Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to Set and four,
Episode twenty five of Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Mockler,
joined by Adam Oslin and William Updyke. We hope you're
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of some a weird break for the Clippers. We have
like multiple days without a game and then a lot
of games in not very many days. But the clips
go one and two over the three and four. It
was very kind of close and weird. Will how are
we feeling after after the three and four?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 3: I mean a little bit of a bummer way to
end it out. Uh, you know understandable us is certainly
in the in the Lakers one, you know, being down Kawhi,
being down Collins, that's a tough go Mathurin fouling out
his technical foul. I don't know, it's so tough. It's
so tough with those ones like to whether to treat
it as an encouraging loss given given everything right like that,
you know, what was the Lakers excuse? Like, literally everything
went their way, and uh if Nick if Nick Batoum,
you know, ends up making that three at the end,
who knows how, who knows how things go, But uh.
Speaker 2: It's it's bittersweet for sure. For sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that you said bittersweet. We had. The
Collins concussion was super weird. I was really happy that
they were able to battle back after that. But yeah,
three games separated by six points out of it was
a stressful return to Clippers basketball, not surprisingly, I.
Speaker 4: Guess, losing the last too by two three pointers, one
to tie it against the Lakers and one to win it.
That was a good look from benedickcmatherin. That's that's tough.
You felt like you lost two coin flip games. You
should get one of them. Maybe some thought they shouldn't
have got the Nipper Nuggets game. So things are evening out.
But yeah, the Lakers game. A little bit salty about
that one, just how it ended, and yeah, fans were upset,
of course.
Speaker 1: I think the technical foul being rescinded is like, dude,
just like.
Speaker 4: That, and you don't normally see coach lou like that.
Post game. Yeah, post game I mean, I see people
in the chat all the time like he doesn't care
and he's too nonchalant and this and that. It's like,
I don't know, I've seen him pretty upset sometimes. It's
just you know, he's usually measured and even keel, and
so something has a lot more weight when he actually
does upset because it's not very often.
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting too, like his quote where
he was kind of like he was upset about the
reps and then he said like does that look like
a team that's not fucking trying to win games out there?
And I think that was more about like why are
the rest short changing our guys out there? Like because
there was some like weird stuff made of like the
Kawhi contender stuff and those quotes, but I think Tyler
was mostly just mad at the refs for not giving
the clips a fair shot. Yannick had a good little return.
He played sixteen minute damn minutes straight and had like
a pretty clutch block versus the magic. I mean, Adam,
you're addicted to Yanick. You were the first guy with
a balloon full of.
Speaker 4: Yannick that you were in haalin Umber League.
Speaker 1: Do we think, uh, haggle, no haggle. He will match
Zubots in career triple doubles for the Clippers with one.
Speaker 4: No haggle, no haggle.
Speaker 1: He's already got him in three.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at a long career with him, so he's
got plenty of.
Speaker 1: Right once we get into point you on it in
the Mathine experience, I kind of just wanted, like, how
do we like the math Roine experience so far? I
do have one disclaimer for people, if you're going to
abbreviate his first name, it's two ends. It is not
one end. That is the thing that I learned from
Pacers Twitter, and.
Speaker 4: They got on me for that. I posted Kawhi giving
him a dap up after he missed that shot, giving
him some encouragement. People are like two ends, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Don't get you. The Canadian they are polite, but they
will get you if you mess up with Ben. But yeah,
I don't know. It's like great home debut. He missed
the game winner, but we liked it, Like I'm having
a good time on the math Roine experience.
Speaker 2: He's been incredible so far.
Speaker 3: His ability to get downhill is even better, like getting
to watch it up close right now. Like, you know,
we saw him in that finals run obviously, you know,
the Pacers as an organization, we're high on him.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been very impressed. I've still been very impressed.
Speaker 1: He is a guy. It's funny that, like the eye
test crowd versus the stat heavy crowd is like very
divided with Mathrit. But I think him in the context
of this Clippers team, it's been everything. Like offensively, that's
what the Clippers have needed. Like the defense, yes, that
could be a little bit better. But when Kawhi is
not on the court, Mathron has to get buckets. And
that's kind of what's been the case with how Tyler's
rotating and they don't share the court very often.
