Speaker 1: Well, I think we are live now. Welcome in. This
Speaker 1: is Clipper's Talk. As I set some things up here,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping you guys can see this. It's a Clippers
Speaker 1: Talk live. I just posted that we're going live. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the press conference is about. I truly don't.
Speaker 1: I'm just in the lurch like the rest of you
Speaker 1: right now, just waiting to get some information on this.
Speaker 1: All we have so far are a couple of tweets
Speaker 1: from here. We got La Murray would be one, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate anyone joined the show here. Alex Webb says,
Speaker 1: what's good? Adam. La Murray would be one. He's out
Speaker 1: into a dome. He's got a picture of a microphone.
Speaker 1: Justin Russeau would be another. I know this is something
Speaker 1: media members were obviously aware of because they are there,
Speaker 1: and Jessin Bruzzo says Lawrence Franken Toron Lou We'll be
Speaker 1: speaking momentarily here, so I guess I'll keep the coverage
Speaker 1: going and keep you a breast of the situation as
Speaker 1: quotes come out from this press conference, and do a
Speaker 1: little bit of dancing. JM. L or I thirteen twenty four.
Speaker 1: I yeah, it's definitely not a one. I'm still looking
Speaker 1: for clarification on that. As I know he's a fan.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of his as well. I'm ot a Mosland.
Speaker 1: This is an impromptu Clippers talk live for you guys,
Speaker 1: because it's an impromptu press conference. For some didn't know
Speaker 1: this was happening today, but it looks like the media
Speaker 1: was alerted, the local media for the Clippers. They are
Speaker 1: at into it Dome now. The timing of this is
Speaker 1: interesting because we have Media Day coming up next Monday,
Speaker 1: September thirtieth, and therefore I would have thought we would
Speaker 1: have got something then, and having something on a Tuesday
Speaker 1: right beforehand leads to questions. Those questions are hopefully going
Speaker 1: to be answered here in a little bit. It's odd timing, yes,
Speaker 1: as alex Web would say, a week before media Day,
Speaker 1: not sure exactly what this is about, but hoping to
Speaker 1: get as Lawrence Frank now is here and here we go,
Speaker 1: La Murray of the and you. I'm pulling tweets from him,
Speaker 1: I'll pull some from Justin Russo as well, and we'll
Speaker 1: try to get a little bit of clarification on what's
Speaker 1: going on here. I'm at a MASLM. We got a
Speaker 1: clipperstock live for you as we have a press conference
Speaker 1: with Lawrence Frank, your president of basketball operations and head
Speaker 1: coach tarn lou So. Now that I'm getting oriented with
Speaker 1: my space here on x AS, I'm pulling up tweets
Speaker 1: here from la Murray and Justin Rousseau, who are in attendance,
Speaker 1: Laurence Frank says, I think our defense is going to
Speaker 1: be significantly improved due to the off season editions. I
Speaker 1: think there's a great deal of pride in our group
Speaker 1: and what we've done where we feel extremely fortunate, where
Speaker 1: we have the longest active streak of winning seasons thirteen
Speaker 1: straight winning seasons from your Los Angeles Clippers. That is
Speaker 1: the longest active streak. Of course, the San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 1: they have well a much longer streak at one point
Speaker 1: of over twenty plus years. Cla Murray has this from
Speaker 1: Lawrence Frank. Kawhi Leonard's swelling is down. Will be limited
Speaker 1: to begin training camp, but Kawhi can't wait to get started.
Speaker 1: So there's your Kawhi Leonard update, something we've been talking about.
Speaker 1: Did a live with Grant Mota on Friday. After that
Speaker 1: erroneous report or whatever it was coming out of China.
Speaker 1: Didn't get a ton of information there. The swelling is down.
Speaker 1: According to Lawrence Frank, Kawhi Leonard's swelling is down, but
Speaker 1: will be limited to begin training camp. Kawhi cannot wait
Speaker 1: to get started. That's big news justin Rousseau. As this
Speaker 1: quote from Lawrence Frank on Kawhi Leonard his right knee,
Speaker 1: the swing has significantly gone down. It's almost gone. We're
Speaker 1: going to hold him back from drill work in training
Speaker 1: camp and work on strengthening. So I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you guys see that as positive news or not. I know,
Speaker 1: we have a couple of people here in the chat.
Speaker 1: Strado says, I'm scared. It looks like the way I'm
Speaker 1: interpreting this right now, maybe Lawrence Frank and head coach
Speaker 1: sharn Leu are just speaking with the media and getting
Speaker 1: this out of the way before Monday. That's how I'm
Speaker 1: seeing this, Lawrence Frank said. The encouraging thing is that
Speaker 1: the team and Kawhi Leonard have seen progress in Leonard's
Speaker 1: rehabilitation of knee inflammation. There has been progress from inflammation
Speaker 1: going back to April. Hmmm. Interesting swelling down is certainly
Speaker 1: good news. I would have thought at this point, and
Speaker 1: who knows, not a doctor, that it would have been
Speaker 1: less of an issue. I am looking for a little
Speaker 1: bit more clarification on that. What we can do here
Speaker 1: is because I have the power, is bring in a
Speaker 1: shared screen for you guys from law Murray and give
Speaker 1: you this audio. But the problem is I won't be
Speaker 1: able to hear it at the same time from Lawrence Frank,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's just the audio portion of what I
Speaker 1: just played for you. So I'm just gonna keep reading
Speaker 1: the quotes here from Justin Russo and La Murray. La
Speaker 1: Murray from the Athletic. Looking for an update here this is.
Speaker 1: I don't know if any other reporters are there right now,
Speaker 1: if it's just them too, but it is it into it.
Speaker 1: Don't kind of wish I was there to just check
Speaker 1: out the new setting in what's happening at press conferences.
Speaker 1: I know we walked by it when we got the
Speaker 1: into a dome tour myself, Chuck Mockler, Will Updyke, and
Speaker 1: we got some people asking questions. Caleb berguson as we
Speaker 1: fill time here to look for more quotes coming out
Speaker 1: of this, Lawrence Frank press conference coach Lewis said to
Speaker 1: speak as well. Caleb Berguson asked, what's the ceiling sandywise
Speaker 1: for the Clippers. I don't know. Tell me how many
Speaker 1: games you think Kawhi Leonard is playing. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what the ceiling is for this team. I think at
Speaker 1: this point it's staying out of the plane. That would
Speaker 1: be the ultimate ceiling. Here, as I get this from
Speaker 1: La Murray, you said, Lawrence Frank is not committing to
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard being ready for the regular season opener, but
Speaker 1: expects him to have a great year. Hmmm, here's how
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to interpret this. The swelling, as has been
Speaker 1: said here, there's progress. Quote his right knee. The swelling
Speaker 1: has significantly gone down, significantly gone down, it's almost gone.
Speaker 1: We're going to hold him back from drill work in
Speaker 1: training camp and work on strengthening. So therefore, he probably
Speaker 1: can't commit to whether or not Kawhi Leonard is going
Speaker 1: to be available for the regular season opener because they
Speaker 1: don't know how he's going to respond to the strengthening
Speaker 1: of the knee and whatever drills he does go through
Speaker 1: during training camp. I have long talked to you guys
Speaker 1: about this situation, going back to April when I first
Speaker 1: heard about the swelling. As JM I thirteen twenty four says,
Speaker 1: that's concerning. I think it's just one of those things
Speaker 1: where you're going to have to manage it here and
Speaker 1: the fact that it started in April, and really March
Speaker 1: thirty first was the last game he played before you
Speaker 1: started missing games. And it's still an ongoing issue where
Speaker 1: the swelling isn't completely down yet, but it is significantly down.
Speaker 1: It's obviously something that's still being managed. If we're talking
Speaker 1: about not doing or compete or being limited in training camp,
Speaker 1: I want to quote this correctly. Is where Kawhi is
Speaker 1: still at heading into training camp just a week away
Speaker 1: or after media day on September thirtieth, they will be
Speaker 1: in Hawaii. He does say, Laurence frank Kawhi can't wait
Speaker 1: to get started. I don't know how you guys want
Speaker 1: to interpret this right now. I'd say it's not ideal,
Speaker 1: it's not perfect. We would love to hear hiss one
Speaker 1: can participate in everything in training camp, but Laurence Frank
Speaker 1: on if Kawhi Leonard will be ready for opening Days
Speaker 1: said quote, the timing is all going to depend on
Speaker 1: how his knee responds to each phase. This is something
Speaker 1: I've been telling you guys going back to April when
Speaker 1: I said I'm not worried about him trying to go
Speaker 1: in a playoff game. It's how he responds after that.
