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Speaker 2: Friends, Welcome in to an early September edition of this
Speaker 2: League Uncut. Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. We kind
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Speaker 2: a special guest for this edition of this League Uncut.
Speaker 2: And it's especially timely because our guest is Day Jae
Speaker 2: is coaching the Los Angeles Clippers, but he is a
Speaker 2: member of USA Basketball's coaching staff. At the Feeble World Cup.
Speaker 2: It is Monday morning, Manila time, the morning after the
Speaker 2: United States incurs its first loss at this World Cup
Speaker 2: Sunday night in Manila, Sunday daytime in the United States,
Speaker 2: Team USA losing one ten, one oh four to Lithuania.
Speaker 2: But when Taran Lou makes a date, he keeps the
Speaker 2: date and he joins US now again live from Team
Speaker 2: USA camp in Manila. Coach, it is so good to
Speaker 2: be with you.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: I am.
Speaker 2: I guess what what's the strategy coaching staff wise to
Speaker 2: kind of what's going to be the messaging to the
Speaker 2: team today after obviously a result that you guys were
Speaker 2: not expecting, just.
Speaker 6: Having a good film session, you know, just seeing the
Speaker 6: the speed and the force that they play with offensively,
Speaker 6: which we talked about, you know, going into the game
Speaker 6: and you really can't, you know, simulate until you actually
Speaker 6: get on the floor and see how they play. And
Speaker 6: so they've been leading the FEBA game offensive rebounds. We
Speaker 6: tell how important that was going to be, but coming
Speaker 6: out making their first nine threes, you know, it really
Speaker 6: put us behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1: Coach, were also want to ask about those threes you
Speaker 1: talked about the offensive rebounding and the three pointers made.
Speaker 3: Obviously they will in the tear there.
Speaker 1: You know, oftentimes when there's a team that is just
Speaker 1: expected to pretty much be the team that's targeted every
Speaker 1: now and then there's a setback, or you might call
Speaker 1: the setback or whatever, but oftentimes people will say, well
Speaker 1: they needed that, you know, is that is that kind
Speaker 1: of the alignment that you kind of think about, you know,
Speaker 1: after after that loss, you say, is that something that
Speaker 1: was needed or how do you process that?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think.
Speaker 6: I think it's better to learn from from winning, you know,
Speaker 6: than it is you know, just seeing the second half
Speaker 6: how we competed. We made some adjustments and just kind
Speaker 6: of seeing like how we had to play them and
Speaker 6: what we had to do.
Speaker 4: And our guys are a great job of fighting back.
Speaker 6: When you get down by so much, you know, any mistake,
Speaker 6: you know, can you know spring the lead back up again.
Speaker 6: And so that's what happened because I think for four
Speaker 6: or like five and a half minutes to go in
Speaker 6: the third quarter and we just couldn't get over that hump.
Speaker 4: But you know, our team, like I said, they've been great.
Speaker 6: They've been preparing and to put a team together for
Speaker 6: three or four weeks, you know, expecting to be great.
Speaker 4: You know right away then you know it's gonna be
Speaker 4: tough to do.
Speaker 6: And so our whole mindset coming into our coaching staff
Speaker 6: and our players to get better every game.
Speaker 4: And so we still have the opportunity.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, it was a tough game for it when we
Speaker 6: see what we need to do in order to be
Speaker 6: successful in fever with basketball.
Speaker 2: I mean, Lithuania had eighteen offensive rebounds, and I think
Speaker 2: everybody knew going into this tournament that rebounding would be
Speaker 2: an issue for the United States just because you don't
Speaker 2: have a lot of size on the roster. But the
Speaker 2: slow starts have kind of also been something that we've
Speaker 2: it's it's it's I think it's fair to say it's
Speaker 2: become a bit of a pattern at this point. How
Speaker 2: concerned have you been and the coaching staff about the
Speaker 2: slow starts we've seen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about just you know, getting off the
Speaker 6: better starts and not easy into the game. And so,
Speaker 6: like I said, we have a target on our back
Speaker 6: or on our chest or whatever you want to however
Speaker 6: you want to say it, and we just gotta we
Speaker 6: got to come in.
