Ty Lue | Ep 193 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME BASKETBALL
All The Smoke
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In our second edition of episodes from the 2023 NBA Summer League, Matt and Stak got with a playing and coaching legend. Episode 193 of ATS features Clippers head coach Ty Lue, who opens up about a host of topics including the Clippers' recent shortfalls and injuries, load management, and how Russell Westbrook saved their season. Then, Lue opens up about his playing career, including winning two championships with the Lakers and playing with MJ on the Wizards. To close it out, Lue recalls his POV of the Cavs’ 2016 championship over the Warriors and some quick hitting questions about the state of the NBA right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, all the smoke, Las Vegas Summer League 2023 coming to you from the Blue |
| 0:28.8 | Wire studio here at the win hotel. You and we got one of the homies here and we met |
| 0:34.9 | C. Lou back in the late 90s when you first came from Mexico, Missouri, LA. Welcome to the show, |
| 0:42.9 | man, T. Lou. Now I appreciate I'm falling, I'm falling made it, man. I'm trying to get you |
| 0:47.0 | long. You know, we're doing it. Yeah, and I wasn't big time, y'all. I just really have to |
| 0:50.1 | do it. Yeah, you was big time. I'm a big time. He's a busy big time and we got the |
| 0:57.2 | doodles in the building, the legend. Yeah, it's part of the cry. Man, man, let's get to it. |
| 1:03.7 | 11 year pro, one of the smartest players in the game transitioned into a coach. What's life |
| 1:12.2 | like as a coach? What's the day to day? I mean, obviously less to play double-digit years in |
| 1:17.8 | the league, but someone just asked me the day, would you ever coach in the NBA? I'm just like, |
| 1:20.9 | that's a whole another monster. I was about that monster. I mean, it's a grind. I mean, you know, |
| 1:25.8 | being a, you know, a lower level player in the NBA, y'all has had a grind to get my next |
| 1:30.8 | contract, get to the next season, get to the next year, but this is a totally different grind. |
| 1:34.7 | Like, you know, as a player, you know, you win a game, you can go out and celebrate and kick it, |
| 1:39.3 | you know, hit a game, win or whatever, but as a coach, you go on to the next. It never stops, |
| 1:45.0 | you know, and so it's a lot of work, you know, it's a lot of work, a lot of pressure, you know, |
| 1:49.8 | you have good teams and you are supposed to win a championship or you're supposed to be a |
| 1:54.3 | contender. I miss a lot of work. And so when I first took the job with the Clippers, you know, |
| 1:59.5 | Mr. Bomber and Lawrence Frank was like, you know, like, what do you do? Like, what's your, |
| 2:03.6 | you get away from the game? I said, like, when I'm in the season, I don't get away. Like, I'm |
| 2:07.6 | diving all the way in. And so it's like, you got to have something you can have a release. And so, |
| 2:13.0 | I'm trying to get better with that, because I don't play golf. I don't do none of that stuff. So |
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