The game is over, Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Kai Letard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
on your hope for La Clippers basketball. And now your host, you,
sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. What a game for Big
Zoo is The Clippers win one fourteen to one hundred over the Pacers and he
has thirty one points and twenty nine boards. Welcome into your postgame show.
Coming up, we'll get the second half highlight your post game box scoring more.
But first back to your voice of the Clippers. Noah Eagle no witnessed
some history in downtown Los Angeles today, big time. I mean, he
joins a list of only elite elite company. With the fact that he had
twenty five, twenty five and three, he was one rebound away. I
just still can't believe it. I'm still I'm still upset. I'm not gonna
lie at him. He was rebound away from a thirty thirty game and he
was sicky tack foul. It is what it is, obviously, and they're
much more important things, and the most important thing here is that they get
the win, and he was the biggest reason why they got that win.
But at the same time, you just feel like a missed opportunity was there
for that additional stretch of history. Would have been the first thirty thirty game
in franchise history, already was the first twenty five twenty five game in franchise
history, nearly set the franchise record in rebounding two just three off of that
and one point away from his career high in points at thirty one. He
scored thirty two in that game at Denver last year. I mean, to
me, this is another proof game one that Aviatsa Zubos is one of the
most underrated players in the NBA plane and simple I think he's been underrated four
years, ever since they acquired him from the crosstown rival, and they completely
and he has talked about it a little bit of Oh. At first,
he said, you know what, that's all right, I'm excited, I'm
moving across town. And he heard that what they were saying about him and
how they truly felt, and he's like, well, that's just wrong.
I know him better than that. I know that I value myself much higher
than they value me. And so he's come here with that extra chip on
his shoulder and he's played like it really throughout his Clipper's tenure. That first
year he played through a broken hand at him. I mean, he was
that's him in a nutshell. And that's why when you said nobody deserves it
more, you're absolutely correct. Nobody deserves it more because he plays through pain.
He plays every single game. He's the iron man. He's the anchor
of this team. He never questions anything the coaches say. He just anything
they say, he goes absolutely, I'm gonna go do it with one hundred
and fifty percent effort. And he does that every single night. And so
to see him break out like this with thirty one, twenty nine and three,
it just could not have come for a better person. And now the
question remains, will he have it in him to go after a different thirty
thirty game? Can he get it in a different night? And well,
the Clippers actually decide to maybe start featuring him again a little bit more like
they did towards the end of last season. It was successful then, clearly
it was successful today and it guided them to a big win yeah, the
unsung hero for this squad, but they're singing as praises after the thirty one
and twenty nine performance. Clippers win one fourteen to one hundred over the Pacers.
I thought overall, even just aside from Big Zoo in his activity where
the Clippers ended up with sixty two boards to thirty nine for the Indiana Pacers,
the overall energy out there was different from this group. Yeah, I
would agree with you. I think Norman Powell helps set the tone in the
first half with going attack motor early. So did Terrence Man. He was
great in the first quarter, really got after it early, was making good
smart cuts as well, And overall it felt like the team just did a
good job capitalizing off of Pacer turnovers, recognizing when they had opportunities to run,
even if it wasn't on a turnover, just starting any sort of fast
break they could. Defensively, I thought the energy and movement was outstanding,
and even though the Clippers had eighteen more turnovers, they were more than capable
of overcoming it because of the way they locked in on that side of the
basketball. So overall, good energy game from La no doubt about it.
But more importantly, a good win for the Clippers to get to twelve and
nine. Clippers next game in Portland Tuesday night, first of them back to
back Portland and then in Utah tip time Tuesday against the Blazers at seven.
We'll have Clippers countdown at six. No Ego. Great to have you back
on the call, as we witnessed history with Big Zoo. Great to be
back on the call, and Big Zoo deserves every bit of it. We'll
see it. Can't wait out the safe travels by Fred covering up next second
half highlights. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of Big Zoo covering up
decks. Clippers went by fourteen over the Pacers. I Viza Zoo bouts with
thirty one and twenty nine boards and the win. And you're listening to the
Los Angeles Clippers radio that one easily, Hendy got it. Count it from
distance, the odds on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bright heavily contest it and
it doesn't matter on the home of your LA Clippers in your face, give
it up, sl when I'm there for attacking. Clippers win one fourteen a
one hundred over the Indiana Pacers in downtown Los Angeles has a Vizza Zoo Bots
has thirty one points and twenty nine boards, a historic day for the Clippers.
Still young center, welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin.
Still to come on AM five seventy LA Sports. We'll have Clippers talk for
you eight six six to nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety
eight seven two five seventy. You can also get to meet at follow Adam.