Speaker 4: With the mindset. We're going to start the game with
Speaker 4: a defensive mindset.
Speaker 6: We're going to play the right way, and we've been
Speaker 6: getting off to slow starts and against these good teams,
Speaker 6: you can't you know, you can't afford to do that.
Speaker 6: So last night was a good test for us. We
Speaker 6: knew it was going to test our defensive principles and
Speaker 6: like they've made a lot of threes. They got to
Speaker 6: the paint, the pick and role play was really good.
Speaker 6: So you know, coming into the game tomorrow, you know,
Speaker 6: we got to lock in and understand what we got
Speaker 6: to get better.
Speaker 1: At coach of of all the coaches on the on
Speaker 1: your coaching staff right now, I look at this this
Speaker 1: roster and how it's constructed, and obviously these are star players.
Speaker 1: Borderline star players are on the cuffs of being star players,
Speaker 1: and you have to try to distribute the minutes however
Speaker 1: way you guys see fit. But you know a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys they have they have egos, they want
Speaker 1: to play, and you're probably the most equipped of that
Speaker 1: coaching staff because you you have to deal with a
Speaker 1: pretty deep light up, a pretty deep squad with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: how have you had to what was what has the
Speaker 1: conversations been like with some of the players who may
Speaker 1: feel like they're not getting enough time or won a
Speaker 1: different role, Like what's the conversation, How how you had
Speaker 1: those conversations and how as your time with the Clippers
Speaker 1: helped in having those conversations.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think with our players that we
Speaker 6: have here, they understand and so just trying to keep
Speaker 6: them engaged.
Speaker 4: But they've been great, you know, and all twelve guys
Speaker 4: deserve to play.
Speaker 6: Us a tough position to be put in, but they
Speaker 6: understand that we're just trying to do what's best for
Speaker 6: the team. They're gonna have their opportunity that you got
Speaker 6: to stay ready and our biggest and main main goals
Speaker 6: to bring home the goal. And so our guys we
Speaker 6: have on the team, they understand that. And Grant and
Speaker 6: Sean Ford and those guys, and Jim Tilley done a
Speaker 6: great job of just selecting guys that we're gonna be
Speaker 6: on board with, you know, just winning. And so that's
Speaker 6: what we're focused on. That's what our twelve players are
Speaker 6: focused on. And they're gonna get opportunities. You know, you
Speaker 6: never know when they're gonna come, but they're gonna come,
Speaker 6: and they've been putting in the work, you know, And
Speaker 6: like I said, all twelve guys are ever to play,
Speaker 6: and all twelve guys are great to play.
Speaker 2: Clippers coach t Roan Lou joining us here on this
Speaker 2: league uncut, joining us from Manila because this summer to
Speaker 2: Roan Lou is a member of Steve Kerr's coaching staff
Speaker 2: alongside Eric Spolstra, alongside Mark Few and that staff as
Speaker 2: we speak dealing with Team USA's first dose of adversity
Speaker 2: Sunday a loss to Lithuania to complete the preliminary rounds.
Speaker 2: The United States now has to rebound Tuesday quarterfinals against Italy.
Speaker 2: It is knockout time. There is no more room for
Speaker 2: any kind of losing if the United States hopes to
Speaker 2: win a gold medal, something it hasn't done in this
Speaker 2: competition since twenty fourteen. Ty, how shaken do you think
Speaker 2: the guys were by losing a game? From what you've
Speaker 2: seen and interacting with the guys after the game and today,
Speaker 2: how do you think they cope? They're coping with it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't think it was shaken any more.
