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Adam, how are you doing. I'm good Will, thanks again for coming
on last night doing a little clips in Double Dip on a five seven e
LA Sports on Clippers Talk. That was a fun time. As we continue
to mull over the fact that Kawhi Leonard is not in the MVP conversation,
we could talk more about that too, coming up a little bit because I
found some more damning evidence of media malpractice. But uh yeah, we've been
having some fun with it. Just try to bring attention, try to bring
some positive light to Kawhi Leonard. If nobody else is gonna do it,
we're gonna do it here on Clips and Dip some other positive stuff in the
Clippers realm Clippers currently have the best offense in the NBA and speaking of our
should be MVP leader, Kawhi Leonards, he also had some interesting things to
say about the Clippers lack of defensive effort. You kind of rarely hear Kawhi
sort of go in on an aspect, but these comments actually got me kind
of excited. So we will show that audio here a little bit later in
the episode and talk about that as well. We're also going to talk about
just the historic season with two, I mean, with four Hall of Fame
players all together, but two of them hitting the twenty five k point mark
in the same season. Adam, I hope you did some research on whether
that's been done before or not. Didn't have to. Everybody else already told
me they told you, okay, great, great, great. And then
we'll also talk about Emir coffees continued great stretch of play and how the Clippers
will wrap up on this Grammy road trip. All right, Adam, where
do you want to kickoff? Do you want to talk a little bit?
We talked a little bit postgame about that win versus the Pistons, but why
don't we just jump off there now that you've had a little bit more time
to stew on it. Do you have any Do you have any thoughts on
that win over the Pistons? Just some wild swings in a ballgame where the
Clippers could be down fourteen and I know it's Detroit, but you still felt
like as opposed to past years, that eventually they were going to figure it
out. We just kind of saw that in DC the game before. We're
in that third quarter they outscored them forty to nineteen and pulled away and got
up by twenty nine. And then against the Pistons, after being down by
fourteen in the first quarter, they cut into that league rather quickly as Russell
Westbrook came into the ballgame and helped turn things around, and I thought had
one of his best games as a Clipper. Oh so I do I have
to go back to hating on him now to fit this false narrative because I
was just praising Russell Wallbrook. Andrew Adam just going to comment on the stream.
If you're listening to this audio not watching us live, which should be,
that's over at YouTube dot com Slash at Clippers podcast. But Andrew wanted
to know why Adam hates Westbrook so much? Why do you Adam? He
said, he's kidding, so he knows that's not the case. But I
don't know if he's kidding about Amir Coffee starting, we'll talk about a mirror
and how good he's been too coming up here. But just the fact that
the Clippers could pull it together get up by twenty. So a thirty four
point turnaround happened in that ballgame, it still was too close for comfort late
more on that with the Kawhi Leonard comments postgame. But I think you've had
the most amount of confidence in this particular Clippers team in the two to one
three era of being able to weather storms. And look, they've had plenty
of comebacks. Obviously, they've had the most twenty point comebacks over the last
five years of any team historic comebacks down thirty five, second biggest comeback all
time in DC couple of years ago against the Wizards, and obviously even before
two point three, the thirty one point come back in the playoffs. Can
I say something about that, though, Like, at least in terms of
the regular season, this is not that team. This is not those teams.
And I'm not saying that in a pejorative way or a negative way.
This team just should really never be getting to those lows, to those points.
And it's it's great to see them like have these big swings and turnarounds,
but for the most part, you don't expect them to go down big
like that, And it's it's not even it's not even just because of the
talent level, right I do think that the talent level got us through a
lot of things earlier in this run, But right now, I feel like,
with how cohesive the whole squad is playing, I don't feel like they're
that team anymore that goes down deep. Not that I don't think that they're
capable of a comeback when when it does happen, but we just don't see
it as much and it's not gonna be as frequent as it has been over
the last four years. No, definitely, But I would say even then,
they had some of those games when Kawhi and Paul George were both playing,
and they never should have been down double digits to the extent that they
were. But you're right, there's more faith in this team being a dominant
team. They are the hunted now and they're playing like a team that knows
they have the talent disparity in their favor just about every single night out there.
But they still have had slow starts like we saw in Detroit, even
with Paul George back, But there's a level of belief and confidence now that
they're gonna figure it out. Pretty quickly here, and once they do,
this game's going to be over. They're gonna slam the door shut. It
took far too long, probably in that Detroit game, because it was still
within the range of possibility. I think the Pistons were down something like ten
with three minutes left. For four minutes left, that's a winnable game still,
but hey, they just beat Okay. See recently they just almost won
in Cleveland. They gave them about as good of a run as the Clippers
did on Monday when they were taken on the Cavaliers. So I think they're
starting to uh, I don't know. Obviously they're the worst team in the
NBA and all that, but they're playing a little bit better right now.
But the Clippers, look that performance from Kawhi thirty three points just seventeen shots
to get there, I thought overall, Paul George was very good in stemming
the tide in the fourth quarter, where he had ten of his eighteen on
I think eight of sixteen shooting. So a lot of positives still for me.
Do you want to see them pull away earlier and make it easier on
themselves? Of course, and that I think leads into those postgame comments from
Kawhi Leonard because this is a guy who is chasing perfection and knows what it
takes to win a championship and doesn't want to see any slippach and doesn't want
to see any bad habits out there. So do we want to play this
audio now? Will? Yeah? Yeah, let's get into it. So
yeah, after Poe game, after the narrow win in Detroit, Kawhi had
some comments and I don't have Charles here to man the screen share, so
we have the hope I don't let's hope I don't mess this up. Currently,
law Murray is the only beat writer that is on the road that I
know of covering the Clippers intimately like this after for whatever reason, the La
Times didn't think the hottest team in the NBA should continue to be covered closely
and let go of our friend Andrew Grife and that is upsetting to me to
no end. But here was La Murray in the locker room afterwards speaking with
Kawhi Leonard. And then you know, as far as this particular game goes,
you guys were down fourteen, was able to make make another comeback win
and everything, like, what do you guys feel like you need to do
to you know, you go to play this team again next Saturday in May.
