.

Kings Head Coach Mike Brown Praises His Team After Beating the Los Angeles Clippers.

Uh man uh just a a great team win by our guys um you know we we talked about trying to get out in transition uh and running against them especially with them coming back from the East Coast uh we tried uh they did a pretty good job for for um you know

Coming back from the East Coast that’s how I feel I’d like to yawn too um but the neat part about it is we had seven fast break points they had zero uh so that was great uh we also talked about um uh trying to offensive rebound because we did a good job I

Think in our last game against him I think we had 21 Second Chance points and our guys were great we had 20 offensive rebounds uh domas was a Workhorse on the glass he had seven offensive rebounds I mean he had a 2020 game almost a triple double just unbel I think that’s his

70th uh double double uh on in a row right is it 70th in a row what is how many he got he got Do’s got so many damn records uh I can’t figure it out but he hell of a job by him um you know you even look at a

Guy like Keon Keon took one shot he was in foul trouble but but he plays uh 21 a little over 21 minutes he has seven rebounds you know you’re talking about your two guard getting seven rebounds and 21 22 minutes in a game uh he

Impacted the game so he was he was great um but you know I I thought our guys they they played you know we always say play together and and uh and I saw a post game comment by Kelvin talk by Kelvin Samson and he he was talking

About how his guys play for each other and I think that’s the better way to play better way to say it you know we want to play fast we want to play physical but we want to play for each other and uh there are a lot of

Different ways you can do that and and and you know one of them uh is the thing that I’m harping all all the time and spray the ball spray the ball spray the ball go from a good shot to a great shot and when we do that usually good things

Happen and you know we had 21 sprays tonight our goal is to get to 20 sprays we had 21 sprays tonight and just them H having to run around whether you make the shot or miss the shot them happen to be in rotations and run around I tell

You what that gives you an advantage a because it continues to wear them down but B it gives you an advantage on the offensive glass because they’re just running around closing out trying to talk trying to communicate now you can go eat that offensive glass up if you’re

Missing shots so uh the 21 sprays was was was just beautiful to watch um but at the end of the day I I thought our bench was absolutely fantastic um Davon was and he’s been really good for us you know we talk about trying to find the

Scoring that we’re missing with uh you know Kevin being out and with Malik being out and you know Davon he’s taken on a little bit more of the scoring load for us and playmaking load he’s been F fantastic on both ends of the floor uh

Trey man he just he plays so hard and he’s another big body and uh you know he could shoot the ball he space the floor but you know his 15 davon’s 14 how hard those guys play how impactful they are defensively uh but at the end of the day

Freaking Alex L man what a man he was tonight I mean the three blocks he played 12 minutes and he was a plus 18 and 12 minutes versus a very good Clipper team he impacted the game on both ends of the floor he just plays the

Right way he was he played a beautiful beautiful game of basketball uh in the short amount of time and you speaking about talking about seven rebounds he had seven rebounds in those 12 minutes so he was our DP uh fantastic game by him but uh more importantly I mean

Clipper team you hold him to 40% from the field and and 95 points just a big big big win for us tonight Mike what is what does this do these last two wins what do you feel it maybe does for not only their confidence or obviously a

Confident Bunch but maybe in your own confidence to realize that maybe you can pull your Maybe capable of maybe pulling this off a little bit you know we we’ve we’ve always been confident throughout the course of the year and you know we you just run into new things that you

Got to figure out you know and whether it’s the expectations the injuries however you want to call it there are going to be new challenges that are going to be in front of us and we have to just keep finding a way I mean had a big win up in Minnesota

Missing missing Fox you know um Malik stepped up and so again we have confidence in our guys our guys have confidence in each other obviously every win that you put together especially during this time in the year and versus quality opponents it continues to add to that belief because I’m I’m a huge

Believer in that uh that Mojo stuff you know and the stuff that you can’t chart or the stuff that doesn’t show up in analytics and so every win at this point vers these quality teams especially when we’re in the position we’re in continues to add to the belief but uh it was there

Um you know we just needed to figure out how you know how we want to play and I think after the allstar bre post Allstar break our guys made a commitment to each other trying to trying to get stops knowing that at the end of the day we’ll

Find a way to score most nights uh but the the shot may not always go in and so we give ourselves a chance to win we got to get stops and try to win The Possession game and and and and that’s really how we got a win versus quality

Team and we scored 109 points you know and and and you know before you know what I was afraid of was you know everybody kept saying we got to score 120 win we got to score 120 win no we don’t we don’t have to if we can get it

Done in The Possession game and if we can get it done defensively at least our capabilities and our guys are starting to show that now Mike you talked about the post All-Star break what are you seeing from Davon because it feels like a weight’s been lifted off of him and

He’s just playing basketball he’s not thinking so much out there no he he is playing basketball but also uh I’m giving him an opportunity so you know there there was a stretch there where uh you know Keon started playing well and so I was playing Keon in front of him