Speaker 1: And after playing game two, his body didn't respond well.
Speaker 1: I think he looked much worse in Game three. So
Speaker 1: not a doctor, not close to it, but I've tried
Speaker 1: my best to keep you guys informed on the situation.
Speaker 1: Big R sixty four says, I just feel terrible for
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. If he has such a devastating player, it's
Speaker 1: just such a shame that they can't stay on the court.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, nobody wants to be out there more
Speaker 1: than Kawhi. It's frustrating right now, it really is. This
Speaker 1: is somebody that is a top seventy five player ever
Speaker 1: and his body has been trade him last four seasons,
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to either start a playoff run or
Speaker 1: finish a playoff run. Another quote, coming from Lawrence Frank
Speaker 1: says that part of managing Kawhi Leonard is that he
Speaker 1: won't have to guard the best players with this roster.
Speaker 1: We've talked about that a lot during the offseason. You
Speaker 1: bring in Derek Jones Jr. You bring in Chris Dunn,
Speaker 1: you have Terrence Man there, you have Nicholas batoombback, a
Speaker 1: lot of guys to guard out there. All Murray also
Speaker 1: said this. Lawrence Frank says that mentally, Kawhi Leonard is
Speaker 1: encouraged that he is trending in the right direction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit. I just would have thought by
Speaker 1: now the swelling had gone down enough if we're talking
Speaker 1: about him possibly playing for Team USA, and maybe that's
Speaker 1: why they didn't feel comfortable Kawhi Leonard had the quote
Speaker 1: out there. Knee was in a neutral state at that time.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I would have thought when he
Speaker 1: came into camp for Team USA and said he had
Speaker 1: a turning point two weeks beforehand. So we're talking about,
Speaker 1: I want to say, late June, early July, that if
Speaker 1: he was trying to go then that we'd be a
Speaker 1: little bit further along. But Jessin Rousseau is putting this
Speaker 1: out from Lawrence Frank says that he's still disappointed that
Speaker 1: Team USA didn't give Kawhi Leonard a longer runway during
Speaker 1: that specific training camp after Kawhi Leonard had been cleared medically. Okay,
Speaker 1: cleared medically is something new. Lawrence Frank point out that
Speaker 1: other players on the roster that are dealing with minor
Speaker 1: or minor injuries. That there are other players on the
Speaker 1: roster that are dealing with minor or minor injuries and
Speaker 1: they'll be assessed a head of training camp with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Updates will be provided when applicable. Frank stated he would
Speaker 1: not name the players at this present time, so am
Speaker 1: not a ton of clarity here. Here's what we know
Speaker 1: so far. Kawhi has significantly improved when it comes to
Speaker 1: swelling in that right knee, there is significantly and let
Speaker 1: me quote it exactly his right knee. The swelling has
Speaker 1: significantly gone down. It's almost gone. We're going to hold
Speaker 1: him back from drill work in training camp and work
Speaker 1: on strengthening. That is what we have released so far
Speaker 1: from this presser with Lawrence Frank, and we believe coach
Speaker 1: Taran lu will be available here in just a few moments.
Speaker 1: Kayla Bergerson says, I wish though that La the La
Speaker 1: Clippers could get Raptors version of Kawhi Leonard. Well, to
Speaker 1: be fair, they've gotten a better version of Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1: He was better than he had ever been in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one through the first round and a half. They
Speaker 1: just can't get a guy who's been able to stay
Speaker 1: as healthy as Kawhi did when he played sixty teams
Speaker 1: in the regular season with Toronto and then ended up
Speaker 1: completing the playoff run through the finals and winning the
Speaker 1: championship and having and holding finals MVP JJ the Boy said,
Speaker 1: disappointed about what the inflemation wasn't fully down yet. Why
Speaker 1: risk it? Why risk what you're saying with Team USA.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fair point. Big R sixty four.
Speaker 1: He says, they have to really load manage him well
Speaker 1: this year. I agree with you, especially after hearing this news.
Speaker 1: It's significantly down, but he's still not going to be
Speaker 1: able to participate in everything during training camp. Here's something new.
Speaker 1: This comes from Justin Russell. Lawrence Frank says that they've
Speaker 1: had ongoing discussions with Terrence Man on an extension. Frank
Speaker 1: reiterated that they want Man to be with the Clippers
Speaker 1: for a long time. Quote, We're hopeful we can get
Speaker 1: a deal done. Frank says that has been one of
Speaker 1: the themes this summer. We already saw if it's a
Speaker 1: Zubats he got his extension. So what's happening right now
Speaker 1: with Terrence Mann. They're hopeful to get a deal done.
Speaker 1: This comes from Lot Murray, Trent and Flowers and that
Speaker 1: wrist surgery will not be going through training camp. He's
Speaker 1: on a two way deal. Lawnce Frank says there's also
Speaker 1: other minor injuries on the roster again, won't disclose names
Speaker 1: for now. Launce Frank on James Harden said, the pecking
Speaker 1: order will be pretty clear this year. Okay, makes sense.
Speaker 1: He's one of the top two players on the team.
Speaker 1: There's not going to be an issue between who's number
Speaker 1: two with him and Paul George so As, I'm still
Speaker 1: reading through these tweets from Justin and Russo and La
Speaker 1: Murray As. There's a press conference going on right now
Speaker 1: with Lawrence Frank. The news so far it was about
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard and getting an update on that right knee. Again.
Speaker 1: The status and the quote from Lawrence Frank was this
Speaker 1: his right knee. The swelling has significantly gone down. It's
Speaker 1: almost gone. We're going to hold him back from drill
Speaker 1: work in training camp and work on strengthening. I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit surprised that it isn't fully gone by now.
Speaker 1: I think it's just going to be difficult to manage. Guys.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. We're talking about April.
Speaker 1: It's September twenty fourth now, that's a significant chunk of time,
Speaker 1: and the swelling isn't fully down yet. Not trying to
Speaker 1: raise alarm. Bell is just trying to be realistic with it,
Speaker 1: Just trying to be honest. I wasn't sure at this
Speaker 1: point that we'd still be here when we're talking about
Speaker 1: his knee being somewhat swollen, but significantly less than it was.
Speaker 1: That is important. That is a note, and that's the
Speaker 1: most important thing coming out of this so far. Lawrence
Speaker 1: Frank says regarding Terrence Man, he won't be a slow
Speaker 1: starter this year. He expects him to shoot more threes
Speaker 1: and rebound better for his position. I like that We've
Speaker 1: talked about it. Terrence Man, notoriously the last two seasons
Speaker 1: now has gotten off to very slow starts shooting wise
Speaker 1: from the outside. He was coming off the ankle injury
Speaker 1: last season that occurred in practice, I think right before
Speaker 1: training camp, and then he was shooting about twenty percent
Speaker 1: until the calendar flipped, and in twenty twenty four Terrence
Speaker 1: Man shot forty four from the outside and then shot
Speaker 1: forty five percent in that series against the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: You're listening to a clipperstock live. I'm out of Moslems.
Speaker 1: We can still take your questions here. Charles Gardner says, sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't believe Frank when it comes to Kawhi. I
Speaker 1: do I believe what he's saying. The problem is, Charles,
Speaker 1: nobody can know how his knee is going to respond
Speaker 1: once they ramp things up. This has been my concern
Speaker 1: the entire time. What happens when he plays five on five?
Speaker 1: Then where is it at? Why not? The Clippers says,
Speaker 1: I truly hate how they aren't transparent with us just
Speaker 1: banking on the Kawhi name to have us buy these
Speaker 1: expensive tickets. I think they're being as transparent as possible.
Speaker 1: This is what they know about his knee right now.
Speaker 1: No one has a crystal ball of how his knees
Speaker 1: going to respond once you get back to playing in
Speaker 1: an NBA game at the highest level. Guys, no one
Speaker 1: could know that. His doctors can't know that. Kawhi can't
Speaker 1: know that, So how can the Clippers and Lawrence Frank
Speaker 1: know that. I'm just being honest with you. I think
Speaker 1: that's fair. You want them to predict the future, they can't.
