“Chris Paul and I talked”

A week after the sudden departure of the group from Chris Paul en plein “journey”, Tyronn Lue took the floor to discuss information from Shams Charania. Our colleague from ESPN pointed out that he is the coach and playmaker of the Clippers “We haven’t spoken to each other in weeks”.

“We talked to each other. How can I get him to play if I don’t talk to him?”, refutes Tyronn Luewhich nevertheless confirms the tense situation. “There was a period when it was said that he would not play, that he would be left out of the rotation and it was difficult for him. He is a competitor, who loves basketball. But after that it was no longer like that.”

Without a complete break, communication between the two men was undoubtedly no longer of great importance. Otherwise, why rule him out permanently, when the Clippers have already cut players in the past — Marcus Morris, Bones Hyland or even PJ Tucker — before bringing them back?

“You’ll have to ask Lawrence Frank”kicks the coach. “The franchise made this decision, but we have to move forward. We’re trying to win, and the mood hasn’t changed because Chris Paul is gone. Nobody wanted to see him go, so nothing has changed: we have to win.

“Calmer” training without Chris Paul…

And while Shams Charania said the former Rockets and Suns didn’t hesitate “to hold management, coaches and players accountable” from Los Angeles, John Collins confirms this information with a slip, “without going into details” what “Obviously, training was calmer without him »…

Saying “at peace” with his situationChris Paul is now waiting on the rest, with the Clippers able to move him in a matter of days. For Tyronn Lue and his troops, he said, it’s about winning, and winning fast, to finally get out of the doldrums and start the season. And for that it is better to have a complete staff.

“I have no control over injuries. At the beginning of the season we thought we had a very good team, with a real chance to go far. When you lose Bradley Beal, Kawhi Leonard, Derrick Jones Jr., Bogdan Bogdanovic, it becomes difficult”laments the coach, NBA champion in 2016 with Cleveland. “It’s complicated for us. But we have to find a solution, to know what we want to do and how we want to do it, to get out of this rut.”