Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans Welcome to a fully attended,
fully required attendance episode of Clips and Dip at Season
three episode eight. I am Chuck Mockler back from the
wilds of Bainbridge Island. Adam Osen is here hearing better
than ever, and Will Epdyke has a secret dip that
we're gonna learn about later, which we're all very excited about.
We are doing a Freaks only off season mail bag.
We got a lot of good questions sent to us.
We had a couple bad ones that we didn't include,
but yeah, we're gonna answer a bunch of stuff about
uh where Kawhi and Harden rank on the two star combos.
We're gonna talk the new flagship store that everyone's really
excited about down in Inglewood. But before we get into it,
we want to thank everyone for listening and for watching.
You can find us YouTube dot com Slash at Clippers
podcast on Were at Clippers Pod, Adam and Will. You
guys got to hang out with to Marr last week,
so you guys are probably doing good. Will, how's it going?
How are you doing good?
Speaker 2: Does anybody time in that water? Chug On the intro,
I feel like it went through most of your intro. Anyways,
if you're watching on YouTube, you can sometimes see me
chug water, but I meete my mic so it's not annoying.
I'm doing really good, man. It was great to catch
up with ton Air in a while. That's the worst
part about the off season is you don't get to,
you know, run into the same familiar faces as much.
So that was a lot of fun that If you
haven't listened or watched that one, I would say it's
a must check out. But yeah, I'm doing great, man,
I am settled into the off season.
Speaker 1: You're in it? Oh yeah, yeah, I think I'm finally
settled too. If anyone has Adam's.
Speaker 2: Gonna run down the twenty one reasons of why this
is actually the Clippers year.
Speaker 1: That only the last positive thing. If anyone knows how
long we'll chug that water for put it in the
comments or tweeted at us, We'll try and have them
beat it next up.
Speaker 2: It's hard without analogy, you know, you don't get as
much air and earth. It's not as wide mouth of
a thing.
Speaker 1: Adam, how are you You bought some new merch from
the from the Clippers store.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got one of the new Dad hats. I
hope that's allowed right to have any kids out there.
It's the LA logo, the new one. The hats read
the letterings in blue. I guys, I just would avoid
it if I didn't think the jerseys and the hats
and the logos were nice. I just wouldn't talk about
it that much. So you could call me a company
man all you want. But I really like this rebrandy
going on with the Clippers. Right now, the jerseys, no
one has set a peep about them being bad. The
only thing people have gone after is the logo, maybe
being a little bit too complex, but I think over
time it's going to age well. But then you have
all the alternate letterings in the LA and the Clippers cursive,
which is a little bit of homage to the early
two thousands, mid two thousands and Clippers teams without brand.
It's beautiful and it still feels as much as I
like the San Andreas jerseys, and I thought if they
just went with the black and white with the San
Andreas fawn is their home and away, that would be cool.
I get they're too much like the San Antonio Spurs.
This maintains the essence of the Clippers while putting a
nice little modern twist on it.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, that LA script is like my favorite new
logo I've seen in a while. It's so hard, it's
so hard to tackle, Like, hey, make it, make an
l a script that doesn't look shitty. Remember when the
Chargers did that. They unveiled their LA logo on Twitter
and ever would just roasted them and they had to
go back and redo it all. I feel like poor.
Speaker 3: It's such a cool lettering in font for that design.
Even Laker fans are gonna buy some of the birds.
You'd be like, what I'm just representing LA is? What
about the Clippers? Were you talking about bed.
Speaker 1: Basketball?
Speaker 3: Neutral?
Speaker 2: I love I also love that PG will never plan
it despite hell modeling.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I love that too. That's good ship right there.
Speaker 3: Will is just the sniper and the waiting on the weeds.
Speaker 1: There, Mark Wahlberg out here, We're gonna get in some questions,
Joe I mentioned it off top. John Stodder Junior asked
of all and these these kind of go everywhere. Of
all the twenty four to twenty five two star combos
in the NBA, where would we rank Kawhi and Harden
and we can talk number one. Are you wait, are
you morphing to know? This is number one? This is
our all right? Will say number one, this is our year.
In fact, I would put I'd put him in the
tier of you know, when healthy, all that good stuff.
They got some miles on him, obviously that's an issue,
but when healthy, they're up there in the tier of
the lower end of the tier of elite two star
combo guys. And I'm saying that strictly from an age
mostly it's age. That's why I'm kind of putting them
on the lower tier of that top tier, lower end
of that top tier.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Yeah, I think they're like more of the
upper end of that sort of middle tier.
Speaker 1: Age why and again just due to the well, I
mean just.
Speaker 2: Due to availability and everything else.
Speaker 1: It's got to be factored in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I would say it's kind of like that
high mid.
Speaker 3: If you just look at performance and take out the
element of them both being injury prone and a little
bit older. Kauhi especially injury prone. James Harder for the
most part, has been playing a lot the last five
years or so. You had that hamstring injury, with the
Brooklyn Nets, but outside that, he has been readily available
for his squads. If you just take that part of
it out, because I understand where you guys are ranking
them due to that. But if I just go upon
if they're both available that night, and Kawhi looks like
he did last season, and James Harden's right there too,
you could make the argument that's an upper echelon duo
you really can't like. I think that duo beats the
Dallas Mavericks in the first round. I think if Kawhi
is there and Paul George was the guy missing, they
take out Dallas in the first round. Therefore a better
duo than Luca and Kyrie Irving in a playoff setting,
at least like and that team got to the finals
in the end, lost in five, but still got there.
I think it's competitive with Ad and Lebron, absolutely. I
think it's competitive with dikal, lejokicch and Murray, but I
would put them below it just because nikol Jokic has
the MVPs, he has the hardware.
Speaker 1: Sure right now, wait wait wait wait wait wait about
Jokichen Westbrook, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Can't even see it.
Speaker 3: There's upper echelon, and then there's entering the gates of Heaven, okay,
and I don't I don't know they're they're banging on
the pearly gates has computer to open it up for him.
But Yazdakoupo and Dame, I think after how Dave looked
last season, I would say they're competitive with that, and
we've seen Kawhi fully against Giannis fully healthy.
Speaker 2: I would say on par.
Speaker 3: Perhaps, uh, let's see k d and Booker. Obviously you
got to put in but I'm taking those two against
Katie and book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate the sons. I'll take them over Katie
and book.
Speaker 3: Kawhi before Harden is beating both of those guys in
that series in twenty twenty three. Then you got to
consider who else do we got here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Does that count? I think that counts as a two
star duo.
Speaker 3: Or j dubb Chat and I don't know if they're
That's a tough one. Those guys are still ascending so much.
They're good already, but it's like we're gonna find out
a lot about them. They're they're bubbling up right now
with the experience they're gaining.
Speaker 1: How about Fox and Sabonis. I'm taking them over those Jack.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Cat is it Cat?
Speaker 1: And ant is it ant?
Speaker 3: And Gobert Cat Cat performed well in the first two rounds.
Speaker 2: Still had the same foul issues as always, But yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't they don't beat Denver without Cat. He was
that important that the stories and coming into the playoffs,
He's coming off the meniscus, all the talk of maybe
him being expendable and what if you got rid of
that contract and nas reads so good. I thought he
performed really well. It's it's tough to say right now
with Anthony Edwards in the way he is starting to peak.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think they're at least competitive with it.
