Kawhi Leonard on Marcus Morris: 'He doesn't give up'
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00:00 The LA Clippers may have lost a tight contest to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday, but Marcus
00:05 Morris is one of the team's lone bright spots.
00:07 He's one of the players who arrived late to the bubble and that showed on opening night
00:11 against the Lakers.
00:12 He struggled in that game, but now he's starting to look a little bit more like himself.
00:15 This is a play we thought he would be, which we were waiting for him back in February.
00:19 Despite the loss against the Suns, Morris put up an efficient line of 16 points, 4 rebounds,
00:24 2 assists, 2 blocks on 6 of 8 shooting from the field.
00:27 This is performance due encouragement from Kawhi Leonard, who said, "He doesn't give
00:31 up.
00:32 He's playing good defense.
00:33 He's playing hard."
00:34 Part of why the Clippers wanted Morris is his ability to create a shot.
00:37 He isn't the same type of defense player that Mel Harkless was at that position, but he
00:41 has a clear ability to make a shot.
00:43 Similar to Lou Williams, it doesn't matter if Morris goes cold, that doesn't change his
00:46 confidence one bit.
00:47 Leonard continued and said, "If he misses 5 shots in a row, he's going to shoot like
00:51 he made 10 in a row."
00:52 That's what you've got to do in this league.
00:54 You can never get down on yourself.
00:55 You've got to stay in the queue.
00:57 While Morris had a great showing against the Suns, he still hasn't really found his completely
01:01 synchronized role with the team yet.
01:03 Clippers were truly rolling for the NBA hiatus and Morris was starting to find his place
01:06 back then, but unfortunately, both him and the team, he couldn't join the training camp
01:11 that was happening before the skimmer games took place.
01:14 So consider these seeding games now kind of the training camp for Morris and starts to
01:18 get going and kind of get back to that place he was at before the hiatus when he was starting
01:23 to get things going with the team and kind of start to fit in with these guys.