What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to season two, episode thirty
seven of Clips in Dip. I am Chuck Bocher. We're live doing this
episode recording over on YouTube YouTube dot com slash at Clippers Podcast. I hope
everyone's doing good. I'm feeling great after the win last night. We're here
with Adam Osmen and Will Apdyke Fellas while we're letting people trickle into this live
Hello to everybody as well. Adam, how are you feeling? You were
working the phones last night after the big victory in the Bayou? It was
a good time. Everybody was pretty excited for the most part. It was
a huge victory for the Clippers, leading by as many as thirty one because
the team they hadn't beaten on the road in January eighteenth of twenty twenty.
So what do you mean for the most part? Were there people who weren't
excited? Uh? No, there was. There's one thing that's kind of
bugging me. I don't know if we're allowed to start the show yet or
well, I think will Will do you want to say hello? Do you
have anything you want to get off your chest? Before Adam jumps into this,
let's start. Do we have a receipt on top? Oh? God,
no, I don't know if it's a receipt. And UH, props
to Chuck for keeping the receipts going with the solo episode he did recently.
I was a low key receipt. I did a respectful receipt. I have
respectful receids season. Uh. But there's there's one thing that's kind of bugging
me. And you know, I don't want to have to say Russ stands,
stand down and we'll get in. But I don't want to. It's
just I'm obligated. I think there are some people confusing energy with effectiveness at
times and execution. And I'm not saying it's you know what Russ said about
Patrick Beverly, He tricked you all. Russ has been great off the bench.
What he is doing is needed. His sacrifice is changing this season for
the Clippers. But when I hear reporters in podcasters and there's this new guy.
So there's this new guy, Pete Fox who's all of a sudden jumping
on the gravy train with locked on Clippers, and my guy Dime is getting
this territory stepped on. I don't know you guys built that was locked on
and then Dime is taking the baton from you guys and doing a great job.
Chuck, you went on with him and kind of passed the torch.
It was awesome, and all of a sudden, some other guys coming on
and he's like, yeah, Russ came into the game and brought all this
energy right away and just turned the game around for the Clippers, And it's
like, so he came in, they're up sixteen fifteen, and two minutes
later they're down eight, and that was him flipping the game around. Some
people are confused with what they're seeing out there. They see a guy playing
really hard, which is great, but ultimately it's still about winning your minutes.
And things did turn around once they took the Big four off the floor,
which did not work last night, which was weird. Yeah, and
they tried it for the first time since I saw it in the rundown,
but I saw Justin Russo was all over this too, and fly by Night
November thirtieth, for the first time, they tried James Harden out there with
Russ next to pg Kawhi and it beats the Zubots and they got beat by
fourteen in those four minutes they were on the floor. They tried it in
the first half, they tried in the second half out of nowhere, and
it got killed. And that's what happened when Russ first got onto the floor.
But I'm still just seeing this overall sentiment of Oh, this energy,
this energy, It's still about winning minutes. Regardless of energy, It's about
execution. And while Russ has done a great job overall coming off the bench,
and I am so thankful he has sacrificed for this team, and the
way he's cheerleading on the sidelines and getting guys up out of their seats,
it is incredible. It is amazing, It is imperative. It is something
that is so needed for this Clippers team. Vibes wise, we haven't had
a guy like this with that level of leadership really since Patrick Beverly. That
is not just doing it on the court with this hard play, and I
think that's what's most valuable the defense we're seeing from Russell Westbrook. He did
have a couple of steals, a block on Larry NAIs Jr. That stuff
is great, But when a guy comes in and they're up by one and
then two minutes later they're down by eight. Not putting it on Russ because
it was just a bad light up and you're saying, yeah, he just
turned the game around when he came in the game. It was like what,
That's not what happened at all. That's just generalizing and casual speak.
And I don't know, but I keep hearing this stuff. It's it's weird.
I agree with you in defense, I will say that, like,
I can't understand by like why you would enjoy watching his game, how it's
exciting, and I and the guy, I mean, the guy is giving
it as all. And I agree that there you know, it hasn't hasn't
added to a whole lot of plus in the in the box score. But
I do think that there is some permeating effects just of that sort of attitude
on the floor. And you know, and I'm not saying that that,
you know, the Russ experience just has its ups and it's downs. We
want to talss to this question from x Mango Project, since Adam, you
gotta started off on this again, didn't read the rundown, so we're we're
starting on a completely different note than this is over here. And one of
the first things we're going to talk about is that that that lineup that they
went back to, doesn't it work? Is my question? Like, I
don't get not that I think that would be lighting the world on fire.
