Welcome in to Clips and Dip episode seventeen of season two. I'm Adam Moslin.
We got Chef Moffler, we got Will Updyke. We also had him
on a Clips and Double Dip episode last night after the Clippers started off the
season one in oh. Coming up on today's episode, we'll talk about the
shirts from last night. Now we'll talk about the Clippers and if they can
be three and oh by Monday. A couple of games over the weekend.
We'll preview both of them for you. But guys, how we feeling.
I know, we took an unbelievable picture that Bryan Seman took the picture.
The getty already Brian Semen took the picture. I thought that was funny.
But just getting Brian Stemen to be our photographer, yes, without him being
in the photo, very gracious. But Joseph and Brian were there. You
guys were at the Bachelor party and the vibes were immaculate because the Clippers got
the victory. It was great. That was We'll dive into it more,
but I mean that's exactly what we all wanted, I think from the Clippers
first game, for the most part, from the Bachelor party. Bachelor party
was very low key. We went to the game and then the game was
hype though, and then the game was hype Yeah, but no, we're
feeling good. Shout out to all the new listeners by the way as well.
If you're just getting all this bandwagon, you can find us everywhere,
including YouTube where you can see us do funny names. Uh Will, how
are you? How are you feeling this morning? I was a little slow
to get up this sporning. I'm good. Yeah, I'm feeling good,
recovering from you know, the stupor of a of a great Clippers win.
All right, so let's talk more about it. Can I just tell you
guys why I couldn't sleep last night? And maybe you'll think I'm an idiotcy
No, I don't both. Actually it's it's weird. I thought about tweeting
this out at like three in the morning last night. Not a picture.
It was just a thought that I couldn't get out of my head, and
it was this. And this may sound bold or over the top, and
I could be totally wrong. It's happened, but I was gonna tweet out
or text out x out whatever what if? Bones Highland is the key to
everything, and Kawhi Leonard has known this. I keep thinking, Yes,
O, Bones, we talked about a postgame a little bit will on Clipperstock.
Bones is the one guy that we really don't know his full potential,
Terrence Man, we have a pretty good idea with he's there. He can
be a star role player our championship team. Bones highlight now that he can
finish at the basket and it looks like it's real. It happened in the
preseason. I think he shot eighty percent at the rim. It happened in
Game one in the second half. He had that float over the top,
off high off the top of the backboard. His body controls there the defense.
He's competing on that end. As long as he's decent there what he
brings offensively, I'm starting to think the Clippers need to bring in anyone else
because that's gonna take away minutes from Bones Highland. I just I love what
I agree with what you're saying. Bones was phenomenal. Yes, that's where
I'm lost. Because Kawhi has befriended Bones throughout training camp, throughout the preseason,
they have been tied at the hip. He sees star type potential from
him. Nicholas batum Win asked, after I think the final preseason game or
it was during the practice week, who has impressed you the most? Immediately
said Bones Highland. It seems like everybody is recognizing WHOA, we have something
here. There is untapped potential with this player that Lawrence Frank saw and I
think the Denver Nuggets saw at times and their fans. But this is a
Clippers team that may have something, a secret weapon of sorts that nobody knows
about yet that could be flourishing this season. And I said it last night
to Will, but their ceiling could somewhat be tied to Bones Highland. Tell
me I'm crazy. I don't think you're super crazy. I think if the
ceiling is tied, we're in trouble. I said this last night, Like
I think that he is tied as a little heavy. I think he could
be a huge contributor. I think he Yeah, Like he can be a
huge contributor. If our you know, championship hopes are solely tied to Bones
being the ceiling racer, I would say that's that's reason for concern. Not
to say that I don't think he has an m I think the Bones,
no matter what, is gonna be the key of extending, you know,
whatever, with with all that we have left to extend two, one,
three, like with whatever that looks like, whether you know, if things
don't go well this year, we keep them trading one. Still way too
early to say we're only one game in, but I do see him being
a crucial piece. I think if this team is like dependent to get over
the humph on Bones being an all star level player that is that feels a
little scary. I don't know about all star level this season. But the
one thing you brought up was, and I disagree you said, I don't
think he can swing a playoff game yet. I think he can yet.
