How big of a role will the Clippers’ depth play this season? | The Hoop Collective

I've talked in the past about how much money the Warriors spend, the Clippers, their payroll

this

year is $198 million before taxes and

this

is what I mean by developing the

depth

that they have, not only have they hired a bunch of

role

play

ers, but I've signed them to a bunch of contracts that are negotiable, yes, and they are in use, and not only that, but because they are a couple of years away from the big trade they made with the Thunder to acquire Paul George, they actually have a distant first place. round picks that they can add and so they are, you know, I keep bringing this up because I think what I suspect is going to happen this year is going to happen: there are too many good teams, too many teams are invested in winning the lottery.

It's very good and my suspicion is that one or three teams

will

get to January and realize that that's not happening for us and that we need to modernize and I think there

will

be some teams that will be sellers in the middle of the

season

. And what I think is that there could be one or two mid

season

trades that could really affect this. Paul George and Kawhi Leonard earn $43 million. By the way, this is a strange little thing. Paul George wins 70 two. dollars seventy-six dollars more than Kauai this year seventy-six dollars I think for the record, other

play

ers may not believe that to be true.

So they have the following players with contracts between 10 and 16 million: Norman Powell. Valued Two-Way Wing Marcus Morris' combo forward didn't have a great year last year, but he has value. Luke Canard, who is a marksman, has courage. We're not talking about guys who are trained for Kevin Durant, but yes, Robert Covington the minute they signed. on that contract extension last year I thought, well that's signed to be traded, the guy gets traded every nine months anyway, Reggie Jackson, Nick Batum, if that's your zubach and they also signed Terence Mann, him, his contract, right? I had signed an extension. he doesn't go up, but he has an attractive negotiable contract and then of course they have Brandon Boston, who is young but was an attractive piece, so in addition to having all these different guys that they can play with, which is the job of Tyloo.

I realized they could get better throughout the season, yeah, and that's what made them so smart when they acquired Norm, man. I remember telling someone in the Clippers front office that you guys got Robert Covington and you could trade him like this. him for something else before the trade deadline, yes that trade is an asset. That's a classic example of them not really going anywhere last year, even though they weren't like you know they were, they hadn't given up hope, but that trade was halfway there. In the off-season trade, they took on a lot of money with the Blazers and they did it because they could, yeah, because they had, you know, they don't have to worry about the money, yeah, they sound like Eric Bledsoe in that trade, y'all, Justice Winslow um.

The Clippers have been very smart in trying to replenish their assets, they didn't, they gave up a lot of first round picks for Paul George, but now they have all these manageable contracts that they can send in packages, they have second round picks. I think they got some deep first-round picks, so if they want to improve they can, but this 15-person roster I think the Clippers are really going to need to use that early in the season, their first three months are loaded with options. games, they had 15 consecutive games, 11 of them were before February 1. So I wonder how much of it is because they have this disadvantage that they have like they're sitting third at the table, yeah, yeah, because the Kings also the LA Kings, who actually own the building, yeah, so I think that that you'll see is a minutes restriction, probably, definitely, for Kawhi Leonard, you have an introduction to the rest of his career, John Wall has played 40 games in three. seasons uh he's worked it's a free

role

yeah yeah but you know these are guys that you know you're going to have to handle them and I think this has become a broken record for the Clippers okay but we talk. about this every time it comes playoff time, where is their chemistry?

Where is their health? and because you have all these guys that Tyler is going to have, I can hear Tyler already saying, well, he didn't have these guys, these guys and I'm mixing and matching them, but we have to have good chemistry when it comes time for the playoffs. Clips will probably have the same problem, but it's good to have because they have so many guys that we talked about in camp that will be their starting point guard, Reggie Jackson or John. Wall, I think it's going to be Reggie Jackson. He keeps him in good spirits.

You know he's been a big contributor to getting John Wall off the bench. I have no idea what John Wall is going to do. I just want to be clear, I have no idea. I mean, he looks good in those videos, but everyone watches, listens to John Wall, he only played 40 games for the Rockets but he still has energy, there is still gas in the tank, he is not the perennial All-Star John Wall, he will never come back to be that guy, but for a mid-level contributor less than that was it or they thought I think he was a mid-level contributor as a friend, he's a good addition, he'll definitely be able to push the pace, you know, he's a great passer. , I think it will help them, but I agree with you, yes, it is about having the ability to maybe put together some commercial package that certainly it is good to have that kind of flexibility, those types of options, it is good to have the ability. to play in many different ways, with many different smiles or styles that they can play, you know they can play traditional big, they can go and it's not even a small ball, you know, six seven across the board and then they can play all of these different. styles, so you know you can go game by game once you get to the playoffs, but also this debt will allow them to maintain a rhythm throughout the season when you know right now that Kawhi is going to sit out. go out 15 or 20 games even if he's fully healthy yeah back to back it doesn't make sense and he should be able to handle the restrictions until the player now if Kawhi is sitting because it's back to back just quality players that are sitting out filling. those minutes, you know what I think I can see them looking at when the trade deadline comes, he's an athletic shot blocker, they don't really have that zoo, he's their only big man, well that's what they always want, that's what They wanted Ibaka to be right, but they're going to need help bouncing off the glass, they're going to need someone to block shots and intimidate them inside, so you know, if someone opens up and comes in to negotiate online, I could see them pounce. about something like that, yes, so they are going to be a team that we are going to follow very closely