Latest / Kenny For Real / The Clippers Might Break The NBA…
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We should all be Clippers fans right now, because there's
- 0:04Speaker 1: no way we could potentially allow the Oklahoma City Thunder
- 0:09Speaker 1: to get another top pick in this one simulation, I
- 0:12Speaker 1: ow everything I love. I hit sim lottery one time
- 0:15Speaker 1: and this was the outcome. The okc Thunder walk out
- 0:17Speaker 1: with the first pick and the tenth pick because the
- 0:19Speaker 1: Jazz have been playing well ish and their pick is
- 0:22Speaker 1: top eight protected. They end up with the Philadelphia seventy six,
- 0:25Speaker 1: a pick which I think is top four protected. They
- 0:27Speaker 1: end up with a pick later on the Houston Rockets pick.
- 0:30Speaker 1: We should all if we want NBA parody to be
- 0:33Speaker 1: a thing, we should all be wearing Clippers. Well, maybe
- 0:35Speaker 1: not wearing the gear, but hoping that the Clippers win
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- 1:33Speaker 1: ten percent off. But talking about the product that we're
- 1:36Speaker 1: seeing on the court right now, the Clippers have just
- 1:39Speaker 1: overall super super bad vibes. Like there are a couple
- 1:41Speaker 1: teams in bold that have bad vibes. And I'm not
- 1:44Speaker 1: even talking about the teams like the Brooklyn Nets or
- 1:46Speaker 1: the Washington Wizard who are bad on purpose. Some teams
- 1:48Speaker 1: that had expectations that they brought, well, let's say aspirations
- 1:52Speaker 1: that they brought on themselves and have been underperforming. The
- 1:54Speaker 1: Clippers might be the number one team on that list
- 1:56Speaker 1: because I think we all, maybe not all of us,
- 1:58Speaker 1: but a lot of us believe that this Clippers team
- 2:00Speaker 1: was at least a playoff team, right, especially after what
- 2:03Speaker 1: they did last season. I feel like UBI asked nine
- 2:05Speaker 1: going into the season and say like, Nah, this Clipper
- 2:07Speaker 1: team ain't it. I may not been one of them
- 2:09Speaker 1: guys that thought they were gonna be a championship contending team,
- 2:12Speaker 1: but as a playoff team, a forty eight to fifty
- 2:14Speaker 1: one team locking in and they have James Harden and
- 2:16Speaker 1: Zoo who basically played like an All NBA player. The
- 2:19Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings vibes are extremely low, but that's we could
- 2:22Speaker 1: have saw that coming. Nah, nobody really never really thought
- 2:24Speaker 1: that they was gonna be anything. And then the Dallas
- 2:26Speaker 1: Mavericks vibes, like guess are turning up just slightly considering
- 2:29Speaker 1: Nico Harrison is gone. But I do want to focus
- 2:31Speaker 1: on the Clippers because four and eleven is not the start.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Then we anticipated first game of the season, they went
- 2:37Speaker 1: against the Utah Jazz and they lost by a gazillion
- 2:38Speaker 1: points and we was like, oh, it's cool, this is
- 2:40Speaker 1: the first game of the year, don't look too much
- 2:42Speaker 1: into it. Maybe that was a precursor to some of
- 2:44Speaker 1: the stuff that we were gonna see because they are
- 2:45Speaker 1: one to nine in their last ten and some of
- 2:48Speaker 1: those losses. I think that the Celtics loss when they
- 2:50Speaker 1: came back and James Harden turned up in the second
- 2:52Speaker 1: half was obviously a loss, but like it felt like
