Good. How are you?
>> Hello. First question, Danielle.
>> Hey, Clint. How are you?
>> Good. Thank you.
>> Um, the Rockets leaned a lot into a
double big lineup last year with Steven
and Alpie on the court at the same time.
How do you feel about your ability to to
play alongside another big? And um, just
in general, how do you feel like your
skill set complements that of two
centers at this?
>> Yeah. No, it's great. Uh, that's why I
wanted to come here. uh you know I watch
uh I watched them play a little bit a
little bit last year playoff also gets a
very familiar team and uh no that double
big thing is a it's a very uh it's a
thing that you know I'm excited to to be
part of and so I hope he also play this
this summer with his national team and
I'm I'm very excited.
Jeff,
>> hey Clint, can I'm just wondering in the
intervening years since you've been
here, talk a little bit about what's
changed about your game and what you're
excited to bring back to the Rockets now
that you're back. Yeah. Know I'm excited
to bring back u what I've been doing uh
you know rim running um you know finish
out the rim aggressiveness around the
rim that that pressure uh inside the
paint to free our shooters make free
shot happen and defensively you know be
able to switch be able to to block shots
in the paint rebounding offensive
rebounding
and and be a presence.
>> Hey Clint, welcome back. Kind of
following up on that. Can you just talk
about um your thoughts about bringing
all that back to this team and what that
looks like from the year before
>> when I was here? Uh I mean I just I just
feel that this team uh compared to last
year like I knew that you know they they
have there is all the potential to to
get the job done. um to to from from
whenever I was here. I feel like this
team has something here again that you
know can allow us to to to to go forward
and win. Um and you know this is this is
why I made the the the choice to to come
here. I wanted to to feel that again to
to be on the team where we have all the
tools to to make it happen.
>> When you look at a head coach like uh
Emodoko, what what excites you about
playing for him? I love it cuz uh you
know he's he's tough. He's going to tell
you stuff like um right away, straight
away. Um uh I feel I feel that that's
what you need. Uh the season is so long.
Uh and at the end of the day, it's at
the end of the season, it's more mental
and and toughness to fight through
fatigue, to fight through uh minor
injuries you might have, to fight
through uh yeah, like I said, uh mental
fatigue and that type of coach who who
uh who is very good at, you know,
motivating guys and and you know, talk
like hype you up, get you get you to
play harder. Uh that's what it's about
whenever you get to to the postseason.
and uh that's that's why I'm here.
>> How much different does this franchise
feel, you know, now that you're back? I
mean, as opposed to
>> No, I feel like uh um I feel like when I
left, it was something that was undone.
Uh and, uh obviously, uh Houston always
been my my home since uh I came to the
US. Um and uh when I you know, when I
saw this this in the playoffs last year.
I was, you know, really excited to get
an opportunity to to be here and and
fight with for this team.
>> Clint, it appears walking around here,
there's real genuine excitement to be on
this team, to be back in Houston. Tell
me about that.
>> Man, so much. I mean, even walking in,
see all of you guys, a lot of familiar
faces. kind of see that you know being
in Houston uh you know play for the
Rockets again uh you know walk walk
around here and feel like this is where
I grew up you know where I became a man
and uh it's just so exciting to me uh I
just I can't wait to to get started I
can't wait to to be in regular season
win a lot of games uh and uh have all
our fans just get you know hyped up and
all come here to to watch the show.
>> Clint, you've always been a guy who's
had synergies with great point guards.
Obviously, Chris Paul here, Trey in
Atlanta. What have you thought this
offseason about Reed Shepard? I know
you've done some work with him in the
gym. Do you think he's ready for for
real NBA minutes this year?
>> Man, the first time I saw him and we
played, he like like you had like 10
shots in a row. I was like, man, how
like you know, from what I saw, I'm
like, man, this guy got to play. This
guy's ready. Uh but obviously in this
league you have to, you know, work hard
and whenever your opportunity comes to
to to show off and I I think that's his
time right now. Uh we're going to need
him and uh I play with him and uh I can
see that he has, you know, so much more
potential and he's going to get even
better uh the more he plays regular
games. Kelly, hey Clint, um, just talk
about the process of developing
chemistry with guys like Amanda and Reed
and over the course of the season in
camp. How you expect that to go?
>> Yeah. No, I feel like they have so much
potential because they're young guys and
uh they they have that they have the
mojo in them where they, you know, they
want to go get it like they're
aggressive. They're not scared to
they're not scared to get to the rim.
They're not scared to challenge getting
guys at the rim shoot through the ball.
And uh that's what you need from from
young guys. Uh we're going to have to
make sure that communicate with each
other uh defensively, offensively, uh
how to set a screen, how our role to
get, you know, loss or or late passes.
And uh that's that's going to be great.
It's going to be it's going to help you.
>> Clay, what is it about Houston and the
city that you connected so well with and
and stayed with, you know?
>> Yeah. You know, I just feel like I said
like whenever I came here, the fact that
I just came so, you know, I didn't I
didn't expect to like my rookie year to,
you know, play right away in in the
playoffs and go to get that deep in the
playoff series. Uh so since my first
year, I just felt so attached to the
city and I really felt that the uh the
support I think what what I miss the
most is this the the fans, the support
that I feel about this city. uh uh
whenever I left uh that's when I
realized that how how special was to to
represent this team in this city and be
able to to to be a to be really a real
contender, you know? Uh I really miss
that and that's that's why I feel like
so that's why I feel that it's so
special to be here with this team.
>> Jackson,
>> hey Clint, um you already kind of joked
and alluded to, you know, a familiar
opponent in in the Warriors. um given
that KD was part of those teams, you
know, any conversations about those old
battles and and is it is it strange at
all now that you guys are teammates?
>> Yeah, it was strange,
you know.
>> Yeah, we I didn't I didn't mention that
to want to talk about that.
Yeah, it's probably the closest we've
been. So, uh
yeah, that's not that's not you know,
that's not real.
Thank you, Glenn.
>> Good question.