What is going on Clipper Nation. We are hanging out live after the Clippers
get an incredible win over the MAVs. We're gonna let people trickle in.
You can hear the vibes behind me right now. The Clippers win. They
beat the MAVs. A fantastic performance from Zubac Harden with twenty in the first
half. This was the Clippers got everything they needed to beat the MAVs in
this one, and the Maps look woefully unprepared. I would say the MAVs
defense looks not real after game one. I don't know. They didn't know
what to defend. They didn't know how to defend. We're getting a bunch
of lets goes in the chat. We're fiend pretty good. Alan Ning two
Bucks appreciate it. Didn't see this coming. The level of domination in that
first half was incredible from the Clippers. Buying time without Kawhi Leonard is incredible.
I don't know who's y'all's player of the game. It's hard to not
think about James Harden in this one. He carried the Clippers. Paul George
did not have the best game. We will talk about that in a bit.
Thanks for hanging out. Everyone. This is Clips and Dip. I'm
usually joined by Adam Osen and Will Updike. They might pop in, but
we're all feeling fantastic. This is the live edition. Hang so if you're
listening to this podcast later, thank you. We got a bunch of votes
for Zoo in the chat. We got a bunch of votes for Hardening the
chat. Russ was phenomenal in this game. A lot of good stuff all
around from the Clippers again everyone, we're gonna talk about norm a little bit.
That was interesting. Uh oh h we got vacation Will and the house.
Let's go clips. How's it going? McDon did? What's going on?
Basking in this wind? People are excited? How's the vibe up in
Oakland? Oh man, it's huge. It's huge. Actually, uh,
it was really big for people with player prop bets. Uh. But this
uh it wasn't exactly a clip bar, but we got the vibe going.
I mean the was the visa zoobots being able to stay on the floor,
huge performance. I loved what I saw defensively from the Cliffs. I thought
the rebounding was a special, especially clutch uh and I thought they used their
size of their advantage in this one, and of course just insane performances from
Paul George and uh and James Harden. Uh. You know, we we
bought we bought Kawhi another week of rest. Yeah, we worst case scenario,
we bought Kawhi another week arrest, which you gotta feel good about it,
and he might need We have no idea, but yeah, man,
this was I could not first, the Mavericks scoring eight points in the second
quarter was unbelievable. We're not gonna see bullshit like that again. So it
feels great to take advantage of something like that and actually went because it got
a little shaky, but but they pulled it out. You're playing Yeah,
you're playing a really good team like I I you know, I don't want
to say it wasn't a choke or anything like that, Like you're playing a
really good team. These games are gonna come down in the wire. This
was about as decisive of a victory as you could hope for in a game
one, exactly in a playoff setting like this. They didn't you know,
it was never single digits, It wasn't super close. It was a lot
easy because we're all Clippers fans. But yeah, I mean in a twenty
twenty four playoff game. This is as big of a victory as you can
get, right, Like, yeah, overall good chaotic Russ Like, a
lot of things went right, a lot of things went right for the Clippers,
So Clippers fans would definitely feel good about this one. Still a lot
of series left, still a lot to be seen, But like I said,
in the absolute worst case of scenarios, they still bought Kawhi Leonard a
week, you know what I mean, Like you could worst case scenario,
you could drop two more and you could still feel and you could still hopefully
at that point, have Kawhi Leonard ready to return to the lineup. Yes,
And I mean again no clarity on on Kawhi. Don't stop asking us
that we're not gonna get that. So I love the buying him time.
I also love we talked a lot about Daniel Gafford in this and how he's
been playing well. Zoo did not give a shit about Daniel Gafford out there.
Zoo played him off the floor in the first like two minutes. Look,
I think this is one of those things, like MAVs fans, I
feel like we're way too confident in this Gafford thing and this acquisition. And
don't get me wrong, and Mas did great at the trade deadline, but
I think that people were underrating Zoo in this series. If he can keep
up this level of play like this takes the Clippers to another level. This
has to make you way more confident in the you know, the absolute worst
case scenario where Kawhi Leonard is not able to return. If Zoo can stay
on the floor, man, that fundamentally changes this series in a massive way
for the Clippers, a massive, massive way. And shout out to Tayloo
for trusting Zoo. Right, We've talked about like Zoo's had this short leash
kind of throughout the year, but he trusted him today. Well, he
was physical early, he was scoring early. That like in credit to his
teammates, credits to Paul and Harden who were looking to find Zoo. I
mean that's the thing too, right, Like it has to be across the
floor, Like there has to be a recognition that you have this guy that
can help you get easy buckets for a team that doesn't make a lot of
easy buckets. I will say in this one, though, the team looked
like this looks like a much different Clippers team in transition, in transition defense,
the way they were dialed in, the way the rotations look like this
is look. I know that we the dirty word was flipped the switch all
season long, but if if this is what it looks like, what the
switch flipped, I'm all in, baby, I'm all in right now.
