Los Angeles Clippers Season Recap: Kawhi Leonard’s Reliability and Paul George’s Decision!

Los Angeles Clippers Season Recap: Kawhi Leonard’s Reliability and Paul George’s Decision!

let’s talk about the Clippers it was better but it still ended up like the Clippers Michael Bolton Michael thanks Josh it’s Michael Bolton here and it’s time for another episode of the locked on Fantasy Basketball podcast let’s get to it let’s get to it indeed you are locked on fantasy basketball your daily fantasy basketball podcast part of the locked on podcast [Music] Network hello and welcome to the locked on Fantasy Basketball podcast brought to you by basketball monster my name is Josh Lloyd and if you’re going to do one of those weird NBA hair swaps at least do mine like a Karen I’m also the lead fantasy Analyst at Bas monster.com and you can find me on Twitter as always Redrock on Tik Tok at red rockball and on Instagram at lockon Fantasy Basketball today’s episode it’s brought to you by Price Pi the easiest and the most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports go to Price peaks.com lockon NBA and use the code all lowercase locked on NBA for a first deposit match up to $100 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into depth into uh PJ Tucker or Kobe Brown on today’s show sorry about that they were 51 and 31 again it’s a really good record and after the way they started out when Jim Harden arrived you would have thought there was no chance that they were getting to that but they did plus 4.3 net rating fourth best offense 14th best defense they’re pre season over under was only 462 so obviously they beat that I had them at 46 actually then I bumped them to 48 on opening night so I went over the 46 but didn’t hit the 51 and again the 51 is a great result the Western Conference was so stacked though that they were not in like a top two seed or top three seed and then the injuries came in as per usual in the draft my draft graphic didn’t work here for some reason so I’m not going to put that up but they only have one pick and it’s in the second round but let’s just get straight into talking about the starters their most common starting group was the one you do expect Jim Harden Terence man Paul George Kawhi Leonard and I zubats that wasn’t their best lineup their best lineup just switched Terrence man for Norman pal and again I don’t think you’d be too surprised by that that was a plus 31.8 that lineup yeah defense for that one struggles a little bit especially with Harden and pal in the back cour but Zubat is great at it George and Leonard are both really good Defenders and that was a really strong lineup it is hard to start that lineup out we’re talk a little bit more about man and pal um later on in the show in terms of free agents they got three restricted guys only one that I am really interested in if you if you know me you know how much I love BJ Boston I don’t think he’s had a really fair shot here with the Clippers um but if he was going to be really good then he would have forced his way into a big shot because Norman pal and teren man they’re fine they’re not great so every season that goes by where I like a guy like BJ Boston and they don’t get the opportunity my I sour on that upside cuz at some point you have to show it I still think he might turn into a good player like not of a good player solid player the way that Terren man did not Terrence the other man Trey man did in Charlotte like got an opportunity looked all right still don’t think he’s very good but looked all right I think BJ could do that I don’t know where Boston fits in terms of restrictive freeny he could very easily just get lost in the system but he’s someone I’m watching out for Xavier Moon who’s on and off this team every 5 minutes don’t worry about him then Musa B has shown me absolutely nothing that I need to talk about him anymore now the big question is going to be um uh unrestricted free agents you got Jim Harden Mason plumbley and Daniel Ty plumbley had a trade in the season before Daniel Ty is a buyout and Jim came across in the trade it does seem like Harden is going to resign there doesn’t seem to be any noise that he won’t but of course things could get turned upside down really quickly like they were in Philadelphia this last off season especially if there is a change and maybe Paul George does end up in pH Adelphia where does Harden go I don’t know and then they need to figure out what they’re doing at Center plumbley is a backup totally okay Daniel Tyson in this role totally okay I think they’re Center position while No Superstar or anything like that that three-man group was fine and if they bring those guys back on minimum or minimum adjacent contracts I I don’t think there’s really too much of a problem there and I think it works out pretty well the big question almost of the entire offseason is what does PJ Tucker do with his player option he’s got an $11 million player option and that could sh make or break so many different things of course that’s a lie because it’s Paul George where does Paul George go he’s got a player option which he is certainly declining he hasn’t officially done it but he’s certainly declining