Speaker 1: Hold on. The audio always stops for some reason, but
Speaker 1: it probably picked this up. Welcome Clippers fans to kind
Speaker 1: of a surprise Thursday Happy Hour stream on Clips and Dip.
Speaker 1: I am Chuck Mockler joined by Adam Olson. William Uppick
Speaker 1: should be here in just a few who If you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, you're gonna hear us be very excited
Speaker 1: on stream. If you miss the live hang, you can
Speaker 1: find us at YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast.
Speaker 1: This is the final stream before some combination of us
Speaker 1: go live on Tuesday. Is my best guess before the
Speaker 1: Clippers pick fifth. Adam, how are you feeling? I'm a
Speaker 1: new and unfamiliar version of excited for this, this new
Speaker 1: era and the new season of the pod, which starts
Speaker 1: at the draft.
Speaker 2: Most importantly, that's when we start our new season as
Speaker 2: soon as Out of Silver holds up out the Clippers card.
Speaker 3: I'm excited.
Speaker 2: I'm a little bit irritated with how many reports and
Speaker 2: just people that want to act like they're in the
Speaker 2: know and smoke screens. You get as if anybody really
Speaker 2: has a pipeline to the Clippers and knows exactly what
Speaker 2: they're going to do.
Speaker 3: Like some of the stuff.
Speaker 2: I like Jake Fisher, but he's like, oh, they're looking
Speaker 2: at this guy. They're working out who was the head
Speaker 2: reasons you could.
Speaker 1: Talk about it, Brandon Burry's he impressed the Clippers staffers.
Speaker 2: But they're also also looking at McHale. Brown Junior is like,
Speaker 2: nothing's definitive. Everything gives them an out in case somebody
Speaker 2: else gets paid there. I'm ready for the draft to
Speaker 2: happen because there's way too much speculation.
Speaker 1: I am ready for the draft to happen. I cannot wait.
Speaker 1: People are nervous. I'm nervous, but in an excited way.
Speaker 1: There's there's not none of the reported guys who were
Speaker 1: gonna be there at five are anyone where I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: if we pick that guy, we're absolutely screwed and we
Speaker 1: made the wrong decision.
Speaker 2: A lot of like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, true, but we just won't know for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess there's just no major red flags, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, there's no one where it's
Speaker 1: like maybe the back thing with NBJ, but he's you know,
Speaker 1: past all the conditioning stuff as you've talked about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, like there's no one who I'm gonna be like,
Speaker 1: unless we do what will supposedly once, which is take
Speaker 1: the excellent five, I might freak.
Speaker 2: Out then, But big X, Yeah, hey, if they trade
Speaker 2: back for him, I wouldn't freak out. Same with A
Speaker 2: I wouldn't freak out. Even if they did take Burr's
Speaker 2: at five, I wouldn't freak out. I would be a
Speaker 2: little bit like, wait a second, could we have gotten
Speaker 2: something more for him? I.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Burri's at five. I would be like, Well, I
Speaker 1: was saying I was high in at the beginning of this,
Speaker 1: so I really hope this works out selfishly, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I like Burris's game. I think the ceiling
Speaker 1: isn't as high as some of the other guys there,
Speaker 1: but I think he slots into the team. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bones saw twenty eight saying Kevin
Speaker 1: O'Connors and the Clippers are trading back. We've heard he
Speaker 1: he he's reported a lot lately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's all over the place.
Speaker 1: He's also reported that the Clippers still really want Kawhi
Speaker 1: or the Warriors still really want Kawhi. Saw that which
Speaker 1: great send us a better trade offer?
Speaker 3: Starts with two first, Yeah, it starts.
Speaker 1: With two first.
Speaker 2: I Like, you know, I brought up Nate Ahmen before,
Speaker 2: and if you do trade back and end up with
Speaker 2: two picks and you use one on him, I would
Speaker 2: not hate that. I think that's one of the more
Speaker 2: intriguing guys in this draft, just because he came into
Speaker 2: the year so high on draft boards and then kind
Speaker 2: of at a down year in a down tournament. But
Speaker 2: the talent and uniqueness to his game is there.
Speaker 1: So this has been brought up a lot because of
Speaker 1: Alex Web brought up ament could a Kauhi trade be
Speaker 1: coming because Nate Amt was reportedly brought in.
