1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:06,360 Last time that chack just fine chains on my neck. It was no smiling 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:11,439 little Daja in multiple ways, same song, same story with the Clippers. 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:17,960 They win, make it eight straight one one twenty seven over the Indiana Pacers 4 00:00:18,039 --> 00:00:21,920 was the final score. Welcome back in I'm out of Mosland here listening to 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:27,440 Clippers talk. You just heard from James Harden who had twenty one points in 6 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,280 the fourth quarter alone, And now you're gonna hear from Will Updyke of clips 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:36,119 and dip made mistake. Didn't have my guys on last time. Clippers were 8 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,280 still able to win somehow, but they didn't win like they did tonight. 9 00:00:39,679 --> 00:00:42,359 I mean they only had one hundred and forty four points against the New York 10 00:00:42,439 --> 00:00:46,079 Knicks. Now that we got big will for big dubs coming on, the 11 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:50,840 Clippers put up one fifty one will. What were you most impressed with in 12 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,799 this one by the Clippers? I gotta start with what I'm least impressed with? 13 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,719 What? Yeah, that's right, We're eight games into a win streak. 14 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:03,560 Time to be a little bit more critical at him. Oh God, 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,400 is this Shawn and inglewin again? I said, I said they needed to 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,400 hold the Pacers under one hundred and twenty points. What if the Pacers scored 17 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:15,120 one hundred and twenty seven but the Clippers called off the dogs laying in the 18 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:23,599 fourth, it might as well be a loss to me. Well, William 19 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,760 Mupdyke with a high standard of Clippers basketball, even though they're probably playing the 20 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:30,799 best in the two to three era, not even a probably anymore. Come 21 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,920 on, well, be serious, level with me. This is the best 22 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,599 they have ever looked in the regular season with Kawhi and Paul George, now 23 00:01:37,599 --> 00:01:40,480 that they have I don't know, James hard and Russell Westbrook as well. 24 00:01:41,719 --> 00:01:46,040 Yeah, it's it's absolutely unreal. I love James Harden's aggression. I think 25 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:49,799 anytime we can get both him and Paul George eleven three point attempts, especially 26 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,319 when it's coming in the flow of the offense, you know, nothing was 27 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:57,359 forced, even James explosion there in the fourth quarter. I mean, I 28 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,879 thought that it's looking so cohesive that you know, we talked about this a 29 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:05,359 little bit. It's it's a little scary. It's like it's almost I don't 30 00:02:05,359 --> 00:02:07,120 want to say, too good to be true, but it's it's looking like 31 00:02:07,159 --> 00:02:10,680 a it's looking like a unit that I did not think that this team could 32 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:17,319 put together just a few weeks ago, and I don't know. It's how 33 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:23,120 are you feeling about the sustainability because I'm not really seen I mean, like 34 00:02:23,319 --> 00:02:25,680 tonight, we have some great shooting splits. I don't expect us to score 35 00:02:27,479 --> 00:02:31,759 over one fifty on a nightly basis, but I'm not really seeing anything that's 36 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:37,560 like a massive outlier for this team right now? Where are you those shooting 37 00:02:37,599 --> 00:02:43,639 splits fifty seven fifty eighty seven from the field and from there? No, 38 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:52,280 I'm with you. I understand that it's an outlier. I guess scoring wise, 39 00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:55,159 scoring one hundred and fifty one, you can't rely on that. But 40 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:00,360 they did just score one forty four. And I still think James Harden what 41 00:03:00,439 --> 00:03:05,159 he did in the fourth quarter, Yes that is not repeatable. That was 42 00:03:05,199 --> 00:03:08,919 an all time performance, but he can still play better with this team. 43 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:13,680 I mean, I get the skepticism because we've never seen him play this well 44 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:19,759 in the regular season before together and take things this seriously and not just be 45 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,719 locked in game to game, but quarter to quarter, possession to possession. 46 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:29,560 And it makes you feel as a Clippers fan that has some scar tissue built 47 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,360 up of oh just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Well, instead 48 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:37,000 the shoe is up. The opponents took us right now. That's what it 49 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:40,120 looks like out there from this team. Will. They're given a lot of 50 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:45,960 shoes, But would you say they're given no quarters? They gave one in 51 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:50,000 this game, none last game, one in the first quarter and it took 52 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:53,719 that Buddy Healed three pointer at the very end of the buzzer to get the 53 00:03:53,759 --> 00:04:00,479 Pacers that first quarter win. But I mean, Big Zoo is just getting 54 00:04:00,479 --> 00:04:04,080 better and he's having his moment, and it's due to James Harden. How 55 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,680 can you guys not see it? I know you see it. Will. 56 00:04:06,719 --> 00:04:12,319 There's a correlation there. The reason Big Zoo is playing like this is because 57 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:15,839 he has one of the ultimate playmaking point guards next to him. Oh one 58 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:21,439 hundred percent. Look, last year, the Clippers kaire defensive rating for the 59 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:26,800 entire season was because of about a ten game stretch of a Vita Zubots playing 60 00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:30,160 otherworldly