Speaker 1: Oh, come into a Clippers Talk Live after we had
Speaker 1: two kind of two different postgame shows last night after
Speaker 1: the Clippers lost by one to the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 1: and I thought I would just be resting my voice today,
Speaker 1: but we had a little bit of news here. You
Speaker 1: see it in the title. I'll get to it here
Speaker 1: in a second, which you want to get out the particulars.
Speaker 1: I'm Oudame Osland. This is your Clippers Talk YouTube side
Speaker 1: channel where when there's breaking news, even if you don't
Speaker 1: think it amounts to much, I will be here to
Speaker 1: talk about it as I am right now. Because there
Speaker 1: was something regarding PJ. Tucker that just came out a
Speaker 1: little bit ago, and I thought even on an NFL Sunday,
Speaker 1: we could talk about it a little bit here on
Speaker 1: a Clippers Talk Live for you again. Two postgame shows
Speaker 1: that you can watch on the video section from last
Speaker 1: night on YouTube, and if you guys are in here
Speaker 1: on the chat, let me know that you can hear
Speaker 1: me or not. I would appreciate that. But I saw
Speaker 1: this just a bit ag from Justin Rousseau and it
Speaker 1: said this, The LA Clippers released a statement regarding PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker quote. We've had ongoing conversations with PJ throughout the
Speaker 1: off season, and have both decided that he won't be
Speaker 1: with the team for the time being. PJ is a pro,
Speaker 1: has achieved a lot in his career, and there's more
Speaker 1: he wants to accomplish. We will continue working with PJ
Speaker 1: and his representatives to find the best situation for him
Speaker 1: moving forward. Sal says, Audio's PJ. I'm guessing he can
Speaker 1: hear me. Now. If you've been listening to me throughout
Speaker 1: this entire summer here on Clippers Talk, you will know
Speaker 1: that probably in half the shows I did with reporters
Speaker 1: for the Clippers, Law Murray, Justin Russo. As I mentioned earlier, Rousseau,
Speaker 1: the guys from the lob of the Jam the podcast,
Speaker 1: I would ask them, what do you think happens with
Speaker 1: PJ and Bones? Are they going to be at training camp?
Speaker 1: Are they going to show up to training camp? Well,
Speaker 1: I've seen Bones Highland there. I've seen Bones in some
Speaker 1: of the clips playing scrimmaging. I know he's there at
Speaker 1: training camp. I haven't seen PJ Tucker there yet, and
Speaker 1: that's interesting to me. I haven't seen a clip of him.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him at Media day and I asked
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez about this, who was in Hawaii now on
Speaker 1: his way back as the Clippers have a game in
Speaker 1: San Diego that will be on Tuesday night in their
Speaker 1: new G League facility in Ocean Side. As Jordan Zumwalt says, wait,
Speaker 1: why wait, why why are we doing this Clippers talk? Well,
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a reset for the people
Speaker 1: getting in here. I know this was spur of the moment.
Speaker 1: Didn't know I'd be talking about this either, But PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker is currently not with the team for the time
Speaker 1: being because he and the Clippers have mutually agreed that
Speaker 1: the thirteen year NBA veteran will be away from the
Speaker 1: team as both sides work towards a resolution for his future.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. I appreciate you guys getting in here on
Speaker 1: Clippers Talk, if you've got questions, if you've got trade
Speaker 1: ideas currently, because it looks like that's where things are heading.
Speaker 1: The Clippers have said we will continue working with PJ
Speaker 1: and and his representative to find the best situation for
Speaker 1: him moving forward. I wondered if this was going to
Speaker 1: be an issue, if this was going to be a problem.
Speaker 1: I've talked about it all off season. It was a problem.
Speaker 1: After he didn't get traded the All Star break, he
Speaker 1: was sent home, as was Bones Highland. Both those guys
Speaker 1: basically for I don't know, insubordination, conduct, detrimental to the team,
Speaker 1: I forget, whatever they call it. They were disgruntled, they
Speaker 1: were unhappy that they weren't traded and moved at the deadline,
Speaker 1: and so the Clippers sent him home. They couldn't find
Speaker 1: trade partners for them. They tried, they couldn't. They couldn't
Speaker 1: find anything that would be in the best interest of
Speaker 1: the Clippers, so they sent them home. That was at
Speaker 1: the All Star break. Now, as we are just a
Speaker 1: couple weeks away from the season starting October twenty third,
Speaker 1: add into it, Dome PJ. Tucker is not going to
Speaker 1: be around the ball club. And again I didn't see
Speaker 1: him at training camp in Hawaii in any of the pictures.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he wasn't there. I thought he was. That
Speaker 1: they had twenty one guys there and he was a
Speaker 1: part of that. So if anyone has confirmation on that,
Speaker 1: you can let me know. But it's really of no
Speaker 1: consequence now because he's going to be away from the team.
Speaker 1: If you're just coming in. The statement from the Clippers
Speaker 1: is quote, We've had ongoing conversations with PJ throughout the
Speaker 1: offseason and have both decided that he won't be with
Speaker 1: the team for the time being. PJ is a pro
Speaker 1: who has achieved a lot in his career, and there's
Speaker 1: more he wants to accomplish. We will continue working with
Speaker 1: PJ and his representative to find the best situation for
Speaker 1: him moving forward. This is why I'm here. Amina Sean
Speaker 1: has said, wait, PJ wants out. PJ has wanted out,
Speaker 1: He wanted out the All Star break. I find this
Speaker 1: very disappointing, only because they gave him multiple chances last year.
Speaker 1: Now he's thirty nine and he still apparently wants to
Speaker 1: be on a contender, thinks he can contribute, even though
Speaker 1: we saw from him last year it really wasn't working.
Speaker 1: He wasn't taking threes anymore. His patented corner three wasn't there,
Speaker 1: wasn't taking it, had very low confidence, and the Clippers
Speaker 1: still gave him all the opportunities in the world. When
Speaker 1: he first got here. I remember he played that first
Speaker 1: game against Los Angeles Lakers. Didn't look good, but they
Speaker 1: gave him a fair shot. They really did. They went
Speaker 1: above and beyond on to see what PJ Tucker had left.
Speaker 1: He started. I don't know if you guys remember this
Speaker 1: the final game of the season, Game six, in that
Speaker 1: playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks in a must win situation.
Speaker 1: PJ got to start that didn't look good. It was
Speaker 1: like a minus ten in the first half. Clippers overall
Speaker 1: weren't very good. It wasn't just him, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: exactly helping. And if you know me, you know that
Speaker 1: I've actually been a big fan of PJ. I thought
Speaker 1: he had utility when he came to this team. I
Speaker 1: felt like PJ. Tucker in very specific situations against the
Speaker 1: right opponent, the right big for a few minutes here
Speaker 1: and there, a few minutes, he could help this team
Speaker 1: against Jokics for a second that first contest, I think
Speaker 1: in Denver they threw him out there and he played
Speaker 1: okay against him. I had seen it before with him
Speaker 1: in Philly play. Jokics pretty well was physical with him
Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. He did that with the
Speaker 1: Clippers against Zion. Same thing. But that is very much
Speaker 1: a specialist type of player. That is a guy who
Speaker 1: could see minutes once a week during their long regular season. PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker still believes he's much more than that in this league.
Speaker 1: And to be fair, the seventy six Ers were starting him.
Speaker 1: The Philadelphia seventy six Ers were giving him twenty two
Speaker 1: minutes a night in those first three games last season
Speaker 1: before he was traded to the Clippers. When he was traded,
Speaker 1: he let it be known that he didn't sign up
Speaker 1: for this, that he was going to every news in
Speaker 1: media outlet to let them know that he didn't want
Speaker 1: to be with the Clippers. I'm not so sure the
Speaker 1: Clippers were trading for him. I think it was about
Speaker 1: getting James Harden. I think that was pretty clear. And PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker was fined seventy five grand last season by the
Speaker 1: NBA for expressing the desire to be traded before the
Speaker 1: trade deadline. Remember, he was sent home. He wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: being a good vet to the squad because it seemed
Speaker 1: like Bones Highland also started to pick up on the
Speaker 1: bad vibes with him, and he was sent home too.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be traded. He won more playing time.
Speaker 1: He thought he was gonna be the backup point guard.
Speaker 1: I get it, but then they brought in James Harden.
Speaker 1: It changed rotations, and now the Clippers PJ. Tucker are
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out a deal something that works
Speaker 1: for both sides. Is that possible? Can the Clippers get
Speaker 1: something for him? They don't want to have to use
Speaker 1: the stretch provision I'm guessing, which means you wave a
Speaker 1: guy and divide up his salary over three years, so
Speaker 1: it'd be a little bit over three million per year
Speaker 1: that the Clippers would be paying out and would count
Speaker 1: against their cap. People are speculating if Kelly Olinok could
Speaker 1: be a guy they could get for him. Kaleolinox probably
Speaker 1: too good of a player. He got twelve points per
Speaker 1: game when he was traded to Toronto last season. I
Speaker 1: know that was somebody on the wish list for Clipper Nation.
Speaker 1: Would have been nice, didn't end up happening. Kelly Olinok
Speaker 1: is known for being a bit of a stretch big,
Speaker 1: a solid passer can pass out of the high post.
