'Good old fashioned butt kicking' | Mike Brown on Sacramento Kings loss against Celtics

Uh, that was a good old fashioned butt kicking. Uh, give the Celtics a lot of credit, um, especially coming off a back to back. Um, they for sure, looked like the team that was waiting on us here. Um, you know, the, the 18 2nd chance points with 30 fast break points and that, that’s crazy. Um, it’s in 55% from the floor, 52% from the three point line, 100 and 44 points, uh, give them a lot of credit. So Missoula kicked my behind on down and, uh, all I can do is take my hat off to

him. I know it’s a really good team over there too. But how surprising is to see five guys 20 plus points. Oh, I mean, I guess it’s, it’s surprising I didn’t look at that. I just, I mean, I, I guess I looked at everything else. There’s a lot to look at, but I mean, again, they just, they kicked our behind. So you just got to give them credit 1st, 1st half, obviously kind of attract me for you guys. I, I noticed that moment where you kind of blew up at them in the huddle, not closing

out. Did you, did you did that kind of set the tone, I guess for what was to come in terms of not recognizing perimeter

defense? Well, you, you know, I’ve been with a lot of good teams and, and, you know, I, I did, I kind of went after them at that point but sooner or later it has to come from within, you know, um, they, they have to hold each other accountable, uh, for, for, uh, for our play. I thought we had a, a group that we had out there with Kon and Malik and Javale

and HB and Trey. It was our best group. We can, we actually competed, I thought for a while on the defense end of the floor and, you know, we didn’t come up with 5050 balls and stuff like that and some things bounced their way and they hit some threes when we did a pretty good job getting some stops. But, uh, uh, besides that group being out there, I thought it was way too easy for, uh, Boston the whole night. And I mean, sooner or later somebody’s got to get tired of it and say something and

look guys in the eyes and try to hold them accountable. That’s what I tried to do and it didn’t work. And so we just traded baskets from that point on until they created some separation. Mike with Boston on a back to back. Are you surprised that he gave up 30 point, uh fast break points tonight? Any, where do you think you went wrong on the fast break part? Uh We didn’t do a good job of getting back. They just, they, they played harder, harder than us. They were more physical than us. They, I mean, they

were helping us and uh starting with me, I got to do a better job because, you know, you, you, you try to complain to the officials but uh they’re human, they’re gonna make mistakes and it ain’t gonna change. And I think the more you complain, that’s they’re human. So that’s the more they’re gonna try to call against, you know, call things against you and, and so we gotta, we gotta be grown ups about it and I got to leave the officials alone and yeah, because when I start whining everybody else seems like they start whining

and it’s just just the snowball effect. And if we’re gonna be the team that’s supposed to be uh the physical uh group out there, uh then when we face physicality, we got to figure out a way to play through it and just try to play our game and not let it uh impact us on either end of the floor. Mike a fast start for, for De Aon, obviously. And then I think only three field goal attempts in the second half. What, what did you see happening there? How did, they, they limit, uh what he was

able to do as the game went on. Uh, they were, they were just physical, like they got back in transition. They loaded the paint, they were very physical. Um, you know, the start of the, the, the game. Um, I mean, it was the, the track meet and, you know, uh, nobody was really playing defense and then they, you could just see, they just cranked it up and like I said, I started complaining to the officials, we all started complaining to the officials and they smelled blood and they cranked it up even higher. And, uh, and

you know, that probably had something to do with it, Mike, you’ve talked a lot about the gap between good and great and that gap seemed pretty wide tonight between your team and the Boston Celtics. I mean, what do you take away from that? Is this almost a necessary evil for a team to experience something like this, to see what that difference is in real time for sure, because, you know, like I said, um, you know, sooner or later it has to matter to the, to the players. And I say this, I, I, I’ll never forget

my, you know, people talk about lebron’s greatness on the court. Um, my first year in Cleveland, um we, you know, we were a show team back then. You can jump out and show and they didn’t, they didn’t shoot the three as much and some other things and, and we worked on that all summer when I got there and then we worked on it all at training camp and, you know, we started all kind of slow my first year there and, and, uh, I’ll never forget we were like eight games in and we were playing a

home game. I can’t even remember who we were playing against and we were just getting killed in the pick and roll. And, uh, uh, so I called a time out and finally I ju I just, I said, hey, look, what do you guys want to do? I mean, we tried Sean, we tried switching, you want to drop, what, what do you want to? And before I can get another word out, lebron is a young player, he stepped into the huddle and he goes, excuse my French, but he goes f that we’re effing show team. We

worked on it the whole training camp. You do this, you do this, you do this, you do this. Let’s F and go and I just stepped out the huddle and from there you go. Look at what our defensive rating was the next, you know, the rest of that season in the next four years and sooner or later, you know, all the great teams, whether it’s Tremont and Andre Iguodala and in Golden State or, you know, even even Tim Avery Johnson, you know, other guys in, in, in, in in San Antonio, every great team that I’ve

been a part of it. It’s come from within at certain times, especially when you hit adversity. And so, you know, we gotta keep hitting adversity and we gotta keep trying to have it come from within and find a way to dig ourselves out of a hole like this by holding each other accountable throughout the course of the game. So, um, yeah, you got to go through this sometimes long winded answer. Yeah, Mike learning something from these games doesn’t seem like what your team is doing though. You’re like six or seven times a season where they’re

not competitive and they let go the rope out of like your 10 losses. Is there something you’re seeing or is there some way that you can connect with them on that where they don’t have games where it just looks like a, a complete blowout from pretty relatively early in the game. Yeah, a lot of the games are, are when the, the, the physicality of the game, um by the other team impacts us. And like I said, when it does, uh, it usually starts with us complaining, you know, starting with me and everybody else on the

bench, everybody on the floor complaining to the referees and then the other team senses that and they just tighten that wrench more and more and more until they finally are able to break loose. And that’s what I’m saying. We somehow some way, um, have to just lock in on ourselves, hold each other accountable and go out there and do our job to the highest level that we can. Uh, if you watch our game, uh, think about in the first half, how many times we gave one effort, Bill? And then they got a wide open shot

because we wouldn’t continue to, to rotate. Think about them, how many times did they continue to rotate and even contest late or come up with 5050 balls? Those are telltale signs of, you know, a team understanding at all times, no matter, um, you know, no matter what the score is or how much time is on the shot clock, you gotta keep playing. Each possession is a 24 2nd possession and you got to find ways to come up with the ball and, and, and, and we did not do a great job, um, of that tonight. Now,

uh I will say that, um, you know, our guys have fought and we’re in a pretty good position. We’d like to be, uh, in a better position and there are some games that, uh, uh we have not been competitive in, but most of the games we have and I’m hoping that we find a way to be more competitive, uh, against teams that have given us problems with the physicality, uh, level in, in, in a 48 minute game. Yeah. Coach on the topic of it needing to come from within. Um, you’ve been really complimentary about darn

being the best guy on this team and, um, his progress as a vocal leader is he, is he the one that you really look at as you, you want to hear that from? Uh, it’s, it’s, it’s got to start with him and Domas for sure. And, uh, and then, uh, from there, you know, we have other veterans, um, that, that, that speak up. But then, you know, once it’s said, or once it’s done, especially the guys that are speaking up, they gotta go out there and they gotta do it. You know, they got to leave

the officials alone, they got to play hard, they gotta try to execute the game plan, they gotta keep talking out there and holding each other accountable and keep trying to find ways that, uh, to get us back in a, in a, in a ballgame if we’re down big.