The man is so you know, man man early start game by game,
yep, they game so like just but in general, not about even
the Pistons, I know, it's about y'all. What can y'all do to
lock in to start games a little bit better? You're ready? I mean
it's between our you know, our ears. You know, tonight we're terrible
in the defensive game. We gave up one hundred and twenties points, hundred
twenty something points, So yeah, I mean we it feels like we've just
been winning games off time of even on the offensive end, you know what
I mean, it's just a lot of lot of isolation or a lot of
uh you know, just slow pace, you know, and you know when
it starts with our defense. But you can see it on defense and your
slow pace. You're starting off slow. So we have to see who we
want to be. You see what goals that we have set for ourselves because
just fore like these last games are just when based off talent, we need
to be winning after the execution, playing hard throughout all forty eight minutes,
and then they talent take over and the turns that we do, and then
I would say that then you got it back to back to finish this in
the fit's a mental trip to start. It's got to be a mental trip
that ended day. Yeah, for sure. I mean we got to play
two to teams. I've been playing pretty well, so you know, going
on to Miami as neighbor, it's never hard, but you just got to
stay focused, get some rest, and then be ready to lock in.
They do what we need to do. That all right, go ahead,
Well, oh, I was just gonna say so if you're just tuning into
the stream now or if you missed it. Basically, Kawhi talked about how
he thinks that this team has at times been coasting on their talent. Uh
where this team is coming up short and starting slow, he said, starts
between the ears, and it's really the defensive end. And he did mention
too, how the offense has stagnated at times. They've they've just gotten into
ISO stuff and they've they've really been able to lean on their talent in a
way in a way that he doesn't think is with the mindset of of what
they're trying to do and what they're trying to achieve and somebody mentioned it in
the comments, but if you if you missed this or you couldn't hear it.
But this is like one of the most sort of in depth or like
long winded I guess answers that you're ever gonna get from Kawhi. So I
love seeing this personally. I think that's about as encouraging of a leadership off
the court moment as you can get from Kawhi Leonard to get that lengthy of
a response for him to elaborate to that end, and he's spot on,
and I I think it might be strategic. Kawhi is probably not going to
be the guy to go up to every player individually and tell them this,
but if he puts it out he might or he might just turn down a
fist bump and then you know, hey, we're gonna lock in tonight.
There's friction here, but it's an easier, more efficient way, as Kawhi
Leonard's all about efficiency right now, to get a message out to the entire
locker room that we can't get by on just talent. It has to be
about execution. Because of the playoffs, you're playing talented teams in the seven
game series consistently that's not good enough, starting games slow, and him saying
it's between the ears. It's a level of focus they need to have,
they need to be locked in. That is very telling. That's stuff that
Clipper Nation has asked for from this team. It was just great to see
Kawhi Leonard just articulate it so perfectly there as their best player on the team
during a stretch where they've been this good still and he is demanding more out
of them. That's what's most important to me. I like that this isn't
the this isn't like sort of like the backhanded locker room comment, like we
didn't hear this doing the six game losing streak, you know what I mean?
This comes off a lot differently in that period of time. I think
when the team is winning and I'm assuming vibes are pretty good in the locker
room just with how good things have been going, and you're still like you're
still trying to get people to this mentality. It's still very clear what your
goal is and where your head is at, and like Kawhi acting as that
leader looking from the top to bottom for everybody else to lock into that mindset.
I think is. I mean, I just don't know what else you
want from him as a leader. I think it's also an important time of
the season where you can have some of those dog days right before the All
Star break, before the Sprint starts afterwards, and everybody's looking at the standings
more consistently and trade moves come into play. This is a time where you
can have letdowns and let ups, and that's probably what happened early on in
Detroit, and he's trying to kick them in gear and not let it happen,
not let this team complacent out there. He's always talked about going back
to what happened in the bubble when they lost that game seven to the Denver
Nuggets. Afterwards, the one thing he stressed was we have to get smarter.
We have to be smarter out there on the court. He's always looking
to refine things, to make things better and to chase perfection. Like I
said, hoping to catch greatness, I think is the old line, and
that's that's Kawhi. When you come up with the San Antonio Spurs, you
know what it takes. You know what a championship team looks like. And
I think going back to training camp. He knew this team had it in
them. He's got to kick him in the butt here and there though,
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and you know with the with the heart and
an addition, I mean, this is like, this is the most talent
that they're ever going to have. And we still don't know what free agency
holds and what next year holds. But to see how locked in he is
to right now, I think is incredible. Yeah, yeah, man,
it's no, it's it is one of my favorite quotes coming from him.
And all season long, he's also said when he was going through that stretch
and Timarazarli he's still in that stretch. By the way, he is still
in this hot streak last twenty seven games. Kawhi Leonard at fifty seven make
it fifty eight percent you could round up there from the field and fifty one
percent from three And they're asking him about this and this is over a month
ago now, and he's like, yeah, I am more focused on something
bigger than a stretch. And then with him getting that new contract extension postgame,
he's talking about taking this team to new heights. I think some people
were skeptical, Oh, Kawhi is playing back to backs, and he's playing
more now because you know he and Paul George it's a contract year. Well
he got the contract, and he is still completely focused on trying to win
this team of championship. I think he knows his legacy to some degree can
still be enhanced, and it would be because it would just be Lebron James
as league guys to win with three different teams I think in the history of
the NBA, and he could do it with two teams that have never won
a championship. Obviously the Cavaliers had with Lebron, but the Lakers had.
They had the second most of Boston when he won, So it's like ho
hum for those fans. Bringing a championship to the Clippers would mean everything,
and Kawhi Leonard wants to get them there and everything he has been saying has
been on point and exactly the type of stuff you want to hear from your
leader. Who doesn't the soft spoken, laconic guy. He's so stoic out
there, and for him to go off for a minute like that, I
just think after a win is really telling. I think too, this team
understands what's left of the window, right. I think if we look back
to twenty twenty and how things kind of fell apart there. I think there
was probably a collective idea that, you know, if it doesn't happen this
one, we have a lot of we have a lot more kind of cracks
at the apple, right, And I think seeing how things have gone since
then, how unpredictable things are, how how quickly the landscape competitively of the
NBA can change, I think there's probably a pretty real realization internally about you
know, what the rest of this looks like the future of cry and Paul
George And I think what we've seen this season really across the board is everybody
stepping up to that challenge and everybody really willing to make this. I mean,
I don't think it's this dramatic, but if this was to be the
last dance, like the absolute you know, the best shot that they've ever
had, that they've ever given themselves in the regular season, and you know,
if things go as they as we've seen them at their peak so far
this season, what could be their best postseason in the two and three era.
