WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:15.679 What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to season four, 2 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:20.199 episode forty of Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Walckler, 3 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.920 joined by Adam Oslind and William Updyke. We have the 4 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:28.600 full crew today to talk about the Clippers crushing March 5 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:32.439 so far. With one final game left against the Blazers, 6 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:35.759 we got some standing stuff to check into and then 7 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:40.479 the giveaway winner. Someone won the Bradley bealbobblehead and the 8 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.560 T shirt, so there they gotta be hyped. Yes, big 9 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:45.600 things happening. If you're listening to us, thank you. If 10 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.039 you'd like to watch us, you can find us at 11 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:51.159 YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast. Will Adam, the 12 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:55.640 Clippers are ending March on a high note. How are 13 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:57.119 we feeling, will How are you doing? 14 00:00:58.520 --> 00:00:59.479 I'm feeling great man. 15 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:02.799 Yeah, Clippers taking care of business after a couple of 16 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:07.560 disappointing losses which we've already discussed, So yeah, we're feeling good. 17 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:10.200 We might not be limping to the finish line in 18 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:12.920 the same way that I thought, but still some difficult, 19 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:17.480 very impactful, standing wise games to come. So my mook 20 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:21.079 is switching an instant really, which is nothing new, but 21 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.400 you know, the Clippers just compound that fact. 22 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.400 Yeah, it's the Clipper's fault this time, Adam. There's one 23 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.200 game left in March. The Clippers can go thirteen and five, 24 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.200 which is better than what we all kind of figured 25 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:34.560 before this. 26 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:36.319 I think that's exactly what I said. Actually it was 27 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:37.120 thirteen and five. 28 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.200 Is it? Someone find it? I said ten and eight. 29 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.000 I'd say we owe the March schedule and apology. The 30 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:50.920 Yeas are owning March twelve and six? Are you kidding me? 31 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.000 What do I say on this podcast? Every year Iron sharpens. 32 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:59.079 Iron, Babe, that is technically true. That is an updyke 33 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:03.560 idiom for sure. Yeah, I can't believe I was terrified 34 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.879 of this month. It's still rough. Losing jackson last game 35 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.919 with the ankle is difficult, but like we've got to 36 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.080 see we've talked about how good Garland has been it, 37 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:16.199 I mean, iron Sharpen's iron, Like get in there and 38 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:18.240 play eighteen games right away now that you're on this 39 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.639 new team, Like, it's been nice to see them curiously 40 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:23.199 with this moment. 41 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:27.400 Know, they've been fantastic. They've had a four game losing 42 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.520 streak and they're still gonna finish at worse twelve and 43 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.960 six in March. That's pretty incredible. Darius Garland shooting fifty 44 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:36.240 one percent from three. His fit has been perfect for 45 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:40.240 this team. Lawrence Frank cooked, I don't think they wanted 46 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.039 to trade James Harden, and they pivoted to trading him 47 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.960 for a guy who is Like I said at the time, 48 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.879 I don't think they're gonna be necessarily much worse. And right, 49 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.599 they have been better. You could argue, I don't know, 50 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:55.080 after the trade deadline you could. 51 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.439 You can make it. They have been offensively, Yeah, isn't 52 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.680 the I mean, the rating right now is nuts. Like 53 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:06.479 we've been the best true shooting team. That's why they 54 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.560 won against the Bucks for the most part. And mathns 55 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:17.960 fourteen free throw attempts. There's what's the Matherine role look like? 56 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:22.240 Because law had a funny tweet kind of talking about 57 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.960 like he doesn't see Mathrin being a starter for a 58 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:27.840 handful of reasons. One of them might be just because 59 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.360 he's so good at getting free throws and the fact 60 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:36.319 that he has twelve twenty point games this season off 61 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:38.520 the bench. There's only two more guys in the league 62 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:43.159 to have more than that. He's in a tough spot. 63 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:45.080 I feel like for him because I think he could 64 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.360 be a starter, but he is phenomenal in this role 65 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.039 for the Clippers. 