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William Updyke, oh look at this? And Justin Russo were
you guys?
Speaker 2: Ay?
Speaker 1: Wait, are you guys in the same house.
Speaker 3: He's right over there, just hanging just hanging out.
Speaker 1: Welcome justin. Thank you for coming through. Will obviously always
good to see you on the pod. Should we start
with the good news that Nick Patum is dunking and
photographs for the Clippers the matchup?
Speaker 2: How big is this? The explosive box jumps.
Speaker 1: Of Nick pat Yeah, these are explosive, real jumps.
Speaker 3: These are the mythical French French leaping jumps that we've
often heard of.
Speaker 1: What's the French word for explosive? That probably has to
be something beautiful that they say.
Speaker 3: Justin No, I'm only French Canadian, I'm not full French.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think the Batum thing's a good
thing to start with though, because we really saw how
discombobulated this Clippers bench becomes without Nick Patum really right, like,
so it's kind of night and day what this second
unit can look like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, quite different to kind of what they
would expect and what you would expect the bench to
end up looking like. Without Nico, things get a little, uh,
you know, guys get overextended in ways that you don't
want and in a playoff situation, that can lead to
a lot of problems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw them, Tyler. You talked about it today
how they told Ben Simmons they did have to remind
him to shoot the ball. Well, you're a pretty you're
pretty high on Ben Simmons in this series. How how
do you feel about him as the backup five?
Speaker 2: Loving it?
Speaker 4: I also like that he's uh, they're using him as
yo kic practice perfect calm, one of one. So yeah,
I'm happy about it. No, I mean he did not
look good the last last couple of games he's had,
like he's had only a handful of good addings.
Speaker 2: So it's worrisome.
Speaker 4: But Nick Button kind of is the glue that can
hold together some of these less her lineups.
Speaker 2: So we'll see, we'll see what was what was.
Speaker 3: The Yokish alternative for the Drew U Banks shock of
Trout Dell just running, just just holding the ball like
water polo and making making.
Speaker 1: Reads The Australian still okay, get stills he played point
that's the perfect Uh yeah, shout out to the Australian sensation,
Drew you Banks.
Speaker 3: Who was not Australian but should be at this point.
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one who thought that. Uh we
got Joseph I Award coming in.
Speaker 5: He Hi, guys, hold on.
Speaker 6: Of course I joined before connecting my headphones, so give
me a second.
Speaker 1: All right, no worries, we'll hide you. Uh oh wait
does he get to go? Are you good?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: But that's fine, We're good.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about Ben Simmons and how he
really is the most important part of this series. Disagree
or disagree?
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I mean he can't suck?
Speaker 2: You know that would be good?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, if he If he continues to suck, we
got we got big issues. But if Nico is healthy,
I will say it hides a lot of the ben
sucking piece of this.
Speaker 1: He was healthy. He was dunking today in practice per
what I assume are real photographs. Let's hope.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Anything could be AI generating.
Speaker 1: I didn't see. I guess, Joseph. Since we have you,
it's such a rarity to have you on the pod.
What's your prediction for this series? Who's winning? And in
how many games?
Speaker 5: Clippers and six?
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that, Russo what are you at?
Speaker 3: I haven't made an official prediction yet.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you're holding out breath.
Speaker 1: You're waiting until game four.
Speaker 3: I went until the end, so I'm never wrong. Like,
who saw this company from the outset?
Speaker 7: You know? Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, are you going clips and six? It's a pretty
popular pick among Clippers fans. There's like a humbleness to
saying clips and six.
Speaker 4: I think yeah, I think clips and six makes sense.
It could change depending on how high I am after
Like the get on this team after the first game,
But six six seems reasonable.
Speaker 1: Six. It feels like the Nuggets are very good. They
have Nikola Jokic. It's not going to like we know
what's gonna happen. There Zu's a good defender against Jokic,
but it's still Jokic. There's gonna be at least two
triple doubles from Yokic in this series. I think that's it. Yeah, Well,
they're winning in six, so it has to be too.
Speaker 3: I mean if there's if there's two, they might win
in four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, they just got to it. It's
the whole thing, right, it's you. It's the same problem
we had with Luca. Do you let him try and
score one hundred and fifty points? Which I think they
should probably do with Yokic, right, like they got to
I don't know, Russo, what do you think the Clippers
with their soft switching that everyone dislikes.
Speaker 3: They got asked about this over the last two days
of practice, basically like would you rather Yokic be a
passer or a shooter? And their whole thing is like, well,
it doesn't really matter. You just can't let them do
both and so which I think you have to let
Yokic dictate what he wants to be at the outset
of the game and then just kind of just let
him be just that and then try not to give
him anything else. It's a lot easier said than done.
Let's be realistic, Mike. It's like, oh, can you stop
the guy who was top three and assists from getting
tennisists a game and also scoring thirty points. It's like, yeah,
if it was easy, he wouldn't have done it, Like
the teams would have held him down all years, So
you know, it's tough. There's other factors, like some of
his assists. I looked it up the other night. The
top three assist duos in the league are in this
series James and Zoo the league with over two hundred
assists from James to Zoo, and then the second and
third highest ones I believe were Jokic to Christian Brown
and Jokic to Michael Porter Junior. So as long as
you can kind of curtail one of those, I like
their chances on a game by game basis. You can't
let him get everyone else involved. You can let him
get Michael Porter Junior involved. You can't let him get
Christian Brown and vice versa.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, also, I also.
Speaker 3: Don't think people realize like Christian Brown led the NBA
in fast break points this year.
Speaker 1: Holy shit.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, he ended a streak of five straight seasons
that Giannis led the league.
Speaker 1: That's insane. All right, well, that's disconcerting.
Speaker 3: But that's Jokic had the hit aheads where he would
hit Christian Brown on the outlets, and Christian Brown led
like all guards and dunks this year. So yeah, like
you just got mix. Sure, And that was a couple
of questions I asked Ty, and I asked Norman Powell
today a practice about you know, how do you keep
Christian Brown specifically out of transition, And the whole answer
is just, well, you just don't turn the ball over.
But also jeff Ian Gundy's they tie Today's. In response
to that question, Ty today said that it was the
first thing jeff Ian Gundy went over yesterday, that it
was just get back. You can't lollygag. And the phrase
that he used was buddy walk and basically like you're
just trotting along with your buddy going down the street together.
He's like, you got to actually run back, so Hey,
they've talked about it. They even have a phrase, so
I get to use that if Christian Brown gets out
of transition and Doug so I get to say, well,
they got caught buddy walking.
Speaker 1: The buddy walk is good that that's being adopted by
this podcast immediately. What are you thinking about M's comment here,
more of a pick and roll series, less Iso ball,
make Jokic work every possession.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that's the idea.
Speaker 4: I think though, like it's still gonna turn into iceo
ball like what you saw in the in the Warrior series.
Speaker 2: Not that that's bad.
Speaker 4: I think that you know, you're gonna you're gonna mismatch
hunt and you're gonna put your the ball in whoever
has the hot hand and your best guy, uh and
sort of hope for the best. I mean, that's sort
of what some of these series that are a little
bit more evenly master gonna come down to. And I'm
liking the Clippers in that scenario with you know, the
way the Kaui has looked, especially as of late. Obviously
we also a hard and date in that Warriors game,
so I'm feeling good about it. Like, but if you're
expecting like a different offense. It ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 8: New wrinkles.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about, is these new wrinkles. Joseph
kind of to this pick and roll point, the third
best Nuggets defender is gonna be on Norm, which feels
pretty good to me. What are you flicking for from
Norm in this series other than to kind of generally
just get it together a little bit.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously I would love to have early Sea
Norm show up in this series, because if the Clippers
have early season Norm, they're a contender, Like they're a
real contender. However, I'll take something in the middle from
six man Norm to early season Norm, like hit open shots,
be able to attack whoever it is it's in front
of them. Off the dribble, don't try to dribble sideways.
Just go in a straight line Norm. Do not try
to go side to side with your dribble ever. Again,
just straight line drive to the basket and I'll be happy.
I mean, really kind of to the point everybody's saying,
this series is going to come down to whether or
not the Clippers force the Nuggets to make the tough
decisions that they should be forced to make The Nuggets
have a lot of imbalanced players and not a lot
of complete players in terms of they can either do
one side of the ball or the other, and they
need to sort of put the pressure on the Nuggets
to choose who they want to have on the floor
and win, and the Clippers need to exploit those weaknesses
on either end whenever it's possible.
Speaker 1: Thankfully, they have a new GM soon, so they maybe
they can get some more complete players in the next
couple of seasons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no draft picks. Yeah, they have no draft
picks in this upcoming draft, so damn whatever.
Speaker 1: Well they could, they'll buy us. How much the second
round picks cost two hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 3: It depends if you're over the Apron.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, man, Apron ruined everything, can you Kenny?
Honest owner? Can't even buy a second round pick?
Speaker 3: And happen the way, By the way, hold on a second,
I know this is a Clippers podcast, Joseph, How about
Arsenal today, Buddy, what.
Speaker 1: The hell you gonna get that?
Speaker 3: God up the gunners, baby, What a great sports day.
