What's going on? Clippers fans? I think I started that one. What
is going on? What is going on? Welcome to season two, episode
sixty two of Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Mockler, joined by Will
Updike. Adam Austin's going to join at some point. He's working Love Radio
right now, dealing with the upset callers. We want to thank everyone who's
listening. We want to thank everyone who's watching on YouTube right now. This
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Will's drinking wine as the Clippers lose to the seventy six Ers one twenty
one seven. We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about the Pacers
game at some point. I did have an Updike fun check on the schedule,
which Will doesn't seem excited about, but we might have to do.
I mean, look, man, this team has just become I guess what
I mean. This team has now told us who they are for several weeks.
Like the amount of five hundred ball and head scratching losses is as long
as the stretch of dominant play. So I guess my fun check is I'm
excited for May. I can make travel plans because the oh I do not
have to worry about Clippers basketball. So here's the AK, here's the VAK,
here's the VK. So for the if you're in the chat right now,
I'm assuming you know what happened. The Clippers lost to the seventy six
ers. They went down big and then battled back and then crumbled late.
We saw some The Clippers beat the Blazers twice, which was expected. The
second game, Yeah, good stuff against a really tough roster. I think
a lot of people were waiting to see what happened today to really see if
they were building off that good process, and they have not. No,
I didn't fact just to check this, but on the broadcast they were saying,
this is the first time this the Joel and beadless sixers have had a
twenty point lead on a team. So I get it. I mean,
like and and and maybe they can still hold out hope that they can turn
it around. The official Clippers guys can hear me. So I got a
new theory. The Clippers aren't just trying to overcome bad habits from this season.
We're talking about bad habits from the entire two to three era. That's
what they're facing. That's why it's so difficult right now. That's why they
can't have any consistency, because they're a team that has been consistently inconsistent the
entire time with Kawhi and Paul George, sometimes for reasons like not having guys
available, not having one or both of them, and not building up enough
chemistry out there. Sometimes because for whatever reason, they play like a team
that looks like they have I don't know, some type of championship entitlement where
they think they can flip a switch. It is extremely disappointing. Today's loss
was really disheartening, coming off what happened in Portland. It erases any goodwill
they may have built up in those two victories against the Trailblazers. You can't
lose to this Philly team without Joe el Embiid. It just cannot happen.
But I think expecting a team to having to have to overcome themselves in all
the bad habits they built up for years, it's just it looks impossible right
now. Maybe they will, Maybe the playoffs start, they're given one hundred
percent effort for forty eight minutes. But I think all of Clipper Nation right
now saying I'll believe it when I see it because it's been too much of
this for too long, and I don't care about matinee starts. Guys,
think of this logic, make it make sense. The Clippers have so many
matinee starts, it sucks. They have more than every other team. The
Clippers also are inconsistent and can't get up for those matinee stars because nobody else
has them, and it throws them off their rhythm. Here's what the math
doesn't line up. If you have so many of these matinee starts, wouldn't
you figure it out by now? Wouldn't you have wouldn't you be able to
get up for them because you're used to having so many matinee starts. I
don't get it. I gotta go. I love you, Adam, thank
you, Good luck with the callers. It is Will. You've talked about
this team had the you had the Shakespearean diagnosis that there was maybe something rotten
to the core of this team. Uh, And I think that we're seeing
that just play out again. Right, Like as Adam said, it's more
of the same. It's consistently inconsistent. It's the quasi comeback. It's you
know, it's just and then like the literal like the laxadaisical uncare of how
they treated that fourth quarter, a twenty to four run with more turnovers double
more than double the amount of turnovers as field goal as made field goals like
is insane. Yeah, and it's that's the like this team who is When
are they going to try hard for the whole time when it's not a team
like the Bulls? When are they going to remember what it felt like to
win night in a row. No, I'm not saying they're gonna win that
said this team for as long they've been in this team for as long as
they were that team. So where are they? I guess it's somewhere in
the middle of these the two teams. They're the five hundred team right now,
they're the team where hey maybe ooh, but also maybe it'll be at
the very bottom. Maybe it'll just be complete dog shit. Uh bukadein Bar,
I apologize if I pronounced that wrong, said I don't trust this team
to hold Leeds or going runs when Kawhi isn't on the floor. Great point.
