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do these fun lives. I am Chuck Mockler, joined by
Adam Oslin. William Updyke is unavoidably detained. We are not
telling you his location. Adam, I have a question that
I put in these notes that I made. What's better
a close loss versus the Spurs or last night's blowout
lost versus.
Speaker 2: Spurs close loss easily.
Speaker 1: Even without Wemby being part of the game.
Speaker 2: Versus being blown Now, yeah, that's a part of the
good process logic, Like I want to see them play
well because I know the Spurs are still good even
without Wemby. They're eleven and five. Now, I would have
rather seen a Clippers team that looked like they had
more pop and energy out there, and yeah, at least
made it close. I know you can think of that
as well. It's more painful because we should have won
then instead of we just got blown out, so it
doesn't really count.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from that gamete without Webby, you know, like, does
that game count?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was there were sixty six points in the paint
by the Spurs last night. Did you see Tyler's quote
about it. That's an interesting quote.
Speaker 2: I listened to a post game.
Speaker 1: Remind me they were physical going to the basket. We
couldn't stand going to the basket and getting to the hole.
They were living in the paint. We could control their penetration.
He's absolutely right.
Speaker 2: When I read read that post game, I didn't say pause.
I just paused, and that's said coming back on the
other side.
Speaker 1: But it was like, that's the thing, right, like this
team isn't We only made five threes.
Speaker 2: Kawhiet four of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Garland didn't hit one or hit one.
Speaker 2: Yeh was he like one of eight or something one
of seven?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just like the rebounds are and the
point that the paint is just so frustrating right now
for the Clippers. Be it a rebound, be it defensively,
it's just not confidence inducing.
Speaker 2: They won't a great rebounding team even with a Visa Zubos.
I don't know why people thought they were gonna get
better without him. Oh wait, there's like half of the
people in here who said brook Lopez was better than
a Beata zoo bots. I remember those days the Brook.
Speaker 1: This is the I think third time in the last
four games that Brook Lopez has taken the second or
third most field goal attempts in a game for the Clippers,
and I think that is enjoyed by our opponents.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I talked about that a lot postgame and said,
this is indicative of your offense not working. If Brooke
is taking that many shots. It would be one thing
if he was just taking like five or six open
three pointers. Sure, but him taking that many shots, their
offense looked a little broken in the second quarter, and
that's where it really started to get away from them,
and nobody else was taking the initiative, and brook Lopez
just felt like, somebody's got to take a shot here.
That's not the plan, that's not the game plan, but
that's what they had to resort to.
Speaker 1: I like how you said that. No, it felt like
everyone was like in this weird defer, we're back into
watching the gears turn. When guys are out there, things
seem a little more difficult than they should be.
Speaker 2: Well, I think partly it's just Spurs are standing in
front of our guys and playing one on one good defense,
and so give it to the seven to two guy
that at least should have an advantage of getting a
shot off versus guys that are getting clamped out there.
That the Spurs defense looked amazing last time. I mean,
they won twenty seven of twenty nine games. It's ridiculous
z having in a row now.
Speaker 1: I like this tweet from Justin on just I'm sure
everyone watching this falls out like the Clippers film, but
you should. But he notices this. He was like, look,
this is brook Lopez actually rolling to the basket be
dealing with and then to make sure that he is
ready and right for the postseason, there's a Clipper.
Speaker 2: On the Yeah that was the start of the game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So like that is when people say when if
you hear like we need brook Lopez to do like
normal center stuff, it's that stuff because he's capable of
doing it. He's a huge dude. He sets pretty good
screens like that helps so much. That helps the offense
so much more than the pick and pops. But he
also needs other guys to like do their job better.
Speaker 2: I just don't know. Brook Lopez is thirty eight now,
Guys to expect him to become a different player all
of a sudden and be a better rebounder or to
do more of this stuff than what we have seen
over the last seven to eight years, I think is ridiculous.
Like as a player, or.
Speaker 1: When Zoo left, it was nice because it felt like
we were getting a little more of it. Not be
great at it, obviously, but it also it takes the
other guys doing what they're supposed to do too, right,
Like he shouldn't have to show the initiative.
