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What's going on? Welcome in to
Clips and Dip, your favorite Clippers podcast,

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Favorite Clippers Podcast. I'm William up
I joined as always by the Trio,

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The Triumphant Trio, Adam Oslin and
Charles Mockler. Look, today,

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there's some actual developments on the hard
and stuff. I've heard that there was

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a bit of a no that there
was a no mention of Harden on this

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podcast. Apparently it's coming back because
there are some developments that we have to

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talk about, and then we're gonna
talk a little bit about the Clippers home

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preseason debut. We also asked for
a couple of questions out there on Twitter,

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so we're gonna get into those,
and then we have a Charles Mockler

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special rounding out this episode today that
I'm actually very excited about. I don't

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know how the fans out there feel, but the Clippers have decided to go

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ahead and recycle last year's marketing slogan
give no quarters. Didn't make any sense

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then, makes even less sense now, but we're gonna talk about it.

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So let's leady with this hearted stuff. Charles, why don't you kick it

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off with you? Actually, how's
everybody doing? Sorry, I'm getting right

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into this. You're hyped up,
Adam. What's going on with the hat?

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What's the hat? What's wrong with
the hat? It's a trucker hat.

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You guys don't like it. I
like it. I'm just asking what

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it is. Okay. So,
if you're a real nerd, you may

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recognize this particular insignia belonging to somebody
who controls a giant robotic dragon with the

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flute dagger. Yeah, it's for
the it's the Green Ranger. You gotta

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let's go real quick. If you're
just listening to us and you'd like to

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see what we're talking about, it's
a good hat from Adam. It's just

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we're always thrown off by Adam's hats. Uh. You can check us out

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over on YouTube dot com slash app
Clippers podcast. You can see Adam's hat.

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You can weigh in on this,
say you like my hat? You

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didn't say that off Airwell, So
Charles, take us in with this,

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Take us into this, Uh,
take us into this hard and stuff.

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What's the latest and so where do
these reports come from? This is a

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great report from Sam Ammick, which
is important to remember. There's a Miko

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and there's Amic and you you believe
Am. Excuse me, you believe Amic.

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That's usually what the saying is on
Twitter. The report basically boils down

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to the Sixers are now willing to
accept an offer of one unprotected first round

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pick, a swap Terrence Man and
matching salaries for James Harden. Previously,

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as most people if you're listening to
this podcasts in the off season, but

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for those who don't know, they
wanted two first round picks. But that

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has changed because because Darryl Moury supposedly
has a trade lined up that he likes

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better than having two of the Clippers
first round picks with another team for Terrence

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Man. So Terrence Man is worth
the first round pick from some team that

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might have a Yeah, we have
no idea about the protect the protection that

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would be all exactly yes, but
he thinks it would be better than the

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Clippers, which is very weird.
So first off, I want to say

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thank you Maury for thinking that the
Clippers are going to be good that far

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out all right, Okay, yeah, that's true. You'll recognize real and

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I'm very excited about that. Adam, what do you feeling when you saw

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this stuff? Do you think the
Clippers should go for it. Do you

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think this is what it takes.
It depends on how much they value Terrence

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Man. If he's only going to
play twenty three minutes a game, then

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maybe they should make the move for
James Harden and bring in more high end

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talent if they see the potential.
And we talked about a little bit last

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night, Chuff, but just Terrence
Man getting to his spots on the floor,

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all four of his makes, we're
a little fade away step backs.

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Yep. This is somebody who's been
willing to do whatever the team asks of

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him, guard multiple positions, kind
of initiate the offense. Sometimes. We

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all know about the ten games right
before the All Star break of the fourteen

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games where they went ten to four
something like that, right before the All

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Star breaks, right in the world
on fire, barely their best stretch of

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basketball. Terrence Man has been an
extremely valuable, versatile member of this Clippers

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team. But if he's only going
to get twenty three minutes to night,

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and he's gonna get squeezed on minutes
because they don't see him as being a

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guard out there, or as being
a small forward out there, or as

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being a fifth, another option at
the five. I don't know. I

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think you have to think about it
if that's the case. But it seems

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like, according to the report from
sam Amic, that they're unwilling to give

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up Terrence Man in a deal for
James Harden, And to be fair,

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it still looks like they'd be bidding
against themselves. No one else has been

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reportedly interested in James Harden, so
that's always a bad negotiating tactic. When

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it's just you driving up your own
price, that doesn't work. So play

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hardball. Because the Clippers are gonna
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I don't think they're gonna be in
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bring in James Harden to start off
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way around, where James refuses to
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now at practice, but to play
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keeps eating the fine and making it
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situation for the Philadelphia seventy six ers
where they say, you know what,

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we gotta get rid of this guy. We'll take what we can get because

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he's being a malcontent with us and
is true to his word that he is

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unwilling to play for Daryl Morey.
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thing that can happen sometimes with the
fan base and how much we value Terrance

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versus you know, like the actual
value around the league, and some of

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that is tied up in how he's
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everything like that. I'm not opposed
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I agree with Adam that like it
depends like who are we bidding against?

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Are we just are we just bidding
against ourselves with Darryl Morey? Because

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if so, like if we weren't
comfortable to give that up, then I

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don't see why cave now if it's
an absolute like thing of need. And

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my other thing would be, they
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they gotta take on Morris. They
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have to imagine, yeah, like
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this power forward position. And I
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if I love a first to swap
and Terrence for it makes sense if you

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know Charles and I were talking about
this last night, Adam. I believe

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this is the first training camp full
training camp the Kawhi and PG have ever

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been healthy for. So I see
the want to go all in on this

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one year because this is your last
shot. I guess the question is just

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with three your top three talent,
like all expiring the same year, No

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Terrence, no picks. I'm just
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go all in, like and that
is a calculus, right, Like,

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is James Harden with the Clippers no
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Like that has to be part of
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good enough, then I don't think
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even if that means, you know, even if that means getting bounced in

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the first or second round of the
playoffs this year. And the truth is

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we don't know yet in a seven
game series what could happen with James Harden

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on the Clippers against the Denver Nuggets. But the point is does it get

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them closer? Do you think it
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James Harden in there and to lose
someone like Terrence Man, to lose Marcus

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Morris. Maybe they have to lose
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make the numbers work. I think
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court right now, with James Harden, assuming he's playing thirty five minutes a

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game, he does make the team
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In the postseason, obviously he has
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poor performances. He'd also be the
number three option at best on a healthy

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Clippers team, a role he really
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thunder Days when they made the NBA
Finals back in twenty twelve, and by

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the way, he was instrumental in
getting them there. I know he had

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a stinker of a finals afterwards,
and watch what happened against the San Antonio

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Spurs. I think they were down
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straight and it was James Harden taking
over those games. So I still am

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a believer in him in those moments
with a reduced role. Next to why

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Paul George Russell Westbrook. I just
don't know how the Clippers view Terrence Man

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And that's where the apprehension comes in. How highly do they think of him.

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Can he be somebody that is a
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that's what he could be. I
think he can be a star role player

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on a championship team. That's I
think Terrence Man's ceiling because he fills so

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many of the cracks and the crevices
and finds ways to contribute and is always

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a plus out there. So if
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means you have to get him out
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moments like he did throughout the twenty
twenty one playoffs. I don't know what's

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happened since then, why they lost
faith in him because he was closing out

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games. But for whatever reason,
he's been a little bit devalued at times

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on this Clippers team, and now
he's apparently worth more than Hardner's something like

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that. I like your take about, you know, Harden being the third

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option. There's a very funny tweet
from a guy on Twitter named Paul Headley

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talks about the NBA. He said
Harden's playoff shooting was won't really matter for

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the Clippers if Kawhi PG are healthy. His role is to facilitate and shoot

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when he's open. If they're not
healthy, have all the one for fourteen

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nights you want. My man ain't
doing shit in that scenario anyway, Which

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it's a I mean, it's a
pretty blunt but fairly accurate take, right

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Like, if we're fully healthy with
James Harden, I think, yeah,

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we're a little we're better, we're
closer at getting to the chip. It

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doesn't make us some kind of lock
obviously, but yeah, I don't know.

