oh they're just comfortable play with a sense of desperation Sabonis got it going in the paint you know I had a really big game and then Brock the Hansen mid-range shots and he got lamb you know filling in right there and then TJ getting some backdoor cuts so you got you know for the main guy scoring over 20 points it's gonna be hard to you know sustain any lead that we have so we just still got to get to know one another on that defensive end play with a sense of purpose and physicality and also
make some adjustments so she's still early on and you know just take it take it one game by game coach Jack and since ed ermengarde's the offense you guys still figuring each other out and there are times you're really not running anything as a team what are you seeing with the offense oh man just just like that it's gonna take some time just to know where everyone is you know know that we have a mutual respect for one you know each other out there on the floor but we still want to be aggressive still gotta
put some points on the board just want to play smarter execute and just really be there to screen for one another or a backdoor cut just the the rhythm you know it's just gonna take some time to get the rhythm for one another out there depending on who we're out there playing with so I'm excited about just you know continue to get better continue to utilize these games obviously you want to win but you know these losses are always lessons that you can just take in and you know echo it to the team I mean
every time you're out there on the floor is just a an opportunity to to learn a lesson you know basketball has a way of being a sequentially sound or it could be sequentially off completely hey you don't be able to weather the storm out there where you know some possessions are not gonna be perfect but you want to limit kind of the mistakes out there where you you have opportunities to attack the basket or shoot threes just to get everybody confident on that in but wins and losses they come and go as you know in
this league 78 more you know I'm gonna keep counting down give you guys the you know the number every single game but you know it just gives us a chance to really dive back into practice and really take it you know day-by-day you know the details were really what separates the good and great teams in the league and Spencer and Cara's all can create for yourselves great but and Kenny said there's no selfishness there but is there what's required to learn how to kind of start to play off each other and to develop that chemistry
together it's time it's time man that's a really our friend right now it's just time we can't really force it to be you know one game where we look really good in the next you know we're kind of still trying to figure each other out I just think there's a huge amount of respect that we have for one another for what they've done for what I've done so we just want to figure out how to play off one another and get each other easy baskets without you know being so bald dominant coming off the pick-and-roll
and just watching you know sometimes when carrots go into the basket I'll give them a cut just to get a slash going you know it's just playing the nuances of the game you know playing off your team ain't getting no miscommunication that's the biggest thing that you know along with the details it's just the communication out there is gonna be the difference between us you know winning and losing games at times it's gone it's gonna take a high-level commitment on that end on a defensive end and just play great position basketball you know we obviously
have a system here they've had a system for the last few years and now we just have to adjust to the players that are here and that's gonna take some time and but like I said I'm just excited just to go through practice with them every single day is it's exciting for me man third quarter you guys were up by three maybe midway through the third quarter and they had that 19 to 6 run to kind of open things up were they just more physical than you guys were in that stretch or did you would
you attribute that to something else it's our execution you know it's a way to kind of limit those runs you know where it's not so 19 6 you know you want to limit them even if they go on a run great teams are gonna do that good teams I believe they're professionals as well so you know sometimes you're not making shots you you want to limit your turnovers you want to still get great looks you want to you know if it's not nineteen six maybe you know twelve six you know or ten six and that
way you still can manage the game better but whenever they get a rhythm and they score three or four in a row it's hard on the psyche of any player out there you know just to collect themselves and you know come back in now you got to play catch-up now you got to be over aggressive on the offensive end now you're forcing a lot of shots now your executions you know kind of out the window and now when you have a new team where guys are trying to just be aggressive and still the overpass or
at times you know it's just gonna come with it so this the piston wants it being on a new team you know I don't expect us to be at a certain level right now if I did I'd be a little crazy honestly you know it's just a lot of new guys in our locker room system adjustments you know some of us have played in different systems for the last eight years or nine years and we've done different things defensively on different teams and now that we're here we just got to adjust and just be patient
with one another I mean but what do you mean that's the world we live in you know I wear this professional hat when I come into work you know some people in the this you know environment know a percentage of me you know I don't go home with anybody so I like to keep it that way and keep my life private and the relationships that I have are very meaningful to me and that goes back to the importance of self love like who cares what ESPN says or anyone says like I love myself I love
my family I love my friends I love playing basketball I'm grateful to do it every day that's gonna come with being one of the top players history has shown you can be the best teammate ever and someone's still gonna say something negative about what you're doing and how you approach your life and that can't be the importance you know if you allow that to infiltrate or get you emotionally invested or respond emotionally you're gonna be right where they want you to be so you know I kind of expect that at this point for everybody to
say things like that and I'm gonna keep on smiling you're doing me you know I'm happy where I am you know that comes with it I guess you know they try to tear down some of the most peaceful people in the world still Tuesday so it's gonna happen that's the that's another root of human human struggle learning about other people's perceptions about who you are like why would you ever care about that you know and I think that I fell victim today in my past of worrying about things that I can't control you know if
the people understood what words could do to a human being especially where we are in today's society and they wouldn't they wouldn't be invested in that so I don't I'm not here to dispel anything you can continue to ask other people around me about what they think about me and continue to write about mood swings like you know human beings have mood swings like you go home and you're you're not happy with things or you're mad at something or you're happy that's a mood swing it's okay to be human like I don't have to be
perfect for anyone here nor do I have to be perfect for the public so I'm not here to dispel any perception I'm just here to be myself from top about any of the players teammates coaches staff that anybody come to you after the article came out to make sure that you know they was obviously no misunderstanding or that everybody was on the same page we're there I see that I see that you know that the details are gonna be and how I'll respond to things like that and that's that's on them how they respond and
how you guys ask questions and I don't say you guys to imply everyone here but everyone that thinks that article is gonna dictate who a person is like you can go on with that and so if you you know it's just interesting to watch it and unfold to see how it can affect everyone around you yet no one asked me no one asked how I feel about it until today until everyone said something about it and then they watched it trickle in like a little little wildfire about oh who is Kyrie now like it's hilarious
to me to watch it affect people emotionally but no I really don't want to invite that into my teammates they know who I am and I'm proud of Who I am so Ethan said that you're not like the team is not wanting anything right now would you say the same I just think that some some possessions could be empty for us you know so we just got to be better on that in you know running some quality plays that you know either can shift the defense over or get guys other great shots so you know
we have simple plays right now but they'll become more intricate as we go forward and get to know one another
