Dallas Mavs’ Jason Kidd Postgame Interview vs Golden State Warriors: April 2, 2024

Dallas Mavs’ Jason Kidd Postgame Interview vs Golden State Warriors: April 2, 2024

Jason I thought uh when you guys got down by 13 in the second quarter you might be running out of gas but didn’t you guys like a 23-2 run where do you think you guys summoned that from yeah I think it’s in the past that could have

Easily been a a uh bigger lead at halftime where it could have been 20 down at half but it’s tied and we just felt we didn’t play well um we had some great looks on the offensive end um but I think it’s just the character of the

Group when you look at um this this road trip uh we’ve been down we haven’t played well um we’ve stayed together and we’ve understand that there’s two halves to the game and um again we get off to a good start in the third they make a run

Um but again that fourth quarter our defense kept us in the game we got some great looks um that you know we look at Luca and Kai and PJ we we had some great looks that just didn’t go down and that just happened sometimes but um the road

Trip um you were on it is long but we’re not going to use that as an excuse we we we truly believe we put ourselves in a position to win tonight’s game but we came up short how much did you guys uh Miss L tonight I noticed you didn’t get

A lot out of your backup center position yeah yeah anytime uh we miss Josh too I mean we miss uh di live and Josh uh but uh you suit up the guys that can play and and DP gave us uh eight good minutes um out there um looking at Maxi and Gaff

We just couldn’t take advantage of when they were small to get the you know offensive rebounds um and that’s something in the past that we’ve done but um give them credit they they played hard uh they they found a way to win um there’s a lot of good things that we can

Take from this game um being able to execute late um being able to you know execute late game plays offensively and defensively I thought Maxi had a heck of a block there um you know to the Trap and then we get an opportunity to score

So there’s a lot of good things um we’re sitting in a good seat um now we got to prepare um for Atlanta hey coach kind of building off what you just said uh you weren’t able to finish the job tonight but how confident are you in this group

Uh in finishing games particularly with Luka and Kyrie out there yeah we got you know our our two leaders got great looks if not they were making plays for other guys uh and PJ makes a big three there um at the top of the floor um just the

Trust that they have with one another on both ends offensively and defensively so there’s a lot of um you know positive things um there’s a lot of trust and chemistry is at a highlight right now so I I truly believe in this group um we’re going to learn from this and get

Better Jason welcome home first of all good to see you good to see you too given the playin and the cluster of teams that are 7 8 9 10 what’s the mindset let’s say that you try to instill in your players coming down the stretch because one win here or there

Can dramatically affect what your your playoff Situation’s going to be yeah I think it’s that’s a great question is you know taking one one game at a time we can only play what’s in front of us and and tonight was the Warriors and on the road um we put ourselves in a

Position to win uh they made plays we came up short and it’s just something that we can learn from but again our defense is is at a very high level we’ve been talking about that of late if we’re not making shots we got to be able to

Get stops and and tonight we did that uh we just couldn’t capitalize on the other end but it’s just taking one game at a time and and and learning from wins and losses and then going forward with the next game and that’s Atlanta that’s the only one we’re focused on we can’t score

Board watch we can only take care of what’s in front of us and we control what what we be seated at the end of uh seven more games what challenges did you see uh facing Draymond Green in short rolls especially in the fourth quarter yeah you know that’s uh something that

He has uh perfected um being able to play make out of the short role um and so uh being able to try to you know he he found a way to score and find and find guys and so whenever you put two on the ball with Steph uh you when

Draymond’s involved in a pick and roll um we just have to be a little bit better um we play those guys here shortly at the end of this week and so um we can see what we can do better to to make it tougher on him but he’s seen

Every defense that for see in every defense and so we just got to try to keep those guys off balance thanks

Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd spoke to reporters after the team’s loss against the Golden State Warriors on April 2, 2024, during postgame interviews.

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