They completely everyone. It felt like all the lug nuts were loosen when
Kawhi was off the floor. Today, the Publy turnover, I think someone
talked about, like, yeah, Jerry Wore were saying, the plubly pass
hilarious way to spell plubly peel uml y to a mire coffee that wasn't even
looking just turn into a turnover was so frustrating. That's the microcosm of this
Clippers team. Not blaming Amir and Plubly obviously because they're not as important as
the other guys, but the other guys are doing the same kind of thing
absolutely, yeah, which is just like there's no cohesion. I don't know,
I don't know what else to say, to be honest with you,
it's like the exact same points that we've been talking about for I mean,
since the All Star break in years. Yeah, I mean true, yeah,
it is. It does seem to roll over essentially every single year when
the team goes through these stretches. And again, I mean like this again,
this reaction, our reaction right now, I suppose, on the bright
side, is like one insane Kawhi Leonard playoffs from looking like we were way
off base about this team. Yeah, but from what we've seen as a
cohesive unit, the some of the parts are just like they're not all working
together, right, We're not getting it all at the same time we did
for a little bit. Alan Ning asking can we find players for half assing?
No, but on co on coach Chuck's team, you're getting fined for
half passing. You got a run. Do we even want to get into
Like, I don't even know if we want to get into the stats of
this game because it was first of all campaign had a season high. Because
things like that happened to the Clippers for Shislbdizl asking why did Tye even put
Plumbly out there? I believe Tys took some kind of knock or something,
and I think that he was limited and a half. Yeah he was limited.
Fair question, completely fair question, because Plumbly has been so bad.
Yeah, he went from a perfectly acceptable backup to so bad. Yeah.
Well, I put this on Twitter. He wants to be Tony Roten,
he wants to be a tiny guard so bad. We might get into some
front office stuff later. I don't right now. I'm like the stats are
shitty, right, like the most important stats. If you look at this,
what was the fast break point seventeen to eleven, But that's skewed because
the first half, I think it was thirteen to one or something like that.
The Clippers had to battle back down seventeen. Like we've just seen this
game so many times. I saw a tweet from Lot Murray that said,
last Sunday, Clippers couldn't score on the defenseless Hawks. This Sunday Clippers couldn't
stop a seventy six Ers team dead last and effective field goal percentage since Embad's
been out. Yeah, this team has been playing Portland out an MVP guy
and like and just have been poor and the Clippers found a way to be
worse. Like it's like, remember and I the healthy Clippers team found a
way to be worse. And I know we're kind of going stream of conscious
this night. Right now. I'm very excited to listen to this tomorrow if
I didn't listen to it. But not to sound like a dickhead, but
like, I don't want to see goofy things in game when we're beating up
on bad teams, when you're not able to bring any energy consistently against good
teams. I'm usually not that kind of guy. I'm usually gonna, let's
have fun kind of guy. But like this was that. I wasn't even
surprised at this happened today. That's what makes me so mad. Oh yeah,
totally, that was not even I was just like, well, yeah,
like three minutes into the fourth quarter, it's like okay, yeah,
well seeing this one know how this is? Yeah? Great? Like was
the was the fake closeout? Fun? Now? Like this team is unseerious?