Speaker 2: But part of what made him great was he was
hot from three. The Clippers were hot from three, and
everybody's like, oh, it's the spacing is this and that?
As if him making nine threes like he did against
Portland during that stretch is sustainable. Like what he was.
He wasn't becoming an elite rebounder all of a sudden.
He wasn't rolling to the basket and dunking on everyone
all of a sudden. He wasn't a rim runner, Like
that's not who he is. He's thirty eight, like he's
been more than serviceable in his role, especially when you
account for his age. But I think people are asking
him to do stuff that he's just not adept at.
Speaker 1: And what it makes the yanis think so much more disappointing. Alex, Yeah,
who met you? Alex Webb said he met you.
Speaker 2: He was there in the pregame presser.
Speaker 1: He said you. He said you shoved him down. He said, hey,
Adam and.
Speaker 2: Had a bad take on Brooke.
Speaker 1: Hi, Alex, it is sad that Yanick is down. It's difficult.
I mean, Jackson is down to.
Speaker 2: Janick was a ceiling lower for this team the time,
Like the way Yanick was playing and not having an
athlete like that with Darius Garland to throw lobs to
that was a huge loss, ceiling heightener. Him getting hurt
was a low.
Speaker 1: Got it yet, No, I totally agree.
Speaker 2: Like my hope against san Antonio, a lot of it
came from Yonick.
Speaker 1: Well, and to your point on the rim running thing,
Darius Garland. Thrott needs a big who can do that.
That unlocks Darius Garland evenmore. That's why we've seen. You know,
he hasn't spoken to the media the last two games.
He's had some rough games. I think he hasn't spoken
to the media because he's just really frustrated.
Speaker 2: I don't like that. I gotta be honest, Like James
Harden did that at times when he had bad games,
and I said the same thing. I'm gonna be consistent
with it. I know he doesn't want to get fined
by the rest right now, and he's been very frustrated.
Speaker 1: But he got that tech the other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been frustrated with the physicality and they're losing,
so it happens.
Speaker 1: But you know, part of me, he's like, you're kind
of new.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 2: I do what do you mean exactly?
Speaker 1: Like the passion is nice, but like you're kind of
new here. I feel like doc to the media.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And when I see all the media members saying
it at once, like second straight game he's missed now,
it's just it's not a great look. I would love
for Darius Garland because there's gonna be games like this.
You know, James Carden at after Game seven against Denver
didn't didn't take any questions, like he wasn't there, and
that's just not a great look.
Speaker 1: And he had a good game, like.
Speaker 2: Twelve games he put.
Speaker 1: Up thirty and like it was like it wasn't that. Yes,
these are important games, but like, yeah, man, like this
shit's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: And they just won five in a row, and like
you kind of gotta you know, you gotta stay even keel,
you win five in a row, you kind of gotta
be as measured as Kawhi is. What or not you
lose the next two. It's just this is the NBA.
And like Darius Garland, he's still relatively young at twenty six,
and I love what he's brought to this team. You know,
it was just a little bit disappointing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope he talks with the media after the game.
Speaker 2: Maybe there was something else going on.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Jimmy Williams bringing up a point
how Kobe Sanders gets so little playing time is infuriating. Hey,
he got more time against the Spurs. Nico only played
five minutes.
Speaker 2: They gave him Nico's stint in the second half, So
Nico shovel in the first half. It looked like that
was coach who's kind of breaking point.
Speaker 1: Yeah that it feels like that transition is happening.
Speaker 2: But coach who was asked postgame about it and he
just said, we'll see, right.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. It's not it's never a it's
never a snap of the finger. Yeah, it's And I
feel like we've talked about this a lot, but I
am bringing it up again. It shows how thing the
margins were with the roster, just kind of losses like this, right,
Like Isaiah Jackson's out. Isaiah Jackson was good against the
Kings the last time we played, Like I think we're
probably gonna beat the Kings, but like it just we
got to deal with the small ball five minutes. Now
we're like learning how to play that as a squad. Tough,
tough road right now.
