What is going on Clippers fans? Will's coffin. We're getting right into episode
one forty six of Clips and Dip. I am the Duglockler, joined by
Will Updike and Adam oz and all. Sorry, this is episode one forty
seven. What am I doing? We're all over the place very clearly the
offseason. We are Clips and part of the two and three hoops Empire.
You can find us on YouTube YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast. You
can find us on Twitter at Clippers pod. Last week we talked about some
playoff grades for the Clippers. We did Russ and ty Low. We're going
to the rest of the starters in the bench today, but first we got
a couple birthday week boys here. Adam, Will, you're both a year
older than the last time we've spoken. You've aged that quickly in a week.
Adam, how are you feeling now that you are twenty four? I
believe it's twenty three, but I'll give it to you. Uh. We
aged that quickly in a week because we had no Clippers basketball for a week
basically. But it's good to be here. I appreciate you guys coming to
my party. The other night we had a good time. It was fun.
Check out the picture we took with Carl Tart that's at clippers Pod on
our Twitter accolt Will Happy birthday to you. Are you twenty four or twenty
three? What are you going with? Yeah, it's crazy, man.
Let me tell you. We'll have the same birthday as Tylu, which is
fun. No word on the joint party yet. Um. Which is nearly
the same birthday as Paul George. That's true. Um, And I think
the Zobots and I have the same birthday. Nope, not even close.
I'm in August, he's in March. Not sure why I thought that.
Um. All right, let's get into these playoff grades. We're talking the
starters, which was kind of an amalgamation of a couple guys, but I
think we should probably start with Kawhi Leonard. For those of you who forgot,
Kawhi Leonard only played in two games. He average thirty four points,
six and a half boards, six assists, two steals, with splits of
fifty four percent from the floor, sixty percent from three, eighty eight percent
from the free throw line. Half of this production on a torn meniscus bind
you. Elite Defense finished with a minus three and a half net rating.
What is our Kawhi Leonard grade. I was almost thinking incomplete, but he
played so well in those two games. This is kind of a weird one,
right birthday boy number two? What are you thinking? That's Adam For
those of you who are not watching your podcasts on YouTube, the guy had
thirty one on a torn meniscus and ripped the ball away from Kevin Durant in
game two and went the other way for a dunk. So I have to
give Kawhi Leonard an a plus. His defense was on point. He ended
up guys with shooting splits in those two games, and I was concerned about
a falloff here of fifty five percent from the field sixty percent from the outside
A thirty five, and dare I say, I think a lot of it
was sustainable had he stayed healthy. Once again, he just continues to raise
his level from regular season to the postseason, regardless of how amazing he was
in the regular season, which I thought he wouldn't be able to keep up,
and he surpassed it in the playoffs in a mirror two games. Unfortunately,
but hopefully, this is not the best of Kawhi Leonard, and once
again, he comes back from an injury stronger and better than ever. Will.
Oh No, I'm two one. Yeah, you're a birthday boy two.
Will's birthday boy one. I'd have to go A. Yeah. I
don't know how it was anything else, you know, like a respectful incomplete
was what I was thinking. Maybe. Yeah. I mean what we saw
though was pretty it was it was pretty damn complete. Um. Yeah,
I mean it's just unfortunate for it to end this way. I don't know,
you know, I don't know how else to say it, you know,
but I don't know how it could be anything less than an A.
I think that, you know, even if Paul George, you know,
as we thought, wouldn't be good to go for the entirety of the first
round. I mean, I think Kauhai still is enough maybe for the Clippers
to get that done in round one. Yeah, I think of a couple
more guys play better, which we'll talk about in the next sement. Like
it's totally doable that the Clippers get by the Suns with just Kawhi Leonard and
I don't see his minutes in here, but he was, you know,
he was playing some absurd stretches too, So yeah, it had to be
an a. I don't I don't know how it could be anything forty two
and thirty nine minutes, So he was. He was a playoff minutes load.
Someone on Reddit pointed out because they hate Joel Embiid, I'm assuming Kawai
had twenty four field goals made in two games in eighty minutes. Joel Embiid
has twenty two field goals made in four games in one hundred and thirty four
minutes, which is pretty crazy to think about. I almost want to give
him the will updyke P for perfect. That's his grade. He gets the
double p okay, let's I don't think anyone ever wants the double p um.
