Chris Paul to Clippers Reaction: PERFECT basketball fit with Kawhi & Harden + beautiful NBA story

Chris Paul to Clippers Reaction: PERFECT basketball fit with Kawhi & Harden + beautiful NBA story

What’s up, guys? Thanks as always for supporting the show. It would mean a lot to me if you would take a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button so you don’t miss any more of our videos. Also, make sure you follow us all over social media so you don’t miss any of our content or show announcements. Chris Paul signing with the Los Angeles Clippers. I love this signing. I was super excited about this. Jackson and I were joking before the before we started recording today. It’s been kind of fun seeing him go to LA and obviously seeing Dame go back to Portland. It just kind of feels very like nostalgic for us basketball fans to see these guys going back home. But I love this signing even just in terms of the basketball. First of all, I love that Chris Paul gets to play for a serious team that can actually use his skill set, but that doesn’t necessarily need him to be available every night. It’s like a low pressure great basketball thing. And he gets to be home in Los Angeles. Kind of a perfect set of circumstances for him in the final year of his career. And for the Clippers, when everyone is healthy, when Bradley Beal is playing, when Kawhai’s playing, they don’t necessarily need him. So his age and durability concerns are not concerns, but they do have guys in Bradley Beal and Kawhi Leonard that frequently miss time. And Chris is still somehow just an incredibly reliable pick and roll ball handler in this league. Chris even and he’s again he’s gonna be 40 years old this year. Was one of the best pick and roll ball handlers in the NBA last year. He ran 892 pick and rolls including passes for a Spurs team that was full of young and flawed players and he generated 959 points. That’s 1.08 points per possession including passes. To give you an idea of where that ranks in the NBA, there were 24 players last year to run at least 800 pick and rolls. Chris’s 1.08 points per possession ranked eighth on that list ahead of guys like Steph Curry, Anthony Edwards, Trey Young, Jason Tatum, James Harden, Kate Cunningham, despite playing with a very young and flawed group of players in San Antonio. It just comes down to that simple conversation we’ve been having all summer with respect to advantage creation. If you can come off of an action and take advantage of the bakedin advantages that are there and the reads that come up based on what help defenders are doing and you can hit the pocket when it’s open and hit the skip when they tag the roller and hit the swing when they dig down and nail help and make all of those simple basic reads. knock down a mid-range floater or jump shot if they happen to stay home and defend it twoon two. If you can make those simple decisions, reads and shots, you can set up all of these flawed players with advantages with a guy sprinting at them. And if they’re if they have a guy sprinting at them, all of them skyrocket in efficiency. This is why guys like James Harden have so much value in the league still. This is why guys like D’Angelo Russell still have so much value in this league. This is why you can put Trey Young, we’re going to talk about it later. This is why you can put Trey Young with a bunch of athletes and have them still be a very good team because even flawed athletes, if you give them an advantage, can score the basketball. It Chris Paul is just still one of the very best at that specific trait, which is so valuable in the NBA. I think it helps a lot with that Brook Lopez edition as well. The Clippers can now when they’re healthy put together 48 minutes of a really highlevel pick and roll ball handler and a really high level screening partner. You guys all know what Zoo can do. He’s done it with Harden for the last couple years now and it’s looked beautiful. Brook Lopez is still one of the best pick and pop guys in the league. He scored 1.2 points per roll man touch last year. That’s amazing. That was top five in the NBA among players to log at least 200 role man touches. So the Clippers are going to have an extremely high floor this year. They can provide 48 minutes of quality advantage creation with a highowered pick and roll partner with offball talent, an elite ISO scorer in Kawhi Leonard. They’ve got great perimeter defenders. Man, that like I feel the same way about them this year as I did last year. I just I I would be stunned if they slipped into the plan just because they are so wellb built to succeed in the modern NBA. Even though three of their four advantage creators have health issues, they can easily afford to have one or two of those guys be out of the game without experiencing much of a drop off because they just have other guys that can slot in and do more or less the same thing. This Clippers team is going to be a lot of fun to watch this year. I’m very, very excited for it. And it’s like a it’s like a battle of LA for the second tier in the Western Conference. Obviously, I don’t think either of them are as good as Denver, OKC, or Houston, but like once you get off of that top tier, like there’s a version of this that this Clippers team is going to be really good. And then if the Lakers are healthy, they can be really good, too. It’s going to be a couple really, really good LA teams for us to cover this year.

Jason reacts to Chris Paul re-joining the Los Angeles Clippers to end his career after spending time with Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs—this time linking up with James Harden and Kawhi Leonard to make one more run at an NBA title.

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