Clippers labeled soft, Pacers win, Westbrook returns & Pierce’s BOLD prediction | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Clippers labeled soft, Pacers win, Westbrook returns & Pierce’s BOLD prediction | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Woo so Paul Pierce youve said the Clippers lack leadership while Russell Westbrook was hurt he did return last night he played pretty well 14 points and seven assists in 18 minutes so how do you view this team now I mean he seemed like one of the few players that

Cared yeah to to make the hustle plays but I see a team that’s probably going to be a first round exit I mean I we’re at the end of the year and I’m hearing words like no identity we’re soft we don’t hustle we don’t like come on this is not what you want

To hear with 10 games left in the season I mean they just collapsing they’re falling apart at the wrong time they are this is not the time you want this is when you want to come together really know who you are and I just have no

Faith in the Clippers at this point uh with just a few games remaining they take they’re having some bad losses no I this is an identity crisis is what I’m seeing and so I’m not and the co coach calling you soft that’s not what I want to hear like I can’t I can’t

Take those words at this stage being called Soft so I really see the Clippers just maybe start making vacation plans because the way it is right now they’ll be one and done in the playoffs they can’t turn on the switch this late in the season you don’t know who you are

But if LeBron can turn on the switch why can’t Kawai turn on the switch if you don’t know who you are I’ve never heard a LeBron say team say we don’t have an identity I’ve never heard a Lebron team say we’re soft those are strong words for a team

With only those those words can’t trickle into that locker room they I’m not sure if they they not it’s not I’m not sure how this team is built I mean they they playing in EB and flow they’re they’re they’re Moody they’re they’re up one day they’re they’re having fun James

Is contesting his own teammate shot and then the next day you know they they lose and then they lose I mean I don’t I don’t I don’t know who this team is right now yeah I first of all I’m not a Clipper fan so I’m aren’t you having

Some fun with this no not really cuz I feel I feel bad for the four guys that I know and I like which is which is Paul George obviously in Kawai in James Harden and Westbrook I want to see them somehow get a championship but I don’t really want to

See them get what CU they don’t you know LA Clippers they don’t deserve one those guys deserve it and you know when I go to looking at it and I know a lot of people say well this is the James Harden syndrome this is a James Harden syndrome

See take a look check the box this is what happened in Houston this is what happened in Brooklyn oh my God 76ers Paul brought it up earlier I mean yeah he he it’s like they’re melting down right before our eyes at the end of the season this is where you don’t need this

This is he was playing good a month and a half ago right he was playing pretty damn good basketball I think they can get back to that they just got to figure out what their problems are when you lose to a Indiana Pacer team and I think the night before Philadelphia with noers

With no you know it’s just like what do you think or are you settled in being in the fifth spot are you happy being sitting at five and like okay we just going to hit the button when the playoffs come that a they they not you got to be you

Not good enough to hit the button this is not a team that’s been to the finals this is not a team that’s won the championship a team that I’m seeing hitting the button right now is Denver like they’re playing the best basketball in the league it seems like cuz they got

Championship experience they know how to get to the next level this is not a Clipper team that can have these type of lws at this stage in the season and say oh we’ll pick it up in the playoffs we’ll be better you know things will

Turn around no they got to do it now they got to have signature wins now they can’t be losing to teams at home or uh teams that are playoff bound at this stage especially at home it was a back toback for Indie too huh you watched him

Against the Lakers and they fought their butts off you know like like they left a lot out on that floor and came right back the next been tired in the N LA and you know they you know they H out after the game and they said oh we got

The Clippers tonight we got this so I love tyo and I can make a case he’s as good as there is coaching basketball but to your point kesan Johnson you always say well he can’t play well he can’t he can only do so much he can scream and

Yell behind closed doors he’s not a screamer and yeller on the bench but I’m sure he has raised his voice to them behind closed doors so he was angry last night in his post game and I loved it because he should have been angry because he sees the handwriting on the

Locker room wall they are falling apart right before your very eyes and he seems a little bit lost on how to fix it on the fly so another quote from him remember they they went 26 and five in one stretch before they left on their road trip 26 and5 and we’re in here

Talking about they could challenge Denver you know like that they look like they could be the best team so here’s tyou after the game another quote he said when we were 26 and five we had great identity so you can’t pick and choose when you want to lead interesting

That he used that word you can’t pick and choose when you want to have an identity you can’t pick and choose when you want to do things the right way so he’s saying I don’t know what was going on there but but somebody was leading us

And the leader of the team is Kawhi Leonard and he’s a quiet leader he does it by example he his body I know I know Ka I know what his body language looks like and I watched a whole bunch of that game last night until it was over before it got to

The fourth quarter kawhai didn’t look like he was that interested in playing that basketball game and when he’s like that his teammates feel it and see it and it there’s no contagious Factor because it’s contagious bad for them because for some reason he’s not engaged in what they’re doing right now because

I think he sees them falling apart and he does does not love that but he’s not going to scream and yell about it because that’s not his way so you you talked about how Russ is is a leader Off the Bench now it’s hard for me to see