Speaker 1: They're competitive with the I mean they're they're at least
they're not getting blown out of the water by in
this in these this hypothetical by any of the other
two star duos. They're still very good.
Speaker 3: Joel embiid and.
Speaker 1: Who who's the tyres MAXI because they're better than Joel
and Beat and Paul George. Paul George sucks. Yeah, but
I think I think that's fair.
Speaker 3: They're competitive and and Draymond step of Buddy Heal, I mean,
who are you saying the other guy with Golden State?
Speaker 1: Yeah, odds. I mean what about the Jays, Oh yeah,
Triple j and and John bro Tatum and Brown, oh
Yalen and Jason. I mean they're below those two. I think.
Speaker 3: I just yeah, you gotta put them below there right now?
They just won the championship. Dylan Brown was awesome in
the finals, and Jason Tatum did all the little things
even though he struggled offensively.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a year ago, I would have liked, for sure
put him totally, would have for sure put him above that.
But yeah, I think you gotta put the Jays above them.
Speaker 1: Which is fair. I mean, again, the guys that are
above PG or excuse me, don't ever let me say that.
The guys that are but I couldn't tell you. I
don't even know the guys that are above Hardening Kawhi are.
It's not a long list. And again, the being competitive,
which is going to be kind of the theme throughout
this whole upcoming season for the Clippers. There's always going
to be the case with with Kawhi and Harden out
there for the team.
Speaker 3: Would you say you're more confident as Hardened being the
second guy than Paul George if he was still here.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we just saw we were just proven why
it's better, right, I just.
Speaker 3: Find that interesting. No, I agree, I mean it's the
last season. I probably wouldn't have said.
Speaker 1: That, absolutely not. Yeah, I agree, Well, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was just I mean, like in theory, I like
the idea of like a two way star wing more
than a guard, even a guard of James Hardn's caliber.
But I just don't feel like we were getting that
from Paul George on any sort of consistent basis, So
it's difficult for me to say that I would like
that more. And the way he petered out in the playoffs,
I mean, I get there was so much going on
behind the scenes, but that doesn't really matter like to me, Like,
I don't care. And it is hard to shake twenty
one because I mean, if we were just coming off that,
it'd be a little different. But yeah, I think I
think from what we saw last season, I'm happier with
Harden as it.
Speaker 3: Too Zion de Jon Say, Murray Kawhi, and Harden.
Speaker 1: I liked Jontay Murray Seattle legend, but.
Speaker 3: I'm just skipping right past branding or I'm assuming something's
going to happen there, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: We got another question because this ties into the John
Stodd question from data man. Great name. Assuming Kawhi is
healthy and load managing ish, can the Clippers with this
new makeup of defensive players contend or possibly win in
twenty twenty five? Will would you like to take this one?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is our year. It's now or never.
It's put up or shut up. Contend for what?
Speaker 1: I think? I'm going to assume that data man has
crunched all the numbers and looked at all the analytics
and is going with contending for a championship.
Speaker 2: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's not the regular season championship, not
the end season chap.
Speaker 2: The season championship backfired for the team against the Hall.
I feel like they really lost steam after really. I mean,
you gotta be careful with that kind of stuff with
an older team.
Speaker 1: Lord knows, yeah, God.
Speaker 2: As currently constructed. No, I don't think the Clippers are
a legitimate threat at at a championship. There's just too
many teams above them. Which isn't to say, like, you know,
maybe there's a couple injuries around the league, you know,
it can happen every year. You maybe get a soft
schedule and then who knows, you have a punchers chance.
But I would say, in any sort of normal circumstances, no,
the Clippers will not contend this year. They will still
be a competitive team, and I think they're gonna be
a lot of fun to watch. Like I'm a little
bit more excited about coming into this year, Like it's
some of the pressure has been released and we're you know,
we tried a lot of different tooling around two, one, three,
some more successful than others, some a lot more fun
to watch than others. But this is, uh, this definitely
feels like getting back to sort of like what the
original idea was with wingstop and like being kind of
having some sort of like grit and defensive edge and
just a lot of guys who are playing with a
chip on their shoulder. So I don't know, I think
that's an exciting brand of basketball, and I think it's
a really interesting pivot because it keeps them competitive enough,
like I said, to like still be enjoyable basketball, but
you're and you're not so far out from you know,
like you're you're one too, your one move and some
additional stuff on the margins away from you know, like
you could be back potentially in that conversation, you know,
you're not like so far removed. It's not a full
rebuild or anything like that. So I think it's a
good spot. But no, I could not put them in
contender status.
Speaker 1: Adam, is this our year?
Speaker 3: I feel like putting the kebash on talking about contender
competing for a championship stuff until I see Kawhi Leonard
play ten fifteen twenty games straight. He hasn't completed a
playoff series since first round of twenty twenty one, Like,
it's really hard. I hope he's fully healthy. I hope
he's ready to go, so we know, yeah, where his
health is at. And when you go to the question,
look at the part with fload managing, Well, that's obviously
going to take a toll on regular season victories, which
puts you in a tougher position to have a path
of least resistance throughout the playoffs. That makes things very difficult.
It's very Let me say this, if they were all
fully healthy heading into the first round, I don't think
anybody would want to see that team, no matter where
you were in the Western Conference. I don't think anybody
would want to see a healthy Kawhi Leonard in a
playoff series. I think that would be a pretty scary
proposition for a top seed to have to deal with.
If Kawhi is at the peak of his powers, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, into it domes rocking for the first playoff series
is underdogs like.
Speaker 3: And anything's possible. I just need to see Kawhi have
a sustained period, sustained run of good health now at
the age of thirty three. And it's not just seeing
him healthy. I also want to see him playing at
as high of a level as we saw last season,
because that was one of his best regular seasons ever.
Got his best That thirty game stretch of fifty seven
fifty one to ninety splits is in the all time
NBA record of efficiency. So if he's still that guy
and you got him in the first round and he
could stay healthy, sure, I mean, typically the best player
ends up his team ends up winning the series. Now,
I would say, Luka Doncis in the Dallas Mavericks kind
of just bucked that trend a little bit. I think
he was probably the best player, but the depth, the
collective chemistry with the Boston Celtics, the waves they would
throw at you with just different players and all the
five out and stretching chare coaching. But I really like
the angle the Clippers are taking to Will's point of
the defensive mindset, because you can win a lot of
games if you dig in your heels defensively each and
every night. I think Doc Rivers used to say that,
you know, if you just play hard during the regular season,
I don't think he's the only guy that says this,
but so many teams end up laying down certain ice
during the regular season. But if you're the team that
consistently plays harder out there, regardless of talent, and the
Clippers have plenty of talent, you're gonna be a five
hundred or better team.
Speaker 1: Which is funny coming from Doc, because we did see
the Clippers lay down in the regular season every so often.
Speaker 2: I thought they were abysmal last year at home, and
I do not expect that to be the case this year.
Speaker 3: Good I'm guess Doc said this around the twenty seventeen
twenty nineteen area and they're the transitional phase because those
guys probably shouldn't have finished the year above five hundred.
