Gortat gave his honest assessment of the situation with some sound bytes brimming with truth that should get some attention in the locker room.
Heres the best of his interview:
Its just a little bit frustrating when you come in here to the locker room and people are talking about the offense, you guys are talking about the offense. Thats not the way youre going to win NBA games. I dont know if its just me or maybe Im just different but I came from a team where everybodys competing, trying, do the stuff that Coach is saying. We just totally changing our rotations, changing the stuff we set before the game. Were not playing hard enough, and theres a lot of, lot of work in front of us. The positive thing about it is it cant get worse.
There are so many things that were doing bad, and I just cant find an explanation. A lot of people are trying to get some rebounds and such, but unfortunately there arent too many opportunities for me to rebound because if the team is scoring 100 something points theres not much to rebound. Its just frustrating as hell. Im not going to lie. Now its kind of like a reality check for me being from a team thats winning to a team thats losing, I mean we are the worst defensive team in the league. Weve just got to come tomorrow as early as possible and work three hours at least.
I think weve just got to be more serious about everything that we do. Weve got to be more serious, weve got a lot of young guys on the team, a lot of potential, but a lot of young guys who dont know what its like to be on top and at a high level. Its not just the focus of the game, its the focus at the practice. You cant have people coming in and doing different things. Youve got to read the scouting report, youve got to read which guys likes to do what, and weve just got to learn. Theres a lot of work, a lot of work. If Phillys scoring 120 points I dont want to see teams like Boston, Orlando, San Antonio, Miami or the other teams. Its going to be bad.
Today we didnt even try to defend. We were not able to defend anybody.
Its just different mentality. Youve got a lot of veterans in Orlando and youve got different mentalities, coaching mentality, everythings different.
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