1 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:10,000 What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to season two, episode sixty 2 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,640 of Clips and Dip. I am Chuck Buckler, joined by Adam Osden and 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:20,000 Will Updyke. We're hopefully your favorite Slippers podcast or one of your favorite Clippers 4 00:00:20,039 --> 00:00:25,559 podcast favorite podcasts. Today, we're gonna be talking the Clippers loss and New 5 00:00:25,719 --> 00:00:29,719 Orleans what that means for the seating, Gonna preview Clippers versus Hawks. You 6 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,359 know, we have a high five for you from Adam Oslen before we get 7 00:00:34,359 --> 00:00:37,320 into that, Will, Adam, how are you guys doing today? Will? 8 00:00:37,359 --> 00:00:41,280 How's it going on this kind of we're getting back to sunny Los Angeles 9 00:00:41,359 --> 00:00:46,520 weather. I'm doing great. Man. The wind was a little crazy, 10 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:53,479 but yeah, I'm doing great, doing great. Thanks for asking. Feeling 11 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,200 good despite the loss? Adam, how are you feeling? I feel a 12 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:02,039 little bit better after last night. I do. Uh, I'm more optimistic. 13 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:04,599 I'm not gonna call it an encouraging loss, but I did see some 14 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,920 good things in that game. Still, there were some good things PG gett 15 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,319 kind of you know, getting back, getting a bunch of field goal attemps 16 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,959 up, things like that. But we got a great two one three game, 17 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:21,239 you know, like It's not like that those guys stepped up the bench 18 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,239 was a little rough. Do you have some do we have some plays? 19 00:01:25,239 --> 00:01:26,519 We could look at them? Can we get into the high five? How 20 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:29,640 do you want to how do you want to present this one? Yeah? 21 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,159 After a loss, we can go straight to the high five. I mean 22 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,280 a lot of the clips I've been showing have been uh negative clips, just 23 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,480 stuff the Clippers need to work on. You could say, but that's where 24 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,159 we're at. I think there's anything wrong with that. Yeah, I think 25 00:01:48,159 --> 00:01:51,840 it makes more sense. The first one, though, will be a positive 26 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,439 Clipper highlight though. You guys seeing what I'm staying, did I share it? 27 00:01:56,519 --> 00:02:00,000 Yes? We got it. We're locked in with the high five here. 28 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:04,200 Okay, so the first Clipper is just this is Kawhi Leonard brilliant, 29 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:08,120 and then the Clippers actually making things easy on themselves in transition. Here Clippers 30 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,400 are down as they were down by as many as eleven, I believe in 31 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:15,240 that third quarter they're down by nine. They got blitzed early on, so 32 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:21,039 here they get to miss well contested shot by Viats zubats on CJ. McCollum. 33 00:02:21,479 --> 00:02:24,879 Kawhi Leonard is battling for this board. Here he taps it up into 34 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:30,879 the air and watch this woop taps it up. So I think that was 35 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:36,360 herb Jones who was going for it to himself. And now the Clippers. 36 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:38,840 How was PJ not on that immediately? I feel like there was not enough 37 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:45,159 hustle there. You want to see the PJ play once again, you can 38 00:02:45,159 --> 00:02:50,719 go back here walks out. PJ kind of yeah, he was more worried 39 00:02:50,759 --> 00:02:53,400 about Jonas Valanciunis and kind of gave him a little bit of a right elbow 40 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:57,599 there. So he just didn't have the leverage. Plus obviously he can't leave 41 00:02:58,199 --> 00:03:01,039 like Kawhi Leonard. But I just love Kawhi using the big hands, pop 42 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,680 it up in the air to yourself. CJ almost had a chance for it. 43 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,479 Now they got Kawhi Bones and Big Zoo running the other way. Bones. 44 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:13,080 Thiland didn't have a great game yesterday by any stretch of the imagination. 45 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:19,039 As good as he was against the Chicago Bulls, he struggled against the Pelicans. 46 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,319 But you're gonna get that from young guys and even older vets. James 47 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:25,879 Harden has struggled against good teams this year. Russell Westbrook has obviously been up 48 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:30,599 and down. I actually heard big Shot Boblom say on two on three Hoops 49 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,120 that he believed that game that Bones Thailand had against the Chicago Bulls was better 50 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:37,879 than any game that Russell Westbrook has had this season. Huh oh wow. 51 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,879 I kind of was wondering the same thing. I think you could make that 52 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,680 argument. He was really good in that ball game. But here's Bones. 53 00:03:46,719 --> 00:03:49,800 Now they got the two on one with big Zoo. He brings in the 54 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:54,039 defender and makes Zion Williamson commit here. This isn't quite an easy play because 55 00:03:54,039 --> 00:03:58,240 it is Zion. Still, you got to get the ball over. He's 56 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,039 got that leaping ability. Look at zi On go for this. Bones throws 57 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,599 a perfect lob here to a beatsa Zubos who gets the dunk. So as 58 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:10,879 much as the Clippers have botched some easy plays and transitions so far this season, 59 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,919 I thought it would be nice to highlight them making it easy on themselves. 60 00:04:14,919 --> 00:04:16,680 And it was a young player in Bones Highland doing so. Plus that 61 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,240 play from Kawhi Leonard there and now we can move ahead. It was right 62 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:26,600 well, it was well defended in transition, and I mean especially with Bones, 63 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:29,279 you know, being at the point instead of pardon or someone a little 64 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,360 bit more experienced. I mean that well, not a great game. I 65 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,319 mean is an encouraging sign. It's a good read that would have been easily 66 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,199 picked off if you know, if he's if he doesn't commit to it, 67 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:41,839 or if it's a little low or a little slow. So I mean it 68 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,639 is nice that. I'm glad that we started off on a good foot. 69 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:48,680 I didn't feel like it was an is going all downhill from here. Yeah, 70 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:55,040 well, the Clippers did lose. Spoiler alert, we're going here to 71 00:04:56,079 --> 00:05:02,160 coach. Coach Lou was calling a five role play that they were spamming against 72 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:06,519 the Clippers at the end of the third quarter, involving Zion Williamson, basically 73 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,879 them clearing out for Zion to get one on one opportunities. We saw that 74 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,360 at one point. I don't know if people realize this, but Zion Williamson 75 00:05:15,639 --> 00:05:20,720 made eight straight shot attempts against the Clippers the second half. It was insane. 76 00:05:20,959 --> 00:05:25,600 Yeah, at eight straight buckets at one point. So here we have 77 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,920 Jose Alvarado with a little dribble hand off to Zion. Zion now backs up 78 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:33,160 and watch you already. Have you got three guys here? On the weak 79 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:39,680 side. Now, Jose Alvarado Grand Theft Alverado is the best I think nicknamed 80 00:05:39,959 --> 00:05:44,120 in sports right now, he clears out his man too. He's trying to 81 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,040 bring Terrence Man over here, so it's just a complete iso for Zion. 82 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:54,399 Man still hangs back. But Zion doesn't get enough of a hedge over here 83 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,920 from a mere coffee, and he still gets this really one on one opportunity 84 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,600 against Ma and Plumb league. Kawhi tries to attack it a little bit late, 85 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,839 but it's just too late. Once he gets that far into the teeth 86 00:06:05,879 --> 00:06:10,680 of your defense, Mason plumbly backs up. He's not trying to foul if 87 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,360 you're going to double him at some point, it had to be a mere 88 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:16,759 coffee there shading over more or Kawhi Leonard stepping up. Nobody really does, 89 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,959 and they get another easy bucket to end that third quarter. That wasn't the 90 