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the phone number right now. Let's get out to Chuck Mockler of Clips and
DIP. I heard they got one k subscribers now on YouTube. A big
day all around, so many different subscribers. You know. I was talking
with Carlo during the break and we brought it up on the podcast or the
broadcast as well. That will be in podcast for him later on with Clippers
Talk. But he brought up a great point, as you would expect.
He said, you know, if Mason Plumbley hadn't gotten hurt against New York,
they wouldn't have Daniel Tice. And therefore both of these guys right now
in a time of need where they don't have a Vitza Zubats. Sometimes things
do happen for a reason. It would appear wrong, I'm wrong, Chuck,
No, that is a great point. I didn't realize that either.
Shout out to Carlo. But yeah, it's pretty you know, it's never
obviously never given when someone gets hurt, but the way that this Zubat injury
happened is kind of serendipitous for the Clippers. Right. You get Mason Plumley,
who played out maybe ten more minutes than I thought he was going to
play tonight, mostly because he was just so good in his return, you
know, I mean, fourteen to five and two with three blocks. I
think he has four blocks all season, and three of them came tonight.
Was great to see. And then yeah, like you mentioned, you know,
Daniel Tye coming in with something to prove with the chip on his shoulder
after not getting as much time and Indiana after winning you know, the gold
medal with Germany. Like it's funny because if you look at last season center
situation, this season is the complete opposite. We've had good luck even despite
the injuries, and we have two guys who can do different things, but
still things that have been very effectius since they've gotten here. So, I
mean, I know, Paul George had thirty eight tonight seven excuse me,
thirty eight seven and five with three steals. He was the player of the
game, I think just because of their return, how well he played,
and what he showed us, you know with his thighs. Mason Plumley's probably
player of the game Part two. Yeah, Mason Plumbley. A block on
Giddy to start, then a block on Chet in the second quarter. I'll
put back off a Kawhi miss late in the second quarter, after being shoved
to the ground by Lou Dord a few different times underneath the basket. Out
of a timeout. In the third quarter, they went right at Sga,
who was in foul trouble with Mason Plumbley for an easy bucket and then he
had a block on the other end right afterwards, kind of lob from James
Harden at the four twenty four mark of the third. It was awesome,
as was Daniel Tice with his three blocks to the block on Sga to end
the first quarter, all plip back then to start the second. You want
to talk about energy plays from these guys just being scrappy out there. Uh.
He had that block that was challenged. I'm calling it the no look
block. I forget if that was on J Dubb or who that was on.
It was an offensive path it was. He had a three pointer.
What's up, Chuck to end the third quarter? Another contest on shit?
Uh, just no easy buckets. I felt like for the Clippers for the
most part tonight with out of eats zoobots, it just seemed like collectively they
really came together. And to me, Charles Terrence Man was also very good,
not just with defense on the perimeter, but near the basket. Yeah,
we see Terrence Mann continuing to put up these you know, Pat bev
esque stat lines. Right, he had seven three and four with two blocks
to night, and he was ever he wanted him to be. On defense.
He cashed I think the first three pointer he made, and it was
just it. It's funny looking at this team from last year because last year,
if Zoo was going to be out four weeks at least, I would
not have had the I don't know if optimism is the right word, but
I guess the peace of mind to know that the Clippers can still do damage
and make noise. It looked like they didn't miss a beat tonight. Offense
three without suite. You know, they were missing him. But people like
Terrence playing so well, especially with defensive end, makes it easier for guys
like Paul George and Kawhi Leonard on the offensive end. So Karence is doing
every single thing you need you know the well, I guess tonight the fourth
option on the offense, you know the starters and offense to do. And
maybe the third option defensively for the Clippers was Zo bots out now I think
so again, more up into the right Terrence. He's still shooting incredible from
three. The role players are doing every single little thing they need to do,
including a mere Coffee who was fantastic tonight, I thought, on both
sides of the ball. Yeah, a mirror. Also, he had a
three pointer to end the first half, and then another one I believe at
the end of the third quarter, just some really timely threes when three of
three from distance had nine points fifteen minutes. Good defense, hard defense out
there, even on a night where Norm has an offshooting night. But to
me, coach lou not going with him late in the fourth quarter at about
the seven minute mark and putting in Terrence Man instead was such a brilliant move
and a difficult one. With how good Norman has been in fourth quarters.
I mean, you gotta think he's had plenty of games where he wasn't very
good in the first half or good through three quarters. You brought it up
a four chuck where he's had still starts and he turns around the fourth and
you could have played that game just betting on Terrence or excuse me, Noran
Powell to figure it out in the fourth. Instead, he wanted more defense,
he wanted Terrence Man. He closed the game and he earned it.
