Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to the first
clips and Dip Happy Hour hang of twenty twenty six.
If you're listening to this, we are going to put
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everyone had a good, weird week in between Christmas and
New Year's I feel like time has both stopped and
sped up at the same time. So that's where we're at.
The Clippers continue to dominate a Viza. Zu Bots is back. Yes,
zoo is back, which is fantastic. Kawhi Leonard is playing
some of the best basketball over the last six games
of anyone who's ever played professional basketball, which always feels good.
But yeah, the big news of the day is zoo
Bots is back. Eric Boe, Happy New Year, buddy. I
hope everyone is having a happy New Year. I don't
think I said that, so sorry about that. Will and
Adam might join unclear on that. Adam works a lot,
and Will's outside in the rain. I don't know what
he's doing. I do know that Eric boy is making
fantastic positive Clippers drawings. We got Chuck the Condor doing
one step at a time. I'm gonna pull that up
actually because I love My favorite part of Eric's positive
drawings is that there are there's still such an uh
an era of uh demented pain, which is being a
Clippers fan. So yeah, Clippers win one step at a time, baby,
We're getting there. A Viatza zoo bots is back. Yes,
So this was we're gonna talk about Kawhi for sure,
and we're gonna talk about Yannick, and we're going to
talk about John Collins, who's been good. And then I
have a new segment called Slop Fridays, which is stupid
Clippers news, and the Clippers play the Celtics tomorrow. But yeah,
so trouser J Slacks with a fair I had the
same thought of already. Okay, it was from several weeks
and that's now two weeks. If he's good to go,
that's great. They don't they don't have a reason to
rush him back. They've won six in a row, so
I don't think they're rushing, you know, Like, it's not
like the Clippers have They've been the opposite of how
they've been so I don't think they're rushing him back
because there's not like a reason to Alex Webb, I'm
sorry that your wife missed, Zuo. Just go to another game.
Problem solved. That's really funny. Yes, Zoo is back. We'll
see you know how that goes. But it's great news.
The Clippers get back to borderline full strength. Bogey's still
out for indefinitely, which is brutal, but yeah, we got
motivated Zoo, which is good to see. We have a
very motivated Kawhi right now. The Clipper's got a really
gross win yesterday that could have been like the worst
loss of one of the worst losses of the season,
but Kawhi Leonard had forty five points and continues to
put the team on his back. The last six games
Kawhi Leonard has played basketball, He's averaging thirty nine points,
eight and a half boards, four assists, plus almost three
steals and one and a half blocks. He is playing Hell, yes,
Macy went to the game. That's fantastic. Kawhi is taking
ten three a game over these last six games. He
took sixteen last night, which does skew it a little bit.
But the reason this is important is because Kawhi is
a thirty nine percent three point shooter, so why not
lean into taking threes more? He usually he takes like
four point two threes per game for his career. Is
his average over the last or this season? Excu Sorry,
he's taking seven, so he's almost doubling his career three
point attempt per game average, which is awesome. And again
this is good. He's a really, really good shooter. Hope
you are well to come, Quat boy. Yeah, give Kawhi
more shot. Sixteen threes is insane, but you love to
see he's making other teams think about what he's gonna
do on the perimeter more. He's drawing La Clippers film
post of this, and these stills are just crazy. We're
going to talk about other things in a moment, but
we just need to appreciate what Kauhi is making other
defenses do. There's three guys around him right here. It's
just it's like, look at what this is doing for
everybody else too. Look at how it's incredible, how good
of basketball Kawhi Leonard is playing. And it wasn't just
the Jazz who were triple teaming him. I'm pretty sure
the Kings were too. They're terrible, but it's incredible what
Kawi is doing. I know on the show we don't
necessarily talk about him a ton, and I don't mean
that in a weird way, but just it's fantastic to see.
Hope we get more of it because it's wonderful. Shout
out to the Wall. Last night they had they had
signs with the Mormon wives on it that made me
laugh till Mary didn't know what they were and tweeted
out asking about it. So shout out, shout out to
the Wall. That was very funny. Yeah, Kawi is amazing.
These six games have been great. His threes, it's just unreal.
Sixteen is crazy. I think Adam tweeted this. He said
something like Kawhi had never had like what was the
forty point game stat? Kawhi had never had more than
two forty point games in the same season. He's had
three in the last ten days. Just good shit, it's awesome.
All right, What else did I want to talk about? Yanik?
