Speaker 1: Welcome into a Clippers Talk Live. Kind of an imprompt too.
Speaker 1: I didn't give anyone a heads up on this, but
Speaker 1: I did yesterday and we weren't able to do so
Speaker 1: because of some technical difficulties. But now we are connected
Speaker 1: to Honolulu, Hawaii. We are live with the radio voice
Speaker 1: of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez for a little Clippers
Speaker 1: Talk Live. Get into the chats. Let us know you
Speaker 1: can hear this episode. And Carlo, it's good to see
Speaker 1: your face. It's good to hear you. And the Wi
Speaker 1: Fi now is on that five G stuff or whatever
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: It looks beautiful.
Speaker 3: We're crystal clear now, Adam. I know we were trying
Speaker 3: to get it on yesterday. Sometimes Wi Fi doesn't want
Speaker 3: to work, and I'll be honest with you, it didn't
Speaker 3: even work this morning. But I came back from the
Speaker 3: gym today and look at we got Wi fi so
Speaker 3: right time, right plays, it all works out. And I
Speaker 3: don't want to cloud the day that No Eagles on, like,
Speaker 3: let's be honest, he deserves an entire day he does.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: Noah Eagle Day was October first, twenty twenty four. Now
Speaker 1: it's Carlo Jimenez Day. And he's caught in four K
Speaker 1: because the Wi fi is looking that damn good people
Speaker 1: are coming in here.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Beltrans says.
Speaker 1: Carlo says, let's go. JM thirty twenty four says, what's up, guys,
Speaker 1: thank you for the advice from last week.
Speaker 2: It was greatly appreciated.
Speaker 1: Check out that show was the first one on the
Speaker 1: YouTube side on Clippers Top with Carlo Jimenez as we
Speaker 1: kind of talked about his early but already very successful
Speaker 1: broadcasting career and also his social media impact that he
Speaker 1: has with two hundred thousand followers on TikTok. He's like that,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get there, Carlo. This is fun. It's
Speaker 1: cool to be connected with you in Hawaii. Give me
Speaker 1: the layout, the landscape. I don't know, a bird's eye
Speaker 1: view of where you are hotel wise, in relationship to
Speaker 1: the arena and anywhere else that are landmarks that you've
Speaker 1: been going to. Right now, just fill people in on
Speaker 1: what it's like to have the experience of being a
Speaker 1: training camp in Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii with the Clippers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, as you can't really be in a
Speaker 3: bad spot in Hawaii, you know, it's it's beautiful here.
Speaker 3: You get off the plane that the breeze is It's
Speaker 3: like the best thing ever.
Speaker 5: Like I'll never.
Speaker 3: Not enjoy getting off a plane in Hawaii and hearing
Speaker 3: that breeze and feeling it. But we're the Clippers have
Speaker 3: it well set up. We're kind of we're by the water.
Speaker 3: We're in like I think main area Honolulu. I couldn't
Speaker 3: even tell you Waikiki. I believe wis where we're at.
Speaker 3: And then the stand Sheriff Center where we're playing is
Speaker 3: I want to say, fifteen to twenty minute drive away.
Speaker 5: So super close. There is a lot of traffic.
Speaker 3: Here in Hawaii, which I I didn't know, but hey,
Speaker 3: the more you know, we take a highway one which
Speaker 3: is an interstate highway, which I have since learned can't
Speaker 3: be an interstate highway because what other state does it
Speaker 3: go to? Adam?
Speaker 1: Oh, what's up? The more you know, Star just went
Speaker 1: across the screen fun tidbits and nuggets with Carla Jimenez.
Speaker 5: It's good and that's yeah.
Speaker 3: Dan Fitzpatrick, the video coordator, pointed out that out to
Speaker 3: me on the bus on the first day, and I
Speaker 3: was like, you know what, I'm gonna get that in
Speaker 3: somewhere somehow and here we are in clipper stock, so
Speaker 3: I had had to make sure I let the people know.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's been good. It's been good. It's it's
Speaker 5: super easy, super nice.
Speaker 3: Like anything under Steve Bomber organization, things are set up well.
Speaker 1: Slippers were made for this second year back since twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen when they first went with the two one three
Speaker 1: era kicking off. Now we'll post that it's the Kawhi
Speaker 1: James Harden one two punch era going on. But obviously
Speaker 1: we've talked about Kawhi. We have media Day Monday into
Speaker 1: it Dome. I know he hasn't been doing any of
Speaker 1: the five on five or any of the drill stuff.
Speaker 1: He was doing some foam roller stuff today. I heard.
Speaker 1: I saw the video with him smiling hanging out with
Speaker 1: coach Lou at shoot around earlier in the day yesterday.
Speaker 1: Is there anything new on the Kawhi front, Carlow and
Speaker 1: just overall, what are your thoughts after hearing straight from
Speaker 1: the horse's mouth how he's doing with that right knee
Speaker 1: at media day on Monday?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think what Noah talked about yesterday.
Speaker 3: If you haven't watched that on Clippers stock, I go
Speaker 3: check that out. But it seems to be that people
Speaker 3: are He's heading in the right direction.
Speaker 5: The Clippers, he mostimistic. They's head in the right direction.
Speaker 3: And I think that feels like the most important thing
Speaker 3: to me too. I haven't necessarily seen anything that is
Speaker 3: mind blowing or would change anyone's opinion, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: feel like Kawhi is taking the steps. So and I
Speaker 3: thought was interesting Adam when James Harden talked about media day,
Speaker 3: is we need Kawhi to be ready when playoff time
Speaker 3: comes around.
Speaker 5: That's what he emphasized.
Speaker 3: And it feels like, just from the outside looking in,
Speaker 3: that's kind of the vibe around this the Clipper team
Speaker 3: is we want Kawhi to not have to take games
Speaker 3: off come April May. And so, yeah, it's all good,
Speaker 3: all good signs. Everything, everything from the press conferences to
Speaker 3: Kawhi actually talking to the media seems like he's he's
Speaker 3: taking the right steps.
Speaker 1: Prioritizing the playoffs over everything seems to be the right move.
Speaker 2: It's very important.
Speaker 1: Of course, they'll need him along the way in the
Speaker 1: regular season to get there. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: very tough Western Conference. It is absolutely a Gauntlet evil Bot.
Speaker 1: Adam wants to ask Carlo, do you think that's your mentor?
Speaker 1: Noah had a point about you need a change of image,
Speaker 1: your haircut, it's et cetera. I think he's just yellous
Speaker 1: about all the peeps asking for picks. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: have an extreme makeover? Are you gonna keep the middle
Speaker 1: park going?
Speaker 5: Player is going strong?
Speaker 3: I know, I know it has told me that you
Speaker 3: are more gelling it because if you ever watch a
Speaker 3: game and you were watching us broadcast, my hair kind
Speaker 3: of goes like this. Once the fourth quarter comes around,
Speaker 3: I look a little mangled, look like I've been through
Speaker 3: a little bit. And sometimes Adam, as you know, fourth
Speaker 3: quarter comes around. We've been through some stuff on that broadcast.
Speaker 5: But no, I'm keeping the hair.
Speaker 3: Hair's not going anywhere, middle part all day, consistency, good flow.
Speaker 3: It's got some ocean water in it too, right now,
Speaker 3: so it's feeling good. Don't worry about it, I know,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: No one got to give you that much FuMO. It's
Speaker 1: got ocean water in it. My goodness. I know I'm
Speaker 1: in Burbank and life ain't that tough, And it's ninety
Speaker 1: degrees today and the weather's pretty denied. But my goodness,
Speaker 1: you got ocean water.
Speaker 4: In your hair.
Speaker 5: Adam, Adam, you are the closest thing to Hawaii on
Speaker 5: planet Earth. I'd say so.
