Marcus Morris has been very vocal that his Los Angeles Clippers would've reached the NBA Finals last year if they were healthy. Kawhi Leonard suffered the partially torn ACL, Ivica Zubac suffered a sprained MCL, and Morris dealt with flare-ups from his knee tendinitis.

The Clippers fell to the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference Finals, their season ending earlier than they imagined a few weeks prior. In speaking with members of the media on Wednesday morning, Marcus Morris once again made sure to let everyone know exactly how he felt when asked about his health status.

“[I feel] pretty good,” Morris said. “If I was 100 percent, I trust we would have been in the Finals.”

How about now, though? Is Marcus Morris 100 percent healthy?

“I don’t think nobody’s 100%. I don’t think players are ever 100 percent even with the summer time, you still play. So I’m ready to play, I would say that.”

Morris shot just 41.8 percent from the field during the Suns series as his knee tendinitis caused him to miss time, whether it was a half here, a quarter there. As the league's second-best 3-point shooter, Marcus Morris says he took time this summer to learn more about his injury, how he can manage it, and how he can strengthen his body so that it doesn't happen again.

“Definitely. With my knee and just getting all the other things around it pretty strong. I didn’t need any surgery or anything like that so I’ve never had anything significant my entire career, so just building around it, building my core a little more, things like that.”

Morris spent the bulk of his offseason down in Miami working out with his twin brother, Markieff.

Now that he's as close to 100 percent as he possibly can be, Morris is able to participate in Clippers training camp for the first time since joining the team. He was originally traded to the Clippers at the 2019 trade deadline, just prior to the season being shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was then forced to miss all of training camp and the first eight games due to the tendinitis.

“Last year, I think for everybody, it was just a quick turnaround so we had a lot of big-time injuries last year and guys needed that time off, but I'm definitely starting in a way better spot than I was. Just continue to work through it and not push it too hard because we do have a long season that, without Kawhi, my body will be pushed to the limit. I just got to maintain that and continue to focus on my knee and things around it.”

With Kawhi Leonard expected to miss a big chunk of the season, many sports pundits and hot take artists are down on the Clippers. Some believe they'll be a fringe playoff team — a seven or eight seed — while some don't even have them reaching the postseason.

Marcus Morris has spent the better part of his life not paying attention to what critics have to say about himself, his game, or his teams. That didn't change with these predictions as well.

“Honestly, I haven’t really even looked at any of that,” Morris said when asked about people's predictions. “I been around a while and I’ve seen what teams have and for me the teams don’t really do much. You still have to play basketball and for a team to be connected like we were and been through a lot like we were last year.

“It’s kind of easy for us to get back into it, and I think the teams with the newer guys it’s going to be a little bit harder because you have to actually put these people on the court and you’ve got to put them in places that maybe they’ve never been in and roles they’ve maybe never been in. And so for us, everybody knows their role and everybody’s familiar with the coaches, familiar with the plan, so I think it will be really easy.”

The Clippers will remain in San Diego for their training camp until Sunday. They'll return home to close out the weekend and play the Denver Nuggets in their preseason opener on Monday.