Comments on: Clippers 2023 Season Exit Interview: John Wall

By: Greek_Clippers_Fan

Greek_Clippers_Fan — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:04:04 +0000

So many arguements in favour of a season with absolutely no plan.

Wall one of the fist of those arguements, it cost us Hart and the lack of backup big which was evident for more than half of the season.

Plus, Wall was regularly stealing time from others that deserved.

And when we fixed it, we went all in to obtain Wall 2.0. Russ was good but still not convinced that we needed him if the our two stars were healthy.

By: Lucas Hann

Lucas Hann — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:45:05 +0000

I’m not super invested in a debate over the technical definition of “washed,” but if “washed” means “unable to move anymore,” then sure, John Wall isn’t washed.

If “washed” means “no longer effective” then a guy who was an All-Star a few years ago no longer being a rotation-level backup is washed.

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Thu, 04 May 2023 17:56:26 +0000

I agree he isn’t truly “washed”, but I’m skeptical he can be much of a positive contributor without some major adjustments

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Thu, 04 May 2023 17:55:18 +0000

Nah his decision-making has always been an issue for him

By: Dave Rosa

Dave Rosa — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:09:59 +0000

Wall was another Lue-Leonard-George power play. I don’t blame the FO at all. The “unholy trio” cost us Hartenstein. When you have the coach and your 2-star players clamoring for something, they are going to get their way. Now they are trying to do the same with Westbrick.

The FO needs to “just say no” on Westbrook. It never ends well for Kamikazees.

When Lawrence Frank commented on the “lack of respect for the regular season” that was a direct shot at Lue. Frank didn’t bring in Covington and then re-sign him for Lue to sit him an entire season. The FO saw what we saw. Morris is done.

I think the FO will pretend to want Russell back but they will never offer him more than the bare minimum. Now that Westbrook’s reputation has been restored, some team will give him more than the minimum.

Bones will be the starting point.

By: chogokin

chogokin — Thu, 04 May 2023 05:23:45 +0000

I don’t remember him being that careless back w/ Washington, but he made so many dumb decisions w/ us. I wonder if he’s always been like this but he got away w/ it before because of his insane athleticism + playing for a largely irrelevant team.

By: osamu6238

osamu6238 — Thu, 04 May 2023 02:20:27 +0000

Biggest issue was they only had one mini-MLE to spend, and for some reason the guy that just got bought out of nearly $50-million and has made something like $300mil over his career felt like he needed the extra $4mil instead of letting the Clippers build out their team around him.

I understand that that’s probably what it took to get him bought out of Houston, let him give up 6-mil on that end to get paid that by the Clippers. But honestly if Houston was going to pay him $47-mil to let him sit at home, and Wall was going to get every penny he earned on that contract, then I would’ve just let them work it out between them, rather than give up that mini-MLE for such a gamble.

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Thu, 04 May 2023 02:09:26 +0000

Yeah agreed on most of this

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Thu, 04 May 2023 02:07:41 +0000

They were. They did pass on Hart for Wall, fairly explicitly

By: Robert Flom

Robert Flom — Thu, 04 May 2023 02:06:55 +0000

I think the other difference is that Russ has a lot more strength, which helped him in getting to the rim and playing out of the post