Speaker 4: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I'm in the island mindset at all times. We go right,
Speaker 1: I put out the same the Hawaii vibes. Jeffrey Beltran
Speaker 1: wants to know this, as do I. I didn't see
Speaker 1: him at media day. I saw bones Hyland. There is PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker there. It sounds like what they got twenty one
Speaker 1: guys in training camp.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone's accounting for so.
Speaker 1: You've had eyes on PJ.
Speaker 2: Tucker. We're good.
Speaker 5: He exists.
Speaker 1: He exists, It does exist. I'm sure he brought a
Speaker 1: lot of shoes with him, maybe with some a lot
Speaker 1: of sandalwaar to Hawaii as well. That Mexican naar says,
Speaker 1: favorite player. Do you have a favorite Clipper already? How
Speaker 1: about just a guy that you love to do calls
Speaker 1: for when he's cooking and getting into his bag and
Speaker 1: that gets you into your broadcasting bag.
Speaker 5: Tell you what.
Speaker 3: Watching James Harden at the end of Game four in
Speaker 3: the playoffs against Dallas and in Indiana when they scored
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty one points on the road in
Speaker 3: December contest. That thought when he it's going, it is like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought Brian Seman did a great job
Speaker 3: of David Capsuling on TV. He threw up that last
Speaker 3: three of Brian goes no way because it's just like,
Speaker 3: there's no way this guy's inting this next shot.
Speaker 5: Definitely definitely James Harden. James Harden is fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Let's see evil bod Adam wils So. No,
Speaker 1: this is a guy I've been kind of doing a
Speaker 1: little bit more research on recently, a bit of a
Speaker 1: profile on and I did put out you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the damn thing since we can share
Speaker 1: screens here, and I am proud of this. And when
Speaker 1: I'm going, when I'm with a social media mogul and
Speaker 1: somebody like Carlo Jmenez who has two hundred thousand followers
Speaker 1: on TikTok, I want to show off my editing game
Speaker 1: just a little bit. I know it's not much. I
Speaker 1: know it's not as slick as what Carlo Jimenez can
Speaker 1: do with Final Cut Pro or whatever the hell you
Speaker 1: told me.
Speaker 2: It was you used last week?
Speaker 1: And I know there's a very divisive and polarizing community
Speaker 1: do when it comes to which editing machine and which.
Speaker 2: Program or do you hues?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to step on anyone's toes. It's coke,
Speaker 1: coke and PEPSI, But I want you guys to enjoy
Speaker 1: this little edit I made yesterday for Chris Dunn after
Speaker 1: I heard him say this with Joey Lynn after practice.
Speaker 4: I can get a little chippy from time to time.
Speaker 6: Stop shop shut him down. Shock, No, stop Shop shut
Speaker 6: him down.
Speaker 3: Shock.
Speaker 4: I can get a little chippy from.
Speaker 1: Tom to notice here I also have get.
Speaker 4: A little chippy from.
Speaker 1: But if you notice you're at the beginning, check out
Speaker 1: the ribcage, the little uh translucent rip cage with the
Speaker 1: two dogs here because you know Chris Dund has that
Speaker 1: dog in him. Carlo, give me your grade on that
Speaker 1: little uh social media thirty second clip I put together.
Speaker 3: You know people always talk about in social media the
Speaker 3: most important thing is storytelling. Adam, he told the story.
Speaker 3: I mean it's great you show you show Chris talking
Speaker 3: about how.
Speaker 5: It can be a dog.
Speaker 3: We get a little teaser on the chest with the
Speaker 3: dogs in it. On the X ray and then we
Speaker 3: get into Chris being an actual dog, which we know
Speaker 3: he is on the floor A plus A plus, Adam,
Speaker 3: it was excellent.
Speaker 1: Ah, Carlo Jimenez approved content here on Clippers. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: take that. That's high phrase considering where he's at top
Speaker 1: of the tote bull when it comes to TikTok's Chris
Speaker 1: done to me? I don't think I've talked.
Speaker 2: About him enough so far this summer, Carlo, and.
Speaker 1: Just what an impact he could make on a team
Speaker 1: that's trying trying to lean into defense, that's trying to
Speaker 1: have more of a defensive mentality. And while, like I
Speaker 1: said in that little clip there, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see anybody get hurt, but you do want to see
Speaker 1: guys play with passion and toughness out there and set
Speaker 1: a tone on that end and make sure that everybody's
Speaker 1: kind of held accountable for their responsibilities on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: And I think we're going to get that with Chris Dunn,
Speaker 1: who has made a career and a living on making
Speaker 1: other guys' lives hell in the NBA with his perimeter defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this is someone who is one of
Speaker 3: the best point of attack defenders in the league. It's
Speaker 3: something the Clippers were looking for and they went out
Speaker 3: and got them. And you know, Brian, Brian Seman, or
Speaker 3: TV broadcaster, has been tweeting out little recaps at the
Speaker 3: end of every day, and today he tweeted in a
Speaker 3: Second Bowl point, Chris Donn is a force of nature
Speaker 3: on defense, strong, fearless, relentless. I would put all of
Speaker 3: that in caps like one hundred percent agree. This is
Speaker 3: someone who attacks every matchup like he is making a statement.
Speaker 5: And I think that combo Adam.
Speaker 3: When you have somebody like Chris Juhn and Derek Jones Junior,
Speaker 3: the athletic ability, and then not only that, the effort
Speaker 3: defensively because how often do we say defense. While it
Speaker 3: is a lot to do with ability, but it's probably
Speaker 3: more to do with effort, and then the mind of
Speaker 3: somebody like Jeff Van Gundy. I mean, you're talking about
Speaker 3: almost a perfect recipe of guys on the defensive end
Speaker 3: who can make it hell for players on the offensive end.
Speaker 3: I think this team is going to be a team
Speaker 3: that when other guards roll in, they're going to be
Speaker 3: stretching a little bit longer, hydrated a little bit more,
Speaker 3: and no buckets are coming a little scarcer than maybe
Speaker 3: the rest of the regular season because there's just just
Speaker 3: two guys on a defensive end who on at least
Speaker 3: on the ball, can be some of the worst to be.
Speaker 5: On it as an offensive player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Chris Dunn has an intimidation factor about him
Speaker 1: when you know someone is about that life and you
Speaker 1: try to push him around and he pushes right back
Speaker 1: and is not backing down. That's kind of how this
Speaker 1: Clippers team has to play because for them to meet
Speaker 1: some of the top teams, the most talented teams in
Speaker 1: the league at their level, you kind of have to
Speaker 1: at times muck up the game and dirty up the
Speaker 1: game and play stellar defense possession to possession. And I
Speaker 1: always said this about Patrick Beverley, and I do think
Speaker 1: Chris Dunn and him, there's a real comparison there in
Speaker 1: the way they play and the type of edge they
Speaker 1: play with. But Pat Bev could take any game during
Speaker 1: the regular season, any one of eighty two, and turn
Speaker 1: that game that night into a playoff like atmosphere with
Speaker 1: just his ability to get under the other team's skin.
Speaker 1: And then once you raise that emotional level and get
Speaker 1: the competitive juices going, out there, you get a higher
Speaker 1: level brand of basketball by everyone throughout the team.
Speaker 2: It just permeates, agreed.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you watch someone go to war with
Speaker 3: you on the defensive side of the basketball, how can
Speaker 3: that not become an inspiration. When they're diving on the floor,
Speaker 3: when they're in passing lanes, when they're communicating on the
Speaker 3: defensive end, you see it. I mean that stuff permeates.
Speaker 3: Some of the best teams defensively have some of the
Speaker 3: best individual defenders on that side of the floor, which
Speaker 3: seems obvious, but I also think there is something to
Speaker 3: that kind of play inspiring bleeding into other players on
Speaker 3: the team wanting to give that same sort of effort.
