Comments on: 2024 Clippers Exit Interview: Robert Covington

By: chogokin

chogokin — Fri, 17 May 2024 00:21:47 +0000

“With enough bites at the apple you might land a Brunson or miracle ourselves a Joker”

Not w/ this FO.

By: Morty CA

Morty CA — Thu, 16 May 2024 23:40:56 +0000

Even if the clippers did find a “jokic” type of player. It’s not like TY will develop him. He’ll be benched for a 36 yr old player on one leg.

The only way I can see this is PG13 gets a sign and trade this summer, all the old players get traded or don’t come back, and (MAYBE) Kawhi gets the Blake treatment mid season.

Kawhi can still fetch a good amount of draft picks or young players, any team will bet on Kawhi and his impact.

Collect draft picks, young players, and force TY to play the youngins.

By: Thretch

Thretch — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:51:10 +0000

To add on to that thought: Wallowing in mediocrity with an old team also involves high expectations. Whereas wallowing with a young team has lower expectations.

So to say it another way: would we rather wallow in mediocrity with higher expectations or lower expectations? Easy choice.

By: Jpo805

Jpo805 — Thu, 16 May 2024 15:04:14 +0000

I agree … I’d rather wallow in mediocrity with a fun team to watch than wallow in mediocrity with Ty and this old ass team.

The core is stale … it needs to be disassembled and rebuilt. Let PG13, Harden & Plumdog walk and use the contracts of PJ, Westbrook, Norm & Coffey to get younger, more athletic two way players.

By: John Maclean

John Maclean — Thu, 16 May 2024 06:38:19 +0000

I keep seeing/hearing this binary choice that our only options are to run it back or suck when we have no draft picks. As mentioned previously there is a third option and that’s to move our stars for some younger decent players AND some 1st rounders. Of course these 1st rounders won’t be lottery picks but they would be in the same range as every other team who has a good season but doesn’t win the chip. With enough bites at the apple you might land a Brunson or miracle ourselves a Joker so to me this third way is the only way.

We should be looking at this in reverse to where the actual binary choice is to wallow in mediocrity running it back with old guys and no picks or wallow in mediocrity with some fun young players and later 1st round draft picks on the lark that we might strike gold. This is a no brainer when presented this way.

By: Oodypkt

Oodypkt — Thu, 16 May 2024 04:31:11 +0000

*Since his first season. (in ’13-’14, and actually similar to how we use him in ’22-’23)

By: Oodypkt

Oodypkt — Thu, 16 May 2024 04:28:49 +0000

RoCo not playing much with Sixers may cause by injury but when he’s healthy, but he’s not playing that much anyway. (Lowest mpg since since his season)
Dude is good help defender with his quick hand. And overall looks like a good dude to be around.
I don’t think we sign him back and I guess he don’t want to do that either.
Quite a wasted opportunity for us and generally for basketball fan.
Him and Batum should be formidable PF tandem if we still have them, use them properly and they are healthy to play.
That ship has sailed. Hope we use Brown, Kai & Moose the way we should.
Let them show their true value. It’s worth the try.

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Thu, 16 May 2024 02:35:44 +0000

Totally agreed

By: chogokin

chogokin — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:54:14 +0000

...and of course the day I choose to dunk on MM for being washed he goes nuclear in a playoff game

By: chogokin

chogokin — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:25:33 +0000

I mean, if MM isn’t actually washed that’s even more damning for Ty because it means he didn’t know how to maximize his skills. But really, I think most of us would’ve been fine w/ 5-15mpg for MM here – the issue was Ty was playing him almost 30mpg his last year here, to the team’s detriment.