Ay. But let's get to second half highlights. After Big Zoo had
sixteen fifteen and three blocks at the half, Clippers led fifty nine to fifty
seven heading into that third quarter, and it was more from Avizza Zubots.
We got it more with the chess paths for four for the right wing has
a stage twenty pointer in and out and then rebot clip by up box clips
at down at two a Pizza sup Bots a man amongst boys, eighteen points
and sixteen boards, a season high eighteen points to give the Clippers a sixty
one fifty eight lead. The Jackson look with the mismatch shoes whipped to the
left wing, swinging to the four side corner bob it inside Oh Subots with
position and another slam of Fizza su bots. The right hand at Flush gives
him twenty Wall gets rid of it zu Bots attacking back and down Pump Bacon
slam of Zza soup Bots cannot be stopped. It's his world, We're living
in it. Noah Eagle on the call, Big Zoo six more points,
six more boards in the third quarter, as the Clippers started to open things
up. They led eighty two to sixty nine heading into the fourth and who
else more from Ravizza sup Bots, Jackson beatwo Man, Zubots and Pal against
Brosette, McConnell, Alibert, Bataz and Matt Rain Pounds pass in side Pale
to who else of Fizza szu bots. A little room service inside for the
two handed Flush twenty four and twenty one for Zoo and Isaiah Jackson has another
one. Aliberton on the front court hands it off. Heeled a straight away
three. That's why Laft rebounds subas twenty eight, two rebounds away from his
thirtieth and a time out call by Toronto lou Is six fifteen to play.
They're looking to get it to Zoo. Posting up on Jackson, he goes
down the middle of the lane, Subot floats it up, puts it in,
cut it in the fell tiltown, La is alive Suabouts with twenty nine
rebounds and twenty six points the first twenty five twenty five game in franchise history.
Subots with a screen of McConnell wall driving Laba towards the rim. Subots
save a Feta Zubats with twenty nine and twenty nine four forty two play.
He's one away in each category, A three short all Zoobots was an air
ball was looking for it one oh two eighty three, LA four thirty five
to play, twenty nine points, twenty nine poards for Zoobots. Vizza Zoobots
with nine and eight in the fourth quarter alone finished with thirty one points in
twenty nine rebounds, twelve offensive rebounds seventeen defensive rebounds. Clippers go on to
win one fourteen to one hundred over the Indiana Pacers. Coming up next,
we'll get to some of your phone calls on Clippers Talk at eight six sixty
nine eight seven two five seventy. Momentarily, we got Big Zoo post game
audio as well. What a victory, What a performance by Visa Zoo Bots
and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers right now now, I right,
yeah, oh, Paul George LA Clippers basketball continue pis in his pains as
he carries the three on the home of your LA Clippers, and everything is
all right. I gotta beat from Kim and she can do it all night,
calling up. I could see Big Zoo listen to this on the ride
home. Although Ice Cuba Laker fan so at one point he loved the Vizza
Zoo Bots. Last week they gave up on him, though. They gave
him to the Clippers for Mike Muscala and now at twenty five of Vizza Zoo
Bots with your Los Angeles Clippers has a thirty one in twenty nine game in
a big performance against a very good team from the East, and the Clippers
win one fourteen to one hundred over the Indiana Pacers. Coming up on a
M five seventy l A Sports, we'll have Clippers talk for you eight six
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seventy outside of Los Angeles, though we are leaving you until Tuesday night.
Clippers front end of a back to back starting in Portland tip time against the
Blazers at seven pm. We'll have Clippers countdown starting at six outside of LA.
Talk to you. Then in Los Angeles we got Clipper Stock. NeXT's
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Welcome into Clipperstock. Here's a new shore from town. You won't be able
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They're trying to win the whole thing. A postgame look. It's your LA
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podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Oslin. As Pat
Bev once said, big Bleeping Zoo beats a Zubos finishes with thirty one points
and twenty nine boards and the Clippers win one fourteen to one hundred over the
Indiana Pacers and Downtown Los Angeles. Welcome into your postgame show. This is
Clippers stocker amount of Moslin to eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy
eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Where
were you when a Vizza Zubots made a little NBA history made a little franchise
history for this Clippers team as well. No Los Angeles Clipper ever had twenty
five and twenty five in a game. Swin Nader did it in San Diego.
