What gets Clippers coach Tyronn Lue fired up?

It’s idiosyncratic argumentation that Tyronn Lue enactment chill connected the sideline.

So overmuch truthful that erstwhile the Clippers manager was asked Friday astir his evident displeasure aft a fruitless and peculiarly irksome series precocious successful their victory implicit the Lakers, helium balked, affectional astir having been perceived arsenic emotional: “I looked frustrated? Damn.”

That strategical stoicism cracked again precocious successful Monday’s 102-90 triumph successful Portland. With conscionable a mates of minutes remaining and the crippled successful the balance, helium saw the Clippers moving 1 of his plays to perfection and exalted, pumping his fists connected the sideline earlier the series was adjacent finished developing.

The effect was an unguarded dunk for Isaiah Hartenstein, a 97-88 pb and, then, thing of a lasting ovation for Lue. His players were kvelling astir the series aft the crippled and, connected Twitter, the play – technically, the plays – were re-posted by respective impressed hoops aficionados.

In a nutshell: The Clippers (13-12) ran the aforesaid acceptable connected consecutive possessions, Lue’s archetypal chess determination mounting up checkmate the adjacent clip down.

The archetypal clip they ran it, Hartenstein screened for All-Star Paul George adjacent the free-throw enactment and then, erstwhile Reggie Jackson delivered the walk to the Clippers’ star, everyone drifted distant to springiness him country to work. It worked; George drained an elbow jumper.

And then, due to the fact that Jusuf Nurkic’s elbow to Hartenstein’s cervix connected the aforesaid play led to a lengthy official’s reappraisal that resulted successful a Flagrant 1, a escaped propulsion and possession backmost to the Clippers, Lue had clip to bid up the aforesaid play – with a wrinkle.

That adjacent time, the Clippers ran the acquainted cross-screens, and arsenic Lue anticipated, Nurkic and Robert Covington drifted toward the elbow to defender George, who’d conscionable buried the shot.

This time, though, Reggie Jackson passed the shot to Hartenstein, who was rolling toward the hoop, each alone, due to the fact that Marcus Morris Sr. besides was moving distant toward the helping and taking Larry Nance Jr. with him.

And the manager – if not the Portland assemblage – went wild.

“T-Lue drew up different unthinkable play to get Isaiah a layup toward the extremity of the crippled – which was a large play for us,” said Kennard, whose relation successful the play required him to transverse paths with George and past to service arsenic different decoy, darting to the sideline and taking Portland’s Norman Powell with him.

“It’s conscionable making plays for different guys whether you person the shot oregon are moving disconnected without the ball. Being successful the close spots, for sure.”

A precocious schoolhouse hoops manager successful Florida shared the play connected societal media and tweeted: “Ty Lue shows again wherefore helium is 1 of the champion X’s & O’s coaches successful the NBA – NASTY ATO counter!”

And a fewer different analytical types who regularly screen the Clippers – including Shane Young and Justin W. of @LAClippersFilm – added to the chorus: “Ty Lue is simply a genius” and “awesome.”

This is awesome.

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The existent clip designation of however Nurk and Por is playing this arsenic good arsenic Twin’s question to get nance retired was astir impressive. https://t.co/M4ogEucAzG

— Justin W. (@LAClippersFilm) December 7, 2021

For his part, Lue wants to spot much exacting execution – starting Wednesday erstwhile the Clippers look the Boston Celtics successful the archetypal of 3 consecutive location games.

“We got a batch of plays inactive near connected the array that we didn’t marque the close play,” said Lue, who besides jostled with the levers of his starting lineup connected Monday, inserting Kennard, a guard, successful spot of halfway Serge Ibaka, who had replaced Eric Bledsoe, different guard, 3 games earlier.

“We conscionable got to support moving astatine it. I tin spot it! The coaches tin spot it, but present we gotta get the players to spot it.”

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Ty Lue is simply a genius

Ran this aforesaid acceptable connected consecutive possessions, knowing the defence would wage 100% attraction to Paul George aft helium made the elbow jumper.

Hartenstein sets the cross-screen for PG, causing Nurkic to measurement implicit

Reggie is waiting for Hart to gaffe into unfastened abstraction pic.twitter.com/dQek9VdtTj

— Shane Young (@YoungNBA) December 7, 2021

Clippers 101 pic.twitter.com/TpSBxOaYBs

— ClipCast’s 10th Season (@LACLIPCAST) December 7, 2021

Clippers LOVED however this play went. Sound up for Luke Kennard bringing it up erstwhile I asked him astir his relation successful spacing. And arsenic @YoungNBA pointed out, Ty Lue started celebrating earlier Hartenstein adjacent caught the ball. pic.twitter.com/LOf90ajNKX

— Law Murray 🎄 (@LawMurrayTheNU) December 7, 2021