that and every rumor seems to be Philadelphia I don’t know we thought it was a feda compete that he would be back along with Kawhi Leonard with the clippers but if he doesn’t come back they can’t actually replace him even signing trades become difficult and they’re cooked if that’s the case and then does Harden start to S and go what am I doing here and then ka’s left to carry the load and he gets hurt again it’s a disaster if Paul George doesn’t come back for this team they just should be they should pay him everything cuz they’re done if he’s not there but maybe he wants to go to Philly and if he does go to Philly he will probably be in a very similar situation maybe even better than what he currently was this season poly the other player option is Russell Westbrook I don’t know did he do enough to get paid more than what he got paid last season that’s very borderline I think even the staunchest Russell Westbrook Defenders and that’s not true the staunchest ones are insane we know that they’re read of any situ ation does just defy reality but even most people who have been hanging on to the to the Russ is good the Russ is needs a chance and Rush would start bandwagon have fallen off now and this is who he is he’s a backup point guard who we’ll talk about him more a little bit later you know could have a role on certain teams but I think he probably does pick up the player option and stay another year for the clippers because I don’t imagine his Market is too strong they if you didn’t remember and I didn’t they have Kai Jones they signed him he’s got a non- guaranteed deal don’t imagine that through the uh through the offseason but we’ll see and then they’ve got four guys on uh expiring deals for this season if it’s a Zubat and Terence man two starters not high-profile starters but two starters and again if Paul George doesn’t return and Jim Harden decides he’s going elsewhere and then like where does Zubat and man it up like everything is going to just change like that with his 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every single game that they could and let’s start with the big fella the fun guy kawi Leonard who this season I’ll be honest I was a little bit doubtful as to where he’d be in terms of starting the year because he did have knee surg in y small knee surgery small minisa surgery but wasn’t coming back off the ACL injury and again I I have gone on and on and on about this the Kawai lard load management stuff gets blown out of complete proportion the year before you know why Kaw L Miss back Tob backs he had a 2 ACL the same way Klay Thompson set out back-to-backs the same way Jamal Murray set out back-to-backs and you know who played in the back toback in his year coming off an ACL kawh Leonard right yes it has been frustrating with these debilitative degenerative knee problems and he’s set some time out but this idea that Kawai never wants to play that he just takes time off is garbage it’s always been garbage and people ignore the reality of the scenario this season Kawai he came in and he played he didn’t and they asked him like why are you playing back to back not injured like easy not injured his work to help with that tendonopathy issue and preserving it paid off he was able to get a level of Health back he was a year and a half or two years removed from his ACL tear so he played I to me this is just really straightforward but for some reason there’s a big hatred of Kawhi Leonard and and him missing games what again so many other guys do it so many guys miss games and get hurt but there’s never anything talked about that which annoys me he’s 33 or he will be really soon he just signed that extension he played 68 games in 34 minutes but of course he suffered a knee injury at the end of the season and maybe maybe the idea that you him having some time off to preserve this knee SL quad issue that causes problems I I don’t know whether this excess load that built up caused this issue I don’t know where they being less preventative because of the way that his face and again if you got any sort of an ego which NBA players do having your face plasted on every single press release every single article saying hey the NBA wants to get rid of soft Cox who don’t play and your face is there you you would have a level of um I’m going to do what’s I want to save my ego versus what’s best for my body I don’t know that that to be true but I would imagine if I was in that situation and it was like the best long long-term case for me is to sit out a couple more games and help my knee recover and because it’s an ongoing thing even though it’s better than it was and we can play through some of these things but every time I go out there there’s some um Dopey bastard telling me how I’m soft and I’m not a real man and I hate the game and the kids and the fans and at some point you’re going to sacrifice some of that stuff I would guess anyway Ka Landa miss the end of the season missed the playoffs and now we are at the situation where I do not like to have guys that I am out on completely and I was in on kawh drafted him in majority of my leagues this season him and Joel embiid are off for me now that is too many knee surgeries