What is going on, Clippers fans? Well is going on? I don't
know. Welcome to an impromptu episode of Clips and Dip Season two, episode
forty six. Impromptu because the Clippers just had their best regular season win I
think since the Wizards that come back against the Wizards with the Luke Canard four
point play and everything. There was no zobots. The Clippers win this game
in absurd fashion, one fifteen to ninety six. And I'll tell you what,
it wasn't that close, U, it was not. I don't know.
We're live on YouTube right now over at YouTube dot comm slash at Clippers
podcast. Will how are you feeling after whatever? The hell? This was
absolutely ecstatic. It's it's so interesting that both of these games, it's so
hard to take any thing away, but this is I mean, the Clippers
just given on. They were on the second night of a back to back,
and how late they got into Boston. It's just absolutely incredible. I
I talked a little bit last night with Adam and I wasn't completely ruling out
the win, but I did not think it was going to be like this.
No, we're waiting for kind of the final breakdown for per quarter stuff.
To come in, but the Clippers in the third quarter justted. Celt
took care of business on a different level. Man, That was it this
game. Like the Celtics shot horribly in this game. So did the Clippers.
Were They were both terrible to start though from three? Yeah, I
mean they both ended ten to forty from three. Both teams were ten for
forty from three. It was horrible, both teams missing their starting center.
I don't know, it's like this one is I don't know. This feels
fan. This is the best win. This is the best win of the
season by far, bye by Miles, by leaf. It's not close.
It's not close. This felt different. And these teams always play each other
like for the most part, you know, I know there've been two blowouts
this year, but these teams generally play each other pretty close. These are
usually pretty exciting matches to watch, and have been throughout the two and three
era actually even going back to the year before. But this this was on
a different level. I talked yesterday with Adam about what they need to do
well and set the defensive tone, and I thought, like the defense really
from both sides, but especially from the Clippers to start this game, was
playoff like. That was kind of it was playoff level. Yeah, And
the way that they answered the bell, right, Jason Tatum came out and
scored seven straight points for the Celtics to open the second half, and the
Clippers just rolled with it. They said, Okay, great, We're gonna
answer every single bucket that you managed to get. He felt a little comfortable
early to start this game. You know, he's had good games against the
Clippers before. But the defensive intensity, like you mentioned from Kawhi to start
this game, Paul George looked great. Daniel Tyson hasts to get a shout
out. I thought, yeah, he had a great game, best game
of the Clipper of his Clippers career, I think for daniel Tye. He
shot eighty eight percent eighteen and seven. Some of that was in garbage time.
But the rebounding in this game, the rebounding numbers make me really happy
from the Clippers in this game. Listen to the amount of boards guys got.
Kawhi seven boards, Paul George six boards, Plumbly seven, Terrence six,
Harden eight. You had Daniel Tye with seven boards too. Every single
bigger guy was contributing in the paint to grab boards, which is what everyone
was concerned about, which makes total sense. The Southern knock with the Celtics
team, you know on the Clippers size, but everyone was crashing the boards
tonight. It was yeah, this is again, this is a different win.
This is a different kind of win than we're used to seeing from the
Clippers. On the second night of a backpack they got it at two am.
Could not be happier with I mean, not to be too negative,
right, but like these are the kind of games that we've expect kind of
got getting dumped on us. So that throughout times in this two and three
era, like a really big matchup and and you know it kind of fizzles
out and this team like they overcame stuff too. Like it's it's not like
the like we talked about three point shooting not being red hot, James not
super efficient, still great out there. Yeah, everything is just coming together.
And I loved what we got out of the role players. Terrence Man
and a Mere Coffee really stood out to me. They were both great.
