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Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans, Happy New Year. If

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you start this episode at eleven fifty nine and fifty

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eight seconds, you'll hear me say Happy New Year right

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at New Year. So that's cool. I am Chuck Wockler,

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joined by Adam Osen and William Updyke. Welcome to the

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sixteenth episode of the fourth season of Clips in Dip.

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Thanks for hanging out. If you've been riding with us

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through this the dark times, the light times are here.

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You can watch us at YouTube dot com slash at

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Clippers podcast to see our roller coaster of emotion through

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these last couple of days before we get into this

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amazing win streak and how things have been going. Adam,

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will how are you feeling going into twenty twenty six

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after beating the Kings by forty points? Good?

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Speaker 2: Feeling undefeated in the new year, Feeling unstoppable? What's not like?

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The Kings are a miserable team about the biggest sell

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off we've ever seen?

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Speaker 1: What is wrong with them up there? We're gonna talk

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about the Clippers obviously for the next hour, but what

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is going on up there?

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Speaker 2: The same shit that's been going on the VEC saved

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them from moving, but Unfortunately, he's not the most hands

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off owner. I think he's trying to adapt in that area.

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But I mean, he had his daughter who was a

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pop star in the front office at one point. Like

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there's been some strange stuff going on there and they're

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completely dysfunctional and inept as a franchise currently. Who's his

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daughter I don't know, but she was a pop star

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that no one knows about. I think your name star

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with Britney first named Britney, Yeah, something like that.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know what's going on with the Kings.

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I also will I tweeted this out last night when

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everyone was talking about the Clippers like winning on the

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coach or Tyler Wood and stuff. That is what a

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team that has quit on their coach looks like.

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Speaker 2: That's what I said too. You tweeted that too. Are

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you serious?

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Speaker 1: From the Clippers PODCA we should check both those Yeah,

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what the hell dude, I am?

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Speaker 2: But like during the game, I have this freaking long

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thread of play by play crap that gets in the

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way of everything.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, now that the important stuff like why the

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Kings are so bad is out of the way, the

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Clippers are on a five game win streak. Over this

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win streak, they are first and defensive rating, offensive rating

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and net rating first, and true shooting percentage third, and

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turnovers per game first and wins. Will what part of

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this is Kawhi and James Harden elevating to a different level,

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Kawhi even surpassing whatever other level he's been able to

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get to. Is it really just that I don't mean

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that disrespect to the other guys playing well, but rising

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you know, those two guys playing well is what gets

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the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: With Yeah, well, one thing I mean that gets a

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little bit hard, like in the midst of so much losing.

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Is another thing that's like wrong with the Kings. Is

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I feel like even through all that Tom Tumult, the

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Clippers have had this north star and this.

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Speaker 4: Idea of where they're headed.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've talked about the identity not necessarily being

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consistent or anything, but they have an idea how they

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want to play and what they want this team to be.

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And I do think you know, we talked about some

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of the things that we're just not breaking their way

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in terms of opponent three point shooting percentage, which you know,

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there's all other factors that go into that other guys

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not like achieving expectation, and I think what we've seen

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is sort of a return to the means above the

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means frankly in those areas as well as this, like

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the incredible play of Kawhi and obviously James Harden doing.

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Speaker 4: What he's really been doing for the majority of the season.

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Speaker 3: But I do think that, yes, that lifts it, but

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they're I think that they should give fans and people

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a little bit of pause when you want to overreact

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to something, because this would be the time and the

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place for a less organized franchise to go ahead and

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do something drastic, to go ahead and fire your head coach,

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to go ahead and get rid of your GM.

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Speaker 4: But when you know that you have.

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Speaker 3: Something in the distance that you're still shooting for, yes,

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it may not it's still not going to result in

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a top four or five seeds, likely in the Western Conference,

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but you still know that you can get frisky in

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the playoffs. You haven't lost anything major and you haven't

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had to give anything up. You haven't had to take

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any trades for pennies on the dollar, like you've kind

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of stuck to your guns in a way that things

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have bounced back, and now, granted, it's not like we

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had a whole lot of room to maneuver or move

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around or necessarily change things, so we're a little bit

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four to stick to our guns. But having the foreside

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ahead to have built the team like they did and

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continue to believe in these guys, I do think says something.

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I do think that that's positive, and I do think

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that that is something that you know, even as Kawhi

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and Harden's play ebbs and flows throughout the season, like,

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knowing that this team is still together and is still

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on track has to be something that that everyone can

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rejoice about, regardless of this season's ultimate ending.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and just four if you've missed Kauhai's last five games,

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just during this streak, uh, he's averaging thirty nine points,

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nine boards, four assists, plus three steals in a block

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and a half. His splits are, dude, I like, I

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don't understand it. Fifty three percent from the floor, forty

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seven percent from three. He's taken forty four threes over

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the last five games, so it's not like he's, you know,

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putting up like three a game. And obviously we know

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the ninety six percent from the free throw line. But

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to your point, and Adam, you were nodding along and

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clapping and cheering because what Will was saying was correct,

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Like this is why you don't make a trade or

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freak out. You can't a week ago.

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Speaker 3: You can't always press the panic button. You can't always

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be reactionary to everything.

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Speaker 2: Everybody wanted Coach Lou fired, They wanted Lawrence Frank fired,

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They wanted the old guys traded, even if it wasn't

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for much. What a difference five games makes I think

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this team. And there was some mocking of when Coach

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Lou said this, but I was like, I love that

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they put a goal out there. When he said the

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goal is to go thirty five and twenty the rest

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of the way to get back to forty one and

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forty one. A lot of people scoffed at it and

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thought it was silly and ridiculous. Well, that I think

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is a big part of leading to this reset of

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just the Clippers being able to kind of have a

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fresh start to this season and now they just need

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to go thirty and twenty over the next fifty games

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to get to forty one and forty one. All of

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a sudden, doesn't lift that unrealistic. I think that was

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a big move and coach, we've talked about a little

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bit last night. Apparently it wasn't just him, it was

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Lawrence Frank and Trent redd and recommending that too.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they want to go five. I mean they

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want to keep the five hundred streak alive too, for sure,

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Speaker 2: But recommending putting a number on it to get there

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and chasing that is what I mean. But this is

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a team that is not given up to Chuck's point,

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they've not thrown it into the towel at all. And

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once they got that first victory and it was over

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the Lakers in dominating fashion. The Lakers also were missing

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some guys, but the Clippers were missing the obviously Visa

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Zubots earlier in that game. Won't get into more of that,

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I'm sure, but this team needed to get over the

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hump because they had lost so many close games down

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the stretch where they're two to eight in clutch time games.

