What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to season two episode they see
one of clips and dip hopefully your favorite Clippers podcast, one of them you
listen to also hopefully. I am Chuck Mockler, joined by Will Updike and
Adam Osland. We're going to talk to Kawhi injury. We are going to
talk about that. We're going to talk about the Clippers issue against larger teams.
Some of those larger teams happen to be just some of the better teams
in basketball. And then we're gonna talk there was a poll sent out to
Clipper season ticket holders about jersey retirements and into it, So that's something we're
going to discuss. But before we get into all that, I mentioned them
just now. They're fantastic co hosts, great people. Adam, Will,
how you doing on this dry, cold Los Angeles evening. I'm good.
Surprised this is episode fifty one. I thought that was last week since Will
didn't want to call it five. Oh yeah, this is fifty one part
too. It's like Dune. It's exactly like dude. I'm good. It's
good to be odd with you guys once again. Well are we doing I'm
good. I'm good. Yeah, I actually missed last night's game, So
you guys are gonna have to break it down for me, tell me what
went wrong. So I'm excited to hear about that. I think we all
just are a little stunned, shocked, upset, crying, baffled by this
recent by this recent kine is I know I threw up. Yeah, yeah,
when the injury report came out. I also vomited on the public transit
situation. I was in your guys hair back. Yeah, man, I
wish I simultaneously. Yeah, Kawhi Leonard ruled out with a left abductor strain
by the Clippers Tuesday, February thirteenth. Yeah, that is the information we
have. We had no indication that that was gonna happen. He has looked
tired. I think that's fair to say he's not tired, but he's been
working really hard. Clippers have had an absurd schedule. The abductor strain is
not something that seems like cut and dry injury time thing. We had some
speculation from La Murray about it that we'll get into, but yeah, I
don't know, Adam, how are you feeling? This kind of means we're
gonna talk about the Warriors game, we might as well kind of talk about
it now. It really changes things ahead of that game. But bigger picture,
what's your scale of worry? I have lit a candle for those of
you on YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast. You can see my candle
is lit that nothing else crazy happens. Adam Oils, I'm not overly concerned
at this point. I'm guessing this means he'll miss the All Star Game,
and quite frankly, when you're a team that is only going to be defined
by what happens in the postseason, and we have evidence by that before because
Kawhi Leonard won the All Star Game MVP and then no one cared when they
ended up losing to the Denver Nuggets in the postseason in the bubble. So
I feel like, especially for someone like Kawhi Leonard, it's all about what
happens in the postseason, and if this gives him extra rest on other parts
of his bodies that could be his body that could be aching right now.
Okay, as long as it's not some long lingering issue going on. Last
six games from him, he's still averaging twenty five on fifty three percent,
shooting fifty four percent from the outside. So as much as he has struggled
or played down to a level we haven't seen over the last two and a
half months because he's been so god teer, he still has been pretty damn
good. So if he was playing through it, he was able to still
put up some good numbers and be their best player against Minnesota last night.
Yeah, Will where that just made me feel much more calm. Where are
you at? Mile mild concern? I feel like I would be more concerned
if it wasn't the last game before the All Star break. It seems like
timing wise makes sense, you know, get an extra couple of days of
rest. Why not? I will say, though, with the adducter stream,
what's going on with these clippers growings? We got some soft growings going
on. Uh, gotta work on that. And yeah, I'm not overall
concerned. I mean, you know, just looking at the box score last
night, two and three looked more like one oh six point five. But
you know, I'm not too concerned. Six. That's the first time I've
ever heard someone refer to I got it. Thank you, Thank you for
explaining that. Man, I don't know, I don't know. That caught
me off guard. I went right back to my alternate radio station up in
norcaw growing up Quad what O six point five? I was like, does
Will know? I used to listen to that all the time. He knows
as much about cork Bos now he's got the osseling. Yeah. So last
game, like you mentioned, last game before the All Star break, and
also it is in away game. Just stay home, Kawhi. Don't even
make the forty minute flight up to the Bay for this. I'm fine if
he hanged, if he goes to San Diego or whatever he does, Like,
just hang man, we all know you're part of the team. You've
been great this year. You don't got to be you don't got to be
there. I'd be fine with him staying home. We also didn't want Paul
Georgia to play, but he ended up playing. But that's a different thing.
So what they're two and two so far this season without Kawhi and two
of those games. The two losses were blowouts with in Okac and then back
home at Crypto against the Boston Celtics. Correct, who were the two wins
they had in there without Kawhi? Leonard let me look, I was trying
to think of that earlier, because this is why you have James Harden.
This is why you added that firepower. In case one of two pine three
or one oh six point five is out, you have somebody to fill in
some of the scoring load and help them out. And it's I mean,
going five hundred without the claw is successful. They were able to pull it
off the entire twenty one to twenty two season, small sample size, thank
goodness, so far this season. This will just be again his fifth game
miss Tomorrow Night on the year. But two of those games were extremely lopsided
losses by the Clippers. Those two losses they had without Kawhi were a little
bit alarming, and you could just see the defensive impact without him and how
much he was lacking. Here are the wins that we have without Kawhi.
We beat the Hornets and we beat the Grizzlies. Those were the two statement
wins without Kawhi Leonard, and the other two games we lost by thirty seven
points in the Celtics and nineteen to the Thunder. We're not We're playing a
team in between those four Tomorrow Night. I think the Warriors are a little
in between those two. But I mean, of course, like I'm sure
people are wondering, is there gonna be more information? No followed this team
long enough. It sucks. We we just gotta wait until maybe the pregame
presser tomorrow night from Tylu. But I don't think we're not going to be
getting any concrete information. So I'm just hoping people don't get their hopes up
for that, which seems to happen every time. What did a law Murray
say or shed light on on Twitter? Loss said, I'm not sharing the
rundown. That's privileged information. Share the cat. The cat will be back.
Trust me, those people, The cat will be back. Las said.
The fact that Kawhi Leonard has already ruled out not even a questionable tag,
suggests that it would be surprising for him to play in the All Star
Game. That injury takes several days to get over, and I think he
could be questionable at best for the OKC Memphis back to back, which is
what the Clippers come home to, which is kind of a pain in the
ass. Yeah, I hope. I mean timing wise, if you're looking
for a bright spot, it's good that it happens now. Is they have
the All Star break for him to rest up. Not just him, Paul
George beats a Zubots. The timing probably couldn't be better for this Clippers team
right now, But you don't want to have a foot out the door.