Speaker 5: This was fantastic.
Speaker 1: They beat Real Madrid, right, they.
Speaker 3: Killed the devil twice?
Speaker 5: They did like like, like it's incredible.
Speaker 1: They killed the devil. I think some Clippers fans might
see this series as possibly killing the devil after what happened.
Speaker 5: It would exercise some demons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I asked U Zoo and ty Uh yesterday if
like I I preface it obviously, like I know, it's
been five years, and like a lot has changed. None
of the head coaches, neither of the head coaches from
that series or even there anymore. And actually the two
head coaches, the two head coaches in this in that
in the series now we're both on the bench for
each team in that series as well. And I was, like,
the two centers are left obviously, or technically the two
superstars in terms of Yokichen Kawhi. Then on the Nuggets side,
it's still Jamal Mary and Michael Porter Junior the holdovers
for the Clippers. Besides Kawhi, it's Beats the zoobots. And
I know people are gonna laugh, but a mere coffee
still here, so you know that counts. And essentially, like
a lot has changed. And then they said, like there's
nothing you could take, but I do find it kind
of somewhat uh ironic in a sense or maybe fate
that their first post PG series involved trying to get
some revenge from five years ago in the first series,
you know, in their first deep playoff run with him.
So who knows. Maybe if there's a basketball god, maybe
it'll shine favorably on the Clippers in terms of revenge.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I'm not banking on the basketball
gods very friendly to the Clippers because if they revenge,
if they avenge this bubble loss, then we get to
play the Nuggets or not the Nuggets, sorry, the Thunder
in the second round, which.
Speaker 3: Listen, you're just running through all your biggest haters.
Speaker 1: Okay, And that's a very good point. What, Joseph, what
else are you looking for in Game one specifically, because
I know people say it's like a feel out game.
There's all that stuff because the Nuggets haven't seen Kawhi
this year at all. Yeah, which I think is fun.
I think that helps the Clippers. Yeah, I mean, it's
just just body blows. Basically, it's just gonna be gross.
Good playoff basketball you're not respecting.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I hope there are literal body blows
to Jokic's body, Like I really want to beat him up.
I do you got five five years ago, That's what
I'm saying. Five years ago, I just wanted Yoki Noah
to punch him in the Sternham one time.
Speaker 5: That's all he had to do. We would have won
the series.
Speaker 6: It didn't happen, Okay, I'm honestly, I mean, stop me
if you've heard this before.
Speaker 5: I'm very curious how much Russ Denver plays.
Speaker 6: I know Adalman has been more quick to give him
a hook in his coaching, you.
Speaker 5: Know, resume so far, but.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm very curious to see what the Russ experience
looks like, especially against the Clippers, who I'm sure he
is trying to prove a point against. And I think
that the more Russ is in this series, the better
the Clippers chances are.
Speaker 1: I think, Chad, if you disagree with that, but I
will say there's a flip side to that too, because
will correct me if I'm wrong here. There's going to
be a bad Rust game, There's gonna be a good
Rust game, There's gonna be a Russ game. It's just happened.
Speaker 4: I think, if that's what you're worried about, like things
have gone a lot of things have gone very wrong
in that game.
Speaker 1: Like that's that should be such a that should be such.
Speaker 4: A non factor. I'm not worried about it. We're Yeah,
it's either a garbage time or we have done We've
made some terrible mistakes.
Speaker 6: Or a really positive thing, because if Russ is having
a good game, that probably means Jokic never touches the
ball because Russ is running from end to end, grabbing
the ball and just getting shots up.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, does anyone know what Russ and
Jokic's numbers are together? I have to be pretty good because.
Speaker 3: In terms of what theirn.
Speaker 6: When I checked because I'm a sickoh, they were the
lowest amongst players who have played at least two hundred
minutes with yok So Russ was still a positive. It
was like plus six, but everybody else was double digits
and net above that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I know, stepher the probably like the first
half of the season, they were actually a massive positive together,
and then there was like a shift that ended up happening.
I don't remember. I honestly, I do not know what
the shift was that caused.
Speaker 8: It, but yeah, there was rest played more.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean.
Speaker 4: There's always the bump when he gets to a new
team and it's gonna be a whole new thing and
he's buying into his role, and then it.
Speaker 6: Just no, it's it's okay, all right, Russ, you're gonna
play eighteen minutes. Oh, those eighteen minutes went well. What
if we tried more minutes and then it just doesn't
go well because the more chances he gets, the more
shots he's going to miss, the more turnovers he's going
to have, the more fouls he's going to commit.
Speaker 3: I will say, over the course of a season, thirteen
hundred minutes, there were still plus eight in net rating
with them both together, which I mean went back up Jokic.
But also you know, I mean I don't think there's
a bad Yolkic lineup essentially.
Speaker 1: Right, that's totally fair. He made he makes he helps
Rust look good in this scenario too, right, there's a reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And also Rust to Yokic is one of the
top assist pairings in the NBA this year as well,
Like we can't really actually gloss over that as like, yeah,
a non a non thing you end up looking through
this year and Jokic not to get like to the
x's and most part of it too much. But Jokic,
Jokic has done a good job when Russ initiates on
the wing of kind of showing at the elbow and
then spinning out to the paint and Russ will find
him diving because like defenses have gotten so used to
Yolkic is always coming up to get the ball from
like whoever has the ball in the wing that they've
kind of leveraged that into Yokic getting easy baskets by
just rolling. And to that point, Westbrook to Yokic is
was tied for the fourth highest as siscomo in the
league this year. Wow, so yeah, like it's not like
these are these are nothing.
Speaker 1: So they have two, three and four for the most.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well the duo that they're tied with for fourth is
Halliburton to siakam So and actually Halliburton also is up
there with the sixth highest to Miles Turner.
Speaker 1: Damn. That's crazy. Yeah, we got some questions. I mean, right, yeah,
we all want us to play more. I think that
we've obviously seen playoff for us be playoff for us
for the Clippers. The people who wanted him to run
the show got what they wanted and it got canceled.
We're getting a lot of questions about Bogie. In the chat,
someone's saying and thank.
Speaker 8: John, uh r John.
Speaker 1: Are okay, thank you? Russo. I watched happy that Adam
oslind is not here because he would have the gun
out right now. Because Jonna is asking, how do we
see Bogie's offense in defense being a factor? I think
we know the offensive thing right. He can do a
little bit of everything. He can hit open threes, he
can run the pick and roll, which will be huge defensively.
Are we making too big a deal about the fact
that he is bad at defense? I will open it
up to the floor for a spirited debate.
Speaker 8: Will will looks like the second video is he?
Speaker 4: I mean, he's like probably one of the biggest sufferers
from Nico being out because I feel like, again, that's
someone who covers up and that makes those lineups a
lot better and that like, I mean I know that
we all, we all, we all watched the tape. It
was all over of like him getting hitting, him getting
hunted in that Golden State game, and like it's gonna
happen against It's gonna happen against any bigger opponent of course,
Like it's not if and once again, if that's what's happening,
if if the Nuggets are able to funnel their offense
through Bogie, Yeah, those minutes are probably going to go
really poorly for us. So let's hope that those are
minutes that Yokich isn't on the floor and we can
kind of keep pace with it. I Like, I don't
know what to say about him as a defender. He
has he has his issues, but I think that the
lineups that you put around him are more like what
mitigates it, not his individual defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that's wrong. Like that's a good
point actually, Like it's a lot easier to play defense
if the players around you are better at defense essentially.
Speaker 4: So it's not I feel like we talk about defense
sometimes like it's like this one on one thing and
like that's only one scenario defensively, that's really only one
part of the events that's not Bogie verse five, Like
it's it ideally isn't even Bogie versus the ball handler
in most situations.
Speaker 1: But also like I think Bogie would be better verse
five people than just verse one guy.
Speaker 5: You're you're not wrong. I just can we can we
stop boiling.
Speaker 6: Down a guy's entire like profile on one side of
the ball because Jimmy Butler put his shoulder into his
chest a couple of times, Like, yeah, Jimmy Butler moves dudes.
Speaker 8: That's what he does.
Speaker 6: Lebron, Yeah, that's what he does. Lebron is six foot eight,
three five pounds. I think all four of us together
would go as far back as Bogie did. If he
put it, I would evaporate. If Lebron James put his
shoulder into my chest, that would be it.
Speaker 5: I'll be gone.
Speaker 1: And that's a charge. If you evaporate, that's a charge.
Speaker 6: I'm still getting the block calls.
Speaker 8: Oh it's him, he's all.
Speaker 6: He's not actually calling a block, He's just trying to
get me off of his shirts.
Speaker 3: Would Bill Kennedy have to replay review.
Speaker 8: That he would love?
Speaker 1: Would he would? He would call for the review of
the I'm actually calling for this review. So yeah, the
Batum thing, well, the Batum thing is such a good
call because like, the whole bench looks bad without Nick
Batuu And I don't even think that's that much of
an exaggeration, Like he is a he's the epitome of
a floor razer. He doesn't make stupid mistakes, he hits
open shots, he plays good defense. So the bogie deep.