Russ had that little sort of rough stretch from the first quarter into the second,
and ty Tye subbed in Terrence pretty quickly. There, and Sharrett shot
off that when Terrence got subbed in, what did he get? He got
a dunk and then a steal or a steal and then a dunk, like
it was immediate impact. We do have to talk about this X Bongo Project
in the chat. Also, this is a live edition. If you're listening
to the podcast, thank you so much. We appreciate it. If you
want to hang out with us on weekend sometimes if there's crazy games, we
will go live over on YouTube just kind of out of nowhere. It's very
fun YouTube dot Cole Blush at Clippers podcast X Bongo Project is saying, what
can you say about that Russ technical dunk? It was bullshit? Right,
he should not have I thought it was a little I thought it was a
little soft. But I think you have to consider the context of like he
didn't hit in the face though like he did, he did hang on the
rim a little bit, and the Clippers were of thirty stop play defense.
I'm true, that's true. Don't stop. You don't need a baby.
These guys. Yeah, we're gonna they're big boys out there. We're gonna
talk about everyone who was great, but Zexus, Howe pointed out James Harden
with nine, eight and seven plus thirty six. Lmao. James Harden was
two for eleven in this game, didn't make a three and was still plus
thirty six. His gravity, though, and the way he was able to
penetrate the paint was still I mean just immensely that immensely valuable. And he
took that knock on his ankle too, both angles. Yeah, yeah,
he like came into the game with a knock and then landed on was that
Jalen Brown. Yeah, Jalen Brown with the reach in the landing space,
which Jalen Brown I thought was pretty chippy to start this game. I'm not
saying that he's dirty or anything like that because I don't think that, but
like he was definitely he was definitely physical early. He was looking to set
a tone. He didn't get called for a foul on a Kauhi transition dunk,
which kind of drove me crazy because yeah, that was bullshit. I
hate the push in the back, like you know you're in the area,
you have no idea it's coming. And again, I know the intent wasn't
there. He wasn't trying to do anything bad. It was just clearly a
foul and probably should have been called. And I think I'm feeling a little
bit sensitive about Kawhi because he didn't. He's not an all star starter,
and I feel like you and working yourselves into furies. He's not always getting
the superstar calls and it's bs no. I agree. If you're new to
the pod. Adam Oslin who works for A five seventy and is doing the
post game right now, if you want to go listen to it, help
him out. Uh is our other co host. But what we're just doing
the live today, David Naga said, Jayalen Brown is upset because Paul told
the vaccines work four game. Thank you for that, David Daggie, that
was very funny. One last thing on Harden, if this was if you
didn't know exactly what Harden brings to the Clippers and what makes the Clippers so
much better with James Harden, today was the example. Today was the game
to watch and say, this is the man directing traffic. Like you mentioned,
his gravity, his decision making is fantastic. He's making Mason Plumley look
like he's played a lot more basketball in this starting lineup than he has.
And Mason Plumley was great today. But the reason Mason Plumley's great and it
goes four to four, A large part of that is because James Harden is
helping him look good, so which we can elevate guys all like around him.
Is it's pretty remarkable, even at this stage in his career. Seven
to one assist a turnover ratio for James Harden tonight. Someone mentioned in the
comments as well, fame O whatever that is, mentioned that the Clippers took
care of the ball on this one. Evan turnovers for the Clippers of this
one, which in a game where the Celtics only turnover eleven times like this
game wasn't This is such a weird game to try and contextualize a little bit
too, I think. But we've talked about Harden. Let's get into kind
of Paul and Kawhi and then we'll try and contextualize this, I guess,
But what did you like from Kawhi in this game? I mean, what
didn't I like? He had twelve what twelve of our twenty six points in
that first quarter. He was just a huge tone setter. Yeah, it
was just incredible, and I thought in the third two he was a huge
reason that we pulled away. He was just utterly dominant. I you know,
I mean I always make the comment like he's ready to go home.
He was, let's wrap this up, I'm ready to go home. That
spin on Pretcher and then dunking on late Cornet, it was like, this
is over. The game is over, everybody, Let's run the clock.