You still want to get that victory and do what you can against the Golden
State Warriors tomorrow, who are playing much better. Yeah, the Warriors look
a little terrifying right now. Uh, it's not. They're good. Not
the right time to be playing the Warriors without Kawhi Leonard For the Clippers,
they've won five in a row. They're shooting forty two percent from three on
thirty five attempts from three per game in last stretch, top five, and
assists per game in the league right now over these last five games. And
here's one that's curious, ninety six field goals attempted per game, the most
in the league over the last five games. Clippers are dead last in the
league over the last five games with eighty two. Uh, Will, how
do you feel about this matchup sans Kawhi Man, this is gonna be a
difficult one, but you really I feel like you really don't want to link
into the All Star Break on the on the back of a couple of losses.
So yeah, I don't know if this is going to be a difficult
one. This is going to be a difficult one. Who do we think?
So Amir starting right, I would assume, yeah, it'll likely be
a mere Coffee. He started with Paul George was out. I'm trying to
think though, in the four games that Kawhi Leonard was out, did a
Mir start all those games? I don't know if he did, but it
would it would make the most most sense. Let's just assume a Mire Coffee
is starting. He's playing fantastic basketball right now. I wish he got more
shots up yesterday against Minnesota, did a lot of his damage and inconsequential time
late in that ball game. But Amir has been on. He's been the
hottest player on the team, even hotter than Kawhi over the last month.
Now, obviously the volume isn't there, but he's been fantastic with his shooting
and just having the confidence to put them up from the outside. Something I'm
looking for more from Terrence man uh when Yeah, we're gonna need Terrence to
play a little bit better in this one. I mean obviously with Kawhi being
out, but people were a little he he looks tired though, too.
We said this on I said this on Twitter on the at the Clippers bot
account, Like, I think when you think about fatigue, your head kind
of goes like the Stars, right, you go to two and three and
Harden and Zoo. I mean, Amir and Terrence look tired too. They're
having to work, They're working really hard, They're playing really well. It's
very hard to play the best bath team basketball you've ever played for an entire
season for the first time kind of in your career. So those guys are
tired too, Like, But yeah, I think, I think, and
it was a mirror all four of those games that that Kawhi was out.
So it ain't broke. Don't fix it, I guess. But who's getting
the steph assignment? I assume it's going to be Terrence Man and they'll switch
with him in a mere coffee some But yeah, in PG thirteen, they
were switching everything early on in the game against Minnesota yesterday and throughout it.
But this Golden State Warriors team just blew out the Jazz on the road,
marketing and playing a team that didn't have, you know, a substantial sell
off to the point where they traded marketing in or calling Sexton or anybody like
that. So you would have thought, oh, they're kind of keeping the
group together. They're making run at the play in and they got smoked by
the Warriors last night once nine to one seven. And Golden State finally has
taken the governor off of Jonathan Kaminga. That's been the big revelation for them.
They're starting Draymon at center and they have Jonathan Kaminga next to him with
Wiggins, Steph and Klay Thompson, who's kind of assuming a new role now
not playing in some fourth quarters. He's feeling his basketball mortality or at least
having to turn into more of a role player than the star he used to
be. So this is a team that it's kind of like the pieces are
starting to come together. They're fitting very well. That game against the Phoenix
Suns had legs. I think that's why they blew out Utah to that extent.
They're just really in tune at the moment. Yeah. I was looking
at just Steph's numbers specifically over the stretch, He's taken thirteen threes a game
and he's hitting them at a cool fifty. Yeah, he's taken more threes
than ever, which is kind of saying something for the best shooter in all
time, and it's working. I mean that shot that he hit against Phoenix.
When people criticize Steph Curry all the time for not hitting shots at the
end of games, who do you want the ball? I want igodala that
type of stuff. Steph has had some of the I think he has the
best clutch numbers in the game this season. During clutch time, it's Steph
Curry by a wide margin. So they are surging at the moment the Clippers
are going to have their hands full. Well, do you think without Kawhi
will see small ball lineup? I mean, we've just been leaning into them
so much. I feel like it would make sense. Maybe you go,
I don't know, like maybe you mix it up though, and do try
to take advantage of the size against a smaller team. I mean I feel
like that, especially with like how the offense has kind of looked as of
late. But I feel like we just keep saying the same thing. But
it's like, you know, maybe get maybe get the big men going a
little bit, Maybe get some pick and roll going, get some paint touches,
Like, maybe let's do more than like dribble out most of a shot
clock and get an Isico possession. I think that'd be pretty cool. You'd
be on board with that. The Warriors have been going small. They have
this lineup of Steph Podzimski, who they really like. Wiggins. He's killed
the Clippers before, hasn't he? I think? So they're what they're two
and one, I guess them. They had the big twenty two point come
back with the Paul George game over Clay, but they lost up in San
Francisco where it'll be tomorrow. So they won two games against them at home,
and this is what the final game of the four and the PACTV Chuck.
Yeah, we played three like super close to each other. Mm hmm.
I mean Pods that had thirteen and Pods had thirteen and eight the first
time we played. Yeah, that I think that was the game I was
thinking of. Their loss to them was really after the first game where the
Clippers started to activate Kawhi Leonard going into terminator mode where they played Sacramento on
the front end, and then that next night they were in San Francisco.
They lost to Golden State. Looked a little bit gassed. But obviously there's
not a lot to take out of those games now because Golden State looks like
a completely different animal. Yeah, it's kind of like the running into a
buzzsaw just a little bit before the All Star break, which I don't feel
super good about. It does make picking of the player of the game a
little bit easier. The Kawhi Leonard player of the game. Oh, Adam,
we don't know if you were there for this. Someone on YouTube had
the great idea that since we can't pick Kawhi Leonard as player of the game,
the award should be called the Kawhi Leonard Player of the Game Award so
he can still be No, it's perfect. Our listeners are brilliant, smart
people. I've always said everyone who listens to the podcast is very smart.
For the most part, Adam, who is your Clippers player of the game
against the Warriors, Kawhi Leonard? Excuse me? Who is your Clippers Kawhi
Leonard player of the game. Pick I'm gonna go with the guy criticized earlier.
It wasn't Steph Curry. It was Terrence Mann, who just I think
he got up three shots against Minnesota. He simply hasn't been aggressive enough.