Speaker 2: Well, they also just need bodies to soak up minutes
because somebody guys are tired out there. And Isaiah Jackson
is somebody who's young and has a ton of energy,
and he has been I talk about as serviceable as
Brook Lopez has been going back into the starting role.
I think Isaiah Jackson has been equally as good in
his role. Expanding scenic went down.
Speaker 1: Oscar Hamanez is asking any update on Jackson. No, he's
gonna be real. All we know is that a couple
days ago, they said he's gonna be reevaluated.
Speaker 2: No, yesterday pregame it came out he's been he's out
for the next week, so he's going to be reevaluated.
After that they said high ankle sprain. That was the
reevaluation they got back, So now they have to wait
another week to see how he's feeling.
Speaker 1: And hik brain high ankle sprain is like it is
the most boring name for a very annoying you know
what I mean, like for a very annoyed injury. I
like this from Bonesaw. He's asking if can someone keep
Joseph quiet about rest until after the game. We'll do
our best. He does have the link for the show,
so we'll do our best. But so here's my thing
about the King's game. I was looking at some stats
from when we lost to them, and here are two
things that I hope don't happen again. They shot forty
four percent from three in that game that we lost,
which is ten percent higher than their average on the season.
And they shot fifty eight percent from the floor in general,
which is twelve percent higher than their season average. I
hope that those two things don't that those trends don't
maybe continue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was was that the last last
gasp of the Kings. Have they won any major games
since then? Have they won any game since then? You're
gonna because that was still They played Russ and DeMar
DeRozan late in that game. Russ obviously hit a big
three pointer. Damar was hitting ridiculous mid range shots that
were well defended, and so they did just beat the
Raptors the other day. I want to see the minutes
district though, you know.
Speaker 1: What I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was so Damar played thirty five minutes. Russ
didn't play. Has Russ been out for some time now?
But Damar was playing real minutes Precus jew was playing
real minutes. You played thirty eight? You know good?
Speaker 1: You know it really grinds my gears. I typed in
Westbrook injury into Google and the stupid AI over you
comes up and it's just giving me like a hist
of his injuries, and I'm like, in what world would
I want that?
Speaker 2: What if it's recent Russ injury?
Speaker 1: Get a toe thing mm hmm with soreness.
Speaker 2: It's been going around, What is the deal with that?
In the air?
Speaker 1: Get in souls there's so many NBA players who legitimately
just like buy buy shoes, off stock acts, get in souls.
I do not. I don't think I ever really critique
anything professional athletes do in any sport, but get in souls.
That is my one note to anyone who plays any
sport is get special, get insults.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is just their excuse to not have to
play him if he has anything, no matter how minor
it is, that's somewhat legitimate. They can just say, hey,
he has a toe issue.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played their last seven and six games.
Speaker 2: So they've won three games since beating the Clippers. They
beat the Nets, They'd just beat the Raptors. They beat
the Jazz the next day after being the Clippers.
Speaker 1: And you know what's crazy about all those wins. Who
wasn't playing in all those wins except for the Clippers game,
Russ Russell Westbrook. Yeah, there's three guys that I'm looking
at to get right in this game. Garland Mathern, Derek
Jones Junior. Garland and Mathrin have heavier lifts obviously than
Derek Jones Junior, but math has seemed frustrated.
Speaker 2: And I thought he had Here's the thing last night
was so indicative of who he is as a player
with the double edged sword, because the end of the
third quarter was the best of bennickmathern, and he was
the reason the last three and a half four minutes
of that third quarter they cut it to nine. He
was a huge part of that. He hit that crazy
and one going left where he got it to go,
and he was energized, he was playing good defense. He
had another crazy and one he hit going right. The
wall was going nuts, and he had ten points on
the third and it was gained to the line and
it looked like classic Ben mcmatherin for what we've known
over the last month. And then he has a bad
turnover to end the third quarter. Really bad turnover. Yeah,
and then the fourth definitely did not go his way,
and he had that breakaway that could have cut it
to five. He went one on one Kobe Sanders Is
on his left instead of going to him. He tried
to get the layup to go. He couldn't get it.
And it's just it's it's similar to Russell Westbrook at
times with the volatility.