But it's kind of crazy how bad it was last night. There's so much
good last night, but that lineup being bad. I guess I was a
little surprised by how bad it was. Not enough space, there's just not
enough space on the floor. Offensively, well, I think too many guys
that need the ball in their hand to be effective. Also, it's like
when Norm is out there, he doesn't necessarily need the ball in his hands,
and when it's in his hands, it's not going to be in it
for long. He's either going to shoot it or drive to the basket and
take a shot. My ultimate issue with this is it goes back to why
people didn't want James Harden to begin with a lot of people it was because
of style of play. Don't let style of play get in the way of
what's actually more effective out there on the court. I understand you may like
energy, you may like pace, but ultimately it comes down to winning your
minutes or than the other teams is the most basic part of basketball so esthetically
pleasing, but I think it still comes down to actually outscoring the opponent and
winning your minutes. And James Harden has brought that to the team, regardless
of what you think of his style of play, and by the way,
it's looked beautiful for the most part. He's getting better. His first step
is getting a little quicker every every game or so. Uh. The first
question we have on this rundown and then all of us read, of course,
have you come down from the high of that win at all? Or
are we still because I was riding very high last night after that win.
I'm gonna be honest that we you know, we got the We hadn't won
there in however many years situation solved like that was a good win against a
fully healthy Can you know a team that was on a hot streak. I
think I'm still pretty high off that win. I'll I'll say I'm I'm very
high. I'm that bathsal tie on that win from last night. It's just
the overall stretch nineteen of their last twenty four games. They have won fourteen
of their last sixteen since December first, and all of it has coincided with
bringing Russell Westbrook off the bench and him sacrificing a willing to be that guy
and still having an imprint on this team in a lesser role and being more
impactful in a lesser role. But James Harden has been otherworldly. Thirteen assists
to one turnover last night. He doesn't shoot the ball well, who gives
a damn? He was controlling the entire game. He made two shots and
he controlled the entire game. James Harden is exactly what this team has needed.
Said it day one. He unlocked the best version of two pine three
and to this point he has I don't know what else you could ask from
him. And he's sacrificing too. What did you take eight shots last night?
He is still sacrificing as well on the court, being that floor general
and making life so easy for two to one three. There was a great
comment from Justin Wilson the other day on the Lob of the Jam the podcast,
saying that he's turning Paul George at times into Michael Porter Junior on steroids
with the catch and shoot ability and how easy Paul George can blend in and
fit in because he doesn't need the ball in his hands for long either he
can make quick decisions when he's quick strike Paul George like he was last night
and the last two games where he's been their best player. It's amazing to
watch. He's just putting them up immediately from the outside. The Clippers have
been shooting forty seven percent from three over their last three games. And I
saw this comment from on Twitter from Lucas Holland, our boss, saying saying
that, excuse me, James Harden is saving two one three era. I
brought that up last show with us. That's what it's looked like right now.
He's saving the era. He is taking this team to new heights.
Guys, this has to be I asked Will last night on the Clips and
Double Dip, who was awesome. Thanks for doing that again, Will and
picking me up, especially because my voice is still condrect. But this is
the best regular season stretch in Clippers franchise history. I went back and looked
at the seventeen games straight they won back in the twenty twelve twenty thirteen season,
like ninety nine percent of those were against really bad teams. It wasn't
as impressive when you looked into the details. It's still awesome. It's still
amazing. This is better. What they're doing right now. What is happening
now better translates to what can happen in the postseason, Chuck, Will,
are you as high as Adam is? After that? I'm Lucas Holl's number
one employee. I guess I don't have a plaqu or anything. Will.
Are you still high off the wind? How are you feeling? Are you
rational or I'm bordering irrational on how hyped I am? After that? No?
I mean I said it with Adam on the radio last night, like
this is I just feel like this team could win at all. I have
not felt that way really all season, but I think this game what stood
out to me was we had two of our big three not have very efficient
games. You know, Kawhi didn't have a big game, Pardon was one
of six from three, and they still put this game away in three quarters.
I mean, arguably even earlier this thing was basically over. We saw
the defense at you know what I think is definitely playoff ready, like playoff
level ready, and just you know, this was the first time I felt
like the depth was in a spot that was good. But It's not like
overachieving to the point where you're like, oh, well, that's not going
to really hold up. I mean, we just had like multiple guys around
that seven to eight points number, playing great defense and doing all the little
things. So this one was really impressive to me just in how easily they
did dispatch the Pelicans. I mean, like the only knock I could really
say on it is like Zion did only play what like sixteen nineteen minutes.
I think that was like the hip thigh contusion or something. Yeah, so
you could maybe not that, but I thought the way they, like the
bald denial on on brandon Ingram was was other worldlife, like they they they
snuffed out a guy who cooks them routine. May the doubles got better as
the game went on, yeah, which I like. And so you're just
starting to see the growth. And I think the big thing for me has
just been the cohesion. Charles, we talked about this while were watching the
game out and we talked about it on the thing. But they just they've
found a tempo now, and James Harden is like that metronome or that thing
that keeps everything revolving where it's supposed to be in time and it's just it's
really really good. It's just looking really really good right now. That's such
a great point. You said it last night, the cohesiveness of this group,
because I was talking about now, all of a sudden, Kawhi Leonard
doesn't do much in the first half, doesn't matter. He still is in
rhythm enough to take over. Then in the third quarter it can be your
turn, my turn, and everybody still feels like they're involved and the timing
is still there, when at first it felt like if one guy's going the
other guy's gonna be cold. And James Harden, like you just said,
he's just creating this this rhythm with this team of keeping a hot potato out
there with the passing, and even when guys aren't shooting it, they're still
touching the basketball, and that's meaningful. I was watching James Worthy, I
like his analysis often on Spectrum, and he was talking about that with the
Lakers recently. And we're gonna talk about Clippers Lakers in the next segment.
