Kawhi Leonard Gets Real After Clippers Lose Against Hawks

Kawhi Leonard Gets Real After Clippers Lose Against Hawks

Know you have to fast start 177 in the first quarter nine the rest of the way uh coach tyo said it was kind of not what the Hawks did it was the spacing with you guys did did you see the same thing out there uh yeah I mean but you

Know every quarter isn’t the same every game ain’t the same and um you know I’m just trying to play to win and execute on the basketball court um but um got to give them credit they uh they started shrinking the floor start bringing another guy towards me um and uh yeah I

Mean they won the game Ka uh when it comes to to Habits Like T said that team needs to be better at specific things obviously I’m sure you’re you’re aware of those things why would you feel like it was important for you Paul and James in particular to

Finish that game with as large as the deficit was um I mean just thinking in the future just wanting to be able to you know build um within in the game um these games are you know pretty much like the the best experience or um you

Know practice you could get for uh if you’re trying to make a pitch in the playoff so um you know just be able to play and um get out there again and see if we could you know bring that lead down or get some type of carryover and Ty was talking about

Basically some of the habits he’s talked to you guys about that didn’t exist most of the game tonight why didn’t that exist tonight and what can you guys do to make sure they stay in place all the time uh I kind of felt like like we were

In mud tonight really um that we didn’t really give uh um all the effort that we could have gave I felt like um you know this they pretty much won in um transition you know what I mean and uh offense we were in mud a little bit um kind of slow

Footed so uh you know once we get back on track uh you know we we got to look at games like this to have turnovers um but U yeah I mean I think that was pretty much the game like I said just being um not the effort wasn’t 100%

There and just being a little slow footed on the offensive end and Kawai um touching on what he was talking about and Coach Lou and the habits and all that good stuff with the month being away from the from the playoffs why do you feel like you guys

Continue to go into the same Circle to where there’s no consistency there because Tylo say keeps preaching the same stuff over and over again but for whatever reason there’s no consistency with you guys why do you think that is so late in the season um I mean it’s

It’s hard to say um I know it doesn’t need to happen um we shouldn’t be talking about you know uh consistent games like this um iel like we gave effort the last game though uh against the Pelicans but um just tonight it just how it played out um but if we want to

Do something uh special or just give us a chance to um to reach a goal we we got to be better um and that’s nothing the coaches could do it’s it’s so nice to get out there and at least play hard and like move with some type of

Pace uh Tai mentioned you know it’s been a couple years theme running theme of offensive rebounds transition defense being major problems for you guys as a team like trying to compete for what you guys are competing for when those problems haven’t been fixed over multiple years does it cause your

Confidence in the goal to like waver at all or in this team at all no um you know I got a championship mindset so I’m just keep pounding until um there’s no other chance um so um you know I know we could turn it around um guys are saying the

Right things but now it’s trying to do it Kawai it seemed like once the second unit came in things really kind of bogged down just how much is Russell Westbrook missed because he’s that he’s that that that spark pluck for you guys off the that you just don’t seem to have right

Now uh yeah I mean you know he’s another guy that comes in with energy uh you know um you know playing giving us a fast pace you know playing transition another defender on the floor another score so um we definitely miss them you know we played our first 50 games uh

With them or 50 something games so um you know it’s it’s a rhythm break but um like I said um it’s between the um ears with us we got to go out and do it and um even if he’s on the floor or not uh it’s still you know or five other guys

That’s on that floor that could you know run hard and do what’s told hey Kawai uh you know you guys have lost four out of the last five games here and you know we’re coming towards the end of the season how can you kind of rally your whole team as one of the

Leaders here to kind of finish the season strong here U just seeing what we want to do um that’s it um what type of team we want to be um if everybody saying they want to you know be one of the last teams standing then we we like I’ve been

Saying man we we got to go out and do it

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