But if you only read the news that’s presented on your feed, you’re going to have an incomplete picture. This is obviously the perspective on a shallow basketball fan who does not really watch a variety of games, they just look at NBA.com.

Zubac does not make headlines, so his potential contributions “don’t count”.

Sometimes I wonder what some of these guys would look like if given another NBA shot. They should have a summer league just for vets, or a team of just former NBA veterans in the G-league to see if they can get another shot.

Listening to some Laker and other pods the last week, things drying up as we head into the dog days. I find it all interesting, hearing the analysis of the Clippers and where non-fans and skeptics think they stand. It’s all the obvious stuff, without a lot of details. Kawhi’s health is a big question mark, Harden can’t be relied on in the playoffs, the team is really old and Beal is an unknown. The part that’s interesting is what gets left out. It does seem like they eventually get around to noting that the Clippers won 50 games, maybe mentioning Kawhi only playing 37. Kind of what you would expect.

It leaves me wanting to note the key items that are ignored, just to remember why it’s easy over here in Clipperland to be extremely bullish. Here’s an example. Someone saying how good can you be if Kawhi is unreliable and will miss X number of games and old James Harden is your second best player, then they talk about how one of the significant additions and upgrades is Brook Lopez. But they never get around to talking about Zu, and no one goes into depth about the leap that he made, and what expectations for him might be like for this upcoming season.

The Clippers keep getting grouped with the Lakers and GSW, and maybe Minnesota is with them, maybe above or below. Lots of folks and all the Laker homers are banking on Luka doing his photo shoot and losing weight and guaranteeing 50+ wins because he’ll be an MVP candidate and Ayton is an upgrade over J. Hays. They give themselves the advantage, saying that a dominant Luka is a path to 55 wins. Everybody agrees that the West is beyond stacked and it’s going to be a dogfight and a bunch of great teams are going to be clumped together just like last year.

No need to keep going. Just wanted to mention this back home here. I love all the Clippers moves, and really like their chances.