The “2nd Half Of The Season”, OKC Preview, & Lob City Drama
It’s Thursday ladies and gentlemen and you know what that means LA Clippers basketball is back the road to the title resumes and where does it begin in Oklahoma City but before we talk about that going to be looking at the road ahead the second half of the Season or
The Unofficial second half of the season the post Allstar break part of the season and the potential road to the number one seed and then some Lob City drama going to be talking about it all on today’s lock down Clippers our lock on Clippers your daily Los Angeles
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Podcast including YouTube where I want you to let me know the answer to two questions one are we going to get the number one seed yes or no two give me your score prediction against the thunder on Thursday and in this episode going to be talking about the road ahead
The Unofficial second half of the season I know the title of the video it’s not the actual second half of the season it’s we’re past the halfway point of the season but you know how it goes when it’s po post All-Star break and then previewing the OKC game how big of a
Game it is what to look for and some Lob City drama at the end involving our Old Coach Glenn rivers and former player players so let’s begin by saying that this episode is brought to you by LinkedIn post your job for free at linkedin.com lockon NBA that’s
Linkedin.com lockon NBA to post your job for free all right so everybody always says it’s the second half of the season but post All-Star break is definitely past the halfway point of the season because 82 games in a season after game 41 it’s past the halfway point but what for whatever
Reason because it’s the all-star break it’s these last you know for the Clippers it’s 29 games left 29 games where this is where NBA regular season basketball really intensifies the games become more important even though they count the same in the schedule as games before the All-Star
Break they just feel bigger you got guys going harder because you’re really trying to make that push for the playoff spot or the playin spot or your seed this is where you know the going gets tough and we see who the pretenders are and who’s going to solidify their St uh
Place in the big dance and in terms of the Clippers tied for the best record in franchise history through 53 games 36 and 17 29 games left and the majority of them are on the road because we’ve played 26 home games right and we’re 20 and six at home
Great home record so we’ve only got 15 home games left oh actually know the majority of them would be at home yeah 15 home games and we’ve got 14 Road games left my math was off for a second so that’s good it’s about the same though right it’s about
Even we’re only half a game behind the Thunder and two games behind the timber bowls but it’s really like this we’re 36 and 17 they’re 39 and 16 so we have three less wins than them but one more loss they’ve played 55 games so two more games than us it’s very catchable
They’re very catchable you know as good as Minnesota’s been you never know what could happen they could lose a couple of games some important player misses a game or two who knows and then you’re right there so the Clippers should not count themselves out for this one seed
This is the best chance we’ve ever had probably in our entire franchise history of getting the one seed and to have our players healthy you know kawh Leonard did miss that last game against the warriors with that adductor strain but apparently he didn’t even I don’t I
Think it was load management but because he said what injury when he was asked about it at all-star weekend so that doesn’t sound very serious to me Kawhi Leonard’s going to be fine everybody’s clear ready to go for the OKC game and that’s just the beginning
Of what’s going to be this final stretch of the season and the Clippers got a lock in this is where you put it together we were looking a little bit tired before the All-Star break you know if it’s a zubot had a little bit of more extended time to recover from that
Injury and he was just starting to get more minutes with that calf injury that he had and then you know James Harden he played really well against the Heat and the Hawks but he was looking a step slower you know in terms of beating guys off the bounce uh towards the end towards
The last month or so and had some rough shooting games but for him to get a little extended time off was nice and hopefully Paul George you know he did play in the All-Star Game and he looked pretty good in it and hopefully he didn’t you know got some rest to his
Groin as well so recharge the batteries second half of the Season time and the Clippers got to go all out hopefully that break will do them well because we are an older team you know and we got to take advantage of this upcoming stretch now that being said it’s not like we
Have a bunch of easy games coming up I mean OKC we have the it’s a first of a back toback a back toback in which we’re traveling and I think kawi and Paul George just judging from the way that we’ve done things this season in terms
Of load management and lack of it I should say I think that we’re going to have them both play both of these games against the Thunder and the Grizzlies the Thunder one is obviously a huge one for the standings that I’m going to talk about in a second the Grizzlies one we
Have to win it you know they’re extremely banged up I know it’s the second night of a backto back but the Oklahoma City Thunder you know they’re a really really solid team a very very good team second seed we already know the Grizzlies we got to take advantage
