Last time that I check, chack chs fine chains on my neck. It
was no smile on my breath, last time that I check. Just send
a set and a quarter mail. No sweat last time check. Clippers went
on a PG thirteen game winning step back three over Klay Thompson one thirteen,
one twenty two. As they complete make it one twelve, they complete a
twenty two point come back. Huge, huge comeback by the Clippers. Said
that a lot over the years would like to see them play from ahead more
often. We'll see if something was born out of this win by the Clippers,
as I like to say, is Will Updike joins the show here on
Clippers stock and Madame Oslin. We got Will Updike on from C and D
clips and dip Will. We were texting during it talking about Draymond Green and
how ridiculous it was that he knocked down four to three pointers. Well he
missed the one to win the ball game. So finally the law of averages
played in the Clippers favor when they needed it most. But what a victory,
What a victory. It's one of those things, you know. I
was a little critical of how they were defending him there in that first quarter,
especially after he just continued to knock him down. You know, it
gives me, it always gives me kind of bad flashbacks to you know,
Joni Sella shoot his game or something like that. But yeah, you're you're
absolutely right. Like they they stuck to the game plan. They actually executed
the game plan and the second half playing with more pace, stepping things up
defensively, the physicality and it paid off. Thirty one assists to just eleven
turnovers, and they have been turning over the ball. I think they've only
had twenty five turnovers over the last three games total. It's been kind of
ridiculous, and to me that is a sign that guys are starting to get
on the same page offensively more especially with the new starting unit that is now
six and three since they went to it. And even though they started Norm
Powell in this second half, I didn't mind that, as Terrence Man has
been turning down shots. He would knock down one three pointer. But this
Clipper starting lineup overall, it's been very successful. They just got to figure
out the bench. Now. Yeah, yeah, the bench was better in
this one, but we've seen them hemorrhage points even where even in games where
the Clippers don't have like a dreadfully slow start. You know, we've seen
the starters able to pile things on, you know, establish a ten twelve
point lead and it just kind of be immediately messed away by the bench.
That's something to figure out for sure. The Terence thing, for me,
at what level did we start to become concerned? It was really relieving to
see him make that three in the second half. I don't know if this
is just due to him coming back from that ankle injury or what the dealer
is. We know about the passiveness, but I think that that's only being
exacerbated by a lot of those shots, even when he's willing to take them,
not going in. What are you seeing? Is this just a return
from injury? Has something significant changed in his release or form. I'm just
not really understanding why this why this isn't what we've normally seen. I mean,
he's at sixteen percent now from three on the season. I'm guessing it's
just low confidence. It's not like there's anything physically wrong with him. It's
just between the ears. He started missing some early when he came back,
and now it's just this mental block, right, now, I still like
Terrence Man in the starting lineup. I hope they do keep it that way
because he offers so much in so many different areas, and typically he gets
more easy baskets at the rim. We saw that the last couple of games
against Sacramento and then up Nor taken on the Golden State Warriors. I'm not
overly concerned. It would be nice if you just have a game where he
get it out of his system and knock down four to three pointers or something
like that and get over the hump, because that's basically what we saw from
Paul George tonight. I know, completely different scores, but Paul George was
struggling the last three games and he ends up knocking down the game winner after
he had a miserable start to this one as well. Will he just found
his shot his rhythm eventually. Yeah. Yeah, And that's been another one
of those things is we've had issues getting like the Big three to all sort
of be in rhythm and have those sort of games together, and Paul especially,
I thought this starts this game. The offensive woes are one of those
things that is going to come and go. Like it's understandable. He's generally
a high volume guy. He's gonna have knights that aren't high at knights,
he's gonna have stretches that aren't great. I thought, like the defining thing
for Paul George that was really bad in the first half was that defensive effort
which he completely turned around and lo and behold, some straps started falling in.
I do think it's one of those things where you know, we have
the blueprint, we know what the blueprint is. Paul George knows what the
blueprint is. If he doesn't have it going, he commits more defensively,
and that confidence usually carries over to the other end, and it certainly did
in this one. Nineteen points in the second half, eleven in the fourth
frame there, and I mean, as you already mentioned, huge shots,
huge shot to complete the comeback victory. You know you just couldn't ask for
more. But that's the frustrating thing I guess about this team is I feel
like, again and again we have the blue it just needs to be executed
and there has to be there as we kind of figure out rotations and stuff
more, which I thought Kylue did a better job managing that. There's less
and less excuses for the players to not be executing on these game plans.
Yeah, I think the message is there. Whether or not it's received,
whether or not they're starting off games engaged and fully focused is a whole nother
thing. But when I hear from Coach Lou pregame and postgame, if he's
saying it to the media, he's saying it to the players, it's the
same thing, and they just I don't know. It's this quote from Kawhi
Leonard that I keep thinking about. We'll play it at the end of the
show. But basically, either the light goes on from the players, you
can only receive the same message a few different times or a few different ways
before it's up to you to receive it and to have it translate into success
on the court, and there just hasn't been enough of that so far.
