What's it like to blow a 3 to 1 lead?

[Shogon]

https://twitter.com/ComplexSports/status/1306075176778575872

[Shogon]

Also, let's revisit the Pandemic P trade...

https://i.postimg.cc/GhkBdRkW/39-BCF147-4569-481-A-8-A91-9926183-B31-E2.jpg

[Doranku]

That trade is just... :roll:

5 first round picks. What in the world.

[Shogon]

That trade is just... :roll:

5 first round picks. What in the world.

If the Clippers don't get it done in the next couple of seasons, it could potentially go down as a 1-2 decades franchise crippling trade. Sorta like when KG & Pierce went to the Nets. Maybe the Nets have finally gotten free of it 7 or 8 years later, but this trade seems even worse tbh.

[Doranku]

If the Clippers don't get it done in the next couple of seasons, it could potentially go down as a 1-2 decades franchise crippling trade. Sorta like when KG & Pierce went to the Nets. Maybe the Nets have finally gotten free of it 7 or 8 years later, but this trade seems even worse tbh.

I mean, if they don't get it done next year... either Playoff P or Kawhi (or both) aren't coming back. It's pretty much title or bust next year.

[Shooter]

https://twitter.com/ComplexSports/status/1306075176778575872

THIS IS AMAZING

:lol :lol :lol

[FireDavidKahn]

https://i.imgur.com/cTg40V4_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[GimmeThat]

can't really say the Clippers lost when it appears all it takes for them is to hire the Thunders GM and find themselves someone with the caliber of the Clippers GM to be in deep contention mode, instead of salary saving mode

:insert Dan Gilbert meme"

[ThatCoolKid]

If the Clippers don't get it done in the next couple of seasons, it could potentially go down as a 1-2 decades franchise crippling trade. Sorta like when KG & Pierce went to the Nets. Maybe the Nets have finally gotten free of it 7 or 8 years later, but this trade seems even worse tbh.

How the **** is this trade worse? They got two top 10 players in their prime. They became championship favorites overnight. This board was sucking their nuts after beating the Lakers opening night. They'll get to run it back next season. Brooklyn got washed up junk and were just a laughingstock.

We give teams like the Bucks so much shit for not taking the risks you need to take to win a championship and treadmilling year after year. The Clippers pulled off a huge acquisition and put all their chips on the table. I respect the fk out of that. Everyone who's shitting on them right now are weak af.

[Shooter]

https://i.postimg.cc/dtxM7bCC/jokinc-pimp.png

:lol

[SouBeachTalents]

How the **** is this trade worse? They got two top 10 players in their prime. They became championship favorites overnight. This board was sucking their nuts after beating the Lakers opening night. They'll get to run it back next season. Brooklyn got washed up junk and were just a laughingstock.

We give teams like the Bucks so much shit for not taking the risks you need to take to win a championship and treadmilling year after year. The Clippers pulled off a huge acquisition and put all their chips on the table. I respect the fk out of that. Everyone who's shitting on them right now are weak af.
You can clown the team for their epic choke, but I'm with you, I definitely ain't faulting their management for pulling the trigger on these moves. I even look at Brooklyn, who made even riskier moves signing a 31 year old KD coming off a significant injury and the talented but crazy Kyrie, and I commend them for taking the chance at building a title contender. I agree with you, the worst teams are the ones that clearly are not going to make noise with their current personnel and do nothing

[Shogon]

How the **** is this trade worse? They got two top 10 players in their prime. They became championship favorites overnight. This board was sucking their nuts after beating the Lakers opening night. They'll get to run it back next season. Brooklyn got washed up junk and were just a laughingstock.

We give teams like the Bucks so much shit for not taking the risks you need to take to win a championship and treadmilling year after year. The Clippers pulled off a huge acquisition and put all their chips on the table. I respect the fk out of that. Everyone who's shitting on them right now are weak af.

How would it be worse? Because if they don't get the title out of this, it was all for naught. Because there would be no other reason to sacrifice your future for a minimum of a ****ing decade only to not even reach the ****ing conference finals.

Did you even look at the pick package coming out of LAC at all? lol. It starts in 2022.

Let's fast forward to the future where the Clippers hypothetically melt down again during the 2021 playoffs. Now, PG and or Kawhi walk... it's beyond improbable that any significant star players would sign with the Clippers, especially THAT summer... and then what? They suck the following season only to have to immediately cough up their likely high lottery pick in 2022. And then in 2023, because they've sucked again and OKC might still be on the up swing, OKC swaps picks, and thus they lose their pick again. And then they suck some more and have to cough their pick up again in 2024. And then because they've continued to suck and OKC has continued to get better, they swap picks again, and they cough up their first round pick AGAIN in 2025.

Oh, and before you know it? They keep sucking... and they have to cough up their first round pick... AGAIN... in 2026.

THAT IS FIVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF PROBABLE HIGH LOTTERY PICKS LOST AND LIKELY NO STAR FREE AGENTS ATTRACTED... AND IF THEY DO GET SOMEONE IT'LL BE A TOBIAS HARRIS LEVEL PLAYER.

So yeah, if they don't get it done in 2021, particularly if they have some sort of meltdown again, that franchise is going to be crippled for a minimum of 10 years.

To further recap, the Nets only sent away like four first round picks and or swaps and no players of future value. The Clippers sent away 2 good players AND FIVE POTENTIAL LOTTERY PICKS, not to mention Miami's picks.

That's how, you belligerent dumbass.

Now, this could all go away if they get it done in 2021 and go all the way, both guys re-up, and they're able to keep winning. But that's the only scenario in which this trade works long term and even then I'm not so sure because Montrez and Lou Williams will be looking to get paid sooner than later not to mention the fact that Kawhi has a degenerative quad condition and he's not going to have some LeBron type longevity.

So... yes, the Clippers should have gotten it done this year, they had the talent to do it. And I understand why they did it, I probably would have done the same thing. But it just wasn't in the cards. And that trade quite possibly could go down as the worst trade in NBA history in retrospect.