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,519 complete end of the third quarter though, as we all know, this is 91 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,160 one of the uh yeah, go ahead, Well I was gonna say without 92 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,079 that help from Coffee, I mean, Mason doesn't have much of a chance 93 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,240 there, Like if if Zion already has that much speed coming into it, 94 00:06:38,319 --> 00:06:41,240 like there I mean, you know, he's an incredible athlete. There's just 95 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:46,240 not really much you can do with that. Just so I can't fault Mason 96 00:06:46,319 --> 00:06:49,279 there too much when we're doing He's not only that deep in the paint, 97 00:06:49,399 --> 00:06:53,680 you know, like when when he reaches Mason or Mason has to back up 98 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,360 enough to stay in front of him. But the amount of speed he's able 99 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,360 to accumulate to get to that point is the part that really problematic, right, 100 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:04,800 because there's not you can't, Yeah, you can't force him to change 101 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:09,920 directions at that point. You know, he's big enough that like he's gonna 102 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,360 you know, even if you risk the foul, uh, he's probably going 103 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:16,360 to finish through that contact for an N one opportunity. It just yeah, 104 00:07:16,439 --> 00:07:20,040 like you said, just a little too late on that. Yeah, it's 105 00:07:20,079 --> 00:07:24,600 the problem that Zion presents. If you've play too far up on him, 106 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,759 he's going to blow by you. You want to play off of him and 107 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:30,079 dare him to shoot, but then he gets ahead of steam. He still 108 00:07:30,079 --> 00:07:34,319 gets by you and makes these crazy acrobatic layups. There's really nobody else like 109 00:07:34,399 --> 00:07:40,680 him. I've always said he's some mix between Blake Griffin, Charles Barkley and 110 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:46,360 pre back injury Larry Johnson like it's just crazy to watch here. Blake today 111 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:53,399 also as well recording this on Blake's birthday. Okay, yeah, Clippers now 112 00:07:53,519 --> 00:07:57,639 tie the ballgame at eighty at the end of the third quarter after a nice 113 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,199 corner three from a Mere Coffee who has been making some timely shots once again 114 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,720 as of late. So there's three and a half seconds left here in the 115 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:09,040 third. You would think not enough time to go coast to coast with a 116 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:15,319 big body like this is Zion Williamson. However, this is apparently I listened 117 00:08:15,319 --> 00:08:18,800 to him postgame something he has worked on a lot, and he's aware that 118 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:22,959 defenders at the end of a quarter are not going to try to foul you. 119 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:26,480 They're gonna give you a little bit of a runway. But the Clippers 120 00:08:26,519 --> 00:08:30,319 here you have Kawhi Leonard and a Mere Coffee. They're not connected enough. 121 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:35,840 They don't want to foul. Zion Williamson goes to his right veers away from 122 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,120 Kawhi Leonard. I think the real issue when you have just fractions of a 123 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:43,840 second mattering and a play like this is watch Norman Powell. He doesn't give 124 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,720 enough of a case to just have Zion Williamson just slow him down slightly, 125 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,480 just show and then get the hell out of the way. So he doesn't 126 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,879 have quite enough time here is he's gonna go past a mere coffee. But 127 00:08:56,919 --> 00:08:58,840 you see Norm Powell, oh ola defense of the bull in the China. 128 00:09:00,639 --> 00:09:03,759 Now he's got the runway right here. Paul George does a decent job actually 129 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,879 contesting this at the very end, as he was still trying to play off 130 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,960 Larry Nance Junior. But at this point, you know Zion's going for it. 131 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,120 There's one point two seconds left here. Oh my god, he jumped 132 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:20,000 from the free throw line to get that to go. I mean, it's 133 00:09:20,039 --> 00:09:22,919 an incredible bucket. But still, if you could just slow him down a 134 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,559 little bit, that would have made it a tougher shot, and maybe it 135 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:31,240 would have been the difference there. And Norm Powell just kind of didn't get 136 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,159 in his way quite enough. A smaller player like that and just someone who's 137 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,639 not obviously a great defender, but the Clippers transition defense has been a buggaboo 138 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:43,120 all season long. I guess did he was this pre hurting the ankle? 139 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:50,559 Ooh, that is a good question, because he was ah that is a 140 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,399 good question. I can't remember it was obviously in the second half, but 141 00:09:54,519 --> 00:09:58,840 he just sidesteps there. It doesn't provide much resistance, yeah, at all, 142 00:10:00,039 --> 00:10:03,120 And maybe that would be an even better excuse. So yeah, let's 143 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:09,600 just say this was after Norman Powell suffered that injury. So we'll move along. 144 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,600 Here, we're now in the fourth quarter of this ball game where the 145 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,399 Clippers got down early in the fourth. I think there was a ten too 146 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:20,559 run. They really kind of let their foot off the gas as we had 147 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,320 that back and forth run to end the third quarter, and then they got 148 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:30,759 blitzed a little bit. Here we just had the bucket that was I think 149 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,840 the brandon Ingram shot over PJ. Tucker. It was well contested in the 150 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:39,039 far side, short corner, but doesn't matter. Now here's something interesting because 151 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:45,879 it's miscommunication between Kawhi and Paul George. Here. Here you have Kawhi Leonard, 152 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:48,559 he's on Brandon Ingram. You have Norman Powell, he's on Herb Jones. 153 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,679 You have Zion Williamson on Avitza Zubat. So here he is he was 154 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,440 playing them up close, tried to deny him getting the basketball. Now Zion 155 00:10:58,519 --> 00:11:01,600 has it he's gonna sag off him and dare him to shoot. Here's the 156 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,120 issue here. CJ McCollum is gonna come over and set a little screen. 157 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:09,519 It's gonna be on Kawhi Leonard. So what are we doing? It looks 158 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:13,480 like Paul George is saying something to Kawhi. They got to communicate here are 159 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:16,960 we switching or not? Well, it looks like Kawhi thinks they are at 160 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,279 the last second, but Paul George still stays with CJ McCollum. Kawhi Leonard 161 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,879 then goes back to CJ as well, so he loses his man in brandon 162 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:31,720 Ingram and now you can't help at least one of these guys doesn't stay on 163 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:35,320 brandon Ingram, so PJ. Tucker thinks he has to tag him instead of 164 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,159 coming over to help Big Zoo against Zion, who gets this to go and 165 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,799 it's a little hook shot. He just gets it up really quick with the 166 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:46,200 left hand. But it's that miscommunication between two and three that probably shouldn't be 167 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,480 happening in a game of this magnitude this late in the season. Guys, 168 00:11:50,039 --> 00:11:52,840 and a guy's wide open for three. If Zion decides to make that read 169 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:56,559 too. Pj's a no man's land right there. You know, I'm not 170 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,799 the biggest PJ. Tucker fan, but it's not his fault here. He 171 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,519 has to crash the guy that tagging. There's two of them play. What 172 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,759 I would say, though, is Zion is so committed on most of these, 173 00:12:07,919 --> 00:12:11,519 Like, yeah, he's not a great passer. Yeah, that's not 174 00:12:11,759 --> 00:12:15,399 happening there. He's going to he's been on a roll, he's taken that 175 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,559 shot, but yeah, I just two P three has to figure this out. 176 00:12:18,639 --> 00:12:22,360 Who's switching? Are we staying or switching on that? Ah. It's 177 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:24,919 just a tough one right there. In the game was one hundred and ninety 178 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,600 six with six minutes left. One