Everybody is loving Yannick Conan Niederhauser rightfully, so if you
remember the live stream after he got drafted, Adam and
I were pretty hyped, but it's awesome just to see
him and Kobe both putting good stuff on tape. I
like seeing them on the court together. They like hustle play,
which is awesome. Uh, it's needed for this team. And
when it's young guys doing it, I don't know that's great.
Those are the guys who should be doing that, Janik.
I mean, the athleticism is there, Obviously, his blocks are nuts,
He's every single dunk pops. His time's obviously gonna go
down with Zoo being back. So if this was the
last we see of him for a while, which I
hope it's not, but I understand not wanting to run
three centers, so that's kind of a shame. But he's
he's He's shown some awesome flashes this this rookie year. Again,
I don't think this is the last we've seen from him,
but like with Zoo coming back, his minutes are probably
going to go down. Just that's how it goes. Adam
Oslin is joining the stream. Adam, how the hell are you? Buddy?
How did Adam forre you hello?
Speaker 2: This whole thing for us on me per se?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know it was me or
you My internet is pretty fast, but I got spectrum uscles,
so you never know.
Speaker 1: All right, well, smooth, nothing but smooth transitions. In twenty
twenty six, I was just talking how it's kind of
a shame that Yani's minutes are going to go down.
I mean, it's great that Zoo is back, but he
pet's had a good, fun rookie year.
Speaker 2: My guess is, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It depends how this goes with Zoo obviously, and how
smooth of a transition it is for him. It could
be at some point, I don't know. Would Brook Lopez
be moved, possibly to make sure Yanix still gets minutes.
Speaker 1: If they're focused on the playoffs. I don't think they're
moving Brook right, like, if the idea is that they
want to compete in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't go so well from last year in
the playoffs. That was the Indiana Pacers play at light
speed and that was a bad.
Speaker 2: Matchup for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I Yanni can still use more seasoning and marinating
in the G League and probably get some run here
and there.
Speaker 2: Still, Yeah, regards it.
Speaker 3: Brooke as a great teammate and Zuo's a great teammate,
and if those guys First of all, they keep blowing
teams out, they keep smoking teams that could provide minutes.
And they made this point, was it this past summer
or was it the end of last year where they
wanted to have the young guys up with the bigs
more often, not the front court bigs, but just in
the big leagues, so they could practice more against those guys,
be on the road, get a little bit more acclimated.
They thought maybe that would help with the maturity of
younger players and expedite that process.
Speaker 2: So maybe he stays up with the team.
Speaker 1: Anyways, I yeah, and I like that logic too, because
what Yanick the biggest thing he needs to work on
is Laws pointed it out. We've talked about it is
the defensive positioning. We know the athleticism is there. He's
just a rookie center who's figuring out how to play
defense in the NBA. So being at practice with you know,
Van Gundy and everyone else there, it's good. Also when
you think about that, Kawhi's talked about how good of
a listener Yanick is. He mentioned that last night that
Yanick's like a good listener and all this other stuff.
So he still has a chance to improve, which is good.
Speaker 3: Maybe when they play Utah again, they'll bring them out.
Because Kyle Philipowski and him got beef and we got
to see what Yick was made of and he's made
of sterner stuff. He showed that dog in him in
that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was also just talking about it's cool to
see that Kobe and Yanick like to hustle. Do hustle
plays like they are active when they can be.
Speaker 3: And just exceptional character guys too. We had Kobe sand
on post game. I think it was after the Kawhi
fifty five piece that Yanick had.
Speaker 2: Do you have sixteen in that game off the bench? Uh?
He was more excited about that than anything.
Speaker 3: He was like, yeah, Yanick, let's go because it was
his career high. These guys are rooting each other on.
Speaker 2: It kind of.
Speaker 3: Feels like remember when Sga and Erome Robinson were tight
when they first came over when they were drafted. You
know those rookies, they can relate to one another. There's
good camaraderie there.
Speaker 2: H Yeah, They've been a breath of fresh air this season.
Speaker 1: But Enski asking what's our thoughts on Yanick versus Philipowski.
Yanick won Yanick obviously.
Speaker 3: One what was Philipowski two for thirteen or something and
got blocked badly twice.
Speaker 1: And well, and it's it's another thank you for bringing
asking that butt Inski. It's another thing that helps him too,
because Kawhi was saying he wants Yanick to be meaner.
