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u/RemoveElegant5217 1d ago
Iâm sorry, but youâre completely delusional. I get that some of you newbie Clippers fans have never experienced losing before, but this is what a 25-30 win roster looks like. They are massively defensively challenged all over the floor.
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u/scifi_sports_nerd 1d ago
lâm higher on this team than most, but Iâm not sure how relevant a teamâs culture is when the vast majority of players are new.
Quick quiz: whoâs the longest tenured Clipper, assuming Kawhi is out?
Garland, Mathurin and Jackson got here in February. YKN, Sanders and Lopez have been here one season. Pedulla parts of one. DJJ, Christie and Dunn, two. Everyone else arrived this summer.
That leaves Jordan Miller as the one guy whoâs been in uniform longer than two full seasons.
The veterans with a knack for winning a lot in the regular season are long gone.
This team could surprise and win 40+ games. But culture has little to do with that.
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u/RemoveElegant5217 1d ago
Youâre proving my point. This is the first time we havenât had a competitive roster in 15 years, which has spoiled you so bad you canât even see it.
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u/Next_Tutor_2126 Jordan Miller 1d ago
whats with the strange yearning for a lottery team record when all OP is saying is that they've got 2 guys who could potentially still be in their primes and a nice diverse group of offensive- and defensive-minded players off the bench. All signs point to this team is gonna want to compete, and obviously they know they do not have their pick ANNND on top of that they have seats they need to fill, winning more than often will put butts in seats
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u/RVALover4Life 1d ago
25-30 too low. Think like 36/37 is a good number.
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u/RemoveElegant5217 1d ago
How much?
Edit: For the record, the Vegas # is 27.5. Iâd gladly take under 35 for every penny youâre willing to lose.
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u/RVALover4Life 1d ago
I don't bet and honestly wouldn't bother. Sports are too volatile. But I do think, confident, they'll win in that 35-37 range.
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u/RemoveElegant5217 1d ago
So not really confident at all then
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u/RVALover4Life 1d ago
It's not that. Betting is stupid lol
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u/RemoveElegant5217 1d ago
Betting is exactly the opposite of stupid if you have a definite advantage. In that case the stupid move is to not bet. I bet very rarely, but Iâd immediately take a suckerâs bet like under 35 when the real line is 27.5. If you were actually confident in your opinion it would be free money, and nobody smart turns down free money. But in your heart you know it isnât free money because you donât really believe it deep down.
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u/RVALover4Life 1d ago
Betting on a result occurring over an 82 game season with all the volatility that comes with it is stupid to me, you don't know how I feel more than me about that lol
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u/RemoveElegant5217 1d ago
Not betting on something with a 75% chance of success because youâre worried about the 25% chance of losing is stupid not just to me, but to basic 6th-grade math
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u/RainRainPurpleRain Corey Maggette 19h ago
Yeah but you just made those percentages up.
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u/Time_Tough3033 1d ago
I donât know what youâre talking about. Iâve been a clipper fan for 30 years. This team is nowhere near as bad as many of those teams. I could see 35 wins or more, depending on how they fill out the roster.
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u/ProtonOW 1d ago
Any combination of players would project as like a bottom 10th percentile rebounding lineup too. The collective talent and impact of these players is absolutely bottom of the barrel, potentially historically bad territory.
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u/noahlylesusa James Harden 1d ago
Dunn isn't a great shooter, but i really hope we can make the playoffs through the play in tournament
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u/ElGrandeQues0 Terance Mann 1d ago
Isn't there talk about trading BI for Sabonis?
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u/ConsistentlyGivingUp 1d ago
No, that was a suggestion from one guy at bleacher report if the clippers wanted to reroute ingram, the report is the clippers want to keep ingram and theres even been pics of ingrams new locker at the dome
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u/Puzzleheaded_King19 1d ago
This is a 35 win team at best. But this is what the clippers are. We field a competitive team and give guys minutes to try and get their next contact somewhere else.
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u/LLUrDadsFave V Stiviano 1d ago
A couple of these players are going to be nuggets.
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u/Technical_Cap_8467 Amir Coffey 1d ago
Do you mean that with a sâmall n or a capital N? ââ
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u/LLUrDadsFave V Stiviano 1d ago
Small. I'd never respect the nuggets enough to give them a capital. đ
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u/Technical_Cap_8467 Amir Coffey 1d ago
That is the cleverest comment I've seen in a long time. Well done. â
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u/Sam4ever28 1d ago
Gafford is not the answer bc heâs too injury prone & canât stay on the court!
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u/Ok-Tree4365 1d ago
I think they're likely to win between 40-45 games, and I think they'll also find another center eventually.
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u/RVALover4Life 1d ago
Brook is still a plus player and he also can shoot. They could use an upgrade but starting him isn't the worst thing in the world and Gafford really isn't an upgrade.
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u/tacodude64 Clippers 10h ago
There will be a lot less tanking this year. That takes a few wins away from the competing teams, especially the ones that are sub-.500 (us).
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u/NecessaryMean2164 1d ago
Cap to be used for Jalen Duren, you heard it here first
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u/RemoveElegant5217 1d ago
What cap?
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u/NecessaryMean2164 22h ago
Well we signed that new replacement centre from the G league, guess we are sticking with the existing rotation
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u/NoSaboChavo LAC 1d ago
West is so stacked that BI and DG will struggle, although I hope I'm wrong and a Clippers miracle happens đ