Hey, what's going on with people? Clipper fans? Is me like bird
of the posting triumvirant here at clips and Dick. But we're coming at you
after a disappointing end to the Clipper season, to be sure, to be
sure. But hey, just because the Clippers are done doesn't mean we're done.
Baby. We're still bringing you that sweet, sweet Clippers content. We're
gonna talk a little bit. So the official injury designation was released today for
Kawhi Leonard. We're gonna talk a little bit about that. We're gonna talk
about the series as a whole um and also a little bit about our dearly
departed brother, Noah Eagle, not dearly departed very much. Still pour one
out, Pour one out for the big dog, all you little birds out
there, all right. We're also gonna talk a little bit about some playoff
grades. We're gonna we're gonna be doing this sort of as a rolling thing.
I think we'll go back and revit the regular season, but first we're
gonna talk playoffs. We're gonna be talking to taylu We're gonna talking to Russell
Westbrook. So all that and more. But hey, I'm babbyled On for
long Eno. You get the idea what the show is about, but now
you get to meet the other host and get the field. Baby. I'm
joined by Charles Mockler and Adam Oslin. Adam for people who aren't viewing on
the video, he has changed his name to say that he already misses Noah.
So how's it going for you, buddy? You kind of had a
double loss. Yeah, it was bitter sweet because I'm happy for Noah Eagle
and he's gonna become one of the greatest broadcasters in the history of the exist.
I would agree with that, But let me tell you how much I
like Noah Eagle and enjoyed working with him. When he first told me,
probably a month or so ago that he was going to be leaving after this
season. Instead of me immediately going to congratulations on the job, I just
said, fuck, you're upset immediately after. Just a visceral response for me
because I love him. And so we drove out myself, Bob with a
Jake Warner, a head engineer Crypto dot com arena. We drove out to
Phoenix late or early Monday, early Tuesday morning, caught there surprised Noah.
He didn't know we were gonna show up. We haven't done a road game
before. I haven't been out on the road with the Clippers before. But
the Phoenix Suns were very accommodating. They were like, yeah, you can
do the whole postgame show afterwards, so there was no conflict there. They
were so nice. I can't say enough about Suns pr and their engineer there.
They were so nice and just hospitable. They are I just I had
to go through the Suns for this. So it was the arena at Footprint
Center. But we walk in and there's a video of it at fall Out
of May. We surprised Noah Eagle. He had no idea. He just
kept saying no, no, Because we had set him up during the day.
We did our usual chat in the text thread, like, oh,
wherever you are, big brother, Jake Warner's got to be worried his Lucky
Chucks like all that stuff was still going on. So we set him up
nicely, um and I think I think we set him off the right way.
Unfortunately, the Clippers couldn't get the w but didn't extended postgame show reminisce
a little bit, played a pit bull cameo. The greatest pit Bull impersonator
in the world who's on cameo. I couldn't get the real one for Noah
because you know, the three or five mark of every quarter he would say,
shout out pit Bull, mister three or five people, I think in
an ironic fashion, because you know, pit Bull's almost so bad as good.
So I got this cameo done from a pit Bull impersonator and thanked Noah
for the shout outs over the years and congratulating him. We had a nice
piece done by our imaging guy, Adam by seventy with different people at the
station wishing Noah the best, and so it was. It was tough.
It's still tough. It's all surreal to me, you know. From the
Patriot, No graphic from the Patriot AM eleven fifty. It was a simulcast
last night, but we drove back after the game. So I'm a little
my nerves are afraid a little bit. I'm just a little punch drunk and
tired. But it's gonna be here with you guys, even though the circumstances
aren't the best. Sure, punch drunk and tired is a very I feel
the same way, and I didn't Drive to Phoenix. I just feel that
way after that Clippers effort and game vibe came up short. I'm just happy
they made it an interesting game. It could have been real ugly in Phoenix
to end the season, but they you know, if they made some things
happen, I guess that kind of was beautiful. Instead, it was a
beautiful loss. Um, what do we think about kind of this series as
a whole, Because I thought Game five was a really nice example of how
hard it was for the Clippers to overcome anything without Kawai and Paul George,
right, because we got Zoo and Betune were great last night, but they
couldn't be good when Russ was really playing out of his mind in a couple
of those games. So and like that balance, I just think shows really
if you didn't think it was that much of an uphill battle for the Clippers,
I think last night really showed the issues. So to me, it
was kind of the epitome of this series as a whole. It was really
emblematic of what this series was, and I think you kind of even have
to erase the the you know, the first two games for what this series
became. But I mean I thought It was really impressive the way that this
you know, just this depth was at times standing toe to toe with this
Phoenix team that is, you know, like widely expected to be the front
runner in the West, and you know, when it was going well,
they were getting, you know, the performances they've come to expect, or
above average average performances from role players. When it wasn't going well, you
know, you saw sort of the call disparity, which I thought did even
itself out a little bit in that game five. I thought that that was
one of the things that helped the Clippers. I think the you know,
the big things were just execution and turnovers, and that, to me really
is the story of this series. Like that's why it wasn't even closer,
or why why they couldn't force a sixth game or maybe even a seventh.
You know, I wouldn't go as far as to say that that alone could
could propel them to a win in this series, but it was just kind
of those little execution things and some of the role players not getting the performances
that we expected, and of course, you know, to a certain degree,
the calls as well, although that's a little bit out of your control.
That that was really the difference in this series. And I thought,
basically, if I'm remembering correctly, an Adam, you have a way better
memory than me. But like the last three offensive possessions when the game was
still a game, I believe it was Russell Westbrook turnover followed by a normal
Powell turnover, followed by another Russell Westbrook turnover, And there might have been
I think it was something like that, Like it might have been well the
Bones Highland smoked layup I think was a little earlier, but it was,
you know, it was basically back to back to back empty possessions, and
I mean that's kind of where this series was lost, right They just I
mean, the Clippers can't even we we joked about it on the Clippers Pod
Twitter, but like but inbounds passes. Yeah, I think think those kinds
of things coming back to kind of hurt the Clippers was tough to see.
Adam. Did you think Game five kind of represented most of this series?
Because I like what we'll said about kind of forgetting like in the context of
the whole series, those first two games obviously with Kawhi playing, if he
plays the whole series, Clippers, I have a much better chance probably,
I would say now that we've seen this Sun team get out of this series
with Kauhi, but those well, three games without a man, it was
just like, it's as much as the Clippers could do. I think,
yeah, it was just too much to overcome. I wouldn't be feeling great
or that confident if I was a Phoenix Suns fan based upon how much the
Clippers pushed them and how competitive they were in the last three games, or
they could have won all three of them. I think in all three they
led by double digits at some point, and in Game five they led by
ten in the second half. I think it was the latest in a game
they were up by double digits. Obviously things flipped around in that third quarter
or the Suns put up a fifty spot, but I was proud of damn.
