Clippers or Suns: Who is the better team? First Take debates
Stephen A. Smith, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and JJ Redick debate whether LA Clippers or the Phoenix Suns are the better team.
0:00 Chris “Mad Dog” Russo on the Suns’ win over the Clippers in Game 2
1:50 JJ Redick on why Ty Lue has to make adjustments
4:40 Stephen A. Smith says the Suns are the better team
7:00 Suns leaning on starters a concern?
11:15 Rather have KD or Kawhi?
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41 Comments
If the clippers had PG they'd be better this year BUT if the suns retain that roster and get a full year of playing together under their belt they'll be better nest year. As of now, the Suns have more firepower but the clips have better chemistry. This will favor ths suns over the series and the clips are gonna run out of gas as quickly as kawhi who's barely played this year again. Suns in 6.
Stephen A agrees with everything JJ says because JJ actually knows what he’s talking about 😂
Suns are better shooters. Shooting beats defence and wins championships. Clippers are very mediocre
Can we be honest people say the suns better because just of kd & Booker. A overall team (not 2 players) 16 players the clippers bench is wayyyy better than the suns. just think
Jj worry about what twitter says so much
the clippers won game one because they had to play different without PG now that the suns have saw how they are playing this series is over 4-1 suns
Why aren't the Sun's playing TJ more minutes or Cam Payne? 🤔
Clippers without Paul makes Suns the better Team
Jj is really good analyst
Stephen A right make Ayton beat u lol let’s see if the suns dumb enuff to fall for it
espn really did a pov camera angle for Stephen a smh
President of the Kevin Durant Fan Club
Clippers in 7
All this shows is how overrated the buns are 😂
JJ is one of the smartest pundits out there
Clippers have a deep bench! Clippers can win this series! If! If ! You play covington!!! Morris sr!!! This guys can play! It's the playoffs! Covington can score! And play defense! Morris sr can shoot! And is 6'9! He's tall to play Durant! Lue needs to exploit the suns lack of bench! How you not gonna play this guys? Dnp ? Why ? Smh. Batum is ok. But yesterday. He played 19 min. Zero points!!! ? Play covington!
Why does Covington not get minutes? Everything Lue wants out these guys, Covington has done, even playing small ball with the Rockets. What’s keeping him locked to the bench?
If they dop Zubec then Ayton will Dominate against the Clippers. Zunac has done well against Ayton on defense. He is shooting way below what he shot in the last series they played. Ayton played better the second game. Paul hasn't showed up to his normal self in the playoffs yet. Which a lot of that is Westbrook. Zubac, Westbrook and Leonard is why this is tied. Leonard has picked up playing like his normal playoff self. He will the hole series. They need to limit the other players if the Suns want to win. Then Ayton onnthe glass will be important. Booker is playing the best he has ever played in the playoffs. Durant isn't scoring like his usual self. But that's because the Clippers are focused on him and Ayton.
This easily the best series rn I'm enjoying these games
Leonard has played the best out of all the players so far this series. But after Leonard Craig, then Booker, then Durant. Craig has been a big surprise and has showed up because teams are more worried about Booker and Durant. Really worried aboit Durant. If the Suns wpuld hit the glass better this series would have the Suns up 2 to 0.
Would have loved to see max Kellermans reaction to Stephen a picking kawhi over KD 😂
Off topic but I really like JJ on the show. He brings a more analytical and critical reasoning to the show, you can tell he makes the other hosts use their basketball IQ. Much less of the emotional and comedic rhetoric you see on shows like Skip and Shannon. Or when Perk is on. Don’t get me wrong there’s definitely an audience for that and I myself enjoy that content from time to time, but what JJ brings is like a breath of fresh air in this emotionally charged era we’re living in.
JJ was a great addition to the show. Out with perkins.
Clippers look like the better team I hate to say it
Get the mad dog out of this show he sucks lol
You can tell Stephen a gets all giddy when jj agrees with him lol
So clippers committed to trying out the drop coverage after taking a game in Phoenix. I don’t think they’ll be trying it again, Clippers in 7
Kings or Lakers to the Finals Please and thank you.
Lol this man said at the end of the series I’d ONE of these THREE guys are off who’s gona go and get a bucket.. lol idk one of the other two?
JJ cool because he stays coming with the stats. Nobody talks points per possession. His podcast dope too. Gotta give him his flowers
Healthy clippers clear
Mad Dog is annoying AF!
How did the production team even choose this as a topic
Pass
Clippers bench has to play much better
If clippers had Paul George they would win in 6
I would agree with Stephen A but Batum was nowhere to be found last night. Had he hit those 3s they got him which were wide open, I think they win this game.
Ayton looked great last night, they gave him space and he made shots but what started to kill the Clippers were the 3s in the 3rd. Torey Craig and Booker went nuclear. The Clippers have shown the ability to trade points with this team. They get offensive rebounds they attack the rim a lot which led to them getting more than double the amount of free-throws the Suns had. You can live with trading 2s against the Suns but you have no hope when they start to score from 3. The Suns are by far the more efficient team but you have to make sure they aren’t killing you from 3 the same way the Warriors have done to everyone for half a decade. The Clippers can only win this series by forcing the Suns to score from 3 while they attack the rim forcing fouls on Ayton and also generating these offensive rebounds.
Big Clippers fan but I don't feel confident they can get past the Suns without Paul George. Also, even if they did get by them, they are most likely playing the Nuggets next and the Clippers play terrible against the Nuggets.
Molly had me dying "president of the Kevin Durant fan club" 😂 Yep
I hope we get a nuggets/Kings WCF just to see everybody flabbergasted by a 1/3 WCF.
Lakers are so lucky Memphis is injured and they get to face the winner of the kings and warriors, they have a extremely fortunate road to the western conference finals. Suns will have to go through the clippers and nuggets.