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Is it wrong though, to have
some apprehension about this this is one

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year? To me, No,
I think that's totally fair. Like if

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we do this trade, like we
will be giving up a first and a

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swap and Terrence Man for one year. We cannot resign all three of these

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guys unless some like in unless everybody
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And you're telling me that three like, all three of these guys are gonna

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be willing to take a pay cut, or we're just gonna be in fucking

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We're gonna be in total caps second
apron. Hell, we can't trade anything,

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and we can't get any exceptions,
and we can't do anything to build

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out the roster with this all three
stars over thirty, Like I don't know.

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Man, that's scary to me because
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Though, what if Joel leaves?
What if they don't get it done

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and he leaves and then their team, Like, it's not like he's gonna

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come back to be on the team
with James Harden because it works so well

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the first time. No, I'm
not telling them that comes to the Clippers.

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Oh, I'm not saying at all. I mean that would be great,

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Yeah, let's do it. But
no, what if Joelle's like,

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oh, this isn't working here.
I would like to leave to go to

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somewhere else. I know, he
just signed a big contract, but like,

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it's not it's not like a guarantee
that the Sixers are gonna be not

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you know, suffering from injuries and
not as good as they should be.

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Like we're talking about two franchises that
are pretty kind of looking in the mirror

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a little bit when it comes to
some health and success correlations there. So

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I don't know. Something think about
and going back to what Will was talking

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about, with all these contracts coming
up at once, and if the Clippers

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can retain all these guys, so
is it worth it? Because man,

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is under contract for two more seasons. It's all worth it. If you

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win a championship. It's a moot
point then do we know? Though there's

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no guarantees, and nobody said going
into last season for sure the Denver Nuggets

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are going to win the Ring.
They weren't even favors the Clippers were.

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So I think it's worth exploring bringing
in James Harden, even if it takes

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Terrence Man. So you're saying to
do it is what it sounds like,

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because I don't think if they don't
value Terrence Man and he's gonna be playing

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twenty minutes a game, do we
think they do? Though? Because oh

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also question that. I think this
ties into do you believe that Terrence has

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a legit starting like like shot at
actually starting power forward for the Clippers?

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I think I think he does.
I think it's a shortened stint. I

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don't think you know he's playing a
bunch of mins to start that it's almost

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like maybe a Gore top start for
the people who remember when Martine would play

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like, you know, six or
seven minutes and just kind of be done

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for a long period of time.
But so like if he's gonna maybe be

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the starter, like it would be
nice to lock that down, you know,

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maybe before the season starts, if
he's the actual starter, but the

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Clippers could be saying that to maybe
drive the value up. It just feels

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kind of messy with Terrence in the
at the four spot right now. I

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would love for him to start.
You've talked about it too, but it's

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not gonna be consistent, it seems. Last night, Coach Lou was asked

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by law Murray, are the three
guys who have been given opportunities with the

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starters during the three preseason games the
ones who are in contention for that fifth

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starting spot? And he hesitated a
little bit and said not necessarily, but

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he emphasized how well all three of
them had played. It seems like one

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of those three is gonna be the
guy, so Terrence is in the mix.

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We were also told that it might
be some sort of four by committee,

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which I just don't really think is
happening either. I could see something

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where there's a rotating fifth guy in
there, depending on matchups, because Coach

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Lou also stressed that, you know, if we got Kawhi and Paul George

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out there, I'm not that worried
about the continuity of the fifth starter.

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As long as those two are playing, we're going to be in good shape.

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And their starters just kind of game
plan of who matches up best,

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and maybe it's Terrence one night,
maybe it's Roco another night, maybe it's

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Nicholas Patum one night. I don't
think that would be that crazy, Like

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it would just upend all the continuity
they have because one guy is rotating at

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a position with the starting five.
As long as Kawhi Paul George are there

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or beats the Zubats Russell Westbrook consistently, I think you're okay. And these

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guys have been together for a little
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Batoum, there isn't a lot of
uh, there is much of a learning

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curve getting used to a new guy
in the starting lineup. I think they'd

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be pretty comfortable next to one another, all right. So you if the

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Clippers value Terrence enough to even consider
starting them, I don't think they're making

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this trade, yeah, because that's
what it sounds like, Yeah, right,

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Like, because if he's on,
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gonna play twenty the same amount of
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in that is a lot different than
coming off the bench. For that him

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starting is the path to getting around
thirty minutes a night. I think it

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has to begin with him being in
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that first stint and he gets one
more stint in the first half, same

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thing in the second half. And
if he gets hot in the first stint,

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Tyle, just keep playing it is
the hot hand guy. Yeah,

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all right, So final tally,
if this is the offer, if this

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is indeed the offer, if you're
the Clippers, are you acquiescing to this

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negotiating? They were on the seventy
six is already have taken down their first

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offer? Uh to this offer?
Will yes or no? You're on the

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phone and the Clippers present the GM
office, feet kicked up on the desk.

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The chillis dub mixed playing if they're
taking Morris and getting and like if

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we keep Roco and they're and they're
taking Morris and like getting some other contract

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money out of there, I mean, I guess let's go for it.

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I had I'm like yes or no. You're in the office, different vibe

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office. Obviously, No, I
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a layer. I guess you know, I'm gonna go with the hard.

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Maybe I'm gonna go with the hard. You have to say it is depended

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on how they view Terrence Man.
It goes back to where I started this.

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We're saying you're the g the GM. You know how you're running the

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cliffs how yeah, How do you
value Terrence Man? Depends on the front

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offices, relationship with the coaching staff
and how that's gonna work out. I

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don't want to Terence Man. How
about that? We got the answer,

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Will does? We got the answer. I'm gonna go. I'm going no,

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firm, no, and I'm starting
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then I'm fired probably a couple months
later. That was a good time.

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We know that Adam maybe wouldn't be
the most committal GM. Well, there's

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a lot of things to sort through, a strands, a lot of what

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have us and whatnot. There we
go, sure, all right, coming

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up, we're talking actual basketball.
We're gonna talk the Clippers home preseason debut.

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in three to one. What's going
on? Everybody? Welcome back to Clips

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and Dip, episode fourteen, season
two. As everyone knows who listens to

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this podcast, the season ends the
night of the next NBA draft. We

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figured Adam and I figured this out
through a bunch of math and stuff like

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that. The Clippers debuted. They
were at Cryptocommarna Downtown. They won against

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some of the Nuggets. Adam,
you look sharp. You wearing a pinstripe

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suit, calling the game like a
professional. I was not wearing this hat

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last night. You're worried about the
half Uh? People think it's a weed

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the space weaver. It looks like
space weed. Uh, Dragons ords.

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What did we like from this game? I mean, PG obviously lit it

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up. Russ's passing was good,
didn't take a bunch of shots like.

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There was some good stuff to take
away, some encouraging things to take away

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from this game. It starts with
Paul George right, twenty three points in

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the first half, and I think
those twenty three points came within about a

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ten minute stretch of him on the
floor because he didn't score in the first

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six minutes he was out there,
so right there was a timeout, and

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I thought the Clippers came out a
little bit sluggish, a little bit like,

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oh, absolutely did they needed to
lock in. That was easily their

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slowest start I think of the preseason
where it looked like they were having some

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slippage on the defensive ends. Coach
lou would put it, They've been so

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good on that end to start off
the first two games consistently for the first

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forty eight minutes, and right away
something was off. I don't know if

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they were taking the Denver Nuggets lately, because no Nikola Jokic, no Jamal

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Murray or Michael jor Aaron Gordon.
Yeah, it was a completely different team.

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It was some guys who will likely
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Nuggets this season, Reggie Jackson and
DeAndre Jordan. Reggie Jackson balled by the

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way he came out and targeted Kawhi
and Paul George. Paul George specifically,

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those two friends were going back and
forth, but Reggie was taking it to

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him at first. There was a
point though, in the second quarter,

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as Paul George started to heat up, where Kawhi and I may note of

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this that follow out of May on
Twitter on X, wait, absolutely,

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what are you about to do?
What I think you're gonna do? I

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don't know, I got this hat
on who knows what I might do?

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All right? What what do you
know I do? All right, light,

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I don't think I'm gonna do what
you think I'm gonna do. What

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I'm gonna do is point out one
little sequence on the defensive end for about

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five seconds where Kawhi said, enough, Reggie, I'm shutting the water off.

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And he looked like twenty sixteen Defensive
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Leonard. I forget which year he
wonted, but his foot speed was unreal

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and I watched him also pregame,
just going through his workouts, did you

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say as opposed to what I saw
last year? It was about five seconds

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before somebody set a screen and got
Reggie or got Kawhi off Reggie Jackson.