Speaker 5: So one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 3: I think this Chris Don could be somebody who you
Speaker 3: know you're on the second nud of it back to back. Well,
Speaker 3: here's a guy who's going to play inspired for eighty
Speaker 3: two games of this regular season, and that could help.
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez is live from Honolulu whoaii here on Clippers
Speaker 1: stock Live. Appreciates all you guys here the chat. We'll
Speaker 1: try to get to all your questions. I want to
Speaker 1: clear something up because we talked last night when I
Speaker 1: sent you that Twitter post for Chris Dunn and that
Speaker 1: little montage of him in some kerfluffles as you would
Speaker 1: say as a broadcast or in some dust nuffs there
Speaker 1: on the court. But you, as I had the music
Speaker 1: there from DMX rough Riders, you immediately texted back rough
Speaker 1: Rider and I was like, yeah, light Bulb, that should
Speaker 1: be the nickname for Chris Dunn. Where are you at
Speaker 1: with that? Because I hear a lot of people saying
Speaker 1: crash out Chris is another nickname that's going around that
Speaker 1: some people have used on him. I like that, and
Speaker 1: I just like the idea of as you're developing an
Speaker 1: identity and a brand and a new culture with this
Speaker 1: Clippers team, with all these dogs, I like having some
Speaker 1: nicknames out there already as we're starting to workshop things
Speaker 1: here in the preseason.
Speaker 3: No, I can't wait for Saturday Adam and we get
Speaker 3: to start put him to use.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think crash out Chris. I like it.
Speaker 5: It sounds like.
Speaker 3: Though he's a little out of con and Chris Dunn
Speaker 3: from the film I've watched, is a disciplined defender. I
Speaker 3: would say that's the thing that makes him different from
Speaker 3: maybe those other guys who are high energy, high effort.
Speaker 5: He's high energy, high effort.
Speaker 3: But you're not gonna worry about him having you know,
Speaker 3: five fouls with three minutes SCO in the third quarter.
Speaker 5: So rough Rider. I like rough Rider.
Speaker 3: I like because he is I mean, in all those
Speaker 3: videos he is velk rode to the offensive player's hips.
Speaker 5: He's not going anywhere. He's gonna stay on you.
Speaker 3: This is someone who is gonna fight every single time,
Speaker 3: for every pass, for every over, every screen. A coach's
Speaker 3: probably dream on the defensive end. So I don't know,
Speaker 3: we'll keep going. We'll keep going, but I think we
Speaker 3: got a great base right now, a couple of good ones.
Speaker 3: I'm sure something will come out during the season. I'm
Speaker 3: sure we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1: Junkyard Chris says Jonathan Ing. That's not mad either, Milk
Speaker 1: yard dog out there. Is there anything else you've leaned
Speaker 1: from what he's bringing to this Clippers team. With his
Speaker 1: media session yesterday, I know you were in the scrum
Speaker 1: there as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was really cool to see someone
Speaker 3: like Chris be super appreciative of the moment and where
Speaker 3: he is. I mean, this is a guy who was
Speaker 3: almost out of the league, gets to ten days with Utah,
Speaker 3: gets on their roster as a two way, and then
Speaker 3: earns a contract this past season and he's in Hawaii
Speaker 3: with the Jazz and if people remember, he didn't miss
Speaker 3: in Hawaii and had a team high seventeen points in
Speaker 3: their win at the stand Sheriff Center. And so he
Speaker 3: kind of talked about how getting the contract this offseason
Speaker 3: felt full circle.
Speaker 5: He was an Ontario Clipper.
Speaker 3: People don't remember that, but he had a little stint
Speaker 3: in Ontario at the G League. So I thought he
Speaker 3: clearly very grateful, very appreciative. And then also you got
Speaker 3: that feeling when he was talked about the new arena.
Speaker 3: He said, I thought this was the best description I've
Speaker 3: heard of into a dome and fit it perfect. But
Speaker 3: he said, he's telling people, quote, it feels like I'm.
Speaker 5: In two k.
Speaker 3: I think that's exactly how it does feel. It's like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, everything is perfect. They built this perfectly.
Speaker 3: It's like a video game.
Speaker 1: So it's like augmented reality to me, a little wearing
Speaker 1: an oculus or something, and everywhere you look, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so posh and perfect and optimized. It almost feels like that,
Speaker 1: like you got, what do you go?
Speaker 2: It's into it though.
Speaker 3: There's no The thing is like sometimes you see places
Speaker 3: and they're weathered, and whether that will happen or not
Speaker 3: down the stretch, I'm not sure. But into a dome
Speaker 3: has no scratches, it has no mistakes, like it is
Speaker 3: as pristine as it as it could be.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then also the final thing on Chris dune Adam
Speaker 3: is he's like, I hang my hat on defense and
Speaker 3: that's my job. And I think that's you know, I'm not.
Speaker 3: You've been around longer than I have. But to have
Speaker 3: a clipper say that's what I do, I get stops
Speaker 3: feels like a good step in the direction for a
Speaker 3: defense that when you take out the beginning parts of
Speaker 3: the year, probably some people would say underperformed the rest
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 1: I would say that twenty first after the first ten
Speaker 1: games of the year, they were twenty first defensively last
Speaker 1: year after they came to training camp saying the goal
Speaker 1: is to be a top five defense. I'm positive they
Speaker 1: eventually ended up seventeenth overall last season, that they will
Speaker 1: be better than that. And I think there's a real
Speaker 1: good chance they're going to have a top ten defense
Speaker 1: this year, but they have to commit to it. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Derek Jones Junior earlier, obviously, another big pickup for them.
Speaker 1: Most believe he'll be at the starting lineup, and coach
Speaker 1: Lou used an interesting phrase, a football parallel the other day.
Speaker 1: It might have been earlier today, these days are running together.
Speaker 1: I'm sure for you too. But he called him his
Speaker 1: shutdown Derek Jones Junior. I love that. Welcome to Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior Island. It ain't Reeves Island anymore.
Speaker 2: You put Dereck Jones Junior on.
Speaker 1: A guy at the point of attack, he could also
Speaker 1: lock you up.
Speaker 5: One hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I mean, one of fourteen guys in the league that
Speaker 3: had nine threes blocked. We're talking he's getting a hand
Speaker 3: on your three point shot. This is somebody who just
Speaker 3: bounces off the floor. Feels like he has springs in
Speaker 3: his shoes the way he jumps up and down. So
Speaker 3: somebody's so excited to watch play on the defensive side
Speaker 3: of the basketball. I think it will be fun to
Speaker 3: see him matched up against some of the better offensive
Speaker 3: players in the league.
Speaker 5: And that's what he wants to do.
Speaker 3: I mean, he said on media Day, I've told coach Lou,
Speaker 3: I want to guard the best player, and it's gonna
Speaker 3: be I think that that's awesome because every time of
Speaker 3: and you know, in the NBA this is almost everybody,
Speaker 3: but there's certain superstars. You walk into the building and
Speaker 3: you're like, they're gonna get forty today and we're gonna
Speaker 3: have to make sure you know either no one else
Speaker 3: beats up, sir. But now it's like, we got Derek
Speaker 3: Jones Junior. There's somebody who can toe the line with
Speaker 3: some of the best in the NBA night in and
Speaker 3: night out.
Speaker 5: It's I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see him and that ridiculous wingspan,
Speaker 3: be a pest defensively and be a lob thread with
Speaker 3: the eyes of James Harden who seems to have four
Speaker 3: or five different ones in the back of his head
Speaker 3: on the side.
Speaker 5: Sometimes these passes you're.
