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