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But he locked in. Saw some
clamp city there for a second, but

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most importantly, his movement was different. I don't care. I don't know

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if I saw defense like that all
of last season. And Kawhi has talked

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about one of the reasons that guys
seem to be in great spirits maybe because

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he looks better in training camp,
his agilities back, he's one hundred percent,

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he feels good. And I was
watching him go through his routine pregame,

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and even that was at a faster
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Pre game. I always loved watching
Kawhi and seeing where he's at physically

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because obviously the Clippers championship aspirations are
completely dependent on it. But he looks

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noticeably leaner because this was the first
time I saw him in person. Well

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I saw him in person, you
know, media day, but a little

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bit different out there on the court. Yeah, Kawhi has lost like ten

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pounds compared to where he was moving
a little quicker. Yeah yeah, oh

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yeah, it's noticeable, the lateral
movement and in that sequence against one on

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one Reggie Jackson, it was I
wish I could have pulled the video I

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tried to get on ESPN two where
the game was replayed. They didn't have

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that highlight. It was it was
too short. Well, it's for real

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basketball minds, and you know,
the guys who understand the game on a

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molecular level. Those that level of
defense from Kawhi Leonard. I'm just saying

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this now, I agree to do
at his peak athletically he is still able

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to do, I think, and
that's a big deal. I would agree

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with that. I think in the
playoffs. I don't think in the regular

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season. Pikest spots. Yeah,
you just need you just need four series.

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He's got sixteen games at DP level. I think it's still there.

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I don't. So that's the thing. Yeah, he even if he doesn't

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have sixteen, let's just say he
has eight. Let's say we can have

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that's still very good because the other
parts of it will also come together.

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So Kawhi, you know, hurled
the ball again down the after the whistle,

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which is something that's happened multiple times
this preseason. It's very odd he

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didn't do that very much ur in
the regulars. He'll just huck the ball

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down the court anyway. Paul George
is great. Kwila Good Zoo Bots got

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a lot of early touches, a
lot of run because he missed that game

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in Seattle, or most of the
game in Seattle. Him and rest have

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a nice little thing going. The
chemistry playing building. The chemistry is definitely

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building. Yeah, And we've seen
in the preseason when he's available and going

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to Zoo a little bit more,
which was one of those things we'd see

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in spurts and fits last season.
It's one of those things that just keep

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Zoo engaged. I think I heard
you, Charles yesterday on the radio say,

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at this point, Zoo's hands are
what they are, yes, which

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is all, which is also very
true. And there were some times where

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there were some times where DeAndre Jordan
of all people's kind of given Zoo the

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business. But he was playing hard
against though preseason it's preseason, Yeah,

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Zoo with those three locks and I
think he had two on one play his

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activity level. I'm hoping because they
have Mason Plumbley now because they have a

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better plan going into this season.
We saw how Zubots was defensively to start

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off last year. He was holding
things together for them when for about two

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weeks they were a top five defense. That was all big Zoo to me

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and just being that anchor in that
back line defense because guys were getting through

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on the perimeter. The point of
attack defense wasn't very good. It was

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aviatza Zubots, but it wore them
out. They didn't have a Mason Plumbley

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to relieve him. So I'm hoping
he can sustain that. And he was

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asked about this by Andrew Grivet postgame
throughout the entire regular season. This time,

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Zoo also pointed out, well,
he got hurt later on the year

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and that also had an effect.
It wasn't just tired legs, but afresh

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of eatsa zubots. Remember we were
saying some wild stuff early on the season.

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Can Zoom make first team defense?
Can he be in the defense game?

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Last year he was great? No, I'm just he he really shot

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on the defensive end. He gets
back to that. That's a that goes

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a long way with where the Clippers
want to get defensively, just having Big

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Zoo at that level and then a
mindset from everybody else to say we want

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to be a top five defense.
This year, it looked like he was

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still going a little low on screens. This isn't a critique It's just something

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I noticed, because remember Ty talked
about, you know, Zoo being higher

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on screens and stuff like that.
I wonder if that was just a game

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adjustment thing from Tye or you know, he's maybe still getting used to it.

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Not a knock, just something I
kind of noticed way way up in

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the press box. It's not a
rule. I mean, you know,

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I think it just depends on the
car. It's a rule. Dude.

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He'll make you run if you don't
do it. We know what ty dude,

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Ty is making these guys sprint.
Russell Westbrook by the way looking for

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Zoo and some of the other guys
too, found the tomb in the in

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the corner with a great pass like
that was like speaking of five seconds,

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that is my Adams five seconds.
It was. That was the I think

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Zoo got the board or handed it
to Russ, or Russ got the board

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immediately took it on court, but
Tom was trailing Russ. Ross three defenders,

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gets to the paint, finds the
two in the corner nylon. As

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Carlow would say on five seventy,
that was like, that was great to

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see because that's what we've all.
That's the process that they've been working on,

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and they were horrible on the fast
break last season, so even a

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nice fast break possession or two in
the preseason has me hyped up. Russ

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also had a great transition bucket,
and much has been made of him shooting

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just fifty percent at the rim.
That's extremely low in this league, much

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lower than it used to be for
him, but that's where he's been at

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the last couple of seasons. I'm
still wondering if that can change. And

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I know it's one thing to ask
him to all of a sudden to become

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a league average three point shooter consistently
for eighty two games, something he's never

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really been outside maybe one year one
of his MVP seasons, but as he

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two MVPs or one, he got
the first time around average in the triple

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double. So just one triple double. Fog was the hot term. I

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don't see why unless it's just because
obviously he can still get up, but

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has his rim attack percentage and efficiency
there been down because he doesn't throw it

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down as much on people, is
what it sounds like. Well, if

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it's because he's blowing layups because he's
going so fast last night, that's actually

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a good call. He actually was
a blor. I think it was the

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second quarter and he got the layup
to go and it was like a one

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on three situation or something. It
was Russ versus everyone, and it was

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very smooth, very fluid, and
the coordination was there even though he was

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going Tasmanian devil style, and I
enjoyed seeing it. I'm just wondering,

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can he get that up that percentage
back to where it used to be.

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That would be very helpful, I
think personally, I do like what you

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said about. Yeah, the jumping
is funny because something he's got. He's

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not as crazy as Bones is when
he drives the lane. Bones, when

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he goes into the lane, none
of us have any idea what's happening when

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he tries to shoot the Walter.
I don't think what he does either.

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I was gonna say, does what
did we think of Nico at the starting

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at the four, because obviously Ty
has been doing this thing. They're rotating.

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Where did I mean? I wasn't
overwhelmed. I wasn't underwhelmed. I

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was whelmed, as as the movie
says, I just don't think that's going

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to be the move. And I
don't really see. It's why I don't

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really see like the four completely by
committee. I think there might be one

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or two guys who maybe kind of
cycle in and out. You know,

404
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:45,119
I've talked about a Nico as a
starter. I think that it's best to

405
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,880
just kind of preserve him for later
in the season, get the best out

406
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,799
of him. It doesn't really make
it just doesn't really make sense to me

407
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,880
at this stage of his career.
Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah,

408
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,440
what Will said there about preserving him, He's the last guy I'm worried

409
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,240
about when it comes to staying in
rhythm, or staying in shape or in

410
00:30:03,319 --> 00:30:10,480
game shape. I think if they
were only playing him fifteen minutes a night

411
00:30:10,599 --> 00:30:14,319
the first couple months of the season, and all of a sudden ramp that

412
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,880
up to twenty five or thirty minutes
a night the last month of this year,

413
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,799
I don't think Nicholas Batum would have
a problem with that. Like,

414
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:25,960
I think he would adjust and be
just fine. So if he's the odd

415
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,440
man out to start off the season, some people have speculated that because he's

416
00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:33,720
not somebody that's gonna ruffle any feathers, he's okay with whatever role he has

417
00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:38,519
to play out there even if he
gets DNPS, because they have a glut

418
00:30:38,599 --> 00:30:41,759
of forwards and we don't know who's
gonna be playing there. I don't think

419
00:30:41,759 --> 00:30:45,799
that's a problem. I think Nicholas
Batum is the perfect guy to take a

420
00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:49,240
back seat for a little while and
then bring him out later on, hopefully

421
00:30:49,279 --> 00:30:52,920
with fresher legs. Because he plays
in France every summer. We know this,

422
00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:56,519
and this could be his last season. But I would love it if

423
00:30:56,519 --> 00:31:00,559
he was almost like the secret weapon, like, oh, they still have

424
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,480
Nicholas Batom By the end of the
season, teams are realizing that, yeah,

425
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,319
I could see him, I could
see him closing for sure, Like,

426
00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:10,559
you know, that's something I'd be
very open to. I also just

427
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,599
kind of like the idea of his
passing on the on the second He's a

428
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,640
connector. He's a great connector.
He just kind of threads those things together.