So the net rating is something we're gonna talk about because he was minus
three point five. But we're gonna see a trend in this first section with
some of these starters, right. So the next one is Eric gordon Um,
the most the roundest head in basketball. He averaged ten points, one
board, two point six assists, forty one percent shooting from the floor,
thirty four percent from three on just under six attempts per game. Okay,
is defense minus six point eight net rating Adam Eric Gordon's playoff grade in your
eyes, I'm gonna give him a C plus. He had a really good
Game one with his nineteen points, went three seven from distance, seven or
fourteen from the field, but he just kind of tailed off after that.
He ended up shooting just forty one percent from the field under thirty five percent
from the outside. And I'm not gonna be too harsh on him, and
I'm gonna say this for a lot of guys. They didn't bring him in
with the expectations of he needs to get twenty per game in the playoffs for
the Clippers to win. But I think they needed a little bit more than
the ten per game that he ended up averaging in the five games, just
due to the circumstances. And they're from deep, right, like thirty four
percent, You're like, uh so, kish, But I think you're right,
you know, and a lot more who could have had. I guess
Game one was maybe the Eric Gordon game. You know, he came up
big down the stretch. It wasn't just Russ, it wasn't just Kauai.
His nineteen were a little bit unexpected. But I think if he got one
more of those in the next four games. Maybe there would have been five
games, maybe there would have been one more game to play. Still C
plus not not bad. Well, are you on the seat train for your
favorite Clippers betch player? Yeah, I might have to go CE minus uh
and And this is always for me because it's it's kind of based on my
expectations. And I would say he underachieved my expectations, not like drastically so.
Um But I do have to say, in his defense, he was
put into a really weird role, like you know he is, you know,
he's a role player, like truly a role player. And I think
that, um, I think that not having a lot of certainty in that
um And and certainly once Kawhi went down and that was removed and you had
just Russ sort of you know, being forced to run the show for better
or for worse, whatever it was, what it was, it's over now.
Um. I don't know that that was necessarily like the best environment for
him to thrive in offensively, Yeah, defensively yeah, I mean like a
little a little under a little underwhelming I think overall. But he's an interesting
one to me because did you get enough of a sample size, you know,
through how many games did he play? Eighteen games, fifteen games forever
in the regular season? Um, did you get enough of a sample size
to make a decision on next year's deal? Which is weird not fully guaranteed
for Gordon, So like I think for it making the backup pointcard or something
like, it seems like he wants to handle the ball a little bit more.
And then we got Russ, which obviously changes things. So like,
yeah, yeah, I think that I think that what he showed was enough.
So maybe I maybe C minus is being a little bit. I think
C is very fair because your guys is average for him as a C,
which I think, like stop bad Adam, What do you think of next
year for the basketball headed DJ? It depends if they're able to bring back
Russ or not. If they can, I would say he's less of a
need because there's normal pal, because there's Terrence Man, because you're trying to
get more minutes for Bones Highland. It's not that I think he had a
bad stint back with the Clippers. I just don't think it was overwhelmingly positive
to the point where you have to bring him back because he's turning. Is
he gonna be thirty five next season. We likely have seen the best of
Eric Gordon in his career at this point, again not having that other,
you know, above his head type of playoff game where he shows up in
a big way and just carries you for a quarter. I'm not sure smash
Gordon. I'm not sure i'd bring him back, But that is a really
good trade ship because he can be another expiring contract for the Clippers should they
want to go that route with him. He will turn thirty five on Christmas
this year. Well, never mind, you got to bring back baby Jesus.
You can't. You can't short him on these contracts. I would even
go see two for EJ all right, a visa zoobots nine points, I
know, nine point six boards, fifty six percent from the floor, which
is seven percent worse than his regular season field goal percentage minus nine point to
net rating. I have a note in here was he the most disappointing Clipper
of this postseason? And we love Zoo more so than the next time.
We're gonna talk about no because he doesn't count because everyone already hates him.
Person who played more games I guess I might have been. He might have
been like I was hoping we called him top ten on this podcast. I
was hoping he was gonna go it eight and a little harder. Yeah,
Doodoo Zoo is a very fair name. Right now. He did not have
a good playoffs and is that on You know, missing PG is big,
but I think all Clippers fans wanted more from Zoo in this postseason. Will
your thoughts other than saying Doodoo Zoo over and over look? I mean,
yeah, this for me was a d This for me was a I'd go
I, um, yeah, fully, I look, and it's not an
indictment on his season as a whole or necessarily where he is as a player.
