Kevin Porter Jr. Postgame Media Availability | 12.01.25

Kevin Porter Jr. Postgame Media Availability | 12.01.25

I guess I’ll just start with uh you know we kind of saw you doubled over uh they said back spasm so I guess just kind of what happened or what did you feel in that kind of moment there? Um yeah, uh last game back I felt a little something in my um my lower back. Um but you know, I just thought it was soreness um coming back, but I think it’s just my body is still trying to, you know, ramp up um to tighten up on an offensive rebound at the end of the quarter or fourth about 5 minutes left. And um I tried to play through it a little bit, but then I tried it again on the offensive rebound and just caught it. So um I wasn’t able, you know, I wasn’t going to be able to to lead my team with how my body was. So, um, that was that. Yeah. Is that something you just need more information on in Milwaukee or how do you think that’s couple days will be? I was going to say I should be ready by, um, our next game, but, you know, I think it’s just, you know, ramping up, trying to get back to being in game shape and, um, you know, spasm happens. Uh, unfortunate of course with the with the loss, you know, I feel like if I was in there, you know, I could have helped or, you know, um, control the game a little bit, but yeah, it was unfortunate, especially the time that it happened. Um, I mean, up to that point, what was 9 to 12 or whatever it was up up to 30 points, it just felt like you were in a groove offensively at times. So, just did it feel you, other than the back, did you feel like you were back? You know what I mean? Where in terms of what you were able to do offensively, defensively? Um, yeah, I have uh I have high expectations for myself. Um, I work hard and uh I trust my work. So, um, I definitely felt like tonight I got my feet under me and um, I just got to get my whole body um, back to back to this pace and, you know, being able to tolerate a full game and um, not shut down on myself. Um, do it’s hard. You hit the two threes, you guys go up 16 and it looked like you guys kind of got it right. Um and then they go on at 2690 or something like that to tie it up. Just what stopped working in that sort of back half of the third there that got them reset the game basically? Um I think it was um playing the score um and the opponent you know we we know you know the record but at the end of the day it’s the NBA and um any given night anyone can have a night. So we had to come in here with the right mindset. I feel like we did the first um the first half and um you know we got it up there but once we did I think we um we got a little lax on offense and defense and um brought them we gave him some life and they they ran away after that. Um I know you haven’t been available for a lot of this but it’s a lot of the same sort of issues whether it be turnovers the other team outshoots you guys by a bunch. Um now that you’ve kind of experienced it here tonight and knowing what the team has gone through what do you think are some fixes there? Um or what could be a fix, I guess? Well, to to clean up guys shooting more possessions, we got to take care of the ball. We turn over the ball too much and um you know, we’re fouling, so we really don’t have, you know, transitions or are quick offense. We we kind of have to play in a set um most of the most of the night. So, I think just the 50/50, the effort plays, you know, um going on the ground, you know, offensive rebounding, we’re getting killed on the offensive rebound. um that’s how majority of the teams are getting more um possessions and then like I said fouling on the second chance like um those are where you know offense is created and we got to get better at that. So I think those are the two components really. Usually around 20 games teams start to kind of figure out who they are. Who do you think you guys are right now? Um I think we’re still um figuring out um we’ve been dealing with injuries um from the start literally. Um, so it was a little tough to to get our feel, but you know, I’m I’m making my I’m making, you know, my push to come back um and be healthy with the team. And I think, uh, we haven’t really seen what we can be with with a healthy team. So, I think that’s our main thing is trying to get everyone available. And, um, you know, the more we play, like you said, you know, we’ll start to see what gels and and what we need to subtract and what we need to, you know, stick with.

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