Speaker 6: Pissed off you know about the way we played, how
Speaker 6: we didn't establish a defensive presence to start the game,
Speaker 6: and you know, and you should be pissed off. And
Speaker 6: so you know, they're not shaking at all, Like their
Speaker 6: conference is not shaken. It's just that, you know, we
Speaker 6: knew we could play better. We didn't play our best game,
Speaker 6: and so that the way they took it to us,
Speaker 6: they were aggressive. They was a more aggressive team and
Speaker 6: then they won. And so our guys know, we got
Speaker 6: to come back and regroup, but we're not shaking it all.
Speaker 1: Coach, Can you take us behind the scenes a little
Speaker 1: bit and share some of the moments after a game
Speaker 1: like that that that leaves you to be encouraged The.
Speaker 6: Way we played in the second half, you know, I think,
Speaker 6: you know, being down seventeen, I think we're down twenty
Speaker 6: one at one point, but being down seventeen a halftime
Speaker 6: and cut the lead to you know four in a
Speaker 6: matter of you know, five and a half minutes, You know,
Speaker 6: that's something to be encouraged by. And like, you know,
Speaker 6: be able to make adjustments on the fly, and then
Speaker 6: just seeing our teams fight, you know, and our will
Speaker 6: to win and so on. The way we played in
Speaker 6: that second half was great. You know, we knew it.
Speaker 6: You know, it was a preliminary game and we still
Speaker 6: had a chance to play for the gold and guys
Speaker 6: could just meld it in. But that's not our team's mentality,
Speaker 6: that's not our coaching attach mentality. And so they came
Speaker 6: out in the second half and really played hard, played great,
Speaker 6: and we just still came up short, we did to
Speaker 6: do some good things.
Speaker 2: What's it like just being with these coaches? I think
Speaker 2: there are seven championship rings among you and Spoe and
Speaker 2: Steve and obviously Mark feu has seen it all in
Speaker 2: the college game. You guys must have some pretty interesting meetings.
Speaker 2: What kind of glimpse of that can you share with
Speaker 2: us in terms of what it's like for the four
Speaker 2: of you guys to get together.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's been great for me, you know,
Speaker 6: being the youngest side of you know, a whole coaching staff,
Speaker 6: and even started back in Vegas when we had Matt Painter,
Speaker 6: we had Jim Boyling, we had Jamal Mosley, you know,
Speaker 6: Jeff Van Gundy has been with us the whole way.
Speaker 6: And then, like you said, with Mark fugh and and
Speaker 6: Spoe and Steve, just learning and just you know, basketball
Speaker 6: minds in the same room and just bouncing ideas off
Speaker 6: each other.
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm just trying to learn every way
Speaker 4: I can.
Speaker 6: I said, I'm a young coach in the game and
Speaker 6: ath that can pick up here and there to be better.
Speaker 4: I want to be better, And they taught me a lot.
Speaker 6: At least four weeks have really, you know, taught me
Speaker 6: a lot and helped me understand a lot of different situations.
Speaker 6: How you know, they handle different situations as well, And
Speaker 6: so I just want to keep learning, you know, keep
Speaker 6: going as a coach and happening this USA opportunity. You know,
Speaker 6: I want to thank Grant and Steve and shan Ford
Speaker 6: and those guys again forgive me the opportunity because it
Speaker 6: really has, you know, enhanced my coaching, and I want
Speaker 6: to continue to keep getting better.
Speaker 2: Everyone says that the FEBA game is so much different
Speaker 2: than the NBA game. Can how would you kind of
Speaker 2: describe the difference or quantify the difference just in your
Speaker 2: time this summer with this squad. What what jumps out
Speaker 2: to you about what makes it so different?
Speaker 6: Well, one is the physicality, you know, I think the
Speaker 6: physicality of you know, being able to push and grab
Speaker 6: and you know, get into the ball, and you know,
Speaker 6: that's one thing of physicality. I think the second thing
Speaker 6: is in FEEBA, the game is really won by the players,
Speaker 6: you know. I think, you know, you only have two
Speaker 6: timeouts per half, we can't really run a lot of atos.