Speaker 1: He's telling us the swelling is significantly down. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what else you can really get at this point,
Speaker 1: because it's Kawhi, because it's the reconstructed right knee from
Speaker 1: the ACL on the meniscus, and because of what just
Speaker 1: happened in April. Lawrence Frank says that you never want
Speaker 1: to put a ceiling on a team. Confirms that he
Speaker 1: has internet access and has seen Vegas expectations for the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Believes in Kawhi, Leonard and James Harden leading the team
Speaker 1: and the opportunity for the rest of them. Okay, L
Speaker 1: Frank says, compete. You want to be a competitive team, Well,
Speaker 1: you need competitive guys to do so. I love that.
Speaker 1: That's what it means to be a Clipper. That's what
Speaker 1: we have seen for some time now, and that's been
Speaker 1: the makeup of this team. When the ships have been down,
Speaker 1: they played some of their best basketball when their backs
Speaker 1: were against the Wall, they played some of their best basketball.
Speaker 1: The twenty one to twenty two team. That team ended
Speaker 1: up with a winning record, even though they didn't have
Speaker 1: Kawhi the entire year and Paul George only played thirty
Speaker 1: one games. The twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen team before
Speaker 1: the two Pine three era, that team overachieved. Co Lemerick says,
Speaker 1: I think the big question is is the swelling significant
Speaker 1: less from last April, or from last week or from
Speaker 1: after he left tm USA. Well, I think it's obvious
Speaker 1: that it's less than from April. If the quote is,
Speaker 1: I'll keep reading it because I don't want to misquote
Speaker 1: Laurence frank Here his right knee. Here's the quote. His
Speaker 1: right knee. The swelling has significantly gone down. It's almost gone.
Speaker 1: We're going to hold him back from drill work and
Speaker 1: training camp and work on strengthening. There's the quote. So
Speaker 1: almost gone is pretty far away from where it was
Speaker 1: in April. Guys, I don't know how you can interpret
Speaker 1: that an the other way. Frankie boy nine says, So
Speaker 1: if his knee is not one hundred percent, why the
Speaker 1: Clippers wanted to play him for Team USA. Kauwa I
Speaker 1: wanted to play for tem Usa, and the Clippers supported
Speaker 1: that decision. Kawhi felt good enough. Kawi said right as
Speaker 1: Team USA camp was underway that there was a turning
Speaker 1: point two weeks beforehand before getting the camp with that knee,
Speaker 1: and that's why I think he joined Team USA. He
Speaker 1: felt like he could compete. We saw tape of him
Speaker 1: playing five on five and scrimmaging. He looked solid. Other
Speaker 1: players said he looked good. The coaching staff said he
Speaker 1: looked good, and then they sent him home. So that's
Speaker 1: still perplexing. I know now that you're hearing the swelling
Speaker 1: isn't all the way down. Maybe they thought it was
Speaker 1: that a manageable enough place where for playing a few
Speaker 1: minutes here and there on Temusa you wouldn't be risking,
Speaker 1: exacerbating or worshiping the injury. I don't know. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look like that question was posed or pressed to Laurence Frank.
Speaker 1: Here we're expecting coach Luther talk as well. Here's Lot
Speaker 1: Murray saying when Kawhi is healthy, he wants to play.
Speaker 1: That's a quote from Lawrence Frank. Laurence Frank says the
Speaker 1: team wants Kawhi to get to one hundred percent, and
Speaker 1: then any management plan that consists of back to backs
Speaker 1: will be determined from there. So rightfully, so before you
Speaker 1: start talking about how to load manage him or manage
Speaker 1: his health best during the season, he first has to
Speaker 1: get back to one. So clearly he's not there yet.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's where Temsa was coming from. They want everybody
Speaker 1: to be at I don't know. It's really, as we
Speaker 1: like to say on clips and dip reading tea leaves again,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Frank had a quote regarding if the Clippers' roster
Speaker 1: as a championship or has championship aspirations. He said quote,
Speaker 1: I'll never put a ceiling on a team. I'm not naive.
Speaker 1: I have the Internet. I know what Vegas is saying
Speaker 1: about us, So we're honest about ourselves. Okay, JJ the
Speaker 1: boy says his knee probably swelled up again after the
Speaker 1: five on five scrimmages. Well, let's just conjecture and speculation.
Speaker 1: We don't know that. The quote is it's almost gone.
Speaker 1: Stratos says this. I'm hoping this is just early liad management.
Speaker 1: So he isn't stressing his knee during camp and pre season.
Speaker 1: I would guess You're gonna be overly cautious right now
Speaker 1: in training camp for a guy who's thirty three years
Speaker 1: of age, is a vet, has been through this multiple times.
Speaker 1: Air on the side of caution. If the swelling isn't
Speaker 1: completely down, air on the side of caution and work
Speaker 1: him along slowly. Orange Frank would not commit to whether
Speaker 1: or not Kawhi would be available for opening night yet,
Speaker 1: because they have to see how his knee responds with
Speaker 1: whatever strengthening they do during training camp. If he's not
Speaker 1: participating in some of the drills, that sounds like the case. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see how he responds to some of the one
Speaker 1: on one training and strengthening conditioning he does. Jbo's eighty
Speaker 1: four says, swelling for five months, Kawhi's career is over. Well,
Speaker 1: that is just sky is falling, chicken little type stuff.
Speaker 1: Jabo's this is not the way. Do I have concerns
Speaker 1: about the knee. Yes, I've told told you guys this
Speaker 1: four or five months. I told you guys this on
Speaker 1: Friday after the podcast I ended up doing with Grant
Speaker 1: Mona because of a tweet that was coming out from
Speaker 1: China and it was freaking everybody out. My concern is,
Speaker 1: just like I said on Friday, it's turned into an
Speaker 1: overused thing because this time it didn't seem to be
Speaker 1: one tweak that inflamed his knee or got the inflammation
Speaker 1: and swelling in there in soreness. It was he played
Speaker 1: sixty eight games and then I guess over time it
Speaker 1: built up. I don't know. We really didn't get anything
Speaker 1: concrete on that end, but it didn't sound like it
Speaker 1: was one movement against the Charlotte Hornets that unfortunately caused
Speaker 1: the swelling. So I don't know if that's a wear
Speaker 1: and tear thing. I don't know if that's okay. This
Speaker 1: is still just his second year back from the ACL
Speaker 1: and then first year back from the meniscus, and it
Speaker 1: just was too much playing sixty eight games last season
Speaker 1: and kawhisney hit the wall. I don't know. Here's fresh saying,
Speaker 1: not sure Low's sources close to Kawhi or trustworthy. Well,
Speaker 1: right now, his sources, Lawrence Frank talking to them right
Speaker 1: now into a dome. So it's straight from the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1: He's pulling this from Laurence Frank talking about the swelling
Speaker 1: being almost gone. Lawrence Frank also said this regarding the
Speaker 1: Western Conference quote, the West is a beast. Think about
Speaker 1: how thin the margins are. We were fourth. Difference between
Speaker 1: fourth and tenth was five games. Lawrence Frank was asked
Speaker 1: about power forwards. Lawrence Frank apparently doesn't categorize it by
Speaker 1: using the number four. He mentions he believes in a
Speaker 1: point guard, a big and three wings. I like that,
Speaker 1: but also mentioned the following players Kawhi, Niko Kobe, Derek Jones, PJ. Tucker,
Speaker 1: Emir and T. Mann. Also said that he wants better rebounding.
Speaker 1: So that's how he looks at the situation with power forwards.
Speaker 1: The starting four, it's gonna be Kawhi Leonard. It looks
Speaker 1: like once again it's become a positionless league. I totally
Speaker 1: understand his mindset and philosophy. There so many teams are
Speaker 1: going smaller, but they need to be better on the boards.
Speaker 1: This comes from JJ the boy. That's what's so frustrating
Speaker 1: with his injury. We don't know much at all how
Speaker 1: it happened. It feels like some witchcraft stuff man with
Speaker 1: some real bad ju ju. Maybe because Kawhi doesn't know
Speaker 1: what happened. I talked about the Charlotte game afterwards and
Speaker 1: was mentioning how good he looked in that game. Movement wise,
Speaker 1: he looked great. It was one of the more more
Speaker 1: explosive games he had. He was blowing by Miles Bridges,
Speaker 1: he was getting to the basket, and then he doesn't
Speaker 1: play the next game and apparently there was knee soreness
Speaker 1: and then it turned into swelling. You're asking to know
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard's body better than he does, that's what you're asking.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense, guys, they can't know everything. Kawhi.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he has a read on it.
