Welcome into Clips and Dip Season two, episode twenty four. I'm out of
Maslin. We got Chuck Mockler and Will Updyke here. The trifecta has returned,
the triumphant threesome tripod. I love not the Threesome pause. It's gonna
be with you guys. Last night, if you missed it, we did
a little Clips and Double Dip myself and Chuck Mockler after the Clippers lost their
six straight ball game, five straight with James Harden. We'll talk about that
off the top coming up later in the show. We'll preview Clippers and Rockets
on Friday, what they need to do better and why this Rockets team has
won six in a row. So I guess guys will start things off with
how are you Chuck? Thanks for doing that last night on Clippers Talk.
How you been? I've been bad. I think six games ago I was
doing better than I am now because we hadn't experienced this loss. But it's
raining in La, it's fall. I'm drinking tea. So everything other than
the Clippers I think is going is going well. When I say hello to
the new listeners and people watching, we're on YouTube YouTube Dot complash at Clippers
podcast. I'm enjoying the fall. I'm happy there's two days off to forget
about what's happening with the Clippers, but excited to talk about some of the
good stuff, including one of Will's insane takes that we had that might actually
end up happening at some point. But Will, how are you? I'm
doing. I'm doing alright all things considered. Yeah, I'm also appreciating the
rain. I also love when it's raining in La. It's all anybody can
talk about. So it's one of my favorite things that in the ten closing.
Dude, I work in an office. We're not getting shit done with
this weather, and with the ten closing, it's been great. All right,
So welcome distraction from the Clippers. Well, we're about to get your
own divided attention back on the Clippers here, Will, as we talk about
this. The Clippers lose last night by three in Denver to the Nuggets,
where they had opportunities to win the ball game. They were up by seven
with six minutes left. Stage small after work to get them back into the
ballgame, but then Nikola Jokis re entered. The rest is history, and
a three point loss in a game where Aaron Gordon hit a half court shot
to end the third quarter, insult to injury, whatever you want to call
it. Everything that can't go wrong has and will go wrong for the Clippers
right now. But what do you guys think is the most concerning thing during
this losing streak so far? Chuck? I think I don't know if I
really believe that it's ty Lou, but there's like last I think it's just
fresh in my mind. Obviously we didn't have any size. Zoo had the
four fouls, but even bringing in in those last couple of possessions probably could
have helped defensively. That doesn't seem to be ties thing. The Clippers are
in place to sign Daniel Tice, who's a six to eight center who's going
to help the offense a lot, which is good in terms of connecting,
but it might be coaching. But I think I have to give it to
the roster. I think I have to give it to We just don't have
size, and we traded the size, which we had to do, I
guess. And then Mason goes down, which is obviously like you're not going
to carry three centers. Game one of like game one of this of the
hard and losing street era. Yeah so, and like you're not going to
carry three centers. So I don't know it. It feels like it's a
bunch of things working together to screw the clippers over. We'll talk about the
Tys thing, but like I think it's just roster construction. Will I like,
this isn't all Tylu, But I do have to push back a little
bit. I'm just getting kind of tired of the thing where we say something
and then it gets run back, you know. Tyleru said he wanted to,
you know, keep the shifts of like Harden and Russ apart. They're
still un willing to change the starting lineup though We've seen some little things and
then it just seems like it just seems like there's not a lot of progress.
And I think that that is the most troubling thing about this losing streak.
And there were some things to like. I mean, there have been
some things to like throughout this losing streak. I mean, with the exception
of one game, Paul George has been superb offensively. We got in this
Nuggets loss, James Hern's probably best offensive performance. Would have liked to see
him, you know, facilitating things a little bit more. But that's the
overall issue that I have with this is just continuously, when these games are
close and in clutch minutes, the Clippers are failing to create good shots.
They're just get they're just bad shots. When that game was very winnable for
the Clippers, it was, I mean, it was borderline malpractice. The
like the offense that like the shots they were able to get. And I
know, Adam, you've you know, you've been defensive of you know,
some of those Iso Kawhi mid range things. He did not have it last
night, and and some of those shots that he was getting like it.
I just I failed to see, with this much offensive talent, how they
cannot be coming up with better shots. And it's also been the same every
single game these losses. Right, it's kind of neck and neck first quarter,
they go into the half, they're down eight to ten points. Other
team pulls away in the third and they you know, it usually gets even
worse than the fourth, except for I mean, I don't know what four
of these games have been complete blowouts where we rarely even see the starters in
the fourth. But it's it's it's kind of just the same thing happening again
and again and again. And sure, I mean that is due to the
roster, that is to do to who we're down. But you're telling me
there's nothing like that. You're telling me there's nothing that we can do to
like to pull out a win with the roster that we have. Because if
that's the case, I mean, we'll talk about the we'll talk about the
Tys edition. But like, if that's what's gonna save our season, it
might already be time to pack it in. Man, Well, I thought
last night in particular, every game has its own story, of course,
but last night, you're up seven with six minutes left. Jokic comes back
in PJ. Tucker is doing an admirable job against him, but then he's
taken out with about three and a half minutes left. The Clippers have James
Harden, Paul George Kawhi, Leonard Terrence Man, and Norman Powell out there.
They are extremely small. Jokic is bullying guys and whether he's making the
shot or missing the shot, leading to offensive rebounds, one put back by
him within the last three minutes, one by Aaron Gordon. It's just so
difficult to defend him that way because if you double him, he's gonna find
the open guy. And even if he puts the shot up and misses,
because you're double teaming him, triple teaming him, you're not gonna have bodies
there to grab that board. So it wasn't even just him, like I
thought that Reggie, like that the easy run where Paul George had his back
to him in the fourth, that one hurt all the Aaron Gordon stuff,
Like they got contributions from other guys, and yeah, the defense is so
soft obviously when they're small, but like they're still just failing to score.
Then the Nuggets go. It was like a seventeen to five run in the
game, wasn't so Yeah, it was nineteen to nine the last six minutes
after the Clippers led by seven, But the Nuggets scored or missed a free
throw on every single possession from the six minute mark in. They literally could
not get a stop against them, and well ball got them back into it.
I think there was a time there where you had to readjust But I
think the shot that made coach Lou uh emboldened by his small ball lineup was
that three pointer by Norman Powell. I think he doesn't make that three.
He would have taken him out. I think he makes the three. And
coach lou says, look, it's a trade off, and he said postgame
he knows it. It's a tradeoff. You're trading offense for defense. You're
leaning into offense. But that three point? Why score? Well, they
couldn't score all like the last three minutes really in particular, score twenty if
it was like twenty six to twenty or you know, like something more reasonable.
I like could be like, fine, yeah, that's a game.
That's a game that you lose. But I just this has been an ongoing
thing, like this team can't score with their best offensive talent put together on
the floor. They I mean, nine points in six minutes obviously isn't good.
