Terance Mann On Guarding Ja Morant. “Sh** It’s Not Gonna Be Easy. ” HoopJab NBA

Terance Mann On Guarding Ja Morant. “Sh** It’s Not Gonna Be Easy. ” HoopJab NBA

And Terence um yesterday Ty was before the game Ty was asked about your your shooting slump um going into the game and he was like T man bring so much to this team more than just scoring and shooting the ball when you’re out there do you look to when you’re open shooting

Or do you want to be the type of guy who going to make the right play make the extra pass and more focused defensively uh I guess this is both I’ll try my best to take and make the open shots that I get um On Any Given night and you know

Do my best defensively to uh get stops and bring this team energy this has been probably has been say the most clarified your role has been here uh in quite some time consistency at this at this position you’re being asked to do has that been easier to get acclimated to

Than prior years prior stin and prior roles that you’ve had to take on um yeah I guess hey so you know tomorrow you know most likely you’re going to be the guy matching up with with J um just how tough as of a matchup is he guarding a

Guy like like John Morant and like what are the things that you’re looking to hopefully take away to make it as tough as possible for him um I mean it’s not going to be easy um he’s a great player he’s a dog I’ve been playing against him since my senior at College

We play each other in the tournament so um you know this won’t be our first rodeo but just as the game goes along you know see if I can take away different stuff as the game goes along um you know he likes to do certain things that I’m going to try and take

Away but you know he’s a great player Terence I know obviously we talking about shooting for a minute but you put in a lot of work this summer obviously um going ball and off the ball uh do you feel like a decreasing touches how how does that affect you as a

Shooter cuz there’s some guys they can lose a lot of touch just they’ll be fine as a shooter some guys are naturally more comfortable the more they feel having the ball in their hands even if they’re not Score first I mean shooting is different than scoring so like how’s

That kind of affecting your comfort there my job is just not to do uh too much you know my job is just to take the shots that I get on any given night whether that’s three shots whether that’s 10 shots so that’s just what my role is so you know that’s just

What I got to do um I got to get better at making shots and you know it’s going to come you know it’s only December um I’m glad it’s only December so just that’s my role man just taking and making open shots got time for two more

Is it tough to look at the fox score and see o over 10 I mean you how hard is that to put aside um in the moment not not easy to put aside but I mean the next day I’m good um it happens you know people have

Those type of games but uh you know a good thing we play two days later or the day later you know not like college where you got to wait a week so yeah how much as having a coach like Ty who wants you to keep shooting obviously that’s

Been his thing with guys like yourself and others for a long time that no matter what type of slump you’re in like he just wants you to keep putting those up how does that help you confidence wi um you know tremendously uh you know that’s the thing you miss you just keep

Shoting and you’ll figure it out than thank you you open let’s get ready for hoop Jab

Los Angeles Clippers guard Terance Mann speaks to the media at Clippers practice ahead of the Clippers 12-29 matchup against the Memphis Grizzlies.