I mean, it's we just have to win the non
yokech minutes, right Like, that's the Clippers absolutely have the
personnel to win the non Yokic minutes. So the bench
is better on the Clippers side, especially with a fully
healthy bench.
Speaker 3: The problem is that's been a problem for the Clippers,
is winning the non Yokic minutes over there, For some reason,
Jokic leaves the game and it's like, I don't know
who regarding right, like, what do we do? And we
see this Actually it's happened before the playing the game
against Minnesota a couple of years ago. They had a
great had a great game plan against Karl Anthony Towns.
It works so well that Karl Anthony Town's got a
defould trouble, had to leave the court, sat on the bench,
and the Clippers just went, I don't know know, that.
Speaker 5: Was our whole game plan. What do we do now?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And then and then actually the other night they won
the Steph Curry minutes and got blown out in the
non Curry minutes and it was just so confusing to
watch where you're just like, yeah, we played really well
with the star was on the floor, they took them off,
They're like, I don't know what I'm doing now, Like
who would they just bring in? Maybe like Moses Moody's
in the game? Who the hell is that guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean really, it kind of comes down to, like,
is Jamal Murray gonna be able to flame the bench
like Jimmy Butler did? Right, So Jimmy just took over
the game in those non Steff minutes and the bench
was bad and we had a mirror coming back from
an extended layoff, and you know, the bench just wasn't
what it should have been.
Speaker 5: And so it just all comes down to is.
Speaker 6: Jamal Murray gonna look like Games five, six, and seven
in Jamal Murray against the Clippers? Or is he going
to look like games one, two, three, and four where
he took a lap in the hallway because the defense
was so good he didn't know what to do.
Speaker 5: Do we not?
Speaker 6: Do we not remember that actually from the bubble where
there was a shot of Jamal Murray with his hands
on his hips in the tunnel going, I don't know
how to do like, I can't do this.
Speaker 3: I have a deep Nico cut from Clippers lore that
I like. In terms of a comparison for this team,
I think he's this team's Hito Turklu.
Speaker 6: Oh yeahids because hopefully he is taking steroids and his
healthy A playoffs.
Speaker 8: I don't think I remember.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I remember that that twenty fourteen
second round series against Oka se Yeh. They lost that series.
I mean, part they blew that series. Let's be realistic,
because they should.
Speaker 5: Have Chris Paul blew that series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of things happen. We just don't talk
about that series. But they lost Hito Turklu just before
that series, and he was a big bench piece for them.
And I don't really know if people remember how good
Hito was.
Speaker 1: Bro shot.
Speaker 3: He shot like forty four from three, only took threes
and was like their one switchable bench wing defender. And
I kind of I mean, now, granted, you have Derek
Jones Junior now, so I get you have another switchable
wing defender, but he reminds me of like that long
in the tooth, knows exactly what he's out there to do,
doesn't make mistakes. Guy and kind of blues everything and
then you take him out, like everyone just falls apart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Nico's gonna have other than the big
three of Zuo, Harden, and Kawhi. Nico's gonna have the
best plus minus in this series hopefully. Like yeah, yeah,
I like this question from this point from Jonathan Ang
talking about the only action that they're worried about, and
props to Dime Dropper for pointing it out is the
Murray Yokic pick and pop that pulls Zoo out on
the perimeter because we have seen that action, not specifically
from the Nuggets. The Clippers have been kind of burned
on backdoor cuts this year. That's weirdly been a theme
of the Clipper especially when it comes to lesser Repponents
were like, why the fuck are they getting back to
a cut so much? Will do we just gotta help
the hope the focuses up and that, Like, I really
know what you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if they're getting back to or cut
and the Nuggets are scoring a ton of transition, that's
gonna be rough.
Speaker 2: We're gonna lose.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I hope, So they they have to I
mean Jeff Van Gundy all all week just has to
have a picture of Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 6: Circled with the giant red marker, just being like, look
for this guy. He's gonna cut like you're gonna be
paying attention to Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic and this
guy is gonna run to the basket.
Speaker 5: Trip him, elbow him, bite him. I don't care. Don't
let him gets wait.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to play any team that you're coaching.
You have advocated for physical violence.
Speaker 6: I almost said stab him, but I decided that was
a little too far.
Speaker 1: The yeah, I mean, okay, well, I'm glad you showed
some restraint.
Speaker 3: The two biggest guys beyond like obviously Aaron Gordon's the
big one, MPJ has become a very good cutter, and
the biggest guy for them to worry about in that
department is actually Christian Brown, ironically because you don't really
think of him, but he's had a really good job,
done a really good job all year of when his defender,
specifically when he's on the wing, when his defender turns
to watch Yolk with the ball, he just straight up
cuts behind them and they never see him. And that's
a big problem going back to the original pick and
roll point too, Like Denver runs wedge pick and rolls
on the wing late in games with Jokic and Murray.
They haven't done it as much this year as past years,
but it's also like one of the greatest points per
possession based sequences in the NBA lat in games, their
wedge pick and roll is incredible, and it just stretches
and stresses defenses out because there's like no great answer
to it, and you have to like send so much help,
like pre help to make sure that you just don't
get killed, and it usually doesn't matter. But I also
wonder if the biggest adjustment is just just let Yoka
shoot threes. Incredible shooter. Incredible shooter, like top five shooter
in the league most likely, And I'm just like, what
if you just let him shoot threes? And I don't
think that's the worst game plan because Yoka's with the
ball in the post kind of reminds you of Lebron
in the post from the Miami and when he went
back to Cleveland, it's like that's just the guy you
don't want to deal with, and everyone else is just
orbiting around him like he has his own gravitational pull,
and that's when all the chaos and the problems starts.
So I'm almost just do you go under the screens?
Like it's tough. It's I don't think there's an easy answer.
They're they're gonna have to every if you have possessions,
we're not. Everybody's not on the same page. It's gonna
look bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, I to your screens point like we they
just don't ever like they always go under right, like
we've we've seen it, Like that's gonna be. They're gonna switch,
They're gonna go under the screen like that is what
to expect from the Clippers defense. I'm interested to see
if I and I just I'm trying to find the
numbers on it. But a lineup of Harden, done, uh, DJJ,
Kawhi Zoo seems like the best option the Clippers have
to help against, specifically that wedge pick and roll and
still having some offense out there because of Harden and Kawhi.
Speaker 3: Do they have enough shooting?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: The answer to that question is no, unless DJJ is
hitting his threes.
Speaker 3: I will say only sixty six minutes with that lineup
this year so.
Speaker 1: Right, it's like not a lot. So I don't know
about that one.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 6: I know what a wedge pick and roll is, but
I don't think will does.
Speaker 5: So do you want to explain it?
Speaker 1: You break it down for me, Joseph, you do need
to come back.
Speaker 8: Do you really?
Speaker 3: Do you really want me to explain to you?
Speaker 5: Oh, you can't explain it to the people, but I
just wanted to.
Speaker 3: Wedge pick and rolls usually start on the wing because
the whole point of it is that you're trying to
set a ball screen facing the baseline if you're the center,
and then rolling down the seam. But there's usually a
guard or a wing who's also involved in the action.
That's kind of like sitting at the elbow or even
sometimes the nail ready to leak out, so it's it
just becomes like a it becomes like an actual math
problem and you're just going to have to figure that out.
That's not always the easiest thing.
Speaker 2: Leaky elbow, leaky nail, gotcha.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. It's called like, ironically, yeah, un ironically,
it's called a wed roll because the big man's kind
of wedging his way down the sea. It's kind of
you gotta love how the way these terms come about sometimes.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got buddy Walk, we got the wedge
picked roll, we have terminology. We got terminology on this pod.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 3: I mean so the one last explanation of it, though,
is the other part of it that gets overlooked is
the reason it's also so effective. Isn't just because of like, oh,
picking pop stuff. Because when Yoki sets the screen, he's
also going to post up if there's someone there so
and his post up is always a mismatch at that point,
and that's not that's another situation you don't want to
get caught it. What I will say though, is in
doing some film work for this series, the Clippers did
have some success, just literally just a very minor amount.
They did have some success with Nico and Zoo together
again where Nico actually defended Jokic and they had Zoo
kind of I guess it's like a not a roamer,
but just kind of ready to double. And that's two
long guys to double Yokic. They actually forced like a
turnover to in those limited minutes from Yokic because you
would try to skip pass over the top and it
would just get picked on the far side by like
Chris Dunn. So that's kind of like one of the
things that you can end up doing if if if
you want to play Nico in non bench lineups, well.
Speaker 1: The Clippers too, like Will, right, Like we have kind
of good like free safety guards on this team, like
Jun has done, and Norm has been proven to be
good at free safety stuff specifically, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: From Will Yeah yeah, Chris Duble, I loose you.
Speaker 8: He's a good free safety.
Speaker 4: Justin do you think that we can see any changes
with I mean, I feel like the three of obviously
Kawhi Harden seems like done in Zoo is set. Do
you think we could see like or sorry, Norm is set?
Do you think instead of done we could see or
I guess instead of in Norm too, we could see
DJJ or uh Nico enter the starting lineup or be
more used more heavily in a closing lineup.