He had twenty eight and twenty seven back in nineteen seventy nine, but
of Vizza Zubots becomes the first Los Angeles Clipper to go for twenty five and
twenty five and would have been the first thirty thirty Clipper, but got a
tough call against him at the end. It was against t J McConnell and
he fouled out of the ball game with just one rebound. Shy of having
that thirty one thirty game on real performance and in a big spot against the
Indiana Pacers who had just won eight of ten. They're the four seed in
the West. Excuse me the East coming in that good and there was a
lot of trade talk Miles Turner could have East. The zoo Bots get moved
Zoobots just dominated this Pacers team and Miles Turner, who had nine points one
of six from the outside, three and nine from the field. Zubots had
at least I was tracking dunks, seven throw downs, at least seven dunks.
He's a certified monster. Fourteen of seventeen from the floor. He had
sixteen and fifteen at the half. The company put himself in of players in
NBA history who had at least fifteen, fifteen and three blocks and one half.
It's Zoo, It's Shack, It's Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Yao
man, and that's it. A Visa Zubots did that in the first half
of this ballgame. Was sixteen, fifteen and three, and then had six
and six in the second or in the third quarter in the second half,
and then had nine and eight in the fourth quarter and was just wrecking the
Indiana Pacers. They couldn't stop him. He had ten rebounds short of as
many boards as the entire Indiana Pacers team with twenty nine. Indiana had thirty
nine boards as a team. And I couldn't be happier for a player than
I am for a Visa Zubots, because this is someone who never complains about
his minutes, his role on the team. No one deserves this more.
He's been the unsung hero. Let's sing his praises. He's been one of
the most underrated players in the game. The Lakers let him go for Mike
Muscala, and then Magic tried to justify it by saying, well of Vizza
Zubots. You see in that first round series against the Goal and Say Warriors,
he couldn't stay on the court because they had to go small. Yeah,
who didn't go small against Golden State to try to match up back then
against that Kevin Durant Golden State team and Zoo was twenty two. Now he's
still just twenty five, playing the best basketball of his career and just had
the best game of his career thirty one, twenty nine and three blocks,
and the Clippers pulled away in the second half with a twenty to seven run
after leading by just two and a half. I mean they needed this dominant
performance. It wasn't just in an inconsequential game against lesser competition. They were
taken on the Pacers and it just lost two in a row. I don't
have Kauhi, Paul George or Luke Nnard didn't look great the last two games,
especially offensively. They score one hundred and fourteen points and hold the Pacers
to one hundred worst team in the league averages one hundred and four points nowadays.
They held the Pacers to twelve points in the third quarter, and while
Zoo finished with just three blocks, technically the amount of shots that he redirected,
I believe they have those numbers on NBA dot com somewhere. He was
a force. He was an intimidator. Okay, maybe that's hard to quantify,
but guys were afraid to go at him in the paint, and on
the other end, he was punishing the Indiana Pacers. I joke with the
old Shack Rebok logo where he's kicking his legs down on a two handed rim
rocker. I say that's a big Zoo. Today it was a fact.
I mean, Shack's never had twenty nine boards in the game before Big Zoo
has. I'm not saying he's as good as Shaquille O'Neill. I'm saying he
had an amazing dominant performance in a critical point of the season. Clippers reached
the twenty five percent mark. They're twenty five percent of the way in to
this twenty twenty two twenty twenty three year. They're down, guys, They're
taking on a good Pacers team after losing two in a row, and Visa
Zubos does this and you could see it from the outset. I'm tweeting early
in the game, Zoo looks different. Zoo's dominating. They're playing through him,
They're featuring him again like they did last season at times when they were
down. Guys. I think we're going to see more of this now.
I think he's earned it. He's earned the more minutes that he's been playing
this year over thirty played thirty six though to get to thirty one and twenty
nine boards and also hit all his free throws. Just an unbelievable, other
worldly effort game from a Visa Zoo Bots and the Clippers overall just rallied around
him. Terrence Mann was an attack mode. He had fourteen, seven and
five. John Wall was great. He had ten ten points but eight assists
and got those ten points on just six shots. Norman Powell had his moments,
had thirteen points in the first half, finished with nineteen. Marcus Morris
had a couple of three pointers in the second half. Reggie Jackson had all
five of his points in the fourth quarter. Didn't have a great game,
doesn't matter a mere coffee, had a crazy and one layup where he was
just reckless, abandoned towards the ram. John Wall had one two in the
first half. Clippers improved at twelve and nine, But what a victory is.
They head out on the road for six of their next seven, starting
Tuesday night against the Portland Trailblazers. Just a great vibe. I'm sure in
that Clipper's locker room we'll hear from Visa Zoobot's coming up and coach lou Let's
get out to Morris and Long Beach. So to start things off, first
year on Clippers Talk, Morris, what's up? Hey, look here,
I'm calling this that list you guys got, well, I got. I'm
questioning that list of thirty rebounds and George Michael needs to be up there.