Of that especially if we lose to OKC to bounce back and get back in the right direction before we come home and play Sacramento which is not going to be an easy game at all but Sacramento and the Lakers backto back we have a two-day break between Sacramento’s game and the
Laker game and we’re at home for both so being at home for two games two days of rest that’s going to be nice and those two games going to be pretty big because you know Sacramento they’re trying to get into these playoff spots those top six spots and the Lakers they’re in a
Playing War right now but LeBron James is out against the Warriors it was just reported on Wednesday that LeBron’s not going to play on Thursday so will LeBron play against the Clippers I think it’ll be a week later he’ll he’ll play it’s insane to me that LeBron went to the
All-star weekend and played in the game and then was out for their the Lakers game if that had happened to Paul Georgia Kawai like kawhai basically had missed this upcoming game I would have been so angry I would have been so unbelievably angry because at the end of
The day your job is to this team you know you’re the team that pays you the pays you your salary and you need to perform you need to be available if you’re going to miss a game okay but miss the All-Star Game don’t travel to Indiana thankfully we don’t have to
Worry about that so that Grizzlies game is going to be big and then that Lakers and Kings uh you know three- game home stand Sacramento Lakers and Washington it would be really nice if we took care of business because then we have three tough road games at Minnesota at
Milwaukee that couldn’t be a tougher back toback Minnesota and Milwaukee back-to-back games and then at Houston so those are going to be tough but coming up the game the most important game the only one that matters right now OKC on Thursday going to be talking about it coming
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Relative to OKC and if you look we are neck and neck with them Clippers are 36 and 17 OKC is 37 and 17 so just half a game above us one game in the win column if we win on Thursday we are 37 and 17 and they’re 37 and 18 where does that
Put us number two in the west and Denver Nuggets have two more losses than us right now what a win that would be to go into the second place slot and of course with the Thunder we have played them twice this season the first time without kawh Leonard we got absolutely smoked they
Actually were the team that ended our nine game winning streak and then we played them in that game at home where Paul George just went absolutely ballistic on January 16th uh he had 38 points in that one and we won 128 to to 117 so we’ve played two games against
Them to win that game would be absolutely massive because guess what we don’t play them for the rest of the season so this is it this game determines who wins the tiebreaker and they’re very well could be a tiebreaker and that two seed versus the three seed
Makes a big difference to me if it’s against OKC who knows if they’ll make the second round who knows if we’ll make the second round but playing being the two seed and playing against the team that have to fight through the playin have to go through some Wars I’d rather
Do that and the biggest reason you get home court in the second round and the Clippers have never gone to reap the benefits of being a two seed in the playoffs with the crowd because the only time we’ve ever gotten it was the 201920 season and we did not get to reap the
Benefits of it because there was a tournament in Orlando that we don’t speak about anymore OKC what a big game this is and of course it’s just funny you know OKC and US battling in the standings because we we the ones who traded SGA to them and SGA is an MVP candidate and
Kawhi Leonard’s an MVP candidate I mean this is going to be a doozy uh ESPN matchup predictor has it at 50.8% that the Thunder are going to take this one the thunder in their last five games are three and2 we are also three and2 in our last five they’ve won
Their last two with the exact same score line of 127 to 113 that’s super odd when’s the last last time you see a team win with the exact same score line in back-to-back games that’s pretty wild they’re 21- six at home so they have a very good home record as well almost
Identical to ours it’s crazy how close we are I mean after the trade the Clippers were better every single year since the trade of course that’s expected right because Oklahoma City you know their benefit of the trade was the long-term game and they definitely look like they’re in a
Position have a better future than us but as long as who who if one of them gets a championship and the other one doesn’t that’s who wins the trade right so we’ll see I’m not saying we’re going to win the championship but I think we’re closer this year the standings say
Otherwise though but we’ve been better every single year this is the first year since the trade and it’s year five that okay we shall see now maybe the Thunder going to be better than us this year we’ll see I think we’re I still put my money on us we’re more experienced team
And this game is going to be interesting because 1-1 right they haven’t beaten us yet with Kawai but this is in Chesapeake so or they call it paycom center now but starting lineup should be intact for both teams so we should be going with James Terren Paul Kawai and zoo and they