I mean, for God's sakes, he almost averaged a double double,
which we've been begging Zoo to do for how many years now? And you
know it, he's a player who has made incremental improvements. I was just
severely underwhelmed by what he was able to provide in this postseason. And there
were times where I thought, you know, we've talked about the hands a
lot. I thought that. I just thought that offensively he was a liability
in a way that even as good as he is defensively, it really limited
what the Clippers were able to do, especially with ties outlook for this team.
Yeah, I think so, And I you know, he's obviously the
better defensive player, but I, you know, I think that Mason had
some some highlights that will probably burn a little bit a little bit brighter and
Clippers fans memories over this over this offseason. And I'm not in any way
suggesting that he should get the starting job over him or anything, but like
this was this was a regression to me, like this was this, This
was zoo Alah twenty nineteen, Like when you know, we weren't sure what
his playoff utility would be, and I, you know, the matchup was
tough. I didn't think that he was always able to take advantage of some
of the mismatches and stuff that he got. I I thought that this was
a little bit of a rough, a rough Zoo one and and overall,
I thought it was kind of punctuated by stuff that we saw all regular season,
which was he's a very easy guy to read when things aren't going his
way, Like the body language isn't great, the focus isn't great. Um,
I just thought we saw a continuation of some of that stuff, and
I gotta be honest, there there are some questions about Zoo's drive. Um
and you know, look, man, I hate to say this, but
there is like a thing about the mentality of this team that isn't always you
know, clearly by by you know, by process and from what we've seen,
like that isn't always there game on the line to win. It's not
you know, we don't have We're not running out five Jimmy Butler's out there
and like scratching our head as so why we're losing. And I think that
that's something that I see Zoo as a long term thing, but that is
like one of those issues that needs to be addressed. And I think that
Zoo, if we you know, we have to ask ourselves some really hard
questions I think this offseason, right, I mean, we can't just trot
out the same thing and expect a different result, expect Paul George to pay.
You know, I think Zoo, despite this playoff performance, is one
of the more attractive pieces in a trade in terms of salary value, what
he provides durability. I do. I'm not saying like that that is for
sure what should happen. I'm not a knee jerk guy. On one bad
postseason performance through only five games. But like Man, Zoo is one of
those tough questions. I think you have to ask yourself if you're the front
office, if you're the coaching staff for this team, I really do.
I still feel like in games in Game one he was pretty good. The
first half of Game five he was very good, but then plumbly took over
the second half obviously and down the stretch and got rewarded with more minutes.
It's not that Zoo was terrible, no, not at all. The narrative
around him from clip or Nation has been what a bargain his contract was.
Instead of playing above that in this playoff series, I'd say he played at
that. He got nine to nine. That's a great way to a great
way to put it at him. Like Will said, he was almost said
ten and ten for the series in less than I think twenty five minutes per
game. That's not awful. Eighton was its sixteen and eleven with almost ten
more minutes per game out there. He didn't get destroyed, but he didn't
raise his level of play and make you go, look what a steel of
etzas zu bots is, Look at how much should be on his plate because
he's capable of doing this when needed to step into a bigger role. He
just didn't do that. We were waiting for him to take that next step.
This was a really big opportunity for him. I wouldn't go back and
say it was twenty nineteen against the Warriors or anything like that, but that
was dramatic. Fine, given the expectations that are on him now, it
kind of makes sense in some ways. So I was disappointed his performance,
and I'm gonna go D as well. Yep, straight d's for Aviza zo
Bots. Now we are going to talk. I don't know if we should
talk this one now, but it is the next order on the rundown.
Marcus Morris. He played three games. He averaged eight points, four boards,
zero thirty four percent from the flour, sixteen percent from three on four
attempts per game, minus thirteen point seven net rating, which I believe was
the worst on the whole team for the playoffs f F minus see me after
class. It was horrible, Like, I don't know, this is I
this is like grounds for expulsion. I feel like I think it's not even
a grade. You're getting a letter from the Dean being like Hey, we
know you played your eye this and you still gotta f. You played your
eyes the bad paper and you gotta We're not even gonna get you an F.