Yeah, I know, I sound like such a state, Like it
feels like they're apathetic, Like there's just a complete apathy towards like any sort
of consistent competitive play. Eric Yes, Eric P says, to be fair,
the seventy six is were shooting the lights out. They were, But
there's that is fair. There wasn't They did shoot a team campaign out of
season. Hiats, that's part of shooting that well. I'm not saying the
whole thing. Part of shooting that well is feeling good enough to know that
you can shoot that well against this team. Yeah, I think you let
teams you I mean, yeah, you let teams in early. When you
give up forty in a quarter the first quarter. Yeah, I mean I'm
saying, Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You're literally setting you're literally allowing
them to get into rhythm, and you're setting the tone for what this is
going to be offensively, which is they're going to get what they want,
so hope that we outscore them. I don't know, Like, I don't
know what the rational I don't know what the rationale is. I mean,
on paper, yes, this team should with minimal defense be able to outscore
the seventy six ers given where they were in the season. But that's just
not that's not really how it works, right, you're not playing the record,
you're not just you're not just laying your stats on the field. And
you look at the bench scoring, and we're gonna get to this thing by
muchdide again, you look at the bench scoring in this one, dude,
the bench Norm has twenty Norm offsets all. I'm sorry, Norm is so
good, but like I'm worried about the bench, like it terms like I'm
like, I don't that I don't care about. Uh, the big stinks.
We've known the bench stinks. Outside of Norm. It's fine, it
is what it is. There's no acquisitions to be made. There's no playoff
eligible players. If we would have signed Jones today, things would be a
lot different. Tell you now, that's a competitor. Mukdid says, I
hate to be a pessimist, but since PG requested more odd ball reps,
the team hasn't been as cohesive. I agree, I agree, I agree.
I went on AM five seventy after this happened with Adam during the the
double dip, but I said, I don't I will see how this goes
because Paul George with the ball his hands is not very goods, his turnovers
not very good. Like not to be a dickhead, but it's like it
isn't as cohesive. There's a reason that the team was playing as well as
it was because James Harden was running the show at that point and like one
assist of five turnovers, starman Hove asking how is it the bench. We're
not blaming the bench. We went more as a whole. We're not blaming
the bench. It's not the bench. This bench stinks. They're gonna stink
like it's just it's it's everybody else. It's Paul George having one assist of
five turnovers. That's fucking insane. That's crazy. How can you be that
bad? That's comically bad. More turnovers than assists. Yeah, Boe Tilds
out of the rotation. As we all know. Hey, b West,
this is a dedicated listener right here. If you're listening, it's important to
me. It's Will's literally Will's favorite staff. Yeah. I don't know,
man, I don't know. They play tomorrow too, which is what sucks.
Uh, they're gonna get We're gonna talk about tomorrow in a second,
don't. I'm not. I don't think we're fully done talking about this game
yet. But it's just like, I don't know, man, Karens looked
good early, two quick threes, took the threes quickly, which was great.
Lack of effort on defensive rots killed. Yes, it's the same gotta
beat the same thing, And that's why this gets so horrid. That's why
it just gets so hard to like unpacked or dissect. It's like, how
many like watch another episode where the same thing happened. We'll say, the
exact same thing, the same It's the same every single time, just rinse
and repeat, man, which is why it's so frustrating. We've all everyone
in this organization since the start of two one three has been a big pillar
of it. Has been to this movie so many times. Yeah, so
many times. They're movie passing the worst movie. That's all they're doing.
Gotti. It's when movie passed. You could like they're going if he gets
tickets to Gotti or whatever for that in the move that ended up killing movie
pass. Yeah, they're going to see Gotti and they're just expecting it to
be good or different. Uh. Mario Norid says, does he Paul George
wants to be ray Aller or does he want Russell Hard to take pressure off
of him. That's been an issue too. When the team looked their best,
Paul George was a was an overpaid outside shooter. He was, but
he's very good. He was good at defense when they look their best too.
Yes, he was playing good defense too. Yeah, and I feel
like that role could be remedied with just him having a little bit more off
ball movement, you know what I mean. Which, Yeah, some of
I don't even think is on ties play design. I think it's on Paul
George. But it's all frustrating. We've seen it looks like with Paul George
handling the ball. It can be okay, it's very inconsistent. It's very
inconsistent. Yes, yeah, it got He's got a loose handle, what
I mean, Like, and I don't blame him. He's six, hey,
Like he's a big guy. Yeah, you can't handle. He's above
he's like, he's a high in terms of small forwards with the ball.
