The Los Angeles Clippers finished off their 5 game East Coast road trip in Indiana to close out 2022 and it wasn’t a pretty ending. They allowed 131 points to the Indiana Pacers and a narrow defeat. Even with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George active, what made it so hard to defend Indiana? Why do the Clippers still keep going small?
Host & longtime Clipper fan Darian Vaziri discusses the game, what he wants to see from the team in the New Year, & reflects on 2022 Clippers basketball.
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What's the biggest thing you want to see change in 2023 for the Clippers not counting change in personnel?
I wasn't worried A BIT…. Just watch and see how the guys are gonna put it in a higher gear when the new year starts…. Great video as always and seasons greetings and blessings to you and yours D…. CLIP GANG OR DONT BANG.!!😎🔥🖐🏾👑
Wall needs to be out of the rotation asap. Clippers badly need a backup center. No more 4 guard lineups. PG and Kawhi are playing too minutes given their age and injury history.
This team has a lot of old guys. That’s why the effort isn’t consistent night in and night out. Mann and Coffey need to start for Reg and Mook. This team has too many guys in the rotation that can’t defend well like Norm, Reg, Mook, Luke, & Wall.
4th QTR ONCE AGAIN super small ball line-up"4 Guards +PG" / Turner got 2 AND1 play 2 in a row that was the turning point . LY LUE still obsessed with small ball line-up . even We have so many wings .
We had a chance to put this game away up 6 with 5 minutes left but we couldn’t get stops down the stretch. Seems like Ty Lue is the type of guy that needs his back held against the wall in order for him to make adjustments and figure it out with the rotations cause health is not a problem now.
Yeah this was dissapointing loss..
For the adjustments to be made for 2023, I think Lue should start to play players regulary and consistently..I agree R Jackson should play less and give T Mann and Covington/Coffey more time. I wouldve liked John to have a little more chemistry with PG and Kawhi..
Tyronn Lue can't coach "fraud". you got george and kawhi posted 45/24 points and still can't win. Zubac is straight up garbage just start Moses Brown in center
Okay some in-house adjustments in a perfect world Tmann would start along side of Kawhi & Paul that would be the adjustment from a starter standpoint. Mook & Reggie minutes will be dependent upon the matchup that game & how well their shooting. & call me crazy but after last year I feel Amir should get more opportunities, I would bring up moussa and he’ll play depending on the matchup. That’s the type of tinkering we should see but unfortunately that’s not the case rn
I'll say it for you ! Tyrone Lue is a YMCA low grade coach at best . took credit at Cleveland when lebron Irving and love carried that team , it wasn't he's coaching!
Start T Mann at PG
One of the main issues with the Clippers and who other teams are exploiting is the Clippers point guards. My goodness, Reggie, Norm, & Wall cannot play defense without fouling. Some of the fouls could be avoided by deploying basic defensive fundamentals. Plain and simple, the Clippers need a point guard; point guard is a glaring weakness on offense and defense.
Not to mention, overall as a team the Clippers have to play better defense, "especially" the guards.
Also think we could be potentially setting ourselves up for a short postseason run if some of these holes aren’t covered up. I’m not going into this playoffs expecting Kawhi to score 45 in a game 6 and help us from coming down 0-2 that’s a lot to ask his first year back it’s possible but shouldn’t be expected. But The reality is we gotta cut loose some guard depth for a big, clearly it’ll be a Mobil big John Collins, kuz, Myles type I think with that it’ll change alot for this team
I agree stop the 3 guards. Why did we go get all these wings if why are we not playing them? Kawhi was 2 for 2 in the 4th.
old habits in cleveland carried over to clippers that lue got fired. which is defense and don't like playing younger players