I think he almost did in Game three against the Phoenix Suns, but that
three pointer didn't fall from him. It went in and out in a game
they should have won. They got screwed on that take foul with Devin Booker
on Russell Westbrook causing a turnover. That was a game they should have had,
and Bones was electric. I think I think he's the real deal.
I don't know. I I think the players know it. I think they
see something in him. He was great with Russ. Last night, him
and Russ running the floor. There was that I think it was the behind
the back pass second quarter or first quarter or something. It was Bones and
Russ and it was just perfect, like this is this is a great environment
for Bones. Having the trust of Tylo is already pretty impressive. I think
that's actually probably impressed me the most. That ties like you're this you're the
backup point basically to Bones. I think that's a that's a huge I mean,
that has me hyped. And he, I don't know, man,
he the potential is what I think excites me the most. He's very good.
But this is like the first young Clippers young for sure guy we've had
in a while, right ever since. I'm not just gonna say he's gonna
be as good as Shay or anything like that, but age wise and a
young player to be excited about. This is the guy, and I'm excited.
It's it's a perfect situation for him. He doesn't have to do too
much. He's got a coach who will, you know, pull him if
things aren't going well, and you got to make good decisions usually if you're
gonna get extended run from Tylu. So it's all set up for him to
do everything Adam is saying, and I think it's more on the possible side
than the not possible side. Okay, I think his decision making has improved.
Everything looks like it's developed. He seems like a much more mature player.
I will say, like he passed him to Mason Plumbley for the little
reverse layup jam he had, the way he can set guys up. Nobody
knew he was this good of a playmaker but him. He said when he
came in he thought of himself as a point guard. He doesn't lot confidence.
We can all agree on that, so I'm not surprised. He's like
the opposite of Luke Canard. He gets in the game and he puts them
up immediately. He is hunting for his shot and he doesn't care who's out
there. The guys love it, though, well, because he's playing control.
You guys are saying, he's doing it in a way where you're like,
all right, that makes sense. It's like it's like when you're arguing
with someone and you're like, I don't necessarily agree with you, but I'm
following how you're getting there, and I'm not really mad at the process.
So I don't disagree, but I don't agree with Bones. You're like,
yeah, go for it, man. None of this looks truly insane,
so let's keep it up. Six of eleven, seventeen points, three of
eight from distance, more threes in one game in the regular season than he
hit throughout the entire preseason. Three assists, just two turnovers. Oh and
by the way, that ankle turn looked bad in preseason game number four when
he had twenty five points, and he came back and was absolutely fine turning
the corner getting past guys that he's everything that they have needed in some ways,
like, hey, it looks like he can supply some of them Reggie
Jackson did during that playoff run in twenty twenty one. He's also off the
injury report totally, which is good. He's not questionably, he's not anything.
So he's good to go for the weekend. Yeah, he's I mean,
I'm excited to see him. It's gonna be you know, where Bones
is really gonna be valuable. And the eighth game in March, when we
have nine more to go, we have seventeen games that month, which is
something I'm gonna harp on all season. Bones is gonna be huge during that
month. We need the young legs. He's gonna get his most, you
know, minutes per game in that month. I would not be surprised by
a fair amount towards the tail end of it. So I'm excited. Hey,
there's gonna be growing paints. He's gonna have a game where he has
eight turnovers. I'm fine with it. Guy ready for the playoffs. I
think he has it. He embraces the moment. I'm telling you that three
pointer was about to blow the top off Crypto dot Com arena in Game three
against the Suns last year, and it's just rattled in and out as Bowles
was starting to take over the ball game like he's incendiary, because he's if
he's hot. It's not like everyone else needs to look for him and find
him and get him the ball. He's nobody gonna have it in his hands.
He gets to the ball, he's like a middle linebacker. Like he's
getting to the ball. He will be around it. I just can't believe
what we're seeing from his playmaking. I thought his defense was better than advertised
last year, and it looks even better this year. And the way if
he can finish at the rim like he has been so far. They have
something special. This is somebody that can change the trajectory of the Clipper season.
I truly believe that. Maybe I'm sleep deprived and a fucking idiot.
