Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Kidd Interview Before Game 4 vs. Boston Celtics – NBA Finals

Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Kidd Interview Before Game 4 vs. Boston Celtics – NBA Finals

coach you’ve got the microphones on each side of the room please raise your hand we’ll go right here in the front Tim on two third seat Tim KO with the athletic Jason um you you had talked after game two about Dante exom and and what you thought he brought to that game I was I was curious from his short stint in game three what you saw that that caused you to end up going away from him in the rotation yeah I thought um exm did great um we probably look back at it we could have probably got him in there a little bit more um but we went with the other guys we were looking for someone who was you know to be able to knock down a open shot we had good looks that just uh didn’t go down for us I thought exam’s Pace uh his ability to get the ball into the paint for those three minutes uh was good and so hopefully we can get them in the game in game four Joe here in the front Joe V in the athletic I guess expanding on that down as you are do you have to consider lineup changes in is there something personnel-wise you think you can do to change the momentum in the series well I think we played 11 yesterday so um everybody’s on Deck everybody has to be ready to play um no lineup changes um here today um but we’ll we’ll see what um tomorrow brings Ramona over here hi uh Ramona sh ESPN Jason you and I have talked all about how competitive Luca Don is and how how much he wants to be great A lot of times great players get to the finals especially their first one and the other team throws they they find a weakness they find whatever it is and they they try to expose that like LeBron and the Spurs or whatever it is um how how much do you tell Luca about that kind of Journey for a great player and the challenge he’s he’s facing ahead yeah yeah I think um you know the history is there for us to learn from you know when you look at great players um and the struggles um you look at MJ and the struggles that he had against Detroit um you look at you know some Magic Johnson struggles you look at um LeBron’s uh first time around and so it’s uh it’s there to learn from um but you know as the great ones they they use that um going into the next season or the next couple Seasons to try to get back there cuz now they understand um experience is a big thing um when you look at the Celtics um you know uh they lose to the Warriors two years ago um they lose to Miami in game seven um and so just experience of understanding that you’re not you know promised to get back that you got to work and you see the group that is out there today um you know they they know how to play they are a really good team and they put a lot of pressure on your defense uh you know transition rotations and so uh for great players um you you have to you have to fail um to understand you know how to be successful at the highest stage and this is the highest level uh is being in the finals Tim all the way in the back right Jason Tim Reynolds with the AP everyone knows what the numbers the the stats say the that your odds are nil to do this how do you block all that out how do you tell your guys just play tomorrow just just win a game tomorrow and see what happens how do you keep them in that mindset and not look at how daunting a three deficit looks on paper yeah I think uh you talk about playing game four that’s it um you know I thought yesterday we got off to a really good start um and hopefully we can do that again tomorrow it’s you look at the end of quarters the end of the first game two and also here in game uh three we we have to be better um and so um again just taking one position uh one possession at a time controlling what you can control your effort and energy and just uh winning the minutes when you’re out there and that’s all we talked about today and that’s what we’ll talk about tomorrow all the way in the center Sky Dixon with the AP Jason you’ve talked uh a lot since you’ve been here about just wanting Luca kind of engaged and active on defense did you see any slippage in that last night with a chance to look at it more or the Celtics just really good at attacking him and and what maybe needs to change a little bit on that front for him yeah yeah I think um you know you know I think Luc is doing in this playoff series when you talk about from the Clippers to to to uh today he’s uh his defense has improved um but when you look at um being involved in every pick and rle there’s going to be you know mistakes that take place that’s just the game of basketball um and we just got to limit those mistakes um you know but he is involved in every possession um and and that’s what the Celtics are very good at doing is making sure when they go hunting they they get the guy that they want and so for us we got to do a better job of protecting Luca Tim last question here before Luka comes up Tim mcmah ESPN uh did you guys do anything on the court today and then what was the emphasis of whatever work you did do it was just film um both offense and defense what you know the good things that we did and then also the things that we got to improve on thank you Jason thank you

Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd spoke to reporters before Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics.

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