Speaker 1: That was a funy year. So if the Clippers aren't
gonna be, you know, contending for a championship, Miles Johnson
wants to know what we think the required stat lines
points per game, rebounds per game, as sister game for
hardening Kawhi would be if we want to be a
top six seed. And this kind of relates to another
question from Lizo, which is could we see Harden be
the number one option during the regular season to prefer
to preserve Kawhi's health. I don't think Harden being the
number one option preserves Kawhi's health in a way that's significant,
that like prevents him from being hurt, if that makes sense.
It's not. It's not like the offensive load is why
Kawhi was hurt, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It's just I mean, it can be taxing your hands,
a high usage rating, all these things, but it's.
Speaker 1: Not like it's ever been an incredibly high usage rate.
I think for I think for like Harden, I think
the assists, if they're going to be top six, that's
probably the most important thing for him. I mean, the
points consistently, you'd like him to probably average twenty ish
and then assists, you'd want to be around like eight
or nine because that means that everyone else is hitting
shots too. Yeah, if.
Speaker 2: I think he's got to do, did you assists with
where his scoring is at rare?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I like that.
Speaker 3: He finished at eight point five last year with the Clippers,
and that was in thirty four minutes a night. Would
you expect an uptick in minutes along with the stat
lines that would have to be there for them to
be he said, the top six seed. Yeah, so well
being out of the plan.
Speaker 2: Because I think I think more minutes less games hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, he was at thirty four and a half
for the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Basically I would I would think minutes higher, but like
less overall games.
Speaker 1: Sixty five now he was at seventy two last year.
Speaker 3: They have Chris done at the moment. They still have bones,
they still have norm Kevin Porter juniors there they have.
We've talked a lot about the grip of guards they have.
Maybe they are planning on, you know, getting the most
out of them each and every night by possibly lowering
their minutes, especially you would think so with Kawhi, But
I could see it the other way too, Like Will said,
less games, but in the games they play, they're playing
heavy minutes. I agree, though Harden's got to be double
digit assists in close to twenty one twenty two points
per game for them to be a top six seed.
Kawhi probably has to be around twenty six points per game.
Speaker 1: Because he can't, like because you know, we've talked about
this with Kawhi and pg LA Clippers film on Twitter
talks about this a lot, and so does Jamal Christopher too,
where it's like they're not high volume guys, so you
need that field goal percentage to be higher. You don't
necessarily need the attempt like the attempts. It's not like
all of a sudden, Ka is gonna be taking twenty
plus shots at night, Like that's just not his game.
Speaker 3: Well, at his least efficient year with the Clippers was
his first year, where he was taking nineteen point nine
shot attempts per game. Paul George I think only played
like forty games or something like that season, but he
averaged twenty seven and least efficient for him still meant
forty seven percent from thirty eight percent from the outside,
eight nine percent from the free throw A lot. Is
that still there? He was at thirty two minutes per night.
That seems reasonable that you know, the minutes seem reasonable.
But I think part of that is because they were
blowing teams out. They were the second seed in the West.
They were overpowering teams. They had tres, they had sweet
little Williams, they had a really deep team.
Speaker 1: What a pick and roll that was. I make my
nephews sit down and listen to how great that low
in trees pick and roll is every time I go
back home, uh to Montana. So yeah, we think it's
I don't know, like trying to pinpoint the points, rebounds
and assists. It's just like it's very difficult. And Kaui
it's again kawhi. You know, Boardman gets paid all that
good stuff. But like, yeah, he's going to be over seven.
Speaker 2: Where he always is like like like twenty four seven
or A and four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's never averaged more than seven point two boards
a season in his career.
Speaker 2: So it's like, but one extra board this year, I
would love our year.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if it's going to be our year,
all right. Kind of following that, Jay wants, how do
you how do we think Team Man and Zoo will
improve this upcoming season, And I wanted to point something
interesting out about Terrence Mann because if you will and
I when were on Locked on Clips, we looked at
his per thirty six from like I think it was
nineteen twenty twenty twenty one, twenty one, twenty two. It's
basically identical those three seasons his per thirty six. If
you look at his stats just you know, points, rebounds,
assists from the last two seasons, it's eight point eight
points both years, three point four rebounds both years, and
then two point three assists in twenty two and then
one point six assists in twenty three. He shot fifty
one point nine percent on six and a half field
goal attempts and thirty eight point nine percent on just
under two and a half three point attempts basically both years.
So he's kind of he's made a jump a little bit.
But you know, we saw two years of the same thing.
And I don't mean that in a bad way, but
stat wise it it was the same thing. Without Paul George.
I think we're gonna see Terrence given maybe another key
to the offense. We saw him working on some above
the break coming off screen threes on Twitter, posted from
some training thing that I think LT. Murray pointed out.
So I think, I mean Terry, I want. I would
love for Terrence to be double digit scoring. He's not
super far away from it now, but if he could
get to sixteen and five, which I don't think is crazy.
I don't think it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Doubling his points.
Speaker 2: From double sixteen might be crazy.
Speaker 3: Man, thirteen many knights he's getting twenty, let's do it.
Speaker 1: If the three point there, like he's adding stuff, sixteen
is crazy? How about that?
Speaker 2: I don't think he's doubling.
Speaker 1: Okay, thirteen.
Speaker 3: Because you know, his three point percentage still looks really
low from last season because he was so bad to start.
But then I think in twenty twenty four, once the
calendar flipped, he shot over forty percent from the outside.
The numbers did come around.
Speaker 1: So shoots well in the restricted area.
Speaker 3: Like, no, he's one of the best in the league.
Hasn't been top five the last two years of the RIM, Yeah,
last twenty years, last twenty damn. Yeah, this is going
to be their year.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's written in the stars. I see
a big ship. Every night I look up at the stars.
I just see a big ship. So you think thirteen,
I don't think the boards are going to get incredibly higher.
I think like five would be cool.
Speaker 3: But his minutes have to be up for him to
get to thirteen points. So therefore the boards have to
be up to they could be like his minute. He
can't be playing just twenty five minutes a night like
he was last season. If he's going to get to
thirteen points, he has to start. We know that. I
know that's a little bit of a team that's so
defensive oriented with your starters if you have him next
to James Harden and Dereck Jones, Junior Kawhi Leonard and
if Eats Zubats. But I like that set the tone
early on. This is our identity. They said coming into
last year they wanted to be a top five defense. Well,
the last seventy one games of last season they were
twenty first defensively. I think overall it ended up eighteen
something like that. This team has to keep that mentality.
It just seems to a road after the start of
the season. Maybe it's age, but you know, we always
talk about it beats the zoo Bots and how much
he means to this team, being their anchor it feels
like sometimes he's the only guy. Kawhi was really good
last year, I should say too. And the defensive no
off numbers with him on or off. Basically when he
was off the floor, they were a bottom five defense.
Last year when he was on the floor, they were
close to a top five type of defense. But mostly
minutes for Terrence Man is how we think he improves.
And I guess kind of the same with Zoo, right, yeah,
I mean we talked about this getting thirty.