Let's get nasty. Sixty six percent from the field, and a game where
the Clippers only shot forty four percent as a team, plus twenty seven the
second best on the team, two steals, two blocks. Again, he's
doing everything so well on both ends of the floor. Totally Paul. I
thought Paul had a little bit of a slow start in this one, like
his percentages aren't that bad. Finished with seventeen six and one. He had
a he had like kind of a classic Paul George turnover early. He got
stripped at one point. But threes were huge though in a game where there's
only ten made threes by the clips, he'll go to three six agreed,
No, he he turned it around though, from from a slow start to
you know, he's always going to be a positive contributor when he's out there.
Yeah, and the threes. I think he's still finished around fifty percent.
Six. Yeah, I guess just in a game where you know,
James James doesn't really have it going. You would like to see Paul maybe
score a little bit more. But like, what what you want me to
take away? Yeah, you know, I'm trying to put some thorn with
these roses because it is like, I mean, this is just it's a
hard game. It's unbelievable. Right now, this is what. This is
the third streak of five or more wins for the Clippers this season. Yeah,
what you were saying, let me pull it up. I'll have to
pull up the schedules and results. But I just and also PG only twenty
two minutes. Let us know in the chat. But like, have the
two point three era Clippers and can you, like during any other stretch have
you thought of them as this dominant like maybe in twenty twenty. Yeah,
but I mean not like it just it's different. It looks different. So
yeah, right now we have oh it's not that. No, So they
have the nine game This is the third five at least five game win streak
for the Clippers in this season. They had the niner, they had a
five and then this is five again, so this is unprecedented territory. Chaizong
mentioned in the chat killed the season transition to night after forcing their on turnovers
too. That was a thing that was a big difference to me in this
game was the Clippers would get a deflection and then sometimes in years past,
on the second nd of a back to back, something like that happens,
and maybe they don't get back as fast enough. That happened one time early,
but then every other time that they had a chance in transition, they
were running, they were ready to go. Like I think I can count
on one hand the amount of times I've said the Clippers don't look like the
team that played yesterday when they know this is one of the times this is
maybe the fifth time that that's ever happened. So they're they're making good on
every single thing they said in the offseason so far. Yeah, yeah,
love it. People are saying maybe best stretch in twenty twenty one, maybe
small stretch in twenty twenty one. I think that's fair. This is what's
smart, though it is different form of dominis now with all that off ball
and ball movement, that's the issue. The Clippers were so good individually,
but systematically it never really felt as dominant as it should be. Yeah,
even when they have, even in twenty twenty one, I mean they had
such an efficient half court offense, which you know is a good indicator for
the playoffs when things slow down. But I always the one thing that I
always struggled with the Clippers offensively is they didn't have a lot of ability to
sort of like change tempo or or do a lot of other things. Like
we would see a lot of like possessions where you know who the ball is
going to and you know that they're going to kind of grind down the shot
and you know who's going to end up with the shot. Which was fine
because you know they were you know, they were dominant and still still killing
it. But seeing this completely different look, it just, yeah, it
just feels so much more cohesive, so much more tangible that this is I
mean, this is a legit contender. Yeah. I sorry, we got
a bunch of people in the chat. Thank you to everyone coming in.
Also, by the way, hanging out over here at Clippers podcast over on
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We're talking the Clippers complete shellacking of the Boston Celtics, thanks in part to
an incredible third quarter thanks in part two. You know, a bad shooting
game from the Celtics, but it's not like the Clippers were lighting it up
from deep in this one. They also only made ten threes. I don't
know does this game. So we talked. We talked about pretty much everyone
who. We talked about Tye, we talked about Terrence, We talked about
Harden a mere coffee. I think someone I think I saw his name in
there in the chat. Also, JJ the boy. I'm ready to get
hurt again. I'm fully in on this Clippers team now. I'm I'm in
the hopeium Den. I am, I have my spot, I have my
like, this is it. I'm ready now, I am fully, fully,
fully ready. Now punch me in the face again. Let's do it.
