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00:00Let's finish that thought on Harden.
00:01Like, obviously, as he goes and Kawhi, they go.
00:06And listen, I think Zubats has played the best ball of his career, without a doubt.
00:12I mean, fundamentally, he's taken his game to a whole other level.
00:14Like, he kind of used to be a doughboy, but I think now he's kind of turned into a man and a badass.
00:22He's, like, figured it out, and he's become a real problem.
00:26I like to call great players that I play with problems.
00:30When I play with dudes that I don't know, and I'm playing pickup, I'll go, listen, bro, this guy's a problem.
00:36You have to guard his ass, or he's going to work you.
00:40He's a problem.
00:40I think Zubats has become a problem, but I think as those three go, they go.
00:47Yeah, 100%.
00:48I mean, Zubats this year, I saw a stat the other day.
00:51I think he had the most hook shots in a season since, like, Shaq in 2000.
00:56He's really developed a low post game, and I talked to him the other day about this, and it's like, it's something that I've had in my game.
01:02I've just never had to show it because we've had guys like Paul and James and Russ and Kawhi, so I've never had to go out there and be that guy.
01:08But this year, they've really called upon him to go be that guy.
01:11And, yeah, to your point, like, Kawhi, James, you know, James, Norm, and Zu did a great job of carrying this team until Kawhi was ready to come back in January.
01:20And even then, Kawhi needed some time to get back to himself, find his footing a little bit, still sitting out some back-to-backs here and there.
01:27But once he got back to himself, I think it was a new kind of game where you have to find out, how do we have Kawhi and James and Zu and Norm clicking?
01:37And then, also, we just traded for Bogdanovich.
01:39We just signed Ben Simmons off the buyout market.
01:41Like, how do we get all these guys to fit together?
01:44We're like, it's not everyone needs to get their numbers, but how do we bring this into winning basketball?
01:47So, again, I think the offseason additions they made with Nico Batum, Derek Jones Jr., and Chris Dunn, three very good complementary guys, role players who know their roles, don't really care about numbers.
01:58I think all that contributed heavily as well.
02:00So, I think they have a complete team.
02:03And I think this is probably the most complete team these Clippers have had around Kawhi over the last probably five or six years here, where they have the depth, they have the star power, they have the big man, they have the shooters, they have everything top to bottom.
02:14So, just got to stay healthy.
02:16So, look, you know, fair enough on Simmons.
02:20I'm just going to say this.
02:21Like, we've already been down the road with this cat here.
02:24I don't deny back in the day, north-south, he was the dominant big that, you know, could handle the rock and finish and dish and do his thing.
02:34But when he, you know, he's been, he's got a bad rap here.
02:39He got a bad rap here.
02:40He never did anything ever, you know.
02:43And so, I think people soured on him.
02:45I hope he finds some kind of happiness out there because he didn't have any here in Brooklyn.
02:50I can tell you that much.
02:52All of his rhetoric about liking being in Brooklyn, he was tripping because he never did anything here.
02:56But I'll say this.
02:57I agree with you about everything else.
02:59Jones, Dunn.
03:00I agree about everything.
03:03I don't trust that dude as far as I can spit.