You know, I would say he's in the what like ninety first percentile.
He's good. But that's very good to be a point guard, you know
what I mean? Right, it's not Lebron. It's not Lebron handling or
something like that. Right, Speaking of point guards, James Harden he had
fourteen assists today, but he missed every single three he took. That I'm
less, Like, I can't be mad at that. I could be mad
at six from three. That's a lot of threes, what I mean,
But what do you like? What do you make of that? You're pissed,
We're pissed. I'm pissed. That sucks to go over. What do
you do with that? Shoot better next time? James? Yes, you
can't contract all you can control the shots that you take. Like, sure,
all right, I'm not that and I'm saying they were bad shots.
Most of them were pretty good shots. Yeah, I uh, this doesn't
feel This doesn't feel elite. These aren't the elite feelings that I was feeling
when the team was on a ninety of wind streak that I bought into again
again, though, I feel like this is the takeaway is this team has
looked as much like this team for as long as they did the other team
that the team that went six and one on the Grammy road trip and had
a nine game win streak. This amount of time is as long. So
what this team actually is I guess lies somewhere in the middle, but then
equates to what like a slightly above five hundream like right' I don't really know.
Oh yeah, let's uh should we try and talk about the Pacers preview?
Do we have anything else to say from this game? Zoom looked.
I guess, yeah, I don't even it's so frustrating we have guys.
We have no guys with high voters. I mean, I could be talked
to that, I could be talked into that take. I get that it
was it's rough, it's true and over it's true. Yeah, I agree
with that and that can be different again, like I, it can be
different in the playoffs, but you're just so dangerously close right now. It's
never having home court at any point during during the during the playoffs, Ingrim's
still out for two weeks, which, yeah, they're up. They're up
a half game on the Pels and they're not getting that back if they go
back because the Pels have the time breaker. Yes, so they're effectively if
they're behind. Yeah, it's double whatever behind. All right, we're gonna
talk about the Pacers game that's happening tomorrow. If you're listening to this,
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we never left, so check us out over there. Look, we've lamented
this loss to the seventy six ers. Not a whole lot of positive takeaways
from that one. But let's look ahead to the Clippers taking on the Pacers
in what seems like a really difficult matchup for them, just style of play
wise, Charles, what are you looking forward to in this game tomorrow evening
versus the Pacers? Before we get into that very quickly, x bogo project,
where do you live that you're watching games at three am? Or where
are you? Just let us know? So this is gonna be what address?
Pin, give us your address? Oh? The game about the podcast?
That makes sense? Philippines? Okay, that also been Philippines. Okay,
yeah, great, Yeah you don't. Well, I'm sorry that you
woke up at three am to watch this game. That's that's even more insulting.
That's shitty for Yeah, they should pay you something for that. Why
does Paul George not think about the international fans? You don't think about a
lot of things. So I put a thing in here that this is the
best active roster the Clippers will have played since losing to the Pels on the
fild teen, which I think is fair to say. Right, it's it's
the best active roster since the Clippers the Clippers have played Pals. Yeah,
which doesn't bode well, given what we've seen the Clippers do recently. That's
one thing too, about like the flip the switch idea, right like,
switch is broke. You just haven't beat that. You haven't like It's not
like you've been cleaning up on teams over five hundred or something, you know,
right, Like the record is bad, right I Yeah, Russ is
coming back in this one, yep, which we need. We need someone
to grab some boards, We need someone to run back in defense. People
are not doing that, so that's gonna be good. We have the best
inconsistent players of league. Thank you, Jose Goo bed uh so. So
I was looking over some very quick Pacer stats. Yeah, what do you
got? Hit me with it? I don't like how we match up to
this team. Yeah, go on. The Pacers are first in points per
game and second in offensive rating very good, Yeah, third in field goal
Have they tasted that Clippers defense yet? I feel like they might be a
historic offense against this current Clippers defense. Their third in field goal attempts per
game, first and field goal percentage, first and two point attempts per game
and first and two point percentage first and assists per game second and pace.