But gutt me by Pettit and most of the loan stake the list again.
They got to be on that list. And I just want to tell you
something. When Bettman and Robin get back and look out, America. Now
we know we got some muscle in the paint. Get down the zoo man.
All right, Morris Zubats with the first thirty one point twenty nine board
game in the NBA since Dwight Howard did it in twenty eighteen. Kevin Love
did it back in twenty ten with Minnesota, Moses Malone did it in eighty
two. He was the last guy before Kevin Loved did it in twenty ten.
But Aviza Zubots becomes the first Clipper with a twenty five and twenty five
game, one rebound shy the first Clipper to have a thirty thirty game at
least, first Los Angeles Clipper with a twenty five twenty five game and San
Diego swin Nater did it first player with thirty twenty five while shooting eighty percent
from the field since Shack in two thousand and four. And just the history
just goes on and on with a performance like this today from a Visa Zubots.
All right, well all you have a moment, Let's pause ten seconds
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also at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy, Uncle Mark chimed
in and said, Hey, I know this is clipper Stock, but can
you talk a little bit about Haliburton In this game he shoots a flat foot
at three point shot. I've never seen anything like it, you know in
our spat to that with zoobots at thirty one twenty nine. So now it
is clipper Stock. You answered your own question alive. Burton's a great young
player, but today belong to Big Zoo. We'll talk about it more.
You'll hear from him and coach Lou postgame Clippers win one fourteen to one hundred
over the Indiana Pacers. Coming back, we'll get to your phone calls at
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it right after this on a five seventy l sports They at the school and
now you've fell Leslie Blu the jump. Henny got it? Count it from
distance? The odds on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bright heavily contested, and
it doesn't matter on the home of your La Clippers yourself. What are you
chooing me? Baby crazy show? I'm picturreing big zooms running up the stairs
like Rocky in Philly today. It happened in Los Angeles though, beats the
zoo Bots with thirty one and twenty nine boards and the Clippers win one fourteen
to one hundred over the Indiana Pacers zoo Bots, just one point shy of
his career high scoring wise sent it last season against the Denver Nuggets. I
want to say, in a back and forth affair against Nikola Yokich. But
after losing to Denver Friday night, Clippers bounced back in a huge way against
a very good Indiana Pacers team. They win by fourteen as a vizza zu
Bots dominated, patrolled the paint on both ends and just wrecked Indiana's plans.
You know, it was February seventh of twenty nineteen, that was the trade
deadline day, and I remember watching the ticker on the Evil four letter as
the Clippers had already made a big move they brought in. I want to
say, who was it at that time? And they already just traded Tobias
Harris. Now I'm getting that mixed up. But this was the day they
brought in a Vizza Zubots And I'm watching the ticker and the trade came in
late after the bell, and I said, what, that can't be right.
Now, they spelled somebody's name wrong. There's no way the Lakers gave
off of Visas Zuo Bots for Mike Muscala, who never even played a game
with the Clippers and had an ankle injury and wasn't ready to play. There's
no way. That can't be right. That can't be right. That's a
robbery. They're fleecing the league. You can't give away Zoobos for that.
And then he signs to a seven million a yeared contract way out performs that.
They just signed him to another extension, making Hi about eleven million the
next few years. Now, he's been underrated and undervalued and overlooked for so
long, not by the Clippers but by the rest of the league and by
his former team for sure. And at twenty five, he's playing his best
basketball right now, still getting better, still improving, and they're running the
offense through him today. And they did some of it last year when they
were down guys and it worked, they went back to it. Doc Rivers
used to always say the phrase feed the pig. Basically, that was his
saying of if it ain't broke, don't fix it. If they can't stop
it, keep doing it, keep feeding Zuobots. They kept him in the
game late. He had a chance to get the thirty thirty but fouled out
on a Tikie Tech questionable call that the Clippers, if they hadn't already used
their challenge, would have to try to keep Zubats in the game. But
thirty one points, twenty nine boards, Clippers win by fourteen over the Pacers,
and Zoobots just annihilated Indiana on the interior, as did the Clippers overall.
They had forty two points in the paint in the first half, an
insane number. And remember it's not as if this is coming out of nowhere
of Visa. Zubots has been playing his best basketball all season long. He
has been the best rim protector in the league. These numbers come from from
a few days ago, but I know he's still number one. A few
days ago he was allowing just forty three percent teams shooting just forty three percent
within six feet of the rim against the Vita Zoobots. The next best guy
when it comes to that rim defense, Christaps porzingis at forty nine percent,
a six percent difference. That's how much better Zubots has been at the rim
than everyone else. It's not hyperbole, it's not an exaggeration. He has
been the best rim protector in the league. It's not Porzingis, it's not
Embid, it's not Brook Lopez. It's Big Zoo tageous in Walnut. You're
on Clippers, Stop with Adam Aslin. What's up? What's up that I'm
a zoobot to the Clippers? Is that the greatest? And I'll look the
magic ever threw? Oh? Why you gotta do magic like that? He's
still my all time favorite player. But you know, should I be like
magic right now and be like, I'm not going to be here for these
magic Johnson the slanderous calls, because look I first guessed it, everyone did.