Speaker 1: Why would they give him up for PJ. Tucker to
Speaker 1: bring him back to Toronto? How is that an upgrade
Speaker 1: for them? I think the salary would work, but there's
Speaker 1: no reason for the Raptors to do that. Unfortunately, what's
Speaker 1: the logic? Give me the rationale. Yeah, he's making twelve
Speaker 1: million this season. The only thing I could see is,
Speaker 1: and I'll use this to make a point about another
Speaker 1: player too, is that Olynic is paid through not just
Speaker 1: this year but next year twelve million, about almost thirteen
Speaker 1: million this year Toronto Raptor Zoham at the age of
Speaker 1: thirty three, and then about thirteen and a half next year,
Speaker 1: a twenty five to twenty sixth season, So they could
Speaker 1: see it as getting out from that contract next season. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're in kind of a weird stage
Speaker 1: where they're rebuilding but trying to stay competitive. The Raptors.
Speaker 1: You know, they brought Inn RJ. Barrett himid that trade
Speaker 1: with the Knicks last season, Massiu Jerry really good GM.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if they have a clear cut direction,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if Kelly Olenok giving him up
Speaker 1: for PJ. Tucker would make a lot of sense. I
Speaker 1: just think even if they wanted to give him up
Speaker 1: and get out of that second year of the contract,
Speaker 1: they could probably get more for him. One guy would
Speaker 1: bring up, and I don't know how realistic this is,
Speaker 1: but we've talked about it this offseason. Is Grant Williams.
Speaker 1: He's currently with the Charlotte Hornets now. He has three
Speaker 1: years left on his deal at around thirteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: Grant Williams similar in his attitude and toughness to a
Speaker 1: guy like PJ. Tucker, but he's much younger. He's not
Speaker 1: even thirty yet. He's going to be twenty six this season.
Speaker 1: I really liked him with Boston. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you guys felt about Grant Williams, but I was a
Speaker 1: fan in Boston. Now they played a lot of positionless basketball,
Speaker 1: and then he ended up signing that deal with the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks that he's on right now. I'm guessing they
Speaker 1: signed him to the non taxpayer mid level exception. Things
Speaker 1: didn't work out, they moved him. They made a great trade.
Speaker 1: They brought in PJ. Washington and Grant Williams is now
Speaker 1: a member of the Charlotte Hornets. Who don't know are
Speaker 1: they going anywhere? Can they be a playing team this season?
Speaker 1: If they have LaMelo, if they have a little bit
Speaker 1: of hope, and I think they need a season where
Speaker 1: they just show something. They have Miles Bridges, they have
Speaker 1: some talent there, if LaMelo can stay healthy, Brandon Miller
Speaker 1: high draft pick, we have Josh Green now. I think
Speaker 1: he was included in that trade, But I like Grant Williams.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you guys view him if he
Speaker 1: could play power forward for the Clippers. Since that's another
Speaker 1: conversation here with what we heard from Kawhi Leonard last
Speaker 1: night talking about how many miles he ran and was
Speaker 1: probably top five or top ten, and miles ran last
Speaker 1: season playing the power forward position, couldn't really tell if
Speaker 1: he was trying to angle for the Clippers bringing in
Speaker 1: a power forward or if he he was just saying,
Speaker 1: it is what it is, type of thing I'm going
Speaker 1: to be playing the power forward. I didn't take it
Speaker 1: as him complaining about it. I didn't because he was
Speaker 1: pretty upfront when Law asked him about that question. Kin
Speaker 1: just said, yeah, who was the power forward last year?
Speaker 1: It was me. He did mention, though, is it beneficial
Speaker 1: because of all the wear and tear. If he's saying
Speaker 1: it's more physical to be playing the power forward position,
Speaker 1: is that something the Clippers are looking at right now?
Speaker 1: You have to ask yourself that people in here are
Speaker 1: saying Jordan Zumwalt saying he's not good enough of a
Speaker 1: player to request a trade. Honestly, that's fair. He's not.
Speaker 1: He didn't prove that at all last season with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and I find the whole situation disappointing him not being
Speaker 1: with the team moving forward. I thought at this point
Speaker 1: in his career he'd be a good vet and even
Speaker 1: though his skills had diminished, he would be Donna's hasl
Speaker 1: maybe and you know, be a cheerleader on the bench
Speaker 1: and helps your on guys and support guys and still
Speaker 1: be a source of toughness like Eudonnas Haslm was with
Speaker 1: Miami Heat for so long because of his reputation, the
Speaker 1: way guys take to his teaching, and you know, he
Speaker 1: would even get into it with guys. I think he
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Butler had a conversation before that got really heated.
Speaker 1: But they respect him, and I think PJ. Tucker would
Speaker 1: have that respect if he wanted that role. But apparently
Speaker 1: he thinks he can still play. Okay, great. My point
Speaker 1: would have been this, PJ. Tucker could have not opted
Speaker 1: into this last year of his contract. He didn't have to.
Speaker 1: You can say, but Adam is that realistic. You didn't
Speaker 1: think he was going to opt into eleven and a
Speaker 1: half million dollars or no. I thought he would of course,
Speaker 1: But it's kind of having your cake and want to
Speaker 1: eat it too. You want the eleven point five million
Speaker 1: dollars that you opt into, but now you want to
Speaker 1: dictate where you want to play for that contract as well.
Speaker 1: That's what got me a little bit confused with PJ. Tucker, Like,
Speaker 1: if you opt in, you don't have a say and
Speaker 1: where you're going to play. You could have not opted
Speaker 1: in and had been a free agent. It had gone
Speaker 1: wherever you wanted. Now you want the Clippers to have
Speaker 1: to send you somewhere that that can be a little
Speaker 1: bit frustrating. That can be a little bit disappointing. Big
Speaker 1: r R sixty four sos. The Clippers would probably love
Speaker 1: to trade PG. Problem is he's just a negative asset.
Speaker 1: You're going to have to include something to get rid
Speaker 1: of him. It's not a bad point. So if you're
Speaker 1: saying that guy the most obvious player is bones, does
Speaker 1: that sweeten the deal for anyone? Does that make someone go? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: it'll take PJ. On it's an expiring contract to get
Speaker 1: bones Highland. We're into that. Who's that team? And do
Speaker 1: you still have to include a second round pick? Do
Speaker 1: you have to try to include a first round pick?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's something I don't think the Clippers would do.
Speaker 1: It's a non starter. Obviously, it would depend on who
Speaker 1: they're getting back, but you'd expect something really good in
Speaker 1: that scenario. But they have one they can trade. They're
Speaker 1: twenty thirty. I believe it's gonna be difficult to get
Speaker 1: this trade done. I think it'll happen at some point,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how long this is gonna take.
Speaker 1: Mark Jaggs says PJ is not good enough to be
Speaker 1: making all these demands. Amina Sean says PJ should be
Speaker 1: grateful that he's on a team. Miss says Haslam is
Speaker 1: still at training camp practicing this year. He plays in practice.
Speaker 1: I know he's kind of a player's coach. Now. He
Speaker 1: had tenure with the Miami Heat, and that's where he
Speaker 1: played I think his entire career and was a legacy
Speaker 1: guy there, and it would be different for PJ. Tucker.
Speaker 1: But the point still remains. It would have been nice
Speaker 1: to see him adopt that veteran role and cheer on
Speaker 1: guys and point out things from the bench that they
Speaker 1: could do better, and it's still his toughness from the
Speaker 1: bench mark. Jack says, might as well wave him because
Speaker 1: he's a bad juju is affecting the team. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know how that would work with the salary CAF
Speaker 1: if they could just wave him and pay the entire thing,
Speaker 1: if anybody has an understanding on that, because they don't
Speaker 1: want to do the stretch provision. They do not want
Speaker 1: to do the stretch provision because even though it's just
Speaker 1: three million dollars over this year, next year, in the
Speaker 1: year after, that's still three million more dollars on the
Speaker 1: cap for a guy that's not even on your team.
Speaker 1: It hurts Big R R sixty four says, exactly, A
Speaker 1: meed he's lucky he's even in the league. He should
Speaker 1: be grateful and be a team leader. That's not the
Speaker 1: case apparently, I mean, and Shaan says, I'm tired of
Speaker 1: this guy wanting. Chris Gomez says, yeah, I got you
Speaker 1: about Olennok was thinking him or Larry Nance, both those
Speaker 1: guys I think are unrealistic. Nobody's trading those guys for PJ. Tucker.
Speaker 1: I like them both. Don't get me wrong. When we
Speaker 1: look at Larry Dance Junior's contract, it's in the ballpark
Speaker 1: money wise. It works. He's making eleven million two, but
Speaker 1: he's in the last year of it that he's an
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent Atlanta. The fact is they can just
Speaker 1: get more for him than that they can. Larni Jr.
Speaker 1: Is a nice player. That's a really good asset for them.
Speaker 1: Tim Kirk said, love your interview with the great Ralph Lawler.
Speaker 1: Do you think Ralph and Mike Smith will ever reconcile
Speaker 1: the relationship. I'm not speaking about anybody else's relationship here.
Speaker 1: Tim Kirk also says PJ is not an NBA player anymore.
Speaker 1: If he has utility, it's in very very specific parameters,
Speaker 1: very specific. We're talking about a couple minutes here and
Speaker 1: there against the right opponent like Jokic. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: he's been pretty good against him or Zion because of
Speaker 1: his big body physicality out there. Yeah, he picks up vowels,
Speaker 1: So some of it is just, you know, hack a
Speaker 1: shaft type stuff. But I think that change of pace
Speaker 1: could be valuable maybe for a team I'd I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's hard for guys to come to grips with their
Speaker 1: sports mortality and when their career is ending, it's really difficult.
