Zach Lowe

John Collins quietly has settled into his role as the starting four on the team shooting 46% on quarter threes taken the more, more of them that he's ever had in his career.

and just starting to assert himself in the paint a little bit more on both ends of the floor.

Chris Dunn's been fine as a fifth starter, the bench, but tomb is, but tomb, but Brooke Lopez has kind of got back to form defensively.

And these two way kiddos, man, Jordan Miller and Colby Sanders are coming in and keeping the offensive float, manufacturing buckets, defending hard at the point of attack.

there's something here and there's always going to be something here as long as Kawhi is playing like this.

But I mean, look, I don't know.

They're not as bad as they were at six and 21.

They're not as killer as they are right now, but you net it out.

This should have been a high 40 win team.

They're trending toward 500.

They could get into the mid forties and be a pain in the ass.

Like this, this is pretty freaking real to me as long as Kawhi is healthy.

Well, Beal was kind of like a part of it, right?

That's one of the reasons we...

I don't, we, people thought it was an acceptable transaction as you were effectively swapping shooting guards and adding a kind of athletic big man who could play the four and the five.

He doesn't ever play the five really anymore that the team has ever had before.

Hold on, hold on.

What kind of notes?

You have a friend who is spending his time

sending you like statistical minutiae about the Clippers no but like if I say something or I tweet something or anything I'll get a comment from him of like no but what about this or these things or stuff like that and you know it's worse I do I will say I do have one friend of mine a dad in town who's a huge Nets fan huge enough that once a month or so shout out Matt