Speaker 2: Teams work out like fifteen guys around their draft spot.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I think projecting based off of workouts is foolish when
Speaker 2: you look back at past drafts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I don't think it means a Kawhi trade
Speaker 1: is I don't. I don't know. Again, the Warriors offer
Speaker 1: has to be good.
Speaker 3: Kawai has to want to go. They're not going to
Speaker 3: just send him out.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna assumedly have some kind of plan in
Speaker 1: place for an extension with the team that he goes to.
Speaker 1: I don't think kaw is just gonna risk being a
Speaker 1: restricted free agent like.
Speaker 3: Or an unrestricted on a expiring deal this year.
Speaker 1: Right, hey madeir saying Kawhi for two first round picks
Speaker 1: and Butler's contract is fair. Yeah, great if it's this,
Speaker 1: it's one of those. Is this year's awesome? Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it'd be weird.
Speaker 3: But do they have eleven? I want to say that
Speaker 3: around there.
Speaker 2: I definitely consider it, but I think you have to
Speaker 2: do right by Kawhi in this situation.
Speaker 1: They do have eleven?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's Nate Allman territory.
Speaker 1: It is territory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was a good player, like I we
Speaker 2: just like, if you get Yoxel around that range, cool.
Speaker 2: I think it might make more sense for a team
Speaker 2: that's more ready to compete right away.
Speaker 1: And a team that needs bigs. We need bigger guys.
Speaker 1: La Murray put out a great free gift article on
Speaker 1: The Athletic Today that brought up a good point. He
Speaker 1: laid it out that they need help at every position.
Speaker 3: Good news or bad news is right, they need.
Speaker 1: Help at every position. So yeah, I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: been there's the the like Jalen Brown scuttle butt that
Speaker 1: like came from a rumor that the Clippers would be
Speaker 1: this third team to get in on this huge deal
Speaker 1: with you. Honest, we would get Jalen Brown.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: I like Dylan Brown.
Speaker 2: I just don't know how much sense it makes because
Speaker 2: if you're getting him, you're paying him what seventy million
Speaker 2: at the end of his contract, Like you better be
Speaker 2: competing immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just can't. I don't see it happening.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, there was another report that said they're not
Speaker 2: They're not going to give up the fifth pick. I
Speaker 2: would be surprised if they gave up the fifth pick
Speaker 2: at this point for anything but more picks or for
Speaker 2: or for trading forward upwards, Like if they're trading with
Speaker 2: whoever has four because that person doesn't care and they
Speaker 2: want a cuff and the Clippers want Caleb Wilson.
Speaker 3: That's one thing.
Speaker 2: But for a player at this point on a huge contract,
Speaker 2: that'd be kind of surprising to me.
Speaker 1: And you know, with the Apron, it would have to
Speaker 1: be some kind of and but you know, the Clippers
Speaker 1: aren't one guy away, like one big trade. It's like
Speaker 1: we're right there. It's like, no, there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: growing bands our center.
Speaker 2: If it's some precursor to something else going on Okay,
Speaker 2: but I think that's a little bit of far fetched
Speaker 2: or not within the realm of possibility at the moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And also when I mentioned that, I just said
Speaker 1: that the center rotation is trash. I mean until Yannick
Speaker 1: is back, you hurt Yanick, the center rotation is very
Speaker 1: bad right now. The one thing that I do kind
Speaker 1: of believe is that it's been around for a minute.
Speaker 1: It's that the Kings want a Cuff. Matt George has
Speaker 1: been reporting on that for like since before, well before
Speaker 1: workouts and stuff like, they've had people at his gay.
Speaker 3: It's just one of those things that since they got
Speaker 3: the seventh pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, an A Cuff reportedly wants to go to the Kings,
Speaker 1: which I'm like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if I can buy it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, he knows they will focus around him and
Speaker 2: he'll give you gaining the star treatment and he will
Speaker 2: be looked at as the savior of the franchise. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's where the thought process is coming from, why he'd
Speaker 2: wanted to go to the Kings.
Speaker 1: You're the guy. Someone in the chat is saying the
Speaker 1: Spurs did not have a growing period. They tanked for
Speaker 1: two years.
Speaker 3: They had three straight top five picks, but.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, I mean it is weird to hear anyone
Speaker 1: say they want to go to the Kings. That is
Speaker 1: a surprising thing to hear from a guy.
