Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippings Man. Welcome to season three,
episode ten of Clips in Dim. I am Chuck Blockley,
joined by Adam Oslin and William Updyke. Thanks for hanging out,
Thanks for listening, Thanks for watching us. Over on YouTube
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if you want to watch us also talk about the
clips as opposed to just hearing us. We got some
fun stuff today. We're gonna be talking to the Clippers schedule.
People are upset about the back to backs. We're talking
Rico Hines run, and then we have one dip to
talk about before we get into it. Adam, Will, how
are you guys doing on this scorching hot Sunday afternoon
in Los Angeles?
Speaker 2: I'm okay. I'm feeling all right.
Speaker 3: Saw Alien Romulus a little bit earlier. Okay, if you
guys want to say through you unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: But also there's not a lot going on right now
movie wise.
Speaker 2: I know you weren't looking forward to Deadpool.
Speaker 3: Wolverines, So if you could get it for ten to
fifteen bucks, whatever, check it out.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard mostly good things about it. Will, how
are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty good. I'm a little under the weather
from a long Charles Birthday weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a fun time. We were bowling it
up yesterday. Adam had a couple of celebrity shots. I think,
did you get a strike? I thought you got one.
Speaker 3: I got after hitting nothing, which this underscores my bowling game.
I just throw it overhand as hard as I can
after going for a gutter ball. Then I hit a spare,
knocking the ball down afterwards. I don't think it counts
as a strike, but there.
Speaker 1: You got it. It's a great time shout out shadow Legs.
So the Clipper schedule is released. We've all seen it.
We've all been kind of upset about the back to
It's the first one and into a dome. How are
we feeling about the schedule? The back there's sixteen back
to backs for the Clippers. I don't know a lot
of other teams have sixteen back to backs.
Speaker 2: That Psnichers, not the Warriors.
Speaker 1: Do you like? How do you feel about the schedule?
Speaker 2: I don't feel great about it at all.
Speaker 3: It's the second toughest strength of schedule schedule in the
NBA this season. And while there are some things that
are better that should be, I don't I don't know
if we can give the NBA too much credit for
not giving them anymore afternoon Mattine home games.
Speaker 2: That kind of was built in.
Speaker 3: When you build a new arena, you would expect that
that's baked in.
Speaker 2: Sixteen back to backs to me, I just.
Speaker 3: Because of what's going on with Kawhi Leonard and how
we expect him to be a little managed again, maybe severely.
I don't know they're going to handle it, but they're
gonna try something. Is he's just out of those sixteen games,
and then you're talking about just a team that is
lacking firepower even if James Harden is available for all
of those, and lacking shot creation. So yeah, I'm concerned
sixteen back to backs, Like people could say it's whining,
is complaining. Those people are typically fans of teams that
don't have the schedule the Clippers have, so it's very
easy in those moments to be like, you guys are
just complainers. I don't know.
Speaker 2: The Lakers pay.
Speaker 3: Rent in their building and they only have thirteen back
tobacks and they also play in LA, so there's a
team you can line up comparable schedule wise, at least
you would think to the Clippers, And I know there's
imbalances and schedules, but when you deal with this year
in and year out for so long as a Clipper fan,
I think there's some legitimacy to just being a little
bit frustrated. You get your new arena and it still
feels like you have one of the toughest schedules in
the NBA and you have the maximum amount of back
to backs that anyone else does in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I there are some tough stretches. I mean,
the first five games is an exactly easy Phoenix Denver Warriors,
Portland Phoenix back to back. But I've I'm just I've
just always been so upset about the schedule that now
I'm just like, I want to see what it looks
like to have a shitty schedule with our home stadium now,
you know what I mean, everything's gonna be easier theoretically
because of that. It should make things a little easier
in terms of you know, we talked about the practice
facilities just all that stuff. So I think I don't know,
they have seventeen games in March again, how about that
check which I don't. I don't necessarily love that. I
will definitely freak out about that, which will be fun,
but will how what do you think are you? Are
you knocking down Adam Silver's door with a torch demand
him to redo the schedule?