That's gonna be fun. But even if guys aren't getting shots, just touching
the basketball and sharing the basketball usually leads to higher efficiency and more makes Eventually,
when they do put those shots up when you're more involved in the offense,
and it's about the hot potato, hot pocket? Is it the hot
potato offense? Is that what we're gonna call when James Harden is playing well
now? Is that? I mean, I'm not I'm not against that at
all. Get some great comments on the chat to about how it's not just
two one, three plus James Harden. Uh, you know the level that
Zoo has gotten to. I mean you have to give a lot of a
lot of credit to James Harden. And it's completely transformed Zoo, not just
in his numbers, but just entirely how he plays the game. He is
that dominant center now that you know, we always thought he could be,
and he's just looking like it right now. People are wondering Team Ann's shooting
back on track already. I hope, so that would be great. Let
me pull up his numbers right now, but they certainly he's six for his
last nine from three. Yeah, Like it was, it was a rough
start. I think it was against the Palace. He had a rough opening,
like two possessions, real bad, and then he's he kind of killed
a possession down low and it was like this might be rough, but he
bounce back, he came back, He hit his the only two shots he
took after that, which was totally fine, and they were both three.
So it's like I think, yeah, I think for what Terrence is going
to give the Clippers in terms of points per game, which was never going
to be a bunch, right, Like we weren't relying him to even be
he's maybe the fifth, He's the fifth option in the starting lineup. Zoo
was very much ahead of him when you look at his points per possession and
efficiency and all that stuff. So if he can just be in that the
rate, I mean, obviously whatever, the sixty percentile, sixty percent from
three has been great, But I think this is exactly what we're going to
see more from Terrence. He hasn't gotten too down trodden on himself, which
has been an issue with him, and he's just playing more free. So
hopefully it opens up like it did as this Pelicans game went on. I
think also I was I didn't believe this, or I did want to believe.
I didn't want to believe Terrence Man's offense would affect his defense as much,
but I think it really was, and that connection confidence. I mean,
like, you know, I feel like a lot of defense is like
sort of that confidence and decisiveness as well as you know, there's there's other
things, of course, but the thing we see again and again with Terrence
is like when he's not confident, he's overthinking stuff. He can't really do
either side of the ball that effectively. Yeah, you're not a complete robot
where you can say, Okay, I'm playing bad offensively, but I'm still
gonna be just as good defensively. It just doesn't work like that, right
that. As you said, the confidence is still going to be affected overall
with his game, and you can see over the last three to four games
since he has been playing better offensively defensively he's been much better. The way
he was picking up Devin Booker ninety four feet against the feet, Yeah,
we all punking him in the first half was impressive. Well that's the other
part. Every other part of Terrence's game has been great this year, Like
it's everything else has been really good for the most part from Terrence, which
has kept him in the starting lineup. So it's really just this one thing
that needs to get rounded out to average. Yeah, I still felt like
there was slippage on the defensive end because he just didn't have the confidence over
all. Fair, that's fair. It was in his head well, and
it's crazy. So even with the shooting woes, you touched on it a
little bit, Adam, which was the continuity of the Clippers. Only nine
other lineups in the league have played more minutes than the current Clippers starters,
which feels like, if you've been a Clippers fan for I don't know however
many seasons, you want to put the cap on it. That's unbelievable.
We have that act, that level of continuity for the first time in a
very long time. The only starting lineup to have a higher net rating is
Denver and Boston, and the Clippers are plus sixteen point six right now.
So the Clippers starters are some of the best at any given time on a
night, they can be the best starting lineup in the NBA based on net
rating. And it's because of this continuity and ty Lou I think someone said
it in the chat. Yeah, credit to Tyler for taking the pressure off
Terrence man. Like he's done a good job of kind of protecting him just
you know, like media wise and just letting him get his confidence back to
help build that continuity because they know how important it is. I mean,
if anyone knows it's tylu remember when he used to have the card with all
the minutes restrictions for guys because there was so much like in and out on
the lineup, Like it's it's a weird feeling to have this much continuity.
L Frank said in the exit interview last season that we have to get back
to respecting the regular season, and they have now. Some of it has
been on the luck side with availability. There's nothing you can do when guys
get hurt, and for the most part, knock on wood, they have
been more available. Why played the first twenty seven straight games? I think
it was Paul George has only missed two games so far, Kawhi Leonard only
four, Russ hasn't missed a game, James Harden hasn't missed a game yet.
It's becoming a Clipper. You can only control that so much. But
only missed a couple games, which I think is true. I think he's
getting a little bit glossed over in some of this stuff. Is like,
this is the most time we've had with Norm continuously on the floor, which
makes sense why that lineup is looking so good. Sorry to interrupt at him,
No, no, no, you're right. Coach Lou made the point
though, of even if guys are out, there are things we can do
to prepare better for games. They're having more practices, they're having more walkthrough
shoot arounds, film sessions. They're just overall so much more focused. And
that's how you get a game like last night, where all right, we're
gonna try something different, just double brandon Ingram right off the bat, disrupt
him weird beginning of the ball game, and it took him out of his
game, and it took them out of the offense, and they got blissed.