As well as he is shooting the ball, it's on a very small sample
size right now. In twenty twenty four, when he turned it around from
the outside, I need to see him put him up now. He's still
enough of a threat that Rudy Gobert in that game yesterday closed out on a
three pointer with him. He took him off the dribble and went to the
basket and got the layup. That was his only made shot. But Terrence
Man has to be more aggressive right now. If you're gonna be the starting
lineup next to two, one, three, you do have to take advantage
of the opportunities that you get to maintain being that thread out there on the
court, so you make life easier on everyone else. So without Kauai in
this one, I want to see him get up ten shots. I do.
I want to see Terrence Man play with Forest, get downhill. It
feels like it's still just a down off year for him right now. It
is. As much as he has shot the ball better from the outside in
twenty twenty four, we still haven't had enough of those signature Terrence Man games.
He was great against Boston in that blowout victory they had on the road,
but there haven't been enough games where he's made his mark and you really
felt his presence. Now, he doesn't hurt you most of the time either,
and that's the good thing about him. But I just I want the
Golden State Warriors have to deal with the impact of Terrence Man playing with confidence
because when they have had comebacks over the years, when they have had big
victories, his fingerprints were all over those. He would always make an impact,
especially in second halves of ball games, just being that spark out there.
I need that from Terrence Man tomorrow. Adam needs it. Have we
considered that PJ. Tucker is maybe sapping Terrence Man's shooting ability so he can
have it when he gets his shot called he's rogue, Yeah, maybe yeah,
he's rogue. Yeah. Terrence being really good is gonna We're gonna need
him to crack this Warriors defense, who their offense has been playing great.
Their defense has one hundred and four rating over the five games, and that's
all aside from him having to guard Steph Curry and doing a good job there.
But I also need his offense in this game, is what I'm saying.
Yeah, will you're Kawhi Leonard player of the game pick for Clippers rous
Warriors. I'm going with Norm. I know that we're only like two games
removed from an eighteen point performance in that loss to the Pelicans, but I'm
ready for I'm ready for some nuclear Norm, right. I'm ready for him
to kind of go off. And I think that think that could just be
kind of a spark that we kind of a spark that we need to get
over this team because he can get hot. Our defensive penalty doesn't stopping himself.
He can get hot. Score some points. Score some points, boys,
Chuck, I'm gonna go someone who we're gonna talk about in the next
segment who got criticized a little bit on Twitter with some fair points when it
comes to playing teams uh with size. I know that's not the Warriors,
But I'll tell you who's really gonna help the Clippers play well without Kawhi Leonard,
James Hard. We need James Harden to be aggressive with the ball.
We need to have him make it. He's usually made the right read.
Turnovers haven't been bad, but when they come, they kind of it's in
bundant, you know it's it's in multiple in a row, is what it
feels like. So James Hard, give us a triple double? Very doable.
We need it against this version of the Warriors. Please give us,
I will say please. Long history of going up against the Golden Sea Steph
Curry also a very weird aside. This was pointed out by a Twitter user
at selene Ft. Third season in the row where the Clippers play the Warriors
on Valentine's Day? Is that right? It is no love lost. They
should to keep doing that and into it just cause why not. Why not
be the only team that has a weird Valentine series like once a year something.
Do it. Who's the Clippers record in those Valentine's Day matchups? I
don't know off the top of my head. You gotta go to Basketball Reference,
buddy, stat muse, buddy, you better get to basketball records like
a pioneer Basketball Reference take your child. Yeah it's the dust bowl. I
was a stat I was the guy. I was the stat guy, and
then Basketball Reference tickard jobs. All right, we're getting off the rails.
We got to talk about we gotta fill Will in on what happened against a
very large Timberwolves team last night. It's indicative of some other issues maybe the
Clippers have. We're gonna talk about that after this break. If you're listening
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the Clippers size issue talk coming up in three two one, Hey, welcome
back in to Clips and Dip. We decided collectively the sky isn't falling after
Kawhi Leonard is going to be out to the last game before the All Star
break. But we're coming off the heels of kind of a recurring theme.
I know, I know a lot of fans out there are worried about it.
So we're gonna talk about it. It's the Clippers verst size and I,
as I stated, I was unfortunately unable to catch this game. So
what wait, where are you guys at? Tell me what went wrong?
Well? They were up by fourth a half after a fast and furious run
to end the second quarter. Knock down a couple of three pointers. James
Harden hits a buzzer beater. Then they start the third quarter and the t
Wolves going in at o run and they had taken I think there's just six
free throws in the first half, and they took thirteen in the third quarter
alone. Anthony Edwards had just six points in the first half, and I
think he had thirteen points in the third quarter alone. We're numerology stuff going
on, but the game kuinky dicky. They unraveled at the end of that
third quarter. And I'm not putting it on one guy, but it was
a rough stint from Russell Westbrook. It was a rough stint in the game
from Terrence Man offensively, just not being aggressive enough. And at the end
of that third they lose that quarter by twenty one points. They lose the
game by twenty one points. They got outscored forty to nineteen in the third
quarter. That was the game right there. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone.
I'm pointing figures of me. It was on me. Guys, start
with yourself. But I some of those miss layups, Okay, he missed
two layups and a dunk in the span of I don't know, four possessions
and it turned. It turned into seven points going the other way. And
it's just it's been happening more and more frequently, especially against good teams with
size, which we'll talk more about here. I appreciate the aggressiveness and trying
to go at Rudy Gobert. It wasn't happening. I thought he had a
really good stint in the first half. But in that third quarter, the
Clippers they let go of the rope a little bit. He took five frees
he should never be taking. They dared himze, they dared they was funneling
to Russ on the perimeter, and that's a win. Look, I love
good chaos. Russ. His first two possessions were good chaos. He got
to the rim and he you know, he made a layup and he got
fouled, and then it was like, dude, five threes. It's like
fuck, Like, that's what a free safety does. With a team like
Minnesota, who defends so well already that if they can just play free safety,
it's like, sure, take the threes, Russ, Well, gladly,
let you take five threes. I didn't lose this the game, but
it doesn't. It didn't help. So yeah, I mean it's it's so
easy to game plan, you know, like you he gets all he gets
a ton of space to shoot the to shoot open threes, and then I
just feel like even when he's going into the basket, it's like, don't
get in front of him, don't risk a foul, just be ready,
just be ready to grab the defensive board and take it to the other end,
like he's gonna miss, don't even miss. My issue is if you're
gonna go small, which they did, and that's how they ended the first
half, and they kind of caught the Timberwolves by surprise. They went small
at work. It can work in spurts. It has in the past against
Rudy Gobert. Guess what, guys, this is not the Utah Jazz from
twenty twenty one. They have all these great perimeter defenders. I've talked about
it before the first matchup against the Timberwolves. They have been the number one
ray of defense from pretty much the first week of the season on. They
have consistently been great on that end. They have the best personnel to guard
the Clippers that I have seen of any team in the two pin to three
era they do outside of what they bring with Rudy Gobert to support that,
and the Clippers are going small in the third again, it's like, well,
if you're gonna go small, why not do it. If you're gonna
call it five out, all five guys need to be able to shoot right
real five out. Russell Westbrook is not a shooter. He's also not finishing
at the rim, So what exactly is he doing to benefit them in this
five out lineup to try to spread out that tough defense? And look,
I love Russ, but for net chaotic, highly volatile ball doesn't always work
against great teams with great defenses, and especially in the postseason in a seven
game series like I don't think it's a good matchup for us at all.
