Pelicans head coach Willie Green and center Jonas Valanciunas spoke to media in their post-practice interviews on Nov. 16.
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00:00 tough but you know got to make sure you try to take care of yourself and cover
00:04 and get back. And I ask this a lot to players when they're sitting out, but what was it like for you
00:08 just kind of seeing things from a different perspective being away from
00:11 the court and just seeing you know what your team did? First of all it was hard
00:16 but the second part of it it was a fun game to watch. The defense was incredible
00:22 we forced a ton of deflections and steals got out in transition and scored
00:28 it's what we're capable of doing and maybe we don't score 45 points in
00:32 transition but we can definitely be better than probably the last five games
00:36 previous to the last Dallas game. So a lot of positives to take out of that
00:40 game and it was good to win on our home floor.
00:43 Well we played together you know as you can see you know I don't want to lie but it's like 33 assists or something like that.
00:51 Sharing the ball you know on offense you know just having some fun.
00:55 That was a big key then you know when you're having fun playing basketball
00:59 everything falls in place. Defense, helping each other, Herb did some amazing stuff.
01:05 All of us just enjoying basketball that's what we've been missing.
01:10 It was extremely encouraging having Dyson and Herb mixing up our defensive coverages on
01:15 Dallas. Something that we'll need to continue to monitor and do throughout
01:19 the course of the season but it was good to see us move the ball 30 plus
01:24 assists again so really solid night, solid performance on all of our guys
01:29 part and now we just want to continue to grow that momentum while we're at home.
01:34 I mean defensively it's unbelievable. As we say defense carries us to offense.
01:44 Getting the stop then fast break points comes in place. We got like
01:50 what 44 fast break points. It's unbelievable you know running everybody
01:54 running everybody running to their spots. Fun way to play basketball.
02:00 You're right Dyson is getting better and better. You all can see the step that
02:04 he's taken from last year to this season and his defense has always been good.
02:10 He's gotten even better. He's rebounding the ball and then I think offensively
02:14 he's finding his identity. He knows that he can attack the basket and he can go
02:18 up and finish and he's making open shots which helps.