That was like twenty five. He had half their points in that quarter.
He had twenty five unconscious from the outside, was getting to the basket.
Showed a lot more juice than I think people expected to see. His
competing is crazy. That's something that like people talk about staff and stuff like
that, but I think Book not as much as staff, because just of
his role but like books, conditioning is pretty on point for someone who's that
active and coming into the series. One of the advantages or one of the
things playing in the Clippers favor that we mentioned was the Suns don't have a
lot of guys that beat you off the dribble. Yeah, I think Devin
Booker proved that he can be one of those guys when he needs to be.
And what is he twenty seven, twenty eight, He's coming into his
prime, He's still getting better. He's a really hard worker. So you're
seeing the young master. He's twenty six with an October birthday, so he's
like a young twenty six right, with a lot of a playoff experience over
the last couple of seasons now after getting none early on. So he's coming
into his own and kind of having a moment and did against the Clippers?
Does it happen if Kawhi and Paul George are there? Does he score the
same amount? Is he pushed more on the defensive end and that wears him
out? Likely? I think if just one of those guys was there.
You know, I don't want to sound like sour grapes or anything like that,
but I think it's fair and just based upon how these games played out.
If they just had Kawhi Leonard in this series, I think the Clippers
likely win. Um. Yeah, they had him and Paul George. I
think it's obvious to most that they would have won this series. That once
again they look like one of the ultimate what if stories. We're talking Grant
Hill and Tracy McGrady hooking up. Is turning into that this error is being
defined by injuries like Greg like it's there's a lot of parallels, which is
tough. Um. We we kind of we've talked about Kawhi. We all
found out this morning that Kawai uh tore his meniscus in Game one, which,
for those of you don't know, meniscus is uh basically what keeps your
mecap on. Kind of. Um, he's currently weighing his rehab options.
Most people, from what I saw there was that one doctor account will But
I think we talked about when PG got hurt Bryan Center. Yeah, he
was talking about how it's like a six week thing, so this shouldn't As
of April twenty six at six thirty six pm, all the information we have
right now leads us to believe that this won't really be an issue next season,
but who knows because Kawai all the reporters saying he's still kind of deciding
on his rehab plan. It seems like with meniscus injuries, many players have
had them and ever turned to form. Ruscott looked exactly the same. Russell
Westbrook's a good example, and then there's somebody like Chris Weber who did his
and was never the same. It depends on the severity of it a lot
of different factors. Hopefully it's not as bad with Kauai, and the fact
that he was able to look that good in Game two, you know,
speaks to the fact that, okay, he can. He's certainly someone who's
not who's on the lesser side of the extreme when it comes to these meniscus
injuries. I hope, but we'll see. I you know, I don't
think it's gonna help with him and playing back to backs next year or anything
like that. There's saying another knee injury in his surgically repaired rite ACL knee
with the quad injury as well on that side of the body, So oh
sorry, the patela is your kneecap. I apologize. It's like a cushioning
thing. Meniscus. Yeah, there's two of them. Um, they're wedge
shaped pieces of fibro cartilage that act as shock absorbers between your femur and tibia.
That's off the top of my head. I did not just read that
off. I actually I cracked my patela in high school when I was playing
hockey. That sucked. Well, where are you out on the injury thing?
I was kind of like, um, I think mifft is the fair
word to get this news. The day after the Clippers are eliminated, I
was just like, I don't want to hear this today, like maybe wait
a couple of days. But I saw something on Twitter was interesting. La
Clippers Film Room was talking about how when you're in a playoff run like this
and you kind of want to keep guys engaged and like fully kind of ready
to go, you say the day to day thing, you know what I
mean? Like, you don't say he tours me niscus after game one or
after game two when you're in the series to kind of keep guys like fully
there, where are you at on that? Did you feel bad about the
timing or we upset at the timing? Like we know that this Clippers team,
if you've been a fan long enough, you know not to expect anything
when it comes to injuries. So that's already kind of low. But I
don't know, how how did you feel? Because I was a little miss.
I mean, like I wouldn't say that I was all together shocked,
you know. I mean obviously it was, you know, called a sprain,
and you know, a sprain technically is a small tear. So it's
kind of like, you know, there, where's the lie a little bit?
I also think, like you know, we see play teams do this
all the time in the playoffs. This isn't just the Clippers. You know,
who knows what's going on with Joel Embid right now? Unless there was
some news that just dropped that I miss. But I mean it's a little
bit of gamesmanship. It's a little bit just what you do. Um.
I think I think it's interesting if if they had known this before going into
Game two like that, to me, I guess raises some questions. But
maybe that is also just a positive that it is minor enough that like it
was just re irritated which caused some additional swelling. Um maybe inhibited the range
of motion a little bit. Um so, yeah, I like altogether,
I'm not surprised. It was a little bit weird that we heard this from
Shams, Like, once again, that is weird. Actually that's a really
good That's not usually where we get Clippers news. For the most part.
I wonder if someone will leaked or anything, because now that you mentioned that,
like it's usually Haynes, it's it's usually it's usually Haynes or Woes.
Um wo is a Lawrence Frank guy. For those who are not aware of
kind of how those relationships work. That seems to be the guy that Lawrence
likes more than Shops. And you know, of course not a surprise either
that it came that it was, you know, first week by national media.
I don't think it's that out of the ordinary to not give the full
injury report until the series is over, to get to give hope to the
team. Remember with Chris Webber, but sorry no, yeah, I think
that's part of it. But in two thousand and three when Chris Webber tore
his meniscus, I remember the reporting was, oh, if they get past
the Mavericks in the second round and take on San Antonio, he could be
ready by game five. They're basically saying a three week timetable or something like
that. So it happens, and it's been happening for a long time.
I mentioned that's from two thousand and three. So even though this is kawhide,
I know a lot of people have expressed their frustrations with the medical staff
and the reporting on injuries and not being upfront about them. A lot of
teams do this. It's been going on forever, and the kau I think
too, like it was so gross how some people when he was initially ruled
out we're treating it as load management, which like it's load management and injuries
have been conflated into one thing, which is really shitty and is not accurate
at all. The man was not load managing. He tore his menisct like
this and then still crushed it in the playoff like it's just Kaui. I
don't know how. I don't think we'll ever convince people who at this point
think that Kawuhi like picks and chooses when he plays. If you watched even
just the last third of the Clippers season, the man was on a mission.