So someone asked in the chat earlier, where you know Clippers two games
in the Grammy road trip right now. We talked about this a little bit
on the pod. We know the Clippers internal goal was to go six and
one. I think you and I both handicapped it at five and two.
Yes you said, I think you said four and three, but that was
Adam. Okay, okay, our other co host Adam for those of you
destroying, So five and two we were we were still pretty optimistic. Do
you think it's time to maybe reassess? I don't know. Five and two
is really good in a seven game road trip, they're playing seven games in
eleven days. They end on a three and five. Their next is their
next two games is that when we get Wizards Pistons, because they I think
that's the mid It's like this the mid Grammy trip kind of, they go
Calves, Wizards, Pistons. I'm not that cas game is tough. I'm
not gonna be surprised if they lose to the Calves after what they did.
I mean, it's but also it's not like it was a hard fought game
tonight. No, right, this game didn't go down to the wire the
Clippers. It was over after the third quarter. Yeah, the Clippers didn't
have to do a lot, if that makes sense. I know they played
fantastic, but like offense, like it was just like everyone was so cohesive
and all the same page that it didn't look that difficult if they were expending
a lot of effort on the defensive end for the second night of a back
to back, it was Yeah, it was unreal locked in where it was
effortless. Yeah, like, so the kas game is going to be difficult,
but that Wizard's pistons in there, I'm feeling, you know, like,
but I I still think five and two, five and two, and
I'm still incredibly happy. Oh five and two is, yeah, it's great,
but six and one is also. I guess all the table now because
we said, you said that the Raptors game was a must win, which
I fully agreed with, and now it's like, okay, I guess I
don't want them to obviously lose more and lose a game they shouldn't on this
road trip, but it just still is a little less. Yeah, we
need to talk about a mirror. David McCann had this. Emir's is a
proper good player. Now. Great to see very British praise from David McCann
for a mere coffee. Amir looks he's out playing his contract by a whole
lot. He goes he didn't make a three tonight, which is fine,
but he's been on fire. Prior to this game. I think he had
shot seventy four percent in his last thirteen games. Unreal what he was shooting.
Look, I mean for a team that we know has had their issues
drafting and certainly in the two and three era, hasn't had a lot of
developmental minutes or sort of road to develop guys on your roster to build internally,
I mean a mere Coffee is a huge success story both himself as a
player and you know it's one of the brighter spots for this for this organization
from a from a developmental perspective, I mean, he is a loan success
story, one of the few. Was it too seasons ago when he played
in the Summer League and we were like, this is the year that Amir
has to show out. He had kind of a whole home setting. He
got ejected from a game and we were like, what is the team?
He had a rough offseason this off season. He did not have the easiest
offseason. Also real quick. David mccannus from Ireland not England, very different.
Thank you for the comment, Dave mccn sorry, will go ahead,
Uh No, same thing, Like it's just the development is incredible. The
way he's bought in. It's yeah, I don't know as wild. And
he's clearly physically done the work. He's worked on his shot, His finishing
looks great. Yeah. I just don't know what more you could ask for.
And he is now every year he's been with the Clippers. He's been
with the Clippers, I mean since twenty twenty, right, so he's been
with this team for kind of a long time. He's kind of a vet
on this version of the Clippers, a vet. Oh yeah. And it's
nice for guys like this is a great example for Bones Highland to see.
To see, hey man, sometimes I think Bones the ceiling is higher than
a Merrors. But sometimes it's like, hey man, this is how this
is a team where you actually will get the playing time when it's your time.
If you do what you're supposed to do, you are actually going to
get your time. We might have to talk about a Brandon Boston take I
have, but that's later. That's we're talking about all good things now.
