Herb Jones on Injury Status vs. Toronto | Pelicans-Raptors Shootaround 2/5/2024

Herb Jones on Injury Status vs. Toronto | Pelicans-Raptors Shootaround 2/5/2024

How are you uh just feeling physically you like do you feel like tonight you’ll be ready or do you still know or anything like that I’ll see once I get down to the arena I mean I Feel Good Just shoo around so once I get to the

Arena I’ll see I’m feeling awesome um what was your just your your reaction to to Brandon getting that block at the end of the San Antonio game and then Zion making that layup with three dudes all around him I mean those guys just you know doing what they do uh be he’s

Always playing hard you know competing on the defensive end and and Z just got out and transition you know kind of showed everybody what he’s been doing I mean how crazy was it like well not crazy but like when Bama got him at like the one minute Mark and then Z turned

Around G on the line and like you know one have a baring down behind him and he still floats it in I mean that’s just the crit to Z’s work um and that was just one play it didn’t deter anything in Z’s mind or our mind offensively um

He just went and attack and made the right play how much a good difference did Jose Alvarado make when he came into that game and mid third quarter and then ends up playing the rest of the way he was huge you know Jose’s been an energy spark um he’s going to compete

Defensively I and he’s going to be aggressive offense and that that’s only thing you can ask for from a basketball player you guys have done a lot of things well defensively you guys are six in um transition defense fast break points allowed what do you think of the

The job that you guys done in that area of the game I think it’s just about effort uh you know it’s a choice if guys want to Sprint back or not um and I think nine times out of 10 our guys we’re spraying back and trying to help

Each other defensively I think that’s why you know I guess we’re ranked so high in that aspect how important is that part of the game tonight uh I noticed Jon’s first in the league in Fast Break points scored yeah I mean it’s you know important every night

That’s a point of emphasis going into each game is trying to keep teams out of transition um so I think as long as we play hard you know like I said sprint back um and help him play for each other I think we’ll be okay Jose said that um

You know he won obviously he won Rising Stars MVP last year he said to Jordan and Dyson that he wants them to come back with the trophy um what do what did you think of um those guys just getting that award or getting that honor of

Being named to the game I mean like I said it’s just the work you know those guys are putting in is it’s kind of you know paying off in some ways um I wouldn’t go as far as telling them to go win the MVP uh like of course I love it

You know if they did but I just wanted them to go and experience you know have a good experience on on threes this year it’s really looked like you’re just you’re just getting them up super quick right now have you like worked on quickening the release or is it just

Like a I’m just feeling confident right now and getting them up kind of thing n i mean that’s kind of just my shot uh I’ve been you know working with Coach Fred um a ton and um that was just one of the things when guys started to

Close out to me I’m just getting a shot off quicker and I that I just been trusting in my work was there any part of the Rising Stars experience that you benefit benefited from or that you took away from or you just were just happy to

Play in and go from there I mean mine was kind of uh different I I once I played I I left super early that next day I didn’t really I didn’t stay around so I mean the game was fun but I didn’t stay around for the whole weekend do you

Feel like it’s kind of um those kind of All-Star games aren’t really um conducive to the way that you play like it seems like they they don’t really encourage defense and that kind of thing you know what I mean it’s more of like a offensive game I mean it’s a know

All-Star game for a reason they don’t I’m sure nobody’s coming to see me play defense um I think it’s been that way you know since the game started so I’m not really tripping about it but you hopefully those guys still go up with a the intent on competing but having fun

At the same time

New Orleans Pelicans forward Herbert Jones’ shootaround interview on Monday, Feb. 5 ahead of tonight’s game against the Toronto Raptors at 7 p.m. CT during the 2023-24 NBA season.
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New Orleans Pelicans Roster
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Jose Alvarado #15 Guard
Dyson Daniels #11 Guard
Jordan Hawkins #24 Guard
Brandon Ingram #14 Forward
Herbert Jones #5 Forward
E.J. Liddell #32 Forward
Naji Marshall #8 Forward
CJ McCollum #3 Guard
Trey Murphy III #25 Guard
Larry Nance Jr. #22 Forward
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl #50 Forward
Matt Ryan #37 Forward
Dereon Seabron #0 Guard
Jonas Valanciunas #17 Center
Zion Williamson #1 Forward
Cody Zeller #44 Forward-Center

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