1 00:00:11,359 --> 00:00:14,359 Welcome into Clips and Dip. We get a special live for you. I'm 2 00:00:14,359 --> 00:00:18,160 at a Maslim. We got Chuck Mockler and Will Updyke. It's season two, 3 00:00:18,359 --> 00:00:23,359 episode sixty one. Coming up. On today's show, we'll give you 4 00:00:23,359 --> 00:00:28,079 an update on where the Clippers stand in their own version of March Madness. 5 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:34,159 We'll also talk about the Blazers mini series coming up Wednesday and Friday, both 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,640 games in Portland. Let's start things off of this, Chuck, how are 7 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,840 we doing? Uh? I don't know. I'm still pretty upset about everything 8 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,799 that happened. Not everything, the main things we keep seeing over and over 9 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,920 happened again. But it was really nice today. I went for a nice 10 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,159 little walk before we're doing this live, which I think helped me cool down. 11 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:02,399 But I was fired up last night. I was. I was pissed, 12 00:01:02,719 --> 00:01:06,799 and now I think I'm more just angry Big Will. How are you 13 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,480 feeling about It's Clipper's name just in general, but they may cross over. 14 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,000 I mean, like in general, I'm doing all right. It's been way 15 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,359 too long in the dentist today. It's just becoming a recurring thing, like 16 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:23,400 this is horrible. I'm not gonna name names, all right, I'm not 17 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:29,359 gonna name names because I'm sure they're they're lovely people. They just not good. 18 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,799 But when you think when you've an appointment at a given time, it's 19 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,480 usually not an hour later or more than an hour later in my experience. 20 00:01:38,719 --> 00:01:46,319 But yeah, you have to take a number like the d MV like uh 21 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,920 no, you just wait in silence and then you ask multiple times. But 22 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,680 aside from that, I'm doing. I'm doing all right, man. Not 23 00:01:55,799 --> 00:01:59,519 pleased with this team, not happy, not happy that we're doing this. 24 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:06,319 We can sink our teeth into what occurred last night. He look at this 25 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,039 guy. Oh, by the way, we have another sticker to give out. 26 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,560 Yeah, I don't know if we have a winner yet for our last 27 00:02:14,599 --> 00:02:19,280 sticker that was available, But now we have the clips reds script here for 28 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:23,599 you in this live as people are starting to join here, I believe. 29 00:02:23,319 --> 00:02:28,039 So, the Clippers just had their worst loss of the season, and I'm 30 00:02:28,039 --> 00:02:31,960 going to say it's definitive, it's inarguable. How can you not think that 31 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:40,199 was the worst loss when what happened against Reggie Jackson and DeAndre Jordan that occurred 32 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:46,439 back in November, there were still sixty games left in the season. So 33 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:50,840 let's be honest about this losing a game which is fifteen games left in that 34 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,039 fashion to that team at home, considering what's at stake in the standings. 35 00:02:54,919 --> 00:03:02,759 It is inexcusable and beyond baffling that the Clippers team can still have letdowns like 36 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:07,960 this in the two pin to three era when so much is riding on this 37 00:03:08,039 --> 00:03:12,199 season, which we came into this year saying, hey, it almost feels 38 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,639 like a last dance type of situation with this Clippers team. So, Chuck 39 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,439 Will, whoever wants to start things off. I got to talk last night 40 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,159 on Clippers Talk plenty. We weren't able to get Will on, unfortunately, 41 00:03:24,319 --> 00:03:28,439 so he's been stewing for a little bit. Why don't we start with Will 42 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:35,240 because this tends to be his area of expertise when it comes to bad Clippers' 43 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,479 losses. When Will doesn't want to come on post game because he only wants 44 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:42,280 to come on for a win when he has to, then that fuse is 45 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,240 really lit. When I'm forced, When I'm forced, look, man, 46 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:51,520 it's it's it's just it's ridiculous at this point. And I was talking about 47 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,000 this a little bit with you guys the other night. I mean, it's 48 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,680 not the coaching, it's it's like, I just don't know how these guys 49 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:03,879 can elect to not show up, And I don't know how if this is 50 00:04:03,919 --> 00:04:06,919 the way you're looking right now, you even think you're getting out of a 51 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,080 first round matchup with the Pels because it ain't happening, buddy, I'm just 52 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,400 not seeing it. But aside from that, like, yes, there are 53 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:20,360 fifteen games, there's still a chance for these guys to turn around the ship 54 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:24,720 and get it right. But I gotta be honest, like, from what 55 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,879 we've seen, these guys either do not want it, they do not want 56 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:32,439 this, they do not care enough about this, or they already think that 57 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,560 they're good enough and they've proved enough and they're ready for the postseason. And 58 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:42,639 truly, after a game like that last night, which is worse, Like 59 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,000 truly, what is worse to you this team like just being so apathetic that 60 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,399 they don't even care to win a championship, or they think it's said and 61 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:54,920 done, they've done enough, they're good enough, they can beat anybody. 62 00:04:55,079 --> 00:05:01,720 Because they're both so wildly disappointing. And the latter is so wildly delusional that 63 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:06,040 I would venture to say that that's even worse than if they were to say, 64 00:05:06,079 --> 00:05:09,560 at the end of the year when they get bounced in the first round. 65 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,680 Oh yeah, you know, we just kind of didn't want it that 66 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:18,000 bad. That's OK. That's well put. It feels like one of those 67 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,519 two options and they're both bad ones. What's the other one? Like, 68 00:05:21,639 --> 00:05:27,680 tell me one other option. I've heard a lot of tired legs talk, 69 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:32,480 but well, what I will use to push back against that is they were 70 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:38,519 playing with more of a spark once they were down by twenty nine later in 71 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,160 a game where you think they would be more gassed, but at that point 72 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:46,399 they actually did chow one second quarter of basketball. They got it to eleven. 73 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,600 It was a fake comeback. I agree with all of that. I'm 74 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:55,879 just saying, if you're gonna blame tired legs, then how were they able 75 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,680 to muster up later in a ball game where they should be more tired a 76 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,399 little little bit of a push? So I don't buy that either. Chuck, 77 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:10,120 where are you at? I mean, I kind of struggled to make 78 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,639 the outline for this episode because there's only so many times I feel like I 79 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,800 can read quotes from Tyleru about how the team needs to play harder, Paul 80 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:25,879 George talking about having more intensity and pride, and Kawhi like saying, oh, 81 00:06:25,959 --> 00:06:28,879 guys are saying it, but it's time to do it, like it's 82 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:32,040 just the same thing. It's it's the same issues two one to three has 83 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:36,399 had. Tylu got pretty specific with it when asked by Justin Russo, who 84 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:42,720 did a great job asking a pretty but I mean a fairly diff one of 85 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,079 the more difficult questions you'll ask Kawhi or Paul George right like some for sure 86 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,000 the most difficult question you can ask. Can we we need to ask Russo? 87 00:06:53,439 --> 00:06:56,079 Can you DM him and ask him if we can show that picture because 88 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:01,240 it is so great. Terminator was out. Oh Russou is out, dude. 89 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,759 Yeah. For those of you who don't know, Justin Russou, the 90 00:07:03,879 --> 00:07:13,240 Fantastic Clippers writer sometimes has a scenario where he forgets his prescription glasses so he 91 00:07:13,319 --> 00:07:18,199 has to wear his prescription sunglasses, which inside of Staples is very funny. 