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2019-20 Game 25: Pelicans at Bucks Postgame Quotes 12-11-19

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HEAD COACH ALVIN GENTRY

On the defensive issues:
“We weren’t talking defensively, which has been our Achilles heal all season. We have one guy guarding two and usually when that happens, this is a very very good basketball team. I told you guys before, with or without Giannis [Antetokounmpo] they are a very good basketball team. They have guys with the ability to step up. [Eric] Bledsoe, I thought, he played probably his best game of the year coming from what I’ve seen…I think [Khris] Middleton is just Middleton. He’s one of the guys, one of the great mid-range shooters of this game. I thought he did a good job. Every time I thought we made any kind of run at all they seemed to go to [Middleton] or Bledsoe, and they came through.”

On how to communicate better:
“We just have to keep working on it. This is a quiet group. They don’t talk a whole lot anyway. They’re they quietest group I’ve ever been on. Even on the plane, in the locker room, they’re not a real bulky group, but we do have to get them talking on the court. We do have to have them communicate on the court. I mean when we do, we’re pretty solid. I thought we did a good job in the second half of communicating. We only had three breakdowns. When we’re trying to come back from 20-28 point deficit, these little things…it just takes away that much more from us.”

On how to get the players out of their comfort zone:
“Well we got to get them out of it. That’s why we stop practice every day and say, ‘Hey we’re going to do this until we talk to each other, until you talk, until you talk about the screen, talk about the switches, talk about things like that.’ That’s the only thing I can think of. If anybody has any suggestions, I’m wide open.”

GUARD JJ REDICK

On how to improve offensively:
“We have to talk. And I know that sounds simple, but I think there are personalities on this team that aren’t talkative by nature and when you’re on the court you have to talk. We have to be better with that.”

On how to talk more on the court:
“That’s what we’re trying to figure out. You certainly can, I think, bring out extroversion. I maybe mentioned this a while ago, but I do think that energy, talk and effort, those things are contagious in the same way that sort of the negatives of those are. You know, in terms of apathy and being lethargic, I think those things are contagious. There’s an energy that you have to bring to a group and the group sort of feeds on either one or the other, whether it’s negative or positive.”

GUARD JRUE HOLIDAY

On the quietness of the team:
“Yeah, I think it’s just characteristics, really. We’re not really like, ‘ra-ra’ type guys. I guess sometimes that can translate into the court, but we’ve got to do better with that. We all have to step out of our comfort zones and be louder and talk and communicate, so that we can stop teams from scoring and doing what they want to do.”

On why defense hasn’t come together yet:
“I mean, we are pretty young and it’s a new group. You can’t use that excuse forever, but I feel like we have to get to something and do it well and do it consistently, and we’re not really doing it consistently right now.”

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