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Voice Southwest. Let's Darious, last time I checked him. Last time Kawhi
dropped forty one on the Utah Jazz. Clippers win tonight for the first time
in Utah in the regular season since twenty seventeen, one seventeen to one oh
three over Utah. Welcome back into your post game show. This is Clippers
Talk. I'm Adam Osland. After Vitza Zubots plays forty two minutes, No
Daniel Tice and Big Zoo got that run. That's what we like to see.
He is capable of playing much more. Was able to close out the
game against Denver on Wednesday. It works. Please go to him more,
Please get him more touches. To Viata, Zoobots is still twenty six and
getting better. He finished with eighteen and twelve. Clippers went by fourteen and
joining the show right now. To rest my voice and more is will updeck
from Clips. I'll be and div You try to rest my voice so much,
you're just gonna cut me off there, will, I mean, come
on, manat with Adam Oudlin. Anyways, I'm taking over here. No
a sin, I'm not doing a damn thing. Now. You're making me
laugh too much. Will Kawhi Leonard uh not washed? Looks fine? Take
it from here, Okay. Was anyone worried that Kawhi was actually washed?
That's insane. Look if you were excited that the Denver Nuggets, that the
Clippers finally beat the Denver Nuggets, waitnill you hear they finally didn't get stung
in the Beehive day Kawhi Leonards the beekeeper forty one five with a block that
was for the ages when he hit. Things got a little close in the
fourth quarter in this one, and he hit he bailed the Clippers out of
almost a twenty four second violation with a running heat three pointer, And I
thought, oh my god, like that, like, could this be any
better? He was hitting anything, He was unstoppable, and we saw,
we just saw. I thought the Clippers put the foot on the throat a
little bit on and I think that that was nice to see with the Utah
team that I thought thought really really hard to make things interesting and you know,
they have some legit guys, but Kawhi Leonard Van just taking this one
home. I don't know. I think Rod Benson said he was washed.
I don't know who else. Clippers winning by fourteen tonight a Vita Zubas.
I mentioned him on the way in We Love Big Zoo. I don't know
why Clipper Nation is divided on him. It just seems like the high level
viewers of Clippers basketball know how important he is to this team, and he's
still just getting better, and I just love the fact he's being featured more
in this new starting lineup. Will Yeah, I mean, if you wear
a Fedora, you've probably been on the Zoo train since day one. But
yes, Visa Zubats is for sure playing some of the best stretch of his
career. And I think what's interesting he talked a little bit postgame about how
he's kind of working things out with Harden, and you know, you know
what, Harden was able to help him be get over the hump this year.
Zoobots. You know, I think offensively, that has to be your
biggest criticism, right, Like, if he is a divisive character, I'd
be really hard pressed to hear your argument to say that he's a bad defender,
but I think there have been maybe some legitimate complaints about his offense.
But with a running partner like James Harden, and he talked about how they're
not even you know, they're not even fully in sync yet, and after
every practice, before every game, they're they're communicating, they're working on this
pick and roll stuff. We also know that Zoo worked a little bit harder
in the off season to get those hooks, to get to get kind of
some different moves in the bag. And I think if beatsa zu wats can
keep this kind of playoff. I'm telling you that that is a ceiling that
is a more than a ceiling razer. What's what's more a roof lower offer
for the Clippers, and they're possibility like in their possible championship expectations. I'm
loving what I'm seeing from Big Zoo right now. Roof lower offer. We
got will Updyke gone from cliffs and dip posts game after the Clippers winning Utah
for the first time in the regular season since twenty seventeen one seventeen to one
oh three. Well, we've talked about this before. I'm not starting to
start anything with Russ stands. We love Russell Westbrook too, but this is
the role for him at this point of his career. When you have someone
like James Harden. Clippers are eight and three with this new starting lineup,
it's not a fluke. James was out there and he hadn't even taken a
shot the first quarter and a half and the Clippers were humming. And it's
because he doesn't need to. He can just dish guys and find guys and
get them in rhythm and get them open like Kawhi Leonard and still make an
impact that way. Yeah. Yeah, And I mean, like, look,
this isn't about you know, Harden being on a team with west Westbrook.