Speaker 3: That's a I wouldn't rule anything out. I just don't
think you see him. If there is anything that happens,
you wouldn't see until maybe Game three.
Speaker 1: And we'd be down two games, right yeah.
Speaker 3: And you're just trying new stuff out, and even at
that point, I don't even think you take Norm out
because his offense. Like I actually talked about this with
Adam the other night.
Speaker 4: Because Adam is of the opinion that we could see
Negos start in this, which I mean.
Speaker 3: He could, but I don't. You're not starting him right away?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just no.
Speaker 5: Yeah, was this in the in and outline?
Speaker 1: Is that where you were, Oh my god, we got five?
Can this even support five people at once? We were
just talking. We were just talking starting lineup changes.
Speaker 7: So is Nico batum in? Is that what we're talking
about game one? I'm all for it.
Speaker 4: Actually, things have been going so well.
Speaker 7: Nico bom is taken over. If they get down on two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we can all pretty much agree on
that for sure.
Speaker 5: Damn well we solve that problem. Good job, everybody. Great
discussion about the start.
Speaker 3: What if we're just the starting five that they need?
Speaker 8: Okay, well we're losing.
Speaker 1: I think we're losing some of those minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we could just go out there and bore
them to death by just talking.
Speaker 5: I was hooping on Monday, That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: I was We're that high school that. Yeah, that's what
this lineup needs. Joseph pocket passes that refused to shoot
the ball, and like Illinois or whatever a couple of
weeks ago, they just held the ball. All right, Adam,
we've all pretty well. Justin Rousseau has not revealed his
his series picked yet. He's waiting, he said until game four,
which I think is really late.
Speaker 3: Do you actually want my pick?
Speaker 6: Of course, put it behind the paywall.
Speaker 3: It later. I I'm trying not to be too optimistic,
and I do think I'm too close to them on
a day to day basis to where like I can
get optimistic about the things that I see and hear
them say. And I do think Denver is a lot
more underrated than they should be in this series, just
because there is the factor that if you've watched them
since Michael Malone left, they have played a little bit freer.
Guys left they said, beat it, buddy.
Speaker 1: You know, I left a couple of jobs.
Speaker 3: But you know, they they look different in terms of
like it almost was like they got their mojo back
from what you would expect them to look like. So
I don't want to stay here and sull like I'm
underrated them.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 3: They could easily win this series in six games seven games,
five games, even who the hell knows? It's the NBA,
and I'm just saying it's the NBA. You never know.
But I'm I'm picking the Clippers in five.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 8: And that's more optimistic than I was.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will preface this by saying the last time
I picked the CERs and five over the Nuggets, it
looked very great up until the fourth quarter of Game five,
and that it went off the rails.
Speaker 1: I don't like that.
Speaker 6: Women and children clapping in the stands and there was
justin like, yes, I did it, I did it.
Speaker 3: Manifested it then yeah, but I I don't think so.
The reason for this is the reason I feel that way,
is because I think the Clippers have more problems to
present to the Nuggets than vice versa on an individual basis.
I don't know. Defensively, I mean, maybe the Nuggets just
show up with the defense that we haven't seen all
year and it's like, oh, where was this for the
other seventy nine games of the regular season. But I
just think there's too many pressure points on Denver's defense.
And the only thing I keep going back to is
as long as the Clippers don't get killed in transition.
I think they should be Okay, now that's a big
deal because they have been turnover prone the Nuggets. You know,
yok For as much as we want to talk about,
his defense isn't great. He gets a lot of steels.
He does have great hands down low tremendous guy who
kicks the ball. Apparently every you know, like two kickballs
per game or whatever that lady got, which, by the way,
on my soapbox, I will rant that should be a
technical foul. I'm just gonna leave it at that, like
defensive three seconds. It should be like a defensive three seconds, teck,
like a team tech. Every kickball if it's intentional and
you know, deliberate, Yeah, a deliberate, intentional kickball, Like I like.
Speaker 1: The whimsy of it.
Speaker 6: Unless it goes into the other team's basket, then it's
a three.
Speaker 5: If you kick it all the way.
Speaker 3: I should be like the five pointer, like you should
just win the game.
Speaker 1: Like, but.
Speaker 5: It's the snitch. If you kick it into the.
Speaker 8: Game is over.
Speaker 3: I just like I said, maybe I'm too close to them,
and I'm just like all right, I'm just wait. I've
been drinking the kool aid. Yadayada, YadA, but they look good.
The Clippers do, and I get it. The games inside.
The game in Sacramento didn't look great like they you know,
they gutted it out the end. I don't think that's
a bad thing. They needed those two games, I think
before the playoffs, and I kind of just think they're ready.
They they look ready.
Speaker 1: They are.
Speaker 3: No one is that's the problem. But I just think
the Clippers have a little bit more answers than the
Nuggets do on similar problems that could be facing each team.
I mean, but strangers happen. Like I said, I wouldn't
be shocked if you know, two weeks from now, I'm like,
oh my god, their Clippers are down three to one
and then they have to go to Denver or survive.
Speaker 1: You know, damn you have a lot of horrifying and
wonderful situations.
Speaker 3: Case I'm a complex person.
Speaker 1: Truck Adam, how are you feeling? What's your what's your
series pick? Are you as optimistic as and I guess
pessimistic as similar?
Speaker 7: So I mean there's a little darkness, a little light
in everyone. But uh, I will say, if one team
was to win in five, I would guess it would
be the Clippers. Being able to win in five over
the Denver Nuggets closing this thing out in five. So
I agree on that. I I just don't there is
a path. There is a path where you beat up
the Nuggets in Game one and you end up humiliating
them at home to the point where you break their
will and they feel like, well, it's just more the
same this season. Everything's going wrong.
Speaker 5: We have no chance in this series.
Speaker 7: That could happen, but it's more likely than not Niko
Jokic drawing up plays on the whiteboard at all that
they're probably gonna rally and they're probably gonna find a
way to make it competitive. So I got clips in six.
Speaker 3: But if the.
Speaker 7: Nuggets win in six, I'd be like, yeah, they got
the best player in the world. It could totally happen,
So I wouldn't be shocked by anything.
Speaker 1: And they are I think some Clippers fans make myself good.
They are the higher seed, they have the off court advantage.
Speaker 8: What's the technique, Oh.
Speaker 2: They won more games? Whatever, it should be best.
Speaker 3: I will say if if people care about betting lines,
it's an actual pick them for this series.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like open open Nuggets as the favorite.
Speaker 5: Slippers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just dwindled all the way down to a
pick him at this point. But I I just I
just I kind of just think the Clippers just beat
him in five. I don't know why. I'm not saying
they're gonna blow them out in every game. Okay, Like
I don't want that to sound like what I'm saying,
but I just think that as Adam's cat goes across
the screens, cat.
Speaker 7: Nowhere is, guys, it's just a black cats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Justin says they're gonna win in five.
Speaker 6: I don't know why a black cat just appeared out
of nowhere.
Speaker 7: Yeah, hold on really quick the other way.
Speaker 3: Just but it the other way. Maybe because the cat
came across, it means it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on, I have some salt over here.
Speaker 6: Throw it over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, my friend.
Maybe it's because the Clippers have been the best team
in the NBA for twenty games. Maybe that's why you
feel confident. Maybe it's because since March sixth, they're the
top team in offensive rating defensive rating. That rating, they're
fucking eighteen and three, and they've looked Really.
Speaker 7: Can I ask you can I can I take the
way down of Joseph's sales that really quick, because she's
usually the guy to do that.
Speaker 3: But this show.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm not saying that this is so fluky
and it has nothing to do with how good the
Clippers are, but I am saying the fact that they
are number one and three point shooting over that span
at forty three percent, and opponents were only shooting forty
or thirty four percent against them, So they're literally shooting
ten percent higher from three over twenty one games. That
doesn't make me feel great. That doesn't seem very sustainable.
Speaker 1: Well, they did, true at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the middle.
Speaker 7: True, they weren't shooting the worst in the league. Teams
were shooting good against them. To have both those things
happening at the same time now seems a little bit wild.
Speaker 6: Or we're just really fucking good guys. Maybe that's what's
happening here.
Speaker 1: Are we worried at all about that? And we haven't
talked about this, I don't think during this podcast yet.
The Nuggets average the most free throws per game in
the NBA this season.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm, I'm worried about Chris Yea. Yeah, I feel
worried about Chris Dunn.
Speaker 1: The whistle on Chris Done is such a I don't know,
not big, but that's a pivotal part of how this
is gonna go, and I mean gets those two early fouls.
Speaker 5: We all agree, Chuck, you've you've left his speechless. We're
in speechless agreement, Chuck.
Speaker 1: See, that's not the agreement. I want realization. We all Okay, we.
Speaker 7: Have another Chris Done. His name is Derek ches Like, Yeah,
they got back up.
