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win one sixteen, so one oh three over the Denver Nuggets here at cripper
dot com arena as they improved a two to one here in the preseason final
game coming up on Thursday, they'll run it back against Denver here. Welcome
into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up, we'll get your
post game final box score and you'll hear from Chuck Mockler of Flips and di
It. But first let's get to Carlo Jimenez, your radio voice of the
Clippers. So Carlo, in that first half, Clippers got off to a
slow start defensively and offensively, but then it looked like out of a timeout,
Paul George took it upon himself to start to take control and just be
more aggressive out there. And an aggressive Paul George is my favorite. Paul
George agreed Adam, and the Clippers needed that. I think they were looking
towards Kawhi and PG to try to set the tone. Obviously, you come
in and Denver's not playing their top six rotation pieces. It's a little bit
of a like, oh, we'll probably sleepwalk through this game, and that
wasn't really the case. We went to our first time out and it was
a thirteen to eleven lead for the visiting Denver Nuggets, and Paul George says,
I'm sick of this. It's time to go to work, and he
went to work twenty three points eighteen minutes, coming off just a three point
performance a week ago. When Paul George is aggressive, boy is it fun
to watch. After going one of nine last Tuesday, he goes nine of
thirteen from distance. Was on his bully stuff. Maybe not exactly as he
would put it, but we love to see it going really hard to the
glass finishing and then also knocking down shots from the outside. Kawhi Leonard started
zero for three, but then once you know, he knocked down both of
his shots from the three point land where he hit four of them on last
Tuesday night in Seattle against the U to jazz I. Just like the fact
that we're seeing a fresh, healthy Kawhi Leonard with bounce in his leg so
he can get those deep threes to fall early. Yeah, a guy again
never really forces the game, lets it come to him. And so in
the middle of that second quarter, you're thinking, well, Kawhi is taking
two shots and hasn't really contributed in this game. And then he's like,
let me remind you for a second, don't forget, I'm Kawhi. Leonard
berries two threes. Part of that run where the Clippers made five of six
after starting just one of nine from downtown. Out of the shooting today wasn't
exactly where you want it to be from the three point line, but from
the field was excellent for the Clippers. Really great to see. Yeah,
fifty six percent from the floor for your Los Angeles Clippers. Nicholas Patum got
the start, we talked about him, player to watch for me. Finished
with six points. He knocks down two three pointers, gets it to go.
But he's someone who just seamlessly fits in, no matter if he's with
the starting unit coming off the bench with the second unit. Nicholas Patum just
kind of is that, as they say, canctive tissue with this team.
That just helps this machine run. Yeah, and I'm really interested to see
what plays out on Thursday, because head coach s Toron Lou has talked about
the three guys. So you get Terrence Man in his start two points in
an assist. You Robert Covington in his start eleven points, two steals,
four blocks, he was plus eleven. And now we get a Vitza Zubats
in his start and he goes for or excuse me, not of Vitazubats Niko
Batuman his start and he goes for six points four rebounds in an assist.
So you look at those numbers at him and you think who stands out?
Feels like Covington stood out, but there's not much separation between the three starts.
Does tylu reward Robert Covington and give him the fourth start on Thursday?
Does he say, hey, Terrence Man played well today off the bench.
Does he get the start? I'm really intrigued to see who gets that starting
spot on Thursday, because I feel like, if I was a guessing person,
that that's gonna be the front runner to start at the four. Robert
Covington making an impact really down the stretch of this ball game, playing with
the young guys, had that reat steel and then was rewarded for an easy
layup, but has some like to say, quickest hands in the West,
no doubt about it. He was excellent in the passing lanes, and that's
really what makes him so dynamic. Maybe his on ball defense isn't what it
used to be at his age, but the ability to still affect the game
on the defensive end in his eleventh year, it has been impressive. One
more for you here, Carlow. We gotta talk about Bones Highland. I
believe he had ten points in the third quarter alone, finally gonna knock one
down from the outside after starting I think o of eleven in the preseason from
three. Once that shot fell through, there was even a different level of
energy and juice in those legs from Bones Highland, who can just make things
happen for himself or first teammates, Like we saw what that great pass to
Viza Zubats. You're right at him. He was excellent at finding his friends
in white. Four assists to go along with his twelve points, and really
the ability to get the defense to collapse in on him and then dump it
off. It really reminds me of the way Russell Westbrook attacks the rim.