That's too high of a grade. He didn't get paddled like in Dazed
and Confused or anything like that. His Game five in the first half was
pretty impressive. He came out in great effort. I think it's the first
half for the rest of the game. I don't think he played a ton
in the second half, but there may have been a reason for that.
I'm gonna go D mine it's relative to expectations, and he's still is getting
a D minus from me. What's the difference between a D minus and a
half Adam say the first half against the Suns in Game five. That's me
Adam loves fifty one percent, but he won't give it out as a grade.
Makes you think Nick Batum took Morris's place for a hot SEC didn't really
like it because he couldn't get into a rhythm. Averaged four to two and
one, forty two percent from the floor, thirty five percent from three on
just three attempts per game, minus five point six net rating. The defense
was really the bright spot for Nick Batum, but I think he might be
in C minus range. For me, he was mistaken. I was thinking
C midus. He had the great ending in Game five that gave them an
opportunity where he finally started to knock down everything from the outside, but overall
they needed more from him offensively with the guys who were out Defensively, still
more than solid was a plus on that end. Guarded Kevin Duransom roamed around.
I'm starting to agree that he may have lost half a step this season
from where he was one, but he still is very good. And like
Rocco, if you surround Nicholas Batum still with good defenders next to him,
that elevates his defense too totally, so you know, it takes away some
of his weaknesses or the holes in his game, just like with Rocco.
Yeah, he's not the quickest when it comes to playing one on one and
stay in front of a guy, but he makes up for it with his
quick hands and if other good defenders are around him, he can help be
a collective team defender out there. And that's where That's the area or territory
that Batum I think is heading towards as he's getting older, but I still
see him as very valuable for this team, especially in limited minutes. You
can't expect him, I think, any more to play thirty five to forty
minutes in playoff games. But if you've given him twenty to twenty five,
I think he could still be an elite defender in shorter stance at times.
Well, this goes. This is part of the conversation with the Clippers right
as our power forward rotation outside of Kawai and PG is old and Quasi busted
for the most part. But will your thoughts on but two pain has been
to say this is a C minus to D performance for me. He had
some great highlights defensively, still there such a glue guy can lift so many
lineups. I'm just at the point right now where with like the three point
shooting, it was so great at points during the season, it is a
little inconsistent. I'm just I don't think this is a twelve million dollars a
year guy anymore. And like I said, that really pains me to say.
But you got I mean, how much money do you have tied up
between just him and Robert Covington. I mean, you're you're talking like twenty
six twenty eight mill there. I mean, that's that's a lot of money.
You hadn't move into that, and you're you're well into forty plus million
dollars for other guys. Yeah, those are three guys that, like maybe
one of the three, like one of the three deserves to be in a
championship level playoff rotation. And we're talking about those minutes shrinking and shrinking.
I love Nick Patum. I have been I who have been a ride or
die for Nick Patum since days before day one on this. But twelve million
a year for this, I just like, with the new tax laws and
everything, like, we just can't do it. I'm sorry, we can't.
We can't do it. I don't think twelve million is too much for
what he gave this season. If he can reproduce this, he's still shot
almost forty percent from the outside. It was just so up and down,
and really Clipper Nation paid attention to this. If you look at his his
final numbers on the season, they don't look necessarily as bad as his overall
performance was on a night's a night basis, which just how streaky he was.
I think him being the starter though or being in that range. I'm
not sure that works anymore. First of all, he doesn't want to.
Second of all, I don't think he can play thirty minutes per night during
the regular season, and you need an upgrade in athleticism, and that's the
most glaring hole at the fourth spot. I would love Nicholas Beatum even still
for twelve million, coming off the bench and giving you fifteen to twenty minutes
a night. I still think he could help solidify some rotations where you do
have more offensive focused players on the floor next to him, where he can
make up for that and do some of the little things out there. Yeah,
I mean it's very much dependent on you know, It's like the same
thing I was talking about with Zoo is, like it's very much dependent on
what direction this team decides they want to head in. And I do think
the nick between can be a part of that future. But then some significant
pieces need to move around him, because Yeah, there's something really fair though
to your point of those contracts, they're starting to become worth more based on
themselves being expiring deals they are for their play on the court. It's starting
to get into that territory for all three of the forwards with the Clippers.
