Tim Ream Press Conference | Charlotte FC vs New York Red Bulls

uh it was good um very you know very uh very excited very impressed with the turnout um disappointed with a with a draw but um yeah for for being the first first game um first 90 minutes and I think I counted I had 12 preseason training sessions um you know coming off of Copa America so overall uh overall pretty pleased I think at first pass you're like oh hello tur you know here I am again um did it take a little bit of adjusting get your pace no actually I I was was telling wesy inside I was really surprised how how well it plays um and uh yeah really really happy with the way it the ball can can move on on the turf so um I think the the first the first pass caugh caught Yuri by surprise um CU I do like to kind of zip zip those around the the Wingers um and I don't think he was fully expecting it so hopefully uh hopefully that we can we can iron that out but um no overall I was really really impressed with with the way the turf uh the turf is and and the way it plays how was it going against your first Club fine I it's been so long um it was it was a great story before and I'm sure a great story now but for for me it it was there's I think one person still there um and that was the Kitman um Sean um is is the only one still there so um yeah it was for me it was another game um it was a like I said a interesting storyline but other than that let that's about it yeah one of those new folks who just recently joined how long do you think it'll take for you your teammates to start to get on that St P towards um yeah I think it's there's an adjustment for everybody for sure um but you know the the more and more listen everybody's been off you know not had a game to to play a you know super competitive game um you know a leite game to to play so um there's there's a few things to to iron out but um you know we're working on it in every single training session so you know hopefully you see a an improvement you know even next week with with connections and and communication and um you know just being more on the same page than than we were tonight you know at times it was a little bit disjointed few uh you know decision making was was an issue um but again those are things that that you you know you train you work on you iron out um during the week and and we'll look at video on on Monday and um you know get to that right away that was my question that partnership with M how did that feel your backline in yeah I think as as most people probably saw um there was Kina and I run into each other other at one point um you know I I thought he was going to come and and collect it and and he was coming to to take everything out um so I think as as the game went on it it definitely got better um there were a few instances with with Addie and I um where you know I I didn't think he was going to get to a get to a ball and um physically he's very capable of getting getting to the ball um there was a a header where I I you know closed on it and and he he actually jumped higher than than I expected him to so it's just those those kind of things that getting used to each other um and as the game were on I I I think it was communication was a you know a big thing and it was a lot better um you know Kali coming out for for one of the crosses um you know one of the I think it was a cross it might have been a free kick um and called early and and I was able to duck out of the way so overall it was it was good it's still a work in progress as as it always is um but there you know definitely definitely positives to take from it you make you know playing for the first time yeah it was amazing um you know really really really happy um really really drives home the the the reason to to come here um with the fans with the the you know the team the club um you know everything that that the city brings um you know it just confirmed everything tonight um without a doubt 100% um and and it's a you know I'm happy to be here um and and you know really pleased with with everything that's that's going on and and like I said when you go out for warm-ups and and you know half the stadium is full um you know when I left when I left MLS you you got maybe 10 to 20 people that were that were there for warm-ups and then everything kind of trickled in so to have that you know level of support from you know from warm-ups um you know it just gets the it gets the juices flowing and and the you know the the adrenaline going from from early on at this point in time with what you're saying and with new guys like yourself coming in now without play quickly what is this team capable of do you believe yeah I think there's there's a lot of things that that listen I said it early on you can always improve there's there's each and every single day there's there's something to work on and um for us it's okay we can we can work the ball through you know through our own defensive third through our middle third it's it's then decision making when when we have the ball um decision- making in the final third um even if that's a shot that's that's off Target um you know we we are not a team that you know we want to get into a transition game and a basketball match um so I think that's something that we need to really know we really need to to focus on um and pay attention to over over the course of the next um you know next week and um you know really understand that that our decision- making our final ball is is key um as it is with every team with with every with every game and that's something that that you know I think we have been have been discussing and and something that we need to hammer out even more um because up up to that point you know sometimes we can slow it down sometimes we can speed it up um but when we when we get into to the final third and and let guys do what they want to do um and let them be creative we have to to understand that that we can't give the ball away cheaply um because it puts you know puts everybody on on the back foot and I think that's just something that that comes with with with experience and now there was a lot of almost connection yeah of course making yeah almost making the connection I think you you saw it with the with our goal right the the the right pass with the right run um with the right way to pass puts a guy in in on goal and and causes problems um we just need to do that more if we can do that more then you know it's we're we become a a much more well-rounded team much more dangerous team in in the final third in and around the Box good all right good no problem