WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:06.519 Time for a postgame Look, it's your La Clippers. This is Clippers Locker 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.960 Road, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of the 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:14.960 LA Clippers, and by Patchonga, official travel casino of the LA Clippers. 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.480 Breaking down today's action with the pre and post game voice. If you're La 5 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:26.000 Clippers, They're locking in every game, every night. Adam Osland. The 6 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:31.600 Clippers, as Carlo Jmenez put it, have exercised some demons. They take 7 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:36.560 down the Denver Nuggets for the first time since January of twenty twenty two, 8 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:41.719 and about a week after their most disappointing loss of the season, they just 9 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:46.520 had their best victory. Same team, but this time fully loaded with Nikola 10 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:51.320 Jokich, with Aaron Gordon, with Jamal Murray and the Clippers win one eleven 11 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.560 to one oh two. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, welcome in your 12 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:59.359 postgame show. I'm gonna Oslin coming up second half highlights, but first let's 13 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:03.200 get back to your d voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. What a 14 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.519 victory, Carlow and it took everybody loved the rotations from coach lou Some people 15 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.159 were questioning why are you taking Russ out? He just gave him that jolt 16 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.719 of energy. Well, James Harden comes in, has that big step back, 17 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:19.319 three, a floater, some assist. It was just the perfect blueprint 18 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.319 in almost a playoff type setting here because Denver had a few days off as 19 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.560 well as the Clippers. They were both ready for this one in primed. 20 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:30.560 But the Clippers defensively were just too good in the fourth. And it all 21 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.599 starts with a defense on Nikola Jokicic career high twenty three misses. And you 22 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.439 heard Daniel Tys postgame Adham, he said, all we tried to do is 23 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.560 give him nothing easy. And outside of those few threes in which they didn't 24 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:42.760 put a hand up, really nothing was easy for Joker tonight. The rim 25 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.599 wasn't kind to him. He's not gonna miss twenty three shots the next time 26 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.000 you play him, but the Clippers made it hard and he still comes away 27 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.439 with a double double or a triple double, I should say, because why 28 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:57.040 not. But the Clippers did a great job keeping him in neutral and forcing 29 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.439 other people to beat them. Hey, he's not gonna miss twenty three shots 30 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.840 next time, but the Clippers may not be down fifteen in the first quarter 31 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.959 as well, and Kawhi Leonard eight of sixteen still ends up being efficient, 32 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.159 has six of his seventeen points in the fourth quarter. But there's more there 33 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.319 from him. I thought, Paul George, we were talking about it off 34 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:20.879 air. That huge three pointery hit was zero airspace in the third quarter at 35 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.800 the end of the shot clock. That was one of those Oh he's got 36 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:28.479 it tonight. He knocked down two more early in the fourth quarter. He 37 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.960 had some key buckets for this Clippers team. Yeah, five threes tonight, 38 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:35.560 second most he's made in a game this season. He was excellent down the 39 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.360 stretch. And we've talked about it. When George is out there with that 40 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.240 second unit, he's got a score. That's what he needs to do to 41 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:44.280 keep that second unit flow. And that's what he did. And you saw 42 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:46.960 in that second quarter at him, the Clippers were able to make a huge 43 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.439 run. They turned a fifteen point deficit into a nineteen point lead in the 44 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.159 span of eight minutes because PG was aggressive and the Clippers were getting out in 45 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:59.759 transition. They were excellent running the break fast break points with the Clippers twenty 46 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.879 the better note though, eight for ten from the field in fast break. 47 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.520 You love to see that Russell Westbrook got in transition. He had that big 48 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:12.120 put back layup to start off the fourth quarter and from then on the block 49 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:15.599 on Christian Brown and then it was yeah, Reggie Jackson trying to find him 50 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:20.639 for a lob. Norm gotten easy layup in transition off of that defense to 51 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:23.719 offense, and it started with Russell Westbrook his energy. After kind of a 52 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:28.439 lackluster into the third quarter where the Clippers really didn't take advantage with the Big 53 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:30.479 four being out for the Denver Nuggets, he started the fourth quarter strong. 54 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.360 Russell Westbrook. He was so good. I mean his ability to get that 55 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.680 offensive rebound, that put back, get the block run in transition. There 56 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:39.400 was one play where Zubots was late to get back. He's running in transition 57 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:43.680 and the Clippers didn't have numbers, but Russ is so strong to the rim. 58 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:46.520 He just took it right at Christian Brown finishes with the right hand and 59 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:50.159 rocked the baby and said I'm too good to guard one on one down the 60 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.319 lane with a full head of steam. Russ was incredible. It's just impressive 61 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:58.759 to me because this is a guy who came in here, signed that deal 62 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:00.039 worth less money. To stay with the Clippers, want to be of this 63 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:02.360 organization. Says he wants to take a step back, to come on the 64 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:05.879 bench sacrificing again. And he stepped into a role where he has thrived, 65 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.159 where he has made almost all the rank plays on the offensive and defensive end, 66 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.639 and to be honest, where he continues to jolt this offense. They 67 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:17.879 were slow starting in that second quarter. Russ came in and things really picked 68 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:23.439 up in the second Yeah, Russell Westbrook fantastic and James Harden with the starters 69 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.839 down the stretch and there were some murmurs, Hey, I don't know, 70 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.759 maybe you should stick with Russ here. The line change was perfect as James 71 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:36.040 Harden took Jamal Murray off the dribble for a step back three pointer in the 72 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.680 fourth quarter. Was running the offense. James Harden finished with twenty points, 73 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.519 six of ten, shooting two of three from the outside, eleven assists to 74 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.000 four turnovers, and also kept him in it in the first half when the 75 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:53.360 Clippers didn't look right. That new second quarter unit with him running the show 76 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.839 next to PG that may be something the Clippers tap into moving forward. That 77 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.680 could be part of the turning point of this season good. He was so 78 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.160 good controlling the offense. We just when James Harden made that comment earlier this 79 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:09.600 year that I'm a system kind of comment, a lot of people shook their 80 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:13.319 heads. But Adam, when you watch his ability to create for other people, 81 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:17.160 to create an offensive flow in a movement where so many people are involved, 82 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:19.879 he wasn't talking about he needs the ball, he needs to shoot. 83 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:24.199 He's talking about he creates for everyone else. And that's what he did tonight. 84 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:26.800 I mean, we might have to check the floor here in downtown LA 85 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.120 for some dimes because James was dropping him all night long. I thought the 86 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:35.600 key late we talked about it was Kawhi Leonard on Jamal Murray when they were 87 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:40.279 trying to run pick and roll every time down with he and Nikola Jokicic. 88 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:44.240 It's one of the most devastating pick and rolls in the history of the NBA, 89 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.519 that's not hyperbole. And Kawhi getting his hand in those passing lands and 90 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.839 his hand is like two for anyone else. It was disruptive, it was 91 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.279 key. And you can talk about him only having seventeen points, but what 92 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:00.720 he did defensively late and some key buckets, that was the difference to meet 93 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:02.560 down the stretch of this ballgame, and you see why this team is so 94 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.720 dangerous in a playoff like atmosphere. You mentioned that felt like a playoff game 95 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:10.720 tonight. Playoffs are all about matchups. Where do we have the advantage. 96 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.000 We're gonna keep using that until the other team can figure out an answer. 97 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.639 And with the Clippers right now, they have so many offensive pieces that's just 98 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.959 a headache on the defensive end. And then when they play their brand of 99 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.199 basketball on that defensive end. You look at this Denver team. They scored 100 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:28.360 thirty six points in the first quarter at them, they had sixty six the 101 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:30.680 rest of the way, didn't score above twenty five after that first quarter. 