It's very true speaking of a guy who's not really in that category but was
around beteam on the floor. Norm Powell pretty okay. Series twenty two points
a game, three boards, two assists, forty seven percent from the floor
from three on six attempts per game average, the second most free throw attempts
on the team, just behind Kauai, and actually shot two more per game
in the playoffs than the regular season, which is something I was a little
bit worried about. But you know, we got reward on that. He
kind of gave us everything we needed. Like given the situation, I might
give Norm like a B plus B. Hey, hey hey we am like
we kind of had to live and die by Norm. And I'm not saying
that, like I'm not even saying that like that that's the way that this
team should be built. It like that's the way that they run. But
so much was put on his shoulders. And I think for a guy,
you know, a guy who comes off the bench and walks into twenty,
I don't know what more he really could have given. Yes, there's there.
He has his limitations and stuff, But like I said, some of
these grades for me are based on my expectations and NORM to me like was
everything as build uh and end some more. And I think that, you
know, could he have stayed on a heater or or given us another crazy
game like another there was two NORM games saying this, uh, you know
it at least goes to six. So I I, for me, it
have to be an a honestly fair Adam. I'm gonna shockingly go b only
because while he did, I know this is gonna be crazy. Guess while
he did getting efficient twenty per game over twenty one points efficient from the outside,
it was really two games that were heavily weighted into those numbers and his
final stat line because three of them he got what fourteen points or less?
He had fourteen points in two games and twelve points in another game. And
I think if you just had more consistency across the board with him of getting
closer to twenty per game and each of them instead of having the wild forty
two point game and just you know, I know, I know I'm nitpicking
a little bit here, but I scores two Adams upset about it. Look,
they're not all created equal. Every forty point game and they lost anyways,
now, he was still awesome at times. I just wanted to see
a little bit more consistency with Norm. So I'm going to be and he
is capable of doing just that. I'm giving you twenty in every game.
So but I love Normpal. He supposedly loves Norm Peal despite giving him a
B. So we did the Hodgepodge of starters. All of them had minus
net ratings. Coming up, we're gonna be talking the bench playoff grades.
Not too much does anyone to have a positive net rating if you lose the
series in five games. Every single bench player does, which we'll get into,
which is super weird. Coming up, we got ads are gonna be
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one. All right, so we're back here at clips and DIP and we're
gonna dig into the playoff grades for the bench players. Let's start with Terrence,
the guy who I think everyone wanted to see more of. Kick it
over to you, Adam, what's your grade for Terrence Man? He said
D No. I didn't say D but I'm thinking about D NO. I
gotta go with a C grade. I'm gonna go at the sea. See.
I thought he was okay, but he didn't have one game where he
scored more than thirteen points and they needed more. No, if Terence Man
could go out there and get thirty nine like he did against the Utah Jazz,
I'm just looking for a few games here and there where he gets close
to twenty points. That's all. I don't think too high issue with that.
He played three more minutes per game in a series without Kawai and Paul
George than he did in the regular season. He was seas why though,
I said, going in he's got an average fifteen? Why not because I
think you know he's not a very good player, because that'll keep him on
the floor. If he's doing more offensively, Coach Lou won't go away from
him. But that's what's so frustrating. He was like, I just fifty
seven percent from the floor, forty seven percent from three on or attempts a
game, plus three point eight net rating, Like I think it's more on
Tylu. I don't know, man, I gotta give him. I guess
a B like he he, I don't know if you're plus rated in a
series, you're losing five and you shoot forty seven percent on more than like
two attempts a game, you're affecting the game positively. Well, you give
him an f F no. I Man, So this was a little bit
hard for me because I still feel like it's a little bit of an incomplete
like what does this series look like if we actually get what we want,
like if we actually see more Terrence Man, if he actually has a role
that's semi defined, not even you know that he has to be the starting
point guard. I know that that's like way too far out of the realm
of possibility now, but there's so many questions that I have about he becomes
another guy. To me, that's like another difficult question. And I think,
like absolutely the Clippers should lean into him and keep him. But at
the same time, if that's not there, you got people chomping at the
bit for this guy, like it's maybe it's time to move on. Um
And I I mean if I was Terrence Man, if I was Terrence Man,
I would but um, yeah, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go A
But it's like with a question mark because I still feel like I just still
feel like we Yeah, we just like we haven't seen I don't feel as
though we've seen the full potential of Terrence yet. And I feel Terrence,
Yeah, I thought, and we've talked about this before, that maybe he
had a like an achieved a ceiling and I and I don't think that that's
true. I think that maybe he's hit the ceiling that he's ever gonna get
to with this team. Um, but that to me like begs more questions
of so then what like what is the plan for roster construction science Terrence?