Speaker 1: Maybe Pj's having trouble with that, or maybe he does
Speaker 1: have a role somewhere and he can be a productive
Speaker 1: player still at the age of thirty nine in ten
Speaker 1: minutes a night. I don't know. The Clippers, though, more
Speaker 1: than gave him a shot last season, and he wasn't
Speaker 1: taking shots for the most part, was turning down threes,
Speaker 1: was scared to take those corner threes. It looked like
Speaker 1: just didn't have the confidence there. And for a player
Speaker 1: I really liked it. I think could be a championship
Speaker 1: level role player in his prime and did win with
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks. Like I was happy to see the
Speaker 1: Clippers get him in the trade deal, but then seeing
Speaker 1: him out there, it just you could see the skills
Speaker 1: have diminished. He's much older. It can go quickly sometimes
Speaker 1: that ring in Milwaukee was just a few years ago,
Speaker 1: but it can go quick. Gicon says, hopefully Lawrence can
Speaker 1: get something done. We'll see big r R sixty four
Speaker 1: and PJ is definitely hurting his value by complaining all
Speaker 1: the time. Other teams see they don't want that on
Speaker 1: their roster either. Maybe like if you trade for him,
Speaker 1: you better have a role or else he's going to
Speaker 1: one out, I guess, because that's what we've seen with
Speaker 1: the Clippers, and he will make it known to those
Speaker 1: who register and whoever is listening different publications. He complained
Speaker 1: to right away. With the Clippers, it was strange to
Speaker 1: see you just got here. And I'll bring up some
Speaker 1: of the quotes if I can. This was when they
Speaker 1: first got him. Ah, pay Wall's killing me. I can't
Speaker 1: get behind it right now. But he was disgrestled over
Speaker 1: his lack of playing time, and even though he was
Speaker 1: given an opportunity, he didn't look good. The minutes with
Speaker 1: him next to a viat Zubas playing power forward were
Speaker 1: unbelievably bad. The net rating was horrific. Amina Sean says,
Speaker 1: Houston Tucker was different too, but PJ is washed now.
Speaker 1: Houston Tucker was really good, Guys, really really good. That
Speaker 1: was a player. That was a guy, a modern NBA
Speaker 1: player that I would love. Luis Lemmas says, get rid
Speaker 1: of him and sign Tres. They can't trade him to
Speaker 1: an international team that Tres is on. Unfortunately, it's not
Speaker 1: how it works. They gotta trade him to an NBA team.
Speaker 1: Tim Kirk says, who will get most minutes at backup
Speaker 1: center this year? I think it is Mobomba right now, guys.
Speaker 1: I did a Clippers after Dark last night. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say my voice by the way, I didn't think
Speaker 1: I'd be doing this today, but I did a Clippers
Speaker 1: after Dark where after we went off the air on
Speaker 1: the radio side, and maybe I'll do this throughout the season.
Speaker 1: We were on the Patriot AM eleven fifty programming note
Speaker 1: when the Dodgers are on A five seventy, LA Sports
Speaker 1: will be on the Patriot AM eleven fifty. But the
Speaker 1: show was over on the radio side that I kept
Speaker 1: it going called it Clippers after Dark. I talked a
Speaker 1: lot about kai Jones. I thought he struggled last night.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be overly harsh with it, but
Speaker 1: some of the comments were, so I tried to cut
Speaker 1: some of those out. It just was, I don't know,
Speaker 1: uh mean spirited some of it. But I want to
Speaker 1: be positive about a young player. Well, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people were really high on and the expectations
Speaker 1: are unrealistic to some degree. Some of the Kai Jones people,
Speaker 1: and look, I'm rooting for him. I want him to
Speaker 1: get that two way contract, but I think he's got
Speaker 1: to play in the G League right now. He needs
Speaker 1: to develop. He just didn't look comfortable out there. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's just not playing at this level in a while,
Speaker 1: even though it's just preseason. Could say the same about KPJ.
Speaker 1: But Kayle Jones. You know, the first time he tested
Speaker 1: the basketball, he had his foot out of bounds. Just
Speaker 1: the spacing wasn't there. Just everything was moving too fast
Speaker 1: for him. So I think Mobamba is the guy right now,
Speaker 1: and hopefully he's available on Tuesday. He's been nursing a
Speaker 1: knee injury. I don't think it's major. I saw him
Speaker 1: do walk through stuff in training camp, so I'm not
Speaker 1: overly concerned yet. Tim Kirks says, are we giving backup
Speaker 1: on bones yet? That Bones looked okay last night, got
Speaker 1: put in some tough positions. But you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: huge Bones Highland fan. I just believe that when he
Speaker 1: brought in Chris Dunn, when you brought in KPJ, that
Speaker 1: kind of telegraphed part of what they thought about Bones,
Speaker 1: and they said it sounded like Lawrence Frank this summer
Speaker 1: was also trying to move him. It's not like they
Speaker 1: haven't tried to move these guys and give them an
Speaker 1: opportunity and help them out get to whatever team could
Speaker 1: give them more minutes. It just doesn't seem like it's
Speaker 1: going to be the Clippers. Tim kirksa's love your work.
Speaker 1: I'm an old time Clipper fan since the Great League
Speaker 1: Clin days on the radio in the late nineties and
Speaker 1: early two thousands. Lee Klin Prince of Darkness. Tim kirk
Speaker 1: thanks for the compliment there. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: a realistic landing spot for PJ Tucker where the Clippers
Speaker 1: can make this move as fast as possible and there
Speaker 1: wouldn't be too much of an entanglement with Picks and
Speaker 1: having to include a bunch of other guys. What would
Speaker 1: be the easiest, cleanest way to move on from PJ Tucker?
Speaker 1: I mentioned Grant Williams earlier. Other people mentioned Kelly Olennok.
Speaker 1: I think he's just too valuable of a piece for
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors. The only thing argument he could make
Speaker 1: is he has two years left on his deal. PJ
Speaker 1: is an expiring eleven million dollar contract. Someone else said
Speaker 1: Larry ns Jr. Like him, but I don't think Atlanta's
Speaker 1: doing that. He's expiring and he's a good trade piece
Speaker 1: for them. If they could get him, great, But I
Speaker 1: don't know. They'd have to include a lot more, maybe
Speaker 1: if they really value Bold Hyland's and a second round pick.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Mark Jackson PJ. Tucker to the Knicks
Speaker 1: for Precious to chew you. I don't Maybe I gotta
Speaker 1: see what his contract is New York Knickerbockers. It's just
Speaker 1: he's thirty nine. PJ. Tucker is at that place. And
Speaker 1: if you thinking about Tibbs and him using someone like that,
Speaker 1: I don't find that to be a bad idea. Precious
Speaker 1: is making. It looks like six million dollars. He's on
Speaker 1: a one year so yeah, they have to include more.
Speaker 1: Maybe they have to include bones than two. It's not
Speaker 1: totally out of the ballpark. I could see the logic
Speaker 1: there of Tibbs wanting to use someone like BJ Zucker.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad call. Prescious last year averaged seven
Speaker 1: points and seven boards in twenty four minutes a night
Speaker 1: in forty nine games. That's interesting. That is I don't know.
Speaker 1: I want to see how much he played in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What type of minutes he was getting there. Let's see,
Speaker 1: first round he only played thirty minutes. Was he banged up?
Speaker 1: Was that matchup de Pennant against Philly? Second round against
Speaker 1: Indiana he played one hundred and fifty four minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's another guy, old dirty dashers is get him the
Speaker 1: f out of here. I knew some of that stuff
Speaker 1: was coming. Also, we and sniff of the playoffs. Old
Speaker 1: dirty Dasher will not relax. He's been really tough on
Speaker 1: the Clippers with his predictions. Uh him Atheus said, not
Speaker 1: gonna happen because they won't be a second Apron team
Speaker 1: for PJ. Tucker. Yeah, they'd have to move something else
Speaker 1: with precious. I suppose I didn't know who the knickt
Speaker 1: salary cap was at. I kind of figured they were
Speaker 1: a second Apron team already with some of the signings
Speaker 1: they made. They they spent money og and Nanobi, Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: They bring in kat Mark. Chad says. They said Tibbs
Speaker 1: wants Marcus Smart. I heard that rumor too. TIBs is
Speaker 1: in win now mode. Yeah, that's true. Tim Kirk said,
Speaker 1: who will start when kawiet sits out. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this a ton. I think Norman Powe will be in
Speaker 1: the starting lineup and it could really upend things we
Speaker 1: saw last night. Mina Sean said that too. I guess
Speaker 1: as Norman stars. So last night's starting lineup was James Harden,
Speaker 1: Chris Dunn, Norman Powell, DJJ and Avitza Zubats. It's just
Speaker 1: a starting lineup for preseason game one. I don't think
Speaker 1: coach lou or anyone wants you to read too much
Speaker 1: into it. But it's not nothing to me either. I
Speaker 1: just see it as if Kawhi is out, can you
Speaker 1: lean so far to defense where it's just James Harden
Speaker 1: and Aviatza Zubots and then kind of three and D
Speaker 1: players out there next to him in the starting lineup,
Speaker 1: But guys that can't really create for themselves that much.
