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first you hear the music. You know, it's a clips and double dip
on Clippers Talk. We got Big Chuck Mockler on the phone. Chuck got
a call earlier that there was some concern about the defense. And I know
it wasn't always pretty tonight, but I'm giving the Raptors some credit the quick
decision making. They were tough to guard out there. They were really in
tune. How did you see it? Yeah, it kind of felt like
a perfect storm, to be honest. Uh, you know, we talked,
came out a little bit on the pod. This Raptors team was like
I think they had there were the fourth highest scoring team over the last four
games. We did that pod before their last game, so the offense was
you know, I guess it's hard to prepare for, but the Clippers didn't
look super interested in playing tough or discipline d to open this game, which
did coincide with a team that was well coached, had a great plan B
for Pascal Siakam not being available, and they do absolutely deserve some credit.
They they played really fast. I mean, if it wasn't for a mere
Coffee playing some good one on one defense really late in this game, it
would have been you know, pretty interesting with the Clippers and mounting that ball.
Yeah, I just see this is a good test and good challenge and
something on tape that the Clippers can now focus in on. You see a
team that plays this fast and this connected, whether in transition or in the
half court. I just I can't say enough about how Toronto looked, even
though yes the clip looked a little bit lacks of days at Coole. We're
sleepwalking at times. But Terrence Man got him off to that quick start as
he had I want to say, seven points in the first quarter alone,
went three of three knockdown a three pointer. He's now thirteen of his last
twenty one from the outside, and the starting lineup with Terrence Man is now
shooting fifty four percent from the field and forty four percent from three in over
the last twenty one games when they've been whole. But it's just great to
see Terrence Man bounce back, find his shooting stroke and figure it out.
Chuck, we all wanted to give him that time. It was his big
opportunity to be in the starting lineup, and he's starting to make the most
of it. Yeah, he was absolutely huge tonight. He was five or
five from the field and he you know, he made good decisions watching Paul
George, you know, swing it over to Terrence, which I think that
was for his second or third three. It was great to see that.
You know, I think if you for some reason him been off the Terrence
Man trade, seeing Paul George, you know, have the confidence to get
it to him in the corner and then him making it is I don't know
what else you want to see from Terrence Man at this point. He's fully
back. He was doing everything else really well other than shooting. Now the
shooting is here. He's yet another guy kind of taking you know, an
elevated step right now in terms of what he's bringing to the team. And
we needed it, and we needed Zoo too. Z you shot. He
was six of eight. Him and Terrence kind of kept the Clippers, I
don't want to say in the game because they were never you know, like
I don't think they were danger of you know, falling super far behind.
But he's they certainly you know, helped us keep it as close as possible
while PG kind of figured it out early, you know, and that was
going on. That's a great point. Paul George went over in the first
quarter and t Man, inter Beats Zubats combined for thirteen points. Clippers trailed
by just one at twenty nine eight heading into the second, and that's because
Kawhi Leonard had a quick nine points in the first quarter, ended up with
twenty nine. Both he and Paul George finished with twenty nine points. But
on a night, in a day where Kawhi Leonard inks the three year extension,
it was great to see him and Paul George come up clutch late in
the ball game when they needed to be against the Raptors, and especially cool
to see Kawhi Leonard play this well in his first day on a new contract,
and we heard from a postgame he's still focused on bigger things out there.
Chuck, Yeah, I mean all these guys are. It's this is
a game where this is a game you have to win if you have real
championship aspirations, especially out night where the Nuggets lost and they got some standings
helped too. And they're gonna have another tough game against Memphis, right Like
Memphis is their backs are against the wall with the tough injure that going on
over there, but they play hard. There are another team that plays hard
without a a key guy in the lineup, So we're gonna I think we're
going to see it again on in that game. I think it's in Memphis.
We're at the point where we're expecting the Clippers to put these teams away.
We don't really think it's gonna be that shaky tonight that maybe got tested,
but they still came through. The stars came up when they were supposed
to come up. Norm came through very late, but we really needed it.
But that was important too. So I'm yeah, I'm feeling good about
this team. And like you said, it's great this happened on the contract
day and postgame him saying that he sees that, you know, pretty much
everyone else is going to be back next year, so it's good to be
a Clippers fan right now. I'm counting on Russell Westbrook to have a big
bounce back performance in Memphis because in a game that was played at this tempo,
in this speed, you would have thought Russell Westbrook would have thrived,
but he just missed too many gimmes. I counted three or four miss layups
that ended up in transmission transition buckets going the other way because the Toronto Raptors
would have numbers and make quick work at the Clippers defense in transition. But
overall, I thought the bench and Norm Pal of course coming through with seven
of his thirteen points in the fourth quarter and just the minutes Daniel Tice gave
them, especially in that second quarter with back to back blocks, leaning and
transition points for the Clippers, it sparked them a little bit. The bench
had their moments. Yeah, that was the really chaotic part of the game
that happened to shake out in favor of the Clippers. I think the Raptors
had a block too, and then the Clippers had you know, a couple
alleyups. Paul George had that huge dunk where he kind of shoved off of
them, which it was huge at the time, but that was when the
Clippers couldn't really have you know, three good possessions in a row. They'd
have two and it would kind of sputter. But yeah, that was it
was a huge stretch from the bench to kind of bring that energy. There
was another time, kind of later on in the game. I think Mary
J. Barrett was bringing the ball up, but don't was really stopping the
ball. He was about to get the half court Daniel Tights stopped the ball
and it kind of mucked up the Raptors offense just enough to where the Clippers
ends up getting a steal. So the bench did a lot of little things
right in this game, and that is a thing you need when you are
a team, a championship aspiration. So it didn't go super well, but
the things that did go well I think show how good the Slippers team could
be. What if all is you know, coalescing quickly? Last one here
for you. You mentioned that dunk by pg. Thirteen. He also caught
a lob where he really got up for it. It was impressive, but
he had a block early on, but fifteen points in the fourth quarter,
and they have no chance in this game without Paul George the hot shooting the
three threes he would end up hitting in the fourth. He was fantastic in
the second half, in particular where he had twenty five of his twenty nine
points. Yeah, two of seven heading into the half. It was you
know, obviously this team goes as far as the stars take them, and
Paul George wasn't taking them very far in that first half. And then he
really turned it around. He saw you know, he sees the Kauai contract.
He's like he knows he's back. So it's good to see Paul George
playing well. And we we didn't really talk about Harden, but shout out
to James Harden for some very clutch assists here and there and just kind of
the overall captaining of the offense tonight. Yeah. Eleven assist of three turnovers,
Paul George, by the way, six of nine in that fourth quarter
for those fifteen points. Chuck appreciate it. Missed you earlier today on the
cnd episode with the breaking news on Kawhile Henard. But I know we got
more episodes coming up this weekend on the YouTube with you and Will Updyke and
myself. So thanks for doing this tonight, a little clips and double dip
here on clipper stock. Thanks for having me. Let's go clips coming up
next quick time out, we'll get back to your phone calls. Eight sixty
six ninety six, six ninety seven two five seventy Clippers win one twenty six
two point twenty over the Raptors. They head to Memphis on Friday. I'm
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