Speaker 4: And then you know the game being shorter.
Speaker 6: You know, I think our guys are used to ease
Speaker 6: it into the game because it's forty eight minutes.
Speaker 4: But you know, with forty minute games.
Speaker 6: You know, you got to start the game with, you know,
Speaker 6: a defensive mindset and getting off to good starts. And
Speaker 6: so there's a lot of different rules that our guys
Speaker 6: have to adjust and get used to and doing a
Speaker 6: good job of doing that. And so, like I said,
Speaker 6: we have I think we are one of the teams
Speaker 6: to have room for the most improvement, and we're going
Speaker 6: to continue to keep improving every game.
Speaker 1: Because one thing I like what you said about you
Speaker 1: know yourself, is that you're still trying to learn, You're
Speaker 1: still trying to grow become a better coach, because I
Speaker 1: think when you talk to a lot of people about
Speaker 1: the coaching ranks in the NBA, they they will say
Speaker 1: a lot of people will say number one. You know,
Speaker 1: from top to bottom, they probably put you number one,
Speaker 1: just as far as coach and acumen, adjustments, you know,
Speaker 1: just everything that a coach has to do on a
Speaker 1: night to night basis. And so when you think about that,
Speaker 1: you think about going into the next season, like how
Speaker 1: do you feel like this experience will make you a
Speaker 1: better coach going into next season for the Los Angeles Clippers,
Speaker 1: just seeing.
Speaker 6: What I've seen, learning what I've learned from, Like I said, Spoe,
Speaker 6: you know a few and and Steve, and for me,
Speaker 6: I wanted to do things you know, different at times,
Speaker 6: just trying to just see what works and what doesn't work.
Speaker 6: And you know, I think going into this next season,
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: It's made me a better coach already.
Speaker 6: And you know, I don't want to share a lot
Speaker 6: of the things, but you know, if you stop growing
Speaker 6: and stop you know, wanting to learn and stop want
Speaker 6: to be better that.
Speaker 4: You should, you might as well just quit. And so
Speaker 4: I'm not at that point.
Speaker 6: And so I think, you know, every year, you got
Speaker 6: to continue to keep getting better as a coach. You
Speaker 6: got to continue to keep getting better as a player,
Speaker 6: and that's how you grow. And so that's what I
Speaker 6: want to do. And so thank you for the compliments,
Speaker 6: you know, and so still have a long way to go.
Speaker 6: You know, I want to bring a championship to the
Speaker 6: you know, Los Angeles Clippers, to that organization, to the
Speaker 6: fan base, you know, mister O Balmer Gillion, you know,
Speaker 6: Lawrence Frank, Mark Hughes, Trent Red and all those guys
Speaker 6: have been great, you know to me, and so the
Speaker 6: ultimate goal is to win a championship and that's what
Speaker 6: I want to do.
Speaker 4: And so this experience has been great.
Speaker 6: You know, I think when you talk about players coming
Speaker 6: to camp in shape, I think coming on this the
Speaker 6: USA trip has really got my mind in shape to
Speaker 6: start camp.
Speaker 4: Ready to go, you know.
Speaker 6: So it's it's kind of it's kind of strange, but
Speaker 6: like I'm ready to go now. You know, just from
Speaker 6: having these four weeks, five weeks together has really you know,
Speaker 6: activated my mind and got my mind in shape and
Speaker 6: ready to go.
Speaker 1: I got to ask you, I know you're ready to go,
Speaker 1: but a big part of you guys' success is going
Speaker 1: to be on what are your Your two big guys
Speaker 1: are ready to go, Paul, George Kawhi Leonard Any update on.
Speaker 3: Their participation level come training camp.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they will be one hundred percent come training camp.
Speaker 6: You know, they're they're both on track to be one
Speaker 6: hundred percent by time training camp starts. And that's that's
Speaker 6: what we need, you know, our best players to be healthy.