I don't know, but last night you've ever had you said John Wall is
gonna shoot forty five percent from three. This is way more level ahead of
than that. I think it was above thirty eight percent off Chuck. You
see, I can't have nice takes close Every time I do, you'll bring
out John Wall or something. You know what, I could dig in your
closet too, if you like Chuck. Absolutely, it's filthy in there.
All right, let's talk Paul George and Kawhi? Who the Clipper season does?
Uh? You know go? By way of now, the ceiling is
tied to Bolls PG twenty seven three six, four steals four seven from three,
Kawhi twenty three five six and one five of five from three. They
were playing good defense as well, Like, there couldn't have been a better
way to start this season for two, one three than how they started it
last night. And I don't really know what to say because it's not that
I didn't think they would do it. I guess I'm just happy that they
did after what we talked about, like showing all the stuff that they've been
saying all this offseason was real. And I know it's only game one,
but it was still. Yeah, through one game we got the you know,
we got the bill of sale of one was actually of what we were
actually promised. And I thought Paul George, especially on the defensive end,
his hand like active hands really early. The way he was like getting into
guys, going after guys, I thought was great. You know who knows.
Hopefully they can keep up like this pace and trajectory for at least a
sizeable enough portion of the season for the Clippers to have a decent seed.
But yeah, I mean so far like at delivered as promise delivered on the
company lines that we heard all preseason long. Last show, I brought up,
well, what if because somebody else I think it was Law Murray mentioned
it. What if expending all that energy on defense leads to its tired legs
on offense? Would the Clippers end up shooting last night fifty three or no,
fifty two percent from the field forty seven percent from three They knocked down
sixteen to three pointers. Whatever RUSS there was in the preseason, it was
over within the first five minutes when it was either a dunk or a three
pointer. They had seven dunks in that first Going to say the dugs were
insane. The first play was a dunk Paul George to Kawhi. Believe the
first three field goals I believe were all dugs. If I'm not mistaken,
Yeah, I think Zoo had the first points to the season with no It
was Kawhi underneath the baseline from Paul George. Yes, seven of the eight
opening buckets were dunks. The Clippers averaged less than five dunks a game last
year a game. The blocks also to start things off. The first thing
I talked about on Clippers Talk was four. Yes, Zoo with four,
but he had one on Scoot right after. Kawai had a block on Scoot
the first or second possession of the game. Welcome to the NBA, young
man, tough team to play your your debut. I don't hold his debut
against them, but you gotta go against Kawi. Zoo like first game,
very motivated and he turned it around. Though I mean it was it wasn't
garbage time. But you got to give it up to Scoot. It's like
he had a rough first half. He could have completely shut down. Uh
you know, he turned he managed to mind something out of it, which
I do think is promising for the young man. So I will I will
give that to his credit. Yeah, you know, and we were playing.
I also was kind of shocked that half the Blazers looked they do not
look Jeremy Grant and gone from that team. Brogden looked great, Rodin looked
great. Jeremy Grant is too good. They're being underwhelmed. I'm really like,
I really am curious about what the future of that is. But sorry,
we're getting like we're getting a little lot of topic. Sorry, what
did we so? Roco was the starter with Terrence out? How do we
feel that that worked? It made me more excited to see Terrence. I
know it worked well, but I'm more excited now to see Terrence just because
there's a little more pet well everything to me. I mentioned the Kawhi block,
the Zoo Bloc. Early everything was contested at the rim. There were
typically two guys waiting for them, even when they got called for some tough
fouls, some tiki tac stuff. Roco got called for one of them.
He got called for being out of bounds on a strip on Anthony Simons.
