WATCH: Hawks head coach Quin Snyder Talks about his teams's 21-point comeback against Minnesota
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00:00 show a lot of character and their perseverance to continue competing.
00:10 And that's one of the, it's a little bit, I don't know, kind of a surreal one.
00:17 But I thought we weren't selfish and we just competed.
00:22 And eventually he caught some breaks and obviously DJ had that stretch there
00:28 where he puts on his back and just made all kinds of plays.
00:32 And I thought it just lifted the group.
00:35 But even prior to that we started to defend at a higher level,
00:41 which is not always as easy as people think, particularly when teams,
00:46 certainly I feel like there's more we could do in the first half.
00:50 But when they're making 67% of their threes,
00:54 it's easy to have that deflate you.
00:59 The thing that's really terrific is that you go into halftime and
01:02 you came out of halftime and we didn't let that happen.
01:06 >> I'm just kind of curious, what do you say to your team at halftime
01:10 when they're down 21 points?
01:13 >> The NBA is funny.
01:16 I think more than being down, we were just struggling to get stops.
01:23 And that's what we talked about.
01:25 Let's get some stops and be able to get out and transition.
01:28 But McDaniel's defensive is unique.
01:32 He can impact the game.
01:35 His length made it hard for us offensively in the half court, as did their size.
01:41 So I think for us to come back, it was all about trying to get some stops
01:46 and get back in the game that way.
01:48 And that was the message from a tactical standpoint, which isn't very tactical.
01:55 And just hang in there.
01:59 As I was saying, the 20-point lead's in the NBA.
02:01 I mean, this was a unique game, obviously.
02:03 But you just always have to keep, whether you're ahead or behind,
02:07 you just have to keep playing.
02:11 >> Coach, a moment ago in your opening statement, you mentioned Desante briefly.
02:14 But this may have been his best game so far as a member of the Hawks,
02:18 22 points in that third quarter.
02:20 Timberwolves only scored 19 in that quarter.
02:23 Did you see something in him coming out of half that kind of showed he would
02:26 have that performance?
02:27 And were you calling plays for him, or was it kind of just him freestyling
02:30 and then going with the hot hand?
02:33 >> You know, I think that's who he is.
02:35 He's just a competitive guy.
02:38 And, you know, he was attacking in the open court.
02:45 He scored at three levels.
02:46 He got to the rim.
02:48 He got to his midrange, and he also shot threes, which, you know,
02:51 that says a lot about, I think, what he's doing as a player offensively.
02:55 But I think it was his spirit, as much as anything, that lifted our group.
03:01 And, yeah, we were -- it would be crazy not to try to call some plays for him.
03:06 I thought maybe a unique thing about the game was when they changed matchups,
03:14 Desante got off it and gave it to Tre, which is, you know,
03:18 usually when you're having the game that Desante was having,
03:21 you want to keep going.
03:22 And, you know, that says a lot.
03:25 That's the unselfishness that I was talking about,
03:27 in addition to the team that just competed at a high level.
03:30 Thank you.
03:31 Coach, can you speak on the amount of effort
03:33 and energy that it took to make this comeback,
03:35 especially on the back of a doubleheader, and what you saw from your guys?
03:40 Yeah, I mean, superlatives, right?
03:43 It's not easy to do, particularly when you -- not easy on back-to-backs for hard,
03:50 but it's -- there's a switch in your head where you just --
03:54 you're going to be tired at various times.
03:55 You're going to be on back-to-backs.
03:57 If you want to hang on to those students as a reason to, you know,
04:01 to not be able to play at eye level, you certainly can.
04:05 And I think people understand that.
04:07 But they didn't want to pass in this game.
04:09 They didn't want to pass.
04:10 They wanted to compete.
04:18 Coach, obviously they shot lights out first half.
04:21 As you weathered that storm and get into the second half,
04:25 and counting last night as well, are you seeing more and more what you're
04:28 hoping to build with your collective defense?
04:31 Are you seeing that chemistry start to come in spurts more than perhaps the
04:34 first couple of games?
04:36 Are you starting to see it come together a little bit?
04:40 I've seen us execute the things we've been talking about since the first day
04:43 of training camp.
04:44 And the first couple games we did, not at as high a level.
04:49 Tonight we did in the first half, and we did the second half.
04:53 So, you know, the key is I think in all those situations you're referring to,
04:57 one, I think our group knows that they need each other.
05:01 And the second thing is you're not going to be perfect, but, you know,
05:06 how you react to situations where you have breakdowns.
05:10 And can you get to the next play?
05:12 And that was on display tonight, our ability to get to the next play, you
05:16 know, when something didn't go the way we wanted to.
05:20 Anthony Edwards came out hot, obviously, slowed down the second half.
05:23 How would you evaluate DeJounte's defense on him?
05:27 Well, let me say, Anthony Edwards is just a terrific player.
05:30 And, you know, you could see that.
05:33 Obviously, you know, we had a few times where, you know, he was able to get out
05:38 and transition where it's difficult to stop, but he was hitting some really
05:41 tough shots.
05:43 Yeah, I mean, I think that was part of DeJounte's night.
05:46 You know, the stat sheet says he had, what, 41 points?
05:51 But defensively, as I said, you know, any time you see players, you know, up on
05:58 the ball and working and competing, it just -- I think it's inspirational to the
06:03 guys behind him.
06:05 And then it picks your level up because you don't want to let that guy down.
06:09 And you could feel it, you know, on both ends of the floor.
06:13 Thanks coach. Okay.