This is about Westbrook being on a team that happens to have hardened.
But also like Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. You know, it's not just
like an either or thing, but they do seem to be you know,
this lineup makes a little bit more sense to me, you know, just
from an on paper standpoint, from what I've seen on court standpoint. But
that doesn't detigrate anything about Russell Westbrook. And I think that he's been getting,
like getting even better in this role. You know, I think he's
probably not ideal from where he came into training camp, but like you said,
it's just undeniable and like hardened. A little bit of a rough shooting
night, it didn't matter. Still had eight asists only to Eternal, So
they just both they both bring different things and the issue is like just with
the non shooting still with Russ, like it's just something it's gonna be really
tough to overcome. I really, you know, you have to. You
have to have a lot of shooters around him, or he can't even he
can't even use the vision that he has on the court. You know that
there's just not enough open for him to operate in that sort of space.
Yeah, I don't know what people are looking at when they see James Harden
having to take that three. Granted he made it in the fourth quarter,
but Russ is right next to him in the near side corner because they're trying
to hide him there in the corner to create spacing. It's just awkward.
It's just a bad fit. It's not the modern NBA. That doesn't mean
he can't help this team. I think he was awesome overall. The last
five games, didn't have a great game tonight and was taken out early in
the fourth because the spacing wasn't working and they're trying to get away from Russ
and Harden being on the floor together. I think they give it a shot
because they were up by fourteen or whatever it was early in the fourth quarter
and saw what it could do. But even against a team like the Utah
Jazz, it's just it's not going to be that effective out there. It's
not optimal. But Russ still brings a lot of what this team needs.
I feel like Norm Powell, who also didn't have a great shooting game two
of eight, but may have hit the biggest shot of the game. Clippers
were up by just six and then he knocked down a three pointer and he
was I think at that point something like one of six from the outside one
of seven and stuck a big shot. And he has had a propensity for
hitting big threes and fourth quarters so far this season. I mean, Norm
Powell has been unbelievable. He's been so huge. I and you know,
we haven't got to see an extended run of him healthy either. You know
that this is so far for the Clipper season. Knock On Wood been so
great that Norm Powell has gotten to like, gotten to be Norm, I
feel like even more. I like him in closing lineup, I like him
coming off the bench. He's one of those guys that even though tonight you
finished four of eleven, two of eight from three, I still think it's
going in. Every time the ball leaves his hands. I feel the same
way. That's when you know somebody is on a heater. Feel the same
way with Kawhi Leonard right now. And Paul George had eighteen to twenty in
the second half, and he and Kawhi were just taking turns going at Fontechio,
who was struggling out there for the Utah Jazz. They just had nobody
guard these guys. Paul George had ten of its twenty points in the fourth
quarter. He also hit a big three pointer as the Clippers created that distance
late to eventually give their guys some rest down the stretch. But I love
the fact that he could not take that many shots on the first half,
not have more than two points, and he still was in rhythm enough to
have an eighteen points second half. That to me is crucial because you know
when one guy's playing that well and Kawhi Leonard. Obviously it was his night.
You worry about other guys being out of rhythm when you're gonna need them
eventually, and that wasn't a problem for Paul George stayed around with his timing
and got enough touches to stay in the flow of the offense. Yes,
I'm going to push back on that a little bit. I like that.
I liked it he was able to do that. Honestly, my only thorn
in this game would be despite some good process moves, I thought in the
fourth quarter, it turned into a very much stagnated ball. Each player is
taking iso shots. Paul George happened to be able to heat it up.
That was great tonight, Kawhi Leonard. You know Gray all night basically any
shot. I can't really I can't really criticize, but we saw some of
what this offense looks like when it's not good, which is slow plotting,
no ball movement. And I think that that is one of those things that
when any one of this big three had like a really big night, I'm
looking for like where everybody else is, and this one was a good one,
But I don't feel like the process was there for forty eight minutes or
thirty six minutes, or however many you'll want to count. I could see
that to a degree where they us had to have their stars step up and
make some tough one on one shots late. They did, But you don't
necessarily want to always have to rely on that. You want to go back
to running your offense. Clippers ended up square strategy. If you need to
get sixteen wins, I wouldn't bet on it. No, that's completely fair.
