Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to season four,
episode forty of Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Walckler,
joined by Adam Oslind and William Updyke. We have the
full crew today to talk about the Clippers crushing March
so far. With one final game left against the Blazers,
we got some standing stuff to check into and then
the giveaway winner. Someone won the Bradley bealbobblehead and the
T shirt, so there they gotta be hyped. Yes, big
things happening. If you're listening to us, thank you. If
you'd like to watch us, you can find us at
YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast. Will Adam, the
Clippers are ending March on a high note. How are
we feeling, will How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm feeling great man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clippers taking care of business after a couple of
disappointing losses which we've already discussed, So yeah, we're feeling good.
We might not be limping to the finish line in
the same way that I thought, but still some difficult,
very impactful, standing wise games to come. So my mook
is switching an instant really, which is nothing new, but
you know, the Clippers just compound that fact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the Clipper's fault this time, Adam. There's one
game left in March. The Clippers can go thirteen and five,
which is better than what we all kind of figured
before this.
Speaker 2: I think that's exactly what I said. Actually it was
thirteen and five.
Speaker 1: Is it? Someone find it? I said ten and eight.
Speaker 4: I'd say we owe the March schedule and apology. The
Yeas are owning March twelve and six? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: What do I say on this podcast? Every year Iron sharpens.
Speaker 1: Iron, Babe, that is technically true. That is an updyke
idiom for sure. Yeah, I can't believe I was terrified
of this month. It's still rough. Losing jackson last game
with the ankle is difficult, but like we've got to
see we've talked about how good Garland has been it,
I mean, iron Sharpen's iron, Like get in there and
play eighteen games right away now that you're on this
new team, Like, it's been nice to see them curiously
with this moment.
Speaker 4: Know, they've been fantastic. They've had a four game losing
streak and they're still gonna finish at worse twelve and
six in March. That's pretty incredible. Darius Garland shooting fifty
one percent from three. His fit has been perfect for
this team. Lawrence Frank cooked, I don't think they wanted
to trade James Harden, and they pivoted to trading him
for a guy who is Like I said at the time,
I don't think they're gonna be necessarily much worse. And right,
they have been better. You could argue, I don't know,
after the trade deadline you could.
Speaker 1: You can make it. They have been offensively, Yeah, isn't
the I mean, the rating right now is nuts. Like
we've been the best true shooting team. That's why they
won against the Bucks for the most part. And mathns
fourteen free throw attempts. There's what's the Matherine role look like?
Because law had a funny tweet kind of talking about
like he doesn't see Mathrin being a starter for a
handful of reasons. One of them might be just because
he's so good at getting free throws and the fact
that he has twelve twenty point games this season off
the bench. There's only two more guys in the league
to have more than that. He's in a tough spot.
I feel like for him because I think he could
be a starter, but he is phenomenal in this role
for the Clippers.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think he's like what if he
does remain in that off the bench role, Like, I
think that elevates the ceiling to what he can provide
for a team at his current state, you know, Like
I like the sixth man the on you know, not
currently uh, but the advantage team, Yeah, on a home
court advantage team like that is it that? I mean,
that's a team with the championship pedigree to me to
my eyes. But I think that, you know, I think
that that could change obviously in his role could grow.
But I think this this spot where he's at is good.
It's good to be.
Speaker 4: I just don't get the logic of replacing d J.
Dunn with Bennick Mathern. He's not enough point of attack
defender to do what they do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think you're.
Speaker 4: A choice up the offense so much that's going to
make up for the defense. The offense is already good
with the starting group. They are one hundred and thirty
one net rating with uh Darius Garland and Kawhi Leonard.
You need to be better defensively. And I think the
whole talk, the whole starter talk kind of veers into
the casual place because who finished his game?
Speaker 5: Is how many minutes is he still playing? He's playing
thirty minutes a night, Like, yeah, what's the problem here?
People get so just into starter versus not starter. It's like,
what matters is how many minutes they're playing, if they're
playing at the end of games. I just I think
it's much to do about nothing. Well and Benc matherin, Yes,
of course he cares.
Speaker 4: Of course he wants to be an he's twenty three,
he's one of the most competent players you'll ever see.
But does that make sense for this team in the
way it's constructed right now? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And that goes to kind of what you've talked about
Adam with like how his next contract looks structure wise,
like maybe it's not the full four you know, straight
up or something like that. It's like, here's two years
with an extra option on the end or something like that.