What are they ranking three, Where do they ranking threes? Threes? They're
just okay, so they could they could have a great game against the Clippers.
Well they're top ten, so they're they're tenth and three point percentage at
thirty seven percent. They take they take the league average. Yeah, they
take the league average right at fourteen. Here's where I think we have some
headway if the team decides and chooses to play hard, which feels sadly,
I don't like talking points like that where it's like if the team wants it
more the win. Usually I don't like those takes. With this, I
agree, we have to deal with that. I agree with you, and
it sounds it sounds like an you know, like an oversimplification or or something
that's really easy and it is to be honest with you like this. This
isn't a groundbreaking point. We're not We're not saying anything that we think is
particularly deep analysis here. It's just I feel like pretty clear when you watch
this team, a team that's willing to play more physically, play with a
little bit more. What's the word I'm looking for, Like like there's something
on the line, like play with you know, not posers. Yeah,
exactly, Posers. I feel like that's the type of team that's gonna get
a win over this Clippers team. Yeah. So here's where the Clippers,
if they choose to be good, I think could make some headway. Pacers
are not a good rebounding team. Twenty seventh is great rebound also not very
good. Pacers are twenty seventh and defensive rebounds per game and twenty sixth the
defensive rebound percentage, their twenty first and offensive rebounds and twentieth and offensive rehounding
percentage, and their defense is the twenty fifth rank one hundred and eighteen defensive
rating. So if all the stars aligned literally and figuratively, the Clippers can
very much win this game. Will it? Will that happen? We truly
have no idea what this team will do on a nightly basis, right I
don't like Halliburton and Siakam seemed terrifying right now? Yeah, for this team?
How are you feeling about ty lud? We get a great question from
Jimmy g I can't believe Jimmy Garoppolo watches this podcast, But how do you
feel about the rotations? I feel like Kawhi should start the four? How
are you feeling right now about Tylu the tactician, because I, through this
slump, have kind of given ty Lu the benefit of the doubt, mostly
because what I'm seeing is not Look, there are some head scratching rotations,
which I think is fair and we should talk about that in just a sec.
But a lot of what I'm seeing on court has nothing to do with
the plays that are being drawn up necessarily, it's how things are being executed
on the floor, which I think has been really really poor. That being
said, I like this question from Jimmy G because I do feel like even
though Tyleru we think of him as being someone who's like really willing to change
things up, the Kawhi shifts have been very stagnant. I feel like in
that he plays the full first, he comes in at about the midway well
not the midway park a little bit before the midway point in the second,
and then starts the third And I agree, I basically agree with all of
that, except with the exception of I think maybe that third quarter shift should
maybe be a little bit shorter so he can come in, we can start
the fourth on an actual note. And I think it's I think it's valuable
to consider that he is, you know, going to be part of the
closing lineup, but maybe make that third maybe you make that which he will
be. I mean, how could he not have the best player on the
floor. I think that it is valuable to think about that third quarter shift,
even though you want to set the tone coming out of the break,
should be fundamentally different than the first quarter shift, if that makes sense,
like that would be it should be a shorter shift, and then that fourth
quarter should kind of be a bookend for Kawhi right wherein he comes in or
to start the fourth because you either need to secure to secure a leader,
get back into striking distance. He comes out, and then he plans on
booke ending you know, the end to that quarter, which I think is
a weird balance to try to toe the line of. But it with how
essential you know, we just talked about like how essential obviously Kui is to
this team, best player, no question, Yeah, but just how different
this team looks without him even on the floor. This is a team that
we talked about all the time not really having an identity, not really having
a leader, and then you go through stretches where your best player and not
a vocal leader, but certainly a tone setter is not on the floor,
and I think you get games like you got today. That fourth was ridiculous,
and I believe, I mean Tyler, did Kawhi end up even like,
what were his minutes even in that fourth quarter? I'm gonna have to
bring up the quarter by quarter stats right now, but it was too late,
you know. Yeah, I like the idea of him coming in he
played five minutes? Oh sorry, uh, Kawhi played, He did not,
and he did not not end up checking back in in the fourth quarter
because that lead got too large, right, which I was gonna say,
he either played very little or not at all, Right, I think he.