Speaker 4: I mean, I just I really don't get it. It
kind of feels like a joke at this point. Yeah,
the amount of back to backs, just the difficulty of
the schedule, And I mean, you know, I guess that
you can't really take into account like the age of
a of a team and sort of like the the
injury history, because that, you know that maybe would be
too favorable to lean things in the Clippers way. I'm
just looking for something middle of the road. How about that,
Like it doesn't even have to be favorable. How about
just average? How about just an average number of back
to backs, an average number of difficulty on the schedule,
Like I you know, I'm not looking for any sort
of special treatment here, and no new games. I do
think is huge. I think that I'm my hope is
that that actually ends up being a bigger advantage than
the number of back to backs is a disadvantage, right,
And I think after our most our tour of into
a dome. I think that where like we're pretty high
on the idea of everything being pretty integrated together there
with you know, the practice facility, all the medical stuff
being in one building. Like, I do think there's something
to be said about being able to eliminate some of
the players, like unnecessary travels and stuff. And do I
think that driving in your car an extra two hours
a day is going to necessarily make you more like
not necessary, not necessarily, but I mean there is like
a mental fatigue and there is like a fatigue aspect
to it that I do feel like I'm again, I'm
hoping that it can offset some of this difficulty of schedule.
I think the biggest thing to look out for, and
I think we're gonna get a very good idea in
the first week, is how much of an advantage can we,
as the fans, milk out of this new arena. We're
milking it the milkman.
Speaker 2: Man delivers my milk in the moment.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, how can how can we kind
of bring the energy and stuff when there is you know,
a the dulgence of the schedule that we all know,
you know, especially like around the All Star break and
then you know, towards the towards the yeah, towards the
very like latter quarter of the season, and stuff like,
how much can the fans try to make a difference
for those guys, and especially on nights when one or
both of Kawhi or Harden, this is not going to
be out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like what Will said? How about just something average?
Going from F minus schedule to a D minus scheduled
doesn't move me. And I understand, Hey, it's great, no
more afternoon games on a Saturday or Sunday. That is
the bare minimum of what could happen when you get
your arena. I can't give much credit for that happening, honestly.
Speaker 1: I mean that's fair. I wasn't say yeah, I'm not yeah,
trying to give them.
Speaker 3: I want to get Chuck pissed off, basically, is what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for it. I want the eruption.
Speaker 1: We'll see where I'm at in February, when you know,
when we're looking at March and stuff like that. But
it's like, I like, what uh willmans about the fans too,
it's gonna you know, we got a home court advantage
that's gonna be interesting to see just I mean especially,
I mean opening night's gonna be awesome. I hope we
can get the dub against Phoenix. That would be that
would be great.
Speaker 3: If you're looking at the first ten games, I'd sign
up for five and five right now.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, let me uh, let me share my screen.
I believe we have the capabilities for that. And also
when you were looking at the strength of schedule thing,
was it just looking at like their last year's win percentage.
Speaker 3: No, it takes into account back to backs. It's a
it's a crazy formula. It takes uh rest disadvantaged games
they have, which I think is thirteen, which is most
in the league, so you know they're coming off of
back to back the other team is well rested, those
type of things. It came from Timer Azari. I think
Justin Rousseau also had it. But this is it's a
high level analytical schedule formula that spits this out and
says the second toughest schedule in the league tie for
the second toughest. I think the toughest was Portland.
Speaker 1: That sucks for them. I'd be pissed as a Portland fan.
God Twitter, so garbage. I hate this platform. All right, Umm, yeah,
I mean the first five Phoenix, Denver, Golden State, Portland, Phoenix.
That I mean we're going two and three in there
would be expected. It's a tough opening five.
Speaker 3: Then Philadelphia, zach Ramento, Toronto's your next five. Yeah, I'll
take five and five to start things off this season, honestly,
because you have a back to back almost right away
at Portland, then taken on. Excuse me, the first back
to back is Denver Golden State.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we have two back to back the first week.