This was not a man who wanted to sit out and not be out
there like, I don't know the validation. I hope those people who think
that Kawhi like picks and chooses these things, or even the people who think
that Kauai voluntarily sat out the second half of that Grizzlies game, it's like,
no, man, like there's other factors. He's actually hurt like this,
this is a real injury now, yeah, and it was with the
ACL two and him taking a year off like many people have. Coming back
from an ACL injury is not unusual. But they're gonna pile on Kauai.
I don't like it, especially when it's just so lazy. When you think
back to what he did during the twenty nineteen run with the Toronto Raptors,
he was playing hurt. He noticeably was hobbled by the time the Eastern Conference
Finals came around. You could see it out there. He didn't look right,
and he played through it. If he could have played it through it,
I believe he would have. I don't think that was the issue.
So, if anything, he should be commended for trying to go in game
two. Now, if you want to make the argument, they shouldn't have
let him go if they had the information or how hurt he was, but
you don't know that after where it gets murky, because I think that part's
kind of fair because you're kind of like, I mean, naturally, you're
like, well, what the fuck you played game one? In game two
and so they're taking them out for game three. It must have been a
pain thing or something like. That's where there's questions, but like you said,
we have no idea, so we can really only ask questions. We
can't, you know, I don't What sucks with this injury stuff is people
will have a conclusion and then they like kind of like inch their way with
questions towards their conclusion. They line up the evidence to match right, and
it's like, let's just ask questions, like that's where I'm at. But
now it it was goofy and then we also I thought it was kind of
weird too, the timeline with the Paul George thing, where Paul George was
like, hey, it's a six week injury, so I'm gonna lace them
up in six weeks, and everyone was like, well, yeah, we
hope you can do that because that means we'll have made to the second round.
But also maybe would have been kind of know this was a six week
injury right when it happened, but I don't know what I mean, that
doesn't change anything. I think a lot of this is Clippers fan peace of
mind, which I identify with, Like it's nice to think you're in somewhat
of in the know when it comes to these injuries. But well, you
and I talked about a little bit on the post game yesterday, like the
PG thing. It's just like he just he wasn't gonna come back, like
the timeline didn't match up. And I don't think the team wanted to say
he was out for the playoffs like they basically did without saying that that explicitly.
Yeah, yeah, I mean he wasn't going to come back. No,
it's and it's not. Yeah, it's just tough. Um. I
was hopeful, I really was. Um, obviously I was wrong. You
weren't wrong to be hopeful, though, right, Like that's that's I sold
myself false hope and I bought false You're you're you're somehow self dealing false hope.
Like the hope I rs is like, now wait a minute, you
created all this hope and then paid yourself from your own hope from and still
defaulted on the loan. Uh, that's that's basically what happened. But that
is like shouldn't love? But what else are we supposed to do? Right?
Like we remember I work out before the Warriors game like this, the
Clippers franchise does want to keep Hope alive. That's not a Clipper, So
that's not singular to the Clippers, right, it's like the six Ters,
like you were saying, they want people to be engaged. There's a couple
of things, right. I mean, while I think, especially with the
NBA being involved in betting, this stuff gets very murky at me, like
that that great yeah is I mean a shade I don't care to decipher.
But as far as like the fans are concerned and keeping energy in the series
and like Hope and stuff, I mean, like, man, what do
you expect people to do? Like like no, seriously, Like if after
if you were putting on it then at your job, yeah and the main
guy was gone, yeah, you would probably be like he might be back.
I don't know, You're not gonna be like he's done office. I
have one in office attendance a week and it's for a meeting. And if
I was if it was determined that the boss was not going to be there,
I would not show up for said meeting exactly. I just prefer would
I prefer to lean into the optimism and hope for the best. I just
do because it's out of my control either way. So I'd rather just say,
you know, I hope he's able to come back. I hope there's
a chance because if not, like I said, they weren't going to be
able to win the series. If if he or Kawhi wasn't coming back,
and I didn't want to go there yet, and if and if Kawhi comes
back and he played you, it's and I also understand that this has been
you know, when we traded for Kawai and Paul George, a lot of
the people who were against the trade mentioned the injuries and things like that.
Um also, so I know what I'm saying is like part of it is,
like, you know, Kauai is a load management guy. I'm not
saying that as a bad thing. It just literally he does that because he
medically has to. So part of this some of it's to be expected.
What I think really gets fans upset is that we're just now in another year
of being like, shit, I wish these guys were available, which is
a very valid thing to think. I wanting your guys to all be healthy
in the playoffs is a totally valid thing to think. But thinking that there's
some ulterior motive underneath them not being healthy is where you get into this like
we gotta take a step back and cool off mode. I think, yeah,
we're all devastated Clipper Nation. This is awful to see this happen.
Yeah, no one is happy, like no. I think that's a good
thing to point out, is that it feels like the people who were really
upset think that some part of the fan base is like, all right,
this is great, Like we're all upset. Yeah, it's deflating, defeating.
It's just it's been brutal to see this happen year after year with these
two guys, and as you mentioned, how well Kawhi was playing the last
three months, and for it to end like this in a first round series
where you know, he looks like he's close to being back to maybe in
the conversation for best player in the league, and that's when he gets hurts.
I hope to be a part of it one day, Uh do we
have anything else you want to say on this because like, no, im
just like the conversation that that could also be the fucking subtitle for this Clippers
era is like a part of the conversation or yeah, my so my subtitle
that's actually a great prompt. I think my subtitle for this point up to
the two one three era is on paper, champions And I don't mean that
in a mean way, but on paper, if you look at the roster,
it's a championship roster. Right. Everyone says that every single year that
this team has existed in this iteration, is they make it out of the
West, they're gonna be the champions. Adam, what would be your I
was gonna say, if healthy? Sure, if healthy? Yeah, Adam,
what would be yours? I remember the Sports Illustrated Scary Hours for this
season with Kawhi and Paul George on the cover and thinking this is the get
back year we miss kawhile of last season. It's going to be different.