92 00:07:20,319 --> 00:07:24,399 But he asked them. He asked tyleru if his confidence in the team sealing 93 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:28,040 waivers and all that, and Tyler got pretty specific. It's like, no, 94 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,360 if you're the low man, be the low man. When the shot 95 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:32,120 goes up, you have to box out. But this goes to Will's point, 96 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:38,720 this is simple stuff. There's not like a scheme issue. It's not 97 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:44,360 like it's too complicated or we're using this new terminology like we're saying basic things 98 00:07:44,519 --> 00:07:49,480 over and over that the team isn't doing, and the roster is constructed how 99 00:07:49,519 --> 00:07:53,720 it's constructed. If people are mad about how the roster is constructed, I 100 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,360 think there's much more immediate things to be upset about. So doesn't it start 101 00:07:58,439 --> 00:08:01,959 with just effort and doing the little things right and just playing hard before we 102 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,199 get to any personnel issues for what might be happening. It's one thing if 103 00:08:07,199 --> 00:08:09,560 they were doing all this or they were doing all the right things and they 104 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,879 just weren't able to get over the hump, then you could maybe zero win 105 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,480 on some flaw in the roster. But they're not even doing the basic fundamental 106 00:08:18,519 --> 00:08:20,680 things of basketball. Like coach lu also said, crack back. If Big 107 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:26,199 zeus going for a block, then you have to crack back, like bucks, 108 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:31,600 guys out, what are we talking about. There's fifteen games left and 109 00:08:31,639 --> 00:08:35,320 you look at the stats room last night, right thirty one to eleven and 110 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:41,360 fast breakpoints forty eight to thirty, points in the paint thirty two to seventeen, 111 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:46,320 and assists, which is insane, Like that is complete dog shit. 112 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,080 For lack of a better term, I know Norm was out. Someone in 113 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:54,600 the chat's asking any update on Norm. No real update on Norm. But 114 00:08:54,720 --> 00:09:00,440 losing Norm really shows how little depth this team has for that game. Like 115 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:07,000 I do think there's a level of professionalism with Norm because of how tough he's 116 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,960 been and how hard that he plays that it is more than just losing one 117 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,919 guy, But no one guy is fixing what's going on with the Clippers right 118 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:16,919 now. I keep hearing from people, Oh, they're missing Russ's energy. 119 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,720 It's like, guys, they were three and five coming out of the Gramy 120 00:09:20,799 --> 00:09:24,159 road trip with Russ. They gave up the twenty one point come back to 121 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,120 the Lakers with Russ. To act like that would change everything for the Clippers 122 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:35,159 right now is completely faulty at best in a flimsy argument. It makes zero 123 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,399 sense, Like I think it could help, of course, but it's not 124 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:43,679 about one guy right now. It's about this team playing terribly at the worst 125 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,840 time of the season. Will where are you at with this take from Adrian 126 00:09:48,919 --> 00:09:52,519 Rivera, which I like, did Coffee playing well? Were they gonna make 127 00:09:52,519 --> 00:09:56,639 an acquisition and Coffee starting playing well? And I'm so sorry, Like I 128 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,799 appreciate the question. I think like this, all this roster stuff is fucking 129 00:10:01,879 --> 00:10:05,879 nonsense. We have four Hall of Famers, figure it out, like, 130 00:10:05,159 --> 00:10:09,759 I'm so sorry, Like we have enough top end talent, we should be 131 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:13,039 good for the playoffs. But if this is the version of what we're getting, 132 00:10:13,399 --> 00:10:16,240 like, no, it doesn't matter. Add whoever you want, add 133 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,759 to Jontey Murray at whatever ridiculous person that we can't actually get due to the 134 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:24,200 salary cap things. And I don't think it matters. I just don't think 135 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,200 that it matters. I see wami on here saying tired legs or old legs 136 00:10:28,879 --> 00:10:33,600 regardless, if they're playing harder and bringing more energy later in a ball game, 137 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,919 how can that be the issue? I could see if they never were 138 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,480 able to get going, you could say, Okay, they're just too old. 139 00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:45,879 No, they wanted to play harder and they were able to later in 140 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:48,320 a game when they should have been gassed. So no, I'm not buying 141 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:54,080 that. I'm not. I know the schedule's been unforgiving, especially in March. 142 00:10:54,639 --> 00:10:58,480 But if they played with half of the effort and the way they played 143 00:10:58,519 --> 00:11:01,879 in New World against the Pelicans, in a close game against Atlanta, they 144 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:07,000 probably win by ten or fifteen. They obviously were playing harder in that game 145 00:11:07,039 --> 00:11:11,320 against the Pelicans they were against the Hawks. Yeah, very clearly, they 146 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,799 have a te ball schedule coming up after after two days of rest, they 147 00:11:15,799 --> 00:11:18,720 have a t ball schedule, And if the starters are playing any minutes in 148 00:11:18,759 --> 00:11:22,600 the fourth quarter and that stretch of games, like, I don't know. 149 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:24,919 I mean, I guess we're a little thin right now, so it might 150 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,200 just be out of necessity, but like if these are come like come from 151 00:11:28,279 --> 00:11:31,919 behind games, I don't know, Like I don't even know what to say. 152 00:11:31,639 --> 00:11:35,159 I had. I used the term in our group chat, the clips 153 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:41,480 and group chat that I've never used to describe the Clippers before ever will even 154 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:46,440 when we were doing shavings our first Clippers podcast, I never use it. 155 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:54,120 They're posers. They're posers right now, That's what it feels like. It's 156 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,480 the fake comeback. Right. A couple of games ago, Paul George made 157 00:11:56,519 --> 00:12:00,000 those threes. I think it was like against the Bucks or something like that. 158 00:12:00,039 --> 00:12:03,080 I was like, great, he went, he is playing better off 159 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,039 totally the offense, but nothing's happening on the other ends. Like the offense 160 00:12:09,159 --> 00:12:11,200 is there, but now the defense is bad. And I don't think the 161 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:16,919 offense is there. I don't think. I thought last night was miserable offensively. 162 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:22,879 To me, it was the same process as the game against Reggie Jackson 163 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:28,679 and Jandre Jordan. Everything was just Kawhi is so early when he had seventeen 164 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:33,639 points in the first quarter and they still were down by two. And then 165 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,720 once Kawhi wasn't hitting or not in the ball game, they got down big 166 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:41,639 right away. They hardly ran anything. They were getting into the paint at 167 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,960 all. They had I think two points in the paint total. Are two 168 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,919 shots taken in the paint total in that third quarter, Like everything was just 169 00:12:50,159 --> 00:12:54,559 swinging the ball around the perimeter and Atlanta was daring them to shoot. Their 170 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,519 coverage was good because the Clippers didn't get two on the ball, they didn't 171 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:03,519 get mismatches. They weren't working for it until very late in the ballgame when 172 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:07,080 they actually started cutting hard, when they actually started driving hard to the basket, 173 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,240 like they were so laxadaisical early on. It was It was tough to 174 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:16,200 watch. It felt like a regression to back to where they were early on 175 00:13:16,399 --> 00:13:18,879 with James Harden. Zoo had one field goal attempt, which I know, 176 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:26,840 Adam, that's to absolutely and h that shit is insane. You're looking for 177 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,759 easy buckets from a team that doesn't get enough of them, doesn't get enough 178 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:35,440 shots in the paint at the basket. You have Aviatza, Zoo bots. 179 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,360 Cliff Capella was good yesterday, but they made things way too easy on him. 180 00:13:39,759 --> 00:13:45,200 He's still older, Big Zoo should be able to exploit some of those 181 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:50,200 mismatches. And they didn't even give him the basketball. They played like a 182 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:56,360 team that's freezing Zoo out right now with coach lu just said before that game 183 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:01,559 in Chicago, we're gonna get him the basketball more. Since then, I 184 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,000 want to say he maybe has taken less than ten shots in the last three 185 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:11,759 games total. Is that possible? It's eleven? Oh eleven? Are you 186 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,039 kidding me? They made a concerted effort to get him the ball more, 187 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:22,080 and he's taken eleven shots the last three games. And you want him to 188 00:14:22,159 --> 00:14:26,240 be the last line of defense all the time and make up for everybody else's 189 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:30,360 mistakes along the perimeter and you're not going to give that guy opportunities on offense. 190 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,639 I just don't get it. It keeps happening, and I know a 191 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:37,200 lot of it. Yesterday was just James Harden didn't look right. He started 192 00:14:37,279 --> 00:14:39,799 zero for seven. He looks slow out there till later on in the fourth 193 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:43,399 quarter, and he's the engine and catalyst to their offense. If you take 194 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,600 away James Harden, which is what I've been saying all season long, is 195 00:14:46,639 --> 00:14:50,679 a little bit worrisome that he may not be the second most important scorer on 196 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:56,080 the Clippers, but he is probably the second most important player because he gets 197 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,960 them into their offense. He initiates things. So if you stop him, 198 00:15:00,559 --> 00:15:03,600 do you stop the entire machine. And that's what it looked like last night 199 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,559 to some degree, and then it was just Kawhi Iso, give me the 200 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,200 ball, get out of the way. It looked very similar to that Denver 201 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:16,360 game against Reggie and DeAndre Jordan outside of the pick and roll down the stretch, 202 00:15:16,399 --> 00:15:18,759 where if they beat the Clippers when I think they were down ten heading 203 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:22,960 into the fourth quarter. But this game last night was miserable on both ends 204 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,679 of the floor, and where like Clippers are a game out of fifth, 205 00:15:30,919 --> 00:15:35,360 Like what is hey, guys, Russ is not changing things, Like one 206 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:39,440 guy is not changing things, saying they're missing his energy over and over again. 