‘We Need That Without Russ!’ Tyronn Lue Reacts After Clippers Big Win Against Timberwolves

‘We Need That Without Russ!’ Tyronn Lue Reacts After Clippers Big Win Against Timberwolves

But our players did before we talked about of this game did both teams play as they play supp to just game what G two games yeah I think so I think um you know from our standpoint just being down 02 and um you know um the way they beat us you know

Second game at home and then you know coming out tonight you know I thought they got to an early start I thought our blitzers early had us in rotations and they got a lot of open shots and they made and so um once we switched our defense and went back to our normal

Coveres and not blit blitzing ant um I think we were more solid and then you know offensively during that stretch we got some good shots we just couldn’t make you know so that’s part of the game but I love the way we stay resilient I love the way um we kept playing defense

This is a old school 19885 game you know but I love the way we kept competing and kept guarding defending no transition points tonight um which was good um took care of the basketball you know um all night and so just you know overall I thought that was

One of our complete games defensively just as far as know rebounding the basketball um taking care of the basketball offensively but just just being in the right spots doing what we’re supposed to do and um no transition points was huge for us getting down 16 in the first half when

He got down nine before the fth time out what kind of quar to take with the team not to just go through it and just come back like yeah think you know our bench came in and gave us you know great energy I thought Norm came in and made

Some huge shots to to get us going offensively and then we kind of picked up from there but I thought bones came in did a good job just running the show running the team Amir playing great defense I thought DT spacing with goar on the floor even though he didn’t make

A lot of shots um just his spacing alone just you know kind of kept goar you know guessing a little bit um so but overall you know if we can you know win a game like that with you know James 0 for 10 and PG 5 for 16 and to beat the number

One team in the west you know on their home floor says a lot about our team you know and so um just continue to keep building off this like I said offensiv I thought we got some good shots um some things we could have executed a little better um but overall pretty pretty

Solid how good was kaight really good you know really good I thought defensively you know he did some good things um and then you know offensively just you know getting to a spots he miss some easy shots he normally makes but getting to a spot um getting some good

Looks but you know he’s been great for us all year I think I had 13 rebounds yeah that had to be big consider Zoo just coming back exactly you know Zoo not having a lot of energy just coming back trying to play through what he’s playing through um I thought Ty did a

Good job just rebounding the basketball being in the right spots and then like I said just sping the floor you know he got some good looks that he didn’t knock down but we have confidence he can do that with no R is that what you’re going to need

From yeah for sure you know with no Russ um we need bones Pace um to try to make up for the pace that Russ brought us and then you know Norm scoring you know running more stuff and Norm getting Norm going offensively and um like I said

Both of those guys you know did a good job tonight is he okay after the wind oh my God thought he just playing baseball broke his elb yeah I mean his elbows already been hurting and so so he yeah yeah and he almost missed it too I am Too you guys aggressively doubled catch and post UPS especially in the second quarter and he passed pretty well out of them can you talk about his passing prowess and what that kind of does as a matchup for you guys yeah I think just showing different looks you know I think

We double teamed early to try to keep him off balance he made some good passes they made some threes um double teaming ant you know in the pick and rolls blitzing him they made some threes and so just keep making adjustments throughout the course of the game you

Know and try to keep them all balanc because you playing against great players if you show them a steady D of the same thing it’s going to be a tough night and so we just want to just keep you know switching our defenses up to try to keep him off Balan and then

Harden you referenced his 0 of 10 shooting night but he I think did a good job running your guys’ offense despite his shooting what kind of mental fortitude does that require to still run the offense while having an off night um that’s what he does you know he’s a

Great player and so he understands if he doesn’t have it going offensively he can do other things you know he had 10 assists um five rebounds I thought he played some good defense um he was able to guard different matchups you know when kawi PG was off the floor he

Guarded big cat you know so just be moving around defensively was good for us and so you’re not going to shoot the ball every night you’re not going to shoot the ball well every night and we understand that and so these are the greedy games you got to win you know on

The road scoring 89 points shooting 38% from the field and come out with a win against a a very good team um just says a lot about your ball club that last shot they to get to yeah they did yeah

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