He's gonna pick up where he left off in twenty twenty one, and him
coming out initially and saying, you know, it's gonna be going through a
dark tunnel, but there's light at the end of it. And it's a
process, and it was all building that way with how he started to look
uh in terms of the last three months of the regular season versus when he
first came back and was hardly taking shots and wasn't scoring a lot, and
then he ramped up perfectly up at just the right time, was the best
player in this series against the Phoenix Suns before he went down. It's just
it's unfathomable that another season is ending like this. And on the other hand,
some people would say it's predictable. Some people would say it's predictable that
the Clippers, you know, if they didn't have bad luck, they'd have
no luck at all. But that's all it is. It's just been bad
luck. Yeah, it's been a lot of bad luck. Will what would
your tagline be before we get into these uh tylu and Westbrook grades? Um
good, No one's alive. The Clippers are still alive, live, all
right, motives here, All right, we're coming up. We're gonna talk
flies with the Angels, the story of the Oh my god, that's hilarious.
All right, coming up, we're talking the Tyl Lou playoff grade.
He was dealt a very weird hand in these playoffs. We're gonna grade that
very weird hand. But first, there are some ads, and some people,
believe it or not, think they're too loud. So that's been your
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these very loud ads coming up in three two one. All right, we
are back and we're talking Tylu playoff grades. Tylu Uh. I think there's
a not small portion of the fan base who wants to see Tylu not be
the coach next year, of the whole year, grade just playoffs. But
there were some things in the playoffs that may be extrapolated on that. Adam,
what did you like from Tylu in these playoff games? I liked that
he still went to Bones Highland even when he was struggling offensively, because I'm
telling you, guys, his defense. I want somebody to put together a
highlight reel a Bones Highland on defense in this series. Saying he competed is
doing him a disservice, Like he was actually really good and he was a
plus even when he wasn't hitting shots out there, and he's a young player,
and for whatever reason, coach Lew seemed to really like what he brought.
Maybe it's because his he has an affinity for guards. He is self
proclaimed that he has bias for guards. He was one. But Bones Highland
got run. There's growth there and even in Game five, I thought his
first half was pretty good. A young player too. I think people forget
Bones is a year older than Brandon Boston Jr. Maybe last. And I
like the fact that he ran with guys or would let them run if they
got hot, like Mason Plumley in Game five, who was phenomenal that steel
and slam he had to kid. The Clippers momentum down twenty was just it
was unbelievable to see a team continue to fight when they really I think most
squads would have packed it in in that situation. And that also speaks to
them continuing to, you know, listen to coach lou And and play hard
for him even if the odds are stacked against them. Yeah, I thought
tylu playing with the hot hand went well for the most part in this series.
It's exactly like and when you're down as many important guys as the Clippers
are, that's what you have to do. Like Will and I were talking
about this when we were watching the game last night. It's almost like Tylu
was just like a cut man for a boxer who's like already gotten beat the
hell up because Kawhi and pg're out. So Tyler was like, what
can we do in these small moments to try and make things happen? Ride
the hot hand was one of them. And the Mason Plumley example you gave
was great. Putting Norman to the starting lineup like that, that had to
happen because you're just trying to blitz the kind of offensively and stuff like that.
And he went through a shooting slump in that game. Five after hitting
his first four, he was like one for his next seven, and he
still ended up playing thirty nine minutes because coach Lou knew you have to ride
or die with with Lou Williams with Norman Pale, either he gets hot out
there and you have a chance, or if you don't play him, it's
already a loss. And I like that he gave it a shot and he
rewarded him late in the fourth when they made that run. Yes, will
what did you like about Tyler's playoffs? Well, I mean Adam already brought
up the Bones thing, which I feel like is huge and I feel like,
even if you're down on where the Clippers are at, is one of
the brightest kind of future things to forward to or sure be excited about as
a Clippers fan. Um. One thing that's funny about the Bones thing is
that, like, so apparently the Clippers love Bones Highland in that draft,
and they didn't draft him because they're kind of bad at drafting, and we
had to give up two second round picks to get them. And everyone's like,
we had to give up two second round picks to get a guy that
we liked, And I'm like, when have you ever cared about second round
picks? I guess my counterpoint. I guess my counterpoint to that would be
okay, but someone who's maybe better at development developed him and then we got
to reap the benefits exactly. Yeah. So it's like, yeah, it's
like, oh, what would you have used those two future second round picks
on instead of Bones Highlands? Shit? All right, that's a good point.
They're playing forty minutes. Yeah, yeah, Terrens will play sixteen and
Bones will play the Runts. Sorry go ahead, will Um. Yeah.
I I did really like I really like that there was some experimentation, even
if it was stuff that was kind of a continuation from the regular season.
I mean I thought that the five guard lineup, even though it wasn't ultimately
successful, it didn't deliver a win, was I mean a stroke of bravery.
And I mean part of it is your back is against the wall,
and like we said, like that cut, man, like you just have
to keep the team standing, you know, you just have to like prevent
this cut from bleeding so bad that it's like that the fight is entirely stopped.
But I did like that stuff. But that kind of is a double
edged sword for me for Tylo in this right is that, Um, I
feel like he kind of the season, the season overarching story for me,
for Tylus sticks to his guns, um, And he stuck to his guns
in this one. And I feel like at times, you know, we
saw we saw some good stuff there. Um, I'm not gonna I'll talk
about the bad stuff later. Sorry, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna
about two and a half minute. I'm not gonna jump segments here. Um,
But you know I did really tease it out, Yeah, how to
tease it out? Um? I did like that and I do you know,
like I said, it is double sword. But I mean, I
do like his belief in players. I think, especially for someone like Westbrook
new to the team, tumultuous, you know, tumultuous last two seasons.
Really Yeah, Um, I think that that is. I think that that
is powerful and important to empower a player like that, Um, even if
you know, granted your options are a little slim. But I think the
best thing about Tylu is that for you know, all the like tinker and
tie stuff, he also doesn't overreact, which I think is really important and
become I would it becomes especially important. Um, you know, when you're
undermanned. Yeah. I like what you said, ps Man didn't play enough
minutes under man get it. I like what you said about the player empowerment
stuff because like, and again, for those of you listening, we're talking
the playoffs. We're gonna talk about regular season Tylu probably next week or something
like that, because that's a whole different bag. And he was in a
kind of seemingly constant battle with the front office. But I think we can
talk about kind of what we didn't like, and Will mentioned one of the
things he liked was, you know, maybe not overreacting, but the Marcus
Morris thing is kind of is it's a real like I love this Clippers team,
but playing Marcus Morris the minutes he played him in those games, it's
just like, I don't want to say the stats. We all know that
they weren't exactly good or you know, sustainable, but he had the worst
plus minus he played. He goes two of five in Game three, he
goes three or thirteen in Game four, five of eleven in Game three.
