Hashtag Clippers come back again. They were down fourteen. They go on to
win one twelve to one oh two over the Chicago Bulls at home on the
front end of a matinee home back to back while losing an hour as they
take on the Bucks tomorrow. Welcome back into Clippers Talk here on the Patriot
Am eleven fifty. I'm at a Mosland eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty is the phone number. But joining the show right now is big Chuck
Mockler, even coming back just like the Clippers did on a win by this
team. It's it's a rare It's a rare appearance from Chuck Mockler after a
win, but we will take it. Charles, thanks for doing this,
Hey, thanks for having me a bit of a I mean, I don't
think not totally unexpected walkey' sorrd for the Clippers, but it's good to get
to win with what's what they have to do tomorrow. Yeah, they were
down by eleven in the first quarter, they were down by eleven at the
half, they were down by fourteen early in the third, but they surged
ahead. I felt like it was their defense that ramped up got them into
their offense, which they did started executing much better. They ran high pick
and roll. It's like they have this way to beat teams that is fairly
simple, and sometimes they just go away from it for whatever reason. But
would James Harden being the master of the pick and roll and throwing these between
the league passes to Aviatza Zoo boss. When they utilize Zoo like that,
they're a really tough team to beat. Yeah, it was great to these
Zoo have the second half that he did. For sure. He went to
five for five on the second half, which was huge, and he looked
you know, I thought he looked a little skinnier maybe lately, just maybe
a few being sick and whatnot. But you know, the team was still
kind of talking about him getting back to game shape and whatnot. Just under
twenty five minutes today. But I mean plus eighteen, you know, plus
nine us doesn't always tell the full story, but I think it told that
helps tell the story of how valuable Zoo was today, especially in the second
half. Yeah, finished with sixteen and nine seven of nine from the field.
He had the first two buckets for the Clippers, and they kind of
went away from him and just forgot about him for a little bit, but
they executed near the end of that third quarter. It was him. It
was James Harden just abusing Nikol bussa bitch out there. I'm just glad of
beats. The Zubats is still in the starting lineup, and you know,
Daniel Tice isn't quite there yet. Good off the bench, and I did
like the fact that this was another game where you see what Mason Plumbley was
able to do on Wednesday, and it was still Daniel Tye's turn, and
I thought he was solid out there. But if both these guys can stay
ready like this where one of them will be used in a ball game as
the backup, I think you're good. I think you're solid. Yeah.
The Clippers center rotation was such an issue coming into the season, and they
really did do a great job to solidify it. It's been a little wonky
as of lay. You know, Tye not the best shooting night tonight or
this afternoon. Excuse me, but you're right. If they can kind of
pick their spots and be able to contribute when they're called upon, the Clipper
will be good. We're also, i think all hoping that Zee's minutes for
games goes up in the playoffs, every one of the main guys this minute
is going to go up. I really hope that Zews does as well,
or maybe get shifted more towards closing games, but still quite a few games
ago before then, Charles pie Face just hit me up on x at follow
out of May. Maybe I'm gonna throw this one to you. I'm just
gonna pass it off. He said, where was Plumbly this game? And
why don't they pair Tyson plumbly when going against lengthier teams? Why don't they
do it? Joke? I don't think he very plumbly against lengthier teams because
the offense becomes an absolute nightmare. We know that type can shoot and will
shoot, but that doesn't mean that the space thing is necessarily going to be
better and defensively, I don't know if Tys can hang with a lengthy athletic
four. Where are you having issues with guys like Kawhi Leonard and Paul George
doing that. I don't think Daniel Tyson can do any better a job there,
and they Plumbey has just not been very consistent lately, so there's a
lot of weird discourse around the center rotation. The answer is just playing Zoo
Moore and then sure I do agree against bigger teams, maybe Mason Plumby should
come in and get the run instead of Daniel Tye. There's just no reason
for those two people to ever be on the court together. Good answer,
pie to the face. That's what they call him, pie face. So
Bolese Hyland goes three of three from distance. He may have got the poor
shooting out of him. He may have found his rhythm in this game.