That's an eighteen point quarter. Does some of this stuff happen sometimes in
the fourth quarter? Yes, But to your point of in crunch time in
particular, I was just running the numbers and going to the clutch time stats.
It's an official thing now in NBA dot com. It originally started on
an obscure website eighty two games dot com fifteen to twenty dot com. Yeah,
killer, but the Clippers in games in the last five minutes within five
points, and they've been in five of these so far. They've lost all
five. Offensively, in those situations, they are shooting twenty five percent.
Their defensive rating on those situations is even more alarming their defensive rating, their
offensive rating is one oh six point seven. For reference, the worst offensive
rating in the league by a team is one oh four, So it's bad.
One o six point seven is bad. You know what's really bad.
They're defensive rating in the last five minutes of a game within five points.
It's one hundred and forty point eight. Now we're talking about twenty three minutes
total of clutch time in these five games. It's not a lot, but
it is part of how you lost those games. It's part of the story.
They were not good when their best was required. And if we talked
about sorry I had to my handyman's at my door. We're getting a new
water heater. Have we talked about have we talked about Kawhi Adam. You
posted his shooting splits as the game goes on, and a lot of people
have been talking about how he doesn't look right. I'm not here to speculate
about health. I'm not we're not talking about that, but he hasn't been
as Kawhi miss late in the game. You didn't think defensively he was like
pretty Kawhi last game. No, that's the thing. Defensively it's great,
but offensively, I think that was my next point. He's suffering because of
that. He's having to do a lot of defense and it's and he's also
not getting enough shots to start the game. I don't think, but I
believe we saw that in both last season and the second year of two to
one three. At the beginning, offensively, Kawhi, he you know,
like it was a little still start. I feel like I remember multiple hit
pieces that were like, is Kawhi's mid range game not what it once was?
You know, like stuff like that. Yeah, so I hear you.
I mean, you know the thing is with this town, we go
as far as you know, two and three goes. So it definitely is
troubling in a six game losing streaks seven games, sure, and it's obviously
magnified by that because we've been losing all these games, which is he's gonna
get put under a microscope. Well, there's a few things on that to
me, that are worrisome. One we talked about all summer. Is it
more physical to play the three or play the four? We weren't exactly sure.
Is there less movement when you're playing the four, but it's more physical
overall because you're battling for boards and therefore more taxing. Or is it more
taxing to chase guys around the perimeter. It could be related to him playing
the four. Another reason maybe this starting lineup isn't the way to go because
somehow flowing under the radar that you know, Paul George and Kawhi Leonard just
got bumped up positions. He's really talking about it. Yeah, and so
what we continue to run two guards? So yeah, I mean, it
seems like there's a solution for that, but I don't know. Well,
we've talked about that, but I'm saying maybe this is the side effect Kawhi
Leonard his legs, he's giving so much defensively and he was great that Steely
had getting it to Paul George was incredible. That doesn't happen to Jokic like
ever. And I thought his effort was great and some of the defense he
played on Jokicic. Look, Jokic went eight of twenty three from the field.
They had their opportunity with him having it off night. Now he was
thirteen to thirteen from the free throw. One part of that why I thought
Kwi did a really good job of you know, the best you can do
on Yokic, which is, you know, just got to try to give
him out of rhythm, just got to try to slow him down a little
bit. You're not going to stop everything. There's not a Jokic stopper.
It's why we saw in the offseason teams didn't even try. They didn't even
try to find the defensive answer to Jokic. They just found guys. They're
like, all right, we need to put up one hundred and twenty.
We need to put up one hundred and twenty plus points. But I posted
the Kawhi splits by quarter of how many shot attempts, his field goal percentage
in three point percentage, and basically through ten games this season, he starts
off in the first quarter shooting fifty three percent from the field. By the
fourth quarter he's at thirty eight percent. Now the second and fourth quarters he's
taking far less shots. He starts off with four point seven attempts in the
first quarter, then three point one in the second he's playing less minutes,
then five point eight shots in the third quarter they try to get him going,
then just three point three shots in the fourth and less is less with
Kawi. Basically, more is more when he's taking more shots. There seems
to be a clear correlation that he's getting in rhythm. The more shots he
is taking per quarter has a direct correlation to his field goal percentage going up.
And now that's all ten games. If you just look at the five
games with James Harden, obviously his attempts are way down. Four point eight
the first quarter, okay, but just two shots in the second quarter,
just two point three shots in the fourth court. And his field goal percentage
of the fourth quarter with James Harden thirty three percent from the field, thirty
three percent from the outside. So he's taking the fewest amount of shots now
in a fourth quarter, maybe in a long time in his career, since
he became, you know, a number one type of option on offense.
This is not good. You don't bring in James Harden and make this pairing
or this big four and have Kawhi as the guy sacrificing that is not the
key to winning a championship. You have to have Kawhi as a number one
option on a championship team. You have to have that version of Kawhi that
looks like the best player that can win you a championship as the number one
option. And right now, the way he's getting less shots just sixteen I
think is the most he has taken since they brought in James Harden. That's
not enough. That's crazy. That's like, well, I think when we
talk about this offense, I mean, you know, you can't judge everything
off of box score, but like, just look at the field goal attempts,
look at the distribution among the team, and you know, it's pretty
clear that something is broken with the offense. Like they're not getting the right
guys shots and that I mean, that's why they're failing to score. Well,
it seems simple enough to me. It's shots. It's difficult some in
some ways because Okay, Paul George is going off, so he takes over
twenty shots to get his thirty five, but Russ and Kawi took essentially the
same amount of shots, right, and I'm not And that's where Terrence Man,
a fishing three point shooter, took one shot all game, norm pretty
solid game, only took seven shots. Like these are things like I I
And again, I know it sounds like I'm being hard on on Westbrook.
It's not just him, but like you look at that and it's I just
I know that it's not as simple as like completely scripting the game. Things
happen in the within the flow of the offense, but there has to be
a greater effort on on running those set plays. And really, I think
having back pocket plays. Man, sometimes we look terrible coming out of a
timeout or a stoppage. And I just don't understand, Like I just don't
wannerstand how even even this deep in, like you know, I know we're
only ten games, but like I don't even understand at this point, how
you don't have something in your back pocket that you're like, Okay, we
know we can go to this it breaks down. We have option you know,
we have Option BC, but I'm not seeing that. I'm just not
seeing that on the court. It's not just guys missing shots. Yeah,
right, that's a good point. It hasn't looked sophisticated enough. And some
of that with James Harden. Okay, they're figuring each other out, but
then you drop a play at the end of the game and it's just Paul
George take a tough three pointer over KCP that that was a terrible shot.
It feels those plays, those bad last second shots, how many times have
we seen that? That's not just a this year thing. It feels why
were they not using the clock at all at the end of that game.