Oh yeah, And I think coming into this season we all kind of
agreed universally this look like a last Dance type of season. It's year five
of this this experiment. Now Kawhi is under contract, and he came out
postgame and said, you know, he believes that pretty much everybody else is
coming back. What's Wayne Jenkins saying? Here? Will wayn Jakins says,
KWHI is pretty clear first team All NBA forward with Giannis and Jokic, But
it feels like he may end up on the third time with some prs some
of the guys get despite him being an All timer already. If he's not
a first team All NBA forward, I am gonna throw my computer through through
the window. Is First Team positionless? Now? Is it still forwards?
Is it like the All Star Game where it's backcourt and forwards? I thought
it was positionless now? Okay, so he'll have a better chance, I
guess right in that scenario. Look, nobody has been on top of us
more than me and Big Will. We have been screaming to the high heavens
that Kawhi Leonard need to be in the MVP conversation. And I think it's
somewhat media malpractice that he hasn't been so far. Like they are dropping the
ball. The National narrative is not being shaped around how good Kawhi Leonard has
been over this stretch of two and a half months where the Clippers have been
the best team in the league. And when you take into account everything,
the fact that he's double teamed constantly and he's still putting up these fifty eight
percent from the field, fifty one percent from three to ninety percent from the
free throw line shooting splits speaks volumes. The fact that he's playing all world
defense and they are ten points worse per one hundred possessions defensively with him off
the floor should speak volumes. And then you factor in all the winning going
on with this ball club. What else do you need? And I heard
this earlier today from Justin Russo. I was listening to the Sports Ethos podcast
with Brandon Marcus and Basketball Reference. Now, Grant, I don't know how
they calculate this, but they have what's called on their site, and we're
talking about Basketball Reference dot Com here number twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four
NBA MVP Award tracker. They have top candidates and they say it's based on
a model built using previous voting results. Players must have played in at least
seventy percent of the league wide average for team games to qualify. So I
don't know about this whole previous voting results thing, but they do not have
Kawhi Leonard top ten in their NBA MVP Award tracker on Basketball Reference dot com,
And we talked about it last night on Clippers Talk. But Kawhi Leonard
is tied for seventh or eighth in MVP odds to win this season. And
by tied, I mean he's back with a bunch of guys who are plus
ten thousand, so you'd have to you better one hundred to win ten thousand
dollars. His odds are that far down that is unconscionable with how good he
has been. Yeah, I I the only whisper I've really heard about Kawhi,
and the MVP conversation was on like Brian Windhorse and the WHO Collective show.
I can't remember if it was Bontemps who brought it up, but that's
that's the only one. And even then it was, you know, it
was it was sort of a it was definitely a dark horse sort of a
candidate, which I don't know. It's difficult. I feel like to get
past some of the narrative stuff. And even though I think Kawhi has done
a lot to change all that's been said about him narratively, you know over
this last four or five years, I just don't know that it's I don't
I don't know that it's enough for a seat at the table from other people's
perspective, not from mine, obviously, but yeah, it's it's gonna be
interesting. So we're getting some injury report news. It looks like Zoo is
gonna be questionable for tomorrow. But I think this is a good time to
take a little break for our audio listeners and let's jump back in. Adam,
you have some interesting stuff about the Clippers offense that I can't wait to
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Coming up, we're gonna talk a little bit more, you know what,
I have an apology to make. We'll also talk about a mere coffee.
We'll also talk about, you know, the last two games remaining on
this Grammy road trip a little bit more in depth. We talked about him
the other day with Charles Monkler two. But the Clippers now have I saw
this one hundred and twenty two points per one hundred possession offensive rating, which
is an all timer, although that's not on the season. Still, we're
looking at I think since November seventeenth, since the Clippers reconfigured the starting lineup
inserting Terrence Man. Now, they obviously had games where Paul George's missed a
few Kawhi Leonard has missed a couple of vitzas zu bots, and we do
have an update on him as people are updating us here in the comment section.
But you look at a seam questionable zus, which is amazing considering we
thought post All Star Break at best, just get him back with the seventeen
games in March. Shout out Chuck Mockler. H this Clippers team yes,
since November seventeenth, since they've been on this wild winning streak with twenty nine
victories to just eight losses. They have an offensive rating of one hundred and
twenty fing two. The James Harden effect is big with this ball club right
now, and they're just humming. But you listen to Kawhi Leonard in those
comments in the last segment, he said he still felt like they're going through
the motions and getting by too much on talent than execution, even on the
offensive end. So there's still room to grow. That's what makes this team
really scary. They can still get better. Believe it or not. They've
only played with James Harden for about thirty five games so far. You know
this is still a team that's going through that adjustment period, learning curve.
And now when they get Paul George back into the starting lineup like they did
yesterday, maybe that's part of the reason they struggled early on. It still
takes some time, and I just want to see them get Big Zoo back,
be whole, and get some of those rotations locked in before the playoffs.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I also I have questions about it.
Questionable for this team, but whatever. That's a conversation for another time for
how this this team sometimes does some of the injury designations. Do you think
that they were, like, do you think he comes back into the starting
lineup? Do you think you have to work him in behind Mason? What
are you doing here with big Zoo? This is in the in the long
shot chance that he actually is ready to go sometime on this grammy roadrip,
which I actually still don't see. But let's just go from there. If
if he is above questionable to probable, where do you slot him in.
Well, it's great news that he is at least with them there and now
listed as questionable. It makes me think much differently about the injury where I
thought it could have been, you know, something that was more alarming considering
he's dealt with it over the past couple of seasons. So that's really positive
news right there. Because as we talked about, beats Zubats, I think
is their fourth most important player. I think he'll be back in the starting
lineup even if he's on a minute restriction. They put him back out there,
even if he's only at twenty or twenty five minutes, just to soak
up some of that time in the front court, and then you got decisions
to make with Mason Plumley and Daniel Tice and who plays more there. Nobody
can make up for the loss of Big Zoo. We've seen that play out
there have just been We talked about that just last night. We're like the
I mean, these bigs have been up and down. They've been doing their
best is to fill in what is a I mean just a massive cravasse that
has to be figured out for this team. Yeah, I mean you look
at the game against the Cavaliers, against the Lakers, even against the Wizards.