66 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.719 I mean, yeah, I think he's like what if he 67 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.599 does remain in that off the bench role, Like, I 68 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.360 think that elevates the ceiling to what he can provide 69 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.960 for a team at his current state, you know, Like 70 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.840 I like the sixth man the on you know, not 71 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:11.599 currently uh, but the advantage team, Yeah, on a home 72 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:14.039 court advantage team like that is it that? I mean, 73 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.759 that's a team with the championship pedigree to me to 74 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:21.319 my eyes. But I think that, you know, I think 75 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:23.680 that that could change obviously in his role could grow. 76 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.720 But I think this this spot where he's at is good. 77 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:27.680 It's good to be. 78 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.920 I just don't get the logic of replacing d J. 79 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.920 Dunn with Bennick Mathern. He's not enough point of attack 80 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:37.399 defender to do what they do. 81 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:38.800 Yeah, you think you're. 82 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:40.519 A choice up the offense so much that's going to 83 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.680 make up for the defense. The offense is already good 84 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.040 with the starting group. They are one hundred and thirty 85 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:50.240 one net rating with uh Darius Garland and Kawhi Leonard. 86 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.639 You need to be better defensively. And I think the 87 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:57.800 whole talk, the whole starter talk kind of veers into 88 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.920 the casual place because who finished his game? 89 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:04.000 Is how many minutes is he still playing? He's playing 90 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.839 thirty minutes a night, Like, yeah, what's the problem here? 91 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:12.480 People get so just into starter versus not starter. It's like, 92 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:14.639 what matters is how many minutes they're playing, if they're 93 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.120 playing at the end of games. I just I think 94 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.240 it's much to do about nothing. Well and Benc matherin, Yes, 95 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:21.279 of course he cares. 96 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:24.319 Of course he wants to be an he's twenty three, 97 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:26.480 he's one of the most competent players you'll ever see. 98 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.920 But does that make sense for this team in the 99 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:31.839 way it's constructed right now? I don't think so. 100 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:34.360 And that goes to kind of what you've talked about 101 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.279 Adam with like how his next contract looks structure wise, 102 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.879 like maybe it's not the full four you know, straight 103 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:43.120 up or something like that. It's like, here's two years 104 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.759 with an extra option on the end or something like that. 105 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.439 If you've really played your ass off these two years, 106 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.240 get that other contract when you're twenty six or something like. 107 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:53.360 What was Tony Allen making a twenty six. 108 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.000 Not a lot would be my guess. 109 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:01.199 If there's a guy who's going to bet on himself 110 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:04.800 for that next contract after this one, Oh yeah, Mather. 111 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:10.279 Oh yeah, I would agree with that for sure. Collins 112 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.519 had his best game in a while against the Bucks, 113 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:15.600 who had like, what was it, nine guys on their 114 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.120 injury report. It got kind of dicey at the end 115 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:23.160 of this game. Law Murray said that this was a 116 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.680 funny quote he said, or the tweet he said, Tyler 117 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:28.240 wanted to give Kawhi and Darius Garland the fourth quarter off. 118 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:30.920 This team doesn't have a high enough floor to get 119 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.720 that done. Is it hard to tell where the floor 120 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:34.639 of this team is. 121 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.600 I mean, they didn't get it closer than twelve against 122 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:44.000 John Collins with backups. I know they were down a 123 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.279 lot of guys, but you know, till the NBA it 124 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.519 wasn't I don't think they were ever in danger to 125 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:52.199 losing the game. 126 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:55.800 Yeah, it wasn't like a two point lead. We didn't 127 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:57.920 have to come in and people didn't look startled. 128 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:01.000 It was good for John Collins to be out there 129 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:02.959 is the focal point to get into his rhythm with 130 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:04.800 those guys. He's got to. 131 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:06.879 Get that juice back. It's been a little up and 132 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:11.519 down with like the Colins not featuring because he's obviously 133 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.959 not like the first choice or something like that. But 134 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.800 it was nice to see him get into that rhythm. 