429
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,000
And I think that was my my
one knock or negative on the on

430
00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:26,480
the preseason is like I got a
lot of questions about that second unit and

431
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:32,480
and how that's how that's really gonna
look against an actual NBA defense, And

432
00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:36,160
I'm I love the idea, Like
I love the idea of kJ and Bones

433
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,240
and Terrence and Batomb out there for
norm uh yeah, sorry and norm uh

434
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,519
Well, I mean there's so many
pieces you can kind of bring in it

435
00:31:44,559 --> 00:31:49,400
out. Yeah, but so far
to look at it, I don't feel

436
00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:56,920
I don't feel super confident that that
that that squad is is really treading water

437
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,079
for you. Can I can I
talk about one more thing that I like

438
00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:02,039
before we get into maybe the questionable
stuff. Nope, sorry, we've already

439
00:32:02,079 --> 00:32:05,960
moved on. Damn it. We
talked about a little bit more. But

440
00:32:06,279 --> 00:32:10,240
Terrence Man, great game, very
efficient in the pull up jumpers. Kobe

441
00:32:10,279 --> 00:32:15,519
Brown, hell of a game from
the young man over here. He had

442
00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:20,160
seven points, was at three blocks, a couple of boards, a couple

443
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,279
of assists. Not a bad showing
for Kobe Brown. My favorite play from

444
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:30,119
him was he got lost in the
sauce on the defensive end against Key,

445
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,759
where he was just out of position, missed his assignment, was trying to

446
00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:40,000
play catch up. He gets an
easy bucket next possession down the floor.

447
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:45,359
Kobe Brown goes right at him and
scores, just showing a little bit of

448
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:51,000
that competitiveness. He wanted to get
it back immediately. That was cool.

449
00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:53,240
Along with that block he had with
two hands up. That was good to

450
00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:57,880
see from him. Yeah, I
like him. I don't know if it

451
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,720
was hell of a game, but
if the ground nos or open says it

452
00:33:01,799 --> 00:33:07,359
is winning basketball hell of a game. All right, let's get into some

453
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:12,359
questions that we have. Will you
bring up the bench thing? That's what

454
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,559
I put in what you know kind
of what we didn't like in some of

455
00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:17,680
these show notes, like if normal
bones are starting off cold, that bench

456
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:22,359
unit has kind of a lot to
figure out pretty quickly, and norm can't

457
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,160
really pass, so like if he
doesn't have it going, like what I

458
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,920
mean, how is the bones good? Which is nice? That's been good

459
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,799
at least, Like that's another reason
why I like put Tom out there,

460
00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:36,559
Like you just you gotta have some
more You got to have some more options.

461
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,680
So far, Norman Powell in the
two games he's played in the preseason

462
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:49,920
is two for fourteen. And yeah, but well that's it's bad. It's

463
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:54,000
not good. He has been on
the floor. I swear I saw him

464
00:33:54,039 --> 00:33:59,160
hit the deck like six different times
last night. Yeah, like he's just

465
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:06,640
he does doesn't look to be timing
wise there yet, and he ate notorious

466
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,000
for getting off the slow starts.
We saw it last season. But last

467
00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:15,079
year it was the explanation for it
was he was trying too hard. He

468
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:19,239
wanted to be a starter, he
wants to be an All Star. He's

469
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,960
putting so much pressure on himself and
it worked against him instead of just being

470
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:28,440
who he's been play his role.
Eventually he got there. But I don't

471
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,119
think they can afford to have Norman
Powell get off to a slow start the

472
00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:37,320
schedule. Yeah it's soft at the
beginning, it's favorable, but you still

473
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,239
would like to see him figure that
out coming into this season. And last

474
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,400
night it was just a wonky game
from him. He was getting into it

475
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,480
with the officials, like there was
just no rhythm at all to what we

476
00:34:49,519 --> 00:34:52,760
saw from Norman Powell. And just
stay healthy, good lord, just stay

477
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,119
healthy. Yeah, he's he's had
some bad luck with that, which has

478
00:34:55,119 --> 00:35:00,000
been bad. But yeah, if
they're called the second unit is a little

479
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:05,679
interesting because you have whoever's not the
starting power forward maybe that night gonna be

480
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,360
on that second unit. You have
bones, you gotta fit kJ Martin in,

481
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,119
you have Plumbley probably gonna be out
there. We saw kJ Martin at

482
00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:19,199
the five a lot against the Nuggets. Plumbley didn't play also for those if

483
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:22,119
you're wondering, So I think that
played a part in it, But yeah,

484
00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:24,159
I think it was more by necessity. Yeah, I thought kJ was

485
00:35:24,199 --> 00:35:28,280
okay. I mean he was.
He's gonna crash the boards, which I

486
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,360
love to see. You really see
the difference in how kJ crashes the boards

487
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:35,320
compared to some of the older guys
on the team, So that's nice to

488
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,239
see. I thought he really struggled
in the first half. He air bowled

489
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:43,039
that three pointer. Oh yeah,
offensive rebound, which was good to see,

490
00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:45,639
as you mentioned, crashing the boards, but then he lost the ball,

491
00:35:45,159 --> 00:35:49,079
and then in the second quarter they
tried to get it to him in

492
00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:52,599
transition and he couldn't hold on to
the basketball. But then in the third

493
00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:57,760
he had a really good defensive play
a contested shot, and then on the

494
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,719
other end they rewarded him. He
got into transition and looked like he was

495
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,960
moving with a little bit more purpose, a little bit more aggression out there

496
00:36:05,039 --> 00:36:07,119
saying Okay, I know I didn't
have a great first half. Yeah,

497
00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:12,440
I'm gonna figure this out right the
ship and I thought he was better after

498
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,719
that, But so far, we
really don't know what role he's going to

499
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:21,800
be playing, and maybe that's that
is playing into his indecisiveness out there because

500
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,679
coach Luke kind of he spoke to
that multiple times now that it's not fair

501
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:30,400
to kJ Martin because he's having him
play multiple positions and he's overthinking right now.

502
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,920
Not everyone can handle it. Not
everyone canna handle like Terrence Man,

503
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,800
right, Yeah, this is cot
Terrence Man thing. But yeah, the

504
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,639
second unit probably, I guess my
biggest concern maybe heading into the regular season,

505
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,480
like not we just got about to
figure out. I'm not like this

506
00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:53,000
unit's gonna suck. We just oh
my god. Yeah, And who do

507
00:36:53,039 --> 00:36:58,039
you guys think of the three candidates
we believe are in the mix to get

508
00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:01,920
that fifth starting spot with Man,
with Roco and Batum, who do you

509
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,639
think fits best in the second unit? Because that could play in the decision

510
00:37:06,679 --> 00:37:10,079
a little bit. So we got
a question about that from uh from Militant

511
00:37:10,079 --> 00:37:14,480
Mind four. He said, what
are your thoughts on Tye saying Roco Mannico

512
00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:21,280
do all the same thing at the
four? I like, depending what maybe

513
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,400
his legs look like in the in
the fourth preseason game, how much mints

514
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:28,480
he gives. I like Roco out
there with the young guys, because Roko

515
00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:32,239
is a disruptor who causes turnovers,
and you thrive and if you can convert

516
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,119
and transition off turnovers is usually what
happens. When there's a turnover, you're

517
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,800
gonna do pretty well. And that's
something the Clippers have focus on. But

518
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:45,519
tomb does a similar thing, for
sure. But I think Roko probably has

519
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:50,440
maybe some motivation to say, I
am still very good at basketball and doing

520
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,679
what I was supposed to do because
how weird last year was. So I

521
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:57,400
think i'd vote Roco. You want
going to be a starter on the bench.

522
00:37:57,599 --> 00:38:02,920
On the bench. I get what
you're saying, though, So oh,

523
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:07,239
Terrence, let's do Terrence. Okay, a little more youth out there,

524
00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:12,280
not a bunch. We know he's
twenty seven, but but I did.