last highlight here or low light you could 179 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,200 say they really didn't go all downhill after the good one. Will you got 180 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:41,559 that one right? This was I believe we get a little bonus one here. 181 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:45,480 And this was Kawhi's only bucket here in the fourth quarter. He called 182 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,000 for it up against Brandon Ingram, gives him a little shoulder shake, gets 183 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,919 to his hook shot right before the play we're gonna get to. That was 184 00:12:52,039 --> 00:12:56,799 nice to see, but I think he only attempted two shots in the fourth 185 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:01,440 quarter, so final play here. One of the issues in this ballgame, 186 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:05,679 a recurring theme late in this one was Herb Jones, who has been the 187 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,399 best three point shooter in the league since January first. I think he's at 188 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,480 fifty one percent. So now you're building that wall against Zion. Is PJ. 189 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:18,919 Tucker as his primary defender. He SAgs off of him. Kawhi hedges 190 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,879 over he's guarding herb Jones. Here's Zion does make the pass, he sees 191 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,159 the double com Kawhi almost gets to it. Here he almost deflects this. 192 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:33,120 It's a nice pass. It gets to herb Jones. But herb Jones, 193 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:37,279 what he was doing throughout the fourth quarter over and over again, was just 194 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,159 attacking the closeout man perfectly. So you think you gotta get back to this 195 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,639 guy because he's been the best three point shooter. He attacks Kawhi Leonard here 196 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,320 and now it's basically a two on one with Larry Nance Junior also killing them 197 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,360 in the second half in the dunker spot. It's Paul George who steps up 198 00:13:54,360 --> 00:14:00,200 to try to stop herb Jones and actually recovers decently. The problem was Yarron 199 00:14:00,279 --> 00:14:03,759 Nance Junior goes Larry Nance Senior. This is an old school move. He 200 00:14:03,799 --> 00:14:07,519 puts that big caboose into Paul George. It could have been a foul. 201 00:14:07,799 --> 00:14:11,519 Watch how far back he pushes PG. Thirteen, who's the low man? 202 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,679 The last line of defense now, because the Clippers ended up going small. 203 00:14:13,759 --> 00:14:16,799 Finally, with PJ. Tucker, as I guess you could say, the 204 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:22,000 biggest guy out there, watch this boom. He bows him all the way 205 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,320 over with his butt and gets an easy one. Kawhi came over to help, 206 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,600 but it was too late. And that was just to play with Herb 207 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,600 Jones. I mean, I think he was only one of three from distance 208 00:14:33,679 --> 00:14:35,440 or something like that. He didn't kill them from three, but he made 209 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,000 the right decision. Every time they try to run him off the line, 210 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:43,279 he would end up excuse me, that was ingram Herb Jones making the right 211 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:46,399 pass and that killed the Clippers in this game. You game plan right against 212 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,120 Herb Jones. You can't let him take three pointers. He attacks the space 213 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:56,000 and ended up playmaking really well down the stretch for the Pelicans. Pick your 214 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,480 poison boys. He had another frustrating high fi which is not but it's not, 215 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:03,840 you know, That's that's how the Clippers are playing. If you want 216 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,720 to watch the high five, Adam been a great job of breaking it down 217 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:09,840 if you're listening to this on the pod. But if you want to watch 218 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:13,919 this, you can check us out on YouTube, which is the full experience. 219 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,360 So we went through some of the low lights, which which we're not 220 00:15:18,519 --> 00:15:24,240 ideal. Zion went for twenty three in the second half. The Clippers just 221 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,399 couldn't really stop him. Tyler kind of said as much. At the end 222 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:35,799 of the game, Norm left on crutches because of the ankle thing he ended 223 00:15:35,879 --> 00:15:43,120 up playing after hurling his shoe. I don't know this. Norm is a 224 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,240 badass. Norman is very much about us. You already said he's playing on 225 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,360 Sunday. I mean, I hope he's okay too. Yeah, Like, 226 00:15:50,159 --> 00:15:54,120 how did we feel after this? How do we feeling now? Kind of 227 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,399 do Adam? You mentioned you feel a bit better? Will are you feeling 228 00:15:56,399 --> 00:16:00,360 a little bit better? Or where are we at? Because it feels like 229 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,919 we're heading towards a crash course of clips peals round one. I mean, 230 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:10,120 I think how I feel is going to depend on, you know, how 231 00:16:10,159 --> 00:16:14,519 these next few games look. You know, we talked about how important this 232 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,559 matchup was for the Clippers. You know, for the most part, they 233 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:22,240 kept it close in this one. You would have liked to see a better 234 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:26,679 result, obviously, And you know, Adam pointed out some of the flaws, 235 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,120 which is things that we have seen throughout, you know, especially this 236 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:36,240 run post All Star break, which is a little troubling. But considering I 237 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,919 don't know, considering some of our rotation places, pieces like Norm and Terrence 238 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,559 not being at one hundred percent, it's a little tough. Like if this 239 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,159 one would have been more out of hands throughout the entirety of the game, 240 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:55,440 I think I would probably feel a little bit different. It's just not it's 241 00:16:55,559 --> 00:16:59,879 just not as bad as some of these other games that we've talked about being 242 00:16:59,919 --> 00:17:03,119 like, you know, and the implications and how important they are, not 243 00:17:03,359 --> 00:17:07,559 just in within, you know, the context of a regular game season, 244 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,880 but what they could mean for seedings, what they could mean for tie breakers. 245 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,880 Right, We've seen the Clippers look much worse in some of these games 246 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,319 than this one. So well, I'm not thrilled. You know, while 247 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:25,200 I'm not thrilled by any stretch of the mind. It's also it's tough to 248 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,519 say, but I guess it could be worse. It could be worse with 249 00:17:27,519 --> 00:17:33,960 these lay clippers, and just to clarify the high five. Unfortunately the Norm 250 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,599 injury happened in the fourth, so he was it was pre ankle sprain on 251 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:42,160 that Ola defense. But I like that point that Will made right out of 252 00:17:42,279 --> 00:17:48,000 like we've seen them look worse than this stretch without James Harden, especially that 253 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:51,440 game hurts to lose. But again with the news of James Harden being out, 254 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:52,599 I think most people's hopes were like, oh, well, I hope 255 00:17:52,599 --> 00:17:56,319 we can win this one, not maybe we should win this one. Yeah. 256 00:17:56,559 --> 00:18:02,880 I thought there was still some encouraging overall, especially in the third quarter. 257 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,000 They were down by eleven multiple times and they didn't wilt, They did 258 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:11,920 not fold. There was a sense of urgency. They kicked in and I 259 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:18,240 think they had it to within two very quickly after Kawhi Leonard got a couple 260 00:18:18,279 --> 00:18:22,480 of buckets of EACHA Zobots had one. Terrence Man hit a timely three pointer 261 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,200 that brought it to within two at sixty five sixty three. They had it 262 00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:32,200 tied until that Zion Williamson bucket at the very end of the third quarter. 