Speaker 3: But like I think too, Like if you're squinting, you know,
and you're like thinking about a future of a backcourt
with him and Garland as running mates. You know, you
got Kawhi and Collins out their space in the floor.
Speaker 2: Possibly even Yannick if you want.
Speaker 3: To go, if you want to go at the world,
the world, It's I don't know, man, I think it's
pretty interesting. Again, I'll like, I'll circle back to my
point from like the trade deadline, which is that, like,
regardless of what happens with this year, Uh, you know,
I still think ultimate the most likely scenario is the
Clippers end up in the play in are able to
battle their way into a playoff spot.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: They're in a better spot than they would have been
pre pre these acquisitions, given given the highest ceiling outcome
for for this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the future point for sure, Adam your thoughts.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they're for sure with the higher
ceiling this season, only because you know, they lost their
defensive anchor. But Lopez has done a good job so far.
If Darius Garland comes back and really hits the ground running,
like I need to see that first, you know, But
it's possible. And I'm just saying for a while, getting
the seven eight, win that matchup, get the two seven
matchup against San Antonio, that's it doesn't mean you're gonna
beat him. I'll have a better shot against them, and okay, see,
I think as long as they don't end up the
number one seed because San Antonio is still winning and.
Speaker 3: I'm meant ceiling as like a developmental thing, not necessarily
a deep playoff run.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like future like watching math in and just and
maybe it's just because we've watched because we've had Kawhi
and Harden for so long and we watched that version
of the Clippers, Like him getting to the line is
fantastic to see, like he does all the little stuff.
Yanick got into it. What are the games back? Yanick
got into it. I think with someone from the Lakers
and like Math jumped straight into like defend Yannick. He's
fit really well too, vibe wise, Like it feels like
he's fit seamlessly into what the team is about. And
to what Adam you were talking about when Kawhi after
he misses that game winner and goes up to him
and is like, hey, great, like that, we want you
to take that shot. We'll get it next time. Like
the the meshing is very good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think part of it is they they've identified the
right guys that would fit well. And then also they
get in house and this Clippers culture surrounds them, and
I think they're getting more out of guys because of that.
I don't think it was a shock or I don't
think it's a coincidence that his first three games he
had three steals in all three games and he had
never done that before. Yeah, me and the coaching staff
deserves credit. I think they're getting a lot out of
him right now. Some of it could be only he's
motivated for a contract coming up this summer. That's always
a dangling carrot for players. But I love seeing him
do all the little things because shots are going to
come and go with him. You know, he's a gunner
out there and he's gonna have cold nights. But the
way you have a high floor is to do the
little things the right way, and that that way you
can can contribute regardless of if shots are falling.
Speaker 3: Clippers culture surrounds you, as also the name of my
Clippers theme sensual R and B album, You're Gonna look that.
Speaker 1: You and You and Victor Oladipa on the track. Yeah. Yeah.
Looking at his contract, we're gonna get into a nickname
discussion in a in a couple of minutes too, because
we were texting about that. It's gonna be twenty four,
it's gonna be a restricted free agent after this season.
Speaker 2: Wants to go to the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: What's called the Nuggets. I wonder what his contract is
gonna look like it's and what the Clippers are gonna.
Speaker 2: What is he averaging for the Clippers? Like twenty seven?
He is averaging.
Speaker 1: Get out of here Basketball Reference, He's averaging twenty two,
twenty two, six and four and two steals in five games.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, that's and.
Speaker 1: His three point shooting is not anywhere close to what
it usually is. He's shooting twenty five percent from three
as a Clipper, and his career average is like thirty
six percent. So I wonder, interesting, well, we have the
space for it theoretically, Adam, what would you give mathin
right now as a twenty four year old.
Speaker 4: I think if the Clippers could find a way to
get Matherine and John Collins and pay them a combined
forty million this summer annually, that would be good shape
for them. That would be good business.