525
00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:15,079
Look, that's a hypothetical. I'm
in my office. I'm in my

526
00:38:15,199 --> 00:38:20,440
underwater office in that scenario. I
like that thought process. Though. Get

527
00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:23,719
him in transition, and that's because
of Roco getting turnovers, and he had

528
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,079
one in the fourth quarter. I
think he'll last night. You know,

529
00:38:27,159 --> 00:38:30,360
he'll get up there. Yeah,
he can finish on the other end,

530
00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:35,800
he just can't create for himself.
He doesn't have the handle. Put so

531
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,800
many guys on that second unit do
right, Yeah, you can kind of

532
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:44,280
insulate those weaknesses and not have to
worry about it too much. I mean,

533
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,199
all three of them work well with
the second unit. I like Batoomb

534
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:52,639
also just the veteran presence and getting
guys to their spots. I feel like

535
00:38:52,519 --> 00:38:58,639
he can be one of the leaders
with the defensive unit with the young guys,

536
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:02,920
just making sure they're handling their assignments
and where they're supposed to be with

537
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,119
the second unit. But all those
guys can kind of fit in. They're

538
00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:12,000
all pretty versatile, whether they're starting
or coming off the bench. Will what

539
00:39:12,039 --> 00:39:14,039
do you think out of those three, who would be the best with the

540
00:39:14,039 --> 00:39:20,679
bench unit. I like Bazoom with
the bench. I like with the bench

541
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,400
I think he like makes a lot
of stuff. He just is the glue

542
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:30,599
that makes a lot of stuff stick
together. And I feel like, I

543
00:39:30,599 --> 00:39:36,960
don't know, like I I like
the idea of Robert comingson, I guess

544
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,239
in the starting unit, like,
but I mean we've seen some stuff that's

545
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:44,400
less than encouraging. Yeah, he
had a great debut though, that first

546
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:51,880
game where he started he crushed.
Yeah, so I feel like maybe I

547
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:57,039
don't know, I guess, I
like, I guess I kind of like

548
00:39:57,119 --> 00:40:09,519
the idea of uh Rocos starting.
It doesn't seem like some trepidation. I

549
00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:14,360
like the idea, but with the
caveat that, like, he's probably in

550
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,000
my mind, he's one of the
first subs. If it's not going well,

551
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:21,400
okay, yeah, okay, that's
fair, and then Man comes in

552
00:40:21,519 --> 00:40:23,159
you get a little bit of a
different look. Then yes, yeah,

553
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:27,400
absolutely, I would like But yeah, if Man isn't in the starting lineup,

554
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,039
I would like him to be.
Yeah, like I would like him

555
00:40:30,039 --> 00:40:37,679
to kind of be the sixth man. I also am Locos starting because I

556
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:42,400
think it can just disrupt an offense
to the point that it could throw him

557
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,280
out of rhythm to start off a
ballgame, and sometimes that you know,

558
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,880
bleeds into the next quarter or a
team just getting off to a slow starter

559
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,519
feeling like, Okay, it's not
going to be our night. These guys

560
00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:58,000
are everywhere, they have all this
length, they're actually using wing stop offensively.

561
00:40:58,119 --> 00:41:02,719
Maybe they take a slight step back
with Roco starting as opposed to Terrence

562
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:08,239
Man, but he's the fifth option
right on that lineup. Offensively, Oh

563
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:13,480
sure, yeah, I'm just saying
there's less of a threat there for someone

564
00:41:13,519 --> 00:41:16,440
creating their own shot. Terrence Man
I think can really do that. But

565
00:41:17,519 --> 00:41:22,039
I still think, Okay, what
do you need tonight? Do you need

566
00:41:22,079 --> 00:41:25,480
someone to slow down the point of
attack. Are you going up against John

567
00:41:25,519 --> 00:41:30,000
Morant, then maybe I want Terrence
Mann. If you're going up against the

568
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,159
Phoenix Suns, then maybe I want
Roco, you know, to go after

569
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,440
KD or to go after Booker a
little bit or be all. I think

570
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:43,199
it could be matchup dependant whether or
not Roco or Terrence Man is in the

571
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:46,440
starting lineup. It's interesting. I
wouldn't mind seeing it. We have one

572
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,719
more thing that I'm gonna go on
the record and say I was not a

573
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,519
fan of, maybe because of the
surprise, but the Chick Herd media room

574
00:41:53,599 --> 00:42:00,440
has been remodeled in cryptocomarena and who
I'll tell you what it. It's different.

575
00:42:01,679 --> 00:42:07,760
It's different. There's also a cage. It's a non commital different.

576
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:15,559
It's shitty. How is that?
Okay, it's half the size anyway.

577
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:21,039
Someone also pointed out all the TVs. The buffet was underneath where all the

578
00:42:21,079 --> 00:42:23,960
TVs were. So this guy was
like, so everyone who's watching TV is

579
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:30,159
also watching in the buffet line,
which you don't You don't ever like to

580
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:35,760
do that. Yeah, fair criticism. I didn't go down there yet.

581
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,039
I try to stay away from there
because I'll end up, you know,

582
00:42:38,119 --> 00:42:42,840
going to the yogurt machine or grab
that's still there. Ice cream is still

583
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,480
there, uncrustables. I don't need
that in my life. There's a lot

584
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:51,239
of good stuff down there, the
nachos, the hot dogs. I tried

585
00:42:52,039 --> 00:42:59,519
most of those things you mentioned yesterday. Oh oh wow, body shaving on

586
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:05,079
the pot now this guy? All
right. We got a couple of mailbag

587
00:43:05,159 --> 00:43:07,840
questions. One's going to be very
quick to answer. One's gonna be a

588
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:13,039
little longer. I think, uh
Optimus prime rib asked us strange how everyone

589
00:43:13,079 --> 00:43:16,000
pegged last year's team is a title
contender but not this year despite it being

590
00:43:16,039 --> 00:43:20,119
a better roster. I would also
had health in there. Did we initially

591
00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:22,400
overrate last year's team or is it
still a contender on paper? But we

592
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:30,960
worry about health and coaching malpractice again, So I think last year is really

593
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,239
Last year is just kind of really
interesting because we were just thinking about like

594
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,599
what could be or what was.
But that's all you can do, right,

595
00:43:39,679 --> 00:43:44,280
Like, when you haven't seen a
team together at full strength and more

596
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:49,039
than a season, you can only
assume that you know, you'd be similar

597
00:43:49,079 --> 00:43:54,239
of you'd you'd be capable of achieving
like some sort of similar ends. And

598
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,039
you know, I think we were
all really high on the depth. I

599
00:43:58,039 --> 00:44:01,199
think we all kind of you know, collectively thought if healthy like that,

600
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,639
you know, this is the team, like this is one of the better

601
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:12,719
sort of assemblies of talent that we've
had. And I think I think there's

602
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,480
a couple of things at play that's
that's changed our minds with that, and

603
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:21,679
that is how old the team is
things right, it's another years. Things

604
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,239
change very fast, you know,
Like two years when your team is like

605
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:29,400
twenty six is a lot different than
two years when your team is thirty two.

606
00:44:30,079 --> 00:44:34,280
It's a lot different. And so
I don't think that it was like

607
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:40,320
I still know that it was wrong
to overrate them, and I don't even

608
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:44,960
know that it was overrated because who
knows, And that so far is the

609
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,639
thing like with the Clippers, right
other than the bubble season is like who

610
00:44:49,679 --> 00:44:53,559
knows, Like who knows what could
have happened if it's all together, I

611
00:44:53,599 --> 00:44:57,719
do they're still a contender. Sorry, go ahead, No, I was

612
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:05,239
just gonna say, I do think
they probably weren't as optimized as we would

613
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,559
have liked to have seen guys being
used last season. Sure, but the

614
00:45:08,679 --> 00:45:14,000
roster I think was more flawed than
we thought going into the year. Going

615
00:45:14,039 --> 00:45:16,599
into the season, I think we're
all on board like this is the roster.

616
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,760
They have the guys, they have
these guards, and each of them

617
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,880
have unique abilities and they can figure
it out that never happens. They were

618
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:30,800
trying to figure out with all of
them on the court at once. Not

619
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,639
leaning into Terrence Man as much,
not leaning into Roco at all, really

620
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:42,199
hurt that team. It was just
a difficult year and it was on all

621
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:49,800
levels of the coaching staff. Yeah, TYLERU. You know, with seven

622
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,239
deaths in his family or whatever.
It was just unbelievable tragedies going on.