135 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:22.040 I want to see him hit a couple of threes tomorrow, 136 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.600 Like the guy was the best three point shooter for 137 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.759 I think like forty five games of the season in 138 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.319 the NBA, right, I like to see him, you know, 139 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.319 and he's gonna shoot sixty percent, but I just want 140 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:35.720 to see him get him up shoot around forty percent, 141 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:38.879 just be comfortable again. It's felt a little bit like 142 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.879 early in the season lately with John Collins, where he 143 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.560 just wasn't in rhythm and it took him some time. 144 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.480 I really think he's one of those guys where his 145 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.279 defense is affected by his offense greatly. 146 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:52.600 Yeah, I think that's a fair take. 147 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.680 And then it's like coming out of a like an 148 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.160 injury break into like a you know, a different locker room. 149 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.480 You know, it was always gonna affect Collins, you know, 150 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:04.639 like he I feel like his adjustment period into like 151 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:07.360 really coming into himself and the Clippers was so much 152 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.399 longer than any of us anticipated. 153 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.360 That He's allowed a little leeway in this reemergence. 154 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:19.720 Yeah, there's guys who can do like the Terrence Man 155 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:21.120 thing and just kind of lock in and be like, 156 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:22.560 this is my new role this week, you know what 157 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.319 I mean? Like this is the growing pains. But some 158 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.839 guys it's just difficult. There's not like a good or 159 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.199 like playing for the Clippers is interesting in terms of 160 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:31.120 what lineup you're going to. 161 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:31.560 Be a part of. 162 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:37.320 Yeah, the Clippers. The final test of March, it's against 163 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.559 the Blazers. The Clippers are two and zero on the season. 164 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.320 This is the first time we'll have played the Blazers 165 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:46.519 since the trades. We're one and a half games up 166 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:49.200 on them for the eight seed. Isaiah Jackson is out. 167 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.159 The Blazers beat the Wizards by almost forty yesterday. How 168 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.759 are we feeling about this game? This is a fun 169 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:02.039 way to end Mark, which fun is maybe the wrong word, 170 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:05.519 but I'm excited to watch this game. 171 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:08.240 I feel a lot worse if someone had an eighty 172 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:18.720 three point game. Yeah, that would suck. They've had their 173 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:21.919 young guys have been scoring well the last five games. 174 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:25.679 They got Denny, Grant, Kamara, and Scoot are all at 175 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:28.080 sixteen to twenty points per game the last five games, 176 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:32.759 so they're not We're getting another team that's kind of 177 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:36.799 playing well. We got the Pacers when they were playing well. Adam, 178 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:37.759 how are you feeling about this? 179 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:45.200 It's close to a must win to lock up the 180 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.519 seven eight play in match up early. You win this 181 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:51.000 game tomorrow, you've got six games left, you have the 182 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.360 tiebreaker over the Portland Trail Blazers. You still got to 183 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.000 go there for one more, but it'd be in real 184 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.159 good shape. Yeah. 185 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.159 We got the Blazers second to last game of the 186 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:07.320 season in Portland. This is a defensive test. The Blazers 187 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.440 are the fourth best net rating over the last ten games. 188 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:14.320 Their defense has been bad, which is great for us. 189 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:18.480 But it's a defensive test, and I feel like, what 190 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:20.039 are we nineteenth on the year at them? 191 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.639 I did just check post All Star break now and 192 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.559 they're up a little bit. They're now fourteenth post All 193 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:28.200 Star break. 