He's not always looking to throw it down to lay it up. He's kind
of looking for his big men to slide under seal and hand it off to
them for an easy dunk. And it feels like Bones Highland, whether on
purpose or not, through Osmosis, has kind of done the same thing through
this first three preseason games. Hey, you love to see that continuity.
Russell Westbrook's out of the game, but you got a guy who plays in
a similar style in Bones Highland who then comes in and picks up the baton.
He is Carlo Jimenez, your radio voice of the Clippers. After they
win one sixteen, so one zero three here at Crypto dot Com Arena in
preseason game number three. They run it back a half hour earlier. On
Thursday night, tiptime is at seven. We'll have Clippers countdown their pregame show
starting at six. Carlo was a pleasure to hang out in person our first
game here at the crypt with big brother Jake Warner. Oh, the vibes
through the roof flow it off. Love it. Carlo will talk to you
all there, all right, I'll talk to you Thursday. Adam. Let's
get another one, huh. Why not take advantage? Stack up wins whenever
you can get them preseason or that Clippers are victorious. They went by thirteen
over the Denver Nuggets. Tonight more postgame next year an your Clippers' locker room
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oh three over the Denver Nuggets and preseason game number three for your LA Clippers.
Welcome back into your post game show. I'm Adam Oslin. It's just
preseason, so no Clippers talk yet, but you know when that happens,
will be giving out the number. We'll be taking your calls an hour after
a postgame. But tonight we will have Chuck Mockler Charles Mockler on from Clips
and Dip. But let's get to some second half highlights here at the half,
Clippers starters opened things up at the end of the first half. In
that second quarter when they came back out on the court, Nicholas Batoon with
Kawhi, Paul George of Vitza's Zubots and Russell Westbrook. And so it was
a nine point lead for the Clippers twenty four minutes and at sixty to fifty
one, and that was it for PG. Thirteen. He did great work
tonight twenty three minutes eighteen or twenty three points in eighteen minutes Kawhi Leonard just
seven points and seventeen minutes. They took the rest of the night off with
Bones Highland in that third quarter when he took over left wing, Highland open
three. There it is yah see Bones Thiland his first three of preseason sixty
three fifty one. He's one for ten Hiland orchestrating at the top halts to
handle with the right hand near wing, wants to work against Ganki ten to
shoot a little dance, A step back mid range shay. How about that
from Bones Island a mid range shimmy and shake for two eighty one sixty seven
flippers up fourteen back to Highland. Ball in his left pockets. He looks
at the Rami blocks at three six to shoot Bones. Gotta get busy.
Here comes Highland. Here O steps right handed, layup up and in Bones
Highland, Moon walk into the rim eighty four to seventy. Clippers lead by
fourteen two minutes ago. In the third Bones Highland with ten points on the
third quarter alone, Clippers led ninety one to seventy two heading into the fourth,
and it was coach lou going deeper into his bench. How about Xavier
Moon with that ability to close out games. We've seen it in the G
League, We've seen it in the Summer League. We saw it tonight here
in a preseason game against Denver. Martin at the high point, holds above
his head, flips it Moon left angle right in front of the Denver bench
into the lane. He goes right, his right handed layups scoop, shot
is up and end Xavier Moon Levet's hitting through the deap fence and putting it
home ninety seven seventy nine, Flipper advantage nine to fifteen to zero. Fourth
quarter quotes A Moon left wing underneath the Kobe Brown shovels back to Xavier Moon
pulls up on the base line. Savior Moon back to back buckets Clippers ninety
nine, Denver seventy ninety Moon right wing, catch it, shoot three.