too many knee injuries on the one knee for me to have any level of confidence if I took Kaw at pick 50 i’ more for it but that is too many ACL miniscus miniscus three years in a row on the one knee that’s it what was it even a miniscus they didn’t even tell us what they never tell us he might have 20 his ACL again we just don’t know I don’t know what the hell the KNE injury was that is three years in a row same knee ligament injuries I’m out on that not that I think he won’t be good he will be but that recurrent in recurrent injuries in a joint like a knee is where I start to draw the line and I’ve drawn it with him I’m out that’s too much now and I am always being the a component or proponent for drafting him I’m out now that’s it 17th in minus one rank six on Yahoo 22 on points his ADP was 27 I was drafting him around the end of the second round W 24 points with two threes six rebounds 3.6 assists 1.6 steals the steals came back up almost a block a game shot 89 from the line 42 from three he’s just a machine these are Elite numbers he was and he also talk about this in a sec he also started off really slowly and then went crazy his two best player comps year 11 of Mick Jordan mcky yeah and year nine of Eddie Jones 998th percentile EPM 99th craftter and what is interesting is that offensive load Kawai was in the 85th percentile only meaning he wasn’t tasked with doing a huge amount yet we’re still this good so what if Jim doesn’t return What if Paul George isn’t there does kaw’s load go back up to 94th does that kill his knees even further do we get a run of a top two player for three months that is an insanely low offensive load for Kawhi Leonard because we know who kawh lard is we know how good kawh lard is that is a and when you see some of the other offensive loads of some other players you’ll find out who um it’s even more crazy his offensive load right he’s in 2020 offensive load’s got a a number metric but because it’s hard to you to contextualize I always use percentiles but offensive load in 2020 for kawhai 53.5 2021 49.2 2023 43.3 2024 41.4 down from a peak of 53.5 that is the lowest offensive load kawh Leonard has had since 2016 so there’s I I don’t think the KA is turning into a big part player but it gives you scope of what could improve if another usage player or two isn’t on this team which is a distinct possibility let’s talk about one of those guys who did have offensive load and that is Paul George Jr he’s 34 it’s always weird to me that Paul George is older than kawhai but he is he’s like a year and a half older 34 he played 74 games with 34 minutes a game again the 65 game rule works for Paul George doesn’t it that’s why he played the games no last season he pinged his hamstring and then his knee bent inwards at an that a knee shouldn’t Bend and that is why he missed games Paul George gets again unfairly roped into these discussions he wasn’t just sitting he didn’t sit back Tob backs he just didn’t do it the year before but everyone tells you that he did he didn’t it didn’t happen tell you it just didn’t happen but again that percep a perception gets um skewed by people screaming at the top of their heads that they’re the toughest Pricks in the world and these guys are all soft Paul George was 25th he was eighth in Yahoo 39th in points his ADP was 31 so that’s a bit of a win there he averaged 22 points with 3 threes five rebounds and three and a half assists and honestly that line looks almost identical to kawhai kawh blocked more shots but otherwise it looks the same 41% on 3es 52 on twos 91 from the line now there is a chance that 91 doesn’t stick never Bank on a 90% free throw shooter by the way 41 from three could become 38 easily and then we see with reduced load the production down but his Situation’s all up in the air does he play in LA next next to Kawai Russ and Harden does he go to Philadelphia where it’s George embiid and Maxi and then who’s the two is it Maxi or is it George and you know my theory the third guy cops the hit I don’t know who the third guy would be in Philadelphia it’s probably Maxi but it might not be and there’s a problem there the best comps for Paul George year 13 of Chris Mullen and year 11 of Larry Bird if only Larry Bird had wanted it more he would have had a longer career but unfortunately he was too soft with too much load management to play much more than year 11 98th percentile for Paul George on EPM 998th on crafted with his shot quality 97th percento now Paul George is a good shooter him being that level of a shooter is where I go I’m not sure I’m not sure it holds there and that’s where we get into the usage versus efficiency balance and if the usage drops and then the efficiency doesn’t stick well then you are at real risk of you know not being in that in the same zone or if his usage goes back up and his efficiency drops then we don’t get an improvement but he was great obviously really strong Year from Paul George Jr today’s episode is brought to you by priz picks prize pick is America’s number one daily fantasy sports app every time I do an ad read they’ve got more members now it’s up to over 5 million members 5 million it’s the most fun and exciting way to play