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I think this season and that mentally can wear on you,

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and I think it was more than just oh, this

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team isn't playing hard enough, or they don't want it.

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It was the fatigue of feeling like we've forgotten how

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to win, and everybody seems to make the big shot

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against us, and the shooting is going against us and

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we can't knock down three pointers. Well, that is completely

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flipped around. Over the last five games, they've outshot their

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opponents in every single one of those games from three. Crazy,

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and going into last night's game, they were almost out

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shooting their opponents by twenty percent from three. It was

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a nineteen percent over the last four games. Hated to

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last night, they still outshot Sacramento I think three percent

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from three. That's the type of stuff that can turn

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around a season. Kawhi Leonard, though, being and looking like

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the best player in the NBA over this stretch, I

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don't know if anybody expected him to look this good.

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He had not been bad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this he wasn't like a bum. He was still

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puting up like some of his best deficiency like. But

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we're seeing on both sides too, which is great. Why

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the defense, albeit against you know who what was against

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last night, He's still an issue to deal with on

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the defense effect.

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Speaker 2: And he was good against the Lakers and Portland and

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Houston and Detroit and even before they started winning, their

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defense had already been coming around, which a lot of

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people are, you know, looking at the fact that Ivisa

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Zubas is out and all of a sudden everything's fine.

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It's like, well their defense. You can look at those numbers,

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and this team had been playing better. They just weren't

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getting those results. But the process was there, which is

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why we talk about it a lot. Sometimes it's starts

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with the process and eventually it leads to the results

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in the w's even if it doesn't initially you got

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to play the right way and they were they had been,

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they just couldn't close out games for a while.

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Speaker 3: Famously, causation and correlation are the exact same thing, so.

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Speaker 4: Makes sense, makes sense, and it is.

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Speaker 1: It's also and not now we're gonna get too the

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other part, which is not to take away from anything

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else that the other guys are doing, from Kawhi and

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James Harden, because you look at Chris Dunn, is it

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forty from three this year? Like I saw some people

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on Twitter talking about he's altered his shot a little bit.

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He used to take shots with his feet, not parallel.

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Just little things like that that are getting tweaked and like,

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it's crazy he's over fifty percent from three during the

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wind streak. And I think too, like getting Derek Jones

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Junior back when we got him back, not to say that,

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you know, he obviously looked rusty when he came back

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because he missed some time, but like it helped.

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Speaker 3: But when you talk about closed games, like that's a

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guy who could have helped alter a couple of close ones.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it helps. It takes Done off the floor

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a little bit. So Done doesn't have to play because

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part of it too is like when we weren't playing well,

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guys were pushing in weird areas that was leading to mistakes. Right.

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We saw Done gamble for a couple of steals sometimes

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during the dark times where it was like that's out

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of character for you, Like you don't got to you know,

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leave your man to go for that, to try and

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just make something happen during this this difficult run of play.

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helped Derek Jones Junior. He can come back at a

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normal rate. Right, It's not like, hey, Derek, we need

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you back. You gotta be locked in and already at

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one hundred percent. I've loved done. Season has been great.

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It started off rough, but everyone's kind of did. And

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like the fact that he's a forty percent I was insane.

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Speaker 2: And his shooting very quietly while they were losing, was

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there from the outside while people were still saying, we

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already get done off the floors like he's been shooting well.

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I mean, even people freak out about the playoff series.

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He shot the thirty six percent from three in that series,

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didn't you twenty six percent from three? He wasn't that

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god awful? Now, I know teams will leave him open,

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but that happens. There's guys on every team that I

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like that and they are asked to knock them down.

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who talked about this a little bit last night, But

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you know, it's not that shocking that a guy who

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has a bigger role later in his career can make

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some strides in that area because he's being asked to

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even there was a part Kawhi last night is going

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off in the second quarter where he had eighteen points.

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it up to Kawhi. He's cooking, Kawhi. I saw that

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Chris Dunn's man left him. He gave it right back

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to Chris Dunn, like just encouraging him. No, you shoot,

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this is this is your shot here. Seeing Kawhi do

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that with the god'sier heater he's been on, that's that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: We do have to talk about the Lopez Zoo thing.

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That is like it's not real anyway, we have to

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talk about it. We have to say something about it.

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So like we can all agree that Lopez has been

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you know, the Blazers game was absurd. He almost broke

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the record for threes made in the game. But other

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than that, like he's been good, right, well, Like have

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you felt about Lopez in Places Zoo. It's like, you know,

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pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's I mean it's pretty good. You know,

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he's surrounded by better guys, so that's always going to

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help you out.

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Speaker 1: And it's style of play so different, like yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know, there's no argument for like

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permanently switching in my mind whatsoever. But you know, he's

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been able to bounce back a little bit. But but

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like I said, he does have more help with that unit,

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with with some of his issues on the defensive end,

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and they can tailor to him a little bit more.

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He also, you know, has a little bit more outside

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versatility than Zoo, So I think that that helps. But

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again not in like a major like in a way

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that it's a good stop gap, not a solution, if.

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Speaker 4: That makes sense.

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Speaker 1: His spacing, you know, does open up the pay a

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little bit. We've we've seen John Collins crash you know,

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a loop a Lopez three point attempt and get you

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know the offensive board and dunk, which is like what

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Collins that's perfect for his game. I also saw a

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cool thing last night where I think it was the

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first possession where Lopez was like legitimately coaching John Collins

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where to go. Not I don't mean this is like

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a disrespectful thing to John Collins. It was just cool

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to see Lopez being like, you know, like ushering, helping

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guys be in the right spot on the court.

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Speaker 4: That's why you bring him, I mean, you know exactly.

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Speaker 2: I think outside of CP three, he was said to

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be the loudest guy in training camp and in those

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preseason games on the floor, you always knew where Lopez

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was out there. Great bet, Yeah, this this whole I

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keep saying this, but I'm gonna keep saying it because

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it's so true and just speaks to how ridiculous people

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could be. But the same people that said Lopez was done,

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he's washed, Why did Lawrence frank get him? He sucks,

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it's over, are now saying that same guy is better

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than a Visa zoobots. And here's the same guy they

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said all that about, Like.

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Speaker 1: People who have been boarding this out LA Clippers film

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has been fighting the good fight on this. The Clippers

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won fifty games with Zoo being an all NBA level

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center last year, Like we're not We're not talking of like, yeah,

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he can't shoot threes, Okay, that's fine. Not a lot

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of starting centers shoot four threes or whatever. And to

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the other there's also the other side of the ball

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where I don't think anyone would think I would hope,

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not sincerely that you don't think that Lopez is a

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better defender than defeats the zoobots, because that's not true.

