Welcome back in. This is Clippers talk. I met a moslind after they
win eighty nine to eighty eight in Minnesota. This is not a Clippers rewind
segment from nineteen ninety seven. Uh yeah, look at that score. It's
it's amazing. The Clippers were their lowest scoring game of the season and it
comes in a victory. Welcome back in. If I threw you're on hold,
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For instance, I think I just threw Lenny on hold, Lenny, hold
on, We'll get to you. But first, will Epdyke of clips and
dip fame will Uh how much wind did this win put in your sales with
the Clippers finally beating the Minnesota Timberwolves. Oh man, it put a heck
of a lot of win. But I gotta tell you, we're coming up
against a pretty strong Waves just tomorrow and having to take on the It can't
celebrate this one too hard, which is unfortunate because it's one of the best
statement wins. Now. I know we didn't exactly dump it on them,
but this is one of the best wins of the Clippers season. It is
without a doubt, especially because Minnesota was talking a lot of junk and now
I'm posting Benjamin Button gifts on X talking about the Clippers actually looking younger in
this game down the stretch. Anthony Edwards only had two points in the fourth
quarter, and it was a defensive indifference type of play by the Clippers giving
him that dunk, while Kawhi Leonard had eight points in the fourth, including
that and one out of the ATO. I think that's probably the biggest shot
of the game, aside from those free throws late. But great to see
the Claw and the Clippers once again step up in crunch time. In clutch
time, oh absolutely. I mean I also talk Norm Powell's name in the
bucket for clutch shots, the way he was ending quarters, not to mention
the run that he went on there in the second. I mean, we
just absolutely needed that spark. Obviously, no Russell Westbrook in this one,
and Norm got us back into what seemed like a losing effort of a game,
just pluggage lethargic to start, really really tough one for this Clippers team,
but thanks to Norm Powell, we were able to turn it around.
You know, I talked a little bit on the podcast about what it could
possibly mean for James Harden if he got a little bit of extended burn with
the starting unit instead of you know that sort of six minute subout. My
hypothesis thus far is not proved correct. He did not make a shot in
this one, but the Clippers were still able to overcome. And I liked
over all the way that the that we saw some more staggering of the stars.
I thought that was effective in this one. Yeah, we saw Paul
George and Kahi Lennarn being staggered a ton and PG. Thirteen. Look,
he struggled, but during two of the most key runs by the Clippers,
the sixteen oh run in that second quarter where I think he had two three
pointers, and then the big three pointerer he hit in the fourth over Karl
Anthony Towns. Some timely shots you could say from him along with just elite
Paul George Defensive Player of the Year when he finished third back in twenty nineteen
type of defense on that end. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I mean
that's the like, look, I some of this was cold shooting. You
know, you have both teams under forty percent from the floor, both teams
under thirty percent from three, so it's a mix of both. But I
think defensively, there was a lot to like from this Clippers team in you
know, a defensive performance that we haven't been seen as of late, and
you know, with sort of lower minutes from a Viza Zubat and down Russ,
who is you know, a pretty key player when we switched to the
smaller lineups, I liked. You know, there's there's nothing to not like
about that defensive performance from the Clippers. Sure, there were some lasses here
and there, there were some easy buckets given up, but overall, it's
just a really really strong effort on that end of the floor. And while
the store, well, while the scoring took a bit of a backseat,
I mean, if you're coming out with the wing, you'll take it,
no doubt. I thought, you know, of Vitzas Zubas, obviously it
wasn't his game out there yet, a floater, I think it was in
the third quarter, but they weren't even looking for him at times, and
I was kind of hoping they would because it would get him even more engaged
defensively, just getting into the ball game. A little bit, and it
might have helped out, you know, James Harden getting easier one if they're
running the pick and roll more effectively. But you got to give it up
to Daniel Tice and coach lou for sticking with him down the stretch and at
least having the illusion of spreading the floor because he's a forty three point shooter
so far this season. He went oh four in this game, but they
had to honor his shot from the outside and it worked just well enough,
I guess offensively. Yeah, look, I mean, oh, I mean,
it just shows you the tactician that Tylu is because it kind of defies
reason to me, especially when Rudy Gobert is not on the floor, you
think you'd like to have bigger body out there, someone like dude can very
reliably finish. You could kind of lean on him in some of those stretches,
especially because shots weren't following down. He talks about Paul George Harden and
their rough sort of offensive outing, but hey, he seems very committed to
his vision of what he wanted to do. We didn't see minutes from Mason
Plumbley, Like we said, very limited zoom in it but it worked,
and I think, you know, having one extra shooter out there on the
floor, and this is not this is not a diss on Rots or anything,
but having one extra shooter in those lineups does make things a little bit
easier from a spacing perspective. Although again we didn't exactly light it up offensively.
They didn't. They did get so many open shots, though I'm interested
to see on NBA dot Com leader how many open threes they missed, because
I felt like Paul George and James Harden must have gone like zero five on
open threes, and some of that was created through that spacing. They just
weren't able to capitalize on it. But I thought a mere coffee was also
fabulous. Defensively, I thought Bones blended in very nicely during that run to
start the second quarter. He didn't get in the way. He took three
shots. He took one on Rudy Gobert where he had a nice move on
them. He couldn't get to go either, but you can see the confidence
there from young Bones Highland. But Terrence Man good defense with the starters two
of three with six points. I just got to think that this Clippers team
has to gain a lot of confidence coming out of a victory against a team
that really I'm sure the Minnesota Timberwols is gonna say they had no business losing
that game. But the Clippers defense, it just shows what they're capable of
on that end when they lock in, oh yeah, one hundred percent.
And you know, speaking of man and coffee, like their defense is gonna
come in very clutch again. They're gonna be leaned on heavily second night of
a back to back. You know, they're the youngest, some of the
youngest guys on the team, so they're gonna be expected to carry a heavy
load again. On Bone. Look, I know, if you're looking at
the box score, it didn't really jump. It's not gonna burn your eyes
out or anything. But like really, all Bones have to do is be
able to help that team tread water, get the ball to the hot hand,
and keep things moving. And I you know, he had two assists.
Like he wasn't great, but he was you know, like he wasn't
making mistakes. He was able to get the ball to norm a couple of
times, who was the best scorer on the floor during those stretches. So
overall, I mean that's still a pretty solid performance. Like, we don't
need Bones to I mean, of course there's a timing place, but I
would say in a general scenario, we don't need Bones to bear a lot
of the offensive burden from a scoring perspective. Really, he just got to
go in there, take care of the ball, not make mistakes, and
like I said, just keep things moving for this Clippers offense. Yeah,
that's well said. And he did have the first to assists to three point
shots made in that second quarter to get the run started started. And assist
to Norman Powell coming off of what he did in the first quarter, and
assist to Paul George. It was his first make that assist by Bones Highland.
So to your point, was getting guys good looks out there, and
I think the offense, you know, it's gonna come for him. It
will. He's too good on that end. I'm just waiting for that Bones
Highland explosion game with him back into the lineup now. Of course, Will
Updike only comes on during victories and the Clippers would win by one eighty nine
to eighty eight. Your final in Minnesota. Yeah, it's not time travel.
They really want a game scoring just eighty nine points in the year twenty
twenty four. Will we'll talk to you soon. I know we got a
YouTube I think coming up on Tuesday, my friend, thanks for doing this.
Here a little clips and double dip here on clipper stock. Absolutely thanks
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get out of here. Clippers again win by one in Minnesota. Lenny and
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