Speaker 1: Terrence Man not really that guy, Chris Dunn, not really
Speaker 1: that guy. Derek Jones Jr. Not really that guy. Nicholas
Speaker 1: Patoomb not that guy. I think you need a little
Speaker 1: bit more juice on the offensive end. I do Himothy
Speaker 1: said they're actually under the second apron. They found a
Speaker 1: way to manipulate the new CBA oh I saw that
Speaker 1: they paid like a dollar more on some of the
Speaker 1: minimums with the Knicks. Smart front office. Weird to say
Speaker 1: that about the Knicks, but they've done some really good
Speaker 1: things past couple of years. They're doing much better there
Speaker 1: and they're a legit contender. I like the move for cat.
Speaker 1: I think it gives them a different dimension, especially going
Speaker 1: upgainst team like Boston where you can play five out.
Speaker 1: Now he's kind of their version of Porzingis. But the
Speaker 1: Clippers in that starting lineup, if Kawha is not available
Speaker 1: and we don't know yet, he wants to play, and
Speaker 1: if people are asking me to guess on whether or
Speaker 1: not he'll be available opening night right now, I'd like
Speaker 1: to be positive and guess he will be, but nobody
Speaker 1: can know because all that matters is how his knee
Speaker 1: responds to the strength and conditioning program they're doing right
Speaker 1: now with it. He's not participating in the drills of
Speaker 1: training camp. He's strengthening the knee. But he also mentioned
Speaker 1: last night I found this interesting. They said, would you
Speaker 1: like to play in a preseason game before just all
Speaker 1: of a sudden being out there in game one of
Speaker 1: an eighty two game regular season, and Kawhi said there's
Speaker 1: always a ramp up process something to that degree. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: So does that mean we would see him in a
Speaker 1: preseason game first, if we're going to see him in
Speaker 1: game one October twenty third, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: it's a possibility, at least by how he said that,
Speaker 1: by how he put that. Tim Kirk says, I think
Speaker 1: Harden will be an All Star in average twenty five
Speaker 1: points per game at the age of thirty five. I
Speaker 1: think it's asking a lot, but I think it needs
Speaker 1: to average twenty or more. I don't know about twenty five.
Speaker 1: I mean agrees with that, he said. My guest is
Speaker 1: twenty points per game. Now. If Kawhi is out, I
Speaker 1: expect him maybe to be twenty twenty two somewhere there.
Speaker 1: But it depends on where he's at physically and how
Speaker 1: much he can get by guys and bend the defense.
Speaker 1: That's what you're looking at with James Harden, and to
Speaker 1: his credit, he looks to be in great shape. Some
Speaker 1: gets to the lefty scoop, layup and blow by a
Speaker 1: guy last night for a bucket. That was good to
Speaker 1: see old dirty Dasher said, yeah, I was so gun
Speaker 1: ho with two one three five years ago. This last
Speaker 1: news from two weeks ago broke me. I'll support the team,
Speaker 1: but I'm like rowdy Roddy Piper and they live and
Speaker 1: I'm wearing glasses. Came to kick ass and shoe bubble
Speaker 1: gum and I'm all out of gum. Dude, Nukem stole
Speaker 1: it from that, Mark Jagg. Chris Dunn can create shots
Speaker 1: for himself and others done. Drive and kick game is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: There's a reason TYLERU has been very impressed with him
Speaker 1: in training camp. Chris Dunn is not creating much for himself.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you've seen from him, but he's
Speaker 1: not somebody that's going to create a ton for himself.
Speaker 1: That's that's cap. I love Chris Dunn, but that's not
Speaker 1: his game. He has a he has a bit of
Speaker 1: a floater. But we're talking about a guy who averaged
Speaker 1: five points per game last season, five points per game
Speaker 1: in sixty six games. I think he can create for
Speaker 1: himself as kind of wild. He can play off the ball,
Speaker 1: he can be a catcher shoot guy. And you know,
Speaker 1: over the span of about if you could bind the
Speaker 1: last two seasons with Utah where he played just twenty
Speaker 1: two games, and then last year sixty six games. So
Speaker 1: reported him. In eighty eight games, he shot about forty
Speaker 1: from three. That's good to see because he hadn't been
Speaker 1: a great three point shooter before that. That's still not
Speaker 1: a big enough sample sized to say he's a forty
Speaker 1: percent three point shooter. But he just needs to be
Speaker 1: above league average, above thirty six percent. That would be
Speaker 1: big for him. Tim Kirk says, what is Jeff and
Speaker 1: Gundy's role going forward? Can you get him on your show?
Speaker 1: Hope we can get Mark Jackson and join the franchise too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm glad they got jayb g his role,
Speaker 1: he's the defensive coordinator. He never in his head coaching
Speaker 1: career had a team finish worse than sixth defensively. That's
Speaker 1: damn impressive. That's his forte. He's a defensive savant. That's
Speaker 1: how his teams got by, that's how they overcame injuries,
Speaker 1: got to the finals. With the New York Knicks, Jeff
Speaker 1: Van Gundhy is great for this team. He's a big,
Speaker 1: loud voice and presence. Brian Seeman has talked about that.
Speaker 1: Guys listened to him. He's never truly left the game.
Speaker 1: He's been there as a broadcaster and he's been working
Speaker 1: with Team USA forever. He loves to coach. It's so
Speaker 1: it's such a windfall for the Clippers to have Jeff
Speaker 1: Van Gundy in the fold. Guys, it's really really big.
Speaker 1: Mark Jagg Providence was years ago. I know I loved
Speaker 1: him at Providence. My guy, he's been in the NBA
Speaker 1: and almost out of it now for ten years. Saying
Speaker 1: because he could cook guys back when he was a
Speaker 1: Providence doesn't mean anything. Do you understand he's in the
Speaker 1: NBA now and that has never materialized. His Providence game,
Speaker 1: an offensive game with Chris Dunn, is never materialized at
Speaker 1: this level. I give him all the credit in the world,
Speaker 1: and he became one of my favorite players because he
Speaker 1: adjusted his game and his hung his hat on, hung
Speaker 1: his hat on his defense, and found and carved out
Speaker 1: a nice role in the league because of that. How
Speaker 1: do you get through to some people, Amina Sean said.
Speaker 1: Kawhi roasted all his new teammates. When asked who's who
Speaker 1: stood out, Kawi said, no one. I don't think he
Speaker 1: mentioned like that. I think Kawhi is a little list.
Speaker 1: He just he's not going to make something up. It's
Speaker 1: not a slight. It could just mean everybody's been playing well,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what he was alluding to. It's not
Speaker 1: putting one guy above everybody else. Kauai is very brief
Speaker 1: to the point sometimes terse. Laconic is a word you
Speaker 1: could use for him, like that's who Kauai is. He's
Speaker 1: not just going to, you know, elaborate too much on
Speaker 1: something if there's not a lot there to go off of.
Speaker 1: I also just found the interview last night fascinating. I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was going to happen until it happened.
Speaker 1: It seemed a little bit impromptu, but it was good
Speaker 1: to hear from him a little bit and interesting to
Speaker 1: hear his comment about and we can talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about this, but the power forward position. I
Speaker 1: think that was one of the big takeaways there from
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard last night. And it all depends on how
Speaker 1: you want to interpret this, but he talked about that
Speaker 1: he covered a lot of mileage last season. Spectrum had
Speaker 1: him at two point five to three miles per game.
Speaker 1: That led the Clippers so He's right, Kawhi was moving.
Speaker 1: Kawhi was at two and a half miles per game
Speaker 1: leading the Clippers. That's from Law Murray. He had that
Speaker 1: stat so that may lend credence to the fact that
Speaker 1: maybe they do need an a power forward so he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do as much and move around as much.
Speaker 1: I just have never been sure. I didn't know the
Speaker 1: mileage and the difference between playing power forward and small forward.
Speaker 1: I kind of assumed small forward meant he was playing
Speaker 1: more on the way on the perimeter and he'd have
Speaker 1: to move more there than power forward. But maybe that's
Speaker 1: not the case in today's NBA, and if it's not,
Speaker 1: it probably would be best to have Kauwhi not playing
Speaker 1: the power forward position. Tim Kirk says, why aren't there
Speaker 1: any plays for Zuo to shoot mid range? His skills
Speaker 1: aren't full of utilized on offense enough because mid range
Speaker 1: shots don't make a lot of sense when Zoo can
Speaker 1: shoot sixty four percent from five to nine feet out.
Speaker 1: Last year he led I think the league in all
Speaker 1: bigs from five to nine feet out at sixty four percent.
Speaker 1: He was better than Jokic in that area. It was
Speaker 1: push shots, runners, hook shots. Why does he need him
Speaker 1: jumper when he just led the league from five to
Speaker 1: nine feet out. Guys, if he shoots forty five percent
Speaker 1: in the mid range with a jumper, which is a
Speaker 1: really good percentage, that still doesn't justify him to it.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't, not when you're as effective as he
Speaker 1: is closer to the basket. Mark Jacks says Kawhi played
Speaker 1: every game until he gots knew contract. That's not true
Speaker 1: at all. He got his contract, continued to play, and
Speaker 1: then with about two weeks left in the regular season,
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to go. Can we just be accurate once?
Speaker 1: Amina Sean says, we got to stick with quiet power
Speaker 1: forward until we get a real power forward. Well, Kawhi
Speaker 1: last season basically said that. He said, I'll do it
Speaker 1: till we get a real one, something to that effect.
Speaker 1: So does he want them to get a power forward?