Savior Moon rips the cores time out Denver one oh two eighty two. Here
comes Moon all the way to the ram. Davier Moon get up, throw
it down with two hands, check his sneakers for springs. Moon with a
flesh one fourteen ninety six Clippers lead. Carlo Jimenez on the call, Katie
Newton with the highlights. Xavier Moon with nine of his twelve points in that
fourth quarter. Clippers go on to win by thirteen final score one sixteen to
one oh three in preseason game number two for your LA Clippers. They're two
to one on the preseason with Game four coming up right back here Thursday night
against these same Denver Nuggets. Although maybe we'll see Nikola Jokicic, maybe we'll
see Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter Junior. More of the usuals
we'll see. But coming up next, Juck Mockler from the Clips and Dip
podcast will join me here. Clippers win one sixteen to one to oh three
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welcome back in It's your Clippers postgame show. I'm ad of Osland acapella style
live from Crypto dot com Arena after the Clippers win one sixteen to one oh
three over the Denver Nuggets in preseason game number three. Ooh, we just
wanted to make it more highly anticipated. Our next guest, who's about to
come on? Enjoy that silence? Now a little nipsey hustle as in our
final segment. Here once again, it's the return of Chuck Mockler from Clips
and Dip, this time after a win. I don't know if he wants
pat himself on the back since he and Will were in the building tonight.
Chuck, where do you want to start? Oh? Do you want to
start with Kobe Brown? How good he looked? Or do we want should
we talk about something maybe a little more meaningful? Were you not the one
in control of at Clipper's pod Twitter account that said Kobe Brown just had a
rough stretch and then I tried to old takes expose you should I be doing
a lot lately. I was in control that his first couple of minutes did
not look super solid, which I don't think is a huge prize to anybody.
But I love how he bounced back. He was the only bench guy
that than Kenyon Martin or Terrence Man to not have a negative plus minus.
You know, the three blocks are nice, but he's still got some He's
got to get use some movement at the NBA speed, I think. But
I think the main thing we can all be excited about tonight was Paul George
looks completely ready for the season. I think he is the guy who most
looks just ready to hit the ground run in and Zoo looked good too.
But what do you think of PG tonight? It was everything we could have
wanted. Well, it was especially impressive because he goes one of nine a
week ago. Obviously he wanted to right that wrong. But I don't think
he had his first bucket the first six minutes of the first quarter. Then
all of a sudden he took over. So all of his damage with those
twenty three points may have come within about a ten minute stretch from the end
of the first into the second, where He was absolutely lethal, but also
he only took one three he hit it, but he was getting to the
basket. He was getting to his spots. He and Reggie Jackson were dueling,
going back and forth a little bit early on the ballgame. Reggie was
going at him and Kawhi like he was taking things personally. I think Bonones
Hihland had a little something extra for his former team in the Denver Nuggets.
Reggie may have had something for the Clippers. But then Paul George took control
of the ballgame really midway through that second quarter, when the Clippers starter started
to open things up. Yeah, him and Kawhi got started a little bit
kind of at the same time, which probably isn't a coincidence, But yeah,
I love what you said about the one to three point attempt. It
was three level scoring, you know, for the most part for Paul George.
No assists and no turnovers. You know, I'm not really worried about
that. In the preseason they were trying Nico with the four, So the
assists are going to come, and I mean hopefully the turnovers aren't too crazy
this year, since Russ has had some more time to gel and kind of
set things up. But no, I mean, you know, two,
one, three. For a brief period, we're both playing very well.
Kawhi seemed like he was kind of, you know, getting up to speed
in this game a little bit. Not a bunch of shot, not a
bunch of shot attempts or anything like that. But you know, plus fourteen,
it's hard to be upset with Kawhi in the preseason kind of at any
time, as long as we're coming off of a healthy training camp, especially
because on the flip side, I like when I see Kawhi Leonard taking more
threes and knocking him down because last season he got off to such a slow
start from the outside you could tell his legs weren't there. Oh, it's
all there right now. I know he only took five shots, but those
two three pointers. And I was watching him intently pregame just to see what
his movement look like. When his pregame workout as opposed to what I saw
last season, He's moving faster. It's noticeable. He's noticeably leaner. Two.
That plays a role here. But when Kawhi says, part of the
reason he thinks there's better energy, better vibes at training camp because the guys
see him at one moving with more agility out there. That's a huge deal.
We're talking about Kawhi fully loaded heading into a season knock on one.