Speaker 6: That's around the league, you know, our best players to
Speaker 6: be healthy. And we've just been in an unfortunate situation
Speaker 6: where you know, our two best players haven't finished season
Speaker 6: together the last three years and that's been tough on us,
Speaker 6: and so doing what we can do to make sure
Speaker 6: our guys are healthy.
Speaker 4: It's not a fluke whereverybody's about load management and stuff like.
Speaker 6: It's not that, you know, it's like, you know, they
Speaker 6: have injuries, and you know, we got to make sure
Speaker 6: we do the right thing by putting the player first,
Speaker 6: you know, making sure that they're going to be healthy,
Speaker 6: you know, one hundred percent through the way through through
Speaker 6: the season, and that's our main goal. But you know,
Speaker 6: we have to play more games, you know how We
Speaker 6: got to do it, and we have to, you know,
Speaker 6: like I say, start respecting the regular season and you know,
Speaker 6: giving our fans you know what they what they want
Speaker 6: to see, and playing hard every.
Speaker 4: Single night, putting our best product on the floor. And
Speaker 4: you know, our guys are ready to do that this year.
Speaker 2: This was nice Chris coach lou transition to the Clippers
Speaker 2: without us even having to ask him. He did it
Speaker 2: for us, which was good because he I think he
Speaker 2: knew we were we were end up we were gonna
Speaker 2: want to go there too.
Speaker 3: It's always better that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, you yourself mentioned how challenging has
Speaker 2: it been for you that each of your three years
Speaker 2: as head coach you haven't had your two main guys
Speaker 2: at the end. I mean, if you if you do
Speaker 2: have them both, theoretically this team can do a lot
Speaker 2: of damage. Like how challenging has it been for you?
Speaker 2: And how receptive have Kawhi Leonard and Paul George been
Speaker 2: to your kind of messaging about the regular season.
Speaker 6: And yeah, it's been tough for me. It's been tough,
Speaker 6: you know, for the organization. It's been tough for our fans,
Speaker 6: but more so, anything's been tough for Kawhi and PG.
Speaker 6: You know, they want to be on the floor, they
Speaker 6: want to be out there, and so to have those injuries,
Speaker 6: you know, it's just, you know, it's just it's part
Speaker 6: of the game.
Speaker 4: And just you know, you wonder everything every day, like
Speaker 4: why is it happen to us so much?
Speaker 6: You know, But it's something that we got to continue
Speaker 6: to keep building, you know, continue to keep trying to
Speaker 6: you know, make sure our guys are healthy, especially down
Speaker 6: the stretch. You know, we're going to the playoffs, and
Speaker 6: that just hasn't been the case, you know as of late.
Speaker 6: But I think more frustrated than anybody, I think PG
Speaker 6: and Kawhi because they want to be out there, they
Speaker 6: want to help their team and it's just been some
Speaker 6: unfortunate circumstances.
Speaker 2: You've been very open about your fondness for Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 2: who obviously joined you guys mid season last year. What
Speaker 2: is coaching him on a day to day, day to
Speaker 2: day basis like, and you know he's going through an
Speaker 2: adjustment too, obviously Max contract guy, and that's obviously not
Speaker 2: the situation with the Clippers. Like how much communication has
Speaker 2: to come from you is for him to find his
Speaker 2: niche with this team.
Speaker 6: A lot of communication, you know, I think, like I said,
Speaker 6: Russ Hall of Fame a great player, and for him
Speaker 6: to you know, take less money to come back to
Speaker 6: the Clippers along with you know, Mason Plumbley, that just
Speaker 6: says a lot about the Clippers organization and what we're
Speaker 6: trying to build there. And so they both could have
Speaker 6: went other places for more money, but they like what
Speaker 6: we're doing with the Clippers. They like how we're building
Speaker 6: and you know, the foundation there is is really good,
Speaker 6: you know, And so just talking to him you know,
Speaker 6: he's been a brother fresh Air as far as how
Speaker 6: he competes every single day, whether it's practice, whether it's games.