They they've talked about Yanick the same way they've talked
about Zoo way back in the day, which was he
needs to be meaner and he needs to understand how
big he is, which is the same thing they said
about Zoo. So it's like he's got a guy you
can learn from on that. But yeah, no, it's I like,
it's good to see Yannick talking ship like that because
it was also none of it was out of bounds,
no pun intended, like, no one was like, you know,
flipping out or anything. It was good competitive shit talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it raised his level of play with those
two blocks after Bill Paisk he kind of knocked him
to the ground on that rebound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Philip ask good by the way. Uh So
that was that was really impressive from Yanick dog Ate.
Speaker 1: My homework is asking is Mormon Wives a show? So
there's a I think there's a couple Mormon shows. There's
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which is a show, and
that's who I believe was on the signs at the
game last night.
Speaker 2: I had to learn that too.
Speaker 1: Check it out. Uh, if you have absolutely nothing else
to do, Adam, I was talking about how great Kawhia
has been, and I think the most interesting part so
far are the six games is he's taking ten threes
a game. The sixteen last night throws it off too,
but like he's taking a lot more threes.
Speaker 2: He said he was going to a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: He said, like, if I have to take one step
back to take two step forward forward, if I have
to miss twelve threes in a game, I'm just going
to keep.
Speaker 2: Putting him up.
Speaker 3: And he has stressed that over a couple of weeks
now and is happening. But I think it has just
made him more aggressive overall, because he has this one
element to his game that he's trying to improve where
he knows he has to be aggressive there and not
overthink it and get those shots up to eventually get
better with them. And so maybe it's kind of spread
throughout other parts of his game because the amount of
shots that he is getting up, Like, this is what
kind of what we've been talking about for years, Like
we want to see him get up twenty shots per game,
and I think he's right there, just about there. Now
after what's happened with his three forty point games in
the last ten days, it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: It's incredible to watch.
Speaker 3: It's just well to me, it's you think about it,
this is a guy that works so hard so every
like you know, I don't know, fifty thousand shots he
gets up in practice over from the last season to
the next season. He's becoming a better shooter because he's
just getting more shots in over the years.
Speaker 2: So he's refining his shot.
Speaker 3: He's I'd always say he's sighting the scope a little
bit finer, and that's what it is.
Speaker 1: And he's like, he's like aer, he's a career thirty
nine shooter. It's not even like he has to refine
that much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just off the bounce, you know, side step three,
stuff like that. But he's a good he's been a
good three point shooter obviously on catching shoots forever. Now
can he do it more off the bounce and he's
got James Harden to look to for any point her,
so it's out of a perfect situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's at nineteen point eight field goal attempts per game.
Wayy giveaway is asking someone on social media said the
Clippers missed high volume scoring. I think that was La
clips Film who said that, Uh is this true? Yeah,
it's clearly true, right, Like it's not a knock, but yeah,
high volume scoring helps the team and they need it.
Every team needs high volume.
Speaker 3: Scoring, especially because he's increasing the threes. So even if
he's missing like that volume from distance, because you look
at James Harden, what is he I don't know what
he's shooting from three this season, but I think he's
been around a thirty six three point shooters somewhere in
that range. But it's the volume that he gets up
and the type of threes that he takes are so
tough to guard. That is the analytics. Yeah, that's the
analytics coming into play now. If Kauai is taking the
tough threes that are are unguardable and he's actually making
them in a higher percentage, I mean, that's a pretty
big revelation for this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we'll take it. I'm interested in, Yeah, and
hardens it. He's shooting better from three this year than
he was last year, only by a percent, but he's
also had two bad shooting games in a row. He's
two for his last twelve, so that's going to bounce back.
Speaker 2: To you know, and people don't.
Speaker 3: They don't correlate him always with high efficiency from three.
But it's because his thirty six percent is different because
like nine of ten every ten three pointers he takes,
maybe like twenty of every twenty one, they're off the bounce.
Speaker 2: They're not catching shoot threes. He doesn't do that.
Speaker 3: He has never been that comfortable with it because he's
had to have this individual game where he kind of
carries the team and is the system.
Speaker 1: He also gets fouled on threes. That's the other part
of if some of the missed threes are because he's fouled,
which he does more than anyone in the history of
the league. Alex Webb with a good question, was it
intentional last night to bench Harden in the fourth just
buying him some rest? I was surprised he didn't play
one minute in the fourth. I think Lou was just
going with the hot lineup and let those guys do
the thing and buy all the rest you can from James.
Speaker 3: For James Harden, it's one of the times you could
justify keeping him on the bench for a guy who
always wants to play. Because they came out and their
first seven makes in the fourth quarter were all three pointers.