Speaker 1: Does he not want to put that pressure on the
Speaker 1: front office. I'm not sure. I think Kawhi knows he's
Speaker 1: paid like a superstar. So sometimes you gotta do the
Speaker 1: dirty work, you gotta do the little things. That's something
Speaker 1: we heard Paul George complain about at times that Kawhi
Speaker 1: never really has. I just don't know, and we did
Speaker 1: hear this from Quas and he's feeling good last night.
Speaker 1: Should probably tell you guys that that's important. It's one
Speaker 1: thing to say they need a power forward and they
Speaker 1: need to move Kawhi back to the three. It's another
Speaker 1: to find a power forward that fits good or fits
Speaker 1: well enough next to it. Each zubots meaning he has
Speaker 1: to shoot a little bit because Zoo's not shooting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a reason, Tim Kirk, that they look for stretched bigs. Also,
Speaker 1: how many stretched bigs are there really, especially that could
Speaker 1: also guard the basket? You know how much of those
Speaker 1: guys get paid. You know how unique those guys are,
Speaker 1: Ad Jokic embiid not many more than that guys who
Speaker 1: are stretched bigs that could also guard the basket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be great. You have no idea based upon how
Speaker 1: few shots is taken away from the basket in the
Speaker 1: mid range. If he can do it, it's just difficult. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: I think a power forward like Bobby Portis could be good.
Speaker 1: Cool they giving them away the bucks. I'm gonna check
Speaker 1: Bobby Portis's contract right here. I know his annuals within range,
Speaker 1: so he's making twelve million this year and thirteen million
Speaker 1: next year. But that's a player option next year. Do
Speaker 1: they want PJ. Tucker back for that in some cap
Speaker 1: releaf next year? Because they assume that Bobby Portis is
Speaker 1: going to opt in, even though he might not because
Speaker 1: he's thirty. He's still young enough where he might not.
Speaker 1: But he's kind of a legacy guy there and one
Speaker 1: of their leaders with Milwaukee, helped them win a championship
Speaker 1: and is a good player who shoots forty from three
Speaker 1: last season. PJ. Tucker is not doing that. He's a
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent three point shooter for his career. Really
Speaker 1: thirty nine percent Bobby Portis? Are they really giving him
Speaker 1: up for PJ Tucker? I think they know who PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker is versus Bobby Portis. Not realistic. Mark Jack can
Speaker 1: even point that one out. Now. They love Portis in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: We know Luis. They're not giving up Kelly Olynyk for PJ. Tucker.
Speaker 1: Why would they do that? It takes two to tango. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Portis is a fan favorite there. Belgrade zero one one
Speaker 1: says hello from Europe. Hello, it's good to hear from
Speaker 1: our international Clippers fans here. It'd be great to hear
Speaker 1: some realistic trades for a power forward. If you guys
Speaker 1: want to say John Collins, I'll listen, But what is
Speaker 1: the trade package? Who are the Clippers giving up? John
Speaker 1: Collins did end up shooting thirty seven percent from three
Speaker 1: last season. That's a good year. Only took three a game,
Speaker 1: but made one per game fifteen to eight in his
Speaker 1: twenty eight minutes per game. He's still young. Let's see
Speaker 1: what John Collins contract is at. You tell me how
Speaker 1: they can realistically get John Collins. Give me a trade
Speaker 1: for him. This is interesting because Collins is making twenty
Speaker 1: six million this year, so obviously it's gonna take more
Speaker 1: than PJ. Tucker. They're gonna have to trade PJ Tucker
Speaker 1: bones would they want him? John Collins has a player
Speaker 1: option for twenty six million next season. I could see
Speaker 1: him opting out of that because he'll still be at
Speaker 1: the age of twenty eight, entering his prime. He get
Speaker 1: a longer one hundred million dollar deal, even though even
Speaker 1: if it's less annually, he get a longer deal, So
Speaker 1: at worst you would have him off the books for
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty six. Even if John Collins
Speaker 1: did opt in that twenty six million dollar deal during
Speaker 1: the twenty five to twenty sixth season. You guys tell
Speaker 1: me how they could do it. Tim Kirk says, Zoo,
Speaker 1: he's still hung up on this. He still hung up
Speaker 1: on this. Zoo is an eight percent free throw shooter.
Speaker 1: Earlier his career. He showed great touch on a shot
Speaker 1: he had potential to developing new a stretch big when
Speaker 1: he is seventeen away from the basket. Except he just
Speaker 1: except for one thing. Tim, shooting at the free throw
Speaker 1: line and shooting in the mid range are two different things.
Speaker 1: You know, guys aren't guarded at the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Tim Kirk says, he doesn't even look at the basket,
Speaker 1: which hurts the full of the offense. He's good in
Speaker 1: the short role. He's become a much better passer there.
Speaker 1: Stop get Zoo on the block and let him go
Speaker 1: to work there. That's where he's most valuable. Kalaid Jojo says,
Speaker 1: what you think is happening with Kawhi, he seems to
Speaker 1: be over with the Clippers following his comment, I didn't
Speaker 1: see it that way at all. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about him and he said we need to
Speaker 1: trade bones first, because Tyler is going to waste twenty
Speaker 1: games on bones and KPg lineups. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna do that. We'll see if KPg is available to
Speaker 1: start the season. Man for Collins, it's gonna take more
Speaker 1: than Man. Collins makes ten million more per season. Actually
Speaker 1: he makes fifteen million more per season. Who else? Luis
Speaker 1: if you even want to do that? They just paid
Speaker 1: Terrence Man. Kevin Richards said, you can wave pg PJ,
Speaker 1: but then you can't trade him. They will want to
Speaker 1: keep that money to be able to aggregate in the trade.
Speaker 1: Waving him would only give you an open roster spot,
Speaker 1: no other advantage. Yeah, that is a good point. Mark
Speaker 1: Jack said Man would have to be included to make
Speaker 1: salaries match. You're saying Man in PJ for John Collins
Speaker 1: would be your move. Would you guys want to do that?
Speaker 1: Tim just can't let it go. Like he can't, He says,
Speaker 1: Young Zoo had potential to be Marcus Sohl like Unfortunately
Speaker 1: the materialize seventeen foot shots not hard to make. You
Speaker 1: need to look watch them. Table Marcus sol I'm glad
Speaker 1: you've never listened to me before, because I've actually called
Speaker 1: that beats a zuboss a long lost Gasol brother for years. Tim,
Speaker 1: thanks for participating. Really appreciate the productive conversation about things
Speaker 1: that could have been. I'm just gonna start ignoring somebody
Speaker 1: who has a one track mind and isn't participating in
Speaker 1: moving the conversation forward. Khalaide says he said he's not
Speaker 1: impressed with any new addition as his body language says
Speaker 1: he's not used to a non competitive team. That's not
Speaker 1: what he said at all. I'm glad you are the
Speaker 1: body language interpreter. Oh my goodness, guys. Him saying nobody
Speaker 1: stood out above the rest of the guys is not
Speaker 1: a slight. I think that's also just wasn't a question
Speaker 1: he thought he was going to be getting. He thought
Speaker 1: they were going to be talking about the knee and
Speaker 1: things pertaining to that. It was not a dig at
Speaker 1: his teammates at all. That is a wild way to
Speaker 1: interpret it him at he said, we can't trade for
Speaker 1: Collins without trading Man or Done or Norm. True? Would
Speaker 1: Norm and PJ be the move Norm makes then utwo
Speaker 1: Wo'd probably have to give something else back to make
Speaker 1: that work. Talking about twenty six million dollars from John Collins,
Speaker 1: Norm makes eighteen million or nineteen million, and PJ makes
Speaker 1: eleven million. I love Norm. I think he's extremely valuable
Speaker 1: to this team. I also could see at some point
Speaker 1: down the road. I've listened to it. I have listened
Speaker 1: to it, Khalaid, I've listened to it multiple times. I
Speaker 1: didn't read into it like that. I didn't see many
Speaker 1: of the Beat reporters do that either. He's Kawhi. He's
Speaker 1: extremely blunt and honest. If he thought someone or he
Speaker 1: was going to elaborate about one particular player, he would
Speaker 1: have That's not his thing. Have you heard Kawhi in
Speaker 1: interviews before, I mean said personally, I think we should
Speaker 1: keep Norm because he's a good shooter. He's a really
Speaker 1: good shooter, shot forty four percent from three last season. Oh,
Speaker 1: you guys are killing me right now. I appreciate all
Speaker 1: the questions and stuff, but I don't like the uh
Speaker 1: inferring and trying to play body language expert with Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard when like it matches up with how Kawai always is.
Speaker 1: He's almost deadpan with his delivery. Sometimes it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1: You can't read much into that. Kawhi is a good teammate.
Speaker 1: He's not throwing anyone under the bus like that. He's
Speaker 1: not trying to give anyone a story. Oh it's cofficult
Speaker 1: to me. I love y'all. Still, Uh yeah, I Norman
Speaker 1: Powell to me is too important to the start of
Speaker 1: this season, especially if Kevin Porter Junior is gonna get suspended.
Speaker 1: I think at some point, guys, I brought this up
Speaker 1: last night, but and maybe this was wild on my
Speaker 1: part and I was out to lunch on this and
Speaker 1: I was being far too impulsive. But I did tweet
Speaker 1: out that I believe at some point Kevin Porter Junior
Speaker 1: is going to end up the starting two guard. At
Speaker 1: some point that could mean much later in the season,
Speaker 1: it could be next season. I didn't put a timeline
Speaker 1: on it, so I'm giving myself some wiggle room. You
Speaker 1: could say, I just see coach lou Is someone that
Speaker 1: wants someone who's more versatile offensively and then has potential defensively.