207 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,080 They were three and five the first eight games out of the Garmy road 208 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:48,159 trip with him. They blew the Lakers game with him. It's not about 209 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:54,759 one guy right now. So what I like it? You're fine, completely 210 00:15:54,799 --> 00:16:00,399 valid and correct take. I wish it was one guy right Yeah. It's 211 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,360 just so overly simplistic that it kind of bothers me because so much is going 212 00:16:04,399 --> 00:16:07,840 wrong with this team and to just say this is it if they had this 213 00:16:07,879 --> 00:16:12,639 one guy right now, because he goes out there and plays with passion and 214 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,879 he was yeah, he was there. It's it's not that simple. I'm 215 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:25,679 sorry. So Clippers are a game out of fifth now. This is what's 216 00:16:25,679 --> 00:16:29,039 so frustrating. Kind of what I was talking about kind of looking at the 217 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,639 outline is like, how do you fix this? You just we just have 218 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,480 to hope that guy's care on that night, and then we hope that that 219 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,600 happens again, and then we hope that that just becomes habit. Because like 220 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,679 right now, I think I said this on the last Live or something like 221 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:47,679 when you're a five hundred team, you play up and you play down, 222 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,600 right, Like, that's kind of how we felt since you know the Grammy 223 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,480 trip, really since that got over with, like will do we we just 224 00:16:53,559 --> 00:16:59,000 have to hope that they do it basically, Yeah, I mean they're just 225 00:16:59,039 --> 00:17:02,879 saying the same thing again and again, like and like Paul George's quote about 226 00:17:02,879 --> 00:17:06,359 like a team without an identity, it's like, what, so what was 227 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:10,440 you had an identity for a period of time? You won ninth straight, 228 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,559 you had a great road trip. Can't you just go back to that did 229 00:17:12,559 --> 00:17:17,680 you drop that? Did you carry that ID card? Just go pick it 230 00:17:17,799 --> 00:17:21,160 up, go back to the DMV. Get it. They were just they 231 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,680 were just doing a bit. They were just doing a bit when they won 232 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:26,000 this nine game, right, it was just a bit guys. Honestly though, 233 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:30,839 even when they were rolling like that in one twenty six of thirty one, 234 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:34,039 what was their identity? Really damn talented? Like, what was their 235 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,680 identity? Look when Kawhi comes out and is saying after wins, we're getting 236 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,160 by too much on talent and not enough on execution, Well now they need 237 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,279 to get by on execution. And even in a game against Atlanta. When 238 00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:51,920 they have the talent disparity in their favor, it doesn't matter because they're playing 239 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,359 like a team that doesn't seem to care out there, that can go through 240 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,240 the motions and feel like what Will was talking about earlier, that they can, 241 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:03,519 I guess, just flip a which it was talked about late last night 242 00:18:03,599 --> 00:18:07,759 by Paul George a little bit. We've speculated do they think they're this team 243 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:11,920 that can just flip a switch and just figure it out when they want to? 244 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,200 Apparently, I don't know. I don't know in any other explanation. 245 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,440 It's so frustrating and so like this is this is I tweeted this out yesterday. 246 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,359 It's like, it's just not you can't project what this team's going to 247 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,559 do in a seven game series. We have no idea what this team will 248 00:18:30,599 --> 00:18:33,480 look. I mean, we have some idea as of five point fifty PM 249 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,319 on March eighteenth. I don't like the idea of what I think we'll see 250 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,720 in a seven game series. But if this team doesn't have home court advantage, 251 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,279 I don't well, I mean, best case scenario, they're only having 252 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:52,039 home court advantage for the first round anyways, right right, I mean yeah, 253 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,400 I mean it would suck, it would not be It would obviously not 254 00:18:56,519 --> 00:19:02,799 be ideal. But it's kind of like it seems more so we're gonna be 255 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:07,000 five. It seems more so we're gonna be five. But is four and 256 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,200 five that big of a difference, Yes, I mean home court, well 257 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,400 so for that for this team, because apparently we like need to they don't 258 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,279 look that good at home though, like it doesn't matter, but okay, 259 00:19:18,319 --> 00:19:23,000 I will agree that it maybe in the on the whole, it doesn't matter 260 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,400 totally. But they had one chance to get out of this matchup, which 261 00:19:32,279 --> 00:19:37,240 it's a really bad in the first round and an even worst matchup in the 262 00:19:37,279 --> 00:19:41,880 second round, assuming Denver takes one, which they have the easiest remaining schedule, 263 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:48,440 feels pretty likely they may. But the okay See Thunder, they do 264 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:51,880 have the tiebreaker against them right now, and what they're a game up on 265 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,759 them, it's still possible okay See finishes number one, and then the Lakers 266 00:19:56,839 --> 00:20:00,519 bounce them in the first round and you have home against the Lakers for whatever 267 00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:04,720 that means. If you got past the first round yourself, I still think 268 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:10,039 having home court against the Pelicans could be the difference. They definitely need it 269 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,799 for sure to have any chance, because it would also be even more deflating 270 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,640 just falling all the way down to five. At least if you hold on 271 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,680 to four, you can say we were able to keep them at bay and 272 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:26,440 keep them a little bit behind us, which means you played somewhat better down 273 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,640 the stretch of the season. With fifteen games left, they need it, 274 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:34,319 They need four. They need to win maybe the next four games right now, 275 00:20:34,519 --> 00:20:38,000 Hey to go four and one in the stretch that we talked about when 276 00:20:38,039 --> 00:20:44,559 we did the line on Saturday before this all went even more. I asked 277 00:20:44,559 --> 00:20:49,119 this question in our chat before, like are there too many personal individual agendas 278 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,960 going on with the team, Like when when a team doesn't play together the 279 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 way they haven't post Grammy road trip, you start to wonder these things, 280 00:20:57,039 --> 00:21:04,200 like there's contracts up in different areas. There's a guy who basically was able 281 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:10,319 to get minutes by using the media as an outlet for his frustrations. I 282 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:15,119 don't know if that's a great thing that he was rewarded minutes because of that. 283 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,759 In PJ. Tucker, that could set the wrong example to certain I 284 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:22,079 don't think it was because of that. I think it's because we were like 285 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:29,599 severely shorthanded and needed something I hope. I mean, how many minutes did 286 00:21:29,599 --> 00:21:33,319 Tyson Plumbley play last night? How many minutes? How many minutes do those 287 00:21:33,319 --> 00:21:36,599 two guys get? And I'm not saying he's been the problem of why they've 288 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:41,759 lost the last two. Pj Is actually played decently, especially in that game 289 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:45,519 against the Pelicans. They combined for like just over thirteen They combined for just 290 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:52,599 over thirteen and a half minutes to Pj's twenty nearly twenty one. I just 291 00:21:52,759 --> 00:21:59,319 they look like a team last night. I don't believe this because everybody is 292 00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:02,039 seem to like he's each other, maybe too much sometimes, I don't know. 293 00:22:02,519 --> 00:22:06,119 But they played like a team last night that didn't want to play together. 294 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,000 They looked like that. At times. They look incredibly frustrated with each 295 00:22:11,039 --> 00:22:14,519 other. They played like a team that don't that doesn't get along last night. 