Lakers Coach Darvin Ham Reacts To Lakers GM2 vs Warriors | May 4, 2023

Hey Darvin, what did you identify as the adjustments that Warriors made or having stuff more on the ball and having Draymond on AD and How did you feel like you guys responded to that? Very paid in the second early You know, they started off with Jamaica brought bringing Looney off the bench so we anticipated something like that, but you know for us I think just our stagnation I felt like you know, I still have to go back and watch the game and But my gut feeling my instincts tell to me that my eyes saw us Settle a little bit mishandle the ball some early. We were right there early on neck and neck But a couple of possessions got away from us early and I just thought we made a good job of crowding the plane trout Excuse me crowding the paint and not allowing us Trying to prevent us from playing downhill as much and that in turns affect, you know What affects what we do at the free throw line, so we'll go back to the drawing board and look at different ways we can sustain what we did well and what we've done well over these the course of these first two games and then Look at what we can possibly do better Of course new series now, but you lose game two in Memphis after winning game one you get back home Is there a different type of a sense of your team? How do you think that you will respond and how different of these series and what these opponent challenges are and not? Fully anticipate our team to respond in the right way Darvin uh 80 11 points tonight 11 shots one free throw attempt What did you make of Draymond's defense against him and you reference crowding the paint? Obviously anytime he was rolling or trying to catch the ball there was two three guys around him at all times, you know Dre He's gonna do his work early. You know, it's a reason why he's a perennial perennial all-defensive player You know, he's gonna force tough catches and when he's on the ball He he's his own ball activity second to none And he's a good communicator with then when if a is not trying to go at him We're going into a secondary action after getting the ball to a he's great about that Whether he has to switch or talk is his guy through Through this scenario. He's He's he's been you know top shelf his entire career in that in that regard so Again, we just we got to go back and look at ways we can move a around put them in different Spacing different actions and just try to diversify his attack Darvin you guys went the entire postseason from the playing around first First round and game one against Golden State without allowing a 40 in a quarter and You do it second and third quarter today. Where do you think your defense? Wasn't up to snuff tonight. I mean, I just think just being ready from from our the ball leaving our shooters hands Sprinting back in transition getting matched up communicating you know, you make one slip you miss one assignment and they're gonna make you pay and As I mentioned before, they're probably most dangerous once they give the ball up and that's when That's that's that's when the race starts. I mean those guys ability to you know run around on the floor and their bigs and their facilitators guys knowing where You know, they can blindly throw a pass and that path is gonna be connecting To clay or Steph or Jordan right in their spot And you know, they have a lot of pride a ton of pride they're a championship ball club for a reason and You know after game one, we fully anticipated them to come out and throw some haymakers Which they did and you know clay got off. He was seeing the ball go in early and often so Again, we got our work cut out for us But you know, you don't get this to this point in the season by it being easy And you have to buckle down do your homework Look at ways, you know the W's and L's the wisdom and losses lessons and look at ways you You can get better from it and and try not to make the same mistakes twice Darvin I I believe that this is the 16th game in the postseason now where the team that Was at home and lost the first game came back and won the second game What's that kind of say about just the postseason and the intensity of it? I? Just you you know, you come in you shift the home-court advantage by taking being the road team taking game one and again, I just you know You talk about different teams in this position up in the position of being down o1 on their home floor and Let alone, you know the defending champs, you know They're gonna pour everything they in not to go back to the road teams home down o2 and just simple mathematics So we again we expected them we expected it to be a tough series even though we came away with game one That was a hard-fought win And we expected them to come out today guns blazing So it's just it shows you the guys ability to just start with the teams and the individual players their ability To take their intensity and their focus up a notch when they when their backs against the wall, so to speak Darvin um clay has gotten loose here in these two games. What does Austin need to do defensively? To try to limit the attempts and I guess how big of a concern is that as this series moves on? I mean it was a concern concern from the outset I mean it just and not just for Austin for our entire ballclub and these guys They shoot the three ball at an alarming rate and their clip in which they make them is also Alarming if you happen to try to defend it and stop it and you know many times a transition or different actions You tend to have a late switch or early switch You get cross-matched. So it's not no one guy is gonna stop Steph Curry or clay Thompson It's gonna take an entire defensive unit. And again, we just have to have a next play mentality That energy that effort that urgency to make multiple efforts You know just defending through the shot clock making sure we're not leaking out giving them opportunities off Second and third possessions, you know due to our lack of defensive rebounding and their offensive rebounding So it's a turn again We'll go back and look at the film and see what we can control and what we can clean up You mentioned your eyes earlier count telling you that you know, you thought you guys said a little bit did your eyes What did your eyes say about the energy level of your guys tonight? I? The biggest thing I told him before was, you know, not the fight that sensation of contentment Complacency, you know, I mean it just I don't know if it was that but you know They you could tell they came out just just ready to try to secure a game and not again not go back to our place Down. Oh, too. I thought our guys were ready to compete You know, we just we didn't have enough Back to back to back to back three stops in a row Three wholesome possessions offensively in a row, you know, it's a we got fragmented a little bit but Best believe we'll go back and do our preparation process and we'll be ready to go game three Darwin you guys I guess got more free throw attempts in the fourth quarter But through the first three quarters was like nine or ten or something like that And you took more threes than you did in game one, but still had the majority of your shots Two pointers doesn't know if you had any thoughts on the discrepancy in that area between game one and two I have zero thoughts, you know I get paid to coach and I'm trying to coach my ass off of my team and anything officiate Officials related, you know, that's on the league to look at and try to be as fair and consistent as possible for both teams