“I Can’t Remember” Ty Lue On What The Clippers Starting Lineup Will Be. HoopJab NBA
How you doing? All right. I know you missed me yesterday. I did. Yeah, I did. I did. For me, Ty, I want to ask you the other day you were non-committal to John being a starter, but you did name Bran a starter. Kind of just wondering that spot for the fifth starting spot. Was that an open competition among several players? Just trying to figure it out. Just trying to see what’s, you know, the best fit, put it what makes sense for the team. Not necessarily the best player, just the best fit. Can Would you be comfortable naming the players that are kind of up for that part? Yeah. Just curious. Why are you curious? Cuz people want to know. Those people want to know. I want to know. Yeah. I’m nosy. Yeah. Can’t remember. You can’t never read. Got amnesia sometimes. Yeah. What would it mean to have two bigs as a as a you know starting combination like that power forward position that we’re used to the way you coach it. It’s always been a guy who has taken the majority of their shots outside the paint. We know John can do both score efficiently outside the paint but you discussed his ability to score in the paint and at the rim. Like what’s that adjustment like for you? What’s that optionality like even considering that? No man it’s great. I mean, you get a big player like John alongside teams had a night a nightmare as far as matching up. Now you’re in a match up. You want to put a smaller guy with John and a small guy on so it is it is huge for us, you know, just for them as scheduled a bunch of new players from this offseason team. When you have all these individuals who are great players in their own right, how do you get them to buy into a system as a collective without stripping away what makes them individual? Yeah, we definitely want them to be who they are, you know? So, we don’t want to take away what got them here, you know. So, just doing what they do best and then for us to make sure that my job and coaching staff’s job is to make sure that we can put that challenge in the compound system and make sure we go from there. So, we don’t want to change everybody, change how someone plays. It might be a, you know, condensed roll, but we don’t want to change it. But um, I don’t think so. Um, he’s been great. We talked about last night, our team dinner. Um, just, you know, it’s kind of funny. Like I said, Zoo backed him up in LA, but now come here now. He’s back in Z. Um, but I think it’ll be great. Yes, sir. What’s it like being here for training camp as opposed to what we’ve had, you know, previous years, especially last few years in Hawaii? Like what are the things that you like about it and what you miss about Hawaii right now? I miss Hawaii. Hawaii. And um but just, you know, having train come here for the first time and into it um is a great feeling. And then, you know, when you’re at home, you can come as early as you want. You can leave as late as you want. Um guys can, you know, get extra shots up right now. We got we’re about to bust these in 10 minutes and so just kind of take your time and be at ease. Um that’s the biggest about having transition. I know you’ve talked about transition defense a lot throughout camp, but transition offense for you guys, you guys can improve there a little bit from last season. A guy a guy like Brad um in Phoenix, he did kind of get down the floor pretty quick and actually space into the corners. What can that do for you guys on offense in transition with him doing that? I don’t think we’re going to be a fast team. I think we got to be efficient. I think, you know, being smart, we got a chance to advance the basketball and attack early. We got to do that. Um, like you said, John Collins being able to run, get out in transition. So, we just got to be smart about it. I don’t think we’re going to um be fast overnight, but just picking and choosing our spots to make sure we’re efficient when we do it. You said you wanted Brad to get back to a level defensively where he was making a high impact. Like, what does that mean for this team? like what are you what are the specific things that you kind of drilled to Brad to say we need this from you every single game? Yeah, I think um getting back to rebounding, rebounding basketball, we need a good rebounder in Washington. And then just telling him because we we teased me and JBG like even the last couple years when he guarded the best players, he did a great job. But when he guarded players like myself, it was he wasn’t that good. He kind of tend to roam. It’s kind of like guys, you know, roam freely. So just locking in no matter who you’re guarding, but he’s going to have an opportunity chance to come out really good players and we know we can do that. Is he back getting back on the floor like him and Bowie? Like how are they progressing? Were you like Yeah, I mean uh Brad didn’t play in the scrimmage today into the scrimmage and then Bowie played half of the scrimmage today again. So he’s feeling pretty good. Is this the best you felt about the team going into a season just because everyone’s pretty much healthy? Yeah, I feel good. You feel good? Do you ever not feel good? Yeah. Game seven last year, I didn’t feel good. Yeah, but I feel good now. I feel great. Is that something that you won’t want to see I’m guessing this month? Like what are how do you how do you rate it? How do you evaluate it besides just being like, “Oh, he had a lot of bounds or, you know, he got in an altercation or something like that.” Well, I think the way we play defense, I think, um, you know, with our lack of speed in certain positions, like I think our physicality has to be important as far as standing on bodies, scanning and nudging, understand. And so to try to um take those things away, we got to be physical, we got to be talking, we got to be on bodies. And so that’s going to be important for us. We’ll see, like I said, in preseason how our team fares. You know, they’re doing that. So, we’ll see what happens. Thank you. Thank you. Let’s get ready for hoop jab.
Los Angeles Clippers Head Coach Ty Lue speaks to the media on day three of Clippers training camp.
5 comments
ty funny man lol
It could be past mid season and he still wont know who to start. No clue Lue
Ty Lue is so back
Ty Lue is not funny, he’s very annoying and clueless and lacks the know how to make the correct lineups or rotations. The local media needs to keep asking about this until he gives legit explanations on his decisions that costs the team games. Every season the Clips lose 5-10 games due to his decisions about lineups and rotations. That’s what training camp and preseason games are for but he goes into every season still experimenting.
Starting Beal and not committing to Colins is a bit hypocritical, especially when Collins provides rebounding, perimeter scoring and plays pretty solid perimeter D and interior shot blocking. These are things he actually talked about in the same interview.
Playing small in the western conference is not the ideal lineup, as proof of the Denver series, as well as against teams like OKC, TWolves, Mavs, Lakers & Rockers. All these teams are at the top of the conference.
He's a Klutch plant.