Myles Turner on Rudy Gobert: 'In switch situations everybody brings him out and and exposes him'

Josh Lewenberg: France, in quarterfinal and semifinal wins over Canada and Germany: Wemby/Gobert: 18 points, 6-28 FG Yabusele/Cordinier: 75 points, 25-43 FG -via Twitter @JLew1050 / August 8, 2024

Draymond Green: In the three minutes that Rudy checked in, Shai started getting off. That’s when it started to turn the corner for Shai, and then he came back out. I think his finger was messed up. We don’t know quite what’s coming out of the French national team side. It seems like a little bit of a misunderstanding. Nonetheless, the guys that were supposedly better as far as a matchup, they got off, and France is moving on.” -via YouTube / August 7, 2024

Asked about the change in the starting lineup, Fournier revealed that it was a surprise Gobert even played that much. “First of all, Rudy was not even supposed to play. He got a little surgery last night on his finger. Just the fact that he was available to play shows how much this means to him,” Fournier told BasketNews. “He’s given us everything he has.” “We made a little change to the lineup, we adjusted, and we just started better regardless of who was in the lineup,” the player said. “We had a game plan, and we just followed it.” -via BasketNews / August 7, 2024

Myles Turner: It used to really f*ck with me bro. I know it used to really f*ck with me like my first couple years, because it’s everybody in your ear. You feel like bro like I think in my third season like I out blocked an entire organization, I had more blocks than the Cleveland Cavaliers team, right? What they always told me was like all well you don’t rebound, and I was like ‘all right’ you know I’ll take that on the chin, cool. But I feel like defense is more than being just a defensive rebounder, like I’m leading like a like a number two defense in the league, and know we have a decent record. But bro we don’t play on TV, we didn’t get very far in the playoffs so no exposure, so it’s like they had to justify who they get this award to, and it became like a popularity contest. That’s when I kind of bowed out say bro I’d rather get respect from my peers than you know this trophy. -via YouTube / August 9, 2024

Do you think y’all are missing a piece like, what do you think that y’all can bring, not necessarily a player but like something that somebody can add to help y’all get over that hump that y’all are right now. Myles Turner: I think one we gotta be a better rebounding team, we’re still kind of small. We just got James Wiseman so that helps a bit you know I mean he’s like 7-1 but outside of me, Isaiah Jackson was 6-9, Jalen Smith at the time was 6-9, 6-10… So we just to have more frontcourt presence, especially off the bench. And also just vets bro. -via YouTube / August 9, 2024

It’s not surprising that Pascal Sikam and Andrew Nembhard got these extensions. But what do you think were the turning points for Pascal and Andrew that a deal would happen? Todd Ramasar: “With Pascal, from the onset when he was traded from Toronto to Indiana, you could see that Indiana had a very talented team from the rosters with the players and all the way to the coaching staff and front office. They made it to the Finals in the In-Season tournament. Even though they ended up losing, you saw the potential of a young roster. As we were evaluating that in light of a trade, it was about how Pascal would fit with that team. The missing piece to that team was really a versatile forward to complement Tyrese, Myles [Turner] and Andrew. So once Pascal got there, I think there was an adjustment period. Naturally so. For any player that has been with an organization for eight years, there would be a transition or an adjustment. But for Pascal, it was more so with the tempo because of the speed the Pacers play at and the way that Rick Carlisle does a really good job with managing minutes to keep them fresh for the postseason.” -via SportsKeeda / July 29, 2024