263 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:37,039 They were in this I mean they battled. This looked different than what we 264 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:41,000 saw in some of those third quarters at times against Minnesota, where Ant would 265 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:45,160 just take over. I think even the last time out against the Pelicans, 266 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,279 it was Zion. That was the game where he was just destroying Mason Plumley 267 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:52,640 and getting towards the basket. They didn't use PJ. Tucker. And by 268 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,759 the way, guys, I look, I've been saying all season, this 269 00:18:55,839 --> 00:18:59,920 is a team that you can have some utility with PJ. Tucker against selective, 270 00:19:00,519 --> 00:19:04,640 defensive specialist moments. Situationally, he played twenty four minutes. I get 271 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:10,200 some people could say that's too many, but he had his moments. He 272 00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:15,640 knocked down two threes. That was the one who was wild against It's crazy 273 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:21,480 they wasted a PJ. Tucker game. There's also the context of I was 274 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,319 just gonna say, there's also the context of Terrence only playing seventeen minutes, 275 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,200 right, So, like if you're mad at the PJ minute, well, 276 00:19:26,319 --> 00:19:29,759 like if you thought, if you're in the camp that thought that that was 277 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:34,440 too high, who is taking up those like who do you want to see 278 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,880 taking up those minutes? The difference is do you think Terrence Man would have 279 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:44,799 more of an effect on offense to counteract them being even smaller on defense and 280 00:19:44,839 --> 00:19:48,839 having to go against Zion more with Kawhi Leonard and getting worn out. I 281 00:19:51,079 --> 00:19:56,200 think I understood in this game some a lot of those rotations, and I 282 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,400 think in a playoff series against this team, which is what is looking like 283 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,240 in the first round, now PJ. Tucker is going to play, he 284 00:20:03,279 --> 00:20:08,519 could be a vital piece at times, situationally ten fifteen minutes here and there 285 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,880 against Zion Williamson as good as he was in the second half, you know, 286 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,440 I I feel like when PJ was on him, he made life a 287 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,119 little bit tougher and Zoo didn't have a good game. Zoo overall just didn't 288 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,400 have a good game. He was off. He's been up and down since 289 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,000 he came back from not just the right calf but the illness. Zu could 290 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:32,000 play better than he did. So that those are some of the things I'm 291 00:20:32,039 --> 00:20:34,400 like, Okay, that's encouraging. Paul George in this game was very good 292 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:40,960 for the most part. Yeah. Back to back one, Yeah, back 293 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,960 to back solid games for George, which I think is like something we've all 294 00:20:44,039 --> 00:20:47,240 kind of been harping on. You know. While I was happy with his 295 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,680 well, I mean like, while I was happy with his performance against Chicago, 296 00:20:49,759 --> 00:20:52,799 it was like, okay, well, like, let's see this against 297 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:56,160 an actual team that's a threat to the Clippers, Like, let's see this 298 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:02,000 against a competitor. So that was turined to see for a guy who you 299 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,640 know, we happened pretty hard on I feel like deservedly so to a certain 300 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:11,960 extent. So you look at his last six games, he's shooting fifty five 301 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:15,359 percent from the field and fifty six percent from three while getting twenty five points 302 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,000 per game. Not much is more meaningful heading into the playoff than getting Paul 303 00:21:19,079 --> 00:21:23,319 George right, you know that's critical. Yeah, that's great to have him 304 00:21:23,319 --> 00:21:26,319 playing at that high of a level and have him playing, as you mentioned, 305 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:30,559 not just against Chicago, and have him play well against a team like 306 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:33,039 the Pelicans. He made. Those back to back threes he had in the 307 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:37,039 third quarter were ridiculous. He gave up a three to Jose Alvarado. As 308 00:21:37,079 --> 00:21:41,640 I was watching the tape earlier, that shouldn't have happened. In between that, 309 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,880 but then he also had a step back jumper on Zion around the three 310 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:51,240 or four minute mark where he actually used leverage and pushed off of Zion with 311 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,839 his elbow, not easy to do to create that space and had that nice 312 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,599 fall away. He's in a groove now, he is so the game. 313 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:02,799 The Clippers needed that game. They ultimately couldn't get it done. Two main 314 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,640 questions before we get into the Clippers versus Hawks preview that I had on here. 315 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,160 Do we think the Clippers can make up the three games between them and 316 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:18,119 the Timberwolves for the three seeds? Right? They have four games, four 317 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:25,720 games. Minnesota does have to play Denver three more times. I'm thinking it's 318 00:22:25,759 --> 00:22:32,319 going to be difficult to make up those four games. This stretches. Sorry, 319 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,759 we'll go oh. I was just gonna say this stretch is going to 320 00:22:36,839 --> 00:22:41,400 determine a lot right Like right now is you know, in terms of days 321 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,720 of rest, it's still not great. But in terms of the ease of 322 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:48,559 competition, you know, you're taking on the Hawks, the Trailblazers twice. 323 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,839 The Sixers, who are without Joel and b have been struggling to put together 324 00:22:52,880 --> 00:23:00,200 wins, Pacers tough games. Sixers. Again, this is due or die, 325 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:03,000 right like, if they want to have any chance of moving up. 326 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,200 These next games, which you know suck because we don't know what's going on 327 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,559 with Harden. You know, norm little is a little hobbled up Terrence. 328 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,119 It's it sucks, but that's the hand they've been dealt and if they want 329 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,799 to have any chance, they need to have a dominant stretch throughout this this 330 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,319 little four for this little five game run, I think it's fair to say 331 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:27,359 there's a better chance they drop the five than grab three at this point, 332 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:33,119 which I think the odds would say it. I get the chance of them 333 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,279 getting three. It's four games. You have sixteen games left, and you 334 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:41,400 have to make up four games against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Now, if you 335 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,359 look at the Timberwls schedule, Okay, they have a back to back in 336 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,440 Utah, or they play two games there with a day of rest in between. 337 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,519 Utah's not really playing for anything at this point. Well it's a tough 338 00:23:52,519 --> 00:23:55,160 place to play. You know, they're not going to be in the play 339 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,279 in even they're out of the running. Then they have Denver at home, 340 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:02,319 then Cleveland at home, then go in State at home, then Detroit at 341 00:24:02,319 --> 00:24:06,839 home, but then at Denver, then they got Chicago, Houston, Toronto 342 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,440 all at home, at Phoenix at LA. They still have Denver one more 343 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:15,599 time after that. It's not impossible, but there's probably a ninety percent chance 344 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:21,519 that Minnesota holds on yeah and stays in front of the Clippers. The Clippers 345 00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:25,559 I think, I mean, the Timberwolves went looking at the rest of their 346 00:24:25,599 --> 00:24:30,359 schedule, they would have to essentially lose every Nuggets game, every Sun's game, 347 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:33,559 and maybe the Lakers one, just depending on, like I said, 348 00:24:33,559 --> 00:24:37,799 how the Clippers do in this upcoming stretch, and the Clippers have to go 349 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:44,119 like, well, I'm saying that's why I'm saying more than the than four 350 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,400 games, because we're not gonna you know, we're I doubt we're gonna go 351 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:52,920 perfect from here on that. So it's looking like Pel's clips Round one. 352 00:24:53,759 --> 00:25:00,480 Well, Sacramento could still jump the Pelicans. They the technically have the tougher 353 00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:06,960 schedule overall remaining they're eighth, but the Pelicans aren't that far behind. They 354 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:11,119 