Speaker 1: That would be very good business for the Clippers. I
don't know how good a business it would be for
you of those player, man.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's that crazy. Yeah, I know I
had like getting.
Speaker 2: Why had Collins at like twenty five?
Speaker 1: But I might just have been very high on Collins
because he was crushing it.
Speaker 4: So like a million less than what he's doing right now.
Speaker 3: Basically, Yeah, for like three or four years. How old
is he twenty eight?
Speaker 4: I mean they're only going to have right now, like
forty five million right to play with. So I'm just saying,
if you want to keep both of them, if you
get them both for forty.
Speaker 1: No, I want that. I'm pro that. I do like
it's nice that Matherin's restricted. That's key because Collins is unrestricted.
Speaker 4: Right yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, hope he's doing okay? That fall was crazy?
Did he all right? Nickname ideas if you're listening or watching,
please weigh in on this. We have the math let
which is a fantastic option, and then and then chaos theory,
which I like both of these options. He does not
have a listed nickname on Basketball Reference, which I was
kind of surprised by. We can take this, We'll take
this to Twitter probably will What are you leaning towards
the most important thing? We'll figure out all season.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I guess I'm liking mathlete. It is I'm
liking mathlete.
Speaker 1: When he gets text it's very chaos. It's like it's
a little chaos theory because sometimes it is a bit
of a roller coaster with mister Mathrin sometimes, yes, so
maybe chaos theory is a certain mode he's in and
he's always the mathlete.
Speaker 4: Yeah, chaos theory. I mean, I don't know, he's not
Dennis Rodman out there or something.
Speaker 1: Like sure.
Speaker 2: Use the Nuggets this summer. It will be Bennett Donald.
I mean that one's pretty easy.
Speaker 1: That's that's great right there. Yeah, chaos theory is a
little you gotta be a little extreme for that. My
handyman isn't here, so I'm sorry if there's noise allowed,
insane person, what are you about saying.
Speaker 4: No? It could be like a gear that he gets
into chaos theories.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, we're we're cooking with gas there, mathlete.
It is the winner right now. Ultimately Brian Semen will
decide this whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I feel like we gotta keep.
Speaker 4: Sip something much better than both, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey hey he's five games in right, we're we're
it's an iterative process.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we may have to wait till they bring it
back because if you go somewhere else. We gave him
this great nickname that would be upset Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll trademark it. We'll trademark the nickname. Yeah, we'll
figure that out. And then before we talk about the
upcoming schedule. We have Kawhi Ankle Watch. Twenty twenty six,
We are back with ankle Watch. He had to leave
the Lakers game a little early due to the lingering injury.
He said, I only had two minutes left in the
game to play anyways, just been a lingering injury. He's
still battling through it.
Speaker 3: The Twitter sludes were pretty convinced that that one was
a little fishy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Twitter was, But I don't maybe watch the second
half of the game again and see that he is laboring.
Speaker 1: He did not look one.
Speaker 3: Hundred Also like Quebono man, like, the Clippers aren't trying
to throw games, so I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's wrapped up with a frigging bow on it. U. Yeah,
what's the level of concern with thank We don't have
the injury report for the Thursday game yet, but I
do have in the back of my mind. There's eighteen
games coming up in March.
Speaker 4: It depends how long he's been dealing with it, which
I think is a little bit murky. Honestly, I'm not
sure for All Star Break. Sounds like it was going
on for a bit and.
Speaker 2: He obviously didn't rest over the All Star Break.
Speaker 4: No, he bawled out.
Speaker 3: And it's also been like, like I feel like it's
been alternatively referred to as soreness and stiffness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, okay, so what is it? Yeah, in
my head, those are two different things.
Speaker 3: One to me just seems like a more acute like
injury or lingering thing than the other.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. Again, I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 4: The logic that he used postgame the other night of
why he didn't push it, he went back to locker room,
it didn't loosen up. He only had two more minutes left.
If he does push it, then maybe he's out the
entire next game. That made total sense.
Speaker 2: To saying big conspiracy, Like.
Speaker 4: Either way, he's not going to play the last three
minutes of the game, right, and then you don't want to, Yeah,
worsen it to the point you're not playing the entire
next game, which he did play and he played well,
very well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's interesting he.