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior really does on that end. There's a
Speaker 1: tape up on YouTube of his defense, and I think
Speaker 1: he can be a bridge between them going so far
Speaker 1: one direction or the other in their starting lineup. Because
Speaker 1: right now with the Clippers, I talked about this a
Speaker 1: little bit last night too, that Kevin Porter Junior can
Speaker 1: help out their offense, because it's like the Clippers have
Speaker 1: to go all in with their offense or all in
Speaker 1: with their defense, and they're going to have a deficiency
Speaker 1: somewhere in the starting lineup. And I'm not sure which
Speaker 1: way they should go right now, because if you don't
Speaker 1: have Kawhi Leonard in there, you're missing a lot of offense.
Speaker 1: So should you start nor On Powell, Well that gives
Speaker 1: you a problem in your starting backcourt if he and
Speaker 1: James Harden are your point of attack defenders. But then
Speaker 1: you say, well we should go more sports defense, then
Speaker 1: well that means you don't have a lot of shot creation.
Speaker 1: And it's all on James Harden to get them into
Speaker 1: the our offense to find open shooters, to find it
Speaker 1: beat a Zubos. That's a lot on his plate. If
Speaker 1: you're just saying it's him next to Terrence Man, next
Speaker 1: to DJJ, next to Chris Dunn or batoom, and then
Speaker 1: it eats a Zubos. That's just so much to ask
Speaker 1: of James Harden at thirty five. Hey, I'm sorry, Tim,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be honest with you and give you
Speaker 1: the facts on the situation. And I would say your
Speaker 1: attitude towards me hasn't been great in here as well.
Speaker 1: Let's get along him. Athy said, the problem with KPJ
Speaker 1: is that he has a low basketball IQ. He's a
Speaker 1: young player still, he's twenty two. We got to give
Speaker 1: him an opportunity to see more about that. I totally
Speaker 1: understand what you're saying. He was averaging nineteen points per
Speaker 1: game on a team that was really bad in Houston,
Speaker 1: and you can't put everything into those numbers because of
Speaker 1: how bad they were. A lot of guys, a lot
Speaker 1: of players can put up numbers on a bad team
Speaker 1: because somebody has to score. Somebody's going to get an opportunity.
Speaker 1: But they were so bad that there's so many variables
Speaker 1: going on with KPg that we can't say exactly this
Speaker 1: type of player he is yet. I don't think we
Speaker 1: know that. I know he's a lefty who has a
Speaker 1: lot of create isoball in him that can pass and
Speaker 1: playmate a little bit, and has shown that with his
Speaker 1: size he could project to be a good defender on
Speaker 1: the perimeter. It hasn't developed that way because he's still
Speaker 1: too young, and he's been in a bad situation and
Speaker 1: obviously put himself in some really bad situations where he's
Speaker 1: missed a lot of time now because of his off
Speaker 1: the court issues. We'll see. Johnny Blatie has confirmed PJ
Speaker 1: Tucker is in Hawaii with the team. PJ went on
Speaker 1: the court during warmups. Okay, that's good to know. Johnny
Speaker 1: Blatie says, I live in Hawaii and went to yesterday's
Speaker 1: game versus Golden State. So a little boots on the ground,
Speaker 1: A little bit of an update there on the main
Speaker 1: thing we were talking about. Let's keep the main thing
Speaker 1: the main thing with PJ Tucker. Sean Shawne has said this,
Speaker 1: the Clippers and forward PJ Tucker, I've mutually agreed for
Speaker 1: the thirteen year NBA VET to be away from the
Speaker 1: team as the sides work towards a resolution for his future.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I interpret that is
Speaker 1: he's going to be traded. Maybe I do know what
Speaker 1: that means. They're trying and have been trying to find
Speaker 1: a landing spot for him, and it's not beneficial for
Speaker 1: him to be around the team right now because he's
Speaker 1: a disgruntled player. Still, that's how I'm reading into it.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm bringing into it too much. I'm
Speaker 1: going off of a lot of information and evidence since
Speaker 1: he's been a Clipper. Talked about it at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this show. So well, the riding has been on
Speaker 1: the wall. Himothy says, I just saw on a trade
Speaker 1: on Twitter PJ Tucker in the second round pick for
Speaker 1: Jock Landale. You're saying that trade is done. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're saying that right. Jock Landale is a big
Speaker 1: with the Houston Rockets. I'm trying to look at his
Speaker 1: contract in AUSSI uh, sit, would the trade work? He's
Speaker 1: making eight million, Pj's making eleven million dollars. Jock is
Speaker 1: on the books though the next three seasons. I'd be
Speaker 1: a little bit surprised if the Clippers wanted that to
Speaker 1: eat into their twenty twenty six possibilities. A Mean says,
Speaker 1: I don't know who would want Tucker though, I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure either, because if you don't play him, apparently
Speaker 1: you're getting a player who's unhappy. Because that's what we've
Speaker 1: seen with the Clippers is sending him back to a
Speaker 1: former franchise that knows him and might have a spot
Speaker 1: for him, or might have minutes for him a better solution.
Speaker 1: Maybe Houston's one of those places. Miami, Milwaukee, Toronto, Phoenix.
Speaker 1: He's been around a little bit. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I really liked when they got PJ. Tucker. I was
Speaker 1: hoping he could contribute in little ways here and there,
Speaker 1: but it just didn't happen. And he's thirty nine now.
Speaker 1: Timothy confirms it's just a suggestion for Josh Londale. I
Speaker 1: don't mind that. Keep them coming, Keep the suggestions coming,
Speaker 1: tim even if you have more suggestions about Beata Zubats
Speaker 1: turning into Marcasol in a mid range game while taking
Speaker 1: him away from the basket where he's very efficient and
Speaker 1: is just coming into his own at the age of
Speaker 1: twenty seven, even if you have other suggestions, We'll take
Speaker 1: anything here. I don't know if they'll always be realistic.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can get behind all of
Speaker 1: that and concur or being become an advocate for some
Speaker 1: of the suggestions. But I'm doing my best here. My
Speaker 1: throat is a little bit wrecked from just talking so
Speaker 1: much over the last couple of weeks and doing the
Speaker 1: broadcast last night, but I'm looking forward to Tuesday in
Speaker 1: San Diego. I think that might be a radio exclusive
Speaker 1: on the Patriot ambuleven fifty and k eib. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to see and Aman says this feed the ball to
Speaker 1: zoom wore in the post. Yeah, it's like if it
Speaker 1: ain't broke, don't fix it. Wanting Zubas to turn into
Speaker 1: a mid grade shooter when guys aren't stopping him in
Speaker 1: the post and he's never got a real opportunity to
Speaker 1: just be featured more in the offense. There seems like
Speaker 1: you jump with the gun a little bit. Zubos doesn't
Speaker 1: need to expand his game at this point. What he
Speaker 1: needs is to get more touches, like I've been saying
Speaker 1: for years him if he said, Talma said, Clippers have
Speaker 1: tried to trade PJ. Tucker, but it has been difficult.
Speaker 1: Makes sense. If it could have been done by now,
Speaker 1: it would have been done by now. I'll read the
Speaker 1: tweet from Tom Marrizzari of Clutch Points. He said Clippers
Speaker 1: have tried to find a trade partner for him dating
Speaker 1: back to last season, but that's proved to be difficult.
Speaker 1: Ricky Cheu said, underneath it, I wonder why. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if there's any more good suggestions.
Speaker 1: People are talking about his age. People were saying buy
Speaker 1: them out, take the hit. Mark Jacks says, I can
Speaker 1: see Milwaukee, Phoenix or Miami wooing him if he would
Speaker 1: play a hasm role, but he doesn't seem to want to.
Speaker 1: That's that's why I brought up earlier. That's what I said.
Speaker 1: I was hoping would become his role with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: He'd be like he Dones has them old. Dirry Dasher said,
Speaker 1: Kawhi not being impressed in camp. That's that's not what
Speaker 1: kaw I said, Guys, he just was Kawhi. He's kind
Speaker 1: of a literalist. Just take him for what he literally said.
Speaker 1: You don't have to read too much into it. My
Speaker 1: guy Jamal Christopher kind of pointed this out and I
Speaker 1: thought this was interesting, he said. Jamal Christopher said at
Speaker 1: jam Christopher on exit, Kawhi when it comes to the media,
Speaker 1: is one of the most blunt but literal guys I've
Speaker 1: seen in sports. Dudes like od literal to expound, he said,
Speaker 1: just in my opinion, when he says nobody stood out
Speaker 1: in training camp, that ain't him saying the players are
Speaker 1: weak or anything like that. Kawhi took the question literally
Speaker 1: as in, nothing remarkable has happened. Lol, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's my interpretation of that. That's how I see it too.
Speaker 1: Nothing crazy has happened, So Kawhi is not gonna say anything.
Speaker 1: And I think it was also a presser where he
Speaker 1: was thinking more questions were coming about the knee and
Speaker 1: the focus was on that, and they did in waves.
Speaker 1: And of course that's going to be the conversation right now.