102 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.120 This is gonna be a tough team to stop no matter the situation, but 103 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:41.240 especially in playoff like environments. In the playoffs, hopefully they are so hard 104 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.639 to guard into game plan four. This is the blueprint. We've been talking 105 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:46.839 about it over the last week, but they have been trading wins to then 106 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.360 losses. Now they've won two in a row in games where they were down 107 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:56.720 twenty two and down fifteen tonight against the defending champs, who were fully loaded 108 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.800 in the Denver Nuggets, and the Clippers come away with the victory one eleven 109 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.079 to one oh two. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena. They will be 110 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:10.439 up in Utah or you know, East in Utah coming up on Friday night. 111 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:14.399 Tip off for that one is at seven. Clippers countdown starting at six. 112 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.160 Great call as always, Carlo Jimenez will do it again on Friday. 113 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.639 Oh yeah, we will see you Friday. Concerned, let's go, Let's 114 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:26.720 go. Oh more second half highlights from Carlo Jimenez coming up. The Clippers 115 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:32.279 close and they take down the defending champs. Finally. They had lost eleven 116 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.600 of the last twelve to this ball club, eight in a row, and 117 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:40.639 they end up winning by nine. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, I'm 118 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.920 out a Moslin More postgame locker room coming up next right here on the Los 119 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:47.680 Angeles Clippers Audio Network. They want to bring a banner with them to the 120 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:59.079 into a doll More LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers 121 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:05.319 win on eleven, so one to two. Clibernation. Finally, they have 122 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:11.519 taken down the Denver Nuggets for the first time since January eleven of twenty twenty 123 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.600 two. And this wasn't against the Nuggets backups in that game. The Clippers 124 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.879 lost last Monday. They had Jokic, they had Jamal Murray, they had 125 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.800 Aaron Gordon, they had Michael Porter Junior. But the Clippers came back down 126 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:31.560 fifteen in the first quarter and at the half somehow had a lead of sixty 127 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.960 one to fifty seven. But the third quarter was not kind to them, 128 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.120 and those last couple of minutes where Denver had their backups in they were a 129 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.440 plus four in the last two and a half minutes of the third quarter, 130 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.399 and heading into the fourth, Denver had an eighty two to seventy nine lead. 131 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.600 But there was a shot in the third quarter by Paul George, a 132 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.320 bailout shot at the end of the shot clock over KCP where he had absolutely 133 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:03.080 zero airspace on a three pointer, and we all thought to ourselves, Oh, 134 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.000 Paul George has got to going tonight. I think he's ready for this. 135 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.000 I think you need to help take the Clippers home. And that's what 136 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.080 he did. Early in the fourth quarter, straight away triple George to boom 137 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.360 beg from downtown eighty seven eighty five. Clippers lead by two, nine and 138 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.559 a half to go in the fourth, George ran the logo nine minutes to 139 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.960 go, pulls up for another three and come next pig back to back Dyland 140 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.679 from long distance. Clippers up three ninety eighty seven, eight fifty to go. 141 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:37.480 On the fourth, George went twenty Paul George big in the fourth quarter, 142 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:43.159 ended up with eight of the Clippers twenty five make it thirty two points 143 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.720 in the fourth. But then Kawhi Leonard re entered the ball game. Wasn't 144 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:52.799 having a great shooting night and wasn't taken a lot of shots, and somehow 145 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.120 still found a rhythm and they found the mismatch with him on. Jamal Murray 146 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.519 leading two, looking for as we approached four minutes of play, Leonard on 147 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:07.200 the base side right in in blimber comes up and in Kawhiant win thirteen and 148 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.799 the Clippers up four. As they double the lead ninety seven ninety three, 149 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:13.720 Murray heels at the A in Los Angeles, down to right alley, gets 150 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:18.200 by, Leonard throws it away, parting in a foot race with Gordon Hip 151 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:24.440 beats him there running with Leonard under a jam time out Michael Malone. Kawhi 152 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.960 had six points in the fourth. Joe and James Harden was seven of his 153 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.279 twenty in the fourth quarter, including a huge step back three pointer over Jamal 154 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.159 Murray. But I'm gonna credit Kawhi Leonard and his defense in the pick and 155 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:43.399 roll he Anna beats the Zoo Bots where Elite and the Clippers were connected down 156 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.399 the stretch against one of the ultimate death lineups and one of the best pick 157 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.600 and rolls we've ever seen, Whichjamal Murray and Nikola Jokic Zoo had a huge 158 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:56.200 block on him. Kawhi goes getting his hands in on the passing lanes. 159 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:01.759 Nothing was easy for Denver in the fourth quarter, where the Clippers outscored them 160 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:05.000 by twelve. They go on to win one eleven to one oh two. 161 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:11.360 Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, coming up your final box score will preview 162 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:16.840 Friday night's game in Utah. Clippers win by nine over the Nuggets. Oh 163 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.320 yeah, we'll also have Clippers talk on a five seventy LA Sports eight sixty 164 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.320 six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five 165 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.879 seventy As everyone wonders what time we'll get done tonight, I don't know. 166 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.639 All I know is this big brother Jay never a doubt from him tonight on 167 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:43.039 this one said pregame Clippers were gonna win first time their last nine tries against 168 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.320 the Denver Nuggets, and they do it in style. What a victory. 169 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.960 Clipper Nation looking forward to hearing from the phone calls tonight. You can also 170 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.320 get to me at follow out of Me on X. You're listening to your 171 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.399 Clippers postgame locker room show right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. 172 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.200 Every Clipper game all season, law, they didn't stop playing hard. You're 173 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:11.840 listening to the LA Clippers Audio Network streaming on the iHeartRadio. Wap Flow will 174 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:22.399 break you down. Zachocalady bringing the funk tonight as the Clippers come through against 175 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:28.399 their nemesis. They finally take down the Denver Nuggets, who were fully loaded. 176 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:31.360 They win one eleven to one to two. Here at Crypto dot Com 177 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.440 Arena, I'm out of Oslin. This is your postgame show. Clippers ended 178 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:41.559 up shooting forty six percent from the field, and after starting one of nine 179 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:48.240 from the floor or excuse me, from the outside, they would end up 180 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:56.039 going eleven for their next nineteen from three. That's twelve to forty seven. 181 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:00.879 Overall. They shot forty four percent from distance. Meanwhile, while the Denver 182 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:05.200 Nuggets, who started eight of ten in the first quarter, they only hit 183 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:13.799 four more threes on twenty one attempts the rest of the night. You can 184 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.600 say it's cold shooting fluky. We said in the first quarter, Hey, 185 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.360 one team's gonna progress to the mean, the other's gonna regress to the mean. 186 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:26.159 And that's what happened. And credit the Clippers defense, especially down the 187 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.200 stretch, gave up just twenty points in that fourth quarter. They were led 188 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.000 by PG thirteen Paul George. He had twenty five James Harden with twenty seventeen 189 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.679 off the bench from normn Pals seventeen from Kawhi with the starters, but it 190 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.840 was the defense and him wrecking that pick and roll he and Big Zoo working 191 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:46.639 against Jokis and Jamal Murray that was the difference. Late Clippers win one eleven 192 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:52.279 to one oh two. Their next ball game coming up Friday against the Utah 193 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.480 Jazz in Utah, a place they have not won. Well, I'll have 194 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.840 to look up the date. What they've lost their eleven straight time, including 195 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:07.480 a game earlier this season. They probably should have had so exercising Demons seems 196 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.279 to be on the menu right now. Utah's next, Clippers get a day 197 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:16.279 off tomorrow. I like their odds. Coming up next on a five to 198 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.000 seventy, we got Clippers Stock eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy 199 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.679 eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy Get to meet out follow out 200 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.759 of May outside of Los Angeles. We'll talk to you Friday six pm with 201 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:43.720 their pregame show Clippers Countdown in La. It's Clippers Stock next. This has 202 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.960 been LA Clippers basketball really good on a multitude of levels. Don't miss a 203 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.279 moment all season long on their official hold. Join us next time on the 204 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:58.799 LA Clippers Audio Network. Hello Clippers fans, if you're gonna go for it, 205 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.399 that's what you want to do, you do. Welcome to Clippers Talk. 206 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.919 Your first chance to react to all the action of Clippers basketball. Doing 207 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:13.759 to hear every episode. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeartRadio or wherever you podcast 208 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.000 on henmy right now your host on your home for the Clippers, they were 209 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:26.000 in attack mode. Adam Osley, Oh, did the Clippers finally slay that 210 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.399 dragon? Well, at least for one night, for the first time in 211 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:37.679 almost two years, they have defeated the Denver Nuggets. They win one eleven 212 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.039 to one oh two. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, I'm Adam Oslin. 213 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:46.120 Welcome in the Clippers Talk eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy 214 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:50.480 eight six six ninety's seven two five seventy or get to me. I follow 215 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.240 Adam a on X Coming up on the show. We got postgame audio from 216 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.200 coach Lou the players. Chuck Mockler will be here from C and D Pod 217 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:04.720 Clipernation. Not just the best victory of the season, but maybe of the 218 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:11.240 past year and a half. I can't think of many better than this. 219 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.120 Okay, you could say Game one against the Phoenix Suns. Yeah, the 220 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:22.000 stakes were higher, But when you're talking regular season and a team that has 221 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.720 just owned the Clippers and the Denver Nuggets, coach lose words. This is 222 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:32.559 monumental. This is big. Now. They can't lose three in a row 223 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.879 after this or else it's not gonna be that big of a deal. But 224 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.519 I think a lot of people are gonna have their ears perked up and their 225 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:49.080 eyes open looking at this Clippers team after a statement victory tonight against Denver and 226 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:53.919 they weren't missing anyone. They had Jokic, they had Jamal Murray, they 227 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:59.879 had Aaron Gordon. Three guys they were missing last Monday when Reggie Jackson DeAndre 228 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:07.400 Jordan beat the Clippers and Jokic missed the most shots ever in his career. 229 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:12.720 He was nine h thirty two from the field, missed twenty three shots. 230 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.359 You want to say that's fluky shooting. You want to say he missed a 231 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:25.559 lot of easy ones. Fine, I'll remind you he started this game off 232 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:30.440 with two made three pointers where the Clippers left him open, wide open from 233 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:36.599 three. Talked about it early with Carlo Jimenez said, well, I get 234 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:41.039 the strategy in some respect. He's only shooting thirty percent from the outside on 235 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.519 the season. The problem is, though, he's shooting thirty eight percent on 236 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:51.160 wide open three pointers. And that's what those were. A defender not even 237 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:56.640 six feet away from him. They were just giving him free looks. And 238 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.680 in that first quarter the Nuggets were eight of ten from the outside. Some 239 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:06.759 of that was hot shooting, not all of them were wide open. But 240 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.599 after that, by the end of the ball game, they would hit us 241 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:15.920 four more threes go four for the next twenty to one from distance. After 242 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:22.880 the Clippers loaded it up defensively and the law of averages went back in their 243 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:30.200 favor. Two they started one of nine from three. From that point on 244 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:41.799 they went eleven of eighteen. Really impressive law of averages coming into effect tonight. 245 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:45.640 It's notthing we talked about in the first quarter. Okay, Clippers are 246 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:51.319 down fifteen. It looks ugly. They're gonna shoot eight of ten from the 247 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:53.079 outside. The rest of the night, Denver, They're gonna shoot eighty percent 248 00:18:53.160 --> 00:19:00.400 from the field, no play through it start chipping away, and five and 249 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:04.400 a half minutes later it was a tie game. That fifteen point lead was 250 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:10.960 gone, and the Clippers might be starting something now in this second quarter. 251 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:15.039 And by that I mean this new lineup where James Harden comes out earlier in 252 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:21.359 the first to start the second, next to Paul George, next to Daniel 253 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:30.200 Tice, next to Norman Powell, and I believe it was team Mann out 254 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:37.480 there. This new second unit lineup might be what the Clippers have been looking 255 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:42.480 for. They haven't had any consistency with their backups. Starting unit has been 256 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.440 very good overall. The numbers say is so obviously a bad start to this 257 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:49.440 one against Denver. They can do that to anyone. Kobe Brown was in 258 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:56.039 there in the second quarter too. I couldn't be more impressed with this team's 259 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:00.960 resolve over the last two games. Down twenty two two to the Golden State 260 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:07.880 Warriors early third quarter on Saturday, down fifteen to the Denver Nuggets today, 261 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:14.079 the World champs who also just had three days off, who were coming off 262 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:18.079 the loss to the Kings, who were hungry. We didn't know if they'd 263 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:22.920 have Jamal Murray. He played look pretty damn good at times. He had 264 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.839 twenty three points on ten of eighteen shooting. He didn't look off because of 265 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:33.480 the ankle injury coming back off the hamstring before that. Look good. Look 266 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.799 good for Kawhi Leonard two when he went at him as Jamal Murray was guarding 267 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:40.920 him late in the fourth quarter. Kawhi had six of his seventeen points in 268 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:49.519 the fourth. But I'm gonna tell you this, Kawhi defensively was absolutely elite 269 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:56.240 and wrecked one of the most dominant pick and roles we've ever seen. Jamal 270 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.079 Murray next to Nikola Jokic are on going artable when they get in that pick 271 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:04.599 and roll. It is so difficult to defend. They make you take tough 272 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:10.960 decisions. They get easy looks. They both can hit in a ray of 273 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.880 shots. They have bags, as the kids like to say, just an 274 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:25.200 arsenal of weapons, moves, counters they can go to. And Kawhi and 275 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:30.119 Avitza Zubats dominated that pick and roll in the fourth quarter. They made it 276 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:36.559 so tough on them. Kawhi just crashed that passing lane. They put him 277 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:41.680 on Jamal top with Mike Fortello post game, he reminded me, wisely the 278 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:47.200 coach bizarre that they put Kawhi Leonard on Steph Curry to end the game on 279 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:53.519 Saturday. Worked tonight. It was him on Jamal Murray and Denver didn't look 280 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:57.599 the same. So as good as he was in the fourth quarter, and 281 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:03.160 that big dunk he had off the transition bucket off the pass from James Harden, 282 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:07.599 I think defensively, that's where the Clippers won this game, and Kawhi 283 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:15.799 Leonard was unbelievable. They won the fourth quarter thirty two to twenty. Zach, 284 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:18.319 do I need a pause, ten seconds versation identification and he already covered 285 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:23.880 me. He always covers my back. Like the Clippers last line of defense 286 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:33.400 Defensively, the anchor Big Zoo, a Viatza Zubots and Daniel Tice just made 287 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.160 Nikola Jokic have the worst shooting game of his career. He had never missed 288 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.400 twenty three shots before in a gotball game. You can say this was the 289 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:47.000 best defense ever played on him. And it wasn't good early, but when 290 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:51.599 Daniel Tye came in in that second quarter, I want to say, Jokic 291 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.160 missed four straight shots at the rim and they were all contested. What's the 292 00:22:56.279 --> 00:22:57.960 one thing I told you about Daniel Tye that he would bring to this team. 293 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:04.519 He contests everything in the basket. Great hustle, great motor, great 294 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:11.519 effort, and there might have been nine straight shots missed by Jokic at one 295 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:17.000 point, from the end of the first into the second. It was almost 296 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:21.079 like Daniel Tye showed a Visa Zubats the blueprint how he should play him. 297 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:23.440 And then Big Zoo was much better in the second quarter against the Jokich. 298 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:30.319 But I can't say enough about the lift that Daniel Tye has given this team 299 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:34.680 since he became a Clipper, but especially tonight, this was his best. 300 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:41.039 As soon as he entered he got three straight stops on Jokic. He hit 301 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:49.480 a three pointer, he hit two of them. Tye has been ridiculous. 