I just don't get it, like they were just chucking up bad shots.
I just it's That's the thing that's so tough, is like we've seen this
team losing games missing shots, but the process looks good, and I just
we're not seeing a lot of process. This thing just feels very cyclical so
far through the James aren't experiment I do think overall, though, when it
comes to that game in Denver, you play Aviatsa Zubots five minutes at the
end of the ball game, there's like a ninety percent chance they win that
game. It's never certain against Nikola Jokic, but up seven with six minutes
left, you have to find a way to win the ball game and use
the fouls. If you got the two fouls it's like five use it.
They were fouling. Anyways, if the point was, oh, we can't
afford to foul him out, Denver had eleven free throws in the fourth quarter.
They couldn't defend without fouling, So what's one more guy that can't do
it? And at least when he's not fouling, he's playing really good defense
and playing with Jokis one on one, so you have other guys there to
get boards. Do we want to talk about Tye now or do we want
to talk about it during the some good Thing segment? Because, believe it
or not, listeners, we have some good things that the Clippers maybe did
last game. Let's yeah, let's let's do that in the next segment.
All right, Do we have any other grievances airing for what is up with
the Clippers right now? We want to get off our chets before we get
into the positive segment after the ad break. No, well, marketing,
which we'll talk about, but I I, yeah, I guess we hit
on everything there. We'll mention the Russell Westbrook going four twelve eight points,
not trying to pile on, but he takes twelve shots. Kawhi takes fourteen.
It's just it just doesn't make sense. It's just it's not a recipe
to win games. And I just I understand you, Like I said,
you can't script the whole thing. I get that. But if you see
the same thing again and again and again, something's wrong. Well Russ is
one of the guys that has to sacrifice. If Paul George is going to
take twenty six shots because he's hot, that's already taking shots away from Kawhi.
You have to let Kawhi get to at least eighteen shots, I think,
please, absolutely, So therefore, sorry, you can't take as many.
And Russ missed some easy ones in that game, and there were some
great plays too where they found him cutting to the basket, Zubots and Terrence
Man for dunks. But overall, and I know some people are gonna say,
well, Russ was on the court when they made the run and look
at his plus minus, and it's like, guys, Jokics wasn't on the
court at that point, Like that's when you have to worry. That's the
minutes you were trying to win. And overall, the starting five against Denver
starting five I think ended up winning the minutes ever so slightly in the first
and third quarters. That's encouraging. That's a good sign because the starting five
overall has been awful for the Clippers, and their offensive rating is ninety.
The worst offensive rating by a team in the league is one oh four,
and the Clippers starting five in the last five games with James Harden is ninety.
They're shooting thirty eight percent. Those four Hall of Famers with zubots are
shooting thirty eight percent in about sixty minutes. That's starting five so far.
How that that's almost impossible. That doesn't even feel realistic at all. What
is for you? Forty three percent would be crazy low. Thirty eight percent
from those guys. It's not clicking. It's not clicking. It's clicking down.
As some people would say. I think we can all agree it's clicking,
but it's clicking down. But there is some good stuff to talk about,
which we are going to talk about after this ad break. Some people
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one. All right, we're back in on clips and dip. Look.
In segment one, we talked about what's going what's going on, what's what's
been going wrong that loss to the Nuggets. Obviously, now we're going to
focus on a few of the good things. There are a few, and
part of that is also an addition that the Clippers did make the day that
we're recording this. So yeah, I guess before we get into Tye Charles,
you know, bring us back up. Click, We've been clicked down,
Click us back up? All right, what are some things that we
can appreciate and look forward to from this Clippers team? So Justin Russo,
fantastic beat reporter for the Clippers. Go follow him at fly by Night on
Twitter, he tweeted out some stats that I know Will is going to be
excited about. In terms of PJ. Tucker and we talked about Norman Powell.
Am I the PJ Vandwagon. Now, I don't know how I got
that. Your hot was that he should start, So that's how you got
it. I think that's fair. Oh that was wild And I'm a big
PJ Guy. I posted the footage of him guarding Jokic and he played him
Will last night. But you didn't say he should start well. Only Will
come up with something. Absolutely, But so Justin Rousso treated this out.
They found something with Norman Powell and five out lineups. There is a caveat
to this, which we'll talk about, but they're plus nineteen and fifty eight
minutes when Norm Powell is on the floor without a big. It's been minus
sixty two in one hundred and eighty six minutes when any big is present with
Norm Powell, with Pale or PJ Powell. Last two games, they're plus
eleven and twenty eight minutes in five out lineups with one hundred and twenty eight
offensive rating with Norm Powell in a five out lineup without Mason Plumbley or Zubots.
The flip side of this, the defense has not been good. It's
one hundred and fourteen defensive rating and one hundred and ten overall with Powell in
those lineups, so you're just kind of hoping the offense is crushing in.
That's not bad. But Norman the five out lineup has been good like that.
We've talked about the spacing with Norm maybe starting or something like that for
one of the guards, and so there's something there. And then add on
that is PJ Tucker not as a four, so PJ Tucker as the five.
A take that Will said, maybe PJ Tucker should st art PJ Tucker.
They're minus one in forty six minutes that Tucker plays without a big,
which is not bad all things considered. In the six game losing streak,
that's not that bad. It's minus thirty six and forty seven minutes when Tucker's
with a big, So like it seems like there's a clear signs it doesn't
make any sense. I can't the other It doesn't make any sense to play
to play PJ Tucker with another day totally. I texted us is Shuck multiple
times during games. It doesn't like, why are we doing it? Doesn't
know? We talked about it the other day. Here I'm like, you
want to play him at the four if not the five? Where else can
you put PJ Tucker. That's the only place. So these two stats lead
me to believe that if Norm is out there is the one or the two,
and PJ is out there as the five, Hey things might not be
so bad. Is that crazy? What was their defensive rating? Again,
it doesn't matter, okay, so does one. So the defensive rating with
Norm Powell and a five out lineup is one hundred and fourteen. Sorry,
not that one hundred and ten? Not crazy if the because because also these
lineups are there to score, right, Like, if Norms scored, that's
what we want in these lineups. We're like, it's not that's borderline top
ten or around tenth defensively, Okay, it's not, like, but they've
also been shooting a little crazy, So like it is a small sample size,
but the offense is there, and the Clippers offenses look bad all the
way around. So like, I'm with it. Let's get these norm at
the two PJ at the five lineups, put one of choir PG out there.
Fill in the rest. I'm here for it. We need wins.
Let's do that, right, Like, I don't know, I just wasn't
sure if PG counted as playing five out. I know he hit a couple
of three pointers and they were big shots against Denver, but you also stepped
out of bounce on one. He hasn't exactly looked comfortable. Means, yeah,
I was thinking overall, right now is one thirteen? Yeh, Like
it's the same. It seems the same. Defensively, Tucker at the five.
