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HEAD COACH TERRY STOTTS
“It was a hard fought game. I liked the way we competed. We came out in the second half and competed. I can’t say we necessarily played well enough to win the game but we competed and that’s what you need. The Clippers are a good team, they’re physical, they’re veteran, they know how to kind of get away with some things, so they took advantage of that. Like I said, I liked the way we competed. We were down in the first half, we came back, took the lead, and some things didn’t go our way late in the game.”
On physicality, flagrants, techs – is that what you expect when these teams play?
“Yeah… I think both teams play at a high level. The Clippers are very physical. Like I said, they’ve been in the league a long time and it kind of works itself out.”
Were struggles shooting from three more shooting or their defense?
“I don’t know – I mean, I thought we had some good looks, we had some rushed looks. We were 4 for 18 – obviously we’re used to getting more than that so you’ve got to credit their defense for that. I thought we had some good looks, but that’s a part of it. You’ve got to give them credit. When you don’t shoot the ball well, it’s little bit on both sides.”
DAMIAN LILLARD
How do you feel the team handled the chippiness?
“I thought we did well. We stood up for ourselves. When it gets chippy like that, it is what it is. We’re going to always stand up for ourselves and that’s what we did.”
How are your emotions right now?
“I’m fine now. Once you get off the floor, sometimes that walk from the court to the locker room and the shower and you relax for a second, it always calms you down, but it’s pretty frustrating.”
How did you feel about the physical nature of the game?
“I thought we dealt with it fine. I thought we answered the call. In that situation you could either let somebody come in and punk you or you stand up and you do something about it and I thought in every situation where it was a little bit of physical activity, we stood up to it. That’s what you’re supposed to do. I didn’t think it really made a difference for them. They did something, we was ready to do something back and that was it.”
Do you feel like you were distracted by the officiating?
“I don’t think we were distracted by it because we continued to play all the way through the finish. I just think we grew frustrated with the way some things went. When we’re in that situation, we’ve probably got to do a better job of controlling what we can control.”
On 4 for 18 shooting from three:
“I think it was a little bit of both – they play physical defense, they compete on the defensive end, and sometimes you hot, sometimes you hit some, you miss some and sometimes you get a little bit cold. Tonight I thought we got really good looks early, we had some good looks late, and they just didn’t go in. When those shots aren’t going in, we’ve got to do other things to make up for the shots that we usually make not going in. One or two more stops, one or two more deflections, things like that. Tonight it seemed like when those shots weren’t going, we couldn’t get a break. We couldn’t find something else. I thought in the third quarter, we picked up the pressure defensively, we got ourselves going, we got out in transition, we got stops, we got steals. In the fourth quarter, I just feel like the game – it wasn’t a game. We couldn’t really have a game.”
“It was a hard fought game. I liked the way we competed. We came out in the second half and competed. I can’t say we necessarily played well enough to win the game but we competed and that’s what you need. The Clippers are a good team, they’re physical, they’re veteran, they know how to kind of get away with some things, so they took advantage of that. Like I said, I liked the way we competed. We were down in the first half, we came back, took the lead, and some things didn’t go our way late in the game.”
On physicality, flagrants, techs – is that what you expect when these teams play?
“Yeah… I think both teams play at a high level. The Clippers are very physical. Like I said, they’ve been in the league a long time and it kind of works itself out.”
Were struggles shooting from three more shooting or their defense?
“I don’t know – I mean, I thought we had some good looks, we had some rushed looks. We were 4 for 18 – obviously we’re used to getting more than that so you’ve got to credit their defense for that. I thought we had some good looks, but that’s a part of it. You’ve got to give them credit. When you don’t shoot the ball well, it’s little bit on both sides.”
DAMIAN LILLARD
How do you feel the team handled the chippiness?
“I thought we did well. We stood up for ourselves. When it gets chippy like that, it is what it is. We’re going to always stand up for ourselves and that’s what we did.”
How are your emotions right now?
“I’m fine now. Once you get off the floor, sometimes that walk from the court to the locker room and the shower and you relax for a second, it always calms you down, but it’s pretty frustrating.”
How did you feel about the physical nature of the game?
“I thought we dealt with it fine. I thought we answered the call. In that situation you could either let somebody come in and punk you or you stand up and you do something about it and I thought in every situation where it was a little bit of physical activity, we stood up to it. That’s what you’re supposed to do. I didn’t think it really made a difference for them. They did something, we was ready to do something back and that was it.”
Do you feel like you were distracted by the officiating?
“I don’t think we were distracted by it because we continued to play all the way through the finish. I just think we grew frustrated with the way some things went. When we’re in that situation, we’ve probably got to do a better job of controlling what we can control.”
On 4 for 18 shooting from three:
“I think it was a little bit of both – they play physical defense, they compete on the defensive end, and sometimes you hot, sometimes you hit some, you miss some and sometimes you get a little bit cold. Tonight I thought we got really good looks early, we had some good looks late, and they just didn’t go in. When those shots aren’t going in, we’ve got to do other things to make up for the shots that we usually make not going in. One or two more stops, one or two more deflections, things like that. Tonight it seemed like when those shots weren’t going, we couldn’t get a break. We couldn’t find something else. I thought in the third quarter, we picked up the pressure defensively, we got ourselves going, we got out in transition, we got stops, we got steals. In the fourth quarter, I just feel like the game – it wasn’t a game. We couldn’t really have a game.”