have the fourteenth toughest schedule. The Clippers are at eighteenth right now. If 355 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,160 Sacramento jumped them, that to me is the team you want to play most 356 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,759 in a first round series. Out of all the bad options, this is 357 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:22,160 the best of bad options. Taking on the Kings because they just don't have 358 00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:26,119 a They're not a great defensive team. The Pelicans, believe it or not, 359 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,559 guys, they have the fourth best net rating on the season. You 360 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:34,480 would actually think they'd be higher than being the five seed right now. Their 361 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:38,400 issue, and one of the concerns of losing to that team last night, 362 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,519 has been they haven't closed out games well enough. They haven't been good enough 363 00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:47,200 in crunch time. And the Clippers what only scored four points in the last 364 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,160 four minutes and forty five seconds. The Pels only had seven over that time, 365 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,240 like it was there for the taking. Still, it was a defensive 366 00:25:53,279 --> 00:25:56,920 battle down the stretch, I guess, or just teams not executing well enough. 367 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,079 But the Kings or Suns. But the Sons do have the second toughest 368 00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:07,000 schedule remaining. It's possible they could jump the Pelicans. The Pelicans still have 369 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,440 Boston, Okay, see Milwaukee to play Sacramento, the Sons twice, Orlando 370 00:26:12,519 --> 00:26:15,720 twice. Orlando is good. Now. I know it's hard to wrap our 371 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:22,759 head around that it's just weird or whatever. So if the Clippers, let 372 00:26:22,759 --> 00:26:25,440 me ask you, guys, this, can they go five and one over 373 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,240 the next six games? Because I think If they do, they'll have four 374 00:26:29,279 --> 00:26:37,279 at least, and I think the schedule it's possible for the Clippers they have 375 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:42,880 I don't know if you think should go. Yeah, Hot Blazers, Blazers, 376 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,079 seventy six Ers, Pacers. I feel like they should be able to 377 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,680 go. They should. I'm not saying they will. Five and one seems 378 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,640 pretty attainable to me. So they lose seventy six Ers or Pacers, Yeah, 379 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,319 they lose. I think they lose to the Pacers. I think that's 380 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:03,519 dorrible. Yeah, and that Pacers game that is on the second night of 381 00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:07,759 a back to back. It's a Sunday Sunday against Philly Monday against Indiana. 382 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,599 At least the Philly games at twelve thirty, which I know it sucks to 383 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,759 some degree, but that Indiana game is then a night game, so's it's 384 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:18,759 more than twenty four hours of rest. Then they hop on a damn plane. 385 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:23,480 Yeah, we're going to talk about Clippers versus Hawks coming up. If 386 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,440 you're listening to the pod, thank you for listening. We really appreciate it. 387 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,880 There's gonna be some ads coming up. It might be a little loud 388 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:30,519 for you. If that's been the case, go ahead, and turn it 389 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:37,119 down talking Clippers Hawks after these loud ads coming up in three two one. 390 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,759 All right, welcome back in to Clips and Dip, your favorite Los Angeles 391 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:45,680 Clippers podcast. We talked a little bit about, obviously, the loss of 392 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:51,359 the Pelicans not thrilling, but it's where we're at. We're looking ahead. 393 00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:55,640 We hinted at it. Clippers have a little bit of a reprieve in terms 394 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,359 of strength of opponents coming up here in the schedule. We'll rest certainly it 395 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,240 isn't going to be on their sign and travel. They're starting things off with 396 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:10,440 the Hawks in what could be their best opportunity to sort of gain a little 397 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,799 bit of ground in the standings. I mean this Hawks team, uh, 398 00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:22,440 you know, they they have they have some pros. Overall, they've been 399 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,200 similar to the Clippers since the All Star break. You know, they're slightly 400 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:32,720 below five hundred and Clippers just slightly above. But yeah, Charles, what 401 00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:36,920 are you looking for in this matchup? If the Clippers are gonna going to 402 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,680 be able to make up some ground in the standings. Uh So, I 403 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,480 was looking at the stats since the All Star break, and remember when we 404 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,000 were doing the Rockets pre game and there was a bunch of stats for the 405 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,039 Clippers were like close to the Rockets, very similar, very similar here with 406 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:55,000 the Hawks with some things which you don't No disrespect to the Hawks, but 407 00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:59,559 we should probably have a better net rating than them since the All Star break 408 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,839 and things like that. Starters wise, I guess I'm looking to see if 409 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,640 Harden plays. I'm assuming because we're back home now for a little bit, 410 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,440 James Harden is gonna play. We have no scuttle butt on it. I 411 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,079 really hope James Harden plays. But if he does or does it, Bones 412 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,720 Highland has a chance to I don't know if makeup is the right word, 413 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:23,480 because he didn't have the best game against the Pels, but he has chance 414 00:29:23,519 --> 00:29:27,640 to do some things against this Hawks team. Right. This isn't exactly you 415 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:33,559 know, vaunted Hawks defense. They are twelve a net rate or in defensive 416 00:29:33,599 --> 00:29:37,559 ratings, which isn't super crazy. But I'm hoping Bones can have a nice 417 00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:41,160 bounce back game. I know, Adam Skeleton keyholder, you're probably hoping for 418 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,279 the same thing. Yeah. Like I said, I don't think he was 419 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,519 bad or miserable or anything like that. It was just up and down, 420 00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:51,720 like he had a couple turnovers and then had a steel and then had a 421 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,960 block, uh, and just didn't have it going from the outside. But 422 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,039 I agree with you. The floor you would think would be more wide open 423 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:03,480 against the Atlanta Hall and more spread for the Clippers and Bones to find guys. 424 00:30:03,519 --> 00:30:07,319 They really need to find the three point shooting because you know, I'd 425 00:30:07,359 --> 00:30:11,599 like taking it back till post Grammy trip, because that's when things really started 426 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,720 to change for this Clippers team, where they're eight to nine their last seventeen 427 00:30:15,759 --> 00:30:19,279 games, and the last, you know, great offensive game was against Atlanta 428 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,599 on that second night of a back to back where they played in Miami and 429 00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:26,160 then in Atlanta, and they got both of them, and they put up 430 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,759 one hundred and fifty points against the Hawks, So then you could say the 431 00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:34,759 game against Chicago shooting fifty percent from three was also impressive. But overall last 432 00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:38,799 seventeen games, the Clippers are just a thirty five point seven percent from distance. 433 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:42,440 They're still the second best three point shooting team in the league, even 434 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:48,000 with the last seventeen games shooting about thirty five percent from the outside, which 435 00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:52,480 tells you how good they were for a sustained period of time from the outside. 