And also we brought this up on the stream last night. Tyler referenced how
he's like top five and three point percentages for guys who've taken xbouns. He
took one three in Game five. I thought he had a pretty good first
half. Actually he did. He had ten and four, led by nine.
Yeah, so he had ten and four in that first half, which
was great, and then he was also rallying guys. He had multiple huddle
up moments where Norman Powell was upset with himself and he brought him in.
I'd like to see in that leadership part. He had ten and four at
half and he finished with twelve and five, which I think is a very
and you know, that's not that, but like I do, you gotta
feel for Tylu after losing obviously Paul George, losing Kawhi Leonard and the communications
seemed kind of weird on that, but playing Marcus Morris difficult, it felt
like sometimes I think a lot fans were worried that he was sticking with Eric
Gordon for too long, but as we all liked a reference, Eric Gordon
hit those deep fu threes more times this season than the Clippers ever did as
a team, So like, you gotta ride, Like I'm not really sure
what people wanted to do in these playoffs, and again we're just talking playoffs
with Tylu down Kawai and PG. He empowered Russ as much as he could,
which paid off for the most part in these playoffs. But other than
that, it's like play Roco more. We would have loved it, But
fuck, it's not like Rocco was like ten of ten when he was playing,
you know what I mean? Like he sticks, He's better than Marcus
Morris on defense, but that's not what Tyler looked for, which I think
kind of makes sense. We talked about this. I think after we saw
the five guard lineup, we were all like, Hey, if you're not
going to stop him, you might as well try and overwhelm them with points,
which is what Tyler was trying to do. Okay, he's better than
Marcus Morrison offense too. He's better than Marcus Morris in every facet of the
game. When we're talking about the version of Marcus Morris over the last four
months. Now, it's just a fact. Whether you want to look at
tape, whether you want to look at the numbers, it is. So
that's the one thing that is frustrating. And I completely understand why Clipper Nation
would rather see Albert Coverington the whole. I don't know why blow it up
Dike is not down with Rocco and saying he stinks all the time. He's
been their best three point shooters since March. How many at tabs, it's
it's twelve games, So I think it's we're not We're not talking about him
playing over another guy who's been all right. We're talking about him playing versus
a guy who hasn't looked terrible. We're just talking about playing the best best
options right are going with the best guys who are playing the best right now.
He doesn't have from to save here for the million dollars a stink.
I don't know what you're watching if you think Rocco stinks like I think clearly
so. Shooting sixty percent from three March, it's probably fifty, it might
be close to fifty. How many would suffice? Well? Like what what
is enough to say that he's better than Marcus Morris because that's the only decision
that needs to be made, whether or not he's a better option than Marcus.
Look, I agree with you, like overall he's a better option.
I just think like this the fan, the Clippers fan fick that has been
this season that like Robert Commington somehow would miraculously say this thing. I think
he's a little far fash. I've literally said that's not me though, Like
he's not a savior. He just is a better or options better than Marcus
more He's just the best three point shooter on the team. He's been on
a heater since March and should probably play over a guy who's shooting thirty percent
from three and was reluctant to take them for a while. I don't see
I find a baffling that for the entire season. The dnps from Robert Covington
getting thirty of them, while there's a guy at that position that is struggling
mightily, and coach Lew referenced his history, but that's not who he has
been over a long stretch of time throughout this season, and we have said
he doesn't look right. He whether it's an injury or age, he just
has not looked right. I just a guy who's shooting twice as good from
the outside. I think he's hitting more three pointers in his last fifteen games
than Marcus has hitting his last three months. Like no Joe. So what
are we talking about? Let's all right, well, what did you not
like about ty Lu? Because let's bring it back to the Tylu conversation on
the Bar's first ruggle, which I'm definitely on Adam's side, But what did
you not like about ty He was in a rock in a hard place from
games three to five. Game one, Russ wasn't good, but we still
won. Like I think, one of the best players in this series,
especially after Kawi went out, didn't get enough minutes and for some perplexing reason
why in the starting lineup, And I don't know that. Yeah, this
is an ongoing thing. I mean, look, I know that Adams has
denigrated the stretch that the Clippers went on pre All Star Break with Terrence Man
in the starting lineup, But look manegraded, like, this guy has constantly
come up big in moments. We know what he can do. He has
continuity for the team that has so little of that that I, you know,
I don't even know if you can count it. I don't know.
You'd have to find him with a microscope. But I it's flexing to me.
I really don't get it. And I understand that there. I know
that there was some conversation um purportedly earlier with tylu about why Marcus wasn't moved
to the bench earlier because of something to do with how the bench you know,
would function with Marcus Morris and it being a little bit of a job
up. It's an elimination game. I really don't care. Basketball is there's
no basketball. Basketball isn't a game with five out shifts. It truly doesn't
matter. Put your best five in and and and I mean like and hope
for the best, like to be perfectly honest, and I think that that
that to me is one of those things. And once again, this is
a this is a playoff grade, not a regular season grade. But like
like I said, in the positives for this, it's also in the negatives
of like the trends that we saw through the regular season continue to carry over.
And I think that Terrence Man not being appreciated for the player both that
he is and like what he can be, especially with eyes out. To
me, I think, I don't know, I don't know. That to
me is like one of the larger indictments on tylub. So that's that's it.
I agree. Yeah, Well, I have downplayed the tenant four before
the All Star break. I also thought Terrence Man should get forty minutes once
Kauhi and Eric Gordon went down this series, he's good for it too.
Is the thing like what like what what's the reason? And and now we're
hearing that, you know, Gordon might have had a hip injury too,
Like what is the what is like the reason? What is the you know,
the tangible reason that that he shouldn't play thirty eight to forty minutes in
this series? Well, what's the reason that he had dnps to start off
the year? And coach lew was asked about him when what his role is
or what he thinks his role is and he said, I don't know.
I find it completely baffling. I find it completely baffling. This is someone
who closed playoff games out for you during the twenty twenty one playoffs. Why
isn't there more trust with Terrence Man. It seems like he trusts Bones Highland
more than Terrence Man, who just got here. Yeah, that's a really
good call. And it's not like because Bones is a more traditional point guard.
