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'We Got High Aspirations To Smoke Trees Not Plant Them", signed The Unction... Official '25-'26 LA Clippers Season Thread
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Our depth is looking like fools gold again with Harden & Kawhi playing nearly 40 minutes last night. Don't think we're going to get much from Beal, Bogdan, and Batum this season. Hopefully Cam Christie, Jordan Miller, and Kobe Sanders is ready to show something.
Well this roster was either going to sink or swim and so far its sinking fast. Our so called newfound depth was supposed to keep Harden's minutes down, but he's playing nearly 40 minutes a game and has to do it all yet again. Kawhi before the ankle injury was also just under 40 minutes a game. Huge red flag. Harden will be gassed by all star break meanwhile it seems like we're going to get nothing significant from Beal.
Zu lost weight and seems to have regressed and slowed down. CP3, Batum, and Bogdan aren't NBA players anymore. Lopez gives us a few threes here and there but that's it. Only bright spots are Harden, Kawhi, Collins, DDJ, and Dunn. Everything else seems toast. Ty Lue is resorting to his annual "I need 10-20 games to figure rosters out", but that only worked when Harden plays at an all star level, Zu is balling out of his mind, and you had Norm giving us 20-30 points every night. Right now he's just got Harden ballin' out and that's it.
We're playing a boring slow style of ISO basketball with none of the old guys defending, caring, and barely making shots. Ty Lue looks checked out and coaches with no emotion whatsoever. Maybe some of the gambling scandal is affecting him. We jumped the shark on this old man/vet heavy shyt and its finally caught up to us. Outside a few of the youngsters, there's nobody to get excited about or rally around on this team. I say get Kawhi healthy and trade him. If Harden wants out then trade him too. You can't have this amazing state of the art futuristic palace, Intuit Dome, and have nothing but aged fossils playing an awful brand of basketball inside of it. It doesn't make sense. As of right now, this isn't a playoff team at all. I say burn it down. Watching half of these guys play isn't worth going to the arena for nor watching on TV.
Zu lost weight and seems to have regressed and slowed down. CP3, Batum, and Bogdan aren't NBA players anymore. Lopez gives us a few threes here and there but that's it. Only bright spots are Harden, Kawhi, Collins, DDJ, and Dunn. Everything else seems toast. Ty Lue is resorting to his annual "I need 10-20 games to figure rosters out", but that only worked when Harden plays at an all star level, Zu is balling out of his mind, and you had Norm giving us 20-30 points every night. Right now he's just got Harden ballin' out and that's it.
We're playing a boring slow style of ISO basketball with none of the old guys defending, caring, and barely making shots. Ty Lue looks checked out and coaches with no emotion whatsoever. Maybe some of the gambling scandal is affecting him. We jumped the shark on this old man/vet heavy shyt and its finally caught up to us. Outside a few of the youngsters, there's nobody to get excited about or rally around on this team. I say get Kawhi healthy and trade him. If Harden wants out then trade him too. You can't have this amazing state of the art futuristic palace, Intuit Dome, and have nothing but aged fossils playing an awful brand of basketball inside of it. It doesn't make sense. As of right now, this isn't a playoff team at all. I say burn it down. Watching half of these guys play isn't worth going to the arena for nor watching on TV.
Switch up how? We've been a first round exit for the past 2-3 years
Only thing this team will be doing is rolling into the Larry Holmes estate.
Honestly look very different than the rest of the nba…this pacing is just weird and off….no easy baskets mixed with zero defense….this is bad 
Listen people, I’m Larry Holmes…..
9 games into the season. Patients
We're cooked. Blow it up. Move Kawhi and Harden and get into the 2025 draft. I don't care if we're giving OKC a lotto pick. They're beyond that and we're beyond that. CP3 just got his first DNP and he didn't look happy. He might ask for his release soon. One bright note, I'm lovin' the Cam Christie minutes. He's got a future and only 20 years old. Play the rook Yanic over Lopez. Go get Cam Whitmore who should be getting the boot from D.C. because of his attitude.
We've always rolled with the old folks and this off season we doubled down and its backfired. Its still early but these losses and player/coach disinterest doesn't feel like it could turn around anytime soon. Lue looks miserable. Maybe that gambling scandal is effecting him. That opening night loss at Utah pretty had some backbone and foundation to it. Took a buzzer beater to get past the Pels. Its only 9 games, but give it another go. Mix in these kids with the vets and if there's still no results blow it up. Just an ugly brand of basketball we're playing. State of the art futuristic Starship Enterprise of an arena and on the court is fossils who can't run, defend, or create a shot, or shoot. What are we doing?
We've always rolled with the old folks and this off season we doubled down and its backfired. Its still early but these losses and player/coach disinterest doesn't feel like it could turn around anytime soon. Lue looks miserable. Maybe that gambling scandal is effecting him. That opening night loss at Utah pretty had some backbone and foundation to it. Took a buzzer beater to get past the Pels. Its only 9 games, but give it another go. Mix in these kids with the vets and if there's still no results blow it up. Just an ugly brand of basketball we're playing. State of the art futuristic Starship Enterprise of an arena and on the court is fossils who can't run, defend, or create a shot, or shoot. What are we doing?
It doesn’t bode well for an aging team that they already look like this 9 games into the season. The longer the season goes on the more their age will play a factor.
Kawhi’s already out for a few games. This is just the beginning of the end.
Right, nine games in and the vets are already tired and lifeless. Ty Lue as well. They road this thing long enough and now the wheels are finally coming off. Trade deadline going to be interesting. If they can get a first round pick for Kawhi or Harden, I say do it. Things could turn around, but Norm, Mann, KPJ, Coffey, and Diabate aren't walking through those doors.
The party is over. Harden is going to break down in a week or two at this rate. Get Kawhi healthy and see if they can move him. Harden and Zu next. Get a couple of first for Zu, maybe. We moved all the workhorse players in Norm, Mann, KPJ, Coffey.. Let Diabate and Hartenstein walk and now we got the corpse of former all star players washed and injured beyond belief. They doubled down on senior citizens and believing in Beal and as usual, it bit them in the azz.
Blow it up now! Who cares if OKC has our pick and we turned them into a dynasty. That's literally none of our business anymore. Move on from Ty Lue. He looks and sounds checked out and miserable. That gambling scandal has a hold of him. The Aspiration scandal got a hold of Ballmer. Just a sh*tty period for the team all around. Blow it up, change the philosophy, stop chasing washed "names", develop players, get athletic, get these sandals behind us. Lets go!
@Primetime
Blow it up now! Who cares if OKC has our pick and we turned them into a dynasty. That's literally none of our business anymore. Move on from Ty Lue. He looks and sounds checked out and miserable. That gambling scandal has a hold of him. The Aspiration scandal got a hold of Ballmer. Just a sh*tty period for the team all around. Blow it up, change the philosophy, stop chasing washed "names", develop players, get athletic, get these sandals behind us. Lets go!
@Primetime
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Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
Thing is, I think Harden and Zu are the only two players that seem to actually give AF now.
Kawhi is a problem. Been a problem. Dude's been out damn near 1/2 of the time he's been on the squad. And with the way he's moved, doesn't even seem to have any urgency to help them on the floor. Ty Lue lost the team forever ago. Bro looks like he's ready to jump off of the roof of the Intuit Dome. And they moved dudes like Powell, who was actually one of the few bright spots they had.
They gotta figure out a way to get some real leadership on the floor, and a coach that can connect with the players. And they need to get that done immediately.
