Willie Green and Jordan Hawkins At Sunday's Practice Following Hawks Game.
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00:00 Well, to begin with, we have to do better at getting stops.
00:07 And that starts with a sense of urgency coming out of halftime.
00:11 Two games that we lost, Golden State and Atlanta, they had big third quarters against us.
00:19 Rebounding for sure is a mindset.
00:20 So even when we did get stops, they got offensive rebounds, got second chance points, and then
00:26 it deflated us offensively.
00:27 We didn't go down and run our offense with enough force and pace, and we didn't have
00:32 enough possessions.
00:33 So a combination of all those things kind of happened in the third quarter, and we watched
00:38 it today, and we know that's an area we can improve.
00:40 It means a lot.
00:41 It means they trust me.
00:42 It means I've been doing the right thing.
00:43 I got to continue doing the right thing, like the little things like rebounding, all the
00:48 defensive stuff.
00:49 I mean, the offensive game will always come.
00:51 I'm not really worried about offense, because that's what I do.
00:55 All the little stuff and stuff I need to work on, so I'm worried about all that stuff.
01:00 It's difficult.
01:01 It's difficult to keep up when you're not winning a possession battle.
01:03 They're getting more threes.
01:04 They're getting to the free throw line.
01:06 They're getting offensive rebounds.
01:07 They're getting more possessions to score.
01:11 And that's where the sense of urgency for us has to go up.
01:15 When it does, we have a chance to win those games.
01:18 When it doesn't, it's really difficult in the NBA when you don't win the possession
01:22 game.
01:23 >> I know you've seen some of the up and downs and the up and looks, but what's it like now
01:25 just seeing that in real time against opponents?
01:27 >> It's crazy.
01:28 You see on the film, they literally just put five guys in the paint.
01:32 That's how they want to guard us.
01:33 I mean, that's great.
01:34 I have open shots.
01:35 Matt has open shots.
01:36 CJ will get some open shots.
01:37 We're knockdown shooters, and we've got to knock it down for them.
01:38 Once we start knocking it down, they've got to stop doing that.
01:39 You can just do what you do.
01:40 >> You guys have a lot of guys that are going to be in the game.
01:41 You guys have a lot of guys that are going to be in the game.
01:42 You guys have a lot of guys that are going to be in the game.
01:43 As you can just do what you do.