I mean, if this team is going to be this, this shouldn't
have to happen because a lot of these rotations are dictated by what Kawhi wants
to, which makes sense because he has his system and his way of feeling
gain you know what I mean, and stuff like that. So I'm upset
that we have to ask this because the other guys can't find their ass with
two hands when Kawhi is off the court. Yeah, that's mostly like,
You're right, The original question is about how much we're kind of thinking about
Tyleu and this whole thing, and his hands are kind of tied. Right.
The roster is what it is. We don't have PJ. Tucker is
hurt, so like we couldn't use his size, which we like have to
use that with that, that's how would that have helped this game? But
you know what I'm saying, Like that's the roster that ty has to work
with, right, Like that's the alternative. Yeah, I mean that's the
thing I have been giving him benefit of the doubt is because a lot of
what I'm seeing on the floor is a lack of execution. It's a lack
of adhering to a game plan. It's a lack of intensity. And no,
to me, no roster like, no rotation change, no like no
time early time out to give a motivational speech is really going to change that.
I believe that it could maybe for some teams or in some circumstances,
but like, this is such a pervasive issue. I don't really know how
much of this you could pin on ty Lou to be. Just to be
perfectly honest, like he's not on the floor, he is not suited up,
like he has little to do other than calling out plays and coverages like
they're ultimately responsible for the execu and that's what I'm not seeing is the execution.
And he's been candid about it. In post games, Tyler has been
very candid about the issues the Clippers have if you're the lowman, be the
low man, get back and transition defense, Like it's things where he's like,
like, I have to imagine some of these film sessions are timing,
like see like just you see how you're not back, You see how you
didn't run back at all, or anything like that, like xby and go
project asking why can't we defend no, Like there's very little effort and very
little communication. So I think that that is a huge thing in defensively,
there's just an apathy towards that end of the floor where I just don't really
understand. Because when his team has looked at its best, that's been one
of the sort of things that that helps them get into their offense. It
helps them get into rhythm, and when they were mounting a comeback in this
one, that's what we saw right. More stout defense and leading into easier
buckets for them. Easy shots have certainly been an issue and why I believe
this offense has stalled out from what we saw during the Golden Era that now
feels like forever ago, Like that was that a different season I can't even
remember. But like, not getting those opportunities and not capitalizing on things on
the defensive end is making everything more difficult. And I think that that has
been sort of the overarching storyline of two on three, right, is they
make a lot of things a lot more difficult on themselves than they need to
be. Yeah, and just because you have skilled players, just because you
have guys who can step up in those situations or in the biggest moments,
doesn't mean that you consistently need to make things as hard on yourself as possible.
And I think that's why we see a lot of burnout from this team.
I think that's why you know injuries have tended to mount at really inopportune
times late in the season, is because they've put such a burden on themselves
by you know, not communicating, not finding ways to get easy buckets,
not you know, like eating teams you should be away easier competition, and
just waiting to turn on the switch until you're you know, your twenty plus
points behind. I mean that that that's really hard, that's really hard and
unsustainable, and yet they continue to do it, Like I just don't,
you know, I don't know what to say. What were we talking about
the Pacers? I'm sorry, we're gonna a good man. That's how this
team us that we're gonna lose that game. That way of saying, I
think we lose to the Pacers, I'm sorry. So we were talking about
defense originally from the the Philippines. I hope is enjoying some loopia right now,
because loopia is delicious, uh Halle and Siakam. The Pacers are top
ten and pick and roll frequency, So we're gonna see a lot of opportunities
for the Clippers to be able to communicate tomorrow on the defensive end because we're
gonna see a bunch of pick and roll against a really, really good team
in terms of the pick and roll, and they have Miles Turner. Yes,
Richard Haycock. PG should just look to score. It's fine, just
score a bunch and defend. Well, that's what PG can do. You
don't have to handle the ball. Norm Powell came into this season talking about
wanting to be an All Star and has now shifted it to say, yeah,
I want to be six Man of the Year. Paul George should shift
from I want the ball in my hands too. I'm just gonna score and
play Grady fense. Not that that's easy. I don't mean to say it
like that, but we don't have Yeah, the PG being the ball handler
is so annoying. Doesn't he not have fun? If you return the ball
over a bunch, wouldn't you not have fun? Well, I mean he's
just on somebody else, I guess right. Oh no, we're getting some
news from Jimmy Williams Adam turning into Bill O'Reilly on Clipperstock right now. We
don't have radio going on in the background, so I don't I don't know
what I don't simultaneously on here and what's going on with Adam. But thank
you, thanks for keeping us in the loop. Yeah, I appreciate that.