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Speaker 2: I don't think this was like I don't know less

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than two weeks ago that I did that emergency podcast

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and you came on, Chuck and we had who else

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was there? And Joey beats the Zoobots. It was revealed

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that he'd be out for at least three weeks, and

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I kept saying, like, I'm not giving up on Lopez,

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and people were mocking me and saying in the comments

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like this is the most desperate thing I've ever seen,

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and like, no, because it matters. I said all season long,

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I don't think he's had some crazy drop off from

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last season going from thirty six to thirty seven. That

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stuff does happen once in a while, but from what

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I saw, movement wise, he was fine if you use

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him as a situational drop big and the rest of

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the defense being so bad to start the season, I

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kept saying, was ruining Lopez's chance of being able to

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be an effective defender because he was having a makeup

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for other guys' mistakes out there and he can't do that.

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He can't roam, he can't patrol the paint like that,

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he can't move side to side like that. But if

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you funnel guys his way, he can still be a

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good defender. And that's what we're seeing now. Guys, everybody

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else has taken up the challenge more. They're more connected defensively,

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so Lopez is better defensively. And his shot, I mean

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that's always the last thing to go. So yeah, I

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always felt like he still had utility. It's like last

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year's Clippers team. I said, if Lopez was on that team,

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he'd be really good because that team played great defense

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and everybody played defense to some degree. And now they're

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doing it and Lopez looks like a different guy, but

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he's not. It's just sometimes you know, your environment is

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what changes things.

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Speaker 1: Product of his environment. Yeah, he's also from two point

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percentage land shooting forty percent from two and grabbing three

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boards a game. So there are other aspects for the

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people who want to jettison Zubots from this team.

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Speaker 2: I'll say this, though, he's.

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Speaker 1: Been good and I'm not. This is this is I'm

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throwing the people who want who are for some reason. Yeah.

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The other part is like we don't have to choose,

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Like there's no world in which we're at some crossroads

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where we have to choose Zubots or Lope. We have both.

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Like that's good, good, right, now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if they do continue to keep winning and

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they're twelve and two, when a Viza Zubos is healthy

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and ready to come back, maybe they stick with Brook

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Lopez in the starting lineup. I don't think that's crazy.

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He's been a starter his entire career. But the idea that, oh,

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we have to trade Zoo, Now, why are we trading

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a Visa zubots Uh Again, zubots has one of the

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most valued contracts in the NBA. Trading a guy like

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that that's that good at just twenty million dollars when

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you're trying to match salary, you're not going to get

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players back that are close to that. Now you may

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get you may get the draft picks that you cover it.

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And if there's a Godfather offer, then I think you

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should be listening for any player on this Clippers team.

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There's still eleven and twenty one. Yeah, they're still eleven

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and twenty one. And Chuck, you're right, it's like long term,

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what does that mean Lopez is Lopez is in his

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late thirties, Like.

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Speaker 1: There's worse guys like yeah, Zoos.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Zoo could be really good, like a top seven

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ish type center for the next six years, Right, do

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you want to give up on that guy because you think, well,

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we might have a gap year next year and then

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we reload. Like, if he's good for the next six years,

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you might be able to hold on to him for

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the next era of Clippers basketball and he can still

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help you there.

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Speaker 1: But that next draft pick that could be Zoo.

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Speaker 2: But but now people saw Yani get sixteen points last night,

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so he's also better than Zoo.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Also shout out the youth movement, Yannick and Kobe Sanders.

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This has been fun. This has been fun. I'm not

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putting yeah, let's sign him to the max contracts yet

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or whatever, but like Harden and Yannak have him that

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little moment on the bench yesterday, Like the fact that

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tylu is like, yeah, Kobe, you're ahead of all the

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other younger guys because you've shown me that you know

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how to play NBA basketball better than they do. Like,

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I love it, and I'm really happy for those youngers.

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It's awesome to see them put up good tape.

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Speaker 2: I remember also on that Clippers Talk emergency podcast, everybody

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complaining that they should have got Cop Brener. This is

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why they should have got Cop Brenner for a situation

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like this zoo is out. He's more NBA ready now,

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that is true. But I think everybody's starting to see

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just how high of the ceiling Gyanick might have and

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that is very intriguing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like if he could be the backup, it's just like, yeah,

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I like it. It's just good to see young guys

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put up good tape for this Clippers team, Like, well,

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who's the last young guy? Was it? I mean Jordan Miller,

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I guess, but that faded.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in some limited spots.

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Speaker 1: I mean even Kobe Brown got minutes the other night.

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But yeah, so that's good to see. And probable people

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who don't want Tyler to play young guys, he's playing

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two young guys. Nick Patum has also just continued to

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be good and someone we're gonna talk about this trade

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rumor that came out or scuttle but from Ammick the

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other day. But Nick Patum and John Collins have been

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fantastic to see. And I hope my take that John

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Collins could still have room in the twenty twenty seven

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open cap era is still I think, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like it.

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Speaker 1: If he can write, like maybe he didn't, he might

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have played himself out of some money this season, which

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is shitty for him obviously, but like we've seen him

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be a positive player for this Clippers team. Like he's athletic,

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it's there.

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Speaker 2: He's the type of guy that could get along contract obviously,

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but not the annual twenty six million per year. Maybe

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it's eighteen per year or something like that, but it's

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three years, you know, I don't know, sixty million. Let's say,

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so he's a twenty two years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would twenty million dollars for because what's he

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twenty five now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty five, twenty six yeah.

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Speaker 1: Kidding John Collins for less average annual value for that

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twenty twenty seven would be nice.

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Speaker 2: And he's hitting his threes. And he started hitting his threes,

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by the way, when the Viza Zubos was still on

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the floor. I just want to.

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Speaker 1: Say, interesting, intrguing, are we sure about that?

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Speaker 2: Look? The spacing thing is real, Like I don't want

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to just doubt that this it matters. And that was

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a big reason we're all so excited about having a

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change of pace or a change up with having Brook

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Lopez where you could really throw some different variations in

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lineup combinations when they got him this summer. Now it's happening,

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but it's happening in a way we didn't expect what

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the viza zubas happening to be out in him in

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the starting lineup.

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Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Well, what else have you been excited

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about before we get into the next segment, which is

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the ultimate question.

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Speaker 4: I mean, just duves on doves.

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Speaker 3: But like I said, it was really easy to It

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was really easy to overact, overreact when things were bad,

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you know, like they looked terrible. Yeah, they looked really,

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really terrible. But I think I mean, like I said,

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part of it is your hand is forced. But like

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they didn't completely quit on this team. Uh, at any level,

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it doesn't appear. And I think that that, you know,

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even if we go through another rough patch, that's one

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of those things that we have at least seen this now. Yeah,

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you know we can have that in the back of

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our mind that there is still there is still a

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plan and there is still a north star this team

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is that it doors, which I gotta be honest, it

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was feeling a little rudderless there for a minute.