Speaker 1: This is I understand the transparency stuff. I think they're
Speaker 1: trying the best they can, but considering there's still some
Speaker 1: swelling but significantly less and it's almost gone. I don't
Speaker 1: know what more you would like them to report. I
Speaker 1: just it's really difficult with a player like Kawhi, with
Speaker 1: the injuries he's been through to prognosticate with any player,
Speaker 1: but especially with Kawhi when it comes to injuries and
Speaker 1: where his body's at. Jay Bo's Edy four says, I'm
Speaker 1: scared holding me at him. Look at least we know
Speaker 1: now going into training camp how this is going to
Speaker 1: go the way they're going to try to manage him,
Speaker 1: at least during training camp. He will be limited to
Speaker 1: begin training camp, but the swelling is significantly down. You
Speaker 1: would not throw him right back into the fire into
Speaker 1: five on five. I would guess until he ramps up
Speaker 1: slowly and checks some more boxes. So they're holding him
Speaker 1: back from drill work and training camp. He's gonna work
Speaker 1: on strengthening. That's what we know, guys. I know it's
Speaker 1: not ideal. You would have loved to just hear Kauhi's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent ready to go camp, participate in everything.
Speaker 1: I wish that was coming out today too. This is
Speaker 1: them being transparency, being transparent. They're not necessarily just telling
Speaker 1: you what you want to hear. They're telling you what's
Speaker 1: going on. Frankie Boy nine says, I feel like we're
Speaker 1: gonna see twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen hard year Harden will
Speaker 1: carry us to the Western Conference finals. Call me crazy,
Speaker 1: but it could happen. Harden's thirty five. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's realistic at all. I think Harden could be
Speaker 1: very good. I think he can get them to have
Speaker 1: a top ten offense still, if the defense is much improved.
Speaker 1: Great that they're in business. I believe the defense is
Speaker 1: gonna be much better than seventeenth. They have to be
Speaker 1: top eight on that end. To me, why not? The
Speaker 1: Clippers says, we have to stop stressing at him. Lol,
Speaker 1: We're sorry, Adam, We're just ready for basketball. Kai no
Speaker 1: Kawhi take me to into it. Yeah, obviously he's injury
Speaker 1: prone and has been unreliable as a Clipper. He's been
Speaker 1: snake bit by injuries. Nobody's more frustrated than Kawhi about
Speaker 1: this guy's Kawhi is a killer out there piece, an
Speaker 1: all timer. If he could play, if he was healthy
Speaker 1: enough to play, if they would let him play, because
Speaker 1: you got to protect player from themselves at times. I
Speaker 1: know Kauai wanted to play more against Dallas. I know
Speaker 1: he wanted to play more against Potix. But you can't
Speaker 1: let a guy do that after all the injuries he's had.
Speaker 1: It's often not up to the player. NBA talks says,
Speaker 1: need KPg to start, or let's just play big like
Speaker 1: the Calves. They don't have the personnel for that. In KPJ.
Speaker 1: The chances of him starting are minute are extremely small. Guys,
Speaker 1: Let's be realistic. He hasn't played basketball since April of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. He's being investigated by the NBA. He
Speaker 1: could still be suspended him. It's starting shooting guard and
Speaker 1: that Reddit post is wild. Maybe it was from NBA Talks.
Speaker 1: Gregarius One says, the way load managing has gone, I
Speaker 1: would be more concerned with how ready he will be
Speaker 1: later the season than how ready he will be opening
Speaker 1: the season. Well, they've left no stone unturned. They've tried
Speaker 1: everything so far with Kawhi outside of just waiting till
Speaker 1: March to play him. But you can't wait till March
Speaker 1: and say just save him for the playoffs. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: make the playoffs in the West if you wait that long.
Speaker 1: I don't think they would be flirting with being out
Speaker 1: of the play in if that was the case. So
Speaker 1: the team, guys, they're trying everything they can to handle
Speaker 1: this the right way. They really are. JJ the Boys says,
Speaker 1: I ain't blaming Kawhi. I just feel bad. All I
Speaker 1: can do is pray for his health throughout the season.
Speaker 1: As for Cup half fool perspective, at least the swelling
Speaker 1: is down and not worse, making progress that's important. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much he's tested it. That's my question.
Speaker 1: How much rigorous training has he done? And I'll say this,
Speaker 1: it was reported by Kelly Johnson at opening night of
Speaker 1: Into a Dome on the red carpet, she talked with Mobamba.
Speaker 1: Mobamba and Kahi are boys and have been for a while,
Speaker 1: and he went down and traded in San Diego with
Speaker 1: Kawhi and talked about how tough the training regiment was.
Speaker 1: That's encouraging to me. So if that's the case and
Speaker 1: it's almost gone, even while training that knee, even while
Speaker 1: doing hard stuff, even while doing maybe most of the
Speaker 1: usual off season training stuff he does, that would be
Speaker 1: very encouraging. NBA Talk says, let's trade everyone for SGA. Lol, dude,
Speaker 1: just lose my number or whatever. Like this is not helpful,
Speaker 1: This is not productive. Frankie Boy nine says, changing topics.
Speaker 1: The part when an interview with Ralph Lawler was amazing.
Speaker 1: Can't wait for part two. I appreciate everybody for checking
Speaker 1: that out. Worked hard on it. My director Chris Graham, like,
Speaker 1: I'm just there asking questions. He made it look good,
Speaker 1: Ralph made it sound good. But I'm proud of it.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys, enjoy Part one. It's up now.
Speaker 1: Put it up yesterday on the YouTube side called it
Speaker 1: Clippers Talk All that, All Access Part one with Ralph Lawler.
Speaker 1: So enjoy that and maybe we'll get better news. This
Speaker 1: training camp goes along. Here, let me check in with
Speaker 1: la Murray and see if Coach Lou has come to
Speaker 1: the podium yet here. Yes, he has Coach Lou is here.
Speaker 1: So this is basically a pre media day bonus with
Speaker 1: coach Liu and Laurence Frank. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: means they will still be speaking next Monday or not.
Speaker 1: Some quotes coming out from coach Lou. He says that
Speaker 1: last year's training camp set the tone for the entire
Speaker 1: season in terms of conditioning and how hard they needed
Speaker 1: to play. Now they have to do it without Russ. Well,
Speaker 1: they played hard times for sure. They also ended up
Speaker 1: being seventeenth defensively when they said a training camp the
Speaker 1: goal was to be top five. Coach Lou said this
Speaker 1: on Harden and his responsibility more picking rolls. Good run them,
Speaker 1: it's easy offense, it's easy money. Coach Lou says that
Speaker 1: there will be competition for starting jobs. This is interesting.
Speaker 1: This is something this is the development, guys, a competition
Speaker 1: for starting jobs. We've been thinking the entire time that
Speaker 1: it's going to be most likely James Harden, Tarent Man,
Speaker 1: Derek Jones, Junior, Kawhi Leonard and it beats the Zubos. Hmmm.
Speaker 1: So is Norman Powell in the mix to be a starter.
Speaker 1: Are he and Terrence Man competing for that spot? Or
Speaker 1: this is a question I posed recently. Not many have
Speaker 1: talked about it. Is it possible Niko Batoum starts at
Speaker 1: the four, which puts Kawhi the three, which then leads
Speaker 1: to a competition between Derek Jones, Junior, Terrence Man, and
Speaker 1: Norman Powell for the starting two spot. That would be interesting. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: now that got me thinking. JJ the Boys says Zubots
Speaker 1: needs to be on rocky level montage prep for this
Speaker 1: off season. That's pretty good Zubos with the long hair.
Speaker 1: It's Chuck Mockler and Will Eepdik would say long haired
Speaker 1: zoo Bots would be a bucket. So more from coach
Speaker 1: lou coming out, and I got Justin Russo and Law
Speaker 1: Murray up both their Twitter accounts and just reading those
Speaker 1: at this media press conference or local media press conference
Speaker 1: with the Clippers. Here's more on what I just spoke about.
Speaker 1: Justin Russo phrased it as this. Tron Lu said that
Speaker 1: there will be a competition from some starting positions, and
Speaker 1: he wants the team to play faster, get more threes up,
Speaker 1: and generally take better shots. Starting positions is plural, multiple spots. Hmm, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go over this. Harden, Zoo and Kawhi their locks right.