296 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:17,279 That's that's what it looked like out there, and that's what the offense 297 00:22:17,319 --> 00:22:18,480 looks like right now. It's like here, just you, why don't you 298 00:22:18,519 --> 00:22:22,920 take it? Just take your turn? Well I don't think that's where it 299 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:30,039 is. But dime dropper, shout out dime had a take on Twitter that 300 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,480 I that I liked. He said, you guys know, I'm the biggest 301 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:37,079 Terrence defender on the app. But as he's been saying all season, he 302 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,880 doesn't think that your best point of attack defender on your championship team can be 303 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,240 Terrence, which I think is pretty fair. Kawhi is our true best. 304 00:22:45,599 --> 00:22:51,759 He hasn't guarding the ball as much the last few months. Then the Love 305 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:56,519 of the Jam the Pod part of our parent corporation said, although Terrence is 306 00:22:56,519 --> 00:22:59,640 all right at point of attack, he's the most physical of the clippers other 307 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,599 guards, but he's not great. Couple that with the fact that the Clippers 308 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,400 don't have any physical athletic wings as low men, and you have a lot 309 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,759 of rollover responsibilities that feel like they fall on Kawhi and PG. And I 310 00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:17,000 think maybe we have that comment about the old or the tired legs, and 311 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:22,039 I think this goes into maybe trying to save some of that using the soft 312 00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:26,319 switching and all this stuff that's been really frustrating. We got you to take 313 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:30,119 a load off, We got rid of a bunch of wings to take a 314 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,279 load off. You guys, like I just don't what else do you want 315 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:37,680 to Yeah, that's what's that's that's the like we just gotta we just kind 316 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,279 of add the yolkic stopper and then you know then PG Kawhi and Harden will 317 00:23:42,319 --> 00:23:48,119 be fine. But and that's like what more do they what more do we 318 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,279 need or what more do they want? Has been like the thesis a little 319 00:23:52,279 --> 00:23:55,880 bit of when things are going poorly for this two and three era, we 320 00:23:56,079 --> 00:24:03,160 tried all the think we got like, I think we've exhausted every every combination 321 00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:10,640 of possible roster moves around around these two guys to get yes overall. And 322 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,640 and not that this one can't work, and not that none of them could 323 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,519 have worked. I mean, obviously I think twenty one, you know, 324 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:25,039 things could have been a very different story. And this again, I don't 325 00:24:25,039 --> 00:24:27,079 think that the roster is the problem here. I mean I think it contributes 326 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,200 to it some of the personalities perhaps, or as Adam said, some of 327 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,920 the agendas. But they got they gotta figure this, they gotta figure this 328 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,880 out. It's effort. How many times have we heard the word effort over 329 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:44,160 the last week from this team post game Paul George has said it every time, 330 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:48,680 kaw I said it last night coach Lu said something to the degree of, 331 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,680 you know, it's a consistent effort where we're not playing hard enough for 332 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,160 forty eight minutes, which I would say is more accurate. They just come 333 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,319 and go with it. That's been the two one three air. I think 334 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:07,720 flashes of the levels. Yeah, totally. The last live we did was 335 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:11,279 mostly me and Will Chuck came in for about ten minutes or so. I 336 00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:15,319 talked about my theory on why you know they seem to have these letdowns, 337 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:19,160 and I think it's because there's a double edged sword to having all these comebacks, 338 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,359 and it is that you think you can flip a switch and turn things 339 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:30,559 around, and you've gotten too damn comfortable being down in games because well, 340 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,279 it's worked out for them for the most part, but it's a really bad 341 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:40,039 habit, especially in the regular season. Just choosing when you feel like playing 342 00:25:40,079 --> 00:25:45,519 hard is not championship stuff whatsoever. I'll say this, though, some of 343 00:25:45,519 --> 00:25:49,200 this can be rectified by one thing that has gone against them over the last 344 00:25:49,279 --> 00:25:53,839 eighteen games post Grammy road trip, where they're eight and ten, they are 345 00:25:53,880 --> 00:26:00,599 shooting just thirty five percent from three over this time. That sample is getting 346 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,000 larger. I saw you know in the Chicago game where they shot fifty percent 347 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:07,160 from three, I said, Okay, here it comes. They're gonna have 348 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:12,400 a little wave of games now where the Clippers are able to shoot lights out 349 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:19,079 because they are overdue. But it hasn't happened now the last couple it hasn't 350 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:26,160 looked like that still waiting. So is that just shooting variants or is it 351 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,920 because they're not running their offense well enough to get as many open shots as 352 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,000 they were earlier in the season. That's it. So I'm thinking I'm thinking 353 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,559 it's more of the ladder than it is just like, oh, now everybody's 354 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:41,240 shot isn't working. It's the quality of the looks that are being generated. 355 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,440 It's taking so long again to the offense still every single person, if like 356 00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:49,039 if you watch if you watch ten games of the Clippers this year, or 357 00:26:49,079 --> 00:26:53,000 if you just watched the last ten games, if you had not been watching 358 00:26:53,039 --> 00:26:56,279 the Clippers, you can see a very clear issue is when the ball stops 359 00:26:56,799 --> 00:27:00,039 and people just kind of wait, be that for the pick and roll, 360 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,759 or be that to even give it to Kawhi to just clear somebody out. 361 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,519 It's taking too long. The offense is just taking too long, which makes 362 00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:11,279 like and Tyler's talked about it, TYLERU, if you want coaches to be 363 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:17,000 more like transparent about how teams are playing. Tyler has been wonderful with the 364 00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:19,559 media the last couple of games, which is frustrating because it's because they're playing 365 00:27:19,599 --> 00:27:23,799 so poorly that Tyler feels like he has to call maybe feels like he has 366 00:27:23,839 --> 00:27:29,359 to call these specific issues out right, getting the offense faster, being knowing 367 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,359 you're the low man like these are. That's not a veiled thing. Anyone 368 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,279 who's hearing that quote, if you're on the team, should hopefully feel some 369 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,720 type of way about that, and you know, like that that's what's been 370 00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:45,519 so frustrating, So like, yeah, it's getting into the offense quicker. 371 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:49,680 It's just it's just giving a shit more. Its god, and it's so 372 00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:55,319 obvious when they take their time, when they don't take a shot within the 373 00:27:55,359 --> 00:28:00,680 first twelve seconds. What he's talking about with pace isn't about being a great 374 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,680 coast to coast team or getting in transition and getting a bunch of fast break 375 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:11,200 points. It's just playing hard in your half court sets. It's just doing 376 00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:15,680 things harder. It's moving quicker there now I will say this. I'm just 377 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:21,559 pulling up because I'm wondering about this three point shooting and how fluky it could 378 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:27,079 be in their last seventeen games. I don't know why it's given me eighteen, 379 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:34,359 but they are last in wide open threes a defender six plus feet away. 380 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,960 Like that seems a little bit fluky. That's not just them not getting 381 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,359 into their offense like they're missing wide open threes. They're let's see here, 382 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:51,960 I have thirty three point six percent on wide open threes a defender six plus 383 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:56,960 feet away. Were they getting Uh, that's pretty I mean, yeah, 384 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,359 that's fairing. Their frequency is sixteen, but that's about what it was all 385 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,279 season long on those shots. It's within the one percent of that. So 386 00:29:07,359 --> 00:29:11,480 I don't know that that should change. It should It doesn't fix everything, 387 00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:14,880 but you know, three point shots starting to fall for a team that relies 388 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,880 on them is meaningful. I want to point out this very funny comment from 389 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,839 Alfredo Rodriguez. Do we think this is the issue. It's nobody taking risks 390 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,279 or fear of getting ejected. Clippers are thirty five and seventeen before Tylu's ejection, 391 00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:32,079 six and eight after. Do we think the Clippers should try and get 392 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:36,880 ejected more to see if that writes the ship something to think about it for 393 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,599 sure? Have we considered