I hope the callers are chill. All right. He was his audio
was clipping when he was on here earlier, so I'm sure he's in a
in a great mood. Okay, we're gonna take one more quick break and
then we're gonna talk about what it's gonna take to move the up Dyke Fun
Meter because there's not a lot of basketball for the regular season. Uh so
that is kind up. If you're listening to us on audio, thank you
so much. If you're in the chat, thank y'all so much for hanging
out. You guys always make these horrible losses a lot easier to deal with.
Yelling into the void. We're yelling at y'all, so we appreciate that.
Very insightful stuff. Everybody who listens this show so smart, so smart,
it's crazy. We hope Adam's doing okay on the radio. Um,
we're gonna talk the fun meter after some ads in three two one, All
right, right, you take Uh we're doing the Updyke fun check, which
is a classic bit from the old Lockdown Clippers podcast where it's just Will Updyke
checking in out how much fun we're all having. We know that we're not
having fun. I think is that a good baseline for this edition of the
up Fund app very apt? Yes? Sometimes sometimes I'm thinking, so what
Will and opening this up to the chat as well, let us know your
your fun level. Pull up the schedule for me real quick. I gotta
pull up this great quote. Did this actually happen new Paul George quote,
we just kind of lock it in focus. I don't think our focus has
been where it needs to be. Doesn't he say that all the time?
Great? Oh, this team? All right? What are we looking up?
So what's it going to take to move the Updike fun meter? Wins?
Some wins? Now, bring up the schedule? Bring up you're like,
I've literally losing the schedule. It's just a lunatic. What always takes
to the basketba? All right? Well, Ine sec So we got the
schedule? Is about let lea share my screen fund meter when the Clippers don't
play. It's not how fund meter works, dog, It's not how it
works at all. All Right? We have pacers at Philly, at Orlando,
at the Hornets, at the Kings, Nuggets, Jazz Calves, Phoenix,
Phoenix, Utah, Uh Rockets damn not ideal? Uh sure? Now?
Twelve twelve twelve games? Ups? Look? Man, Outside of outside
of decisive wins against the Kings and Nuggets and shutting out the Suns in the
mini series, I don't know what more joy or fun I'm really gonna be
able to find in this regular season. No again, and I did talk
about this. I did talk about this in the last segment. Great process
isn't happening. I'm giving up on that, burying it. This team apparently
does not care about the good habits or process. Yeah, as far as
the regular season is concerned, decisive wins over the King's Nuggets and going undefeated
against the Suns in the mini series to close out, Yeah, is about
what it would take for me to appreciate having fun in the regular season.
Could things turn around in the playoffs? Look man? Like I said with
Kawhi Leonard healthy, shit can turn pretty quickly. Stuff could look more fun
and a little bit different. But yeah, as far as the regular season,
the fun is very low and without wins, there's no way to really
get it any higher. And wins decisive wins against good teams. Because it's
not like I was overjoyed or thought that this team had turned a quarter with
two wins over the Blazers, you know what I mean? Yeah, I
felt bad because I didn't feel bad. Starman Hope, thank you for this
comment. It's very funny. Have they considered playing better? Have they thought
about it? The doy uh the Portland thing was so annoying to me.