Should be going with SGA ludor Jay dub Chad holgren and Josh giddy so you know I think we’re going to have James Harden guarding Josh giddy to start Terren man guarding SGA uh kawi Leonard guarding probably Lou Dort Paul George guarding Jay dub you’ll probably have Paul George and
Kawhai you know alternate on possessions like that with that and then zubot guarding Chad hren now last time we played the thunder in Oklahoma City Josh giddy made a bunch of Threes he’s not a very good three-point shooter so I hope that doesn’t happen again SGA while he did give us the business
I remember SGA I’m sorry uh Terrence man doing a pretty good job on him when we played him so hopefully he can do that again I mean of course with the with the Thunder they only have one guy that averages 20 points you know uh Jaylen Williams is their second leading score
He averages 19 points a game SGA sgaa averages 31 if you can slow him down me he’s so efficient this season but if you can slow him down easier said than done that’s how you can get the W against them and hopefully teren man can try to
Do that you know get physical with him uh try not to foul him I mean he’s so good at getting to the line and hopefully force him to take contested threes instead of his little 10-footer 12-footer that when he gets into a sweet spot SGA in the mid-range he’s money but
Yeah like last time we we held him to 11 for 25 and one for six from three so even though he got 31 points we made him work for that 31 points he shot 44% so that’s pretty good but we allowed Chad holgren who dominated us last time he
Really dominated us uh well not last time but last time we were in Oklahoma City and one of the reasons is you know when we play zoo and drop and we do play zoo and drop you have a pick and pot big you are conceding the open three so I’d like to
See the Clippers be sharp on that rotation if we’re going to play zoo and drop we got to just rotate on a Chet and hopefully get them to swing the ball to Josh giddy I would say think that’s the game plan um it’s obviously easier said
Than done but you know Chad was clowning us last time throwing it off the backboard to himself so hopefully we can keep him at Bay because he really gave us the business and you know what I would like to see us do let’s make Chad
Holr guard a bit in the post he’s a good rim protector I think he’s good guard in the pick and roll but let’s have Zoo back him down a bit wear him down why not zoo in the post is not inefficient and like what better way to
Try to get him back into playing his best by giving him some post touches just an idea I would like to see Russell westbr attack the rim against these guys I know they just picked up bismack bomo because they’re really thin at the five you know at times they would go with Kenrick
Williams at the backup five or Jaylen Williams from Arkansas at the five go to the rim this is a Russ kind of game but yeah go Clippers I think we’re going to win it I think it’s going to be a good game though but I think we’re going to
Win it and coming up going to be talking about some recent Lob City drama Glenn Riv JJ reick Patrick Beverly going to be talking about it coming up I got to tell you a little something about FanDuel get buckets with your first bet on FanDuel America’s number
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And things are getting a little interesting I mean I can’t even say that it’s just there’s nothing to talk about so dudes are just having like a high school gossip session drama on the media I just want to say how funny is it that all these ex
Clippers are in the media JJ reck Jamal Crawford Austin Rivers Ryan Hollands I mean so many members of Lob City I think it’s really funny I’m probably forgetting some too well Patrick Beverly he’s not part of Lob City but he’s got his own podcast now I mean it’s just hilarious and it started
With JJ reck going at Glenn Rivers for not taking accountability of course Glenn Rivers is three and seven with the Milwaukee bucks now I wasn’t the host of this podcast during Glenn Rivers time as Clipper coach that would be Lucas Han and then Charles mockler and William Updike but if
Anybody knows me from before my time it locked on and my content on dime dropper about Glenn Rivers especially you know before he got fired you guys know what I think about him JJ reck was absolutely right JJ reck was absolutely right here’s my thing about Glenn though I am a big believer
That it’s not all on the coach this is the NBA the most player driven League of any team sport in America the players have the most weight on their shoulders not the coach in basketball the players have the most power in basketball in soccer you have to choose your formation choose your
Tactics you know in NBA obviously it’s tactical but it’s way different than your formation in soccer in baseball making the pitching decisions you know pitching changes that’s huge football play calling in the NBA when we have Kawhi Leonard we have a great chance of winning when we don’t have him we’re not
A championship team it’s very simple it’s very simple basketball is a players game and the NBA is a players League Glenn Rivers absolutely holds fault for the majorly for the 3-1 against Denver but also to a degree the 3- wi against Houston first off I think we were unprepared mentally to play that
Game five I think that the Rockets played with a level of desperation and we totally were like okay well game six is the one back at our house and I thought we didn’t even make that tough for them and you know I’m not sure if that was you know I wonder what Glenn