So he talked about a mirror. Norm Palell not his best game. Norm
Palell did not have a good game. Norman Russ were the two. If
he's not sinking it from three. You know something's up, you know something's
wrong for the Clippers. Yes, there's dude. There's been something happening though
with Norm over the last like three or four games where he is putting in
a level of effort on low post defense specifically that we have not seen him
do before. He's challenged a couple of shots at the rim kind of sporadically
over these last couple of games, which is just a surprise to see from
a guy like Norm. Yeah, he had a really tough defensive board today
that like kind of helped push the pace. Like something's different with how he's
playing on the defensive end. I think it's like when you see Zoo get
a little pep and a step or something like that. Like, Norm looks
like there's a been a shift and focus on defense, which is in a
really good way for the Clippers. So he was great on that aspect tonight.
But yeah, Norman Russ not their best nights. You know, only
seventeen minutes for Norman this one, yes, and then only fifteen for us.
So it's also like credit to Tylo Tylou did a great job. You
know, when things were going on with Russ, he brought in Terrence that
worked out like Norm was had kind of a short lease on this one.
Everyone literally everyone but two guys had such a complete and perfect game. Well,
now that you bring that up and some agreed, West Jenkins or Wayne
Jenkins, I agree with this take. Westbrooks Tech was a joke. It
was. And now that we've talked about coffee, Like so, Joseph,
he wants to know who will get out of the rotation when Zoom gets back
in four weeks, and I'm just wondering where you're at right now, Like,
what do you think are the Clippers top eight guys? I have to
go top eight. I'm gonna start with the Joseph McGee question first, which
also this sounds like Joseph Ryan Award using a fake name, which would be
really funny. I think it is Daniel Tice out of the rotation. I
think the Clippers like to play with a big big they're a smallish team right
now and things like that. I think it might be Tye. Tyson has
been very good. This isn't a knock on Tye at all. But I
don't know who else is, right, Like, who is it? Yeah,
I don't know, it's a hard and again sk sk is saying Tyson
has been great. I totally agree, but like who else is missing time?
Everyone else is playing so good in the role is really needed. I
think it'll just be matchup. It's gonna it's gonna be dependent, which is
a good problem for the Clippers to have, especially given some of their their
size problem. Yeah, and they're like size some of their size deficiencies with
the excess of guards. Yeah, this is a really funny comment to me.
Uh, one team was missing their most important big but great job by
the Clippers pushing through that adversity. The Clippers were missing their most important bigot.
Both teams were missing their starting center. So this is an interesting comment.
Roger Afonso, I think they will go nine deep. I think that's
kind of fair. Like I don't know who's your who's I'm I'm buying time
right now because I don't know who to say that my top I can't do
a top eight. How about that I wouldn't do a top eight. I
think I agree with Roger. I think we should do nine right now.
Okay, so nine all right, so obviously just the starters, and I'm
including Zoo in that, not Mason currently. Okay, yeah, so the
starters nor, Wow, this is harder than I thought I was gonna.
It's really hard, honestly. Okay, this game might be coloring it,
but I might. Damn, this one's really hard. Okay, So I
might go Norm Mason Coffee, Lord Mason Coffee, and then I'll be and
then you know, Russ. If we're going top nine, Lorm Mason coffee,
Russ. Sorry, I'm just looking at who am I leaving out?
I meet a mirror? Oh right, no, you said coffee, more
Mason coffee. I mean you're leaving out Russ. Has Russ is in the
top nine. This is the top nine. I don't know if he's in
my top eight right now. No, And that's no shade. The Clippers
just look literally ducking shots. Oh God, will don't come from me,
right, that's a bad thing about Russell Westbrooking. You're walking in zig zags
on the sidewalk. I hear a curse in the wind. Yeah, William
blast And the quote says Tice too. It's tough. It's kind of a
toss up. I think on the margins it is matchup dependent, though I
think Tyler is gonna do some matchup dependent stuff with that because it is flow
right. We saw that tonight, we saw effectively. You know, fifteen
minutes is not a lot of minutes for us. He's averaging twenty three minutes
per game on the season for the Clips. I know that maybe I thought
that was that looked a little high to me when I actually looked it up,
But that's effective. That's a pretty short leash in a game where the
last seven minutes or so were garbage time, right, So we're seeing TYLERU
kind of play with just some guy's rotation and it's a little more like quick
decision. Now now that we've had this continuity, Tyler can make these changes
quicker. So I think we might see some of those games where like randomly,
it'll be like, oh, Tyson didn't play the first three quarters,
and then it's like he had a little session, you know, he had
like a little shift on the fourth or something after ty saw something happen.
