James Harden perfectly sums up LA’s disastrous start to the season

After that The Los Angeles Clippers suffered another terrible loss on Saturday, this time against the Dallas Mavericks, 114-110, there’s no question it’s been a frustrating start to the season. With A disastrous start to the season for the Clippersfrustration grows, as seen in James Harden‘s recent comments.

Although Harden had a near triple-double, scoring 29 points with 11 assists and eight rebounds, even though he had seven turnovers, it was still a troubling loss. When Harden spoke to the media after the game, he was asked about the new personnel on the team and the challenges of integrating those players soon.

“Challenging”, Harden would say,” says Lou Murray.

When followed with “in what ways,” Harden would respond with “every way,” showing frustration. Harden would eventually go into a bit about how “tough” the situation is with Los Angeles.

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“It’s a tough situation here,” Harden said, per Sports Illustrated’s Joey Lin. “We don’t shoot offensively. Defensively, we allow mistakes in the game plan to happen too many times. That’s one of the reasons why we lose games.”

James Harden of the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard focused on turnaround

As it is The Clippers’ stars in Harden and Kawhi Leonard must become real as the team starts and tries to turn the season around, the team needs to focus on its immediate needs, not the long-term. Leonard would echo the same sentiments, talking about the team always having championship expectations, saying that the team must focus on winning the game first.

“We have to worry about winning the game, first, before we think about any kind of championship,” Leonard said.

“If we’re trying to win a championship, we need everybody. It’s not about the minutes they’ve played or anything like that. We’re in these games; we should be able to finish,” Leonard continued. “When we lose, it seems like they execute the game plan better. We have to do a better job of executing the game plan on our end.”

Los Angeles looks to end its four-game skid when the team plays at the Miami Heat on Monday night.