Speaker 6: He's gonna play every single night, and he brought that
Speaker 6: extra extra line of toughness that we needed.
Speaker 2: Can we trick you into telling us the other options
Speaker 2: they had?
Speaker 6: I'm not going there, but I'm glad it came back
Speaker 6: to us.
Speaker 1: Hey, Coach Lou, I have to ask you this follow
Speaker 1: up to you know, you said it on another podcast.
Speaker 1: Forgive me, I forgot what podcast it was when you
Speaker 1: first said, you know, we got to start respecting the
Speaker 1: regular season and going and taking it more seriously. Can
Speaker 1: you tell us I don't know if anybody's asked this followed,
Speaker 1: can you tell us like, what does that look like?
Speaker 1: What's the difference.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that they don't take it serious, so
Speaker 4: we don't take it serious.
Speaker 6: But I think just the overall, just you know, some
Speaker 6: some nights you're gonna have you know, a little nick
Speaker 6: little nick knacks, and that we can you know, do
Speaker 6: a better job of you know, playing more minutes or whatever,
Speaker 6: you know, and just you know, everybody you know, together
Speaker 6: like myself included like just having a different approach, you know,
Speaker 6: different mindset. I know we're playing a lot of games.
Speaker 6: I know, you know, every other day or you know,
Speaker 6: every day back to back. But there are things that
Speaker 6: we can do and continue to keep getting better. And
Speaker 6: so for me, it starts with the head coach of
Speaker 6: just you know, if we can't practice, you know, more
Speaker 6: film sessions, if we can't practice more you know, thirty
Speaker 6: minute walkthroughs, and just cleaning up defensively what we can
Speaker 6: get better at or offensively as well, you know, and
Speaker 6: so not just taking those days off. And so when
Speaker 6: I say that, I'm not talking about the players. I'm
Speaker 6: talking about it starts with me versus a coach. It's just,
Speaker 6: you know, I know our guys are tired. I know
Speaker 6: we have an older team. I know guys are banged up.
Speaker 6: But still we can still approach it by doing you know,
Speaker 6: some things that doesn't require you know, a lot of
Speaker 6: physical work, you know, And so those are the things
Speaker 6: that you know, I have to get better with and
Speaker 6: I'm locked in and ready for that, you.
Speaker 4: Know, going forward.
Speaker 6: And so it's gonna be nice where you don't feel it.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be nice where you know.
Speaker 6: But we you know, we got to play through some
Speaker 6: of those play some of those games, and play through
Speaker 6: some of those nick knack injuries and so. And it's
Speaker 6: not like I said, it's not like we don't take
Speaker 6: it seriously. But it's the mindset is making sure our
Speaker 6: guys are healthy. That's number one and so. But we
Speaker 6: also got to do, you know, do a little bit more.
Speaker 6: And it starts with me and coach.
Speaker 1: When I I told this individual, I'm not gonna name
Speaker 1: them here, I'll probably name them off off record, but
Speaker 1: I asked him, I said, we got Lou coming on.
Speaker 1: What's the things I should ask and so here here
Speaker 1: here's a question for you, Lou, just about it's about
Speaker 1: the overall premise of coaching today's players. So the question was,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about professionalism in the league and
Speaker 1: has it changed from you feel like professional league in
Speaker 1: the league has shamed from your time? And do you
Speaker 1: think AAU and the people around them have contributed to
Speaker 1: that kind of lack of professionalism and a lot of
Speaker 1: players now opposed to the way it used to be
Speaker 1: and that doesn't make it hard to coach.