Speaker 4: Was moving, he looked to be moving. He didn't look
like the second half against the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did not.
Speaker 2: He was not on Kawhi.
Speaker 1: There was some aspiration. There's been like weird aspiration rumors
popping up.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: We had that great quote. I can't remember who it said,
but it was like.
Speaker 1: The the recent upswing in league speculation, Like that's the
verbiage we're getting for these aspiration rumors. Kawakami says, a
lot of rumors of this Clippers thing. I think it's
gonna be Kawhi centric. It's gonna be either contract voided
or suspension. No, it's gonna be less about the Clippers,
and wharabout's gonna happen to Kawhi. I don't understand how
voiding his contract makes it not about the Clippers.
Speaker 4: Did you see what else he said? Quote? I literally
said on the podcast not to aggregate this because I
was just speculating. And there you go, aggregating it incorrectly.
Wonderful Clipper nature. Clipper Nation isn't raised. I love aggregators
so much. Note if you're furious at me, this was
aggregating correctly. Somebody pulled the sound from it in the
twenty second clip and then posted that I'm gonna tell
you what's actually going on here. The trade deadline is over,
and so people need to have rumors to get attention
right now, and this is the story that is hanging
over the league currently and we don't know when it's
going to break. I don't buy that anybody knows exactly
more than educated guesses. But they're the experts. So when
they put something out there, it gets attention. And this
is part of the job and the news breaking business.
That's why the vague words being used and all that.
Speaker 3: I just want to like, I just want to say too,
like if this were the case, like I just don't
see any sort of punishment being Kawhi centric because that
league still has to go through the Players Association, but
you and like one of the strongest, if not the
strongest union in professional sports. Like I don't really think
they're gonna let They're gonna like leave someone like hang
someone up to dry in a situation like this, like
from what the league can do punitively, it just makes
sense that if they were going to do something, it
would affect the organization as they have more direct control
over that governing body than they do having to involve
the Players Association. That's just my like logic take on it.
That's it.
Speaker 4: I mean association would immediately appeal it, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no especially a player of Kawhi's caliber. There's
just like, there's no way they're leaving him to hang
like hanging out to dry on.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 1: And it, yeah, it becoming a huge it becoming a
huge union thing is not and this is not to
say like wrongdoing or not. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
a significant upswinging league wide speculation. Thank you, samm.
Speaker 4: Who's the guy, Tod Haber Shrow? Yeah, you like, he's
done some really good and thorough work, but his conversation
about it, he's just spitballing. And then people take that
and they start to think it was Kawhi gonna end
up a laker, He's gonna end up being a free
and all these end up going after them, and it's
just it creates content and that's about it. But nobody
has any idea.
Speaker 1: And it creates things for prediction markets who are playing
all of you for fools, So stop putting your money
in those things. Final practice note Garland Practicing sort of
started controlled live play, which includes for the first time
that we've heard of, will you'll appreciate this three on
three and four on four?
Speaker 2: Okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 1: I always want that to happen.
Speaker 3: That's a progression. That's a progression. That's a that's an
eighty percent of practice reps. You're uh, you're right there.
I'm liking that. It's encouraging.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the explosive box jump watch?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if we're there yet. They
might have banned that exercise from the clippers.
Speaker 3: So I've seen people like my age, like thirty is like,
I see more knee injuries in like the crosswit community, like, oh,
this is not this is not the time to be
to be attempting weighted explosive box jumps in your life.
Just just throwing that out there as a as a PSA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any PSA is on explosive box jumps or excitement
Garland practicing.
Speaker 4: Make sure you're taking your glucosamine or whatever for your joints.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Adam's doing them. He's strong, it don't matter.
Speaker 2: He's good. Yeah, Adam, I.
Speaker 4: Did some squats a box shot, dude.
Speaker 1: Box jumps at the gym. You see like the videos
of people like slipping, like when you hit the top
and you slip out, and you're just like no, man, like.
Speaker 2: Why do you need to be that explosive?