They did. They proved me wrong. I hate the flip the switch mentality,
and we were hoping it would and they they looked completely different than the
MAVs. I hate the MAVs. I don't know what Jason Kidd was showing
them on tape, but like they weren't prepared for plays that we've been seeing
the clips run all day. Harden hit Westbrook with that lob that he comes
off the weak side, Like, I don't know, man, the MAVs
have a lot of work to get shit figured out. My thing is right
now, and I'll have to look at the tape and like, cause,
don't get me wrong, I'm I'm I'm a little high on the elation of
this one. Right now. I'm not seeing the quick rotational switch. I'm
not seeing the quick change that gets that gives the MAVs the upper edge in
this one. Obviously you have the individual play of Kyrie and Luca. I
mean those two guys alone. That's enough, I mean, and that's enough
to turn a series around. Sure, I'm not seeing the on the on
the fringes of the rotation. I'm not seeing the move that's like, oh
this this fundamentally changes this series. Especially as I said, if it beats
the Zoobas can stay on the floor, that I mean, I forget about
it. Like I mean, if he's not played off the floor in this
one, they have by far, I think the Clippers by far have the
better defense, and maybe not the exact same highs talent wise, but not
that much of a drop off, you know what I'm saying. Totally.
It's even they look better coached. As you've talked about, Jason Kidd is
a bad coach. MAVs fans have told us that. So we're getting it
from from Some people are on, some people are off. I don't know.
I love to like talking. They tried to switch it up. They
put PJ. Washington on Harden at one point I believe no one could stay
in front of Harden. Harden was running directly around Luca of outside the fourth
quarter Harden was running directly around Luca with no issues. I also love they
put Luca and Kyrie in action a lot to start this game. On defense.
They were like, we we know you're bad defenders. We're gonna make
a'll do this shit. So like we love to see that they spanned the
right stuff. It was a great Tyler game. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely,
I'm excited to see. I mean that's the only drawback, right is
that it's like, you know, like, what's your big adjustment for game
two. It's it's kind of more of the same, which I think that
can be a bit of a dangerous spot if you're the you know, if
you're the winning team. But uh, there was no Again, I'll have
to like relook at the table stuff a little bit. But there's no A
lot of things went right for the Clippers, but I wouldn't say that the
game where there was something that was like there's some major outlier where it's like,
wow, we can't we really can't count on that again totally. You
know, maybe maybe James Harden keeping this up for an entire series. I
could see you having questions with that. I think that's absolutely fair given what
we've seen before. But overall, I mean, like just just a great,
just a great, great game one. Yeah, it could not have
gone better. I think we did see some fatigue as this one went on,
but I don't think we should be surprised to see hard and play really
well in the first half without Kawhi and then maybe try and let PG,
who was a little bad today, PG was like to open this game.
PG got two quick fouls and was not good defensively, but he hite.
I didn't think he lost some guys off ball in the beginning of this one.
But that's why we have hardened. Right. He wasn't he wasn't perfect.
Yeah, for sure, he wasn't. He wasn't perfect. I mean,
I guess that's one thing to look forward to too, is like,
what maybe we saw one of Harden's best games so far in the playoffs,
but we haven't seen PGS. Yeah, that's yeah, and we still got
the up. You're totally right, I think other than Harden and Zoo,
people have been talking about Terrence Man in the chat. Terrence was phenomenal in
this game. He did exactly what we all needed him to do. Actually,
man, he gets under that dude's skin. Yeah, he was active
on the boards. He had four offensive reboards, which was rebounds, which
was tied for most on the team with Zoo. And he hit all his
threes like he passed up a couple, which you don't like to see.
But again, I would agree if he was a little quicker with that trigger,
I think that things are maybe even a little bit more comfortable. Anyway,
I gotta get out of here. I got it. I get some
money going, got some money going on the ponies, really bad people.