194 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:33.919 I mean shit, I'll average yeah, I'll take that for sure. 195 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:37.480 Yeah, but they are still nineteenth on the air. 196 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:43.360 Yeah, still still not ideal. Do we think that offensive 197 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:45.840 boards are going to be an issue? Klingon grabs the 198 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:49.360 second most offensive rebounds per game, and they are like 199 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.279 an actually elite offensive rebounding team. They're really good of 200 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.120 the percentages for that. 201 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.240 That's a great point because the Clippers have been given 202 00:10:58.320 --> 00:10:58.720 some off. 203 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:04.639 Yeah, they're clinging specifically is a very good offensive rebounder. 204 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:08.840 So the emphasis on the defensive glass is going to 205 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:10.200 be important. To start this one. 206 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.840 Is Robert Williams playing? Has he been playing at all? 207 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.879 Because if he's good to go and the Clippers don't 208 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:21.519 have Asad Jackson. 209 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:25.600 Which we do, no one else is questionable or anything. 210 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:30.879 It's just Jackson. It's out. He is playing. He played 211 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:34.120 fifteen minutes against not it doesn't seem like he's playing 212 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.960 very much. He's playing with. 213 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:39.159 His injury history. I wouldn't play it more than fifteen minutes. 214 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.200 He's the Jonathan Isaac like, that's fair. 215 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.960 Well, he's averaging seventeen minutes a game. It's actually more 216 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:48.279 than I thought it would be. But he's playing well 217 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.960 on the glass, which the small ball lineups are going 218 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:55.240 to have their hands full. 219 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.080 Honestly, that's probably the game you keyed in on a truck. 220 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:02.200 If the Clippers can actually clean the glass defensively. 221 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:09.639 Yeah, I don't. It's just it's just gonna be a 222 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:11.600 lot of work from our forwards. Our forwards have to 223 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:13.799 do a lot of work already in the glass and 224 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:17.559 like Kawhi can do it because he's Kawhi. But this 225 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:18.960 would be a good game for college right. 226 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.879 Yeah, again, going back to Collins, Like what a time 227 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.840 for him to get right and if he's gonna do 228 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.919 it on the like on the defensive end, get him going, 229 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:30.840 get him going all around. 230 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.159 That'd be nice. I do think we have the edge 231 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.679 on the bench though, Like we just talked about it, 232 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.360 like if done doesn't start, it's math and done off 233 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.240 the bench is really nice. Like I'm not sure who 234 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:45.440 on the Blazer's bench is, you know what I mean? 235 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.240 Like I like that as our reserves coming in. 236 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.360 Yeah, how much has Scoop been playing since he came back? 237 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:57.600 Scoot stats? 238 00:12:58.120 --> 00:12:59.639 Is he still coming off the bench for them? 239 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:08.759 Twenty one minutes against the Whiz the Wizards. 240 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:11.639 And they brought in jew Holiday to kind of help 241 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:21.519 him out, you know, they traded anthrety Simon's to help him. 242 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.440 I always do in his role since he came back lately, 243 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:26.159 it is. 244 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:32.480 It's weird people were so hyped on him, but basketball 245 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:35.559 references like tanking my computer right now, why does it 246 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:37.919 can tell website that. 247 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:44.120 Is and we can we can forget the scoop stuff. Yeah, 248 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:46.919 it's it's too many numbies manbounding. 249 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:48.200 Yeah, it's making my editor. 250 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:59.519 Let's scoot along, Chuck. No Basketball Reference exit the tab. 251 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.360 Oh no, he's completely frozen. 252 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.519 I don't know why it's so heavy on the RAM 253 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:11.039 or whatever. It's just it's just numbers and Excel spreadsheets, 254 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:13.679 not like a bunch of videos popping up on Basketball Reference. 255 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.440 I tell you, there's too many numbers to confusing. 256 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:21.639 So big game, to say, the least biggest of the 257 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:26.000 season to this point, considering you can't fall into the 258 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:30.720 nine to ten play in matchup, that's really problematic because 259 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.559 at best then you're getting okay, see if you win 260 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.039 to play in games, and that to me, I was 261 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:38.879 worried about this last year. If they got to the 262 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.159 second round, is this going to be the full circle 263 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:45.000 moment where they have to face SGA and the team 264 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.159 that they helped build and that's the team that takes 265 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.600 them out and it ends the two to three era completely? 