LOONEY: “we want to shoot a lot of 3s”; KERR: “not a team that gets layups or FTs…not in our DNA”
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01:09 I don't even think of the season in those terms. We just, we kind of take it week by week. And we've got Sacramento on Wednesday and we've gotta flush this one down the toilet and get ready for Sac. We've been very competitive all year and our guys have fought, but we've had a handful of these where we just get blown out and these are demoralizing. So, most important thing to me is for our guys to forget this one, have a day off tomorrow and then be ready to roll in Sacramento on Wednesday.
01:50 Steve, the last time you talked about confidence, you described it as a crisis of confidence. Do you see this as a continuing trend or do you view this game as a — ?
01:58 No, we're coming off of two wins where we played well and competed and — but the way the NBA works these days with so many people launching threes, I mean, we took 53 of them tonight, if you make a bunch of them, you're in great shape. And if you don't, the other team makes a bunch, you can be reeling quickly. The game has these huge swings and you're more vulnerable than ever, the way the game is played on nights like tonight when the ball doesn't go in, especially against the defending champs, a great team. So, it happens. And we just kind of, like I said, turn the page and get ready for the next one.
02:48 You talked about both teams launching threes like that. When they're not going, would you rather your team drive to the hoop more, maybe find some mid-range shots or is the three-pointer such a staple now that you want to keep shooting it?
02:59 I mean, the biggest thing for me is, I want good shots. I want rhythm shots. I didn't feel like the ball moved side to side very well in the second quarter and felt like we got stuck on one side of the floor. And so it's never about the number of threes we take, it's more of the quality of the offense. We're not a team that gets layups or free throws. It's just not in our DNA. And so we have to shoot a lot of threes and we will continue to do so. But, like, nights like tonight where they don't go, it's, yeah, it's a tough road.
03:41 You mentioned that you probably did more pick-and-rolls against the Wizards than you had all season. I might be wrong, but it didn't seem to be as much involvement in the pick-and-roll tonight. Was there — the way Boston was playing you or Boston's personnel, it just wasn't a pick and roll, maybe — ?
03:54 It's tough to run a lot of pick-and-roll against them because they have such a switchable lineup. So you get into ball screens, they switch, they've got size at every position and they're able to thwart that initial advantage that you can gain from running pick-and-roll. So you try to get the ball moving, you try to play with pace. I think we only had two fast break points for the whole night. And so we just couldn't get any pace or any rhythm to the game.
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