Ty Lue Previews Season Opener Game 1 Clippers vs Utah Jazz. HoopJab NBA

Ty Lue Previews Season Opener Game 1 Clippers vs Utah Jazz. HoopJab NBA

Yeah. So, we brought our shoes to play uh a little bit of pickup. Did you see what went on in Boston? No. So, they had a media versus coaches game in Boston. In Boston? Yeah. Who won that? Who do you think? Who do you think? I don’t know. How many points do you think the media got? One. Four. Four. How many samples do I have? I don’t know. Oh, okay. Y’all might not score though. L think he’s pretty good though, but I don’t know. I don’t score. Huh? I know myself. I know my strength. We were just talking. We’ll put Nazi on you. All right. Make it happen. Okay. I got something in the work. Don’t you appreciate that very soon. I didn’t know if I was aware or not. I wasn’t aware of cuz like you said, L’s pretty good. So, you got to prepare. Um, but anyways, we were just talking to Brad and uh obviously he didn’t get a chance to play alongside Kawhai and uh James and and Golden State, but he said, “You guys have been obviously playing a lot here in practices. How how have you seen that first five kind of start to come together so far? Um it’s been good and you know Brad he has the movement we need in that first unit you know just to constant movement. Um you know great cutter can come off screen. So um it’s going to be a good it’s going to be a good mix. Like I said it takes 10 games to kind of catch up really offensively. Um but we know what we’re doing when we’re supposed to be confident. Speaking of that first is it going to be James Brag? We’ll see. early. Yeah, we’ll see. Did you see everything in preseason that you wanted to see out of your guys? Um, I mean, things you definitely got to get better at, you know, um, that’s understandable. So, um, not everything. You’re not going to get everything out of preseason, but I mean, the guys put the work in every day. We had great practices. They were prepared. You know, they got through everything. And so, we know what we need to do, how we want to do it. And so like so long as we’re working, we’re doing the right thing, we’re going to be okay. Is there a vocal leader on the team like someone specifically that you look at as like a team full of a lot of vets? Yeah. So is there one guy or is it Brad said it’s a collective? It’s my committee. My committee. Do you like that? Would you rather have one vocal guy? Yeah. They got to be themselves. Bo me. This is Jamil from A to Z and you mentioned that young guys have had a really long competition and it was close at the end. like how can you describe how J won it and what you expect from him now that he’s on this 2-way contract. Yeah, I mean it’s always a sad day, you know, and so, you know, seeing some of the young guys go Trenton happy for him. Got a two-way in Chicago. Um, but Pat Bman really improved. They all improve over the last three or four months. Just working with Sean Fine and working with JG every day these last three or four months. They really improve. So, um, seeing Preston and Pat, those guys go, you know, he’s tough, you know, but, you know, Jo, like I said, he came into camp, um, no nonsense guy, you know, hard playing, tough, um, doesn’t miss too many assignments defensively, can make a shot, just a great allound player, you know, so I’m happy for him. Like I said, a sad day for the young guys that did the part. All your DA guys have this thing where they’ve been in college for a while, then they come here and they have something that they can do on the ball, but their their wings, they they they look similar. Uh, is that a purposeful thing where you put you’ve had an input on a roster where guys are able to do so many things at that point in the roster? Yeah. I mean, I mean, I don’t know if it’s like purposeful that, you know, guys play four years of college and all, but um it’s just, you know, the best fit, you know, what’s best for our team and you want guys can do multiple things. Like I said, I’m sure you know done a great job of just, you know, picking the guys they wanted, you know, bringing the right guys in to try out to make that spot. Like I said, Paul, he was doing a hell of a job just getting those guys ready and getting them better every single year. Uh, everyone was a participant and healthy play, right? Yes. Well, Chris D. I just want to double check. Um, speaking of the young guys though, like Kobe Sanders and Yanuk had very impressive game up in Golden State. What do you think they can take take from that going into like the regular season and when they do end up getting G-League time elsewhere and stuff like that? Just, you know, confidence. You know, I think there’s nothing better, no better preparation than playing in games. And so, even though it was preseason, that was the NBA game. like Steph Curry’s on the floor, Draymond Green’s on the floor, Al Horford’s on the floor, you know, so just getting that experience and be able to play, like I said, Kobe played a full game, you know, John was able to play the last quarter, you know, Yanni played a lot in the game. So, just taking that experience, like I said, you know, translating over to G. How are you going to manage 11 11 veterans like when this team is fully healthy, fully out? like do you feel like it’s a fair expectation to play all those guys um early in the season? Play 11 guys, you know, that’ll be too hard, you know. So, we’ll see on Wednesday this year. Is that going to be game by game cuz even the way last year was alternating between Chris and DJ like you guys did have some game byame stuff. Could the man out vary game to game? Um it it could happen. We’ll see how it goes. Let’s get ready for hoop jab.

Los Angeles Clippers Head Coach Ty Lue speaks to the media at Clippers practice ahead of game 1 against the Utah Jazz.