If you've really played your ass off these two years,
get that other contract when you're twenty six or something like.
Speaker 2: What was Tony Allen making a twenty six.
Speaker 1: Not a lot would be my guess.
Speaker 4: If there's a guy who's going to bet on himself
for that next contract after this one, Oh yeah, Mather.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would agree with that for sure. Collins
had his best game in a while against the Bucks,
who had like, what was it, nine guys on their
injury report. It got kind of dicey at the end
of this game. Law Murray said that this was a
funny quote he said, or the tweet he said, Tyler
wanted to give Kawhi and Darius Garland the fourth quarter off.
This team doesn't have a high enough floor to get
that done. Is it hard to tell where the floor
of this team is.
Speaker 4: I mean, they didn't get it closer than twelve against
John Collins with backups. I know they were down a
lot of guys, but you know, till the NBA it
wasn't I don't think they were ever in danger to
losing the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't like a two point lead. We didn't
have to come in and people didn't look startled.
Speaker 4: It was good for John Collins to be out there
is the focal point to get into his rhythm with
those guys. He's got to.
Speaker 1: Get that juice back. It's been a little up and
down with like the Colins not featuring because he's obviously
not like the first choice or something like that. But
it was nice to see him get into that rhythm.
Speaker 4: I want to see him hit a couple of threes tomorrow,
Like the guy was the best three point shooter for
I think like forty five games of the season in
the NBA, right, I like to see him, you know,
and he's gonna shoot sixty percent, but I just want
to see him get him up shoot around forty percent,
just be comfortable again. It's felt a little bit like
early in the season lately with John Collins, where he
just wasn't in rhythm and it took him some time.
I really think he's one of those guys where his
defense is affected by his offense greatly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a fair take.
Speaker 3: And then it's like coming out of a like an
injury break into like a you know, a different locker room.
You know, it was always gonna affect Collins, you know,
like he I feel like his adjustment period into like
really coming into himself and the Clippers was so much
longer than any of us anticipated.
Speaker 2: That He's allowed a little leeway in this reemergence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's guys who can do like the Terrence Man
thing and just kind of lock in and be like,
this is my new role this week, you know what
I mean? Like this is the growing pains. But some
guys it's just difficult. There's not like a good or
like playing for the Clippers is interesting in terms of
what lineup you're going to.
Speaker 3: Be a part of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Clippers. The final test of March, it's against
the Blazers. The Clippers are two and zero on the season.
This is the first time we'll have played the Blazers
since the trades. We're one and a half games up
on them for the eight seed. Isaiah Jackson is out.
The Blazers beat the Wizards by almost forty yesterday. How
are we feeling about this game? This is a fun
way to end Mark, which fun is maybe the wrong word,
but I'm excited to watch this game.
Speaker 3: I feel a lot worse if someone had an eighty
three point game. Yeah, that would suck. They've had their
young guys have been scoring well the last five games.
They got Denny, Grant, Kamara, and Scoot are all at
sixteen to twenty points per game the last five games,
so they're not We're getting another team that's kind of
playing well. We got the Pacers when they were playing well. Adam,
how are you feeling about this?
Speaker 4: It's close to a must win to lock up the
seven eight play in match up early. You win this
game tomorrow, you've got six games left, you have the
tiebreaker over the Portland Trail Blazers. You still got to
go there for one more, but it'd be in real
good shape. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We got the Blazers second to last game of the
season in Portland. This is a defensive test. The Blazers
are the fourth best net rating over the last ten games.
Their defense has been bad, which is great for us.
But it's a defensive test, and I feel like, what
are we nineteenth on the year at them?
Speaker 4: I did just check post All Star break now and
they're up a little bit. They're now fourteenth post All
Star break.
Speaker 1: I mean shit, I'll average yeah, I'll take that for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they are still nineteenth on the air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, still still not ideal. Do we think that offensive
boards are going to be an issue? Klingon grabs the
second most offensive rebounds per game, and they are like
an actually elite offensive rebounding team. They're really good of
the percentages for that.
Speaker 4: That's a great point because the Clippers have been given
some off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're clinging specifically is a very good offensive rebounder.
So the emphasis on the defensive glass is going to
be important. To start this one.
Speaker 4: Is Robert Williams playing? Has he been playing at all?
Because if he's good to go and the Clippers don't
have Asad Jackson.
Speaker 1: Which we do, no one else is questionable or anything.
