“You’ve got to tip your hat to the other team. They wanted it more. It all starts on defense.”
NBA players, and often coaches, are known for giving canned responses during the postgame or post-practice media scrum. Tim Cato of The Athletic speaks to NBA players about the reasoning for such activity. Here’s former Blazer Wesley Matthews:
We could all conduct an interview,” Matthews said. “There’s not that many questions to ask about a basketball game. Every team goes on runs, you miss free throws, you get offensive rebounds, you don’t get offensive rebounds, you score more points than the other team.