Yeah, I if you're going to play him, that's where that's where
he has to play. He can't play with another non shooter out there.
It has to be four guys that can shoot next to Tucker to utilize,
you know, his defense, his hustle in a corner three here and there.
Well. Also, did you guys see the article from the Fantastic OC
Register If you're not subscribing, go ahead and subscribe about PJ. Tucker wanting
kind of more minutes than to be a glue guy. Yeah. I heard
it was framed. I didn't read the actual quotes. I heard Lucas Hahn
talking about it on the lob the Jim. It's a little pushed up with
that. It's like headliney, of course. But I don't think PJ.
Tucker would be mad if he was playing the because we're we added we're seemingly
going to add Daniel Tye in two days when he clears Waivers, which is
like we're kind of up in the air, so like, I really hope
we don't play Tyson Tucker together because that seems like a nightmare too. Uh,
but I think PJ would be, I don't know, playing at the
five, like he's getting cooked at the four a little bit. Well,
it's just if he's at the four, that means there's another big that means
zu Bots is next to him, and therefore there's no spacing. That's not
gonna work. Yeah, it only worked with him, b because you're talking
about a completely different then beats. Yeah too. But I'm still this isn't
a huge revelation to me, PJ Tucker. Here we go, we found
our guy or something like that. I think at best he should be playing
about ten to fifteen minutes a night. Well, sure, in a perfect
world, a perfect world, Julius Randall wouldn't have bull rush Mason Pluckley's lower
body. But that's about what he's been playing, right, I don't know.
But with Ty's gonna play PJ, which we all know, it's kind
of like Marcus Moore's Part two a little bit. But Pj's better at the
five. I just hope this happens. I just hope this continues to happen
while we work out Daniel Tyson's fit with this team too well. I think
it was smart against Denver. He has a history of playing Jokic tough.
There's other guys though he can do that with San goon Is Baby Joker.
They're taking on the Rockets on Friday. I do think there's real utility and
usefulness to PJ. Tucker, unlike with what we saw with Marcus the last
three months of the season. Let's just be honest about it. I think
it's very different. PJ. Tucker is playing hard, defensively, is out
there, even at his age, moving pretty well. Yeah, I think
he has value. We got some small sample theater as well. Russ PG
Terrence Kawhi PJ in three minutes plus five against the BLUs against the But that
lineup, I'm also not mad at the idea of that lineup. That's not
the craziest sounding lineup, No, I was. I was happy when they
got PJ. Tucker. I thought coach lou would find a place to put
him in. What do you mean, Uh, he's been one of my
favorite players, how darre that's fair? Well, are you like Carl Tart?
Are you going to get the jersey? I think Carl Tarts aren't get
jerseys for anyone anymore too old for that ass. But uh yeah, I
like PJ. Tucker. I like his mindset. Do you have the exact
quotes? Though from that article, one of them sounded a little bit worrisome
with how many minutes he was looking to get. But let me log into
my subscriber log in. Yeah see, I I mean that's fine. I
just I hope he's not going to be too disappointed because right now he's averaging
fifteen point seven minutes per night as a Clipper, which is understandable. Yeah,
if you will, Wait, what I didn't miss signed? I forgot
about the OC what people always do bro get about Bill Pluckett, I don't
think. Okay, yeah, so I think here's the quote you're talking about.
Tucker, however, isn't crazy about the limited minutes he is seeing with
the talent laden Clippers. In five games, he's averaged twenty minutes. Oh
sorry, let me get the quote out you're about to say. And in
five games he's averaging just fourteen point four minutes and played thirteen minutes. It
feels like twenty. He's hoping to play more. When the Clippers traveled to
Denver on Tuesday to take on the defending champion Nuggets. Here's what he said.
I went from thirty minutes a game starting to playing ten minutes coming off
the bench. Tucker said, it's a huge adjustment for me. I probably
have the most adjustment than anybody. Okay, but I'm a professional. I
come in and do my job every night, do my job and leave it
out there on the court in the time that I get. So I think
I feel Adam's trepidation based on that quote, because it's like, I think
it's tough when a guy's talking about how he wants more minutes and he's like,
but I still do my job well, and it's like, well,
it maybe seems like you might not if you're not getting as much minutes,
because that's where this conversation starts, just because you can't. I mean,
you know, like I said in my wild take, like he could be
in the starting lineup. I feel like you have to find especially when you're
down a big you have to find ways to make him the most effective he
can be on the floor. It's just never gonna happen with subots, So
I don't I'm just thinking what would he be saying if Mason Plumbley wasn't out
right now beginning no minutes? What are we talking about? Like, he's
been here a week and a half. Like I like the guy too,
But what was the part about sacrifice? Yeah, well, he's got the
hardest role of anybody. I don't know if that's accurate. So I think
we should maybe keep PJ. Tucker quote watch going. That might have to
be something. Shout out the OCI registerers who mind. I just can't believe
he's whatever. It's a wild quote. It's a kind of a crazy Shout
out Janis car she took over from William Swanson over for the Clippers on the
OSCI register. Shout out Janis. This is a great piece. So let's
talk someone Liken to my best, dude, this is a positive segment.
I brought a lot to the table. I'm arguing against two angry brick walls
right now. So let's talk Daniel Tice, because you guys might have to
convince me that this is a this is this is a positive move. We
haven't really like he's going to clear waivers and if all things goes well,
I believe it's Friday, he can sign with the Clippers. Or something like
that. How are we feeling about this addition? I mean, yeah,
originally we were like, oh, how could they even get him? He
makes nine million dollars and we were all complaining to their brick in the wall.
Were all complaining about, well, why haven't they made a move yet.
Well, it appears the front office wasn't just sitting on their hands or
something. They were waiting to see if he was bought out. He was
so smart on their part. It looks like that's what's happening. I'm intrigued,
honestly because I was a fan with him with Boston. I don't know
where he's at physically though in his career. I know he's just thirty years
of age, but I think he's had some injuries. People have talked about
his play in Foba this summer and how good. Yeah, so I look
obviously it is as low of a risk as you can get at this point.
So I'm not hating on it at all. And he does have some
of the skill set you'd like to see, especially now with James Harden in
the short role. Like someone tweeted out like he's going to be here to
be in the pick and roll and I'm like, that's great, like that,
that is exactly what he's going to be used for, is the play
connector He's going to play very up tempo defense and you know, set the
tone there and stuff like that. I'm still just not seeing how it helps
the size problem with the Clippers. It does fill in, well, it
plays big. Yeah, it fills in one of the six to eight height
you know, roster holes we had losing the Tomb and Roco and stuff like
that. So and he does play big, but I hope he plays big.