How could they made away zoo boats from Mike Muscala. It was nuts.
It made no sense. You had him on the cheap, he was
under team control, and then the Clippers kept him around for just seven million
a year, A starting center, a good one. He's been a good
rim protector. This is nothing new. He's just been even more elite right
now. It's it's wild. I'm at a loss for words right now.
Tagus all right, But do you think a little bit of Zoo's motivation was
all that Miles Turner for Zoo back trade that's been going on for a few
years. I don't know. I brought it up early on here in Clippers
talk like I like Miles Turning a lot, and he has been on a
heater, shooting over fifty percent from three in November, but he went just
one of six. And he's a really unique player because he's a rim protector
slash three point shooter, so a three and rim protecting d type of guy.
You just don't see that very often. Somewhat of a surge of Baca,
you could say to his game, but he's not nearly the rim protector
of Visa Zoo bots spin. Yeah, And outside of Zoo's dominating performance,
I've been liking Charrence Man's play of late and him he's been like driving with
authority, and I think he's the best Basseline cutter on the Clippers when he
drives baseline or cuts. Actually he always finds a way to finish. It
seems like that's to give me two points. So he keeps doing that.
And I think if the Clippers can go five hundred, play five hundred without
Kawai PG and Luke, they'll be in good shape when they come back.
So it's it's a little you know, it's a little disheartening when you hear
that Paul George's gonna be out for another few games. But they can just
write out this little storm get everyone back. They're gonna make that push.
Thanks Adam. All right, Tay just well said there, you know what,
I've gone too long. I want to hear from a Visa Zoobots post
game. I know they dumped the gatorade bottles on him. The team jumped
around fun to him rightfully, so they were happy to see him perform like
this. Thirty one points, twenty nine boards. Not a coming out party,
but the best game of his career so far. And I'm sure it
put a lot of people on notice. I see Mike muscala is trending now
on Twitter. That kind of says it all. Here was a Vizza zu
Bots post game on Valley's Sports with Jamie Maggio team to one hundred who was
able to overcome eighteen turnovers and twenty six points off of those giveaways, and
Jamie standing now with the Vizza Zu bats. All right, well do I
saw you come in here today? We're in the Croatian flag on your share.
Croatian gets a big World Cup win this morning over Canada. Clippers get
a big win here this afternoon against the Pacers behind an outstanding performance from you
thirty one points, twenty nine rebounds. The Croatia win for you of the
game this morning inspired me too, you know, to help us win and
that felt good. But you know, hell of a win. We needed
that one h We got a tough growth trip coming up, and you know
I gotta get ready for it. Dude. This is just the eleventh.
Uh, You're just the eleventh player in NBA history Twenty five points, twenty
five rebounds, and three blocks in a game. You saw that the crowd
was giving you the love when you checked out of the game, giving you
that standing ovation. When you went over to the bench. You are having
a conversation with Kawhi. What does he say? He's gonna buy you dinner
tonight, they told me. He told me, I'm the only guy that
past four files pour game but never files because I kept complaining about the files.
But uh, you know, it's it's happy. It's great to have
a this ground behind my back supporting me. I felt great tonight. I
really appreciate it. It's great to see you Zoo having such a game like
this, I mean, best game of your pro career, and it was
awesome to witness it. This Pacers opponent. We knew it was going to
be tough. How did you guys take care of business today? When you
know they're gonna be playing hard, They're gonna be running a lot, shoot
a lot of three. So we were really locked in with that and we
made sure we had to rebound the ball a lot of long rebounds. We
did a good job of that, and after we get a stop with that's
what we do, one of the best defenses in the league. You know,
after we get a stop, we'll make sure we got we got the
advanced passest run and get the easy points. So fun to watch you do
your thing today. Thank you, Zoe, Thank you. All right,
there was a piece of Zoo bots on Valley Sports post game, after he
has thirty one points in twenty nine boards, he becomes the sixth player to
record thirty points twenty five boards while shooting eighty percent in NBA history. He
joins five Hall of famers Will Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neil, Charles Barkley's Zatch Sanders,
and Bob Pettit Wilt did it ten times. Of course, the inconvenient
truth is they played at breakneck speed and had thirty more possessions per game to
build up stats back then. But nobody wants to talk about that. I
will beats the zoobots. Will Chamberlain ask like performance cleaning the glass twenty nine
boards almost had the thirty and thirty game Clippers win one fourteen to one hundred
over the Pacers. Coming back. We'll get back to your phone calls.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven
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And this is Clipper Stock here on AM five seventy All sports. No matter
that trouble surrounding up, they don't see that this is out of us.