Or you know, like how are you gonna only utilize this player in this
very limited and honestly like super inconsistent Yeah, that's very fair, all right,
Mason plumbling. Oh and we didn't talk that. Can we talk for
one second? I know we gotta speedies up, but can we talk about
the Terrence man l n f AO about the front shortly after that was supposedly
about the Manchester United soccer game that was happening at the time. But I
don't know if I totally buy that was there on a game happening at that
time. I don't know. I just have to be like, no,
I'm watching a replay, what are you guys doing. I just think the
timing of it. It was like, come on, dude, like minutes
after they put out these quotes about how Terrence was used, Well, you
tweet out, m maybe he just likes the band. I don't know.
Do you think he was on Twitter though, actively looking at those votes,
because he doesn't seem to be that active that often on Twitter. I don't
think you don't. He could have been his I don't think his agent or
somebody sent him those quotes. If I knew Terrence Man and I saw that
quote, I would immediately bey, oh did you see this dude quote?
It's possible that I'm gonna take him at his word. All right, all
right, Mason Plumley part of a fun run to close the end there,
you know, eight seven and two eighty seven percent from the floor plus two
point six net rating. I gotta give Mason an a. He did exactly
what we needed him to do, right, Like, he earned some extra
burns. He was playing well offensively, like be sure like, but you
know, I think he exceeded that less the man totally agree. Um was
Game five, his first double double in like six years or eight years in
the playoffs was it was it since he played the Clippers in twenty sixteen with
Portland, because he reached you know, we talked about flip the switch all
the time when when the going got tough, Mason Plumly went playoff Plumbly.
He looked amazing in that second half of Game five, that play he had
where he had the steel and took a coast to coast the other way,
but finishing with twenty and ten and keeping Zoo off the floor when he was
having a pretty good first half. I was impressed. I'll go with a
B plus overall for Plumbly. All right, Uh bones Highland not afraid to
shoot, but they weren't exactly going in uh eight one and one, thirty
four percent from the floor, twenty five percent from three plus three point two
net rating. I might go see c I might go see he was twenty
five percent from three CDs US, what are you gonna give an A?
You're gonna give him an A for going twenty five percent from three? I
was thinking, I think, of Bot, it's terrible. He's two.
Yeah, I don't know what I think. If we're going off of which
obviously there's no real rubric here. There's no real standard. If everyone to
like playoff performance versus expectation, this would have to be a high B to
an A for me. I'm serious, and I know that, Like,
sure, the numbers aren't great. Uh, we knew that he would struggle
around the rim. The shooting from three obviously a disappointment from you know what
he's done earlier in his career. But he's another like exciting possibility that really
like gave I mean some juice and some life to this team. Um and
I I you know, I and who knows how this looks if if we
don't have both Kawai and Paul Georgetown. But like I didn't really see him
touching the floor much in this playoff series. And there were times where I
mean I thought that he was great. I mean, he's He's a huge
part of the reason I think that that whole bench, um flash mob whatever,
it was, a flash in the pan. That's a great point,
all right, I guess I'll raise it to a C for me. If
the Sunstone get forty six free throws attempted in game three, we're talking about
bows Highland winning the Clippers a playoff game. That was his right quarter and
if my mom got hit by a bus tomorrow. She died, Like,
I don't what are you talking about? Like, I'm just saying it wasn't
add that they got forty six free throws. He was amazing. He had
twenty points and almost won them a game. And his defense was good throughout
the entire series, even though his shot was up and down. All right,
that's a great point, as all are you going to Adam, I'm
going to be having been that excited, I'm so gonna be. Yeah,
I'm in the B plus camp friendly grades. Um, all right, Robert
Covington played two games, did not score. Uh, he was bad.
He had a stealing an assist. I'm going like a d mind it.
