“Best team in the NBA” – Shaq on Clippers beat Pelicans 111-95 to 14-2 over their last 16 games
Help you as a team is what I did he just showed you after y I’ve thrown names out to Nico before I’ve seen him before and say hey what do you think about this guy so AJ Lawson niik what do you think I wish you could hear you he’ll hear you later for
Sure I love AJ great guy and hard worker and obviously you know we we we love the skill and and I was going to say the skill more than anything but you can you can find a bunch of nice guys and be looking for work like I tell white bow [Applause]
Inside Dallas up 98- 62 over Portland it’s the third quarter it’s winding down just under 3 minutes left in the third Kyrie Irving with 24 points eight rebounds four assists but 10 for 18 shooting that’s really efficient as we welcome you back inside our NBA TV studios alongside Sam Mitchell and
Isaiah Thomas I’m Stephanie ready let’s talk about this Mavericks team no Luca donic tonight doesn’t appear to be a problem for this particular matchup but if you had him is it enough Kyrie and Luca is that enough to make a deep run it is definitely enough offensively the
Way they’re playing in in Luca and Kyrie they’re both playing at a very very high level offensively uh they don’t make many mistakes they’re great shot makers they give up the ball and then they have a team around them and a coach and Jason kid who understands how to work those
Two and I mean Luca is playing at an MVP level right now and you know Kyrie is Kyrie coach what is it that they have to do to take it to the next level that’s tough Steph because they got enough scoring you got a guy like Luca m can
You got Kyrie Irving who’s won a championship and can put up numbers but it’s like something missing if you’re going to compete with the teams that above you cers the Nuggets some of those teams it’s like they need to add something maybe add some defense maybe add anothers starts
Atay they going to need somebody if he gets in fou trouble that changes how they play it takes that pick and roll action because now you don’t have a big guy putting pressure on the front of that Rim so I think they need to do something to make a trade because the
Teams above them right now are just better yeah I mean the Clippers Denver they’re just bigger they’re just better so I do think they need to add something maybe some size the two teams that you just named the Clippers and Denver they have depth yes at a star level at a star
Level yes and that and and Dallas has two legit ones yes right and what Sam talked about in terms of the of bigs they need one more big at a star level right well we’ve got a treat for you guys we’re being joined by a special
Guest we’ll get to him in one second look at this final 111 to 95 the Clippers win it uh you can see they had four players score in double digits Paul George Kawhi Leonard zubac and Norman Powell Norman Powell had 13 5 for 13 hey there Norman I’m Stephanie how you doing
Glad you’re here with us thrilled I’ve got Isaiah and also Sam Mitchell here uh but we’ve been talking about you all a lot tonight please help us understand for the people at home what is it that makes your team click right now um Everybody sacrificing um Everybody uh
Pulling uh the rope in the same direction um and figuring it out you know um nobody has an eagle nobody’s um you know pointing fingers you know uh we’re all helping each other on the court offensively defensively and trying to get uh the best shot on offense and um being on the string
Defensively no talk to us a little bit about uh you know how tyou has has really worked with the team uh when James Harden came first five or six games uh it was a kind of fill out period for all of you but all of you seemed to you know understand what the
Game plan was and once you got rolling now you guys look really good how how did James fit in and what did Coach do to make it better for all of you um I think uh designated in um who was going to who we’re going to play through you
Know um got a lot of guys we got four guys who are future Hall of Famers um you know Russ uh taking it on the shoulder to um uh come out the first unit and and play with the bench unit um and I think that kind of put everybody
Um in position uh to be successful and um playing throughout James you know um he he’s a monster in the pick and roll U making the right reads attacking um attacking the mismatches and and kickouts to to the Shooters and The Bigs um so just uh playing through those guys
And playing off of them um I think that we attack people uh every single night differently um on who has it going out of those three in the starting unit no when you look at your your guys team and the way you guys are playing do you
Honestly feel like you’re looking at the Western Conference and the way the strides that you guys have taken do you feel like now you guys are the best team that in the Western Conference that you’re finally starting to live up to the promise that everybody’s been expecting for the past 2 three years
With Kawai yourself PG now you’ve added James Harden do you feel like you now have the components to be that championship team that we’ve all been waiting for yeah I think we uh we we have the pieces I think we had the pieces before man but you know injuries
Play a big part of uh uh continuity and chemistry you know uh you know guys going out getting hurt late in the season and not having them uh in crucial moments when we’re trying to make a run is really big but uh I think the team
That um is built now um is built uh for that Championship run uh and I know there’s a lot more work we got to do we’re not looking ahead we’re looking at um each game that’s in front of us and doing what we have to do to build to
That goal you I think there’s another level that we can uh uh take it to you know locking up um in transition on our defensive end uh communicating in that area that’s always been an area for us in rebounding but I think we’re just uh staying in the moment um taking each
Game at a time and doing what we have to do to execute to get ready for um the postseason I’m going to play devil’s advocate here Norman and you actually just alluded to it things that you want to work on what specifically is it I because I
Know you all know you’ve been around this game long enough you can see you mentioned your defense you mentioned your communication what are the things that you know as a group if we can nail this down we’ve got it um uh defensive transition has been uh one of the focal
Points um every single time we watch film every single game uh teams don’t want to see us in a half court um in the way we guard uh um in a half court setting but um if we can get our defense to transition and rebounding those are
The two areas um that we can control uh every single night I think that’s going to put us um In Contention perfect thank you so much we appreciate the time nor good luck thank you nor good luck to you brother good luck on six Man of the Year too you
Should get you got a chance to get good luck the rest of the way that’s a grown man right there he’s a good guy yes I knew got to know him when he was in Toronto he is a pro he’s a professional and he’s right once that
Group sat down and decided how we’re gonna play and who we’re gonna play through and you got to be a man right he said it Russ took himself out the lineup you got to make sacrifices Zeke play on stship team he talks about all the time mark aguire look at the sacrifice he
Made yes you know this guy West yeah this guy was a Hall of Famer he was on the trajectory to be a Hall of Famer averaging 28 29 Points a game and he took less of a role you got to do it and we said it earlier everybody raised
Their hand to say to win but what are you willing to do yeah to make that happen yeah and we’ve talked about that throughout this night and so Norman pal is an example of one of those type of people that you need on your roster to
Be successful e I’m going to say this since I mentioned it with all the people being nominated for the Hall of Fame it’s a travesty that Mark aguire name is not there I am so with you I mean what what Mark aguire did you know for depal
You know in college talking about your whole career and then and then you if you’re talking about your whole career in Dallas putting that expansion team on the map yeah you may been the best forward in the league for a period of time they were in the western conf
Finals for two straight years losing to the Lakers before he came to the Pistons right come to the Pistons wearing backto back championships and when you talk about a body of work right when you look at mark aguire from college to the NBA I don’t know who’s done it better at that
Position in terms of winning start the campaign then well I mean Ian we shouldn’t have to I mean we’re talking about a guy that was if he would have stayed in Dallas his numbers would have been sick yeah right I mean he was averaging 28 points a game it would have
Been ridiculous the type of numbers he would if he would have stayed in Dallas and he would have been in the Hall of Fame yep but he wanted to win go championships it’s important yes the value right and see what people used to call Mark selfish really that’s a
Selfish guy does that but that’s what they saying about Westbrook right Westbrook supposedly selfish now he goes to the but selfish guy don’t do that no not at all about team about team gentlemen gold bar level up gold bars 14 games in the NBA several finals and a
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NBA Gametime | “Best team in the NBA” – Shaq on Clippers beat Pelicans 111-95 to 14-2 over their last 16 games