I feel like that's like that's been the weird like like underlying sort of
theme of this season is like tylu and how he views the point guard position,
and like, is this when we get back to it and basically every
single season the thing that's been the thing with the Clippers, it's like,
Oh, they need the guard, they need the point guard. The point
guard we've now had is this, Like really, what it all boils down
to is that even with Doc removes, Tyler is still so focused on what
the prototypical point guard is that we can't move past that into how this team
was constructed this year from a roster standpoint, Like that, to me is
so perplexing for a guy who's so good at in game adjustments that like that
you're not you're for some reason not malleable on this one position and everything has
to flow through this certain archetype. Like I just I do not get it.
I do not understand it well. And I thought the roster construction was
done in this way with coach low in mind. He was the one who
was going small with wings for them to get to the Western Conference finals away
from guards. Yeah, we thought they were saving it in their back pocket.
That's that one season when we saw it briefly two years ago in the
regular season. But was the real reason that Tylu just never was on board
with the concept, but he was when it mattered most in the playoffs in
twenty one. Makes it so weird is that you're just like and I think
that plays into the fact that there's not an identity for the Slippers team right
like twenty twenty one, as Adam said, we were, we were going
small, we were fucking shit up. You get to this season. Now
we're going ultrasmall five guards obviously the nomally, but like days and part their
identity. If you're not look, I will say, if you're not watching
us on YouTube at Clippers podcast, there's some good bits. There's some good
bits with Will doing the names. It's a fun time. I'm awesome.
But I think that I think that plays into the identity. And in the
playoffs, the identity the Clippers fell back on was we're not going to give
up, which is awesome, but that's I think a lot of teams identities
of two of their stars are out right like, yeah, but I don't.
I said old season long. They're consistently inconsistent. That's their only identity.
The only thing you could point to in an area where they were elite
in would be three point shooting. Yeah. Outside of that, they had
stretches where their offense was really good. But overall you look at the numbers,
they weren't elite in that area. They weren't top five. Same on
the defensive end of the ball. They had stretches, but they never really
put it together. So I look, I'm impressed with how they pushed it
to five and the way those games win, with how close they are.
They were of close. Seen the gap, the talent gap that was out
there between them in Phoenix, and I do still believe in coach lou for
that reason. I just some of the moves this season have been really hard
to understand and explain it. Rocco Taris man teris Man to me is one
of the five most impactful players on the Clippers team, but he's not top
five in minutes played per game. I think his minutes per game in the
playoffs only went up three minutes compared to the regular season, which is mind
blowing. What do you think about our absences? He shot almost sixty percent
from the field in the series and almost fifty percent from three. He needed
to take more shots, but he also could have gotten more run out there.
Yeah, absolutely, all right, So final grades will up Dyke playoff
grade for ty lou Ce firm C seventy three, okay, so still a
see. I don't know why that's making me laugh. So Adam once your
grade percentage or letter? Uh? For Terence Man if he was going to
Ausland High School, well, I think fifty one would be an F and
I'm not yeah man, yeah, well your high school, I don't know.
I would go B or B minus. Uh. The guys competed.
There was no question anymore about I think he I think he got it out
of him. When you're down twenty when you're down Kawhi and Paul George,
it would be easy to wave the white flag. And I think there was
still belief there because Coach Lou was the coach and they they call him coach
Belichicker or Bill toront Low like they think he's a schematics genius. I think
he is as well. In a seven game series, they should have been
blown out multiple games and they weren't, and I think a lot of that
was Coach Lou. I think that's fair. I think I'm actually in your
same range. I think I'm in like B minus range. Kawie and PG
are out. The games were close. We didn't get run off the floor
in any of them. We were I think that was a bones Highland three
away from making it real interesting in game four. So I think I gotta
go. I gotta go B minus. And if he wouldn't have played Marcus
Morris, it would have been to be It's fair. But the outside factors
also that they had no control over, were greatly against the Clippers, especially
in that game three, especially in games three and four, and they competed
and they were right there still. Yeah, man, just wish everyone would
have been healthy coming up where are we talking Russell Westbrook's playoff grade, which
I have a feeling. I think I know what we're gonna say. But
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talked about Coach lew and his playoff grade. As I guess we're gonna make
this kind of a series going through with our shows now playoff grades, end
of regular season type stuff and a playoff end of the entire twenty two twenty
three season, but Russell Westbrook someone they brought in twenty one games left in
the regular season, five playoff games, so he gets to twenty six total.
I liked a lot out of Russ, especially in this series. This
is one of the better series he has had since twenty sixteen. Do you
want to hear the stats? I can. I got those stats pulled up,
buddy. I can think it's ended up forty one percent from the field,
thirty five percent from three. Oh no, I just bent. I
was going, I was gonna go a little top top level of view.
We're going twenty four seven to seven. Yeah, that's pretty I mean,
this is what the like. Other than games one and five. He brought
exactly what the Clippers wanted to bring or needed to bring. And you know,
some of those duds offensively are going to happen. I was a little
bit concerned about him coming out too hot in Game five and being out of
control, and there were some rough turnovers. But he's another guy you have
to live or die with. You know, either Russ has a good game,
and that is the point that I think we can talk about, maybe
we talk about the whole season. That's what you get with Russ. If
he's on your team and he's the one guy you're living or dying with Russ,
Yeah, and he's very good in these situations where he raises your floor.
That's what everybody likes to say about Russell Westbrook. When he is the
lone star out there and guys are just working around him and playing off of
him, you know you can have some success. I don't think you can
win a championship that way. I think that's been proven. But I still
I think the effort that he played with and I gave coach Lew a lot
of credit for the way they flipped a switch and looked differently through forty eight
and it's consistently in the playoffs. I think Russ had something to do with
that too. When he plays that energy he brought very useful for the Clippers,
especially when you're down, especially when you're down your two stars. He
did a lot of good. He did a lot of bad. That's expected
though, that's the Russ roller coaster will What did you like from Westbrook in
these these five games. I really liked his commitment on the defensive end,
especially in that in that first game. Especially in that first game, Uh
just the number of deflections and everything. Um, it was really impressive to
see. I think that you know, we had talked about it a little
bit leading into the series that I you know, I didn't necessarily from what
I had seen, he wasn't necessarily the bad the bad defender that he had
had gotten a rap for. Um. And I think that we saw you
know, him use that that famous athleticism to his advantage on that side of
the floor. UM. I also just think, like you know, everybody
talked about the even the off court stuff with Russ, and I think in
a series like this, I honestly to a certain extent even think with one
of Kawhi or Paul George, right, um, who you know, despite
which is an issue they're gonna have to figure out next season probably, yeah,
you know, despite all their greatness, you know, I think if
your back is against the wall and things are not looking the clips away for
the roster that we had this season, Russ is absolutely like the floor general
that I would want out there for morale and and just the kind of guy
like I to just yeah exactly just the type of player who, um,
you know, can settle things down from you know, from that perspective,
like a veteran in that sense, um, which you know Clips have,
they're a whole team. They Yeah, they theoretically should have a lot of
those kind of guys. But I think that I don't. I I don't
think these games are as close as they are at all. If if if
Westbrook isn't there, and not just because of his production, but I think
that he was. He was that piece that I think maybe they thought ra
Gen Rondo would be or something like that. Yeah. Well, what's funny
is I was talking with Joseph riya Ward about this former Clippers podcaster he's since
retired. I think he's down in Bocca. You're doing his eulogy too.
