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The Clippers need to bring in young stars! When Harden comes off the court, there is no one who can attack independently.

1:11am, 1 November 2025【Basketball】

Last season, I played as the Warriors. This season, the players on both sides have not changed much. I also supplemented the center and the 4th position. If you say it is a player problem, I don’t believe it. Is this to reduce Harden's burden so he directly lets Paul take charge? If Paul comes up and dribbles the ball, then I might as well let Bogdan come up.

This kind of born coach regards the Clippers as his treasure. The Clippers are an elderly team. The logic of winning is to reduce the number of rounds and grind out positional battles. The indispensable advantages of positional battles are height and confrontation. The Clippers' current lineup does not conform to the winning logic. As the Warriors are the originators of the three-guard game, Cole has given up on the three-guard style as he gets older.

And the Bass still let Leonard play the fourth position. The three-guard style requires quick shooting and the Clippers can't do it. In the first game against the Jazz, the starting three highs collapsed. Today's game against the Warriors, the starting four forwards. If Harden hadn't withstood it in the first half, it would still have collapsed. The reason why they won against the Suns and Trail Blazers is that these two teams are obsessed with five small players and Harden's explosion.

So there is nothing to analyze. When the Clippers start with a big lineup and allow Leonard to play three with peace of mind, the Clippers are on the right track. One win before getting back on track is equivalent to using one main player in one off-season and replacing it with a substitute. Powell is definitely the main player, and Collins' substitute is not among the top two. It feels like he is ranked eighth or ninth. I don't know why the team would change Collins if he was just a substitute. What is the Clippers' current strategy?

I haven’t seen any tactical design. The visual observation is that the wings squat in the bottom corner, the ball carrier looks for opportunities to play in isolation, and if he can’t hit the outside line, he washes the ball and plays it again. If there is no chance, he throws away, and then the center goes in to pick up the second offense, or hangs the center to attack twice. Every round, every lineup combination is like this. In the second quarter, Harden felt good in the transition period when the substitutes and starters came together. He scored more than ten points to catch up. In the second half, no one could play alone, and then the whole team scored a total of 20 points. Can't play tactics?

Or is it that the coaching staff has no tactics? What the Clippers urgently need most is a ball-handling attacker on the bench. Paul can be said to have failed the inspection and has no offensive ability. And Bill's injuries have been recurring. It is estimated that he can play 55 games in a season, which is good, and his resume is also worrying. The biggest problem exposed today is that Harden has no one on the court who can attack independently.

To put it bluntly, it would be nice to have Hyland on the Clippers now. The signing of Bogdan is actually very important to the Clippers, but it has been seen as a failure in two seasons. First, last season, after Mann was obviously not suitable for the lineup, the Clippers finally sent out their own at the buzzer in exchange for Bogdan and three second rounds (I forgot whether this was a trade or other transactions). After the Clippers lost Porter and Mann, the Clippers welcomed two point guards in Bogdan and Simmons.

First of all, the Clippers signed these two players in the hope of sharing Harden's responsibilities and reducing his burden in the second half of the season until the playoffs. The first is to hold the ball, which reduces the pressure on Harden to hold the ball and reduces playing time. The second is three-pointers. This is mainly Bogdan, because Simmons is gone and I won’t talk about him.

First of all, Bogdan's previous three-point resume is very good, a high-quality three-point shooter, and he also has some ball control. The Clippers traded him because the Clippers have been too poor in three-pointers in the past three seasons. They want to increase their shooting points, because they already have Zubac who can't shoot, Jones Jr., and Dunn are not good at shooting. The Clippers need another containment point besides Powell, and the second team can be organized.

I expected that if Bogdan played to his original level, the Clippers would be very strong. However, after playing so many games from last season to now, Bogdan has not only not been at the level he was at that time, but has also declined even more seriously. In fact, Paul should be the third point guard choice this year. Bogdan is the backup point guard, and Kofi, who has some shooting, is gone. In fact, Bogdan's original task is to lead the second team to bite the score.

As a result, since the start of the season, Bogdan has made 0 of 14 shots. If last season is included, the overall shooting rate should not exceed 30%, and he has no organization and no defense. It can be said that he has become a scrap in the Clippers, but he should be like Russell. Some people who don't watch Clippers football, or who criticize the Clippers, feel that Bogdan's role has been exaggerated, but his true significance to the Clippers (his previous level of performance) is no worse than Powell's.

He was even just traded, and I felt that if he performed at his previous level, Powell could have been traded at that time, but now it seems that he is useless in the Clippers. If there is another opportunity, if the tree is moved to death and the people are moved to life, it may have a second life. With Bogdan's current level, he will definitely be the target of the Clippers' mid-term deal. I think there is little hope for him to recover, unless he gets better or changes his coach? Hope