Speaker 2: I'm we talked about this last year, even like those
two guys not that young, but for the Clippers, young
are like the key to it, like prolonging the life
of your superstars. And so you know, we saw Zoo
take a jump this season. We always kind of knew
it's been there, but just with more opportunities, and that
can mystery. With James Harden, we you know, we saw
some of the best sustained Zoo that we've seen in
his Clippers, in his Clippers tenure. So I like all
these things I think are possible. It just feels like
we've been saying kind of the same stuff. So I
you know, like I this year, I guess out of
necessity you would think it would have to change, but
I mean it's still kind of TBD to be perfectly honest.
Speaker 1: I think it goes back to what Adam was saying,
we got to see what Tylou is gonna do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, do I think these guys have the ability? Sure,
but like what's the minutes loo look like? What rotations
are they in?
Speaker 1: Like it?
Speaker 2: And I if we do see these jumps stat wise,
like I would like these to come in competitive minutes,
good minutes. I don't just want. I mean, I guess
unless we're blowing a team off the floor and then
there's a lot of garbage time. But also this pivot
I do think can remedy the Clippers excruciating starts like
they had some of the coldest starts. Uh. And I
think this year, if you can really make your bones
a little bit more on the defensive end of the ball,
even if shots aren't falling, you can still establish some
rhythm and you're not gonna stop everything, of course, but
I just think like being locked in a little early
tends to translate to some chemistry and rhythm.
Speaker 3: On the other end, the other reason, I think they
need to be featured more within the offense next to Kawhi,
next to James Harden in the starting lineup is because
it'll make them a little bit more comfortable on those
nights where they don't have James Harden and they don't
have Kawhi Leonard, because they certainly will be a focal
point of the offense. Then there's no Marcus Morris, there's
no Reggie Jackson, there's no Paul George. These are the
guys who have to make considerable leaps, and I think
are more than capable. They just need more opportunities. They've
shown this over time, especially if Vitza Zubots that month
and a half he had right before the calf injury
last season. He was getting I think thirteen to eleven
every night, and they still at times, I joked, the
looks like they were freezing them out. They go to
them early and they just forget about Zoo. Nowadays, every
Ima say sorry, new Eminem album.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, old Eminem. Did you think that was a
new Eminem song?
Speaker 3: I mean, the new Eminem album is kind of an
old Eminem.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The entire thing is like a concept album of him going.
Speaker 1: Through I'll listen to it. When I joined the military.
Speaker 3: I'm a soldier.
Speaker 2: When I get deployed, it'll be my one CD.
Speaker 3: CD can't shut my mouth a clear CD player, I'll
burn it.
Speaker 1: Please, thank you? All Right, we got a couple more
before we get into some randomer questions. Young man young
mon with two a's. Uh, everyone in Clipper world is
clamoring for a power forward. Do you guys think that
our front office and L Frank believe that we can
roll the dice with Nico? Uh, Kobe Brown, Kai Jones
and dare I say Cardio P I'm assuming is PJ
Tucker there is a trade on the horizon. I think
we're chilling until the deadline. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing other than shedding some salary or getting some
guys out, you know, in like sort of just more money,
more of a getting rid of PJ. Tucker type move.
I don't really see anything else happening, uh prior to
Opening Night?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: You guys see that report earlier today. It wasn't from WOCH,
it wasn't from Chris Haynes. Then I did not not
from Sean Sharani. It wasn't from the guy who had.
Speaker 1: Dude shout out EG real real Clippers Twitter people, remember EG,
who I hope he's doing okay?
Speaker 3: Was that the guy from USC saying kaw I was
going to the Lakers?
Speaker 1: No, dude, E G was the guy who loved heart
and stone and who would always.
Speaker 2: I bet he's doing great right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I would always talk thriving how he was the
next Jokic and like he hated the Clippers for how
they used him. Man, what a legend.
Speaker 2: I think he started the yok all right, sorry for
completing What was the report from this very unverifiable source?
I know this is a news program man.
Speaker 3: This is Sean Devini.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: He's an NBA insider and content editor for heavy dot com.
Awesome go check it out. Author of Greed and Glory,
He says that he talked to an NBA exact in
the Western Conference that thinks the Clippers would like to
acquire another star, and Julius Randall could be that guy.
Speaker 1: That name has been floated. I know that josephry Award
I think is pro Randall, but he might have lost
his mind. Is whoa shots fired to a former Clippers podcast.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to fit with every other move that
they've done. This offseason in terms of building a more
defensive team. But hey, that's also very on brand for
the Clippers completely.
Speaker 1: And then completely turn away from because you gotta add
Terrence in that trade, right.
Speaker 3: I don't know what his values at right now. Honestly,
they made the playoff run without him. They don't have
Heart and Stein now, so his role could change very
much and win now mode they are. I don't He's
had some really miserable playoff series for them. Yes, Now,
what's interesting about this is I looked at his contract
and he is a player option after this season and
is an unrestricted free agent in the summer of twenty
twenty six. So it would line up timing wise with
the Clippers and that possible Shadow plan of reloading Shadow
Shadow Ship with one of those possible free agents and
superstars that are gonna be out there, so it wouldn't
hurt them there, unlike Zach Levine, which is one of
the reasons that has been kind of shot down because
if he opts in, you're pretty much stuck with him.
And you do know, I have an opportunity to bringing
someone in twenty twenty six. I don't hate the idea
of just having a different dimension to this team. They
haven't had a power forward like this. They haven't had
a power forward like John Collins either. I think either
of those guys would I don't know, just add an
extra element to the offense. I don't know if it
would be great. I don't know if it would be good.
I would probably do it, depending on what you're giving up.
I don't like when Terrence Man's name is going to
be out there.
Speaker 1: Because it's not you know, like it's it's not.
Speaker 2: Likely have of yeah, like value, because it's going to
be like one asset, like one asset and and salary.
I would I would imagine.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a trade machine version where it's like
bones PJ a mirror and like and like it wor
but like the Knicks wouldn't do that.
Speaker 3: Is it possible though, that they just want to get
rid of him at this point? I think he could
be somewhat of a cap casualty because they have so
many guys, they re signed them all, and they're just like,
we got to get off this contract here because we're
way over I I don't know if he's valued all
that highly right now by Knicks fans or the front office.
I could be wrong about that, but they'd have to
replace him with somebody. They need another big I don't
know if PJ. Tucker is going to be the guy
for them.
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I hey, I hope they Maybe
they think you talk about guys who deserve an opportunity,
as the OC Register ask any paper asked the OC
High School newspaper. Probably J. Zucker once more minutes I
read about it. Can I get one of those papers? Kids?
It's PJ. Tucker selling the papers, all right? Yang wants
to know. Is Robert Williams a realistic get for the Clippers,
A guy who has not played a lot of basketball
due to injuries. Maybe I don't think the Clippers want
to take that chance necessarily.
Speaker 2: I like the idea of him as a backup.
Speaker 3: I wanted them to draft him badly. I was screaming
about it, but uh it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: He had some.
Speaker 3: Uh party issues, some tardy issues. He was late. Yeah, yeah,
the old time.
Speaker 1: Lord yeah he Uh. I just think he's too hurt.
I don't know if a.