Speaker 3: So take that all in, how you see that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think it's a lack of professionalism. I
Speaker 6: think it's a lack of mentors. I think, you know,
Speaker 6: when I came in the league, we had a lot
Speaker 6: of veteran players on the team that taught me wrong
Speaker 6: from right, you know, and you know, having Brian Shawl
Speaker 6: Robert or you know, Horace Grant, Shack d Fish, you know,
Speaker 6: Glenn Rice, Eddie Jones, like I had a lot of
Speaker 6: great veteran guys that taught me the right way. And
Speaker 6: so now when you look at our rosters in the
Speaker 6: NBA and the way they're constructed, there's a lot of
Speaker 6: young guys. You know, your oldest Galan team could be
Speaker 6: twenty five years old, and so they really don't understand.
Speaker 6: You know, they have a lot of money, but they
Speaker 6: don't understand like those next steps becoming a man, you know,
Speaker 6: and so teaching you how to work hard on the
Speaker 6: court and being a good person off the court as well.
Speaker 6: And so we always, you know, when I came in
Speaker 6: the league, we always had those older guys that those
Speaker 6: veteran guys that taught us and showed us the way.
Speaker 6: And so we've lost, you know a little bit of that,
Speaker 6: you know, in our league, and every team's not fortunate
Speaker 6: to have a you know, Donna's has them, you know,
Speaker 6: guys like that that has been around for a long time,
Speaker 6: but also can check the young guys, get them in place,
Speaker 6: tell them what it's supposed to look like and how
Speaker 6: it's supposed to be. And so we're you know, we're
Speaker 6: missing that. And so I wouldn't say a lack of professionalism.
Speaker 6: I think a lack of mentorship, you know, older guys
Speaker 6: and veteran guys to show these young guys away, because
Speaker 6: we have a lot of talent. You know, it's a
Speaker 6: lot of talent in this league, and our young players
Speaker 6: are unbelievable. But I just think, you know, having some
Speaker 6: veteran guys in the locker room to show these young
Speaker 6: guys away is kind of what we're missing, all right.
Speaker 2: I do not want to upset Renee Felton from USA Basketball,
Speaker 2: because I know you have a meeting to run to
Speaker 2: in mere minutes. So one last quick question and then
Speaker 2: we will let you go. I promise. Just in general,
Speaker 2: you're you're coaching, You're part of a coaching staff on
Speaker 2: a team that is never allowed to lose. When you
Speaker 2: guys lose, it is an international incident. It's huge news.
Speaker 2: What has that been, like, just dealing with that pressure
Speaker 2: that you guys are never supposed to lose.
Speaker 5: Well, we've all dealt with that, you know. I think
Speaker 5: Mark Fus dealt with exposed, dealt with it. I've dealt
Speaker 5: with it with Lebron. Steve's dealt with it, you know,
Speaker 5: a by winning four championships. So we've all been a
Speaker 5: part of that.
Speaker 6: And so I think the biggest thing is just you know,
Speaker 6: making sure that we stay calm, making sure that we
Speaker 6: you know, show the positivity to this young team.
Speaker 4: And like I said, we're not shaking.
Speaker 6: And if you, like I always said, if you don't
Speaker 6: have the pressures of winning every single night and having
Speaker 6: the pressures on your shoulder, then you don't have a
Speaker 6: chance to win. And so we understand that pressure. We
Speaker 6: want that pressure, and I think we're gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Clippers coach Taran Lou in Manila, part of Team USA's
Speaker 2: coaching staff heading into the quarterfinals against Italy. Coach, thanks
Speaker 2: A mil for doing this.
Speaker 3: Really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your coach. I got my T n T schedule.
Speaker 1: I got a ton of Clipper games on the schedule,
Speaker 1: A ton.
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, I can handle it. I can handle it.
Speaker 3: I love the Clipper guys.
Speaker 2: This is your this is your training camp for those games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: Coach Little you take care brother. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Good good luck for the rest of the tournament.
Speaker 4: Thanks Amil, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: And that'll do it for us, see you next time.
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Speaker 4: Christine and Mark Stein.
Speaker 1: Eight.
Speaker 4: I didn't