I mean when the Clippers have made a lot of their runs, they've
been going small. They've just been leaning into offense. Kawhi Leonard's playing the
freaking five out there. But don't give me a love for that. In
the MVP voting. They've been holding it down by going small. That has
been one of their best options. Meanwhile, Vitza Zubats was finally closing out
games this season. That's how good he has been, especially since they brought
in James Harden, and there's been that great pick and role connection with those
two. So they're missing not just back line defense, one of their guys
that was thriving offensively and really coming into his own having his best stretch of
his career. You can't take it lightly or downplay the fact that a Visa
Zubats has missed this time and the Clippers have still kept things going without him.
But you know this team can reach all time heights with him, So
I think when he comes back, he'll be in the starting lineup. And
maybe it's just a matchup dependent thing when it comes to Mason Plumbley and Daniel
Tye. If you're taking on a team that's a little bit bigger, you
want more size, it's Mason Plumbley. Otherwise, maybe Daniel Tice has earned
more reps because he's been that good. He really has, and he continues
to contest everything regardless of if he's gonna get dumped on or not. Yeah,
I think it just depends on how you run those rotations, what Zoo's
minutes load looks like, especially at the beginning, I think think could determine
a lot about who's next up. You know, at the five, who's
gonna get those more of those minutes and more of that trust. But having
the versatility I think is great, Like we We talked last night about the
center rotation, which I think is one of the deepest in the Western Conference,
if not in the entire league. But we actually got a question here,
Adam, do you think we need to trade for a bigger wing to
play the small ball five? Where are you at on that we already have
assuming a Visa Zubots returns to Hell three healthy rostered centers. I do think
there's one more phase or facet to this team and this roster that could be
unlocked if you had a guy who could not only play the small ball five,
but could be used as a four next to a Vita Zubats, next
to two, one three in James Harden. That does interest me. Obviously,
the prototype or the archetype would have been somebody like Nicholas batoum Moroco.
Those guys are gone. The trade was the right move to make. If
you could pull in someone like PJ. Washington from Charlotte, and I know
he's not the outside shoot you're looking for, but rim runner athlete, vertical
threat, that would be big for this team. People talk about Dorian Finney
Smith a lot, but it seems like take a lot like, well,
do we need another wing? Who can't really shoot from the outside, if
he can guard multiple positions that look, I'm not saying this is a need
for them to win the championship. They have this glaring hole on this team
and if they don't feel it, they don't have a shot. I'm just
saying, can you strengthen a strength still? Can you can you figure out
some of those flaws that could be exposed in stretches in the playoffs where you're
then kicking yourself and saying, damn, we should have gotten that guy the
trade deadline, and we didn't, and we missed, and we waited to
see it get play out in the playoffs because one of the things that coach
lew has always said is, you know, we've never had a chance with
Kawhi and Paul George fully healthy to complete a playoff run to figure out what
we're missing. But as we talked about earlier, with the sense of urgency,
with this team needing to win now, with Kawhi being thirty two and
Paul George thirty three, I don't think they have the luxury to just go
into the playoffs without trying to prep for things that just could you know,
be issues that could arise. They got to try to figure out what you
know, could be a problem even though they're on this winning streak, just
continue to try to refine things and get better. Yeah, well, there's
also not an issue with redundancy, you know, with as we see right
now with Tucker on the roster still right like, it's not really hurting anything
for him to not be in the rotation. It's currently not really hurting anything
for Bones Highland to not be in the rotation. So I guess, depending
on the asking price, I am all or grabbing another wing certainly, how
I mean, I guess it just depends on how big of a factor you
want them to be into the DNA of what this team already is. Like,
I think something like a Jeremy Grant or something like that is maybe too
big of a move for me, because I feel like you're fundamentally changing the
core, like the core of sort of what this team is once again,
and I don't know if that's the right move, especially given how things have
gone so far. If that's the approach that I want to take at this
point in the season, that's a great point because as much as people have
been clamoring for continuity, you finally have some of it, you don't want
to completely upend that with a drastic move that really changes how this team plays
next to one another and you go through another losing streak just figuring out minutes,
rotations, lineups. It can create issues. It can create more problems
when this team finally looks like the chemistry is there, they're gelling, they're
meshing, they're playing at this really high level. If you bring in a
guy that's all of a sudden gonna be in the starting lineup when the starting
lineup has been phenomenal with Terrence Man, you know that that could change things.
That could lead to some downside as well. Yeah, and I'm not
saying that there aren't better players in the league than Terrence Mann or anything like
that. It's just for me, it's a little bit of an if.
If it's not broke, you don't need to fix this situation. I mean,
basically, every year that we've had a healthy Kawhi and Paul George going
in to like to go into the playoffs, we've made a big mid season
move and it would be nice, It would be nice maybe if that wasn't
the situation this year. It's all I'm saying, especially because I think I
think one of the most one of the more interesting things about Denver and their
champion and Chip run is just how I mean the Aaron Gordon move was was
was a larger move, but like they have this continuity that I think really
did help them get over the hump. Obviously they have the talent, and
Jokic has and Murray and their game together has improved, but that happens with
continuity, and that happens with some consistency in the in the guys around them.
So yeah, it is kind of one of those things that I am
envious of for some of the other teams when you know when they have that
sort of thing, and even Denver, you know, who knows if they
were able to keep the entire championship roster together where they slot in the West
right now, right like, would they be just running away with it again
like they did last season. Well, and it goes back to what Kawhi
Leonard said earlier, getting by on talent, you only want to do that
in select situations. It starts with execution and that ties in to build up
that chemistry I saw. Okay, Jeremy Mormon says we need a role player.
But I saw this from Ramas Street who says the thing is, Kawhi
gets doubled eight times a game and it's only gonna go up during the playoffs.
I don't really trust PG and Harden to knock down shots on a consistent
basis. Whoa, whoa, whoa what it's It's like, if you can't
trust those guys high from the outside, who do you trust? Yeah,
what's what's the move? Then, Ramas Street, So you do want to
take one of those guys out of the starting lineup or trade one of those
guys somehow? Come on, what are we doing here? They're either gonna
win with those guys or yeah, they're not gonna peak and reach their championship
aspirations. This is the squad, this is who they have. You have
to trust those guys. And I still feel like Paul George's run without Kawhi
Leonard in the twenty to twenty one NBA playoffs somehow gets overlooked. People still
say like, oh, playoff p and stuff, and it's like, guys,
the last time we saw him have to lead a team, he got
him to the Western Conference finals for the first time in franchise history. What
are we talking about with multiple huge ball games of forty points in game fives?