Speaker 1: Right? What do you like unweighted?
Speaker 3: I think fine, like body weight, but like with the
bar bellt like, what are you trying to prove?
Speaker 4: A lot of it looks like looky, look at me,
Louis or whatever. People say.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, the guy dropping his deadlifts so loud in the corner.
It's like, yes, don't care, I didn't come here to
listen to you. You know what make you strong? You
have to drop it like that.
Speaker 1: Keep the tension you're saying, yeah, you're okay, you're saying
controlled movements.
Speaker 2: It's performative.
Speaker 4: Performing the same people on a machine and they get
up to the top and they just drop the stack.
It's like, no, keep the tension. That will make you stronger.
Chop trying to get attend, keep the tension, forget the attention.
There we go.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back into Clips and Dip. We talk
the current.
Speaker 3: State of the Clippers, who have a couple of days
off before they end the month on a hellish stretch
which is just sort of the initiation into yet another
hellas March. This is an annual tradition for the Clippers
for the show, but.
Speaker 4: The show, what the schedule is this way? Just so
Chuck and talk about March every year. Adam Sober lines
it up like that.
Speaker 3: Chuck has a lot of influence it with the scheduling.
We don't really talk about it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's okay, it's fine. It's not a big deal.
Speaker 4: So you like the back to backs, Chuck, you're sick bastard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love them the Clippers. Yeah, they play the
Wolves on Thursday and then five and seven starting on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I think it's a weirdly winnable five and seven over
that stretch. Bringing a can you screen chair?
Speaker 1: You're looking at the dock right now. So after knock,
after the Wolves they play versus the Pels, then at
the Warriors back to back, then the Pacers. The Vision
Spurs at Grizzlies, Pels Warriors, Pacers Spurs Grizzlies. There's some
I think they could get a little something.
Speaker 2: Throw the game to the Pacers.
Speaker 1: I mean sure, I think they could get going something
at the beginning there, Pells Warriors. Back to back is
not the worst way to start a five and seven, right,
am I crazy?
Speaker 4: This is the most winnable five and seven of all time?
Speaker 1: I think it might. I'm like, look, just go three
and two, Just go three and two over the five
and seven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that sevil back two, four and one.
Speaker 3: Oh, throw the Pacers game, win the rest.
Speaker 1: Win both the back to backs. That would be very
twenty five twenty six Clippers to win both back to backs,
lose the game to the team who's gonna be in
the lottery. But I kind of like how it shakes out.
I love this five and so for the Clippers.
Speaker 4: I don't like it's starting with the Wolves. Yeah, we're
going to be very hungry after what the Clippers did
to them in Minnesota like a week and a half ago. Ohkawa,
I dropped that forty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Clippers won turnovers by seven, shot fifty two from
three as a team. Oh, this stat about Chris Dunn
that Justin Russo tweeted out tickled my brain. Uh, Chris
Dunn has not has gone one hundred and one straight
minutes without attempting a three pointer, shooting thirty seven percent
from threes on this stretch, and had just gone four
of six prior to this one hundred and one minute
drought without a three point attempt. What do we think
is going on?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 1: Are we finding better shots?
Speaker 4: Oh, they're not even taking threes right now? What do
they take twenty one against the Lakers, twenty three or
twenty four last time out? It's been rough. They're not
generating three point shots. And I think that, Yeah, I
think it's a symptom of not having a point guard
getting two feet in the paint consistently and drive kickswing,
and Chris down has done an admirable job and he's
had some really good games. Assist to turnover wise last
time out, I don't think he had an assist because
guys were missing so many. But overall he's been fine.
I do think it's not affecting him so much defensively,
this amount of workload offensively that he's been asked to
do without James Harden and know Darius Garland so far,
I think it is taking something maybe out of his
legs from three though, like he's just not even firing now,
and maybe he's not in that position anymore because he's
the one that's trying to start the action sometimes to
get the offensive set going. Yeah, so it's not ending
with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call. And I guess I'm like
with the with a shooter like Chris Dunn, who, yes,
he is shooting thirty seven percent this year. He's a
real high volatile guy. He could go one for six
in a game from three, you know what I mean.
