Clippers' Playoff Potential: Rising Stars in the West?

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00:00all of a sudden the Clippers are playing great basketball again and you're beating up on some

00:04bad teams I do understand that but they did beat the Rockets last night as you can see here 134 to

00:10117 when teams say this time of the year that this could be a dangerous team in the playoffs

00:16does Los Angeles Clippers come to mind with you Adam or is this a little bit of fool's gold

00:21well look on a very personal level I'm going to remove those Warriors from the conversation

00:27because they cost me a fair chunk of money last night with that fourth mortar meltdown

00:31against the Spurs as 17 and a half point favorites at home fighting for their playoff lives I hope

00:37again very personally that they don't make the playoffs because I'm just offended by last night's

00:41performance but as far as the Clippers go you're right six wins in a row eight of ten they've climbed

00:47up the Western Conference standings and what is a remarkably competitive West I mean the the going

00:53from basically the four seed because as we know the Lakers clinched the four seed on down to you

00:58know ten uh well not quite ten but four to eight right now as far as the playoff versus play in

01:04is uh incredibly incredibly competitive and teams are still jockeying for position here down the

01:11stretch of the regular season I don't see how and it took me a long while to buy in but I don't see how

01:17you can forget about the Clippers in this conversation when you are talking about favorites

01:23or or dangerous teams as you put it in the Western Conference like to me I would still rather not see

01:29obviously Oklahoma City I'd still rather not see Denver uh you know but I'd rather face Houston the

01:37two seed I'd rather face the Lakers the three seed then go against the Clippers you know I just

01:43because to your point Kawhi's not going to do it by himself but when he is going right and he is

01:47you know largely awesome when available this year I know he doesn't you know the whole load

01:52management thing he doesn't play quite as much as as he did you know some years ago but when he is

01:58out there and down the tail end of this regular season he has looked really good Harden has turned

02:03it up he's playing at a great level as well those two guys Zubats is is a machine when Powell is available

02:10I know that's been a little bit inconsistent of late but this is absolutely a deep and dangerous team

02:16and one that I would not be in a rush to face there in the Western Conference

02:19that's been a huge this year versus a long time that we are now making out what the

02:24other team is making out with the different nations and it's not a big guess image I think it's the

02:26typical one I come to see for this one and I look around that on campus again and it's full of

02:29vez that I see all of a sudden they will be looking for you in the future and I look back out

02:30and then I think that I'm going to review it for you in the future and then I will come to you in the future

02:31of the next generation because you've got an open space and this is the major