Speaker 1: I compared him to I said that Jonathan Kamingo was
a poor man's Ben Maathrone when I did the stream
with Joseph when you think of the contract situation in.
Speaker 2: Everything thing, I think I said that a month ago
when they picked him up. Like he's high level. Jonathan Kaminga,
he's more established.
Speaker 1: X Bongo Project says, missed the game yesterday. Should I
watch the replay? No, learn a new recipe or something?
Do not watch the replay? Well, and the Matherin start
was rough to the game last night. He came in.
He is one of the epitomes of the bull in
the China Shop, saying like he comes in and he's
just like running into shit and trying to get the layer.
Speaker 2: Out of control.
Speaker 1: He's he's a little out of control. Sometimes he can
get right against the Kings though, right like this is
this is a get right game for the Clippers, which
I mean every game is a must win obviously, but
like they gotta play the map. They have a MAVs
Thunder back to back after this, and then they have
the two most important games of the season. STEP's back now,
so they last two games are great, Like this is
a get right game and Derek Jones Junior can just
get into some kind of groove there's kind of two
rough ones from him, and then like again Garland, like
let's let's get some traction here.
Speaker 2: I'm not too worried about DJ because his defense is
still looked good. I know he had a nice like
three weeks where he was really turning a corner offensively,
but like we just did this with John Collins recently,
and now he's had like three or four really good.
Speaker 1: He was great, he was great yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, Uh, Mattherin, you wondered because things were coming
so easy for him with hitting everything from the outside way.
I said, like, it's not gonna look as pretty when
those twenty eight footers are not falling off the balance.
And that's what we've kind of seen the last three games.
And maybe he's in his own head a little bit
because of it, because I'm sure he had all the
confidence in the world when he was knocking down everything.
Now we get to see him go through a funk,
and how's he coming out of it?
Speaker 1: How is he coming out of it? And I just
kind of had a thing paying in my brain of
what does his game look like in the playoffs with
a different whistle. Remember some of the playoff games last
year the ref when the refs were like, all right,
you guys can just play now, Like.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's totally different thing. Yeah, Norm was affected
by that. Harden gets affected by that. Yes, we have
some pretty good examples in the past, just something to watch.
Part of the whistle, though, has gone against him defensively.
He has gotten a pretty ticky tack whistle at times
where he's deeing up somebody pretty hard and he's getting
called for a foul and it's like, I'm not getting
this on the other end. So maybe that could at
least equal out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. But in ski, hello, but
in ski saying Matherin should be prioritized over Collins this
offseason since I lost faith and what Colin's ceiling is
the Defensively, Colin still has struggled at times on d
even if his offense is good. I mean, I think
the Clippers are probably going to prioritize the youth of Matherin.
Speaker 2: But you know what, I think they can get him
both back for forty annually. That's a that's a good deal.
Speaker 1: Shock that up. Hell, yes, I agree percent on that.
Matherine isn't exactly a defensive stalwart though, right, Like, it's
not like Collins was a little rough defensively recently, but
like it's not like Mathern is a giant upgrade from Collins.
Speaker 2: Right before he had that one that got him going.
In the third Mathrom played a really good defensive uh
possession against Dylan Harper trying to drive on him left
and they ended up getting the rebound out of it,
and he he stuck with him. I thought that also
helped him. He's he's very young players like the you know,
emotional roller coaster. He's still twenty three.
Speaker 1: He got to recognize that he's twenty three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I say he has some Russell Westbrook to
his game, it's like, well, Russ is thirty seven now
he still plays like that. That doesn't mean that Bennick
Mathern is going to play like that. When they first
got him, I said the goal would be to see
if you can trim some of the fat that you
can make him a better player. It's really hard to
do in twenty twenty five games at the end of
the season on a new team that they feel like, yeah,
that needs to win and there's pressure. So does this
coaching staff believe I would guess when it comes to
valuating Benedick Matherin if they can, you know, trim the
fat and get rid of some of the weaknesses and
turn him into a better player and a guy who
makes the right decision more often than not.
