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The Clippers will be getting Ben Simmons. We know that
Will Updyke is going to be excited about this, so yeah,
Ben Simmons will be a Clipper. It happened pretty quickly.
Usually these things can sometimes take a little bit longer
to kind of, you know, happen. I guess the Clippers
do get Ben Simmons. Good morning. I was gonna go
do some shit and then this happened, So why not.
I'm gonna drink this Lacroix. We're gonna talk about it.
Alex Webb saying he just got his bet ten Jersey.
Let's go big year for Australian Clippers fans. Well, maybe not,
depending how some of them maybe feel about Ben Simmons,
but it is official. Chris Haynes tweeting out that three
time All Star Ben Simmons will sign with the Los
Angeles Clippers. What that means is, hopefully this can help
the second unit with some ball handling and kind of
being the release valve, which is the term that we've
kind of heard this year. Sorry, I'm just gonna put
this on Twitter. Pop up out there, we go. Okay, Jeremy,
you got me on that one. That's a good bit.
We've been missing that mentally week All Star Players. I'm
excited for Ben Simmons, but that is very funny. We'll
play Jeremy on your game this morning. Most people seem excited.
I think Robert Flahm brought up a good point. How
he impacts the rotations is gonna be interesting. We don't
know how much. You know, it's gonna play him too much.
We've seen that before. Seems bad. Yeah, but this should
theoretically how he fits in the rotation, This should make
things easier for the second unit in terms of, you know,
setting the table. That is what I kind of harden
talked about. Where did that quote go? Yeah? Law Murray
had this great take. I think we have to look
at it outside of point guard and more like play
starter and Ben Simmons can start plays right like, he
can make things easier for just getting into the offense,
which is good defensively. We'll see how he looks at
the small ball five. It kind of gives uh, Nico
some rest from being the small ball five, which is good. Yeah.
So there was the tweet from Chris Haynes. It's gonna
be interesting. We'll see what happened again. Like it's a buyout,
it's hard to pop. A p is very excited. This
might be will Updyke's burner. Yeah. I don't know if
if this is uh, you know, uh a game breaking
you know situation, but it is gonna be a good
time for the second unit in terms of just being normal.
Here's the tweet. If people missed it, great take right here.
Can they change the Chick fil A rules to allow
the home team to miss two free throws for guaranteed
to get some free chicken sand. Thus, now you guys
are coming with the heat early in the morning, and
this is I love it. Yeah, I mean, let's not.
I don't think Ben Simmons is gonna average nine to
eight and eight. He's not gonna have bridge a borderline
triple topple. It's not that I don't think that will happen.
If Ben Simmons, all he has to do to be
a successful buyout candidate for this team is make good cuts,
be able to be that release valve that the Clippers
need for the second unit or anything like that. Buy
in Obviously, it was reported he wanted to go to
a place where he could have a role and have
a chance at a chip. He has a bigger role
here than he would in Cleveland, which were the two
teams that were kind of vying for him. He doesn't
have to shoot. He's got to be above average defensively
and just play smart basketball. There's enough around him where
he doesn't have to do a lot, nor should he
be asked to do a lot. The Robert flomtake was
good about how it affects rotations, because if we start
to see too much Ben Simmons, then things have gone
awry obviously, and Tyler needs to figure some stuff out.
But ideally he's just kind of there to move the ball,
play good defense, and cut when he's supposed to cut.
That's all he's gonna be asked to do and hopefully
it works. And the nets were bad. I admittedly didn't
watch a lot of Nuts basketball. I have much better
things to do, like watch Clippers basketball. A lot of
people asking how is he in transition? Playing on offense
and defense. It's like the the ability is there, we've
kind of seen it. We just again, the motivation thing
is very key. I think people talking about that is
a big is fair, right, We got to see what
it looks like in the minutes that he's getting with
the addition of Bogey. We really only need assistant rebounds room. Yeah,
I like that only as in quotes from Cali here, Yeah,
only needing assistant rebound. That's still you know, big lifts.
But he's got to be able to set the table,
not even necessarily rack up assists numbers, just get guys
in spots where they're supposed to be. The Patty Mills
thing is nice, there is a connection there. Is he
even healthy, Yes, he is healthy, but the Ben Simmons
version of healthy, as we know, can be a little murky, right,
I think that's a fair question. We hope that he's
healthy and good to go, but yeah, he should be
able to guard some bigger guys that the Clippers kind
of have trouble with, should be able to set the
table a little bit easier. But and it's no rent,
this is a buyout. Yeah. So now we get into
situations where, like the issue with Simmons is he's obviously
a non shooter, so we can't We got to watch
for the rotations where there's hopefully only two non shooters
out there at this point. By Nick McCallister saying done
and Simmons can't be on the floor together, You're right
it or it has to be done Simmons and then
James Harden, Norm Powell and Kawhi because there needs to
be some kind of shooting but not. This is something
to watch for, is the rotations. He can't be out
there with Zoo, he can't be out there with Chris Dunn.