But they've been playing him more and trying to make it work with two to
three and James Harden and overall it has worked much better the last couple of
months. But when you go against big teams like this and you're trying to
go five out and spread them out, what is the role with Russ?
Oh, he's a rebounder, he pushes the pace. I don't see it.
I don't see how it's gonna be effective against a defense that good right
in the Minnesota Wolves. I'm curious your guys' thoughts on this because you know,
once again recurrent thing. Not to dump on Russ. He does some
great stuff. No, but when we have games like this versus like a
really good Russ performance, like which one do you think lineup wise TYLERU is
taking more data from? Because I I think, like we know, Tyler
is a sample sized guy, right, like which one of these are are
making it into his journal and which ones are? Like you know why journal
makes me not that's exactly what it is. I don't know why you keep
I do. But it's just funny to think of when I hear think about
Tyler riding in a journal, it's like, anyway, I think he takes
the good ones, and it's he's a point guard guy, like this isn't
this is? Do you think he's learning nothing from these? When it's it's
not saying he's learning nothing from these when it's a bad stretch. That's that's
a bit of a jump there. I think the minutes restriction on Zoo makes
things way harder than Tyler's letting on and again I don't mean that in like
a goddamn for those of you listening, Will has made my name smarter than
Tyler, which I'm not. But I just it's just kind of weird right
now. Right you got the Zoo thing, and I'm not putting it all
on that, but I think he takes the good things. He's a point
guard guy. Like it doesn't It wouldn't surprise me if if that, you
know what I mean. Like, part of the problem was not only was
he on a minute's restriction, Zuo just hasn't looked like himself yet. He
picked up his fourth foul I think early in the third quarter, and that's
when he said, okay, if it we're going small. You know why,
because Mason Plumbley gave them nothing in the first half. Mason Plumbley has
to play much better than he has since coming back from injury against the bigger
teams, which is why you have him. He has to be more effective
out there. I don't know what's going on with him, if he's still
working himself back into his own rhythm, if he's still getting back in shape.
Because that was a serious knee injury, we were concerned that, hey,
he could be out for the season. It looked bad, it was
scary, but he just had nothing for him in the first half. And
I mean he had a turnover I think on his first possession. Yeah,
point Plumb, Like we're not just talking about doing the things that big men
do. He's playing outside of himself, turning the basketball over, making terrible
decisions. I've been a little bit like, I love big Plumb as much
as anyone. You know that, but I've been a little bit surprised of
late gonna speed right past that. So I'm curious about that too. Like
Todd, like Tys only saw him in garbage time, seems like he's been
the one who's the odd man out rotation. He got in late in that
third when things completely went to hell. He was on the court, I
believe when Russ was trying to go downhill. It takes a zoom and its
restriction and plumbing to be playing really bad that day, and that's when Daniel
Tys gets in the game. We're talking about something like a thirty five to
eleven run from the end of the third into the fourth by Minnesota. I
mean forty to nineteen's already crazy. That was the whole twelve minutes right there.
Yeah, the Tys thing is interesting. There's a contingent of people who
want the Clippers, and again, Will You've talked about this every year.
The Clippers have two centers, it doesn't matter. People want them to play
together. People want ty Lu to try Daniel Tye and a Vitza Zubats out
there together, or like, let's not, let's not, it's not guys,
guys, okay, let me let me point this out offensive. They
tried PJ. Tucker next to a Vitza Zubats. I know it was ineffective,
but you tried it. Sure, the small ball was ineffective. It's
it's not gonna work for a sustained period of time because it just takes the
legs out of Kawhi and Paul George when they have to play defense. When
Kawhi is having a guard Rudy Gobert and getting dunked on like that, that
has an effect on the other end eventually. That's why I'm saying it's a
little bit on the gimmicky side to play small against a team this big.
You might have to find some other solution, That's all I'm saying. And
the only way to find it is to actually try some things out there.
Daniel Tys is shooting forty percent from three. I know it's on like forty
shots from the outside, it's not. It's not a very nigehball funnel into
Tyson now on the perimeter. No, but I'm saying, if he's wide
open and still making those three pointers as he has been with teams playing off
of him, you can hurt teams that way until they stop it, or
until he starts going cold from three. How about we see what a bigger
sample size could actually look like with him out there. I just looked about
Russie everything. It's twenty eight percent. Sorry, and you're you're not wrong,
but I didn't realize. I just don't know like that, the the
Tyson and Plumbly thing, or the Tyson zoo, or the whatever combination of
the two of the three centers we have playing together. I'm saying it's unlikely
to work. Also, what has been happening is unlikely to work. So
why don't we try this other thing we haven't even gone to yet? Again,
they tried PJ next to Zoosy. When is PJ coming back in March?
Fuck? Hey, hey, hey, cheers, so that man maybe
tomorrow against Draymond. I don't know, it's a good call. Law Murray
brought up an interesting thing kind of when asked on This is the Law Murray
episode when asked how Clippers can improve against a team like the Wolves, and
I mentioned that the Timberwolves give you the mid range, but the Clippers,
in Law's words, in this game, they didn't run around or move,
so it makes the game a little bit harder than on them than maybe it
could be or something like that. Kawhi's Bill Adam, you and I talked
about this post game on five seventy. Kawhi is built to beat the Timberwolves.