302 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:52.920 He played really good defense on a possession in the third quarter, late third 303 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:57.079 quarter against Reggie Jackson got him to miss. What a pickup? What a 304 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:02.960 Finde was criticizing the front office. Why haven't they gotten any one yet because 305 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:07.920 Mason Plumley's out. Apparently they had an idea that Daniel Tyes might get bought 306 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:10.640 out by the Indiana Pacers. That's what they were waiting for. It was 307 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:15.160 the right move. Clippers don't win this game without him. And now how 308 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.960 many guys do you have to throw at Jokic once Mason Plumbley comes back, 309 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:23.039 who, by the way, might have some intel, might have been helping 310 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:29.119 on the sidelines because he played next to Jokic. He was on the Denver 311 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:34.519 Nuggets team. Gone too long without talking about Norman Powell. Also, he 312 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:41.599 helped turn this game around. He had a three pointer off a dish from 313 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.200 James Harden in the first half, a layup and transition in the second quarter. 314 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.039 He had eleven of his thirteen first half points in that second quarter, 315 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:56.599 multiple layups in transition, pushing the pace and they had a nice pass to 316 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:02.559 Kawhi Leonard in the third for a layup. He had one bad play, 317 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.319 I would say, trying to foulbait a little too hard into the third quarter. 318 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:14.079 Outside of that, Norman Powell so good led them in the plus minus 319 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:21.079 category again. He was a plus twenty four in a game they won by 320 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.880 nine. He was a plus twenty four in his thirty two minutes of play. 321 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:33.359 Fantastic. I thought Kobe Brown gave him something in this too, and 322 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:37.640 this ballgame tonight, Kobe Brown gave him something. He's the one who hit 323 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.640 the three to tie the game at forty six in the second quarter, and 324 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.160 he's been unafraid from the outside. Yeah, the shots aren't falling like we'd 325 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:48.599 like to see. There was one that went out, rimmed in and out 326 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.640 in the second half. I thought it was gonna fall be a big momentum 327 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:57.720 swing. Couldn't get it just one to three, but nailed the one to 328 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:04.319 cause Mike Malone to call time out to complete the comeback to have it even 329 00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:07.759 again at forty six. In just five and a half minutes. Clippers went 330 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:14.240 from down fifteen into the first where it was thirty six to twenty one to 331 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:18.240 five and a half minutes in to that second quarter being all tied up. 332 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:26.759 What a turnaround, and Kobe Brown contributed. He hit that three at the 333 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:33.160 six to twenty five mark of the second. When you beat a team like 334 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:40.440 this, the defending champs, it's gonna take extra efforts and different guys stepping 335 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:45.279 up at different moments. I thought early in the first or fourth quarter. 336 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.720 Russell Westbrook, who didn't have a great first half, came in early at 337 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.960 the six fifty two mark in the first quarter. For James Harden didn't really 338 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:57.039 help, didn't have it going. He did get a tip in off a 339 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:02.519 zoom miss early, but then had a jumper a turnover looking for a lob 340 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:07.359 with Tye Christian Braun went the other way or Brown, don't call him Braun 341 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:11.240 even though it spelled that way. He got an easy one and transition off 342 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:17.599 that turnover. But in the fourth quarter, they don't win this game without 343 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:23.319 the hustle plays from Russ, the putback layup to start the fourth. People 344 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:30.799 keep talking about Lebron versus Father time. Russ is thirty five and still has 345 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:37.319 insane bounce. He's still I think the best athlete on this Clippers team. 346 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:42.119 He's still one of the best athletes in the league. But he was so 347 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:48.359 good with the block on Christian Braun as Reggie Jackson tried to lob it to 348 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:53.240 him, which got norm a transition bucket on Jokic with the little side step 349 00:27:53.759 --> 00:28:00.680 in the fourth quarter. Russ was hustling, and that's how he's got to 350 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:08.240 be. If he can be this souped up version of Terrence Man who's still 351 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:15.720 struggling with the shot. Just attempted to does everything else right, the shot 352 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.279 will come. But if Russ can be another guy that does all the little 353 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:25.599 things and just gets high percentage looks, turns down some of those jumpers, 354 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:34.119 plays defense, gets boards, had eight of them, four offensive rebounds and 355 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:38.799 one big one when I mentioned the put back early in the fourth quarter. 356 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:47.119 If that's what he can do, that's a perfect role. Played sixteen minutes, 357 00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:51.720 but those fourth quarter minutes before they brought back in James Harden, critical 358 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:57.960 pivotal stretch there from Russ. No chance in this game without him and Coach 359 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:00.519 Lou I saw it on Twitter. People will say, what right the hot 360 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:07.039 hand stick with Russ, it's working. How can you take him out? 361 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:15.279 Coach lou stuck with his convictions. He brought back in James Harden at the 362 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.480 seven oh two mark, and after a bad turnover, stuck a step back 363 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:26.319 three over Jamal Murray. Then had the assist to Kawhi on that dunk. 364 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.640 Huge momentum play. All of a sudden, the Clippers are up six. 365 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:37.240 He assisted back to back buckets from Kawhi. Finish with eleven assists. Knock 366 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:42.240 down a floater, knock down some free throws on the fourth big time play. 367 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:48.200 Clippers win a big time ballgame here at Crypto dot com Arena, one 368 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:52.920 eleven to one two over the Denver Nuggets. They had lost a straight eleven 369 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.759 of twelve to this ball club, and tonight they gave Jokic his worst shooting 370 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.000 performance. Coming up next, we'll get your phone calls. Eight sixty six 371 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:04.000 nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. 372 00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:07.200 I'm out of Moslin. This is Clippers stock here on AM five to 373 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:14.160 seventy. LA Sports Every Clipper game all season long. They didn't stop playing 374 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:18.640 hard. You're listening to the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win one eleven 375 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:23.039 to one oh two here at Crypto dot com Arena over the Denver Nuggets. 376 00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:29.039 What a ballgame, What a victory. First time they had beaten this team 377 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:36.680 since January eleventh of twenty twenty two. Clippers had to have it if they 378 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:40.799 were gonna show that Hey, as I mentioned on Saturday, something may have 379 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.519 been born out of that twenty two point comeback against the Golden State Warriors. 380 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.799 It had to carry over. They had to parlay that into a victory over 381 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.960 the Denver Nuggets. I'm telling you right now, a lot of people are 382 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:56.759 about to wake up about this Clippers team. I've been talking about the vision 383 00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:02.440 since July. When you get James Harden, bring Russ off the bench, 384 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:07.400 play through James Harden, good things will happen. And that's what we're seeing 385 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:14.000 now. They are seven and three with this new starting lineup. Now, 386 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:19.640 the starters struggled out of the gate, but they came through late. And 387 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:26.359 when Norman Poub comes in for Terrence Man that has also been lethal. You 388 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:32.519 need more offense, Okay, switch out Man for Norm. He finished with 389 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:37.440 seventeen four points in the fourth, five of twelve shooting knock down a three 390 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:42.160 pointer, almost threw down one of the biggest dunks in the season. Not 391 00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.839 just for the Clippers, for anyone. If you remember the dunk he had 392 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:49.720 on Julius Randall in New York last season, that's what we almost saw from 393 00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.480 Norm. He didn't get the foul, but my goodness, he was out 394 00:31:53.519 --> 00:32:00.200 for blood. That was been dead against the rim type of stuff. He 395 00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:04.440 wanted that to be the exclamation point on this victory for the Clippers. It 396 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.200 happened in the fourth quarter. Couldn't get it to go, but the Clippers 397 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.599 get the victory all the same. They win one eleven to one O two 398 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:14.920 over the Nuggets. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm out a Moslin eight 399 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.200 six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. Paul George with two huge, 400 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:25.000 nasty ISO threes early in the fourth quarter. We talked about a postgame with 401 00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:31.000 Carlo Amenez when PG is out there with a lineup of Russ with Norm, 402 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:36.319 with Kobe Brown, with Daniel Tice. I got a block on Reggie Jackson 403 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.039 early in the fourth quarter. Two he's got to be looking to score. 