I just hope it works. I don't know exactly who the alternative would
be. I think we talked about Nerlin's nol on here, but ty doesn't
want to play like that. He's you know, I bet like Daniel Tye
is gonna be on the floor later in games. And I think maybe some
of us are expecting or want to start because he helps the offense more than
he helps the Clippers defense. And I think that's kind of I think that's
fair because that's what ty preference is. Yeah, I don't know. My
thing with this is it This was another one of those ones that felt a
little bit inevitable, so it wasn't necessarily like a surprise and sign. I'm
glad that they did address it. I'm glad that they didn't weigh any line
because you know, it's just apparent they don't have the size. And while
this isn't a seven foot it was kind of the best we could do.
And yeah, I mean, given the like the buy out market and stuff,
obviously this isn't I mean hoping that the nothing has gotten worse with the
Mason plumb lea timeline or what that injury is projected to be is reevaluated,
and like yeah, so you know, like so assuming that that is still
like on a similar timeline, it's not something you want to you know,
like obviously you can't really even ship out any more players or certainly certainly any
assets to fill the whole of of you know, like a of the backup
center. But I am glad that they addressed it. And getting him for
nothing, essentially you know, just pay is Yeah, I mean, I
I cannot think of of a better like realistic move. Yeah, that's a
good call. Does anyone else feel like he looks a little bit like white
chocolate? Jason Williams, let me let me we have the shaved head I'm
watching highlights right now Germany versus USA at FOEBA, and he did box the
hell out of Mikhale Bridges put him into the stanchion almost. So yeah,
we're gonna get that. That's gonna be good stuff. You're concerned, And
I love the numbers you put out earlier today, Chuck, but just people
getting overly excited about his shooting potential. Please lay out the numbers because I
thought that I found that interesting. He's not as much of a stretch five
is drum Man Carl Is like he does not have Twitter that I rewatched that
clip. I am. I've never sounded that disappointed, I think on this
podcast. And when I went Andre Drummond anyway, Bro, no, he's
not. He can't shoot threes. So Daniel Tice, a lot of people
were saying like, oh, he can stretch the floor, like he's gonna
be a good stretch big to have out there for the spacing, and that
is not true over the last years, over last two full seasons, so
not counting this one where he has one appearance, forty one percent of his
attempts are from zero to three feet from the basket, so a hefty amount
of his shots come right at the basket, twenty percent have come from three
to ten feet and he shot sixty one percent there. Good, good,
good, good, Daniel Tice right there. He has no shot attempts from
between ten feet and the arc, just none, like it's been like less
than three percent of his shots or something like that. And then in the
last two seasons, twenty five percent of his shots have come from three point
range, where he has shot twenty six percent. This is not a guy.
He's gonna do very good things for the Clippers. I think, I
think he will be a good fit. But he's not gonna stretch the floor
like this that we're not gonna see some you know, new like when Daniel
Tice is out there with the bench. We're not gonna see some beautiful motion
well playing will that's a good name. We're not gonna see some beautiful motion
offense opened up by Daniel Tye's spacing presence for the Clippers. And that is
also okay. But if you're thinking he's gonna be a stretch big, he's
not big and he doesn't shoot from far out, so he doesn't like Look,
man, if we could get sixty to seventy percent of what we can
get from Mason Plumbley, which maybe that's even asking a lot. The Clippers
can at least, you know, win some games and not complete and not
have a second unit that's getting like completely annihilated out totally. He will help
the second unit so much, which I am I This isn't a ceiling raising
move. This is a this is a floor raising. This is a you
know, there is no floor right now. The floor is gone. We
are falling through a house that was poorly built. There's no floor. Yeah,
this is the completely off and this is us attempting to pull the second
one. Yeah, we're Peggy Hill jumping out of the plane right now.
It's what it's what it feels like. The one consistent thing I'm seeing here
in these highlights versus USA, the Germany USA FOBA game is he is contesting.
Every time somebody attacks the basket, he's getting it hand up. So
he's probably gonna fall watching the highlights while we're doing a podcast, Man,
this is what's wrong with our generation. You can't even focus up for a
little podcast. You're always chatting with friends. Adam's in an internet cafe chat
room is nice and stuff. No like that that like the grid is nice,
Like this is a great signing from a like we need a little more
grit perspective. For sure. I'm curious to see what happens when Mason Plumbate
comes back, but that's hopefully not to some size and some options. Yeah,
and I think I don't know, he might not play PJ. Tucker.
Who knows. Probably maybe. I don't think it's not hard to read
those quotes again, all right, any other positive till until Tys has those
exact same quotes. Okay, so he okay, wait, we should talk
about that, because he's talked about that with the pacers. They have two
young, very good guys, and they're playing very well in front of him.
But he's also like, I came to the papers to play, I
had a gold medal. What's up with that? So I guess something to
keep an eye on. I hope there's not another I mean, I hope
I get to read another OC Register piece, but I hope it's not about
PJ. Tucker and Daniel Tice teaming up to form more minute squad. Well,
I would say this to people worried about his size, and you're on
point with the shooting of course, Chuck. But if we're talking about PJ.
Tucker and what he can do with the five with his size, well,
he's shorter than Tys. I know he's stout and he's wide, but
what he's six five? Yeah, Tys is six' eight. So we're
talking it's fifteen minutes a night. Yeah, he's also old the most important
staff for basketball. Okay, So no, so no more positive notes before
we get into the Clippers verse Rockets preview. Not like we did a pretty
good job with that one, no, I mean, what about the fact
that James Harden had twenty one and looked by far his best so far as
a Clipper. That third quarter was special. He had ten of his twenty
one. They he had nineteen of his twenty one points in the first quarter
in the third quarter, but that third he went on that run. There
was some excitement there. Him hitting that three to end the third quarter,
we thought until Aaron Gordon knocked down that one with three seconds left, but
he had a nice blowby. He also missed a layup unfortunately in the fourth
quarter that would go big. I think some of that it's the Jokic effect,
but also I'm hoping that's part of the rust, that he's still just
shedding at the moment getting off, and that I don't know. I was
encouraged by the fact that he looked like seventy five percent oh, getting off,
he looked like seventy five percent of James Harden. Yeah, and he
scored from all three levels. If I want people to go back and look
at the shot chart from his game, he had two buckets right at the
left elbow, he had three right at the rim, and I think he
had four freeze or something like that. Beautiful get He scored his first buckets
at the rim for the Clippers last night, which is I was gonna say,
terrifying, but also good going forward. No, that what's more important
than that. The entire reason we think they're going through this transitional phase is
because of James Harden, and he's starting to come around. If they win
that game last night, I mean, which they easily could have, what
are the talking points going to be? James Harden looks much better. They're
figuring it out. Yeah, talking points. Well, because I'm bringing it
up Charles before the game, Yeah, yeah, exactly. So you're looking
for positives. I think this is kind of a big one. It is.
