Wammy Giveaway wrote:Clemenza wrote:If this continues to spiral out of control, sit or send Harden home, trade either PG or Kawhi or maybe both for a haul of pics and roll from there. Just have the kids run up and down the court and play hard with Westbrook. I don't even care anymore
Westbrook may not look to stay. He may request a trade as well; he's not interested in playing for a tanking team anymore, not after his past experience with the Lakers. Clippers may end up losing all their All-Stars anyway.
Think about this: before the Harden trade, an estimated thirteen players were heading to free agency after this season. After trading Morris, Batum and Covington, the number went down to six looking to leave. It's very possible the amount of players leaving could skyrocket to the maximum 15. The rumor I'm hearing is that Ballmer may decide to, if they choose to blow the team up, acquire expiring contracts that end this season so that he enters into the new arena with zero contracts. This would force Clippers to look at the undrafted, summer league and overseas players.
While there may be some truth to that, that isn't going to happen until closer to the trade deadline if there appears to be no hope. Until then, they are committed to making it work this season. Would be much better stepping into Intuit Dome hanging a banner from the rafters. The downside of that would be that Ballmer would then open the bank for everyone involved and stay in luxury tax purgatory. He isn't getting a GS type multiple championship run with a mostly older roster, but that won't stop him from trying.
Guys on Sirius NBA radio last week said the teams biggest issues were on the defensive end. The team didn't know where to funnel the offense and were giving the opponents full reign to move the ball from one side of the court to the other vice pinning the ball on one side of the court.
All I want right now to is get a win. You get a win and then you can start to build momentum. Hopefully, we can look back and see this is just a small bump in the road. I hated the Harden trade, but what was done is done. Made more sense to include Powell in the deal for Harden than Batum and RoCo. Dallas and Phoenix learned the lesson last season when they traded away defense for scoring. Dallas's loss of Finney-Smith hurt them a lot. They are doing better this year because they had an off-season to fix that hole.
Outside of the loss yesterday, having to watch the team wear the MJ era Wizards uniforms was as embarrassing as the play on the court. i would have much rather seen them use these jerseys: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/california-illustrator-designs-clippers-jerseys-inspired-by-in-n-out/