404 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:45.559 That's the solution for bringing it together. With this new second unit, Paul 405 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:47.839 George has to be featured. He has to be aggressive, he has to 406 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:52.880 be assertive, back to back possessions, knocked down three pointers, answered one 407 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:59.960 from Reggie Jackson, his friend. After Reggie made it eighty five eighty five 408 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:05.599 Denver, Paul George came right back, made eighty seven eighty five with a 409 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.480 three DJ then catches a lot from Reggie Jackson and was starting to feel like 410 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:13.319 last Monday again. It's eighty seven all and then Paul George knocks down a 411 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:19.920 three pointer. It's ninety eighty seven and the Clippers, I believe, never 412 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:27.119 looked back after that. They never relinquished the lead, and they go on 413 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.119 to hold on. After holding Denver to just twenty points in the fourth quarter, 414 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:35.440 they won it by twelve. They win one eleven to one oh two. 415 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.759 Let's go to Lenny and Inglewood. Lenny, you're on Clippers stop without 416 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:43.079 a maslin. What's up? Lenny? Come on, preacher, come on 417 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:46.759 preaching. We got a squad, We got a squad. Man. Now 418 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:52.319 you're preaching. I'm telling you, huh. Now you're preaching, you man, 419 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.000 you're skippy man, because they've they've been busting out, you know what, 420 00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:59.160 since the bubble, Baby, they've been And I'm gonna tell you something 421 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.400 like I said, we said last week, Harden got to get the majority 422 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:07.079 of his points in that first half and that second half. Just run that 423 00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:12.159 thing, baby, just run it like and let me tell you something, 424 00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:16.559 man. Uh. Kawhi said it last week. He said with hardened there, 425 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.360 he's able to focus a little more on defense. And you write shutting 426 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:30.960 down that that pick and roll between Murray and Djokis is huge, huge, 427 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:36.320 And my man, Daniel Dice is so damn nice. I mean, he 428 00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:38.199 just but you know what, man, I remember watching him like two three 429 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.199 years ago when he was on the Celtics, and I swear I said, 430 00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:46.159 I wish we could get him too. You know who dunked on him, 431 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:51.639 Kawhi? He was coming, man. Remember kaw caught him at a Staples 432 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.880 Center. Yeah. But I liked Tye because you can test everything. But 433 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.679 I love him a man. And then and then he started developing that that 434 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:06.199 consistent three pointer man, And that's in the last two years. He wasn't 435 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.480 doing that first first off, but he came in the last years for that 436 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:12.800 with that with stepping out space and the floor. He's nice, man, 437 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.679 That's all I can say about the boy. He's nice. Uh, you 438 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:21.559 know, I'm I'm curious, but I gotta be honest, man, I 439 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:24.639 like what Wes is doing, but I wish they would stop or I wish 440 00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:30.119 they stopped saying I know he wants to play more minute. Look, man, 441 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:34.360 Wes, you had, you got, nobody's ever going to forget your 442 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.880 place in this game. You got the m v P, you got your 443 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.039 flowers, you got dieted out, whatever. Man, what what we need 444 00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.679 you for is exactly what you're doing right now. And this is you gotta. 445 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.719 He's buying in. But I whatever they needs for him to get over, 446 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.679 I wish they would stop saying it, because it's starting to bother me 447 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:57.000 that they always got to say that he's you know, he wish he could 448 00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:00.159 play more minutes. Yeah, I'm sure he does, but that's not when 449 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:01.880 they need you right now. Russ, You're doing what you're supposed to be 450 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:07.480 doing. And I'm gonna tell you something. You write about the NBA pun 451 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:09.639 that's being talked with. I forgot what's to do on ESPN? Man dud 452 00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:16.400 us to play for Atlanta Hawks. He he always commentates the white guy with 453 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:22.679 Tim Tim Lagler. Yeah, Tim Lagler, let me tell you something man. 454 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:25.119 He used to do. He used to dog off he was dog off 455 00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:28.880 the Clippers when they got when they made that Tason hard, he said, 456 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:31.000 this ain't gonna this ain't gonna be nothing. They said that that did that 457 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:37.239 tonight he had a whole different tune he's saying. He was saying, with 458 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:43.639 Kawhi playing like this consistently healthy, he said, they're as good as any 459 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:49.320 team in the league. He said, they are. That's taround. I 460 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.280 say a little watch because there's still at just five hundred. But maybe he's 461 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:58.280 starting to see the vision now. How can you not, man, because 462 00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:05.920 lou he's back to he's back to playing Queen's gambit, and he's started to 463 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.119 figure out, like you said, he's experiment with those lineups. And my 464 00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:14.360 boy Norman Powell coming in there a walking bucket. We always got to have 465 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:16.800 Norman Powell. I oh, Norman Powers retires here, man, I love 466 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:21.320 his game. Man, this just I mean, but just getting back to 467 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:27.559 Harden real quick. This cat, I mean, twenty points on ten shots, 468 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:31.199 come on, prettacha, Glen. But this we got a squad. 469 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:36.320 Man finally got a squad, so I whoplee plumbing. And then like you're 470 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:39.960 right, uh, Zubac was getting more aggressive because he sees Ty's doing what 471 00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:45.519 he's doing, and you know Joe Vich is not gonna have two games like 472 00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:49.719 that against this But oh but you know what, Kawhi can play better, 473 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.960 Paul George can still play better, and the Clippers can still not get down 474 00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:57.559 fifteen in the first quarter. So if you want to talk about outliers and 475 00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.960 anomalies, Clippers don't need to get down far seeing in the first quarter. 476 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:06.199 Making that Harvard themselves. We may might not see that again against Never Absolutely, 477 00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:09.440 and just last point, Paul George has gotta make He's got that's what 478 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:13.280 they're paying him for. Man, He's got to he's got to earn his 479 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:16.599 money. He's gotta stay aggressive. He's got to knock down those threes. 480 00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:22.159 He's got a particular set of skills and that's what that's what he has to 481 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:27.719 do, man, because he can't do what Harden does and he can't do 482 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.000 what Kawhi does. Like you said with shutting down that we need him to 483 00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:34.119 stay an aggressive and score. He's got to earn his money and keep doing 484 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.519 what he's doing. And if we do that, man, we're gonna be 485 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:40.639 nice. I think I think it's gonna come around right around in January February, 486 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:45.159 you're gonna see exactly what they capable of. But this is yeah, 487 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.719 we're on the way man, absolutely anyway, awesome show, Adam, keep 488 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.360 it up, money my guy, one of my favorites, if not my 489 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:58.400 favorite caller over the years. Lenny in Inglewood. I'm gonna tell you this, 490 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:07.039 they can't win till January. This was game fifteen with James Harden. 491 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:13.800 Yeah, this was game fifteen with him. Tonight, there's seven and three 492 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.119 since they made that move in the starting lineup bringing Russ off the bench. 493 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:24.280 I mean, I was asking for that in July. They didn't need to 494 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:30.400 go on a five game losing streak. But maybe, you know, maybe 495 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:35.320 it's all blessing in disguise, and guys have found their roles and are figuring 496 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:39.559 it out. And this Clippers team is right where they should be now at 497 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:45.800 ten and ten, with the ability to start to make a move now in 498 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:52.679 the West because they're finding themselves an identity out there, and there may be 499 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.400 something cooking with what we've seen in the first quarter the last two games. 500 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:01.199 Now with taken out hard early. Now, I'll say this, I think 501 00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:06.519 if Harden gets off to a quick start, they might ride him in the 502 00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:12.440 first quarter, stick with them not bringing Russ. But if he's not and 503 00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:16.039 if the starters aren't getting off to a quick start, I think this might 504 00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:19.760 be how Coach lou is looking at it. Then you bring in Russ for 505 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:24.199 that change of pace to inject some life. Didn't exactly work out that way 506 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:29.119 the first quarter, but did happen early in the fourth quarter tonight. But 507 00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:35.440 I like that option. That could be something that we pay attention to and 508 00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:39.880 something worth monitoring moving forward. Just one of those slight adjustments where Okay, 509 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.599 this is how the pieces fit together. Now, this is how it all 510 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.320 comes together. Tajus and Walnut. Tajus, you're on clipperst oft without a 511 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:53.440 Mason. I'm finally, finally we got this. In the first quarter, 512 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:57.519 I was like, oh man, here we go again. But uh, 513 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:02.119 you know, it feels like after this win, it feels like no lead 514 00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:06.679 is big enough like from before the comeback clips. It feels like, you 515 00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:10.239 know, this squad's believing now and more in sync. So that's good to 516 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:17.679 see. When I kept calling a few times a few days ago, I 517 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:22.199 kept saying, you know, as good as Jokich and Murray are offensively, 518 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:27.280 defensively, they have some liability and we need to attack them. And it 519 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.960 was so good to see in that fourth quarter that they kept hunting Murray down 520 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:36.400 the stretch, and it was a few times it was hardened and a few 521 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:42.480 times it was Kawhi. But that's really like championship basketball there because it just 522 00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:45.920 made the game so much easier. That's what I said postgame. Just in 523 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.559 the first quarter, in the first half, it was Denver hunting mismatches. 