Matt Barnes on CP3's and DJ's Relationship

Great interview! Thanks for posting. He is way more down to earth than I would have thought

great teammate, will miss you Matt.

The Clippers will miss Matt Barne's toughness, and just being a good teammate. He was unfortunately a casualty of Hawe's bad contract. I would not be surprised to see him back with a team in California next season, maybe even with the Clippers.

Think that's wishful thinking but I'm right there with you David

I will miss Matt but definitely won't miss Hawes.

Matt is cool. It would be great if he was still on the team coming off the bench.

Grizzlies are even uglier with him on the team, it's probably a really good fit.

Great interview with Matt. He tells it like it is which is so refreshing. I wish he were still on our team coming off the bench. Even though he seems like a great fit with the Grizzlies, I hope he finds his way back to the Clippers after his season in Memphis. I will always consider Matt part of the Clippers family so it'll be great to see him in a Clippers uniform again. His twins would probably enjoy being back in the locker room daycare too, lol.

Freaking Hawes, not only did he took down the clippers last season he also took Matt Barnes out the way with him

Classy. Refreshing to hear the real deal on DeAndre and the Clippers. Matt Barnes was the Clipper's bad boy who fought to win. I will miss him and wish him the best.

Go Clips

The Nevada Fans

We should have traded Crawford instead of Barnes.

Man, I miss Matt already.

He would be perfect coming off the bench this season.

Hopefully he'll be back to our team next year, his toughness and tenacity are needed.

Finding a taker is the problem, not the williness to trade him I believe.

Yea I didn't mind him on the east. Sucks he got shipped back to the west

Let's not kid ourselves. He was sent out of town for all the vulgarities, culminating with what he said to James Harden's mother. If you're the owner of a 2 billion dollar business, do you really want one of your high profile assets talking like that, representing the team like that? I'd bet the day after that incident, Ballmer gave Doc marching orders to get rid of him in the offseason. He wasn't a valuable enough player to overlook that.

Clippers to play the Flakers on Xmas Day.

Wish it was the Mavs or at least an interesting game. At least make it semi-competitive .

Yeah I'm sure lance and josh will be a lot better

I thought Barnes' comments on management promises, etc was interesting.

I hope the management learned this off-season in terms of what they are telling players. We had Farmar who was delusional about the role he was supposed to have, though it did seem like he was promised a larger role than was actually possible with the roster make-up.

Hopefully they are being more up-front and realistic about players expected roles and not giving guys false ideas to sign without it being possible for fulfill what they promise.

Great interview!

I miss him already

Doc has done that with a lot with players. Dudley, Granger, Farmar, and Hawes. Even DJ wasn't happy about his role. That's why I said that even though this team looks as good as ever on paper, he has the biggest risk at losing this team. Smith is looking to get paid. Lance is also. Basically, anyone on a minimum contract with a player option is looking to come up so if Doc promised more than he is capable of delivering, this could blow up in his face.

What exactly did he promised Hawes? Hawes received more playing time that he actually earned.

It's pretty obvious that Hawes came here over the Blazers cause Doc wanted him to be the first big off the bench as a stretch 4. he hardly played him in the second half of the season. Only reason he played, was due to BG getting injured and the team did well with him as starter. As soon as Bg came back, no time for him. he had him on a very short leash. Doc was getting his ass handed to him when he played Big baby over Hawes against the Rockets. Hawes actually played very well when Doc had no choice but to play him.

Anyway, Doc has a long list of players that left unhappy. Some even left for the same amount of money on a less competitive team (Granger).

Yea, I really hope everyone is on the same page this time. This is what I was trying to convey to some people about how it doesn't make sense to keep Jamal on the team with the expectation of him getting a big role if you also plan to make all your other bench guys happy and productive. There are only so many minutes, so someone will not get as many as they like and you have to be sure everyone is going to at least be content.

I wonder what role was promised to Johnson. Right now at SG and SF you have Redick / Stephenson / Crawford / Pierce / Johnson and even Smith can play SF. You don't have minutes at PG or PF to supplement those guys minutes because those positions also have players needing minutes. If you split it evenly between the first 4 guys, everyone would play approx. 24.5 mpg and Johnson would never play "real" minutes. If you gave Johnson 12 mpg, all those 4 guys are down to 21.5 mpg if split evenly. You probably won't be doing that of course.

Next, you obviously can't and shouldn't be counting on injuries to open up minutes because you still have to deal with when everyone is healthy. I really hope Doc has a real plan.

I can understand when fans aren't thinking properly and say things like get Ty Lawson to be a backup PG because obviously a 34+ mpg guy is going to be happy cutting his minutes drastically and being a bench player, but GM's and coaches tend to actually take into account the reality of player roles when they are signing them. At least we'd hope.

Matt is a class act. I plan on going when Memphis is in town and cheering his return.