Speaker 3: Like, when how But I know this is gonna be
Speaker 3: fun to watch because Derek can fly.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need one more grade from you. On a
Speaker 1: recent a TikTok ish like video I just made. Look,
Speaker 1: we happen to be talking about these guys, and I
Speaker 1: happen to have just made recent videos about them. I
Speaker 1: want Carlow's review and great on this too, because I
Speaker 1: was pleasantly surprised by how I guys say this sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen a guy look as serious as
Speaker 1: Dereck Jones Junior. When he said I want to guard
Speaker 1: the other team's best player. Yeah, guys say sometimes, he
Speaker 1: meant it, and he has this soft spoken tone and
Speaker 1: there's a level of seriousness to it and conviction. And
Speaker 1: I just really like him being a part of this
Speaker 1: Clippers team now and helping crystallize this identity of being
Speaker 1: a defensive juggernaut.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna help.
Speaker 1: So maybe I also enjoy the fact, like you, that
Speaker 1: he can get up and not just get up.
Speaker 2: His nickname was airplane Mode for a reason.
Speaker 1: This guy won the Dunk Contest and what year was that,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty? I think he won it. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: believe he won with Miami.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: This is Derek Jones Jr. This is who he is,
Speaker 1: and this is who I am. I am just, you know,
Speaker 1: always looking to throw a little bit of shade.
Speaker 2: But check this one out under that.
Speaker 7: Because we know what I'm gonna do to him. We
Speaker 7: know what I'm gonna do to him.
Speaker 4: Hopefully nobody under.
Speaker 1: That, all right, So maybe.
Speaker 3: What am I supposed to do worthy I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you're keeping receipts, but I don't.
Speaker 5: Are there receipts there?
Speaker 3: There probably is, they're probably if you dig back, there's
Speaker 3: probably somewhere. I just love that the Clippers front office
Speaker 3: saw how I mean, the guy was so impressive in
Speaker 3: that series. Talk about shutdown corner, and the clippers number
Speaker 3: two option was Paul George for the most part outside
Speaker 3: of a half plus shut him down. So Tylu is
Speaker 3: on point with that name, and I think for the
Speaker 3: Clippers he's gonna be a big equalizer when they play
Speaker 3: some of those offensive, younger knots down the stretch of
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's think about it. Who do you guard
Speaker 1: in every round? Who is his main assignment? It started
Speaker 1: with Paul George, then SGA. They win both those rounds,
Speaker 1: then they take out Minnesota and what five games? I
Speaker 1: know it was closer than that. There were some games
Speaker 1: that were coin flips.
Speaker 5: At the end.
Speaker 1: But he's guarding Anthony Edwards. Then he's guarding Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: who didn't have a great series in the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: he was still good enough they won the series, but
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior was guarding star after star after star
Speaker 1: there and couldn't be more impressive with it.
Speaker 5: I mean, who won Finals MVP?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: And Jalen Brown's defense I think was a big part
Speaker 3: of him winning Finals MVP. But the fact that the guy,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a league built on narratives, and
Speaker 3: the narrative around Jason Tatum was he was the leader
Speaker 3: of this team and you get to the finals and
Speaker 3: Derek Jones Junior does such a great job on that
Speaker 3: end of the floor that Jalen Brown the door becomes
Speaker 3: open for him to win finals. You're right, You're spot on.
Speaker 3: I mean, he made a difference whether they won or
Speaker 3: lost in every series.
Speaker 1: St says Derek Jones. Junior is an anagram for JK. Reconsider.
Speaker 1: Could this become relevant at some point if somebody tries
Speaker 1: to jump with him at the rim like Paul George
Speaker 1: kind of did there? Maybe just kidding reconsider PG was
Speaker 1: kind of flying out of the way at the end,
Speaker 1: realize who he was trying to leap with. It wasn't happening. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love it, Jonathan Ink, says Derek Jones. Junior should
Speaker 1: be in the dunk contest this year. Maybe guys typically
Speaker 1: do it early on in their career, and if they
Speaker 1: win like he did, it's hard to get him to
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 2: What else does he have to prove?
Speaker 1: Jam thirteen twenty four said he didn't dunk on pg lmfao.
Speaker 1: There's these pg truthers and apologists out there right now.
Speaker 1: They're like, let's not technically be a dunked on. It's
Speaker 1: like why because he jumped out of the way as
Speaker 1: much as he could, like he was getting dunked on
Speaker 1: whether he was gonna stay there or not. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: we stayed.
Speaker 2: On the broadcast.
Speaker 5: Business decisions, Business decisions.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. Tt Whim says, let's
Speaker 1: go clippers. Evil Bot says, Kai and Derek Jones Junior
Speaker 1: are two airplanes. Let's talk about Kai Jones because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a Rico Hines run.
Speaker 1: I forget where it was at, but he and KPJ
Speaker 1: were playing together. Some film was released last week. He
Speaker 1: was getting up there. I do want to say it
Speaker 1: was mostly just an open gym scrimmage.
Speaker 2: I don't know who the guys were.
Speaker 1: Some of them that he was going up against and
Speaker 1: guys you see it all the time during the summer
Speaker 1: where oh Ben Simmons is fixed a three point shot.
Speaker 1: Just look at this video. I don't think people understand
Speaker 1: just how good pros are. You put him in an
Speaker 1: open gym against regular everyday Joe's like we saw with
Speaker 1: Brian Scalabrini when he took on guy after guy after
Speaker 1: guy that said he sucked because he never played for
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics, and he made the point of saying,
Speaker 1: I'm closer to Lebron that I am being closer to
Speaker 1: you the everyday Joe, and he was right, and he
Speaker 1: just destroyed guys. The twelfth guy on a bench in
Speaker 1: the NBA is so damn good. Now Kyle Jones is
Speaker 1: trying to be that on the Clippers. And there's a
Speaker 1: two way spot that is open. Correct me if I'm wrong, Carlo,
Speaker 1: But right now it's Jordan Miller a two way and
Speaker 1: then Trent and Flowers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, though, So they do have one two way open,
Speaker 3: and I think similar to the starting spots. It's, as
Speaker 3: Tyler said today, open competition. That's how they're running things.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of guys who are not competing
Speaker 3: for star starter spots, but competing for I mean two
Speaker 3: ways a big deal when you talk about opportunities in
Speaker 3: the league, and just from a money standpoint, like two
Speaker 3: ways make a lot more money compared to guys who
Speaker 3: are just in the G League or guys on Exhibit ten.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's a big competition maybe towards the end
Speaker 3: of that starting fifteen or roster fifteen trying to make
Speaker 3: a two way contract.
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Kai Jones, not just because he's a
Speaker 1: young man who went through some mental health issues. He's
Speaker 1: trying to find his spot in the league. It would
Speaker 1: be great to see if it happens with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: but also selfishly, it's a position of need. They need
Speaker 1: another guy, another four or five. I think he's more
Speaker 1: of a five than a four. He hasn't proven that
Speaker 1: he can really stretch the floor with his shooting or
Speaker 1: anything like that in the big leagues. But what do
Speaker 1: you think the chances are that he grabs that last
Speaker 1: two way. Because I think they're rooting for him, I
Speaker 1: think they want him to show out.
Speaker 2: Here in the preseason and in.
Speaker 1: Training camp just because they could use him, especially because
Speaker 1: we heard it earlier today, Mobamba hasn't been doing everything
Speaker 1: yet because he's got a bit of a knee injury.
Speaker 2: Fill me in on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe Tyler said he's not participating me in
Speaker 3: five on five because he's dealing with a light knee injury.