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Speaker 1: No, that's I should have known better.

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Speaker 3: But it's hard to know better when you're when you're

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in the dirty.

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Speaker 2: Like they're not out the woods. No oh no, we're fine.

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Now I should have known better, Like I get what

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you're saying. You're right, Like it was that bad and

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it's it was so bad that even with this five

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game winning streaking, how good they have looked. They're ten

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games under five hundred still.

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Speaker 1: Right, So that brings us. We're gonna do a quick

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audio break for those of you listening. If you want

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to watch us, you can watch us at YouTube dot

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cops at clips podcast. For those of you listen, theer's

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gonna be a quick audio break and then we're gonna

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answer the pressing question in three two one.

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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back into Clips and Dip. We talked

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the clips renewed, not even renewed, their first.

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Speaker 4: Taste is real.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and now we're just gonna talk a little bit

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about how good this team actually is, how sustainable any

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00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,599
of this really is. We touched on it a little bit.

474
00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:55,200
Uh but Charles, what what are you coming back to?

475
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:56,920
What's what's sustainable here?

476
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Speaker 1: So before I think it was before the Pistons game,

477
00:25:02,319 --> 00:25:04,799
I was looking at some of the shooting Variances during

478
00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:07,200
the three game streak, right, So, like the Lakers shot

479
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,119
fifteen percent from three in our win, Clippers as a

480
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,039
team shot fifty three percent against the Rockets, and then

481
00:25:13,039 --> 00:25:15,960
we had the Lopez game against the Blazers, So I

482
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,200
was like, oh, I don't know, like they've gotten They

483
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,119
had some good shooting luck for three of the games,

484
00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:22,720
and I do think the shooting luck is kind of

485
00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:24,680
carried over. I don't think this team is going to

486
00:25:24,759 --> 00:25:28,160
finish top three and true shooting percentage for the rest

487
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,880
of the year. I just don't think they're built for that.

488
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,279
And it's not in disrespect to the team at all.

489
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:38,839
But like what I like is the what I think

490
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,960
I'm grasping on to the most kind of like the

491
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,599
big stats from the win streak is the defensive rating

492
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,440
being good. The competition, obviously there's been some up and down.

493
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,759
You know, it's it is what it is. You have

494
00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:54,720
to play who's in front of you. But the defense

495
00:25:54,839 --> 00:25:58,039
has me the most excited, right because, like we didn't

496
00:25:58,039 --> 00:26:00,759
have Derek Jones Junior for part of it. Collins has

497
00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:02,640
been out there while they've had the number one defense

498
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,799
over the last five games, Kawhi's looked a little renewed.

499
00:26:05,799 --> 00:26:09,799
On the defensive end, I think that. I think it's

500
00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:12,119
the more sustainable part.

501
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,319
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the defense has legs. How do we know that

502
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,559
because we saw it for eighty two games last year.

503
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,480
It's pretty much the same team in a lot of ways.

504
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,640
Even with out of each a Zoo Bots. They have

505
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,079
so many good defenders with dj Bean back now, if

506
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,759
everybody's connected and the chemistry is there again and guys

507
00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:33,119
are feeling better about themselves because they won some games,

508
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,799
so it's games, so it's easier to give a better

509
00:26:35,839 --> 00:26:39,119
effort on that end, especially when you're making everything and

510
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,680
you can set your defense like the Clippers can. Well,

511
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,559
there goes their number one problem, their number one weakness,

512
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,000
transition defense, because they're getting back because they're making every

513
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:48,960
shot right now.

514
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 1: That's a great point actually being number one and true

515
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,839
shooting does make it so they don't have to run

516
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,119
quickly down the court. And I don't mean that like it,

517
00:26:59,119 --> 00:26:59,920
it literally does.

518
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 2: And it isn't sustainable to shooting, and in particular because

519
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,559
it's not only that the Clippers have been red hot

520
00:27:06,599 --> 00:27:09,480
from the outside, it's their opponent shooting going the other way.

521
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,559
At the same time too, and being so bad. When

522
00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:15,680
you look at the numbers, it's the same open shots

523
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,640
that they were giving up before, Like Portland had open shots,

524
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,880
Houston at open shots. They're just missing against the Clippers.

525
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,640
Now it's shooting variants. It's a real thing.

526
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 4: All the averages.

527
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: Baby, we love it.

528
00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 2: No albody wants to believe it when it's going against you,

529
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,519
and nobody wants to believe it when it's going for you,

530
00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:35,440
you know, but it's real.

531
00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:37,599
Speaker 1: Well talk to me when they go fifty five of

532
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:42,200
that to close the season, Well, do you think the Kawhi?

533
00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:44,960
I feel like I'm also kind of a believer in

534
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,279
the Kawhi level of play, not the split City's at

535
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,799
right now. I think the free throw percentage that'll stay

536
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,640
right there. I think three points probably gonna come down,

537
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,279
but he is taking more, like but I also sem

538
00:27:56,319 --> 00:27:59,039
I believe in that or I'm just drunk off five wins.

539
00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know about that high. But like the

540
00:28:02,559 --> 00:28:05,119
larger attempts and everything, that is very real.

541
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 3: But we see that in a lot of forwards, like

542
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,960
as as they age, I mean, that's the game now,

543
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,559
you know, maybe you have to alter a little bit

544
00:28:13,599 --> 00:28:16,880
as you age, so I expect that to to hold true.

545
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:17,559
Speaker 4: And who knows.

546
00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:21,039
Speaker 3: I mean, like, you know, again with those greater reps, like, yes,

547
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,279
you'll see a decline from where he's at right now,

548
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,839
but overall beneficial, I would assume as because you know,

549
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,640
he continues to grow and learn his game even as

550
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,000
his body matures.

551
00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: Matures is a very friendly way to put it. So, yeah,

552
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,000
they talked about we talked about this a little bit.

553
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,920
They need to go thirty and twenty to hit the

554
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,400
let's be five hundred mark, which I was doubt on,

555
00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:46,640
especially after let's call it.

556
00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:49,119
Speaker 4: Thirty one and nineteen. Let's call a winning season.

557
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: I like that, let's call it thirty one in nineteen.

558
00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:53,559
I hope, I hope L Frank's listening to this one.

559
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,119
He picks up that nugget based on opponent win percentage,

560
00:28:57,359 --> 00:29:00,839
which isn't the best indication of strength the schedule. It's

561
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,880
just kind of how teams are playing as of right now.

562
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:06,680
The Clippers have the seventh easiest strength to schedule for

563
00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:08,279
the next for this.

564
00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 2: Next you know, let's hold the rest of the season.