Speaker 1: The other two spots the two and the three or
Speaker 1: the two and the four, depending on where you're putting Kawhi.
Speaker 1: If Nico Batoum starts, then Kawhi can slide down and
Speaker 1: play the three spot. Remember Kawai said last season he'll
Speaker 1: play the four till they get a real one. Okay,
Speaker 1: they got Nico Batum back. I don't know, this is interesting.
Speaker 1: JM I thirteen twenty four asks what do you think
Speaker 1: about Chris Dunn and djj is starting to help your
Speaker 1: point of attack defense? What do you think Chris Dunn's
Speaker 1: going to start over James Harden. You're saying start James
Speaker 1: next to Chris Dunn, next to Derek Jones, Junior Kawhi
Speaker 1: and zubats So. No. Terrence Man No, Powell. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm open to competition in camp. I like that idea.
Speaker 1: I'm all for that. I want guys iron sharpening iron
Speaker 1: out there. Let's see if we got anything more from
Speaker 1: coach Lou. Yes, we do. Regarding his new extension, he
Speaker 1: stated that he was happy to get a new deal
Speaker 1: with the Clippers this offseason quote fully guaranteed five year deal.
Speaker 1: Lou joked that he can leave things in the arena
Speaker 1: now rather than have to take things home because they
Speaker 1: own into a dome. Man broadcasters gonna do that too.
Speaker 1: Do we get little cubby holes or lockers there? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Toiran Lou says that he won Jeff van
Speaker 1: Gundy on his Cleveland staff. We learned that from the
Speaker 1: article from om Young Masuk, who came out with me
Speaker 1: last week. Here's what Coach Lou put as the criteria
Speaker 1: for the guard playing next to James Harden. Defend, make
Speaker 1: open shots. Quote team Man has been great. We got
Speaker 1: to see how it plays out. So Terrence Man, he's
Speaker 1: got to re earn that starting job. That's interesting. I'm
Speaker 1: not shocked by it. If Terrence Man does what he
Speaker 1: did after the calendar turned into twenty twenty four. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be okay, but he can't turn down shots
Speaker 1: from three. He's got to put him up and his
Speaker 1: defense has to be where it was against Luka Doncic
Speaker 1: in the playoffs to start the year. He was so
Speaker 1: much better in that playoff series then he had been
Speaker 1: all season long. Defensively, he had been all right, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he was fully locked in. Terrence Man
Speaker 1: and the starting two job or starting two guard job
Speaker 1: is up in the air right now. Guys, here's big
Speaker 1: a R sixty four. How are we going to score
Speaker 1: enough points? That's what I'm worried about. A system. James
Speaker 1: Harden didn't say the system. I'm the system. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm a system, not a system player. I'm a system.
Speaker 1: That's how high pick and roll James Harden guys. The
Speaker 1: last twelve years, the worst a James Harden offense has
Speaker 1: ever ranked was twelfth on average. Their fifth multiple years
Speaker 1: they were first, get Zobots involved, get Kawhi cooking, and
Speaker 1: get their other two guys open threes. I believe in
Speaker 1: a system with James Harden. Jackson snow says, they've been
Speaker 1: telling Man to prove himself for the past four years.
Speaker 1: It's a fair point. I think it's a familiar role
Speaker 1: that Terrence Man is in right now, having to earn it,
Speaker 1: having to prove himself. I hope he does, But I
Speaker 1: don't know who it is that's pushing him most. Between
Speaker 1: Chris Dunn and Norman Powell. It's not Kevin Porter Junior. Guys,
Speaker 1: it's not. But it's one of those two guys. How
Speaker 1: they both are. Maybe they said, Chris Dunn, you come here,
Speaker 1: you have a chance to earn the starting two guard spot.
Speaker 1: I mean it could also be are they thinking Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Jr. Can just play the starting too, because they
Speaker 1: might have Kawhi the three, because Nicholas but two might
Speaker 1: be playing the four to start. I don't know. We
Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about now. This is getting interesting.
Speaker 1: JJ the Boyce says's kind of hard to prove yourself
Speaker 1: or your role constantly changes and has to play off
Speaker 1: of four Hall of famers. Well, I mean, last season,
Speaker 1: would he end up starting Terrence Man sixty games? Seems
Speaker 1: like a big enough sample size, And to be honest,
Speaker 1: he ended up shooting We started seventy one games last season, Guys,
Speaker 1: he shot thirty five percent from three now again, the
Speaker 1: last fifty games or so, he was at forty four
Speaker 1: percent from three, which tells you how bad he started off.
Speaker 1: And Lawrence Frank said in this presser that Terrence man, uh,
Speaker 1: he's got to start faster. Basically, I'm paraphrasing a little
Speaker 1: bit there. Now, we got some stuff from Coach Lou.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure to get it to you guys.
Speaker 1: This is all coming from our fabulous reporters in La
Speaker 1: Murray and Justin Rousseau. H. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: question was, but Coach Lou said, quote, yeah, we're going
Speaker 1: to have an identity this year. Well, if you know me,
Speaker 1: I've been asking what's their identity the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've had one, and that's been frustrating.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a defense first mentality.
Speaker 1: Toront Lou did say that the defensive improvement will come
Speaker 1: from playing harder, rebounding the basketball, and getting back in transition.
Speaker 1: So Lawrence Frank and Coach Lou have made a point
Speaker 1: when it comes to rebounding better. We know that's been
Speaker 1: an issue. Here's old dirty Dasher saying, I believe in
Speaker 1: a defense anchored by Zoo. Well, yeah, he was the
Speaker 1: best rent protector in the league last season. Why was
Speaker 1: you not nobody held defenders to a lower percentage at
Speaker 1: the rim than Big Zoo. Big R sixty four says
Speaker 1: defense needs to be their identity. That's their strong point.
Speaker 1: I told you that back on what day was it,
Speaker 1: June thirtieth, when free agency opened up. I immediately said,
Speaker 1: when they got Derek Jones Jr. This is it. They're
Speaker 1: building a defensive ball club. That's how they're making up
Speaker 1: for the loss of Paul George. They're not going to
Speaker 1: be seventeenth defensively this season. They can't beat They have
Speaker 1: to be top ten. I think they have to be
Speaker 1: top eight, then Chris Duncoms, then Niko Batoum. This has
Speaker 1: been something I've talked about and we've talked about on
Speaker 1: clips and DIP all summer long, guys, So I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised by the messaging here making defense a talking point,
Speaker 1: and I'm guessing that's going to be their identity. Looks
Speaker 1: like that was the last we got from La Murray.
Speaker 1: He's asking if you want the press conference on YouTube
Speaker 1: or not. Let's see if Justin Rousseau is finished on
Speaker 1: his side with his tweets and by the way, he's
Speaker 1: at fly by Night, kN Ie follow him and follow
Speaker 1: La Murray at La Murray and you on X. John
Speaker 1: Lous said this about new Clippers assistant coach Jeff Van
Speaker 1: Gundy quote, I always tell him he's not happy unless
Speaker 1: he's mad, which is pretty funny, well worded statement. Again,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a competition for the two spot.
Speaker 1: That's the second biggest development coming out of this. It's
Speaker 1: not secure with Terrence Man. He started seventy one games
Speaker 1: last season, but that job is still I guess someone
Speaker 1: on shaky ground. They brought in Chris Dunn, Norman Powell.
Speaker 1: I think he's always wanted to be a starter. I
Speaker 1: think he's always wanted to be an All Star. Last
Speaker 1: season he kind of accepted his role as a six
Speaker 1: man and it worked out for him, shooting forty four
Speaker 1: percent from three, getting fourteen points per night. It's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting competition because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of Clipper Nation they're gonna be rooting for Terrence Man
Speaker 1: to win it because well, he's the incumbent, I guess,
Speaker 1: and he has been a fan favorite for so long.
Speaker 1: But I find it fascinating that a guy they're working
Speaker 1: on an extension with and trying to get locked up
Speaker 1: longer doesn't have a secure starting spot. I'm not shocked
Speaker 1: by it. I think this is just what it is
Speaker 1: now with the Clippers. They're trying to build a culture
Speaker 1: of competition and might a fire under guys and make
Speaker 1: them fee like they always have to be out there
Speaker 1: competing and playing at their best. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: So if Terrence Man's fighting with Chris Dunn and Norman
Speaker 1: Powell for the starting two spot, good and like Lawrence
Speaker 1: Frank said, quote, Terrence Man won't be a slow starter
Speaker 1: this year. Expect him to shoot more threes and rebound
Speaker 1: better for his position. That's his mission, That's what's expected
Speaker 1: of him, and that's what needs to happen if he
Speaker 1: wants to hold on to being the starting two guard.
