 What's the word y'all? We got to talk about these clippers man. They are 0-4 in the russo-westbrook era I'm gonna say that again. They are all in four in the russo-westbrook era This is such weird times because usually when players get bought out They go to a different team and now they're the sixth seventh eighth man on a good team We have russo-westbrook patch of bevely kevin love and at least until last night Just in holiday all getting bought out by previous teams going to their new team like oh I'm immediately in the start of lineup. Well, you could argue that all four of those cases It ain't going great. I mean the bulls are three and one But they also almost blew a 24 point lead to the detray pistons who don't have kade cunningham Who were missing three other starters? Um, but like kevin love and the Miami heat look bad just how then the mavericks look bad But guess what jayson kia? Let's let josh green get 30 minutes again And they and they won look at look at that and russo-westbrook company are on four So it has not been great for the big buyout market candidates Yet at least i'm gonna say it though russo-westbrook is not the sole reason why the clippers are 0 and 4 in this time frame Yeah, it has not looked pretty But it's a lot deeper than that twitter twitter was a was a war zone yesterday between the russo-westbrook stands and the russo-westbrook haters It was it was a lot to be said and the the haters are eating right now I will admit the haters are eating eating right now. I am in the middle I don't have a strict opinion about russo one way another I'm just a guy that's trying to be level-headed when I make these these conversations and make these type of videos yesterday objectively Terrible Draymond green's sole purpose. He said this post gave me an interview His sole purpose last night was to make russo-westbrook overthink the game that he loves the most in the game of basketball By allowing him to get as much space as possible. And now russo-westbrook's thinking well I knew I could hit the shot, but this is a good shot for me to take You know, I'll fire off a couple brick brick and now for the rest of the game He's trying to figure out how do I impact this team when I'm not even being guarded Now the rest of my teammates all four of my teammates around the perimeter doing whatever they're doing They're playing four on five because draymond green is playing safety And that third quarter comes around the offense is absolutely dreadful and defensively I don't know when the clippers are going to decide to finally clip up They got kawai liner who's known as one of the best perimeter defenders not just in today's era But just in general known as one of the greatest perimeter defenders in the game of basketball in the history of it Paul george the top three the dpo y type candidate and they still don't defend And they got people around them that have reputations of being positive defenders They do not defend the goal to stay was jordan pool clay Thompson's a big time shots draymond green was driving past kawai linert I'm like, yo, I know kawai has missed some time and he's still trying to ramp up, but that's draymond green They don't defend you allow third quarter for clay to get as many open shots for jordan pool to get as many open shots You can't really believe that you're going to keep a lead like that because the warriors Even without stefan curry are one of the best three-point shooting teams in basketball quick flowers to the gold and state warriors Um, step stefan curry is coming back very soon and they've done an amazing job staying afloat Because I was a little bit skeptical. I was a little bit afraid for them in their hopes to stay out of the plan They've been damn good. Jordan pool deserves a lot of love Clay Thompson deserves a lot of love and draymond green deserves a lot of love and kevon looney Everybody really kevon looney getting a lot of boards at least yesterday John the kamega hits a big time shots and makes a big time play So I want to give them a lot of love, but this is not a video about them But shout out to them clippers fans you want to close your ears on this specific part Just on this specific part close your ears and come back in in 16 seconds before the trade that line The 14 games leading up to the trade that line the clippers were 10 and 4 And now they can't buy a win Now they can't buy a win What is the reason that things have shifted so dramatically when we were having a conversation on this channel Where we were trying to debate whether or not adding russia westbrook was a good idea or a bad idea for the clippers One of the things that I mentioned is the fact that they had to incorporate eric gordon Bones hylen who don't really play unless it's against the denver nuggets and then mason plumley Oh, and now russia westbrook they have to incorporate four new players to a team with let's say 19 games left to play Trade that line hits and now tyron louis trying to figure out This is the lineup we want to play with in this minutes This is that this is that and this and that and he's trying his best to do so But it's extremely hard for him and he ain't he ain't like the perfect saint right now either But it's extremely hard for him to figure out exactly what lineup should be ran Because the sample size of every single lineup is extremely extremely small This is from reddit jimmy v says the clippers with kawaii lyna paul george and russia westbrook on court Have an offensive rating of 101 and a defensive rating of 115 If you're doing the math that is a net rating of 14 negative 14 On the season pg and kawaii have a plus about eight that was pre all star and then after all star It is a minus 12th. You hear that pre all star was a plus eight and in my after all star It is a minus 12th Again bigger sample size from the previous and then small sample size again for four games or so But still whoa again I don't want you to believe that is just the kawaii lyna paul george or russia westbrook They because i'm looking at all the lineup data and they don't have lineups that are positive right now I mean This lineup this this three-man unit played one minute together. They were they were whoo. They were good But like as far as people that have played real minutes They don't have a lineup that's considered good post post break and we're just talking three-man rotation You know what was a damga lineup pre? paul george kawaii lyna and terence man We mentioned the streak and the 14 games leading up to the all-star break or the trade that line when they were 10 4 Those are games that terence man had been inserted into the starting lineup and he had played great basketball Obviously, he's not a traditional point guard