623
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:59,679
And he's talked about it. He
talked about it media Day's talked about it

624
00:45:59,679 --> 00:46:05,440
in training camp, kind of apologized
to Roco for not using him as much,

625
00:46:05,519 --> 00:46:10,519
basically, and last night he said
something interesting they were talking to him

626
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:15,079
about, you know, you like
to have set lineups and you like to

627
00:46:15,079 --> 00:46:19,320
see how something goes for ten to
fifteen games, and he said, well,

628
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,599
I don't know if he said change, but he definitely said I've evolved.

629
00:46:23,159 --> 00:46:29,320
I've evolved. He said it twice
last night in the postgame presser.

630
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,639
So as a young coach, you
would expect some of that. It doesn't

631
00:46:32,639 --> 00:46:39,360
always happen, but he is making
that statement and making a vocal that he

632
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:44,159
could be a different coach and what
we thought Coach Lou was, or if

633
00:46:44,199 --> 00:46:45,639
we thought we had a beat on
the type of coach he is, that

634
00:46:45,679 --> 00:46:51,280
could change the way he goes about
things. I hope. So that would

635
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:53,880
be great if it changed for the
better. I don't really see how it

636
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:59,239
could get worse in the mean way. I just don't think Tyler's I think

637
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,079
Tyler maybe had his hardest year,
as Will. You pointed out last year

638
00:47:01,119 --> 00:47:04,719
too that it was probably going to
be Tyler's hardest year of coaching, and

639
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,559
I think you were call you were
correct about that. That's only fair too.

640
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:15,280
I I think it's obviously the worry
about health is there, which I

641
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:19,280
think is the heaviest part of this
question. You know, like that's the

642
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,760
hell, No, I agree with
that, but like that's what's like if

643
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,480
you put that in the question,
it's like, we got everyone's concerned about

644
00:47:25,519 --> 00:47:31,599
health, so that supersedes kind of
everyone's like paranoia about the title with another

645
00:47:31,679 --> 00:47:37,960
year on the legs and everything like
that. So I mean, I don't

646
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,199
know, We're still a contender.
We get a little closer if we do

647
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,239
the hard and trade Will's not concerned
about health. So yeah, that's fair.

648
00:47:46,599 --> 00:47:51,679
It's a good question because it's interesting. You should revisit it that we

649
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,880
all think this roster is definitely better
than last season. And that was a

650
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,800
roster we said was a championship contender
and they said was one of, if

651
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:06,280
not the favorite, And now everyone's
down on the Clippers because of health concerns

652
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,320
and just the track record of guys
getting banged up and guys getting hurt over

653
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:15,199
and over again. Even yes,
health is and I mean and just the

654
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:16,599
way the West has changed too,
I mean, like it, you know,

655
00:48:16,679 --> 00:48:21,239
the hierarchy of the West looks different
than it did win that, you

656
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,119
know, than it did even last
season. And what you said about things

657
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:30,599
changed quickly in the NBA. My
mind immediately went to, Yeah, who

658
00:48:30,679 --> 00:48:35,480
was the last team to win two
straight championships. It was the Golden State

659
00:48:35,519 --> 00:48:37,880
Warriors. So we're talking about twenty
eighteen, five years ago. Yeah,

660
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:45,519
it'll be six and twenty twenty four, so like a team constructed when Yeah,

661
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,880
people always say when when a team
wins, you go, okay,

662
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,280
can they be a dynasty? How
many can they win? Now? And

663
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:58,639
you get ahead of yourself going down
that road, and you ignore how lucky

664
00:48:58,679 --> 00:49:04,239
and how fortunate that team was throughout
the season, throughout the playoffs to eventually

665
00:49:04,599 --> 00:49:07,760
become champions. Yeah. I hope
that the Clippers have to answer the question

666
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:12,920
when you're gonna win more? Hopefully
that happens this season. Last question,

667
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,880
whiskey Jack asks, do you guys
play fantasy basketball? If so, how

668
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,440
are your teams looking? I'll kick
this one over to Adam, our fantasy

669
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,440
basketball expert. How's your team looking? I play Fantasy Power Rangers right now

670
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:30,119
on my team, I got gold
Bar with Green, I was able to

671
00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:35,800
get lord Z off the waiver wire, Rita Rapulsa is coming off my bench,

672
00:49:37,159 --> 00:49:39,719
and I got Billy the Blue Ranger, and is Tri Serratops too.

673
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:44,079
No, I don't haven't played.
You don't play fantasy. I used to

674
00:49:44,119 --> 00:49:49,000
play fantasy back in the day.
Now it was just I do love the

675
00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:53,800
system in the NBA, the head
to head the category. Yeah, you

676
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:58,599
play someone over an entire week,
win take categories. So it's not all

677
00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:01,360
or nothing like it typically in football. In that system where you're either one

678
00:50:01,519 --> 00:50:06,119
oh or zero to one, you
could be six and four. You could

679
00:50:06,119 --> 00:50:09,119
win that week seven to three.
You're going to win some categories. So

680
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:15,480
I think it's it's it's it's a
better system. But there's so many games

681
00:50:15,519 --> 00:50:17,920
too. MLB baseball fans the same
way. With so many games, it's

682
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:22,840
like, yeah, will you're do
you do fantasy basketball? I can barely

683
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,880
be bothered to set my fantasy football
line up one time for a week,

684
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:30,559
so I I do not. I
do not. I don't do it because

685
00:50:30,559 --> 00:50:35,559
I don't want to pay attention to
other teams. I only watched the Clipper

686
00:50:35,599 --> 00:50:37,960
you know what I mean, Like, I watched eighty two Clippers games.

687
00:50:37,039 --> 00:50:40,039
Yeah, it's I mean it's also
a little bit Yeah, it's it's a

688
00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:44,159
little bit tough. I don't care
about the Eastern Conference not, you know

689
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:46,760
what I mean, Like, and
I don't need to follow it my immediate

690
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,800
periods going on in Philly. We
didn't do a whole segment on that.

691
00:50:52,599 --> 00:50:57,599
I'm talking about on the court.
Thank you for the questions. Didn't get

692
00:50:57,599 --> 00:51:00,159
a bunch this week, but hey, it's the preseason and everyone's bite their

693
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,360
nails about James Harden. Coming up, we are going to talk Clippers marketing,

694
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,039
which is something that I want to
talk about. This is the only

695
00:51:07,079 --> 00:51:10,639
time I'm probably going to talk about
it this season. I make the breakdowns,

696
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:15,119
so I put this in there this
week. Uh, ads are coming

697
00:51:15,199 --> 00:51:16,039
up. We got to keep the
lights on and if they'd been loud for

698
00:51:16,039 --> 00:51:19,320
you, go ahead and turn it
down. But AD's coming up in three

699
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:24,840
two one. Welcome back in Clips
and Dip episode fourteen of season two.

700
00:51:25,159 --> 00:51:30,400
Last night, if you missed it, Charles Mockler came on postgame with me

701
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:35,199
on AM five seventy do a little
bit of a Clippers talk or Clippers locker

702
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,000
room. Charles did a great job. I gotta say, I'm kidding you

703
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:42,599
guys. You guys were doing some
locker room talk. We were not doing

704
00:51:42,639 --> 00:51:49,760
that. No, no, no
again on court on court. But uh,

705
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,599
here's some interesting I'm looking at this
rundown right now. Here are some

706
00:51:53,760 --> 00:52:00,000
interesting questions guys, like why is
the Clipper why is the Clipper organization going

707
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:05,599
back to give no quarter. Uh. Now is it just being used in

708
00:52:05,639 --> 00:52:08,239
the preseason. Could they have a
different slogan once the regular season stars?

709
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:12,239
Why can't they? I don't think. I just don't think they do.

710
00:52:12,519 --> 00:52:17,599
The stadiums set up forgive no quarter, everything is up. If they change

711
00:52:17,599 --> 00:52:20,639
it, that would be great.
But I also think there's a new arena

712
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,559
opening next year, so part of
the reason we're getting it, which is

713
00:52:22,599 --> 00:52:27,760
not a bad reason. The slogan
is bad, but why we're getting it

714
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,239
is not bad. There's a whole
new thing coming next year. I would

715
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:37,000
hope and assume. But that's why
they're doing it. Should they have changed

716
00:52:37,039 --> 00:52:39,079
it? They set out a survey. I'm glad they didn't change it to

717
00:52:39,159 --> 00:52:45,559
something like one of a kind and
we've got three. Uh. But it's

718
00:52:45,639 --> 00:52:50,280
such a bad slogan. It gets
roasted all the time. How do you

719
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,840
interpret it, though, Chuck,
maybe you're misinterpreting things I interpret it.

