Sam Amick

No, that's fair.

I don't know how to break it down other than it is a disaster.

Basketball-wise, they had high expectations for this year.

Now, in the interest of not being hypocritical, because we get things wrong all the time in the media, I will share with you that, man, Dave, when the Clippers came through my neck of the woods in the preseason,

And it was preseason, but you can get a feel for teams and they put a beating on the Kings.

You know, I looked at that roster and I was a believer.

I thought they were going to be good.

Um, and fast forward to, you know, obviously here in mid December and everything has come off the tracks.

Certainly part of it is health related.

Kawhi was out for quite some time, but we, even once they got Kawhi back, um, it has not worked.

Um, the Chris Paul, um,

you know, situation, controversy, drama that I think exposed a lot of warts that we knew existed within the Clippers culture, but it just reminded you that they still exist.

And what I'm referring to there is you can say what you want about Chris's leadership style, but the lack of leadership and the void in that department is

is I think the root issue of what led to, you know, what happened there.

And that, you know, you got a guy in Kauai who is, you know, obviously legendarily quiet and soft-spoken and certainly a like, I'm going to show you and not tell you type of leader, right?

That's not the end of the world, but you put him next to James Harden, who has been lauded for a lot of things, has had a historic career, but has never been known as a leading the troops type of guy.

The thing that strikes me about the Clippers and confuses me

It's just how they they just stubbornly stick to their plan, no matter the results.

And, you know, you mentioned the reporting from our Joe Varden at the Athletic that that there's a lot of people around the league indicating that the Clippers front office is on track to get extensions.

You know that again, just from a common sense standpoint, that runs a little counter to the like, even even if that ultimately happened.