That should have been a clean uh steal because he actually didn't step out of
bounds. I thought Roco was phenomenal defensively at the rim. I thought he
was exactly where he needed to be, and he helped set the tone as
well, and just shrinking the floor because he's out there because of all that
wing stop length they have. And Russ was very good too, who was
on scoop. Russ was on him a lot, so they were all fighting
through screens. Everybody was playing hard. Yeah, Covington was kind of the
perfect blue guy, Like five four and two with three steals. You'd love
to see even one more three point attempt go in. I think he was
one for four. But like that is that is what we need from him,
right, Like it doesn't need to be it really doesn't need to be
more than that. He's there to help alleviate some of the defensive load,
you know, space the floor a little bit and and hopefully be efficient from
three. But like we don't need much more than that. He's there to
fill in the cracks he has. He has the old batoon role you know,
or you know what Batoon's role could return to be in closing lineups are
in smaller sample sizes, so I think that it worked great. I still,
you know, I would have loved to see with Terrence being named the
starter Terrence opening night, but glad that Robert Cumington got an opportunity, and
much like in the preseason, he looked pretty good with the starters. So
yeah, it's nice to know it's an option. I feel like we all
felt a little down on the future of before for the Clippers and like how
they were going to consolidate that, how they were going to do that.
And I think we honestly got a lot of answers with Marcus Morris being in
street clothes last night. So yeah, in bid I called it. I
called it. I thought he was gonna catch a couple lot of d nps
this year, and it seems like he's on that track. We also learned
ooh Adam, when we're not recording, we can tell you a spicy little
nugget that we learned about about one Marcus Morris. So a lot of good
stuff. Is there anything that we maybe take away with not his rose colored
glasses. Ice, We'll get the anphant out of the room. Break the
paint? What are we doing? What are we doing with this? What
is fifteen dunks? What's your problem is? They broke the paint? I
have a real problem with I can't. I said on Twitter that if we
were if we did an episode yesterday, the first twenty minutes would have been
about that shirt. So I'm not gonna say anything about it. What did
we what's maybe not the rosiest? I can't break the paint. I cannot
break the paint. Uh, what's maybe soon as they're not with the rosiest
colored glasses. Seventeen turnovers, but when you have thirty six f ing assists,
yeah, I can live with that. That was the most assist they
ever had in a season opener, and they were always making the extra pass.
Yeah, there were five or six that were completely unforced. Kawhi called
himself out post game because he had four turnovers. That's unlike him. Paul
George had four. That's somewhat like him very much. Yeah, that's three
of them. I want to say came in the first quarter and he started
to clean things up afterwards. But overall, it was the right idea for
the most part. It was poor execution here and there, but guys were
trying to get others involved, make the extra pass, find a Vitza Zubots
early and off, but keeping him. It wasn't just oh, give give
a beat to Zubos the first touch of the second half, get him an
easy bucket there. No, they kept him consistently involved. That was something
they talked about in the preseason at media Day. Came to fruition. A
lot of the themes all kind of reared their heads in a good way.
Last night. We saw them come through with the things they said they were
gonna do. Will said it postgame. I didn't just talk the talk,
they walked the walk out there. Will, what was your maybe potential not
super hype takeaway? I mean, honestly, like, outside of the turnovers,
I just don't have a lot to complain about. Yeah, it was
only Portland, which I guess is a qualifier and something. This Clippers team,
I'm like, I don't care. Where were these wins last year like
this? How many games did we have this much fun? Where it was
just an exciting brand of basketball to watch that was completely different from what last
year, year to this year to game one, it's all because of the
great shirt BA baby what I guess one other thing would be I I the
Kenyan Martin fitt is Now it's good call very it's very unclear. It's very
unclear to me which is and it's still very early, you know, it's
not it's not over yet and not unsurprising. Yeah, yeah, but I
didn't see anything last night where I'm like, oh, okay, he's got
a place here. Airball to a three pointer? Again, that was rough,
dude. I felt bad. That sucked. I think it was a
zero for four from the floor. Looks like more of a specialized situational player
than I would have thought. But it's early. He's been playing multiple different
positions figuring it out. He's never played the five, you know, I