Speaker 1: It's pretty simple. Terrence Man attempted just under four threes
Speaker 1: per game last season. It was down two attempts from
Speaker 1: where he was in the twenty one to twenty two season,
Speaker 1: where he was playing three more minutes per game. Grand
Speaker 1: because that was the year without Kawhi, the year or
Speaker 1: Paul George only played thirty one games, but he probably
Speaker 1: should have still been taking five threes per game last season. Remember,
Speaker 1: once he went into that rut, he shied away, he
Speaker 1: passed up three balls. That's been his issue. It's not
Speaker 1: whether or not he can shoot from the outside. He's
Speaker 1: a thirty seven percent three point shooter for his career,
Speaker 1: and we're talking at this point almost one thousand threes
Speaker 1: taken in his five seasons in the NBA. That's enough
Speaker 1: of a sample size. He's a good three point shooter.
Speaker 1: Have confidence in your shot, don't shy away from it.
Speaker 1: They need you for them to unlock their offense. He
Speaker 1: has to take and make threes. Here's Thomas saying, I
Speaker 1: hope Tyler lou will give Cam Christy ten minutes a
Speaker 1: game for eighty two games to speed up the process.
Speaker 1: I don't want him in the G League. Well, he's
Speaker 1: a young player. One year at college at Minnesota. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't bank on that. Kobe Brown was twenty three, twenty
Speaker 1: four years of age last season, got a ten game
Speaker 1: sample size and then didn't progress farther than that. Further
Speaker 1: than that because that was a team with championship expectations
Speaker 1: that was trying to win now and they couldn't wait
Speaker 1: on him. We'll see. They're trying to compete now while
Speaker 1: I think getting guys and young guys a little bit
Speaker 1: more run out there in development. Yes, he has a
Speaker 1: high IQ. Great. You know how many young players come
Speaker 1: out and have a high IQ and it's still the
Speaker 1: game is moving far too fast for them. We have
Speaker 1: no idea how far along he is yet, because he's
Speaker 1: never played at this level. Summer League is not the NBA. Sorry,
Speaker 1: he has a tangible skill set. He could shoot. I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll be afraid to put him up, but
Speaker 1: you don't know. He hasn't done it at this level yet.
Speaker 1: I think he is a legit three point threat already.
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't do all the other little things right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. He's gonna hurt you on the other
Speaker 1: end of the court. He's gonna hurt you in all
Speaker 1: the little ways, the intangibles. So we'll see what type
Speaker 1: of opportunity he gets. I don't know when coach Leu
Speaker 1: talks about him starting too and that position being up
Speaker 1: for grabs and training camp, that Cam Christie is competing
Speaker 1: for that job. Yes, voice or reason, Thomas says, thanks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: game is too fast for rookie Well typically yes, So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say he's gonna be getting ten minutes
Speaker 1: per night would be pretty significant for a second round
Speaker 1: pick pick forty four or forty six. I forget which
Speaker 1: one he was and which one Terrence Man was the
Speaker 1: best way for him to learn and get more reps
Speaker 1: is the G League. That's the path right now, because
Speaker 1: the G League they don't have dogs down there. They
Speaker 1: got wolves. As Sendarius Thornwell said before, you don't want
Speaker 1: to have to go to the G League because those
Speaker 1: guys play so hard every minute, every second of the game,
Speaker 1: because they're climbing over each other like rats on a
Speaker 1: sinking ship to try to make it up to the
Speaker 1: big leagues. In the NBA, those guys go so hard.
Speaker 1: So as much as I love Camp Christy, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: expect him to be at the NBA level to start
Speaker 1: the season. Maybe if he looks like the game is
Speaker 1: too small for him in the G League and he dominates,
Speaker 1: maybe he'll get a look. But why would you think
Speaker 1: he's gained the look before. Someone like Jordan Miller, who
Speaker 1: was eighth in G League scoring last year and just
Speaker 1: lit up Summer League and so far every hurdle you
Speaker 1: put in front of him, he clears. That's the guy
Speaker 1: that should be getting a shot first. He and Kobe
Speaker 1: Brown are turning twenty five by the end of this season. Guys,
Speaker 1: it's kind of now or never. Honestly, this is it.
Speaker 1: They got to find out what they have. And I
Speaker 1: don't know Jordan Miller. He should have been the MVP
Speaker 1: of the Summer League. He dominated b Reno, Andred says,
Speaker 1: what is your starting lineup? I'll give you mine. I'll
Speaker 1: give you what I hope the starting lamp is gonna
Speaker 1: be simple. James Harden, Terrence Man, Derek Jones Junior, Kawhi,
Speaker 1: Leonard Avitza Zubats. That's my starting five. But I see
Speaker 1: arguments for other guys in there. I could argue with
Speaker 1: myself right now and say, I kind of like Nicholas
Speaker 1: batoum with the starters at the four spot. So Kawhi
Speaker 1: plays a three, and then you've got a decision to
Speaker 1: make between Derek Jones Junior and Terrence Mann at the two.
Speaker 1: And obviously it's James Harden running the show. Thomas says,
Speaker 1: but Jordan Miller needs have proven an actual NBA game
Speaker 1: yes he does, but he's already proven it in the
Speaker 1: G League and dominating Summer League, so you give him
Speaker 1: a chance before Cam Christy. Like, if a guy is
Speaker 1: overcoming all the challenges you throw in front of him
Speaker 1: at lower levels, eventually you have to see what you
Speaker 1: can do at the highest level. That's how it works.
Speaker 1: I agree with old Dirty Dasher, we're down bad. If
Speaker 1: Cam Christy is getting run this season. Probably there's just
Speaker 1: so many guys on this team that have shown more
Speaker 1: and have done more at higher levels so far than
Speaker 1: Cam Christy. Hey would love to be wrong. I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for the guy. Like I said, he showed better defense
Speaker 1: in Summer League than I thought he had, and the
Speaker 1: shot he didn't shy away, he was confident that could
Speaker 1: be a steal in the draft. Really believe that. Here
Speaker 1: is Nara asking about Terrence Man. If he doesn't get
Speaker 1: the starting role, trade Man, then we can't lose him
Speaker 1: for nothing. If he doesn't get the starting role, he
Speaker 1: still is a very valuable piece, giving you twenty plus
Speaker 1: minutes per night. While only making eleven million dollars or
Speaker 1: ten million dollars per year. It's going to be tough
Speaker 1: to get equal value considering how little he's being paid
Speaker 1: right now. Now, I understand you don't want to lose
Speaker 1: him for nothing and go into next off season with
Speaker 1: Terrence Man just being able to walk, but you at
Speaker 1: least take it till the trade deadline, most likely, unless
Speaker 1: those talks get nasty and things become untenable with he
Speaker 1: and his agent, which I don't expect to happen. No,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing how things go with Terrence Man and where
Speaker 1: this team is at before I trade somebody making that
Speaker 1: little that has a very high level of production when
Speaker 1: it comes to making winning plays and being a plus
Speaker 1: out there. Reno Andred. I think our audios pronounce his
Speaker 1: name two different ways, Jordan Miller and Kobe d minutes
Speaker 1: this season? Okay, do you also want to win this season?
Speaker 1: That's the balance, that's the Teeter Totter game. You likely
Speaker 1: can't do both. It's very hard to blend in young
Speaker 1: guys and also win at the same time. It can
Speaker 1: be done Denver's being able to do it. Of course.
Speaker 1: They have Jokic and Murray and Aaron Gordon and Michael
Speaker 1: Porter Junior and guys being relatively healthy. I know Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray's had some issues but Jokic really hasn't. So they
Speaker 1: can hold up their end while young guys learn. Not
Speaker 1: everybody can do that. That's difficult. Thomas says, I saw
Speaker 1: the Ricohins and Kevin Porter junior shots horrible in the
Speaker 1: free throw horribly written in phrase here. I just don't
Speaker 1: know why he's like that. If he's such a good shooter,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't shooting it well at the free throw line,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm going to look up his numbers
Speaker 1: at the charity stripe in his career. I'm more interested
Speaker 1: in what he's actually done in the NBA than Rico
Speaker 1: Hi at the free throw line. He's a seventy two
Speaker 1: percent free throw shooter, so not great, but his last
Speaker 1: season he shot almost eighty percent from the charity stripe.