And they had just won four in a row and just beat Minnesota for
the second time they had lost at home miss season the Wolves to the Pelicans,
they also had won four in a row, both them and the Clippers
going into that game hottest teams in the West. That was a huge win.
The Clippers looked like the team who were on some rest advantage of the
team that we're playing at home last night. Right, that's a good call.
We mentioned we were talking about those doubles. Do you know what's funny
is in that Clippers Suns game, the Sons were sending weird doubles kind of
randomly towards Kawhi and PG and stuff like that, and that's the Clippers kind
of mirred a similar thing against Brandon Ingram in that Peal's game, which was
cool, and the doubles at first were a little shaky, but then it
got better as the game progressed, which was awesome to see the Clippers kind
of work through those early growing pains and whatnot. Do we have anything else
we want to talk to in terms of what's been the key before? We
talked those Clippers versus Lakers preview, which has so much weird spice and potential.
I guess ramifications for it. Where did Adam go? Did Adam fall?
Unclear? I thought I heard a cat and he doesn't have the cat.
No. I think just the other thing is like, how how good
the defense has looked for the regular season so far? It still doesn't feel
like we've seen like the It doesn't seem like we've seen the penultimate form of
what that will be. But yeah, I think the defense, the level
at which they're playing during the regular season, I think has got to be
one of the most encouraging things out of this year too. We're just not
getting those I hate to say lazy but like lacks of daisical kind of starts.
You're not getting like those low energy sort of performances. Yeah, and
even when we do come up, when we're down big kind of early,
I feel like generally you can look at it and be like, Okay,
well the shots are just not falling down right now, Like that's going to
get better. It's not terrible process combined with you know, not combined with
everything else. So yeah, it's just looking really good right now. I
mean, Charles and I were talking and like, like, let's say the
playoffs started tomorrow and the Clippers are at where they're at right now, where
they're at where they're at right now, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling
pretty good, Adam, anything other positive thing you want to talk about before
we get into the spicy Clippers Lakers matchup, I was just gonna say,
like, you know, hey, what up, Eric? Wait, sorry
he just joined the life. Yeah, you know, their margin for air
it went like from this to like from this, Okay, that's the difference.
They're in that mode. Right now, that prop that that's why you
left me. Well, I also had to howk up a loogie into the
sink. I mean, they went from a team that had to play their
A game to beat another good team or to have a chance against another top
team. Now they can play their B minus game. Still have what fifteen
turnovers last night? How many they have against the Miami Heat. The turnovers
have been up a little bit recently, and they're still dominant, and they're
still handling business and blowing teams out. They can make more mistakes. This
is something you used to see with the KD Golden State Warriors. They didn't
have to play their best every night. They could be at their C game
and beat you when you're playing your B plus A game because the talent disparity
and so that margin for error has grown with this Clippers team with James Harden,
because when they lock in for five minutes, when they go on these
runs to end every quarter like they did last night, where it was a
ten too run to end the first quarter, a twenty three to seven run
to end the second quarter, and then a sixteen five I've run with Norm
Palll knocking down that three port to end the third quarter. When you close
quarters like that, it also reminds me of the Golden State Warriors, but
it just shows that level of focus before quarter ends. A lot of teams
waiver, and that's why they say championship teams they step pedal to the medal
at the end of quarters. They put their foot on the gas a little
bit more, and the Clippers are starting to do that now. It's been
impressive to see, but overall, it's just that talent ceiling has been raised
by having James Harden, so you can get away with having more mistakes out
there and you can throw out that lineup that didn't work. It was a
minus fourteen and four minutes, and you can still lead that game by thirty
one on the road in New Orleans against a team that had won nine or
ten against you. It was great to see. We're gonna get into the
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That's over on YouTube dot com Slash at Clippers Podcast. So we talked
a little bit about what has been working. After a great win over the
Pelicans. Now we're looking ahead to taking on the Lakers, a team that
just suffered a loss last night. It's not looking too good for them.
I believe it's what four straight? Now, will the Clippers make it a
fifth? Yeah? This is very different from when the last time these two
teams played No Terrence Man, No James Harden, Clippers lost to No T.
Kawi and Paul George went off. PJ. Tucker played twenty minutes,
which was very not fun. Before we kind of cause I did a little
thing here between you know, the last eleven games between these two teams is
basically two completely opposite teams. Before we get into that, we do have
to talk a little bit about this. If the Clippers take care of business
in a way that is authoritative, let's just say tomorrow, let's say things
go very well for the Clippers. Uh Is Darvin Him's like he has the
hottest seat in the league right now. Haggle, No haggle, Adam Oslin,
no haggle. It's obvious, brutal. It's been hotful week and a
half. It's been hot since season tournament. Are they three and ten or
somewhere in that range two and nine over their last eleven Okay, I told,
I'm told Bronnie Is will be playing soon, and he's better than some
of the players on the roster. He would be easy. It might be
better than his pops. With the way you breck that one off the side
of the backboard last night, I don't want to see Darvin ham get let
go. It just feels like it's so early, just his second year,
and they've had success. They made the Western Conference finals last year when everybody
was counting them out, and they had that great move of the trade deadline,
and I do think a lot of it is injury influenced, and they're
still a really good team there, but roster construction wise versus rotations has been
a little bit iffy. That's what I'm hearing from Lakers fans, and that's
what I've seen. I pay attention to. You got to know the enemy.