Yeah, same reaction as Will's whoa, whoa, whoa. Those are
the dude you're rolling with? Those are those are absolutely the dudes you're rolling
with. And sure if if if Harden and PG both have if they combine
in playoff games where they're both really inefficient from the field, Yeah you might,
you might lose that game, you might drop that game, But I
think that A, what are your other options of the same high level talent?
And B I think I'm still willing to ride out those odds. And
we talked a little bit about this, Nicky Duncant and talked about some of
Kawhi's sort of issues in the double, how his his efficiency sort of goes
down somewhat. But I think and you and I talked about this like,
it's not gonna be it's not gonna be a picnic to try and double Kawhi
in the playoffs. Like this team, this team is going to be able
to hurt you anytime you're sending two defenders at Kawhi. Yeah, I'm not
that overly concerned with it. We talked about that video. I just feel
like there's a reason that they're the best three point shooting team in the league,
and it's about getting teams out of rotation because of all the talent on
the floor and when you double, they are finding the open man for the
most part. And yes, they can still work on that. But people
are coming back at me saying, yeah, it wasn't just Paul George.
Of course, it wasn't just Paul George, but he was the best player
that teams were game planning for each and every night once Kawhi Leonard went down
and had historically great numbers throughout that playoff run he had. I don't know
if we can pull this stuff up, but I think think you was first
in points scored through the first couple of games of the NBA Finals. Like,
what are we talking about here? And people are bringing up the bubble.
Yes, a lot of fluky stuff happened in the bubble. Paul George
was not good at the end in the Denver series. You know who else
wasn't Kawhi Leonard in that game seven? Like do we ever expect that to
happen again? No, he came back, had the Game six on the
road, forty five point game against the MAVs, and then Paul George more
than held up his end of the bargain, taking this team to New Heights
afterwards. I think that playoff run is so much more indicative of what this
team really is than the twenty twenty year. And I'm not here to make
excuses Clippers blew what was a golden opportunity, obviously a weird situation. I
think if your thoughts of Paul George and the playoffs are still in that Denver
series, or your thoughts of Kawhi Man, we've moved pretty far past that,
pretty clearly in the playoff series that we've seen them in sets. Moses,
you're talking about old stuff, so it tracks. But he's saying Kawhi
played four out of the six games in the Jazz series. We are aware,
and it was two to two, and the Jazz were supposed to win
that series and had the best overall record in the league that season, and
Paul George was tremendous in that game five on the road when they just found
out Kawhi Leonard, who flew with them on the plane, wasn't gonna be
able to go. Man. A lot of people want down on Paul George.
In the chat right now, Jeremy says, Paul George just needs to
needs to have a remember when I can do a game, feel like we
haven't seen one for a while. I mean, the efficiency hasn't been what
it was. He's hard. The guy's been dealing with a groin injury.
I think I think it's one of those things that's he's just gonna have to
get back to one hundred percent. I would guess that he's at like eighty
right now. So let's talk about that. Because last night postgame, law
Murray again spoke with Paul George about his health and where he was at,
and he basically said that this growing injury arises throughout the season at some point.
He's always had it, he gets through it, he comes out on
the other side. So it's common for him. He's been dealing with this
for years. But remember last season he went through a rough stretch and then
started to feel really good and looked healthy and you could tell, and then
of course against OKC what it looked like he had all that bounce back and
had the three sixty dunk in the half court. He gets injured, but
this is kind of the wave that you ride the roller coaster with Paul George
and his health during a regular season. So it's been happening in a chat
right now. Sorry to interrupt you, Adham, but Russe the Villagers said
Paul George had a streak of seventeen straight twenty point games weeks ago. Thank
you very much. Of course I don't like his icon of Russell Westbrook throwing
up a brick and calling himself for Russ the builder there. But yes,
yes, Paul George. Remember you're the one who hates Westbrook. How dare
you? How dare you? Paul George was the one in the first three
weeks of this season that was playing better than Kawhi Leonard Kawhi eased his way
into this season. Paul George, we were saying MVPG. That's what we
were saying to start off this year, and it's not the first year a
Clippers uniform we have said that where he's got off to really good starts.
So Paul George said he was dealing with this growing injury. It's happened before,
and it sounds like he knows how to manage it and get through it.
So that made me a little bit less concerned about what's going on right
now, and just the fact that he played in that game against Detroit,
which I think was a little bit unexpected and looked pretty damn good. He
still has some bounce and I feel like he's still like, while the team
hasn't been super locked in defensively, I still feel like he has some flash
moments every game where you're like, oh wow, Paul George is still still
doing it on both ends. Not the most efficient offensively, but what I
I don't have his like just fourth quarter numbers right in front of me.
But if if he had played the rest of the game like that fourth quarter,
I think it looks a lot different. Man Ramas Street the last two
games from hard and screams bad vibes. It's like, Okay, let's ignore
the other thirty plus games with James Harden having some of his most efficient nights
and having a four to one assist a turnover ratio. Like, guys,
enjoy what's happening right now. Please enjoyed the journey. This is literally the
best that Clippers have ever played in the regular season. This is the most
dominant they have ever looked in franchise history. Look, I think that's what
I think that's why people are worried, right, I think that's why people
are worried. This is a fit, Like this is a franchise, this
is a fan base. People get a little upset with being comfortable, right,
Like we're we're always waiting for the other shoe to drop. And I'm
not saying that that still won't happen, but like, this is the most
for real this team has looked. This is the most dominant this team has
looked. And the fact that they not only look this dominant, but they're
still not pleased, They're still not satisfied. They're not like, Okay,
let's put our feet up, we got a good little lead. We like
where we're sitting in the West. Let's coast into the All Star break,
get a little bit of extra rest and come back at it like the way
that they, at least Kawhi is wanting this team to approach things every night.
I'm just feeling I'm feeling the most confident about I think that I have
throughout the entirety of the two and three run. Oh no doubt, They've
never asserted their dominance to this level where they can just flip a switch and
destroy you and have one good quarter and win a game by twenty. Yeah,
never like that. Yeah, that's a game I feel like is the
perfect example. Like that game. It was ugly, it wasn't a great
win, but it was still a big win. Like it was still a
massive turnaround that I think. I mean, I think in other times two
and three era, it's a nail bit er win and maybe we still get
it out, maybe we drop it on the road, but it doesn't look
you don't get those twelve like a twelve oh run followed up later by a
nine to zero run. You know that sort of stuff. And we're talking
about a team that has beat the best of the best outside of Minnesota,
who they didn't have zoobots against and still only lost by four. They have
proven they can beat Denver. They have proven they can beat Okay, see
Boston. They've beaten Phoenix multiple times. They have beaten heavyweights. They haven't
just loaded up against the cream puffs in this league. They have beaten Dallas.
