Blake Griffin/Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Clippers

There was quite a bit of excitement on the first day of training camp at UC Irvine on Saturday. The second unit – consisting of Jamal  Crawford, Lance Stephenson, Austin Rivers, Josh Smith and Wesley Johnson – defeated the first team in a scrimmage.

Then there was just the overall difference in the team, which includes a lot of new faces on what now is a very deep team.

Blake Griffin was asked about how different the vibe is from previous first days of training camp.

“Yeah, it’s hard to say, though, because the vibe is always different every year,” he said. “The first day is the first day. Everybody’s going 99 miles an hour and we’re all trying to hustle and just do the right things. Yeah, I think you’ll see that start to take shape a little bit more throughout the course of the preseason, obviously, throughout the season.

“But right now,. it’s hard to say, ‘Oh, the vibe is different,’ because it’s always different. It’s different when you have eight new guys or however many we have.”