bet, I bet kJ Martin has never played the five, like at a
level of basketball like this, you know what I mean? Like, that's
a tough, tough position to learn if you're kJ. I think the good
thing is he still has an elite skill as a dunker. A rim runner
like that is going to be there. Yeah, and he can still get
so much better and develop as the season goes along and then they can make
a decision on him contract year. He'll probably pick it up. Man,
what a what a way to start the season. A lot of people on
Twitter were hyped, Adam, how are the callers? I didn't hear uh
outside the one that just wanted to get his agenda across about not bringing in
James Harden. We don't need James Harden. I brought up right now,
what the fuck are you talking about? Man? Look, wot's tweeting stuff
out. We can't react to it. No, it's fine. I don't
look with the way Bones Highland is playing now. We did bring up Malcolm
Brogden earlier and that could be interesting too, if they ever circle back to
that with how good he looked last night. But it feels like there's more
targets now for the Clippers. Like everyone on Twitter was like, these guys
are gonna all be available before the deadline. You're like, great, So
we got other options, and I don't think they need a rush necessarily with
them, you know, with James Harden or Malcolm brog and they could take
their time see what they have adjust accordingly. I would like to see what
this group can do for ten to fifteen games. The old coach Lou sample
size. That's a good call. All right. Coming up, we're gonna
be talking if the Clippers can go three and oh by Monday, a little
bit of a Jazz preview as well as Wemby and the Spurs. We do
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preview in three two one. All right, we're back here on Clips and
Dip. We talked a little bit about the Clippers game one victory, perfect
record so far, back in one thousand. We love it. Gonna keep
a rolling looking ahead the day that you're listening to this, if you're listening
to it on Thursday, that the Clippers tomorrow are taking on the Jazz and
then they're back home to take on the Spurs on Sunday. What are we
thinking, fellas Chuck, I'll kick it to you. Do you think the
Clippers or do you think Monday morning the Clippers are a perfect three and oh
I do. I think I might be buoyed from Adam's rousing take about Bones
Highland that has me hyped up. I think I'm maybe a little too hyped
up still from the game last night, but obviously the tougher game is against
the Jazz. Injury reports fairly clean. Terrence Man's out with the ankle,
Brandon Boston Junior out, which is tough just for him. But I'm feeling
good. I don't really know who's gonna stop Kawhi and PG on the Jazz,
on either of these teams. Uh, you know, Spurs are just
too young. I'm feeling pretty good about three and oh I'm yeah, I
would say I'm Adam Oslin level of confident in the Clippers this weekend. Are
you more worried about one matchup than the other? Yeah, the Jazz,
they're a better team. Yeah when you say three, and oh, I
say eighty two and oh okay, okay, all right, man, all
right. The Jazz game scares me just because it's their first road game and
they played so poorly in Sacramento, so you expect them to get Utah's best
shot their home opener, and they got run and that Malik Monk dunk that
happened in the game up at Golden One Center. It worries me. But
the fact that Kawhi Leonard and Paul George are available, no restrictions with how
good they looked and what they said coming out of that game last night,
We're not satisfied. A Vicha Zubats came on a post game with us and
immediately harped on how bad the fourth quarter was, the fact that the starters
had to come back in and I'm not even sure if they needed to,
but we owe a quarter. We all collectively ow one quarter into the give
a quarter jar. I also did the math on this. We're going to
be buying a hot and ready at the end of the season, is what
we're going to be able to afford with our quarters. So we all owe
one quarter into the quarter yard? Do we all eight point three cents?
Is that how it works with the three us? Oh? Each of us?
Yeah? Okay, even though it was just one quarter they lost,
that's for all of us. It's a solidarity thing, extended garbage time.
But whatever, No, that's fair. I'll take a check. Yeah,
the Utah Jazz. It worries me a little bit. It's just early in
the season. You don't want to have any letdowns coming off a big victory
where you imposed your will, something we rarely saw it all last season.
I just want to see them keep this same focus in mindset and them come
out and play the way they did in that first quarter. I want to
say the Portland trail Blazers had four points five minutes in. I'm pretty sure
that's the case, something close to it. Yeah, the Clippers were maybe
and Will You've talked about this post game, but it can sound cliche,
but having someone like Russ and how infectious his energy is getting into it,
getting the crowd into it, those dunks where he's ripping down the rim.