Speaker 3: I just don't think the freak biggest deal though. I
think it's more stopping them from getting out in transition
because they they led the league in fast break but
obviously I mentioned Christian Brown earlier, but their entire team
let the league in fast break points. They led the
league of points in the paint, which a byproduct of
that also is fast break points. But I just if
you just don't turn the ball, if you make them
play against your half court defense, you have a better
a far better chance, which is obviously common sense. But
just don't turn the ball. Just don't have stupid turnovers.
Speaker 2: You're you're close to the team.
Speaker 3: Have you told them this, Yeah, I've I've sent them
PowerPoint presentations slides like.
Speaker 6: Hey, don't make baskets.
Speaker 5: Number one, make baskets.
Speaker 6: If you make a basket, they can get in transition
slide to yeah, prove me wrong.
Speaker 3: Prove me wrong about that.
Speaker 7: Justin you gave me a listening to the practice audio
today and some of the questions you were asking, the
line of questioning regarding Christian Brown gave me a new
terrible thought. If he's guarding James Harden, which we expect
Christian Brown to be any time, Yes, James Harden takes
that step back three, Christian Brown is taking off the
other way, and Joki is going to be looking for
him on outlet passes every time, and if he misses
those threes, they're gonna be there for him. He's gonna
be cherry picking on the other end because he led
the league in fast break points and he's going to
be guarding Harden.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's partially also why I asked him today because
that is the thing. And Ty gave me an answer
about how it was the first thing Jeff Angati went
over yesterday and how they just like you just got
to get back, you can't.
Speaker 7: How's Harden getting it back when he falls to the
floor on half the step backs. That's his man. You're
gonna put Norman power on him on Christian Braun to
make sure he runs back regardless of what Harden is
doing on that shot.
Speaker 3: No, I mean the easy answer is just Kowhi always
sprints back, which we've seen him do, and then just
that's the deterrent.
Speaker 1: Or the buddy walk. Adam doesn't know about the buddy walk.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, today today Ty and his answer to me,
happy birthday, Chuck.
Speaker 6: There you go, yeah, early four months early.
Speaker 3: Tie today and his answer to me about Christian Brown said,
like you go, we can't. I think you said LOLLI
gag was like one of the things. And he goes
or a jog back he goes, and you can't buddy walk.
He goes, you know, like you're And so I got
clarification after I said buddy walk, huh. He goes, yeah,
like you know, like how you just walk with your
buddy like this, like you know, you're just going through
the motions. And I'm like okay, and so yeah, I
just they if they get back with any sense of urgency,
they should be fine. The question is do they get
back with any sense of urgency.
Speaker 1: And then the three. So three out of the four
games against the Nuggets this year they turned the ball
over at least seventeen times. The fourth game was twelve,
but they got blown out in that last Like I
think we scored ninety eight points in that last game.
So they do seemingly Again, none of these games are
with Kawhi though, so I don't know how much starts
to read into it, but we do on the season
seem to turn the ball over a lot, specifically against
the Nuggets.
Speaker 3: What I will say is, if you go since if
you could just look at like the whole season, the
Clippers are now like twentieth in transition defense, which sounds well,
I mean it's not good. It sounds bad because it
is bad oddly enough. Yeah, do you know who the
dead last team in the NBA is?
Speaker 1: Is it the Denver Nuggets?
Speaker 3: The Denver Nuggets. You know what the problem with that
is for the Clippers, they don't get out and rub.
Maybe that's the alternative too, you just if you get
a rebound, if you just get out and go.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, they they have been great with points off of turnovers.
They've been somewhat opportunistic. They have so that could mode
well for them, but they actually have to find those
guys when it happens and make the correct pass and
not turn it over. But like James Harden is looking
for a Visa Zoo bots on some pretty wild outlet
passes at the last couple of games, we.
Speaker 3: Don't talk about those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's where Derek Joe Junior comes.
Speaker 2: I's gonna say, I get DJ Jay in there.
Speaker 3: Right, like he's the transition guy to pull the chuck reference.
It's like watching tuatonguea Iola try to hit Tyreek Hill
down the sideline and just bailing.
Speaker 8: Okay, this feels hurtful.
Speaker 3: Because he's left handed, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we had a lot of problems over with
my favorite football team. We don't need to bring up now.
We're not talking about soccer. We're not talking about the
Dolphins thanks to level set an hour into this thing.
Speaker 7: I like the optimism that tool was playing. That's pretty big.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, the guy with the brain injury is the
bad guy.
Speaker 7: I'm not injury pro is.
Speaker 1: Okay, what the hell are you even talking about? Someone's
asking if Murray is on a minute restriction. That does
not seem to be the case. He seems to be.
I don't think they're minutes restricting shit.
Speaker 3: No, No, they're gonna play him until the bone, like
his hamstring falls off. They don't they because you got it,
you got the Clippers are gonna do with Kawhi? Like yeah,
like what are you gonna save minutes for? Like, yeah,
he played twenty five minutes on Sunday, but also that
game was a blowout, So.
Speaker 5: Yes, do you think they take the kids glove the
kid gloves off Kuai?
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously he was really hurt these last few times,
but do you think they like really push it this year?
Speaker 7: He's just playing forty minutes.
Speaker 5: I'm not talking about minutes.
Speaker 6: I'm saying if he tweaks something, if he feels something off,
are they going to put him in bubble wrap and say.
Speaker 5: We're playing for next season? Or are they going to
try to get him back out there.
Speaker 3: I just think they judge a ball situational basis.
Speaker 5: That's a fucking cop out ru so anybody else that's
like a real goddamn man, Jesus Christ. Someone want to
say something.
Speaker 1: What would you call what they did last year?
Speaker 2: Like what we last year? It fell because that didn't
feel like bubble wrap.
Speaker 7: No, they shouldn't have played him in Game four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That was one of the worst Clippers
games I've ever.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel about it.
Speaker 4: If that's what he's gonna look like, hanging on in
the rim because he can't come down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess he's still He's still up there.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, man like that. That was horrible. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 4: That is one of the sadder moments I've ever I've
ever enjoyed.
Speaker 6: I actually wiped him from my i'mory until you just
reminded me of that moment. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they're they've handled his health incredibly well this
whole season.
Speaker 5: I think this season has been pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's actually talked about it today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's been. The vibes are right, you can't
right now, the vibes feel incredibly high.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I And my question to Tie about kind of
what has like because after the game on Sunday, Kawhi
had a comment about how he thinks the fact that
the organization let him go out and consult outside, you know,
sources for for medical stuff.
Speaker 7: Is that the Costa Rica tripper.
Speaker 8: That was doctor.
Speaker 3: And then Tyson basically he equated to trust in terms
of how he's seen Coawhi's partnership with the team grow
over the years, not just from like an organizational standpoint
or with the guys, but just in general. And so
he said trust. And he gave Maggie Bryant, who's a
Clipper staffer, works with the medical staff. I'm trying to
remember Maggie's official time. I think it's like the president
of Performance, Health and Wellness. Maggie took over. She stayed
with the Clippers this year, and ty gave her credit
and gave the medical staff credit for and gave Kawhi
credit for giving Maggie a chance to show, as ty
put it, to show him some different things, some different
ways to try to be one hundred percent at the
end of the season and doing things a different way,
so you know, and he credited her along with Kawhi's group.
He said that they've done a good job of getting
him to this point. It seems I know, it sounds
crazy to say, and they all are. It could just
be everyone's just saying the right thing and every you know, everything,
because everything's going well right now. But it does feel
a lot different because I I even my mind even
took me back to media day this year where Kawhi
when I remember asking Kawhi if he feels different this year,
knowing that they because he said himself, we now know
how to treat this, we know how to manage it now.
So I asked him if that makes him feel better?
And and he said at that time, he said yeah,
he said, because he feels like he's able, Like you know,
now that they have a handle on it, he has
the confience to go out there and kind of, you know,
rebound from all this stuff. So I kind of just
think you've seen a process where he's trusted them, they've
trusted him, and this might be the most harmonious they've been,
you know, in his time together, at least from a
medical standpoint.
Speaker 1: I like the word harmonious because that really is what
they're trying to strike both every organizations and his outside
medical staff is harmonious. Yeah. I have no I have
nothing else to file off. Whether I'm happy that they're.
Speaker 5: On the same we've been. We've been killing these transitions.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 8: Really, like five ish.
Speaker 1: Minutes left, Adam, We're going we're doing a round table.
What's your X factor for the series. We know that Kawhi, James,
and Zoo all have to play at the level they
have been playing and things like that. What else are
you feeling about this?
Speaker 7: This feels like the player pick where we can't choose
certain guys. You know, it's.
Speaker 8: Already damn close to that.
Speaker 7: The X factor is if Chris Done is making three pointers,
I mean they might be able to beat the Boston
Celtics in the NBA. That's how good this team can be.
If Chris Done is making his shots from the outside,
it just makes them so difficult to guard. And he
has been over the last month or so. I don't
know if it's going to continue, but they at least
have options if he's not. But I do think keeping
Chris Done on the floor is imperative. His defense on
Jamal Murray. People bringing up the fifty one percentury shooting
percentage by Jamal Murray and his career against Chris Dunn.
They need him, they need I think his attitude, his
presence out there to start games as big for this team.