Henny got it count it from distance, the odds on favorite to hoist the
Larry O'Brien heavily contested, and it doesn't matter on the whole of your LA.
Clippers did jump, would not get the member I do. They had
to get cutting minto Anything I got is not a rizal. Clippers win one
fourteen to one hundred on the back of Big Zoo, who had thirty one
points and twenty nine rebounds. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm Outam Moslin
eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number gets me at follow Adam A still to
come. We'll have Charles Mockler on from clips in Dip. We got coach
Lou Audio coming up in this very segment. But Zubos a career high and
NBA season high twenty nine boards, a career high and NBA season high twelve
offensive rebounds three shy the Clippers all time mark for rebounds thirty two from swin
Nater in San Diego. Two shy of the Clippers mark for offensive rebounds.
Michael Cage had fourteen in a game before an unbelievable effort from a Visa Zubos,
but some other guys really stepping up for this team right now. Powell
has been averaging over twenty points per game in his last five and you know,
we talked about the Pacers and their three points shooting, and they put
up forty per game. They had a season low, as did the Clippers
of three point field goals in this one. Just a really dominating performance in
the second half by the Clippers as they held the Pacers to twelve points in
that third quarter, and a Vitza Zoobots just punished the Pacers. He was
fierce, He was intense and intent on getting a slam every time down and
guys were looking for him. Clippers finished with thirty three assists I believe,
second most assists in a game on the season. John wall I thought was
really good, played within himself more, just took six shots to get ten
points and had those eight assists to just three turnovers. But he was coach
low post game on the victory. Clippers win one fourteen to one hundred over
the Indiana Pacers. How do you put into words what he did tonight today?
Yeah, I keep forgetting the daytime too, But now he was great.
I thought I did a great job of just really controlling the paint and
our guys. You know, that's what team's all about, you know,
when you have a guy's going like that happened a game like that, to
continue to keep going to him and feature him, and so you know,
it's good to see our team very happy for him, very supportive, and
you know, we talked about him getting more open toive rebounds and he comes
out can get twelve offensive rebounds. But it was great and it's you know,
just happy for Zoo for the for the rest of the team. There
seems like the floor was stretched a little bit better in the second half,
did you see. I thought I thought our spacing was great tonight. Thought
we did a great job of just pushing the pace, attacking early, you
know, John Wall his paint attacks and getting guys open shots. Team man
attacking early, advanced passes to Amy who attacked early. But you know,
having thirty three assists on forty two Mayfield goals and sixty six points in the
paint, you know, that's huge for us. And so we didn't shoot
the ball great, you only six for thirty two from three, but we
did attack the rim, got to the basket shooting thirty two free throws,
and so it was a great game. You know, those are one of
the games where you don't shoot whill but you still win the game. And
it was good to see type. Before the game, we talked about some
of the Zoo workload, and you didn't play any small ball at all today.
I was just doing Moses. I guess what led you kind of to
go on with with no small ball at all and trusting Moses born in those
minutes, just to see what it looked like. You know, we had
a twenty games sample and twenty one a day, so just trying some different
things and giving Moses the opportunity because he's done, he's been working hard and
he's done some good things for us, and so just to get a look
at it and see how it looked. And it was. It was pretty
good. And like I said, you know, Zoo was just dominant.
I thought our team played, you know, good basketball. You know,
we got a lot of great shots and we didn't make a lot of them,
but we played the right way. And at what point did you realize
you had a real chance of that thirty thirty uh mark before he found out
he shouldn't. I don't know. I shouldn't have thought about guys will tell
me about it. But should have just let him go. He shouldn't have
fouled. He should have TJ scores Yeah, yeah, hey ty uh.
Not a bad night for Zoo post ups though. On what did you see
out of the defense in the second half, because Indiana began the third quarter
and into the fourth, I believe they missed their first fourteen three point at
times in the second half. What did you like out of your defense in
the second half. I thought we did a good job of just contesting.