Speaker 3: Team that Yeah, it's every year you're wondering. And I
love his play when he's he could have been, you know,
a complete difference maker for the Boston Celtics in an
alternate universe. Yeah, if he just stays healthy, like and
I think they could have won that way too. I
think he's that good. But I'm trying to look up
his contract here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make it in Boston.
Speaker 3: He's making twelve million this year, thirteen million next year,
unrestricted free agent after that at the age of twenty nine.
Speaker 2: PJ, PJ and Bones. I don't think he's.
Speaker 1: Why you get it done.
Speaker 3: So for the Portland Trailblazers, the allure there is this
they get off the contract of PJ after one year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they get them. They get the veteran leadership with
PJ Tucker too.
Speaker 2: Of course starter wire on Bones flipp him for a
couple of seconds or something.
Speaker 1: Bones would thrive and Portland.
Speaker 3: I wonder how Chauncey feels about Bones. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that clip of Chauncey talking about they had
a player post a highlight when they were like down eighteen,
and Chauncey like ripped into him, like he was like,
why are you posting the highlights? We're down eighteen? Who cares?
Speaker 3: I can see them not wanting Bones though, because of
scoot and just clash the talents there and not wanting
to stun his growth at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Robert Williams maybe could be. If it's for PJ, sure,
sign me up. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3: I'd love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be. I mean maybe that's the trade that
happens before the season starts. Who knows. Coming up, we
have more random questions. These are getting a little more
off the rails. I think the first one is gonna
make adams head explode. But before that, we have some
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three two one.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in to Clips and Dip. This
is your mega mailbag episode. We asked for your questions,
you sent them in. Now we're going to answer them,
well some of them, a lot of them. You know
a lot of smart listeners out there, so we we're
definitely gonna answer a lot of them. Uh, we got
into some kind of real stuff, talking about where the
Clipper Citi is contenders, where the duo of Harden and
Kawhi ranks. Now we're kind of just getting into into
some more fun stuff. So yeah, let's let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I had a healthy chug real quick. I was
inspired by the first one.
Speaker 2: This first one doesn't seem that fun.
Speaker 3: Which one of the if you is leaving for the
urinal first after drinking all this.
Speaker 1: Oh, I got a whole setup in here. Dude, I
don't need to leave ever, got a tube?
Speaker 3: You got the toured into it? Do you said they
won't be missing one of these?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I took one of the They just hand out
toilets on those tours. You can just take one home.
Will What is this first question?
Speaker 2: The Clippers keep Laurence Frank.
Speaker 1: Hot take? Yes, I don't think firing your GM between
now and the season. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: This is just fun question.
Speaker 3: Is it pretty universally accepted by Clippers fans that, considering
they lost Paul George, they couldn't have bounced back much
better than they did this offseason?
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I mean I think that the biggest
harp on Lawrence Frank has been the power forward thing.
I'm not agreeing with it. That just seems to be
what is out there.
Speaker 2: But I mean, also, how like, I gotta be honest,
I know a lot of people are fun. I know
a lot of people are like are pretty critical of
Laurence Frank And I can definitely see that. And I'm
not saying that he's perfect or the best GM in
the in the league, but he's definitely in the upper
echelon the upper tier. He's good enough that you're not
getting somebody better. And the guy I think has had
to operate for the last five years with his hands
tied behind his back, like he's completely been hamstrong. He's
had to like he's had to bend to the point
of breaking so many times for the stars for a
coach in the first year of two one three, like
he really you know, Like I do think that there
has been yeah, and and there has been we I
think we even saw it last season, not as bad
as it had been in other.
Speaker 1: Years, but like there's clearly some sort.
Speaker 2: Of a disconnect at times between the coaching staff and
the front office. So I don't know, man, I I'm
not saying that he's perfect. I do think that it's
it's it's fair to make criticisms, but I do not
see them firing him. I just don't know who you're
getting that's better for the job.
Speaker 3: The only criticism that I could somewhat understand is maybe
him not putting his foot down enough when it came
to finding a point guard, whether it be John Wall
or Russell Westbrook. But let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: I think he didn't want to pay.
Speaker 3: No every front office, every owner, they all cater to
stars too, and if the stars want somebody, you're gonna
end up getting them because you want to remain a
destination franchise after getting Kawhi and Paul George. That's not changing.
That's put I would put it much more on them,
and maybe coach Lou that I would Lawrence Frank like
he kind of had to do it. I think I.
Speaker 1: We shipped out Reggie Jackson, all those guys, you know,
like he did, and then there was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he made his case of why they should bring
in someone like Russell Westbrook, and then Paul George comes
out a day or two later and says we need
him publicly. That's tough. That puts a lot of pressure
on you. Yeah, they they were all clamoring for it.
I don't think it was Lawrence Frank. I I like
the way he wants to build. I like what he's
done this offseason.
Speaker 1: I see the vision, and I like you said, like
losing Paul George, we did. We've done a bunch of
episodes saying after losing Paul George, now we're under the apron.
We have a young guy in DJJ like this is.
Speaker 3: This was better than trading him to Golden State for
Moses Moody and I don't know who else. CP three
they were gonna give up, like come on or getting
Wiggins and Moses Moody or something like that. They got
more flexibility and they got a better roster, not doing
something that was going to keep them over the first
and second apron.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they are key. I don't think we don't
think they're they're getting rid of Lawrence Frank is.
Speaker 3: Le Lawrence Cook and he will he cooked this offseason.
This was him, to Will's point, uh, with some free rate.
For once he did not have his hands bound and
this is I found it pretty interesting gay to see
how he'd like to operate if he didn't have so
many restrictions and this is a more defensive minded team.
That's the identity.
Speaker 1: A couple of the signings maybe we didn't necessarily need.
Speaker 2: But you also got to keep in mind that he
is the guy that that he is the guy that Okay, yeah,
all right, well that stuff. I'm assuming those weren't his decisions. Yeah, no,
that's that's that. But you also got to keep in
mind that this is the guy who who orchestrated the
last turnaround of this team, which in the two year
turnaround that they had going from lob City into the
two one three era is pretty remarkable. So I don't
know why you would want to get rid of that
guy right now.
Speaker 3: Whenever players have left the Clippers, for the most part,
they don't say anything bad against the front office. I
can't remember one time. I remember Patrick Beverley is saying,
I love L Frank. They just working the money, so
I had to go, Wait, PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker leaves, But.
Speaker 3: Maybe he'll complain about the coaching staff. I don't know,
but they've been above approach for the most part with
how they have handled guys. With the report out there
of them up in the offer once they saw how
good they looked on the court with James Harden next
to two one three before their agents even came to them,
talking about Kawhi and Paul George. I like the way
they do business.
Speaker 1: We like it, all right, what's this next one we got?
Is this next one more fun? The first was fun?
We got to yell like this one dondo.
Speaker 2: Mike wants to know. Do you think the Clippers will
retire Blake's number at into it next season? I?
Speaker 1: Yes, Actually I think they. I think there's ten.
Speaker 3: Things are going badly well.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a great like I mean, the
team is not a contender, right unless low key that
is our year for real, for real. This is a
thing to help a year that the Clippers probably are
going to have, which is be an annoying team to play,
which is really fun for people who like real basketball
and things like that. But this is a thing to
make I.