His offense is perfect for this, right, Like it's it's right there
in that mid range. You know they're giving those spots. But I'm like,
you're pointing at him about defensively, like how he's getting worn down in
these lineups, And that's one of those things that has to be has to
be considered. Just because he can do it on both ends of the floor,
it doesn't mean that he should. And like it's different. Obviously in
the playoffs that's a completely different beats, but in the regular season, that's
It's just a lot to ask of your stars, especially in a in a
season where you're already getting the best production out of them that you've gotten maybe
in the entire two whenever. Yeah, and well, and I mean that's
part of it, right, like you're getting because of the availability and and
just how they've approached the season this year. But yeah, I like your
point about how it's too taxing for those guys and those are that needs to
be the biggest goal is preserving both of those guys for the playoffs. I'm
even fine, Like you know, we've been talking about seeding, and obviously
we want to stay top three, but like those guys, those guys' health
and optimum performance is like first, second and third for me, healthy three
seed over limping into the playoffs of course, I mean anytime, like at
any time, especially in the West right now, because I don't think there's
that big of a difference. It's it's matchup dependent. But between some of
those teams that you could be seeing in the first round anyways, there are
some If Golden State or the Lakers get in there and you're playing one of
them, that's a really tough opponent in the first round. If it's the
Pelicans, if it's the Sacramento Kings. There there's no easy out going on
the West. And I don't think there's as much of a difference. I
know there's four teams that have separated themselves, but I'm not sure there's as
much of a difference as there is record wise talent wise, because the Phoenix
Suns are what currently fifth round if the playoffs started tomorrow, that's one of
the most talented teams on paper in the league. Their record is injury influenced
in not building up chemistry yet with Bradley Beal, but lately they're much better
than that. So, as Will said on Your Guys last show on the
Live, like, you're not playing the record, you're playing the team now
what they look like now with the personnel they have now available. Yeah,
which is funny because we were just talking about the exact same thing with the
Warriors who were playing tomorrow, Like we're not playing the last in the pack
day Warriors or whatever it is. Bill Parcells was wrong. You are who
your record says you are. I'm sorry, there's no context to that.
Speaking on the mid range thing, I picked Harden to be the player of
the game. He's getting put in the mid range and it's kind of helping
defenses. He's shooting thirty four percent on driving floaters and he's shooting thirty eight
percent on pull ups within the perimeter. So like hardened in the mid range.
We've we asked him to do the catch and shoot thing. He did
it. We love it, wonderful results. We gotta hope these shots start
falling because that little lob, the thing that looks like a lob to zoo,
but it's really a floater, Like that's not really going in right now,
you know what I mean, Like the deceleration is there. He's one
of the best guys. A's stopping and you know, on a diamond things
like that. But the shot has to start following because if he gets going
in the mid range, I feel infinitely better than if he's not. Against
the team specifically like the Timberwolves, and even though they're giving you the mid
range, it's like, well okay, but it's still Jade McDaniel's guarding you
in the mid range. They're not giving it to you. They're just all
that means is go Bear is in drop like he's not gonna come help and
he doesn't need to because they have really good defenders already. Yeah, Jane
McDaniel's Federal Way legend. This is the point that you were making earlier in
the show, Chuck, I think right off the top. But it's not
just that you're losing to a team with size. You're losing to one of
the best teams in the NBA that happens to be big. Now, maybe
there's some correlation there too, because I don't know size matters right now in
the NBA are starting to go back that direction. But the Timberwolves are just
really damn good. They've been the best defense all season long, and they
wrecked the Clippers yesterday, who understandably, Yes, they weren't completely sharp.
They didn't have Big Zoo going thirty minutes, and they didn't have a fresh
Paul George Kawhi Leonard, But that's what you deal with with a lot of
squads right now at this time of the year. It's not just the Clippers
waiting for the All Star break to get right. It's a lot of teams.
Yeah, we had some people on Twitter. We just kind of asked
people how they were feeling. We had a couple size takes will what do
you think of Uh, there were some rational takes, I would say,
Uh, for the most part. On here drift to to music said,
I feel the same as I ever did, even prior to the hardened trade,
Clippers need size. I will stand on that hill until it's addressed.
First time I ever heard stand on that hill as a person to die.
He's not die, he's just chilling die. He's looking down at the dead
bodies of people who doubt his philosophy. Out of that before the heart trip,
Like what more size did you want when with like Roco and Batom and
stuff on the team, Like how much bigger could we have really gotten?
You want the double? You want to do the double centers at one time?
Uh? I Look, it's an issue. I think they're built to
like to be good in small ball lineups. They like, you know,
certainly on paper, the personnel and everything makes sense. And I don't know,
like I'm still you know, you know, right, Like we've seen
this only obviously in the regular season, and I do trust that it's something
that we'll be able to manipulate a little bit more in a seven game series.
But it's it's kind of like we were talking about before. Uh,
for the most part, these offenses of these bigger teams really struggles like that,
you know, they already kind of struggle and what they've been able to,
uh certainly stymy the Clippy Clippers so far in the regular season. I
don't know that you would hold out on that for a seven game series.
And if the Clippers are getting stops of their own onto an already like poor
offense, I mean, like mediocre, Like I'm still liking that battle.
I I agree it would be nice to have an extra wing. I'm surprised
we we we missed out on that young which is another great pickup by the
Suns, that that would have been nice getting getting another wing or something in
there. But like we have three bigs uh occurring, Adam, we should
play two of them together. We're just a little limited realistically what we can
realistically do. And I think we were all on the same page of like
even at the trade deadline, like how much of this rotation are you willing
to give up to get the guy? And like what you know, who
is ultimately that guy that really vaults you over that you would be like now
trade now. The size of this team is perfect. The personnel is perfect.
Everything about this team is perfectly. It's just it's never gonna happen.
Man, and that guy would They would have had to put together some crazy
offer. So the second apron make things weird for every team. There's a
bunch of stuff going out around that, Like the reason the traded line was
quiet because all these owners are like, the fuck is the second apron.
A lot of it is just Zoo needs to get back to one hundred percent
because I'm getting incoming about this issue all the time on Twitter to somebody's saying
we can't beat anyone with size, the Cavs, the Tea Wolves, the
Pels, the Lakers. It's like, Okay, how many games did Vita
Zubats actually play against those teams? And how many games was he not on
a minute restriction? Oh? Like none of them? Uh the first two,
I guess against the Lakers, and you could say he dominated Anthony Davis
in that second game and the Clippers probably still should have won that. But
Mason Plumley has to play better. That has to That's part of the solution.
Mason Plumbley has to play better. He's supposed to be one of the
best backup bigs in the league, considering he was starting for a team,
granted it with Charlotte, but he was having a career year. So maybe
it's just health, timing rhythm for him. And then it beats a Zubots.
