Clippers need Harden to be 'special until Leonard gets back' - Lue - video Dailymotion

LA Clippers coach, Ty Lue, has called for James Harden to step up and take control in Kawhi Leonard's absence.

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00:00For the last several years James has been on these teams with big threes, big

00:04fours, you had one last year and now you know with Kawhi out the way that your

00:08roster has changed like it looks like he is almost gonna be asked to play like he

00:14used to play like in Houston tonight that that that's what it looked like. Do

00:19you think that he is you know at that point where he can sustain and continue

00:24to play that way like like he used to? I hope so just not as many minutes I

00:29think the overtime you know overtime put him into a spot we didn't really

00:33want to be in as far as minutes but we had no choice at that point but you know

00:38we need him to be special you know until till Kawhi gets back you know so good

00:44first game good first start you know we got to continue to get better like we

00:48talked about and you know just go from here but this is a good game for us to

00:52learn some lessons understanding what we're trying to do and capitalize on it

00:56so we'll get back to the drawing board on Friday