putting someone on Zoo's shoulders? Could Xavier Moon get 394 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:48,240 on Zoo's shoulders? They could change have six guys out there. I do 395 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:53,759 think it's worth talking about why the same message and the right message and everything 396 00:29:53,759 --> 00:29:57,799 that coach lew is saying is spot on for what they need to do isn't 397 00:29:57,839 --> 00:30:03,480 being received. Why is it still not happening? Is there a lack of 398 00:30:03,559 --> 00:30:07,720 leadership with the players in the locker room outside of the coaching staff. There's 399 00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:12,200 a lack of accountability for sure, Like somewhere, I just I don't know, 400 00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:15,319 Like I I just don't know how you make the same mistakes again and 401 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,920 again and again, and there's and and you could look in the mirror and 402 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:26,799 say, yeah, I'm accountable for what I do on court. Yeah, 403 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,240 I don't understand how guys couldn't be more inspired with how hard Kawhi was playing 404 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,720 in the first quarter, and he's got his contract side, Kawhi is set 405 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,880 too, Like Kawhi has his ship locked up and figured out, and he's 406 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:45,839 the only one on this team who's done something. No disrespect to PJ. 407 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,720 Tucker. No disrespect to PJ. Tucker Edward. Edward has a good point 408 00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:55,240 here. Once starts guarding the other team's best player night at night out, 409 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,599 good things will happen. I hope that happens in the playoffs. It has 410 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:03,799 to. I don't know. I'll say this for people thinking that what happens 411 00:31:03,839 --> 00:31:08,319 now is going to translate into the playoffs, it's not necessarily the case. 412 00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:12,000 Just going off. Okay, they're playing bad now the playoffs are getting closer. 413 00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:15,440 That means this is how they're going to look in the playoffs. They 414 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,960 did not look good at the end of last season, and then in Game 415 00:31:18,039 --> 00:31:22,839 one they did give full effort for every possession out there against the Phoenix Suns. 416 00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:26,559 They look like a different team. They did flip the switch, so 417 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:32,759 I don't want to completely discount that possibility since we did see this last year. 418 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,480 The switch can go the other way, which I mean it is a 419 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:40,720 switch, right, It does theoretically get flipped. They looked more consistently inconsistent 420 00:31:40,839 --> 00:31:45,039 last year, and they still found the switch. Once Game one started and 421 00:31:45,079 --> 00:31:48,279 things tipped off in Phoenix, They'll have some rest come it up we're going 422 00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:52,839 to talk more about the state of the Clippers. We're going to talk about 423 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,319 the clippers opportunity to start good habits up in the Pacific Northwest. If you're 424 00:31:57,359 --> 00:32:00,079 watching this on the stream, thank you for hanging out. Got like three 425 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,359 hundred people in this thing. That's a good time. If you're listening, 426 00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:07,160 thanks for listening. Uh. We're gonna put this out as audio two, 427 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,000 so if that if you are enjoying this on audio. The ads have been 428 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,240 loud for some people. If that's been your haste, go ahead and turn 429 00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:16,519 it down. We're talking Clippers versus Blazers coming up after these loud ads and 430 00:32:16,599 --> 00:32:23,359 three two one, All right, welcome back into Clips and Dip. This 431 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,880 is kind of our clips state of the Union. Is that fair to say? 432 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,319 I think that is a perfect way to put it. But we'll also 433 00:32:32,359 --> 00:32:36,799 talk a little bit about the Clippers taking on the Blazers in a in a 434 00:32:36,839 --> 00:32:39,079 little back to back, well not a back to back, but they're just 435 00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:46,440 playing twice head to head. Uh, but yeah, do you think they 436 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:54,119 can split this series? Sadly? Yeah, I think we can possibly go 437 00:32:54,319 --> 00:33:01,119 five hundred against the Blazers. I've been waiting all day joke. Very sorry, 438 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:07,160 it was a very long day yesterday. Brogden's still out. Jeremy Grant 439 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,920 has a hamstring issue. DeAndre eight and recently revealed that him sleeping on an 440 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,960 air mattress is why he had a bad start to the season, which is 441 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:17,720 very funny. Doesn't think he have like a did he get a MAX extension? 442 00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:22,640 Yes, he has enough money for a bed. There's no reason to 443 00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:28,359 ever have an air mattress. You could pay someone to drive a U haul 444 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,160 wherever you go, like just when you leave the house with a bed inside 445 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:37,440 of it. He didn't know how he didn't have a bed. You know 446 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:38,599 what I like to think. I think he's I think he was on an 447 00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:42,440 air mattress, but he didn't blow it up. I think that time he 448 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,000 couldn't get out of his driveway so he couldn't come to Yeah, so he 449 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,079 couldn't come to a game. So this is who the Clippers are playing, 450 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:54,200 mattress. We just want to see some good habits, right, Like, 451 00:33:54,319 --> 00:34:00,559 I don't I don't know what else to say. Locked in play with hard 452 00:34:01,759 --> 00:34:06,079 now we just feel like Doc now, I feel like everything Doc was saying 453 00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:08,800 on the sideline, telling people to play hard was actually what they all they 454 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:14,679 needed to hear. We have to be us. That's something he would say 455 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:21,599 a lot. We gotta play our game. What is their game is getting 456 00:34:21,599 --> 00:34:24,920 into their offense and starting things off with James Harden. Period. They either 457 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,920 get back to the high pick and roll running it consistently with he and Aviatza 458 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,800 Zubats which means getting Big Zoo involved like he was when he was getting like 459 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:37,000 thirteen and eleven over a month, month and a half, when the Clippers 460 00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:40,719 team looked like a force offensively, when they were the best offense in the 461 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,599 league. It starts there. Paul George was playing like Michael Porter junior on 462 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,840 steroids with his hot shooting and catch and shoot stuff. Kawhi Leonard was getting 463 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,800 his buckets. Everybody was touching the basketball. That's it, because right now 464 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,639 I would love to just be able to say, oh, the offense is 465 00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:00,599 great and they can just focus on the defensive end, because there are twenty 466 00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:05,760 six defensively last eighteen games post Gammy road trip. But I think it starts 467 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,880 offensively for them, like that is what gives them a chance to be a 468 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:14,599 championship team. The defensive personnel. It's true about Terrence Man. But I 469 00:35:14,639 --> 00:35:19,159 still think there's enough there to be a great defense when they want to be. 470 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,360 That will figure itself out eventually if they're playing hard. But I think 471 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:30,559 they need to see shots fall. Yeah, I hope it falls. I 472 00:35:30,599 --> 00:35:35,360 mean there's so much shit we're fire shots wildly in the air. Have they 473 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:40,639 considered doing that? I have you talked about the offense, and you're right, 474 00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:46,079 they do need to have the offense to be better. The Blazers are 475 00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:52,679 so bad that this feels like a chance to get right right. Like I 476 00:35:52,719 --> 00:36:00,320 said T ball games, Yeah, like it's it cannot get any easier this 477 00:36:00,519 --> 00:36:04,719 unless you were to get to play the Wizards at home two times or something 478 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,840 like this team to to just jet to just jump off that T ball reference 479 00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:14,480 right now, this team is the kid who hits the t and this is 480 00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:16,360 this team is the kid who hits the tea and not the ball. And 481 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,559 then the coach has to jog out there and be like, hit the ball. 482 00:36:22,119 --> 00:36:29,079 Tyler is the coach in both these scenarios. I I have a not 483 00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:30,840 a high five, but I do have a clip at him if I can 484 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:37,960 borrow the trademark high five clips for the last night, I put on the 485 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:44,480 breakdown wasn't too depressing, and he didn't even depressing. I get it. 486 00:36:45,639 --> 00:36:49,159 So here's what we got here. Just the title is, what a what 487 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,800 a piece of ship effort uh by James Harden, Thank you will to make 488 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,599 this full stream. What a bizarre defensive effort from l A. C. 489 00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,559 Tonight from literally the opening tip. Quite concerning with the playoffs a month away. 490 00:37:01,199 --> 00:37:05,199 Just watch James Harden here. He's the blurry man and the number one 491 