Speaker 3: So not like something that would keep him out. Doesn't
Speaker 3: sound like super serious. But it is training camp and
Speaker 3: you got to play seven months of basketball plus, so
Speaker 3: you want to make sure guys start out on the
Speaker 3: right foot. But when you're talking about kai Jones and
Speaker 3: his opportunity, I think you're right. The door is open
Speaker 3: for him to step through. I think there's a need
Speaker 3: at his position. I think the Clippers want to get athletic,
Speaker 3: they want to get young, they want to run up
Speaker 3: and down. That's been proven through the deals and the
Speaker 3: signings they've made this offseason. I mean Trenton Flower or
Speaker 3: Flowers who you're talking about. I mean, he's the tenth
Speaker 3: youngest guy in the NBA at him right now. Trent
Speaker 3: Flowers tenth youngest in the NBA. Cram Christie's sixth, the
Speaker 3: youngest in the NBA. So clearly there is a youth
Speaker 3: movement within this Clippers team, and when it comes to
Speaker 3: Kai Jonons, I think it's a lot of raw ability,
Speaker 3: and that's what you saw in Charlotte. I mean, this
Speaker 3: is someone who didn't start playing basketball until he was
Speaker 3: fifteen years old, who thought about maybe taking on long
Speaker 3: jump and triple jump full time. He represented the Bahamas
Speaker 3: and the Junior Olympics and triple jumps, so an insane athletic.
Speaker 3: When you think about just being a Junior Olympic player
Speaker 3: or a competitor, I think there's definitely an opportunity for him.
Speaker 3: I think if he continues to show a high energy motor,
Speaker 3: the Clippers seem to be always liking guys who have
Speaker 3: that motor. You think about Mussa Diabte, who was on
Speaker 3: a two way for a couple of years in a row.
Speaker 3: He was high energy, he was athletic, he could run
Speaker 3: up and down the floor. Also a little raw like Kai,
Speaker 3: but had moments where you thought, hey, maybe this guy
Speaker 3: could be a ten to eleventh person off the bench.
Speaker 3: So opportunity is there for Kai Jones. Obviously he's done
Speaker 3: a ton of work on his mental well being, talking
Speaker 3: about going to therapy and getting right something at first
Speaker 3: actually wasn't didn't want to do, but super impressed.
Speaker 5: I think that's an impressive young man.
Speaker 3: Nonetheless, for his ability to find a way back onto
Speaker 3: the basketball court and now being a chance to contribute
Speaker 3: to a team like the Clippers with championship aspirations.
Speaker 1: I think you made a great point there talking about
Speaker 1: motor and how important it is to just show effort
Speaker 1: and motor out there. Sometimes we know you're young, You're
Speaker 1: going to make mistakes. He's trying to make the team.
Speaker 1: He could, you know, try too hard at times. You
Speaker 1: see guys play outside of themselves. But do what you
Speaker 1: do best and hone in on those skills you already
Speaker 1: have and just play hard. That's something Coachy was talking
Speaker 1: about today too. We want to be a team that
Speaker 1: plays really hard every night. They're going to have to
Speaker 1: because the hole is going to have to be greater
Speaker 1: than the some of its parts for this Clippers team
Speaker 1: to get by. Because they are less talented than they
Speaker 1: have been in past seasons. They are going to be
Speaker 1: playing a lot of teams in the West that have more.
Speaker 2: Talent on paper. So how do you overcome that? You
Speaker 2: play hard.
Speaker 1: You have guys out there with motors who are willing
Speaker 1: to play like it's a playoff game in the regular
Speaker 1: season all the time, and you play together and it'll
Speaker 1: be great to see. I love what you said there
Speaker 1: about Kyle Jones just showing that he cannot just be
Speaker 1: an elite athlete. But there was always something to I
Speaker 1: remember Dennis Rodman, and this was a comment from Phil
Speaker 1: Jackson back in the day. He would always say that
Speaker 1: it wasn't Pippin, it wasn't mj who was their best athlete.
Speaker 1: It was Dennis Rodman who was because he could run
Speaker 1: all day, because he would never tire out, because he
Speaker 1: would still have you know, his tank full at the
Speaker 1: end of a game to make those high level energy
Speaker 1: type of plays. And Kai Jones, you know, you mentioned
Speaker 1: his track and field prowess there, like maybe he does
Speaker 1: have a really good motor that could overcompensate for other
Speaker 1: areas that are deficient right now by just playing hard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, agreed, Agreed.
Speaker 3: I think there's never a shortage of coaches who are
Speaker 3: going to say, yeah, that guy, he plays too hard,
Speaker 3: tries too much. We never heard that in basketball, So
Speaker 3: there there is a real chance for him if he
Speaker 3: continues to you know, go pedal to the metal, run
Speaker 3: up and down the floor, give you the best four
Speaker 3: minutes to eight minutes that he can. I think they'll
Speaker 3: be chances. I think they'll be chances, and I think
Speaker 3: you're right on that there's a real opportunity for him
Speaker 3: to earn that two way spot and we'll could possibly
Speaker 3: see him play down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Coach lu talked about it. We touched upon it a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. But the youth movement going on with
Speaker 1: this Clippers team and how it's not a option anymore.
Speaker 1: It is demanded out of every team with the new
Speaker 1: CBA now to develop young guys because that's the only
Speaker 1: way you're going to be able to get by while
Speaker 1: supplementing some stars here and there. If you're lucky enough
Speaker 1: to be a destination franchise, I like the Clippers have
Speaker 1: become and lucky enough to have a good front office
Speaker 1: that is going to have a lot of flexibility moving forward.
Speaker 1: But you can't just go out and buy a team.
Speaker 1: You can't go out there and just spend all the
Speaker 1: money in the world because those second Apron restrictions will
Speaker 1: hold you back and you won't be able to bring
Speaker 1: in those key core role players like a Nicholas batoum
Speaker 1: guys that are championship level role players, like I believe
Speaker 1: Terrence Man can be for this team too under his
Speaker 1: new contract. So you got to get the young guys going.
Speaker 1: What did you hear from coach lou when it comes
Speaker 1: to the youth and what they're looking to see at
Speaker 1: how much guys could be implemented throughout this season and
Speaker 1: just the playing time and opportunity available to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's gonna be those ten game stretches.
Speaker 3: I know it's been talked around the past where tilecks
Speaker 3: to try things out for ten games at a time.
Speaker 3: They're gonna come and we saw it happen with Kobe
Speaker 3: Brown a little bit last year towards the beginning of
Speaker 3: the season. But I think you're gonna see, you know,
Speaker 3: the guys, some of the younger guys on this team.
Speaker 3: I think Jordan Miller is gonna get a real shot
Speaker 3: at contributing offensively. I mean, I really feel like it
Speaker 3: is his personal opinion, but I really feel like he
Speaker 3: has a chance with the way he can score the
Speaker 3: basketball on a team where you have so many great
Speaker 3: defenders but maybe not as many great offensive players.
Speaker 5: When it just comes to scoring. Jordan Miller clearly can.
Speaker 3: Put the ball on the rim. I mean that is
Speaker 3: something he showed during Summer League. It's something he showed
Speaker 3: at the G League. Now can he translate that same
Speaker 3: skill to the NBA. We're going to find out, but
Speaker 3: I think we are going to see him play at
Speaker 3: some point. That would be my guess. With this Clipper team,
Speaker 3: I'm excited. I think, like you said, the new CBA
Speaker 3: has made youth important. You have to develop young guys.
Speaker 3: You have to be able to bring guys that are homegrown,
Speaker 3: like Terrence Mann. And it means that teams like the Clippers,
Speaker 3: who have always invested a lot in their youth, who
Speaker 3: have always put a lot of work in and given
Speaker 3: every resource possible to their youth, are now going to
Speaker 3: be looking to find ways to make the draft more
Speaker 3: important to make sure they get guys who fit their system.
Speaker 5: And it really I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I mentioned this to you, Adam,
Speaker 3: but this is Golden State Warrior team the Clippers are
Speaker 3: facing on Saturday, who literally can't fill fifteen spots because
Speaker 3: of the new CBA. They are hard capped and cannot
Speaker 3: pay for a fifteenth player on their roster they can
Speaker 3: only have fourteen. So there's real implications when we talk
Speaker 3: about the restrictiveness of this CBA, and that's why you
Speaker 3: see teams like the Clippers saying, look, we need to
Speaker 3: get young. We got to play through our young guys,
Speaker 3: because that's the only way where that's one of the
Speaker 3: ways we're gonna have to stay competitive.