- 2:55Speaker 1: they may have been turning the corner. And then yesterday
- 2:58Speaker 1: when they went against YOURORLNDO Mass they been right back
- 3:00Speaker 1: to the team that they were for the first two
- 3:01Speaker 1: weeks of the season. So I don't really know where
- 3:03Speaker 1: to sit with them. But last that was embarrassing. And
- 3:05Speaker 1: it's not again, it's not just about wins and losses. Obviously,
- 3:08Speaker 1: they're missing some players in their lineup. I mean, I
- 3:10Speaker 1: guess as everyone is. It's about the effort level and
- 3:12Speaker 1: it's about them having no identity. Now. I know that
- 3:14Speaker 1: that is a buzzword that gets strolled around a lot
- 3:17Speaker 1: over and when we're talking about NBA teams, but it
- 3:20Speaker 1: is the true thing. Last year, the Clippers were one
- 3:22Speaker 1: of the top defenses in the league. Now, can I
- 3:25Speaker 1: show you matter of fact, let me show you first
- 3:27Speaker 1: thing I want to say. I can't prove this to
- 3:29Speaker 1: be fact, but this has to be the oldest lineup
- 3:33Speaker 1: that has ever played on the court together. You can't
- 3:35Speaker 1: see him right here, but you got forty year old
- 3:37Speaker 1: Chris Paul at the one. You got James Harden who
- 3:40Speaker 1: is in his mid thirties. We have Bogdanovitch who's in
- 3:42Speaker 1: his early thirties. We got Niggas Latum who's in this
- 3:45Speaker 1: mid to late thirties, and then you got Briglopez in
- 3:47Speaker 1: his thirties, end of his thirties. This lineup right here
- 3:51Speaker 1: might be the oldest lineup you can ever put together.
- 3:54Speaker 1: This lineup is so old and so bad that a
- 3:57Speaker 1: lot of this end of the first quarter, Tyron Lu
- 3:59Speaker 1: and company opted to to run a zone because they can't.
- 4:03Speaker 1: They can't stay in front of anybody right now, and
- 4:05Speaker 1: the zone was even even bass sideline of the bows.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Opportunity as a band comes and get it if you
- 4:09Speaker 1: run his zone like this. Obviously, this is something I
- 4:12Speaker 1: learned when I was like in fourth grade basketball. You
- 4:14Speaker 1: wont to get the ball to the middle of that
- 4:16Speaker 1: zone because the game opens up. It's exactly what they
- 4:18Speaker 1: do when del Carter gets it and it's a miscommunication
- 4:21Speaker 1: or something. Buttoom's playing too high. You're gonna see brook
- 4:24Speaker 1: Lopez point this way. And it just led to another
- 4:28Speaker 1: and I said another, because this is not the first
- 4:29Speaker 1: time this has happened. Another basket on a baseline cut.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Everything that could possibly go wrong for the Clippers to
- 4:36Speaker 1: start the season is actively going wrong. The only saving
- 4:39Speaker 1: grace right now is that James Harden is still able
- 4:42Speaker 1: to somehow at his old age, be at least good
- 4:45Speaker 1: enough of an offensive engine to make it somewhat competitive.
- 4:48Speaker 1: But Kawhi Leonard has only played a handful of games.
- 4:50Speaker 1: A lot of their acquisitions between A Chris paul A
- 4:53Speaker 1: brook Lopez, I mean by Domes was an acquisition last season.
- 4:57Speaker 1: All of those guys looked washed, Nick Batoomb washed. John
- 5:01Speaker 1: Collins started off pretty good. I don't know if I'm
- 5:03Speaker 1: seeing his impact much over the last couple of weeks.
