By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
With Kawhi Leonard out for a fourth straight game due to right knee stiffness, Paul George delivered an impressive performance against the Houston Rockets to secure the 95-93 win at home.
“I take full responsibility for us and our record right now. Regardless of who is in the lineup, and who’s not, I am more than capable of going out and performing and willing our team to win. So I took a lot of on the chin for myself for the way we have been playing and for the start that we have had so far”, George said after the game.
Kawhi Leonard is set to miss the two upcoming matches against the Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs, so Paul George meeds take over again.
“Right now while we’re struggling, we need everything, everybody, every point. But tonight he was huge. We need him to play at that kinda level”, coach Ty Lue commented about the 32-year-old.
“He’s frustrated,” Lue said on the other hand for Leonard before tipoff against the Rockets. “He wants to be out on the floor and then not being on the floor, and then now he can’t travel. He wants to travel, but the doctor said it’s not the right thing to do right now with the stiffness and what he is going through.”
Leonard played in two of the Clippers’ first three games of the season, logging 21 minutes in each off the bench. But he experienced stiffness in his right knee at the morning shootaround last Tuesday in Oklahoma City and sat out the game that night before leaving the team and flying back to Los Angeles to receive further treatment.
The Los Angeles Clippers have currently a 3-4 record, and Paul George is averaging 21.7 points, 7 rebounds, and 4.7 assists per game.
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