And then I throw Davon back in for a little bit then I pulled Davon back out and so as a young player if you’re not quite sure what your uh your your uh playing status is going to be from game to game sometimes it takes a little bit

Of time adjusting and you have to dig deep and look within to try to stay locked in no matter if you get two minutes zero minutes or 30 minutes and to his credit he’s done that and now we’ve been more consistent with his minutes and he’s got a better feel of

When he’s going in and when he’s coming out and all that and and then we’ve also given him a lot more freedom as time has gone on and and with that freedom he’s handled it the right way but he’s starting to show that uh or he’s starting to show that of what he’s

Capable of not just as an on ball Defender but as a shooter and as and as a scorer and he’s works really really really hard in off season uh on his offense a game and I’m just happy that it’s uh starting to show because it’s it

It needs to show at the right time and and right now is the right time and Mike going back to the bench a little bit sounds crazy to say with Malik not being there but this might have been one of the more most impactful bench performances of the Season I’m curious

Just in your experience the significance of a role that bench plays in developing and becoming a championship program it it plays a huge role um because during the playoffs anything can happen from injuries to whatever you want to call it and you know to to get guys to um be

Able to feel this type of game and and have some success or have some adversity and try to figure it out the next time around I can’t I can’t I can sit here and talk to him until I’m blowing the face about my experiences sometimes they just got to

Go through it and so to be able to get the production that we’re getting from the bench gives them the belief you know that we were talking about earlier that we all need to have especially some of these guys that haven’t played big minutes in a significant role in the

Playoffs and you know even our starters really haven’t because I don’t I I I don’t you know I think uh um uh HB is the only one that’s been past the first round that plays significant minutes for us that’s in a significant role you know

You know and and so to get minutes and have success from our bench guys like that again it just adds to the belief that you need to have uh going into the playoffs because you can have foul trouble you can have injuries crazy stuff has happened and you need guys to

Be comfortable not only as individuals to be able to step up but you need the their teammates need to feel comfortable uh with with anybody being out on the floor Mike Keegan dunk was that the wiggle you were talking about about last year look hey Keegan starting to get a

Little wiggle now it’s about time Keegan muray uh we don’t know I don’t know when the next time we’re going be able to talk to you before you go on this East Coast trip just how important is it to take care of business in New York in

Boston over the next couple of days yeah again whether we go east or we’re here these games matter every time we step out on the floor we have to be locked in and we have to try to get wins because there’s still a chance for us to move up

In the standings there’s still a lot of games left everybody is really really tight uh our guys know what’s going on I know what’s going on we know Dallas lost tonight um so we have to be able to take care of what we can and if we do that we

Just see what unfolds with the rest of the league coach like like you said a little earlier uh about Keegan last year you was always telling them to like go dunk on guys or whatever and now seems like every week he’s attempting or’s he’s dunking on somebody do you think he

Got the message and um is um is that a part of do that show some part some some part of his progression this season no for sure Keegan you know like I said last year Keegan was primarily a catch and shoot three-point shooter and this year he shown the ability uh to defend

At a high level to rebound uh at a high level um and to score from all three levels and you’re right you know last year when we when we talked to him about uh um going to the rim he didn’t need to fade and shoot a running hook or he he’s

So strong he’s a big man and uh he can play with some force and uh it’s starting to show and again we need that with with with uh Malik and Kevin out um we need him to step up and to score from all three levels and do it with some

Force because um you know anytime he goes to the rim he’s capable finisher while uh uh while getting fouled you know his next step now you know everybody’s jumping at every all he’s got to do is look at the rim and guys are flying when he drives he looks at

The Rim guys are flying and now he’s got to be able to have some gamesmanship within his game and if he gets a guy up in the air go right into his body to draw that foul because you got the guy out and finish at the same time he’s

Still kind of pump fakes and steps through and lets the defense off the hook uh but I he’s definitely heading in the right direction he’s made a ton of progress and it is much needed by our team right now uh Mike we know you know what kind of lift uh Trey gives this

Group and and how everybody feels about him is to lose Kevin and Malik but but then to have Trey and also Sasha come back at the same time is that kind of provided a little bit of a you know a spiritual lift for the the rest of the

Group yeah I mean you know you again I I give our guys credit against Dallas they they they fought um you know we didn’t we had some empty possessions down the stretch because uh you know we weren’t obviously expecting Malik to go down and and we were trying some some

Things that Malik has a pretty good feel for with fox out on the floor and um and then we had to Play HB and and Keegan extended minutes and you know having Trey gives us the ability to continue defending the way we like to defend against Dallas uh but giv HB a

Little bit more rest um throughout the course of the game and uh so again having those two bodies those two veteran bodies uh it just helps our overall depth and uh which is which is very very much needed and then it helps our spacing because both those guys can