Speaker 1: And I feel optimistic about that. I think him and
Kawi's the thing is awesome. Like we've seen him had
six assists the other day and it looked natural. Right,
he wasn't like forcing them. He's twenty three. Like, there
is something there. What what is money wise? Well, just
it's that's just what I'm I'm interested to see how
that goes.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Like he could be a guy
that only gets a non tax payer mid level exception money,
which is about fifteen million per year. It's going to
be this year.
Speaker 1: That would be awesome. I don't know great.
Speaker 2: How many teams are going to be like, oh, we're
throwing twenty five million per year at you on a
long term contract because I don't know how many teams
have money.
Speaker 1: Well, this is we've talked about this, Like our ideal
situation is like a two year contract with an option.
It's probably Benedict Mathern's ideal situation too. Yeah, get you
get there, you get the exception to prove right, and
then you can signed a huge contract. When you're like
it's still there, everyone can still win. I guess between
Benedict mather and the Clippers.
Speaker 2: His problem is, I think because he lives on like
two extremes. When he makes mistakes, they're really loud and
they stand out heavily, and like that two on one
situation last night where he could have cut it to
five and I didn't, you know, watching it back, yeah,
you should have gave it up to Kobe Sanders. I
also I trust him much more in transition than Russell
Westbrook than I ever trusted him. Like. He has made
some spectacular layups and he's made him with ease at
times Bendict mather and off balance that are to and
once he got yeah, and he can get the whistle, so.
Speaker 1: Is the other part. He is also, thankfully a good
just like normal was a good free thure.
Speaker 2: He may have been trying too much to draw the foul,
knowing that he could get that whistle, get the add
one as he had just gotten two of them, and
that might have been his thinking there. But some of
his stuff definitely does look you can see it's predetermined
a little bit what play he's going to make down
the court, and that has to change. He has to
just get better at reading the game, you know, in
real time, and not making a decision of what he's
going to do before he comes into the half court
and he's got to react to the defense.
Speaker 1: But Nski said, fair, but they're concerned what the center
position will be if we don't have enough cap space
to get a decent center over Brook. Janick might be back.
Speaker 2: In time, I don't think.
Speaker 1: So we went through the timeline, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Chid like six months that's what it was. That's like
best case, and then they were out of it and tanking,
so he didn't come back anyways, but he was like
playing five on five at that point.
Speaker 1: That's true. We'll still have his age. I mean, it
might just be the same center rotation. Yeah, it could be,
which is a little frustrating.
Speaker 2: Like if if it's that for the first month and
a half of the season before y on it comes back.
I don't know, that's not the end of the world.
To me.
Speaker 1: The roster theoretically could still figure it. Yeah, that's not
It's not the end of the world. But it's also
like when they periodically when that doomsday clock moves, you know,
that weird doomsday clock that like means nothing, but like
people freak out when they're like the doomsday clock got
one hour closer to midnight. Er, you know what I'm
talking about? I think, So that is how I feel.
That's how I would feel about.
Speaker 2: Is the Hudsucker proxy.
Speaker 1: Let me look this up. This is a real thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, doctor Love, No.
Speaker 1: It's an actual thing. Doomsday clock two months ago, doomsday
clock set it eighty five seconds to midnight amid nuclear threats.
Like anyway, that is how I would feel about having
the same center rotation going into next season. The doomsday
clock once it gets to midnight, it signals the threat
of a global catastrophe.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's like the fear greed index in the stock market,
Like where is everybody exactly?
Speaker 1: It's basically a vibes Yeah, but it makes sense. That's
how I would feel about the center rotation. But we
do need like this is a weird game against the
Kings because like we have to do small ball, which
we have not been good at.
Speaker 2: If they can't be good at small ball against Sacramento,
like they haven't been good at against good teams recently
as they haven't had much time to practice. But they
also it's not like they were great with a big
on the floor either. Like they made a little bit
of a run when they went small last night and
then san Antonio called a time out and adjusted and
they made a run back.