Speaker 3: Get angry, Chuck, do it? Look at this thing justified?
Speaker 1: I'm not okay, I don't want to Yeah, I don't
want to say I'm pro this schedule. I'm not making
that argument at all. I am just not. That's what
I'm just like. All Right, I've been you know, you've
been hitting the head so many times at some point
you stop feeling it.
Speaker 3: But this is a new level of injustice because they
have their own arena. The Lakers don't have their own arena.
Speaker 2: They're in l A two. Why is their schedule better?
Speaker 1: Sure they do. So. There was some good news bad
news from Justin Rousseau. They travel almost five thousand fewer
miles this year. Wow.
Speaker 3: Big still the fifth most miles traveled, of course.
Speaker 1: But they're also tied for the bucks with the most
rest disadvantage games?
Speaker 2: Is it thirteen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they have. But they have thirteen rest advantage games,
which they have the third highest of Well, that basically
cancels it out.
Speaker 2: How do you.
Speaker 3: Guys feel about because you play everyone in the PACTV
four times?
Speaker 2: How do you guys.
Speaker 1: Feel about the division playworks?
Speaker 3: The other important the other teams they end up playing
four times.
Speaker 2: I believe it's okay, se.
Speaker 3: Dallas, San Antonio, Portland, and Houston.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like playing Okay, see in Dallas
four times, that's a lot of defending and playing really
good teams.
Speaker 3: You get Portland though, four times. San Antonio. Theory still
might not be a play playing team.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: Well in the Dallas ones, two of them are back
to backs. It's a home back to back at the
end of the season is one of them, which is
super weird.
Speaker 3: Houston could be a team they're competing with all season
long in the standings. I could see that happening, and
they get them four times, so.
Speaker 2: I'd say it's it's somewhat balanced there. Yeah, I'll concede that.
Speaker 1: Well, the Rockets thing is tough because if the Clippers
finish better than the Rockets, we still get to keep
our pick, all right, So playing them four times is huge.
We need to probably go.
Speaker 2: Four and in those games, well, are you feeling better
or worse?
Speaker 1: Dud dive in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, same, I don't know, we've made it through before.
Speaker 1: I just whatever, It's.
Speaker 4: Just one of those things like it's it's gonna be like, uh,
you know, it's not even gonna be a footnow in
the annals of history of like why were the Clippers
never healthy? They had the worst, one of the worst
schedules every single year with that aging already injury players.
Speaker 2: Right, And I agree with you.
Speaker 3: It's not in the league to account for their roster
and who they have.
Speaker 2: With Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 3: It just compounds things for a team that is older.
When you think about the fact it might guarantee Kawhi
is missing sixteen games right off the top because of
those back to backs.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna miss all sixteen, you know
what I mean, Like he wouldn't. I don't think he
sits out every game of I don't think he sits out.
Speaker 5: I think I'm.
Speaker 6: Actually opposed to him playing back to backs. Oh, I
don't want him to play back to backs. I've been
on record saying they need to revolutionize what loage management
is this year with Kawhi Leonard like, they're going to
have to get really creative with.
Speaker 3: That means he's missing sixteen games though, right off the top,
because sixteen back to backs, he's missing one side of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because idea because when you think about it too,
if they want the max, you know they're they're to
have this idea, we'll have the max slot after this year.
Kawhi is still a part of that equation.
Speaker 3: I would assume maybe twenty twenty six where they have
it right, So after yeah, two years?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, Actually, Cowi is probably not in that equation.
Isn't his contract?
Speaker 4: Hup?
Speaker 1: Two years?
Speaker 3: Again, the guys that are available, the two top guys
are Luca and Sga. Are they going to be able
to pry away one of those guys? I think it
might be in their favor if Okac could win a
RAG in the next two years. Honestly, that he'd have
more of a reason to.
