Recent history has taught us that it’s not the worst thing in the world to draft a prospect who has to wait out his first official season more or less to heal an injury (Embiid, Randle, Griffin, etc…). We ought to have known better… In their defense, the rest of the league had also overlooked him or was scared off from drafting him, aside from Denver (who usually drafts and scouts very well, in my opinion). No disrespect to JR whom i still root for and I hope has the chance to carve out his own playing career somewhere in the league, and is extremely talented (more than the results he’s had thus far display publicly).

We could’ve had a foundation of Shai, Porter Jr., Mann, Zu, oh and shammett along with those guys we acquired in the superstar trades… and simply gone after literally any superstars with available cap space we’d have then had. We would NOT have had any need for burying ourselves further in a dumb/ desperation deadline trade for Marcus Morris (who had overrated value then, and still does today on this team), and wed still have our next six years of draft picks to keep building from.

As much as our current future quagmire is essentially Kawhai’s “fault,” I still blame our FO for not having the patience or the gravitas to convince him to sign here w/o dumping everything in a bag to OKC for PG

So you believe they would’ve choked against the blazers?

Sure, there’s no reason to believe otherwise. Every series is a potential chokejob with these guys.

As for these clippers, make up your damn mind of who you’re guarding!!! Have Luka go off or the role players go off. They both went off and that really irks me.

Anything less than a blowout win on Tuesday is unacceptable.

Who we’ve had no problem w/ the past two years

Here’s your problem: you’re still thinking of regular-season results with this team. The regular season is completely meaningless. The Clippers will choke against ANYONE when the games really matter.