You mentioned it earlier, pass from bones. Excuse me, the net can't
rip the rim. It's always the net. You rip the net, you
break the paint, you give one quarter, usually at least. But I
think it permeates throughout the team, or it did in game one. I'm
interested to see what they look like because so much was made of their offensive
rating in those ten games with Russ, with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard,
but if you just took the last six of them where they were together,
it actually was really good. So it was four really bad games offense Will
be to start things off, even though they scored one hundred and seventy five
points against Sacramento. Weird, but their offensive ring wasn't good the first four
and then it was really good the last six. Where is that going to
level out to? Now? I want to see after ten games where that
could be, so we can just get a better picture or a clearer view,
more data, have more input, more evidence on what exactly this team
is going to look like this year. I've just that's what's so exciting to
me. There's a lot of unknowns, I guess, but most of them
are positives and what we expect to be bright spots will are they are?
We are we all waking up on Monday to a three and oh record?
Where are you at? Uh? Yeah, I'm feeling good about it.
I'm feeling good about it. You suckers, I'm kidding you. Absolutely the
Duke. So the Jazz got smoked by Sacramento in their first game. Clarkson
did Clarkson things another like another weird matchup. So yes, I was talking
to Charles about this, like last night. Some of the opening like some
of the Opening Day, not just Opening Day, but first games were really
well thought out by the NBA. You know, you have the Nuggets and
the Lakers. You have the Suns and the Warriors, you have the MAVs
and the Spurs and the Knicks, like you have things that are that are
thought out. And then for the Clippers, it's like, I don't know,
the Trailblazers, how about they play the worst team. I don't know,
we get no respect. And that's how I feel about like the I
feel that same way about like Jazz Sacramento. Like what okay, sure,
yeah, who was clamoring for this matchup? Don't worry, man, The
good teams and the gauntlets coming King's Clippers make more sense. After the highest
scoring game of the season last year, that would have been fun. You
should say they played the Jazz the first I don't know the preseason. They
did play the Jazz first two games in the preseason, and I was very
encouraged by that second game because the Clippers dagged them out once again with their
physicality. You would have thought the Utah Jazz would have said, Okay,
you got us this time. Now we're gonna come out you little fire underneath
us, and they still clamped them defensively. Yeah, what do we is
it just gonna be more of the same, uh? Walker Kessler. I
don't think is gonna be able to deter Zoo too much. I wouldn't be
surprised if we see another heavy double double from Zoo in this one and then
in another twenty twelve and then again. Who, who conceivably on the Jazz
is stopping quiet, Paul George, That is a great question. They used
to have some guys at that wing position. That comes simple, right,
Like sometimes it's like who literally looking at I'm like, I don't know who's
stopping that? Ingles Royce O'Neil are not walking through that door, Lod Mitchell.
Yeah, Gordon Hayward, Like, yeah, they are depleted there.
Gordon Hayward could play for that. I wouldn't mind if Gordon Hayward played for
the Jazz when we played them this weekend, Young Gordon Hayward before he tore
up his ankle. But did you ever see, sorry this is off topic,
did you ever see the Gordon Hayward shoe that was like inspired by barber
shops? That was like last year, right when he had the terrible haircut.
Yeah, let me look it up. It's terrible. Was it the
little barber shop pull the red and blue and yeah, it was like,
really, it was one of the worst candy cane things. Yeah, it's
terrible. I'll put it in the chat here. Oh it's on Siale for
an or Daitty Bucks. Alright, it's in the private chat anyway. Yeah,
I like, will what what's what's gonna happen in this game? Do
we think? Is it gonna I don't know if it's gonna be a blowout.
I I don't think. I don't think. I don't think it's gonna
be a blowout at all. I think while I like the you know,
while I like the Clippers going three, oh, I still stand by that
prediction. I think that this game is an actual test and is like the
right stepping stone for for sort of what they need and then you know,
and and then sort of an X factor in the Spurs and that it's a
young team and it's like, you know, so much is kind of they're
less scouted. I guess I would say they're a little bit less scouted.
But this Jazz team, uh, you know, solid team last year.
They're coming back with some continuity and yeah, they're like you know, like
Adam said there, they're gonna be eager to avenge a loss after getting smoked.
So I think that this is gonna be a decent test. I don't
think there's gonna be at It's not going to resemble Game one at all,
where they're comfortably leading by you know, twenty points, thirty points and then
you know, are are I'm hoping still that it's you know, starters aren't
out past the midway point of the fourth quarter. But I don't know that
we're gonna that it's gonna be that comfortable. Yeah, I also stand by
Will's prediction, and uh, I do want to mention that Rope on this
episode. Utah has a tough place to play because of their fan base,
and they have not forgotten about that game five and twenty twenty one where the
Clippers came in there without Kawhi and got that victory the dunk on Gobert.