I felt like the way he was turning the corner last game and get into
the basket was big. But now the three point shot is starting to come
back. This is somebody who can pull up off the bounce and knock them
down from the outside at a high volume and with nice efficiency when he's in
a groove. I think he may be getting there now. Yeah, he
was on the floor with Norm a little bit tonight, which is always a
bit of a you know, adventure defensively, but both of those guys ended
up playing pretty solid. Wasn't super hot from three, but defensively wasn't horrible
from this pairing. Yeah, bones can do it off the bounce, which
is great. I didn't. I can't remember if he had to catch and
shoot three in this one, but that's gonna be something to kind of look
for for bones too. He has a similar thing with hard maybe being a
little you know, not comfortable doing that yet. But he did exactly what
the Clippers are going to need him to do from here on, which is
play around fifteen minutes, not be a complete sieve on defense, and then
be a fish on offense. He was efficient as possible today, which was
a really long way to help the Clippers. But yeah, he's rounding into
form a little quicker than maybe we thought. And that's probably because, you
know, he is the youngest contributor on the team, so it is my
time to sell the young legs out there. We hashtag skeleton key. How
dare you any? He had three steals in this one. Paul George also
had three blocks and two steals, eight assists of three turnovers, twenty two
points, eight of sixteen shooting. Really, four of his last five games
have been very solid overall from all George. He also is starting to get
back into the type of rhythm and timing he was in before the knee injury,
before the growing issue, before that, but his defense also on Damar
Derozen when he was trying to pick on Norman Powell early in that first half,
when he was just going after him left and right. I think Paul
George and his defense was nice in this game. But finding the touch now
also, Yeah, he had a couple of lapses on d but you know,
it's noon game. Whatever. Yeah, finding guys to this afternoon was
really cool to see from punters nine as sifts, which feels like the most
he's had. We did a very long time, and it's just not usually
his game. So he was playing with good awareness today. He did pass
up with three at one point and go in for the lamp and he converted
it, which was really cool to see. He did not have a good
shooting afternoon. Who knows if he's going to play tomorrow, but we hope
it's a little better on Tuesday. But yeah, he's for all the noise
around PG lately, he's done a good job of he's ramping up well yeah,
basically, well I'll take a gate of sixteen, but I'm with you.
I like the fact that he actually turned down that three and went to
the basket and did that eurostep around Vusavish there last one for you. I've
been talking about it. I've been really hitting on it, probably more than
some people would like. But is it not ridiculous? You play two games
in twenty two hours? Are you kid? Me? And its Milwaukee tomorrow?
How did the Clippers deal with this? Yeah, it doesn't really make
any sense. I want to give a hat tip to Brian Steman for calling
out on the broadcast kind of about how that goes against the NBA protocol with
how often you can actually play games close to each other. So it's I
don't know if it's unprecedented. It might be unprecedented. I can't remember the
last time an NBA team had two games in less than twenty four hours.
It feels like we're like a third tier soccer team or something like that with
how much basketball they're because also they play again on Tuesday. This is a
three and four for the Clips, so we hope they're whoever plays tomorrow.
I hope they get some good rest today and tonight. I'm we don't know
what's going to happen with Paul, George, Harden and Kawhi. I maybe
don't want them to play. I think it's totally fine. I don't think
anyone would blame them for not playing. I hope you don't, because again,
two games in twenty two hours. I just don't know if there's any
days to go off of on this one. Honestly, Yeah, I'm not
going to blame him if guys don't play in this one. It's absurd because
if somebody ended up getting hurt, the storyline will be how these games were
smashed together and how that never should have happened. Hashtag NBA cares not like
what is going on here? This is just the ultimate just laps by the
NBA in scheduling. It's unbelievable. Chuck Machler, Chuck Mockler of Clips in
Dip Fame, we did one for you yesterday on the YouTube. Some of
what we talked about kind of came to fruition in this ball game, although
we didn't even know who would be available after a bunch of guys were questionable
yesterday. So we'll see what happens tomorrow against the Bucks and who's able to
give it a go. But Charles, thanks for doing this a little Clips
and Double Dip here on clipper Stock. Thank you, Hey, thanks for
having me here here's again in the maybe surprise win tomorrow. Yeah, they're
gonna need it. They're gonna need guys. I mean, maybe that's why
Jordan Miller and Kobe Brown were getting some run at the end of this game.
Maybe was like, hey, get ready, get your feet wet.
You could be playing tomorrow, PJ Tucker, you two, and I'm guessing
Mason Plumbley will be playing. He'll get the go against Ianis Denn Koopo,
the bigger defender Daniel Tice today against Chicago. So it's kind of interesting stagger
there. I like that