Comments on: 2025 Clippers Exit Interviews: Terance Mann

By: I'm a Mann I'm 40

I'm a Mann I'm 40 — Sat, 17 May 2025 01:26:57 +0000

I wish Terance could have grown to at least Christian Braun (this year) level. I wonder if in the playoffs though if you’d be better off with Terance and his not as good of defense as Dunn/DJ, but a guy with more offense and shooting ability. Specialists are so tough to play in the postseason.

By: Clipperlurker

Clipperlurker — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:08:33 +0000

Lol, Mann is just an average role player. The trade for Bogi was good because we also got 3 2nd round picks in the deal. Ask the Hawks how they feel about Mann.

Just because you’re upset with how the season turned out doesn’t mean you should romanticize T-Manns actual impact on court.

By: dhpat

dhpat — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:29:55 +0000

If you have to cut and paste this post, every month, please do.

As much as I like Bogi’s great games with us, Bogi’s overall performance, esp. his disappearance in the Playoffs, was not worth trading away fan favorite T. Mann.

Although, T. Mann’s reluctance to be aggressive — this is not Bogi’s problem. So, during the next 2 seasons, this trade might work out in the Clippers favor.

Divorce (between Head Coach and Gen. Manager/President) is sometimes necessary for family/team harmony.

Mr. Ballmer needs to do a Q&A review of every decision that LF and Coach Lue have done since purchasing the Clippers. Pretty sure that performance review of your staff is part of running a company like Microsoft.

By: John Maclean

John Maclean — Wed, 14 May 2025 09:08:57 +0000

Another way we could speed up the reboot would be to take on bad contracts if the other team is willing to bribe us with draft capital. Jerami Grant is a BAD contract but just so happens to fill one of our needs. $102 million over the next three years and Portland is going to be looking to dump that for sure. This is probably a reach, but perhaps we could send DJJ and Norm there in return for Grant and arrange a pick swap of our #30 and our 2nd for their #11. DJJ is younger and would bring some much needed athleticism and Norm could fill the void left by Simons who’s almost assuredly being moved. They could probably move Norm at the deadline and get something else good back for him too. At 31 Grant isn’t what he once was but is serviceable and better than our other options at PF. His contract would last one year longer than Kawhi’s but if we could land a young star right now it would be worth it.

By: John Maclean

John Maclean — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:50:29 +0000

A lot of folks shooting down the idea of clearing the books because they are claiming (somewhat correctly) that there aren’t superstar free agents anymore because the teams are locking guys up with longterm extensions so they’re not ever really able to walk. I believe that may continue to hold true for first-time young max players, but I think we will start to see a trend where later-prime superstars will only re-up with the LeBron type 1-1 deal so they can keep all their options open. Kawhi has kind of done this with us and James is now in position to benefit from that type of deal too. I’m sure the FO has given this a lot of consideration and it will inform what decisions they make here in the near future. 2031 is a LONG ways off and we could only start tanking in 2030. That’s five years of mediocrity or worse to endure, and even then there’s only a 14% chance of landing the #1 pick and even far less of a chance that player is a generational talent.

By: chogokin

chogokin — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:52:12 +0000

MPJ was essentially a taller Norm out there tonight – he was abhorrent on defense and did very little rebounding, so since his offense wasn’t working he was a massive liability. They should’ve left Watson or Strawther in there for MPJ – at least they would’ve played defense.

By: khyber jones

khyber jones — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:33:01 +0000

As a Clipper fan, I'm pretty bitter about that Denver loss to OKC.

Russell Westbrook was truly awful and cost them a lot of momentum. Denver was up +8 when they probably should've been up +18 but for Russ' multiple acts of self harm.

MPJ was a complete no show. He shot well against us, however.

Lu Dort - the ultimate insult is to lose in part due to a 3 minute Q4 magnet ball segment from him. Dude has been a** the whole series and has often played off the court for long stretches.

This was a lot like watching a Clipper game. Very encouraging performance for most of the game thwarted by a long scoring drought. I'm rooting for Denver and expect they'll win Game 6. The challenge for Game 7 is that they're just not getting enough offense out of Braun, Russ, MPJ to win on the road. Hope that changes, but right now, I'd have to say this series leans OKC in 7 games.

By: chogokin

chogokin — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:21:34 +0000

Obviously credit to OKC, but *of course* Russ turns back into Russ just after playing out of his mind against us all series long. The rest Denver’s role players really dropped the ball tonight too, especially MPJ, who Adelman should’ve benched. Denver should’ve won this one but choked in the 4th.

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:57:41 +0000

Luke just isn’t very good, unfortunately. Came into the NBA 5-10 years too late

By: chogokin

chogokin — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:27:53 +0000

“When they’ve tried being “competitive” instead of tanking, they’ve never been rewarded for that either.”

This is why I floated my “lottery teams tourney” and would be fine w/ a reverse order draft – striving to win but ultimately being middle of the pack shouldn’t be a bad thing, but it is under the current system. If finishing just outside the playoffs were rewarded (…without rigging the draft like they did this year for the Mavs) maybe you’d get more teams actually trying to compete.