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:17,800 Jersey. Just watch this. It's like the most o way thing like, 492 00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:22,960 and he funneled him towards this big man. What do you mean? Yeah? 493 00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:30,239 That was perfect. He did his part so many that stuff was happening 494 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:36,480 though, even when they were playing well, James Harden is going to have 495 00:37:36,519 --> 00:37:40,119 some possessions like that against somebody like Jontay Murray. It's not good, but 496 00:37:40,199 --> 00:37:45,199 you counter it because your offense is so god teer with him that it more 497 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:50,079 than makes up for a couple of those per game. That's fair. Yeah, 498 00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:52,079 I agree, Yeah, God, it all sucks right now. It's 499 00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:58,800 bad. It's bad. And considering how that game started, what that was 500 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:04,119 second quarter, like, that's pretty awful because they at least came out to 501 00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:08,000 start the second half much more connected defensively, like they were making an effort, 502 00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:13,199 they were playing harder. It was way too late for that, and 503 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,599 the offense never really truly turned around, so it didn't matter, but they 504 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:22,960 they should have been giving that effort early on in the second quarter. Yeah, 505 00:38:23,039 --> 00:38:27,920 someone's asking if they can see that play again. No, you cannot. 506 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,199 You're never gonna do that. It's on la clips film Twitter, go 507 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,679 to burn the digital tape. Yeah, I've earned a lot of digital tape 508 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,119 last night. Yeah. I was looking at stats for the Pacers. They're 509 00:38:40,159 --> 00:38:43,800 twenty third in pace, so they don't get a bunch of possessions. So 510 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,400 it's not like they're gonna maybe try and run the Clippers around. Scoot's coming 511 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:52,119 off the bench. Do you want to hear who their starting lineup was last 512 00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:58,559 game? Yeah, Brogden's out right, Yeah, yeah, uh, Delano, 513 00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:06,639 Banton, Ayton, Anthony Simons, Timani Kamara, Chris Murray Simons. 514 00:39:06,639 --> 00:39:09,039 Can I've a few of those guys. You've seen Anthony Simons do damage against 515 00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:13,639 the Clippers. And this is the thing that sucks. We have to consider 516 00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:20,960 this now, we have to consider these really much more real possibilities that this 517 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:27,119 will this might happen. Every opponent right now knows how bad the Clippers are 518 00:39:27,159 --> 00:39:30,039 playing as well. Guys like the tape is out, the book is out 519 00:39:30,119 --> 00:39:34,920 on them. They're not playing hard. They're the one of the worst defenses 520 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,840 in the league over the last month or so. Everybody knows, like, 521 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,280 we have a chance to beat this team and get what could look like one 522 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,559 of our best wins of the season against them, considering where they are in 523 00:39:45,559 --> 00:39:49,360 the standings as opposed to us. They're getting up for these games. The 524 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,679 Clippers, they've thrown the red meat out there, go get them. They're 525 00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:59,559 not good. They gave up thirty fast um the waters. They chummed with 526 00:39:59,559 --> 00:40:02,320 the waters. Good. Yeah, that's a good one. Thirty fast. 527 00:40:02,599 --> 00:40:09,320 Almost twenty of the points scored by Atlanta were fast brick points. Yeah, 528 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:15,360 it's unbelievable. And now if Norm can't play, which again, no real 529 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:22,119 update on Norm's leg, the bench is incredibly suspect. We haven't talked about 530 00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:27,840 it, but Bones was not good against the Hawks. He's had a couple 531 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,280 down games. Uh. I would like to see him play better. I 532 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:37,880 know the skeleton key holder would absolutely love to see Bones playing better, but 533 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:44,599 he's everyone's I would say the way Bones played yesterday as opposed to the Pelican 534 00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:47,760 games, well, the Pelican game, he he didn't look great. He 535 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,800 had some up and down moments. His effort didn't look good either, which 536 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:59,920 is pretty alarming for a guy getting this opportunity he wastes. It's contagious though, 537 00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:01,880 I mean, how is a guy, how is a guy who is 538 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:06,239 like in his I mean, he's not in the start of his NBA career, 539 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,000 but he is on this level team and to be this much in the 540 00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:14,599 rotation, Like, if that's the energy that that you're receiving that other people 541 00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:17,599 are putting out like you're supposed to be, You're supposed to be the tone 542 00:41:17,639 --> 00:41:22,840 setter, Like I just think that that's maybe an unrealistic expectation. Well, 543 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:27,000 yeah, the same way about I feel the same way about coffee. Like, 544 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,239 yes, ideally, of course those guys come in, they can provide 545 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:34,960 some energy that can kind of turn things around, But it's a lot to 546 00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:39,360 lift up the collective way of everyone, especially when you're in that position and 547 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:45,440 the guys who don't give a shit are in that position completely. He fell 548 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,719 in line based upon how the stars were playing on the team or some of 549 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,719 the you know veterans, and how little effort they were giving so bones. 550 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,679 You know he's gonna do the same thing. But I will say, with 551 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,480 him and James Harden playing that bad at the point guard position, that's how 552 00:42:02,519 --> 00:42:07,440 you see an offensive performance like that from the Clippers yesterday. Yeah, yeah, 553 00:42:07,519 --> 00:42:14,199 that's that's totally understandable. And his bad game yesterday was completely different than 554 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,480 the game he had against the Pelicans. I would say, yeah, new 555 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:22,000 ways to have bad games, fun, good, good ship. We're finding 556 00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:25,800 out the Clippers have really been in the lab on this one. Bro. 557 00:42:27,199 --> 00:42:34,840 Let them cook these shitty performances. Uh to bounce back from Yeah, man, 558 00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:37,360 I uh, I want him to put up like one hundred and fifty 559 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:42,599 five points both nights here. I wouldn't feel it wouldn't get me back into 560 00:42:42,639 --> 00:42:45,920 their good graces, but I would at least go, hey, good stuff. 561 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,239 Yeah. I wanted to be like the Harlem Globetrotters. They can't do 562 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,280 anything like they're in a no win scenario these next two games, because it's 563 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,360 like, you should, you should blow these teams, this team out twice. 564 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,480 Yeah, and if you don't do that, it's just gonna be like, 565 00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:05,519 like, what are we doing here? I think even if they were 566 00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:09,000 playing well, these two game mini series and how they have looked, it 567 00:43:09,039 --> 00:43:14,719 can be difficult even against bad teams, just because you're playing the same team 568 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,159 and it feels like it's a little mini playoff game tape. You know, 569 00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,079 we're studying the same habits from one game to the next. That's a unique 570 00:43:22,119 --> 00:43:27,000 situation now in the NBA with these two straight games against the same opponent. 571 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,719 So saying that I think it could have been somewhat difficult if the Clippers were 572 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:37,199 playing well does not make me feel good about the chances of getting the sweep 573 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,800 and feeling like it's an automatic just because it's Portland. Seeing the same team 574 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:47,239 two games in a row is not that easy. Yeah, Simon's goes Off 575 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,400 is one of those games and he can sync them with the way they're playing. 576 00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,960 Yeah, but if you I mean god, I feel like we generally 577 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,280 talk about how much short of the runway is getting all the time, and 578 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:07,000 it is weirdly they need a hairyer jet. There's not enough runway for weird 579 00:44:07,039 --> 00:44:12,320 TV about the most dangerous airports, and we're at number four right now. 580 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,079 We're every game that gets closer that we creep up to that weird there's like 581 00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:19,599 an airport somewhe where like you land like on the opposite slope, which is 582 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,440 like feels like where the clippers are at. It's that part in the film 583 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:30,760 at Pearl Harbor where they're practicing taking off shorter and shorter. Ye oh my 584 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:35,280 god. Rock asks if mussa so bad he can't even get a try in 585 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:42,280 year two? Yes, right, I don't know that changes nothing. Yeah, 586 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,199 I just I think it might be a little late. Yeah, I 587 00:44:45,199 --> 00:44:50,519 don't know if it's he's so bad, But they do have regardless of how 588 00:44:50,559 --> 00:44:52,880 well you think they're playing right now, they do have veteran bigs in a 589 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:59,960 rotation that should be getting minutes over him. It's been weird the tice plumbing 590 00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:02,880 minutes. That has been a question mark too. That's something we have we 591 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,559 talked about a little bit last time we were we did a pod together. 