It's just Jackson. It's out. He is playing. He played
fifteen minutes against not it doesn't seem like he's playing
very much. He's playing with.
Speaker 4: His injury history. I wouldn't play it more than fifteen minutes.
He's the Jonathan Isaac like, that's fair.
Speaker 1: Well, he's averaging seventeen minutes a game. It's actually more
than I thought it would be. But he's playing well
on the glass, which the small ball lineups are going
to have their hands full.
Speaker 4: Honestly, that's probably the game you keyed in on a truck.
If the Clippers can actually clean the glass defensively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. It's just it's just gonna be a
lot of work from our forwards. Our forwards have to
do a lot of work already in the glass and
like Kawhi can do it because he's Kawhi. But this
would be a good game for college right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, again, going back to Collins, Like what a time
for him to get right and if he's gonna do
it on the like on the defensive end, get him going,
get him going all around.
Speaker 1: That'd be nice. I do think we have the edge
on the bench though, Like we just talked about it,
like if done doesn't start, it's math and done off
the bench is really nice. Like I'm not sure who
on the Blazer's bench is, you know what I mean?
Like I like that as our reserves coming in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how much has Scoop been playing since he came back?
Speaker 1: Scoot stats?
Speaker 4: Is he still coming off the bench for them?
Speaker 1: Twenty one minutes against the Whiz the Wizards.
Speaker 4: And they brought in jew Holiday to kind of help
him out, you know, they traded anthrety Simon's to help him.
I always do in his role since he came back lately,
it is.
Speaker 1: It's weird people were so hyped on him, but basketball
references like tanking my computer right now, why does it
can tell website that.
Speaker 4: Is and we can we can forget the scoop stuff. Yeah,
it's it's too many numbies manbounding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's making my editor.
Speaker 4: Let's scoot along, Chuck. No Basketball Reference exit the tab.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he's completely frozen.
Speaker 4: I don't know why it's so heavy on the RAM
or whatever. It's just it's just numbers and Excel spreadsheets,
not like a bunch of videos popping up on Basketball Reference.
Speaker 2: I tell you, there's too many numbers to confusing.
Speaker 4: So big game, to say, the least biggest of the
season to this point, considering you can't fall into the
nine to ten play in matchup, that's really problematic because
at best then you're getting okay, see if you win
to play in games, and that to me, I was
worried about this last year. If they got to the
second round, is this going to be the full circle
moment where they have to face SGA and the team
that they helped build and that's the team that takes
them out and it ends the two to three era completely?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: But they lost them seven to Denver, so they avoided that.
I don't want to see, Okay, see, I give them
a puncher chance against San Antonio. But okay see, they
just have too many guys that can throw at Kawhi
and g Garius Garland to guard him. I just I
think that's a five game.
Speaker 3: Series, Yeah, especially like with how shaky like the backup
center situation is. I don't put a lot of longevity
in that series. I think that's probably a gentleman's sweep.
But the Clippers do take one at home, which yeah,
wouldn't at the end of the world. There is a
slight chance against the Spurs. I still don't like it.
But you know, if if you're optimistic for any outcome
this season, that's obviously and clearly the better of the
two outcomes.
Speaker 1: So it's a.
Speaker 3: Super important game and we play them one more time
and once again, like our fate could be decided by
a game against the Warriors to end the season.
Speaker 2: So you would love to just put this one away.
Speaker 4: It's crazy, is you know? San Antonio is still only
two and a half games back at okay see, there
is a chance they could flip I think a small one.
Okay see beat the Knicks last night. They look pretty
locked in. They have Detroit, the Lakers Utah, the Lakers again,
and then the Clippers, Denver, Phoenix. It's not totally off
the board because San Antonio has the tiebreaker over them,
I believe, because they beat them two out three times.
Speaker 2: Hold on, we got two chucks in the stream here.
I'm trying to get this sorted out.
Speaker 1: I used up all my VORP credits, so they kicks
me off of Basketball Reference. I don't have any more
VORP credits.
Speaker 3: We're talking potential playoff matchups and how important this how
important this win is to stay out of that nine
ten and where are you at? Do we even have
a chance against against the Spurs or could they end
up at one?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City has the toughest schedule remaining and San Antonio
has the eighteenth. What if they fly?
Speaker 1: How much are they separated by two.
Speaker 4: And a half? But the Spurs have the tiebreaker over them?