266 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:50.480 You know? 267 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:53.639 But they lost them seven to Denver, so they avoided that. 268 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.080 I don't want to see, Okay, see, I give them 269 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.639 a puncher chance against San Antonio. But okay see, they 270 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.559 just have too many guys that can throw at Kawhi 271 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:07.320 and g Garius Garland to guard him. I just I 272 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.080 think that's a five game. 273 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:13.399 Series, Yeah, especially like with how shaky like the backup 274 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.879 center situation is. I don't put a lot of longevity 275 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:19.519 in that series. I think that's probably a gentleman's sweep. 276 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.159 But the Clippers do take one at home, which yeah, 277 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.360 wouldn't at the end of the world. There is a 278 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.240 slight chance against the Spurs. I still don't like it. 279 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.039 But you know, if if you're optimistic for any outcome 280 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.440 this season, that's obviously and clearly the better of the 281 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:40.240 two outcomes. 282 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:42.840 So it's a. 283 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.159 Super important game and we play them one more time 284 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.000 and once again, like our fate could be decided by 285 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:49.799 a game against the Warriors to end the season. 286 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:52.679 So you would love to just put this one away. 287 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:56.639 It's crazy, is you know? San Antonio is still only 288 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.799 two and a half games back at okay see, there 289 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:05.000 is a chance they could flip I think a small one. 290 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.440 Okay see beat the Knicks last night. They look pretty 291 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.000 locked in. They have Detroit, the Lakers Utah, the Lakers again, 292 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:17.240 and then the Clippers, Denver, Phoenix. It's not totally off 293 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.840 the board because San Antonio has the tiebreaker over them, 294 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.360 I believe, because they beat them two out three times. 295 00:16:24.279 --> 00:16:26.279 Hold on, we got two chucks in the stream here. 296 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:27.639 I'm trying to get this sorted out. 297 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:30.240 I used up all my VORP credits, so they kicks 298 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:32.240 me off of Basketball Reference. I don't have any more 299 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:33.600 VORP credits. 300 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:40.519 We're talking potential playoff matchups and how important this how 301 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:43.519 important this win is to stay out of that nine 302 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:46.360 ten and where are you at? Do we even have 303 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:50.159 a chance against against the Spurs or could they end 304 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:50.759 up at one? 305 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:52.120 Oh? 306 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:52.720 That's true. 307 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.840 Oklahoma City has the toughest schedule remaining and San Antonio 308 00:16:57.879 --> 00:16:59.840 has the eighteenth. What if they fly? 309 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.559 How much are they separated by two. 310 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:07.200 And a half? But the Spurs have the tiebreaker over them? 311 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.880 Damn? And I guess how much does like okay see 312 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.480 care about the one seed? Obviously they do. They want 313 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.000 to win, but like, are you gonna get the MVP? 314 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.839 Yeah? 315 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.880 I don't know. Regardless, I think will you and I 316 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.519 were talking on a stream like a couple of weeks ago, 317 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.400 where it was like, I want to see the team 318 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:35.480 get good reps, right, I want to see good minutes 319 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.240 for like some of the new guys against what is 320 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:39.799 either going to be the number one or the number 321 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:44.079 two seed. If we are coming back to into it 322 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:49.000 and we're up to one, yeah, I'll lose my damn mind. 323 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.680 But yeah, just good reps, Like let's play them close, 324 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.359 let's play the Spurs like we have. Well, if we 325 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:58.759 play the Spurs like we have this season, we're gonna 326 00:17:58.759 --> 00:17:59.519 steal a game or. 327 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.720 Two coin flip series. 328 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:05.680 Yeah, I'm saying it's a coin flip, but I think 329 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:07.400 they can steal a game or two and that'd be 330 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.559 pretty rad. Like I wouldn't feel bad about that at all. 331 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.440 I mean, if he can steal two games, it's a series. 332 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:17.920 If a series goes six games, that's a series. 333 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:25.519 Yeah, but yeah, I think the result is gonna be 334 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:31.119 the Spurs probably moving on. Isaiah Jackson thinks sucks if yeah, 335 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.279 any extended time is like that's tough. 