They have beaten the Lakers, who look to have their number earlier in
the season. Of course, there was no Lebron in that one, but
I I just people who want to live in that it's only all that matters
is the playoffs. All that matters of the playoffs is missing a lot of
fun during the journey to get there. You also got a built there,
buddy. You gotta build there like it doesn't just start like it's not.
It's not a story of two teams, right and generally teams that we think
throughout the regular season are gonna flip the switch. What happens to a lot
of those teams they go home early like it's just what It's just the nature
of how things go. This is a part of that. We can't predict
what the playoffs are gonna be. Still, we still do not know.
We don't even know what the matchups are gonna be. So I think that
right now we gotta we gotta enjoy sort of the forest for the trees junction
is coming through with something. They said, seeing the Clippers not taking their
foot off the pedal against Boston tells me everything I need to know about the
twenty three twenty four Clippers. I love that. And they said that was
a measuring stick game. They wanted to see where they are at. That
is what coach Lu said postgame. They got up for that game. They
wanted to flex their muscles and show how dominant they could be. They were.
Yeah. Andrew also coming through with some hopefulness for and Harden. Turn
it back on. Andrew said, look at man, he couldn't hit a
shot and is now shooting lights out. Now is not the time to panic.
Couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. Andrew rama, Street's killing me.
Let's be honest. Who else do you trust besides Kawhi. Let's not
be comfortable. We need a banner into it. What's the alternative? You're
bordering on a timeout right now. You're bordering on a timeout. It is
a it is a future. It is a future that we have here.
Come on, put them in the corner, chicken little right now, it's
just coffee. Let's use that as a Seconday. Let's let's talk coffee.
Yeah, a mere coffee. Guys. We talked about the ridiculous numbers and
the true shooting percentage and all that stuff. But if you just look back
now in his month in January, and then the seventeen points uh he had
yesterday against Detroit this time coming off the So you want to talk about flexibility
and adaptability, and having a guy that performs the exact same way no matter
how many minutes he gets out there, He's gonna be efficient with them.
He's not gonna make a lot of mistakes. He could be in the starting
lineup, he could be coming off the bench like he did and played twenty
four minutes and ended up with excuse me, fourteen points against the Pistons.
He had seventeen in the start against the Washington Wizards. But mister reliable,
he has become that. We say that all the time with Big Zoo,
But in his month of January, a Mere Coffee shot sixty five percent from
the field and fifty two percent from three. Yes, it's on low volume,
but in some ways that makes it more impressive when you don't know how
many shots are gonna get. You may only get three, four, five
shots in a ballgame, and you take advantage of all of them when the
pressure is on because there's so many guys on this team trying to get on
the court. A Mere Coffee has just been fabulous. I can't say enough
about him. The professionalism. A guy who was lost in the shuffle completely
last season after he had a really good twenty one to twenty two season,
and I thought, earn minutes and he is back, and then some Yeah.
Look, I think that Coffee, to me is one of the best
stories of the Clippers' internal development. As hard as we get on this team
about their drafting, about their ability to you know, hone and develop young
talent, you have Terrence Man, who I think I don't credit him as
much to the development team. I credit a lot of that to Terrence because
I don't feel like his plan was particularly that well developed. He was constantly
like guessing as to what position he was going to be able to fill.
But for a mere Coffee like to be around the team as much as he
was not getting the playing time and immediately be able to step up in the
way that he has been, I think that is a testament to how they
can develop players internally. Not saying that it always happens, but we know
that they have the ability and these are the kind of play. Look,
if the Clippers have any window beyond this year, which I'm not saying that
they don't, we just don't know it's gonna be because of guys like a
Mere Coffee. It's gonna be because of these players, highly overachieving their contracts,
highly overachieving what they've been asked to do, and step up on a
night to night basis. I mean, we didn't talk about it in our
in our recap of the Pistons game at the top here, but the bench
was incredible. The bench was incredible in that game. And that's what you
need to I mean, both to get in those wins when you're on the
road, when you're on these on these grueling sort of trips. Certainly what
you're gonna need in the month of March, but in the grander scheme,
the longer scheme, it's also what you need to keep your stars at your
best if you want to extend a title window. And we'll talk about the
Russ milestone in just a second here speaking of the bench, but I heard
this stat on the lob of the Jam of the podcast earlier today in their
post game recap after the Clippers win into Detroit. Lucas Holland had it a
mere coffee from three to ten feet out on the season is shooting seventy two
percent. The next best guy on the Clippers is a Vitza Zubats at sixty
one percent from three to ten feet out. He's making everything. He's a
three level scorer right now, three pointers in transition, getting to the basket.
You have a ton of confidence with him in transition for a team that
hasn't been great in that area of getting easy buckets in traffic. But also
he's got this little turnaround MIDI that he's had going at a really high rate.
Uh yeah, absolutely, we're getting some Carter Corone in the Chad said,
Coffee is the type of due that could win us a playoff game.
Yeah. I mean I don't know that he would single handedly swing it,
but he is definitely the guy that can get you over the hump, Like
just having that's a luxury to have a guy that can stay ready and you
know exactly what he's going to bring you. He could be out for weeks
and you put him into the starting lineup, which is what happened when Paul
Georgia originally went down with the groin issue, and he just performs like there
aren't that many guys that can play a role at this Hi have a level
that give you that certainty that a mere Coffee does with his Clippers team.
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, what's Lob City saying here Bob City coming through
with something spicy. They said, Coffee may have been our option at the
backup wing position the last two seasons, but never got a chance over Batom,
Roko and Morris. They added, he's definitely playing better than all those
guys right now. I don't think he's quite the versatile defender that Batum and
Roco could be, because we've talked about it, but he has been very
good. He has been yeah, yeah good. I mean, we'll hold
him to a high standard there comparing him to those two guys. It's there's
no shame and not being quite as versatile as Nicholas Batoomb who's been guarding all
five positions for a long time. But he's still good. He can still
guard guys one through four and you'll take that every day of the week.