524 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:53.480 They went after James Harden early with Aaron Gordon, Michael Porter Junior. Then 525 00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.199 they did the same to Russ when he came into the ball game late. 526 00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:00.719 Who was the other way around where the Clippers were matchup. And by the 527 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:06.519 way, there was before this sixth Kawhi on Jamal Murray. There was a 528 00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.599 great possession where the Clippers got to stop and it was Harden who locked in 529 00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:15.679 on Murray, and you could see, oh, defensive intensity late in the 530 00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:19.320 fourth quarter when you need it most, it's there. With James. It 531 00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:22.920 isn't always consistent. I understand that his post defense is, but perimeter defense 532 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.800 isn't. But he had a couple of good possessions against Jamal Murray as well. 533 00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:31.840 Yeah, and a couple of things. One, it felt like in 534 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.920 that third quarter we got a little stagged in and when we lost and we 535 00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:39.320 were down five, but there were a few instances where Harden was able to 536 00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:43.519 drive and he got to the paint, but he wouldn't shoot it. I'm 537 00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:46.239 like, he has an open six or seven footer, she just take it, 538 00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:51.000 because when he passes from there and he's open, chances are somebody else 539 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.599 is not open. And in that fourth quarter he had that little seven footer 540 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:57.960 and he took it and it went in. It was a huge shot, 541 00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:00.559 And I'm like, he just needs to be little bit more aggressive because he's 542 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.960 so unselfish looking for everyone else. But when he when he has that seven 543 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:08.360 foot are open, he's got to take it. But that was good to 544 00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:16.760 see. And I think with Tys and Westbrook, their offensive rebounding is something 545 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:22.320 that we've been lacking, and they gave us so many more opportunities. It 546 00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:28.000 was good to see. So I like that, And I was thinking, 547 00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:30.679 Adam, did you see any instances where when Plumbley comes back against these big 548 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:36.639 squads like Denver or Lakers, where they might have a chance to put tys 549 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:39.679 with Zoo or Tyson Plumbley for a few minutes and see how it goes. 550 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:44.679 What do you think, Adam? I appreciate the phone phone call tagous. 551 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:50.280 It depends on if the jumper's fallen. Traditionally it just hasn't. He's a 552 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:54.280 thirty two career three point shooter. He knocked down to tonight. They were 553 00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:59.159 big shots to a four. But to be able to spread the floor, 554 00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:02.920 team are going to have to respect him from the outside. They didn't tonight. 555 00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:07.079 Those were wide open shots and he knocked him down. He does more 556 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.559 of that. It can work. He can play next to Zoo, he 557 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:14.440 can play next to big Plump. Quick time out here, We'll come back. 558 00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:16.360 Get back to your phone calls. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five 559 00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:21.320 seventy eight six six ninety seven two five to seventy. Clippers win one eleven 560 00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:23.679 to one oh two here at Crypto dot Com Arena over the Denver Nuggets, 561 00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:28.639 who had beat them eight straight times, eleven of the last twelve. They've 562 00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:34.280 had their number, their social their mailbox, they've docked the Clippers. They've 563 00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.760 had it all, and the Clippers tonight pull it off against Jokic and a 564 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:42.360 fully loaded Denver Nuggets team they win by nine. You're listening to clipperstock here 565 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.079 on the M five to seventy LA s fours. They want to bring a 566 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:50.400 banner with them to the into a dollar more LA Clippers basketball on the LA 567 00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:55.679 Clippers Audio Network. Slippers win won eleven to one oh two over the Denver 568 00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:59.960 Nuggets, their best victory of the season, their best regular season victory. 569 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:04.039 And I don't know how long they were down fifteen in the first quarter. 570 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:08.800 Five and a half minutes later it was a tie ball game, and the 571 00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:14.639 Clippers slammed the door with their defense. In the fourth quarter they outscored the 572 00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:17.760 Nuggets thirty two to twenty. Oh. You know something else that didn't happen 573 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:22.079 tonight, Well, Russell Westbrook and James Harden were never on the court together, 574 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:28.239 something I've been harping on going back a long time now. And in 575 00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.960 the last nine games coming into this one, when those two were on the 576 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.920 floor together, Clippers have only been shooting thirty eight percent from the field twenty 577 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:38.119 five percent from the outside. It's just not working. The spacing's not there. 578 00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:42.719 Maybe it will at some point, but in a big game like this 579 00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:46.679 tonight, I think splitting them up. I think it worked. I think 580 00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:50.480 it was necessary. I think you got to start making those tough decisions. 581 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:53.920 I know Russ only played sixteen minutes, but he was good in that fourth 582 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:59.239 quarter, and he was spry and making plays and hustling and a huge block. 583 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:05.119 James Harden just he has more of what this team needs. With the 584 00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:10.559 starters eleven assists to four turnovers. Shooting has never been more important in this 585 00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:16.400 league. You can't overstate it because when you don't have shooters out there, 586 00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.079 you don't have space to operate. You don't let Kawhi and Paul George get 587 00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:29.280 loose, find driving lanes Norman Powell. So when you have Russell Westbrook next 588 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:32.280 to a big that's already two non shooters, the difference with James Harden is 589 00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:37.800 huge. This is modern NBA basketball. Doesn't mean Russ is invaluable to this 590 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:42.599 team. He is. You saw it tonight early in the fourth his energy, 591 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:45.199 he can help this team. This is the role. This is what's 592 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:50.400 gonna take. Guys talking about sacrifice, That's what's gonna take for them to 593 00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:53.280 win. Let's go to Daniel and echo park Daniel, what's up here on 594 00:46:53.320 --> 00:46:58.880 Clippers stock with that, Amasa Adam, how's it going? Uh? If 595 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:01.400 I guess started? I want to give you some pops here. Last week 596 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:07.039 I was driving from a meeting and I heard you on Rogan and Rodney sans 597 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:12.199 fred Man. You absolutely held it down. You came with the analytics and 598 00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:15.679 I was so impressed. You're so prepared and and you absolutely killed it. 599 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:20.880 Love. You get a little heads up when you are on there, especially 600 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.760 with with Fred. I just want to hear when I hear you guys lock 601 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:29.880 horns again. It's always created the game, and that's when the salta comes 602 00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:31.360 out. Now. I appreciate it, Daniel. They're nice enough to have 603 00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.880 me on once a week at least, So it's been good. It's been 604 00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:39.280 a lot of fun. Yeah, totally. Tonight's game fantastic. Of course, 605 00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:43.320 it's good to get the monkey off the back there with with the wind, 606 00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:49.559 you know, it looks like we're spending a lot of energy trying to 607 00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:53.480 catch up and and and it seems like when we come back from a large 608 00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:59.519 amount a deficit like this, the next game we tend to lose them and 609 00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:02.840 we fall flat. It didn't happen this time. They just came back down 610 00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:07.840 twenty two against the Warriors on Saturday and come back down fifteen. This was 611 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.039 Saturday. I mean it is Wednesday now, so they have some time to 612 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:13.519 rest, all right, that's fair. Yeah, I agree, it's a 613 00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:15.559 bad habit. It's a bad habit to keep getting down early. Now, 614 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:20.760 I guess Denver it can just happen. They go eight of ten from three. 