The starting 5 has 4 guys who are elite scorers at their positions with a 5th guy who is very efficient dunking the ball, can play D, and when he has that 3 ball falling it’s an impossible unit to guard.

Our bench rotation vs the Lakers was trash, however. Lebron abused everyone on that unit. It was thin because Terance Mann didn’t play a minute. As a result, Harden played too many minutes and that basically drained him for the Chicago game. He did not play well vs Chicago, but that I put on Lue. The starting lineup vs Chicago was weak. Bulls had capable scorers in LaVine, Lonzo and Vucevic and we had dead spots in that lineup with Dunn, DJJ, a tired Harden and a limited Bamba.

If the Clips were serious about winning that game, the starting lineup should’ve been Harden, Mann, Norm, DJJ and Batum with Bamba, Bones, Coffey, KPJ, Kobe Brown and Dunn off the bench. KPJ should’ve played off the ball with Bones running the point.

I’m not sure what Dunn has done over the past 2 games, but it feels like a sharp regression. I’ve been on the Mann bandwagon for a long while, but these last few games should be proof positive that he’s more playoff ready than the rest of that bench unit and he knows how to play with star players better or how to fill the rotational wing role off the bench.

Now the Clips seem to be throwing the Boston game in order to get a W vs the Wizards. After that the Clips have Milwaukee (Giannis always curb stomps us), @Phx, @SAS, @ Charlotte to close the month. I don’t consider that easy, but the games are spaced out reasonably well.

And my grandma was pretty unreal, but TBH could not dunk. After a hip replacement at 95, she danced at her 100th B-day. So pretty much an icon of resiliency and exceeding expectations.

For real though, pretending KPJ doesn’t provide anything is disingenuous. His problem for us this whole season has been consistency, and unfortunately I suspect that isn’t gonna change anytime soon. If we were picking young guys to develop, I would rather see Miller and Kobe get more time, but I get why Ty is playing KPJ – he’s the only one on the team who can do a (poor) Harden impression. I mean I don’t like it, but I get it.

KPJ was terrible (as usual). HIs only made basket was a breakaway dunk that my grandma could have made. At this point the trade suggestions involving him and Tucker are useless. KPJ is a negative value asset, and only teams who truly want to dump long-term salaries would be interested.