So I'm not necessarily like upset and him not taking
these threes, you know what I mean, Like if they're
not there, no one's really shooting well right now, which
is like what I'm kind of worried about in this
Wolves game. But yeah, if he's passing to him, yeah,
we it's gonna be fantastic for Darius Carlin to be
ready for this Clippers team. I like that who was
passing to him?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's a real like a break in
the chain or something way where you just don't have
the piece you are missing is so by of not
having that traditional point guard out there, and I think
it's really is taking as toll the last few games.
Just offensively, they're not the same team. They're not generating
the same looks they normally get, like taking under thirty
three pointers or under twenty five three pointers like they
have the last couple of games. That's a pretty rare thing.
Not that they're the highest volume three point shooting team,
but they actually have had some really high volume games.
But they were coming when James Harden was playing right,
and I think they'll get back to it when Garland's back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before that, we are playing the Wolves, who take
twelve more three point at times per game than the Clippers,
at least during the month of February. Do we how
many threes do we think Anthony Edwards takes after going
one of eight against the Clippers, He's gonna try and
kill the Clippers on Thursday, which.
Speaker 4: He's getting nine or ten up.
Speaker 1: Personally six, Well, that would either mean the first quarter. Yeah,
I'll just say that, either mean things are going well
for the Clippers because we're forest racing the bottom his hands,
or he's just getting to the paint relentlessly. The Wolves
are playing the Blazers tonight, so the Clippers do need
the Timberwolves to win tonight to help the standings out.
We would be tied with the Blazers. I believe the
last game, I don't want to say Kawhi had forty
one Adam, Is Kawhi getting forty one again? Are we
beating the Wolves for the second time this month?
Speaker 4: I think we're beating them, But I don't think he's
going to need the forty one because the math leat
is there and he wasn't there for that first game,
so someone else can supplement the scoring a little bit
for him. But I'll take thirty plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, we'll take thirty plus.
Speaker 1: We'll need if you're giving it away, I'll take the bender,
I'll take. I'll take twenty three points from Kawhi and
elite defense, not that it's not always elite, but you
what I'm talking about with kind of the statement when
they had last time out against the Wolves, that would
be nice to see. I like that and had a
good I'm a little worried about. So we got the
center rotation. Will which centers start in this game? I'm
thinking I'm thinking Lopez. Probably, Lopez got to be experienced.
I don't Yes, Gobert is not very good offensively, but
I know like Yannick's chances get Cobert to start the game.
Speaker 4: It's also Lopez, even though he hasn't been shooting it
well this season, he does have a reputation of being
a three and D stretch big, and you want that
against Cobert to bring him out to the perimeter. Yeah,
Joanick maybe getting closer.
Speaker 1: He's got a great guy to learn from Lopez. Had
Lopez had some good flashes over the three and four
when he was playing inside the three point line, it
was like, hell yes, Like he's passed out of the
shout role. He can do these traditional big things that
the Clippers do kind of need in the absence of
perhaps the most traditional center in the NBA in Zubats.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I've been very happy with brook Lopez and what
he's been able to do. And it sounded like it
wasn't so much that they just rode the hot hand
with Yanick. It was also because at one point it's
like Brook Lopez is out for this long. We're not
going to thrust them back into the ball game cold
I guess that was also part of the logic against Orlando,
but Yannick was very impressive on the interior with that defense.
Speaker 1: Well do you think do you think Collins comes back?
What do we expect from from Collins when he comes back?
Because that's a weird injury, just head injury in basketball,
you know what I mean. I hope he's Do we
think he starts when he's back?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, he's good to go. Might as well start him.
Speaker 4: He wasn't in concussion protocol. They call it a laceration,
and next week.
Speaker 1: I have questions about how the NBA handles concussions and
I will leave it at that because that dude, like, dude,
like that was crazy. He was wobbly, man, he hit
his head on the damn floor. Like the NFL also
doesn't put people in concussion pro call. Well, I'm a
Dolphins fan. I have a horrific experience with this. Yeah,
we need Derek Jones Junior to be huge. This is
another one of those Derek Jones Junior is actually here
for the game that you say that this would be
a great game for Derek Jones Junior.