He sets the tone defensively, so if he's hitting shots,
if he's passing well, the short role to me, so
much of This is just about Chris Dunn starting games
and playing well in first quarters and getting the Clippers
off to a good start, and also finding his shot
and making sure he has that confidence.
Speaker 1: All right, Adam went first. He had the pick of
the X factor litter Rousseau.
Speaker 3: Does it have to be a player or can it
just be a thing?
Speaker 1: It can be quite literally anything. It could be the wall,
which I'm very excited to see for the playoffs you
even talk about. That could be the energy from the
watch party that's gonna be happening, which you should go
to if you're able to. I can't keep giving you
free X factors, man, You got to come up with
your own.
Speaker 5: At some point.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to offensive rebounds. Hell yeah, because Denver's
fifth and offensive rebound rate and the Clippers are the
best defensive rebounding team in the league. And it kind
of goes in conjunction a little bit with like if
Zoo's on the floor, they've been so good at grabbing
defensive rebounds.
Speaker 8: And.
Speaker 3: I just think that, like, if you give Denver extra possessions,
it's gonna be a long game. You can't give them
extra possessions. Their offense is too good.
Speaker 1: Speaking of extra possessions make total sense.
Speaker 10: Kyle Tart, Well, boys, so long, it's been so long.
Speaker 8: How the hell you doing.
Speaker 9: I'm doing great. I'm in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: Ye hall okay, no cowboy happened this morning. But that's fine.
No cowboy hat, that's fine.
Speaker 9: I don't have a cowboy hat with me. How's everybody
doing that?
Speaker 8: We're doing?
Speaker 5: But look to ensure the cowboy hat was what killed me?
Speaker 1: Is it behind me?
Speaker 9: Carl?
Speaker 1: Justin Russo picked the Clippers to win, and we're gonna
we have so many people we have to go like
ESPN mode with this. Carl. Yeah, Justin Russo the Clippers
to win in five five haggle, no haggle the Clippers
would think that will happen or not happen.
Speaker 9: First of all, Hello, Justin Rousso, is meet you. I'm
a fan of your work.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You guys have never been in the room together.
Speaker 9: We never We've never done.
Speaker 1: Clipper.
Speaker 3: I've listened to Carl talk so like this is it's
like two worlds colliding right now.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is this is this is a lot of
people thought we were the same guy because they never
saw us in the room again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we got a lot of reviewss.
Speaker 9: Justin Russeo's Twitter was my burner. Yeah talking.
Speaker 7: That can't be because Russo likes you.
Speaker 10: Bos So, I knew I was gonna have to eat
a little bit of crow here. Let me let me
tell that the chat is going wild. Throw some zs
in the chat for zoobots. Who had the year that
I said he had to have? Adam Auslin, what did
I say to you at the beginning of the year
when you asked me.
Speaker 9: What does zoo have to do to earn your respect?
Speaker 10: And I said he has to average about sixteen and
ten And what is he averaging?
Speaker 7: Seventeen and thirteen? Come on, man, come on man, Yeah,
you believed it on the entire time.
Speaker 9: Carl, I've never said that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I said, I never said I I'm I'm here,
I will, I will.
Speaker 1: We can't take a gun on the small screen.
Speaker 8: Adam has the gun out?
Speaker 10: Do I need to turn my TV off? Somebody says
we'll get taken down? Let me turn it off.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good call.
Speaker 7: Turn the TV off. The TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't have the big TV. It's just still on.
Speaker 8: I just I just got to see a d hit
the street throats.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. What spread did you bet for this game?
You got like twenty eight?
Speaker 9: Yeah? I know right.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 10: Sports betting is not legal in in in Texas, which
is why they traded Luca away.
Speaker 8: Let's let's una, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Wait, so you're eating you versus you've You've made
up for your views on Zoo. He did what which
he had to do. Yeah, earn your respect, which is fair.
You got the jersey, whichever one appreciates.
Speaker 9: Off the jersey. I got the red Zoo.
Speaker 1: Clippers and clippers and sex. What do you what's your prediction?
Speaker 9: I say clippers in six?
Speaker 2: Ok.
Speaker 9: I think I think we.
Speaker 10: I think are defensively we we are pretty child And
one thing I've always said, which Adam can agree with,
is that I've always said Zoo plays well against Yo
kis He's he's played that for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So yeah, man, I'm I'm listen. I've been I have
been instructed to talk.
Speaker 1: My ship, told you to talk your ship.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna talk to my ship. Zoo has done what
I needed him to do this year. I think he
deserves DEEPOI and he definitely deserves most Improved because god damn, hey, he.
Speaker 1: Got it out of whatever croatian mind he had to
get it out of.
Speaker 6: Can we just send that to all the media voting
for most improved?
Speaker 5: Who deserves it?
Speaker 8: Because God damn.
Speaker 1: Are you worried at all about your So you're conscious
of Yokic obviously, because he's still.
Speaker 10: Joki is going yok he going yoke But I think
if we get the Jamal Murray that has been playing recently,
if we get the lack of chemistry Christian Brown and
Michael Porter Jrs.
Speaker 9: I think we got a good, solid chance and beating you.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I still can't believe Russo that you said Clippers in five.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm just optimistic.
Speaker 2: I don't know, You're like, I love it. I love it, man.
Speaker 3: I was talking with someone who travels with the team
and we have the same pick.
Speaker 9: That's all I'll say.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy they're confident. It makes sense.
Speaker 3: I just it was. It was like, oh, tell me
your pick is that. I literally said, oh, I haven't
made like my official pick. And they said, they said
to me, that's bullshit. You gotta give me something, said
clippers and five. They said, that's what I have, And
I said, okay.
Speaker 7: How many wins did you have met this season?
Speaker 3: Hey, I was optimistic on them this season. I want
that to be known. I said, I had them at
forty three.
Speaker 5: And Adam, what did I have on your pod to
the beginning of the season. Was it forty eight to fifty?
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 5: Was it low end forty eight, high end fifty?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 7: You know, come on, do you think yourself probably moving forward?
Speaker 6: Just moving forward, keep the ball rolling. I said, forty
eight to fifty on your pod. I remember what I said.
Speaker 10: I think I had forty two on your pot. Adam,
I thought I was going to do forty two and
forty each seated expectations.
Speaker 7: Especially because like if you told me Kawhi was playing
thirty seven games, I probably would have said, ooh, thirty eight,
thirty nine, forty wins.
Speaker 5: M h.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope everyone in the chat uh and maybe
everyone if they're legally allowed to on the stream took
a thirty seven and a half line. Oh, then Vegas
was crazy. Yeah, even like I understand where all there's
six homers here and justin I'm counting you because you're
second Clippers and five, but thirty seven and a half
was crazy?
Speaker 3: Uh how was No, it wasn't crazy, It was acine.
It really was like, like, let's be realistic, as nine,
the team hadn't had a losing season in thirteen years,
and you're just gonna be like crazy, Look look at
the talent they had. I'm not saying I'm not saying
they should have been expected to win fifty games. I'm
just saying the original Vegas line had a thirty five
and a half.
Speaker 9: Yeah, one line was thirty three.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say you could get thirty two and
a half at some point, I think, like that one.
Speaker 3: That's disgusting you stud on that. Yeah, like what what
I don't know, maybe the cold Like okay, sure they
lost PG like at the time, Yeah, that was a
big loss in terms of like star power and stuff. Okay,
just let me finish, okay, Chuck. I don't think people
accounted for was that other guys inevitably had to step
up in that stead. And the guys who stepped up
were guys that they needed to actually lean on in
the first place. Anyway. So you know, and you still
had James Harden, you still had Tylu, you added actual
defensive guys around them. Thirty three is insane, like like
people should be locked in prison. That's that's in Besley,
You're you're that's like fraud.
Speaker 5: I love that you have pulling out Carl.
Speaker 9: Travel I travel heavy.
Speaker 7: Is the PJ Tucker Jersey in there somewhere.
Speaker 9: Is not here with me, put up, put up.
Speaker 1: I was just about Tom and he said Carl was
always hard on Zoom because he knew what he'd become.
I credit him versus Lee. Did you just type this
when you were pulling out your zip.
Speaker 9: I travel with heads.
Speaker 1: That's what's up to I'm not rich enough for that.
Speaker 9: You can afford you.
Speaker 1: So we know what you're pulling in. We know what
the team, we know what Baber pays you.
Speaker 8: Bro.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take it out here and say clippers and five.
Speaker 8: That's right.
Speaker 9: You want to get a nice chick.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 3: If it comes to fruition, I just don't want to
be asked about a prediction ever again. I'm going down
on a on a high note. And if it doesn't
come to fruition and they somehow lose the series, just
don't ever ask me again.
Speaker 1: All right, No, that's fair. One thing that's kind of
weird about this matchup is the coaching matchup, because we
know that Tyler is a very good coach.
Speaker 7: We do.
Speaker 1: The other coach has coached three games. He has won
all three of those games. Adam, you look like you
have something you'd like to say about this. How are
you feeling about this coaching?