Speaker 2: Just let it ride. Hot hands out there, especially Kawhi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's great he played. Harden played fewer
minutes in the Jazz game than the Kings game.
Speaker 2: We will take it, which is we will take it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was just an ambush of what they
did in that fourth quarter. It was so incendiary. It
happened so fast because there was a tight game. They
were up by one heading into the fourth quarter, and
then by I think the sixth minute mark, they're up
by eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. And it was a tight kind of
back and.
Speaker 3: Forth after that first quarter because the Clippers were simply
missing all the open threes they ended up making. And
people were telling me like, well, then stow up to you,
and it was like, no, you have to take those
open threes. You are generating good offense. This is a
good thing. The law of averages is in your favor.
If you keep getting that shot profile and keep taking them,
and that's what happened. In the fourth quarter they started
to fall Yeah, and Kawhi just had like, all right,
let's go step on the gas, let's put them away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, waybe giveaway said they should have elaborated with high
volume scoring instead of a missing position. Every year they
were always one good position short, be a backup big
point wing.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's not even true.
Speaker 3: Like every year they almost every year they had injuries,
like that's what was holding them back for So the
positional thing.
Speaker 1: Um people are talking about Zoo coming off the bench.
I'm not going to speak on that, and I hope
someone asked Tyloo about it, because I think you would
have a very funny response if she was going to
be coming off of asked if he was gonna be
coming off the bench.
Speaker 3: One of the first questions will be is he back
on the starting lineup or who is your starting lineup?
Speaker 2: Tomorrow?
Speaker 1: We'll find out. We'll find out. I personally don't think
he will be coming off the bench. A guy who's
been really good during I mean, everyone's basically been good
during this win streak. But John Collins is doing a
lot of good stuff, which I really liked. He's upped
his rebounds per game during this wind streak than what
it usually is. His shooting has been crazy. The juice
is yeah, exact well about that. The juice is there
from John Collins, and I'm happy he's able to play
through the rough start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been pretty exceptional. Uh.
Speaker 3: His aggressiveness and just comfortability within the starting lineup has
been better. And maybe you give Brooke some credit for
that because those two played together a lot. Coming off
the bench, maybe that made him more comfortable.
Speaker 2: But he was.
Speaker 3: It felt like even before Beats' zubats went down, he
was starting to play better. Like he had twenty against
OKC on seven of thirteen shooting. That was with Ebats' zubots.
He was having some better games out there. But this
is definitely the best version of him, closer to what
everybody thought they were getting.
Speaker 1: And again, he's in a contract year, which is something
that is important for these things. If the Clippers can
retain John coll I don't know. I hope. I hope
we can keep him if he continues. You know, he's
not going to shoot sixty four percent from three like
he is or whatever it's been. But just yeah, he's
doing the things that he was brought here to do.
And I think credit to Tyloo for taking the ball
out of his hand and not trying so much stuff
that like he was initiating or something like that.
Speaker 3: Well, and part of that is just what people are
forgetting about this correlationation question is Okay, well, of eacha
Zubos goes down and they win six in a row,
what about this one Kawhi Leonard gets off the minute
restriction like that also leads to John Collins not having
the ball in his hands as much. That leads to
all these little things that add up and then a
big thing. It's just Kawhi feeling comfortable, knowing that he's
gonna play heavy minutes, getting his rhythm, and then playing
some of the best basketball of his career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it is funny too, because sometimes the
answer is like, what is what's been so different for
the Clippers. It's like, well, Kawhi and James Harden have
been elite and that's helped, and Kawhi is even on
a level past.
Speaker 3: That right now, and again I keep stressing this, but
their defense was already kicking in. They held Atlanta to
ninety two points with the beats of zubots. They held
Memphis to one oh seven Minnesota one nine. Like they
were starting to play really good defense, and that's something
that was I mean, that's as important as anything, because
the shots, just like last night, for three quarters, I
think they're I don't know, like eight of thirty two
or something from the outside. It was bad, and then
they went eight to fifteen in the fourth quarter. The
shots are going to come and go, and they were
shooting at such a high rate, and I think they
ended up at thirty one percent or something like that
last night. Even with that scorching hot fourth quarter from three.
You can't rely on the shooting to be that hot
forever where they're going to be a forty four percent
three points shooting team all of a sudden. So what
can you rely on. The defense should be there. The
defense should be there. That's what they had last season.