Speaker 2: Be able to leave. He'd have his out he brought
them a championship.
Speaker 1: Like Lebron with Cleveland, Kawhi would have one year he'd
done twenty six to twenty seven, and then he's a Freezeah.
Who knows what he does after that.
Speaker 3: To your point, though, with James Harden's contract and him
having an opt out after this season, I don't know
how much money.
Speaker 2: In theory that could free up.
Speaker 3: We know it's what thirty two million dollars, thirty five
million dollars.
Speaker 1: Thirty six.
Speaker 3: So maybe they could do a little moving and shaking.
Speaker 2: I mean they might sooner.
Speaker 1: Maybe they sell high on Kawhi this year.
Speaker 2: Everything is on the table with this team.
Speaker 1: She's fifty forty ninety for a month.
Speaker 2: And you're like, well, he doesn't have a no trade clause.
Speaker 5: He does not, m I just going back to the schedule,
it's just it's just overall frustrate, a little bit unexpected
and surprising that they would still end up with the
most back to backs.
Speaker 3: Even though it's tied with other teams. Great, it's not
tied with the same team in their city, and that
is what people are comparing it to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Someone did point out to our two away games against
the Lakers are all the second nights of back to backs.
Speaker 3: I think there are two games against Boston, second night
of back to back against the defending champs.
Speaker 1: Those are the two games we lose. Will saying it's
our year, so they're gonna go. They're gonna lose those
Boston games. So you would give the schedule makers an
F grade adam D minus?
Speaker 2: From F minus to D minus?
Speaker 1: Do you minus? Well? What do you going? What do
you give them the schedule makers?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gotta be like a D mins. Yeah, I
don't think I'm delivering a passing grade for this one.
You're their parents.
Speaker 3: What's interesting is I hear people I love Dime Dropper.
I think I'm going on with him later this week.
And he's a no nonsense, no excuses type of guy.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like people complaining about the schedule.
Speaker 3: I've seen him put out these tweets and stuff. If
you don't think the schedule can affect things, then why
are good teams typically around five hundred on the second
night of a back to back. If you don't think
it is a huge disadvantage to have more back to backs,
Then why does that happen? If Jerry West, who's a
no nonsense who was a no nonsense guy through and
through the late great Jerry West, Now if he could
say something about the schedule, which he did multiple times,
and how they need a new home because of this,
I think it's fair game to talk about. Yeah, we're
not going to do this all season long, but this
is relevant.
Speaker 1: I'm a of what we've mary flip. What if I
just flip and become a guy who is furious at
the schedule because that's yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I agree with the idea of like there's
there's nothing you can do, right, the schedule is out now,
it is what it is, and yeah, we're not going
to dwell on it too much just by you know,
like us talking a lot about it here, you know,
and I agree it is a disadvantage, but like, once
it's done, it's done. You know, like there's nothing that
we can really do about that. It's kind of you know,
the best you can hope for is that the coaching
staff and medical staff is is really aware and cognizant
of these sort of issues that they're going to face,
and they you know, make a solid game plan for
both in game rest uh and you know, managing minutes
and and things like that to ensure that you know,
even if you if it's whether it's less minutes they
find out needs to be the situation for Kawhi and
or hardened, or if it's more minutes and less games
or you know, just whatever that balance needs to end
up being. I hope that they can kind of play
with that and figure out, you know how how to
make things the best on the margins with the you know,
with the kind of shit deal that they were handed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got Kawhi to like thirty minutes a night he
was at thirty four, basically at thirty four for his
Clippers tenure for the most part, maybe that cut starts
to happen. I don't think that's crazy. No, same with me.
Speaker 3: Does this guarantee young guys even more of an opportunity
this season?
Speaker 2: This schedule?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: I think yeah. I mean they have their spots right,
like it's those back to backs and things, so like
there is gonna be time for Jordan Miller as obviously.