592 00:45:06,639 --> 00:45:09,119 But like, the backup center situation is so weird. The small Ball five 593 00:45:09,159 --> 00:45:15,440 lineups suck, and now our backup center situation is like it's just kind of 594 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:21,880 a crap shoot, which does not feel good. I mean, like it 595 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:28,880 I guess that stuff I feel like you still like the versatility for you know, 596 00:45:29,079 --> 00:45:32,239 theoretically the versatility of some of those matchups. So I can get I 597 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:37,119 can kind of get with or understand that stuff not being set in stone. 598 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:42,440 It's just really tough because both Plumley and Tye have had some stretches where they 599 00:45:42,519 --> 00:45:50,239 have really not they have not lived up to the moment. Can I play 600 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,599 some audio also from something on Twitter that I posted. I want you guys 601 00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:59,599 to react to it. From something Coach Lou said last time? Yeah, 602 00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:04,159 song? Can I can we hard pivot real quick? I foind a great 603 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:08,119 I find a bop I want to play. It's not I'm so happy. 604 00:46:09,079 --> 00:46:15,519 It's definitely not that. Uh. This I pulled from Coach Lou. This 605 00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,920 was last night and I thought it was the most interesting thing he said. 606 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,519 It's a thirty second clip. And I want you guys to play a Coach 607 00:46:22,599 --> 00:46:25,000 Lou interpreter here. When you have so much talent and you have guys that 608 00:46:25,039 --> 00:46:30,079 can do it so easily, they don't understand that your talent is great, 609 00:46:30,159 --> 00:46:31,760 but you need the talent's gotta be for the team as well, And so 610 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,480 those are important, Like just because you work out hard individually and you do 611 00:46:36,559 --> 00:46:38,639 things hard individually, like you gotta do it for the team, and so 612 00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:45,239 we do it and it's just inconsistent. So maybe I gotta do something a 613 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:49,480 little different, you know, maybe it's me, you know, maybe I 614 00:46:49,519 --> 00:46:54,000 gotta do something a little different to make sure that we're doing what we're supposed 615 00:46:54,039 --> 00:47:01,039 to do. So on the front end of that, George As I didn't 616 00:47:01,039 --> 00:47:07,800 hear any of the audio, but he's talking about individual play versus team play, 617 00:47:08,519 --> 00:47:13,199 sacrificing for the betterment of the team, Like you can do all the 618 00:47:13,199 --> 00:47:15,840 individual workout stuff you want. Are there too many guys like that on this 619 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:22,480 team that you know are isolated? And that has led to it's almost like, 620 00:47:23,039 --> 00:47:28,239 I don't know, some tacit locker room issue, Like it's not outwardly 621 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:36,599 obvious. They like each other, but they're not connected. It just didn't 622 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,800 look like that, Like I just don't understand, Like I mean, I 623 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:44,280 guess losing just sucks and not playing well sucks, and I think that that, 624 00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,039 like I think that that can have a locker room, you know, 625 00:47:47,119 --> 00:47:52,199 go to shambles. It just hasn't looked like this all year, you know 626 00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,960 what I mean. I think that's what's so troubling about this stint is it's 627 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,800 kind of like, well, what the hell happened? Because, I mean, 628 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,199 you clearly had something figured out. Sure there was some easier marks in 629 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:05,559 the schedule. Sure it wasn't as compressed as the month of March is, 630 00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:10,840 but still, like you, I mean, just on court and like personnel 631 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:16,000 wise, it seem like you had this kind of stuff worked out. What 632 00:48:16,119 --> 00:48:20,599 about the back end of that? Chuck Cary says, maybe I have to 633 00:48:20,639 --> 00:48:24,719 do something different. Basically, what do you think that would entail? I 634 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,360 don't know if it would. I don't think it can come to this. 635 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,679 But in my demented mind, at six twenty pm the day after, the 636 00:48:30,679 --> 00:48:37,960 Clippers were down thirty points to the Hawks without Trey Young, some fucking starting 637 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,000 lineup change or something crazy, like, I don't know what's gonna get it 638 00:48:42,039 --> 00:48:45,119 through these the the one guy I'm talking about is Paul George, Like, 639 00:48:45,199 --> 00:48:47,920 what do we what's gonna get through these guys? To be like, you 640 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:52,159 need to start playing, You need to do what the fuck you're supposed to 641 00:48:52,199 --> 00:48:55,280 do, Like and you're not doing it, and you're yeah, and your 642 00:48:55,360 --> 00:49:00,840 your other guy has everything's locked up contract wise, like you should maybe want 643 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:02,480 to play a little more locked in all this, Like I don't know, 644 00:49:02,519 --> 00:49:06,039 I don't think it will happen. I'm not saying that or you know, 645 00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:07,880 Salli, we've heard anything anything like that. But what else can it be? 646 00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,960 What's like to me, it sounds like he's been beating his head against 647 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,760 he feels like he's been beating his head against the wall, and he's not 648 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,400 really sure what more or what else to do? You start? He sucks, 649 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,880 start up. Put PJ in there instead of Paul George just to send 650 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,920 a message, just lose a game to the fucking Blazers, just to be 651 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,239 like, is this what y'all want? Because this is where we're at. 652 00:49:30,639 --> 00:49:31,719 I don't know. I hate that I had to say that. But what 653 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,599 do you like? What do you think it means? I don't like. 654 00:49:34,639 --> 00:49:37,000 It's like there's not much it can mean, because it's like maybe I need 655 00:49:37,039 --> 00:49:42,239 to do something different, Like it definitely seems like a bit of a shake 656 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:49,360 up or tougher practices again, like we are you gonna go back to gassers 657 00:49:49,519 --> 00:49:54,679 like in the training camp until you guys get the message, like some people 658 00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:59,519 have said, you know, coach lose to buddy buddy with this team. 659 00:49:59,559 --> 00:50:01,440 He's too nice, he's too much of a player's coach. I don't know 660 00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:08,519 if that's true or not, but he is more calm and measured and even 661 00:50:08,599 --> 00:50:14,360 said postgame, I don't overreact to s Basically he had to cut himself off 662 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:22,760 from swearing. Yeah, I don't overreact to shit, and he hasn't, 663 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,920 And there's a benefits to that. Are we seeing a downside right now where 664 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:30,360 they maybe do need someone to light more of a fire underneath them, and 665 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,119 that's what he's talking about there. Maybe he needs to be more stern with 666 00:50:32,159 --> 00:50:37,360 his approach, more hockey lineup shifts, five guys at the time, get 667 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:43,360 everyone off the damn court. It's not like we haven't seen guys get pulled 668 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:49,239 early before when they're down big and starters just to get completely against Atlanta in 669 00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,519 the something was born out of this night game. When they were down twenty 670 00:50:52,559 --> 00:50:57,960 two, that's what happened. They pulled all the starters. He eventually put 671 00:50:58,039 --> 00:51:00,719 him back in late and they can help get him the victory. But man, 672 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,480 I wouldn't be shocked if they got off to a slow start in the 673 00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:08,280 first quarter against the Trail Blazers. Yeah, you see some wholesale changes. 674 00:51:09,159 --> 00:51:14,480 So who will who's your Kawhi Leonard player at the game? Pick for this 675 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:22,599 this Pacific Northwest mini series. I'm gonna go bounce back for Terrence turn out, 676 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:29,519 Okay, Adam, I'm gonna go with the Visa Zubots. Get him 677 00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:32,840 the damn ball, get him opportunities on offense, because if you are getting 678 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:36,480 him the ball, that likely means you're running pick and roll with him and 679 00:51:36,559 --> 00:51:39,840 James Harden and that's when the Clippers were at their best. All right, 680 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,519 Zoo, I'm going it has it has to be James Harden. I know 681 00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:49,920 he's been playing a lot, but let's see, let's see the great assistant 682 00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:53,320 turnover ratio. Let's see some pick and rolls initiated sooner, maybe guide that 683 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:58,559 you're guiding to the big man a little more committedly like that clip we watched 684 00:51:58,599 --> 00:52:02,280 a little bit ago. Yeah, and then just I hope, I hope 685 00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:06,639 Norm's okay. Also, we're not going to talk about too much before we 686 00:52:06,639 --> 00:52:08,400 get our news on it, but uh, coming up, we're gonna do 687 00:52:08,519 --> 00:52:12,440 one more ad break and then we're just talking the sticker giveaway if you missed 688 00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,039 it, and the march Madness Update. The ads have been a little bit 689 00:52:15,039 --> 00:52:16,719 loud for some people if you're listening, which we thank you for listening, 690 00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,159 and we thank everyone for watching. Go ahead and turn it down. We 691 00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:25,880 got ads and then a quick March Madness overview in three two one, welcome 692 00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:30,000 back in it's clips and dip. I'm Adam Oslin. It's season two episode 693 00:52:30,159 --> 00:52:37,400 sixty one. Here after the Clippers suffer their worst defeat of the season and 694 00:52:37,559 --> 00:52:42,320 really have put us in a bit of a tailspin. Sky is falling like 695 00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,079 podcast mode for you. We're listened as a podcast form. This was a 696 00:52:46,159 --> 00:52:55,519 YouTube live Chicken Little is everywhere at the moment. Yeah tailspid oh tailspid uh 697 00:52:55,559 --> 00:53:01,880 So a March update not great after a nice start, I really thought I 698 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,599 need to change my prediction. I'm like eleven and sixty, dumbass, You're 699 00:53:06,599 --> 00:53:09,400 gonna look like a fool at them. And now are they gonna win eleven 700 00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:15,159 games in March? They're five and five? Currently they are five hundred. 