daily fantasy sports and check in on your team teams and your players you just pick between two to six individual stat projections you go more or less and bang Bob’s your uncle with price picks you could turn $10 into $1,000 ad do in a single game watching your favorite sports this summer you’ve got one NBA Finals game left maybe maybe more maybe three you’ve got NHL Stanley Cup finals on baseball WNBA PGA golf NASCAR and price PS in June only has Esports well they don’t just have Esports in June but they got an offer in June where on Wednesday and Saturday if you put a lineup in and it doesn’t win 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drop in scoring and assist cuz he’s not handling the ball as much it’s sort of the same sort of guy 38 on his threes 50 on his twos 88 from the line everything is just James Harden scaled back and if he does go to another team or Paul George does leave this Clippers team and he’s there with kawhai the stuff would scale up it wouldn’t scale back up to what it was before he’s not going to be a 36 point per game scorer but that 16 points and eight assists maybe becomes 22 with 9 and a half he just gets the ball more which I think makes a lot of sense so we just have to watch who is on the team but he has shown a willingness despite the reputation of James Harden he has shown a willingness he might about it sometimes to be the guy who sets everybody up not the guy that has to hog every possession yes he has the ball a lot setting it up but he sets up others his best comps were year 10 of Manu enob and year 15 of Kyle Larry that’s Larry’s final season in Toronto so we’ve heard the Harden job comparisons for very long time lar is an interesting one but obviously this is getting towards the end of these guys career and there is going to be there’s already been a drop for Harden there’s going to be a significant drop probably in two years time I would guess he was still 92nd on EPM 96 on crafted one of the big things that Harden used to be great at was Steals and he still had 1.1 but his deflection is down to 49th percentile and it happens you get older your reaction time is lower you don’t have the energy not that he was ever an energetic Defender but despite the criticisms of Harden he always put up great defensive stats why he was the unsalable number one player for so many years that is down I don’t think it’s coming back now we get into two of the least interesting starters and that is number one IA zubats who is 27 right in the bang middle of his prime 68 games 26 minutes he had an injury which we thought was going to cost him a ton of time and it didn’t he came back early from it 116th in minus 104 on Yahoo ADP was 120 he average almost 12 points with nine rebounds 1.2 blocks shot 65 and 72 but he is the absolute definition of a low ceiling player sure maybe he could play more than 26 minutes in fact he probably should but the Clippers have built their identity on going small on mixing and matching the centers a ton if he played 31 minutes he would be an easy top 100 guy but that just has never been the case he’s a rebounds guy he’s a field goal guy without terrible free throws he’s an okay shop blocker he’s a really good Defender but an okay shop blocker his best comps were year eight of Alex Len and then year four of the Birdman Chris Anderson so they’re like in they’re fine they’re not great obviously Zubat is a much better Defender I think than those guys but what is interesting like he’s Allin On’s a 80 80th percenti EPM and CPM they’re both really strong really impactful defensive player but for a guy that is as good defensively as he is in terms of contesting shots 57th percentile that’s really low why is he not contesting as many shots cuz that would yeah if he could get to two blocks a game play 30 minutes then you are talking about like Jared Allen top 50 60 player but we are he’s 27 we what eight seven years into his career you’re probably not going to get that so even if like situations change and George leaves and they’re not going to go into more small ball and again he’s in his prime but will tyo ever play him 30 plus minutes it seems really really really unlikely to me so he just hovers around this Zone where he can probably stick for the next 2 to three years and then when he hits age 30 the drop off begins he mov to a 23 minute night guy year 31 he’s on the bench and we’re done that’s sort of how I see that all playing out for zubats and the last guy who was a starter for most of the season after they began this James Harden situation with Russell Westbrook starting which of course was never going to work and it was horrendous and then the um PR Danish backhands came out Russ actually went to tyo and said coach I I’m going to do what’s best for the team and you got to bring me off the bench when in essence he didn’t he got benched and tyo said Ross no way and Russ sued about it yeah PR Danish backhands the guy that started was Terence man now Terence man’s one of those guys who gets insane hype as well from internal we’re not trading him for James Harden all right cool from people who will bring it up what about Terence manah we saw he score 40 points in a game in the