I think we all kind of agree at the top
of that list of guys that we a want to
see and probably based on how they played deserve a
legit shot. The roster makes it kind of hard, I think,
because if Kawhi is playing the four, the only other
like real four we have is but two, you know,
maybe Kobe.
Speaker 2: But I think that's a great question.
Speaker 3: When Kawhi is out at the four, at the starting four,
who is starting.
Speaker 1: I think they'll start Nico and then the bench. It's
like then things get a little wacky.
Speaker 3: There's a good chance, though, if Kawhi is missing sixteen
to twenty five games during the season, Nico's not going
to be available for all those. Either Nico's missed games
the last couple of years, Nico's thirty six, say, all
nights where they're both out, Who's playing the four?
Speaker 1: PJ Tucker's still on the roster.
Speaker 2: I know that's what you'd like to see, Chuck, but
I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't care about the schedule, and I hope PJ
gets a bunch of minutes. That's where I'm at right now.
I've absolute if we need to make up.
Speaker 4: For Paul George's scoring, we know that PJ can actually
already exceed that. So last time we saw them, pretty
good spot to me and honestly, last.
Speaker 1: Time we show him sat in the four. But no,
I think I think, yeah, this is I mean, if
this we've said before, if there's ever been a time
for the young guys to get some run, it's during
some of these back to backs, And now it seems
like we have some young guys that they're prepared to
give that time.
Speaker 4: They know that this is our year. They get it,
they understand the assignment.
Speaker 3: The stay ready mindset, it has to be there starting now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've seen the.
Speaker 3: Schedule, Stay ready guys.
Speaker 2: That opportunity is coming. It's right around the corner.
Speaker 1: I mean, it absolutely is. We're gonna talk about some
guys who were playing in some stay Ready type games
at Rico Hines, was James Harden and all of the
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bemoan the schedule. It's not ideal. Once again for the Clippers.
But let's get into some stuff that.
Speaker 4: Is ideal, which is, uh, the Rico Hines runs, which
we've seen, Uh you know a lot of the Clippers
building their chemistry there and uh we talked about it earlier,
but James Harden kind of making an olive not an
olive branch, because that implies some sort of rolling out
I'll call it rolling out the red carpet for the
young guys. Yeah, guy in through the Rico Hines runs. Uh. So, Charles,
what uh what have you taken away from this footage
so far?
Speaker 1: So? Yeah, like you said, so it was Harden, I mean,
Mobamba was there, Uh, Jordan Miller, Kobe Brown came, Christi Parkless,
a bunch of U. C. L A guys, Highway Hawkins
was there too, by like Kevon Looney, Kobe's I mean,
I don't know. James didn't seem like he was you know,
he was going hard offensively, defensively. It wasn't exactly a clinic,
which is fine. But seeing Kobe and Derek Jones Junior
kind of have a little spark just in these runs
was really cool to see they were able to find
each other that had some good drivekickswing type things. Kobe's
really good at cutting cam Christy looked comfortable from the footage,
I saw, you know what I mean, Like he wasn't
getting bullied or anything like that. He had a couple
of nice dunks, which was nice. And then yeah, you
saw the range from Derek Jones Junior and Mo Bomba
was there is also what I gathered from the footage.
I don't not the strongest showing from Bomba, I don't
think just from what I saw. But Adam, did you
did you watch any of it? I love these runs.
By the way, these are like, if you're new to
the Clippers, Rico Hines runs. They ran by Rico Hines
at UCLA played a seven. It's one point, but it's
like it's real run. They're kind of legendary open gyms
in southern California.
Speaker 3: It reminded me a little bit of just what a
special player James Harden is because of his work ethic.
He wasn't supposed to be an MVP, a top seventy
five player when he was coming out of Arizona.
Speaker 4: State, and.
Speaker 3: Rico said to the rest of the players and speaking
to what a hard worker he is.
Speaker 2: He said when James hard got his.
Speaker 3: MVP in twenty eighteen, he was there the very next
day doing the exact same stuff. Nothing changed. People like
to talk about James Harden, you know, having fun or
being a playboy or whatever. Let James Harden be James Harden.