Speaker 1: The defense gets kind of a brutal test tomorrow. They
played the Celtics, who were fourth in offensive rating. They do,
thankfully play slow. They're twenty ninth in pace. I think
them and the Clippers have probably been flip flopping dead
last and twenty ninth. But Jalen Brown is playing insane
right now. So the Clippers do have ahead of their
East Coast trip, kind of a tough test against the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Boston, are they number two or number three in
the Eastern Conference right now? They actually have a pretty
interesting dilemma because the idea was, oh, it's a gap
year for them and they can hold out Jason Tatum
the entire year, and now it looks like, well things
are pretty wide open in the Eastern Conference. And if
you can get Jason Tatum back, even if he's not
one hundred percent, but he's not risking retearing the Achilles,
well you got to talk to the doctors on that one.
But like some will say that he won't be back
to himself, but he's not putting himself at further risk.
And if that's the case, with how good Jalen Brown
has been, they have a chance to come out the
East two.
Speaker 1: They're three and a half games back of the Pistons
for first.
Speaker 3: It's not and if they played the Pistons in a series,
I would take Boston with Jason Tatum back even at
eighty eighty five percent.
Speaker 1: Right. The thing they do really well is offensive rebound.
They're ninth and offensive rebounds per game, but they're also
sixth in offensive rebound percentage, so you know that it's
like real offensive, you know what I mean? Like, actually,
you know a team is like, yeah, oh, they're fifth
in offensive rebound per game, but they they're like, you know,
twenty third in rebound percentage or.
Speaker 3: Something because they missed so many shots or whatever and
therefore there are more offensive rebounds available.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Celtics seem to be pretty real with that,
especially considering their fourth and offensive ratings. So this is
another good test for like the effort on the glass,
not that it hasn't been there, It's obviously been there,
but it's been like this is kind of the This
is a great test during a six game win streak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just noticed they're down about fifteen threes attempted
per game compared to last season. They're only at thirty eight.
Now they are shooting thirty seven percent from the outside.
Speaker 2: That's a little bit prizing to me.
Speaker 3: I kind of thought they might lean into it even
more without Jason Tatum and having Anthony Simons and these
guys and Peyton Pritchard looks to be even better coming
off what went in the sixth Man of the year.
That's like league average, now maybe a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, league average about thirty six and a half. They're
at thirty eight three pointers attempted per game, but they
shoot it well their top ten there. Yeah, this will
be a challenge for the Clippers, especially because I think
Joe Mizzool is one of the better coaches in the NBA,
and he's obviously proving it this season. But they've won
six of seven now and their only loss was a
close one in Portland to the Blazers. No shame in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like this from JP saying perfect timing that
Derek Jones Junior is fully functional. Yes, it's awesome to
have Derek Jones Junior back for this match up and
he gets a tough test. Right. What does it say
is fourth came back, third game back.
Speaker 2: That's my early player to watch because I remember Jalen
Brown went flying into his knee and it was pretty reckless.
That's how he got hurt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I I do not like that play. And
I know Jaylen Brown is a great guy and everything.
I just that was He's not a dirty player. He
doesn't have that reputation. It was just overkilling a loose
ball in a game where they were up big, like
in the first or second quarter. He's diving supermanning towards
Jason Tatum's legs and kind of grabbed on to his knee.
Thank goodness, it wasn't season ending, her career altering because
it looked bad.
Speaker 1: I forgot that was Jalen Brown. Yeah, they have a
lot of guys playing well right now. It's like they're
a very high Tatum still has some of a Jalen
Brown's hair residue on his knee from that.
Speaker 2: The shoe Paul showed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm feeling I don't know. I hope I don't.
I want to see the same. I want to see
the Clippers come out, not how they came out against
the Jazz, but how they've been approaching most of these
games during this stretch tomorrow because that I'll be happy
if they lose tomorrow. Whatever they're going to lose at
some point, but let's I.
Speaker 2: Really don't want to lost tomorrow because you know what
that means. Zoo bots is the problem. I told you
that's all it's going to be.
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean, yeah, I don't want the los Okay, sure,
I don't want the loss tomorrow, but if they play
really well and they end up dropping a close one
to a very good Celtics team, I won't feel as discouraged.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Clippers came back in that game. They ended
up winning one twenty one to one. Eighteen Earlier this season,
the Jaalen Brown DJ game. Yeah, Clippers only lost by three.
They came back in the second half. But yeah, there
was some Boston was I remember hitting everything. They were
sixteen of thirty nine from three in that game. Slippers, though,
were fourteen to thirty five.
Speaker 2: But again, it's not even.