I love. I was screaming for a mirror. I even pulled some of
the video and put it on XT that follow out of May earlier in the
season when the Clippers are going through that losing streak and I was like,
what about a mirror? Where's a mirror at and freaking out a little bit,
why aren't they giving him run? Even I couldn't have projected that he
would get to this level where he is a staple in the rotation and a
guy on this team friendly of a contract. So when people say, oh,
he's playing himself into being a trade chip, it's like, are you
really gonna get equal value or close to for somebody who's what making four million
per year and can provide this much quality depth to your squad than a mere
coffee? I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah, I mean we're getting
a lot of love for Batoma in the chat right now. I mean you're
not gonna get You're not. I don't think you're gonna get any two larger
Nip patumb Clip fans than than than us right here, other than of course
Spencer. But yeah, I don't know. I still think given what you
did, what you got back in the hard and trade, I think you'd
do that trade ten times out of ten. Yeah, so I mentioned Russell
Westbrook. Well, why don't we take a quick time out. We'll get
to Russ talk. A career milestone for him last night in a game they
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Here? We got we got some interesting stuff. We got two Clippers
reaching the twenty five than point milestone in the same season. I don't know
what do you want to get it to, Well, why not highlight Russ
who got there last night? And also it felt like he turned the game
around. When you talk about a lethargic, sleepwalking like effort that the Clippers
had early on in the ballgame where they were down by fourteen points in the
first quarter to the Detroit Pistons on the road. It was twenty to six
and at the five forty two mark Russell Westbrook entered the game for Terrence Man
immediately got Mason Plumley a bucket right afterwards. Then Kawhi got a driving layup
off the Russ assist. He was shot out of a cannon, as he
always is, but it was just the perfect scenario for him to shine and
show how he contributes to this team, because that's a game that I don't
know, maybe they lose it without Russ. I don't know if I'd go
that far, but they certainly don't get up by twenty and completely turn the
game on its head if they don't have a guy like Russell Westbrook coming off
the bench with that energy. Oh, agreed, agreed, Yeah, that
Look, it's more about the efficiency, right, He's always gonna bring the
energy. He's always gonna like that you can count on. That's a constant.
And even that I do think is good and it's important, and it
is a tone setter, especially with the bench, you know, like you
gotta like like guy's sort of got to be un notice. They got to
bring the energy, especially given the pace that our starters can can can play
with at times. I like that the second unit can kind of change things
up. It's just a question, right of of what version of Russ are
you getting. Is he taking good shots? Is he able to convert around
the rim? If he's not able to convert around the rim is he is
he able to collapse the defense enough to kick out to a teammate. So
it's just gonna be those things. And and honestly, some of it is
within him. Some of it is going to depend on on how they're choosing
to defend him in that second unit. So there have been ups and downs,
but I will say, like the consistency, like professionalism and character and
I mean, like you know, grit and effort. I do think that
that is consistent and that has been Yeah, it's it's one of those intangibles
that's you know, to go back to the to the old Clippers. It's
it's unstatable. He brings some of that Patrick Beverly type stuff that this team
has needed over the past couple of seasons with intangibles. But he was making
his layups, made a lot of them last night, knocked down a couple
of threes as well. As I was looking over him in January because I
just noticed an inordinate amount of layups being missed and smoked by Russell Westbrook,
where when he misses them going that fast, that is a turnover. That
is a live ball turnover for a team that suffers with their transition defense.
So I can't stress enough how badly he needs to get those to go.
And I was looking through the first two and a half months of the season.
Through the end of December, he was shooting sixty percent within five ft
at the rim, which is good enough. It's solid, it's not amazing,
but it's good enough. You'll take it. In January, Russ was
shooting just fifty three percent within five feet of the rim. But then last
night, New Month, And sometimes it's that simple for guys New Year shooting
wise, for Terrence Man clean slate, and all of a sudden he's at
fifty percent from three when he was struggling so much. Sometimes I don't know
if it's superstition or just guys feeling like they have, you know, a
new lease on the season, you could say, a new lease on life.
With some of the percentages and some of the things that we're working against
them, they can write the ship. Maybe that'll happen for Russ now in
February when it comes to some of these layups and some of these gimmes in
traffic that he's been missing recently, because last night he was much better in
that area, and to cross the twenty five thousand point threshold and to become
just the twenty fifth player in NBA history to do so. It would be
a layup from Russell Westbrook in the four quarters, So congrats to him.
It's an all time milestone and rare, rarefied Air and company to be a
part of in the NBA now. And I love that it happened in a
Clippers uniform. It happened earlier this season for James Harden in a Clippers uniform.
First time ever in NBA history, two players, same season, same
team got to twenty five k, So pretty cool. Yeah, it's it's
wild, man. I it's hard because you know, I'm still so much
in this season, but having four Hall of Famers on the same team is
just wild and like first ballot, like true blue Hall of Famers is pretty
incredible. And for them to both hit those milestones in the same season is
it's wild man. It's and and I think that there's a feeling of I
think that's another one of those things that has helped. Obviously you have the
talent, but I think everyone's kind of championing everyone else in a way that
I don't know that this team has always had that if that makes sense.
Yeah, no, that's a great point. No one else I've noticed.
It's different this season over the last couple of months. If you just go
back the last two games in DC in Detroit. Now. Part of it
is because those teams are so down right now, at the bottom of the
Eastern Conference, at the bottom of the league. But there has been more
buzz and chance for the Clippers on the road than there ever has been to
my knowledge. And it's because think about it, Hey, what do we
want to do tonight, Oh, for twenty five bucks, we could get
into the Pistons game and see four Hall of Famers on the other side.
That's what it is like. They become traveling at home now. I just
mean even from non Clippers fans, gotcha with them being on the road right
now, there's a draw element to just being able to go and see your
local team in Detroit or DC. They're down right now, but you can
go see four Hall of Famers were probably pretty damn cheap. Yeah, yeah,
totally. And there have been some Clippers fans it sounds like that have
been traveling very well because there have been some chance recently in these arenas.
Look, I know it's because you know we're playing well and and that's everything,
But the fan experience anytime I'm at the stadium has been a lot different
this season. I think I've brought this up before, but it's the best.
It's the best that it's been since the Clippers lost to the Suns in
the in the in the Western Conference Final. Yeah. John Rengifo or In
Giffo said, I was at the Wizards game. That is absolutely true.