Speaker 1: And going back to PJ. If there's any more suggestions
Speaker 1: of what he could be traded for, how you could
Speaker 1: somebody's saying, trade him to the Shanghai Sharks. Guys, not realistic,
Speaker 1: not helpful. Someone's pointing out that, yes, but he would
Speaker 1: not make the same money on the open market. I
Speaker 1: understand this. I understand PJ opting into eleven million dollars
Speaker 1: because he wasn't getting that anywhere else. What I don't
Speaker 1: understand is then dictating where you want to go. You
Speaker 1: opted in to money that the Clippers are paying you,
Speaker 1: so you don't get to have your cake and eat
Speaker 1: it too. That's disappointing. That's frustrating about this. PJ. Tucker
Speaker 1: is a veteran, he knows this, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: really difficult, and it's put the Clippers in a tough
Speaker 1: spot where other teams know he's disgruntled, so they're not
Speaker 1: going to offer much even if they were interested. They
Speaker 1: know the Clippers pretty much have to get rid of
Speaker 1: him because he can't be around the team right now.
Speaker 1: Apparently the front office is doing the best they can.
Speaker 1: It's a really difficult situation. If PJ wanted to go
Speaker 1: to another team, all he had to do was not
Speaker 1: opt in to the eleven million dollars. I understand that
Speaker 1: was unlikely, but that was his opportunity to become a
Speaker 1: free agent and go wherever he wanted. Back to Kauai
Speaker 1: from Himothy, he said, some of the Clippers fan base
Speaker 1: are just fed up, I guess with Kawhi. So they're
Speaker 1: going to just complain every time Kawhi gets injured or
Speaker 1: say something. I understand. It's discouraging. It's been tough. It's
Speaker 1: frustrating for Kawhi. Guys. This is an all time NBA player,
Speaker 1: a top seventy player, Hall of Famer like for this
Speaker 1: to be happening continual, continuously. It's just it's tough. Mark
Speaker 1: Jaggs says, Jeremy Grant is a name, but he makes
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, Jeremy Grant makes a lot. Some say
Speaker 1: it's an overpay. The contract is I want to get
Speaker 1: it exact, but I think he got one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million, one hundred and sixty million from Portland and
Speaker 1: he's just in the second year of it. He has
Speaker 1: four more years in the last year is a player
Speaker 1: option for thirty six million at the age of thirty three.
Speaker 1: I like Jeremy Grant a lot, but for that money
Speaker 1: you'd have to be giving up a lot too to
Speaker 1: make that work. Tim's going back to Zubos said you
Speaker 1: said it yourself. Zee is twenty seven. Look at when
Speaker 1: brook Lopez started to shoot threes. It's about offensive versatility.
Speaker 1: There are many open twelve to fourteen, twelve to fifteen
Speaker 1: footers for Zoo to make one available. Here's my points him.
Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. My point would be this,
Speaker 1: we haven't even explored what he can do on the block.
Speaker 1: With how efficient he has been there, let me explain something.
Speaker 1: Last season. Nobody was better from five to nine feet
Speaker 1: out than of eats Zubots. He shot sixty four percent there.
Speaker 1: Nobody was better there, not even Jokic. So why are
Speaker 1: we saying, you know what, let's figure out the mid range. Now?
Speaker 1: How about we just feature him more with the things
Speaker 1: he's already good at until teams can stop it. With
Speaker 1: Zubots getting many more touches now because Paul George is gone,
Speaker 1: why don't we look at that first baby steps to
Speaker 1: just jump out and say let's have zoos shoot three
Speaker 1: pointers like brook Lopez. That doesn't make a lot of
Speaker 1: sense to me. He's great on the block, he just
Speaker 1: hasn't had high volume there. They haven't given him that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's coming this season. That's what I want to
Speaker 1: see first before we talk about him expanding his game.
Speaker 1: It's all these different roles. Have him mastered the short
Speaker 1: role and pass more. Amina Sean said, I feel like
Speaker 1: Tucker's just digging himself in a deeper hole. He had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go to another team, but he decided
Speaker 1: to stay with us. Facts he could have gone anywhere
Speaker 1: he wanted, He could have been a free agent. He
Speaker 1: decided to opt into the eleven million dollars. I don't
Speaker 1: blame him for that, but if you're going to say
Speaker 1: that now he also gets to choose what team he
Speaker 1: wants to go to when he opted into a contract
Speaker 1: with the Clippers, that doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Tim Kirk goes back to, you're missing my point. He
Speaker 1: can do both touches in the and min range. No,
Speaker 1: he can't do both. We haven't seen the midrange. We
Speaker 1: don't know he can do both. We know what he
Speaker 1: can do touches in the paint, we don't know that
Speaker 1: he can do mid range. So I think, actually, Tim,
Speaker 1: to be fair, you're kind of missing the point. I've
Speaker 1: been trying. Man, I've been doing my best here, but
Speaker 1: I can't keep going in circles with you about this.
Speaker 1: We don't know that he can do mid range. We
Speaker 1: do know what he can do. Let's lean into what
Speaker 1: he can do more. That's all I'm gonna say about this.
Speaker 1: It's just I can't keep going on this forever. My
Speaker 1: guy to him, I appreciate the conversation, but you're kind
Speaker 1: of just talking right past me. You're not listening to
Speaker 1: anything that's coming back your way. With PJ Tucker here,
Speaker 1: it's just if you opt into a contract with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: some will say you should honor that contract. Now, the
Speaker 1: other side of that is a team can always trade
Speaker 1: you at any time, so it can go both ways.
Speaker 1: But in this case, that eleven million dollar contract is
Speaker 1: not easy to trade for the Clippers. Teams are not
Speaker 1: lining up for PJ. Tucker. If they weren't, would have
Speaker 1: been done by now. It would have been done at
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. It's just it's really difficult to move PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker without moving other pieces, and then it gets more
Speaker 1: convoluted and it's not easy. It's not easy. I think
Speaker 1: the Clippers are going to try to make it happen,
Speaker 1: and that's really accommodating on their part to make sure PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker goes to a place that he wants to go to.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he has this much pool, but
Speaker 1: they're trying to do the best on Pj's part. But
Speaker 1: they have to have a team willing to trade with
Speaker 1: them too. So it's just a complicated situation. It really is.
Speaker 1: It's like talking with Tim Kirk who just doesn't want
Speaker 1: to listen. It's really complicated. He wants to talk about, oh,
Speaker 1: because of what Zuba's did in the summer league. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you do this, but summer league, summer league,
Speaker 1: preseason's preseason slight difference between that and the NBA level,
Speaker 1: slight slight difference. That's okay. Some people just want to
Speaker 1: argue on here. I can get with that. Some of
Speaker 1: the time. People like the debate stuff. If that's good content,
Speaker 1: I can I can certainly do it. I just think
Speaker 1: we've exhausted this subject and somebody's not listening at all.
Speaker 1: I appreciate those who are in the chat, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate Tim Kirk as well. And it's going to be
Speaker 1: I don't know how prolonged this standoff is going to
Speaker 1: be with PJ. Tucker and trying to move him, but man,
Speaker 1: maybe it will happen much quicker than we realize. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just know eleven million dollars for a
Speaker 1: guy who's almost forty and doesn't have a ton of
Speaker 1: game left in him, at least from what we saw
Speaker 1: with the Clippers. Not a good position to be in
Speaker 1: from the Clippers side of things, to make a trade
Speaker 1: done or to get a trade done like that. But
Speaker 1: never know, I believe in this front office. Mark Jack said,
Speaker 1: Harden seemed excited with this team. He's been with the
Speaker 1: team for a month. I think I trust his basketball knowledge.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. James Harden seems really really excited.
Speaker 1: James Harden seems excited to lead, excited for the team
Speaker 1: to play through him. He made that known. And look
Speaker 1: it bothers me. How the national narrative about James Harden
Speaker 1: when he said I'm a system, the full quote was,
Speaker 1: he didn't say the system. The full quote was, I'm
Speaker 1: not a system player. I'm a system. No lies, no
Speaker 1: lies spoken, just facts, no lies detected, just facts. That
Speaker 1: is a fact statement. James Harden absolutely has proven over
Speaker 1: a decade that he is a system, that he is
Speaker 1: an offense to him unto himself, that he raises your
Speaker 1: floor definitely in the regular season to being a top
Speaker 1: ten offense on average since he has taken the range.
Speaker 1: Since he became a number one option with the Houston Rockets,
Speaker 1: teams with James Harden running the show on average are
Speaker 1: fifth offensively. Do the Clippers have enough around him to
Speaker 1: do that when Kawhi is not available, even when Kawhi
Speaker 1: is there, I don't know. Harden's thirty five now but
Speaker 1: I do think Harden gets a bad rap and it's
Speaker 1: a little bit unfair, and he's been a little bit
Speaker 1: defined about the perception of him in the league for
Speaker 1: good reason. He's not getting enough credit. He hasn't with
Speaker 1: how good he has been in his career and with him,
Speaker 1: even at the age of thirty five, being the Clippers
Speaker 1: floor general. It gives you a chance to have a
Speaker 1: real identity on offense when he's out there. You saw
Speaker 1: it in preseason last night with him in Aviatza Zubas
Speaker 1: and him feeding him in the basketball and getting him involved.
Speaker 1: And even though they had turnovers and they were sloppy
Speaker 1: basketball and it was inconsistent out there with you guys
Speaker 1: getting familiar with one another, it's preseason game one. It's
Speaker 1: all understandable. You could still see James Harden's ready. You
Speaker 1: could he looked good overall, encouraging signs from James and
Speaker 1: Big Zoo and Powell and Emir Coffee and Kobe Brown.