playoffs well I’m going to add Terence manah in fantasy no no he’s not very good like as simple as that could he ramp up maybe but I yeah I don’t know 275th in minus one in 25 minutes a night he started but that’s a half starter that’s not a full starter it’s a half starter 166 on Yahoo cuz he never turns it over but he never turns it over because he never has the ball and he never passes and he never scores 8.8 points 3.4 rebounds only 1 three he actually shot really poorly this season he’d been a really good shooter in the past but only 35% from three now he started out at like 18% I think and he did shoot well the second half so I think that’s probably anomalous and that’ll come back up next year he also was an insane 63% on twos because again it’s really important to look at this the reason he was able to be so efficient is that he only took the shots that he knew was going in he wasn’t taking step back mides he wasn’t taking double covered turnarounds he was taking easy shots at The Rim or wide open shots cuz that’s the only time he was allowed to shoot and for a guy that’s considered a defender or a passer 1.6 assists with point6 steals is putrid this is not a good fantasy player he’s a solid enough real life guy but even that is overstated 48th percentile EPM 45th in CPM his best comp was a bloke by the name of iron nuble one of the best names ever in year three and then honestly how could you have a name like Terence man which is fine it’s very generic and then your two best comps are two absolutely goated Hall of Fame tier names iron nuble and Quincy Pondexter in year five but we also remember a lot about Quincy Pondexter and he was a horrible fantasy player and that’s sort of where man is 4% of people drafted him 0pf 141 again there is just and I think we’ve extinguish it now but there’s always that Hope Oh Terence man he’s might be maybe good he’s going to be the point guard and I’ve had that in the past as well well they’re going to put Terence man as the point guard maybe he does something and then he just does nothing he could be okay 120th best guy 140th best guy but there’s no real upside with man he’s 27 he is who he is this is prime prime t- man hate saying t- man why did I say it this is Prime and it’s probably going to fall away from here I would guess that will bring us to talk about the other players of note and we have to start the other players of note by talking about Rusty Westbrook like I said at the start of the show I think the Russell Westbrook is just being held back by kawh landed narrative is probably dead outside of the insane people with Russell Westbrook’s photo as their Twitter profile I think we’re probably are done with that or insane Instagram accounts I think we’re done with that I think we all realize what Russell Westbrook is now a guy that was awesome a guy that was the MVP you can debate whether he should have been or not doesn’t matter he was at least a top two that year he was that good and he’s also not that good now that happens the man is again we talk ages he’s 35 and a half he’s older than Harden and George and kawh he’s older than all these guys he played 68 games in 22 minutes a night now the ability of him to rack up stats is still clearly there 155th in minus one 140th in points had an 80P of one of9 which to be fair was before Harden was definitely coming across he averaged 115 and 4 a half in 22 minutes let’s do the 50% bump that takes him from 22 to 33 minutes but even that like 11 points in 22 minutes to give you the 50% bump makes you 17 points the five rebounds gets you to 7 and 1/2 the 4 and 1/2 assists gets you to seven 1.1 steals that’s actually pretty good that gets you to 1.6 so 18 7even and seven 188 and seven like that’s still pretty good that’s still what Russ can do the problem is what Russ can do is shoot 45 from the field 69 gig from the line 27% from three and embarrassingly not just for Russ but for the Clippers 91st percentile and offensive load and this is where I bring it back as a professional broadcaster to telling you earlier the kaand was 85% on offensive load now I know they didn’t always share the court and Russ was running the second unit but come on there is no scenario where Russell Westbrook should be having the level of usage even though it’s reduced that he has now the man cannot shoot at all he can’t finish and he hasn’t been able to finish for years and he’s still despite some energetic defensive efforts and he improved a lot I’ll be fair to Russ because he did improve he was better this season than he has been in the past couple without question but this is who he is now a backup who should never be shooting setting others up and really needs to reign in what he does offensively his comparisons were year 13 of goren drage and year 14 of Ron Harper I mean like 73rd percen all EPM 38th on crafted still useful at least on EPM crafted thinks he’s terrible I don’t think he’s bad 73% EPM definitely a solid backup point guard but if you’re in a situation where Russ has to start he will put up numbers and your team will almost definitely lose and that’s where we’re at and if that hurts you as a Westbrook fan like it’s okay as I’ve said many times