436 00:30:52,519 --> 00:30:56,440 They're they're due. Like that game to me against the Chicago Bulls is 437 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,480 not a fluke that is progressing to the mean. They should have more of 438 00:31:00,519 --> 00:31:04,960 those games coming up where they're just lights out from distance. Atlanta should be 439 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,599 a team just like in the first meeting where they could get extremely hot from 440 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,920 the outside against and play hot potato. And if there's no James Harden, 441 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,960 and really they shouldn't need him in a game against Atlanta, they should be 442 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,359 good enough to win that game just with two pine three out there. So 443 00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:26,720 I wouldn't be opposed to if if Harden needs more rest, he should be 444 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,759 able to get rest against this Atlanta Hawks team with the Clippers taking them on 445 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:33,880 at home. Yeah, and if I's gonna get the rest, either pull 446 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,440 them out or maybe rest in the form of not having to play in the 447 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,400 fourth quarter. We talked about this too kind of in the first segment. 448 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:42,759 Will another guy who could bounce back is Zoo. Zoo has a chance to 449 00:31:42,759 --> 00:31:45,839 have a nice little bit hopefully the Zoo coasters up. I didn't think we'd 450 00:31:45,839 --> 00:31:49,640 ever be on a Zoo roller coaster like this, but hopefully he's ready to 451 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:55,279 go tomorrow. Yeah, I mean it's an understanding understandable just given the injury, 452 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,480 right, yeah, the illness that ran through him. Yeah, well 453 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,480 both, yes, of course the injury. The injury and the diarrhea are 454 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:07,240 both key factors here for Zoo. Let's hope he's got Let's hope he's got 455 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:12,160 his big diaper on for this game. We we also need him because defensively, 456 00:32:12,319 --> 00:32:15,079 his last showing against the Hawks was was garbage. We talked in that 457 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:22,279 Yeah, we talked in that game in our little like prediction segment before that 458 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:24,720 game that you know, the thing that concerned me is like the Hawks are 459 00:32:24,759 --> 00:32:28,599 happy to get you into a shootout. They're happy to just you know, 460 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,799 continue to push the pace, uh and drive up the score. And you 461 00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:37,680 know, while I mean, I guess that's that's great at times for your 462 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,440 offense, it's also just a tiring way to play, especially for a team 463 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,920 that does struggle to get up and down the floor at times, and a 464 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:49,240 team that really does struggle, in my opinion, to create easy looks. 465 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,920 So it's it's not only like the quantity of the scoring, but the quality 466 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:58,559 of how you have to get there is also pretty difficult. So Zoo is 467 00:32:58,599 --> 00:33:02,039 going to be essential in being that anchor in slowing down this Hawks team, 468 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,319 because I think I think that that is the better route, right to exert 469 00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:12,319 some more defensive pressure, to make it harder on that end of the floor 470 00:33:12,359 --> 00:33:15,440 and just hope that your offense can hold up versus, you know, trying 471 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:21,480 to outgun them. Atlanta's been very average. I mean, they don't have 472 00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:25,400 Trey Young right now, right you know they're they're down their best player. 473 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,559 They have been extremely average, but they've still been better than the Clippers defensively. 474 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,799 Guys, since the Grammy Road took the Clippers are twenty six defensively. 475 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,880 Your last seventeen games, they are twenty sixth defensively. I had a call 476 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,160 last night somebody saying, you know, their identity is defense, and I'm 477 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,599 like, I is it, because it shouldn't be. They haven't been good 478 00:33:49,599 --> 00:33:53,319 defensively for over twenty percent of the season now, at least if you just 479 00:33:53,359 --> 00:33:59,559 go back to February first, at twenty five percent of the season, it's 480 00:33:59,599 --> 00:34:02,440 been it's been bad. It's been really spotty. So they need to play 481 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,720 a sound game against Atlanta and just say, Okay, we can't slip, 482 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,719 we can't get below four, we can't not have home court in a first 483 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:17,280 round series against what's likely to be the Pelicans. They've won there once in 484 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:22,239 their last seven tries. Right, it's not Idea New Orleans, it's really 485 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,760 that and that would I don't think that's sustainable over a seven game series. 486 00:34:28,039 --> 00:34:31,400 No, I still would pick the Clippers to win, but I don't think 487 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:37,119 it's gonna be easy, especially if you don't have home court. Yeah, 488 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:38,920 and if you're staring down Denver in the second round, it's kind of like 489 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:46,360 that lot to do. I'm kind of hoping for a holistic bench bounce back 490 00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:50,519 against the Hawks because what do we how many how many points do we have 491 00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:53,840 against the bench? Points do we have against the Pels? It was bad 492 00:34:53,840 --> 00:35:00,360 outside seventeen with seventeen bench points versus the which I know the bench is thin, 493 00:35:01,159 --> 00:35:07,239 but norm wasn't really feeling it obviously, like you know, the bench 494 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,039 is already thin. Bones had to start, but we need we need more 495 00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:12,559 than twenty bench points. Would be nice to see. This is a team 496 00:35:12,599 --> 00:35:15,280 where that could happen. This is a team where a good process could be 497 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,360 built against. No disrespect to the Hawks, but if the Clippers want to 498 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,280 hopefully win ten games in March and have good process. This is a game 499 00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:29,760 we're gonna win for the next five right, this game has to be a 500 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:34,000 good process game because the starters, I mean, two to three was great 501 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,760 last night. That was fantastic to see. Paul George has some stuff to 502 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,400 build on. I hope we see twenty field goal attempts from Paul Georgie again. 503 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,639 And so yeah, now it's it's about the other guys kind of kind 504 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:52,119 of stepping up or getting their feet in the right process steps. It just 505 00:35:52,159 --> 00:35:54,239 doesn't feel I just I'm not sure what we're gonna see, which I guess 506 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:59,719 is what is also what's kind of frustrating. I would quibble on them being 507 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,320 great last night. I think they were good, but neither one of them 508 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,519 was the best player on the floor. It was Zion. Yeah, and 509 00:36:06,639 --> 00:36:08,920 what did kaw I end up taking fifteen shots? He took two in the 510 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:15,800 fourth quarter. I that was an aggressive right, like that That's kind of 511 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:20,360 what I mean, Like, I'm it's hard to know what's gonna happen tomorrow, 512 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,960 right, Like the team hasn't. There's not a lot of consistency right 513 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,119 now. If you're playing. I saw someone tweet this about their favorite team, 514 00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:30,440 and they said they're playing if you're a five hundred team. Sometimes you 515 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,320 play way above five hundred, and sometimes you play way below five hundred. 516 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,960 So it's it's very different right now. The Clippers are playing like a five 517 00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:44,280 hundred team, So we don't really Adam just got assassinated by a name deeck 518 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,960 choice by Will. But you know what I mean. That's what's hard about 519 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,960 the Clippers team right now. It's so up and down, and this is 520 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,840 a team where even if we're down, we can still win. But I 521 00:36:54,920 --> 00:37:00,400 want to see him crush this Hawks team. One of my concerns coming out 522 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,800 of that Pelicans game, and it's been there for years, I guess you 523 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,440 could say because of the way the team has been constructed. We talk about 524 00:37:07,679 --> 00:37:14,000 late game execution being a problem for the Clippers at times, which is interesting 525 00:37:14,119 --> 00:37:17,440 because they do have one of the best clutch ratings in the league, if 526 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:22,360 not the best, since December first, when they really hit the ground running 527 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:29,639 with James Harden. It's funny to say this team really struggles to create shots 528 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:34,639 Layton ball games. It's just when they do it stands out more because they 529 00:37:34,679 --> 00:37:42,519 are a jump shooting team and those planks are magnified much more in losses. 