It's a very that is a very okay one. Turnover. Will's favorite
statussis the turnover ratio. What say you Will? That's pretty meedy mey rage.
All right, we're gonna get too Clippers versus Rockets preview. It's mid
season tournament. The Clippers I think, were the first team mathematically eliminated from
being able to win their group. Pretty cool, I mean, kind of
fun. First team in history. So we're gonna preview how they can spoil
the Rockets. Ads have been loud. We got ads coming up in the
Rockets Reviewing three two. What welcome back in Clips and Dip season two.
I'm Adam Ausland. We got Chuck Mockler and Will Updyke here. Of course
I'm one of the angry bricks in the wall. I'm just the second one
though, Will is. As we put Chuck and the Grinder bring it up
negativity in our positive segment. But important notes that I think Baird mentioning,
So this is an interesting matchup. On Friday, I know Chuck was doing
some deep dives on the Houston Rockets and we're all kind of wondering, how
have they had this big turnaround. We know about the Fred van Bleet signing,
we know about Dylan the Villain and his eighty million dollar contract, but
what's come together for them because it seems like they're starting to pair that veteran
leadership with the youth they've had, and it's working so far. They smack
the Lakers around, and they beat the Denver Nuggets, So two teams the
Clippers lost to, Yeah, I don't. I mean if you just look
at like the team stats, so their defensive rating is sixth, which,
yeah, that's where it's coming from. Because offensively, they're not lighting it
up at all. They're twentieth in points. They're seventh and three point attempts,
but they hit a below average amount, and they're seventeenth and two point
in attempts. Are their seventeenth and two point percentage, but twentieth in attempts.
It's like it's not like they're shooting some crazy efficient number. Their defense
has just been really, really good. They hold offensive rating though eleventh yor
just outside the top ten, right, but they're averaging one hundred and eleven
points in this game, which but that's why you don't go off of points
per game because the pace can flip can skew that right. Offensive rating levels
out the pace. You play at a faster pace, you get more shots
up. Put the gun away, I'm sorry, the guns out of the
holster. Now, boys, go ahead, Okay, go No. I
was going to point out the one thing I think they've had going for them,
And I don't know if it's fluky or not, but I believe they're
second in three pointers made against teams are only shooting thirty two percent from three
against them. It could be weird, wacky shooting variants and they're just getting
lucky so far, or their perimeter defense is elite. That to me is
the one thing that really stuck out. Yeah, it's it's definitely their defense.
Was I was going to get to, So, how can the Clippers
busted offense break this seemingly really good defense hit threes? Which is what teams
aren't doing against the defense that way, and the Clippers are top five and
three point percentage. If we're looking for some positives with the Clippers offense,
they are shooting I think just over thirty seven percent from the outside as a
team. Uh yes, thirty seven percent, eighteenth in attempts. So we
hope that that goes up a little bit and our average scoring is a lot
better than what the Rocket shoot you mentioned Segoon before. He's averaging nineteen eight
and six. He was like the basketball nerds Darling two years ago people were
like rock Every Rockets fan I knew was like, this dude is gonna be
the truth. He seemingly is so far, what are we looking at Zoo
against Igun? Because I think Zoo's gonna be pissed off about his four fouls
and not being good offensively against Nuggets. He was two for eight. I
thought he missed some easy ones. There's still miscues where Harden is setting guys
up beautifully. I think Paul George had a pass that he dropped or Harden
ran a beautiful pick and roll. But the other side of that is Harden
got to the lane and got a layup because the just thread of the pick
and roll running it with a Vitza Zubots, they stayed with him. Harden
was able to get that layup. That was huge for him against Denver,
But I just feel like if eats a Zoobots, you know, he had
seven offensive rebounds, Like, what are we talking about? Two for eight?
I could care less. He had seven offensive rebounds, thirteen boards.
He looked that was his best game to me, despite going two for eight,
that was the best to me Beata Zoobots has looked. And that's why
I'm a little bit discouraged by the fact he didn't play late. I think
he could have been the difference maker. So yeah, he might come out
with his hair on fire and upset that he didn't play late in that ballgame.
I hope he does. I hope he gets some kind of light minutes
or something like that. Will what are you looking for? The Rockets don't
really turn the ball over, which is tough, Like what what do you
want to see from the clips in this one? Another encouraging thing that we
didn't talk about last game, like overall low turnovers. Yes, they cleaned
it up because it was rough in the first quarter. I think they're on
pace for like twenty or something like that. Didn't they just feel like overall,
Hey, they're competing again, they're playing at a high level. They
lost the game, but it looked very different with the way they were playing
compared to losses against Memphis, Dallas, Brooklyn. You know, Yeah,
the juice looked a lot better against this Nuggets team. They do have the
two days off, which is sice and it's a home game. I'm curious
to see what the crowd is going to be like. But we kind of
talked about some shot attempts from the Clippers earlier, like, I feel like
it's got to be in tiers. It's got to be PG and Kohi at
the top of the field goal attempt tier. No one else can come in
this tier. Obviously things are going crazy. Terrence Man is on pace for
thirty nine again, or Russ is being a few Yeah, someone's on a
heater. Yeah, do your thing. But normal games PG and Choir up
here, then probably Harden, Harden and Norm. Then I would say,
yeah, like Harden slash Norm and then like slash dot dot dot Russ.
He can affect the game in other ways. He can pass, he can
rebound, all that good stuff, but field goal attempts wise, Lord,
I hope PG and Choir number one and number two for this game, just
for the process's sake, because also it's a good defense. They should be
shooting the ball more. And Russ would also just look better if he's just
like the issue is like just some of the shots selection is again borderline mall
practice, Like let's let's cut some of those bad shots out and you'll look
better and your assist numbers will be higher. My friend texts me during the
game, why does Russ throw a fastball to someone three feet away from him?
And it did make me laugh. I don't know if it's totally true.
This person has not watched the Clippers very often, but he was like,
it seems like Russ throws a pass to that really big guy, really
hard, really close with three guys around him. Said, You're not wrong.
Sometimes it does happen. Yeah, And I feel like there's gonna be
a lot of pushback and people are gonna say, oh, you guys are
Russ haters or something like that. I want Russ to succeed. I want
the teams out of you die. Yeah, I just I just care about
the team winning. And I think ultimately for them to have the highest ceiling,
Harden's got to be the third best player. I just think that is
the recipe for this Clippers team being a contender. It it has to be
more about James Harden. I think the ceilings lower with Russell Westbrook as your
third best guy because late in games. Coach Lou took him out late for
a reason. He tends to have some of those wild turnovers, just because
he's at his best when the game's at a faster pace and the game's gonna
slow down late. I commend Coach Lou for taking him out the last two
games late and putting in James Harden. No, it didn't work out unfortunately.