Speaker 2: Think they should do it. I think they should do it,
and I think they should do it on the night
of Paul George's return. Dude, Oh my god, what if
they did Desive be team Petty do this?
Speaker 1: What if they did Blake and CP three the night of.
Speaker 2: Absolutely and then be like sorry, we had to put
together too many highlight videos. We couldn't get years in there, Paul.
That's our bad.
Speaker 1: We can only introduce one player from the opposing team,
and it's you, Paul George. So I hope the crowd
is feeling it that night. Yeah, sign me up.
Speaker 3: What if they retired Derek Jones Junior's numbers after after
he locks up Paul George on the night he returns.
Speaker 1: But I think they returned like right out, like they'll
probably it wouldn't be crazy to retire Blake's number at
the new stadium that Blake was a large part of.
He should be first fielding blocks. Yeah, I think it'll
be this year. Great question.
Speaker 3: So somebody asked me the other night. They were at
a bar arguing with their brother, and they asked me.
Speaker 1: This sounds like Hell on Earth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's my type of thing, doomed to.
Speaker 1: Hell on Earth, subs and bars.
Speaker 3: Strife this cord. They asked who's the greatest Clipper of
all time? And I thought it was either CP three
or Blake, just because they kind of put them down
this path, this road and you probably don't have two
one three without them. If you're talking about overall impact.
If you're talking about most talented player, it's Kawhi. If
you're talking about overall impact and putting the Clippers on
the map, it's Blake Griffin in the dunk contest, all
the highlights being played on Sports Center, he put a
spotlight on the Clippers like they never had, so he
should be first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that should happen this year? Why not? Why? Like? Literally,
why not? There's no better time to do it than
at the opening of Not the first day that would
be sick, but like the opening year of the new arena.
Speaker 3: Start a tradition.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be very.
Speaker 3: Well tiring numbers and into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't be a very long one. But how dare
you all right?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: JD thirteen? How do you feel about Kawhy not playing
in Team USA after seeing em Bead and Tatum get
benched in Halibert. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know, Derek Weis been pretty good. It's dark. I
don't like the situation.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: We talked about it last week with Tom Marrizarlan. You
guys should catch that episode because we really tried to
dig into an investigation regarding what happened with Kawhi Leonard
leaving Team USA, Who's to blame? Who's at fault? Because
when you look at the situation with Kevin Durant and
him missing all the exhibition games, and yet Steve Kerr
came out and vocally supported him and said there's no
way he's leaving. Something to that effect. It was just
it felt like a little bit of a double standard. Absolutely,
I have a little bit a little bit of an
issue with that. Obviously, Kawhi wasn't happy about it, which
kind of makes me happy because that means he felt
like he was healthy and ready to go. I like that, Yes,
in a good place. I'm just guessing if Lawrence Frank
is coming out like that in Oppressor, we know Kawi
is not going to do it like he's not gonna
he's he doesn't want the attention like that.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna say anything on an unannounced Kawhi presser.
I would be terrif I'd be like, what the fuck
what are we about to hear? So I also, I
think it's weird. I don't think a lot of people
are like, oh, it's a Nike thing, Like oh, it's
because he's a new balanced guy. Embiid is on Sketchers.
I don't think it's a Nike thing. You know what
it's like, and Bead's on Sketchers.
Speaker 3: Steph's he sued Nike.
Speaker 1: He did sue Nike, but didn't they win. But they
are petty and they do sue a BA. They did win,
that's fair. They also called Steph Steven during their presentation.
So I don't know if it's a Nike thing.
Speaker 3: I I don't think there's Nike. I think they were concerned.
Speaker 1: Nike. You can send the check to twenty six thirty three.
Speaker 3: Kaw I felt like he was ready to play. They
weren't willing to see if he was going to be
able to play the entire way throughout the entire campaign.
Speaker 1: But they were with KD.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they had better intel on what
was going on with KD because did he go like games?
Speaker 2: What was the history with the team though KD, Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 3: He does, and it's like, well so does Tatum. He
all didn't give it a crap about him, like okay.
Speaker 2: They just thought he was sleepy. He had to play
so many playoff games, so tired.
Speaker 3: He just seems really inconsistent honestly, are they still likely
gonna win?
Speaker 1: Of course, That's what I love. I do love. Like
there's all these people like they didn't they like Jayson
Tatum's like they beat survey by twenty six. None of
these players care about playing time except maybe Joel Embiid,
but like they're gonna it's gonna be. It'll shake out
how it's supposed to shake out with this collection.
Speaker 3: Of guys, as long as they actually playing the matchups
like they have. I have no issue with sitting guys
certain nights. I saw people talk about Jason Tatum, and
I get the argument that he can do all the
little things too, and he's not just somebody that has
to be ball dominant out there. But I think Derek
White is more comfortable and more familiar with playing that role.
And then I kind of took a shot on Twitter saying,
you know, if you're gonna do this, you have to
stick with it and do it with other players too
who aren't performing. And then the next game he bench
Joel Embiid. Yeah, so I'm good with that, Like that's
being consistent. Anthony Davis has been much better than him,
Yes he has. He is sam out of bios were
much better than him. Wendy, he thought he wasn't gonna
play wind Horse Bader prediction that Bam was gonna be
the guy asked out of the rotation against Southseadan.
Speaker 1: Bam is perfect for FIBA, dude, Like, yeah, Bam and
kd on the court together in FIBA is they could
go two on five and it wouldn't be you know
what I mean? Like, it's crazy those two guys, Christian
Hackney in our opinion, in our perfect scenario for Free
Agency twenty twenty six, we already know Adam's answer. Who
would you guys like to see here? Is there a
chance we can get our long lost child Shay back?
Or is that bridge Burne. I don't know if Shae
is leaving Oklahoma City. I think he likes building a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't see him ever leaving. Honestly, he also
likes La though he has friends.
Speaker 1: He talked about having friends here too.
Speaker 3: You know what, though, if they want a chanceampionship, then
I could see it. It'd be like Lebron, now you
can leave Cleveland because you got there that ring. I
could see him leaving if they win a championship, and
then saying now I'm going to bring much of the
clippers they drafted me.
Speaker 1: That is true.
Speaker 2: We can't offer as much money though.
Speaker 1: That's what gives me.
Speaker 2: Already more endorsement opportunities, though probably in Los Angeles than
Oklahoma City. I would think he.
Speaker 1: Could be on lawyer billboards out here. He has. He
also has the most annoying commercial ever already with Chez.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. He already does have a commercial with
a ton of airplay time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean I think his fashion instincts would
work better well, So opportunities for that.
Speaker 1: He is the best dressed guy in Oklahoma City? Would
you give that up to come to La where he
would not be that. He's got to compete with Jimmy
Goldstein out here. He wants to compete bro dide Jimmy Goldstein.
I like it, Okay, So.
Speaker 3: He wants to zoom under.
Speaker 2: It for bucket with gold dude jacket for dude jacket
for jacket with Jimmy Goldstein.
Speaker 1: Let's set it up. I don't know how we set
that up. I don't even dude, who could even? Man?
I don't know. Okay, So other than Shay and rand
and Julius Randall who would you guys want in that
that twenty six thing class I'm pulling. I mean, I
know he would be great on the court, but dude,
I would I don't want to root for Luca. I hate,
oh would? Dude? He's always getting found. Everyone should actually
talk to the ref like this.