565
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:16,039
Speaker 1: Thirty one and nineteen. Yeah, how real that is? You know,

566
00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:19,160
teams bad teams can get hot for three games and

567
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,440
all of a sudden be playing like it.

568
00:29:20,519 --> 00:29:22,759
Speaker 2: You know, it's like a very hey, Utah has been

569
00:29:22,759 --> 00:29:23,559
playing better.

570
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,279
Speaker 1: Legitimately, shit like I mean, look at the nets, dude,

571
00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:32,359
like the nets have. Yeah, it makes like no sense.

572
00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:34,079
Speaker 2: To the Clippers last five games.

573
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,039
Speaker 1: How are we feeling about about thirty one and nineteen?

574
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,720
Now we still do have and I haven't mentioned it

575
00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:45,079
for a couple episodes. We have eighteen games in March.

576
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 4: Brother, it's not even January. Like, let's let's reconvene on at.

577
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: How we feel about thirty one and nineteen. I feel

578
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,160
a lot better obviously then five games ago.

579
00:29:59,839 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 2: I I just what Will was saying and bringing up Kawhi,

580
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,640
and yes, this is great right now, but this is

581
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,039
an all time peak type of thing. Now.

582
00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:10,759
Speaker 1: Never let the party die, man.

583
00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 2: He had the most efficient thirty game stretch in NBA

584
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:17,720
history back on the twenty three twenty four season, where

585
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,000
he was shooting fifty seven fifty two to ninety splits

586
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:27,039
thirty games. Again, it's it's possible, especially with this emphasis

587
00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:30,359
on his outside shooting as he tries to evolve his game.

588
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,319
But he's even said I'm gonna shoot him no matter what.

589
00:30:33,599 --> 00:30:35,480
There could be a game where I go, oh to twelve,

590
00:30:35,599 --> 00:30:37,960
next game, I go seven of twelve. I am taking

591
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,480
these shots because he pointed out that it might have

592
00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:43,039
to be one step back before two steps forward with

593
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:48,720
him trying to just be a part of the NBA's

594
00:30:48,799 --> 00:30:51,440
new modern age of shooting and three point percentage.

595
00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 4: You know, if it's open or semi open, like why

596
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:54,440
would he not?

597
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,079
Speaker 2: But he wants to take him like off the bounce,

598
00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:00,400
like he's James Harden now a lot more and he

599
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,519
has been and he's was making him. It's going well

600
00:31:03,559 --> 00:31:04,119
so far.

601
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: Will as the coach's only and Clint, we're going do it.

602
00:31:09,839 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: We saw I remember in San Diego when they played

603
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,400
I think that was the first preseason game and Kawhi

604
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,920
was taking some crazy like off the bound side stepping

605
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,640
threes and he was making him. I was like, what

606
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:19,400
didn't he take.

607
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: Like twelve or not twelve? But like he took some

608
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,599
game where it was like what the hell is going?

609
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think first of all, I think it's amazing

610
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,160
that he recognizes where the game is going and he

611
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,680
has to adjust and it also will help his body

612
00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:35,839
too as you slow down lose the first step, but

613
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,480
the shooting is the last thing to go. And he

614
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:40,960
already is a really good shooter. He's a much better

615
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,880
three point shooter than MJ or Kobe ever was, So

616
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:47,000
for him to get try to get better in this area. Wow.

617
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 3: And I mean we saw the same thing with Lebron

618
00:31:49,599 --> 00:31:51,400
when you know he hit the same age like his

619
00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:54,279
three his three point shooting went up drastically. But Kawhy

620
00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:56,880
has been a better three point shooter, so that I mean,

621
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,559
like that's great, and that's great for him. He's already,

622
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,160
you know, semi adapted for this next stage.

623
00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 2: I just don't know, like the highs have been so high.

624
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:15,119
We just know how this goes. Yeah, and I can

625
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,160
go through these stretches where he looks like the best

626
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,039
player ever, and then he goes through a little bit

627
00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:22,400
of a loll where he's not moving as fast. I'm

628
00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:24,519
I'm waiting that will happen.

629
00:32:24,599 --> 00:32:24,759
Speaker 4: Now.

630
00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:27,559
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean they have to lose, though, because if

631
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,960
that happens, you know, around the time of visa Zubos

632
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,279
comes back, then maybe he can pick some stuff, pick

633
00:32:32,359 --> 00:32:34,400
him up a little bit, and other guys can be

634
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,960
going through some hot shooting stretches.

635
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:43,799
Speaker 1: It's yeah, yeah, it's gonna be interesting the Clippers. There's

636
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,720
eighteen games until the trade deadline.

637
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kawie be getting any help.

638
00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:53,799
Speaker 1: So the latest scuttle butt from AMIC, which take it

639
00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:56,160
with a grain of salt. I'm just reporting all what

640
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:03,039
came out today. Team sources say the Clippers have no

641
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,799
plans of hosting a fire slee on these next five weeks.

642
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,319
With Steve Bamber continuing his eternal mandate to remain competitive

643
00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:14,240
and no first round pick in twenty twenty sixth centiffies

644
00:33:14,279 --> 00:33:16,400
a tank job. They want to dig out of this

645
00:33:16,599 --> 00:33:19,799
massive hole they've dug for themselves. He went on to say,

646
00:33:19,839 --> 00:33:23,160
if anything, league sources say the Clippers are expected to

647
00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:27,839
explore the prospect of adding an impact player. They can

648
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,759
match a star player level salary with expiring deals with

649
00:33:31,839 --> 00:33:35,599
the contract of John Collins, Bogged and Bogdanovich, who also

650
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,599
it just sucks he can't stay healthy. Body, Please get healthy, man.

651
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:46,240
That's just a bummer, Brook Lopez and Niko Batoum. So

652
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:53,240
all of those guys apparently are available for an impact player, which.

653
00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:56,279
Speaker 4: Kings might be listening.

654
00:33:56,559 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: Fuck, oh god, I wish, I wish. Dennis Schreuder's contract

655
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,880
wasn't three years that he just signed. He's only he's

656
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:11,119
only making fourteen, but it's through till the summer of

657
00:34:11,119 --> 00:34:13,639
twenty twenty eight. What if we're trying to.

658
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:21,519
Speaker 5: Anthony Davis, you're right because you have to wait to

659
00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:24,280
pay him and just be a rental for this championship.

660
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, well just pay a D A D and Kawhi

661
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:28,480
in the playoffs?

662
00:34:28,519 --> 00:34:33,679
Speaker 2: What could go wrong? I'm trying to think, all right,

663
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,920
people have brought up Malik Monk, but they're probably gonna

664
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,800
get a pretty penny for him, who looked terrible last

665
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,320
night as everyone did like they just they did not care.