Speaker 1: Those were my top five players last night in that
Speaker 1: preseason game. All those guys had their moments where they shined,
Speaker 1: but the offense flowing through James Harden, that's what you
Speaker 1: want to see and he's gonna be ready. He's in
Speaker 1: great shape, and he had thirteen and he assists in
Speaker 1: just seventeen minutes. I don't know if some of you
Speaker 1: thought he was going to average twenty ten this season,
Speaker 1: now believe it could be higher. It could be because
Speaker 1: of how good he looked in just preseason game number
Speaker 1: one and how seamless the transition I think is going
Speaker 1: to be for him to play even when Kawhi is
Speaker 1: not there and be the focal point on offense. And
Speaker 1: also the reps he's gotten in with Big Zoo and
Speaker 1: training camp, all the practice work where they had to
Speaker 1: figure things out on the fly when they brought him
Speaker 1: in during the regular season last year. Now it's him
Speaker 1: in Big Zoo working together in the preseason and training camp,
Speaker 1: ironing out the kinks. That's really meaningful for this Clippers team.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for James Harden, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a really cool experiment almost to see what an all
Speaker 1: time great player can do now at the age of
Speaker 1: thirty five, was so much still demanded of him. I
Speaker 1: think he can have a great season. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna play at an All Star level, whether or not he
Speaker 1: is an All Star. It's tough in the West, It's
Speaker 1: always difficult, but I think he's going to play at
Speaker 1: an All Star level. I think Amina Sean agrees with that.
Speaker 1: Harden is ready to go. Kawhi, we don't know his status,
Speaker 1: but Harden. This is as I've been saying for a while,
Speaker 1: it looks like James Harden's team because the position he plays,
Speaker 1: how unique and how great he has been thriving in
Speaker 1: that position running an offense. And then's just the availability
Speaker 1: expect Harden to be out there. He's been a tank
Speaker 1: in the regular season for teams. It's been just a workhorse,
Speaker 1: somebody that has been very reliable overall. Knock on wood,
Speaker 1: as my guy Dime Dropper would say, although it didn't
Speaker 1: work last year with Kawhi, but James Harden they need him.
Speaker 1: He is so vital to everything this Clippers team does
Speaker 1: because while they're building to have a defensive identity, you
Speaker 1: already have a built in offensive identity whenever James Harden
Speaker 1: is out there on the floor like they could be,
Speaker 1: I don't know what their offensive rating is going to
Speaker 1: be on the whole because that includes minutes without James Harden.
Speaker 1: But when James is out there. I expect him to
Speaker 1: be more than just serviceable. I expect him to have
Speaker 1: a good offensive rating. With James Harden on the floor now,
Speaker 1: still decisions to be made of Kawi's unavailable which way
Speaker 1: they go. I think KPJ eventually Coach Leu would like
Speaker 1: him to be the guy that gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit of offense and a little bit of defense. But
Speaker 1: he's still unproven. He could be suspended, and we've had
Speaker 1: that conversation. But the unknowns with this Clippers team and
Speaker 1: where they could end up finishing in the West really
Speaker 1: intrigue me. Nobody has a beat on exactly where they
Speaker 1: could end up. A lot of it's yes, injury dependent,
Speaker 1: but even health how good could they be? Because I
Speaker 1: said this during the season or during the series, and
Speaker 1: then after they lost to the Dallas Mavericks, you take
Speaker 1: them to six with Kawhi only playing two games and
Speaker 1: not looking close to himself. What happens if they had
Speaker 1: had a healthy Kawhi Leonard in that series and Paul
Speaker 1: George wasn't on the team, A healthy Kawhi next to
Speaker 1: James in that series, I think takes out Dallas. I
Speaker 1: think they would have so that tells you just get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs with a healthy Kawhi and James Harden
Speaker 1: and let the Chips fall where they be, because those
Speaker 1: guys are good enough as a one to two punch.
Speaker 1: I think to take out the team that got to
Speaker 1: the finals last year in the Western Conference, I think
Speaker 1: it would have happened. I'm damn sure a healthy Kawhi
Speaker 1: it would have happened. Honestly, I truly believe that, even
Speaker 1: take Paul George out of the equation, just Kawhi healthy
Speaker 1: next to James Harden, and I think they beat Dallas
Speaker 1: last year, so they're dangerous. You gotta have some belief
Speaker 1: in this team. Still. I know a lot of factors
Speaker 1: and things have to go right, a lot of conditions
Speaker 1: being healthy, I know, I know. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of teams where it doesn't matter if they are healthy,
Speaker 1: they still aren't winning that series or aren't going far.
Speaker 1: The Clippers, you give me healthy, quiet James Harden in
Speaker 1: a series. I like my chances. I do, especially with
Speaker 1: what I think we're gonna see from Big Zoo this season.
Speaker 1: So we'll continue to monitor the situation with PJ. Tucker.
Speaker 1: Clippers are doing their best to appease and make it
Speaker 1: happen for he and his agent, and that's good business,
Speaker 1: like to do right by guys. It's just he opted
Speaker 1: in to the eleven million. He could have been a
Speaker 1: free agent gone wherever he wanted, would have been done.
Speaker 1: So it put the Clippers in a difficult spot. Melvin
Speaker 1: Powell Junior says, James Harden forced a few unnecessary passes
Speaker 1: to Zoo, but those two are certainly going to be
Speaker 1: rolling all season. DJJ, Chris Dunn and t Man just
Speaker 1: need to be ready to shoot from Trey with no hesitation.
Speaker 1: Completely agree. Great comment, Melvin Powell Jr. Great comment. Those
Speaker 1: are the type of guys who have played off of
Speaker 1: James Harden over the years. PJ. Tucker was one of
Speaker 1: them in Houston. Trevor Ariza, Eric Gordon, guys like that.
Speaker 1: This team is built in a similar fashion. But those
Speaker 1: three cannot hesitate whatsoever. That will kill their spacing if
Speaker 1: they do, because teams won't respect their shot and they'll
Speaker 1: clog the paint. It will jump up and mess up
Speaker 1: and muddy up the pick and roll that James Harden's
Speaker 1: trying to run with a Vita Zubots have to take
Speaker 1: them and they do have to make them at a
Speaker 1: respectable enough rate to get the defense to lean their
Speaker 1: way and close out. Then when they close out, all
Speaker 1: those guys you mentioned Chris Dunn, Derek Jones Junior, and
Speaker 1: Terrence Man can attack closeouts, wreek more havoc, get two
Speaker 1: on the ball, then find the open man or get
Speaker 1: to the basket for an easy one. That's how you
Speaker 1: get your offense unglued. That's it with lesser shot creation
Speaker 1: talent overall, that's how it is done. That three ball
Speaker 1: from those three needs to happen. It's just it's non negotiable.
Speaker 1: It has to for this Clippers team to be successful.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm really interested for Tuesday night, excited for
Speaker 1: that game. Hope you guys join us. Carlo Jimenez is
Speaker 1: in his bag now in his second year as your
Speaker 1: play by play broadcaster for the Los Angeles Clippers, and
Speaker 1: we had fun last night. Felt like we were right
Speaker 1: back into our old ways and our flow. Me bringing
Speaker 1: it in and out, Carlo throwing to me for some
Speaker 1: analysts work here and there, which I really appreciate. That's
Speaker 1: like my favorite thing ever to get to talk about
Speaker 1: this team during a game and We're gonna have fun
Speaker 1: starting at six point thirty with the pregame show Clippers
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn, Nets from Otionside in San Diego at the
Speaker 1: Clippers new G League facility until then, and maybe we'll
Speaker 1: have another Clippers talk here on the YouTube side tomorrow
Speaker 1: if you need more content. I had two postgame shows
Speaker 1: last night. Went in depth on Kai Jones, what Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard said, talked more about KPJ. Also talked with Carlo
Speaker 1: who was in Hawaii. We had him on the video
Speaker 1: side too. Also chalk with Chuck Mackler. We had him
Speaker 1: on video. That was a lot of fun from clips
Speaker 1: and DIP. I appreciate all you guys in here, Old
Speaker 1: Dirty Dasher says, I'll watch listening cheer for you and
Speaker 1: the team. But man, this season will be rough, Old
Speaker 1: Dirty Dasher, I'm hoping you're wrong. I'm hoping you're wrong.
Speaker 1: I believe every game is going to be very meaningful
Speaker 1: because the Clippers need as many wins as they can
Speaker 1: get to stay afloat. It's gonna be like the twenty
Speaker 1: one twenty two season to me, where they were there.
Speaker 1: They ended up in the playing, but they were just
Speaker 1: scratching and clawing and fighting and battling each and every
Speaker 1: night to stay above five hundred. Every game meant so much.
Speaker 1: Every game was so critical, no games off. That Clippers
Speaker 1: team battled man and they played above their heads at times,
Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna see the same. Appreciate all
Speaker 1: you guys checking me out here on Clippers Talk on
Speaker 1: the YouTube side. Subscribe if you like this episode. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I appreciate everyone, including Tim Kirk here as
Speaker 1: we were battling a war words about it. Eatsa zubats
Speaker 1: in his role. But it's all good, it's all fun,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate Clipper Nation your interest in this team.
Speaker 1: I just love talking Clippers basketball all the time. It
Speaker 1: is my passion. I hope it's my calling. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm doing an okay job for you guys.
Speaker 1: But we'll be talking to you again soon here, if
Speaker 1: not definitely, six point thirty Tuesday night, Clippers taking on
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets in preseason game number two. I'm Adam Oslin.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you then,