530 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,840 Yeah, they have the second best net rating behind Denver since December one in 531 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,960 clutch time last five minutes of a game within five points, so overall they 532 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,519 have been really good there. But again New Orleans, their problem had been 533 00:37:55,559 --> 00:38:00,320 that they're twenty sixth in net rating since December during clutch time, so that 534 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,719 was like, you know, a feather in their cap to win a game 535 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,039 like that against the Clippers last night. But the one thing we talked about 536 00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:12,159 post game on the double dip myself and Chuck was one of my biggest concerns 537 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,159 is they don't generate enough easy looks because they are a jump shooting team and 538 00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:20,559 it's just a personnel thing. They have two of the greatest to ever do 539 00:38:20,639 --> 00:38:24,840 it, but Kawhi and Paul George don't attack enough, especially now that they're 540 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:30,199 older. Norman Powell is a small so when he attacks, he's at a 541 00:38:30,199 --> 00:38:34,559 disadvantage and he's got to get tough shots over the top of big defenders. 542 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,199 Terrence Man, you know, he doesn't look for a shot enough. He's 543 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,800 good at cutting to the basket. Russell Westbrook isn't a good finisher at the 544 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,800 basket James Harden, Uh, he's undersize and doesn't have the same burst that 545 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:52,320 he has going downhill. Where do they get those easy baskets if they're not 546 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,320 gonna give it to Ifvisa Zubas Slaton ball games pretty much ever, it's just 547 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,480 now if they're running pick and roll, maybe it's different last night if James 548 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,360 Harden is a available and they're running pick and roll with he in Viatza Zoo 549 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,280 bots and getting some easier looks because at one point they took Jonas Valanciunas off 550 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:12,400 before the Pelicans and they could have exploited that more and Zoo had opportunities against 551 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,719 Larry nance junr So. And I know he wasn't having a great game, 552 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,440 and he's got to do his part too. It's not just about them looking 553 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:22,480 for Viatza Zoo bots. He has to finish when he's getting good looks. 554 00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:25,079 Like we talked about bones Hiland could have had a few more assists against Chicago 555 00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:30,000 Bulls of Zoo had finished a couple of them. So some of it's some 556 00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:31,519 of it's on him, some of it's on the Clippers not looking for him. 557 00:39:31,639 --> 00:39:37,599 But they just don't have those guys that can finish late at the basket. 558 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,920 It's it's tough, and especially we're going to see tomorrow Zoo against Capella, 559 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,760 who's a guy where it's been what most of the time, Zoo plays 560 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,920 okay against him, but sometimes we've seen Coppella have a bit of a day 561 00:39:46,599 --> 00:39:52,360 against Zoo before. So hopefully that maybe Zoo gets some more for this game. 562 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,480 But yeah, the easy bucket thing and the rest are liking the Clippers 563 00:39:55,519 --> 00:39:59,119 right now, it feels like either, which makes things difficult. Some of 564 00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:02,239 those non call okay. The game was also officiated so crazy last night. 565 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,360 We haven't talked about that. The third quarter of that game was called like 566 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,719 you couldn't touch anybody in it was a foul, but every other quarter people 567 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:15,840 were getting smacked. It was very odd. The easy buckets thing is just 568 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,679 something that I guess we have to hope isn't a big issue, which is 569 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,960 kind of a crazy thing. It is an issue, though, No, 570 00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:25,760 especially if we're talking about the playoffs like that's and it's a huge issue, 571 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,119 and so I'm just not sure how we get those easy buckets. I mean, 572 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:36,000 there aren't as many easy buckets in a playoff series, regardless of who 573 00:40:36,039 --> 00:40:39,280 you are because teams know each other so well and you have to iso and 574 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,320 they do have two of the best guys to do that. That's why in 575 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,119 twenty twenty one, midway point of the season, there was this huge issue 576 00:40:46,119 --> 00:40:50,960 in talking point narrative at the end of games with the Clippers. Midway through 577 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,239 the season, they couldn't execute I remember against Milwaukee, against the Brooklyn Nets, 578 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,960 and by the time the playoffs came around they were one of the best 579 00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:05,239 at executing games. But they did have Reggie Jackson who was extraordinary at getting 580 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,400 downhill and making acrobatic layups. And while he's as small, he is kind 581 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:14,000 of burly. He can, you know, push guys around a little bit. 582 00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:17,000 Well, yeah, for sure that norm is a different type of finisher 583 00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:23,119 than that. He doesn't have that level of size. Yeah, and might 584 00:41:23,119 --> 00:41:30,119 be hobbled, which hopefully is not. Hopefully don't buy the playoffs. Yeah, 585 00:41:30,159 --> 00:41:34,480 So who is our Kawhi Leonard? Anything any other notes before we get 586 00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:37,320 on the Hawks, Before we get into our Kawhi Leonard player of the game 587 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:44,280 picks beat him, beat the Hawks, beat the Hawks. They have to 588 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:49,360 win this game, they really do. You cannot with New Orleans being two 589 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,559 games back now and having the tiebreaker over them, there cannot be any slip 590 00:41:52,639 --> 00:41:57,679 ups against teams you should beat the rest of the way. That means the 591 00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,639 Hawks, that means Philly if they don't have Joel Embiid, that means both 592 00:42:00,679 --> 00:42:05,320 those games against the Portland Trailblazers. I know it's sometimes hard to beat a 593 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,239 team in back to back games, regardless of who they are, doesn't matter. 594 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:14,079 They have to win those games. Final notes, must win. Adam 595 00:42:14,079 --> 00:42:17,920 who is your quigh lightard Player of the Game choice for Clippers For socks, 596 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:27,360 I will go with a mere coffee in that game. Amir has kind of 597 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,119 been coming out of the rut that he had been in shooting wise. After 598 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:35,119 you know there was gonna be some regression. He was way too hot for 599 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,199 way too long. But he's been shooting it well from beyond the arc. 600 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,360 He had that timely three at the end of the third quarter against New Orleans. 