Speaker 3: Hey, Alex Dime stole that from me, all right.
Speaker 2: I went on locked on, and I was supposed to
Speaker 2: talk about I was supposed to talk about how I
Speaker 2: wanted a cuff, and by the time I did a.
Speaker 3: Little research to get ready.
Speaker 2: For the show, I was like, actually, I'm gonna throw
Speaker 2: a rench to your plans here, Dom. I kind of like,
Speaker 2: is it Mike Klee Brown Junior because I've heard that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Now and I'm not sure which one to go with.
Speaker 1: Well, I have to lock that in. We could probably
Speaker 1: look up some highlights right now if we wanted to that.
Speaker 1: So that is who I would. I'm hype four or
Speaker 1: five as Brown as MBJ. I want. I want that.
Speaker 1: That's I'm fine with all the options that we've heard.
Speaker 1: That's the one that I really want though.
Speaker 3: Selfishly smart man, I can be talked out of it
Speaker 3: pretty easily now. People.
Speaker 2: The last day was more Keaton Woggler smoke, and I
Speaker 2: started to think more about that and why that would
Speaker 2: be and some of that makes sense too.
Speaker 3: I I am not, you know, firm on any of
Speaker 3: these guys.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for whoever they draft, and I think there's
Speaker 2: a lot of arguments to be made for each of them.
Speaker 1: Yes, and Woggler's fallen off a lot of people's boards.
Speaker 1: It's really just seems to be the athleticism thing. But
Speaker 1: this is also what happens right as the draft talk goes.
Speaker 1: You focus on five guys for months, and it's so
Speaker 1: much easier to pick out things they might be bad at.
Speaker 2: You really melt your brain like it is draft brain
Speaker 2: rot going through all of this and sleepless nice of
Speaker 2: thinking it should be this guy and then that guy,
Speaker 2: because I've gone from we start with Woggler and then
Speaker 2: I went to a cuff and now I'm Michael Brown Junior.
Speaker 3: I like Lemmings a lot.
Speaker 2: I think he could be the guy just because the
Speaker 2: process that he had to play with at Houston and
Speaker 2: Kelvin Sampson and the mid range is already there.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And he's one of the better.
Speaker 2: Athletes, and he's probably the best playmaker slash two way
Speaker 2: player of the bunch of those guys.
Speaker 3: And he might be the youngest. He is the youngest.
Speaker 1: That's what I like, like the two way thing. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's because we just watched you know, you
Speaker 1: watched thunder Spurs and you see incredibly good young defensive guards,
Speaker 1: and you watched the Spurs for some of the time
Speaker 1: play really good defense against the Kings from the guard spot,
Speaker 1: and so that I've been enamored with that. I think
Speaker 1: I've probably weighed that too heavily. But I'm like, is
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to not contribute right away on defense?
Speaker 1: Because I think that is such a hard thing to
Speaker 1: learn as a rookie. But is he going to start? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna learn? Is he gonna get into the
Speaker 1: groove as the season goes and start at like a
Speaker 1: okay ish spot because very few guys come in ready
Speaker 1: to play NBA level defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's on the smaller side, and.
Speaker 2: I mean height wise, he's taller than a Cuff. His
Speaker 2: wingspan isn't huge, but I don't know. The playmaking is
Speaker 2: really strong and he's the only one with Hey Acuff
Speaker 2: has some of this too, But like he is a
Speaker 2: mid range specialist, which I like because I feel like
Speaker 2: the other stuff you work so much on in today's
Speaker 2: game with analytics with three and he can get downhill.
Speaker 2: They had two bigs at Houston, so it kind of
Speaker 2: cramped the pain a little bit. But he's explosive. He's
Speaker 2: really good in the open court. Like I expect the
Speaker 2: three to be there, or at least you to be
Speaker 2: working on that. Uh. Not many guys, you know, come
Speaker 2: in with a mid range where he shot forty six
Speaker 2: percent off a pull up.
Speaker 1: Two's nothing to sneeze at, James saying, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: mad at acuff, but then Garland is gone, so that
Speaker 1: is something there was what was the line in Law's
Speaker 1: piece today? He said something very funny. He said, why
Speaker 1: I'm concerned with? Uh? He had why I'm concerned for
Speaker 1: a cuff? He said, how many small guards named Darius
Speaker 1: do you need? That's pretty funny. Well, Darius, that would
Speaker 1: pos an that would make the Clippers have some questions.
