Kawhi & The Clippers Look Like The Team To Beat | Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Kawhi & The Clippers Look Like The Team To Beat | Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

I wanted to talk about uh last night’s Heat game that I imagine uh Amin went to but not not to talk you did not go to okay uh but not to talk about the heat uh the thing that I wanted to talk to Pablo and am me about

Is has everything the Clippers done worked because this is the best Clippers team I’ve ever seen where did that come from because you know they’re famously the example of it never working correct but what I’m about to tell you is this is the best Clippers team I’ve ever seen

They are in the LA in the years of kawhai and Paul George they’re like 40 and N against the Lakers they may not be the Lakers yet but they are better than the Lakers they don’t have the the they look man the laughing stock on them goes back 40 years like everybody’s been

Laughing at this franchise and then they made a move that traded everything there hasn’t been a trade like that in the NBA there has not been one like that and because of that trade Oklahoma City is now also good they’re going to have to go go through Oklahoma City because of

All they traded to get Paul George and up to now I would have said it hasn’t worked but you add James Harden now they’re the best team in the NBA over the last 30 games they’re 25 and five Miami tried to drag that game into the muck last night they’re only two times

This season the Clippers haven’t scored 100 points they lost both the games last night they barely get to 100 points and they win the game anyway this team can win the championship this team is as good as anybody James Harden has rounded into shape I look how he did

That you guys tell me I’m wrong that’s the only way he gets into shape by rounding into it once upon a time James Harden playing in Miami in the regular season was not a recipe for him being arguably the best player on the floor yeah but you can’t change an entire

Narrative especially about the Clippers yes 40 Years of failure but also in the last five years repeated failure where these moves haven’t worked out it’s all about the playoffs with these guys Mike agreed but what I’m saying I’m not saying yet that it has worked Al

Although I can make the argument for it because they’re no longer a laughing stock and they have not been for with all the load management stuff they are they are light years ahead of where they used to be with it which is just us laughing at them but this is a

Legitimate Championship Contender and I’ve never been able to say that about the Clippers not with Chris Paul not with Blake Griffin I’ve never thought that of the Clippers that team I saw last night can win the championship I would say that the co shortened season was that because they were healthy and

Paul Georgia Qui Leonard were amazing and they were right there and they had a 3-1 lead in the second round ready for a date with the Lakers in the Conference Finals which would have been an a remarkable meeting even though it have been in a bubble still as you pointed

Out the Clippers have a tendency to play up to when they playing the Lakers they love to play the Lakers they have this chip on their shoulder I would have loved to have seen that series it didn’t happen because they blew it in the Nuggets end up winning that series but I

Would argue well yes this team is really good great even it’s the best Clippers team there’s ever been I’m just saying that that 1920 team was pretty damn good too okay I mean like they like on paper this you’re splitting hairs on me they added James Harden and can now win the

Championship yes provided certain things that’s for everybody yes they can win the championship is not something I’ve ever said about question to be asked when it comes to this team when they’re never healthy hold on but then then I’m going back to spin hairs yes you could

Have said that in 2019 2020 you absolutely a thing particular before then it’s worked then it’s worked then then if I could have said that in 20 then this this is the best incarnation of the Clippers that there has ever been you haven’t even hit the allar break who

Are you to say it’s worked I think I look here here’s the thing but I think this highlights something incredibly nuanced in sports conversation right the idea that when is it can you say it worked only when you in a championship when you sto the laughter when you stop

All of the laughter weo guys am me is so close to sang trust the process I mean you’re so close you’re so close I haven’t even started paying attention yet that’s true I can’t I can’t close the door on a narrative when the games don’t matter what matters about Paul

George and James Harden and Kawhi Leonard is them all being healthy and doing it in the postseason you can’t say it worked we haven’t even gotten to Indianapolis yet the James they’re still playing pro football what are you talking about worked the James Harden thing is is the big question here like

That’s what we’re talking about Dan very vociferously proclaimed they added James Harden and now they can win a championship which if you were to say that out loud um before this recent run would have gotten you roundly mocked and I I agree James Harden his demise rumors of his demise

Were greatly exaggerated but the question to Mike’s larger point is the postseason that’s what it we laugh yes it is what you laugh at and you laugh at two of the three guys that that they’ve got but you sure as don’t laugh at one of them the guy

Who leads that team the quietest guy that leads that team you do not laugh at him no I can’t I can’t laugh at him but he also has an availability issue yeah it’s the three guys that have injury is but he’s never had this much help he has

He has never had maybe in San Antonio maybe in San Antonio no he’s never had this much help but the people that he’s depending on are Paul George James Harden and Russell Westbrook uh even though he’s bit a bit more of a role player now historically those guys you

Like depending on they got hurt too okay I mean you can question them all you want but over the last 30 games they’re better than anybody it is funny that this with this whole experiment right it’s not just about this season it’s about not an argum the Steve bomber era does it

Elicit groans when you talk about the way they went all in on these guys left their future um to invest in the present like this season this postseason is going to decide whether Steve bomber is somebody that we should be mocking or some who is like the model of a guy who

Cares about going all in and and cares about basketball stats isn’t here and yet he’s here in Spirit win the championship in February

Amin El Hassan and Pablo join The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and debate whether or not the Clippers should be the favorites to win the NBA Championship, as the hottest team in the league over the past month.

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