Speaker 4: I think he had an opportunity to win that game
against Orlando. Unfortunately, he missed two threes late and missed
that runner, and the Clippers went two and a half
minutes scoreless. Well, I missed one two during that stretch,
Yannick missed that floater. I had a ton of faith
in DJ knocking those shots down. He had just been
making big shots in the fourth quarter the last two games.
He came up huge against Denver in the win late,
and he had six points late against the Lakers when
the Clippers were missing all those guys. He just couldn't
get won the fall and.
Speaker 1: He was pissed at himself. You could see after he
missed that second three. It was an ideal. All right. Well,
who's your player of the game for Thursday against the
t Wolves.
Speaker 2: Mmm, I'm gonna go Mathern.
Speaker 1: He's gonna I think he's gonna quickly be on the
list of guys we can't pick, but he's.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm picking.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's just been so impressive this far out
and seeing him against this level of competition with Kawhi
after that amazing win, He's gonna be something else.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for it. I like that, Adam. Who is
your pick?
Speaker 4: For player of the Game. We'll take a risk here,
going John Collins.
Speaker 1: I love it. We'll need to.
Speaker 4: Need his three point shooting with the lack of three
pointers going up right now, it's not a total coincidence
they haven't had John Collins.
Speaker 1: It's a good call.
Speaker 4: Second half against the Lakers and then the entire last game.
Speaker 1: Good call. I'm going Mathern is a great pick because
we're gonna need Bones. Higland is probably gonna shoot the
lights out because this is a quasi revenge game for
him as well. But I think Mathm will be able
to answer that.
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm taking Bones skeleton key for you can't.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go. I'm going Derek Jones Junior.
I'm going bounce back. He's gonna be upset, not that
he didn't play well, He's gonna be upset about missing
those shots late, and I think he's gonna have a
good game. I picked him last time we didn't play
the game, and it was a pretty good call. So
I think he's gonna keep making me look smarter than
I am. So I'm going Derek Jones Junior. Now, who's
your player for the five and seven? I'm just kidding
anything else, man, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who we need March, Jarius Garland.
Speaker 1: That is what we need in March, because, like Adam
you were saying, I don't know how many more games
Chris Dunn has in this at him anything else before
we send people out for the rest of their week.
Speaker 3: Drop the performance at the gym.
Speaker 2: It's about you. It's about it's you, not them.
Speaker 4: You're not Joey Swall, all right, and Joey Swall wouldn't
approve of your behavior at the gym.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. We're gonna be doing a happy hour
hang on Friday at five thirty the usual time. Probably
a full episode episode out next Tuesday. Will where can
people the Olympics are over and people can really focus
on what is important like Clippers basketball a quasi rebuilding year.
Where can people voice their discontent maybe if they haven't,
for no, put your.
Speaker 2: Discontent in a drawer.
Speaker 3: If you want to talk about great this show is,
you could do that over on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
You can, of course listen to this show wherever you
get your podcasts, but the best way check out the
show is over on YouTube dot com. That's at Clippers
podcasts comment on every single video there, you know, and
you might get put in time out or something if
you're being wild. But you know, however you listen to this,
however you watch this, you know that we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You will get on put time out for short in
our YouTube stream, Adam. Other than proper gym meticit, which
you've done a good job at giving people some tips
this episode. What is one positive thing to send Clippers fans.
Speaker 4: Out of my athlete got the miss out of his
system with that game winner possibility on the left wing,
and for everybody hating on coach Lou like they didn't
have a five on four and they didn't draw an
open shot and they shouldn't have taken a three when
you know Kawhi is likely not going to be able
to extend minutes into ot so you don't want a
two in that situation. I mean, that was that was
a beautiful play. That was good process. Then we'll get
the result next time. I know he's confident in himself.
I think we're pretty confident in Benictmathon as well.
Speaker 1: Feeling good. We love the bend. All right, thank you
for hanging out. We will see you on Friday, and
as always, let's go close