Yeah, and I mean think about and you know, who do you want
your guys to practice against? And that's the best and everyone else on the
Clippers has to practice against Paul George and Kawuhi And they've been able to do
that for an entire training camp so far. And Tyler was talking about one
of his quote unquote favorite drills that he's making these guys run. They are
running a hell of a lot during this training camp. They did look a
little tired today to start this one. It was kind of wonky given the
fact that Denver sat everybody, so you know, they were playing some some
kind of you know, unknown quantities and stuff like that. But this the
vibes and training game were fantastic. Right now, we don't know if anything's
gonna happen to maybe shape this roster up, but right now, not the
most convincing performance from the team as a whole tonight, but still, you
know, you gotta be happy with what you saw. We saw some great
stuff on the break from Russ. He found Nico for a corner three that
was just I think, like picture perfect what Clippers fans kind of expect from
this new running offense and stuff like that. And I thought Nico did okay
as the starting for I think it's hard to rotate, you know, a
new starting for three games in a row. But Nico did Nico things.
He connected plays, he hit multiple threes, he grabbed boards. It was
a quiet night for the most part, exactly what he'd have to do if
he does end up as the starting four. Yeah, he just fits in
seamless league, makes the right basketball players. I think one of those threes
he knocked down was from pretty far out. He also got off to a
slow start from beyond the arc and the three point shot was hit and miss.
Last season still ended up just below forty percent. I thought he looked
good. He showed a little bit of bounce on a player where he tried
to get back on defense and swat a shot. I don't know who the
player was on offense. Yeah, he showed that the hops are still there.
I know he's got a lot of wear and tear because he's playing every
summer with France. But Nicholas Batoum. I still think can be a very
valuable player on this Clippers team. But you mentioned Russell Westbrook there. He
finished with seven assists in just one turnover, and while he found Nicholas Patumb
for that three pointer, he wasn't ten on getting the ball to a Vita
Zubots, as were the rest of the Clippers early on. He had eight
points in the first quarter alone, but Big Zoo had three blocks. He
had two of them I think on one possession. Like he was very active
for a guy who was just dealing with backspassives. Yeah, I think that
plane ride from my from Hawaii to Seattle had some of whose backspasses. I
wouldn't have been surprised if it was some travel fatigue stuff, but no,
Zoo, man. It was great to see them getting Zoo touches early since
he you know, didn't get as many as he wanted in the Seattle game.
You know, hands, Zoo's hands at this point are what they're going
to be. We just gotta hope he can catch the you know, eighty
five percent of the passes getting thrown to him. But he was aggressive.
It also feels like you talked about Reggie and some of these guys playing hard
against the other team. I don't know what it is about Aviza Zobots,
but DeAndre Jordan seems to play harder against the Viza Zoobots than any other center
in the league. So it was nice to see him get a really you
know, if you're playing Downrey Jordan in twenty twenty three, it's going to
be mostly just physical, so it's nice for him to get you know that
kind of banging around old school post play. I think, yeah, get
him up to speed quickly. DJ did have eight to nine. I wonder
if he feels like Zoo is his replacement or something with the Clippers and he
took that person. I don't know. One of the more underrated uh I
guess aspects to this ballgame and performances was Terrence Man. To me, it's
not that he had some huge thirty nine point game or anything. It was
just eight points, seven boards, but all four of his makes were fatal.
Ways we're a little step back, Yeah, like that is an element
to his game that he has shown here and there. But to see all
four of his makes four six shooting be that part of his bag, that's
a big deal to me. Yeah, I mean, year five, if
you're adding new things and that they're working, I'm all for it. We
already know how good he is at getting to the basket, making defenders have
the second guess, you know, just one more thing he can do.
He's not the most you know, versatile scorer or anything like that. He's
good at what he's good at. He doesn't really branch out, but this
is the kind of like nice little mini branch he can add to just make
the defenders have to think about one more thing when he's on the floor.