I'm just saying the environment is not going to be easy. They're opening home
game. I expect it to be a tough game, But I want to
see how the Clippers in a close game execute down the stretch. I'd be
interested to see. That's obviously not something we had to worry about in Game
one. Sure, Yeah, and that'd be a nice test. That'd be
a nice see where we're at with the late game Mexico Houston stuff, Like
what happens just because all of a sudden they had fifteen points in the fast
break and they were averaged twenty points in transition the preseason. What happens when
the game slows down and that's taken away. Can they get back to how
good they were in the half court in past seasons or do you lose something
there because now you're more focused on fast break transition buckets and you, I
mean, the goal is to marry those two things totally. Yeah, have
a nice balanced attack and maybe against you know, the Blazers. It was
funny. Did you see the clip when I think it was Paul George hit
Kawhi with like that crazy bounce pass in transition. It was like the Clippers
in like it wasn't a fast break, but almost looked like it. They
inbounded the ball they took I think it was two passes. They were sprinting
up the court. Scoot like was looking around as Clippers players were sprinting by
him, and we got that layup. Those are those kinds of buckets and
we saw it in the preseason two was Zoo where it's just like simple,
it's a to B. Zoo's got the seal. Give them the ball.
You see, they're not getting back. We're sprinting down the court. The
Jazz are a great or a nice team to see if this continues, because
they're gonna get a couple more stops on the Blazers, will we got to
assumed. Remember Utah had about a week or two early last season where they
were actually at the top of the Western Yeah, people were really high on
Utah. Uh huh. They were the surprise Darling team the first month and
a half of the season, Like, whoa, the West is even tougher
than we thought. The Utah Jazz are in the picture, and then injuries
and the rebuild kind of started to take hold and things changed. But they're
healthy right now, and they do have guys that are very dangerous. Kessler's
tough man. Yeah, you need to bring your hard hat going up against
him and making sure you don't get beat up too much. On the boards
because the Clippers still with Roco in there. Yeah, they're a little bit
bigger than what Terrence man obviously, but they still need to collectively get boards
and that's also how you get it to Russ and get out there and push
the pace. Yeah. Yeah, Russ, by the way, deserves a
ton of credit for last night a plus thirty. I think it was only
the sixth time in his career he's been a plus thirty or better. That
was the team high last night. He had a pass in the first quarter.
I think it was on Kawhi's first three pointer in the corner where Russ
got all the way to the rim two feet in the paint. Two players
were there, one was lost. I felt like Russ could go up for
the layup, and he still kicked it out to Kawhi. Leonard there found
to begin in transition in the quarter for a three pointer, but he was
just really sacrificing looking for his shot and trying to get others involved. I
mean he had more assistant points thirteen to eleven. Yeah, which we were
just three turnovers. We love to see it. And then why don't we
look in a little farther ahead to Wemby in the Spurs on Sunday night?
Who do we want to see guard Wemby? Everybody? I kind of want
to watch everyone guard Wemby. Yeah, because it gets your shot. Dude.
It is fascinating to watch him play basketball. I've never used that word
to describe a player who's good, if that makes sense. A lot of
bad players you watch like this is a fascinating to play a basketball Wemby is
fascinating to watch because he's so big and so smooth. I do not understand
it. I bet you Kawhi rips him. I bet you as a block
or big steal on him, just to tell him a young man. I
did the same to Scoot. I know you were the first pick, but
remember that craziest takeaway he had in the bubble against Dallas in the first round
with Marianovich. Like Kawhi is also a freak in many ways with his hands,
so I want to see that match up the most. That's a good
call. Will Who do you want to see guard Wemby? Uh? Yeah,
I think it's kind of like a I hope it's by a bit of
a committee thing, but it'd be great to see. I mean, I'd
love to see like the like Paul George, Kawhi Leonard sort of baptism welcome
to the NBA, just running. I would love if they continue to do
that, just running running a hit us through the all lottery picks. So
yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to. Curious to see how Roco fars
defensively in this assuming he gets to start again, because I feel like he
also can cover, like he can cover some ground. I think it's a
really interesting It's it's a way different cover than anyone I can think of him
spending a lot of time on. I wish we could bring Xavier Moon back
so we could have a shot of Xavier Moon trying to guarda Kawhi. Also
Earl Boykins Kawhi. Also, the clip of the guy on the fast break
literally just doing a big dribble over Earl Boykins is one of the craziest highlights.