- 5:05Speaker 1: So every single thing that could go wrong for the
- 5:08Speaker 1: Clippers has gone wrong. And you know, the skeptics of
- 5:11Speaker 1: the Clips would say, like, yeah, they did add more
- 5:13Speaker 1: debt pieces, but all those debt pieces are old, and
- 5:15Speaker 1: in my mind, the way I rationalize it for myself
- 5:19Speaker 1: before the season started is like, the reality is all
- 5:21Speaker 1: of the older guys that you acquired. And I even
- 5:23Speaker 1: mentioned Bradley Beal being nowt for the season, who Tyrod
- 5:25Speaker 1: lu said was gonna be the what third best player
- 5:27Speaker 1: on the team. The way I rationalized it was every
- 5:30Speaker 1: single one of those dudes can't get washed up in
- 5:32Speaker 1: one season. Yeah yeah, maybe I mean the guy Damn
- 5:38Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks let Damian Lillle go and add an extra
- 5:41Speaker 1: twenty million dollars in cap to say that we lost
- 5:44Speaker 1: Brigalopez and upgraded to Miles Turner. We should have known
- 5:47Speaker 1: that brig Lopez don't have a lot of time left.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Chris Paul my goat, my goat right behind me played
- 5:52Speaker 1: all eighty two games, like he started all eighty two
- 5:54Speaker 1: games last season, but the right was on the wall,
- 5:56Speaker 1: and now he looks even worse than then. Bradley Beal's
- 5:59Speaker 1: a partneranization. They been trying to get rid of him
- 6:01Speaker 1: from two years and then he got to the Clippers.
- 6:03Speaker 1: In Tyrone Lou's like, yeah, we gonna need him to
- 6:04Speaker 1: get back to the defensive oriented guy. And I had
- 6:07Speaker 1: to go through the roller decks of the NBA brain
- 6:09Speaker 1: is like defensive oriented guy. Now, don't get me wrong,
- 6:13Speaker 1: in his prime he wasn't a bad defender, but I
- 6:15Speaker 1: don't think he was looking at Bradley Bio as a stopper.
- 6:17Speaker 1: He was just solid to good, never great. And they
- 6:20Speaker 1: were saying he was gonna need to do that. We shaid,
- 6:22Speaker 1: the writer was on the wall for this start. The
- 6:25Speaker 1: writing was on the wall for the start. Some of
- 6:27Speaker 1: the brook Lopez minutes is getting to the point where
- 6:28Speaker 1: give me, give me the rookie with the long gass name.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Put him in the game, please, because brook low Pez
- 6:33Speaker 1: would do stuff like this where he shoots at thirty
- 6:35Speaker 1: foot three and if I'm not mistaken, he shot this
- 6:38Speaker 1: shot two times on this possession. By the way, it's
- 6:40Speaker 1: a miss rebound Desmonbine. By the way, they gave him
- 6:44Speaker 1: a gazilion transition points last night, Window Carter like a
- 6:47Speaker 1: goddamn beast. Right here, he's wide open. First of all,
- 6:50Speaker 1: nobody picks him up at all during this, and that's
- 6:52Speaker 1: mostly because brook Lopez as a defender has always been
- 6:55Speaker 1: dropped coverage, always been renprotected, and that is his assignment.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Granted again, it is fast breaks so you pick up
- 7:00Speaker 1: what you can. He's wide open right here. Anthony Black
- 7:03Speaker 1: gets a foot in, make that two foot feet in
- 7:06Speaker 1: jump pass. Brig low Pez look like he's making a
- 7:08Speaker 1: good effort to get out there on the shooter straight
- 7:12Speaker 1: up low by. It's bad now you see he do
- 7:16Speaker 1: his hand things like where's my help? And granted these
- 7:18Speaker 1: old cats in the corner, one of them, Michoelas Patoom,
- 7:21Speaker 1: should have been able to tag Wendell Carter there, but
- 7:24Speaker 1: he didn't do anything. It's just it's mind blowing to me.
- 7:27Speaker 1: And I don't want to act like I'm a guy
- 7:29Speaker 1: that is all in the know when it comes to
- 7:32Speaker 1: every single defensive rotation. I would be lying to you
- 7:35Speaker 1: if I told you that was the case. But a
- 7:37Speaker 1: blind man could see that this transition defense is not
- 7:41Speaker 1: gonna win you many basketball games. It's just not shout
- 7:45Speaker 1: out to the Leno magic. Though they're starting to win games,
- 7:47Speaker 1: pick it up a little bit, play a little bit
- 7:48Speaker 1: more fun brand of basketball, finding their identity again as
- 7:51Speaker 1: defensive oriented team. This is just not good enough. Last year,
- 7:54Speaker 1: the LA Clippers were fifteenth in offense literally league average.