River said it’s not like he said guys don’t try tonight but I mean I I have a hard time believing that he emphasized finishing the series so much in that game just because I know you’re you’re naturally the Rockets you know an elimination team down 3-1 at home is going to play with
Desperation you know but we were so Superior to them in that series and we could have made that game tougher I think we could have absolutely made that game tougher but we were over confident however no matter what Glenn River says you should have need a grown man to
Motivate you at that point when you’re one game away from a Conference Finals and making history right so the players deserve more blame but game six he didn’t call timeouts like in the fourth quarter he took way too long between timeouts it was insane the momentum was completely taken out of that building
However and it’s because I don’t listen I don’t have time to listen to his shows and and a bunch of other people’s shows but I would like to hear if JJ reick has taken accountability for the fact that he shot 11 for 36 in the last three
Games of that series you know Jamal Crawford didn’t shoot well in that series either CP3 couldn’t couldn’t I mean yeah he had eight points in the fourth quarter that game six he was struggling to get good shots off because he was small and and we when you have a
Six foot pass first guy that is supposed to be your best scorer in crunch time that’s a problem Blake Griffin went 0 for five in that fourth quarter DeAndre Jordan saved the ball underneath our own basket and it went to Cory Brewer for three that’s not Glenn River’s fault
And I again I do blame Glenn rivers and JJ is right that he doesn’t take accountability but that Squad needs to take more accountability and the fact that they all complain about each other they all talk about chemistry issues I mean I knew it wasn’t peaches and cream
Especially those last two years but when we were winning 56 plus games three consecutive Seasons from 20123 to 20145 and Chris Paul and Blake grien and DeAndre Jordan were electric together Chris Paul and Blake grien was one of the hardest pick rolls to guard in the
NBA you didn’t think this was going on behind the scenes you didn’t think CP3 and Blake were beefing this much and that this was this much ego involved you know it’s like we were right there we need a 30 for 30 one day but then
Patrick Beverly who I adore and I like a lot more than JJ reick by the way um one because of play style differences I’m always going to take a guy that guards and does the intangibles than a guy that was a fantastic movement shooter and a great spot-up shooter and specialist but
I’m always going to take a pat B I think his game translates more to the playoffs and I think it was shown by one of them being a starter on a Conference Finals team and the other one didn’t necessarily perform on the playoffs after the first season we had
Him uh he was never a starter on a Conference Finals team JJ reick on any team even though he had some good years in Philly after he was close but Kawai put an end to that Pat Bev said that uh he defended doc of course this is his second time
Being coached by doc now he’s with Milwaukee Pat Bev and he said that um I forgot exactly what he said to rutto oh he said that doc River or Glenn Rivers basically saved him from you know no team was going to start him at the time he gave you a starting job you
Should be thankful and here’s my thing about JJ he was on the Bucks and he wasn’t getting much time the year before he came to the clippers but Monte Ellis had just moved to the Mavericks so JJ probably would have been a starter on that Buck team but they weren’t going to
Be very good and JJ re rebuttal to that by saying he had a contract four years to be a starter somewhere else with a player option and I think that team might have been Minnesota but they weren’t good so pad Bev was wrong but he’s right in the sense that Glenn
Rivers gave JJ his most relevant role of his career which was a starter on a contending team that was like bound to be a a really good team in a very competitive West that was a second round team so the Clippers gave JJ reick a biggest spot Spotlight of his career and
Glenn Rivers did that he really did that um but B Pat Bev was wrong in that instance and then he rebutted with something else like and went on his podcast and said we should have played Jamal more uh than than JJ in the series against Houston look they both really
Underperformed in that series um Jamal was perfect for his role he had a bigger role than JJ in the sense that he had to create whenever Chris Paul went to the bench and it wasn’t as easy to create shots back then when you play too bigs
That is than it is now um but you know they both weren’t good defensively so saying that we should have played Jamaal more it feels like very revisionist history for Pat Bev um and then JJ pulled up his stats guarding Harden which looked good he said he held him to
38% I mean I’m not denying that those stats aren’t accurate my thing was my my memory is this because I remember that series vividly I went to game four JJ actually did a better job on Harden than uh I thought he would do I remember watching the series and I was like okay
JJ’s obviously not locking him up he can’t lock James Harden up but he was doing a good enough job that we weren’t getting abused right but that stat I don’t think that that stat is fully like that’s a flawed metric to make it seem like you played lock down defense