It's not it's not a carry that he just goes bullet, just bounces
the ball over. The other reason I want to see Kawhi in that game
is because it's against San Antonio and there's still a little something extra whenever he
plays him. Didn't you have a game last year where he had five dunks
against San Antonio? Nothing weird. It was like he was juice up for
it. Yeah. Uh, he caught yat the purdle. I know he
wasn't on the Spurs then, but like, yeah, Kawhi Leonard gets up
for those games and it's gonna be another home game. Are you guys gonna
be there. I'm gonna be out of town. I'm going back to Montana
for a couple of weeks. Man. I might be there on Sunday,
it depends. I got some other stuff cooking, so we'll see cominus.
What is that he's literally cooking? Literally, he's got a crock pot.
Yeah. Now this's gonna be a fun weekend. Yeah. Anything else you
want to say about this before we let these these Clippers listeners go. I
can't wait to watch Victor Wembanyama. Did you guys see in the highlights of
that game? We watched a little bit of the game. I watched a
little bit of before the Clippers game. Okay, I still understand it.
No one does not even what what's crazy is you see guys that have been
doing this at the highest level in the biggest moments, and they're like,
what the hell just happened? That block he had on Kyrie Irving where it
looked like when Minyama was covering half of the court and then somehow got back
to help out and block Kyrie, who is one of the greatest tough shot
makers in NBA history that you think would be able to figure out. Okay,
when Minyama is almost, you know, nine feet when he puts his
hand up, I just have to put my shot up a little bit higher.
Couldn't get it over him. I mean the picture that's gone around with
him in the preseason against the Golden State Orders where he blocks Andrew Wiggins.
It's like Andre the Giant freak Show type stuff. What are we looking at
that? We've never seen anything like this before. It's like KD merged with
Kareem abdul Jabbar. I've seen people make that comparison, or Tracy McGrady and
Kareem abdul Jabbar. It's Rudy Gobert and KD. Maybe for a modern day
comparison, but you always have to merge guys together when you're talking about a
comp For this guy in Victor Webman Yama, Yeah, I wish I could
see him in person. Will you should try and go probably see him from
Montana. We do gotta say a bit of it. We gonna say rip
to Bingo Smith, former Clipper and the reason that Ralph Lawler would say,
bingo on the three pointer was made for those of you who don't if you're
a new fan of the Clippers. Ralph Laller was the announcer for over forty
years before retiring in the team. Now pretending like you never existed, Is
there anything else we want to say? Oudam, what's your positive note to
send these Clippers fans out on? We're gonna go three and zero? What
else do we got? Uh? They need to handle business to prepare for
the game against the Lakers. That's the real, true first test. So
Paul George came out recently on Podcast P and said, we need to handle
business against the bad teams. Lock in against the good teams. It happened
opening night. They certainly took care of business against Portland. Keep that mindset,
keep that going, stay on schedule with getting enough fresh legs in there
by getting starters out in the fourth. I want to see more of that
where the game is over midway through the fourth, like Will was saying,
it's a good call. Let's get hyped up. Let's get ready for this
Lakers game by winning and going three and oh Onekeday, we're breaking the paint.
We're ripping the net. We'll be back with a tripod on Monday to
talk to the Clippers. First back to back because they go h Magic and
Lakers, which is kind of a pain in the ass. You know why
that happened, right, because you remember the Lakers last game against the Clippers
last season. They were back to back. We were in Utah the night
before and they complained after losing to the Clippers that they were tired. Schedule
is pretty crazy. Yeah, it was like Clippers fans were like, yeah,
your schedule's crazy. Let me tell you something, brother. Yeah,
oh you had a back to back. Yeah, please, that's difficult.
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