- 8:00Speaker 1: This year they're twenty second the overall points per one
- 8:03Speaker 1: hundred possession has only changed about one. Obviously, offense is
- 8:06Speaker 1: up to start the season, but it's only changed about one.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Basically saying that their offense has not changed much since
- 8:12Speaker 1: last season. It really is the defensive side of the ball.
- 8:14Speaker 1: And while I'm on a note of the offense, I
- 8:16Speaker 1: would to give my flowers to one of the greatest
- 8:18Speaker 1: players we've ever seen in James Harden, because for him
- 8:21Speaker 1: to be thirty six point two years old exactly, and
- 8:24Speaker 1: for him to have a usage of a thirty five percent,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and for him to be this efficient and still trying
- 8:29Speaker 1: to maintain that level of play for this team is
- 8:31Speaker 1: the only reason. While like on any given night it
- 8:33Speaker 1: seems like they can be in these games, they were
- 8:36Speaker 1: really really reliant on Bradley Beal being something and obviously
- 8:40Speaker 1: he's out for the rest of the season, and if
- 8:41Speaker 1: Kawhi Lennon is going to be out, they just don't
- 8:43Speaker 1: have any level of creation outside of James Harden. James
- 8:47Speaker 1: Chhns obviously always been a high usage player since he
- 8:49Speaker 1: got to Houston and found his way on different teams
- 8:51Speaker 1: and stuff, But part of that was based on greatness,
- 8:55Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like even though he had
- 8:57Speaker 1: good teams in Houston with other creators, like when Chris
- 8:59Speaker 1: Paul got there and Chris Paul was able to be
- 9:02Speaker 1: a mini version of James Harden, but instead of step
- 9:04Speaker 1: back threes, it was mitt range pull up jump shots.
- 9:06Speaker 1: They still opted to have James Harden be the one
- 9:08Speaker 1: because he was just that good. Now he's not as
- 9:11Speaker 1: good as then, but the reason why he's doing what
- 9:13Speaker 1: he's doing is not just because he's good, but it's
- 9:15Speaker 1: based off necessity. He is the system because they have
- 9:18Speaker 1: no choice but to have him be the system. Who
- 9:21Speaker 1: else has created shots for themselves or others on this
- 9:23Speaker 1: team right now, it doesn't exist. So shout out to
- 9:26Speaker 1: James Harden because he is still doing great stuff at
- 9:29Speaker 1: this old age. And you know, he and Kevin and
- 9:32Speaker 1: Brown and Wardale, all those dudes. I can not give
- 9:36Speaker 1: enough flowers too for them being this good this late
- 9:38Speaker 1: in their careers. I mean, this team on the offensive
- 9:40Speaker 1: side of the ball are nineteen points better per one
- 9:44Speaker 1: hundred possessions offensively when James Harden's on the court. When
- 9:47Speaker 1: he's off the court, they cannot score. They can't. And
- 9:52Speaker 1: it's like, obviously the defense has stuffer the time dere
- 9:55Speaker 1: Jones Junior is gonna miss some time. They're gonna miss
- 9:56Speaker 1: him a lot. Where like James Harden the latively this season.
- 10:01Speaker 1: I mean it's not like he's ever been a lockdown
- 10:02Speaker 1: guy either, but this season is the worst has ever
- 10:04Speaker 1: really been. And I can't even really blame him too much,
- 10:07Speaker 1: because if you have this high of a usage and
- 10:09Speaker 1: nobody else can really help you on the offensive side
- 10:11Speaker 1: of the ball, it's kind of hard to be locked
- 10:13Speaker 1: in when you're thirty six years old. But that boy
- 10:15Speaker 1: James know he can do a faking test. Boy, he
- 10:17Speaker 1: still got your hands though. He'll swipe down on the
- 10:19Speaker 1: ball get a few steels either. But on the possession
- 10:22Speaker 1: by possession basis, boy James Harden just play wish defense.