I want to shout out Coach Lou though, as I have been tonight,
because I thought early on and I still think of each Zubah should get more
touches. When he is six for six from the field and I think five
for five in the first half and got one attempt up midway through the third
quarter, I think it was they have this guy who is absolutely detonating at
the rim right now and playing his best basketball the season. By the way,
since this lineup changed with the starters and they're not going to him enough,
I don't know what he has to do now. I give coach lu
credit because I would have thought at some point Zoo need to be back in
there in the fourth quarter for a significant minutes, not just hanging out at
the free throw line for a rebound late, but to actually play, and
it was the right move not to go back to him. Daniel Tice was
good. They brought out all the versatility defensively and it worked. Yeah,
I think some of the Zoo Boy stuff is puzzling too, especially because he
had like two thirds of the Clippers points, albeit they had only scored six
early, but it is one of those things that they can depend on.
He has been much more efficient around the rim, and he's been playing a
stretch of basketball and some of these games. Obviously this one did turn out
in a win, but when he's having games as good as some of these
double doubles that we've seen to this stretch, it is absolutely inexcusable for the
Clippers to be losing those games. I have to be honest. If there's
a guy who's I mean, like, I don't know, the fifth most
important players for their fifth most important player on your team is having knights like
that, everybody else needs to step up around that and be closing up those
games. So hopefully we can see that continue. I mean, luckily,
they're gonna get a bunch of days rest and hopefully that gives them some intensity
when they face Denver next, and hey, they're gonna need big Zoo for
big minutes, likely more than the twenty three he played tonight against Jokich,
where he has had as much success maybe as you can have at times as
a defender against the Joker. I mean, the last time out or the
time before in Denver, I thought for sure he was gonna get the call
late to play in that ball game. They never went back to him.
They were trailing late. Sean and ingele Wood called after that one from him
earlier, talking about you got to play with more size, and I agreed
with him. In that game, that was one where I thought Zoo earned
those minutes late to go up against Jokich, And just overall in his career,
his performances against him have been pretty good, so interested to see how
that develops. On Wednesday, Clippers do have some time off, and I
thought Kawhi Leonard early on looked a little bit tired, but man, he
had legs late for a couple of big jumpers and then that lay up on
a great ato by coach lou to put them in a position where they could
have the two for one where Paul George would eventually knock down that three.
But Kawhi made some big plays in the fourth quarter. Oh yeah, absolutely,
And I mean he and Paul George both you know, not only got
into their twenty, which is kind of expected scoring wise, but Kawhi was
seven assists and Paul George was six. Like they were doing everything to sort
of elevate around them, which is especially important when there isn't off night,
when those guys aren't at their most efficient still being able to I mean,
they're still going to demand respect from a defense regardless of what their current efficiency
is on that night, So then taking advantage of that is going to be
key. And I thought I thought there were I thought there were spots.
Honestly, even in the first quarter, though the shots weren't falling down where
we saw some better ball movement and we it finally did translate in that second
half, and we saw, you know, not only the three point shooting
take a step up, but we actually got some easy buckets around the rim,
some things where you know, we had space to operate and we didn't
have to grind something out in the half court set. And as good as
the Clippers can be in those scenarios, you just got to you got to
make things easier on yourself. Yeah, like stop getting down twenty one,
Stop getting down twenty two. Because when they got down twenty one to the
Pelicans a week ago, the comeback came up short. I thought the same
thing was going to happen after that clear path foul. I thought the Clippers
were in big trouble. But the guy who I thought was the biggest catalyst
for this turnaround was James Harden. In that third quarter, fifteen points,
I want to say, who was four or four from the field, had
four assists he might have had I haven't seen the numbers yet, but generated
twenty eight of their thirty seven points in that third quarter alone. Harden was
tremendous and he was playing like that spark plug, like that Russell Westbrook type
where he had all the energy out there for the team. Yeah. Absolutely,
and correct me if I'm not wrong. But this wasn't this Harden's first
made field goal in this stretch with the Clippers in the fourth quarter his first
which one? I think this was his first made field goal in the fourth
Oh, I see what you're saying. I think you're right. I think
you're right, at least from what outside the ark. Maybe. Yeah,
No, there was something funky going on with James Harden in fourth quarters and
the lack of made field goals. I think you're right. Well, uh,
yeah, I took be wrong. Maybe he hasn't need three before,
but it's it's been a rare situation. And obviously he went one of one.