I'm not totally so on him being the starting for you. I would like
that, but I don't know if that's where the direction the tea. You
know, Tyler wants to go. But him on the bench, if he's
playing like this and kind of you know a bit of the alpha dog on
the bench, that I would look forward to a bench, you know,
a Terrance excuse me, a Terrence led bench. He yeah, I just
like the fact that he was hunting out that spot on the floor, like,
get me there, I'll take care of the rest. That could be
Yeah, exactly, Baby Kawhi the Old Spider Man meme from I don't know
if I was into the universe, across the universe. I forget the first
one okay by our friend Phil lord h what more for you here? Both
Stiland finished with twelve points but for assists and he got a three warn to
go after starting off the preseason over eleven from the outside. Then the juice
in his legs just getting downhill, trying to finish or setting up a vitza
Zubots for an easy dunk like he he creates havoc and I was watching him
closely on defense. There was a play where he was absolutely trying to fight
through multiple screens to stick with his man. That effort was there, and
we saw it at times last year at a Clippers uniform. Yeah, Bones,
I mean, the effort is there. You know. There was that
quote from the Denver GM about, you know how Bones had to go because
he was what doesn't defend as kind of a me guy or something like that.
Bones are the guy who plays with the motion, just like Russell Westbrooks.
There's some players where a chip on their shoulder has a tiny bit of
something, and I think that Bones has that. It's a little chaotic when
he gets to the basket, it feels like he jumps and then then tries
to kind of make a decision. But everything else, I love the effort
on defense. He puts his chest in the guys. He's trying to make
a difference on that end, which when you're as skinny as Bones is,
is a big part of it. It was good stuff. You know,
the turnovers not what you want to see, but again it's preseason. Wonky
start him on the bench, kind of going back to the Terrence Man thing.
I wouldn't be mad if Terrence is there to kind of help out some
of the defensive issues because the bench without you know, a super strong defender
out there is, you know, something that might have to get figured out.
But Bones had a good preseason. Really excited to see what he does
in two days. He is the Kobe Brown super fan. Chuck Mockler what
self appointed? I mean, this is this is something you've been on for
a while now, and I'm here for it. We love Kobe Brown.
I love the fact that what's up. The thing is, I think he
could get more minutes than Mussa Diabate did last year. I think more total
minutes will do more for Kobe Brown. I think there's a I think there's
a narrow path to it. That's all I'm hoping for. I feel like
some goalposts are being rearranged at the moment. But that's fine. That's fine,
that's cool. We'll be on with Chuck Mockler tomorrow. We'll have a
new Clips and Dip podcast. Look forward on YouTube at Chuck Mockler's where you
can find him on X Chuck, thanks for doing this tonight post game.
Hey, thanks for having me Adam before we get out of here tonight.
As we always have stacked shows for it, even without Clippers Talk. It's
my pleasure to reintroduce positive moments with the fake philosopher, big brother Jake Warner,
the Professor. He's in the building as always, our head engineer here,
podcaster, extraordinary and uh part of the TM crew. What's up,
Jacob? Oh man, it's good to be back, Adam. You know
how it is. Man, We've been waiting for this. It's a long
time. It's so good to be back here in this building. Man.
Good to see you. Good to see Carlo tonight. Oh person, we
had a lot of fun. He killed it, man, he did a
damn good job. Of course. Well now it's your turn. You got
to send us out the right way tonight. All right, listen up,
y'all, because this is important. Nothing is permanent. Don't stress yourself too
much because no matter how bad the situation is, it will change. Only
constant life is changed. That right, big brother, Jake Warner. Clippers
win tonight one. I'm sixteen to one oh three over the Denver Nuggets in
preseason game number three. Before we get out of here, I do want
to talk about our friend Dennis Stegostino, who we lost over the last few
weeks, our head statistician here. I used to say, always statistician to
the stars. He's always been among them. We love Dennis Deegastino. We
will miss him dearly. Tonight we were broadcasting with heavy hearts, sitting next
to some flowers in a jersey with his name on them here on broadcasters Row,
of course, a classy gesture from the Clippers. But Dennis will be
greatly missed. The goat in all of his endeavors. Just a beautiful,
wonderful man and a joy to get to work with. Love you, Dennis.
Before we get out of here, do you want to thank the Clippers
organization? Brian Seaman Ralph Lawler, Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez. There's a
lot of them. I said, Noah, where were you? Katie?
Maybe I'm not giving you a thank you. Oh, Katie Newton back in
Burbank. Big brother Jake Warner, our head engineer. Here at Crypto dot
com arena, the listeners. We will talk to all of you on Thursday
night pre games starting at six Clippers and Nuggets running back. I'm at a
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