Kawhi Leonard on Marcus Morris: 'He doesn't give up'
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00:00The LA Clippers may have lost a tight contest to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday, but Marcus
00:05Morris is one of the team's lone bright spots.
00:07He's one of the players who arrived late to the bubble, and that showed on opening night
00:11against the Lakers.
00:12He struggled in that game, but now he's starting to look a little bit more like himself, at
00:15least the play we thought he would be, which we were training for him back in February.
00:19Despite the loss against the Suns, Morris put up an efficient line of 16 points, 4 rebounds,
00:242 assists, 2 blocks on 6 of 8 shooting from the field.
00:27The performance drew encouragement from Kawhi Leonard, who said, quote, he doesn't give
00:31up.
00:32You know what I mean?
00:33He's playing good defense.
00:34He's playing hard.
00:35Part of why the Clippers wanted Morris is his ability to create a shot.
00:37He isn't the same type of defense player that Mel Harkless was at that position, but he
00:42has a great ability to make a shot.
00:43Similar to Lou Williams, it doesn't matter if Morris goes cold, that doesn't change his
00:46confidence one bit.
00:47Leonard continued and said, if he misses 5 shots in a row, he's going to shoot like he
00:51made 10 in a row.
00:52That's why, that's what you got to do in this league.
00:54You can never get down on yourself.
00:55You got to stay in the queue.
00:57While Morris had a great showing against the Suns, he still hasn't really found his
01:00completely synchronized role with the team yet.
01:03Clippers were truly rolling for the NBA hiatus and Morris was starting to find his place
01:06back then.
01:07But unfortunately for both him and the team, he couldn't join the training camp that was
01:11happening before the scrimmage games took place.
01:14So consider those, these seeding games now kind of the training camp for Morris and starts
01:18to get going and kind of get back to the place he was at before the hiatus when he was starting
01:23to get things going with the team and kind of start to fit in with these guys.