I gotta get out of here. I'm be going. We'll see on Monday.
Oh man, uh what a game. Oh I do not like this
background. How do I get the damn background in there? There we go?
All right, now you can see the clips and branding. Yeah,
Jimmy g thank you for bringing this up. We're gonna talk about this.
Norm had an odd game, right, He played thirty minutes. He only
had six shot attempts. Two of those were only threes. I think that's
something that Tyler's gonna get figured out. It's great that that feels like one
of the major things Tyler has to figure out from this game is how to
play Norm. Everything else, for the most part, from rotations to how
they were physically guarding Luca early in this game was on point. So yeah,
so great call, Roger. They were denying Norm. They know that
Norm's tricky, they know what he can do. So normally having two three
point attempts and Russ having four is it usually the split you want. But
it's someone we got and it happened to work out. Harden took eleven threes
in this game, which is exactly right where you want him to be.
Yeah, Jimmy Williams, no, Tys. I firmly thought that Tys maybe
was going to have the line on kind of the backup five minutes, but
Tyler opted to stay big for the most part through this whole game and it
worked right. Like Mason Plumley, someone was just saying that, yeah,
Mike Dang saying that the second half Parliaments were a bit dicey. Yeah,
that's what we've come to expect. Mason Plumley sometimes plays like he wants to
be Tony Roten, but today he was good. One of the things that
I love that Tyler did today. Everyone there was a time out late in
the fourth and everyone wanted Zoo to come back in. Tyler waited to run
the ato where Mason tould me got the ball and then hit PG with when
PG is doing a backdoor cut with a little pass. Mason's the one,
the big who can make that pass on this team. He's better than Zoo
with that kind of thing. Ty did that play, got the bucket and
then subbed Zoo back in. So, like Tyler was phenomenal on the margins
in this game. I love the decision to start a mirror just size wise.
It seems like what you have to do. So yeah, this was
crazy too. They were blitzing PG. I think it was in the third.
Again, they only scored eight points in the second, so they had
to do something. Yeah, when they start blitzing Paul George Moore, which
is something I would assume they do when he has the ball in his hands,
because he's not make the best decisions with it, you're gonna need Norm
to punish that. So great call, Roger, We're probably gonna see that
happening. Johnny Blaze saying, let's go. I'm feeling phenomenal. I was
not feeling super good this morning when I woke up, just thinking of everything.
But I do want to show something that turned my my day around.
I'm sure some of you saw this today. I don't know if he's in
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We might have to Eric Bui, who you should follow if you're a Clippers
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Harden. Yeah, this is uh. I mean we have to talk about
the maps a little bit. Obviously we've been talking about how good the Clippers
have been, but the MAVs looked unprepared for this game. I understand I
have some bias here, but if you're a MAVs fan in the chat,
you can't tell me that this team looked like they were prepared for what the
Clippers were gonna throw at them. Without Kawhi Leonard right, like, I
just I don't know. Maxi Kleba played twenty six minutes. The Clippers did
not guard him. He cannot shoot. He was one for five. Dante
Exen was one for four. Like Gafford took a bit of a knock.
He only played fourteen minutes. It's dicey, right, like. We looked
at the tape of the clip of the MAVs defense and it has some flashes,
but today that's all gone. I am Chris Tucker burning the money in
rush hour. This is fake. I think this is fake. Jimmy g
I agree. The Bigs looked shambalic. That is a perfect way to describe
this. Yes, this is Johnny blay is saying. Do you think MAVs
new players were nervous or a factor for not having playoff experience? No?
I think it's because they're coaching is much worse than the Clippers. Uh.
And Jason Kidd against TYLERU is a pretty lopsided matchup for the Clippers. MAVs
fans will agree with me on that to some extent. I know you will.
It's okay, thank you, Alfredo rush hour too, Uh, I
believe it was rush hour to the money burned Red Palo with some heat.
Thank you, Pali. He was like, shit, what do I do?