I don't think that's why they lost both ballgames. Though people are somewhat
misinterpreting some of the numbers with Russ. It's like, Okay, if he's
on the floor while Norman Powell is on a heater and has twelve points in
the fourth quarter, is that because Russ and therefore that plus minus? Is
that meaningful? Because it looks much better for Russell Westbrook just because he happened
to be there when Norman Powell was going off or Paul George was going off.
Maybe there's some correlation there, but I'm not so sure. Yeah,
it's I don't know. I kind of wanted to bring something back that we
haven't been doing from last game or from like this season. I don't think
the players. I don't think the players are realized we haven't been picking player
of the game picks. That's why we've been losing. There's no motivation.
They have no idea if for who we think is gonna be player of the
game. I hung my neck on the line for Marcus Morris last year and
look where it got us nowhere. But who are our picks for players of
the game. I am gonna go first, and I am going to say
this is easy. I'm gonna say Kwhi Leonard. I think he's gonna get
to the line. The Rockets do not foul or sorry, the Rockets do
foul. They foul like the fifth most times in the league. And it's
gonna help Kawhi. It's gonna help him maybe when he's off rhythm, it's
gonna get into a rhythm. We're seeing vintage Kawhi against the Rockets. Player
of the game Kawhi Leonard riverside, California, Adam, who is your pick?
They're gonna have some juice after they hear I'm gonna go with Big Zoo,
playing angry, playing big, hopefully not getting discouraged. They didn't come
back in that ball game. Use it as motivation, Big Zoo. I
know it's been frustrating seeing him not play late in games for quite some time
now, and that was one where I thought he certainly could have made the
difference. But all right, take it out on Houston, then dominate play
big. I love it, all right, will my player of the game.
Yes, we've gotten all starters so far. Take Bones. Oh did
you catch at the a little bit of drama with Bones and that NBA Central
account on Twitter. We should talk about that. So after the bigger Player
of the game, Well, it's Bones. I believe we've already picked it.
So, yeah, we haven't talked to Chris Hayes article. Yeah,
there's like apparently there's some dispute about, you know, whether Bones is a
part of the regular rotation moving forward, which Bones had some pushback against.
Yeah, he would be, because I believe the quote was that he was
told he was no longer going to be a part of the rotation moving forward.
So I think that he read the aggregated quote, which is why aggregators
are bad. Yeah, because the actual quote was that Tyler talked to him
and was like, hey, it's going to be five or six games.
He talked to seven players. Supposedly, we know that for sure one was
Bones. I bet one was also Zoo, but whatever. But the quote
was I think from Bones that Tyler said it was gonna be five or six
games while I figured out which, like isn't it makes total sense, Bone
said, he was, you know, obviously it sucks you want to play,
YadA, YadA, YadA, all the good stuff you want to hear,
especially when he was like one of the high points of the season that
absolutely totally wasn't a deal before the hard trade. And he responded as any
youngster does now when something isn't true with a little cap emoji, well cap
to let you know that it's not true. Adam described it us with that
emoji means. But I didn't think the article overall was super spicy, right,
like it's the spiciest thing was that Tyler I'm begging you. Uh.
The spiciest thing was that Tyler isn't married to the starting lineup, which not
a shocker. I didn't see that. Yeah, that was like really yeah,
that was buried in there because he was asked before yesterday's game by Andrew
Greife if he had thought about bringing Russ off the bench, and he said
no. He talked about the pace he plays with. They want to start
fast, tempo matters. Huh, not married to it. But that doesn't
necessarily mean Russ's bench. No, that could mean would be anyone could will
could get his dream. But yeah, it wasn't. I guess that was
kind of the spiciest part was that he's not married to the you know,
and everything else was like the stars know they need to sacrifice and they gotta
play with pace and kind of more of the same. But yeah, the
starting lineup thing. And then seemingly it's been what five games with James two
ish more games until Bones is back in the rotation. Does that mean Norms
then out? Because the point of not having Bones is because you don't want
to play small. You can't have him and Norm out there. I don't
know how they work through that. Well, you don't think they can at
him, but we might just see it. I'm just going off of the
reasoning behind it. But I get what you're saying, should should we bring
it up? Because I'm getting calls on this people are saying, oh,
actively the seat, Yeah, hold on, guys. I I was like,
you're giving them your home number on an oh, you want them to
play five big men. Yeah, no, I understand, but they only
have like one on the freaking roster right now. So I've been getting calls
on Coach Lou. Obviously, people upset last night was all about not playing
zoo Bots late. But some people have talked about him being on the hot
seat. And while I in no way want to see Coach Lou gone.
Yeah, they have lost six in a row. Sure, they have lost
five in a row with James Harden Uh, I think it's at least worth
monitoring the situation. I think that's fair because if they lost five more in
a row, oh man, I'll tell you why that. Yeah, I
mean yeah, if you lose five, if they lose ten in a row,
eleven in a row, I would not be But I just I don't
think that's gonna happen. I guess the point of this because I want to
put my vote of confidence with Coach Lou, because I do think he's the
guy to write this ship. He's the one that can figure out how to
make this work, and he's so unbelievable in a playoff setting. You know,
I just what matters more than that. I know the regular season has
been tough at times, and there have been some interesting calls. You're never
gonna agree with your head coach all the time, that's just unrealistic. But
people are starting to talk about it, and I just I want to see
it through with Coach Lou. I want Coach Lou to have a chance to
figure this thing out. And I'm not saying, Look, it's just calls
that I'm getting. Uh. I don't think anyone's reporting anything, Chris Haynes
or anyone else, but you lose six in a row. Uh, I
think it's at least worth bringing up. Will I. It's just again,
it's another one of those things like where what so, what's your big idea
for the alternative? Right? Where are you going with that? Who's righted?
Well, you could say David Blatt was fired mid season for coach Lou.
We're talking about ten games in Yeah, that would be disastrous. How
does that help anything? So it's kind of just something that's like looks so
like discombobulated and disjointed. I just I don't think that more unrest begets,
you know, something, something more cohesive. Yeah, I guess I'm just
responding to all the tweets we're seeing and the calls I've been getting about it,
Like, No, I don't think that's the solution to anything. I
really think if anyone can figure this out, it is coach Lou and they
will figure it out. But it doesn't need to start Friday. There's got
to be urgency back at home. If they play the same way they did
against Denver, well, if they had played that way against Memphis, against
uh I don't know about Dallas, but against Brooklyn with how under manned they
were, if they played the same way they did last night, they're winning
those games. Like it's one thing. It stinks in some ways because their
best effort happened to be against the defending champs, and maybe there's something to
that. Good teams and played down to lesser teams of times, and that's
been an issue. And you know, we were told that that like wasn't
going to be that wasn't going to be the game script this year, and
that just hasn't really been the case. I mean, so there's still they
blew out Portland, they blew out San Antonio. It hasn't been the case
since they brought in Harden. You know, you could say while they're trying
to sort through this and integrate him. But they they beat up on Orlando
like they have had some good wins where they look dominant. The game against
Utah on the road was tough. Their wins yeah, and that was fifteen
days ago. Their last win seventeen days were defeated in November. So far
are we talking are we talking to give no quarters standings? Someone was asking
about that, we were talking about the we were talking about the coaching thing,
and then it kind of I just want to push back against because we're
seeing so much of it on Twitter. I'm getting called no, I agree
the Tyler thing. It's like, okay, so we lose six in a
row. That's shitty. When's the last time a team added a guy added
as much gravity in what is going to be done with the team as James
Harden and then five games or ten games later fired their coach because it wasn't
working well, and then seventy whatever games later said this was a great season.
