KUMINGA on Lakers letting him shoot: “You do that, you gotta pay for it”, “always smiling”; KERR+TJD
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0:00 Jonathan Kuminga on his thumb injury: “I'd say mostly turnovers, take care of the ball. I wasn't really playing physical at the beginning. And I feel like in the fourth quarter we kind of elevate our pace. And that’s how we ended up getting this win but it was just those turnover early on. That's pretty much what killed us.”
0:42 on how much more confident he is in Year Three: “Some turnover, that they're gonna speak about it, and I'm trying to work on those things every day… every single day trying to be as much as I can be a sponge… I feel like that kind of helping me to kind of be well suited to it and be more comfortable on the floor and just playing every day. Coach always say, especially for young guys, I'm still a young guy, it's more about how many reps you get and throughout the summer, being in the Bay, getting more reps where everybody that used to come in that kind of helping me even watch the game and see the floor even way better. And kinda kept my pace to one speed instead of just being all over and not knowing what I'm supposed to be doing.
1:57 on being more confident with the 3 than last year: “I'm definitely confident. I remember last year, mostly people are used to doing the Lakers used to backup and let me shoot I mean, I was confident but I wasn't as much as I am this year because I feel like seeing somebody backup and when I shoot. It makes me overthink but lately it’s like you do that you gotta pay for it so and I'm still working on catch-and-shoot and just being more of a shooter because the way we play and it comes with space, so still working on my shot and being more confident being able to knock the shot, wide open shot.”
2:44 on playing with joy: “I mean, I'm always a happy person. It’s just a lot of things that people from the outside didn't really know about me. But if you ask pretty much a lot of people that be around me, they know I'm always smiling. I'm always a happy person. I mean, like I say, like I said before, we're human beings, sometimes I go through emotions and it's hard to control it because at the end of the day we’re human beings. But like I say, I'm always a happy person and I'm even working harder every single day to stay positive. No matter what the circumstances.”
3:37 on being frustrated not being able to translate it on the court: “It's never been about translating it on the court. I will say it's just I’ve been more mature. Just that maturity is different when you come to the league knowing that you are supposed to be playing and you're not playing and that's why — I'm still young, but that's what I've been trying to explain. People come into the league, that your moment gonna be there. It just a matter of being patient, a matter of time because a lot of people a lot of team, they're gonna test you. They're gonna see what you're about the first couple years and I'm still I'm still a bay like I'm still a young player. They're still trying to see how I’m gonna react to certain things. And like I grew up on being around basketball every single day, being around people. I'm learning every single day…”
5:34 Steve Kerr on the young guys pulling out a win
6:02 on JK’s improvement
6:45 on JK having more confidence in his 3s
7:23 on Chris Paul
9:42 on getting back to being a Top Ten defense
10:34 on Podziemski running the offense
11:03 on the off-court aspects of bonding with CP3
12:14 on Trayce Jackson-Davis
12:54 on why he went with Dario Saric to start the second half
13:13 Trayce Jackson-Davis on if he had a roller coaster of emotions for the up-and-down performance
14:19 on his matchup vs Anthony Davis for about a six-minute stretch
14:56 on if there’s any trick moves he can learn: “When I got back to the bench, Chris, Rudy and Dray were always giving me pointers on how to guard guys and what to do… I know Rudy was like, ‘You're not guarding AD right now, you're guarding a basketball player. And so get up into him and do these things. We know he is a great player. But at the end of the day, you got to treat him like a regular basketball player. You got to get up into him and do stuff like that. He said I was giving him too much respect in a respectful way.”
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