Yeah, Robbie Lewis, it was crazy. I was surprised. I
also, you know, we do have to give some credit on the defense
on Luca. It was physical, it wasn't too crazy. The Clippers found
a lot to end this game, which I think was mostly fatigue that it
was not a well executed game very late. But again, I just think
they retired j Bow's dropping some clues in about twenty minutes. We're going to
drop the other keyword to win the Steve Balmer boblehead so ja or two out
of the three there, Lou. Someone said Lou wasn't lying. Yeah,
great call, neighborhood clip. Lou was not lying when he said he already
was planning for the sering. It is a cold ass quote. I loved
this game. This I don't think surprisingly, this was my favorite game of
the Clipper season. I didn't expect them to come out and be up by
twenty six at half without Kawhi. I didn't think they would totally roll over,
obviously, but this was as good as we hope for. This looked
like a completely different team than the Clippers were for the last half of the
season. You know, we have to acknowledge that they were very bad to
kind of close this season out. So yes, Roger, we were the
It was ugly to watch, but at that at the same time, right,
that's kind of how you get rest. Like it's a little bit how
you can buy these guys some rest. They were barely getting it up over
half court. I was watching this game with Shap next to me, which
was very fun, but we were a little concerned at the end. They
looked really low. But I don't know. I think Will pointed it out
great. It's hard to be upset in a lot of stuff from this game.
I just yes, yes, yes, high screens for Hard so we
can get to the paint. It didn't matter who's in front of Hard.
We have we've seen the burst a little bit, but he had the first
step just enough to get past guys tonight and again, Luca and Kyrie getting
put in defensive actions very early in this game helped the Clippers late. It's
fantastic. I'm seeing a bunch of quotes from Richard Jefferson in the chat.
I haven't I've just seen these proliferated. What is this man talking about?
I don't know if the team that loses ever has the advantage. Hot take.
I don't think the team that loses Game one has an advantage? Am
I crazy? Roger? Chill out? We're just shut up about that.
I don't think the Clippers. Okay, let's not get super crazy here.
I don't. I don't think the Clippers h are gonna go up through out.
I would love that. It's just the playoffs in twenty twenty four against
an offensive juggernaut that is the Maps, which is crazy. Nothing else is
new. You know, we've we've all been there before. Yes, Scott
BOSSI incredible name. If you have direct reports, love that for you.
This absolutely does help the Clippers. We talked about pace a little bit in
some of our playoff previews which you can watch or listen to if you'd like
to, and the Maps don't play super fast, but they play a lot
fashion than the Clippers do, so that was really good to see. Yeah,
some of this is a little unsustainable, right, like without Kauhi.
This was great with Kawhi. Obviously this team is better. I think the
Zoo thing is sustainable. I think Zoo is is what we saw tonight is
sustainable from Zoo. If he's not in foul trouble and he's running out these
bigs, Zoo should play forty minutes. I don't think that's crazy. He
was playing phenomenal b wes. These are very good points we did. We
shot great. We shot fifty percent from three. There was though a plus
twenty discrepancy for free throws for the MAVs, so that's insane. We hope
that evens out a little bit. So yeah, there's a lot, a
lot of good stuff to say. Sorry getting a bunch of messages. Zoo
was a legit offensive option here. He was. Yeah, he was also
aggressive. He hit Cleveland with the elbow, which you absolutely love to see.
It was great. Yeah, man, people popping off from the chat.
Thank y'all for hanging out. This has been phenomenal. I'm doing a
quick ad break for the audio listeners because we're gonna make this pod coming up.
We're going gonna be talking more about how great the clips were versus the
MAVs. But first an audio break and we're back. Thank you. Yes,
uh chuch in four twenty and they didn't really let go of the gas
pedal. The only time that it looked gross in this one was kind of
in the fourth when we just it was just offensive stagnation, which you are
gonna get stretches of in a playoff game. Right, We're not gonna we're
not gonna win most of these games, you know, by thirty or anything
like that. This is a great point, Chunk Sampson, djj uh Derek
Jones Junior is the only Maverick who looks interested in playing dedicated one on one
defense against the Clippers. They switched him onto Harden and PJ. Washington on
kawh on Paul George. You're totally right, Chunk, and that's when things
got a little weird. But you're right. When Kawhi comes back, they're
not gonna have that back, and they're going to continue to get the switch
by trying to get Luca onto Harden or whoever has the ball onto Luca or
Kyrie, because those guys had to work from the second that the that the
jump ball happened. So you absolutely love to see it. Eric and Eric,
if you rewind it, like five minutes, we were just showing corn
dog Harden and people loved it. What up, Eric, This is huge.
Yes, so this was also nuts. Kyrie had twenty in the third,
which is a bit of an outlier but not totally unexpected from a guy
like Kyrie. But we didn't freak out. The Clippers didn't freak out.
