Jordan Ott Postgame Media Availability | Phoenix Suns | 10-24-25

Jordan Ott Postgame Media Availability | Phoenix Suns | 10-24-25

got away from you. James Harden, Kawawaii getting going, but what did you see from the team? It was a little bit of everything there. I think even at the end of the first quarter, we struggled to score. I thought their defensive intensity picked up. Credit to Chris Dunn. comes in just reres havoc and then yeah as we just couldn’t get our footing in that second quarter as it progressed I think James got going at the end um sure when we go back and look it’ll be a little bit everything but definitely seemed to turn there towards the end of the first then the second um 38-23 in the second just couldn’t figure it out beauty of the NBA got another one tomorrow know crashing the boards has been an emphasis for this team the last two games. Ryan Dunn has combined for eight offensive rebounds. What are you seeing from his level of activity out there? Yeah, just his using his athleticism, you know, u finding other ways when shots aren’t falling just to give us other opportunities. Really thought in the first half that again that that helped us. Um I think we had 11 at halftime. I assume that they they talked about it fixed in the second half, but I thought in the first half we were able to kind of get us some second chance opportunities to keep the gap there pretty close um again until till probably midway through that second quarter when when James got going. But um yeah, we’ll need them all. Ryan Ryan different ways to impact the game his defensive ball pressure, his activity overall defensively and then offensively, you know, he can really help us by getting on the glass. Coach, when you look at, you know, when you give up 52 points in the paint and a team shoots 55% from three, it’s hard to win a game like that. Um, defensively, was it a matter of just them making shots or do you feel like there was some lapses defensively as far as either switching or not applying enough pressure? Yeah, when something like that happens, it’s a little bit of everything. Um, like I said, I think the parts of time like just their steals they did 12 steals, you know, that leads to to breakaway layups. That’s your paint points. Um, at times, you know, James gets downhill, puts a lot of point paint pressure on you. And then even Kawhai at times he’ll get in the lane two feet, just puts a lot of pressure on your defense. And um, you know, part of that was our offense. I think part of it was our offense, but again, go go look at it. Um, think we had some breakdowns, but I think just overall it was just where they were catching the ball. Then they were spraying it out and they shoot 55, that was 60 some percent for most of the game. Derek Jones had a great shooting night. Um, and obviously James did in that first half. Players have talked about, you know, you guys working on defending to the limit. There’s a limit. Okay, let’s get to that point. Do you feel like how would you assess that because the foul numbers show that maybe it went too far, but how would you assess that aspect of of the defense tonight? Yeah, this is a tough team, you know, tough team. They do get to the free throw line. Um, they have some guys that have done it their whole entire careers. Um, I remember a couple in that first half, especially, you know, Harden’s one 30 feet from the basket. He acts like he’s shooting it. So, those things are hard and we’ve, you know, we got to keep teaching, teaching better. Um, he’s one of the best to ever do it. And that was, I think, before he really got going. You know, when you put a guy like that to the free throw line, three of them go in, maybe that, you know, hurt comes back to bite you as that quarter progresses. So, yeah, we want to defend to the legal limit. Um, at times, obviously, those silly ones we want to take out. The last thing I had was, you know, Devin just getting 10 shots since I know he gets to the free throw line and people has not added into that number, but how can you get him more shots or what could you have maybe done differently more tonight to get him more shots? I think I’ve talked about it. It’s like every night’s a different defense, a different scheme. Um, you can see at times when he is in the paint, there’s so many guys around him and I I feel like we got some quality looks out of it. You know, he had seven assists. It felt like there’s some of those looks that could have gone in. He easily could have had double digit assist tonight. So, yeah, we’ll continue to look at it. We obviously want him to just be aggressive and then make the right play and he’ll continue to do it. Um, again, we’ll we’ll take a look, but it did feel like we got some good spray outs from that. We shoot 47 threes. Obviously, they were trying to protect the paint and give us something. So, yeah, we’ll we’ll continue to look. Coach, along those same lines, uh, with Devin, is it how important is it for him to have these reps getting multiple bodies early on to where, you know, it’s something you can work through early in the season? Yeah, exactly. I think, you know, it’s different. It’s slightly different than than his role has been. Um, and then they have length and they have multiple, you know, the starters and then the bench comes, Chris Dunn comes, he’s an elite defender. And seeing that with a seven foot center, both both centers are up there aggressive. Um, maybe at times we could hit the role and play through the role a little bit more just overall in general. Um, but yeah, it’s great reps. You know, I think every night every opponent we played the two different opponents in the preseason and now these two, they’ve had a different defense every single night. So, we’ll continue to look and see what we can do. I’m just also wondering about OSO. Um, what have you seen with him in that starting unit and obviously tonight had a tough test. One of the best bigs in the league he’s going against. Yeah, with also he just brings a unique piece to us. Um, he kind of connects us at times, helps us with some of that pressure offensively. His speed overall really helps us. Um, and pick and roll. He can be up and more aggressive at times. He can switch. I think overall he’s been pretty good. you know, he’s had a great lead up to camp into the preseason and now he’s getting these great reps against, you know, allstar really, really good centers. So, I think overall he’s been really, really good. Um, but yeah, you know, the points in the paint is is something that always with OSA we’re going to have to address and it’s got to be with bodies. The rebounding thing is always going to be something we address with them. So, I think overall he’s been good. We’ll keep looking. All right. So, hi coach is Raymond from Titan Sports. So, um I’ve seen like you had a great center dips, but like rookies like also also like veterans like Mark Williams. So, how are we going to see those rotations in the future? Do we see like Mark’s row in a team’s going to switch or what’s your expectation on Mark’s roles in the future? We’ve had we have great center depth. I’ve talked about it multiple times. I I felt this was the first night we struggled overall obviously, but with you know, it’s just a different size. We tried to move our five on to someone else um onto a guard a little bit tonight. I feel overall we we’re in a great position with our center depth. You know, you have guys that, you know, Nick’s the oldest and I think it’s his sixth year in the league. So, we have guys that um you know, are young that are growing, that are developing, and they all kind of bring their own unique um skill set. So, I think overall it’s been pretty good. I think tonight they got us a little bit, but again, tomorrow night’s another test for those guys, and it’ll be interesting to see how we can help them. Um and then just the lessons learned over time with those young guys. All right. So it’s like it’s and do you have like a starting centers for your team or it’s like the four of the guys are compet are compete like every night for their own chance to play in a starting lineup? Yeah. Also started the last two nights. He started the four in preseason. He’s our starter. I think we just have to see it progress. This is only the second game for Mark, you know, and Kaman’s 19 years old. So we’ll continue to evaluate. It is going to be fluid. It’s going to be fluid throughout the whole season. Thank you, coach. Thanks,

Jordan Ott speaks with media following the Phoenix Suns falling to the LA Clippers in the team’s first road game of the 2025 regular season.

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