Clippers conundrum: Pick up the pace while limiting turnovers

Russell Westbrook and Paul George, holding son Paul Vuk, will be integral in the Clippers’ trying to pick up the pace while limiting turnovers this season. “We’ve been a slow team over the course of the last three or four years, and just not really being high and pushing the pace until Russ got here at the end of the season last year,” Lue said. Clippers Clippers training camp gets serious: ‘Toughest one for sure’ The Clippers opened training camp in Hawaii with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George healthy for first time since 2020 and they’re getting back to basics. Points of emphasis during the opening practices were what George called “the Achilles’ heel stuff that plagued us last year — taking care of the ball, getting out on the break and being better defensively.” All of the running during early practices was partly for conditioning, forward Nicolas Batum acknowledged, and partly for Lue to set a tone of all-business urgency.