Clippers or 76ers: The confidence meter IF healthy 👀 | NBA Today

Clippers or 76ers: The confidence meter IF healthy 👀 | NBA Today

All right here was Pro Chief Kevin Scott when he told a reporter following the game he said on the last play on the floor in real time the crew interpreted that play as the defender jumping vertically however in postgame video review we did observe some slight drift

To his left by the defender George and a foul should have been ruled Kelly UB he was apologetic for his actions after the game take a listen we’re not perfect the refs aren’t perfect I want to apologize for just losing my cool cuz that’s something I

Try to work on but I saw coach nurse getting riled up and if our coach is going to fight for us and you know he’s going there then I’m right behind him so uh but at the end of the day it wasn’t cool so you know I’ll take whatever penalties come

With that and you know you have to move on but I got to be better as an amateur lip reader I’m going to say you know what you ain’t got to be an amateur to read that he took responsibility and that’s what’s important there is some positive news

Here for Philadelphia though head coach Nick nurse said today the Sixers star Joel embiid practiced with the team he will go on their upcoming road trip to get some more work in with the group Philadelphia has won just 10 of the 27 games that embiid has missed dropping

From 5ifth to 8th in the East during that span remember embiid had surgery on his meniscus about s weeks ago Zack low is back with us here Zach it is sounding like embiid is getting closer and closer to returning although we don’t have a firm timetable yet the expectation the

Hope is Philly gets him back before the end of the regular season so because these two teams just played each other because we have seen these two teams fall in their respective conferences who do you have more confidence in if healthy the Clippers or the 76ers

Sir I’m going to go with the Clippers almost by default just because I don’t know what condition Joel embiid’s going to be in right away and I don’t even know how they’re going to get out of the play or if they’re going to get out of

The play but I’ll say this the Clippers they went 26 and5 I think in 131 game sample dominated the league seemed to establish themselves as title contenders Nob brainers Stone Cold they’re 11 and 12 in their last 23 games that’s almost as long in mediocrity as

They were at the top of the league that’s almost as long as stretch and if you watch them you know I mean they might as well have driven out of that Arena last night in a getaway car they stole that game so blatantly and look they’ve just lost a little a little

Something a little pop a little flow a little rhythm something and maybe it’s just Russ was injured everyone else was in out of the in the lineup everyone’s missed two three games here and there it’s hard to get that continuity but they got to get their flow back fast

Because the Pelicans are waiting for them in the first round of the playoffs and the Pelicans are tough three and one against the Clippers absolutely no joke they’ve got to get back to playing the way they were in that 26 and five stretch I’m going with the Sixers cuz

When they had Joel and B they were the best team in the East they they were no slouch okay and you know I talked to Tyrese Maxi on Monday in Sacramento and he was excited about the Supporting Cast that Joel is going to return to obviously he’s an Allstar they got baton

They got Tobias Harris buddy Hill kyl Lowry DeAnthony Melton and uh the the UB my guy UB they got a lot of people to help this team that weren’t there before right and they’re in the East and the Clippers always clip I’m glad you brought him up because their

Best lineups have had both Joel embiid and DeAnthony Melton in them and Melton has been out too his last game was at the end of February and he only played three games in the month of February so if somehow both of those guys they can get back they really need all of those

Pieces if they fall to eighth somehow though and end up in a first round Series against Boston Celtics that’s what worries me Danny yeah I’m if I’m the rest of the teams I’m nervous but I’m I’m with you Mark I’m I’m with Philly I think them healthy being in the

East not as strong as the West if you’re a Cleveland Cavaliers team or Milwaukee team and have to face the Philadelphia 76ers with a healthy Joel embiid in shape and they’re a two or three seed I’m a little nervous if I’m those teams well you picking right yeah if they had

Match up with Cleveland that’s that’s a early I think that’s early exit for Cleveland in the first round Joel with Nick nurse coaching them they’re a really good team and with everybody healthy if they get DeAnthony back who knows what this team can be right um obviously it all depends on how Joel

Takes his health serious and how conditioned he gets in but I’m going with Philly and how well they can with Tyrese and Tobias Kelly UB all those guys you mentioned and said Joel leading the weight he’s obviously to me the MVP of the league and has been the most

Valuable even the last couple years that 10 and 17 without him it does not even a playoff team right it feels less dire though for the Philadelphia 76ers than it does for for the Clippers right because the Sixers if they are a first round exit right if they do lose to the

Boston Celtics if they if they fall all the way or even if they lose to one of those other teams the Cavaliers the Bucks whomever it may be early on oh Joel embiid wasn’t healthy right and this was always a year where Tyrese Maxi has played so incredibly well but we were talking

About this not that long AO as a potential Gap year as they figured out how to replace James Harden they’re ahead of schedule versus the Los Angeles Clippers they are not getting any younger they are moving to a brand new Arena Paul George has still not signed a

Contract I I don’t know Zach when I when I look at that that is why it seems like there’s a whole lot more on the Clippers right now it look they have no team in the league has more pressure on them than the Clippers and I don’t know if this is

Just a veteran team that says all right we established who we were in that dominant stretch wake us up in the playoffs you got to wake up soon because every single game in the playoffs is going to be tough and you got to play your a to a plus game and we just

Haven’t seen that really almost across the board from this team top of the roster middle of the roster bottom of the roster in too long and it’s a dangerous game that we’re just going to flip the switch when we have to when you got a young hungry Pelicans team staring

At you there is no question I mean I feel like we say it every year this is the biggest season in the history of the frch this is the biggest season in the history of the Clippers [Applause] [Applause] franchise

On NBA Today, Zach Lowe, Marc J. Spears and Danny Green join Malika Andrews to discus whether they have more confidence in the LA Clippers or Philadelphia 76ers if fully healthy.

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