Speaker 1: I don't think he would be gone immediately, but I
Speaker 1: think it's something where you got to see because you
Speaker 1: can't run two guards that small, no matter how good
Speaker 1: your offense.
Speaker 2: I mean, when I was most excited about a cuff,
Speaker 2: I was saying, bring him off the bench. That's not
Speaker 2: a problem in his first year and let him learn
Speaker 2: and he can still play twenty minutes a game off
Speaker 2: the bench or whatever. I'm not making my draft decision
Speaker 2: based upon Darius Garland. I'm taking the best player for
Speaker 2: the future because Darius Garland still have question marks himself
Speaker 2: and he's about to turn twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we don't know long term.
Speaker 1: Acuff off the bench is cool because he can be
Speaker 1: the focal point. Yeah, it's really hard to go from
Speaker 1: being I mean sure, his usage rate is one of
Speaker 1: the highest of all time in college, you know, and
Speaker 1: then they like, all right, now play the two next
Speaker 1: to a guy who also needs a ball in his hand, Like, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta transition into some of that.
Speaker 2: I would guess the guy who would definitely be gone
Speaker 2: if they brought an Acuff his Mathron. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 2: see how a Cuff can grow as a young player
Speaker 2: coming off the bench and also doing so with Benedict
Speaker 2: Mathrin and his ISO play.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you develop him that way.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, if you're considering now two guys that
Speaker 2: Acuff effects Scarland and the possibility of restricted free agent
Speaker 2: Bendic Mathern, does that wagh more heavily on your team
Speaker 2: or are you still just saying best player available? But
Speaker 2: is it if there isn't a clear cut best player available,
Speaker 2: that's where you get into these conversations where you can
Speaker 2: talk yourself into this guy. If there's just slight differences
Speaker 2: or you feel like their ceilings are pretty close to
Speaker 2: where they could be eventually actualized at the NBA level,
Speaker 2: then maybe you just go with a guy who fits
Speaker 2: a little bit better because you think best player is
Speaker 2: kind of a toss up.
Speaker 1: A toss up and you're still committed to that thing
Speaker 1: the Clippers want to do, which is win basketball games.
Speaker 3: And you know what I mean, like, yeah, they.
Speaker 1: Have no interest in not winning games? Have you? There
Speaker 1: was someone who has been commenting on our YouTube whose
Speaker 1: name I will pull up right now, but they've been
Speaker 1: kind of pestering us, and I say, immediately to a
Speaker 1: great they've been commenting at us to talk about some
Speaker 1: second round guys because the Clippers do have two second
Speaker 1: round picks. I have three guys that I have picked out,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what I think I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: think two of them are going to second round picks
Speaker 1: are impossible to like, you can kind of say anybody
Speaker 1: other than like the top forty guys, everything below top forty.
Speaker 1: I think you can just kind of we have like
Speaker 1: the fifty second pick, right, we have thirty six, we
Speaker 1: have thirty six and fifty two.
Speaker 2: Thirty six is coming from Cleveland, I believe, so, or
Speaker 2: is that Indiana?
Speaker 1: Let me look?
Speaker 3: Or is that us?
Speaker 2: No, it's not us, regardless. I haven't done much research
Speaker 2: on going that deep into the draft, so well, you
Speaker 2: better trap in, dude.
Speaker 3: Is that Wednesday Night round?
Speaker 1: I think it's from Memphis?
Speaker 3: But is it through one of the trades with Indiana Cleveland?
Speaker 1: From the Canard trade via Oh.
Speaker 3: It's going back to that and Jack has left the chat?
Speaker 1: I lost connection? Am I back?
Speaker 3: You're back?
Speaker 1: There we go? Was that from the No? Never mind, No,
Speaker 1: we have the own pick, but the Nets will receive
Speaker 1: the less favorable of the Clippers twenty twenty six second
Speaker 1: round and two most favorable of Boston's. That's from something, dude,
Speaker 1: we have it. I'm putting this in the chat. This
Speaker 1: is so funny.
Speaker 3: Hold on going genealogy of the pick, dude.