615 00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.360 Some of those. I didn't like seeing Jokic being left alone wide open 616 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:28.800 threes. I know he's shooting thirty percent from three on the season, but 617 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:31.559 when they're wide open threes, no one within six feet, he's shooting thirty 618 00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:35.039 eight percent. So that didn't make a lot of sense to me. But 619 00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.880 a lot of averages came into effect late. Daniel, Yes, and kind 620 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:44.000 of getting to that, the defense was excellent on him today. When he 621 00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:47.400 missed, he looked goofy, you know, and he missed a lot tonight. 622 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:52.760 It was wonderful to see, you know, all around. I wasn't 623 00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:57.320 worried when they were down. I kind of, you know, before you 624 00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:00.440 know, we kind of get get down the Pomps against you know what I 625 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:05.000 mean. But tonight I wasn't worried. It feels like we've we're definitely making 626 00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:09.280 that turn for the better. I am kind of worried about Terrence. I 627 00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:13.719 don't know what the plus minus is on him, but I'll leave that to 628 00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:17.719 the expert. You let us know what's going on. It wasn't good tonight. 629 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:23.119 I appreciate the phone call, Daniel, but I'm not plus minus has 630 00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.039 to also correlate with the eye tests in a one game sample. Over a 631 00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:31.719 season, yeah, there's a lot of truth to it. Over a month, 632 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:35.760 over a couple of weeks, a lot of truth to it. I 633 00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:38.559 still think Terrence Man, while in a shooting slump and not attacking enough right 634 00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:43.079 now, he's gonna be valuable for this team because he does everything else well, 635 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:45.679 so once the shot comes, it's almost like a bonus. This starting 636 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:50.840 lineup with Terrence Man, I love it. It's the right move, that 637 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:54.440 defensive versatility and the point of attack defense that he offers, so Kawhi and 638 00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:59.239 Paul George don't get worn out early having to guard the other team's best player. 639 00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:02.360 He was the one on Murray early. Pam in Temple City, quickly 640 00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:06.239 here, Pam, what's up? Thank you? Adam, and and I 641 00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:08.519 hope this is the advent of things to come. In this advent season. 642 00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:13.800 You know, I just think that if these comeback games are just going to 643 00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:15.800 help us in the future. If we do get down, we'll have the 644 00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:20.920 ability to come back. And I just think that this Tryron new has the 645 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:23.119 pieces of the pressure of the way he needs to He knew exactly what to 646 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:28.039 do. Our energy is stiller. There's no ego involved, and I don't 647 00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:30.960 think of us played like his norse was out of joint. And I couldn't 648 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.039 be more proud to be part of this super's family. Thank you, Pam, 649 00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.960 thank you for the phone call. I'm with you on that. Of 650 00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:44.360 course, I'm just wondering what that twenty two point comeback victory against the Golden 651 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:47.960 State Warriors. I wondered on Saturday what it could do moving forward. Well, 652 00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:52.719 we saw the result. They had that confidence, that reservoir of confidence 653 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:58.679 to draw from after being down fifteen early. Here they've been here before. 654 00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:04.400 Yeah it's Denver, but this Clippers team, they're resilient. If there's anything 655 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:08.719 that has defined this two one three era, it's the resiliency. I believe 656 00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:16.039 we are now joined by Charles Mockler, Is that right, Zach, Hey, 657 00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:22.440 Hey, hey child, I'm here I appreciate you coming on tonight. 658 00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:24.719 I want to make it like you're just any other caller. We want to 659 00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:30.159 make it special for you. He is Charles Mockler of the Clips and Dip 660 00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.519 podcast. I think we got a new one coming on the YouTube tomorrow, 661 00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.119 joining the show after the Clippers win one eleven to one oh two. Follow 662 00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:44.519 him at Chuck Mockler on X Charles, your biggest takeaway from this performance from 663 00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:46.920 the Clippers. I know a lot of people were doubting them after being down 664 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:51.119 fifteen. It felt like Groundhog's Day. It was gonna happen again. Denver 665 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:55.559 was gonna dominate, and then they figured it out. Uh am, I 666 00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:01.719 crazy for My biggest takeaway is a little more belief in ty Lou. Is 667 00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:06.360 that a crazy takeaway to take from this game? He made some good rotation 668 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.159 choices. We saw the usual, you know, we stuck with you know, 669 00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:15.639 Harden for like the five to eight minutes or whatever the first but things 670 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:17.639 went a lot better when he was made when he was kind of pulled the 671 00:52:17.639 --> 00:52:21.679 strings lineup wise. So my hat's off to Tyler. While this one he 672 00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.400 split up James Harden and Russell Westbrook, which we talked about This is no 673 00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:28.800 shade on either of these players. They just can't play together right now, 674 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.920 this current version of the Clippers. So I like a lot of what Tyleru 675 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.760 did it. Yeah, that's my biggest takeaway. We needed this win. 676 00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:42.400 They're back at five hundred, which is a little tough, you know, 677 00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:44.880 when you take a step back and look at it at the whole thing. 678 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.119 But this, hey, it feels good. First time since January twenty twenty 679 00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.119 two. So we'll take where we can get it. How about Daniel Tice. 680 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:54.920 I thought the game really turned when he came in the hustle plays he 681 00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:59.920 made to end the first quarter, and I know they were still down fifth 682 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.880 team, but he was playing really good defense on Nikola Jokic. I mean, 683 00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:07.440 he had his worst shooting performance of his career, and it started with 684 00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:12.119 Daniel Tye. I mean he's Zubas wasn't effective early. He certainly was late, 685 00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:15.559 But Tys being undersized like that and giving that level of effort. I 686 00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:21.480 don't think anyone expected him to be this good in the Clippers uniform. No, 687 00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:25.079 And it was funny he kind of sparked a bit of the offense for 688 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:29.280 the Clippers. Him and Harden had a little pick and roll going when things 689 00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.760 were not going well, and I think that was I think Tys got his 690 00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:37.320 first bucket off that but no, I mean eleven boards excuse me, yeah, 691 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:42.920 eleven boards total, five offensive rebounds from Tys. This was his best 692 00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:47.280 game as a Clipper for sure, but hey, we needed it. It 693 00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:51.639 happened to come and side with a night when Jokic was incredibly cold. But 694 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:54.480 when ty started playing good defense, then it felt like when things were getting 695 00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:57.880 a little shaky, Zoo wouldn't come back in. And Zoo picked up his 696 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:01.199 defense on Jokic late in the game, I thought, which was nice. 697 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:05.239 So no, hats off to Dangle Tys. I said he wouldn't be an 698 00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:09.639 outside threat, but tonight he kind of proved me wrong. So yeah, 699 00:54:09.639 --> 00:54:13.159 I mean a lot of things had to go right tonight and they did. 700 00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:16.320 And like I said, we will take it a couple more for you here 701 00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:20.960 before we get out. We don't got to play him out. I don't 702 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:24.039 think Saint the Gomp Show not Mike. Oh, I don't know. Yes, 703 00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:27.480 I messed up. I thought we were gonna get out earlier. I 704 00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:30.760 do that often. I'm sorry. Zach could give us a couple more minutes, 705 00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:36.800 Buddy, I'd appreciate it. James Harden and Russell Westbrook and Russell only 706 00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:40.159 playing sixteen minutes in this one. But there were a lot of people that 707 00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:45.119 questioned coach lou in going back to what you were talking about with him earlier 708 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:46.519 in this performance, in the way he was pulling the strings and punching the 709 00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:50.800 right buttons at the right time. He went back to James Harden, even 710 00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:53.800 though Russell Westbrook had his best stint early in the fourth quarter, and it 711 00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:59.119 worked and it was the right move and the Clippers offense was humming down the 712 00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:04.199 stretch. Yeah, this is this is the part of the game where I 713 00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:07.679 don't think Tyler gets enough credit, where when the feel is off, you 714 00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:12.079 notice it. You know, when there's a lineup change that doesn't work, 715 00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:14.840 you really don't so well, there's one that works. I think a lot 716 00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:16.760 of the times we're all content with the fact that worked, and we don't 717 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:22.679 give credit to the fact of when the change was made. So, yeah, 718 00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:28.039 that was I will say, it's not, you know, the most 719 00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:30.800 secure position to be in. I