Speaker 1: Just everything having one of his weird uh yeah, he
went weird team of those games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's good, but he had eighty three pointers in
that game. So wait a second. Yesterday and the winning
and getting the six game winning streak. This was coincidentally
the sixth straight game where they have outshot their opponents
from three, won all six. Utah went six of twenty
seven from the outside. As bad as the Clippers were,
they eventually turned it around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I just a lot of people are like, I
still think it's a lot of make or Miss League stuff,
which with what's been happening as of late. Yeah, and
we have to acknowledge that Kawhi is not going to
average forty either.
Speaker 2: The season.
Speaker 1: The whole team has been shooting so well. I think
we looked at last episode we all did together. They
were like first and true shooting by like kind of
a lot when they had only won five games in
a row.
Speaker 3: It's if not only you're shooting, you know, on a
heater for a couple of weeks from three, but then
you're also getting the benefit of your opponent missing way
more shots than usual from three and open looks. That
is the perfect storm to have a type of six
game winning streak for this Clippers team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying they're doing things better. I'm not saying
Kawhi hasn't been amazing. They're doing a lot of things better.
The defense have been better, and it's going to need
to stay that way because the shooting isn't going to
stay like this.
Speaker 1: It is not going to stay like this, but let's
hope it does a little bit tomorrow. And I like
what you're saying about the Celtics though, and that three
point percent is stat because we do have a shot
to outshoot them from three. Like you said, they're shooting
thirty six point four percent.
Speaker 2: The Clippers took one threes. The Clippers took fifty one
threes last game. By the way, that's Celtic style.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought it was that they've taken.
Speaker 2: Is that true. I didn't see. That's sad, that's crazy.
I think it's a lot.
Speaker 3: But to me, I was fine with it. Like they
weren't forcing them a lot of that. Kawhi take sixteen.
He's taking tougher threes, but they were just generating open looks.
And you have to take those shots and make teams
respect you because eventually they'll go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, chunk V is asking if you told Zubac to
come back so he doesn't get traded.
Speaker 3: I've said many times before, I'm I'm a Clippers fan first.
Zue is my favorite Clipper, of course, uh he makes
it easy to be a big fan of his. But
I think when you're still twelve and twenty one, everything
should still be on the table. When you're still looking
at at best a first round matchup it's Okac or
wherever ends up the two seed, everything should still be
on the table to me as well as they're playing.
Speaker 1: I do have to snap my head up and go.
They have won twelve games, you know what I do
have to It's been great. They have won twelve games.
Speaker 3: I got people in the chat last night saying it's
over when we're inning the entire thing, and it's like, guys,
they're twelve and twenty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we got the ways to go. Okay. I
found two not news pieces that I'm introducing into a
segment called Slot Friday, where it's just pieces about the
Clippers that aren't really news despite the Clippers playing some
incredible basketball. Zach Lowe mentioned the Clippers in an ad
trade scenario on his pod. He said, I'd keep an
eye on the Bucks and Clippers just for the desperation
factor that was about it, and that has been running
rampant through the streets of the aggregators.
Speaker 3: I gotta see the context for that, because Zach blows
pretty level headed.
Speaker 1: It's like, I'll send it. It's time stamped. It's like
right in the beginning when him in or who is it?
Why can't I remember say, I know this guy are
talking about the trade stuff, and he's like, I'm just
like that was it. It was like one sentence. No,
it was like one sentence, but it wasn't. They didn't
really go into it. He was just like, I'm kind
of feeling this. It's it's one sentence. And then they
talk about like where Trey Young is gonna go. Yeah,
but people are you know, picking it up because they're insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: I don't see it happening. It'd be insane. The other
thing was there was a wind horse did his like
Top twenty twenty six storylines him in bond Temps, and
he talked about Balmer and the Clippers and he said,
you know, with all the aspiration stuff, said Clippers owner
Steve Balmer has earned a good reputation with fellow owners.
His net worth is around one hundred and fifty billion dollars.
When speaking to people in the league, these are important
factors to consider. Uh, you have to be careful getting
into a legal fight with someone like Balmer. You have
to have the evidence. One rival team president said, again,
not really news. I think it was it was Mo
doc Hill who was on the pod. Sorry, we got
it was Mo. Yeah, So this is what why can't
they just talk about how good Kawhi is playing.
Speaker 3: Who cares about because Bill Simmons said just about two
and a half weeks ago, he's the fifty fourth best
player in the league.
Speaker 1: Fifty four is such a funny number to put on.
Speaker 2: It, especially when Kawhi gets fifty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Poring wise, a few days later he.
