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The Warriors trade offer must have been terrible for the Clippers to let PG walk for nothing. Definitely don't want Levine. That guy is never healthy. Demar Derozan would be better. I honestly would have loved to see Klay on the Clippers.
Keep in mind that Kawhi had asked KD, Kyrie and Butler to join him before speaking with PG. I don't think that Kawhi minds one way or another. PG has to do what's best for him. I'm not sure how much of a benefit having Derrick Jones on the team will be. I'm not sure if he's that good of a shooter but he's very athletic. The question is who will Clippers sign to play with Kawhi. And will we ever see a healthy Kawhi in the postseason again? I know that Lakers are talking about signing Demar, I think someone like him would be a great addition to the Clippers but we will see. At the end of the day, I'm happy to see PG go. But I wish the front office would have traded him a year or more ago and gotten something in return.
I feel bad for PG that Kawhi wasn't healthy during PG's tenure in LA. On the other hand, in today's NBA, it made no sense to give PG a four year deal, so his departure has some upside for the team, especially as it relates to getting some solid younger players. So, thank you PG, but if 3 years at 150 million isn't enough, well, good luck to you!
Embiid is never healthy in the postseason. Maybe he changes his diet and exercise in order to be healthy next season but he's one of those guys whose production takes a nosedive in the playoffs, just like PG. I think that they will play well togther during the regular season but it's the playoffs where I'm expecting both of them to choke. That being said, I do agree that he has a better chance of winning in East, especially since Kawhi will probably never be healthy in the playoffs ever again. But I agree with not paying PG. Sixers will come to regret giving him all of that money like Clippers regretted giving away everything to sign him.
I've been busy and haven't had time to keep up on all your podcasts, but I wanna tell you that I lived in NYC during the 90s and the Knicks were a bad ass team!! Van Gundy's Knicks were tough in a league that was dominated by the Jordan Bulls. Defensively the Knicks, with Charles Oakley and Patrick Ewing were formidable! I love that Van Gundy will be in our locker room. Overqualified indeed!
Idk how they let this happen. Once you paid Kawhi you had to see this through so one more year wasnt worth losing him for absolutely nothing. Especially when the owner is worth 130 billion smh. Kawhi has been hurt for 3 playoffs straight so yes Paul deserves more money then him. Then opening a new arena with a non contender now when itbwas times last year where we looked like the best in the league.
derozan n harden compliment each other, to go along with all these wings we have, plus harden and kawhi have ALREADY taken their 'pay cuts,' lebron is such a fairy srsly.. Derozan + batum back + DJjnr covers the loss of the podcaster and then some
The only reason this deal went down was because Philly is so desperate for a ring in Joel embiid prime that they are willing to massively overpay PG. 57m at 38 is absurd. They mortgaged their entire future. Clippers dodged a bullet and we got the guy that shut him down in the playoffs for almost 200m less.
Paul George did what was best for him ! ..kwaii cant stay Healthy ....and he went to a better team ..in stead of staying with slow Harden ..hopefully the Clippers can make play offs ..that rule was made to destroy the Clippers any way ...now its time for these young guys to step up ! And learn how to play or Clippers r over ! In that new stadium .
lol he won’t. Harden is still an elite player but he’s not going to shoot over 20 shots a game anymore. In his last rockets tenure he was over it and the individual awards weren’t worth the fatigue that style of play causes. Luka learned his lesson
Sixers number 1 was injured and put up over 30 a game. Sixers lost that series because if Worthless tobias harris who scored ,0 points. Even if goerge plays a avg and gives 16 points we win that series. Leanord is never even available in playoffs. Ya its over pay but yhats the nba. Kcp got 22a yr which is crazy for a guy barely avg 10 pts
True not many players are better than Kawhi in the playoffs…. However Kawhi is better at there for us in the playoffs. He’s been available 1 out of 5 years in the playoffs. That’s a pretty bad. Most likely will be injured again. He’s broken. He has a degenerative knee disorder.
Trade everybody for KAT> Powell, Coffey, PJ, Russ, and moussa. Give KAT the max. Get Gary Trent jr FAgent. Don’t want to trade tmann tho. But DJJr kinda covers Tmann role .
Im fine with it honestly, cuz if we were to give him the max just to keep him, we ALL would b here pissed as fuck that were pissing the future away for a team alot of us feel isnt gunna win it anyways, so for me its not losing pg i just have to get used to bot being in contention every year, but like weve talked about befor dime, some of those clipper teams with no expectations, have been some of the funnest seasons to b a clipper fan. Better now than never so fuck it lets go
I am not sweating, he didn't have the killer mentality as the Klaw does. We only need Klaw healthy with great rotation players around with Ty Lue buying in with young players, and developing them.
True but he was available, Kawhi is never available when it mattered. Kawhi is broken. It’s sad but true. Kawhi gets injured walking to the bathroom… Sometimes availability is the most valued asset.
The route were going down seems like the front office isnt trying to win a chip next year, kinda seems like were slowly starting to rebuild while trying to have 2 stars to go into the new arena with, and maybe after next year they try to get rid of the other 2, who knows, but im hoping theres a real plan and not thinking were building a championship roster for this season
I'll be excited once i see the return they get from moving off Kawhi and others. Also changes in the front office. I would prefer the team to get a facelift but theres always so much carry over. PG had his faults, but its like everything was contingent on Kawhis health. What player wants to play with someone like that.
From what i am hearing here in the Bay Area is that Jonathan Kuminga was not going to hold up a Paul George deal. The Warriors would have included him. It sounds like The Warriors were pushing the CP3 addition in any deal because they didn't want to deplete their depth to add PG. I think The Warriors were going to have issues even with PG but even more so now. I don't believe The Clippers fall that far off last season's regular season record. 48-52 wins
I am guessing if GSW had budged a little bit more (say Kuminga and a 1st), the return would have made it worth going into the 2nd apron. But maybe if it was just Kuminga and essentially bad money (or some non-Kuminga package) then the 2nd apron was not worth it.
Gradual tear down, we will be mediocre for next couple of years (backend playoff/play-in team), but we will be back in 3 or 4 years. If PG had been signed we might have been a little better but with no future.