I felt like a curmudgeon watching both of those games. Yeah, I don't.
And this is no disrespect to the Blazers. They're going through a nightmare
right now, right, it was it's just fake. It was just like,
Yeah, my thing, like my thing with the My thing with the
Blazers was it's sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't
scenario. If you lose, I mean that's absolute worst case scenario. If
you win, it's just kind of expected. So the best thing you could
do is try to build good foundational habits right against a lesser team. Those
two games plus this Sixers game is kind of what I was calling a t
ball portion of the schedule, some easier games to build up good habits and
play like a team that's ready to compete for a championship. And that is
just not what we saw. Yeah, the Clippers, uh, we could
eat our seven and six in March, so they have they really got to
play well for them to get to my ten and seven desire with good process,
because I unfortunately think you might be process thing. So they'd have to
feel four and one for the rest of March. Yeah, I'm not seeing
that right now. I am not seeing it right now. Crazy, it's
it's Pacers seventy six ers magic. Yeah, I don't know. They have
to go three and one. Excuse me, Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. I think for me, the fund meter has is gonna
move if they go undefeated, then I'll think, Hey, the regular season
is fun. They went twelve in a row or to end the season.
Great, not happening, not gonna happen. So I'm not optimistic about the
fund meter, I guess. But bars hate that. But it's true,
very tru. Yeah, I don't know. Do we have anything positive to
kind of close this out on. I feel listless, if that makes sense.
That's the way the Clippers look, so that makes that makes a lot
of sense. Positives I have tomorrow off, which is a positive. Shout
out, Caesar Man, that's great for you. I'm going to rewatch this
game. Yeah, that's what you should do that. I'm watch this game
and take a nail and pound it into my forehead. Positives are they've got
to know how bad they are right now, right hey, I would think.
Apparently Harden left the locker room before Ty even went out to speak to
the media. Yeah, that makes sense. I would too. Oh,
Tyler said, they understand what the fun they're supposed to be doing, do
they? Yeah? I like, I don't know, man, I don't
know. We're just getting the same quotes. Oh yeah, Alan being asking,
are you guys broke yet with that give no quarter rule? We're about
to be We're about to We're this might be the last episode, Alan,
Oh last time you see us in homes for sure? Yeah, we'll I'll
be potting out the out the chicken wire. Someone asked the uh Russ coming
back is a positive? Yes, that is fair. Russ coming back is
a positive? Y. I mean they have needed energy that could help they
eat the energy. Jeremy mooreman asking is there a mathematical possibility we can fall
into the play? I don't think so, there absolutely is. We're two
and a half games up on the Suns. Fuck no, yeah, we're
two and a half games up on the Suns who are in the play in
correct, Yes, so yeah if they lose twelve remaining games, yeah,
with two of them against the Suns. So yeah, Jereby, thanks for
bringing this up, dude, there's a very real I don't know if that
will happen though, Right, that's a positive. I don't think that that
will happen. If they go five hundred, which is how they've been playing
five hundred, they will they will stay out of the plan. Let's fucking
go, right, isn't that what we all wanted? Some bones is stunk,
and I just we just can't even get into it right now because that's
not the issue that this Clippers team has. It sucks, there's not much
death. It sucks for bones, it sucks for depth, it sucks for
a lot of things. But that's not that's not the marquee issue with this
Clippers team right now. All right, well, hey, this is the
positive. We have to we have to heart. I think it's maybe we
have to have heart, but we have to heart, which is yes,
all right, we're gonna head out of here. One of us is gonna
do the radio. If you want to listen to a five s, well,
that can be your me. I can do it. I don't know
whoever do you want to yell about them? Whoever Adam calls is who will
answer the call. We're gonna be back with a double dip after tomorrow's game
against the Pacers. Yeah, which will be interesting. We might be at
that game. Maybe I'll flip my bike and dot my two front teeth out.
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