Speaker 1: Look how long this is?
Speaker 3: That's a lot? Okay, whatever, we got shuck, so we got.
Speaker 1: Ugana. Oh yan Waiso. He went to Virginia. He's seven
Speaker 1: feet two forty five. Watch his tape. Three blocks a
Speaker 1: game his senior year while also not fouling a lot.
Speaker 3: Okay, which is back uponic in the future.
Speaker 1: Something people rave. He played a great game against Duke.
Speaker 1: He had a huge block in that game. The people like, go,
Speaker 1: that's crazy at fifty two. If he falls that far,
Speaker 1: go eat some minutes and make life hard for the
Speaker 1: other big. I love this pick. He's gigantic. He can block,
Speaker 1: like he needs to learn to rebound a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but I like it. He plays good defense. What more
Speaker 1: do you want in the third center?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I generally highlights on the rundown that I sent.
Speaker 3: I I was at a medical thing, mourn me.
Speaker 2: I generally like taking bigs late with high upside because
Speaker 2: they also tend to have a higher floor. It's like
Speaker 2: it's it's harder to judge, and it's kind of just
Speaker 2: like you could end up with a guy who's serviceable
Speaker 2: pretty easily.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's I'll throw some highlights on. I'm gonna mute
Speaker 1: it because they take our money. But he like he
Speaker 1: has the size is there. He's obviously the largest guy
Speaker 1: on the court, discipline, discipline, get out of here?
Speaker 3: Was that a double dribble? It looked like you pick
Speaker 3: up the dribble and put it on the floor and
Speaker 3: they got rejected.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the other thing. Guys would cheat against him.
Speaker 3: That's how scared there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were so good. Yeah, I like this pick.
Speaker 1: I think it would be very fun. It would just
Speaker 1: be kind of fun. He would definitely be fun to
Speaker 1: watch in summer league because he would just be trying
Speaker 1: to block the hell.
Speaker 3: Out of the hole. I think. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nick Martinelli from Northwestern six seven to twenty five shooting guard,
Speaker 1: small forward uh twenty three points per game last season
Speaker 1: to twenty point seasons in a row for just over
Speaker 1: three point three to three point at times of game,
Speaker 1: So the form is there. Loves the mid range, unreal
Speaker 1: mid range shooter, excellent scorer on touch shots, ranking in
Speaker 1: the eighty eighth percentile of efficiency on these attempts per Synergy.
Speaker 1: He can make the extra pass in the post, He
Speaker 1: fights for offensive rebounds, good footwork, The flyer's there. The
Speaker 1: flyer is there for Nick Martinelly.
Speaker 3: We're popping the Martin Ellie's if they get him.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, did I put a tape on here too. No,
Speaker 1: I just link to a scouting report and then the
Speaker 1: last one. Jaden Bradley, teammate of Brandon Burry's at Arizona,
Speaker 1: six five point guard, shooting guard. He's twenty three, so
Speaker 1: I think that helps his chances with the Clippers giving
Speaker 1: him a look. He's an older guy.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He averaged thirteen points three and a half boards for
Speaker 1: assists as a senior. He was the Big twelve Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. He relies more on skill than athleticism.
Speaker 1: He's solid on the defensive end. He can generate turnovers
Speaker 1: with anticipation.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that is as a late pick. Those are
Speaker 1: my three guys that are my one locks to be
Speaker 1: picks for the Clippers in the second round.
Speaker 2: Stone Cold lead Pipe los lock it in. Dude, you're
Speaker 2: gonna hear this from Kevin O'Connor.
Speaker 1: Did you look at anyone in the second round? Have
Speaker 1: you even thought about it? It's fair if you haven't,
Speaker 1: because I hadn't until three days ago.
Speaker 2: I genuinely I didn't watch much college basketball till the
Speaker 2: tournament started at all.
Speaker 3: I just can't fake it going that far.
Speaker 1: Rarely draft.
Speaker 3: Like seeh big on.
Speaker 2: The tournament, but you know, I I can't watch regular season.
Speaker 2: It's just a slog outside. Duke unc is like, whose
Speaker 2: who cares?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a rough watch, dude.
Speaker 2: The two threason is hard to watch and they're not
Speaker 2: great shooters, but the tournament one game elimination makes it easy.
