Ty Lue On Why He Benched Kawhi Leonard During Clippers 106-103 Loss To The Lakers. HoopJab NBA

Ty Lue On Why He Benched Kawhi Leonard During Clippers 106-103 Loss To The Lakers. HoopJab NBA

We qu those two and half minutes or so eventually um you know he was close you know to his minutes with restriction and um we got a back to back tomorrow we got five games in eight days so um you know just me my thought was we need him in

The game cuz the game kind of got away from us a little bit so when PG came out you know bringing wide back a little earlier than we normally do and um you know he had to play his extended minutes early in the quarter instead of late in

The quarter so that’s on me as a decision that I made to get him in early to come back we were down eight and um he did a good job like I said be on the floor bringing us back and it was my decision like I said he was close to his

Minutes and we got to back to back tomorrow and so just got to be smart about it especially with him coming back from injury it wasn’t just um him who struggle offensively it seemed like really pry much most the guys except for Zoo had just uncharacteristic shooting

Nights what was that you feel like those are opportunities you guys missed in control or was the Lakers doing something that was force um they did a good job you know as well I thought we missed some shots we were hesitant on a couple shots and we just didn’t play a

Good offensive game you know I just told our guys at halftime um it was a bad flow to the game you know offensively you know I thought our defense was pretty good but offensively we couldn’t get in the flow and get in the Rhythm

And um I thought DM did a good job just mixing up his coverages doing different things switching sometimes blitzing sometimes firing so they did a good job and try to keep us off balance and like I said our guys you know pgy and and uh James never really got going you know

Offensively that third quarter uh you had probably half the turnovers for the whole game you know that you mentioned before game need to take care of the basketball what was the challenge with you know taking care of the ball especially in their in that period yeah

I think their length you know when they go you know woods and AD and braon and then you got Vander on the floor like it’s a lot of length on the floor and so um deflection steals um them to me had a challenges at The Rim you know we missed

A lot of a lot of shots at The Rim and so um like I said it was a challenge to just making sure he made the right Play Because with their Lim defensively um they were pretty pretty big and so um like you said we had a lot of turnovers

In that third quarter which allowed him to kind of you know um go up eight and then we had to fight back from there t you when you look at the overall I mean you guys got off to se start offensively but never looked like that

Flow um that you had the last couple weeks of playing um do you think that specifically about you guys maybe just knocking into actions um properly or in time or was what was specifically do you think led to the ugly flow of your offense I got to watch

It any thoughts before you got thoughts I told you what I thought you didn’t tell me you guys got into a good flow look kind of ugly for the most part yeah so what you think it was um I don’t know a lot couple shots that I haven’t seen guys take before uh

You know under durest I would say yeah I’ll let you know tomorrow okay thank you you will you had about seven or eight chances there on the fourth to take the lead um when the shots aren’t dropping were they were they the type of shots

That you would like the guys to take did you see anything that was forced in general or were did everything just come in the flow in in your te yeah I mean I thought you know we got kaat the nail twice you know with with Reeves on him

You know I like that match up Norm had an open three in the corner to go up too um he missed that one PG had a layup at the basket when he went by ad um he couldn’t fit he couldn’t get the tip in I think Zoo had one or two around the

Basket as well so um I got to look at it again um but I thought we got some some decent shots in that fourth quarter you know and we just couldn’t couldn’t make it we couldn’t capitalize on it this was probably kawai’s worst game from the field in about six weeks

Um I know that’s kind of sfe to say but um what what did you see that the Lakers did to kind of get him out of rhythm on that end or was it just shots that he just normally was making before and just didn’t drop tonight um shassy normally

Gets and I thought he pass up on a few as well you know um a few threes um you know I just got to go back and watch it but you know he said six weeks you know at some point it’s going to happen and um it happened tonight you know so you

Know he’s got to be got to bounce back and be ready to go tomorrow I you said part of the decision for fly to spend that time on the Ben was person back to back you expect him to to be good to go tomorrow yes ma’am what you got tell there you want

To say something all right have a good day thank you you too yeah you’re welcome let’s get ready for hoop Jab

Los Angeles Clippers Head Coach Ty Lue speaks to the media following the Clippers 106-103 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.