It just worked for him very well. If he is
one of the hardest workers in the NBA and he
looks good. He looked good in the run and which
could also be telling for just where he's at health wise,
because he was banged up the last couple months of
the season. He bawled out was their best player against
the Dallas Mavericks. Overall, he was very good in that series.
But I like seeing guys that don't need to obviously
prove it anything, that have done so much in this
league still want to play in these lower level program
type of games. Because if he's about to turn thirty
five and was playing at this stuff, I think he's
ready for training camp.
Speaker 2: I think he's ready to go.
Speaker 3: And he has been an absolute innings leeter over his
career and they're gonna need it this year.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, well, how much do you I mean, obviously,
I'm assuming you like seeing the young guys out there
with Harden getting run against other pros.
Speaker 4: My mic is refusing mute. Yeah, No, I think it's good.
I love seeing, you know, the veteran leadership, especially if
someone like Harden, who I think it's an overly bad
rap in that sort of department. I mean, he kind
of gets sort of the treatment where people talk about
him like he's like this terrible locker room guy, or
like has all these bad habits and stuff and makes
things miserable. And I don't think that that has been
necessarily fair. I'm sure that there have been times and
positions in his career where maybe he wasn't the cheeriest
guy in the locker room. But I do think that
I do think that it says a lot. And I
do think that, you know, the importance of the young
guys is not lost on our two aging stars right now.
Right what they understand if this team, you know, has
any sort of a puncher's chance at a deep playoff run,
it's going to be because that these young guys develop
enough to a point where they can they can take
the reins some nights in the regular season and still
be successful. So I think that that's like a great
a great recognition, and I do just also like it
as a as a tone setter move for Hardened throughout
the rest of the season, right because we've talked about
how many fricking conversations have we had on this podcast
about like the leadership or identity of the Clippers, And
I think, you know, what really needs to happen is
like one guy just needs to take the reins and say, hey,
I'm a voice in this locker room and this is
how things are going to go and this is what's
going to be expected.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I you know, it'd be great if it came
from one of your best two players, obviously, but if
it's not gonna be one of those guys, it has
to be somebody. But I like that Hargin seems to
be taking the initiative.
Speaker 1: And again, PJ. Tucker's still in the roster. He could
be that guy too if we don't get that from
from Harden.
Speaker 4: But if he has enough time, he's got a lot
of media, he's got a lot of media appearances, he's
got to talk to a lot of he's got to
talk to Sokol News Group quite a bit.
Speaker 3: So if he doesn't get sent home for not being
that guy. He can definitely be that guy.
Speaker 1: I hope they do some more games. I hope some
more stuff comes out. Just really cool to see other
some other news from Into It do It's gonna be
free shuttles to into a dough which is pretty rad.
They're going to be from Pierce College. The expos of
Pulvida metro station, harborgate rate trendsit but Will and I
used to catch the nine P fifty to go to
games when we worked in Torrents and then the Elmantra
metro station and Union station, which is awesome. You love
free transportation. It's gonna make everything easier. Over it. Into
It it.
Speaker 4: Seemed like it was running fairly smoothly too for the
first for the first run to the concert, I didn't
hear people like complaining about it too much or anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard there was some traffic was really bad.
Speaker 4: I heard the traffic was a bit of a nightmare.
But there's only so much you can do about that.
But yeah, if people do opt to use this option
of free transportation, that can alleviate some of that vibes.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done the Dodgers express before a game?
That shit, that could be a good time on the
Dodgers Express.
Speaker 4: Do you hit tracks at Union Station then freaking shut
along over it? It's great?
Speaker 3: Do you get a climb up through that sewer cap
we saw in the bowels of Into when we got
our tour.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was like a lucidate and I
was like, that's like an old ass ninja turtle style
just sewer man whole cover. I saw some people apparently
there was obviously Bruno Mars opened up the end of
a dome this week and there was some kinks with
people getting into the stadium and there. I heard that
on day two, everything was super smooth. They had like
the escalators were all good to go.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, we said the hiccups, right, it's expected.