They kept going down low, they kept getting to zoo. They were ebbing
and flowing with what the MAVs were giving them, which was a whole bunch
of Kyrie buckets on the third. But they didn't freak out right, like,
no one completely lost or anything like that. I was wondering. TYLERU
took a great time out in the second quarter when things were just like off
and weird, he took a time out. The lead wasn't you know?
It was just like a nice like let's get set and remember where the hell
we are. David McCann asking who was our Kawhi Leonard player of the game.
For those of you knew to the stream, we always try and pick
a player of the game, but we made it so you can't say Kawhi
every game because we would need that. I am torn. I think I
have to go. I think I have to go. Harden Zubach was fantastic.
Harden played thirty nine minutes, which is exactly what you need. He
had twenty in the first half. He obviously tailed out in the second half
of this one, but he was phenomenal. I'm giving it to Zoo two.
It's co Kawhi Leonard player of the game. It's it's hard to pick
between those guys, and you love when you're big and your point or players
are the game. There's there's not much better for the Clippers. Usually the
Clippers are winning if Harden and Zoo are the best ones on the team.
If Kawhi is available, do we see him for game three? If he's
available, I would assume we see him for game two. I know,
people, you know we could the Clippers could have split this kind of no
matter what. Even with Kawhi here, they have the split for sure.
I might be being selfish. I want to see if Kwai is able to
play. I don't think he is based on the reports we've heard. If
he's able to go into play him a little bit, get him used to
that before he has to fly to Denver or to Dallas or whatever, and
we'll be okay. I think this is also a fair point. Roger,
like, I'm not against this idea. Like if we can give him more
rest, which it does seem like he needs. I'm not trying to pretend
like it seems like he's really gonna play in the in game two, it
seems like he needs more rest, So I wouldn't be I wouldn't be mad
at that either. Yeah, shout out to everyone not falling for Luca.
Pump Fakes very impressive. I thought Terrence Man was gonna be culpable of that,
but it is what it is. Some people in the chatter saying Coffee
looked raw at times, of course he did. He's not supposed to start.
Guys who don't usually start and then they start in a playoff game are
gonna look raw. Sometimes. I agree with Michael Union. I think the
player, he's gonna play better as the series goes on. And I think
it did get to him a little bit right, Like he made half his
threes, which is great. He still had three boards. You gotta watch
the fouling. But hopefully he only starts maybe Tuesday, and then he can
go back into his regular role off the bench. The Uh, well,
I just wanted, Oh yeah, no PJ minutes, no tuck Wagon.
Uh I can't No one's really said anything about that yet, but I thought
it was very funny and I thought it was a great. Another reason why
it was a masterclass by Tyloo is a PJ. Tucker didn't play. They
went with an eight man rotation. Russ nor Mace worked out. Every single
one of those guys was plus. I haven't talked about Russ a bunch so
far. Jimmy Williams, we swear sorry one sec. Oh yeah, everyone
go ahead and rock out to this music that Jimmy Williams played. It's fantastic.
The Bobblehead's gonna be there, Jimmy, we swear. Adam sent it
off. He should be in this chat soon to answer for his his crimes.
I don't know, but yeah, Russ. Russ was great in this
one. The three point attempt in the fourth I didn't love he made it,
but it was like a very lucky Oh he made it. That's great.
But everything else other than that was was fantastic. The four turnovers are
rough, but anytime you get a sixty percent shooting game from Russ and he
has force and two steel like he played good defense on Luca. Russ.
He came in. He hyped the crowd up. He got into a couple
of little TIFFs and was bringing the crowd to it to shout out Russ.
He was phenomenal off the bench. Yeah, Steve, I think I think
that's a fair assessment. They were getting after him. You want to see
him be better. The twenty shot attempts is good. He still got up
twelve three point attempts. But the early foul trouble was rough. The refs
were all over the place in this one. They were wonky. It was
bad mostly just for one side, just for the Clippers. I'm being selfish
about that, but it's true. Wayne, I agree. I think they
were just gaming norm out. They knew what what was up with norm Oh
we have some We have the Clippers content powerhouse in the chat right now.
Jake Burns I think just came out with a new playoff shirt. Go buy
Jake Burns's shirts. Also, I don't know about clips and five Jake.
I would love that. B West. We did not like Plumbly Overtice.
