Dime: What have you been doing all summer?
DeAndre Jordan: I’ve been in the gym working like all offseason. I haven’t been doing anything else just working out pretty hard and trying to get better offensively. Just trying to get myself in better shape than I was last year.
Dime: What specifically did you want to improve on?
DJ: Well my free throws obviously. Just trying to be a better offensive player. Try to get more offensive rebounds and just trying to work on my post moves.
Dime: Who has been sticking out in these Clippers summer workouts?
DJ: Blake, Eric Gordon, pretty much everybody. We’re all gelling as a team. Our young guys, I think were going to better than we did last year. We just have to gel and if we do, I think our young guys are going to stand out this year.
Dime: So do you feel the chemistry is getting better?
DJ: Yeah it’s a lot better. Just us playing in the summer time, people being here and us learning a lot from each other from last year, so it’s going to be a lot better this year. You can tell it’s a whole lot better.
Dime: How good do you think you can be?
DJ: I think I can be as good as I want to be. As long as I keep working, the sky’s the limit for me.
Dime: Do you think the Clippers can surprise people this year?
DJ: Yeah I think we will. Last year it was kind of tough to tell because it just looked like our chemistry wasn’t there but I think that we gelled and we’re going to go out and do big things this year. I’m looking forward to this season.
Dime: Are you guys thinking playoffs? What’s the goal?
DJ: You know obviously we’re thinking that. Everybody has to come out and be on the same page and work. As long as we keep working we’ll succeed.
Gerald Narcisco, Dime Magazine
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