Hey child, I'm here. I appreciate you coming on tonight. I don't
want to make it like you're just any other caller. We want to make
it special for you. He is Charles Mockler of the Clips and Dip podcast.
I think we got a new one coming on the YouTube tomorrow, joining
the show after the Clippers win on eleven to one oh two. Follow him
at Chuck Mockler on X Charles, your biggest takeaway from this performance from the
Clippers? I know a lot of people were doubting them after being down fifteen.
It felt like Groundhog's Day. It was going to happen again. Denver
was going to dominate, and then they figured it out. Uh Am,
I crazy for My biggest takeaway is a little more belief in tylu Is That
a crazy takeaway to take on this game. He made some good rotation choices.
We saw the usual, you know, we stuck with you know,
Harden for like the five to eight minutes or whatever the first but things went
a lot better when he was making when he was kind of pulled the strings
lineup wise. So my hat thought to Tyler while this one he split up
James Harden and Russell Westbrook, which we talked about. There's no shade on
either of these players. They just can't play together right now, this current
version of the Clippers. So I like a lot of what Tyler did.
Yeah, that's my biggest takeaway. We needed this win. They're back at
five hundred, which is a little tough, you know, when you take
a step back and look at the whole thing. But this, hey,
it feels good. First time since January twenty twenty two. So we'll take
where we can get it. How about Daniel Tice. I thought the game
really turned when he came in. The hustle plays he made to end the
first quarter, and I know they were still down fifteen, but he was
playing really good defense on Nikola Jokicic. I mean, he had his worst
shooting performance of his career, and it started with Daniel Tice. If he's
Tuzubas wasn't effective early, he certainly was late. But Tys being undersize like
that and giving that level of effort, I don't think anyone expected him to
be this good in the Clipper's uniform. No, And it was funny he
kind of sparked a bit of the offense from the Clippers him and Harden had
a little pick and roll going when things were not going well, and I
think that was I think Tys got his first bucket off that. But no,
I mean eleven boards'll excuse me, yeah, eleven boards total, five
offensive rebounds from Tyson. This was his best game as a Clipper for sure,
but hey, we needed it. It happened to come and side with
a night when Yokic was incredibly cold. But when ty started playing good defense,
then it felt like when things were getting a little shaky, Zoo would
come back in. And Zoo picked up his defense on Jokic late in the
game, I thought, which was nice. So no hass off to Daniel
Tys. I said he wouldn't be an outside threat, but tonight he kind
of proved me wrong. Uh so, yeah, I mean a lot of
things had to go right tonight and they did. And like I said,
we will take it a couple more for you here before we get out.
We don't got to play him out. I don't think it is. Ain't
the Gomp show, not Mikell. I don't know. Yes, I messed
up. I thought we were gonna get out earlier. I do that often.
I'm sorry Zach could give us a couple more minutes, Buddy, I'd
appreciate it. James Harden and Russell Westbrook and Russell only playing sixteen minutes in
this one. But there were a lot of people that questioned coach lou in
going back to what you were talking about with him earlier in this performance and
the way he was pulling the strings and punching the right buttons at the right
time. He went back to James Harden even though Russell Westbrook had his best
stint early in the fourth quarter, and it worked and it was the right
move and the Clippers offense was humming down the stretch. Yeah, this is
This is the part of the game where I don't think Tyler gets put up
credit, where when the feel is off, you notice it. You know,
when there's a lineup change that doesn't work, he really don't it.
Well, there's one that worked. I think a lot of the times we're
all content with the fact that worked, and we don't get credit to the
fact of when the change was made. So, yeah, that was I
will say, it's not, you know, the most secure position to be
in. I would like to see a bit more of a process from the
Clippers offense. Maybe dictating these kinds of changes late as opposed to vibe or
energy or something like that. But Ty got it right tonight and things are
trending up for the Clippers. The wins have been good, so I'm hoping
we get a little more less feel decisions and more pattern based decisions for this
offense late. He is Chuck Mockler. Follow him on x at Chuck Mockler
with the Clips and Dip podcast. One more for you here, Chuck,
your guy Kobe Brown. I mean he hit the three pointer to tie the
ball game. Hey, hey, I didn't want to say anything, but
he was. I think what was the Was he a team best plus seven
teen or something insane like that, which I think goes to show how important
the plus minus stats are. No, sorry, he was the second best
plus minus on the team behind Norb. We didn't talk about Norb, but
he had a phenomenal game offensive weight when the Clippers really needed it too.