Yeah, and I love Roco, but it's not there right now, I'll
go see. He just didn't play enough. That's an incomplete Basically, he
didn't play much of that. That's fair. I'll give myself an effort thinking
he would have played more in the playoffs after everything. Oh that's on you,
yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fully on you. Right here,
guys, that's that teacher evaluation right there, coming in clutch. Um,
all right, that wraps up the playoff grades. Pretty average playoffs for the
Clippers missing their two stars. Coming up, we have a final we're doing
to throw U. We're doing a Love Mary quarantine for the birthday boys coming
up after this ad break, Um, go ahead and turn it down.
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Clips and Dip episode one forty seven. Here I'm Adam Oslin. We got
Chuck Mockler and Will update. Get to us on Twitter at Clippers Pod.
At Clippers Podcast is where you can watch us on YouTube. Now it's pretty
cool. Chuck, what the hell is this game? We're doing Love Mary
Quarantine for the old listeners of Locked on Clippers. This was something Will and
I used to do every Friday. We changed it from Love Mary Kill because
of the pandemic. So in these options, you guys are gonna pick something
you love, something you're gonna marry, and something you're gonna get the heck
away from you is Will used to say. This category is gifts you two
would get from the Clippers players for your birthday. We have Russ gives William
a kiss the cook apron, but it's got Russ's face on it. For
his birthday, Adam receives a pair of custom Star Wars them sneakers from Zoo,
who does like Star Wars and Wars custom sneakers. However, they are
in Zoo's size. The final option to show their appreciation for the wonderful coverage
you two provide the clippers. The organization lets you practice with the team,
but your only duties are stop the guys from trying to dunk Adam. Which
of these are you loving, marrying and quarantining? Go? I'm going to
say what was the first one? The first one? It's in the outline,
will get will Russell Westbrook gives William a kiss the cook apron, but
it has Russell Westbrook's faced on it. So I love that Russ is giving
will a kiss the cook apron. Yeahs okay, it's funny. I love
that. I will say I'll marry the Star Wars shoes, but if they
have anything to do with the one through three trilogy or the seventh through nine,
we're getting divorce. Look, I'm a guy who watches the de specialized
editions of the old Star Wars movies. I'm afraid of what that means is
it means did not fucking shoot first. That's what that means. All right,
we're getting off the rails. So you're so you don't want to practice
with the clippers, is what you're saying. I'm quarantining that. Well,
I do, but not if I have to stop guys from dunking on me.
If you don't believe in yourself, that's fine. Will Which are you
loving marrying quarantining? I am loving Adam is at the Clippers practice to stop
guys from dunking. And I'm just hanging out where You're like, no cameras,
no no, no good about You're just like the host at the and
one mixtape tour. Oh baby, Adams, just a bloody pulp under the
rail. Uh. So I'm loving that. I'm gonna go ahead and marry
the kiss the cook apron. I'm gonna quarantine these shoes. Seems like Adam
has way too many specifications. I don't know if he knows that much about
him. And Uh, the other thing is is I feel like Adam would
feel guilty and try to wear these shoes around. I don't need to run
into my man in some size fourteens stopping around and I'm wearing the shoes you
could go to take. We go to take a halfside picture. Adam falls
down the stairs from the one twelve section all the way to Lauren in oversized
shoes. I don't want to see that. I don't want that for my
man. All Right, it's Star Wars night and I died falling down the
stairs. I mean there are worse ways to go. Um, well,
happy birthday to you guys. Thank you for being great co host by the
way, Um, I think that about wraps it up. I have to
go to a meeting in two minutes. Next week we're gonna have Carl Chart
on the episode. We know he has some thoughts about how the Clipper season
went. Um. Adam just rolled his eyes. He's getting battle ready to
talk about subots. I'm sure we're recording that episode, but for some reason,
I won't be able to be there. I'm very busy. I have
a shoe fitting. I need to get whatever record you can find us.
Well, where can they find a Spotify where? I don't know any apps?
Yeah, you can check us out on an Apple podcast. We're on
Spotify. Please review us there if you haven't already. We'll definitely read it
loud on the show. It's the off season, give us some content,
Come on, man. You can listen to us on either one of those
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Thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for listening.
We're gonna bring you content again once a week in the off season, going
to ramp up in case anything crazy happens. Thank you, danveryone who's listened,
thanks to shout out to w GA. Also, we hope I can
get all figured out soon and as always, go Clippers.