Speaker 1: I don't think whether or not he's hitting free throw
Speaker 1: is going to make or break whether or not he
Speaker 1: can played for the Clippers. It's first of all, is
Speaker 1: he going to be suspended suspen suspended by the NBA?
Speaker 1: Easy for me to say. Second of all, if he
Speaker 1: is well, other guys are already filling that spot and
Speaker 1: the season has started, it's going to be really difficult
Speaker 1: for him to break into the rotation. If he's not,
Speaker 1: he still is competing with guys who have played more
Speaker 1: recently in the NBA and guys who have played for
Speaker 1: the Clippers. How's he going to overtake Norman Powell? Because
Speaker 1: I don't think you can play Chris Dunn next to
Speaker 1: Norman Powell and KPJ out there in some three guard lineup, guys.
Speaker 1: I think he can play Chris Dunn next to either
Speaker 1: of them, but not next to both. So how do
Speaker 1: you get minutes for everybody? It's really tough. Big R
Speaker 1: sixty four says, I believe they'll reassign Terrence man here
Speaker 1: in a few weeks. Well, he's been extension eligible for
Speaker 1: some time and it hasn't happened yet, But maybe you
Speaker 1: have some intel we don't. I hope that's the case.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked that. Mexicannar says if a Toomb starts,
Speaker 1: who's the backup for Kai? Kobe? Kai hasn't squashed a
Speaker 1: greape yet in the NBA either. He's on a non
Speaker 1: guaranteed camp inbite guys. I hope he balls out and
Speaker 1: becomes a stud in this league for the Clippers. But
Speaker 1: what are we talking about. I think a mirror would
Speaker 1: play a little bit offore, not great at it, not ideal.
Speaker 1: I think Kobe Brown's going to get a shot. We'll see.
Speaker 1: It's a fair question, that is the appropriate one. If
Speaker 1: Nick Niko Batuma's starting, will they just go smaller with
Speaker 1: their second unit? I don't know. It's hard to say
Speaker 1: at this point. It's just interesting that it sounded like
Speaker 1: not just a position is up for grabs, but positions,
Speaker 1: if I'm reading that correctly. From La Murray and Justin Rousseau.
Speaker 1: Thomas asked, why do the Clippers take a risk on
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter if he's going to be suspended because it
Speaker 1: could be a project, something long term, because he is talented,
Speaker 1: because they're not looking for him to make a contribution immediately.
Speaker 1: That that's probably probably why uh Rafa meant to, says
Speaker 1: CB and Denver played a huge role, Christian Braun, Christian Brown,
Speaker 1: excuse me, and the Nuggets win the chip likely a
Speaker 1: huge role for Dallas Lively, a huge role for Dallas's
Speaker 1: rookie Lewis stubborn in his ways. Look if somebody shines
Speaker 1: and shows something, then they'll play These young guys, haven't
Speaker 1: don't tell me that Kobe Brown didn't get a shot
Speaker 1: last year. He did, He got a ten game sample size.
Speaker 1: He got a little bit better by the end of it,
Speaker 1: but the game was still too fast form. And tell
Speaker 1: me who are the young guys on the Clippers that
Speaker 1: you want playing over some of the vets right now
Speaker 1: that are going to help you win more. Now, tell
Speaker 1: me who those guys are. I don't think that's conclusive.
Speaker 1: Jordan Miller, Kobe Brown, I haven't showed anything. Camp Christy
Speaker 1: has not showed anything. Kevin Porter Junior could be talked
Speaker 1: about as a young guy. He could be suspended. He
Speaker 1: has shown something in the league, but he also hasn't
Speaker 1: played since April twenty twenty three. Who are these guys?
Speaker 1: Who are the young guys that should be playing over
Speaker 1: more established players? Big R sixty four says that James
Speaker 1: Harden version is gone. They need him to play more
Speaker 1: like John Stockton. Well, I agree, the guy who was
Speaker 1: getting thirty five per game or close to at times.
Speaker 1: We had someone ask about this earlier. He's not walking
Speaker 1: through the door at the age of thirty five. James
Speaker 1: Harden is not going to be to average thirty five
Speaker 1: at the age of thirty five. Now, I'm sorry, brand
Speaker 1: Boston Junior is not on the Clippers anymore. If that's
Speaker 1: the guy you're saying should play, I hate to break
Speaker 1: it to you. Brand Boston Junior also got enough opportunities.
Speaker 1: Tell me what's his NBA skill set right now? Because
Speaker 1: yet he never showed it. He had a couple flashes
Speaker 1: and that was it. He's somebody that would try to
Speaker 1: get into his bag bogged down. The offense was more
Speaker 1: of an individual ISO score or if I'm being generous,
Speaker 1: that's how he could project to be in this league,
Speaker 1: a sixth man Jordan Clarkson type. But that is being
Speaker 1: very very generous. He never showed enough, guys, and I
Speaker 1: think he got enough opportunities. He also had some injuries.
Speaker 1: Here's Brino Andreid asking or saying, but too in the
Speaker 1: starting lineup is good, but the second unit will be
Speaker 1: too small. Well, it depends do you stagger them to
Speaker 1: beast zoobots and play him a lot with the second unit.
Speaker 1: Is Terrence Man starting or not? He can play multiple positions,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot in flux right now. D Flow says,
Speaker 1: all this news today makes me even more proud to
Speaker 1: be a Clippers fan. Baby, let the heartache I'm used
Speaker 1: to begin. Misery loves company and more misery. James Harden's
Speaker 1: goal should be to lead the league in assists. A
Speaker 1: big R sixty four says that, yeah, he did it
Speaker 1: just two years ago with Philadelphia. You're saying Bones Highland
Speaker 1: is a guy. I am the leader of the Bones
Speaker 1: Highland fan club. Who is he taking minutes away from
Speaker 1: between James Harden, Chris Dunn, Norman Powell, Terrence Man. He
Speaker 1: had the backup point guard spot in his grafts and
Speaker 1: then they brought in James Harden. That meant Russ was
Speaker 1: coming off the bench. How was Bones going to play?
Speaker 1: Do I wish he was the backup instead of Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook last season? Yeah? I do, because he has shown
Speaker 1: me enough to say that guy is a backup point
Speaker 1: guard in the NBA right now and can be electric.
Speaker 1: But some of it's on him. He pouted. It looked
Speaker 1: like out there he slouched, his shoulders dropped when he
Speaker 1: stopped getting playing time, and then when even he did
Speaker 1: get out there during garbage time, he was playing unserious basketball.
Speaker 1: Thomas says, I hope Tyler has a set rotation established
Speaker 1: after ten to fifteen games. Because every time Tyler experimented
Speaker 1: with different lineups throughout the regular season, it messes up
Speaker 1: the chemistry and connection. What about when he experimented with
Speaker 1: putting Russell Westbrook off the bench and starting Terrence Mann
Speaker 1: again seemed to work. That experiment work pretty well. Look,
Speaker 1: they had to implement James Harden on the fly. Wasn't easy.
Speaker 1: I think it worked out when they clicked in and
Speaker 1: went twenty six and five in a thirty one game stretch,
Speaker 1: I think that worked out all right. Now. Regarding Mobamba,
Speaker 1: Rafa Mentue says, we have Bamba for the second unit. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: things could still change. I like Mobamba. I think he
Speaker 1: has more upside than people realize. But he hasn't exactly
Speaker 1: established himself in this league yet for being such a
Speaker 1: high pick. It's the reason the Clippers were able to
Speaker 1: get him, and I believe a vet men he still
Speaker 1: is playing to prove. We'll see. It is a situation
Speaker 1: that is going to lead to a lot of storylines
Speaker 1: this season. Bastian Schweinsteiger, that's a footballer. I learned that.
Speaker 1: I really think this team buys in defensively. With Jeff
Speaker 1: Van Gundy, Man gives us more room for error this
Speaker 1: season given how hard we'll compete on that end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you raise your and your baseline of this is
Speaker 1: how we play every night defensively, and guys really give
Speaker 1: a great effort on that end, shots will come and
Speaker 1: go on the offensive end, and you'll still be in games.