But no Kobe Brown plus seventeen. It makes no sense how PJ. Tucker
had his plus minus staffs. Thank Kobe Brown has his plus minus stats.
I think we all know that. Maybe Kobe Brown or a beer coffee needs
to take those PJ. Tucker butt it and the Clippers will not be worse
for the wear. Paul George knocked down some huge three pointers in the second
half, But the one shot where I went, Okay, Paul George has
it going tonight. It was that bailout three pointer on the left wing OVERKCP
at the end of the shot clock. Absurd. And then he was hunting
for those three pointers in the fourth quarter, and when he hit that second
one, the Clippers never looked back. That was when they took the lead
and took control the ballgame. But the confidence, I'm wondering how much that
game winning three pointer did for him against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday,
and just that carryover effect because I felt like you know that he was brimming
with confidence in the fourth quarter from distance. I do respect how you didn't
say was something born from back? I could see what I already did on
Saturday. You mean I already did on Saturday. I tweeted at you,
was something born out of this victory? How can you deny it? Chuck?
After what happened tonight, the Clipper first of all, the Clippers pad
account is all three of us. It's not just me, No, you're
I don't think you're totally wrong. I think a part of you is correct
in that. It was nice to see the confidence from Paul George lift the
rest of the team because that, you know, the Clippers do go as
far as two of the three goes, as much we want to get into,
you know, the stay in wars between you know, Hard and Westbrook.
The team goes as far as Paul George and Kawhi Leonard takes them.
So when you see Paul George's confidence lift the rest of the team, it
makes you happy. There was some points in the game where we were working
a little too hard for shots for the two made guys. I think that's
going to get ironed out. But you're right, something was potentially bored out
of that three from Paul George. I love how they responded after being down
with some days off and rest and whatnot. So here's to the thing being
bored growing up, I guess will be the best thing I could say off
of that. I'm a big kid, no hug on yet. All right,
all right, they need to win in Utah, another place they have
struggled, but Kawhi Leonard quietly now over the last couple of fourth quarters.
He was four for four in the fourth on Saturday, and he was three
for five in the fourth tonight with some big shots over Jamal Murray. It's
been one of those things that Clippers fans have been a little bit irked by
just Kawhi Leonard not closing well enough. The last couple of games. He's
been awesome. Yeah, I mean, I think I talked about it that
after one game when I was on here where it was just like he's going
to figure it out. It was fine. He made eight shots to night,
three of them in the fourth quarter. Kawhi, even when he's still
ramping up. You know, I'm not going to pretend like he's had a
consistent stretch of games and where he's been elite the whole time. Is still
a top fifteen player in this league. We have been spoiled, I would
say, with how many games in a row of Paul George and Kawhi we
have got. But we're lucky that he's ramping up right now. I think
everything is going to come into play what it really needs to. I wish
that they were better than five hundred obviously with this ramp up schedule, but
there was never any real reason to be concerned about Kawhi. Yeah, it's
just steady as she goes with Kawhi. Clippers win one eleven to one two
here at Crypto dot Com Arena over the Denver Nuggets. Finally you can relax,
take a deep breath. They not just beat the Nuggets, they beat
now the defending champions tonight, and they were fully loaded. I think we'll
have a fully loaded podcast tomorrow night with clips and dip. Chuck. We'll
talk to you then on the YouTube, my friend. Thanks for doing this
tonight. Hey, thanks for having me happy. I can come on after
a win. Yeah, well, is that a shot at Will? Okay,
I'm gonna take that as a shot out. No, no, no,
no, come on. Will thought he had it in his contract that
whenever the Clippers win he gets to come on. When after the Clippers lose,
you have to come on and explain it. So that's rough for you.
I hope you get paid, you know, hazard payer or something like
that. All right, Chuck, thanks for doing this tonight,