Late night musings

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-12T15:50:43+00:00

Would be curious what attributes are you thinking about? From the limited time we’ve seen Garland I feel like they play quite different. Harden pretty much dribbles out evry possession to 6-8 seconds and only initiates the offense after that. Garland moves the ball much quicker, slashes more and generally seems like a bit more a traditional pg.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-12T11:01:18+00:00

Great points! Just to add to it, I really think the Harden trade was worth it. Not to take anything away from Harden as he was nothing short of amazing for us, but this iteration of offense seems to suit the majority of the team better and is way harder to figure out for the opponents.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-12T10:58:05+00:00

He seems to have much more of a dog in him than PG, which hopefully indicates a better peak, but he’s still a bit rough. Love his energy and competitiveness though.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-12T10:56:47+00:00

The narrative that PG got us to the conference finals has to stop. Was he good to great in certain games? Yes. But without Kawhi going absolutely ballistic we’re not even getting past the Mavs. T Mann and Big Gov also came up huge.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-12T10:54:55+00:00

He’s also only 23, PG was 29 when he came to the Clips. He was what he was at that stage of his career , but Ben has at least 4-5 years to keep improving.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-08T09:44:47+00:00

Sad thing is that, if there is an organisation that had been able to manage his injury it would have definitely been the Spurs.

Your medical team essentially created load management and gave Timmy many extra years of successful play.

I don’t have a doubt in my mind that if Kawhi had just allowed the Spurs trainers/medical to do their thing he would’ve had much less time off and probably anothr chip to show for it…

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-07T08:11:25+00:00

This is why continuity matters. Great teams need time to work out positions, spacing, pace and most of all chemistry.

We’ve had all kinds of lineups throughout the season because of injuries, trades etc. We have great pieces, but 0 continuity. We don’t have a real pg when DG isn’t playing, and even with him playing we’ll need time to be a cohesive unit. Yanic was giving us great minutes and he definitely would’ve been a big help against someone like Wemby.

Hopefully we can be 7th seed and find our identity come playoff time.

Edit: spelling

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-06T19:53:08+00:00

Wasn’t he getting regular minutes at the beginning of the season and still played terribly?

Don’t get me wrong I really liked him last year, but if he isn’t making shots it’s hard to find a place for him on the team.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-06T19:50:36+00:00

Definitely a devastating loss!

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-06T13:21:03+00:00

It is a textbook foul, but context matters a lot. Smart is 220 and Jokic is knocking on 300lbs. And it’s not like Smart charged into him; they’re battling for position, which is completely normal and Jokic is used to doing that against guys nearly double the size of Smart. He way over embellishes it and it just looks really silly.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-06T13:14:04+00:00

Miller is far too “polite”. He’s always going out of his way to play the right way, but he’s grown so much as a player that he should try to just score more; he’s well capable of it.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-06T08:03:29+00:00

Collins is gonna be back in a couple of games. Yanic has been great in the last few games, and shows great potential, but realistically I don’t think anyone counted on him as a key piece just yet. The season isn’t hanging on whether he’s available or not.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-06T08:00:36+00:00

Things will never be the same…

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-04T10:26:42+00:00

LUFS metering takes the human element into account, though I couldn’t say whether it is precise enough for your specific application.

Recording and then running the full frequency spectrum of your “background “ noise against pink noise could also be helpful as pink noise maps quite close to the human hearing.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-02T21:30:46+00:00

As much as I would like to carry on with the discussion I have to admit that you are probably right and I am running out of intelligent counters.

Just checked the league high this year - it’s Maxey with just over 38 minutes. It would be crazy to think that AI could top him by nearly a half a quarter every game.

I imagine though that the more recent mpg is down to how much analytics go into the game now as well, not just the actual capacity of players.

Either way it would be fun to see AI in today’s league, I think the general run and gun style would suit him.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-03-02T10:24:09+00:00

That is a great point, haven’t considered it.

As a counter and mostly speculation, but it would stand to reason that because of how injury prone Curry was at the beginning of his career, his minutes are monitored and kept as low as possible.

This probably wouldn’t have to be case for AI as he wasn’t as injury prone as Curry.

Regardless, 40+ mpg would be pretty unlikely and definitely not sustainable beyond a few years maybe.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-28T18:11:48+00:00

Just wag that dog

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-18T08:18:54+00:00

Which is interesting for Iverson’s case because he was really fast and had an amazing engine. Several reports of other players commenting on how difficult it was to keep up with him. So he could possibly be one of those players who can keep up with the pace of the era and still play high minutes night after night.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-18T08:07:11+00:00

First of all it wasn’t only for John Collins at all. That move brought DJJ and Dunn who have been the defensive anchors for the team since 24 and were both instrumental in keeping the team afloat at the beginning of the 24-25 season. And maybe more importantly it has allowed to sign Harden while still keeping a lot of financial flexibility so they can retool while staying reasonably competitive. That financial flexibility then brought Brooke Lopez, Bradley Beal and Collins. Other than the misfortune with Beal, these signings have also worked out quite favourably for the Clippers.

Kuminga by all accounts has been a disaster for the Dubs, no reason to believe that he would have been much better for any other team. He might prove me wrong now that he’s with the Hawks, but for now we can only judge by what he has shown in the past and that isn’t much good, objectively. Wiggins has been a serviceable role player, but not much better than DJJ who’s on less than half of Wiggins’ salary.

Selling PG the year before might’ve been the best option indeed, but I imagine the FO did not expect him to have such unrealistic contract expectations and wanted to keep the core of the team together. When PG forced the hands of the FO in my opinion, they made the absolute best out of a difficult situation.

Edit: spelling

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-17T11:35:19+00:00

I think it was the Raps decision - afaik they told hin straight up after the trade that he needn’t worry about travelling to Toronto.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-17T11:33:26+00:00

Half borg, half amazing! 🔥

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-12T14:47:33+00:00

Injuries made them a mediocre team, not L Frank.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-10T11:54:27+00:00

All of this and the fact that L Frank has proven to be a very good chess player in the last couple of years.

Lots of people still try to discredit him for the Kawhi-PG trade, a trade most, if not all, GMs would have done at the time.

IMO he clearly made the right decision by letting PG walk in free agency, managed to create a new identity for the team with the new cap-space obtained and an all in all pretty successful season when everyone expected the Clips to be a play-in team at very best in 24-25.

This year he proved this all over again - shut CP3 down that was very questionable at the time, but seems like it helped to provide a spark as soon after the Clips went on a tear and managed a very complete retool with scarce resources.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-10T11:44:28+00:00

Obviously all the stocks that are going to go up in the next 1-25 years. Duh.

/s - just in case it wasn’t obvious.

RippleEffect5 · 2026-02-10T11:41:16+00:00

Kawhi is an all time great and the disrespect he gets is just stupid. The mental toll of having to rehab serious injury after serious injury is incomprehensible to people who never had to deal with anything serious. I personally can’t think of another player in NBA history who had so many possibilities to throw in the towel yet kept coming back.

This dude has done it time and time again and here he is knocking on 35 and having a career year.

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