defense. What did we see throughout the stretch of the season. It 61 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:34,240 didn't carry up things. There were too many gaps to fill. He was 62 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:39,079 asked to do too much. The body language changed, He was completely ignored 63 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,959 on offense, and now we're addressing both things. Right. We have a 64 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,279 lot more defenders around him so he can stay locked in and do what he 65 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,879 does well, and then he's getting rewarded at a level. First scene, 66 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,800 He's never had a pick and roll partner like James Harden. He's never gotten 67 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:57,839 these kind of lobs like it is. It is unreal, and I think 68 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:00,720 we're gonna see a different Zoo, you know, I talked about it the 69 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:02,920 other night. I think he's gonna be a double double machine for the rest 70 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:06,319 of the season. And I think that this is gonna like, I think 71 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:12,639 that his focus and intensity is only gonna stay locked in for the rest of 72 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:15,720 the season in a way that we I don't think we've gotten, to be 73 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,480 honest with you, I'm a Zoo supporter. I don't think we've gotten a 74 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,680 full season out of Zoo like what I am predicting we're gonna see for the 75 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:27,120 rest of this one. His first bucket, a little runner off the glass, 76 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,399 was from a great shovel pass from James Harden. I think that was 77 00:05:30,439 --> 00:05:33,720 the first bucket of the ballgame, actually, but then he had a floater 78 00:05:34,399 --> 00:05:39,240 another one in the second quarter when he came in back in for Daniel Tice, 79 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:42,800 he blocked a layup. He's been a force defensively still, It's not 80 00:05:42,879 --> 00:05:45,759 like the offense is going to his head and he's forgot about his number one 81 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:48,720 priority out there. But a dunk in the second quarter, huge throwdown once 82 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:53,800 again, second straight game with big time jams, and then an and one 83 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:57,720 to start the third quarter. Aviatza zoobots. I think the point here is 84 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:01,959 and why this is a little bit perplexing with just how good they've been, 85 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,439 I would point to this, they just have so many ways to beat you 86 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,879 right now, and there's so many different guys that could have a big night, 87 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,360 and you'll only need really one or two of them too, and it 88 00:06:14,399 --> 00:06:18,000 turns into a blowout. It can be that simple. Does it feel like 89 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:23,560 because it's feeling like to me like this season and I don't want to put 90 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,560 it damn front because thinks are going so well, but it to me feels 91 00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:30,279 like there's an urgency intensity where in the locker room, I feel like, 92 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:34,360 top to bottom of the roster, everybody feels like this could be our shot. 93 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,120 And it's not like it was in twenty twenty. It's not even like 94 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,040 it was in twenty twenty one. They see now how short windows can be 95 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,959 and how everything has to click, and there's just a different I don't know, 96 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,360 there's just a there's a different intensity to it that I haven't seen from 97 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:55,680 this team. Yeah, there's a level of poise out there and intensity and 98 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,000 urgency. Coli'S thirty two, Paul George's thirty three. You wouldn't know it 99 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:04,920 by their play right now, but their basketball mortality of their prime is somewhat 100 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:10,079 approaching. I mean, guys have extended primes in this league today. We 101 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,560 see it all the time, but it's at least worth pointing out. Of 102 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:19,879 course, they are playing possibly for contracts right now. I think that has 103 00:07:19,959 --> 00:07:26,120 to be brought up. Coach Lou extension eligible as well. All these guys 104 00:07:26,319 --> 00:07:30,759 know that this could be the last dance with this group. I don't believe 105 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,160 it will be by any stretch of the imagination, especially with the way they're 106 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,000 playing now and by bringing in James Harden and giving up a first round pick 107 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,680 for him. I think you're committed to this, but they have a great 108 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,839 opportunity here to put it together to be a much better regular season team, 109 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:47,839 which can make you a better postseason team. We talk about it all the 110 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:50,800 time, but outside of the ninety five Houston Rockets, you've got to be 111 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,600 a top three seed to win the championship. That's what it's been in the 112 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:59,480 modern era. normOn Pass. That's not feeling out of it, Like that's 113 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,000 just not feeling out of hand right now, Like that seems very approachable. 114 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,160 And I do want to say I do want to say one thing, just 115 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,240 because you brought up the contract, and I think that that's fair. You 116 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:13,519 know, we haven't seen anything official. I would be shocked if there wasn't 117 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:18,000 something there wasn't at least a tentative agreement behind towards because there's no way that 118 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,839 we opened into it without There's no way that we opened into it without Kawhi, 119 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:24,920 Paul George, and James Harden. I'm sorry, that's just not happening. 