And they're taking on a Utah Jazz team tonight that has been struggling,
to say the least, but hey, the Clippers had struggled into Utah to
say the least since twenty seventeen. Overall in the regular season they win one
seventeen to one oh three. One more for you here will Terrence Man.
One of the things I talk about with this, and Coach Lou brought it
up on Wednesday, But they can still get a lot better offensively with this
group defensively being the second best defense over their last eleven games. Now you
know that's elite stuff, But are you gonna say, well, not good
enough? Two? Come on? Who? Well, during that same time,
their offense has been seventeenth, and even though their starters have been good
overall, there's more there potentially, especially because once Terrence Man starts knocking down
shots and he did tonight he hit two three pointers that could be a big
turning point for him. You talk about the Clippers getting the monkey off their
back winning in Utah, Terrence Man looking more confident with his three point shot.
If he starts to get it going offensively next to James Harden, Oh,
this offense is going to cook. Yeah. If defensive has to respect
Terrence Man as a shooter, and he was hesitant at a late in a
late game three, but overall, if you have to respect Terrence Man at
all times from outside or at least at least from the corner, that opens
things up even more. And what I love about Terrence is, you know,
he's just become that great connector you know, he he cuts well,
he had a really nice driving kick in I want to say the third.
So he's a great utility guy. But you know, like you highlighted,
he needs to be aggressive and we know, you know, we know what
he can do. And I think the three point shot percentage wise is gonna
even out. It's one of those things that's been so terrible that it you
know, it just has to go back to something normal probability from a probability
standpoint, But no, Terrence Man looks really solid. I mean, it's
it was the right decision coming out of training camp to have him in the
starting group. And it's unfortunate still that, you know, he had the
ankle injury and we didn't get even more time with him in the starting lineup,
because I just wonder where his confidence as that then if he has even
more time and yes, hard and coming and changes things. But Terrence has
been asked to change a lot on this team. That's kind of his story
with the Clippers. And to see him, you know, now he's bribing
once again after being thrown an another another loop, makes me think that he's
definitely on the and that is good good news for the Clippers. Our friend
Justin Russo, who joined me in the pregame, pointed out that Terrence Man
so far in his career, through the first twenty games of a season,
is just a twenty nine percent three point shooter. After that, though,
he starts connecting at about forty percent from the outside. So tonight was game
twenty one, he ends up two to five from distance. Maybe it's starting
to come along here. He's finding that rhythm. Obviously. Patrick Beverly,
the former Clipper, also was notorious for getting off to solil starts from the
outside and then would start to heat up. He is Will Updike of the
Clips and Dip Pod. Follow him at Will Updike on Twitter, Big Will,
thanks for coming in for this Clippers, big w tonight in Utah.
Here on Clippers stop with a little double dip action. Absolutely feeling good.
Let's go clip. Actually I'm feeling terrible. My throat is all right.
We'll get mourn me. Will. Thanks for doing it. I appreciate it.
Coming up next, we'll hear from coach lou Clippers win one seventeen to
one to oh three over the Utah Jazz. Clippers have won three in a
row, eight and three in their last eleven. I don't know how you
do, guys, don't see the vision. If you're still asking for Russell
Westwork to be in the starting lineup, or why isn't he playing more,
or if you didn't like James Harden's game before, I don't know what to
tell you. This is the way him is the third option. And while
Russ is sacrificing minutes, James Harden is sacrificing shots. He's by far taking
the fewest amount of shots in his career. And it's working. It's coming
together. Clippers have won eight of their last eleven games, with some great
wins in there. Tonight winning in Utah for the first time in the regular
season games since twenty seventeen. It's nice too eight six six nine eighty seven
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