I pay attention to them quite a bit and what they're doing. And
some of these starting lineups have been curious. So would I be surprised?
No? Do I hope it happens. No, I don't want that to
happen. And I think the Lakers are gonna play hard tomorrow. And I
think this may be one of those games where you throw out the records or
how the teams are playing because they both get up playing one another. Yeah.
So, over these last eleven games, the Lakers are two and nine.
The Clippers are nine and two. The Lakers are twenty fourth and plus
minus the Clippers are seventh. The Lakers are twenty fourth, and points per
game the Clippers are fifth. The Lakers are twenty fifth and three point percentage
the Clippers are first over the last eleven games, So completely different trajectories right
now. One thing that's interesting. The Clippers are fifth and points per game,
but they are twenty eighth and field goal attempts per game. That's how
efficient the Clippers have been over these last eleven games. Part of me wonders,
like Adam, you mentioned you kind of throw out maybe records and stuff
like that. With these two teams and the situation across the hall, that's
something where I really hope that efficiency can keep up, because if the Clippers
do lose that possession battle, things get a little harry sometimes. Yeah,
and the turnovers recently have been up. I just saw Adam's Nay, I'm
sorry, that's amazing. Best way to keep your eye on the enemy,
dude. If you're wondering who came up with the Power Rangers nickname is this
guy below who just came up with this as well, which we got to
talk to about. We got to talk about a little project maybe with him
about Yeah, and we got a lot of comments coming in here, guys.
We got to respond to some of this stuff. Like it, Michael
Young, if this team is serious, they really should bowl the Lakers the
f out tomorrow. That would be nice. I do team is serious.
I don't think that's the indication or the uh, the telltale sign of whether
or not the Clippers are in serious mode right now, but it would be
nice because they did lose the Lakers earlier this season for the first time I
want to say the last eleven tries. But I just I still think a
desperate team is a dangerous team. A wounded animal is a dangerous one.
The Lakers are at that breaking point where they know and I don't think you
know, I know there's been some reports from Yova on Buja of the athletic
that there's some disconnect from the locker room and Darwin. I just it's a
bad look still after winning the N Season Tournament obviously, and them playing really
well and looking like they had okay, they still got a squad that wants
to get back into the Western Conference Finals and see what they can do against
the Denver Nuggets this time around. For things to fall apart this quickly,
and Lebron last night was talking about how it look it was just two games,
well it was just two games in Vegas, but they swept all their
They won all their games that were in the N Season Tournament. They were
dominant. They beat some really good teams. So I don't think you should
underestimate them, is what I'm saying. As good as the Clippers are training
upwards right now, and the Lakers are training downwards. I don't want anyone
to get too overconfident because they're probably going to get the Lakers' best shot tomorrow.
So the Lakers are, for how poorly they have played, still a
top ten defensive rating team. It's the offense. It's the issue. They
have the tenth rated defense in the league. That's at this sample size.
Right we're basically halfway through the season. That's a legitimate tenth in the league.
You know what I'm saying. It's not like Game five or something like
that. So Will what do you what are you looking for for the Clips
to do to really put this one away? Other than you know, we
know the mentality is gonna be there. They're going to hopefully assert themselves early.
Gameplay wise, What are you looking for? Who do you want to
see on Lebron? What are you what are your talking points for this quasi
important game? I guess for the standings, I want to see Terrence Fan
on Lebron. Terrence Terrence, Yeah, is one of my more underrated matchups
in the NBA. So yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing that. I
I just I want to see the defense at the at the level that we've
seen it at because I just don't know what this Lakers team can really do
if you put the clamps on early, like if you put the kind of
pressure on them that they were giving the Pelicans. I really, I'm just
struggling to see. I mean, I don't think they'll put up a hundred
points, damn that. I mean they average what are they averaged game?
They average one hundred and thirteen per game, So if they don't put up
on hundred points things are why I would love that, But I don't know
if I would take that on. You hope the Lakers put up more.
Though I don't hope the Lakers put up more. I think they might put
up more. Want to be a challenge cripple one of our players before?
Yeah you could, sir, Yeah, play PJ. Tucker twenty minutes again,
Adam, what are you looking for? Well, this will be the
first game James Harden plays against the Lakers as a member of the Clippers.
They didn't have him, remember, the trade went through the last time they
played him, That overtime thriller one of the best games in the two to
one three era with Kawhi PG versus Lebron and Anthony Davis last time out that
was a Lakers home game as well. This one will technically be so too.
