“We Didn’t Even Play Great!” Ty Lue Reacts To The Clippers 115-96 Win Over The Celtics. HoopJab NBA

“We Didn’t Even Play Great!” Ty Lue Reacts To The Clippers 115-96 Win Over The Celtics. HoopJab NBA

Yeah the guys are pretty motivated you know like I said playing against a a great team um you know Joe’s done a great job amazing job just you know having his team playing the right way understanding um the Peck in order understand who they want to play through

And how they want to play and um you know when they came into La they did us pretty bad so guys were locked in you know we understand was a back toback but um you know guys were locked in and they was up for the challenge you know and so

This is a game PG was you know we thought he might be out but he wanted to play like to see where we’re at just a measuring stick just against a great team that you know um is like I said a great team you know and so we just

Wanted to kind of see where we’re at um we had that on our mind and like I said the guys came out and we didn’t even play great I mean you know like kawhai played great but overall I just thought defensively we just did some good things

Of just trying to keep you know little Jay off balance blitzing them switching firing not letting him get comfortable with the same thing with j you know just trying to keep them off guard cuz they’re great players they’re great scorers and um I thought we did a good

Job like I said um Dan Craig BC Jeremy you know Dante just with the prep jayega are just trying to keep this team off balanced because they’re so high power as far as scoring and um we did a good job just making adjustments and changing

And we did some good things did PG come out of it okay yeah it was great yeah uh you said we wanted to see where we’re at what did you um I saw some good thing I mean we still got some room for improvement but you know I thought you

Know we played them in in um La they really surprised us with putting a f man on T man and and then Russ and I thought we really took advantage of of that tonight just being ready and prepared for that you know um which was good to

See and um you know like I said you know porzingis is out you we know Zoo’s out but just you know just having that you know attention to detail on the defensive end was really good for us just seeing that it was like more of a a playoff you know detail oriented walk

Through today and I give him credit they executed um pretty good for the most part you kind of feel like you’re especially kaai and BG at the point of the attack you feel like that kind of gets like underplayed or you know teams aren’t really anticipating that and then

It kind of like messes up their offensive flow yeah I mean especially when we have them off the ball you know that’s one of their their um you know most disruptive when they’re off the ball and you think you might have over top pass here comes kawhai and PG with

Deflections and Steals and then when they’re on the backside as well they’re also you know great rebounders so that helps us with you know on rebound the Bas Ball but getting off in that first quarter we didn’t rebound the ball well we really challenged our guys to you

Know really lock in hit bodies first you know rebound the ball you know finish the possessions and I thought after that first quarter we did a better job with that what’s it say about James you know shoot two of 11 but still feel like he was in control of the offense and kind

Of get you guys organized yeah I mean he did a great job just controlling the game and that’s what great point guards do you know if he needs to get 15 assists he can get that if he needs to get 30 points he can get that but just

Controlling the game understand how they were trying to play us and guard us and just trying to take advant of you know how we wanted to play offensively with their different schemes and different coverages so much Hall of fam you have but for a guy like Terrence that On Any

Given night it could be any different thing that he brings to the table that is all necessary all needed how pivotal as a guy like that to what you want to accomplish yeah I mean he’s very important like I said taking on a challenge every night of you know

Starting off on the best players and um but now like I said the way shooting the Bas pushing in transition making plays um and he’s he’s been great and Amir is the same way you know just coming off the bench guys that are connectors and

Um can make the right play make an open shot can defend the best players and then allow PG and kawhai like you said off the ball to be able to roam and rebound the basketball and being help side off TI but how you any thoughts on the job he’s

Done you know thus far what you do going for the decade for this week yeah I mean he’s he’s um um David Stern you know took us to a you know at a high level and you know um unfortunate you know with Mr Stern’s passing you know Adam

Silver’s done a great job of just taking off where he left where he left off and just learning from you know David Stern and Mr Stern and then just taking it to another level and continue to keep getting better continue to keep making the NBA um a highlevel entity you know

And so he’s done phenomenal you know I think the players see that the coaches see that you know all the salaries are going up NBA is making money and so he’s done a phenomenal job and so I’m glad he was able to like I said extend through

He can extend as long as he want as long as I’m around so he’s been great I’m trying to think of your past teams you’ve been with you think this is your best defensive team since the weight Celtics um that you’ve been a part I

Mean yeah I mean we we we got a long ways to go I mean but we have the PO potential like you said the potential to be you know really good you know and um I think what helps is like you know with James being 66 at the point guard

Position you know he can rebound the basketball and he he’s still a big body he can switch and guard bigger guys and um so I mean we got some ways to go but I think we can get to that point where we we are a really elite elite you know defensive team

Yeah let’s get ready for hoop Jab

Los Angeles Clippers head coach Ty Lue speaks to the media following the Clippers 115-96 win over the Boston Celtics.