They did a great job of moving without the basketball with Buddy Yield and you
know Halliburton and so we knew we had to stay locked in. I thought
t Man, the mayor, did a great job when those guys are just
you know, making sure we don't relax for a second and giving those guys
easy shots. And we did a good job because contesting everything came into the
game and that was a gay plan and make sure we did a good job
with those two guys. And I thought we did pretty good. You said
over the last couple of years, like how much you've needed to find ways
motivate Zoo at one time, showing them how you had a dunking college and
that's why Zoo needs to dunk more. And uh, what did you tell
him before before this game? It sound like he had a great week going
into this game. Uh, how how did you get him ready to play
tonight? I mean he was just ready to go. We had some conversations
when I was messing with him, but I'm not going to discuss that.
But no, like I said, it's been good for us all year,
you know, and tonight just you know, it was great to see him
rewarded with a big game like this, and all our guys like said,
happy for him and hearing the fans chance Zoo and that's a good feeling.
And so it was just good to see all the players got at least and
one assist. Like how important was sharing the ball during this match out?
It's been very important for us. You know, we understand how we got
to play and you know, getting to the pain, making the right play,
making the right pass and playing for your teammates. And so we've been
preaching that, you know, over the last you know what ten fifteen game,
we'll really start to see him the last ten fifteen games, we've really
been talking about, you know, moving to basketball, get into the paint,
making him play for your teammate. And our guys are getting better,
you know, we you know, steps in the right direction, and we
got continue to keep building on it and on both sides of the basketball.
But offensively, you know, we just gotta continue to make the right play
and we've been doing that as a lake the tired without uh giving away too
much, what did uh you or some of the guys say to Zoo the
moment he got on the bench after that the game he had just like that
first moment, I didn't say much to him, just why are you foul?
But but other than that, like I said, I was happy for
Zoo, you know, and everything's been to this team and you know,
guy to plays every night and I'm sorry interception, Yeah, yeah, just
you know, happy for him, and like I said, our guys being
happy for Zoo as well, like I said, posting them more, trying
to get him thirty points and you know, boxing out so you know he
could rebound the ball. And so it was just good to see. There
were Coach lou post game after the Clippers one fourteen to one hundred victory,
whereas Viza Zubas has thirty one and twenty nine boards. Clippers was sixty six
points in the paint. Talk about get to the paint or die trine.
They had forty two at the half. They average just forty three per game
and they almost had that at the half. What a performance. Coming up
next, we'll get to Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip. We'll do some
double dip here on Clippers talk on M five seventy l sports, same old
campers, maybe shoot only nine Chang Bubba Limp can't stop chasing my name on
the climp Cammy chamb Last time that I check my neck, last time that
I checked. The only other player in NBA history to have this stat line
of thirty one twenty nine three blocks and fourteen of seventeen shooting would be Kareem
Abdul Jabbar a Visa Zubats joins him. No, you calls him Zoo,
I'll send her for a reason. Clippers waged one fourteen to one hundred over
the Indiana Pacers. As Big Zoo goes off career highs twenty nine boards,
wasn't eighteen? He well Eclips that was one point shy his career high scoring
wise with thirty one, and the Clippers win by fourteen. You know the
music though, that means we got some Clips and Double Dip. As Charles
Mockler from Clips and Dip joins the show, he pads with myself and William
Updyke. Charles, what's good? I mean everything about Zubos the game was
good. I don't I'm not. I've seen some crazy things at once m
Clippers game, but I think Zoo getting thirty one and twenty nine and then
fouling out on a very soft call is one of the crazier things we saw.
Just an unbelievable performance, and fittingly it's against the team who has a
center that some Clippers fans really wants try and make a trade for, who
got shut down for the majority of this game. So all in all,
just very happy that we got this win in this particular fashion. Clippers win
one fourteen to one hundred over the Pacers. And you know, they featured
him early in the game, just like they did last season at times when
they were down a lot of players, and he showed that he was capable
more than capable of running the offense through him at times in Spurts. Obviously
it was more than just Spurs today, but a Vita Zubats his game has
evolved so much the past couple of years. It really has. And I
think one thing that's really crazy about this performance is, you know, he
had an insane first quarter and then that first half he had sixteen and fifteen
and I think a lot of us, myself included, were kind of like,
okay, like what is his final statline going to because I'm not sure
he's going to be able to double it up, And then he did.
