Clippers Last Minute Preseason Presser

[gmessi2]

Welcome to the Los Angeles Clippers last minute preseason press conference. After a season that was very forgettable to say the last, we are excited for the future of the Clippers organization.

First, we were pleased to give contract extensions to Tony Campbell who will be a great bench role player and Terry Mills who is looking to improve upon his first two seasons in the league. Terry is a guy that we are very excited to see the improvements he made in training camp. He will be an all around versatile player that can play the 4 or 5 and a future all star caliber player.

Second, the Clippers organization moved up in the draft lottery one spot to grab Latrell Sprewell. Latrell will be a great addition to our team. Another player who can play a couple of different positions that with some experience should develop into one of the best players in the league.

Next, we moved onto free agency signing where we were more than happy to have signed several key players to help our organization move in the right direction. Cliff Robinson, James Worthy, and Byron Scott. It is no secret that we made these moves to increase the pace of the games in order to score more points. Along with all of the new additions and re-signings, we still have Jeff Hornacek as the leader of our team. He will take all of the new additions and make sure that we gel together quickly.

The Los Angeles Clippers organization firmly believes that with the off-season additions that we are ready to take the next step to making the playoffs. We are committed to being the most improved team in the NBA this year and will do anything possible to make sure of that. We are looking at a "small ball" team. We are confident in our abilities to push the pace and make it rain 3's. The Clippers organization is looking forward to the beginning of the season in just a few short days and will now open the floor to any questions.

[Soundwave]

Clark Kent, Daily Planet:
How committed will you be to the "make it rain" approach that was brought up in the podcast?

[gmessi2]

The purpose of signing these guys with great shooting from 3 point range was to increase our scoring and spread out the defense where it will be difficult for many of the great bigs in the Western Conference to defend our perimeter game. This will open up some uncontested 3 pointers very often where we are confident in our teams ability to hit them often. We will be committed to making it rain all day. If we feel like this approach is not working for us, we still have great jump shooters. The Clippers organization knows that if the make it rain approach does not work as expected, our players will be able to score from inside and in the mid range game.

[IamQuailman]

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