I personally not like that, but it worked. Take on the zoo Bots
altercation. I loved it. Like that's good shit from Zoo. You want
Zoo to be play a little meaner. Zoo looked pissed off today, which
was great. I absolutely loved it that that energy is needed, right,
like why not PG tried to end maxic Lee was life at one point in
this game, Scott Tran, thank you for bringing that up. He got
blocked so hard and then Zoo got the ball back and just went right into
it. So that was great. Ash Wednesday Norm. That is a wild
h nickname, Sorr. I'm just checking the court real quick to see what's
going down. All right, we got a couple more minutes. I'm feeling
great. What do you all want to see in game two? On the
chat? I don't more of the same obviously. I know we've kind of
talked a little bit about Kawhi coming back or not, but they did buy
him some time, which is great. Yeah, Michael, the reffing was
super crazy. Sorry, one sick. More buckets from Norm. That's really
where I'm at too. Yeah, so we got more buckets from Norm and
we got Zoo going for another twenty and ten. I love that. I
I yeah, I want to see more from Norm. I want to see
how Ty can gain that. I think we're gonna see more Norm maybe coming
in once we see the MAVs kind of doing more of that double stuff,
which is great. It was really bad shooting from the maps today, and
I agree it is retribution for what they did to us in twenty twenty one
Games one and two. But they were you know, if they were thirty
percent, they got thirty three off. Yeah, man, I don't know.
The Clippers won the possession battle too. They had seven more field goal
attempts, which, if you listen to the show, is something I'm kind
of weirdly obsessed about because that is how the Clippers lose. Yes, fear
the beard. I don't know if they're sweeping, yeah, Chunk. I
thought that the pg ISOs came from a place. I didn't like them either,
but I thought they came from a place where he was like, I
want to get going, give me the ball and let me make something happen,
which I like better than just being like, go for it, y'all.
So I agree less less io Is likes he's hot, but I think
today I think it was him trying to get back into a bit of a
a bit of a rhythm. Eric. Were we saying you want to see
Kai Jones minutes because it would mean another blowout. Yes, he was inactive
today unfortunately. Yeah, the chi Hive is upset. I guess Yeah,
the end of the game. I think this was running out the clock,
the basketball version of it, which is very ugly and gross. I think
they were tired. I will say I do think one thing that is in
my brain looking at game two is how we look fatigue wise. Is how
the Clippers look legs wise. You know this is an older team. Getting
Kui back would be great, but they just ran an eight man rotation in
a playoff game, which it's heavy minutes, right, Terrence played thirty eight,
just under thirty nine, Harden at thirty nine, pg at thirty seven.
So we're gonna see how everything looks in game two. I'm still confident.
I feel good. Ty obviously got him into great shape and a great
place to be during this week of practice for ninety percent of the Clippers.
But yeah, I uh, I'm I'm interested to see how the legs look
in game two, and I'm interested to see if we can get mav or
get norm a little more locked in for this one. So that would be
great to see Wayne Jenkins saying Chucker minutes incoming only if it's the same situation
as Kai Jones, if it's a blowout, just so a blowout neighborhood clip
saying what would have liked to see them go to zoomore down the stretch up
with jig. Totally agree. They did that for some good stretches in this
game, right Like they were like, oh, we need to go easy,
let's get Zoos some buckets, and they got them some buckets. So
that was fantastic to see. I'm trying to get uh, We're gonna pull
up some there's gotta be some postgame quotes coming up that I'm gonna try and
pull up here. Oh, I'm gonna go ahead since we're almost ending soon.
If you have two of the keywords we've been giving out keywords to win
a uh the Steve Vamber bobblehead. The third keyword, which you may have
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were in the second quarter. So if you can remember the three keywords that
we have, go and listen to our last two episodes. I just dropped
the third it is do do. You will get a Steve Laumer bobblehead.
A lot of questions in the chat about Tys. I thought I thought Daniel
Tye was a better option. A IUMI got it. IUMI wins uh.
Iomi find us on Twitter or email us at Shavings Podcast at gmail dot com
and we will get it to you. J Bo's you were very close,
but Iomi got it. Hey what up, William Blast? How you doing?
I hope you had a good time watching the game. So yeah,
sorry, back to the Tyson stuff. I don't know, uh Plumb if
we need it, I mean, Ty's gonna make that change. But plumbly
for his nervous as he makes me personally and some other Clippers fans, wasn't
completely horrendous. Five boards had a steal, had had the assist of Paul
George, which I talked about. He's the one big who can make that.