So I want to see what James Harden can do against this team and
breaking down their defense and trying to draw Anthony Davis away from the paint,
because yes, he is their defensive rating, that's all Anthony Davis. He
has been so good on that end, especially this season. And what's most
confounding with the Lakers is, for the most part, he and Lebron have
been healthy this year and they're under five hundred. That's what's crazy to see
right now. So pieces aren't fitting. But I still think there's enough guys
there with Austin Reeves who picked it up after a still start this year,
that they can still be very dangerous and take you down. And d Loo
Cook last time we played too and he might come back. And all they
need, like all they need is one big win, you know what I
mean? Like that, that's oh yeah, that's all a team in this
position really needs, right looking at this the contender that gives them that big
win. But you know that turning things around in the NBA, especially when
you do have the talent of of Lebron and Anthony Davis like it is possible.
If you look at their last two losses. The Miami Heat loss is
in stark contrast to the way they lost the Memphis Grizzlies. They didn't show
up against the Heat and they got beat and they couldn't break the zone and
that was alarming. But against Memphis, they just had a hot shooting night.
Memphis I think is the worst shooting team from three, and they came
in and just lit up the Lakers from the outside, and we're hitting an
inordinate amount of three pointers. Lakers didn't play that bad. They're not the
worst three point shooting team. Who Memphis, Yeah, well, they probably
won't end up there. They just started off the season, I think,
so bad from the outside. But there is something to this. The Lakers
give up the most open threes wide open threes so six feet beyond in the
NBA. Did you have that in the notes? Check? No, I
didn't. I just I'm I'm pro that and I'm happy to tell me.
I know you didn't have the notes because you read the notes. See it's
I started color coding it. You know they give up twenty two wide open
threes per game. So if you are a team that is having a good
night or a good three point shooting team like the Clippers are, and they
have a chance, by the way, before this season is over, to
be the best shooting team from the outside in the league. I think we're
just starting to see that now. Yeah, you gotta take advantage of that.
They are giving up some open shots. So some of it was shot
variants and just walking shooting from the Memphis Sczies. Some of it was due
to the Lakers poor perimeter defense. Yeah, so, uh one thing I
was just looking up. We'll mention the defensive prowess that he wants to see
set early. Andrew Greif wrote a nice piece that also talked about how the
Clippers are. You know, they're focusing on their transition defense, making their
transition defense better. The Lakers are a top ten team in transition points per
game right now, So that is an area. Will you mentioned it.
You don't want to give them easy. Transition points are the easiest points,
and the defense for the Clippers and transition has been maybe their worst part.
Not that that was a big part of the Lakers' identity when they did win
a championship, but they put up so few field goal attempts overall. I'm
not saying like get you know, give them up or whatever, but I
think the biggest thing is it's just kind of sticking to the formula that works
right now. And yeah, I agree, you don't want to give up
easy buckets. But I think the Clippers need to stay the course right now
and not overthink like how they're going to approach this team, because I just
feel like they have it figured out. They got it. I mean,
we have this version of the Lakers number yeah, I mean because they don't
even really know what version of themselves they are right now, which is what
I think is really The Clippers have an identity, right They've built up like
we talked about, James Harden has saved the two and three Clippers. He's
helped them make this identity and all that stuff. The Lakers have none of
that right now. They don't know what kind of team they are. The
Clippers know what kind of team they are, and they're rolling Adam, what's
something that could go wrong in this game? Who's a random Laker that you're
maybe worried about? Because sometimes those things happen. Tori and Prance has had
some really good shooting nights he's had when they play well. He was active
on defense in that Memphis game too. Yeah, typically when they play well,
he plays well. It used to be D'Angelo Russell was kind of the
barometer for that, but he's been banged up recently and that has hurt them
to an extent. They've been running the offense through Lebron James a lot more,
which is not that that is a bad thing. It just still shouldn't
be happening to this degree when he's thirty nine. Sure out there, somebody
had a comment earlier, Jay and CT and Kawhi should give Lebron a little
kiss before the game to throw them off. That would throw them off their
magic and Isaiah Thomas back in the day with that not throw off. I
also just notice we can overlay the chat on the video if we want to
do Oh yeah, why not do we need the whole chat on there?
You don't think we need the whole chat? Should West of us let us
know because we're probably gonna say this is a standalone video to let us know
if you like the chat in the overlay. I'm gonna be honest, I
don't I don't like it to start off. But that's only because I see
John Cooperman's commented about Mark Madson the dogs out. Yeah, I'm I'm feeling
way too confident about this game. I don't think it's gonna be a blowout
or anything like that, but I'm just it's hard for me to really envision
a way in which the Clippers lose this game that doesn't involve the Clippers emptying
the clip directly into their own foot, you know what I mean? Like,
I don't see a way that the Lakers are They don't have a thing
that I'm worried about, you know, Like I just don't. I mean,
like I think that I feel bad. I feel way too. But
if you give up seventy paint points to the Lakers and they're getting to the
free throw line, that's how you lose the game. Or if they happen
to have a good shooting night from the outside, which is typically a bonus
for them, they have a formula to beat you. If your defense isn't
on point, you will get burned by that? Is it more right now?
