Latest / The Stop and Pop / Jordan Poole, Corey Kispert and Coach Keefe Postgame 11/27/24
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- 0:00SPEAKER_01: 24% from three.
- 0:02SPEAKER_01: What is your team?
- 0:03SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 0:03SPEAKER_01: So what is your mentality as a shooter when the shots are not falling?
- 0:07SPEAKER_01: Me?
- 0:08SPEAKER_02: No, just for the team in general.
- 0:09SPEAKER_02: I mean, we get good looks.
- 0:12SPEAKER_02: We got some good guys getting great looks.
- 0:16SPEAKER_02: But it's a long season.
- 0:17SPEAKER_02: It's a long season.
- 0:20SPEAKER_02: And it takes one, maybe two, to really get a crazy rhythm going.
- 0:24SPEAKER_02: But I'll just tell our snipers to keep going.
- 0:28SPEAKER_02: Keep shining, keep shooting.
- 0:30SPEAKER_02: Corey keeps shooting.
- 0:32SPEAKER_02: Bilal keeps shooting.
- 0:33SPEAKER_02: Malcolm keeps shooting.
- 0:35SPEAKER_02: Bub keeps shooting.
- 0:36SPEAKER_02: Alex keeps shooting.
- 0:37SPEAKER_02: So we're figuring it out.
- 0:40SPEAKER_02: And the blessing in disguise is that you're learning the real time.
- 0:44SPEAKER_02: You're not having to wait.
- 0:45SPEAKER_02: You're not having to really sit on the bench and miss entire games and have to go
- 0:49SPEAKER_02: back and film and watch the practice.
- 0:50SPEAKER_02: You guys are out there.
- 0:51SPEAKER_02: They're seeing it.
- 0:51SPEAKER_02: They're seeing what they can fix.
- 0:53SPEAKER_02: Shots are going left.
- 0:54SPEAKER_02: Shots are going right.
- 0:55SPEAKER_02: We're not going to shoot 24% every game.
- 0:59SPEAKER_02: from Sid, maybe we are, make sure you find a way to get better, right?
- 1:02SPEAKER_02: 10 games, you find a way to get better, so it all comes with it.
- 1:05SPEAKER_02: I think there was a stat I was watching,
- 1:07SPEAKER_02: there was a stat I saw not too long ago,
- 1:09SPEAKER_02: you can fact check me on it,
- 1:11SPEAKER_02: but I think it was in the middle of James Harden's prime,
- 1:14SPEAKER_02: bro,
- 1:15SPEAKER_02: he had like a mean streak with like one for 17,
- 1:17SPEAKER_02: one for,
- 1:20SPEAKER_02: 20 or something like that from three.
- 1:22SPEAKER_02: No one talks about it.
- 1:25SPEAKER_02: No one thinks about that.
- 1:26SPEAKER_02: Go out there and have a great night how we did tonight.
- 1:28SPEAKER_02: So just keep pushing.
- 1:29SPEAKER_02: Get in that lab and everything will work itself out.
- 1:34SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
- 1:36SPEAKER_01: You guys shot 24% from three tonight.
- 1:38SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like that was the defense or you guys are just missing open looks?
- 1:41SPEAKER_00: We're missing open looks.
- 1:43SPEAKER_00: We had a lot of them, myself included.
- 1:45SPEAKER_00: And there's a lot of reasons why you miss open looks.
- 1:51SPEAKER_00: them for any of us um you'd be you you guys could sit in the gym all day and marvel
- 1:58SPEAKER_00: at how much our team works and how much reps we put in and how much effort we put
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: in um but the the way the ball bounces on the rim and the way the shots kind of
- 2:08SPEAKER_00: work is attached to energy and attached to um rhythm and it's it's a dance more
- 2:15SPEAKER_00: than anything and um tonight you know we were kind of off in our dance steps and
- 2:20SPEAKER_00: It shows on the stat sheet.
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: It's shown on the nights where we don't shoot it well.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: And when you're on the floor and you're watching the game,
- 2:25SPEAKER_00: you can kind of feel how stuck things are and how out of rhythm that we can be.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: And when you are, it takes a really, really special night.
- 2:35SPEAKER_00: And anybody in the league can attest to that.
- 2:38SPEAKER_00: It takes a really special night shooting in the ball, too.
- 2:41SPEAKER_00: kind of pull you out of that rhythm and you out of that lack of rhythm and you as
- 2:47SPEAKER_01: one of the better shooters in the league what is your mentality going into one of
- 2:51SPEAKER_01: these shooting slumps how would you feel you could snap out of it um for me it is
- 2:56SPEAKER_00: um shooting slumps are extremely frustrating and the the main key for me is to
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: fight that frustration within myself and get back to my center a lot faster.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: Because if you feel tense and you feel angry on the inside,
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: that energy that you have gets transferred to the ball,
- 3:16SPEAKER_00: and that ball tends to not go in.
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: And so you have to play free,
- 3:20SPEAKER_00: you have to play without any reservations,
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: and before you know it,
- 3:27SPEAKER_00: you're gonna snap out of it.
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: And it's on us as a team to get guys out of shooting slumps, it's on us as a team to
- 3:35SPEAKER_00: get ourselves out of the shooting slump that we're in as a whole group.
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: And there's things that you can do schematically and X's and O's wise,
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: but you gotta trust your shot first and foremost.
- 3:46SPEAKER_00: And then let the chips fall when it may because we all,
- 3:49SPEAKER_00: like I said,
- 3:50SPEAKER_00: work our asses off getting shots up in the gym.
- 3:53SPEAKER_00: And so it's just a matter of time before the rhythm matches up and we're off and running.
- 3:57SPEAKER_01: So from the difference between now and when you coach James Harden at OKC,
- 4:01SPEAKER_01: what do you see most from him now?
- 4:04SPEAKER_03: This is a guy who's experienced a lot.
- 4:05SPEAKER_03: I mean, I don't know how many years he's now been in the league.
- 4:09SPEAKER_03: At least 15 to 16.
- 4:10SPEAKER_03: So he's seen it all.
- 4:12SPEAKER_03: He's been through it all.
- 4:13SPEAKER_03: Just a cerebral player.
- 4:15SPEAKER_03: Seen every coverage, every scheme, everything thrown in the kitchen sink.
- 4:19SPEAKER_03: I mean, he's seen all these things.
- 4:21SPEAKER_03: Obviously a great player.