would like to see a bit more of 720 00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:37.119 a process from the Clippers offense, maybe dictate these kinds of changes late as 721 00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:39.880 opposed to vibe or energy or something like that. But Ty got it right 722 00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:44.679 tonight and things are trending up for the Clippers. The winds have been good, 723 00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:50.960 so I'm hoping we get a little more less feel decisions and more pattern 724 00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:57.159 based decisions for this offense late. He is Chuck Mockler following him on x 725 00:55:57.360 --> 00:56:02.199 at Chuck Mockler with the Clips and Dip podcast. One more for you here, 726 00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:06.199 Chuck, your guy Kobe Brown. I mean he hit the three pointers 727 00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:09.039 to tie the ball game. Hey, hey, I didn't want to say 728 00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:13.719 anything, but he was. I think what was the Was he a team 729 00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:17.360 best plus seven teed or something insane like that, which I think goes to 730 00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:22.480 show how important the plus minus stats are. No, sorry, he was 731 00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:25.239 the second best plus lightest of the team behind Norm. We didn't talk about 732 00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:30.079 Norm, but he had a phenomenal game offensive weight when the Clippers really needed 733 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:34.960 it too. But no Kobe Brown plus seventeen. It makes no sense how 734 00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:38.920 PJ. Tucker had his plus minus stats than Kobe Brown has his plus minus 735 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:45.719 staffs. I think we all know that maybe Kobe Brown or a beer coffee 736 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:47.360 needs to take those PJ. Tucker, but it and the Clippers will not 737 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:53.440 be worse for the wear. Paul George knocked down some huge three pointers in 738 00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:57.960 the second half. But the one shot where I went, Okay, Paul 739 00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:00.039 George has it going tonight. It was that all out three pointer on the 740 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:05.559 left wing over KCP at the end of the shock clock. Absurd. And 741 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:09.039 then he was hunting for those three pointers in the fourth quarter, and when 742 00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:13.760 he hit that second one, the Clippers never looked back. That was when 743 00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:17.000 they took the lead and took control the ballgame. But the confidence, I'm 744 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:21.719 wondering how much that game winning three pointer did for him against the Golden State 745 00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:25.760 Warriors on Saturday, and just that carryover effect because I felt like, you 746 00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:30.239 know, he was brimming with confidence in the fourth quarter from distance. I 747 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:36.719 do respect how you didn't say was something born from back? I already did 748 00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:39.800 on Saturday? What do you mean I already did on Saturday? I tweeted 749 00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:44.320 at you was something born out of this victory? How can you deny it? 750 00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:47.480 Chuck? After what happened tonight the Clipper First of all, the Clippers 751 00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:52.880 pod account is all three of us, not just me. No, you're 752 00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:58.519 I don't think you're totally wrong. I think a part of you is correct 753 00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:02.320 to that. It was nice to see the confidence from Paul George lift the 754 00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:05.960 rest of the team because that, you know, the Clippers do go as 755 00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:07.920 far as two of three goes, as much we want to get into, 756 00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:14.079 you know, the stay in wars between you know, Hard and Westbrook. 757 00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:17.440 The team goes as far as Paul George and Kawhi Leonard takes them. So 758 00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:22.719 when you see Paul George's confidence lift the rest of the team, it makes 759 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:27.440 you happy. There was some points in the game where we were working a 760 00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:30.280 little too hard for shots for the two made guys. I think that's going 761 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:35.760 to get ironed out. But you're right, something was was potentially bored out 762 00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:39.360 of that three from Paul George. I love how they responded after being down 763 00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:45.280 with some days off and rest and whatnot. So here's here's to Here's to 764 00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:47.199 the thing being born growing up, I guess will be the best thing I 765 00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:54.119 could say off of that. I'm a big kid now, ye all right, 766 00:58:54.199 --> 00:58:58.519 all right? They need to win in Utah, another place they have 767 00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:04.559 struggled. But why Leonard quietly now, over the last couple of fourth quarters, 768 00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:08.599 he was four for four in the fourth on Saturday, and he was 769 00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:14.440 three for five in the fourth tonight with some big shots over Jamal Murray. 770 00:59:14.519 --> 00:59:17.599 It's been one of those things that Clippers fans have been a little bit irked 771 00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:22.159 by, just Kawhi Leonard not closing well enough. The last couple of games. 772 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:24.920 He's been awesome. Yeah, I mean, I think I talked about 773 00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:29.320 that after one game when I was on here where it was just like, 774 00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:32.440 he's going to figure it out. It was fine. He made eight shots 775 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:37.960 tonight, three of them in the fourth quarter. Kawhi, even when he's 776 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:40.039 still ramping up. You know, I'm not going to pretend like he's had 777 00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:45.880 a consistent stretch of games and where he's been elite the whole time. Is 778 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:50.880 still a top fifteen player in this league. We have been spoiled, I 779 00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:53.280 would say, with how many games in a row of Paul George and Kawhi 780 00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:57.559 we have got. But we're lucky that he's ramping up right now. I 781 00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:00.239 think everything is going to come. I want to play what it really needs 782 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:04.360 to. I wish that they were better than five hundred, obviously with this 783 01:00:04.519 --> 01:00:07.159 ramp up schedule, but there was never any real reason to be concerned about 784 01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:13.719 Kawhi. Yeah, it's just steady as she goes with Kawhi. Clippers win 785 01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:20.119 one eleven to one two here at Crypto dot Com Arena over the Denver Nuggets. 786 01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:23.159 Finally he can relax, take a deep breath. They not just beat 787 01:00:23.199 --> 01:00:28.159 the Nuggets, they beat now the defending champions tonight, and they were fully 788 01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:31.840 loaded. I think we'll have a fully loaded podcast tomorrow night with clips and 789 01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:35.840 dip. Chuck. We'll talk to you then on the YouTube, my friend, 790 01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:38.360 thanks for doing this tonight. Hey, thanks for having me happy. 791 01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:43.960 I can come on after a win. Yeah, well, is that a 792 01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:45.480 shot at Will? Okay, I'm gonna take that as a shot out. 793 01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:49.360 No, no, no, no, come on. Will thought he had 794 01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:52.599 it in his contract that whenever the Clippers win he gets to come on. 795 01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:54.559 When after the Clippers lose, you have to come on and explain it. 796 01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:58.440 So that's rough for you. I hope you get paid, you know, 797 01:00:58.599 --> 01:01:00.280 hazard pay or something like that. All right, Chuck, thanks for doing 798 01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:06.880 this tonight. Before we get out of here, we got the head engineer. 799 01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:13.639 It is big brother Jake Warner, the fake philosopher positive moments. Yes, 800 01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:17.000 big Brother Jake Warner. Ever so quickly. I don't want the music 801 01:01:17.039 --> 01:01:22.079 playing you out yet. But big Bro, you thought early on you were 802 01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:24.960 confident about this team going up against the Denver Nuggets. I walked into the 803 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:28.400 building knowing we were going to win today, Yes sir, yes sir, 804 01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:32.519 And it happened. Could I felt it? Bro? With the Chucks onto 805 01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:36.400 now Chucks, we're not on today. As soon as we got here, 806 01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.440 got some Nike like van looking Nikes. You know they were on sale, 807 01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:44.400 so it did knock. But then you know what, they look good. 808 01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:46.440 They look good. I appreciate that, Big Bro. What's the positive thought 809 01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:51.519 tonight? Positive thought for tonight, my friend. When life is sweet, 810 01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:57.599 say thank you and celebrate. When when life is bitter, say thank you 811 01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:06.440 and grow news. I just want to do this, big Bro, always 812 01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:10.519 says, is Zachocaldy back in Burbank and the studios holding it down. Clippers 813 01:02:10.519 --> 01:02:13.519 win one eleven to one oh two. Before we get out of here, 814 01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:15.360 I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Paula, Bryant Steeman know 815 01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:20.320 what ego, Carlomenz on the call, the callers, the listeners, Big 816 01:02:20.360 --> 01:02:22.559 Bro, Jake, our head engineer, I metam Oza we'll talk to you 817 01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:25.920 Friday at six pm when the Clippers are in Utah taking on the Jazz. 818 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:47.480 What a victory. Mauhi was doing his thing. All they want to do 819 01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:52.039 is win, La Win. I thought they gave everything they had. I'm 820 01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:57.199 very proud of This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction of the 821 01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:00.880 LA Clippers. God Bless Paul George. It's a change. Don't miss an 822 01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:06.440 episode all season law. Go to wherever you podcast and subscribe. Today we'll 823 01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:07.960 have the show I got you on the iHeart Radio. You guys are great. 824 01:03:08.079 --> 01:03:13.960 Thank you for joining us for another exciting broadcast of LA Clippers basketball