Are The Los Angeles Clippers Real Contenders? | 2/29/24

Are The Los Angeles Clippers Real Contenders? | 2/29/24

Here’s LeBron James post game talking about his big fourth quarter um I know we we’ve kind of heard this you know what what it feels like to be in the zone you know in our in our Sport and um that’s just the feeling where you feel

Like everything that you put up is is going in and you know with the you know for me I just kept it I kept it consistent I wasn’t taking illai shots um I stayed in the course of the offense um when I was able to get the switches

Um so you know just a zone that can’t really describe it wish you could stay in it forever but obviously it checks out you know as the game ends but you know durage you don’t you don’t feel anything you just have a super power I feel yeah it’s called

Getting blue I did a story on this at ESPN back in the mid 90s and uh talked to people who talked about athletes when they get in the zone and they call it getting blue where you don’t know how you got in how long you can stay and why

You got out of it but you have these moments where you’re getting blue you’re in the zone and LeBron was that last night I don’t know if he can be really happy that he needed to do that and hit all those threes in the fourth quarter I

Mean it’s nice you came back from 21 down how did you get 21 down because you can’t rely on LeBron hitting five threes in a fourth quarter at least you shouldn’t and you got six more weeks where you’re trying to figure out the roster here but uh the Lakers pick up

The win rallying from 21 down and here we go with the Clippers again I know it’s one game I’ve I’ve already read people on social media it’s only one G I know but every time we get ready to Christen the Clippers like maybe maybe this is the

Year and uh you know I was critical of them when I said Russell Westbrook should not be starting he should be coming off the bench coming off the bench they’re a better team Harden wants to play for that next contract Kawai who knows I mean Kawai is

Kawai um but you’re still you know Paul George like they have the nucleus here like that’s a dangerous seven game series team where you go boy if they get it right uh four games they could knock anybody out it’s just can they get it right and there is you know can there be

Consistency there yes Marvin we should blame Chris manx for this because he was talking them up something crazy yesterday he said kawhai should be an MVP cand I know I know they played great the first three quarters yeah I know yeah yep we watched it yesterday fold

Manx it was the kiss of death as soon as manx signed off on him I go oh that’s not good it never works out for manx hurt their odds yes it never it never ever you go man remember manx said that it’s like soon as he said it we’re like

Oh they’re they’re doomed yeah PA it feels sometimes like the Clippers play bigger or bigger nationally than they might locally because I think there are one of those stories not exactly like the Cubs of the Detroit Lions but they’ve been such a frustrated franchise for since birth what if they made one

Western Conference Final yeah but I don’t think we root for them like we do the lions or the Cubs no I would say but they’re kind of that next tier for me I think it’ be a great story to see the Clippers yeah but I don’t think that

James Harden is a rootable guy kaai I think their franchise history is rootable for not there maybe they’re necessarily their roster yeah maybe yeah but I don’t I don’t find that team maybe Paul George is rootable you know broke his leg and came from Oklahoma City to

The clippers but I I don’t know if you go boy there I love that Underdog Story yes Marv and if you’re someone of a certain age say if you’re 24 the Clippers have always been pretty good now I’m almost 40 the Clippers were awful I didn’t even know La had a second

Sports team until I was maybe 11 and so if you’re 20 you’re like all right they’re good but they can never get over the hump they always lose 3-1 leads and stuff like that yeah so I’m not sure if they’re lovable losers like the Lions just got good yesterday yeah I think the

Clippers have always lingered uh sometimes lingering in a positive way sometimes lingering like what what are you still doing here this feels like this is a team though that can be one of the best teams in the west I just still trying to figure out the landscape here

Like are the Timberwolves going to be there at the end are they real Denver’s going to be there Denver will be there but who else is going to be able to go toe to- toe in the West

Dan Patrick reacts to the Los Angeles Clippers losing to the Los Angeles Lakers after blowing a 20 point lead and wonders if the Clippers are real Championship contenders