The LA Clippers are fresh off their early exit to the hands of the Phoenix Suns in just five games. With another failed season over, where do the Los Angeles Clippers go from here?
On Thursday, President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank held an exit interview to conclude the season. He talked about several big topics in regards to the team. In this episode, die hard Clipper fan and Host Darian Vaziri breaks down how the organization feels about their future with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George and if they plan on bringing back Ty Lue and Russell Westbrook, based on Frank’s comments.
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30 Comments
What comments stood out to you? Anything you liked? Didn't like?
It would be a Stupid Move for the Clippers to not find some way to PAY WESTBROOK. Let's be REAL " THE CLIPPERS WOULD'VE BEEN SWEPT IF IT WASN'T FOR RUSS". Russ gave them a chance every game.Unforunately the 3 HEADED MONSTER Durant,Booker and Paul was just to much for RUSS.
get him clippers fans love him sign him for 40 mils!! you guys are clippers!!
Dude don’t believe the analysts and media. I feel we should use our own intellect.. What we freaking need is a athletic shooting and Defensive Pwr Foward!!!
Fire Laurence Frank. He built up a poor roster. I swear to God my suggestions were a million times better than the trash he put together. Ultimately it was the injuries not the roster that doomed the Clippers but i am still angry with the mistakes Laurence Frank made. You chose Wall over Hartenstein and traded Kennard for Eric Gordon and you never got the athletic wing defenders to take the pressure off PG-13 and Kawhi. Every time i watch Vanderbilt clamp down star players for the Lakers it makes be sick because he should have been a Clipper! Dude is on $4.3m and is a better defender than Kawhi and PG13. Lets also not forget he didn't trade Morris which i called for all season long. Ty Lue should be gone as he was poor throughout the regular season. PG-13 and Kawhi should be traded but we might be forced to keep them because who would want them? Hopefully the desperate Blazers give us Shaedon Sharpe and Simons for PG13 and we can kickstart the rebuild.
Clipper fans have suffered too long and the nightmare has to end!
Westbrook you played better than i thought but you should move on as the Clippers have no money for you. Bones Hyland will have to take over as the PG. The Blazers have a backup PG called Skylar Mays that i feel would be good for the Clippers especially on a minimum contract.
D is there any path to keep Russ if we trade either Kawai or PG? Could we afford him then?
I feel so bad for Tmann and Roco. Granted I don’t think Roco was like leagues better than Morris, but to just sit there and waste a whole year and to watch others not do as well as what Roco could’ve done?…damn
I dont know which team westbrook would go too?
Take a break clippers had a good 5 game run😅 lakers in 6
With the added meniscus injury, expect Kawhi to increase his load management time next season, for fragile PG to miss a sizable chunk of the season, for Lue to continue his quest of coaching the Clippers into losses while keeping Morris as a starter & for Balmer to continue to be fine with it all.
We have to realize there were like 20 games left towards the regular season follow by adding 4 new players into the rotation. Meaning they all coming from different teams and have different playing styles and systems they were used to. Now try to get your current depth players and new players to mesh with team chemistry before playoffs and let me know how that goes😂
Now I don’t know about the whole ROCO situation because I thought he did very well in certain games but who knows what been discussed behind closed doors. Maybe they saving him and morris for better pick ups.
Lastly, if I’m not mistaken (please correct me if I’m wrong) the team game plays were build around kawhi and PG so when they got injured it disrupts everything. That’s why I liked how the spurs system was back in 2013-2014 because it wasn’t just about the big 3. They still played as if Timmy and them wasn’t there. Overall I think team chemistry is what really effect any team. Why you think warriors been good they bult around their main key players.
Overall despite the whole injury and losing again, and again in the playoff, I still take my hat off to the clippers because they play with heart and put up a good battle, and that’s all you can ask for. Look how long it took for the Toronto Raptors to finally win.
We’re gonna have to give up a 2nd to offload Morris’ bad contract.
For Westbrook, looks like it was both. We helped him, he helped us. Can the Clips shed some salary somewhere?
The one thing I liked he said they have to start respecting the regular season.
We will see if they mean it.
I don’t understand the hype around T Lue. He made some detrimental decisions leaving morris in. It’s painful to watch as a fan at the games to see morris missing so many shots and not defending. It’s like there Ty goes again losing a game once again.
Yes, it was a slap in the face. Ty did not use Tmann effectively. Totally underutilized him. Every time he was on the floor he made the team better. We need to have faith and confidence in our younger players as they bring energy and pace. We aren’t getting that with our stars.
I think Kawhi Leonard should be traded, and the Clippers should build around Paul George and Russell Westbrook for one year.
Clippers are to scared to trade Kawhi.I mean he's only getting older and more injury prone then ever before
Kwahi is an iso player there will be no chemistry
I love ya man, but you basically said you’d rather have russ on the team than pg and kawhi.
How did Lawrence frank skip the ladder wtf
Clippers lied about Kawhi knee to keep the clippers fans coming in to the games. This is about making the most money.
Gonna need the link for that hoodie bro🔥
Ima huge russ fan, But damn if only he coulda played well in game 5, Respect to all the others for stepping up, never seen anything like that from our role players that was special
part time players = part time team. trade them both
That’s just your strong opinion bro tman needs work Eric starting over him was the right move Fs tman is a lil pasty on defense but he don’t do what Eric did for us on defense
I agree that I wouldn't take Lawrence Frank's word 100% to heart regarding Ty Lue but I don't see it unless the Clippers really want Nick Nurse which I don't see as a great fit even though Norman and Kawhi played for him during the 2019 title run. Bringing Russ back is going to be tough for your team since they are a super tax team and under the new CBA rules, I believe the Clippers don't have their taxpayer/full midlevel exception to offer Russ. Unless if Russ is willing to take a vet min again (he's not hurting for money but I doubt he would want to take a vet min again, just have to wait and see), he's probably gone. If I were Ballmer, I'd really think about trading at least 1 of the 2 stars for something but for now, he'll probably give it 1 more yr but we'll see. I'd definitely try to trade Marcus Morris for something
Frank quoted you almost word for word! I honestly feel thats a good sign. This is gonna be a really interesting summer man
Frank Lawrence is bullshyt. The truth is, they running it back a year because if kawhi is threatened with a trade, he will have surgery and be out the year anyway. As it stands today, he can likely heal with time and therapy and be ready to play by regular season. PG experiment was a fail imo. He doesn't have the heart of a champion (do you think kobe would be hosting a podcast during the playoffs? What about MJ?), They need serious minded players (ie Jaylen Brown, Tyrese HALIBURTON). Ty Lue is terrible. Terence laughed at Frank on Twitter. Ty can coach superstars. He can't rebuild or groom young players. Steve is being finessed. I'm sick of this shyt.
Bringing back westbrook?
The team is already too old and injury prone.
Very strange if they keep this core of 3 players + gordon plumlee batum morris ect…
You need at least half of the team fresh and young, warriors did it best to mix young talent with older champion.