Some nights you’re going to be in one position, some nights you’re not. “That’s just my role on this team, that’s the role I carved out in the NBA for myself being able to play multiple positions so that’s what comes with it. “It can be but I mean, I’m used to it,” Mann said. Shifting roles has defined Mann’s four-year career with the Clippers, and he called this nothing different. “He’s put me in position to be great plenty of times before so I trust him.” “Just trusting it, just trust but I mean I trust them 100%,” Mann said. So keeping him in the game and on the floor to initiate because the pressure doesn’t bother him. “That’s when we turned the basketball over.
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“He pulled out a lot of games in his career, you know, and so I thought what hurt us was their ball pressure, getting up the floor, picking up full court,” Lue said when asked why he leaned on Westbrook so often late in the game. Paul George said Westbrook’s aggression, which led to easy baskets, was just what the team needed from a lead guard. In a key matchup against a team two spots ahead of the Clippers in the standings, Lue showed how deep his trust for Westbrook, the former most valuable player, runs by playing him the final seven minutes of the fourth quarter, all of the first overtime and the first three minutes of the second, until Westbrook fouled out with 17 points, 14 assists and seven turnovers. And they still lost after committing 25 turnovers and watching Malik Monk score 45 points off of the Kings’ bench and De’Aaron Fox add 42. The Clippers obliterated the franchise’s record for points despite having only two practices and one shoot-around under their belt with their new additions to the roster, and held leads of 14 points with 3 minutes 58 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, six with 3:04 left in the first overtime and six, again, with 1:46 remaining in the second overtime. Russell Westbrook tried to make the most of his debut Friday, but he and the Clippers had too many turnovers to beat Sacramento in high-scoring affair. Whether those two teams or any others still opt to make a play for Lillard remains the big question, but signs point more toward the Heat figuring out a three or four-team trade to bring the star guard to South Beach.Clippers Elliott: ‘It’s crazy’: Russell Westbrook’s debut was part fit, part folly Lillard hasn’t flinched on his desire to join Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo in Miami, and by this point, teams like Boston and Los Angeles surely are well-aware of that. While it’s a strong statement, it can’t be considered all that surprising at this point. He wants to be in Miami, period,” Charania explained. I think the answer has been a resounding no. Whether it’s the Clippers, whether it’s the Celtics-those are among the two teams I’ve heard that have had a level of interest in Dame Lillard.
“In those cases, where teams have done their backchannel research to find out what Dame is thinking, whether he wants to play for us. The overall statement was simple, though, for any teams doing their research on a possible trade for Lillard: the outcome has pointed back to the star having no interest in being anywhere other than Miami.Īccording to Charania, the Celtics and Clippers are a ‘resounding no’ in terms of Lillard's interest. That point was driven home this week by The Athletic's Shams Charania, who reported on the latest surrounding Lillard during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show. While trade chatter continues to swirl around the Trail Blazers star, everything continues to point back to the Heat as not only the primary focus, but it appears to be Lillard’s only team of interest at this point. Regardless of where someone’s fandom lies, at least one thing Damian Lillard and his agent deserve credit for is being brutally honest about the star’s interest in his next potential home.
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