Oh he's oh no, no, no, we're not gonna do that.
Um. But I was talking with Joseph and I was like, do you
think the Clippers pre trade deadline would be better to you know, come out
of this series with the Suns without Kawai and Paul George or are they better
post this trade deadline right this new iteration from the Clippers, And we both
kind of agreed, like because Russ being a big factor, they had the
new twenty twenty two twenty twenty three Clippers had a better chance than Reggie Jackson,
Luke Kennard, John Wall you know, pre trade deadline Clippers. And
I think that's totally fair. I wasn't the biggest fan of the Russ trade.
Um, we saw some good and some bad from Russ in these playoffs.
Again, you know, he went three of nineteen in game one.
Um, you know, went three for eighteen in Game five, which I'm
gonna be honest, if he misses one more shot, maybe we win that
game. Because if you look at the stats, when he goes three of
nineteen in the playoffs, he is undefeated. Um two and right, baby,
um one morning, you got a streak. Go on. But like
obviously games one and five or now what you need, Games two, three,
and four were peak Ross, Like they needed a guy to step in
and do exactly what he did in the position that he did it in,
right, like at the point guard position. I don't know what did we
not like from Russ? I know, And like I think we can kind
of get some of the usual ones out of the way, right, some
shot selection, maybe not take as many threes when you're only two of nineteen
or whatever it is. But like it's just kind of the usual stuff that
makes sense. There wasn't anything nude and not like, which I kind of
take as a win if that makes sense. There's not a lot to learn
about Russell Westbrook at this point of his career, but I will give him
this change of scenery did do him well and does Yeah, a change of
scenery personnel him being happy where he's at. It brought out the best of
Russell Westbrook where for him to turn back the clock and those middle three games
of the series plays some of the best playoff basketball he has ever played,
including literally the back when he was with Kevin Durant. Yeah, that's pretty
impressive. A lot of his percentages with the Clippers overall, shooting thirty six
percent in the regular season. Really, I guess he did that, you
know, overall in the twenty six games, because he shot thirty five point
seven percent in the playoffs. Two people didn't expect that to improve. They
said, there's this whole body of work to look at. He's not all
of a sudden going to become a league average three point shooter, and he
basically did with the Clippers. Yeah, well, you're peaking on Russ.
What was some of the bad stuff. Some of the bad stuff. Man.
Uh, some of his finishing at the rim is so bad it is
uh, I mean it. They should be counted as turnovers, some of
them. I mean, like, how many transition plays we see off of
the smoked for us layup? Uh? That do you guys wonder if that's
the drop off in athleticism. He could always just dunk it before and he
can still get up. He can still get up, and maybe not as
consistently, and so all of a sudden he has to learn how to gracefully
lay things up. And that's just not something he had to worry about throughout
the first twelve years of his career. She spent all offseason with a glass
ball. Glass ball, well, well, you can't turn Eric Gordon's head
and all just perfect touch. He's doing that hippie orb glass ball thing where
it's like you're like, whoa, I got two of them. I do
think one thing that we saw and I don't know if this changes with Kawai
and PG out if we had another point guard. But it was Game four
when it was pretty obvious that the Suns were just kind of like, we're
gonna let you go to the room, like, score your twos, we're
gonna be able to come back. I don't think that's an indictment on Rust.
I think that happens. I'll take Russ's magical orb it is my name
on the YouTube stream U. But he finished those twos for the most part.
So it's like it's just the usual stuff to kind of be bummed on
Russ, I guess, but like, I don't want to jump the gun.
If anyone has ending else to say about what we liked, what we
did, like, I think we can talk grades and then if we should
bring him back. But I mean, it's not like the Clippers didn't lose
in five games. I did see a couple tweets or people were like,
could you imagine how cooked the Clippers would be if they didn't have Rust.
I'm like, okay, Well, to be fair, they would have lost
in four games. We lost in the probably not because Rust went three of
nineteen in the first game that we won. So it's like, I don't
think we would have been burnt dirt toast like without Rust. But I mean
we still lost in five games. But Adam cooked her more cooked? Did
Adam? What is your postseason grade for Russell Rustbrook Los Angeles Clipper, which
is an insane sentence to say now is what it feels outfit. There is
something about him, with his attributes and his intangibles that do work very well
with the Clippers organization and the street lights over spotlights stuff, and the heart
he plays with and the availability obviously with Russ is huge. He could be
such a good innings eater if you had him for eighty two games when you
know Kawhi and Paul George are likely missing twenty five each. I hate saying
that that it's just accepted at this point, but I just look at the
last few years. That's how it's gone. But I would I would not
mind bringing Russell Westbrook back on the right deal. I think they obviously want
him back. He outperformed expectations and I'm gonna go with B plus a minus
for the playoffs, all right, will playoffs? I think I'm right around
that same range. Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking two stinkers, three great
games. We won one of the stinkers, and he was a huge part
with the intangibles, yeah, yes, with Russ's intangibles. Yeah, and
look, you know when Kawhi went down obviously, so much was put on
him, and I don't know like what the postseason dissection is going to look
like on the Russell Westbrook experience with the Clippers as a whole. But yeah,
I mean it would be foolish to say that he didn't exceed my expectations
from where we came into the playoffs totally. Yeah, I think that's yeah.
I think I'm in the a range. I'm like, hey man,
the first bad game was a wash. We got the win. After that,
we tried like he did great. Um, do we think that Russ
gets brought back? Because I am saying, there's all this tax apron stuff
which does kick in for this next season. Everyone's talking, Oh, I
thought it was the following I thought it was nextgency. Are you sure?