Speaker 2: So I I really I'm college basketball casual and I'm
Speaker 2: kind of just under the mindset of whoever they draft.
Speaker 2: I'll do a deep dive on then because I don't
Speaker 2: want to have to run through thirty different guys that
Speaker 2: I didn't watch.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm reading some of the second round draft mocks.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know if it's the Lord's work
Speaker 1: those people are putting in, but it's some kind of
Speaker 1: work because it's just.
Speaker 3: Like this, Like what do you mean like college basketball sikos?
Speaker 1: Dude? The pool is just so large. Set your handle
Speaker 1: giving us our version of the hook, which is dip time.
Speaker 1: Did you bring a dip at him? It's a short week,
Speaker 1: so if you don't have one, I think it's it
Speaker 1: can be excused.
Speaker 3: I have one?
Speaker 1: Would you?
Speaker 3: I don't know if it will compete with my last two?
Speaker 1: Oh, we should sorry before we get into it. If
Speaker 1: you're new to the show. The show's name is Clips
Speaker 1: and Dip. In the off season, just in the off season,
Speaker 1: we bring a dip on and either make it. We
Speaker 1: either make a dip or buy a dip, and then
Speaker 1: we judge if we would bring it to a barbecue.
Speaker 1: Usually we get all of our dips are good choices.
Speaker 1: But that is that's what we do here, only in
Speaker 1: the off season.
Speaker 2: Okay, Adam, go ahead, because those of the doctors and
Speaker 2: I'm I'm supposed to not drive right now. I had
Speaker 2: to check the fridge and see what I could concoct
Speaker 2: here and h thirds out after going with tostitos cheese
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago and then last week to
Speaker 2: Potle's wacamoli.
Speaker 3: My either go to.
Speaker 2: Chibani zero sugar mixed berry. That's yogurt yogurt dip. If
Speaker 2: dunkeruse could do it, so could I?
Speaker 1: All right, that's fair.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I'll take the dip casual.
Speaker 1: That's a good Uh. If Dunkers can do it, so
Speaker 1: can I as good? Would you bring that to a
Speaker 1: barbecue as a dip?
Speaker 2: Like, Hey, guys, you want to get your probiotics in.
Speaker 2: This is good for your gut health here before you
Speaker 2: eat all that through it the barbecue. This will this
Speaker 2: will set your ride and make you feel good tomorrow.
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't, saying it sounds like you're kind of
Speaker 1: trying to sell it to the people at the barbecue.
Speaker 3: Hard cell, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So that's a no on that one.
Speaker 2: I went.
Speaker 1: Kettle brand crinkle cut pink salt chips with taking inspo
Speaker 1: from what Will did last week. Everything and the low
Speaker 1: ta Greek style yogurt dip.
Speaker 3: Is that from it is?
Speaker 1: I went as gringo as I could possibly go before
Speaker 1: this Mexico match, which was go to Trader Joe's and
Speaker 1: buy in a low tase style dip. Ray is giving.
Speaker 1: I would bring this to the barbecue. This is a
Speaker 1: good yp. Ray's giving you the red card. Pablo Tory
Speaker 1: needs to investigate Adam's dipp decisions. Per Alex Webb, he
Speaker 1: does follow me, shar Is saying, no, girt, Pablo follows you.
Speaker 2: After I did an episode called Adam Finds Out, Uh,
Speaker 2: he started following me the day.
Speaker 3: The next day.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have you on the pod.
Speaker 3: I feel like that would end up with me getting fired.
Speaker 1: It's just freaking out.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Do we have any final thoughts on this draft? I
Speaker 1: just I'm like you, I want it to get here.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of seeing reports. I don't know who to
Speaker 1: trust other than the players themselves when they talk about workouts.
Speaker 2: Is he's saying yogurt not in a cup? Is a
Speaker 2: dip like dips coming cups? Why is the cup the
Speaker 2: problem here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, dips can come in cups. What is this but
Speaker 1: a flat cup?
Speaker 3: I am exhausted with the Clippers are working out this guy?
Speaker 3: What about this guy?
Speaker 2: And people who are already stands of certain players before
Speaker 2: they have stepped on an NBA court is wild to me?
