Coachspeak
What coaches and players say about roles, minutes, gameplans and development.
LeBron is on a 16 to 18 minute limit for now and how he gets there is flexible.
“It was going to be first half minutes, right? ... So a nine minute stint is seven, you know, what would be a normal one or six and a half or something. ... And to get to that number, 16, 18 minutes, it doesn't really matter how you do it right now.”
Coaches and Lillard are urging Morant to stay aggressive and look for his own scoring in Portland.
“talking with the coaches last night today and then with Dame yesterday, they were telling me to stay aggressive. Obviously when I'm playing like me, it opens up a lot more on the floor for everybody else.”
Wagler will get a lot of reps and learn through playing more than instruction.
“we're going to have a lot of reps for him, so he's going to learn a lot with his play instead of us just teaching him so much.”
Wagler is in for heavy minutes with the Clippers and will learn on the job.
“he's going to learn a lot because he's going to play a lot for us.”
The ball runs through Hachimura and Ingram once Ingram is back.
“Rui, B.I. when he gets back, like, the ball's going to be in their hands and they got to be, you know, a lot of responsibility.”
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