It's getting back to one hundred percent and getting back in that flow he
was with James Harden or maybe it's Timezi Metsu maybe sign all the bigs.
Well, what's this right? Why don't you read this take from blank Slate
because this is one that I think I think Adam is going to have things
to say about, which I'm excited for. All right, So blank Slate
said, uh, Louis and Tyler needs to reset. The offense should be
less focused on ISO to get the stars going and more on quicker ball movement,
getting the ball from side to side, using paint touches to set up
threes, back door cuts, and more space for the one on one attacks
role players not getting enough goal attempts Adam. Let's say, let's just upend
the offense completely. Tyler Loue criticized the team last night for kno getting the
ball side to side, for not moving it enough along the perimeter. The
message was there the players didn't do it enough. I think there's a shot
factor when you're going up against a team that always has a hand in your
face on every shot like Minnesota had last night, when typically you're the best
three point shooting team in the league because you were finding open shots and they
weren't last night. So a bit of a culture shock for the Clippers,
even though they had played them once. That's how good the Timberwolves are defensively.
They're They're the best defense by a significant margin so far this season.
It is alarming that we basically heard Kawhido say the same thing about the offense
a couple of weeks ago. We were all really excited considering like where the
Clippers were in their hot streak, and it's still more of the same.
Or is this just fatigue handing into the All Star breaking it? Literally?
Their offensive rating going into that game last night was one twenty three since November
seventeenth, it was historic, reset it hundred. So tylu should change it
because there's one team that gives them problems. Uh, And it's really more
about a roster thing than an offensive principal thing. Twenty nine different strategies,
one for each team, all right, smarter than TYLERU give us the intel,
tell us what to do. No, I think I think it's crazy.
I think it's right. Like reset the offense, what does that even
mean? Rotation player just gets ten to attempts boom boom, Yeah fifty right
there, we're starting five. You're doing good. Uh yeah, I don't
know. And it's also yeah, so it'sine. Let's call it what it
is. The point you made about the adjustment, there was a Kawhi got
the ball in the paint yesterday, went up to do like a layup,
saw Rudy and and then had to go out and do this awkward look.
He made it do this awkward looking fade away, and you don't love that
play? I did too. But it was a perfect an example of like
this team is gigantic. You're playing the biggest best team in the league,
so that one of the biggest teams ever. Really when you have Rudy Gobert
and katyays Reid who comes in off the bench and is this Sam as large
as well? The Clippers have an ant issue too. He's very good and
usually tends to figure things out. They may have no answer for him when
he's at his best. Nobody does right, just like you know, just
like Kawhi, there are tradeoffs, like when we talk about, oh,
the Clippers don't have this to match up with this team, every other team
is going, damn, how do we match up with the Clippers in this
way? That is the league. There are no perfect teams. It's just
how well can you mask your flaws in the seven game series. No perfect
teams, just perfect fans. That's that's all we got. In the NBA.
We had some not insane takes, which was nice to see. Most
of them were not crazy. Dub twelve twenty said, it's February our biggest
coming off injury with time limitations. We just got back from a two week
Grammy trip, playing eight games in thirteen days. It's the week before All
Star. Let's not overreact losing to a good team. Note the things we
learned in the matchup and apply later. Love that. Thank you, Dub.
There were some good things in the journal. Put it in the journal.
Bro. They got to go at Mike Conley Moore, Yeah, yes
they did. They did. It was effective, although the Tea Wolves picked
up on it pretty quickly and a double came. But that's how Paul George
got a couple of looks and he and Kawhi Well, on that play you
mentioned Kawhi instead of going in the restricted area, he backed it out and
had the six foot fade away. They were intent on getting into the basket.
On that play where Paul George crossed up Anthony Edwards, he tripped obviously,
but he went at Rudy Gobert for a really acrobatic lefty layup. It
was incredible, and they didn't shy away. They kept testing him. That's
what has to be done against Minnesota. You gotta understand going into it,
you're gonna lose some of those battles. It doesn't matter. You have to
keep going at him. That's just where it is. So I think there
was some game plan stuff that I like there. I also think uh and
maybe Wilson Seddon Adam. Do you think that this game was managed like a
playoff game would be by TYLERU. I don't think there were. I think
we're gonna see a couple different avenues the Clippers take in the playoffs against this
team. Well, one because zoo Bots on a minister restriction just kind of
upends all the rotations and lineups and minute allocations. But yeah, I don't
think coach lou ever gives too much away during a regular season, especially against
a team where you might likely have to see them in the playoffs. I
just don't. I think, like what Will was saying earlier, you know,
it just still feels like the Clippers in a playoff series have a few
more moves, have a few more tricks up their sleeve that we have not
seen at all this season. In fact, coach who talked about it recently,
they're still putting in some of the offense and will be during the All
Star Game. They haven't even you know, uploaded all the offensive game plans
yet and all the schemes. So this is still a team that has James
Harden, who's been on the team for what forty games now, And I
think that may come into effect with some of the floaters being missed here and
there. I think there's a comfortability issue because when he goes to that floater,
part of how he gets that shot off is because of the threat of
the pick and roll. It gets him to that point, but then you
don't know if he's gonna throw a lob or get the floater and I think
he's been a little bit still indecisive at times with that in between shot there,
so it could get better. There's nothing like a business trip to Indiana
to get the vice right, to get everything nailed out. That's what they
need. Well, do you have any more thoughts on the Clippers versus large
teams before we we have to do another outbreak? No? I don't think
so. Do you guys want to see them pick up someone still? I
said met to. I don't know, man, Okay, let me let
me ask you this. If this game last night happened before the trade deadline,
do you think they would have made a move? Do you think this
game was that much of a red flag gir alarming because they had red They
had red flags before this game and the same they have the same red flag,
I guess, but it's like, now you get them twice at home,
you lose by twenty one. This time, there's a little bit more
data now that's true. I don't know. I don't know if that would
make the front office, you know, feel a little bit more urgency to
bring someone else in. I still think it's Plumbing's got to play. Betters
played better, and they're still figuring out with zoo Back, like who gets
to play each night and how much with those guys give me the name Adam
goes straight. I call him zoo Back. When he doesn't play good,
zoo block zoo Back. Yeah, all right, coming up, we're gonna
be talking. The Clippers are gonna retire at least one Jersey into it,
it seems. And then the All Star break is in La and we have
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got ads coming up in three two one. Welcome back. In Clips and
Dip season two, episode fifty one, I'm Adam Mas and we got Chuck
Mockler in Will Updike here. We'll also have tomorrow night a little Clips and
Double Dip. I think Will's coming on. But then again, if the
Clippers lose the Golden State Wars, it could be Chuck. It's a loss
of town. Uh so a little bit of miscellaneous here to close things out,
guys there hiring a jersey at Into It Dome. I didn't get the
email, h so maybe Chuck if you got it. It's not on Twitter.