Because if you if you held him to 38% which which he did in those stats then you locked him down but here’s the thing that doesn’t account for what about the times where we have guys helping and loading up because they’re afraid that JJ can’t guard James Harden one-on-one
And James Harden’s getting assists I mean we see what James Harden’s gravity does and is always done so you don’t get credit or you don’t get you know it doesn’t go in the stat sheet when you are in these metrics when JJ let’s say gets blown by and then he kicks it out
To Trevor arza for three and then arza scores James Harden doesn’t get a shot attempt so you see I mean I’m JJ did fine in that series defensively his prom was offensively but that St still a little flawed at the end of the day Pat beev was just wrong and then you had
Former Clipper Austin Rivers stepping in defending his dad um and again he said and he made some good points he said how is Glenn Rivers not held accountable when he gets fired every single place and he gets rightfully fired by the way Austin I love you I love Austin Rivers I
Thought he was great in all three playoffs we had him he was and he always made big shots um and I I’ll never forget 2016 when he played with the broken eye uh the bloody eye but 2015 he was part of the reason we were up 3-1
And he’s part of the reason we beat San Antonio I don’t blame Austin at all really for that series I thought he played really well and that whole postseason I thought he played well but he he didn’t I mean his dad doesn’t take accountability that’s that’s a fact he
Doesn’t for anything we just didn’t make shots we just didn’t make shots you know and then he would you ask Pop that question would you guys pop that question like are you serious comparing yourself to pop that’s a disgrace that Glenn Rivers was even top 15 uh all time
Voted in I don’t know how guys like Alex Hanam and Bill Sharman these you know La USC leg legends that won championships at the ABA level and the NBA level didn’t make it I guess we just didn’t have enough educated voters but Glenn Rivers should not make it for that one
Title he’s winning because he’s really nice to everybody you know all due respect to Glenn as a man I’ve never met him but Austin Rivers I thought it was funny that he took shots at JJ at the end saying that he couldn’t guard at the end of games and and stuff like that
That was absolutely true he was onedimensional couldn’t put the ball on the floor it’s all true um and Austin was a better Defender than him but it’s just funny seeing them like just go at each other like this and they’re all former Clippers which brings us more attention like they’re bringing more
Attention to Clipper history which I think is comedy cuz we think 15 years ago there was no attention to Clipper history no nothing there was nothing to talk about we’re getting talked about this is amazing for me and by the way yeah so Lob City we needed 30 for 30 at
One point like please hopefully it’s I can watch it you know this is the dream right we win a championship with this team we’ve already written the the wrong of Lob City with the Conference Finals birth now we’re trying to you know not make 213b just a Conference Finals birth
But we win a championship we got our new Stadium 10 years maybe five years time we kick our legs up Ki kick back put our legs up and watch the 30 for30 on Lop City Clippers the rise and fall that would be I mean come on I mean it changed the Clippers
Forever anybody that wants to say Lob City doesn’t matter that’s all the stands that weren’t there for it you know like I don’t care about you guys at all like you don’t feel the pain that we felt the highs and lows I mean you don’t understand what it was like when we
First got Blake like it was just our games were fun again we had something to look forward to it was crazy he Blake Griffin like changed my life because like I care about the Clippers so much and as a little kid like you have a bad
Day at school and you know the Clippers is going to be there for you you know basketball’s going to be there for you you can always play but then at night got to do your homework what’s in front of you on Prime tickets Ralph Lawler Mike Smith Blake Griffin made those
Nights wins they made me go to sleep with a smile and I mean I watched some great basketball because of him and Chris Paul everybody in Lob City even JJ Jamal all those guys that underperformed in the playoffs routinely I still got you know they still contributed to a very very huge
Turning point in Clipper history that I don’t think we’d be here with these guys without I think when they saw that the Clippers could be successful and what it looks like when we’re good they’re like okay this I can rock with this this so shout out Lob City for the drama it’s a
T NOA but anyway that’s it for me in this one we’re back ladies and gentlemen uh let me know what you think of the episode let me know uh what the score prediction what your score prediction is for the Thunder game and if we’re going
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The LA Clippers are back and the unofficial second half of the season begins now. This is when the games start mattering more and the pressure intensifies. The race for the 1 seed is on and in this episode, die hard Los Angeles Clippers fan and Host Darian Vaziri discusses how in reach the number one seed is.
He also previews the Thursday game against the Oklahoma City Thunder and how impactful it is for the standings. In the end, he discusses the beef between former Lob city members Glen Rivers, JJ Redick, and Austin Rivers.