666
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: I didn't know what impact players are like out there,

667
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,440
because again, say the Clippers say between now in these

668
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,000
eighteen games until the trade deadline, the Clippers go, not,

669
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,280
you know, eighteen to know like the pace run now,

670
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:03,079
but say they go, like it's fourteen and four between

671
00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:06,639
now and the train line, it'd be great. I'm like,

672
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,880
I mean I know that that would be like continue,

673
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,199
that would literally be continuing the path are on now,

674
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:17,119
which is unsustainable. We do things what impact player because

675
00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:20,639
like of that list on there, I don't think Batoum

676
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,840
is still, which might be a bad thing, very valuable

677
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,159
to this team.

678
00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:30,760
Speaker 2: Man, I would be surprised if the trade Nico again.

679
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,039
When they traded him to Philly, that was like a

680
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:36,360
real shock and I think that was a big hang

681
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,559
up in the trade. Yeah, Lawn Thorren Shrank didn't want

682
00:35:39,559 --> 00:35:41,400
to do it. Now he came back, I don't think.

683
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:42,239
I don't know.

684
00:35:42,679 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: And what's another impact player who's like kind of like

685
00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:47,679
John Collins where it's like, oh, we could still maybe

686
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,679
sign you again when we have the open books, Like

687
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:56,559
John Collins is that guy? Right? Like if they're playing well,

688
00:35:56,599 --> 00:36:02,199
I just don't see an impact guy who's taking Collins specifically.

689
00:36:02,199 --> 00:36:05,320
Collins are between away from the Clippers and maybe even Lopez, I.

690
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:11,199
Speaker 2: Guess, especially because it's time to start thinking about and

691
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,599
looking at Collins differently and that he's coming around and

692
00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:17,719
maybe he can be the guy that we thought they

693
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,199
were getting this season, and what does that do for

694
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,159
this team's ceiling and just how far they can take

695
00:36:23,199 --> 00:36:26,400
this or you know, move up the standings.

696
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Collins was shooting up until this five

697
00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:32,440
game win streak, literally his worst percentages ever from three

698
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,039
to two, those were going to go up like, and

699
00:36:35,039 --> 00:36:38,000
they were like the worst of his career, you know

700
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:40,280
what I'm saying. Like it wasn't like, oh, he's half

701
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,840
a percentage away from the worst shooting of his career.

702
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:47,679
It was like a lot. I just don't think. I

703
00:36:47,679 --> 00:36:49,360
don't know. I guess I don't know what the definition

704
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,360
of an impact player is that Ammick is giving here,

705
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,559
but with the way that the aprons work and everything,

706
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,599
and I can't see him because don't they have a

707
00:36:57,599 --> 00:36:59,480
pick to trade? Now? Don't we have a pick we

708
00:36:59,519 --> 00:36:59,920
can trade?

709
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,639
Speaker 2: They have a twenty thirty and a twenty thirty two

710
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:03,280
they could trade.

711
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: I don't We're not No one's out there who's worth well,

712
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:07,960
you know what I mean?

713
00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:14,519
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, like we need to stay grounded here. Obviously

714
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,719
at best Right now, we're talking about a team that

715
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,599
maybe could get to the A spot, seventh or a

716
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,840
spot like that's probably at best. A week ago, it

717
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,519
was like at best ninth or tenth, maybe seventh or eighth,

718
00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:30,519
But that still means you're ended up playing the number

719
00:37:30,559 --> 00:37:32,719
one or the number two seed, depending on how the

720
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:33,400
playing goes.

721
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 1: Right, Well, then we shocked the world. I don't know.

722
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,519
Will you think we're doing a trade you think we're

723
00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:45,119
staying bad, because we also could, like Dad was point, like,

724
00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:46,639
we could just start being bad again.

725
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know if they can get back to

726
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,440
that bad, but yeah, I could definitely have a little

727
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,119
bit of a come down.

728
00:37:55,679 --> 00:38:04,559
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's just in terms of finding

729
00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:09,119
like a suitable partner, it's you really, like, really, all

730
00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:11,920
we have to offer is like, you know, there's some

731
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,519
you know, there's obviously you know, patom gives you some

732
00:38:15,639 --> 00:38:17,880
utility for the right team. I think he can slot

733
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,320
in a lot of places. But is that like an

734
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,039
appetizing deal? Maybe as part of a package, you'd have

735
00:38:23,079 --> 00:38:25,400
to be interested in Collins and you'd have to be

736
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,840
interested in shedding sixteen million dollars from your from your

737
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,239
salary sheet next year on Bogie And that's like, you

738
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,679
know that that's kind of like a pretty narrow frame

739
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,960
to work with that because we're not attaching any asset

740
00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:48,199
to pull out this season. Yeah, RT like so I

741
00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:52,159
I I definitely obviously they're gonna look for ways to

742
00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:52,960
improve the roster.

743
00:38:53,079 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 4: But I think.

744
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,119
Speaker 3: Now, I mean, unless things, you know, return back to

745
00:38:59,159 --> 00:39:04,960
how they were, I think they'll they'll be there'll be

746
00:39:05,079 --> 00:39:09,400
less urgency on the Clippers side to even make a

747
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,880
big move unless you could really stop file assets for

748
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,400
the future, like you know, I would guess you know,

749
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,800
any calls they may have been feeling on Zoo have

750
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,960
definitely taken a pause unless the like, unless you're talking

751
00:39:23,599 --> 00:39:25,400
a pretty hearty return.

752
00:39:26,519 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and everyone wants MPJ and Cam Thomas, and it's like,

753
00:39:31,199 --> 00:39:34,719
I don't know what why the realistic trades look like

754
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,039
for that in terms of why Clippers would give up

755
00:39:37,159 --> 00:39:43,039
because the grass is always greener trying to lose and

756
00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:44,679
mp is really good.

757
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is hurting them.

758
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:47,639
Speaker 1: Yeah.

759
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 2: I like both those guys honestly, but at what costs?

760
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,480
What are you gonna have to give up? They could

761
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,280
maybe get a first for MPJ.

762
00:39:56,159 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: Now right, And like I hope the Clippers, I don't

763
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,079
think they're trading any first or at least I hope not.

764
00:40:02,559 --> 00:40:04,320
But if you do have any trade rumors, go ahead

765
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,599
and tweet at follow Adam A any of your trade ideas,

766
00:40:07,639 --> 00:40:09,119
any of your rumors.

767
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 4: Any any you know, machine screenshots y.

768
00:40:12,119 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that'll be.

769
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 4: Especially if there's more than four teams.

770
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,679
Speaker 1: And much like the Clippers defense will and I funnel

771
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,519
trade ideas to follow Adam A and Twitter.