Speaker 4: The facial recognition stuff too. I mean this is still
this is still relatively new technology. I mean you know
they've even when uh companies like Amazon and stuff are
trying to do this on a smaller scale, you know,
like just for for like a little fail yeah corner store,
like there has been a lot of difficulty. So it's
not it's it is to be expected.
Speaker 1: And you also don't need to do the facial recognition stuff.
It's the other part. You just don't have to do
that if you don't want to, Yeah, you can.
Speaker 4: Just add it to your Google wallet or Apple wallet
or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's what I did. But yeah, people, I've also seen
I'm sure you guys are seeing this on Twitter some
people kind of lamenting the price of Game one for
Clippers or Suns, which I can see both sides of
the argument. But also it's the opening of a brand
new stadium, state of art, kind of the first game.
Speaker 4: I kind of see it both ways. I mean, like
I do, but like opening night, Opening night, you know,
for for any sport, is generally gonna be the most
one of the more expensive tickets. You add in the
thing of uh being a completely new stadium, of course,
you know people are gonna jack the prices up. But
at the same time, like I don't want the Clippers
to get away from it. I think, like what's made
them so ingrained in the community, which is providing a
really good fan experience for a generally a better price point.
And I understand obviously with the new stadium, you gotta
make money, you gotta do all that stuff, and the
amenities are great, but like it would be a bummer,
because we already have heard from some season ticket holders
who you know, maybe didn't want to renew due to
the price hike or whatever, but they they got to
stay in their roots and in in the community thing,
because ultimately, that's that's how you win the city over.
If you ever want to be which I don't even
know if it's possible, if you ever want to be
not the little brother. I think it's it's it's getting
in with families and and uh, you know, having that
sort of experience. Uh so you can foster young fans
in this system, right, But yeah, I get it, I
get it. It's it's game one. I just I just
hope it's something that they're thinking of and sort of
keeping in mind.
Speaker 2: I agree with all that.
Speaker 3: It does seem though that they're trying to balance it.
The wall has some really good deals and even higher
up we were talking about it coming out of the tour,
you could get those tickets for sounds like other two
thousand dollars and they're really good seats even if you're
at the very top. So there are there are options
there for some cheaper seeds that yeah, opening night, new arena,
there can't be this you know, beggars can't be choosers.
We want a new arena, but we also want all
these stipulations for it to be just so perfect to
fit exactly what we want. It's it's never going to
be that way. You got to take a lot of
good with still some bad to be expected with prices
being increased because the amenities are the greatest in the
world for an arena. It's literally the highest tech arena
in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we get out of here, Oh, if you
went to the Brino Mars show, let us know over
at clippers Pod on Twitter, let us know your experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't heard anything. I'm curious to know if
you went, like, what your experience with the audio was,
because because we were another thing we were told on
the tour is that they actually like purchased like the
preferred audio system that touring that touring musicians, I guess
generally end up just like sort of renting, uh and
and bringing into the venue and paying like a third
party to kind of deal with this whole thing. Uh
So they just went ahead and went out and bought it.
So you don't have to you don't have to rent
anything or or bring anything in but you know, it
is a space that the physical space itself was designed
for basketball. So I'm just curious to know, like what
the like audio experience was, if anybody, if anybody has
put her thoughts on that. I didn't hear anything bad,
so that like, that's that's a good sign. I'm just
it's one of those things I'm just legitimately curious about.
Speaker 1: I know, Vlad, so Clipper, Lad, if you want to
tell us how the audio sounded, let us not.
Speaker 3: Ryan Seaman hit me up and said, uh, it was incredible,
total madness. He can't wait for the basketball season.
Speaker 1: Gonna be loud. It's gonna be very loud. Before we
get out of here and let people on their week.