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I love Pat Bev man, first jersey I ever got signed at a clippers game, but I really don’t like that he always trashes his old teams/teammates
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finally a non brian dead sport fan take on nba coaches lol. nba coaches are scape goats. thats one of their biggest roles. and in that aspect.. shoot i guess doc is elite lol. i mean look at whats happening now hes taking the hit for the org and players haha. acting like they were the finals favorites until doc got there now its all his fault. and the thing is sports fans will always eat it up cause they never want to blame their favorite players until they have too. yet they dont know wtf an nba coach even does or says. the actual extent of evaluating is W good L bad coach…..
27:38 has me dead
So proud of Mr. Darian Vaziri mentioning thè Legendary Mr Alex Hannum! Who is a huge reason that Mr. Russell doesn't win 13 championships in 13 years! No way him and Mr. Sharman should not have been selected as top 15 coaches of all time!
Apart from Denver, none of the opposition concerns me any more than Ty Lue's propensity for dropping the 1st 2 games in a series does. That was years ago, yes, but we are getting by an awful lot on primarily ~talent~. Adversity thus far consisted of minor injuries to a few RPs , a couple blips to PG+Kawhi and the wrench that was a major trade 2 weeks into the season – relatively minor setbacks in the long run, but perhaps responsible for being ~ 2-3 seeds lower than if we'd had Harden and Theis before October. Perhaps not.
The March schedule thickens considerably, so some further testing of discipline will accrue well into April and then relax a bit before the playoffs begin.
Health and franchise "bad luck" concerns aside, in logistical basketball terms: All of the other teams arguably have some combination of more weaknesses and/or inexperience than we do – including Denver, but the chip goes through them so they get special status until it's taken away or they drop it outright.
I've never attended lob city I was working a lot at that time but I've been a fan since 2006 and I agree with you Blake griffin brought the hype it's funny I bought season tickets the following season cause I wanted to see him and then he got traded I was so emotionally drained and sad for like a year I didn't get to see him play…
JJ Redick’s defensive metrics are actually pretty good, I think because he would tire out the other shooting guard by making them chase him all over the court
Yes we can clippers w8n 125 to 118
Fasten your seat belts, folks. Clippers are entering the second half of the season. They will beat OKC tonight and beat the Timberwolves twice over the next month.
Tonight is a statement game for PG
Zu is completely underutilized…back in the day the inside was always established first because it opens up the rest of the floor. If we focused on getting him set early NO MATTER who he posting up against, it’s open shots everywhere…
Bring Blake back?
Doc Rivers not Glenn.
I agree with you so much about the lob city thing. I am a clipper fan from the 80's , I met you at the game a couple months ago. I never comment here but this one hit a nerve
Austin is bugging, dude is acting like someone getting fired is them holding themselves accountable LMAO
But also I agree, you cant blame the coach all the time when the players who are getting paid 100+ million choke
Did Doc Rivers make little ass JJ suck at defense. He was an undersized 2 and Doc made you relevant using you in that Ray Allen role because you were definitely not a point guard.
Clips 117 OKC 113
5 thousand!
I've been thinking about attending one their last regular season home games where I'll write up on big piece of paper "Clippers Assemble"
Clippers on a Mission to the Championship.
Dime I been fan of the squad since 04 I feel when say they don't know the pain Losing to the grizz Z Bo playin for us jus 2 get traded 2 knock out the playoffs they jus dont know dime the rockets the suns the jazz Nuggets man we have came a long way 213 baby Clip Clip City!!!!
Yyyyyyyyesssssir
I think we end up with the 3rd seed , cuz I see lue resting Kawahi and pg in some games and just feel like one of them will get hurt not a bad injury but miss several games plus you could tell our guys were tired the last 4 games in we have a monster March
They both only played 10 minutes, kawhi probably asked to not play more then 10 minutes but PG being back in Indy was weird he only got 10 minutes
I’m so confused on what has happens to the pick and roll with zu and harden it was so on point before Zu got hurt but since he’s come back we haven’t done it at all
Who the hell is Glen rivers?
Is the pod no longer going to avaliable on Google podcasts?
We want to finished in first place in our conference which we have never done in the history of our franchise franchise. It's not going to be easy, but if our bench, mainly Norman, Russ, and Plumlee play consistent with our starters and a healthy Zu now, we can do it ❤😊