Speaker 1: Damn? And I guess how much does like okay see
care about the one seed? Obviously they do. They want
to win, but like, are you gonna get the MVP?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Regardless, I think will you and I
were talking on a stream like a couple of weeks ago,
where it was like, I want to see the team
get good reps, right, I want to see good minutes
for like some of the new guys against what is
either going to be the number one or the number
two seed. If we are coming back to into it
and we're up to one, yeah, I'll lose my damn mind.
But yeah, just good reps, Like let's play them close,
let's play the Spurs like we have. Well, if we
play the Spurs like we have this season, we're gonna
steal a game or.
Speaker 2: Two coin flip series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying it's a coin flip, but I think
they can steal a game or two and that'd be
pretty rad. Like I wouldn't feel bad about that at all.
Speaker 4: I mean, if he can steal two games, it's a series.
If a series goes six games, that's a series.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I think the result is gonna be
the Spurs probably moving on. Isaiah Jackson thinks sucks if yeah,
any extended time is like that's tough.
Speaker 4: Everybody wants them to go out and get another center
right now, And I'm like, what center is going to
be better than just using John Collins at center? That's
on the market.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there was someone on our YouTube saying we
needed to sign Obama. I've gotten a lot of that
Obama has shooters, which is very funny. But no, I think, yeah,
I just want to see good reps. I want to
see Kawhi Will. You've brought this up. He's having like
his best offensive season ever. And it's a year that
we're playing in the seven eight game, which is unfortunate
for sure, hopefully, which is unfortunate for basketball fans as
a whole. But I think we're comfortably in seven eight.
We're not moving down.
Speaker 4: They lose tomorrow, they could move down.
Speaker 1: That's how confident I am about tomorrow. No. That yeah,
because the Warriors, it's like they're kind of done. Like
I'm not concerned about them moving up. Oh.
Speaker 4: I was surprised how well they played against Denver last night,
to be honest, on the road. If they haven't quit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they haven't quit, but their roster is not very good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they shouldn't catch the Clippers. It's the Blazers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they still lost by like twenty three against.
Speaker 4: Didn't. Yeah, it was like a five point game four
or something like that.
Speaker 1: It might have been, but I think the Nuggets decided
to start playing harder. But yeah, it's uh man, I guess. Yeah.
We'll talk about this more on Wednesday. I guess we'll
have a better clear picture of how I'm feeling about
the standings. But I'm feeling seven eight. That's where we're
going to be at. The team has played professionally for
the most part.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when tomorrow there, we're pretty locked in.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I am worried about the offensive class though I
should be.
Speaker 4: That's a problem.
Speaker 1: That's very funny. Did you guys do Player the Game picks?
While Basketball Reference was giving me some kind of virus,
I did not. I appreciate that, Adam, your Player of
the Game pick for the most important game so.
Speaker 4: Far, I'm gonna go John Collins, got it? I want
to go John Collins because once, if you can put
two good games together, he might have to play some
small ball five. Can he get back in that groove
he was in. I need him to make at least
one three in this game.
Speaker 1: Need him on the glass, need him to make at
least one three. Will your pick?
Speaker 2: I'm going difference maker done in this one?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think if we could show up defensively,
apply the pressure, I think we can get out of
this one. I'm not gonna say with ease, but with relative.
Speaker 1: Ease, professional win ease, like it's a just a good,
good game of basketball ease. Yeah, I'm gonna go bathroom feels.
We're gonna need his free throws, obviously. I need Brook
Lopez to be a do good at the professor the
traditional center stuff, which we've seen him do right, Like,
let's be a presence on the glass. Let's make it
difficult for clinging the grab in hal offensive rebounds. I
want to see that. That would be nice to start
the game off with that intensity, but not end it.
He cannot close unless it's working, and which guys go
out there broke.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I think is part of the problem with the
offensive rebounds as of like going against them is like
it's the others. It's the smaller guys that are beating
the Clippers.
Speaker 1: To them, Yeah, which a little.
Speaker 4: Bit scary, and teams are just larger overall. But some
of that was without John Collins back, you know. Yeah,
this is a real test though. Yeah, not having Isaiah
Jackson's kind of a big deal in this game.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, all right, coming up, we're gonna talk last
seven games, a record prediction, and then the Darius Garland
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back into clips and dip. We just
talked the Clippers sort of miraculous march, as well as
a little preview of the Blazers game. Seven games total
remaining for the Clippers two and a half games out
of seven, not really seeming attainable, but as we mentioned
last second, we are a game and a half hop
on the Blazers for that eight spot, which we could
be one step closer distension, I don't want to say
completely sentient, but one step closer descension with a win tomorrow.