About the Clippers and how they're playing and self inflicted wounds? Of course,
because it goes back to that margin for air they have the larger talent.
Disparity is in their favor now almost every night, unless they're playing the
Boston Celtics or the Denver Nuggets, like there are only a couple of teams,
and I think the OKC thunder who really scare me against the Clippers when
they're even at their best. If they're at their best, they'll win.
But if they slip up and the Lakers happen to be on their game that
night, there's still a problem. They are a problem. Will are you
too confident? We can't hear you. For some reason, I'm feeling too
confident. But I think the thing about these two teams every matchup is is
even when the Lakers are in their depths and not really doing that well,
they still do their best to make this one an exciting game, like at
the Battle for the Battle for LA. In the last four years, we
have not really had many duds, you know, like these games are These
games always seem to mean a little bit more and things are a little bit
ratcheted up. And when they're at that level, obviously Lebron and a d
are at their best and size wise, they do present some interesting challenges for
the Clippers, especially if you know, if we see stuff with the with
the four the four Hoffers, the half of lineup, with the half of
lineup, I I think that that could be a real issue. And I
think that things could go south fairly quickly. And that's not a knock on
Russ. It's not a knock on anybody in particular. It's just that kind
of size is going to give you problems. And so we'll see, well,
you know, we'll see if rotations are changing. And I'm brought up
the stats, so if you just tune in, sorry I don't have them
right in front of me. But the Russ plus Kawhi, PG and Harden
has not been a particularly powerful look for the Clippers. Well, the stats
are on the rundown, so it's too high up. Man, We're so
deep deep into this thing now. No, So I do go back to
what I go back to the prologue. What I do like about that lineup
is that we hadn't seen it for a while, right, Like, we
hadn't seen it since November thirtieth until last night again, so I really hope
we don't see it. I agree with you there, Yeah, and Tys
is going to be interesting. Tys is. Everyone's playing very good right now
for the Clippers. Tys is a bit is where I get a little worried
if he's out there against some size as good as Daniel Tye is and has
been for this Clippers team. Unlike when Russ sacrificed. Where you're going with
that? No, unlike when Russ sacrificed for James Harden. That's because well,
James Harden is the better player. Mason Plumbley is sacrificing for Daniel Tice.
Daniel Tice is not a better player than Mason Plumby. Mason Plumbley is
the better player than Daniel Tye. At some point, he needs to start
playing more. I understand he's just coming back. He just played garbage time
minutes. He actually looked pretty good, even though the Clippers overall in those
inconsequential minutes WORKBA was really bad. But you know, rhythm, timing,
getting to the basket, hitting some free throws, he looked Okay. Daniel
Tice is not better than Mason Plumbley. I just want to make that clear.
Eventually, Mason Plumbley needs to get back to playing more. Minutes,
he is the more effective and pretty much every way, maybe outside of the
outside shooting, of course, if daniel Tye can keep that going, sure,
Yes, yeah I don't. And someone was in the chat x Mango
project was asking h if Plumbley was gonna return in this game. Everything that
I've seen from beat writers is projecting against like like the twenty first, like
that Nets game, So I don't know. He's also, if you've missed
this in the Clippers verse, told tylu if things are going well with daniel
Tye, just played daniel Tye and I'll wait my turn, which is great.
No, I love the sacrifice. I like that he said it.
I think it makes sense for now. I just think you could eat.
You can start easing Mason Plumbley back in for a few minutes here and there,
and then eventually he's overtaking those Daniel Tice minutes. Doesn't mean daniel Tye
isn't still valuable, doesn't mean there's not gonna be situations where you need him,
especially in a game like last night. I think that would have been
optimal to have a fully ramped up Mason Plumbly against that Pelican's team. It
made sense to go with Daniel Tice. He's the one that's been playing well.
Maason Plumby just came back, But I just I don't want to lose
sight of the fact that he's still the better player. This isn't Westbrooks sacrificing
for James Harden because he's the better player. That makes sense. Tucker,
he had to sacrifice the most. We did get somebody commenting in here about
is Tucker happy right now? He's been encouraging his teammates. I've watched it.
He's been a good teammate, a good soldier. We'll see. Okay,
So let's get to uh, maybe let's get to our player of the
game picks again. These We've been right on these every single game, all
three of us have never gotten one of these wrong. Uh, will who
is your player of the game pick for Clippers versus? Like I want to
say Harden, but I feel like that's a cop out. Although I am
very excited to see Harden in his hometown against the Lakers. But I'm gonna
go with Terrence Man. I think Terrence Man is gonna have a great game
on both ends of the floor. Knockdown, I'm gonna call it three threes,
and I think he's gonna be He's gonna be major, and it'll he
won't close though, We'll still go with the power lineup to close. Okay,
did you say the power lineup? Oh? Wow? The more props
more if you're just joining us, The props have never been on this level
before. All right? Yeah? More more third party audio from Adam.