But they credit to Tyler and the game too. He had the guys fucking
prepared. That's something that we haven't really talked about a bunch is the Clippers
look prepared for every single game this year. They don't look like anything's really
you know, like because sometimes you've watched the Clippers team and you're like,
how did this happen? How's this happening? They're prepared, They were prepared
for Jason Tatum to come back and them they knew what they were supposed to
do. If like a run happened, it was fantastic. There was a
moment in that first quarter where Tyler took a he took a time out pretty
early. I think it was a one possession game. I want to say
it was seven to nine Celtics lead, and the team looked notably different after
coming out of that timeout and went on that run that I mean, you
know, basically, we can leave fifteen minutes early from this horrible city.
If you guys lock it up, it is probably what happened. William Blast
says he will keep Daniel in rotation even if his minutes are less. He's
played too well to bench him like bones that. Yeah, like that's the
other part. Everyone's playing so well. No one is really the weak link
for the Clippers right now in a way that like, oh your costs on
us games? They haven't lost very many games. Yeah, yeah, and
it might have been a snub to knot for me to not have Tyson my
top eight. It's so hard, yeah, because you can't. But so
that's why I think plumbly, because I think they're gonna want to play with
size, yeah, in the playoffs, especially right Like we saw some of
the small ball against Minnesota, which was interesting. We saw it. Rust
played some center the other day and stuff like that, which I think we
might use to get by the regular season when Zoo is out, say for
four weeks or six weeks or whatever it's gonna be. But I don't know
if we're gonna be going small in the playoffs unless it's like a we need
something. It might be like a weird thing to close out a quarter or
something. But I mean, overall, I've got the impression. I mean,
it seems pretty clear that Tyleru was never really fully sold on, like
the the wingstopall kind of kind of set up. So I think that it's
you know, that's a pretty reasonable prediction to think that likely Mason. You
know, Mason would see a little bit more time in the playoffs with a
more traditional size. Also, just like with how we how James Harden's passing
has opened things up for the bigs. It's really nice when shots aren't falling
to be able to just toss it to the big fella for a little while.
Mason. You know, we've seen Tys do it at times, but
obviously you know he'll struggle a little bit more there. But what he brings
on the defensive end, you know, I don't know, it's a And
this is like the wingstop situation felt like a good problem to have for the
Clippers, but it felt actually good, it actually worked, And I think
one of the problems with that was it was like a lot of a lot
of guys who had kind of overlapping skill sets. And now we have guys
who like worked like they were together. Not that those teams didn't didn't work
together, but everything gels together really well. But there's also kind of a
hierarchy of roles, if that makes sense, that I think leads to a
little less confusion, a little less like muddledness on the floor. Yeah,
guys on what their job is like. Parents used to have to play four
positions in a week. That's a great point. Parents would play center one
game, and then he'd have to start at the two, and then maybe
he'd start at the one like parents had no real role. Now he has
a role and he's been fantastic. We're gonna take a quick break for the
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So we want to get to a question here booz onco I'm so sorry.
I'm really bad at I'm really bad at pronouncing it. But they want
to know, in your point of view, does something happen during the trade
deadline? Man, My question right now is what do you want what?
Seriously, like, you just saw this team. We just saw this team
blow up Boston, Like, what do you want what? In your mind?