Someone tagged me, I'm okay, Well what did What was the verbiage?
How did they describe it? Basically, let me find this damn tweet.
I did get the memo thank you for Oh this is from Ron Seal.
Oh, thank you for trita status. Ron. He's been a listener
for a very long time. So check out POC culture, uh he said.
The email says, as we get closer to moving into Into It Dome,
we got to wondering who do our fans think is most deserving of a
jersey retirement? If and when we reached that point somewhere down the line,
so we thought we'd ask this. It would be fantastic if you could complete
a super quick survey on this four questions only. The survey will be open
through Wednesday, y February fourteenth. Wow, great copy. Who do you
guys think is going to get their jersey retired at into It? They gotta
put something up for Ralph. I don't know if it's a jersey, they
could be mustache for Ralph would be very fun. Chae Kurn has a jersey,
right, yeah, is freaking statue. Yeah, I'm about Bob McAdoo.
But I mean that doesn't matter when you're talking or the Clippers, especially
because they have gone back with versions of the old Buffalo Braves jerseys. They've
implemented that into their city editions over the years. Yeah, yeah, I
mean I think like it's gotta be all of the big three from Bob City,
Like they're no matter what people's feelings or whatever. Like, I don't
think the Clippers are not going to retire Chris, Paul, Blake and DJ's
numbers. Oh, they definitely should. I don't know if it's not gonna
happen anytime soon, obviously with two of them still technically playing, but no,
three of all three are still playing. Blake is you know, a
free agent at the moment. But should we sign Blake? Would we have
beat the Timbrels if we signed Blake? Do you guys call last night?
Oh? Yeah, I bet I got the tin? Uh? Will anyone
else? Who do you think is going up there? Me? Last got
to get up there. I thought I'd love lou Will's jersey to be retirement.
I think that is totally Yeah. I would I would really like I
would really like both the bet you guys like, I would love if Jamal
and Williams both who's got retired. I know we'll probably get shipped on for
that by like the wider media or whatever. Those guys were kind of wider
media, I mean, wider fan days or whatever. Mainstream media hates this
pot, I'll tell you that much. I don't know. I think it
would be cool. It's what four total six man a year awards that they
it's cool that we're one Clippers like, I mean, I think that's kind
of cool. I'd like to see Elton Brand and that red jersey get retired.
Elton Brand was part of a team and the leader of it that helped
put the Clippers on the map, that six team that went to the second
round and had his best years as a Clipper. He was dominating one probably
one of the more underrated players in the game at that time. Before the
Achilles injury, Elton Brown was an absolute beast. Yeah. Do you think
we could do like a co jersey retirement and be like Baron Davis and Laura
Dern just to commemorate that one month. While that'd be cool, do you
think's visor's going up that should? Did you see people people were like crapping
on the clippers for putting jerk like the high school jerseys up too, And
I'm like, what what's wrong with you? Like truly, what's wrong with
you? Let us have our stuff. It's our house, we could have
whatever stuff we love. I mean, you would you would just be so
I just feel like he would be so psyched on that if you you know,
when you visit as a kid, you know, yeah, that's it's
great raiding the city and what are we How could you criticize that? I
hate the youth and I hate the city. That's right, That's what people
are saying, Like, what the that's the for this episode? But it's
not even like it's not even like it's it's like southern California, Like it's
like even larger than just Yeah, people who don't like that can go to
hell. I think those are all good retirement options. If you don't like
our options, leave a comment and we'll thumbs down it or let us know
on Twitter what you guys think. I don't think Danny Manning's making it still
have good years cool, but I don't know if he's I don't know.
No disrespect to the Manning family, the Danny Manning family, I don't know
about Peyton. All right, we're gonna play a little Love Mary Quarantine here.
They all start breakers in LA. I want to, oh mcghetty to
have spicy spaghet that makes sense. Put he and mcguet he and Elton brand
in the same day. That'd be great. You could put the knuckleheads in.
Yeah, I was gonna say that would be good because there's like eras
you know that. I feel like i'd retire all the jerseys if it was
my way, no one would have any numbers. We'd have to make up
new numbers. Yeah, I guess they didn't think about implications of that,
like you can't use the number. I'm number forty seven the unlicensed old NBA
games, which you can't have a city or a number. You can pick
a number between ninety nine and eighty two. That's what you can wear on
my friend. Goofy numbers though, would be kind of fun. Yeah,
I would. I would. I'm a fan of that, all right.
The All Star Break is in LA. We we had a thing on here
to guess Kawhi and pg's stat lines. But I think we all want zero's
across the board for the All Star Game for those two guys don't play.
Yeah, we'll play and take a really funny foul someone really funny, and
then the game is really a tough watch. It has become a complete spectacle
of just people mocking the NBA and how middle these guys care. Like it
doesn't make sense if you're gonna have all these spectacular highlights. They kind of
only work nowadays because we've seen everything when someone's trying to play defense against it.
At the same time, when it's just open gym stuff, it's not
nearly as impressive. Yeah, it's not like it's just not indicative of the
talent level of any of the players participating in the All Star In the All
Star Game, if I honestly, I don't understand who it's for to be
like to be perfect little kids. I think is grow the game, but
like you're gonna be excited about the game, like watching some kind of shitty
basketball. Kids don't know ball, so yeah, that's why you hate them.
And then when you realize how much it sucks. That's your coming of
age ball moment, like, yeah, people guys don't care. Yeah,
they're not being competitive. Yeah so they also sure, So the All Star
Game is in Indiana? What are we gonna do? How can Clippers players?
I totally got this wrong and wrote this if the alcar game was in
LA. So I totally whiffed this. So this is for next year?