That last seven games excluding that Blazers game, we got
the Spurs, Kings, MAVs Thunder back to back, and then
we're back at the Blazers and then once again taking
on the Warriors for the final game of the season. Fellas,
let's just talk about these final seven games. We can
get into what we think our final record predictions are
going to be Adam, how are you feeling about this
slate of seven after March?
Speaker 4: I want to say five and two, all right, maybe
a back to back four and three. I thought they'd
go eleven and seven in March. Wrong about that. So
when any games start giving them more credit and go
five and two.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I mean, so they split the back.
I think ideally we're kind of all the same page.
You probably split the back to back. Yeah, it's kind
of a difficult. It's just tough.
Speaker 4: It could depend. Like, it's possible if they win tomorrow
the Warriors game doesn't matter at the end of the season, right,
it's possible.
Speaker 1: So they win tomorrow, beat the Kings, split the back
to back, there's your three, and then you got the worries.
I think I think five and two is doable, all right.
I think ideally you split between the Blazers games. You
win tomorrow, split the then split the back to back
with the Thunder and the MAVs, and then maybe lose
to the Blazers before that Warriors game, so that split with.
Speaker 4: The Blazers, lose to the Thunder. Those are only three losses. Oh, wait,
that's that's not five and two.
Speaker 1: No split with the Yeah, you split with the Blazers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, all right, five and two, let's do it.
Speaker 1: We don't and then way we don't have to go
on the insane run that they did last year, right
when it was like, oh, we won ten out of
eleven and everyone looks like they're about to pass.
Speaker 3: I'm saying we split the we split, the Blazers, beat
the Thunder, end up tossing the last game of the
season because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: We're locked in at eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3: So we lose one of the Warriors, one of the Blazers
win the rest.
Speaker 1: The Spurs game will be difficult. That would be Not
beating the Spurs would put the fan base into a
frenzy this late in the season. It'd be very funny.
Speaker 3: Maybe we toss the Spurs game too, to lure them
into a false sense of security.
Speaker 2: We go four and three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they already don't feel confident against us.
Speaker 4: The Clippers could really have an effect on the one
and two seed there, yeah, who ends up with it. Therefore,
they could have an effect on who they play in
the first round, who they want to see.
Speaker 1: I would love it if if Tyler came out he
was like, we want the Spurs specifically, like just just
stir the pop for no reason.
Speaker 4: I gotta say the Suns. The Suns look look like
a problem still, like going to Phoenix. Yeah, I'm concerned
about that more than I thought i'd be.
Speaker 1: I think my anti Phoenix bias is clouding judgment.
Speaker 4: They still even without dealing Brooks recently, they still look
like they have some like toughness. They look different than
past years.
Speaker 1: When is the last time we even played the.
Speaker 4: Suns many sons ago?
Speaker 3: We had them like stacked early in the season. Didn't
we play them like three times before the trade deadline?
Speaker 1: Yeah? We played them, we had Yeah, we played them
twice in November and like a weird away series there.
We played them in February and I think that's the
last time we played them February. First, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: They're beating the Grizzlies tonight. Then they have the Magic Hornets, Bulls,
Rockets at home, Mavericks at home, Lakers on the road,
Thunder on the road.
Speaker 1: That's tough. That's a brutal end to the season.
Speaker 4: So you think the Clippers can catch them if they
go five and.
Speaker 1: Two, I'm not trying to get my hopes up for
catching them there. It's it just feels like they're running
out of runway, like because, like you said, the Sons
are playing pretty good too. They're not like Houston right
now where everyone hates each other.
Speaker 2: Don happen.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, they did lose to the Bucks recently,
that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what do you think we sit that record wise?
Obviously we're getting I don't want to jinx it totally
knock on wood, but they'll be over five hundred.
Speaker 4: So what are they now? The three games over? What's
the record.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine, thirty six, thirty six.
Speaker 4: So they go five and two, they're getting a forty
four wins. Damn coach Luke cooked thirty five and twenty
the rest of the way, they're out pace.
Speaker 1: I was wrong about that. Well you think they're Do
you think they go five and two? That's a tall ward.
Speaker 2: I want to say yes, but I think that it
might be four and three.
