I told you hashtag comeback Clips if you're following me at fallout of May,
I said it. In the first half the Clippers were down by twenty.
They come through and win once twenty two to one, sixteen in Houston over
the Rockets. Let's get out to him. It's Will Updyke of Clips and
Dip Fame joining the show post game. Will Who do you give more credit
to? Coach Lou Mason, Plumbley, Kawhi, the Bearded Wonder, Paul
George waking up in the second half? How are the Clippers able to pull
this off? Oh man? All of the above, but I think it
starts with Kawhi. You know, he's often not times the vocal guy.
He leads by example, but it's clear that that did have an effect,
and it's just you know, whoever is. Like I said, it's a
combination of all the above. But it's nice to be on the other side
of one of these. It felt. It feels like it's been a little
while we've normally been the ones coffee up leads of leads. But yeah,
I mean, Paul George was great in the fourth after after not a great
first half. But I was I mean, I think we don't give him
enough credit. I mean, certainly, I don't know that he's been deserving
of it necessarily, but Mason Plumby, uh certainly set the tone and turn
things around in this game, uh in a way that was just very evident,
very clear, and a guy who has really been struggling since returning to
the rotation. You gotta wonder what's going on with Zoo. You know the
possible implications with that. But I do want to speak on that will because
I just saw this from lat Murray post game right there, Coach Lou said
Aviza Zoo bots had headaches and wasn't breathing well. They did not want to
risk him playing after the first half, So prayers up to Big Zoo.
I hope he gets right over the next couple of days off. But continue
here. Well, uh yeah, so stepping in like stepping in obviously huge
shoes to fill. But I thought Zoo didn't look one hundred percent correct,
just washing. I mean, he's just one of four from the floor.
It seemed like there was Yeah, it seemed like there was some issue getting
up and down the court. So I was actually worded that it was related
to the calf thing, but hopefully, I mean hopefully if it's a like
illness related it it's just something, just something momentary. I mean, all
this travel, you can imagine it takes a toll on your body, especially
if you're if you're trying to get right physically to begin with. You know,
yeah, no doubt. Mason Plumbley comes in fills in admirably and what
a move by coach lou instead of just starting Daniel Tyson in the second half.
Some of that may have been because of foul trouble, but Mason Plumbley
got his opportunity, and sometimes that's all it takes. You get a little
bit of a reset you step away from the game. He hadn't played the
last two for the Clippers, and it was a completely different Mason Plumbley than
what we had seen for the most part since he came back from that knee
injury. Oh and by the way, he turned thirty four yesterday, so
it was his birthday game out there, Mason Plumbley, and he performed That
was maybe his best performance as a Clipper considering I think he was the head
of the spear when it came to this come back. He was the driving
force oh absolutely. I mean, do we have to celebrate his name?
Do we have to celebrate his birthday for the next month and a half?
But what do we do with that a birthday month like some of the girls
on Super Sweet sixteen on MTV. I mean, if he could keep this
up, he's well deserving. But yeah, a huge, huge typic of
the caps to tyl with that, and I do think I mean, while
so much of it has been due to his hand being forced, we have
seen a lot of different lineups, We have seen a lot of experimentation,
and look, while the results have been less than stellar, there's so many
contributing factors with that, with you know, both the absences and sort of
the lessurgy that hits in the middle of the season. But it was good
to see them lock in in this game. I feel like I've been saying
this like the last couple of good wins. I mean, certainly since the
Timberwolves win. But I hope that this is like what it takes to lock
in and like just just see something a little bit more cohesive out there.
Obviously they're not going to be perfect, I'm not expecting that, but it's
got to clean up. No, it's true, and they have to be
much more consistent than this. But how much does this I don't know.
Calm your fears is a lot of people have been talking about these collapses by
the Clippers too in a five days stretch, and this time they come up
huge in the fourth quarter. They put up forty two points on the Houston
Rockets after the Milwaukee Bucks, I believe, have forty one in the fourth
quarter against the Clippers Monday night. Yeah, I mean, it's nice to
have the momentum shift the opposite way. Like I said, they kick it
off to not be on the on the tail end of that. But you
know, bottom line is they were playing a team. On the second hand,
it was back to that. I know that the Rockets were at home.
That's just not a situation you should be in. That's not a team.
That's not a situation this team can afford to be in. And there's
only so many, you know, there's only so many second quarter pep talks
that your star player can give, you know what I mean. Things got
to look a little bit better from the jump. It's it's a good win.
They gritted one out. It would have been easy to kind of roll
over, especially given the terrible weekend that we have ahead of us. But
I hope that this is like I hope that they can kind of put one
foot in front of the other after this win, you know what I mean.
They got to thread the needle with this a little bit. It's not
enough to just just to come out with the with the comeback victory. Yeah
quickly, here will final one for you. I got get out at the
top. But Paul George, you know, in that second half he had
two points at the half. I believe he was one for six. He
ends up with twenty one hits two clutch three pointers in the fourth, has
a big rebound, and he did shoot it well overall to missing some free
throws late in that game on Monday against Milwaukee. Is there hope for the
PG thirteen turnaround? Are we starting to see it now? Oh? I
mean there's there's gotta be right. He just has not been at that level
that we saw him to start the season, you know, and for a
it's a long period of time. It's understandable that there was concern out there
from the fans. I was concerned. I mean, you know, you
hear about all this noise about the contract stuff, and while I don't think
that that's affecting as play, it's not like those things aren't intertwined. And
you know, we were kind of talking, like literally we were talking in
this first half with our co host Charles Marker, like what does a PG
extension look like? And then that's a very different conversation when we get the
PG that, to be fair, we have seen even in the in fourth
quarters, even in this sort of stretch where he hasn't been you know,
lightning, like the lightning in a bottle that he was to start the season.
So it's I mean, it's huge and we need those, you know,
we need those sort of performances, like you know, we got twenty
points or more out of each of the Big three and that's you know,
like I feel like it's been a while since we've seen all three firing on
all cylinders like that. And while you know, hopefully you don't have to
see that and come from behind victories, you know, maybe we could put
some teams away with a little bit more ease, it is still good to
see and I'm hoping, you know, once once again, like hopefully this
is the sign of things to come. Not we think that We're over you
know, we're over the hill because we've you know, we've got this feather
in our cap, no doubt. He had nine points in the fourth quarter,
and I believe Carlo Ameniz said it when the big three go for twenty
plus in the same game, all three of them, Clippers are now seven
in Oh, thank you will, We'll talk to you on the YouTube tomorrow.
Absolutely sounds good. Thank Dov.