Speaker 7: Uh? Queasy? No, I I have some concerns because he's
gonna push some buttons that Mike Malone didn't, and he's
gonna play some different rotations and you the devil you
know better than the one you don't. It's that type
of thing going on. So I do think of anything,
they're going to be better because of the move they
made just to at least get rid of some of
the turmoil going on before the playoffs started. But David Adelman,
it's not like you guys change schemes. We've talked about this.
You can't do that this late into the season. And
the scheme is just get djokicch and let him run everything.
But if he starts playing different guys out there, then
we've seen all season that could throw a wrench in
the Clippers plays.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The weird it's the what if factor, which, yeah, I
totally agree that. I don't know, because doesn't everyone else
kind of not good. They don't have a very deep
roster right like. Comparatively, the Clippers have more depth, especially
with the health Factory.
Speaker 3: To some degree. But I don't want to discount guys
like Peyton Watson because that's the kind of guy who
can swing a series just with his defense and transition ability.
Speaker 7: Batoum. If things go wrong they start Peyton Watson over
Michael Porter Jr.
Speaker 3: No, because Michael Porter Junior is too valuable to their
offense and you can't and you can't play to two
guys who well, Christian Brown shot really well from three
this year. I don't think the Clippers are going to
be hard closing out on him, so to speak. And
if you play Peyton Watson alongside of him, the spacing
can probably get a tad wonkee.
Speaker 7: I'm just saying they get down early, they're going to
be looking for another defender in the starting lineup.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: I mean in that sense, you're not. I just think
when you when teams get down, they're gonna try anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if they get down early that helps Risso's
five Clippers and five predictions.
Speaker 3: So So I thought in the bubble that someone never
got taken out for Zoo you know so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well so did tylu think? Funnily enough, Carl, what's
your X factor for this series? We were in the
middle of X factors.
Speaker 10: I think for me, the X factors are gonna be
the bench players making shots.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm like that.
Speaker 10: I think Chris Dunn played great in that. In that
last playoff game, hidden some threes. I got struck by
lightning twice during that game, but it was like, I
I want.
Speaker 9: To see him doing that, and I want to like Nico,
I want.
Speaker 1: He's healthy. He was dunking. They've taken photos of him dunking,
which we believe to be real.
Speaker 9: Yeah, now he did have seven fingers and everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had seven fingers and hair, which was Grock
gave him hair.
Speaker 3: Oh doesn't grok just sound like the name that Rob
Gronkowski just got randomly called one day by like a
drunk player, and they're.
Speaker 9: Just like it just started.
Speaker 3: What a shitty name. Sorry.
Speaker 1: I like that we brought the hater out of it.
Speaker 9: It's not hard.
Speaker 3: It's not hard to believe me.
Speaker 10: Pedro Munoz is saying Aaron Gordon will be their X factor.
I am afraid of of Aaron Gordon going off too.
Speaker 1: He had a reading so Adam posted this too. Uh,
he's he shot incredibly well from three this season, but
it's all what was it the same attempts as Derek
jo Junior.
Speaker 7: Fewer like like fifty few were like one hundred and
seventy two shots from the outside, So he's not like
hurl them up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say, though he played twenty two fear
games this year than.
Speaker 7: Last year, so right, that's part of the reason. But
I'm just saying it's not a huge sample size of
that sting.
Speaker 9: No, it's not.
Speaker 3: But I'm I mean, when you look at him, he's
taking like three and a half a game, and like
that's it's different than I would say for Derek essentially Derek.
Speaker 10: What is so this guy's saying Bogie I believe in
I believe Bogie too. Is it is it crazy to
think that we could get six to ten points from
being Simmons.
Speaker 1: Yes, as I or in a game in the series.
Speaker 7: Yeah, do you say minutes or points? Because I'm with
you on minutes.
Speaker 8: I think I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's averaging at most four and
a half points this series. Yeah, because he has to
take shots he passed up. The team has talked about
it as recently as today, like he's not looking for
the basket at all.
Speaker 5: Brus So you're you're with the team.
Speaker 6: Is he working with Zoo to fix whatever the fuck
his little jump hook is? Because how do you have
a hitch in a jump hook? That's what I've been
trying to figure out with Ben Simmons.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that he has been working with Zoo.
He worked on him the first day that he actually practiced.
Speaker 5: Not working, he's been working.
Speaker 3: He's been working with Jay Laar Negan and Amir Johnson.
Speaker 5: So okay, oh Meir nice.
Speaker 3: By the way, one of the greatest coaching additions ever.
Because I did not realize now this is bad on
me as a reporter who follows the team.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, when I got the Summer League this past summer,
I looked at the Summer League bench and I I'm
sitting I'm sitting next to Tobar at one of the
Clipper games covering the game. But I'm like, wow, this
guy looks really familiar on the Clippers bench, and Toby goes, yeah,
that's Amir Johnson was like, holy shit, that's Amir Johnson.
And I like Damir Johnson as a player. And then
when I realized they added Amir Johnson, and then you
see the leap that Zeus had. He credits quite a
bit of that to Emir Johnson as well, and I
think having that type of guy has been really good
for him, and I think it could be good for Ben,
for Ben Simmons as well. Then the Ben situation is
rather fascinating from the standpoint that this can be a
Ben series. But if he isn't, if he's getting in
transition and not going towards the rim with the intent
to score, it can be a problem. I don't mind
him setting guys up and all this stuff, but if
he's are not playing you to score, it's it's a
little bit tougher. They have to draw that out of him.
I think they can. He's very receptive to everything they
tell him, from everything I've I've heard and been told,
so it's not like he's just in one ear in
one and out the other.
Speaker 4: You know, well, they're only asking him to do things
that play with strength does not.
Speaker 1: Do something different. It's like, who you've done this before?
Speaker 3: As I had someone explain to me as I had
someone explain to me with him yesterday, Like you said,
they're not asking me to do a lot, and they
think that's the like that's the part that he can
truly accept and kind of excel at it. Just it
takes time to get used to things and for him,
like think about every locker room he's been in, he's
been one of the top three guys that's been having
to be relied upon, if not one of the top
two highest paid guys on the team. So there is
a certain amount of pressure that comes with that. I
don't think he has that pressure on his team, which
I think he's still kind of adjusting to. And and
you know, I I think he's done. Okay, there's been blips,
but there's also been high points, which happens throughout a season.
I just think because once they got him, everything becomes
so condensed at this time of year, you kind of
take too much away from each outing that he has.
Speaker 1: His best game was his first game for the Clippers.
Speaker 6: He looked incredible, Like he looked incredible about the Utah game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, his first real like his first actual game.
Speaker 2: Utah.
Speaker 5: Who it well, actually it was. It was that stretch
before he got hurt.
Speaker 6: It wasn't just the Utah game where he was making
passes that nobody else on the team could make other
than James. He was pushing the ball in transition, he
was gravity rebounds, he was defending like a madman. And
I just feel like after he came back from getting hurt,
that level of execution hasn't been there. He's looked more
timid than he did. He looked super confident in his
role those first three four games or whatever it was,
and the reintegration process has just been really difficult for him.
Speaker 5: It feels like, to.
Speaker 3: Joseph's point, he had a twenty five to two assistant
turnover ratio before he got hurt. It's thirty one to
fIF thirty one to twelve since then, which isn't terrible,
but it's it's obviously a far cry from where he
was at.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, thirty one to twelve, Yeah, sure, very common,
sister turnover ratio that we have to Yeah, it's garbage.
Speaker 2: Get out of Get out of here.
Speaker 10: I saw Simmons Jersey about to be bought. As soon
as I get back home, you're sagging on. I'm snagging
the bends I need so right now for with the
new jersey, I only have I only have I only
have in the new jerseys.
Speaker 9: Adam Auslan, You're gonna love this.
Speaker 10: The only jersey I have with the new shipping, the
cross hair jersey era that we're in is a zoobac.
Speaker 7: Red that's only when I have It's a beautiful jersey.
Speaker 9: Here's what I need. I need a d j J
Blue and I need a Ben Simmons White.
Speaker 7: Sure, yeah, you know Ben's a free age this summer.
Speaker 10: Right, I mean it isn't It is my my m
O that I buy the jersey and then the players get traded.
My only authentic, authentic like game game play jersey is
a team, man, So I kind of see that's yeah,
who do we really want off the team?
Speaker 9: That's my man. I'm not getting that's my man, right.
Speaker 8: That's my guy.
Speaker 3: Mean, does anyone care about jersey superstitions? In here?
Speaker 1: One hundred as will chicks had no.
Speaker 8: The sixth of us to do?
Speaker 7: What color are they playing it on Saturday?
Speaker 1: Are they wearing salmon polos? The real bubble.
Speaker 11: Heads the salmon polo. I don't have the skin tone
for the salmon polo.
Speaker 1: But I would like what as a memory a lot?
Speaker 9: We were golfing a lot at that time, and I
tried my best. I was asking.
Speaker 10: I was asking all of my connects with the team, like,
how do I get the salmon polo?
Speaker 1: They were like, Taylor Dread, Yeah.
Speaker 3: That Sam and Polo goes right up in the rafters
alongside the Pioneers Blake Griffin shirt.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, which I have?
