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Ty Lue and the LA Clippers will enter the 24-25 season trying to remain competitive despite the loss of Paul George to the Philadelphia 76ers in free agency. The Clippers have only missed the playoffs in two of the previous 13 seasons.

"When you lose a guy of Paul George's stature, instantly people [think] oh, they can't win or they're not going to be competitive," Lue told ESPN last week. "But that just challenges me even more. OK, people are counting us out or people don't think we're going to be good. That right there just gives me an extra dose of [motivation].

"I can't wait to prove everybody wrong."

The Clippers are hoping to get a healthy season out of Kawhi Leonard and will have a training camp to further integrate James Harden.

"It will make a huge difference," Lue said of having an entire camp with Harden.

"Having to learn [how to best use him] on the fly was tough... What he's shown us is that we can run a pick-and-roll ... scoring the basketball, making plays for each other, making it easy for everybody to play."

Via Ohm Youngmisuk/ESPN

Yeah, Kawhi isn't going to stay healthy... who you kidding Lue? Yourself?

They/He won't prove anyone wrong but, I mean, what is he supposed to say?

I don't think anyone is saying that LAC will be bad... it's just hard to view them as contenders. That said, they lost PG but gained three SF's to eat those minutes. (Derrick Jones, Batum and Kevin Porter Jr.) They are still one of the deeper teams in the West and should avoid the play-in if healthy.

Translation: Im very highly paid here til 2029, I cant wait to cash some of these extension checks.

they weren't good with him they are irrelevant without him

I don't see losing Pandemic P, is a loss? Did he have big regular-season games? Yeah, almost every top 30 player in the NBA does. However, when it came to the playoffs, he went from "PG" to Pandemic P, real quick. The Clippers addition are great, they're a deeper team now, and Ty Lue can coach, they'll finish a top 6 team in the West.

niha17 wrote:they weren't good with him they are irrelevant without him

How are they "irrelevant" without him?

Ty Lue got the bag. He's chillin.'

HaydukesRedux wrote:They/He won't prove anyone wrong but, I mean, what is he supposed to say?

I am genuinely confused if thats their/his pronouns or you are talking about the team as well.