Speaker 1: He is Carlojmanez live from Honolulu, Hawaii, so he's four
Speaker 1: hours ahead or behind, opinion.
Speaker 2: On how you look at it.
Speaker 1: Three hours ahead is four forty seven where he's at.
Speaker 1: We're at seven forty seven airplane mode right here in
Speaker 1: southern California where I'm at in Burbank. We got some
Speaker 1: more questions here. We also got a hilarious comment to
Speaker 1: me from a guy I guess he's a friend of
Speaker 1: me now. MEO used to talk a lot of junk
Speaker 1: to me here in these lives, and he just said,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm caught up after watching what I missed
Speaker 1: at two times speed. Let's let's every go. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the dedication you guys stay with me here
Speaker 1: and it maybe you want to do more lives when
Speaker 1: you guys have great comments like you have hearing great
Speaker 1: questions for Carlo Jimenez. Evil Bought Adam is I guess
Speaker 1: looking towards the future. A little bit can.
Speaker 3: Has your face on the photo. I didn't, Actually, that
Speaker 3: is fantastic. I was gonna block the guy at first.
Speaker 3: I figure he was just trolling me. But his questions
Speaker 3: are legit, so I kind of dig his style.
Speaker 1: This is something I would do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna change mine and start commenting too. That's me
Speaker 3: and Evil Bought are going to go back and forth.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of photos of Adam on the internet, so.
Speaker 1: Not to mention the dark netbot, Adams says. If PJ.
Speaker 1: Brown and or Bones get in the trade package, don't
Speaker 1: be surprised to see Jordan Miller getting a regular spot
Speaker 1: on the team. You mentioned Jordan Miller a little bit ago,
Speaker 1: but with how he has shown the ability to overcome
Speaker 1: whatever obstacles you throw at him so far. He dominated
Speaker 1: in the G League last year. Obviously was a very
Speaker 1: good player in college, went deep into the tournament with Miami.
Speaker 1: But then last year he's averaged twenty two points per
Speaker 1: game in the G League. That was eighth in the
Speaker 1: entire league. Then in the Summer League, he should have
Speaker 1: been MVP based upon indivisual stats team stats. Jordan Miller
Speaker 1: is someone that I want to see be pushed Carlo
Speaker 1: and really, I don't know, given an opportunity to show
Speaker 1: where his ceiling's at because we just don't know. When
Speaker 1: he's continually succeeding at every level. Now, let's see what
Speaker 1: he can do at the NBA level, I guess is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agreed.
Speaker 3: I mean, someone who finished second in Rookie of the
Speaker 3: Year voting in the G League, what more could you
Speaker 3: do besides score the most points? He probably, as we've
Speaker 3: talked about, should have won Summer League MVP.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: It's been talked about a little bit, but I would
Speaker 3: if we had a research department that just me and
Speaker 3: you could use. I would ask, when's the last time
Speaker 3: someone's one m v P and hasn't been first team,
Speaker 3: because I don't think it's ever happened before. But I
Speaker 3: can't wait for Ocean Side at him because we will
Speaker 3: get the Jalen Wilson Jordan Miller matchup.
Speaker 5: It's gonna happen, and.
Speaker 3: There'll be a little extra, They'll be a little I
Speaker 3: would assume. I would assume, but I think that October eighth,
Speaker 3: not gonna want to miss it.
Speaker 5: Baby, Summer League just going at it and five seventy
Speaker 5: you better tune in.
Speaker 1: We will have.
Speaker 4: Keep going.
Speaker 2: Carlo.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, Mike Glitchen, I Glitchen a little bit. This
Speaker 3: is a Wi Fi dying on me.
Speaker 1: We're lagging a little bit. There's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a lag between us. But you go tell me about
Speaker 1: Jordan Miller what you have heard and seen so far
Speaker 1: at training camp, but what you expect this season.
Speaker 3: I think he's somebody who's going to get his shot.
Speaker 3: He's going to have those ten games plus to get
Speaker 3: some run to score the basketball. He can shoot, and
Speaker 3: shooting in the NBA gets you on the floor the
Speaker 3: defensive side.
Speaker 5: To be honest with, you haven't.
Speaker 3: Watched Jordan Miller play a lot of it. Oftentimes when
Speaker 3: the Clippers have games, the G League team is playing
Speaker 3: at the same time, so there's not that much opportunity.
Speaker 3: But in Summer League, I mean, it seemed like someone
Speaker 3: who could hold his own on the defensive side of
Speaker 3: the basketball.
Speaker 5: So I wouldn't be betting against Jordan Miller.
Speaker 3: And I think it's another I mean, let's be honest
Speaker 3: to give a lot of credit to Lawrence Frank in
Speaker 3: that front office on being able to use a pick
Speaker 3: in the fifties that is now seemingly going to have
Speaker 3: an opportunity not just to get on the floor, would
Speaker 3: be a contributor to this team. I mean those picks
Speaker 3: at him, you know, fifty through sixty. Unless you know someone,
Speaker 3: usually you're not getting the full time contract ever in
Speaker 3: your NBA career. Props to Jordan Miller for finding a.
Speaker 1: Tylu said this regarding Day one of Clippers training camp
Speaker 1: in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Carlojmenez is quote the energy and
Speaker 1: intensity we're there. We just have to play smarter. I
Speaker 1: don't mind hearing that. It kind of starts with those
Speaker 1: two things, and he said, quote, we mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 1: but our identity is that we have to play hard
Speaker 1: every night. That's got to be our mindset. You have
Speaker 1: to overcome the talent disparity somehow with this team, because
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of nights in this league,
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference. If Kawhi Leonard is not available,
Speaker 1: hopefully that's not a lot of NICs this season, but
Speaker 1: if he's not there and it's James Harden running the show.
Speaker 1: You're going to be in a talent disadvantage, So how
Speaker 1: do you overcome that playing harder? And this Clippers team
Speaker 1: has done it in the past. They've done it under
Speaker 1: coach Lou. They've done it when the chips are down,
Speaker 1: and they certainly have overachieved. So there are even expectations
Speaker 1: for this team which just playing to the level they've
Speaker 1: been at during let's say the twenty one to twenty
Speaker 1: two season where they didn't have Kawhi Leonard all year
Speaker 1: long and had Paul George for thirty one games and
Speaker 1: they still had a winning record. So they have established that, hey,
Speaker 1: we can find a way with this coaching staff. Didn't
Speaker 1: have Jeff Van Gundy then, but we can find a
Speaker 1: way with coach Lou to get the most out of
Speaker 1: whatever roster he has available to him that night. And
Speaker 1: that's a little bit reassuring.
Speaker 5: Carlo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ohm brought it up when he was on your podcast.
Speaker 3: At him on Clipperstock by the way, one of the
Speaker 3: better episodes. Go watch Ohm who's doing double duty here
Speaker 3: in Hawaii covering both training camps. The man is everywhere
Speaker 3: and nowhere. You see him for a second, and then
Speaker 3: he's gone, He's somewhere else. But I would say this
Speaker 3: is is a coaching staff that has been in this
Speaker 3: position before, or maybe their talent disadvantage. But also Adam
Speaker 3: at the same time has shown that Tyler might be
Speaker 3: his best when he's working at that town disadvantage. And
Speaker 3: I was saying he's not a great coach. We've seen
Speaker 3: what he's able to do with all the talent in
Speaker 3: the world. Just helped win an Olympic gold medal with
Speaker 3: all the town in the world. But also he is
Speaker 3: so creative, such a basketball junkie. When he came to
Speaker 3: training camp on day one, he said, yeah, Jeff was
Speaker 3: in my office at five am. We were watching film
Speaker 3: and he's watched all eighty two games and all the
Speaker 3: playoff games, and all they do is watch film. So
Speaker 3: I think this is somebody who loves the challenge that
Speaker 3: is in front of him.