Speaker 3: I have that's a collector's item. You got to keep that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, these these visors should go up next to both
of them.
Speaker 1: Actually this year, all right, what's the superstition?
Speaker 3: So to answer Adam's question, they're wearing red for the
first two games. If anyone takes superstitions of jerseys seriously,
which there is one player on the team who does,
if you buy into that. On the road this year,
in the red jerseys, the Clippers were four and five,
which sounds bad, but it's actually not terrible. They were
seven to eleven in the white jersey. They were nine
and five in the blue jersey. On the road. They
were nine and one in the Red jerseys at home,
which is why you're kind of hoping I are with
the Red jerseys at home, but they're wearing them.
Speaker 9: On the road.
Speaker 3: Games three and four, they are wearing their blue, the
Icon blue, not the city edition, the Icon blue. Uh.
They went ten and four at home in those so
if you care about that, there you go.
Speaker 10: So that though, we're gonna call those the Clippers, Yeah,
the Blippers, Clippers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're covering all bases. This is the strategy for
the Clippers.
Speaker 9: The whites are the trumpers.
Speaker 1: If you say we had that, we could put a
W in front of it.
Speaker 3: That's weird if you if you just go off of jerseys,
there's a chance they're up three to one after game four.
Speaker 1: Let's go there we go justin.
Speaker 7: You took that anonymous pull in the locker room about
m v P, right, Yes, I did.
Speaker 3: Look they went Yokic.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: The prevailing thought at the end of the voting was
nine to six. Of the sixteen players pulled nine Yokic six. Shay.
There was one abstention who said he had them even,
and then I pulled one of the two remaining players
the next day because I was finally able to get him,
he said, Yokic. So it turned out to be ten
to six in favor of Yolkic.
Speaker 1: Who do we think of stained?
Speaker 3: I can't tell you that I know.
Speaker 1: I'm saying who do we think? And didn't ask you
who have stained? I think it was Zoo?
Speaker 5: I think it was.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense?
Speaker 7: Is Bogie his serbian brother?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, all right, we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: But we Carl, because you joined the pod, we have
to interview someone who we haven't talked to in a
very long time. How is the curse doing? He has
had kind of a difficult year so far, being the
five seats after what may have I don't know, how
is the curse doing?
Speaker 8: Have you seen it?
Speaker 9: Bonezo bone Zoo?
Speaker 10: Hello boys, Justin Justin Russo we've also been compared to
each other.
Speaker 1: Wait are Justin's Lifts movie?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 9: Now? Now?
Speaker 10: Now, boys, let's let's let's let's be nice year, let's
be kind to me. I've had a very tough year.
I was in Vegas all of some setting betting lines
and I had some insided trade info and I was
like Marjorie Taylor Green, I bought him the dip and
I lost. Oh curse o man, because these fucks decided
that they wanted to win fifty games.
Speaker 9: Can you believe this.
Speaker 1: Believe some of us can believe it.
Speaker 8: Curse?
Speaker 1: Do you think it will translate to any kind of
playoff success?
Speaker 9: Not if I have anything to do with it.
Speaker 8: Like that.
Speaker 9: Let's say we're going red, red, and then blue and
then white. I like the order.
Speaker 8: Oh no, okay, Well we gotta switch this up a
little bit.
Speaker 1: Are you traveling for any of the game's curse? Are
you going to be in Denver, La?
Speaker 8: I will live.
Speaker 10: I guess what's funny is I live in the Mile
High City I used to play for.
Speaker 2: I used to pay the coast.
Speaker 8: Oh, okay, where you like?
Speaker 10: That's a little cannon, a little canon for you folks.
Speaker 7: Are you a lot of Super Bowls?
Speaker 9: So I retired in nineteen ninety seven?
Speaker 7: Yeah, makes sense?
Speaker 1: That tracks Okay, So how are you? What's your pick
for this series?
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, I am feeling a bit under the weather, and
I think the boys may just.
Speaker 9: Pull it off. I'll have a bad case of person
I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, don't don't get don't get the shot for that,
because I don't think the curse fin Do you.
Speaker 9: Think the curse would ever get the jab? Sure? I
didn't really.
Speaker 1: I hope the other curses are okay, and this is
this isn't some kind of curse fin plandemic that that
you're in, your community is going through.
Speaker 10: It's you got to third eye. We started, We're coming,
We're coming out with you got.
Speaker 9: Our boy RFK in there?
Speaker 8: Sure she comes to party with us?
Speaker 1: Well are you friends?
Speaker 9: Are you there meat festival recently?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 1: Are you friends with the new curse in Dallas? Have
you do you have a brother or something and moved
to Dallas?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, I have a brother who played for the Cowboys.
He plays.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 9: Okay, for sure, we'll football family.
Speaker 1: Just moving at the basketball curse. Well, that's good. You
expanded the business.
Speaker 3: Well curse.
Speaker 1: I mean this from the bottom of my heart. I
hope you continue to stay under the weather, and I
hope that you're in But I weirdly hope your prediction
is right and that the Clippers win the first round.
Speaker 10: Wow, wouldn't that be fantastic? And then and then we
and then we play do we play when we potentially
play the Wolves at a certain point, because I know
someone who I really love is on that.
Speaker 1: D I think some things would have to go the
Wolves way. Mostly yeah, Joe Ingles Okay, oh god, okay,
I don't like where this is. We're gonna let you
get back to your curse chicken noodle soup and your curse.
Whatever you're using, I'm taking.
Speaker 10: I'm not getting them getting the JAZ I think.
Speaker 1: I think all iver meact is curse.
Speaker 12: Got Carl goed, Okay, curse, Oh Carl.
Speaker 2: She's not really scary.
Speaker 5: While you were gone, really spooky, man, I.
Speaker 10: Went to go look for my cowboy hat. Damnut here somewhere.
Speaker 1: If you get the Clippers, dude, if you pulled up
the game and the Clippers cowboy.
Speaker 10: Hat, Oh my gosh, have you been seeing these? These
cowboy has have been made with like baseball logos. Yeah,
and I want a ship in the crosshair cowboy hat so.
Speaker 5: Bad and the boots to match the ground.
Speaker 1: All right, we have to get out of here. Any
last words from this round table of Clippers. I'm going
to use the first word of the poch my head
geniuses about Game one Clippers versus Buggets. Russo will start
with you because you're on the top left.
Speaker 3: Prediction for game one is that you said anything.
Speaker 1: You want to say about Game one could be about
the jerseys, could be about the curse, could be about
the food.
Speaker 3: I'm interested to go there. I'll be in Denver for
the first two games.
Speaker 2: Let's go definitely.
Speaker 3: I'm flying in early Saturday morning, so that'll be a
long day. But I'm not excited. My one thing about
Game one, I'm not excited. It's an afternoon game. But whatever,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: I like that at I will say this. They did
slay the National TV and Afternoon Demon on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Oh great call.
Speaker 3: So like that. Everything's coming up Millhouse and I found
my air pods yesterday. Is even bigger.
Speaker 1: Come all right, we're gonna go counterclockwise because that's how
the guests go. Joseph ry Award, thank you so much
for being here. Your any final thoughts about this gamer series.
Speaker 6: Listen, bro, the Clippers are gonna set the tone in
game one and blow the Nuggets out.
Speaker 1: All right, we got Clippers, Bro, got the man. I
have a Clippers bro. I miss you, man. You have
Carl car final thoughts about Clippers Nuggets gave Walter the
series as a whole.
Speaker 10: I just want to say, shout out, Zoom man. We're
rooting for you. Don't let us down. Okay, you've been
playing great this season, and if you do, if you
won slip ups one, I am half Dave Adams ass
save Adams Asland.
Speaker 9: Okay, I got on him.
Speaker 1: You got zoo Jersey here, you got a paracissors right here.
Speaker 10: I got a big I got a big old oil
tank oiled. What is it called canister oil drug? I'm
gonna float that got damn Jersey. And instead of the all.
Speaker 1: Right, dude, you've been worn William up Tyke.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna show James Harden and say he's gonna change
the narrative. And I'm more saying this to motivate him,
because he did. He did have a couple of great
playoff games there in Philly. But let's change the narrative, buddy,
let's uh, let's make let's make this great come out
stomp on in game one.
Speaker 5: Let's go make the Clippers great again.
Speaker 8: William update Man podcast direction, we quite literally never go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I cannot wait for game one. It's an
afternoon game. I like what you said Russo about, you know,
overcoming those demons. I cannot wait to see playoff Kawhi,
cannot wait to see Nick the tume. Either it's gonna
be a good time. I'm gonna be in the Bay
Area for this, so we'll do a stream on Sunday.
We'll see what happens. Adam, you could do one positive thing.
You can say whatever you want, final takes for this,
this series or game, whatever you feel like.
Speaker 7: Can't be our year. If this is not our series,
let's go Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, not wrapping it up.
Speaker 3: Thank you for hanging out.
Speaker 1: Thank you well, the wonderful guest, Carl Tart, josephrior Ward,
Justin Russo, Adam and Will and I are here most
of the time. We'll be doing a stream on Sunday.
Here's to a good ass game on Saturday. And as always,
let's go clips.