Aziz Bandaogo, CJ Fredrick Bryant Postgame
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00:00 frustrated with the way things went Saturday?
00:02 Was it important for you to get one to drop early
00:05 and kind of clear your head?
00:08 - Yeah, you know, I had the same preparation
00:12 for every single game,
00:13 going to every single game the same way.
00:15 Obviously it was disappointing to lose that game
00:19 and frustrating, we all wanted that one,
00:20 but it was, you know, that 30 game season,
00:23 you gotta quickly move on
00:25 and we had two days to get ready for Bryant.
00:28 So, like I said, just prepare the same for every game.
00:32 - There's been talk for years of shootout hangover.
00:36 Did you like that maybe in the first half a little bit,
00:38 trying to refocus and look sloppy?
00:41 - Yeah, you know, we knew coming in,
00:44 their style of play was a bit interesting.
00:47 We like to get up and down and run
00:50 and they play at a more kind of controlled pace
00:53 and, you know, turnovers and sloppy play.
00:56 It's kind of just, they just have a weird style.
00:59 So we knew going into the game
01:00 that that kind of stuff was going to happen.
01:01 You just had to respond,
01:02 you just had to keep coming with the next play.
01:04 So at halftime, you know, we regrouped, sorry,
01:08 and I thought we did a much better job
01:10 of just handling the chaotic nature of the game
01:13 in the second half.
01:15 - These four blocks, 17 rebounds,
01:17 feel like you could impose your will
01:19 and have it happen tonight?
01:22 - Yeah, yeah, I feel like I tried to do everything I can
01:25 trying to respond, like,
01:27 this half wasn't really that good.
01:28 So the second half, I tried to give everything I have
01:30 for the team.
01:31 So we got better attention.
01:33 - How did the timing feel on the block chance?
01:37 - I mean, I think it's on my teammates.
01:39 They just like finish the D and just let me go there
01:42 trying to like see if I can get it or not.
01:44 Yeah.
01:45 - The Z's a lot better than they have all season.
01:51 Is there something you guys were seeing that was leading that
01:53 or did you guys just kind of wear it right?
01:57 - I feel like everybody really knew, like,
02:01 know like, yeah, that's what I do.
02:03 And sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not.
02:06 And we're just trying to figure out
02:08 and be on that pace.
02:09 And I feel like it's going great right now, yeah.
02:11 - Do you think this,
02:15 I don't know if they did this to you,
02:16 but I'm sure it's a strategy a lot of times
02:18 to focus foul hit.
02:21 But if you're going to make eight out of 12,
02:24 maybe not the strategy.
02:26 - You said what?
02:27 - The strategy for the defense.
02:29 So when you go up for the lob and all that,
02:31 do you feel they're just,
02:32 they're going to hack you, they're going to foul you?
02:34 - Yes, yes, yes.
02:36 - As you talk about the second half,
02:39 there's obviously a big second half,
02:42 10 points, double double, 100 and so on.
02:45 What was Brian doing defensively that allowed you to focus?
02:49 - Like I said, we just respond,
02:50 like play more together,
02:52 like trying to like help each other on the side.
02:55 And that's what we did.
02:56 But the second half to respond the right way.
02:59 That's where we end up here winning it.
03:01 - TJ, it seems like the last was really a threat
03:04 right in there in the half.
03:05 What was his reaction?
03:06 - You know, like I said before,
03:10 just responding to the chaotic nature of the game.
03:13 Like I said, in the first half, you know,
03:16 we kind of had bad body language on turnovers
03:19 and just fell into their trap of making the game ugly.
03:23 So, you know, that was a big emphasis going into the game
03:26 is just responding the right way.
03:28 And I think in the first half,
03:29 we weren't responding the way he would like.
03:32 - Was there an emphasis at all on getting to the win
03:35 that got 30 seconds in the first half?
03:38 - Yeah, you know, we knew in their defense
03:42 and their ball screen coverage,
03:43 we could get, or Day Day or whoever could get in the paint.
03:46 And it was just about, you know,
03:47 attacking and going through their chest
03:48 or, you know, seeing if the big comes up,
03:50 the lob will be there.
03:51 So it was just making the right reads
03:53 and attacking, like you said,
03:56 got a lot of free throws out of it.
03:57 - When you see a team dropping back on offensive rebounds,
04:02 really not sending anybody to the glass,
04:04 guys get big that can put up a 17 rebound day?
04:10 - Yeah, yeah.
04:11 Like I said, I'm just trying to like get
04:14 as much as possible I can.
04:16 Since like we get like a lot of backup,
04:18 like a big O says and big like coming in.
04:22 So like, I'm not trying to get everything I can.
04:24 So like, as soon as I can't,
04:26 like I'm tired or stuff like that,
04:28 they just going to get the next guy
04:29 and we're going to do the same thing every time.
04:31 - PJ, you haven't made a field goal outside of fifth
04:34 or in the game this season.
04:35 How do you carry over this part you got tonight
04:38 and then launch that into the area
04:40 to make it go down on Saturday?
04:42 - I said, it's going every single game
04:44 with the same mindset, same preparation.
04:46 I'll just continue to do what I do.
04:48 - Aziz, there's a hearing tomorrow
04:50 and the possibility that you'll be eligible
04:54 if there's a training order made.
04:57 Do you have anything to say about the meal
05:00 and your thoughts on that whole process
05:04 that you were in the same predicament?
05:07 - Yeah, yeah.
05:08 I feel like it just like, he'd been working
05:11 and I feel like he got to keep doing it.
05:13 Just like he believe in he going to be there
05:15 and I feel like it's really hard for him.
05:18 I know I've been there and we just give him
05:22 our full support to be there when the time comes
05:25 so he can ready to go.
05:27 - For both of you, will he help the team run away?
05:31 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:32 I feel like he's going to help a lot
05:33 since he's a great post movement
05:35 and if he come back, we're going to have most power
05:38 to go to the office in bold and running on the floor.
05:41 - Two more questions, guys.
05:43 Last one.
05:45 - TJ, did it feel like you bore them down
05:47 towards the end of the second half
05:49 as a little bit of a short bench
05:51 but did it feel like they kind of ran out of gas?
05:54 - Yeah.
05:55 In the first half, we missed a lot of layups,
05:58 open shots and we did get a lot of offensive rebounds
06:02 in the first half.
06:03 In the second half, we were continuing to run.
06:06 The lob was opening up.
06:08 We were making the right reads.
06:09 We were knocking down shots, making those easy layups,
06:12 converting on lobs, making free throws.
06:14 So just executing to a higher,
06:20 just a higher percentage in the second half.
06:24 - Perfect. Thanks, guys.
06:25 - Thanks. - Thanks.