Speaker 4: I might have revise to four and three, which is
we wi't think so because they won't need the Warriors game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, with one of those games being a toss
to the Warriors.
Speaker 4: I like.
Speaker 1: I like that they've set the intention to lose the
game four and three with good basketball. It's like, great,
we're going in with good momentum, We're feeling comfortable, like
we're not having a scramble.
Speaker 4: I think that is the most realistic outcome, just because
they're going to be strategic about this with knowing where
they're likely going to end up, Like you got to
get tomorrow's game, but not every game is going to
be like that down the stretch here.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, keep playing above average defense is what I
would like to see over these seven game defense. That's
actually maybe the biggest thing.
Speaker 2: Could they jump to thirteen.
Speaker 1: Maybe post tradedline?
Speaker 2: Obviously?
Speaker 3: I think yeah, optimistically they could maybe get to seventeen
on the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean it's kind of sucks,
but after the start, Yeah, that's pretty good. Did any
of y'all read the Darius Garland article in the Athletic Nod?
I want to read the whole thing right now.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: There was a funny bit where it seems like the
Clippers really like it seems like living in Cleveland gave
him like seasonal weather oriented depression. There's a bunch of
quotes about how he can just see the sun and
now that he can see the sun, he's feeling good.
Speaker 2: It makes a difference, man.
Speaker 1: It really does. Dude, coming from places where there is
a lot of different weather, but dark winners are not
fun after a while, and being in a place with
sun does help your outlet.
Speaker 4: Start calling solar power and let's go.
Speaker 1: There was a cool note about what Tyler wants out
of Darius Carlin. He wants to see more aggression, less
fitting in, and more imposing himself on the game. I
just noticed since he's been here on Missus he gets
the rebound and he's kind of jogging it up surveying
instead of pushing the tempo to get to the paint
early before the defense gets set. I like that. It's
like Tyler being like, make people fit in around you,
Like you do not need to fit in with these guys.
You we need to fit in around you. Nice to
see that in print from head Coach.
Speaker 4: I'll say, you're gonna get the most out of them.
I saw. Coach usually is with talented guys. Remember when
James Harden came in and they had that discussion like no, no, no,
you need to be more aggressive, and he told them
that in front of the entire team, so everybody knew, yeah,
don't defer. It'll make you those passes will be much
easier when they're loading up because you're more aggressive offensively
looking for your own shot.
Speaker 1: Well, and there was we saw that with Chris Dunn, right,
he was like his second game with Garland and he
made some cut towards the basket and Garland hurled a
pass at him and he just didn't see it because
he was like, I'm not used to that pass coming
like that. Since then, they've cleaned it up, but it's like, yeah,
go into a team's gotta be weird. Where James Harden
was the point guard and now you are the point
guard to replace him. I can see that being a
difficult fit.
Speaker 4: Some of these guys though, Just like with Kawhi, being
selfish is better for the team. It helps the team.
Selfish is the new unselfish.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that. It is
funny how guys like Kawhi and Darius Garland you're like,
be more selfish with the ball. And then there's guys
like first name in my head is Kevin Porter Junior,
where it's like you should not be as selfish with
the ball. We understand that you have some skills.
Speaker 4: But Mathern has those issues sometimes still got some bad
turnovers the other night.
Speaker 1: It's got a bit of the tunnel vision.
Speaker 4: Sometimes he's young, so you live with it and it's whatever.
But yeah, with Kawhi, it's it's all positive him taking
more shots. I think Garland is the same. I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely well. Your thoughts on Darius Garland please please.
Plus it's time.
Speaker 2: Time for self care is over. It's time to harm others.
Speaker 1: I love it. All right, that's great. We have a
giveaway winner that we have to announce. We have to
decide on the giveaway winner. Care for those of you
who missed out on this in box Bradley bealbable ahead
that yeah, yeah, dead stock and you're missing out on
this size medium Clippers T shirt. We will have some
more giveaways thanks to a scholarship fund that was set
up that I'll talk about in a second. But so
the bit was we had that we asked people the
best way to give these things away and we got
some great submissions. I'm reading the top three. All right,
giveaway idea. This is from defry guy seventy one, whoever
best recaps everything the Clippers have gone through this year
wins minimum two thousand words. I like that one. Next
one that also birthed an idea that I'm gonna talk
about after this. The next one from Nick Prophetdale, which
sounds like a made up marketing guy but might be
a real person. For your giveaway, I think you should
have to do the best reenactment of one of lol
WTF Eric's postgame drawings. Very good idea to danger.