701 00:53:15,639 --> 00:53:19,320 Granted the schedule eases up, are they gonna actually take advantage of it? 702 00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,880 Though it eased up last night and they didn't, So Chuck, how are 703 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:27,400 you feeling about the IDEs of march as we are in the middle of it 704 00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,559 now. I don't like being right about this stuff, but it feels like 705 00:53:30,639 --> 00:53:35,719 I was not that it was a galaxy brain take to say that seventeen games 706 00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:37,960 in a month is hard, but they gotta do what. They gotta go 707 00:53:38,079 --> 00:53:44,760 five and two to get to ten and seven, which is what I said. 708 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,119 I I said I wanted ten and seven in good process. We are 709 00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:52,800 miles away from that right now. Will do you still think they can win 710 00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:57,800 their next four to win the four out of the five that we talked about 711 00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:04,280 last time? I mean I think they can. Will they will they that 712 00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,800 I'm not so sure about. Yeah, I hope they stay. I just 713 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:12,159 hope they stay the four seed. I guess I would, just my expectations 714 00:54:12,159 --> 00:54:15,360 have been beaten down into let's just stay the four seed. After this book, 715 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:21,360 there's no reason to think that what happened last night is finally the breaking 716 00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,639 point and they're going to turn things around, because we've said that a few 717 00:54:23,639 --> 00:54:29,639 different times with this team needing to have that wake up call. Yeah, 718 00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:35,519 yeah, but I do think there were a time to be born, for 719 00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:40,039 something to have been born. It's crying on the floor in its own afterbirth 720 00:54:40,119 --> 00:54:49,480 right now. I just would love if they had or they use this as 721 00:54:49,519 --> 00:54:52,840 an opportunity to give that one last kick in the ass, to have a 722 00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:58,519 sense of urgency and play with some desperation right before the playoffs start. With 723 00:54:58,559 --> 00:55:01,440 fifteen games left, it would sure be nice if they came out and just 724 00:55:01,519 --> 00:55:07,199 slaughtered Portland in both games. Yeah, three hundred points over these next two 725 00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:14,519 games. Spread it on. It's possible. It's we've seen this team at 726 00:55:14,519 --> 00:55:17,360 their best of this season and what they can do. It is a focus 727 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:23,519 thing, it is, and because of the situation now where you're just one 728 00:55:23,559 --> 00:55:30,519 game up on the Pelicans and that light of fire finally, is that what 729 00:55:30,639 --> 00:55:35,639 it is going to take for this team to care for forty eight minutes? 730 00:55:36,559 --> 00:55:40,199 I don't know. As doctor Epdyke said, it's been born, there is 731 00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:44,599 something there. Is it going to end up at you know? The fire 732 00:55:44,639 --> 00:55:47,199 stationer is gonna end up back home? We don't know, but it's an 733 00:55:47,199 --> 00:55:52,199 issue now. No one in the chat seems confident they're going to go ten 734 00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:58,079 and seven. What happened to the guy that said like fifteen and two? 735 00:55:58,639 --> 00:56:00,840 What happened to that guy? Hey, the undefeated in March crowd had a 736 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:05,840 Goodrey five and five. So I don't think we gotta pull receipts on that 737 00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,000 guy. Yeah, yeah, we do. Adams gonna show up at that 738 00:56:09,039 --> 00:56:15,199 guy's job. Do I need to get back to pulling receipts in how about 739 00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,559 this? You know what happened the last time one of the times we had 740 00:56:17,559 --> 00:56:20,559 a guest on this show, and then the Clippers went, all right, 741 00:56:20,599 --> 00:56:24,280 we need to get Rod back in here. We get in here the fucking 742 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:30,599 game before the playoffs starts. Good luck rest of the league, let us 743 00:56:30,599 --> 00:56:37,079 know in them. That's twelve doub Have we spared the rod and spoiled the 744 00:56:37,159 --> 00:56:43,039 child? Is that what this is? We might have? All right? 745 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:46,360 Uh? Adam? Can you can you break down the sticker giveaway again? 746 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:51,199 Some people might have just hopped in. We're given away a sticker that will 747 00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:59,639 this will make everything better? I mean it is Clippers, right, Yeah, 748 00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:02,800 this is gonna be given away in the comment section. Best comment on 749 00:57:04,159 --> 00:57:09,800 this episode of Clips and Dip will win. This sticker that right now is 750 00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:15,199 in reverse, but that's how things work on the camera and it's a nice 751 00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:20,719 one. Clips in red so a sign of things to come with those jerseys 752 00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:22,880 coming back when they're run into it Dome. Kind of a big deal for 753 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:28,199 Clipernation. I yeah, find us on Twitter at us and we'll get you 754 00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,280 the sticker. Maybe we'll see you in a game. I tweeted last night 755 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:34,639 that they should stop construction on into it, which some people had strong thoughts 756 00:57:34,679 --> 00:57:38,440 about. But that's how poorly the Clippers were playing. I think it was 757 00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:46,400 a fair take at the time. Yeah, we're gonna have some double tear 758 00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:52,760 it down. We're gonna double dips after the Blazers game, which is always 759 00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,960 a fun time. Not always a fun time, that's a lie. Hopefully 760 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,280 it's a fun time. It's not a fun time when they lose. I 761 00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,239 hope Will has to go on both and talk about how scoring two hundred points 762 00:58:02,239 --> 00:58:07,800 an NBA game isn't something to sneeze at these days. How about a percentage 763 00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:12,760 chance on them getting the Portland sweep? Do you want a percentage chance? 764 00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,480 Yeah? I want a percentage chance that they win both of these games as 765 00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:20,440 of March eighteen, six, twenty nine pm. Always time Stamper takes people 766 00:58:22,079 --> 00:58:28,400 or else, I will definitely find them seventy seventy four percent. Wow, 767 00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,480 you're way more optimistic than me. I was gonna say sixty percent where you 768 00:58:32,559 --> 00:58:39,559 are? I mean, I'm gonna say eighty percent, but it still feels 769 00:58:39,639 --> 00:58:43,440 slow. I feel like, oh, that's very low. Yeah, it 770 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,639 should be. We should be at ninety eight. Sad state, sad state. 771 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,239 We're gonna have double dips after those. Hopefully it's more fun episode on 772 00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,280 Saturday or something like that. The week's moving weird. Thank and everyone who 773 00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,920 watched and listen will Where can people listen to this if they want to re 774 00:59:00,119 --> 00:59:05,440 visit it? You know audio form? You can check this podcast out audio 775 00:59:05,519 --> 00:59:09,119 version wherever you get your podcasts. If you listen over on Spotify or Apple 776 00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:13,280 podcasts. If you leave us a little rating or review, really help us 777 00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,400 out. We'd appreciate it. You can also catch us over on YouTube. 778 00:59:16,679 --> 00:59:22,840 That's YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast. We'll be around. It will 779 00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,639 be around. Adam, can we get one? Do you have something in 780 00:59:25,719 --> 00:59:29,840 you? You know you don't have a if you're new to the show. 781 00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,599 Usually Adam says the positive thing at the end, but that's been the hardest 782 00:59:32,639 --> 00:59:37,719 job lately. What do you got, Adam? I'll say this for a 783 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:43,920 team that's having an identity crisis with fifteen games remaining. The One thing you 784 00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,480 can fall back on is things look pretty damn dire when they lost six games 785 00:59:47,519 --> 00:59:52,639 in a row and the offense looked completely broken with James Harden, and they 786 00:59:52,679 --> 00:59:57,360 pulled out of that, and they won twenty six of their next thirty one 787 00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:02,880 games and looked unbeatable. They can still find a way out of this too. 788 01:00:04,639 --> 01:00:07,960 There we go, that's the positivity we needed. We thank you everyone 789 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,719 for hanging out and watching on the stream. We thank it everyone who's gonna 790 01:00:09,719 --> 01:00:14,760 listen to this, and we will be back with some mini Podstrea after those 791 01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,679 Blazers games, and as always, let's go Clips.