Russell Westbrook tried to make the most of his debut Friday, but he and the Clippers had too many turnovers to beat Sacramento in high-scoring affair.
Kawhi Leonard finishes with 44 points and Russell Westbrook makes a solid debut for Clippers, but late mistakes send them to a 176-175 loss to the Kings.“You can’t turn the basketball over against a fast team like this and give them live ball layups, dunks, threes,” Lue said. “So we’ve got to be better with that.”
“It’s a blessing, just the excitement in the building,” Westbrook said. “The enthusiasm from fans and just the support, that they have, not just for me, but for the overall team was great, and hopefully we can be able to keep that going as the season goes along and I’ll do my part by playing as hard as I can, when given an opportunity.”
Lue said he kept Westbrook in the game late in the fourth quarter and the first overtime because the Kings had been exerting good ball pressure and “the pressure doesn’t bother him.” Lue also said Westbrook had “pulled out a lot of games in his career, you know,” which sounded more like wishful thinking than an analysis of Westbrook’s recent seasons.
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