I said, I know I got it wrong. I wrote this like seven
hours ago when I was tired. So that's my bad. How are the
Clippers players when the So you thought that the AL Game was going to be
in l A this whole time, just this morning? Oh okay, because
when I was writing the rundown, I was like, oh, ship,
let's get this going. Do you think you were busy this weekend? Not
at all? Not at all? When the Also game is in LA as
everyone knows is next year. Uh I'm thinking of why is Clippers players can
make people feel welcome. It's a big it's hard to traverse. The options
here are Paul George puts in a shift for the d t l A safety
team, which if you've been to downtown LA, are the people in the
purple shirts who ride the bike and give you directions and protect you from maybe
some situations happening. The other option Russell Westbrook Star Maps tour guide. He's
in the van, he's got the mic. Maybe you're doing his version of
Stars. People feel welcome. Third option James Harden handing out free samples of
his wine as you leave your gate at lax you enter the city. You
know how Hawaii you get the lay. I feel like it should be on
the plane because that's like wait, every flight to lax Hey, for those
twenty one and over, you can get a free glass for everyone. Any
ticket and customer gets. Oh yeah, they still try to cut it with
a ton of ice and go cheap on you. Yeah yeah, just because
like when you get out at the airport, it's like, man, I
gotta get my bag. I'm assuming he's handing these out in glass. You
know, it's a very larger glass like wine last I'm like, I gotta
carry this around and go get my bag. And it's got a top with
a straw coming out of it. You gotta get on the gotta get on
the stupid shuttle to get to the to get to the uber lift pickup I
mean, I got I'm busy, I can't hold the glass of wine,
all right, So you're not liking the line one? Which one do you?
Which? I think Paul George downtown on a bike. Yeah, I'm
I'm I'm loving that. I think I'm marrying to Russell Westbrook Star to War
though. That's great. Yeah, Russ would crush that, Adam. Yeah,
I'm going with Russ first, then the one with James Harden, then
cyclist p It's not a night shift for Paul George either. He's there in
daytime hours, so he's not by the CVS on seven games. Then I
saw one of those guys one time. I'm like, they're you know,
they're like on the mountain bikes, Uh, trying to pass a car in
a right hand turn lane on the right side. It was very slow.
It was very slow. But like they came off the bike obviously. Hey.
Sometimes Hey, they were fine. They were totally fine. They were
they were they were just a little embarrassed. What are you gonna do?
Uh? Sometimes you're in the zone, you know, you think you're you
put that purple polo on. You know, you're not seeing anything you have
you're out blinders up, dude, you're going as fast as you can.
You had to help blood doping running through you. Yeah, you had to
help someone find the fancy peanut butter and jelly place at Grand Central. I
don't even know if that place is still there. All right, Adam,
do you have the giveaway item? We barely tease this up top, but
we have a giveaway folks. You stick around to clips and dip. You
will see how you can win free stuff. As we have done in the
past, given away a T shirt that became a pillow and which is er.
We now have a vizza Zoo bots. Is this a bibblehead? What
do you call it? Some people on Twitter are calling it something else?
What were they calling it chuck? I'll let people go on Twitter and figure
that out. We got the bobblehead. Yeah, bach bibble half brought to
you by Lexus Uh Josh, shout out lex I do lexis sadge. They
gave me a free car every mom I'll get there January first, that if
I could stay in that cage, if I could dance in the cage,
I do some do you guys want to guess Big Zoo's birthday because it's on
the back of this, it's like August. It's August fifteenth, Slaber the
right, No weirdo, what is it March eighteenth, nineteen ninety seven.
But you had some real stalker vibes there without Quickie Cake. There's Amber player
at my same birthday for some reason, me and Paul Georgia Moon brothers.
You're not mistaken. You're not Moon brothers. So are we doing it in
the traditional way? Here? In clipson the best comment below? Yeah,
I think that makes sense on YouTube. Yeah, we'll pick it. What
are we gonna pick it? And we're not shipping this bad boy international?
I'm sorry, we might no keep it in the States. We're not keeping
in the States, all right, I won't pay for the ship this time.
You can comment from anywhere and if we like it, could be funny,
could be insightful, we'll we'll pick this. We'll pick it on the
next episode. That seems fair, right, Yeah, it could be a
song if you write a song, you know, just a little jingle meeting
song. Oh I'm not no no jingle whole song bridge. It is in
mint condition. Let's hope of Eats Zubats gets back to that condition as well.
It perfect take. A good jingle is as good as any song.
Yeah, you know what? You know what jingle had stuck about? I
listened that cars for kids every day by myself. I have and this is
such. If anyone listening or watching knows this jingle, please, is it
gonna be O'Riley. No, It's Dino's gas station for Montana. Do you
remember those w was right here at Dino's. We know you're always on the
run. Right here at Dino's. It's been stuck in the I've been there
in seventeen years. It's been stuck in my head for three days. Hope
it's still Hope Dino's doing Okay, you've ever seen that movie Pie where the
guy takes the drill to his head at the end. That's what I'm living
right now. That's how I felt when I looked at the Clippers injury report
today. I got the ryobi, I switched in the new battery. I
put the longest drill bit. I've had a long slogan stuck in my head,
not even it's not even a jingle. What's the slogan? And then
we'll promise we will get out if you want to pay more that's your business.
If you want to save money, that's Archie concord Ford's business. Good
luck, Archie conkling forward. The only thing I remember is give no quarter.
Oh yeah, we got to get a update on that. Someone please
let us know how much rid How many nets have been ripped? None,
paints have been broken? Barely double digits. All right, we have to
get out of here. We're doing a double dip tomorrow after the game against
the Warriors. If anything happens with Kawhi and Paul George and the Alstar game,
we'll we'll talk about it. There's gonna be a preview pod the very
important games next week. We hope everyone has a good All Star break.
If you want to catch up on episodes, relive that nine game winning streak,
we have some We had some great work during that game winning streak.
If you're coping with the injury of Kawhi will where could people find old episodes
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we send people out of here. We mostly tweet at night. For those
new to the pod, we do a wonderful thing where Adam says a positive
thing at the end of the episode, Adam, what's the positivity? Day
before the third year in a row, the Clippers play the words of Valleton's
stuff. Our friend Joey Lynn asked Kawhi Leonard last night after the Clippers got
Theiroly dominated and lost by twenty one, how close they are to being a
championship caliber team, and Kawhi responded saying, quote, We're right there.
We've been winning games, as everybody has seen. There's ways for us to
get better. That's what's scary. Now is the time to turn it around.
Now. They won't have him tomorrow, but they have the All Star
breakoff. Guys, can heal up get refreshed? Before the Clippers version of
March Madness was seventeen games coming up. I love March madness. I love
that positivity. Hope everyone has a great break. Enjoy the cold weather.
It might rain, we hope you stay dry. Yeah, nothing else to
say other than the usual. Hope everyone has a great night and as always,
let's go clips.