But going with size, the MAVs also went small at one point in
this game. When the Clippers stayed big. That leads me to believe that
they will continue to stay large in this series. So I think if Plumb
is just playing poorly, we'll see Tye. But he wasn't playing poorly enough
to warn it. Now PG got locked up. That's all the MAVs did
right. Yeah, and the early foul trouble was rough too. He couldn't
get into a rhythm at all. My co host Will was on recently.
Uh, he was just saying that he thought he played well. I feel
like we can bully the MAVs from b West. I agree too. Zue
bullied the hell out of Gafford. Zuo bullied him straight off the jump in
this one. It looked like Wizard's Gafford out there, So it was good
to see percent chance of Balmer ruining his shirt while cheering one hundred and ten
percent chance, Jenny John one hundred and ten percent chance of that happening.
Have a good one, ALFREDA. Rodriguez, he's signing off. Other than
the opening quarter, it was great. He lost some guys off ball.
Another person whose defense was really good. Russell Westbrook's off ball defense was fantastic.
He was engaged, he got a steal, He wasn't caught lacking in
the back door or anything like that. You love to see it. The
Clippers did the thing where guys just play fifteen percent better than usual it and
it worked out for a win. I agree, Roj. I do think
there's maybe some overthinking going or something like that. Also, we're getting some
quotes just from the presser stuff Paul George or sorry not Paul George. James
Harden just said that he knew that Kawhi was out for Game one a few
days ago, so the guys have known for a little bit that Kawhi was
going to be out. Tyler mentioned that the Clippers have to do a better
job of getting to the free throw line. However you want to take that,
it's a direct quote, which is very funny. Yeah, I don't
know. I like this quote from Tyler. Uh oh, folks, we
got Adam Osam live from the damn stadium. What's going on, Adam?
I don't know. Just a team that, like I said, once Game
one starts, just like I guess the Phoenix Suns, you're going to see
a different level of effort and energy and they look great. That's about as
locked in as you could I don't know be in a Game one. Was
the process good enough? Chuck? Did you like that process? Babe?
Let's go I like the process for sure. Of the game. We were
just talking some of the quotes from TYLERU he mentioned the defense didn't do what
we were supposed to do sometimes, which you love to hear in a game
where the map shot poorly. They scored eight points in a quarter and Tyler
still wants room for improvement. Obviously there is, but I love how it
seemed like ty had the guy set up for this game because they came out
hot. Yeah, they were well prepared. I felt like there was slippage
and the defense slowly kind of eroded in the second half. There was that
Luka doncics wide open three with a miscue that led to a ty Lou timeout
in the third quarter. Yeah, it was. It was noticeable, but
overall, not a lot to complain about. I'm on my guy, big
Zoo X Factor player to watch the series. He was bullying, he was
on his bully stuff. Absolutely, that's what they need. That's the path
to win this series. A huge series from Vich's Zoo box. That's what
it has to be. And he even locked up Luka Doncers on a possession.
Yeah, no, he was. That was as good as he's been
all year. We talked about how hard it makes him better and everything like
that, Like this was Zoo dispelled any notion that Gafford was going to be
able to stop him in this series. In the first three possessions, I
think the first there was a time in the first when it was three straight
plays to Zoo. One was Gafford fouling him, and then the next two
possessions were two buckets like. It was as good as it could be.
I have a good show, Chuck, Thanks Adam. Let's go close.
No answer for Zubac at the moment, could not agree more. I think
I'm about to head out and go bask in this win. Get a hot
dog, hot dog, hot dog from outside. This is a great bit,
uh b West. He put up Will like numbers adjusted to modern NBA
standards, per Adam Oslin. Adam has some some interesting thoughts on Will which
we're all getting get into on this series. I am about to head out.
Thank you everyone for hanging out in the chat. This was super fun.
We're gonna do these after every game, win or lose. We're also
going to be doing a standalone episode out tomorrow with Will Updike, Adam Oslin,
and myself. Thank you Devian for hanging out. Let's hope we have
more vibes like this after the after the post games, right like, let's
let's keep them all met um up. Talk as much shit as you want
at work on Monday putting this in agreed Gregie tea man was getting clothesline from
hell and they just they just didn't call anything. It was insane. Shout
out Tyloo for commenting that at the end of his presser. But here's to
another CLIPS win. Talk your shit tomorrow. It doesn't matter. If you
know a Mask fan, let him know what's up, and as always, let's go