When Zoobots is back, do you think this team is missing? Because
I'm not saying that it's perfect. There are moves to be made on the
margins, for sure, but like, what do you really want and what
are you really willing to give up channeling your internab right now? The god
damn it that I don't know, So we got I think we both just
saw this comment. Yeah, like this feels like the play like this,
this comment from Junction I want to play that doesn't what the bed and garbage
time? Like, I don't know, dude, I don't know. We've
never been in this territory. I personally have never had this level of belief
in a real sense with the two and three era Clippers. So I don't
know what we can trade to make me believe in this team anymore, or
that can give me an example of how good they can be and how lucked
in they are. The biggest issue with this Clippers team has always been treating
the regular season seriously and not letting their focus slip in games where it shouldn't
slip. They've answered that incredibly well to start this season. We're halfway through
the season and they're playing their best basketball as an in this era. You
know what I mean, I have no idea what could make this team better.
Call me delusional, That's fine. Six forty eight pm, January twenty
seventh. We just smacked it on the Boston Celtics with out of eats Zubats
on the second end of a backpack they got in at two in the morning
today. I don't know what can make this team better. And that's I'm
sure that's glib. I'm sure tomorrow gonna wake up and say we're still a
little small against the Lakers zoos out. I don't think adding a center make
any sense. We're gonna roster four centers. No, I don't get that
we're gonna switch out one of the two really great backup centers we have,
Zubats, Tyson Plubly is the best three centers you can possibly have on a
team for this team, for sure, this team, I don't think there's
any team that has three centers as good as those three guys. Should the
Clippers maybe consider making a trade to get a little bit worse this? Have
you considered that perhaps their swag is too different? They smoke too tough,
too bad? They might be who what do you see like? I don't
I know that was kind of a long ran. I don't usually lose my
mind, not like that. I guess, but like this team is just
I don't know, I don't know what makes him better. Like I don't
know what size we add on the wing. You know what I would be
what size were adding on the wings? Someone to take PJ. Tucker's place.
He's been d n p'd, so we don't even need that guy,
and they're still playing the best basketball in the league. I would actually,
I would actually feel really good about standing pat, Like if this was the
first year that it was like, we don't need to make a move to
improve this roster. All we need is continuity and to keep playing the way
that we're gonna play. I think that that would be kind of a new
chapter for this for this Clippers team in the two and three era. And
I mean personally, I like, I think that's a little exciting, is
it not. You look at these teams like the Nuggets that you know,
obviously they didn't retain everybody over the like after the championship run, but like
they have so much continuity, and that's been one of those things that like
the Clippers have never had. They've never had the luxury of that. So
I as much as we love trades and I like the idea of like a
margin move or something in theory, like it would be kind of cool if
we were just we're good, right, Like yeah, And and if you
want to trade the twenty for those of you also wondering, Will and I
are just in the same house right now. It's just really funny. You
might know it's the same cat if you want to do a big trade,
like someone uh Seth g who has been following and engaging a bunch with the
account. We really appreciate it something, thank you, he said. Jeremy
Grant. I gotta like Jeremy Grant. We love Jeremy Grant. I just
you have to give up so much. The twenty thirty pick is so far
out. It's a long way out, and I don't and I know that
it's it's the all in year and everything like that, but we did that.
We got James Harden. If this team looks so much better with this
version of all in after getting hardened, I don't know. I don't know.
It seems difficult and I understand. Like the common theory, right is
like if you're having a season, this is good, you might as well
put all your chips in. But like, what if the pot's not getting
any sweeter. Yeah, I like that idea because I and that point about
Denver's really good too. They're a consistent team. The main guys have been
there. A lot of people people saying team stand Pat, Cody Jacobs,
team stand Pat. Yeah, also saying Cody Jacobs, if it's not broken,
don't fix it. This team is really good. They're gonna have some
rest coming up ish for the All Star break before heading into a really hard
part of the schedule. I know, if you listen to the show,
you know that we joke about March a lot, but seventeen games, a
fair a large percentage of their schedule happens in like a month, So we're
gonna really see kind of really what the team. We know what the team
can do. We're gonna see what they're really made of in March. We're
we're getting a lot of Blake stuff in here. And I like, I
love the idea. I I don't know that I see it like for the
vibes. What vibes, I don't know, your own personal nostalgia vibes,
I mean for my own personal lies. That's what That's what's important. Trance
Addict not try addict saying, stay put in their opinion. I like that.
