Donovan Clingan Media Availability | July 10, 2024 | Portland Trail Blazers

Donovan Clingan Media Availability | July 10, 2024 | Portland Trail Blazers

uh so after 3 or 4 days now how do you feel like this are coming along for both you and for the team uh I think things are you know going really well um you know just being able to you know build a connection with the guys on the floor you know getting ready for summer league um you know just building those relationships building those you know great habits offensively and defensively you know it’s been a great few days of work you know getting ready for you know Vegas and you know I can tell that everyone everyone in this B is excited to get out there how better to you to get out there and play a real game yeah it’s been it’s been a while since I played a you know a real game live action so you know to get out there in Vegas it’s it’s going to be fun you know I’m really excited really amped up to you know go out there and compete again is the newness of learning everybody is that pretty fun yeah I mean yeah I mean you you know it’s it’s completely different you know it’s a different type of basketball you know it’s obviously it’s not College anymore so you know and you’re really just trying to understand how you know all your teammates play you know how you know what they do to succeed you know how I could set better ball screens how I could you know hand the ball off better you know really just trying to pick up on you know different players and you know how they need me to play for them to be you know very successful you watched the summer league throughout the years oh yeah yeah I’ve been watching especially recently um you know I watched a lot last year you know especially with you know D Jordan and Andre going into Summer League last year so I watched a lot um you know it’s cool seeing a lot of the young guys go out there and you know compete for you know spots and just to battle it out you know this is why play basketball as to compete so you know I’m really excited the BR I asked too is cuz a lot of times people talk about summer league being a guards league and and not as good for for centers uh your thoughts on that because it seems like some of the centers so far playing this summer have had some success out there the guards of Gunners and ballog well I’m not saying it’s because of that because they’re out there trying to get get paid and they’re like well the post go get that’s not an indictment of bigman that’s indictment of the league yeah yeah yeah I just you know for me it’s it’s about winning you know for me it’s not about the points it’s not about you know might getting the social media you know recognition no for me it’s just winning it’s just about you know how I can help my team win it’s not about you know scoring 20 points you know I’d be happier with 20 rebounds and you know seven blocks and you know five assists rather than you know 25 points so you know for me I really you know I’m just going to go in there with the same mindset of every other game and try to you know attack my opponent and just win however coach bills was bragging about your shooting ability we’ve all heard these Tales are we going to see it in this summer you expect to be Unleashed a bit yeah I mean know if I’m open I’m going to let it fly but they’re going to run more plays for you hopefully are you think yeah yeah yeah I mean yeah I mean you know just try to get myself into the groove of you know the league get you know just try to get adapt to the PACE the style of play um you know I feel like there’s be some plays made for me and also you know plays ran for me to get my teammates open I think you need three to five threes a game personally we’ll see we’ll see yeah I’ll get him up there kind of in that same vein um you know there there’s been talk about like traditional centers not as not not getting as much play in the NBA as they used to but it seems like between guys like you and guys like Zach it seems like kind of maybe the more traditional big Center is is making a bit of a comeback yeah um you know I feel like on myself and you know playing against Zach you know I can tell how badly he wants to win and you know we both really are just out there trying to do whatever we can to help our teams win and you could really see that um you know and that’s what it’s all about you know it’s not about the points you know when when you’re big it is about the rebounds it is about the blocks for sure but you know just trying to do the little things trying to learn every day trying to get better every day you know for me it’s just how could I protect the rim at a high level how could I defend at a high level how could I you know be the best teammate possible how could I you know learn every day you know be coachable and you know that’s that’s going to find your playing time and you know if I just keep getting better keep put in the working keep learning you know I know I’ll be good what have you learned most about yourself this week um you know that I could you know play at a high level I could compete um you know there’s a lot more things offensively that you know I could do that you know that wasn’t able to Showcase you know at the college level just because you know the style of play but um you know I feel like I’m really excited for Vegas and I’m ready to show what I can do all right thanks man appreciate it thank you

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