Post by history2b on Dec 28, 2023 11:44:36 GMT -8
“It’s good, because we’ve been tested against two of the top teams in the league,” Davis said following the Christmas Day contest against the Boston Celtics. “So it’s good for us to kind of see what we can do with it, what we need to improve at. So I like to change so far.”
“I think with the lineup change, just trying to find ways to be effective on the offensive end,” Davis said. “We know that teams are probably not gonna try to guard Vando, so just using him in actions or, like tonight, they put [Kristaps] Porzingis on him, and had him setting the ball screens and keeping him in actions. But I think overall, just trying to figure it out.”
“I think we just need to be elite defensively regardless,” Davis noted. “It’s not because of the way teams are playing us offensively, I think just in general, the team that we want to be, we lay our hats on defense, and when we’re not defending, then we’re a totally different team. But when we defend and buckle down and get into people and rebounding and just being pesty and feisty on the ball, diving on the floor, things like that and activated on the defense end, then the offense will be fine.”
“We just got to buckle down defensively, Davis said. “And obviously the lineup change and we’re not really a switching team. But now we’re getting to it because of our lineup. We are able to do that. Sort of miscommunication is kind of there, but I think just buckling down defensively. Offense, I think we can be fine. But we got to do a better job on defense.”
“I think with the lineup change, just trying to find ways to be effective on the offensive end,” Davis said. “We know that teams are probably not gonna try to guard Vando, so just using him in actions or, like tonight, they put [Kristaps] Porzingis on him, and had him setting the ball screens and keeping him in actions. But I think overall, just trying to figure it out.”
“I think we just need to be elite defensively regardless,” Davis noted. “It’s not because of the way teams are playing us offensively, I think just in general, the team that we want to be, we lay our hats on defense, and when we’re not defending, then we’re a totally different team. But when we defend and buckle down and get into people and rebounding and just being pesty and feisty on the ball, diving on the floor, things like that and activated on the defense end, then the offense will be fine.”
“We just got to buckle down defensively, Davis said. “And obviously the lineup change and we’re not really a switching team. But now we’re getting to it because of our lineup. We are able to do that. Sort of miscommunication is kind of there, but I think just buckling down defensively. Offense, I think we can be fine. But we got to do a better job on defense.”