Speaker 5: Well, taking out the guns.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to go all Ben Diesel all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, but it is damn it is damn hot
Speaker 1: in here. Carlo IV Sorry, I've been workout attire.
Speaker 5: Are those registered there? I know you're God. A couple
Speaker 5: of days ago. By the way, crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm just scrolling on my TikTok one night, skip my workout.
Speaker 3: Here's Adam on a treadmill twenty six miles in.
Speaker 1: Dude, I did it, and I Carlo. I'm still recovering.
Speaker 1: Every day I step on the scale and my weight's
Speaker 1: still way down because of that one day running the
Speaker 1: marathon on Saturday. So I bought a bunch of ice
Speaker 1: cream earlier just to try to get the calories back up.
Speaker 1: Because as much as I'm trying to get to ten percent,
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose five pounds in a day.
Speaker 3: They say, they say, I don't know, maybe you felt this,
Speaker 3: but they say, when you start running marathons, you start
Speaker 3: burning muscle because your body runs out of fat to burn.
Speaker 1: Well, that will be the last one for a while.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 5: I was awest myself for three like big brother Jake Warner.
Speaker 1: The marathon hat trick.
Speaker 2: No, I ain't no big bro.
Speaker 1: I ain't David Gotuggins. I can carry a few boats
Speaker 1: and lugs here and there, but I'm good for now.
Speaker 1: Maybe next year I'll do another one.
Speaker 3: Hey, you carried one boat really far. So I promise
Speaker 3: you this, I'll never run a marathon.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm inspired. I'm inspired.
Speaker 8: Maybe Mio saying illegal in California with the guns show
Speaker 8: going on here, Mark Jaggs talking about John Collins, which
Speaker 8: is a name that gets brought up, I don't know,
Speaker 8: twice a week on Clippers Rock and every other Clippers
Speaker 8: podcast in existence for about five years.
Speaker 1: Now, when are they getting John Collins? They've been talking
Speaker 1: about this guy for a long time. I think we're
Speaker 1: still gonna see Carlo. It does bring something up if
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is an available opening night or when he's unavailable,
Speaker 1: let's say he's not playing back to backs this season.
Speaker 1: I don't think he should be at this point. But
Speaker 1: how do you think they go about reconfiguring the line up?
Speaker 1: The start lineup in particular, because I think there's a
Speaker 1: bit of a conundrum. If you go with Norman Powell
Speaker 1: at the two, yeah, and you slide up Terrence Man
Speaker 1: and slide up Derek Jones Junior at the four and
Speaker 1: then have Big Zoo or have Batoom playing the four
Speaker 1: next to Terrence Man at the three, you're better offensively,
Speaker 1: but you're giving up more on the defensive end because
Speaker 1: their point of attack defense is James Harden and Norman Powell.
Speaker 1: But if you go the other way, and you go
Speaker 1: James Harden, Terrence Man, Derek Jones, Junior, Niko batoum Avitza
Speaker 1: Zubats as your starting lineup, you're so heavy on the
Speaker 1: defensive end and you have a lack of shot creators
Speaker 1: that can hurt you as well. So how do you
Speaker 1: think they're going to approach this. Let's say early in
Speaker 1: the season, should Kawhi Leonard be out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think early in the season, Adam, there is
Speaker 3: going to be some play tinkering, right, I mean, I
Speaker 3: know he's called tinkering tie by some members of the media,
Speaker 3: but I think there's really gonna be some sort of
Speaker 3: all right matchup based teams.
Speaker 5: If you're gonna play one of the bigger.
Speaker 3: Teams in the NBA, you probably can't go small and
Speaker 3: maybe play a couple of guards who are a little
Speaker 3: bit on the smaller side. Versus if you're playing one
Speaker 3: of the bigger teams the NBA. Maybe we see, you know,
Speaker 3: we talked about Kay Jones, Maybe we see Mobamba play
Speaker 3: a little bit of the four. I don't think you
Speaker 3: was there with Jonathan Isaac. I don't know if they
Speaker 3: ever played him at the same time, But I think
Speaker 3: theoretically you could.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I bet they did.
Speaker 1: I bet they tried it.
Speaker 5: I bet they tried it.
Speaker 3: I think there's gonna be something to that in playing
Speaker 3: you know, what does your opponent look like? And the
Speaker 3: Clippers haven't done that a lot in the past. I
Speaker 3: don't think a lot of NBA teams try to do
Speaker 3: it because you want continuity. But at the same time,
Speaker 3: feels like this is a team and Brian.
Speaker 5: Sucked about this. You've talked about this. Every game's gonna matter.
Speaker 3: I mean, ars lost two more games last year, they
Speaker 3: went from a six seed to a ten seed. Then
Speaker 3: the season prior and we're out on playing tournament.
Speaker 1: Hey, the Sacramento Kings went two games last and went
Speaker 1: from the third spot to the ninth spot year to year. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it can happen.
Speaker 5: It can happen.
Speaker 3: They can I mean every That's the fun part about
Speaker 3: this Clippers team is we don't know what they are
Speaker 3: who they are, but we do know that every game
Speaker 3: matters in the West, and so for the Clippers, how
Speaker 3: are you going to approach that. I'm curious. I'm curious
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a really good point.
Speaker 1: It's matchup dependent and that's where you could see whether
Speaker 1: it's Norm being injected into the starting lineup for more scoring,
Speaker 1: or they're playing a team like the Phoenix Suns opening
Speaker 1: night and maybe you feel like, yeah, we might need
Speaker 1: a tomb out there to start things off. So we
Speaker 1: have three different guys to throw at Kevin Durant with him,
Speaker 1: Dereck Jones Junior, and Terrence Man, plus they have to
Speaker 1: have a booker out there, plus Bradley Beal. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I know they have the right guy in
Speaker 1: charge to figure these things out though with head coach
Speaker 1: Tron Lou. Other people are talking about Dorian Finney Smith,
Speaker 1: not John Collins. He could be available, but I've.
Speaker 2: Heard that they won a first round pick.
Speaker 1: The Clippers don't have many of those, you know, they
Speaker 1: have one that they could actually trade right now.
Speaker 2: I think it's the twenty thirty.
Speaker 1: As the years go by, more will open up to
Speaker 1: being trade eligible with their number one picks. But that's
Speaker 1: a lot to ask, and I don't know if you
Speaker 1: want to do something like that, especially if you don't
Speaker 1: feel like that player takes you into championship contention level.
Speaker 1: If he gets you back on the inside of contenders,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure he does, although I do like
Speaker 1: him as a player, and I don't hate on John
Speaker 1: Collins either. Others are saying Jonathan Isaacs would be perfect
Speaker 1: on this team. I know he's not available, but that
Speaker 1: defense would be so good. He also had so many
Speaker 1: injury issues, you know. Yeah, he is one of the
Speaker 1: best defenders ever. Paul George hit the game winner over
Speaker 1: him in Orlando this past year on that road trip
Speaker 1: with the Philly and in Orlando. Really impressive stuff. But
Speaker 1: Jonathan Isaacs, yeah, he is very impressive. All right, just
Speaker 1: a few more here before we get out. Carlo. I
Speaker 1: know you're on the island. I know you're probably getting hungry.
Speaker 1: I know you're getting workouts into what's what is the
Speaker 1: food spread right now at Hawaii? Like what what is it?
Speaker 1: Are you just sipping on my ties on your downtime?