Russ as a leader but but but you’re just talking about his energy leads the team because it ignites and I get that was out there ball it last night with a with a with a some sort of brace on his wrist hand he did he he got teack for Duncan

On halberton and he screamed he’s just screaming at the fan you know he’s just like screaming to himself and they gave him attack for it but the point was yeah he he lifts their their their second unit their shock troops cuz he comes in and the whole RPM of the game changes

When he hits the floor but it didn’t help last night because nobody else seemed that into it and everybody’s numbers look okay everybody got their numbers but the Pacers is just reier to play right from the start seak was out there he was looking like yeah Yannis

Or slow yeah you know what SE yakum outplayed kawhai and Paul George even though they their numbers look okay but to your eye if you watch the game SE yakum was the best forward on the floor whatever you want to call those guys small forwards or whatever they are he

Was the best player on the floor last night and that’s why Indiana I mean look at this is a 401 break I just saw a 401 break I you don’t see that a lot in the NBA they just look slow I mean they’re their star players are are 3 to and up I

Said this earlier they just they can’t get back on defense and and maybe they can do something in the playoffs when the I mean I’m saying this for a number of teams in the west uh that maybe when the game slows down they can they can make a difference but like right now

They’re getting run off the court by these younger teams Philly I was at the game in Philly and the young guards just they just drive the ball down the middle find open guys or just lay it up with no resistance and we saw that last night SE

Yakum goes down the middle and just dunks the ball whenever whenever he just wanted to I mean he looked like the best player in the league yeah he went down the middle he did uh who was that they did exactly what you said just stay out

The way just get out the way he just he put his elbow in kind of got out the way and the only one who seemed like they had some who played with some intensity was Westbrook yeah but it just it just has to be more infectious to the other

Guys you know you have to look and say look this guy he cares he wants to win but it has to it has to be reciprocated through the whole team and it’s just not there right now I I don’t know when kawhai first shocked the world and signed with the Clippers instead the

Lakers everybody was convinced you remember this everybody thought he was going to go with LeBron and at the last second he pulled the rug out from under the Lakers and went to the step children right and that first year of kawhai Clippers what was their identity it was

On the defensive end because he and Paul George could flat out lock down people because in the in their Heyday when they were younger players God they could steal the ball they could deflect they they they were hard to get past and they don’t have any defensive identity

Anymore you know what makes me wonder too this you just you just said an interesting thing that you know Kawai resigned Paul George hasn’t resigned yet James Harden hasn’t signed an extension yet you think that can factor into to the play because you see as a player you

Like oh we’re the same age we’re lined up to probably retire together yeah you know okay uh you got kaai an extension it’s probably my turn to get an extension and then you know James Harden you I took the trade to come here with the idea I

Probably going to end my career here and they haven’t signed extensions so you know some of that be could be creeping into their head like you know that’s effect J always I mean we see that we see that with Klay Thompson right now he can get his extension Draymond did and

It’s something that bothered him it’s something and he was kind of open about you know that’s something that could be happening with the I don’t know I’m just saying though yeah all right so your gut feeling is and done I think I think just the way they’re playing I I don’t see

Them getting out the first round they got to go to New Orleans it looks like as of today and they can potentially slide even more if they have to end up going to uh playing a young team which it seems like they’re vulnerable against these young quick teams like a OKC or or

Minnesota yeah I don’t see them getting out the first round so I also read a quote from James Harden after the game I’m not a big fan you like them but but I think you like him more off the court than maybe on the court I like him on

Both that’s just me James Harden said after last night we got to find our identity teams are scoring easy on us makes it difficult to score offensively and I’m like well I don’t really want to hear that from James who doesn’t play a lot of Defense himself and does not set

A tone on that end and I’m I’ve been on the record with this from day one I just don’t think you can win big with James running your show I just don’t I I don’t think he’s that guy when when it’s but he’s not running the show well he is

He’s the orchestrator he’s not running the show oh no team that team goes through kawhai then PG then he’s the third guy no he’s he initiates everything I mean the ball is in his hand D but he’s giving it up he ain’t holding it like he was in Houston or

Nothing like that the same not at the same magnitude but he’s initiating the offense he calls his number when he wants to when he wants to run I mean the best play for James to be effective is the high picking roll yeah and we know if kawwai and Paul George and Russ is

Out there they’re watching James run a high pick and roll into him watching him barrel down the lane and make one pass for a shot that these guys are just going to be kind of standing around you know watching him do his thing in the pick and r instead of getting into a

Flow this teams needs to play a certain type of offense to where it’s a flow where there’s dribble handoffs to where there’s there’s Cuts there’s back doors they’re slashing to where these guys can get the ball in position to where to score where they can score not watching

James Harden run pick and rolls especially with zubot that’s with zubot you know I mean I’m that’s that’s not the offense they ran pre James hard yeah I don’t know key I think you’re going to have a happy spring here because I think the Clippers are going home quickly they

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