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He is a perennial MVP candidate for a reason, so when he gazed out at a group of reporters Wednesday night at Staples Center and said, “A lot of guys have been telling me I need to be more aggressive; that I’ve been letting guys off the hook” it carried weight.

“He’s usually being played a certain way in the beginning of the game and instead of being overly aggressive in those situations,” small forward Caron Butler said. “Whether he’s being blitzed or hard shows [on the pick and roll], he’s usually getting off the ball and creating opportunities for myself and other teammates and then obviously in the third and fourth quarter he finds a rhythm and takes over the game.

“I always try to get everybody involved,” Paul said. “I have the ball in my hands so much I always know that I have the opportunity to score and at times we do play better if I’m a little aggressive earlier.”

“He understands it,” Del Negro said. “He’s got to change his mind set a little bit. It’s not easy for him [because] he’s such an unselfish player. He puts us in a position of strength when he has that mentality, being aggressive for us.”

“There’s this website where I can watch every shot that I’ve ever made in the NBA,” Paul said, referring Synergy Sports Technology, a subscription service that ingests and indexes real-time broadcasts. “That’s all I do on the road or at home. I watch this website, just watching shots I’ve made, missed, turnovers, steals, assists, everything.

“I watch so much film. I watch film from me from my rookie year, my second year. I watch film all day, every day. I always tell myself, I feel better now than I did maybe three years ago, as far as my body, so why not be aggressive and be like I was in the past.”

Eric Patten, Clippers.com