Speaker 2: You got the Brian Semen shout out on the broadcast
the other day.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, shout out Brian Semen.
Speaker 4: We did on the radio for him too. When you
saw the coast was clear, Hey, Brian's doing it, I
guess we could do it. I know some of these
drugs are a little a little bunch time.
Speaker 1: They're an accurate depiction of what it's like to be
a Clippers fan.
Speaker 4: Is art, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And then Jose Navarro said, fans must describe Bradley Beal
as a dip and their example was the slow start
dip ranch with vegetables explanation, Just like Bradley Beal this season,
you tried it at the beginning, then you realize it's
not hitting and you never go back to it again.
A bit harsh for sure, but keeping with the Bradley
Beal theme. Got hurt Fellas which one of these wonderful
submissions gets to win a mint Bradley Beal biblehead and
size medium clippers T shirt? What are you feeling at him?
Speaker 4: So no one actually has to do the submit. It's
just grading the emissions and the ideas, but we don't
actually have to do put them into practice.
Speaker 1: We're a very cerebral pod.
Speaker 4: Yes, probably the two thousand words summarize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, since we don't have to read it, it's a
good one.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, so we're going I was gonna pick that
one too, So defry guy seventy one fifty. You have
won a Bradley be obablehead and sized medium clippers T shirt.
Email us at Shavings dot Podcast at gmail dot com.
We will send you this stuff. It will get to
you safely, it will give you tracking, and you win.
We also got contacted by someone who has a like
five or ten uh. They have Norm Powell playoff Norm
Powell shirts as well as some Opening Night compasses from
the first game into it Dome that they are donating
to us as part of just giveaway stuff. Yes, we
are calling it the Rising Tides Collection. This person I
figured out the name for this, so with the Rising
Tides Collection, which is going to be on the way
to my house soon. Thank you very much, sir person.
I don't know if I want me to say their name.
I think if anyone does actually write a minimum five
hundred word essay about the Clippers season, I will read
it and then we'll send you a giveaway for.
Speaker 2: That minimum two thousand words. No AAI, No.
Speaker 1: If you use AI. If you use AI, A will
know and we'll fucking find you.
Speaker 4: So we'll use AI to find you.
Speaker 1: Don't use AI. Five hundred to two thousand words. Send
just what has happened this Clipper season, put a little
your own flavor on it, whatever, But we have some
giveaway surpluses from the Rising Tides collection.
Speaker 4: You're starting a Clippers thrift or we're.
Speaker 1: Starting a Clipper stip store. The important thing is Defry
Guy seventy get at us, email us Shavings dot podcast
at gmail dot com. We will send you your goods
anything else before we get out of here before this
very important Blazers game. Tory Night.
Speaker 4: Congrats Guy, Congrats to Fry Guy.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a new episode on Wednesday. Hopefully it's
a fun episode talking about how awesome it was that
we beat the Blazers. We're gonna do a happy Hour
live on Friday. Will Where can people voice their opinion
for this show? And yeah, maybe just the show, just
keep it from the.
Speaker 2: Show, Yeah, keep it to the show.
Speaker 3: You can voice your opinion on this show over on
Apple Podcasts or Spotify. You can course listen wherever you
get your podcast. You can also lead a comment on
every single video. You could really let us know what
you think on every given episode over at YouTube dot com.
That's at Clippers podcast. But however you listen whoever you watch,
you know we appreciate you, We.
Speaker 1: Very much do. Adam one positive thing heading to this
big matchup against these Blazers, these egalitarian Blazers. What do
we got for Clippers fans?
Speaker 4: You know, the Clippers had people worried when they lost
four in a row to some lesser teams. You could say,
but again, Repelicans are their own thing. It's not that
the Clippers are that bad. Repelicans. It just happens. They've
won five in a row. SIS, then they've more the
right of the ship, seven games to play. They're in
great shape, but gotta win the gotta win tomorrow, big game.
Speaker 1: Gotta win tomorrow, big game. I'm nervous, but I'm excited.
Speaker 4: Eight o'clock tip.
Speaker 1: Wow, right, God damn it.
Speaker 4: Well I like to say the late o'clock tip.
Speaker 1: Okay. On that note, this has been Clips in DPP.
Thank you for hanging out, and as always, let's go Clips.