That is kind of it. I think, not that that's insignificant,
but we can't have multiple non shooters on the floor.
It's yeah, this is something to watch for. If we
want to know how the Ben Simmons thing is going,
Let's watch what lineups he's put in. Let's hope he's
put in a position to succeed, you know what I
mean with the lineups. We've seen ty Loo put out
some lineups where like no one could succeed, especially if
you're a non shooter. So let's hope that Ben Simmons
is put into lineups where he can be successful and
kind of be that that chaos guy in the middle
right that that small ball five who's running around just
making things difficult for the other team on defense, cutting
to the rim and stuff like that on offense. But
totally agree, Mick. We have to watch what the lineups
look like with him in terms of shooting. It's very
That is kind of the number one thing to look
out for. Simmons, Norms, Coffee, Derek jo Junior Batoum would
be interesting. It would be interesting. Ball pressure stuff gets
a little difficult here, so we'll see. Jeremy Mormon asking
do you think we promised him a contract next year?
I don't think that. I don't really know why I
think that, but I don't think. I think he just
gets more playing time, and if he plays well here
and the Clippers overperform, he can get a bigger contract
from somewhere else. So I think he probably came here
because he was told he'd have a role. I don't
know if he was promised. I don't think they promised
him a contract, but they definitely were like, you're gonna
have some time here, So yeah, I think that definitely happened. Yeah, exactly.
Dun Ben and Zoos should not be in at any
time unless you pay a shooter for each lineup. Yeah,
it can't. We can't fall into the trap of playing
a small ball lineup that has two nine shooters on it.
That is when things have gone poorly. Bob, Bob asking
if Jordan Miller gets more minutes. I don't know. They
just brought in Beauchamp, who shout out Seattle, who like,
is hold on? Where was the tweet? Someone was breaking
down kind of the difference between Jordan Miller and uh
in Beauchamp. Oh, the transaction cannot be completed until Monday
at earliest due to waivers. So there we go. So
that's interesting. All right, where did that comparison go? Yeah,
so Beauchamp he's six seven, Miller is six five. Bouchamp's
also younger than Jordan Miller, which is really interesting. So
we're gonna see what happens. I have no idea what
happens with Beauchamp. I don't mean this, uh disrespectfully towards him.
I don't know what his role like. If Jordan Miller's
not getting time, what minutes his boat him gonna take
from Jordan Miller's dock in time? Thank you guy. Yeah,
we've seen it. We've seen it a lot. Renee is
not excited. Uh, it's a recipe of disaster. I don't
know how it can be a disaster. It's a it's free.
It's free. The biggest way that it is a disaster,
which I don't think it's gonna be as if we
see him out there non shooting lineups. We obviously know
this team has shooting issues. He needs to be in
a position. He needs to be put in a position
to succeed. It's not like he's a cure all for
every lineup. This is a special This is a specialized
tool Ben Simmons, that we're getting here. This is not
going to be like a do at all. Ben Simmons, right, Like,
it's it's specialty. Ben Simmons, not broad go out there,
do you think, Ben Simmons. I don't know if energy
is what he's gonna bring. But again, we need him
to make things easier for the second unit, help us
with these elementary turnovers. We have the Clippers. There's been
a lot of talk of the turnovers over the last
two games. They had nineteen. Last three games, they had
nineteen against the Pacers, which was a nightmare. They only
had ten in each of the games against the Lakers
and the Raptors, but they were ugly turnovers. They're turnovers
where it's like, what are we doing? Their backcourt violations
you're throwing it's horrible. If he can help them cut
down on that, it will be good. Max Skywalker saying
I don't trust Tylu lineups. I think there's some you
cannot trust, but I trust them for the most part.
As of ten forty nine am. We'll see what it
looks like when he clears on Monday. So he's gonna
be back, probably play in one of the back to
back games coming up. They have today against the Jazz,
and then they have a back to back in three
days against the Grizzlies and the Jazz again, so that's fun.
