Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | Memphis Grizzlies | Mar. 13, 2022
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00:00I know you guys only have nine healthy guys right now.
00:05You're playing a little smaller, played zone tonight.
00:07Would you just think of the scrap,
00:09the tenacity that you all were able to play with for the 48?
00:13Yeah, we played hard.
00:17We control what we can control.
00:20Shots don't always go in, but your effort and your focus,
00:23you can control that.
00:24And I think we did a pretty good job of that tonight.
00:27Darius and Mark have talked a lot about Baze kind of simplifying his offensive
00:32game, making those shot, pass, drive decisions more straightforward from him.
00:37Did this feel like a really nice maybe affirmation of all of that for him?
00:41He's been so much more efficient and tonight he was really productive as well.
00:46Yeah, yeah, Baze is simplifying the game.
00:52And then when good things happen from there, you build confidence.
00:57And you start making more shots, you get in the rhythm, figure out what your game's
01:01like.
01:02I think that's something that every young player in the NBA goes through.
01:06He's just going through it.
01:07I think he's heading in the right direction for sure.
01:11Paris Lawson, OKC Thunder.com.
01:13Wanted to ask you about Lindy.
01:15This is like the second game where he's gotten a lot of shots up out there and
01:18he's obviously got an extended opportunity.
01:20With the opportunity you've had to play alongside him,
01:23just what do you see when he's playing like that and getting the shots that he's
01:26getting?
01:27Yeah, from the first day, even before training camp, playing with Lindy,
01:32you could tell he's confident.
01:34And he knows when he brings to the game of basketball,
01:36he's confident in that ability.
01:37And I think you guys, sorry, you guys see that every night.
01:40And like I said, you can't always control makes or misses.
01:45But even if he's not making, he plays defense, he plays hard,
01:49he plays the right way.
01:50He's for sure been a positive to our team.
01:53And then one other thing I wanted to ask you about, Trey,
01:55he had kind of a slow start in that first half, but
01:58gave you guys a lot of really solid minutes in that third quarter.
02:01I think he had 10 points or something like that.
02:03Along those same lines of being able to shake off maybe a slow start or
02:06maybe for Lindy, it was a slow game.
02:08What does that say about a rookie for him to shake that off and
02:11come out in the third quarter and produce like he did?
02:15Yeah, it's growth, playing through ups and downs,
02:20something that every pair goes through.
02:21And like I said, it's growth for Trey for sure.
02:25And the faster he figures that out, the better he'd be, just like everybody else.
02:30I know we asked you the other night about getting to the line more this season.
02:34You took 12 more free throws tonight.
02:36Is that something before the season that was a goal of yours to expand your
02:41offensive game a little bit, get to the line more, get easier points?
02:44Or is it something that's just naturally happened for you?
02:47Yeah, I just try to be aggressive.
02:49I mean, I think it's naturally happened, as well as learning a few tricks
02:56that helped me get to the line when I see the opportunity.
03:00So I think it's a little bit of both, just being aggressive and
03:02then also turning it into a skill.
03:04And it seems like before the game,
03:05you guys all got a pretty good laugh at the uniform situation.
03:08Just what was going through your head there?
03:11Yeah, I was just hoping that we didn't have to be the team to switch.
03:13We could do a run back and run back out.
03:16Mark said, well, first they said in the arena that there was gonna be like
03:20a five minute warm up period, but Mark said that you were like, no, let's go.
03:24Like once they came back on the court, you're ready to play.
03:26Can you, what was that like for you?
03:29Yeah, I was just, I did enough shooting around.
03:31I was ready to go.
03:32All right.
03:33My juices were flowing.
03:34Hey, Shea, hope you're doing well.
03:43With your performance, with your high level performances,
03:46another third point game for you.
03:48My question to you is, how confident you are that your team will be getting better
03:56as the season goes on about the next season, about the next games?
04:00How confident you are about your team?
04:03Yeah, I feel like we're heading in the right direction.
04:08Every day we come to work, we try to get better every day.
04:11And I think if we just keep doing that, then we'll be all right.