Speaker 1: Said go to hell. People were in the chat. Someone
was asking what we want the Clippers to trade for
if it's like a there we go, h would we
look for a ball handler or a wing three and D.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's hard to evaluate right now because the Clippers are
playing fantastic basketball and everyone looked great. I don't mean
I'm not to a question.
Speaker 3: But they have DJ back, they have Chris done healthy.
I think there is a little bit of a void
of just having a more traditional backup ball handler like
we thought her three was going to be. Bogie can't
stay healthy at this point, Like it looks like a
lost season from him. I hope that's not the case,
but a lost tenure with the Clippers with how much
he has been hurt unfortunately, so I don't think you
can rely on him at this point coming back and
being that guy, because you just can't stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Is his biggest Clipper highlight making the three to get
Zoo his triple double. Not and that's a great highlight.
Speaker 2: It was a great highlight.
Speaker 1: Probably That pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean he had like a three week fifty
percent from three period.
Speaker 2: Before the playoffs started last year. That was cool. But yeah,
it's just it's really unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, breaking down, it's probably backup point ball handler whatever
that would be someone's asking if they wave no. I
don't think they're going to wave anybody no.
Speaker 3: Bogie's contract is an expiring like sixteen million or something
like that that if you are going to make a trade,
it could be, yeah, a really valuable trade filler type
thing for a team that's looking to get off the
books with somebody.
Speaker 2: You're not going to wave that.
Speaker 1: It's a club option too. So if you're one of
those teams that you know it is like kind of bad,
you're like trying to shed it because they're like, well,
I guess if he's good, we can keep him for
another sixteen I don't know. Yeah, I don't know who's
out there. I don't know what backup point they're trading
for though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know either.
Speaker 1: Cam Thomas on Udition game is in and the Cam
Thomas and MPJ Mega Trade Audition game is in a
couple of days.
Speaker 2: I'm the word. I like them both.
Speaker 3: I do, but I don't know, you know, tell me
what you're giving up for him?
Speaker 1: It also and it feels too like it's like if
we're still operating contract wise within the same window. It
feels close to like what the results would be if
we kept these current guys trade Bogie get younger and better. Sure,
I would love if that was what happens.
Speaker 3: Hell, that's a hell of a strategy. Nobody's ever thought
of that. Let's get younger and better.
Speaker 1: Show me that, Show me Bogie getting younger better in
the trade machine. Colin Sexton is someone who I wish
was an LA Clipper, but I don't know how it works.
Speaker 2: Is he making twenty million?
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I was still shocked by that trade, but I guess
it makes sense in the end, because what they were
doing was opening up more playing time, yeah, and more
usage for Keyante George and.
Speaker 1: I have to be honest, I completely forgot that he
was on the fucking cordets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a weird ass trade.
Speaker 1: Sorry for everybody, I don't watch a lot of that's insane. Okay,
he is at nineteen million eighteen point nine and then
he's unrestricted in twenty six, twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, I talked about Sexton a lot last season.
I like Colin Sexton.
Speaker 1: I wonder what great What does his contract at twenty
eight look like? Do you think.
Speaker 3: Depends how he plays stays healthy? Uh, he might still
be a twenty million dollar guy.
Speaker 1: His contract was four for seventy one. Huh. Striver's saying
twenty mil is disgusting. I don't know if it's disgusting.
I think Colin Sexton's been on bad teams the last
couple of years, and if he was on a good team,
he'd be good for that team.
Speaker 2: His efficiency, he's nice, and.
Speaker 1: When the cap goes up, twenty million isn't like I
think the like Derek I think is like the best
one of the best contracts in the league because he
makes ten million dollars. But twenty I mean it's not ideal.
I'm not going to sit here and be like it's good,
but I think it's an easier pill to swallow than
what it might look like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it depends on, you know, how short the contract is,
a lot of factors.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what would we even what do the Hornets
want to get worse? Because, like, would they trade him
for Bogie? What is that? Look like? I was even
playing that much.
Speaker 2: I thought they were lucky to get him in the
first place.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm sure they'd look at him as an
asset and they're not just gonna give him away.
Speaker 1: But they are a poorly run team lest we forget.
Speaker 2: George's not there though anymore.
Speaker 1: So yeah, very true. Okay, so he is playing, I
mean he's playing like fifteen minutes a game. Oh wait, no,
I'm an idiot. He's playing like twenty minutes a game. Huh.
I mean, yeah, I would like to get called Sexton,
but I don't know what. I don't know if that
trade looks like Jose saying, is it crazy that I
believe more in Rookie Sanders than Bogie? No, Kobe's been available,
like yeah, which sucks for Bogee.