Yeah? I thought it was next free agent. Everyone yelled at me on
Twitter when I talked about what money they should give Russell Westbrook because everyone's saying
he has to come back on a min because of how the new tax apro
and stuff works. So if the new taxpapers and stuff kicks in this year,
the Clippers are far over the cap, they have no they have to
bring him in on a man. Yeah, they have no taxpayer exemption,
so no, no guy for six million like they had this year with John
wall and right, you can't, you can't. I have to clarify for
the YouTube a body and saying listeners, this is speculation. I don't I
don't have the I don't have the CBA written form of me. Let me
go ahead and google, Let me google it. Um. The other things
to worry about when you talk about bringing back Russ Because it looks so good
in the playoffs, that's still not sustainable for winning a championship as good as
he was. We need to know how it works with Kawai and Paul George
and where that ceiling is with us. July first, twenty twenty three is
when the new CBA takes effect. Oh well, so well shit, So
probably got to try and convince him to come back on a minimum if you're
the Clippers, because he talked about like when he was a Utah Jazz for
six hours or whatever it was, um or maybe before that, he talked
about wanting to kind of like get his bag right in the off season.
How is it not already right? Hey, we're not here to count,
we're not here to check pockets. I am I have no band for band
with Russell West, let's go. I think Russell wins that. No disrespect.
Uh, I am not here to count another man's pockets. But I
think you can convince Russ to stay if ty Lou is staying not on a
min The min is hard, right, There's no There's just no way.
But does he want to go to a team for more money where he might
not win or be the starting point card? Because he's gonna be the starting
point guard. He's talking about a lot of money, man, Like,
you're not talking about like two three million dollars twelve millions of dollars a year
like that? Dude, No, it's a lot. Is there even a
possibility of making that work considering how deep they've been into the luxury tax where
they would even have money left? I mean the finagling and the moving aparts
that would take to free up money. I think to sign Russ if there
is no mid mid level taxpayer exception, it may just be impossible outside of
him taking the minimum. Maybe I think we're projected to be something like eighty
million dollars over the cap like we have Like yeah, I mean, if
there's no if there's no taxpayer exemption offer. We we don't really have a
lot to offer la location, you don't have to move. And here's the
other thing, here's the championship if what goes our way. I think that
And that's a bag on this team because I know we're already down, so
I don't need to don't don't mean to like kick us or out. We're
not already down. We are out. But I know in the past,
we've seen teams or players rather, you know, willing to take less money
for a team that's a contender. We've seen players willing to take a hometown
discount. You're talking about a hometown discount for contender with seventy percent of their
cap tied up in two guys who might not combined for sixty games. Like
it's just it's a totally different situation, man, than than than other situations
where where people have taken less to go on a contender or taken less to
be at home. And and I'd like to argue about actually because he'd be
playing a bigger role. He's taken them in and he's the starting point guard.
Like he's not a you know, a guy you bring in to bring
some juice off. He's granted a starting role, which is one thing that
we can offer I don't think any other contender can offer. I I'm a
little bit apprehensive about that, to be honest, I still think he would
be best in a bench role. But I agree. But I'm saying,
in a situation where you're getting him to stay, you're I mean, right,
who's going to be the starting point guard if not Russell Westbrook that's currently
on this roster ban Yeah, is still the coach? Or are you the
coach? Now? He likes us, he likes bones. Now, I'm
just saying, if he comes back for the minimum, you're not gonna have
many situations where you can tell Russ, hey, we need you to sacrifice
for the team and do this and play with these lineups. Now, that's
really hard to do, right If he's taking that little amount of money talking
about generational wealth like yeah, he already true, I know, but you
are right, dude, Like ten million dollars is a shit ton of money.
Even if you even if you already are one hundred millionaire or whatever,
ten million dollars that's a that's a lot of money. Man. I'm trying
to look up his career earnings. I mean, I know it's a lot,
but I mean good for him. I do have the numbers with him,
Paul George, and Kawhi Leonard on the floor. It was only ten
games, but for people wondering about how they can mesh together, you know,
their offensive rating was just one ten point five. For reference, the
best offensive rating by a team this season was one eighteen point six by the
Sacramento Kings is mid Their defensive rating, though, was one oh five.
The best defensive rating by a team this season was one oh nine, so
that's actually really good. Their net rating was five point two overall, so
which is de Yeah, it's it's decent, but it's not great. It's
that's the big issue is figuring out how he can play with Kawai and PG.
Everyone's like, oh, they'll figure out how to make it work,
and it's like, well, they kind of figured it out, but we
weren't exactly operating at championship level. Also, Westbrooks earned about three hundred and
forty mills so far in his career. For those of you who are wondering,
Yeah, I mean, like the difference between you know, two years
that I'd like the Men or you know fourteen, you know the fifteen to
seventeen Rangers. I think he could pretty easily get. I think, like
astronomical man, that's a lot of money. I think someone will throw like,
yeah, like twelve to fifteen at him easy. This feels like DAMARDA.
Rosen and that possibility of him coming to the Clippers if he would have
taken the mid level. Right, there were some reports out there that he
was close, but he ends up getting what eighty five million from the Chicago
Bulls, Like was it ever really that close? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
Like what do you want six or eighty five million dollars? It would
have to be about peace of mind for Russ, being on a team where
he's accepted, is able to be himself, he's local, he's got a
family, now he gets to stay here. It would have to be everything
else going in the Clippers favor to sign him on the minimum. Yeah,
I agree, all right, it's seven thirties. There anything else you want
to say to these Clippers fans as they hopefully had a good first day of
the Clippers off season, So absolutely fucking nothing from us, falling brother Noah
Eagle, all right, let's get out of here. It's been a rough
here. It's been a rough here. It was a rough yere. We're
gonna have a tripod for y'all, probably next week, not probably next week,
definitely next week. We're gonna the rest of the team's playoff grades.
Only so many guys played, so it's not like there's a lot to grade.
Um, we're gonna talk retaining Tylu whatever happens between now and then in
Clipperland. We're not going to talk about that lunatic thread that was on tour.
That's what we're not gonna do. Uh will Where can these people review
us if they wanted to tell the world what they thought of our work?
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She'll love to know it. Eagle, I know it, Eagle fifteen.
Let him know you're gonna miss him. This is something we're gonna look Remember
when he was the voice of the Clippers. Remember that type of thing.
And now he's calling the dang all Super Bowl. It's gonna be crazy.
And know what, Eagle is calling the Clippers in the finals at some point
that'll be a pretty cool full circle moment. All right, the Angels Bowl
will be incredible. All right, we'll be back. But that was one
one forty six next week. Uh yeah, we appreciate everybody for listening.
And this was our first season the Clips to day. This is wonderful and
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