WATCH: Jalen Johnson Post-Game Press Conference After Loss to 76ers
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00:06 >> Jalen, just coming into tonight with how you guys played against the Knicks and
00:11 trying to limit those offensive boards.
00:14 How do you guys move forward in terms of how you try to limit those second chance
00:18 opportunities for other teams?
00:20 >> I think we just need to keep boxing out, keep finding the man on the glass.
00:23 Some we're gonna continue to fix, we're not gonna be perfect at it, so
00:28 we just gotta keep getting better every game.
00:30 As long as we're making progress, I'm comfortable and
00:35 confident we're gonna figure it out.
00:40 >> You guys led fast break points and points in the paint,
00:42 two areas that the Sixers were number one and number three.
00:45 And that was a good sign.
00:46 How does it feel to be able to take on a team that does those things well?
00:51 >> It was good.
00:52 We established those things early.
00:54 We kind of saw some shots fall early, so that kind of helped us establish that.
01:00 But yeah, it was good.
01:03 >> Going back to Lauren's question about the offensive rebounds,
01:07 when an opponent gets an offensive rebound, what's sort of the objective
01:12 defensively, how do you guard it after they have the offensive rebound,
01:15 like when you've been scrambling to go get the offensive board,
01:17 to go get the rebound and you haven't quite gotten it?
01:20 >> I mean, it's a scramble.
01:22 It's kind of tough to have an assignment once you get an offensive rebound,
01:27 cuz you don't know where your man's at.
01:30 Could be a guy crashed from the weak side or whatever.
01:32 So I think just kind of just moving on the fly, I think you gotta be better at that.
01:37 They had a couple big, crucial ones late in the game.
01:42 So like I said, we're figuring that out still.
01:45 We're gonna figure it out.
01:46 >> Jalen, how did DeAndre's injection kind of affect you guys?
01:52 >> We just gotta keep playing through it.
01:55 It's tough to lose a guy like DeAndre, but we just have to keep figuring it out,
02:01 especially in this game.
02:05 >> In the closing minute of this game, how was that play a little bit different,
02:08 I guess, than usual with the point differential and
02:11 the fact that they were still trying to score?
02:13 >> Yeah, I mean, you gotta play to the button.
02:15 As you see, both teams are still trying to score at the end.
02:20 Kind of the same thing in Detroit, where you're still trying to score to the end.
02:23 So every point matters, the differential matters.
02:26 So we got that in the back of our heads.
02:28 >> All right, thank you.