720
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,400
Doesn't matter. Everyone interprets it as, oh, well, you lost a

721
00:52:58,519 --> 00:53:02,519
quarter, so your slogan is stupid. That's what people think because you can

722
00:53:02,599 --> 00:53:07,760
quantifiably say they lose quarters. They
lose a lot of quarters, and last

723
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:14,840
year was not a fun year with
this thing. So that is back for

724
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,679
this year. If you were wondering
if they were using the same slogan as

725
00:53:16,679 --> 00:53:22,639
of six thirty one pm on October
eighteenth, give no quarter is up in

726
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:28,639
the arena, and I don't think
it gets changed by next Wednesday. I

727
00:53:28,679 --> 00:53:31,280
think this year they're given no quarter, though I would love that if if

728
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:37,480
the Clippers win every quarter, I
will give every listener of this podcast six

729
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,760
six, yeah, a quarter.
I'll give everyone who listens to this podcast

730
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:46,840
a quarter if the Clippers don't lose. Should we start a show quarter jar

731
00:53:47,039 --> 00:53:50,800
this year? Oh? Yeah,
what do we got to put a quarter

732
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,599
in for? Every time the Clippers
win a quarter? We'll put a quarter

733
00:53:52,639 --> 00:53:55,280
in the jar. That's not a
bad idea. Well, yeah, then

734
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,760
let's spend but let's spend the money
on ourselves the quarter. Yeah, we'll

735
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:01,079
fit. We'll figure out how to
spend it. Maybe we'll maybe we'll take

736
00:54:01,119 --> 00:54:05,400
some input from uh, from the
folks out there. All right, hold,

737
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,639
let me let me write this down. We have so many good ideas

738
00:54:07,679 --> 00:54:09,320
we never write them down. I
mean, you guys can save up and

739
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:15,719
buy a hat like this. That's
that what that hat wasn't free? Yeah,

740
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:21,119
I thought that was a giveaway got
after shipping. I think you got

741
00:54:21,119 --> 00:54:25,639
it. Ship you can in LA
all right. The other thing marketing wise,

742
00:54:27,199 --> 00:54:30,119
which we haven't I've been obsessed with
this way too much. The City

743
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:36,440
edition jerseys have supposedly leaked. We
don't know if this is the official city

744
00:54:36,559 --> 00:54:44,800
edition jersey. That being said,
if the brown move Over City Edition jerseys

745
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:46,719
are on checks Mount oh I way, we're worried about this. That being

746
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:51,039
said, if these are not the
City Edition jerseys, this is one of

747
00:54:51,119 --> 00:54:55,719
the most high concept fake jerseys of
all time. Uh, if you've seen

748
00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:00,760
the photo we got. We got
a question from Adam Still about this shout

749
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,840
out stilly. He said, is
this city Jersey league for real? If

750
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,280
so, how we feel? And
would it helped it add a little in

751
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,920
dip right above the number, So
it was absolutely it absolutely would. The

752
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:15,719
jersey is a dark kind of navy
blue, some say reminiscent of the Wizard's

753
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:20,119
jerseys back in the day. It
says CLIPS with a basketball for the eye

754
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,159
white lettering. Some people may have
seen the shorts that say LA. They

755
00:55:24,199 --> 00:55:30,960
also have two basketballs in the a
nothing again, nothing officially announced, yet

756
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:37,840
seemingly it had some design input or
was designed by an artist named Jonas Wood.

757
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:42,119
He's a contemporary artist from Boston.
He's located here in LA. He

758
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:46,119
has season tickets to the Clippers,
so he is on some level a fan

759
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:53,239
of the Los Angeles Clippers. He
has described his work as with one foot

760
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:59,119
and modernist cool and the other in
vibrant pop art. His artwork is very

761
00:55:59,159 --> 00:56:01,599
cool. I like it. It
kind of yeah, like pop arty,

762
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:07,920
very cool art for an art setting. I absolutely love what Jonas Would does.

763
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:15,000
This inspiration seems to be from his
clippings series if if you're following here

764
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:21,079
where he makes like the he has
art that looks like pressed flowers, which

765
00:56:21,119 --> 00:56:24,519
is why on the tag you'll see
the blue and white flower and everything like

766
00:56:24,559 --> 00:56:31,199
that with the basketballs above the tag. So I'm let's call it eighty five

767
00:56:31,199 --> 00:56:35,480
percent sure Jonas Would had this design
input. Again, if this is a

768
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,960
fake jersey, kudos to whoever made
this fake jersey. Yeah, details are

769
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:46,199
pretty details real, but that means
said. Fan reaction has been mixed,

770
00:56:47,199 --> 00:56:52,079
to say the best, the Knox
being people think it looks like the Wizard's

771
00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:55,239
jersey, mostly because I think they're
just using a basketball above the eye,

772
00:56:55,280 --> 00:57:00,519
which is exactly what the Wizards did. We'll kind of the use like a

773
00:57:00,559 --> 00:57:05,599
half basketball and it's the same kind
of color blue. So people, and

774
00:57:05,679 --> 00:57:08,400
he doesn't say Clippers things like that. Where are we at? Also,

775
00:57:08,639 --> 00:57:13,519
I'm assuming you both have seen this? I did did I was just trying

776
00:57:13,519 --> 00:57:17,280
to screenshare. Did that work or
now it did not work? I think?

777
00:57:17,159 --> 00:57:21,440
Okay, let us know. Let
us know on YouTube dot com slash

778
00:57:21,519 --> 00:57:27,599
at Clippers podcast if it worked I
need it will wear you out on these

779
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,920
let me see again. No details
have been released yet. Uh so this

780
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:37,440
is all like me using the sound
from my phone and being lamb basted for

781
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:45,519
so I'm bastard. Yeah, but
this no, this has real research.

782
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:49,320
This. I've spent countless hours when
I should be working figuring this thing out.

783
00:57:50,639 --> 00:57:52,119
But where are we out? Of
the design? What do you think

784
00:57:52,159 --> 00:57:54,679
of the design? Like, disregard
what the fans thing? Do you like

785
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:59,519
it? I think it's decent.
I don't like it as much as the

786
00:57:59,599 --> 00:58:05,880
light San Diego throwbacks we saw what
two seasons ago. Now, I love

787
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:12,519
those. I mean this is my
list. I'm a big fan of the

788
00:58:12,559 --> 00:58:16,639
San Andreas white and black jerseys and
if those were their official home and away

789
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:22,960
jerseys. I would be all for
it. These are and these are not

790
00:58:23,199 --> 00:58:30,599
the favorite. They're not something I
can see how a fan who maybe isn't

791
00:58:30,599 --> 00:58:34,519
super into the Clippers would like these
jerseys. That's not a knock on fans,

792
00:58:34,639 --> 00:58:37,400
you know that are maybe not super
into the Clippers like because it's it's

793
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,199
got a nineties cut to it.
It's got a nineties look to the designer,

794
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:44,960
what does it have to do with
the Clippers that that's my next point.

795
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,119
Because the jerseys last year, the
city edition jerseys last year were some

796
00:58:49,159 --> 00:58:55,960
of the coolest city edition jerseys any
team has ever done. Then there,

797
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,079
God, is that the Drew League
jerseys. You guys are gonna look real

798
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:07,320
stupid. The Drew League jerseys that
the Clippers had last year were some of

799
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:13,559
the coolest, most locally focused,
you know solid. They were great,

800
00:59:13,679 --> 00:59:15,760
The message was awesome. It was
a whole collab with the Drew League,

801
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:19,599
which is such a big part of
basketball culture in Southern and Southern California basketball

802
00:59:19,599 --> 00:59:22,840
culture as well. That multi color
lettering, right yeah, with the mosaic

803
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:30,440
like from the Watts Towers. These
I'm I'm saving my full judgment until I

804
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:36,920
see the backstory until shorts about the
shorts change everything. I do not like

805
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,639
the shorts. Uh, the shorts
are out to the shorts are out.