772
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,679
Speaker 2: And then I block them like Yannick exactly.

773
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,079
Speaker 1: See that's how it works, all right. Coming up, we're

774
00:40:31,079 --> 00:40:34,519
talking a brief kind of actual litmus test coming up

775
00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:36,880
for the Clippers. There's gonna be a quick audio break,

776
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,679
but if you're watching us at YouTube dot com, plish

777
00:40:38,679 --> 00:40:41,960
at Clippers podcast, we are still here. Quick break and

778
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,199
then sending you on to twenty twenty six with great

779
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,320
vibes coming up in three two one.

780
00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Clips and Dip season four, episode sixteen,

781
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,639
I'm at a mash. We got Chef Maklin. We'll updeck.

782
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,880
The full crew is here for you guys as we

783
00:40:56,039 --> 00:40:59,719
enter twenty twenty six, Happy New Year or New Year's

784
00:41:00,119 --> 00:41:04,000
or until tomorrow, until it's official, then it has to

785
00:41:04,039 --> 00:41:06,079
be New Year. We reason through this all.

786
00:41:07,119 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: We got it all on the Patriots about New Year's.

787
00:41:11,039 --> 00:41:16,079
Speaker 2: We are big on grammar and uh eloquent speaking.

788
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 4: Let's un over here.

789
00:41:20,559 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 2: The MENSA meeting is on. Let's talk about this upcoming

790
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:30,159
Clippers schedule, which you know, uh, it still looks like

791
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,280
they can extend this streak out a little bit further. Here.

792
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,119
There's a really good opportunity with all these home games, Chuck.

793
00:41:36,559 --> 00:41:41,519
Speaker 1: I'm terrified for the Jazz on New Year's Day. Anytime

794
00:41:41,559 --> 00:41:43,679
your team is playing well and you're playing a team

795
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,079
that also smoked you in the first game of the season,

796
00:41:47,119 --> 00:41:48,960
and then you have a game on New Year's Day,

797
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,000
I just I'm a little worried about it. I would

798
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:54,320
understand if they dropped this one. I just hope the

799
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,320
process looks good.

800
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,199
Speaker 2: I refuse to understand if they drop this one, I

801
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:00,320
will be confound.

802
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:08,639
Speaker 1: I am rational. I don't know one will. How hyped

803
00:42:08,639 --> 00:42:10,920
would you be to play basketball on New Year's Day?

804
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:17,559
Speaker 4: If it was your job, I'd be a professional.

805
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: So you're playing the Tucks exactly the part that I

806
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,000
think is difficult in their upcoming schedule. So they got

807
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,440
the Jazz and then the Celtics on the third and

808
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,000
the Warriors on the fifth. That's all at home. They

809
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,159
have an East Coast three and four. So they go

810
00:42:34,199 --> 00:42:36,119
the Knicks on the seventh, and then the Nets and

811
00:42:36,159 --> 00:42:38,760
the Pistons on the ninth and the tenth. The Pistons

812
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,280
are going to want to beat after what the star

813
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,840
players of the Clippers have done to the Pistons. Thank

814
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,880
You Balloons the last two years. This season and last season.

815
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,639
I think the Pistons will really want to beat us,

816
00:42:51,079 --> 00:42:54,599
But I think the East Coast trip, if they could

817
00:42:54,679 --> 00:42:57,960
say they go to and one and these last home games, right,

818
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:03,199
I think that East Coast is a good litmus test

819
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,960
because you're getting at least two out of three really

820
00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:07,679
good teams that you're playing in a short span.

821
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that will say more about how real this stretch

822
00:43:12,639 --> 00:43:15,440
is and what they can and can't do in the standings.

823
00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:18,800
But they got to take care of business at home.

824
00:43:19,119 --> 00:43:21,440
I do think that Jazz game is a big one.

825
00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:26,079
Cante George has been unfreaking real this season. He looks

826
00:43:26,119 --> 00:43:29,559
like a top ten player already, but the Clippers actually

827
00:43:29,559 --> 00:43:32,000
have the right guys to got to guard him now

828
00:43:32,079 --> 00:43:34,920
with the way they're playing defense, Like, I don't fear

829
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,239
the smaller, quicker guards when the Clippers are playing like this.

830
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,360
Hell yeah, I mean Kate Cunningham. They held down to

831
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,760
the second half and then it was just kawhi Wa

832
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,159
outgun him in the third quarter and hold on. And

833
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:48,320
look what the Pistons just did last night to another

834
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,519
LA team. So I hope they get to six straight

835
00:43:52,679 --> 00:43:55,320
and then you know, the Celtics. They just beat the

836
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,480
Jazz in Utah, and they're playing really good ball. I

837
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,159
think they're number two in the East right now. I'm

838
00:44:00,159 --> 00:44:04,280
actually number two and number three. Unexpectedly, the Warriors are

839
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,360
having their own issues with an older team having some

840
00:44:07,679 --> 00:44:08,159
I don't.

841
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: Know, guy, what's doing over there.

842
00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 2: He's so good, he's gonna be traded at some point.

843
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,320
Somebody's gonna trade for him because they have to wait,

844
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,320
I think till the middle of January. I think for him,

845
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:24,880
he wasn't a December fifteenth guy because they signed up Lade.

846
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,880
I'm still on the island. I ain't going nowhere. Me

847
00:44:28,039 --> 00:44:31,000
Wilson and Jonathan Kaminga are making fire, okay.

848
00:44:31,679 --> 00:44:34,639
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, the only other person on coming island with

849
00:44:34,679 --> 00:44:39,440
you is literally because he's not allowed to be around

850
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:40,400
the team anymore.

851
00:44:40,679 --> 00:44:42,599
Speaker 2: Not long ago, I was the only person on Brook

852
00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:45,320
Lopez Island still saying I still believe in him. So

853
00:44:45,519 --> 00:44:47,280
things can change quickly in this league.

854
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,639
Speaker 1: But therch, these.

855
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,159
Speaker 2: These three last three home games are going to be tough.

856
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:59,519
Speaker 1: Will are you gonna buy? Say they go over this

857
00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:02,719
sixth game stretch? Could they go four and two? Are

858
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,400
you buying? Are you getting? Are you adding to the

859
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,880
the Clippers championship year tattoo. If they go four and

860
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,119
two over the six.

861
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 4: Game stretch, yeah, I'll get that sleeve work on. I

862
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:19,920
started it this year, so might as well just keep going. Uh.

863
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 3: I mean I would be elated at four and two.

864
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,400
Honestly though, I would be understanding of three and three.

865
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,679
I would understand in an excited way even if.

