The Los Angeles Clippers have won four straight games and eight of their last 10 games. That’s seen the Clippers climb to fourth in the Western Conference. Star guard James Harden noted that the noise around the team has gotten awfully quiet, since they started winning.
Harden said those early struggled in November “gave people so much to talk about in a negative way and now those people that were talking are nowhere to be found. Like, literally nowhere to be found. Which, we knew that was going to happen.”
Harden added that this level of success is why he pushed to be traded to the Clippers in the first place.
“Fit is great, I knew that from the beginning and it’s one of the reasons why I wanted to be a part of this,” Harden said.
The veteran guard and star wings Paul George and Kawhi Leonard also emphasized that it’s on LA as a team to continue to get better.
“I love where we are at right now,” George. “This is a team that’s not content on where we’re at. We’re always asking questions on how can we get better, what we got to do.”
Leonard added that the team can still improve defensively, especially in transition.
“Just not running back to matchups,” Leonard said. “I think whoever we start on we just got to run back and pick up whoever’s coming up the floor and obviously communication, and just knowing what we’re doing.”