Speaker 1: Like how much have you been at the beach? Give
Speaker 1: me the loadown on the on the recreation and leads
Speaker 1: your aspect of this.
Speaker 5: It's a good time. It's a good time.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not I have him, not, Brian, I'm
Speaker 3: not having my tie at the beach.
Speaker 5: I haven't. I haven't tried one. Actually I need to
Speaker 5: get either.
Speaker 3: Got to ask him, make sure I can get in,
Speaker 3: you know, no, just gidding, you're.
Speaker 1: Old enough, right, because looks so damn clear and youthful.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I can't tell.
Speaker 3: I got ut my driver's license last week.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, I don't. I don't know if I guy
Speaker 1: Carlo could rent.
Speaker 5: A car yet. But it's good. It's good. I'm a bit.
Speaker 3: I love the ocean. I love like there's no better
Speaker 3: fhiing for me than getting in the water. In the
Speaker 3: water here is warm, So I like to wake up
Speaker 3: and hop in the water and then kind of sit.
Speaker 5: On the beach. I'll do do, do some work, go.
Speaker 3: To practice, do a little bit of work during then
Speaker 3: watch watch the guys go at it. It's probably the
Speaker 3: most fun practice we watch all year, just because people
Speaker 3: go one hundred percent. You know, during the season, when
Speaker 3: you're in the middle of four games in five days.
Speaker 3: No one's uh talking smack getting at each other in
Speaker 3: the regular season, So it's fun to watch that. Who's
Speaker 3: been great, It's been buffet style and in you get
Speaker 3: go in and take as much as you want.
Speaker 5: I often take a lot.
Speaker 1: But has it been has it been a louau yet?
Speaker 5: No lou ou, no louau yet?
Speaker 1: Have you got live man? Sorry?
Speaker 5: You know, people want to hear.
Speaker 3: For Cam Christie because he's the only guy who has
Speaker 3: to I mean, last year was Kobe and Jordan who
Speaker 3: went up to dance with the luau. But now like,
Speaker 3: is Cam Christie gonna be the only guy who has
Speaker 3: to go dance?
Speaker 5: That's that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 3: Hopefully not hopefully maybe some of those E ten guys
Speaker 3: you could probably get trend flowers up there.
Speaker 5: But I'll report back. I'll report back.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Ing has a recommendation. He wants you to go
Speaker 1: to the Musabi Cafe. It's in Wyki Ki for spam
Speaker 1: musabi and Margaro Bros. For Poke Poke. Also, obviously I'm
Speaker 1: not there.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: I went to a place today that was called the
Speaker 3: Spot d a spot very much.
Speaker 5: Enjoyed it very much.
Speaker 3: If you're in Waikiki, across the street from Long's Drugs
Speaker 3: dust Spot.
Speaker 1: All right, I need one more thing from you before
Speaker 1: we let you go. I need you to point this
Speaker 1: camera out the window and I need to see the view.
Speaker 1: Come on, Carlo, come on, I need to know everything
Speaker 1: I'm missing. Look, this could just be green screen. You're
Speaker 1: so handy with special effects and stuff. Maybe you're not
Speaker 1: even in Hawaii. I want you to prove it right now.
Speaker 1: Damn it. Give me the window.
Speaker 5: No, I am him white here, Okay, I'll show you.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, make us jealous, make us jelly.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 1: There, it is. I'm in pain. I've in pain. I
Speaker 1: see the palm trees of the beach and the ocean. Oh,
Speaker 1: the ocean that was getting in Carlo's hair earlier. It's
Speaker 1: so nice. The saltwater shampoo.
Speaker 5: What's your what's your spots? Where do you go when
Speaker 5: you come out to Hawaii? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 3: Where's Adam Ouslin's guide to the Islands.
Speaker 1: I haven't been since I think I was twelve and
Speaker 1: there was a family trip to Kawai. I've never been
Speaker 1: to the big Islands. I've been to Kawaii. I've been
Speaker 1: to Mali. When I was even younger, I was probably
Speaker 1: eight or nine. I remember being on a raft and
Speaker 1: I saw a sting ray below me. At least I
Speaker 1: believe I did it that time, or maybe I was
Speaker 1: making it up and you know, imagining things. But then
Speaker 1: a wave hit and I cruised in and went all
Speaker 1: the way onto the beach and I felt like I
Speaker 1: evaded that sting ray. It was a pretty awesome moment.
Speaker 1: That's one of my earliest youngest memories. But Kawai is
Speaker 1: beautiful for sure. I know it's known for more vegetation
Speaker 1: there you have what more city, but it's still tropical
Speaker 1: as hell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely feels like a little downtown ish, but again
Speaker 3: not you can't really complain when when you're in Hawaii.
Speaker 5: No complaints, no complaints. But I'm excited, man, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, you've you're pounded at the com I still got
Speaker 3: forty minutes of the Noegle episode listen to, so I
Speaker 3: gotta go work out and listen to that here on
Speaker 3: clippers Talk.
Speaker 1: But I got something else coming for you later tonight.
Speaker 1: Part two of the Ralph Lahler interview is dropping in
Speaker 1: about one hour from now on clippers Talk. I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for this. My editor shot it over earlier. It's
Speaker 1: twenty gigs of four k one hour. I think in
Speaker 1: one minute of it of the second part of our
Speaker 1: interview with Ralph Lawler, and I think you guys are
Speaker 1: going to love this one. A lot of some goat talk,
Speaker 1: some what if stories with different Clippers eras he talked
Speaker 1: about the two to three era Lob City era. Of course,
Speaker 1: that was Ralph Lawler's era of most successful Clippers teams,
Speaker 1: guys like Derek Smith who ended up having a career
Speaker 1: changing injury and unfortunately died tragically in his thirties, but
Speaker 1: a lesser known budding star in the league in the
Speaker 1: early eighties that was given Michael Jordan the business with
Speaker 1: your lot Angelo's Clippers. I know you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: want to know about him San Diego Clippers. Actually at
Speaker 1: that time, we talk about Sean Livingston, who could he
Speaker 1: have been even though he was a successful role player
Speaker 1: with the Golden State Warriors obviously and a key mid
Speaker 1: range bucket getter, what happens if he doesn't have that
Speaker 1: knee injury? And then another what if? We talk about
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant didn't just have one chance to be a Clipper,
Speaker 1: but two chances, and he got away from him both
Speaker 1: times because of bad ownership with Clippers at that time.
Speaker 1: But things have changed now, obviously under Steve Balmer. So
Speaker 1: that's dropping in I think just less than an hour.
Speaker 1: Ralph Lawler Part two. Noah Eagle, my guy. It's five
Speaker 1: o'clock somewhere, including in Hawaii right now. We're knowing eagles
Speaker 1: go grabbing my tie. Enjoy yourself. Thanks for coming on
Speaker 1: Clippers sock Adam.
Speaker 3: Anytime any place anywhere, I will show you where what hotel.
Speaker 5: Window I am view? Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: We're doing this all season long. Every city you're in,
Speaker 1: you're looking out the windows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when we go, when we go someplaces, it will just.
Speaker 3: Be nothing stuff, So just the heads up there's nothing
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 5: But yeah, anytime any place, man. I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: I can't wait for Ralph Part two.
Speaker 1: Ralph Part two, and I can't wait for this season
Speaker 1: to get underway. It starts in the preseason. This Saturday
Speaker 1: three pm is your Clippers Countdown show as Carlo Jimenez
Speaker 1: is on the call at four from Honolulu, Hawaii for
Speaker 1: Clippers at Golden State Warriors preseason game number one. We
Speaker 1: got all the covers for you on AM five seventy
Speaker 1: LA Sports for Carlo Jimenez. I'm out of Moslin. Love
Speaker 1: you guys. This has been another addition with Carlo Amennez
Speaker 1: on location in Hawaii of Clippers Talk