336 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:38.400 Everybody wants them to go out and get another center 337 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:42.079 right now, And I'm like, what center is going to 338 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:45.279 be better than just using John Collins at center? That's 339 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:46.039 on the market. 340 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:48.559 Oh no, there was someone on our YouTube saying we 341 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:51.279 needed to sign Obama. I've gotten a lot of that 342 00:18:52.640 --> 00:19:01.039 Obama has shooters, which is very funny. But no, I think, yeah, 343 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:02.599 I just want to see good reps. I want to 344 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.519 see Kawhi Will. You've brought this up. He's having like 345 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:07.839 his best offensive season ever. And it's a year that 346 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.000 we're playing in the seven eight game, which is unfortunate 347 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:15.599 for sure, hopefully, which is unfortunate for basketball fans as 348 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.799 a whole. But I think we're comfortably in seven eight. 349 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:20.839 We're not moving down. 350 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:25.920 They lose tomorrow, they could move down. 351 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:31.599 That's how confident I am about tomorrow. No. That yeah, 352 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:36.000 because the Warriors, it's like they're kind of done. Like 353 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:40.599 I'm not concerned about them moving up. Oh. 354 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:43.440 I was surprised how well they played against Denver last night, 355 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:47.000 to be honest, on the road. If they haven't quit. 356 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:53.000 Yeah, they haven't quit, but their roster is not very good. 357 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:55.839 Yeah, they shouldn't catch the Clippers. It's the Blazers. 358 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:00.039 Yeah, and they still lost by like twenty three against. 359 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:06.880 Didn't. Yeah, it was like a five point game four 360 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:07.640 or something like that. 361 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.000 It might have been, but I think the Nuggets decided 362 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:17.960 to start playing harder. But yeah, it's uh man, I guess. Yeah. 363 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:19.960 We'll talk about this more on Wednesday. I guess we'll 364 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:21.960 have a better clear picture of how I'm feeling about 365 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.559 the standings. But I'm feeling seven eight. That's where we're 366 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:27.839 going to be at. The team has played professionally for 367 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:28.519 the most part. 368 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:35.039 Yeah, when tomorrow there, we're pretty locked in. 369 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:40.319 Yeah. I am worried about the offensive class though I 370 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:40.920 should be. 371 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:43.680 That's a problem. 372 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:46.599 That's very funny. Did you guys do Player the Game picks? 373 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:49.519 While Basketball Reference was giving me some kind of virus, 374 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:54.960 I did not. I appreciate that, Adam, your Player of 375 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.480 the Game pick for the most important game so. 376 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:04.279 Far, I'm gonna go John Collins, got it? I want 377 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:07.039 to go John Collins because once, if you can put 378 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:08.920 two good games together, he might have to play some 379 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:14.640 small ball five. Can he get back in that groove 380 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:16.359 he was in. I need him to make at least 381 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:17.440 one three in this game. 382 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:19.480 Need him on the glass, need him to make at 383 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.039 least one three. Will your pick? 384 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:25.000 I'm going difference maker done in this one? 385 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:26.000 Okay? 386 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:30.599 I think, yeah, I think if we could show up defensively, 387 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.240 apply the pressure, I think we can get out of 388 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:36.519 this one. I'm not gonna say with ease, but with relative. 389 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:39.440 Ease, professional win ease, like it's a just a good, 390 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:48.079 good game of basketball ease. Yeah, I'm gonna go bathroom feels. 391 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:53.720 We're gonna need his free throws, obviously. I need Brook 392 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:57.680 Lopez to be a do good at the professor the 393 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:02.319 traditional center stuff, which we've seen him do right, Like, 394 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.640 let's be a presence on the glass. Let's make it 395 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:10.559 difficult for clinging the grab in hal offensive rebounds. I 396 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:13.400 want to see that. That would be nice to start 397 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:16.519 the game off with that intensity, but not end it. 398 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.680 He cannot close unless it's working, and which guys go 399 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:20.480 out there broke. 400 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:24.319 Honestly, I think is part of the problem with the 401 00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:27.039