Tons of Clippers fans awesome. Awesome to see fans travel, Awesome to see
them get this level of respect from NBA fans of the opposition, in which
the national media would start picking up on some of this, Tricia, I
do not usually go to road games. In fact, the only one I'd
been to was Game five last year in Phoenix because we sensed it might be
Noah Eagles last game calling it for the Clippers, and Jake Warner, our
head engineer, and I drove out there late at night. We were literally
in Phoenix for less than twenty four hours. We left. I think the
game was on a Tuesday night. We left Monday night after Jake works the
Lakers game at Crypto at like midnight we get in there at five or six
in the morning in Arizona, we leave after the ballgame at around ten that
night, so that's the only one typically I'm back in Burbank. But this
Clippers team, Yeah, everything's pointed in the right direction currently, especially because
of what we heard from Kawhi Leonard, where just there should be no letdowns.
He is keeping the pedal to the medal a little bit here, a
lot of positives. Uh. And currently they've already had on this seven game
road trip, their most successful Grammy road trip ever will really they're four and
one. They could lose the next two, I think, and it would
still be the best hopes on the road trip. That's what he's pulling for
back to back losses, back to back. I'm happy to take that l
if it comes to that, Okay, now I think it will. They
just have to split one of the next two. Miami's not gonna be easy
tomorrow because they just got a victory over DC last night, which I'm kind
of happy about because they were on such a losing streak that you don't want
them to get up for a game too much against the Clippers, Like this
is the time we're gonna turn our season around right now against the Clippers.
Kin what the Cavaliers had extra motivation there because they weren't in any national attention
because they didn't have that signature win and they played fantastic against the Clippers and
they have been for a while now. But I don't want to see that
with Miami and Heat culture tomorrow. Yeah, what did they lose seventh straight
something like that? It was It was a rough It was unusual for a
Miami Heat team, who the Clippers also beat earlier this season at Crypto.
They didn't have Jimmy Butler in that ballgame, So not gonna be easy.
We don't know what the status of Paul George will be now with a back
to back coming up. I guess would be he plays one of them,
you know, because it really does seem like he's trying to get to the
All Star Break. He knows there's a lot at the end of the tunnel,
there's rest waiting for him. He just has to push through this last
stretch and help this team right now and then he can hopefully get back to
one hundred percent. But yeah, this Clippers team has been that good currently
on this Grammy Road trip that I thought four and three would have been a
very successful road trip. They're getting greedy. They wanted to get to six
and one. Coach Lou's put a mark on it. He said six and
one was the goal before they left Los Angeles, which is pretty damn cool.
Yeah, absolutely, I do you know, it's humility season still and
now is this where the big apology is coming? I do have to make.
I don't know if it's a I don't know if it's a big apology
here, but it's it's somewhat of an apology and they don't happen that often
for me, because somebody last night, one of our listeners this is a
half apology, a half receipt, which no, no, no, no,
no no. Well, okay, maybe it's a little bit of both
those things, but still it will be a real apology. This guy,
Francis Meek, who tends to be very negative on X towards the Clippers,
and when they were down by fourteen, he already said, like, this
game's over, they're gonna lose. They're back to playing down to their opponents
and has said, like you know, it's the first quarter, man,
like what are we doing here? So he said, Okay, if I'm
right, you have to make a public apology towards me if the Clippers lose
this game, because he quoted humility season and I said, well, what
do I get if you're wrong? And he said, I'll apologize on Twitter
here, which he kind of did, but he put in the caveat after
the Clippers won that still shouldn't have taken this much to be the Detroit Pistons
team. And at the time it kind of bugged me. It was like,
you're putting this qualifier on it. That's not really holding up your end
of the bargain with this bet here. That's not honoring it to the degree
I would have liked. But then with Kawhi Leonard coming out and saying what
he did postgame, I started to think about it. It's like, you
know what, He's right, this team they do need to demolish some teams
here and there. So Francis Meek, I'm giving it to you. I
hope you'll still be a fan of mine, even though I think he blocked
me last night on Twitter. Because I can be an opinion ad sometimes overly,
I'm trying to do better in that area though, so I apologize.
I'm just very passionate about this team, as you can tell. Yeah,
I mean, like, look, I think it's a fair I think it's
a fair criticism to expect more against the Pistons from this team. I think
you know what we got from Kawhi, I think is the best takeaway other
than a win you can get in a game like that at the end of
the day. For me, you know, it is a long road trip.
If they do end up, if they do end up at that five
and two mark at the end of this whole thing, I just you can't
ask for much more. You can't ask for much more. It's a stellar
road trip, one of the best we have seen, one of the best
in franchise history. And as much as Kawhi Leonard is calling for them to
continue to play good basketball and not just get by on talent, it is
nice to know that sometimes they can that sometimes they're just so damn good that
during the long eighty two game season, there's gonna be nights where you don't
play your best, where James Harden goes one for ten and they can still
be up by twenty in a ball game. That's just stuff we didn't see
before, it just felt like they always had to play far too often at
a B plus type level, even just to beat some of the bad teams
sometimes. And that's what is very different to me about this season. Someone
in the chat is asking any word on the Clippers fixing our ugly ass logo.
I assume that they're just waiting until in like until into it. We
already know the Red Jerseys are coming back. Well, I think we so
we covered you know, we covered basically quis comments to the team. We
covered the rest of the Grammy trip. Adam made his apology, which I'm
kind of putting in air quotes because there was also brought up in the middle
of it, which I don't know about all that, Adam, Is there
anything else you want to hit them before before we get out of here.
Just excited to see this team hopefully go five and two on this road trip
and then come back and I think to take on the Pelicans later that next
week. So I'm sure there's a lot of built up energy and support with
the fan base wanting to see them back at Crypto. It's been forever since
the Fellas were in town. It's been a lot time. The boys are
back in town. The boys are back in town exactly, so a lot
more excitement to come, and then the All Star Break and then March seventeen
games. Where were you and the Clippers March. Charles has been previewing this
for y'all since October, so he's actually not here today because he's trying to
build a time machine where he can go into the future. He doesn't want
to wait. He can't even wait just three more weeks to get to March.
He wants to be there immediately. So if you're wanting to watch out,
that's why. That's why he's got to worry about March. I think
that'll do it for us for today. Everybody, thank you for tuning in
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quick positive thing on the way out. It beats the zoobots upgrade questionable boom.
Love it all right, Thank you all so much. We'll see you soon.