Speaker 1: You get when you're a team that's not good at
small ball, you get that like two minute stretch where
you just where like right in the beginning, where it's like, oh,
maybe it's all right, it's working, and then exactly what
you said happens. The team calls a timeout, the other
team calls the time and says, okay, now we have
this figured out. The Clippers don't have enough shooting really
for the small ball to like be as effective as
it should be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely not as ideal. But it's like if
John Collins is playing the five, John Hollen is a
forty three point shooter on the season, Like, yeah, it's
not terrible, it just hasn't clicked in yet. And that
was coach who has talked about just some of the
stagnant offense that we've been seeing as of late.
Speaker 1: At times, Yeah, it's frustrating. It's like the like stagnant
offense was hardened. I don't know this it is. It's
just frustrating, like we saw it click in terms of
you know, I don't think they're gonna win five games
end of the season. We just played eighteen games in March, like,
but we saw them clicking and figuring it out during March,
even when they would lose.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of this. One of my themes
last night was this is the March tax, like you're
paying for it now in April. Mm hmm. And I
have seen some real tired legs the last two games,
and some guys have acknowledged it. Others don't want to.
Coach Lou didn't want to post game last night. Kawhi
Leonard after the first like four minutes of the third
quarter looked so gassed and they were doubling him in
the back court and he still played the entire third quarter.
Speaker 1: He's got the wrist thing too.
Speaker 2: Yeah too. I think guys like, maybe you're hitting the
wall a little bit because they went so hard in
March to go twelve and six, and you're paying for
it now and you're playing a couple better teams. Now
and hopefully with two days off of the first time
in a month, you'll make all the difference in the world.
Speaker 1: It's just, yeah, it's tough. They had to win ten
out of eleven last year, which they obviously look gassed
in that playoff series, and they're they're just having to
play playoff basketball before the playoffs intensity wise, Like and
then I mean, you add on, even if even if
they only had call me crazy, call me optimistic, even
if they only had fifteen games in March, whoa, whoa,
They'd still have to play very high level basketball, you
know what I mean? Like, yeah, the pressure of the margins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do feel like this is a little bit
of fan byas like, oh, we gotta we gotta push
at the end of the season. I wish we were
in a better spot. It's like, how many teams are
not pushing right now in the Western Conference?
Speaker 1: That's a fair point.
Speaker 2: How many teams are so secure and they're positioning right now.
OKAC isn't secure.
Speaker 1: That's true. Speaking of teams that are gonna push, we
have the Blazers game on four to ten, and then
Steph Curry is now back for the Dubs. Who the
Clippers play on April twelve. Those are gonna be some
stressful games. I don't feel incredibly good the war I
feel better about the Warriors game than I do about
the Blazers game because the Blazers just have a roster
that's like built, not built specifically, but for the Clippers deficiencies.
The Blazers are good at all of those things.
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty likely Golden State has nowhere to go.
They might be the one team that are because they're
tenth and they can't be eleventh, and they can't be ninth.
They're three games back at the Clippers, so I don't
know how hard they're gonna be playing when they're gonna
know that. Maybe the only thing could be do they
want to play the Clippers or Portland in that nine
ten matchup?
Speaker 1: They probably want to play the Clippers. Adam's leaving he
hated that take. If you're not if you're listening to
this later and you're not watching a YouTube dot comp
Stack Clippers podcast, you miss Adam Oustlin's storming out. I'm
gonna say this to Adam too, but I think if
you're the Warriors, you would rather play the Clippers, because
I think all right, he's back. What happened to your cats?
Steal something from you?
Speaker 2: No door dash? Okay?
Speaker 1: What'd you get?
Speaker 2: Uh? Will go gie bowl?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm throw with that. There's not a cave barbecue
place up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I ordered from this like Asian fusion place.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you. If you're the Warriors, though, you
would probably rather play the Clippers than the Blazers. Blazers
are young.
Speaker 2: I would not rather play Kawhi and Darry Scarland. I
gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: No, that's a good point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just lost to him last year. I know
that was hardened to reply. But they have not had
good success against the Clippers last two years record wise
at all.
Speaker 1: It's so weird, man. It feels like these games are
gonna take forever. You know what I'm saying, Like just
every single game for the Clippers have what five These
are gonna take forever? Just like mentally, this is.
Speaker 2: The life we have chosen. Everybody, Why is it gonna
be like this? This is Sparta.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say. Why is it gotta be like this?