Speaker 2: If we don't take a cup, I'm crashing out and
Speaker 2: I'm done with the Clippers. Like this is Come on, guys,
Speaker 2: let's relax here, h It is a crapshoot. Still, we're
Speaker 2: gonna do all this analysis and then it's gonna take
Speaker 2: two or three years to find out if that guy
Speaker 2: can actually be a quality NBA player. And that could
Speaker 2: mean an All Star or a role player, contributor or
Speaker 2: a superstar.
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 1: Hey, Chris Dunn was drafted fifth.
Speaker 2: I would take the more I watch off Camboose or
Speaker 2: if he fell, I would take him at this point with.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, dude. So if anything, I'm I kind
Speaker 1: of think the Jazz or the Bulls are going to
Speaker 1: do something weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know what, but I think something weird is
Speaker 1: going to happen with the Bulls, and one of those
Speaker 1: top four guys is maybe gonna fall to the Clippers
Speaker 1: and they'll be like, wait, what the hell?
Speaker 2: I think there's I put it in like a thirty
Speaker 2: percent chance that one of the supposed locked in top
Speaker 2: four guys drops out of it.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I totally agree, and maybe.
Speaker 3: Then it makes it real easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very true. Maybe the Kings move up even further
Speaker 1: than people will think.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying like, yeah, that is definitely
Speaker 2: a possibility, especially when you don't know, like we don't
Speaker 2: know who Washington for sure is going to take. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other thing, here's a new here's another thing
Speaker 1: that annoys me. Sorry, because we've been kind of talking
Speaker 1: about it the whole like he's only working out. He
Speaker 1: canceled his workout.
Speaker 3: Did that?
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, great, yeah, move on.
Speaker 2: Danny Ainge does not care. Yeah either, as his Son
Speaker 2: or any of the ages. Uh, they will take you anyways.
Speaker 2: They don't care.
Speaker 3: I'm just smart. Stump is saying, Caleb Wilson, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, Stump is saying, surprise, there's no Calshi with
Speaker 1: the Clippers fifth round pick. I bet if you look,
Speaker 1: there is.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, you think Stump hasn't already looked like ten times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Stump, he's locked in. They're locked in. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get here. I'm excited. Are you going
Speaker 1: to the viewing party that's going to be it? Into it?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know. I uh, I'm open
Speaker 3: to whatever comes about.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about production stuff on the air here
Speaker 2: for scheduling.
Speaker 1: I think. Uh, I've been watching some episodes of Curb lately,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why I thought had this fun.
Speaker 1: The idea in my head was everyone showing up to
Speaker 1: the draft party and then they just like trade down
Speaker 1: to like thirteen.
Speaker 3: Like they like trade out completely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just kind of like, oh, what the hell, Like.
Speaker 3: We got five seconds guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited though, because I do. Yeah, something
Speaker 1: weird is gonna happen in that top four. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be three or four. I think one or two is
Speaker 1: probably locked in.
Speaker 3: But I think somebody's taken a cup there. I do too.
Speaker 1: Man, it's just like the buzz is growing.
Speaker 2: People are far too confident in who the top four
Speaker 2: is and who the next tier is after that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: teams could analyze this stuff completely differently than the draft
Speaker 2: experts and the mock draft guys, like, we have no
Speaker 2: idea what their boards are going to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, him, if he said it turns into a Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown welcome party, Yeah, that would be like just the
Speaker 1: most what a nightmare? Yeah, that'll be if anyone goes
Speaker 1: to the watch party, obviously, let us know how it is,
Speaker 1: or let me know because I will not be there.
Speaker 1: They're watching them. Comfortability of my own home. Him, if
Speaker 1: he's not convinced something weird happens, Kawi is too happy
Speaker 1: in Soko. That's fair. That does seem fair?
Speaker 3: Does it look like?
Speaker 2: Also, he's on vacation right now. Have you seen some
Speaker 2: of those clips water ski Yeah, don't wakeboard thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't like that. But so, yeah, he's doing good.
Speaker 3: Could you really move him right down?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Did you already tell the Clippers his wishes before he left.
Speaker 1: Really funny. I'm going on vacation. By the way, here's
Speaker 1: the place if you were to trade me, here's the
Speaker 1: places I'd.
Speaker 2: Like to go.
Speaker 3: I guess twy six you could probably reach out to
Speaker 3: get ahold of him.
Speaker 1: But uhai though I don't know, dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kawi goes off the grid.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Yeah, he has a flip phone.