Josephry Award has sent his thoughts. If you're a real
Clippers podcast og, we're gonna go ahead, but Charles Gardner's
quote on here because we have the same name. Clippers
recently have revived players careers. Ben will be huge. He's
a scuper player. Go clips. Hell yeah, Charles Gardner, I
hope you're having a good Saturday morning race. Marlin saying
I don't know him playing in the same city as
Kendall Jenner contermined into a monster. There's a lot of
ups There's a lot of wacky upside here that people
are throwing out, which I appreciate josephry Awards saying he
has the potential to be exactly what we need with
the downside of someone who never sees the four. I'm
hoping we get motivational tie with him, not punishment tie,
which I think is fair. We hope the tie never
plays Derek Jones Junior or Zoo with them. I think
that's fair. It's gonna be a good time. I like
I would add Derek Jones Junior to the list of
people that probably shouldn't be on the floor when Ben
Simmons is on the floor. So if we look at
it like that, where Ben Simmons should not share the
floor with Christain Avitza Zubats Dereck Jones Jr. I think
that feels fair in terms of like actual rotation minutes,
that would put him in a position to do what
he's here to do, which is make things easier for
the offense, help us guard up a little bit on
defense and things like that. Center j R. Being a
little bored. We need more site. There's no risk, like
it's it's really difficult to be incredibly mad about this. Again,
it's no risk. It's the buyout. They got it done quick,
which I like, so that's good. We just got to
see what their rotations look like. If he's put in
a position to succeed, can come in, you know, at
the end of the first to make things easier and
stuff like that. People asking about Malcolm Brogden in the chat.
He's staying, but we could not have gotten Malcolm Brogden.
The Wizards want him to stay. I have no idea
why I'm not I would have I wouldn't have mind.
Malcolm Brogen need it. I think that makes total sense.
But he's staying in Washington, so it's not like they
like missed out on him or something like that. Right,
So I hope that makes you feel better, Chloe, I dfs, Yeah,
d Flow. You're absolutely right. If Ben and Dunn ever
hit the cord at the same time, super nasty, brutal,
the shooting would be bad. And that's a totally fair
thing to be worried about. It's not it's not crazy
to call to wonder who he should and should not
play with on another not what the hell has been
going on with Kawhi the last few games. He just
looks fatigued. He looks like a guy who's coming back,
who's tired. It's shitty. I'm not you know, I'm not
gonna say that it looks good. The defense against the
Lakers was rough, but hopefully he's he's getting out of
that soon. But he has looked a little more human.
Perfect game for him to get right against the Jets tonight. Right,
Let's hope that that that can happen. But let's hope
it looks better. He needs the rest. All the guys
need a rest. It's been bad. They've they've looked like
a tired team. But yeah, Ben Simmons will be a Clipper,
most likely on Monday, that is when the thing can
be transaction due to the waivers. Uh. Someone did point
out though that Drew Eubanks or no. Bogden's gonna have
to change his number though, because I think Bogden picks ten.
We got drama already with the new signings, right Bogin
versus Ben Simmons for the number ten. Maybe they'll play
for it. But I feel pretty good about Yes, jim
L would is this going on pod? Yeah, I'm gonna
put this out at audio in like four minutes. It's
my Saturday and I'm going to the game later, so
I can only talk about this that much longer. But
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out YouTube dot com at Clippers Podcast. It's a very
fun time. Jimmy, g just limit the damn turnovers. That's
kind of where I'm at. If Ben Simmons can come in,
be put into a position with the bench line up
where they're shooting around him and there's not two non shooters,
just limit the turnovers. Play plus okay, plus good to
plus defense and it will be a good signing. Again,
it's free people, as Sinner Jr. Is saying, excuse me,
it is free. It's free real estate, as some would say.
I yeah, so we probably will see hack of Ben,
but like I mean, he's not gonna be in. I
don't know. We gotta see what's gonna happen. The rotations
are gonna be important. We'll probably get hack of Ben,
but like it's again, this is where you know, we
gotta watch Tyler with how much he plays him. If
teams do this, I don't like. I don't think. I
don't think hack of Ben is gonna be a huge
problem for this team. Like, I just don't. People are
reposting the hilarious clip of Cowherd saying, hey, Lebron, Ben
Simmons is here, We're all good. That's a great point
by Andy. Norm Bogey and you Banks can combine for
forty one million expiring salary next season. That could bring
in some disgruntled stars. Yeah, let's bring in disgruntled stars.
I don't know what's gonna happen next season. Ben Simmons
is a Clipper. Well, he will be on Monday, because
that's how things clear. Let's hope out. It's hope it
goes okay, Really watch for what rotations he's put into.
We don't want him out there with non shooters or
one other non shooter that cannot happen. That will be
bad for the Clippers. But there's obviously a path for
him to help impact this team. It was free. Let's
hope it works out. Let's also hope that the Clippers
beat the damn Jazz tonight. If you see Adam or
Will and I at the game, say what's up? We
should be there might be hooping out front before, so
who knows. Thanks for hanging out. I have things I
was going to go do. Let's hope there's more good news.
I guess we'll do a live if there is. Have
a good rest of your weekend, and let's let's go clips.
We need this win tonight. Let's beat the jazz. It
always feels good to beat the jazz.