It's not blowing your mind away, but just that extra threat makes it
easier on everybody else. Yeah, I think that ended up What was that
a lay up in the fourth quarter? Do you get down the lane for
that one? All I know is he was at the forefront of this Clippers
twenty two point comeback and it was glorious to see them come together and fight
like that, and maybe their darkest hour early on in this season, they
had to have it. They got it. We'll see what legs it has
moving forward. But speaking of legs, they should be fresh for Wednesday since
they got a few days off, a little reprieve here, which is rare
for the Clippers. They got to take advantage of it. Will We will
have a C and D podcast coming up on the YouTube with you and Chuck
Mockler soon. Thanks for doing this on clipperstoff tonight, my friend. Absolutely,
Let's go clip. Let's go clips. Oh, speaking of Jose and
Southgate, last caller the night, Jose, what's up here on Clippers stock
with that Amazon? What's up about him? Real quick? I was just
having to catch the telecast from the opposition. So after that, after we
scored out of the time out, they kept on the camera on the Warriors
and Greymond Green went to the hud of very Adam in about something and Stephan
Curry everybody was looking at him and they all said, okay, so I
think that's when they come out. And last second we take James Harden out
and put Russell Westbrook in and you can see them look confused, even see
steph Curry look around like where's name's Harden And dreymartscreen just says, just go
ahead and run the play and then who gets the rebuffrom the MI shot?
Russell Westbrook, come back Paul George with the three. Here we go for
one, two three Bush Oh Clippers are always family friendly. Love to hear
that from Jose and the little one there. Although PG thirteen is the guy
that hit the shot, so maybe I shouldn't be able to say that.
Speaking of let's hear from Paul George postgame after he was on with my friend
Patrick O'Neill on Bally Sports. See that is an incredible three that you hit.
You want to come back. You guys are down twenty two. So
when that ball left your hands, did you know what was good? It
felt good. It felt good. As soon as I released it, I
got a good look out the basket. Thank god it went in. As
far as this comeback down twenty two, you guys hadn't had a comeback down
at all the end or a fourth quarter. What does this tell you about
your team? This is a great comeback, especially against this team, especially
when you go down big on this team. I mean, they can put
point stuff so quick. The fact we was able to come back just shows
a lot. You know, this group is ready to fight and you know,
play all the way until the end. Besides that shot you hit,
what else in the fourth quarter was huge allowing you guys to win this one
over the Warriors. I just thought, we uh, we introduced our defense.
Finally, we pressed it up. We got physical, and we were
able to get stops, and those stops turned into transition plays where I thought,
you know, against this team, you can't go against the load of
defense. We're able to score fast and transition. I thought that was the
game. Tremendous game. Great shot, Congratulations, appreciate it you all right
PG right there Brian Batt was awesome. Yeah, filling in for Brian's seaman
tough shooest to fill, but it's thrown back to me instead this. I
love you, Brian. Patrick O'Neill there with Paul George postgame after he knocked
down the game winner, saying, this team is ready to fight. We
saw that in the second half. We're gonna have to see it for forty
eight minutes. On Wednesday against the Denver Nuggets. Here was that Kawhi Leonard
quote I've been talking about referencing throughout this Clippers post game. This is what
has to happen. The light bulb has to go on for this team.
It's just on the players, you know what I mean. And you can
only get coached so much till you that light switches in your head or it
never does, and then you see the teams fail. So we got to
figure out who we want to be. It's just on the players, what
I mean. You can only get coached so much till you that light switches
in your head or it never does, and then you see the teams fail.
Can they put that like on repeat, like we just heard it in
the locker room for this team. That might help, thanks, because it
is on the players at this point. You can see it in the second
half of this one and you outscore the Warriors by twenty after losing the first
half by nineteen tailor two halves. All right, Sean, I'll give you
some love here. You were technically right, Zubox was at the free throw
line. He also didn't play a possession in the fourth court. That's all
I do. So love to Shawn and Englewood loved the Clipper nation. Kate
Newton, you got a quick question for me postgame, Kate Newton's casual corn.
I don't have one that would be quick, but you had to say
that, what's your favorite sound that you hear on the court? Nylon?
Carlo and Menez saying that for the Paul George game winner. Katie, you
got the skills to play that as we're going out here, because I might
want to hear it one more time. Clippers win one thirteen to one twelve
over the Warriors. They run it back against the Denver Nuggets. The're nemesis
coming up next Wednesday. They got some time off. Tiptime is at seven
pregame at six. Before we get out of here, I do want to
thank no it Ego, Ralph Lawler, Bryan Seaman, Carlo Jmenez. Who
you're gonna hear in a second? The callers, the listeners, Big Brother,
Jake Warner, Katie Newton, Carlot's take it away, Flippers down by
two, George with ten poor wing step back three dime on flippers lad for
the first time today with nine seconds, laft one thirteen one, twelve,
time out. Steve per Why was doing his thing? All they want to
do is win, la win. I thought they gave everything they had.
I'm very proud of them. This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame
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