‘He’s Back In LA!’ Tyronn Lue On Kawhi Leonard’s New Injury Before Game Against Kings

‘He’s Back In LA!’ Tyronn Lue On Kawhi Leonard’s New Injury Before Game Against Kings

Um yes any idea when it might have crept up um last game is he going to be good to go for Thursday um we hope so we’re not sure right now but um that’s what we’re leaning to that’s what we hope you know hope for that um be back by Thursday

We’re not sure yet when did you kind of hear from him about it like just after the game or do you feel like it’s something that you can kind of pinpoint like yesterday game yeah yesterday and heard about the game but yesterday when we found

Out is he with you guys today no he went back to LA got resources for as Treatment what have you made of you guys on this trip you know you guys are won three in a row on the road going for fourth um hasn’t been what you guys wanted at home but like what what do you make of that like your guys’ ability to

Rally together on the road yeah just having a mental toughness you know understand we haven’t played great at home over the last five games so you know getting on the road you know um taking that challenge of being you know us against the world you know mentality

But you know I thought we did a good job I thought defensively against Philly defensively against Orlando we did some good things thought we let our guards down a little bit you know in Charlotte we made a bunch of Threes but overall to to be struggling the way we were

Struggling and come back and win three games in a row I said a lot about our team so we got the continue to try to BU off this I I know the game’s obviously not till later but have you settled on a starter in place Norm okay you guys have

Um with all the stuff that’s going on since the Grammy trip in terms of defense and things you’ve not been happy about on this trip in particular been able to narrow the focus in the clutch doesn’t that speak to the level of their ability to narrow the focus when it

Really matters yeah but let’s level the focus you know to start the game you know I mean we’ve done that you know we shown we can do that you know at time but like I told our guys you know we still you know um with the way we’ve

Been playing how things have been up and down a little bit still like fifth best record in the league TI for the fifth best record in the league you know so we’ve done some good things we show that we have we can do it in the last three

Games like I said defensively against Philly defensively against you know Orlando thought we did some really good things and so we know we’re going to be able to score the basketball you know we got to continue to keep getting better with that but defensively we got to be

Able to hanger hat on you started Norm against Sacramento I think in the last game versus Air you feel that you just need more scoring in that starting five need more scoring need more offense and um the way they play Pick and role you know giv you know Norm a few

Opportunities to drive close outs get open shots and so see how it looks team seem the like playing against the Clippers when out like espe standpoint like how do you kind of overcome that that kind of need to lead on a little bit more you know especially in

The match like tonight yeah I think we need to lean on everyone you know to be good you know I think especially like you said defensively um we still strong to score the basketball but we just got to be a to so just rocking we to do

Understand pay attention to detail TR go from there some of those things just mentioned in Charlotte that you weren’t even looking at the types of Threes that they were making just that there were defensive breakdowns like what were some of those you know things that you want

To clean up specifically from that game their shots like when you’re there um you get to a person your hands are down you’re not you know getting the contest you’re not running them off and even if guys are not great Shooters make five you know four or five threes at some

Point you got you know respect him as a shooter at least for that night and so we just got to be better with that and understand what we’re trying to do not let our guards down because we come into a game stand guy shoots 26% from three

If you leave him wide open that don’t mean you can’t make it so we got to be better with that how do you manage guys minutes at the end of this trip I mean you guys have a five and seven coming up it’s been a long month but no managing

We got to get to where we trying to get to so yeah manage on April 14th how’s James doing with the shoulder and everything this going good

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