LA Clippers: Five Questions Facing the 2020-2021 Clippers

Everyone wants to know what’s going to happen for the LA Clippers moving forward. We take a look at 5 pressing questions for the team under Ty Lue.

Going into next season with a new head coach in Ty Lue, things are going to look very different for the LA Clippers. We’ve all got a million questions, and the next NBA season can’t come quickly enough.

Most of the questions I have are more personnel related: will we make a trade? What does free agency look like? And those are all fun questions to think about.

But I’ve also got a few questions for how Ty Lue is going to run the team, and I’ve brought up 5 of them here. Let’s get started!

LA Clippers Question 1: Can the Clippers stay out of their own way?

This is something we’ve talked about in the past here at Clipperholics; the LA Clippers have got to stop being their own worst enemies next season.

Bev told Steph Curry that “the next 5 years are mine.” Trezz likened himself to Dennis Rodman. In June, speaking to Kevin Hart, PG told us:

"“Immediately, we expected to come in and win it all. We didn’t have no other, like this was going to take a year to get used to one another.”"

After losing, he would remind us that it was never championship or bust this season.

All season long, the Clippers carried themselves like they were going for a threepeat, not trying to make the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history.

Simply put, my question is: Can Ty Lue get this team to get out of their own way, put their heads down and just play basketball at the level we know they’re capable of?

Lue’s known for not being afraid to confront even his star players – remember him famously yelling at LeBron? At halftime of Game 7 in the playoffs, he got into LeBron’s face in the locker room, telling him

"“Stop being so passive! Stop turning the ball over! And guard Draymond!”"

We hope that he’ll bring that to the Clippers, and get this team to do what they’re supposed to do, rather than falling in love with their own hype.