The Nets thought adding some silly-billy physicality would help them beat the Knicks.<\/p>\n
They were in for a rough one, seeing their losing skid against the New York team go up to 14 and counting.<\/p>\n
Ooooofff\u2026<\/p>\n
On being outcoached by Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez on Friday:<\/p>\n
\u201cJordi outcoached me. They outplayed us in a lot of areas. And we were just able to find a way to get a win.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On Brooklyn\u2019s physicality impacting the Knicks:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were extremely physical from the beginning of the game and it impacted us. Jordi Fernandez outcoached me, they outplayed us in a lot of areas. We were just able to find a way to get a win.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the lack of ball security against the Nets:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were real lackadaisical with the basketball. We had 13 turnovers at halftime\u2026. I know as of late, for the most part, we\u2019ve been pretty good in that area. We ended the game with 22. It\u2019s not a good ingredient to have when you\u2019re trying to get a road win, no matter who you\u2019re playing. If your approach is not what it is, and the other team feels it, anybody can get beat at any time at any level. I said before the game, Brooklyn went into Detroit and beat Detroit. We know we have to play better. I believe in our guys. I believe our guys will play better.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On handling pressure and putting on some physical defense:<\/p>\n
\u201cGive Brooklyn a lot of credit. I thought they came out and they were extremely physical throughout the whole game and it impacted us, starting with Jordi on down. Jordi out-coached me. They out-played us in a lot of areas, and we were just able to find a way to get a win. We have shown we\u2019ve been comfortable with physicality in the past. Tonight was just one of those nights we didn\u2019t do a good job handling their pressure. You\u2019ve just gotta go by someone if somebody\u2019s pressuring you cause they\u2019re probably not gonna call the foul. You\u2019ve just gotta go by them. You\u2019ve gotta make the right play and if you make the right play, after going by them a couple times, the pressure will loosen up. And then whether you\u2019re blitzed or hit, you just have to make sure you get off the ball timely. And then we had more 24 second shot clock violations tonight than the entire season. There were a lot of things that were unlike our group.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Cade Cunningham\u2019s collapsed lung:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe biggest thing is you wish him a speedy recovery. You don\u2019t want anybody hurt. I don\u2019t know enough about his injury, but it doesn\u2019t sound good. So I hope it really heals, however it\u2019s supposed to. I don\u2019t know what the timetable or all that stuff is, I just hope he gets better.\u201d<\/p>\n
On playing on Friday despite dealing with personal stuff:<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to play. My pops was adamant he wanted me to play. So I said I would. So I showed up just for the game to play. I\u2019m going to head right back out and go be with him again for the road to recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On not expecting easy matchup against Brooklyn or whoever:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re an NBA team, a really great team. They\u2019ve got young talent, a great coaching staff. There\u2019s no part of me that thought this was gonna be an easy game. We had to meet them and exceed the physicality. Obviously they brought it today. They wanted to win the game. Like I said, it was a team effort to win tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Brooklyn trying to fight New York:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey brought the fight to us. They came out; obviously, they wanted to prove a point. Our approach has to be better. We can\u2019t just look at their record and say, \u2018We\u2019ll whoop their ass.\u2019 We just got to be better altogether. Until we figure that part out, it\u2019s going to be a long rollercoaster.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On the need for respecting opponents regardless of record:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is probably the most physical they got with us. So you can\u2019t take their record and say, this is an easy one. They\u2019re grown-ass men just like us. They\u2019re in the NBA just like us. So our approach got to be better and more respectful.\u201d<\/p>\n
On responding to the Nets\u2019 physical play:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get physical back. That\u2019s how it\u2019s got to be. Got to stand on business about that. I\u2019m not going to speak on (the scuffle) right now. It is what it is. I\u2019m not talking about that s\u2013t. You got to stand on business.\u201d<\/p>\n
On a physical Nets mob:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve played them how many times this year? Three or four? This is probably the most physical they\u2019ve gotten with us. So we can\u2019t just take their record and say this is an easy one. They\u2019re grown-ass men just like us and in the NBA too, just like us. So our approach has to be better and more respectful. That\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n
On how to fix slow starts:<\/p>\n
\u201cJust got to come out better. Just got to be better as a team. It\u2019s mentally, I think. Just got to be mentally ready when the game starts.\u201d<\/p>\n
On wanting to beat the Knicks badly:<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted that s\u2013t so f\u2013king bad. Ever since we\u2019ve been here, it\u2019s like every game is an away game. Friday was just the night to really just stick it to everybody, man. As an organization, as a team, to show people that we got s\u2013t here, yo. Man, just a sea of blue, a sea of orange. Every game we play, it\u2019s a sea of the other team. And I saw it here when I was on the Celtics. But being here, it\u2019s like, I\u2019ve got nothing but respect for the real fans, the real Brooklyn fans. Shoutout to them, because I know it\u2019s tough being outnumbered every single game. But I really feel like what we have here isn\u2019t bulls\u2013t. We have pieces here. I\u2019ve seen it. That\u2019s what this \u2018rivalry\u2019 meant to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On Karl-Anthony Towns\u2019s softness:<\/p>\n
\u201cI played with KAT for two and a half years, man. I know him like this. He don\u2019t like physicality. I love KAT, but he don\u2019t like physicality. That\u2019s my boy, too, but I hope this angers him, too. But yeah, we were real connected on bringing that physicality to him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets thought adding some silly-billy physicality would help them beat the Knicks. They were in for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,920,909,46,296,248,7272,563,1260,1247,6,671,1136,191,2942,1222],"class_list":["post-671177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-bulls","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-celtics","tag-detroit","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-josh-minott","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-mikal-bridges","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-nets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-physicality","tag-play"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116268702534483541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}