806
00:59:39,719 --> 00:59:44,519
The shorts leaked first, and then
the jersey leaked a couple of days ago,

807
00:59:45,119 --> 00:59:47,239
and my life has never been the
same and we still don't know.

808
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:52,280
No, absolutely, it's a caveat. I'm saying, if these are real

809
00:59:53,199 --> 00:59:57,800
with what AI can do nowadays,
I mean, I've seen some wild stuff.

810
00:59:58,079 --> 01:00:02,599
All right, let's do this.
Let's I think you guys made these?

811
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,280
What do you think AI? What
do you think AI is? It's

812
01:00:07,639 --> 01:00:13,440
a movie with Haley Joel Osmond.
It's an underrated Spielberg flick. It's a

813
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:19,280
pretty good movie. But anyway,
I'm gonna be I'm waiting for the story

814
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,559
to really hold off any firm judgments, just because last year's were so good.

815
01:00:23,039 --> 01:00:29,039
What type of story would it take? A really good one? A

816
01:00:29,079 --> 01:00:31,079
really really good one, is all
I'll say, because I have no idea.

817
01:00:32,079 --> 01:00:37,400
Some touching, heartfelt story about these
jerseys, not a touching story.

818
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:42,639
I'm also interested to see what the
secondary stuff is, like the hoodies and

819
01:00:42,679 --> 01:00:45,440
the T shirts and stuff like that, because I'm assuming gonna be kind of

820
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:50,360
a whole line. I'm kind of
interested just just by the fact it says

821
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:55,360
clips just that that does speak my
interest a little bit. That's different,

822
01:00:57,199 --> 01:01:01,840
that's fun, and I would love
it if somebody photoshopped or used AI to

823
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:06,559
put in dis won't use a on
one of those and send it to us

824
01:01:06,599 --> 01:01:10,679
at Clippers Pod. It is a
little there's a little bit of funness to

825
01:01:10,719 --> 01:01:15,679
it. The basketballs on the tag
are multi colored. Also check out Jonah

826
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:20,280
check out Jonas Wood's art. His
art is very cool. He's a very

827
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:23,840
successful artist. But his basketball stuff
is cool and things like that. But

828
01:01:24,519 --> 01:01:29,360
yeah, Clipper's marketing not taking a
big swing with the slogan, I would

829
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,000
say, took a very big swing
with the jerseys, which I do respect.

830
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:36,760
They're trying some weird shit or Nike
just did this on their own.

831
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:40,559
I don't know. But so you
work in this field, hence the heavy

832
01:01:40,639 --> 01:01:45,280
interest in this. Sure, yeah, let's chalk it up to that.

833
01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:49,800
Well, I'm just wondering, Chuck, I mean, where's your jersey?

834
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:54,199
We're show us something, give some
ideas. Where's your montra? Like,

835
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:59,639
I'm not a graphic designer. Also, the best city edition jerseys concept are

836
01:01:59,639 --> 01:02:04,760
by Eric Wie the in and out
concept, oh, which KTLA also talked

837
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,760
about. Uh No, my slogan
would be, uh, here's a couple

838
01:02:07,719 --> 01:02:10,960
of quarters, We're gonna take most
of them. It's really long, but

839
01:02:12,039 --> 01:02:19,920
it's logical. La. Our way
is not bad. That's not a bad

840
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,440
slogan. That's a solid team slogan. It's unique to the Clippers. Street

841
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:31,119
lights over spotlights that great in theory, backfired, but great in theory.

842
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:36,559
It's not like they've been horrible.
Give no quarters, just particularly a low

843
01:02:36,599 --> 01:02:42,559
point. I think in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen it was it takes everything.

844
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:45,760
I don't mind that. It's not
bad. That's the thing. You

845
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,360
know, it's generic. You can't
factually. Isn't it just all hands on

846
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:58,280
deck? Come on't we just have
one thing Clippers related thing when guys are

847
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:05,880
missing during the year logos scurvy,
he got that's what happened from the the

848
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,760
Clippers ship. All right, anything
else you want to talk about, Adam,

849
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:10,960
you want to throw some more shots
of people's weight or anything like that

850
01:03:12,039 --> 01:03:15,480
before we get out of here.
The Clippers play your sarcasm because of how

851
01:03:15,599 --> 01:03:21,320
spelt you are. The Clippers play
tomorrow Thursday, Adam, you're gonna be

852
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,199
in the building, right, are
you guys coming again? I will not

853
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:28,199
be there. I'm exhausted. I
will be watching on TV, but I

854
01:03:28,239 --> 01:03:32,159
am very tired. Oh Thursday,
Yeah, that's it. That's that's tomorrow.

855
01:03:32,679 --> 01:03:37,320
Yeah. I don't think I'm gonna
be there. I had a real

856
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:44,840
excuse. I'm tired. Will post
game yeah, oh yeah for sure.

857
01:03:45,079 --> 01:03:47,840
Okay, man, we we just
have Clippers fans covered everywhere, radio,

858
01:03:49,119 --> 01:03:54,679
YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, all
those places. Said we're everyone's favorite podcast

859
01:03:54,719 --> 01:03:58,239
for the Clippers. Yes, he
said it twice, which was awesome.

860
01:03:58,519 --> 01:04:02,480
Wow, favorite Clippers pot caster's favorite
Clippers podcast. Yeah, exactly. So

861
01:04:02,639 --> 01:04:06,320
this episode we said we're getting the
quarter jar and someone needs a photoshop of

862
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:11,320
clips and dip City edition Jersey.
We would love that. Your assignments,

863
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,639
those are your assignments. I get
well one of them is ours. But

864
01:04:14,719 --> 01:04:17,159
yeah, we'll be back next Wednesday, Adam, will got you covered over

865
01:04:17,199 --> 01:04:20,639
on AM five seventy. Basketball is
back next Wednesday. We'll probably do a

866
01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:26,440
preview episode before that Clipper season is
here. It's basically here, Adam,

867
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,719
as we do every episode, and
you seemingly don't really like doing it.

868
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,079
Would you like to send the listeners
off with something positive to think about.

869
01:04:33,039 --> 01:04:38,679
We had Carlo Jimenez on the last
big YouTube show here, great job.

870
01:04:38,719 --> 01:04:43,679
I would highly recommend checking him out
on AM five seventy. He's doing a

871
01:04:43,719 --> 01:04:48,679
fantastic job. He's out there weaving
in you know Terrence Man's sketcher sneakers,

872
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:53,239
now you can't wait to get a
pair of those. Like he goes deep

873
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:59,079
with it on the broadcast. He
is entrenched with the Clippers. He has

874
01:04:59,159 --> 01:05:01,079
a ton of knowledge on the game
and it's a great call. So I

875
01:05:01,199 --> 01:05:05,199
just I want people to check out
Carlo Jimenez and check out the podcast we

876
01:05:05,239 --> 01:05:09,159
do with them last week to find
out more about your new radio broadcaster.

877
01:05:09,599 --> 01:05:13,920
Yeah, first home game last night, So congrats to Carlo too. Congrats

878
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:15,559
to Carlo. Better suit than Adam
Just for the record, Servan knows.

879
01:05:16,079 --> 01:05:25,000
But that about wraps everything up for
us. Uh, this guy so get

880
01:05:25,199 --> 01:05:28,599
you put the green Power Ranger on
some people on the the hat on them

881
01:05:28,599 --> 01:05:30,960
and they don't know how to the
powers too much. We'll be back.

882
01:05:31,559 --> 01:05:36,119
Didn't he have a homytail? You
have a ponytail right now, Tommy the

883
01:05:36,119 --> 01:05:41,400
Green Ranger he didtail. We gotta
get out of here. We also killed

884
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:46,039
himself last year and it was sad. Jesus come on, that helped.

885
01:05:46,119 --> 01:05:49,159
Why do you think I got the
hat? You guys want to make fun

886
01:05:49,159 --> 01:05:53,880
of this? You ok, you
didn't tell us that will be back.

887
01:05:55,599 --> 01:05:58,480
It's not coming out. We'll be
back. That it happened. I just

888
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,679
didn't think we were going to talk
on on them. I guess we will

889
01:06:00,679 --> 01:06:05,599
be back next week with a game
preview for you Clippers their home opener.

890
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:09,840
So excited it's again. It's Portland, which we we could have had Scoot

891
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,960
who knows anyway, As always,
let's go Clips