Shoot the ball and and they know how to play uh uh basketball the right way U Mike um obviously you’ve talked aled a lot about like through the whole season that the Kings this group needs to find like different ways to win like if the shots not going down things like

That how gratifying is it to you to see a win like this obviously you know you shot I believe it was 28% from three but obviously you still beat a good Clipper team pretty handily so how gratifying for you after that’s been the message

All year is a win like this it it the thing I like about it is this is how you win in the playoffs um you don’t win in the playoffs averaging 25 points a game and thinking that’s how you’re going to win that’s Fool’s goal you just look back at

The teams in the past that were high-scoring teams fun to watch I enjoyed watching them during the regular season but they were out after the first round if they got lucky maybe the second round and you just look at the history of NBA champions I don’t think there are many

NBA champions that finished outside of the top 10 on the defense defensive side of the floor in the last 25 30 years there might be a couple because there are some exceptions from time to time um but you have to have a balanced team your offense has to be pretty good uh

But your defense has to be exceptional because when you get to that second third round I mean is uh is tough and that shot ain’t gonna always go in now you go from having media coverage of maybe 15 or 10 people you got 50 75 media members watching your every move

You got your family asking for you got all these expect it’s crazy and one thing you have control over is how hard and how physical you play defensively and if you believe that you’re going to have a chance and for me uh our group is heading in the

Direction that they need to head in order to have some success come playoff time it’s no guarantee but I I’d rather have more control on the defense I’d rather have more control for us knowing that we can defend and knowing that hey we got a pretty good chance of

Scoring I’d rather have it that way than oh man this shot better go in because it ain’t always GNA happen coach you may have just answered this question right there but both Trey and Davon when they came out they talked about the game plan and how well the team followed the game

Plan so as the coach what pleased you the most about the way the team followed the game plan and do players get any special considerations in practice if they publicly praise the game plan as they did this evening yeah fellas if y’all continue to

Say I’m a hell of a coach when you come up here I’ll give you a day off here and there every once in a while now you know what our group I tell you you know we played a lot of games we’ve been injured and so you know

Especially Fox and domas we put a lot on their shoulder which we’re supposed to and we’re going to continue doing that um a lot of games in a short amount of time guys are leaving it out on the floor so we haven’t had a lot of practice time and we’ve tried to

Prioritize rest uh over hey come in and execute this and do this better and that better and I give our guys a ton of credit because you know we’re doing it by watching film and walking through stuff and not doing a lot of I don’t think we’ had any physical contact now

Our low guys that don’t play we have a next group you know Kobe javel and those guys they they got to bang heads before practice starts so they can keep their Rhythm but our top 8 n guys they don’t do that at all and uh uh like uh um we

Didn’t have shoot around today we had a walkthr practice yesterday we didn’t have shoot around I don’t think the day before because we’re trying to prioritize like I said rest and so for our guys to be able to retain what we’re trying to explain to them and do and

Then they go execute it without actually going through it live or going through it semi live I I give them a lot of credit that’s that that’s the feel that they need to have because uh these games are coming quick and uh we’re going from east coast to West Coast West Coast to

East Coast and teams are still playing you know back in the day teams were resting you just love these last six seven games because you can experiment and R guys we can’t do that so I I applaud our team for uh retaining the information that we’re giving them on a

Night in Night Out basis coach two quick defensive ones for you what do you feel like worked well for you guys in pick and roll defense specifically with James and also the Clippers only 36% uh in the paint tonight what do you think was working there you know we we we always

Say play physical and I thought our guys did I thought uh our bigs were really really good at the point uh of the pick and roll you know reverse hard and they were uput the touch and they did a great job of mixing in some blitzes that were

Really aggressive with high hand hands and we put them on their heels and you know when you get blitzed Time After Time After Time where the coverages are changing it throws you off also you know that we took away the pocket James was really good at making that pocket pass

And then our weak side defense was was fantastic you know we we we our primary tag guy was great so when that big cut he couldn’t just go and dunk it all the time and and then we rotated out to Shooters so I thought our guys were just

On a string tonight uh starting with being really physical uh on the defense into the floor they were on a string uh always in the right spot when the ball moved everybody moved and everybody covered Andor protected uh uh each other and that was that was uh beautiful to

Watch and same when with the dribble drive when the dribble Drive happened or we broke down defensively somebody stepped up and played big at The Rim we sunk and we filled on the backside and then we just sprayed out and covered the three-point line as best as we could

They were you know shooting 54 55% from the three in the first half and I think they were 6 for 11 and and you know they they ended the game I was at five for for for 16 the rest of the way so we did

I give our guys credit they they did a heck of a job in both those areas thanks everyone thank you guys

Head Coach of the Sacramento Kings Mike Brown discusses the most key elements to the team’s win over the clippers right before the playoffs.

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