KLAY: “pretending I was playing the 2018 Rockets”; “extreme urgency”; KUMINGA: “take pride every day
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QUOTES/NOTES/TOPICS:
• Klay Thompson postgame on-court recap: “Trouble would be an understatement. It’s been a roller-coaster on the road… we responded well after a beat down in Memphis… the absence of Phil Pellecino… I’m just the messenger.”
• On the mentality going in: “I was pretending I was playing the 2018 Rockets… we all understood that going into the game… second half playing our brand of ball.”
• On the bench: “always has been a staple of our success and JK is one the best athletes in the road… Lamb.”
• On the playoff race and urgency: “Oh, extreme urgency… 82 games, it’s touch to be all of them… 9 of them left, use as a buffer (to playoffs).”
• Jonathan Kuminga on if he follows March Madness: “Ehhh, not really. I just end up in a room where they’re watching TV… never went to college so idk who and I don’t really got friends in college so idk. I just enjoy whoever’s playing… no I did not (fill out a bracket).”
• On how he’s doing mentally compared to a year ago: “My mental has been the same… same mental as every day, it’s just a matter of what comes in front of me… dealing with defensive stuff.”
• On what he’s improved this year: “Uhh, I would say just being more efficient. I think I’m getting better at everything every single day… just helping the team win.”
• On if he’s playoff-ready: “I’m always ready, that’s not a doubt. That’s my type of game, that’s when I go out there and take it to the next step.”
• On taking pride on defense: “Definitely, for sure. A lot of people don’t get to do what I do on the floor and it’s not like I’m perfect… having the team trust me, I take pride in that… defending against the best players.”
• On a defensive lineup with him, Gary, Donte, Andrew, Draymond: “Man, I have to work so hard on the back end. It’s not gonna be easy for any team to go out there and do what they like, play the way they like to play. It’s gonna be so hard because it’s like five defenders out there that can switch 1 through 5.”
• On where the team defense is right now especially with threes, such as Marcus Thompson writing that giving up 15 threes usually leads to a loss: “To me, we just gotta lock in even way more… we’re not fully locked in at the end. That’s pretty much what’s been the biggest thing this year… more focused on defending three-point shooters.”
• On if that means defending at the end of possessions: “Pretty much, yeah.”
• On the bobbling the ball and Draymond patting him on the back helping him mentally in the Grizzlies game: “Not just the coaches but the teammates got your back, I think that’s super-important and that’s why you got vets on the team… hype you up… if you do something wrong keep telling him don’t worry about it.”
• On where his confidence comes from: “I feel really lucky in my journey… where I come from. The stuff that I’ve been through, not anybody my age or growing up have been through a lot of things. And I won’t say it’s like bad things, just the struggle knowing what I need to do in my life at a very young age, living by myself at a very young age, not having my parents every single day. But I still behave as I’m educated every single day with my parents around, just if you look back at that, that gives you more confidence.”
• On what he does off-the-court: “a lot of times I just be home, hanging out with my dogs and some of my people and just playing 2K. And actually I got some of my little brothers at home with me so we just to kick and just chill. We haven’t had a lot of time together because I haven’t been around them around them that much. Just having them around me to help me focus more on being a big brother.”
• On playing 2K with five Kumingas:
“Nah… I just play with random teams.”
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