Speaker 2: It's just.
Speaker 3: Endless inconsistency with playing time with Bogee because of his injuries.
There's no way for a shooter like that that's a
rhythm guy, to ever catch his groove.
Speaker 1: And what I think. Lots said that he hasn't had
a healthy three weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's been insanely bad luck.
Speaker 1: It's brutal. Yeah, So I mean, I'm sure they'll try
and move him for I don't know the landscape of
the backup point guard position. Who makes sick team million dollars,
who can be traded with all the apron stuff. But
I'm sure they'll try and move him. But I don't
think anything major is coming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like, I don't know who they there's not
a player good enough you could get to where all
of a sudden you're the fifth seed.
Speaker 2: Like there, there really isn't a trade out there to
do that.
Speaker 3: You're pretty locked into being a playing team. Right, maybe
they stay on this heater for you know, thirty games,
but it is six games right.
Speaker 1: Now, it is six games. Some would say that Kawhi
has very high trade value after these six games. Everyone
kind of does. But again, I don't think the offers there.
If they were to trade Kawhi, I think it would
be like, yeah, it would have to be for I
don't know what it would be. And his value is weird.
His value is kind of odd to figure out. Given
aspiration stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps a
high level play up.
Speaker 2: Somebody goes in the Eastern Conference. You know, we get Kawhi.
We could make a run because the East is sewed
down and it's that simple.
Speaker 1: Boston, Boston trades for Zoo and Kawhi.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a lot. Is ty tie any good?
His G League highlights are nice. His highlights are nice,
I don't know, not nice enough to be the backup
point guard unfortunately. All right, anything else, I'm not feeling
super good about tomorrow. But oh yeah, Kawhi to Toronto.
I think how good they'd be with her. Leak four.
Speaker 3: Kawhi could swing uh playoff destiny for a lot of
different teams in the East, because it's just the East
is so wide open.
Speaker 1: That would be so chaotic, man that that would be weird.
I think that would be the best way to describe it.
It would just be of an incredible It would Yeah,
Piston fans walk Kawhi take a lot of good stuff
over in Boston or in Detroit.
Speaker 3: You guys gotta understand that's fifty million dollars in contracts
you're getting back. My guess is it's not going to
be a contractor's there gonna be at least one contract
you would get back that would be offered that does
not expire in the summer of twenty twenty seven, and.
Speaker 1: Then you would go, oh, fuck, you saw the full
terms of it.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, unless it's a young, promising guy. I
did not see the Clippers budgeting on their twenty twenty
seven plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are the core right? Because any trade is getting
talked about with both Harden and Kawi.
Speaker 3: Would be my guess, Yeah, how can you straight one
of them and just not blow up the entire thing?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: Or they do and we enter an interesting new healthscape
of Clippers media hate, which would be good.
Speaker 3: It's just, I mean, everybody is on this Kawhi high
right now, and it's fabulous. They all wanted him gone
two weeks ago. They all wanted this to be over
two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So it was bad. Two weeks ago, it was bad.
Speaker 3: But maybe the lesson here is there's no fall sample size.
Prisoner of the moment. We've seen this type of stuff before.
We should have longer memories of how things can turn around.
Speaker 1: Longer memories that's for the past. Dude, welcome, welcome to
short memories.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, Scoach Lou doesn't suck, Florence Frank
doesn't suck.
Speaker 2: You got yawnick?
Speaker 1: People still hate? Yeah, I think and I hope the
Clippers' memories are short about what's been happening, because tomorrow's
game is going to be difficult. Yeah, just go in
with the focus. Anything else you want to say about
the Clippers or tomorrow. When's your next big national show?
Speaker 2: Tonight? There we go every night tonight.
Speaker 3: Though for sure it's been every night recently. I'm a
little exhausted, but you know I can't miss cliffs and Day,
especially at the Zoo News. Well, check it out Pop
Sports Radio later tonight, eleven pm Pacific till two am.
Speaker 1: There we go, listen the whole time. Be nice in
the chat. We're gonna have a full app on Tuesday.
Here's to a good win against the Celtics. Here's a
good process, Adam, thank you for coming on. We don't
even have to do dips anymore. The clips have been
playing so well. They saw that people wanted the dips back,
and they said no. Strictly an off season thing all right,
we'll talk to everybody later. Have a good rest of
your weekend. Good luck at work on Monday. If you're
going back, I am, and as always I know. Let's
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