Patrick Beverley discusses leadership

Patrick Beverley discusses the leadership issue with the LA Clippers

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00:00Hey, Patrick, how you doing, sir?

00:03Happy holidays to you.

00:04Thank you so much.

00:05Same to you, brother.

00:06How are you?

00:07I'm well.

00:08Thank you, sir.

00:09I want to talk.

00:10I want to ask you about leadership.

00:11Obviously, it seemed that some leadership was lacking in the playoffs or why do you

00:18say that?

00:19Well, I think down personally, I think down the stretch, like I think somebody needed

00:24to step up and kind of get the team extra motivated and kind of finish off the nuggets.

00:30That's what I thought was lacking.

00:31Now, I want to ask you if you thought that if you agree, do you think that's lacking

00:35in there?

00:36What's looking forward to this season?

00:38What's going to be the answer to that?

00:39I don't think it's leadership.

00:42I think I think anything involving you've been up real big and losing.

00:49You win the lottery, you win a lot of money, you lose it.

00:52That's not lack of leadership.

00:54I think that's lack of somewhat of toughness, mental toughness.

00:57OK.

00:58That's what we have to address.

00:59I think, you know, we are leaders of obviously Kawhi P.G., myself and Lou, you know, Marcus

01:07Moore is also not, and you inserted Bako, but 3-1 league is not lack of leadership.

01:13I think that's just lack of mental toughness to go out there and finish the job.

01:17OK, how do you address that going into this season?

01:21Do you put yourself in a worse situation to be mental tough?

01:23I don't know whether it's, I don't know, you have 10 reps to do on a bench press, do 12.

01:30I mean, that's how you build mental toughness.

01:33So now when you get in the trenches and things aren't going right, you have something to

01:37build off of it.

01:38And collectively as a group, you know, mental toughness, I think that was the key.

01:42And being in a situation where losing 3-1 gives you that mental toughness going into

01:48next season.

01:49So it's all a process.

01:50Move over to Farbot.