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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.