120 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,519 But I think Kawhy said it best in the postseason the other night, 121 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,279 or in the post game press of the other night. Someone asked him about 122 00:08:31,279 --> 00:08:35,320 this insane stretch of play that he that he's on right now, and he 123 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,759 said, yeah, I mean the numbers are great, but I'm playing for 124 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:43,679 something bigger, and I think that that is just so evident. It's very 125 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,399 palpable with this team this year. Yeah, and we'll play that audio. 126 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,279 Thanks for reminding me of that will at the very end of the show, 127 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,080 because it was almost kind of ominous. I mean, Kawi is laconic. 128 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:58,919 When he says something, it has more weight because obviously he's not that vocally 129 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:07,279 off the court, but that comment that kind of underscores his mindset the play 130 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,320 of this team, why they look so much more focused now. But I 131 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,120 think they also can see, oh, we have everything we need and if 132 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:20,519 we can just come together and guys continue to sacrifice, it's there for the 133 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:24,279 taking, and they can have special nights like tonight, and they can have 134 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:30,000 special runs like we've seen over the last three weeks because of the level of 135 00:09:30,039 --> 00:09:33,559 talent. When you stack talent like this, you have an opportunity to do 136 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,080 something that no other team has with the Los Angeles Clippers, and right now 137 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,320 they're on a run that I don't know. I know they won seventeen straight 138 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,039 in the Lob City era at one point, but this just feels like domination 139 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,919 right now because of the teams they're playing and the way they're putting them away 140 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:54,120 well, and I love I mean I love what you said about stacking the 141 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:56,919 talent and everybody feels it, but they're not. They're not winning on the 142 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,759 margins. They're not waiting to just get by on talent. What we're seeing 143 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,200 is like combined team wide greatness, you know what I mean. Like, 144 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,120 we've seen games where this team has had a lot of talent and they've known 145 00:10:09,159 --> 00:10:13,519 that they have that in their back pocket, and sometimes they wait to turn 146 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,120 that on. And that's just that's not what I'm seeing right now through through 147 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:20,279 these eight games. Yeah, there is a different mentality. If you thought 148 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:26,840 it was just lip service when they said they were going to take the regular 149 00:10:26,879 --> 00:10:31,600 season more seriously, I think it's been like it, can we be honest? 150 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,320 It looked like it was there. Well, they got off to a 151 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,600 decent start. Then you bring in James Harden, you lose six straight and 152 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:45,080 there's this learning curve and it's hard to know, Okay, is it because 153 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:48,720 they're just figuring things out, or if they let their foot off the gas 154 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:52,200 and they're not playing the same way as they were, you know, talking 155 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,679 about playing coming into training camp. It's it's crazy, but it's been a 156 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,840 great run. It's been a fun time on clips and dip as well. 157 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,519 I don't know, maybe we should do another YouTube tomorrow after a game like 158 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,679 this tonight. We'll see. It's the holidays. I get it. But 159 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,960 well, thanks for coming on and doing a little double dip tonight, and 160 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:15,559 I apologize for the other night and not calling you. Absolutely my pleasure. 161 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,000 Next time, come on, Clippers, let's hold the Pacers under one twenty. 162 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:22,039 Come on, guys, have some shame, show some pride out there. 163 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:28,000 Clippers score one hundred and fifty one points. They win in Indianapolis one 164 00:11:28,039 --> 00:11:33,600 fifty one to twenty seven over the Pacers. Next game coming up on Wednesday. 165 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,639 We'll play that Kawhi Leonard audio at the very end here on the way 166 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:39,399 out. But before we get out of here, I do want to thank 167 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,720 the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, no a ego, Carlo 168 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:46,759 Amennez on the call tonight, big brother, Jake Warner, head engineer, 169 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,120 Katie Newton, our producer. Great job Katie. Until Wednesday with their pregame 170 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,360 show from Dallas starting at four point thirty. I'm Ada Maslam. We'll talk 171 00:11:56,399 --> 00:11:58,519 to you, then listen to Kawhi Leonard here twy. This is a one 172 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,960 hundred sixty nine points for you one hundred and seventy seven minutes on sixty five 173 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:07,720 percentoting. It's the best kind of stretch of your career here. I mean, 174 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:09,919 if you want to put it in numbers wise, but uh, you 175 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:16,120 know, uh, I'm more focused on something bigger than just a stretch.