Russell Westbrook was my favorite player when he was very good but he is not good anymore he failed to adapt and he went and hurt his team many many times and that is a frustrating thing to watch that offensive load again is insane to see him running at a number that is higher than Kawhi Leonard and I believe it’s also I’m double check this so I don’t completely just tell you falsehoods I’m pretty sure it’s higher than Paul George’s as well and it’s the same as James Harden’s let’s just go and uh go to the tape on that um offensive load Paul George 84th percenti what the what are we doing all right let’s do the last check then on James Harden does Russ get the higher offensive load than James Harden Harden at 94 so Harden wins there you go you could argue that Harden’s offensive load probably shouldn’t be as high as kawhai although Harden with all the assisting and that’s why Russ is as high too but Russ should have no like shooting load ever yeah that sounds horrible don’t clip out me saying shooting load don’t do it again get in trouble all right um let’s talk about storman Norman pal people actually voted for this man for six Man of the Year why he’s fine but he is almost the epitome not not the epitome not quite but close to the guy that like if you are not shooting what the hell are you doing because he doesn’t do anything else 198 then minus one 123rd on Yahoo nor Pal’s 31 he played 26 minutes a night in 76 games they refused to start him he averaged 14 points that’s pretty solid two3 is fine but man 2.6 rebounds 1.1 assists point6 deals and3 steals this is like outside of the rebounds that’s Ryan Anderson esque when you’re at the Ryan Anderson line which is less than two combined assist Steals and blocks then you’re doing nothing and he doesn’t rebound he did shoot 44% on three so you got to look at that and go well if he goes a year and shoots 39 well he becomes useless 54 on his twos is pretty strong 49 overall 83 from the line all really good that’s all really strong but this is who he is a guy that gets by on this high level shooting but but minutes are down usage are down struggles in so many different areas his passer rating 13th percenti he’s one of the worst in the NBA at passing 65th percentile EPM 43rd on CPM his comps were Willie Green in year n and old mate Wes person in year n he is totally okay as a player that we look at as a bench guy that you can stream in for points but that’s it we’re not drafting him anywhere that is sort of run out course I think the last guy we’re going to talk about is the big stiffy himself the 5 Minute Man Bones Highland who has a pretty big cheer squad amongst people but and I was really interested in him as a player as a rookie in particular but he has shown some real attitude problems I think but also just some like what are you doing on the court problems he’s 23 so one of the only young guys really we’re talking about here he only played 37 games and the only reason he got into those games is when Harden was out and Russ would start and Bones would get bones got some starts as well when Russ was out too and he showed he could still put up those numbers but as a general player the defense is so bad the shot selection could be terrible and even in those starts I think he had one huge game and a couple of real stinkers he played 15 minutes a night seven points one and a half rebounds two and a half assists with7 steals 15 minutes is double it that’s 14 and three with five assists and 1.4 steals there’s a bit to work out there but he shot 33% on threes he’s got to be knocking him down at 39 he shot 46 on twos that’s disgusting only 78 from the line if the thing you do is offense and scoring then you’ve got got to hit your shots and he didn’t hit him from two he didn’t hit him from three he didn’t hit him for threee he didn’t leave him that’s a real problem his best comps were Eddie House in year two a spot up shooter and Jamal Crawford in year four a guy that we know has a lot of people that love him got a similar body shapes but Jamal was also pretty poor at Fantasy because of his lack of contributions in other areas and we’re getting a little bit there towards or towards that zone with bones now I love being in the bone Zone that’s great right but I’m not sure that we’re ever in a situation every year we move fast past much like BJ Boston yeah I lose faith that it’s going to work he was 36 percenti EPM 20th on Craft and he’s true shooting he’s the kicker ninth percenti and you know what that absolutely stinks and that will bring us to the end of the clip as I said we’re on a tight one here today no Kobe Brown talk I’ve already given you my thoughts on BJ we don’t need to go any further into that that’s what she said but we are here to finish off with the Clippers mock draft number three is coming tomorrow had some big changes to my thoughts on teams and I’m going to do one of these mock drafts probably next week at the start of the week where I just go crazy and just go screw consensus screw other people this is what I’m doing this is a wild draft not this one comeing up this is going to be a little bit more you just how I sort of 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