The closest thing that would mirror something like that would be the Lakers in
the Sports illustrated this this is going to be fun team with Steve Nash and
Dwight Howard when they filed fired Mike Brown early in the season for D'Antoni.
Right now, we didn't end up working. Kobe went out and they did,
I think, go like twenty eight and twelve their last forty games of
the season for everything fell apart in Kobe Tours Achilles, and sure they played
and got swept by the Spurs in the first round. But no, this
is not this is not the direction to go for more stability with this team
that they've been lacking. I don't think making a coaching move helps that.
And he's and he's in a contract here, aren't aren't we right about that?
Isn't Tyler in a contract year too? As far as I know,
he's extension eligible, just like Paul George, just like Kawhi Leonard. And
they didn't last year. I remember there was some talk about that because it
was like, well we got to kind of see which like, you know,
whatever you want to think about it. But yeah, firing him mid
season I would be a lot more worried about the end of the season if
for firing TYLERU. If Tyler was fined, He's the one who has a
creative enough mind to me to figure out how to make James Harden work on
this team and if tough decisions have to be made. Yes, you may
complain about his ten game fifteen game sample size, but I think it also
gets guys to buy in, to say, Okay, you gave it a
shot. It's not working. Now I know why I'm sitting and that kind
of keeps the peace. Yeah, because I mean, and also think of
the egos you have to manage. And I know that has a negative connotation
when you say the word egos, but if you're Paul George Russell, Westbrook,
Kawhi Leonard personalities, I think because I think what's a great work.
I think part of like being a coach, like like it or not,
is managing personalities. And there's different ways to do that. But that was
like one of those things that I never thought, like as good as an
X and O's guys guy as he was, like Doc Rivers was never good
at managing personalities. He was like some would say horrible at it. Uh,
but yeah, like and Tyler has that respect. A guy who's never
been a coach before is not gonna come in and say I've never been to
do it my way, and these guys are gonna go yeah, yeah,
Like correct me if I'm wrong, But I just can't. I can't name
a former player of his that's really come out and been like, oh,
that was like a bad that's a bad experience, that was a dysfunctional locker
room. That was not that I can think of. I don't know.
Sure everybody around the league. He seems to have the respect from his peers.
He's always voted as like one of the best in game adjusters in the
game. I think that should mean something to Clipper Nation, even during this
difficult moment, like it is still early, there's seventy two games left.
Maybe they're going through their rough patch of the season at the beginning, and
it's more magnified because of that because they haven't built up that equity with a
winning streak to start things off. Sure, ugh, I will say I'm
worried about March. I know I maybe say it every episode, but I'm
getting a little worried. Abot. We got some time, We have a
lot, don't worry, baby. Like the Rockets are on pace to win
fifty five games right now, do you guys think that's going to happen?
Talk to me after the game on Friday. I'm just saying like, nothing
more likely. This is a Utah Jazz situation from last season when they get
off to a hot start like that and then Peter off that idea the cream
will rise to the top eventually, and we're hoping the Clippers are part of
it. What was it Chicago like two years ago where it was like,
Chicago are the Bulls? Actually when de Rozan came back and it was like,
oh shit, every clutch shot possible. Yeah, yeah, that's a
good call. Did we so we did? Have? We done game picks
for Friday. I think the Clippers. It's a six game losing streak for
a six game winning streak, and I think the Clippers spoil the Rockets.
God, I hope they do. We'll have to. I mean, I
can have nothing but optimism. They Yeah, I think they win this game.
I hope. I hope. So I can have nothing but option I
think they win this. I've been wrong every other time I've said, oh,
the streak ends, now it's over. We're turning this around. But
that's being said. They got this one, Streakers is now the money in
the bank, cash, cash the check. Now, don't even wait till
the first this is will Updykes Lock of the Week first Rock good what bank
guarantee and I think we're uh, we're all gonna be in the building.
I believe on Friday. I submitted my creditial re quest. Hopefully that gets
approved. Well, I'm assuming you submitted yours, Adam. They just they
just let you walk in whenever, even with the game's not happening. I
mean, it's not like or maybe it would be like Woody Harrelson and Kingpin
where he walks in all cool and then it goes for that guy's pizza slice,
like it's like, hey, that's my pizza rules. It's a lot
of the greatest movies. Also, that movie's so good. All right,
we have to get out of here. We're gonna have probably a double dip
on Friday after the game. Uh if we're if we're invited a pod this
weekend, maybe Saturday, maybe Sunday, who knows. The Clippers have kind
of some time off, which is interesting depending on how early we can get
called on the radio. Because going on a movie, going to a movie,
and I are gonna go, but it's on Netflix, but it's also
I would much for to watch it in the theater. I've never seen the
Fincher. It's David Fincher. Yeah, I'm not hearing great things, but
whatever, Hey, I just love I love my movies, love my popcorn.
So we will be back. Reviews help us over on iTunes. You
can find us on YouTube YouTube dot com slash at Clippers podcast. Try and
beat Adam to being the first comment. He's the only person on the internet
who still comments first, and if you can beat him, we'll give you
a shout out. Also, if you've been keeping track of the give no
quarter, please let us know. We've completely lost track. We'll get back
on track. We'll get back on track. Luckily there's only ten games.
I think we can figure it out. And fun gimmick we came up with,
I Wish You're gonna see me, crunch on the math on that great
and get like eight bucks it's not that many quarters. Arcade guys, hell
yeah we could. All right, we will be back. Thank you to
everyone. Adam one positive thing before I give the final send out. Please,
I'm not worried about Kawhi Leonard with his health. To me, it
looks like from the shot charts it's just about him getting more attempts up.
When he does, he's more efficient, so it's a rhythm thing. Get
him the damn ball and get out of the way. Please let him cook.
Let him have twenty five shots against the Houston Rockets. I don't care.
How about that. There we go. That's perfect. We will see
y'all later in the weekend. As always, let's go Clips.