He didn't miss a shot the second half at all. He had fourteen more
awards, he had two assists. It was just incredible to see. And
it's just nice because we've had to lean on Zoo in a lot of ways
over the last couple of season, and I think if you're Zoobots, you
know, when you get Kawai and PG and those guys are out, you're
missing your best pick and roll partner, right Like, we all know how
good the Kawai and Zoo pick and roll can be. So he's got to
do a little bit of extra stuff kind of consistently, and he did all
of the extra stuff tonight, excuse me today, for the entirety of the
thirty five minutes he was out there. So you mentioned the assists. He
had a really nice assist to Terrence Man who was cutting through the lane in
the first half. And Man had himself a really good game last five now
average in fourteen, I want to say it over sixty percent shooting. He
had seven boards and five assists as well, and it looked like he got
banged up at one point, fell on his backside, but then had a
baseline dunk not long after that. I mean, Terrence Man and the juice
that he has been playing with has been special too. When Terrence is confident,
I think, if you've watched the Clippers team over this last handful of
years, if you're a new fan or something like that, the difference in
confident Terrence and trying to think about every possible outcome Terrence is and day.
You know, he went over three from three, but that's fine. If
he's only taken three three pointers, I'm perfectly happy. He can still put
up stat line like fourteen seven and five just on twos and getting to the
line and things like that. So you love to see the decisiveness him starting
with the mirror who I wouldn't have the strongest game offensively, but stings just
work with Terrence in the mirror out there together when Terrence is, you know,
playing decisively like he did today. I thought John Wall also had a
really good game and came out with the right mindset, which was he's going
to make the extra pass and get other guys involved, and then if they
kick it back to him and he has a wide open catch and shoot look
from three, he'll take it. And he didn't make one off a pass
for Marcus Moore's after he fed him. I just like the mindset of Okay,
I gotta be the playmaker here. And he did finish with eight assists
but had ten points on just six shots. I think if he could average
something close to that ten and eight, I think that would be huge for
Wall. That would be fantastic for Will and fantastic for the Clippers too.
If he could get you around that six and a half assist marks an average,
it means that the ball is moving well. We're a little rough and
transition this game. This was kind of a weird game all in all,
other than Zoo just completely dominating the Pacers. But you're right, I think
walls decision making was good. I still get stressed anytime he takes a three
pointer with more than you know, eight seconds or something like that on the
shot clock, but it looks like this adjustment period has been going well for
him. And the Clippers have a long away road trip coming up to close
out this year, and I think a nice thing about these long away road
trips is excuse me a taxi to open up December. Guys just have to
be together, you know, And I think we're kind of seeing some growing
pains get worked out, and during this trip, I'm just happy everyone's gonna
be together trying and work out some of these new good wrinkles that are getting
added in, but still things you kind of have to figure out how they
fit. And nonetheless, somebody else who doesn't necessarily put up big staff lines.
Unless you look at the plus minus Nicholas Batum he had just four points.
He did have eight boards than this one. A couple assists at a
huge block that led to an a mere coffee transition bucket. And I don't
think I've seen Nick Batoum get up that high so far this season and some
people are saying early on, oh, he doesn't look the same, and
then he goes seven of seven from three in a game. He's still been
struggling since then from distance, but the movement and activity picking up guy's full
court. He looks very different the last couple of weeks. Yeah, something
seems to have changed with his ramping up or something like that. But his
defensive intensity is just kind of infectious. Like that second quarter which Clippers Him's
no is quite literally our worst quarter, and I think we're the worst minus
seventeen. Yeah, they are, yeah, in second quarters, but toumb
does plays like this and it ignites everyone else. I love when Nick Batum
will start sometimes because we'll always see him kind of poke away a loose ball
or something like that, just something that kind of jump start the idea of
giving this extra effort on defense. Not that guys aren't doing it, but
seeing someone like Batum who does play in very limited minutes and has to be
efficient, still able to put up the energy to do things like grab seven
defensive boards or sky for kind of an absurd block and get a steal just
permeates the rest of the guys and makes them want to follow suit Clippers one
fourteen to one hundred over the Indiana Pacers in a game where Viza Zoobots makes
a little individual franchise in NBA history. Thirty one points and twenty nine boards.
Charles, thanks for doing this here on Clippers stock a little clips and
double dip. Always love the clips and double dip. And here's to maybe
one more thirty and thirty game for three for the rest of the season.
Yes, sir, that's all the ref did. Just lit a fire under
a big zoo. He still has to get that thirty rebound game in him.
I wouldn't be shocked. Clippers next game coming up Tuesday night against the
Portland Trail Blazers in Portland, first game of a back to back. They'll
be in Utah on Wednesday tip time Tuesday against the Blazers seven seven pm.
For that one, we'll have your Clippers count Down pregame show starting at six
before we get out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization.
No it you goo, Brian Seaman, Ralph wall are big brother Jake
Warner, head engineer in downtown Los Angeles. It's that addition to the stars.
Dennis Degastino and back here in the bank, producer Katie Newton. Callers
and listeners, Big ups to you as well. Clippers win one fourteen to
one hundred over the Pacers. We will talk to you at six when they're
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