We have one dip to talk about. I did not
bring one. I'm using the birthday pass for this. I'm
much too exhausted from a very busy weekend. I have
no idea what Adam's excuse is.
Speaker 2: I need I have.
Speaker 1: That's a very good excuse if you need if you're
if you just say I need Tom's.
Speaker 3: Here's my dip is the pink stuff.
Speaker 2: Tomb's tablet into it.
Speaker 1: But will you have a dip? Would you like to
break down the dip and what you're eating and if
you would take it.
Speaker 3: To b.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I I have a a Signature select. This
is a artichoke Parmesan dip, which if you're if you'll
remember if you're a true clips and dip. I previously
had a similar dip from Signature Club that was the
actually the artichoke called pano, which I would say I
liked a little bit better, a little kick. The consistency
of this is really good. Some nice pieces are choking there,
nice creamy you know, creamy good, good, good texture, good consistency.
Just wish there was maybe like a little bit more kick,
a little bit more flavor. Uh yeah, eating it with
just some cucumber slices, which you know, good, good little treat,
some some more Persian cucumbers spears. But yeah, I would
probably I would take this to a barbecue. It's you know,
it's it's pretty good. If I had the option though,
of this or the Hall of Panian or Choke Dip,
I'm definitely leaning that way. Okay, Yeah, von Vonds, I
got some pretty good dips I've been in. I've been
mostly a Ralphs van and I'm kind of as of
late now I'm more of a bons Man.
Speaker 1: Wow, big transitional period for you.
Speaker 4: It's a much better I'm gonna say, it's a much
better customer experience. Uh for a few reasons. Ay, there's
less fucking ship locked behind walls. If you need if
you need a stick of the odorant, or you got
to ask for a bar of soul. The bar of
dove soap that costs a dollar is in a case.
Speaker 3: Our kids puffing huffing soap now, and it's that they're
gonna lose.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: I hate asking that ship.
Speaker 4: Also, the Ralphs that I generally go to, it'll be
a Sunday at like five pm and there's one checkout.
Speaker 1: Like has that issue to you? Though not by me?
Not by me, buddy, Which all right, we're gonna get
into this on our.
Speaker 3: Billions guys guy, but whatever, that's freaking ship.
Speaker 1: I'm an h Mark guy. I've been going to mostly
h Mark. But we'll talk about this on the We're
gonna start a Picky Guy. We're gonna start a Patreon
where we just talked about l our La supermarket experiences. Well,
thank you for upholding the dip segment of the show.
Speaker 4: Somebody's gotta do it. Somebody's got to put the work in.
Speaker 2: Mister integrity, he's proud of.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 1: Guys are sitting on your mark show. Yeah, I've had
a long week. It's been very through my own doing.
We are going to be back next week. We might
have a guest. We will have dips. We will absolutely
have dips and that's a clips and dip guarantee. Will
Where can these people listen to us if they would
like to hear us?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can listen to this show wherever you get
your podcasts. If you happen to listen over on Apple
Podcasts or Spotify, If you could leave us a little
rating and review really help us out. We'd appreciate it.
But yeah, like I said, you can get it anywhere
you listen to podcasts. If you want the full three
dimensional experience of this podcast, you've got to check us
out over on YouTube dot com. That's at podcast. Uh.
We love to chop it up with you over there.
But yeah, however you listen or review, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: We really do one positive thing. If you can think
of anything to send these Clippers fans out to start
their week, this is a really important one.
Speaker 3: So Alien Romulus is kind of like the Clippers schedule.
It's uh, it's better than pretty much every Alien movie
since Alien three. Still kind of bad, still kind of bad,
but better than it has been in the past.
Speaker 2: Just like their schedules, goes from F minus to a
D minus. How about that person positivity?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 1: And with that, I hope everyone has a wonderful week.
I hope everyone has a D minus week because what
out of is communicating here is what it feels like.
Get degrees. That was the saying, right, thank you' all
for listening. We will be back next week and as always,
let's go clips.