- 10:26Speaker 1: I wish he missed. But even though I'm saying all
- 10:28Speaker 1: of this, I'm not out completely. And let me explain why.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Here's the standings as of today. Again, another bad loss,
- 10:36Speaker 1: and then the Grizzlies beat the Kings back a zillion points,
- 10:39Speaker 1: so they've jumped up over the Clippers right now. But
- 10:42Speaker 1: look at the teams below them. I don't think we
- 10:45Speaker 1: have many many beliefs about the Mavericks is anything Davis
- 10:47Speaker 1: gonna get traded. He's not gonna traded. We don't really know.
- 10:49Speaker 1: The Kings are on the guard that the Pelicans have got.
- 10:51Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about them whatsoever. And then
- 10:53Speaker 1: the teams above them, the Grizzlies. Do you trust the Grizzlies.
- 10:56Speaker 1: I trust the Clippers more than the Grizzlies. I trust
- 10:59Speaker 1: the Clippers more than in Jazz at this point in time,
- 11:01Speaker 1: based on the injuries that have been happening with the
- 11:03Speaker 1: Trail Blazers and their lack of half court offense. I
- 11:06Speaker 1: trust the Clippers over the Blazers. Not could be wrong there.
- 11:10Speaker 1: I mean you can say that maybe by the end
- 11:12Speaker 1: of it, you might trust the Clippers more than the Suns,
- 11:13Speaker 1: because the Suns have the toughest schedule ever for the
- 11:16Speaker 1: next three weeks. So though some people Clippers fans may
- 11:21Speaker 1: thought that this could be a year they could put
- 11:22Speaker 1: it together win the championship, I never felt that way.
- 11:24Speaker 1: But I still feel like this twelfth start of four
- 11:26Speaker 1: and eleven can be reversed and they find their way
- 11:29Speaker 1: into the postseason, which, in my honest, honest to god
- 11:32Speaker 1: honest opinion, I feel like that has always been the
- 11:34Speaker 1: goal to just make the postseason, keep the streak alive,
- 11:37Speaker 1: which is something I think it's fifteen year wins streak
- 11:39Speaker 1: because no way, I looked at the Pacers of last season,
- 11:43Speaker 1: the YOKC Thunder of last season, look at their paths
- 11:46Speaker 1: and how hard they played for those four series Solida
- 11:49Speaker 1: or to be in the NBA Finals and everything. I
- 11:52Speaker 1: think that a team of that age, the Clippers age,
- 11:54Speaker 1: would be able to do that for four playoff series.
- 11:58Speaker 1: And I'm sure that the people within the Clippers are
- 11:59Speaker 1: smart enough to kind of see that as well. But
- 12:01Speaker 1: they want to keep the streak alive, and they want
- 12:03Speaker 1: to keep the future alive. There's no mistake that them
- 12:06Speaker 1: they're missing Norman Powell is talk about secondary shock creation,
- 12:09Speaker 1: talk about a guy that can get his own bucket
- 12:10Speaker 1: or a Powell has done that over the last season,
- 12:12Speaker 1: then again doing it here in Miami. But one of
- 12:14Speaker 1: the reason he's stragged away is because he was eligible
- 12:17Speaker 1: for a nice contract and the Clippers are trying to
- 12:19Speaker 1: keep their books as clean as possible for the twenty
- 12:22Speaker 1: twenty seventh year. As you can see, the only guy
- 12:24Speaker 1: that's really guaranteed money here is Zoo And then Yannick
- 12:28Speaker 1: Conan need a Hauser. It's not the heart of a name.
