‘We Got Guys That DON’T Work!’ James Harden Roasts Ivica Zubac And Reacts To Kawhi Leonard Extension

‘We Got Guys That DON’T Work!’ James Harden Roasts Ivica Zubac And Reacts To Kawhi Leonard Extension

Wanted to first ask just um that second unit when you and Paul playing with with Mir um Daniel y’all got that separation in the second quarter like we we allow y’all to play so well in that second quarter 42 points overall uh we got stops you know the more stops we can get

Consecutive um you know offensively it’s easy for us you know I mean so we get on transition we got guys that can you know score the basketball at the High level um it makes it easy so that was just another another example of how great we

Can be um and how we can push a lead you know from a close game to a double digit League you see that teams they know that it’s coming the fall is Hot Spot moving Wednesday night you hit them on that alley Where team like they ready come

Up spots Mak gam makes the game easier for him you know I mean that’s I think that’s my I think I know that’s my job is to make the game easier for everybody you know and whether it’s pick and roll whether it’s dribble penetration um finding guys catching shoots layups

Things like that you know for our big so um tonight was just another another great night you know obviously we detailed things that we can get better on uh out of balance execution a couple times we scored scored the basketball they came back and and got open thre so

Things like that that we can correct as self-inflicted wounds but other than that um just continue to build on our great habits you know Ka got his extension franch youve expressed you want to win here and everything take care of your just know able to support him how’s he been able to support

You um me for me personally I think uh I just I focus on what I can control and that’s going out there and playing basketball you know what I mean and I’ve been through so much these last few years to where it’s like a sign of

Relief to go out there and just hoop and have fun doing it you know what I mean and everything else to take care of itself so uh of course you love to see guys get paid you know I mean especially Ry so somebody that deserves it like

Kawai and then obviously you know PG you know as well um hopefully in the near future but uh for me it’s just going out there and hooping having fun and trying to trying to you know lock in the goal that that I play because of everything you’ve been through does that make it

Easier especially the success that team has had over these last couple months to just do what you’ve been doing yeah I’m I’m having fun hooping man that’s I’m I’m home having fun hooping uh you know we’re doing a really good job we got a long way too but that’s something that I

Can’t control I can control basketball having fun and doing it at the highest level and everything can take care of itself so I’m in my safe space stops our our defense you know I mean I think we’re understanding we’re trusting each other uh we’re knowing what we’re trying to do um defensively

To where all cool now we’re on the same page now we get stops now transition we get on transition and you know what I mean make things EAS easier for everybody offensively so and then vice versa you know I mean we got it going offensively we getting shots everybody’s

You know flowing then defensively we can get back set up now we got to make teams play against our half court defense which uh we’re one of the best to do it so um like they go hand in hand you know I mean we we generate really good shots

And then it makes it difficult for teams to score on it so um we just got to do that consistently and it can’t get bored with it you know what I mean like of course we have fun but we can’t be lazy about it we can’t Gamble and go for

Steals and things like that we got to just say discipline and the more we can do that the more we can build really good habits um going into the postseason um we got a good got you talk when you talk about the camerie that you’re building with your big guys how you go

About that process and make everything kind of serious uh we got guys that don’t work you know I just say n man it’s a process like every every single day you know when we get an opportunity to be in a gym with each other we working on our pick and Ro we

Working on our communication and things like that so in the game there’s there’s carryover you know what I mean so um it has been going well Zoo has been playing extremely well even DT you know what I mean so um this it’s a process every single day defenses are going to guard

Us different ways tonight they they were a little creative early in that game but once we started scoring they had to get back to regular coverage and you know we started scoring so throughout the course of the year you’re going to see maybe five six defensive coverages you know

What I mean then you’re going to consistently see him that way in the postseason okay we’ve seen this defense before this is how we attack and then the Biggs know as well so um that’s that’s what we’re all preparing ourselves for

Los Angeles Clippers star James Harden speaks to media after Clippers beat Memphis Grizzlies without Ja Morant. Harden roasts teammate Ivica Zubac and speaks about Kawhi Leonard’s contract extension. Clippers game today. Clippers postgame interview.