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HEAD COACH FRANK VOGEL
On Anthony Davis’ illness pre-game and how that evolved…
“Yea he was battling a thumb trying to figure if that was going to inhibit him from playing and then he woke up this afternoon with a bit of a stomach bug and came back in and said the thumb felt pretty good, probably good enough to play and then he went and threw up in the back. He still wanted to give it a go but by the time tipoff came around he had already thrown up four times. He wanted to try to see if getting out on the floor would change it, but he wasn’t able to go.”
On what he saw once AD went out, different defenses & personnel groupings, what was he trying to get together…
“We’re struggling to contain quick, deep shooting guards. You know with this personnel and the way we like to bring double teams, so we pulled back on it some and those guys took advantage of it before we pulled back on it. We weren’t tough enough you know with our low man and our rotations and we weren’t containing their guards in the trap well enough. So neither one was happening so we pulled them back to our base coverage and that’s risky with shooters like Dame and CJ and they got going a little bit and then at that point when we were down we tried to jump the game up.”
On what Russell Westbrook not playing well and evaluating his performance at the 10-game marker…
“He’s shown flashes of being great for us. We all didn’t have a good night; the whole team didn’t have a good night. We’ve got to find ways as a coaching staff to help him and to put him in positions to succeed. And it’s on all of us to make sure that happens, make sure he gets comfortable and feels good about the environment around him and that’s what we’re working towards. We’re all sticking together; we’re all believing in the same thing and we’re going to get through nights like tonight.”
On what was not occurring on the defensive end that needed to…
“Well like I said we pulled back on our double teams because we weren’t executing them well enough like we had in the last two games, so we fell back to some of our base coverages. And you know Dame’s [Damian Lillard] been cold and Dame got hot, that’s the biggest thing that sticks out and obviously we tried to go on a run and try to jump the game up again, played a little more zone and we weren’t very good in the zone during that stretch either; so give credit to the Blazers for playing great.”
On evaluating the team after the first ten games…
“Yea, I don’t keep 10-game markers, there’s a constant evaluation going on, all year. And every time this group is in front of us we learn something more about what they can and can’t do and look at ways to put them in a position to succeed and that’s what our coaching staff is focused on and tonight we just didn’t have enough, didn’t play well enough.”
On Anthony Davis’ illness pre-game and how that evolved…
“Yea he was battling a thumb trying to figure if that was going to inhibit him from playing and then he woke up this afternoon with a bit of a stomach bug and came back in and said the thumb felt pretty good, probably good enough to play and then he went and threw up in the back. He still wanted to give it a go but by the time tipoff came around he had already thrown up four times. He wanted to try to see if getting out on the floor would change it, but he wasn’t able to go.”
On what he saw once AD went out, different defenses & personnel groupings, what was he trying to get together…
“We’re struggling to contain quick, deep shooting guards. You know with this personnel and the way we like to bring double teams, so we pulled back on it some and those guys took advantage of it before we pulled back on it. We weren’t tough enough you know with our low man and our rotations and we weren’t containing their guards in the trap well enough. So neither one was happening so we pulled them back to our base coverage and that’s risky with shooters like Dame and CJ and they got going a little bit and then at that point when we were down we tried to jump the game up.”
On what Russell Westbrook not playing well and evaluating his performance at the 10-game marker…
“He’s shown flashes of being great for us. We all didn’t have a good night; the whole team didn’t have a good night. We’ve got to find ways as a coaching staff to help him and to put him in positions to succeed. And it’s on all of us to make sure that happens, make sure he gets comfortable and feels good about the environment around him and that’s what we’re working towards. We’re all sticking together; we’re all believing in the same thing and we’re going to get through nights like tonight.”
On what was not occurring on the defensive end that needed to…
“Well like I said we pulled back on our double teams because we weren’t executing them well enough like we had in the last two games, so we fell back to some of our base coverages. And you know Dame’s [Damian Lillard] been cold and Dame got hot, that’s the biggest thing that sticks out and obviously we tried to go on a run and try to jump the game up again, played a little more zone and we weren’t very good in the zone during that stretch either; so give credit to the Blazers for playing great.”
On evaluating the team after the first ten games…
“Yea, I don’t keep 10-game markers, there’s a constant evaluation going on, all year. And every time this group is in front of us we learn something more about what they can and can’t do and look at ways to put them in a position to succeed and that’s what our coaching staff is focused on and tonight we just didn’t have enough, didn’t play well enough.”