Yeah, ty Lou is being the game better than I think he's seen it
in the Clippers coach continuity certainly helps with that. You know, he actually
gets to play the guys that he should be playing, and he's just pulling
all the right strings right now. The Clippers obviously they shot well, they've
been playing fantastic. But you're totally right, Tyler. You could have sat
with Norman we All. I'm sure he would have gotten angry phone calls about
it and things like that. But Tyler's feeling the game as well as the
team is feeling it, if that makes sense. I think sometimes you watch
a team and the team and the coach or maybe seeing different things or just
not necessarily on the same page. It feels like every single person is on
the same page for the Clippers right now, and that is I guess Kawhi's
page or the team's page. But that's a great point. Credit credit to
TYLERU for making the decision to go with Terrence. Yeah. I think one
of the tests of a locker room in on court chemistry and just being a
cohesive unit is what happens once one of your major parts of this team is
missing. How do you get by without guys? Do you rally around it?
Is it deflating? Do you give in? Clippers didn't do that at
all. I thought even when OKC was hitting ridiculous shots and they had forty
points on the pain, that's not close to a big number. They leave
the league in drives to the basket. Even with all that, I thought,
for the most part, the Clippers were good and connected defensively, and
the effort and the energy was there. On a day where they find out
that a Visa Zubats is going to be out for a month with that right
right calf strain, I just felt like they overcame it. Somehow, they
overcame missing nine free throws somehow, and they held SGA to six of sixteen
shooting. And my favorite play of the ballgame, Chuck was the block Kawhi
Leonard had on him and then Paul George ripped it from him. I haven't
seen anyone now, I don't watch every game from OKAC, but when you're
beat off the dribble by SGA, who was recovered to block that shot,
I haven't seen that. Maybe it's just me, No, it was you
mess know. SGA had had a rough night. Chet Holgrim had a horrible
night. Chet Holgrim went two for ten. We had Terrence vanguarding chet Holgrim.
We tweezed them, lack of power forward and I guess you kind of
saw what the Clippers can defense defense can you know do to chet specifically?
I did think the Clippers kind of were playing the Thunder's pace for most of
this game. We were just you know, making our shots. If you
look at the box score, it's kind of I mean, the thundershot forty
seven from three's, the Clipper shot forty six and a half. We just
made through more of them. So the Clippers it felt like they were kind
of taking what Okay, so he was giving them when things were going well
and then started later in the game to impose their will a bit. The
sequence where Paul George hit a three, ripped the steel, and then dunked
it to force the thundertime out late was just something where it was like,
oh, right, we can still have our guys impose their will on both
ends of the floor when when they want to. So we're getting good process
with great closing from the stars. Right now. You know what's funny.
I just realized the OKAC Thunder shot the exact same percentage and made the exact
same number of three pointers against the Clippers tonight as they did in OKC when
they won by nineteen sixteen of thirty four. Tonight, the Clippers go twenty
of forty three outshoot them from three. They're the best three point shooting team
in the league. The stats say it. Tonight says it. It was
a battle of the two best shooting teams in the league, and the Clippers
get the best of the OKAC Thunder. They come through late, led by
as many as thirteen, and PG thirteen took them home. Lastly, quickly,
here, Chuck, just Paul George's performance. Ready, you said,
go say whatever you want. Just fantastic to see and bounced back from a
really rough start to this game. The first quarter was obviously not ideal.
And then Paul George is so smooth. Do you think, wow, he's
made a lot of shots in a row and you look up and he has
thirty eight points. The steels were fantastic. He was a two way superstar
tonight in every sense of a word. You know, Kwi Leonard only took
ten shots, but when Paul George is taking twenty four and hitting sixty three
percent of them, you say, five, that's totally okay. Six or
twelve from deep I just I don't know. He said it in his post
game. He's just committed to winning right now and he knows he's, you
know, one of the best shooters in the league. So this was great
from Paul George. We'll have to kind of find someone else who will watch
every single one of his field goals to see how many one dribble or no
dribble streets he had. But Paul George did a great job imposing as well
on this game. Tyler was really crafty with his rotations. We saw like
Harden with the bench. Paul George with the bench than Kawhi with the bench.
So it was just great to see from Paul George. And now they
get more importantly four days off to rest. Paul George had thirty eight points
played thirty four minutes, not as many as Kawhi, which is interesting,
but he gets to rest. He gets this great performance still in his mind
when they head to Brooklyn. So just really happy for Paul George, happy
for the clips. It could not have come in a better time. You
know, you split a series with a series quote unquote with the two of
the top team in the league, Missing Zoo. Tough to beat Minnesota,
but they almost hung in. They almost got that win, and then tonight
they showed why they are and should be considered a championship caliber team. Clippers
win one twenty eight to one seventeen over the OKC Thunder. He is big,
Chuck Mackler. No rest for the weary though. Just because they have
four days off doesn't mean we're not gonna be podcasting that Clippers podcast on YouTube.
Oh we got work to do. Come on the Beata Zoobos News.
We gotta talk about this stuff and this great Clippers victory. Jack, thanks
for doing this tonight with the little clips and double dip here on clipperstock.
My friend, thanks for having me enough to clip quick break. We'll come
back close things out. As the Clippers get four days off, they'll be
right back here. Against We're Brooklyn at the Nets on Sunday. I'm out
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