Speaker 1: It is a sustainable and realistic way to get by
Speaker 1: in the regular season by having a high end defense
Speaker 1: regardless of where your offense is. Because I don't know
Speaker 1: remember if it was Doc Rivers who said it, but
Speaker 1: he said, you can have a winning record in the
Speaker 1: regular season if you just play hard every night. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy, I was all for bringing him in.
Speaker 1: It's really cool with the first team. He is back
Speaker 1: in the NBA with being an assistant coach for as
Speaker 1: the Clippers, because a lot of teams have been after him.
Speaker 1: Thomas says, I think Jeff Van Gundy is a great
Speaker 1: mentor to the young guys and can show them how
Speaker 1: to play the game the right way. Yeah, he's fiery.
Speaker 1: He will have guys well prepared and ready on that end.
Speaker 1: I expect them to be a top ten defense, but
Speaker 1: if they can be top eight and a lot of
Speaker 1: that could be depending on how many games you get
Speaker 1: out of Kawhi Leonard because he's such a great defender.
Speaker 1: But if they can be top eight, now you're in business.
Speaker 1: Because I think with James Harden, after looking through over
Speaker 1: the numbers last twelve seasons with him, no matter if
Speaker 1: he's in Houston or Brooklyn or Philly, the worst offense
Speaker 1: he's ever had was ranked twelve, and on average, offenses
Speaker 1: with James Harden were top five. That's big. Shaquem Samuel says,
Speaker 1: So how far do you think the Clippers can go
Speaker 1: in the playoffs? Playoffs means you're a top six seed
Speaker 1: or you get in through the play in I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up somewhere. Let's say, if Kawhi plays
Speaker 1: fifty games, if James Harden plays sixty five plus games,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be somewhere between six and eight. But
Speaker 1: nothing's guaranteed in the West. If Kawhi struggles with his
Speaker 1: health more as we have seen, what are we talking
Speaker 1: about with playoffs? Why talk about playoffs? I want to
Speaker 1: see if Kawhi can play seven to ten games straight again,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to see. I just want to
Speaker 1: see a healthy Kawhi and where he's at before we
Speaker 1: start making predictions. Yeah, I think overall there's somewhere six
Speaker 1: to ten. But it's going to be really tight. As
Speaker 1: Lawrence Frank mentioned in the Western Conference, you look at it,
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings two years ago were the three seed.
Speaker 1: They won forty eight games. Last year they won two
Speaker 1: less at forty six, and they drop down to the
Speaker 1: night seed in the West. Two games in one season
Speaker 1: of difference. That's incredible to me. But all this is
Speaker 1: always going to come down to the health of Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1: If he can give him fifty to fifty five, sixty
Speaker 1: games or more, then I feel good about the Clippers'
Speaker 1: chances of staying afloat and hovering just outside being in
Speaker 1: the plan. But I don't know. I don't know where
Speaker 1: his health is going to be at. And once again
Speaker 1: the quote coming from Lawrence Frank is regarding the swelling
Speaker 1: with Kawhi Leonard, and I want to get it right
Speaker 1: one more time here for you, because this was the
Speaker 1: main story coming out of this press conference with Laurence
Speaker 1: Frank and coach Luce today. Lawrence Frank said this regarding
Speaker 1: the status of Kawhi Leonard's knee. Quote, his right knee,
Speaker 1: the swelling has significantly gone down, it's almost gone. We're
Speaker 1: going to hold him back from drill work in training
Speaker 1: camp and work on strengthening Lawrence Frank said. The encouraging
Speaker 1: thing is that the team and Kawhi Leonard have seen
Speaker 1: progress in Leonard's rehabilitation of knee inflammation. That's it when
Speaker 1: you want to talk about where the Clippers could end up.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many games is Kawhi playing. Kind
Speaker 1: of hinges on that, and if he's healthy, he will
Speaker 1: be playing. He wants to play. Art h said, I'm
Speaker 1: expecting twenty one points per game from James Harden this year.
Speaker 1: He's putting the work in. I think that's realistic without
Speaker 1: Paul George, with how much is going to be demanded
Speaker 1: of James hard to coach. Lou talked about more pick
Speaker 1: and rolls this season. Love hearing that because that means
Speaker 1: you're getting Big Zoo involved to A ton has to happen.
Speaker 1: But James Harden could very well go from sixteen points
Speaker 1: six points per game to twenty one points per game,
Speaker 1: which is where he was last year. The year before
Speaker 1: last in Philadelphia in fifty eight games, average twenty one
Speaker 1: points and ten point seven assists per ball game. That's
Speaker 1: the James Harden they need, guys. It's pretty simple. He
Speaker 1: ended up shooting forty four percent from the floor in
Speaker 1: thirty almost thirty nine percent from the outside that final
Speaker 1: season with Philly. That's the blueprint. That's it. Give us
Speaker 1: that version of James Harden and the Clippers are in business.
Speaker 1: They still need Quiet to be healthy. But I think
Speaker 1: that's the minimum of what you need from James Harden,
Speaker 1: and I think it's very much attainable. I do. I
Speaker 1: would not be shocked if he has a very similar
Speaker 1: season to what we saw that last year in Philly.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see where he's at movement wise, because
Speaker 1: he had a hamstring injury in Brooklyn that it seems
Speaker 1: like the further he gets away from it, the more
Speaker 1: burst he shows. But we'll see. He's thirty five, just
Speaker 1: turned thirty five. He's had, by all accounts, a healthy offseason.
Speaker 1: But there is this other note coming from the Clippers
Speaker 1: regarding other guys having minor injuries on the roster. Those
Speaker 1: names aren't being disclosed for now, so we have to
Speaker 1: wait and see next Monday, media Day looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: I also like this prediction here from Brino saying Zoon
Speaker 1: needs to step up big this season. Sixteen points per
Speaker 1: game and ten boards would be great. Yes, it would be.
Speaker 1: I think that's the bare minimum they need from avitz
Speaker 1: Zu bots sixty to ten. That's kind of been where
Speaker 1: I've been at sixty four. Big r R sixty four
Speaker 1: says Big Zoo could easily average fifteen to ten with opportunities.
Speaker 1: He's got to play more than twenty six minutes per game,
Speaker 1: which is where he was at this past season. I'm
Speaker 1: confident he will. It's gonna be right on the line.
Speaker 1: I think of thirty minutes right in there, twenty nine,
Speaker 1: thirty thirty one somewhere in there. Rafamantue said Zoo is
Speaker 1: thirty thirty or Zoo's thirty thirty game proved he hasn't
Speaker 1: in him almost thirty thirty game. I think he had
Speaker 1: twenty nine boards, not thirty. All right, I appreciate everyone
Speaker 1: for being in here. One more time. I'll advertise. After
Speaker 1: I'm done here, maybe go check out the Ralph Lawler interview.
Speaker 1: It's special. It's shot really well. You'll be amazed by
Speaker 1: the production level. It was appropriate because it was Ralph.
Speaker 1: I had to do it big. I had to do
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Speaker 1: everyone for joining me during this press conference, from Coach Lou,
Speaker 1: from Lawrence Frank big Ups, to La Murray to Justin
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Speaker 1: Make sure you support the local media and reporters for
Speaker 1: the Clippers here. That's the way to do it. Art
Speaker 1: says he's checking out the Ralph Lawler interview. This is
Speaker 1: one of those things where I can't overhype it. I
Speaker 1: honestly think it will deliver for you guys. And when
Speaker 1: part two comes out, I think it's even better than
Speaker 1: part one. Really really I do. Anyways, love y'all check
Speaker 1: me out tomorrow night. We'll have a clips and Dip episode,
Speaker 1: and I think before that, I'll have an interview off
Speaker 1: with Carl Jimenez. Excuse me, not Carl Tart, not Carlo Tart.
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez, your radio voice of the Clippers. As my
Speaker 1: throat is, I'm running out of steam here. My radio potner,
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez will join me tomorrow on Clippers Talk. Should
Speaker 1: be up around five or five thirty. That'll be a podcast,
Speaker 1: not a live Carlo Jimenez you may know from the Tiktoks,
Speaker 1: the Tiki Tuckies. Yeah, he is pretty slick with it.
Speaker 1: I'll ask him about his social media presence and being
Speaker 1: one year in as the Clippers new radio play about
Speaker 1: play voice. So I'm Adam Ouslin. This has been another
Speaker 1: edition of Clippers Talk Live. Touch you tomorrow