"Energy, man," Turner said. "The energy is different in the building, man. It's so much more positive. The energy is incredible."
Why?
"Just the youthfulness of everybody. Everybody comes with such a different mindset. Sometimes veterans come in and they've done it so many times. (These guys) are really looking forward to getting out there."
I'm extra glad to hear about this. I'm really excited about the group of guys we have on the team right now. We've had so much negative energy the last few years with the change of style/PG at the 4 talk, with the coaching change, with the roster turnover we've had, with the Paul George trade, etc. etc. And I'm pretty happy to put a lot of that behind us now. We had established a culture for awhile here of being a real hard working, blue collar type of team, and I kind of feel like we got away from that. That's the environment in which Paul George broke out, made Roy Hibbert a DPOY candidate, and turned us into a ECF kind of team. I'm hoping to shoot for that again. We won't be back in the ECF this year, I know lol, but let's surprise some people. I want this to be a team I love rooting for again.
Also a video of McMillan talking about Lance basically being our 6th man, which confirms what a lot of people had already been speculating, but it really does sound like we're gonna hand the keys to the 2nd unit over to Lance. I think that's the perfect role for him.