- 12:30Speaker 1: I should be able to get that. They're trying to
- 12:33Speaker 1: just continue to streak. James carry us offensively. Kawhi police
- 12:37Speaker 1: come in and hoop eventually, and by twenty twenty seven
- 12:40Speaker 1: we can read orchestrate some things, maybe trade for a
- 12:43Speaker 1: top player, maybe sign a top player. In twenty twenty
- 12:45Speaker 1: seven in boom now we start this new regime and
- 12:48Speaker 1: we were out of the Kawhi Leonard James harden Era.
- 12:51Speaker 1: I think they're just trying to bridge these seasons for
- 12:54Speaker 1: them to be real buyers. Like that's not breaking news.
- 12:56Speaker 1: I think a lot of people recognize that, but them
- 12:59Speaker 1: might have to pick the season does suck. I'm trying
- 13:02Speaker 1: to figure out where I sit as far as the
- 13:04Speaker 1: belief in their front office, because there's a couple of
- 13:07Speaker 1: different ways this can go. Because they are so bad,
- 13:09Speaker 1: they can try to make some type of trade to
- 13:12Speaker 1: get better for the now. Right because even the guys
- 13:14Speaker 1: that are underperforming this season, these are tradeable guys. Right,
- 13:18Speaker 1: John Collins expiring contract, Bogdanovitch, We're gonna count it as
- 13:21Speaker 1: an expiring because he's got a team option for sixteen
- 13:23Speaker 1: million dollars for Glopez, same thing, even Nicholas Patum. All
- 13:27Speaker 1: these guys have team options. So there's a world where
- 13:29Speaker 1: they're like, hey man, we're gonna give y'all a bunch
- 13:31Speaker 1: of expirers. Give me this disgrunted, decent player, and just
- 13:35Speaker 1: like that, James Kawhi and so and so can compete
- 13:38Speaker 1: to be a six seed or seven seed or whatever.
- 13:41Speaker 1: I would say. I've been disappointed in Zoo. He started
- 13:43Speaker 1: to look better, not on the nightly basis, but some
- 13:46Speaker 1: of his recent games, like that Dallas Old double at
- 13:48Speaker 1: game he was phenomenal, and a few other games before that.
- 13:52Speaker 1: I've been disappointed because maybe I just expected him to
- 13:54Speaker 1: do more coming off the All Defensive thing, and then
- 13:57Speaker 1: I think he got some All NBA votes even though
- 13:59Speaker 1: he didn't actually make it. And if the season works
- 14:01Speaker 1: to end today, I don't think you get a single
- 14:02Speaker 1: All Defensive vote. I don't think you get a single
- 14:05Speaker 1: All NBA vote. Maybe part of that is that he's
- 14:07Speaker 1: not playing as much with Chris Dunn and Darrick Jones
- 14:09Speaker 1: Junior right, some of the Glue guys. When it comes
- 14:11Speaker 1: to the defensive side, I don't really know there's a
- 14:14Speaker 1: lot to be done here for the Clippers, I guess,
- 14:16Speaker 1: or maybe maybe not. I guess there's a word where
- 14:19Speaker 1: the it's just like, no, this is our team. We're
- 14:20Speaker 1: gonna ride it out, and whatever happens happens. I say
- 14:23Speaker 1: Clippers streak, I'm gonna say hardened streak. That's the streak
- 14:26Speaker 1: that matters the most. Seventeen year I think it is.
- 14:30Speaker 1: I guess I got a computer from my goodness, seventeen
- 14:33Speaker 1: year playoff streak. We gotta get them in there, y'all,
- 14:38Speaker 1: because if I load up next season and I see
- 14:41Speaker 1: goddamn Shaye check, J dub and AJ Debonsa or Darren Peterson,
- 14:46Speaker 1: I might call it in. I might be a goddamn
- 14:48Speaker 1: football creator or something. Get will soon Clippers, I guess,