Kevin Ollie gave a standard, coach-speak answer when asked a standard, reporter-speak question to lead off his pregame presser on Monday night.
The Brooklyn Nets were set to host a depleted Memphis Grizzlies team they had beat by 25 a week earlier, and this time, Memphis wouldn’t even have Jaren Jackson Jr. So when Meghan Triplett of YES Network asked Ollie about avoiding a let-down against such a bad team — not in those words, of course — Brooklyn’s head coach aced the answer.
“We’ve got to take care of what’s inside this locker room, and keep playing the right way, keep playing with our winning habits that we’re starting to establish and build a foundation.