601 00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:45,599 He's confident in his shot again. When he had that start and had 602 00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:50,840 sixteen against Milwaukee, that kind of got him pointed in the right direction with 603 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,000 his offense. It just seemed to get him back into a rhythm. Love 604 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,559 that pick well, and I don't want to see the starters or guys have 605 00:42:58,599 --> 00:43:00,840 to play heavy minutes against it. I'm hoping a mere coffee gets a lot 606 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:06,079 of run. You want to have like sixteen attempts. Well, who you're 607 00:43:06,079 --> 00:43:12,079 going with, I'm gonna go with Bones Highland, And while I hope that, 608 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,400 I hope that Harden is available. If not, this is this would 609 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:22,920 be another opportunity, a huge opportunity for Bones to step up see something similar 610 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,639 to what we saw in that Chicago game. You know, he will be 611 00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:30,639 going against the more favorable defense for him versus the Pelicans, And you know 612 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:36,400 this is we just talked about how crucial this stretches, and it's also crucial 613 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,000 for some of these guys on the fringes of the rotation. If you want 614 00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:44,159 confidence going into a playoff series, like you know, if if you want 615 00:43:44,199 --> 00:43:47,440 any shot at minutes, it's it's kind of put up or shut up right 616 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:52,239 now, over these over this, over this next little stretch. So I'm 617 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,039 hoping that we get a good outing from Bones. And you know, I 618 00:43:55,039 --> 00:43:59,679 guess even if Harden does end up with the start, I'm I'm still going 619 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,559 to stick to my guns and hope that Bones is a really good game because 620 00:44:01,599 --> 00:44:06,360 he could be, even if not in the starting lineup, a big piece 621 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,519 in helping that bench get better production than what we saw last game out. 622 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,159 Hell yeah, put up a shut up time. Just win the Clippers. 623 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,480 Current run of play has made this podcast much more hardened than it was when 624 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:22,599 things are going well. I want them to start playing better. I'm going 625 00:44:22,199 --> 00:44:27,559 Bones is a great pick. Obviously, we know the starters to be good. 626 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:32,800 I'm going, whoever the backup center is needs to be the player of 627 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:38,000 the game for me, you know, obviously, Like kind of in the 628 00:44:38,039 --> 00:44:40,360 same line that Adam says, I hope we see a lot of backup center 629 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,960 playing this because we get to you know, because we don't have to see 630 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,320 zoo a bunch or something like that. If that's PJ. Tucker getting minutes, 631 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,519 if it's Tice or Plubly, we're kind of in this place right now 632 00:44:50,559 --> 00:44:54,400 where that's getting switched around. We need to have some quality minutes from them. 633 00:44:55,199 --> 00:45:00,440 I'm getting a little more. I'm paying closer attention to what's happening with 634 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:01,920 the center rotation the closer we get to the playoffs, because it would be 635 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,840 nice to have that maybe nailed down a little bit more. But I just 636 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,960 hope we see both these guys playing well because we need everyone to be playing 637 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:14,760 well if we want to have good process and win for these next five games. 638 00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:20,559 And we're all picking the Clippers to win, right obviously, Yeah, 639 00:45:20,559 --> 00:45:25,079 hell yeah, yeah, it's got a good process win. We've had about 640 00:45:25,079 --> 00:45:30,679 wraps it up for the Saturday edition of Clips and Dip, But Adam, 641 00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:37,320 do we have another giveaway? Another sticker, another part of the Clippers new 642 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:44,800 redesign rebranding logos, the LA one here. Last time out it was the 643 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,360 compass with the Clipper ship and now we have the LA portion. When are 644 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,639 we going with best comment? We're going with best comment. We still owe 645 00:45:52,679 --> 00:45:55,280 it to Rock I believe. Who needs to find us on Twitter and add 646 00:45:55,360 --> 00:46:00,079 us and we'll get your address. But yeah, leave the funniest best to 647 00:46:00,159 --> 00:46:02,119 comment, could be the meanest comment, could be the saddest comment. Whatever 648 00:46:02,119 --> 00:46:07,639 we think is the best, we will pick on Monday. Yeah, and 649 00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:12,719 Adam, we're doing a double dip after tomorrow's game. If you guys are 650 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,880 for it, I'll be on. So I ain't going anywhere. If either 651 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,960 of you want to come on, let's do it. So yeah, Will 652 00:46:19,079 --> 00:46:22,320 Will? I think Will's coming on for that game for some reason. I 653 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,559 hope, so, I really really hope, so it could be a win. 654 00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:30,320 Who knows. We'll pencil it in. But Clippers have a two day 655 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:34,800 break. We're gonna do a podcast for you guys on Monday. It should 656 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,719 be a good time. Will Where can these people review and listen and maybe 657 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,440 watch us if they felt like switching up their medium. Yeah, you can 658 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,400 listen to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts. You can review and rate 659 00:46:46,519 --> 00:46:52,639 this over on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. On Spotify you can actually, I 660 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,679 believe you can rate podcasts more than one time. So if you felt some 661 00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,800 on cline, you can really help it out, help us out. If 662 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,239 you want this full experience, you know, we're complete, We're in. 663 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:06,480 We're into the audio visual world. Now we're dipping our toes in. You 664 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,960 can you can immerse the full five senses over on YouTube dot com slash at 665 00:47:10,039 --> 00:47:19,800 Clippers podcast five. We got smells. We got smells going on. We've 666 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,599 got I mean, every episode has the feels, you know. Anyways, 667 00:47:23,159 --> 00:47:28,719 you can check us out there and on the daily. We're over at Clippers 668 00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,960 pod over on Twitter or x as at follow Adam A always says, so 669 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:37,960 yeah, hit us up, Adam, one more positive thing before we send 670 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:43,000 these Clippers fans on their merry ways this this afternoon. So much has been 671 00:47:43,039 --> 00:47:46,000 made, and I think rightfully so to an extent, But we can contextualize 672 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:51,280 it a little bit more. But the Clippers just one in seven post All 673 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,760 Star Break, I believe, or at least one in seven over the last 674 00:47:54,880 --> 00:48:00,000 eight against teams above five hundred. They're definitely three in eight their last eleven 675 00:48:00,119 --> 00:48:02,119 against teams above five hundred. But if you look at where some of those 676 00:48:02,159 --> 00:48:07,119 games have landed, like last night it was game five of a five and 677 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:12,719 seven, some of these have been back to backs, the Clippers have been 678 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,960 at a disadvantage scheduling wise. And if you don't think that matters, just 679 00:48:17,039 --> 00:48:22,719 go look at top teams, the best of the best, and what their 680 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,760 record is the second night of a back to back, or at least teams 681 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:29,880 above five hundred. It's meaningful, guys. It's very difficult, Chuck. 682 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,159 You brought it up last night. What are the Clippers eleven and one against 683 00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:35,760 a team that's on the second night of a back to back. They take 684 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,280 advantage of it when they're taking on a team with tired legs as Chicago was 685 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:45,440 who they just played. It happens all the time in the NBA. I'm 686 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:49,239 not saying there isn't something to them losing to these teams above five hundred and 687 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,719 right around them in the standings, but I do think it's worth pointing out 688 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:57,239 that most of the time they have been at a scheduled disadvantage. Like even 689 00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,880 when they came back off the six to one Grammy road trip to play the 690 00:49:00,039 --> 00:49:04,480 Elegance that was their next game back. They had one day off after having 691 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,159 that road trip where they were amazing, and coach Lou said it like, 692 00:49:07,199 --> 00:49:10,480 that's not right. We get one day off and they look good against the 693 00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:15,679 Pels in that game. It's somewhat understandable. I don't want to make excuses, 694 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:20,880 but if every team in the league has a problem with the same issue, 695 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,599 it's not just isolated to the Clippers having that problem. I would agree 696 00:49:24,639 --> 00:49:29,800 with that it's a scheduling issue. Part of it is a very real scheduling 697 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,239 issue. Everyone talked about it since the schedule has dropped, Like we said, 698 00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,840 we're gonna be back on Monday, maybe with a live who knows, 699 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,519 that could be a fun time a little Midweek Live pre Week Live. Thank 700 00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:44,280 you everyone for listening and watching it. As always, let's go clips