Speaker 3: Who cares about defend all the time when he was here?
Speaker 2: Chuck?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the time, all those old remember those shows.
If you use AI to recreate me defending CP three,
I will I will be getting with tigious.
Speaker 3: Jealous of defending CP three constantly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I had to get my CP three tattoo removed
before we started clips and dip. Luca is not coming here.
There's no way he's coming to the Clippers.
Speaker 2: No, given the history, I don't I just don't think though,
you know, I guess he does own the Clippers. He
might as well just hop on in the driver's scene.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw my computer into the fucking sea.
Speaker 3: You know what, that free agency class and that possibility
that's out there in twenty twenty six tells me Hm
that the Clippers did the right thing and going for
it when they had a chance. Yeah, I like that
doesn't come around that often. We're dreaming about twenty twenty
six right now, and the two top guys on that
list we both believe likely are gonna stay where they're
at comfortably already in Okay see with Sga in Dallas
with Luka Doncicsh.
Speaker 1: Say what about Lebron staph Ronnie Brote, Stephan Bryce twenty
twenty six the weirdest year of Clippers basketball of all time?
We have Lebron, James second Son and Steph Curry. Dude,
that would be like that would be a time, that
would be such a demented timeline. Just what a weird Yeah,
we'll revisit this question when we in twenty twenty six, Christian,
thank you for the question. Coming up. Another quick audio break,
and then we're talking Adam's favorite thing, shopping. Uh So,
if you're listening to us on audio, there's gonna be
a quick break. If you're watching us, thank you for
hanging out, uh break, and then shopping talk in three
two oh and dip talk in three two one.
Speaker 3: Welcome back in is clips and Dip episode eight of
season three, I'm at a Maslam. We got Will Updeck
and Charles Mockler. If you want to get to us.
You can find me at fall out of May. You
can find us at Clippers pod on X at Clippers
Podcast on YouTube. You might be watching this episode there.
I'm gonna show your dips in just a little bit
here dips in quotes.
Speaker 1: Sure, I chip in what I was eating?
Speaker 3: Whatever?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 3: Uh, let's uh dip into the new flagship store for
the Clippers and into a dome which I definitely want
to visit. I should have gone. Was that yesterday they
had the unveiling of it. I did buy a hat,
so I kind of went to the online store at least.
Speaker 1: All right, if you're if you're listening.
Speaker 3: Dip on his show too much?
Speaker 1: All right, what is this? What do we got for
the first question? Out of Uh?
Speaker 3: Okay, this is kind of a loaded question in some ways.
It's assuming things. But which jersey are you going to order?
First player and color from the new Clips flagship store?
Speaker 1: Check? So why steal this one? But I don't want
to steal this one? Pushing the old lady.
Speaker 2: Eric Wee fantastic, Uh shout out Eric illustrator, artist who's
done all this art, talked about getting a red Pablo
Prigioni and I feel like that is like the funnest
one that you could possibly get.
Speaker 1: That would be hilarious. That would be very funny.
Speaker 2: All right, Sorry, what are you doing? Milo?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing a half Melosh half Apolow jersey. No,
I think I've been thinking because I'm not a big
jersey guy. I don't wear jerseys. It's not my thing.
Speaker 3: They're assuming we're going to buy a jersey and wear
a jersey.
Speaker 1: But if I were to buy a jersey to get
signed by the player that I bought it from, dude
Red Terrence man jersey. I have a Blake jersey. Hannah
has a PG jersey, the Drew League City edition. I
need a Red Terrence. That ship sounds cool and it
would look cool.
Speaker 3: I need to know which jersey Carl is going to buy.
Therefore we'll know who's getting traded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for those of you who haven't known all the
Carl lore, he's got the Westbrook jersey, a John wall jersey,
in a PJ Tucker jersey. It should be PJ. Based
on how that timeline goes.
Speaker 3: He has a jersey in the store. Have we confirmed that?
Let me I'm on the west That would be interesting.
Speaker 1: They have like every jersey. So that's the other crazy
thing is they have like every jersey just at the store.
But Tom norm.
Speaker 3: I certainly want to. I wouldn't want to draw any
attention this way, but it would be interesting if PJ.
Tucker did not have a jersey jersey. I would probably
go with big Zoo in a big red jersey. I
want the red one too. You got to get the
red o.
Speaker 1: We have an issue on the La Clippers team store.
Eh uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna share my screen? Will
who would you? Oh? You're wait, so you will? You're
going with the Pablo Peroni.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not gonna steal that. I was also thinking
a Zoo one. I guess I'll go Red Harden. Red
Harden is sick. I'm just hanging up, hanging up somewhere.
Speaker 1: Weird. No, yeah, okay, so we got We're on the
Clippers store. I typed in Tucker to see if they have,
you know, like a red PJ. Tucker size double x O.
I can wear something like that. I'm scrolling down. They don't,
which makes sense, but they gotta. They gotta figure out this.
You may be interested section.
Speaker 3: If you're who like what's going on? Here name for
your product seventies show. If you're asking Kusher on that
seventies show, that's my shoulders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got to get this figured out. But I
also maybe don't fault them for not having You may
also be interested in stuff for Oh no, for PJ.
Tucker searches. I can't really fault him for that. Yeah,
we'll ask, we'll ask. I'll text Car right now. See
what he's getting.
Speaker 3: That question was from Neighborhood clip, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, Yes, and then we have one. Oh, go ahead, Adam,
I'm gonna text Car real quick about this jersey scenario.
Speaker 3: My clippers wants to know what he or she claims
to be the most important question with the three new jerseys,
which one will be lucky? Which one will be unlucky?
Speaker 2: Will they'll all be lucky? This is our year?
Speaker 1: You tee it up? He knocks it out of the park.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. I hate this question. There's no
such thing. No jerseys.
Speaker 2: For the record, Adam, you hate most questions.
Speaker 3: Oh, and they're good. I like them. There were some
good ones in today's show and some that on the
cutting room floor.
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah. Someone asked if you're gonna get zach Lavine,
and we've talked about that at Nazio. I think I
think rad is gonna be seen as lucky because everyone
just as excited for the Red.
Speaker 2: Jers waited so long. I mean, I get the they did.
They did deliver on the hype. I am glad that.
Oh yeah, they did take their time with this rebrand
and the time, the specific time they chose to launch it,
I think it was questionable, but overall, I think they
did the right thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I think the rat is going to be
seen as it is a lucky one.
Speaker 3: Now, that's like the alternate city edition type of jersey.
Speaker 1: Right, I believe. So do we know what the city
editions are gonna be? Because the Red ones you also
can't order them until like January, so I think they
must be some kind of addition because everyone was asking
about that too.
Speaker 3: So obviously we're getting the White Clippers for home. The
blue on the road is your traditional home away jerseys,
which I love both of them. Yeah, red jerseys for
a matinee game on a Saturday. Oh wait, they won't have.
Speaker 1: Any Hey, let's not. Let's I'm not. I'm not celebrating
until we see the schedule, dude, a lot of concerts
could happen. I'm not celebrating.