866
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,639
Speaker 1: They went and hear me out, No, I would be

867
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:36,199
upset if they went to and four. I take that

868
00:45:36,199 --> 00:45:38,119
completely back. I was about to say two and four.

869
00:45:38,159 --> 00:45:44,679
I could see if they beat Celtic's nicks, but.

870
00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 3: I'm not saying sub three and three is impossible. They're

871
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,599
just not getting of course, the cat for anything sub

872
00:45:50,679 --> 00:45:51,239
three and three.

873
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, the hat remains down. Yeah, I think that's fair.

874
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,840
It's really it's I'm worried about New Year's Day.

875
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 2: But yeah, three and three, with the level of quality

876
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,000
competition the next six games, that would not be the

877
00:46:06,039 --> 00:46:06,639
worst thing ever.

878
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,199
Speaker 1: And travel right like they are going to the East Coast.

879
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:12,159
Speaker 2: This game is.

880
00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:23,079
Speaker 1: Uh, that's for the real ones out there, all right?

881
00:46:23,159 --> 00:46:27,679
Anything else before we send Clippers fans into the great unknown?

882
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,039
That is twenty twenty six, the greatest year in Clippers

883
00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:33,920
franchise history soon to be the greatest year in Clippers

884
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,360
franchise history.

885
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 2: Our twenty twenty six year.

886
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go. Our year is twenty twenty six. Umm,

887
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,039
al right, I think we're gonna be doing go ahead.

888
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 2: O oh, just a simple miscalculation like those Ends of

889
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:52,400
the World pastors.

890
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Damas was wrong onmesdays, Like come on, the

891
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:01,320
Mians didn't get at all. Right, we're gonna be doing

892
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:07,960
a happy Hour on Friday, probably full episode next Tuesday. Well,

893
00:47:08,079 --> 00:47:10,960
where can people say it was your New year's resolution

894
00:47:11,159 --> 00:47:13,039
to review more podcasts.

895
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:14,559
Speaker 4: We're weird resolution.

896
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 3: But if that is your goal, you can go ahead

897
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:21,320
and review us over on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. You

898
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,920
can force to listen to us wherever you get your podcasts.

899
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,760
Best place to check out the show those over at

900
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,039
YouTube dot comments at Clippers podcast. He'd leave your thoughts

901
00:47:29,119 --> 00:47:36,000
on every single video there, and and if that's your resolution,

902
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,519
you could leave you know, like a couple a week.

903
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,599
So yeah, but however you listen, however you watch, we

904
00:47:42,679 --> 00:47:43,719
appreciate it.

905
00:47:43,679 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: We really do, and thank you for hanging out when

906
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,280
things have been bad. They still might be bad, but

907
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,280
at least for now, they're good, and Adam.

908
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 3: We're ten games below Doc and Lin is all on

909
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:54,320
the red.

910
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,599
Speaker 1: Things are pretty good right now for a team that

911
00:47:57,719 --> 00:47:59,199
is fighting for a playing spot.

912
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 2: We're still on the submarine. The aircraft carrier is going

913
00:48:02,519 --> 00:48:03,800
to take some time to get up there.

914
00:48:04,159 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: Yes, well, the submarine. I don't know enough about submarines

915
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,199
to know what the problems would be, but we still

916
00:48:09,199 --> 00:48:11,880
we have visibility that seems like an issue in a submarine.

917
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 2: We got torpedoes.

918
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: Look at we have torpedoes, Adam. This particular segment has

919
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,320
been more difficult for you earlier in the year. But

920
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,239
now let's get one positive thing for Clippers fans heading

921
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,440
into twenty twenty seconds.

922
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 2: We gotta change it to one negative thing after the show.

923
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 1: No, we're literally never changing it to.

924
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:35,199
Speaker 2: That Clippers won the championship. Give us one negative thing.

925
00:48:36,679 --> 00:48:43,159
So in six games, all right, I'm going to say

926
00:48:43,199 --> 00:48:47,599
something outrageous, which you gotta understand where I'm coming from here.

927
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,000
I'm not saying he's this player. He's not going to

928
00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:54,119
be this player. Nobody is going to be this player.

929
00:48:54,599 --> 00:48:58,280
I'm just saying he had a play last night that

930
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,280
was very similar movement wise with the guy This size

931
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:09,320
to this player Conan Niederhauser to start the fourth quarter,

932
00:49:10,199 --> 00:49:12,639
took his man off the dribble to the basket and

933
00:49:12,679 --> 00:49:17,039
finished with the left hand with the athleticism of bleeping

934
00:49:17,159 --> 00:49:21,360
Jannis in a coupo. It was a crazy play with

935
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,119
a crazy handle to be able to do something like that.

936
00:49:24,639 --> 00:49:26,480
I've been talking about his handle going back to the

937
00:49:26,519 --> 00:49:28,639
Lakers game in the Summer League when he took it

938
00:49:28,679 --> 00:49:30,079
coast to coast and yammed it.

939
00:49:30,679 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 1: Uh watched a video when he got drafted.

940
00:49:35,119 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched all his Penn State teammates talk about

941
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,800
him and say he was the best shooter on the team.

942
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:45,039
I am dangerously high on Yonick, which is a drug

943
00:49:46,039 --> 00:49:49,639
to me. But I'm still not saying he's going to

944
00:49:49,679 --> 00:49:59,159
be honest for half of the honest. Yeah, that's Yanick madness.

945
00:49:59,199 --> 00:50:02,920
Read for madness, yonic madness. I'm not saying. I'm not

946
00:50:03,039 --> 00:50:06,920
saying he's going to be honest, but that Yanic play

947
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,719
was spectacular, and it just it shows you a little

948
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,599
bit about the athleticism and why they took him as

949
00:50:14,639 --> 00:50:15,679
this project player.

950
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,199
Speaker 4: He could easily be Pascal Siakam.

951
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 2: Though, right, he's bigger, so he should be better.

952
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: Actually, I got yeah, we got four. Pascal ceiling a

953
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,599
little better than yas his problem.

954
00:50:29,639 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 2: His four could still be really low.

955
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: But I wish his name looks so much like Panic

956
00:50:36,559 --> 00:50:39,639
because if there's Yannick at the disco, which is solid.

957
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,280
Speaker 2: Did you hear Brian Seeman drop the yonic boom last

958
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,440
night when he donked that that killed me? I'm a

959
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,039
big street fighter two guy. That was amazing.

960
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: All right. That does it for our twenty twenty five.

961
00:50:53,079 --> 00:50:56,639
Hope everyone has a safe weekend or whatever you're doing.

962
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,400
Let's hope to beat the jazz on New Year Day.

963
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,280
We'll see Adams excited to be there. We will be

964
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,719
back with y'all on Friday, and as always, let's go

965
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:09,039
click