Tyronn Lue Reacts To 1st Career Win At New Orleans Pelicans, James Harden Sacrifice

Tyronn Lue Reacts To 1st Career Win At New Orleans Pelicans, James Harden Sacrifice

Three 12 12 of 24 all right 24 to 23 to second quarter part of see this thing FP teams yeah I mean I just think defensively we were locked in you know you know bi is a hell of a player and so is CJ Zion but we wanted to make sure we

You know we try to take the ball out of out of bi’s hands early because he his first quarters against us are are are crazy so we want to make sure we did a good job with that and our players did a good job is responding you know to the

Blitz they made some shots early and then we got better um as the game went along we got better with our blitzes but you know I just thought it was our defense that really impacted that allow us to stay in the game I thought Russ when he came in the game with his

Defense and with his Pace um really did a good job of changing the game um late in that first quarter into the second quarter so I just think it was defensively that really got us going was able to get out in transition get some easy baskets and then get some threes as Well team just really locks down inside the P but outside of your C area um you know you want team try to take contested twos you know if you can and we want to protect the paint um but also build not back out to the three-point Shooters and

Like you said tonight I thought we did a good job of just keeping him out of the paint um showed a lot of bodies um thought did a really good job but just you like I said in that Blitz with be out of take it out of his hands and what

He end up with tonight um yeah nine shots you know nine shots for you know All-Star player you know just shows that we done a good job just trying to take the ball off his hands and so I credit it all to our defense and um like I said our player

Did a good job with it I think continue to show in bodies um make him play in the crowd um not letting him get a lot of attempts you know we came blue five a lot with zoo and DT when he posted up when he had the

Ball ISO went from the top or from the wing we did a good job of you know loading up and when he put the ball down the spin we was there to catch his Spin and um we could have did a little better but I thought overall we did a good job

Of just trying to protect the paint on him and then build out to their Shooters no I mean he’s been always been great defensively for us I think now playing better one-on-one defense I think point of attack defense um what our guards getting into the body in Pig

And rolls I think having kawhai and PG you know on the backside you know if anything it was to go wrong but I think them defensively you know you put the combination with T man out there and um James with his hands and then with Zoo

To protect the basket there’s not a lot of space on the floor to really attack and so we just got to do a good job just shrinking the floor and then get back out to Shooters defens beening recently no we’ve been good defensively for a while it just it was

More so our transition defense you know our half court defense is is is pretty good and really solid um but transition getting back not turning the basketball over um those are the things that you know we got to constantly be good at you know but half court defensively I think

You know we do some really good things and we’re pretty good in the half court we just trying to take away transition baskets and turnning the ball over get ahead of yourself but the way this team’s playing now have you seen a team since you’ve been the coach play with this much

Confidence say it again since You’ been coach have you seen a team play much confidence this team seems yeah I mean I don’t think so you know um we just got to figure it out like I said a lot of sacrifice um you know I think kawhai

Might have four four points in the first half or whatever or six points in the first half and didn’t change his facial expression PG had it going James had it going with the pick and roll and that’s the things that you know we talk about

If we want to be a really good team a great team then we got to sacrifice and that’s that’s what it’s about like come out in third quarter then Kawai he has a big third quarter and PG facial expression doesn’t change and that’s how we got to win games because we got some

Dynamic players that all are really great in their own right and so um that’s who we got to be and it’s got to be about the sacrifice and the sacrifice has helped us be confident team you last cple of games some of your best the end of

Summer I think you know um with PG just you know he’s he’s getting some easy shots you know catch and shoot threes I think James is is is a big part of that and then you know with PG like said just make sure we keep him in a rhythm you

Know because you know Kawai had such a great month you kind of you know you feature Kawai feature Kawai pach kaai but we do the same thing with PG as well so you know just it’s just different moments in the game when when those things can switch you know like the

First half was all PG and James in the third quarter was you know all Kawai you know so it could be different um in different stretches it’s just kawwai was playing such a high level in December you know um it was hard to go away from

How do you collaborate with James to you have your he’s the one Mak sure everybody said yeah I mean now James has been great just the constant communication um the dialogue we have throughout the course of the game and like I said he don’t he had seven Shots tonight and was

The happiest guy you know on the floor just having 13 assists and making a right play one turnover you know and so like like I just keep talking about all about sacrifice and what guys are willing to give up to win and you know we’re at that point right now where guys

Are doing that

Los Angeles clippers coach Tyronn Lue speaks to media after Paul George And clippers beat New Orleans pelicans. Clippers game today. Clippers postgame interview.