Speaker 1: He's got the jitterbug phone for sure. Oh, I went
Speaker 1: to Greece.
Speaker 3: That's where it was.
Speaker 1: Ray Are you with him?
Speaker 3: Who puts up? Who runs the social media? I heard
Speaker 3: it was his sister or something.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we got some questions about the aspiration stuff.
Speaker 1: We don't know.
Speaker 2: I kind of expect something in the next three days,
Speaker 2: Like I could see it like a news dump Friday
Speaker 2: type thing where they try to kill it after all
Speaker 2: the uh so all the morning shows don't get their
Speaker 2: fight on it till Monday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna wait. Yeah yeah, maybe I might be
Speaker 1: unavoidably detained tomorrow, but we'll go live if they get anything.
Speaker 1: I'm also just like, yeah, I kind of forgot about it.
Speaker 3: That's when it's gonna happen. It's exactly what it's gonna
Speaker 3: be expected.
Speaker 1: I need the eternal sunshine on the spotless mind myself.
Speaker 3: I don't remember what that means, but I love that
Speaker 3: movie when came out.
Speaker 1: All right, well the aspiration stuff. Hey, let's just hope
Speaker 1: for the.
Speaker 3: Best, right, I don't know what are we supposed to do? Yeah,
Speaker 3: freaking that's been hanging over our heads.
Speaker 2: I almost feel like, with how long this has taken,
Speaker 2: maybe Adam Silver should take that into is a possible
Speaker 2: disciplinary actions if there are any, Like why do the
Speaker 2: clippers have to wait nine months or however long it's
Speaker 2: been to birth this ruling, Like how is it possibly
Speaker 2: taking this long?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: How? And Soilber sounded frustrated with it before the final started.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean they're paying the bill for what.
Speaker 1: I know, it's the NBA and there it's a billion
Speaker 1: dollar thing. But the money that this law firm is
Speaker 1: going to charge, which again I believe is the most
Speaker 1: expensive law firm in the United States or has the
Speaker 1: most bill about something like that is extraordinary.
Speaker 3: And so they're telling you that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that hurts them, but yes, rich people,
Speaker 1: the one thing you don't want. They don't want their
Speaker 1: money to be taken and they don't want to have
Speaker 1: to use it, and they're getting charged by.
Speaker 3: This law firm like billable hours. I understand that? Is it?
Speaker 3: Any read though?
Speaker 2: On if it was a slam dunk opening truck case,
Speaker 2: then UH probably wouldn't take this long, right. Maybe there's
Speaker 2: a lot of uh gray and uh difficult and understanding
Speaker 2: and sorting through all the evidence.
Speaker 1: And that guy already went to jail or he got sentenced.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, someone said, announce it during the the tm
Speaker 1: USA game on Friday. Perfect do it? Then, Adam, can
Speaker 1: we get one positive thing before we head out of here?
Speaker 3: Uh, let's see drafts on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: You know, I hadn't thought much about that pick thirty,
Speaker 2: and that could end up being a very valuable player
Speaker 2: in a very deep draft. Maybe I do need a
Speaker 2: deep dive on second round picks right now, because that
Speaker 2: could be basically a first round pick in other years.
Speaker 2: The thirty six pick this year could be like the
Speaker 2: twenty first pick in another year type thing.
Speaker 1: Dude, I'm telling you, check out Martin Ellie. Check out
Speaker 1: Martin Ellie's game.
Speaker 3: I'm in.
Speaker 1: Thank you to everyone on stream who hung out. We
Speaker 1: just to kind of a short one today. You all
Speaker 1: know who we want to draft. We know who most
Speaker 1: of you want to draft, and we will find out
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, some combination of us will be live. You
Speaker 1: can find the podcast itself anywhere you listen to pods.
Speaker 1: You can find the video version of us at YouTube
Speaker 1: dot com Slash at Clippers Podcast. Thank you as always
Speaker 1: for hanging out. And it's a new era for the
Speaker 1: Clippers in just a couple of days, so just have
Speaker 1: a good weekend. Let's try and not stress out.
Speaker 3: Jalen brown Era is here, damn it exactly.
Speaker 1: They're gonna trade him at the watch party. Thank you
Speaker 1: for hanging out, have a good one, and as always,
Speaker 1: let's go first.