Speaker 3: They're putting concerts over an arena that was built for
the Clippers.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. We've seen everything, dude.
Speaker 3: The clip Taylor doesn't have a banner and into a home.
Speaker 1: Hey, yes again, I'm not Yeah, we'll get there when
we get there. One quick note before we get into
the dips, Will is about to show his dip bones.
Highland dropped fifty three and the ball don't stop pro
am way do you go? Bones?
Speaker 3: I mean he almost had forty real game this year.
Speaker 1: Remember that summer that Tres played in every single program
that was like possibly available to him. That was insane
and just destroyed people. Obviously, no word, no word on
if PJ. Tucker also dropped fifty three points at the
same event, But maybe he did. I'm gonna guess no,
but probably gonna go with no. All Right, now we're
at the second most important part of the show. Dip
talk yay dips. Well, you seem genuinely excited about yours.
Could you describe it so the people listening could also
experience your full dip scenario? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean I can't really show that much
of the camera. I was so excited about it. I've
already eaten it. Yeah yeah, but I got a I
got a Tostitos Caso blanco dip oh. I hadn't had
this before. I normally just rock with their regular caso,
which great. You can't really go wrong with this, As
the name implies, is like a you know, it's a
light colored there's a blanco.
Speaker 1: That's your nickname in basketball, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, absolutely absolutely, because I'm just sitting off to
the side eating a big piece of cheese.
Speaker 3: Yeah that owns sauce castillo.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, there's like, uh it's it's I felt
like there it was a little chunkier than the regular case,
so like in a good way. There's like some uh
you know, some peppery kind of bits in there. The flavor, though,
is really good. I love regular Tostito's case. I think
this might be my preference.
Speaker 1: Is it coming to the barbecue? Would you take it
to a barbecue?
Speaker 2: For sure, I'd put it in a different you know,
as per you. I'd put it in a different vessel, yeah,
and heat it up a bit or something. But no,
it's really good. I've even had some of this because
I actually brought this dip for the show last week,
but we didn't do.
Speaker 1: Any dips or all that cheese sauce on the grill
of the barbecue to warm it up.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I haven't put then on other stuff too,
like eggs.
Speaker 1: It's good eggs, all right, Adam, what do you got?
Speaker 3: I got the traditional tostitos quso medium dip, and I
was just using is it is it wagu ground beef?
Is that how you is that how you say it? Wago?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was just dipping that in it because I'm trying
to diet like Will.
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, I didn't mention my chips. They were
they were. They were pork grinds, but not the spicy kind,
which normally I usually either get uh spicy teacher owns
or the the really good uh Sultan vinegar kind from
Seafood City. But these are playing just because I'm experimenting
with some different stuff. I want to be. I want
to be seasoning free.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Adam's over here with the way.
Speaker 3: I also dipped a dial pickle in it.
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 3: Take a wrong with the original tostatos.
Speaker 1: You're bringing that to the barbecue.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's probably already there, but yeah, I'll bring it.
Speaker 2: With with with the Wygo chips though, right, yeah, you're
on the hook.
Speaker 3: For a Yeah, yeah, I can bring the good stuff.
Speaker 2: I think people would be fucking psyched on there.
Speaker 1: I'm with this. It's good meat, got a good barbecue, but.
Speaker 2: Instead of the fries, it's just more steaksk okay, So
I went with.
Speaker 1: I went with a hot sauce that I put into
a bowl and it was dipping nachos into.
Speaker 2: Vowel.
Speaker 1: Sure, fine, Tavy up, throw us all out.
Speaker 3: Call the PJ sucker foul.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went so the The last time I did
like a local hot sauce, it was horrible. It was disgusting.
It was that sweet apple garbage salsa from up in Uh.
I can't remember. I forgot where I was because it
was so bad. This is kes. It's from Portland. I
bought it when I was on Bainbridge Island. It's their
green uh, delicious little sweet to start some nice heat
on the back end. Would absolutely bring this to the barbecue.
Speaker 3: Looks really chunky, just so thick, like I don't know
if my Wago meat would even be able to handle that?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 1: I am done with the shot? I don't know. Hey,
that sounds like a personal problem. Oh yeah, pause, yeah, no,
this was this was good. It was Yeah. I would
I would bring this to the to the barbecue.
Speaker 3: And would you call it a dip if you brought
it to the barbecue?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you putting that like a picture?
Speaker 1: Or yeah? How are you?
Speaker 2: How are you sure.
Speaker 1: I'm putting it in a picture? And the shot loge
for it is made from chips so instead of ices thing,
and then yeah yeah, and then whatever Adam's doing with
his beef over by the grill or whatever, that's that
sort of so again, I think it's two weeks in
a row of being dipped a chip in it.
Speaker 2: We're two point five on dips.
Speaker 1: We're two point five on dips. We're two point five
out of two point five on dips. We're bat in
a thousand, which I think is fair. Despite Adam's comments,
yet another successful dip segment from clips, I think I
think we have to wrap things up just the show.
Thank you for hanging out, everybody. Go check out the
episode last week with till Marya. That was good ship
as always having him on the show some great info.
Will Where can these people review us? Where can they
watch us? Yell at us?
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but yeah, you can watch and
yell at us over at YouTube dot com. That's at
Clippers podcast. H Yeah, you can review us basically at
any time there as many times as you like. If
you prefer to listen to this on audio platforms where
on everyone that you could listen to If you happen
to listen over on Spotify or Apple podcasts.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and leave a little radio review.
Speaker 2: It help us out. But no matter how you consume this,
we appreciate you, We very much do.
Speaker 1: We haven't gotten an Apple review in a while. If
you give us an Apple review, if you're the first
one to do it, I'll send you people. Give you
an apple. I'll give you an apple. I'll send you
the nicest apple you've ever seen, not tasted.
Speaker 2: Adam, do you have any clippers toys to sense the people?
Speaker 3: What do you mean clippers?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Normally I have a.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm not giving that away.
Speaker 1: We got an update from Carl Tart. Here's the two
jerseys he's thinking of. He is thinking of blue, Norm Red,
Terrence Man.
Speaker 2: I think you should get the blue noise blue norm
would be sick.
Speaker 3: You're saying Norms getting traded? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: What am I saying?
Speaker 1: What am I saying? All Right, before we get out
of here, Adam, one positive thing it is the Clippers year.
One positive thing about the Clippers before we send these intelligent, hilarious,
wonderful listeners into the weekend.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, I gotta say a lot of good questions
this week. I gotta show love to everyone.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Some of them were left out. Some of them were
left out because because they were too good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't devote an hour to a single question.
Speaker 3: There's no stupid questions, there's just stupid people.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: Now, I appreciate everybody who submitted these questions this week
and putting some thought into them for us, because I'm
pretty psyche for this season. We talked about it off
air right before the show started, with Into It Dome
and all the tours going on. Now you're getting the itch.
Now you're starting to feel it. The jerseys are out,
you're buying new merche. You can't wait to show it
out at the game. I'm ready. I know we still
got a couple of months, but this is their year
as well, said.
Speaker 1: You may be young, but you're ready. Yeah. There we go. Perfect.
All right, that about wraps it up. Thank you everyone
for hanging out. We'll be back next week, and as always,
let's go clips