It's just gonna be a lot.
Speaker 2: I know, but a lot of people are lamenting the fact.
Why can't we just like ease our way into the
playoffs and this and that they're in the playing situation,
so there's already like uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's like I don't know. Yeah, if you
be game a Clippers fan after the Kawhi Paul George trade, no,
I have no problem with that. That makes total sense.
I get that we need more fans, but it's it's
a stressful existence. It's not you didn't join a team anyway.
It's not easy. Chris ware is saying we're gonna go
one and four the rest of the way. I don't
believe that doomor I think they might.
Speaker 2: It's just doomsday clock at.
Speaker 1: Yeah the Dunes. The clock is so funny.
Speaker 2: So I believe that. It's like every everybody just reacts
to whatever happened the last game of the last two
games when they won five in a row. We're never
losing again. We're gonna go, you know, five and one
the rest of the way. When they lose two in
a row, now it's all over. It's like they're still
the same team they were when they won five in
a row. They still have pretty much the same guys. Uh,
they're gonna be Okay, this is this is the journey
of an NBA season, and.
Speaker 1: Maybe Darius Garland is going through that right now. Maybe
he's he's going through the roller coaster of a game
by game situation that that might be what happened. So
I think the Clippers, I think they beat the Kings.
I think they beat the MAVs. They honestly might split
between Blazers Warriors. Yeah, so that's that's three and two,
which I'll take it.
Speaker 2: With a win against Portland, you're likely to be eight.
Speaker 1: But Inski is asking, what's the Blazers schedule?
Speaker 2: They have tough games here they have They have Denver, they.
Speaker 1: Have four games left those bastards. They play Denver on Monday,
the Spurs on Wednesday, Clippers Friday. They end their season
against the Kings. So they have.
Speaker 2: This horse what is this horse?
Speaker 1: Aess?
Speaker 2: They get three days off, they got today, Saturday is
Sunday off. What was their bars, Like, I don't know,
sixteen games, fifteen and eight.
Speaker 1: But they have a difficult schedule. So like they have
let's call it three difficult games in between between the Nuggets, Spurs,
and Clippers, like and that's every other they play every
other day once the Nuggets. It goes Nuggets day off,
Spurs day off, Clippers. Not that we have we have
a fucking back to we have a three and four.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't like that. But they're not going
better than one on one against Nburn San Antonio and
they may go on two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're gonna split. Yeah, best case scenario
they split that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting. I'm going to be at Disneyland for the Clippers
uh Blazers.
Speaker 2: Game, the happiest place on Earth.
Speaker 1: Hey, if the Clippers lose, man, I'm gonna burn that
fucking place down.
Speaker 2: Go to get some drinks of ESPN Zone.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ruin my nephew's vacation. Is what's gonna happen.
I'm going to rip the head off a mask. I'm
just getting Disney. I know your security is crazy. I
would never do that. If you're watching, I know they
got eyes. Anything else you want to say before we
get out of here, I'm just kind of tense and
nervous for the rest of this whole saga. I don't
We've got a lot of questions about seating and stuff,
but I don't even want to answer them because they
can just change.
Speaker 2: We're tense and nervous because these games matter. That's that's
what we want in sports, the games to have stakes.
This is good. They were gonna matter at some point.
Speaker 1: Anyways, this is good.
Speaker 2: Have you got the cruise into being a top four seed.
You still are gonna be stressed out eventually, get it.
Get it out of the way. Like hopefully this makes
some more battle tested. You know, they should win the
next two games. Period. Yeah, if they're serious, they should
win the next two games.
Speaker 1: That's it. I could not agree more. Thank you for
hanging out everybody in the chat. If you miss this
and you're listening to the audio, thank you also. But
you can find us at YouTube dot com Slash at
Clippers podcast. We're gonna have a full crew episode, I
believe on Monday. Here's to winning the next two games
because we are a serious team. It's a great way
to put it, all right. That's it. Have a good
rest of your weekend, everybody, And if you see me
at Disneyland during the Blazers game, come say hey. Unless
the Clippers are losing. Bye, everybody, let's go Clip