Do we have anything else you want to say? Like what, I'm
so I'm still coming down from those Clippers win at seven pm in LA feels
much later than that, feels like it's two in the morning. I'm so
hyped up. I don't know anything else we want to say. They're playing
the Hawks or sorry, they're not playing the Hawks. I'm out of as
they're playing the Calves. Oh, this is a nice little stat Thank you,
Taz Vortex. Clippers are thirteen and one with Terrence Man scoring ten plus
points. Hell, yes, love it, Terence man. Um, this
is a question I had. Who's at the halfway point? Who's the most
improved Clipper for you this year? It's a hard question. Chat. Let
us know who you think the most improved Clipper is this year. I generally
think it's it's like that. Well, it's it's interesting because I think we've
always had this is the suspicion that Terrence Man could do this in the starting
lineup. So that's a big one. Everyone's saying zoo, which is also
a good one. Like Zoo, you know, we've always said that he
has this double double potential. We've been waiting every season for him to take
a leap of this magnitude and he's done it. But like, also cool,
like we got a couple of Ka's. I think that's kind of funny.
I could listen to the argument. I could hear it. He's I
mean, a top three, top two player in the NBA, Like absolutely,
David Days saying bots, I think Zuo's a great one. We can't
say James Harden, but James Harden has improved the Clippers the most, yeah
this year. But yeah, I think I think Zoo's a really good answer.
A Mirror and Zoo for me, like you can pick either of those
two guys, because a Mirror we've seen flashes of it. We saw him
play great in the January a couple of seasons ago and stuff like that.
But he's doing on a consistent level and his defense has gotten so much better.
So I think I have to go Zoo just because he plays more.
But it is a starter, And like you know, I think we were
kind of at a level where we thought Zoo had maybe reached his ceiling and
it wasn't. It wasn't a bad ceiling by any means, but it wasn't
the level. It wasn't like I mean, he's an indisputable like he how
many championship contenders? Could he be a starter for? Like at playing at
this level? You know what I mean? Yeah, that's a good call.
Yeah, man, what a great problem to have. Who is the
most improved Clipper. It's a difficult question. Jaden Sanders is saying, Russ.
I don't know about that. Russ. He's been better this year,
for sure, but I don't know if he's gotten I don't know if he's
improved as much as a mirror in zoo. Wayne Jenkins saying Tyleru, which
I think would a great take. I think that makes a lot of sense.
Tyler has coached really well. He's got the guys to buy in on
the focus. After some heat from the fans, I feel like, yes,
people were talking about fire. I was hearing fire Tyleru every day.
Wild shit. Andrew Opilas says, Chuck the Condor. He's so high,
he's already one mask out of the year. How can he do any better?
You can't be any more improved than that. I also don't I don't
think he's a hyphe mask out of the year. Sure, I'll tell you.
The only mascout of the I recognize is Monty from the University Montane.
All right, well do we want do we? We got to head out.
I'm have to do the radio with Adam in a couple of minutes.
Do we have anything else you want to say to these fans? We're doing
an episode with all three of us tomorrow after football and stuff, but anything
else we want to send these fans off with? What are you feeling?
I don't know. This is just the most real the Clippers. Look.
I know that I think national media and obviously Boston fans are going to add
a million asterisks to this win. But this was real and what this team
did, considering being on the second night of a back to back, considering
the insane travel, considering the way that we've talked ourselves into excuses for this
team every single year. Like to see them at this level and like actually
making good on the promises and what they've said, Like, this feels very
real right now, and I think everybody should be should be super excited after
this dominant performance. I love that that That's perfect. I have nothing else
to add to that. We will be back tomorrow. With the recorded episode
with the full crew. Adam Osam will be here too. He's hosted on
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