and that was one of the things that they were thinking We need somebody to can get us into our sets that is known as a plus pass or so You know what? We're gonna we're gonna throw terence man back to the bench because we believe that russia westbrook Western westbrook can be that in the 21 games that terence man had started He was averaging 11 points per game on good shooting splits. We're talking 51% of the field 45% from three on three and a half attempts and he was playing 28 29 minutes per and since the russia westbrook experiment has started His minutes have dropped off dramatically So he was playing his best basketball of his young career and that now he's not completely out of rotation He's still getting 20 minutes here 23 minutes here But now his role has just shifted the game before russia westbrook became a part of the team the game before the trade that Oh, I'm sorry The all-star break is a win against the suns where terence man had 26 on 10 of 12 And now you're telling him. Oh you next game russia westbrook. Come in. This is a double overtime game mind you You're gonna play 15 minutes So the thing that they had been ramping up towards going into the trade that line The continuity aspect of it was automatically shattered and again We're talking my continuity on the team that star player might not play here and star player might not play there and boom Now we got a hot pods this lineup together and throughout the course of the clippers error with taiwan lu He's done a decent job in that at least into this year At 33 and 32 the clippers have their worst regular season record through 65 games Since 2010 2011 the clippers have been this pinnacle of regular season goodness And listen to now where there's just one game over 500 and paul george Went on to tommy altar in jj's podcast o-man in the three and he made it seem like the low management thing Wasn't a pg and kawaii thing. It was more about the organization Which I I thought was really interesting where he talked about how they would wear these chips and these chips to let them Know a he played a little bit too hard here He needed a little bit of a rest and he was saying that it knocks off Kind of this rhythm that he had grown accustomed to he said that the new changes to the lineups and the schedules Messed up this little rhythm where he he's used to playing three games at four nights And now because the nba schedule is so different and so elongated That now he thinks that the injuries are an all-time high because of that And I just thought it was interesting because I have always looked at it as like, okay kawaii Leonard Had been low management low managing before he got to the clippers So it's not necessarily a full clippers thing, but pg is saying that hey, it's it's kind of them and not us We want to hoop now. I didn't expect him to go on to jj show and say hell. Yeah, we don't want that sand We don't want to play tonight, but I didn't also expect him to say it was because of the chips It's because of the chips It's because of our trading staff and things like that and because of all of these things I've mentioned here and it's kind of the clippers have been a team that I have Kind of steered away from talking about because it's impossible to really know what their identity is They have so many players around there that I look to be like really great role players hard nose defenders And I thought that was what their identity was going to be especially when you consider they're they're led by kawaii Leonard And there's they're secondarily led by paul george who are two of the best perimeter defenders in basketball I thought for sure that they are didn't their identity was going to be that and it has been everything but that now the numbers post Um bringing in russia westbrook are all skewed because they had the second highest scoring game in the history of basketball In the game that they they ended up losing so I can't even look at the data completely from that and say that this is the truth Because they played a double overtime game where 400 points were scored But the offense has become anemic and I guess it has been that case for a good chunk of the season Um, and it's not ideal. It's just not ideal I mean their idea is like hey, we're gonna get there kawaii Leonard has his reputation of being a cyborg once playoff time comes around And we believe we can hang with any other team in the entire league in a seven game series As long as we have kawaii and as long as we have paul george and I'm not saying they're wrong to have that mindset But I believe That the continuity thing is more important that a lot of people believe What is it 17 games left in the season? How do they figure things out? How long Will we see russia westbrook start with a go back to experiments and like the lakers did what having them come off the bench Or like I mentioned in the video when we were talking about russia westbrook signing there Do they feel some type of obligation to him? Because because paul george has been has been really adamant before russia westbrook got picked up about adding russia westbrook Like that was something he talked about a post game interviews He talked about the all-star game press conference He was saying that he would love to have russia westbrook in the locker room He loved to have russia westbrook on the team and i'm sure that's how ron lujan company trying to figure I may maybe this ain't this ain't what we want is for our starter We were looking a lot better with tarant man in that that position zubats has also been injured for a good portion of this as well So now they're missing their start in center yesterday. They're missing the morris brother So like again, it's a lot to try to digest and try to dissect and it's it's impossible It's almost impossible to figure out exactly what to say and expect I know one thing they don't want to do they don't want to be in that plan Nope, they desperately don't want to be nobody wants to be in a plan But the clippers definitely do not want to be in that plan Especially against some of the other teams that are in the conversation with them and the russia westbrook minutes are so interesting Because we mentioned in that previous video that the clippers are one of the best jumpshooting teams in all of basketball But now if teams are playing russia westbrook the way that the warriors just played him A lot of that jumpshooting opportunity is completely gone because there's an extra defender to guard those things I don't know if there's anything else to say No, I'm out luck with these videos. They're gonna go in and beat the the kings by 16 tonight And then we're gonna be all cool again But this is a reactionary NBA. So that's what we did