Who's your pick for player of the game. Uh. I think I'm gonna
go Norman Powell, just to piggyback off the Powell Rangers. I think they're
gonna need him because I expect the Lakers to play wells, which means the
Clippers will have to play that lineup at some point. Spread them out,
bring Anthony Davis away from the paint. And he's too damn good. He's
just too damn good. Fourth quarter Palell over sixty percent from the field,
over fifty percent from the outside on the season. He's unbelievable. I'm so
happy for him because he's a guy that works so hard. He's a perfectionist.
He expects so much of himself. But that Andrew grif article in the
La Times talking about how instead of him chasing being an All Star, thinking
that he needs to be one of the top guys on this team. He's
just controlling what he can controls what he can control, and he's taking advantage
of his minutes. And William Blast, you're wrong. Daniel Tice is not
a better finisher than Mason Plumley, and he's really good the pick and roll.
We haven't even had a chance to see Plumbley next to James Harden the
pick and roll. That is true. Another level this team can get to,
uh people we're talking about with with Tyson's good stretch of play. You
know, when things started to turn around for the Clippers, we had that
the almost double digit win streak, you know, was Mason Plumley already irrelevant?
And when Charles and I talked about it, I said, absolutely not
until I see until we get the chance to see Mason Plumbley on the floor
in some minutes with James Harden. There's no way you could possibly pencil this
guy out of your rotation. That, I mean, the idea, the
notion to me is absurd. All right, For my player the game pick,
I'm going for a very obvious choice. I'm going Kwhi Leonard. I
think Kawhi goes for forty. I would love to see that he did not
have, you know, an elite game against the Pelicans nineteen points nine boards.
But I think, uh, I think Kawhi is gonna make a statement
tomorrow. I think he's gonna be back in LA I think he's gonna bounce
back shooting wise, and we're gonna see a vintage you know, get to
spots. He's gonna be here at the top of the elbow, he's gonna
get here in the mid range, and he's gonna he's gonna set the tone
and then at some point he's gonna flip the switch on. The game is
gonna be over. That's what I think, which we have seen him do.
I mean, he basically did it again against the Pelicans. I feel
like we've seen him do it more of this regular season in where any other
top way through than I feel like any previous regular season. It's phenomenal.
It's unreal. I do want to say this though, regarding Kawhi. There's
been this thought out there and a little bit of disrespect from people saying I
got this at follow out of May on X earlier today, when I put
up the Kawhi leonard numbers over the last fourteen games sixty fifty three ninety shooting
splits. Clippers are thirteen to one during that stretch. He's won the last
twelve games that he has played in Individually, They've been undefeated in the last
twelve games with Kawhi Leonard. But somebody responded to that and said, uh,
SEMy said, he has finally looked like the Kawhi they traded for.
Took him five plus years, but later better than ever. I guess that
is disrespectful. Why Leonard tore his ACL while being the best player in the
twenty twenty one playoffs? Wow, what was better than him? What were
you looking at? Better on a Clippers jersey that he was in a Toronto
Raptors jersey. He was playing better than ever. You're not like all of
a sudden, Kawhi Leonard is just starting to reach his potential as a Clipper.
Now he had a setback. He gave his ACL. He's got a
cadaver one or whatever it is now that they had to reconstruct his ACL with.
That's what they often use. Uh been the man he was going to
win them the championship in twenty twenty one okay, oh yeah, can you
pick the cadaver because I would pick like a track star. No, you
can't pick the can I don't think. Also sometimes use a pig. I
can't remember. That's for Tommy John. Anyway, we're getting off we're getting
off track. Uh, we're gonna get the We're all gonna get the for
Kawhi. Yeah. Coming up, we're talking the Sun's Game. We're gonna
talk that because it is a back to back for the Clippers. And then
we're picking the winner of the YouTube contest that Adam and Will need to vote
on. We got Suns Talk and then Clippers Sons Talk coming up in three
two one. Hey, welcome back. In Clips and Dips Season two,
episode thirty seven, I'm out of Moslin. We got Chuck Mackler. William
Updyke is here. If you're listening on the podcast, this was a YouTube
live edition at Clippers Podcast on YouTube is where you find us at Clippers pod
on x is where you can find us there, and that also streams.
Still Elon has that part of it working for us. If you were just
watching this on Twitter, you could just be streaming this episode and have it
in your feet or whatever. So Clippers front end of a back to back
tomorrow it's a three and four taken on the Lakers back end of that back
to back, will be at home against the Phoenix Suns for the second time
in a week. Still don't know if Kevin Durant will be available. I
was a little bit surprised he wasn't back already at this point. I kind
of figured when he missed that game against the Trailblazers that was just him getting
a little bit of rest because he had played so many early on in the
season. But he still hasn't played. Didn't play against the Clippers in their
one thirty one one twenty two victory over the Suns in Phoenix, didn't play
against the Miami Heat when they won one thirteen to ninety seven. They will
be on the second night of a back to back two though they got the
Memphis Grizzlies at home tomorrow night when the Clippers are taken on the Lakers at
Crypto, So not a rest advantage for either team in that game against the
Phoenix Suns. We'll see who's available for the Clippers another back to back,
who will be playing hopefully You know another reason that if you're of the belief
that they should blow out the Lakers. There's a reason too, because they
got a game coming up very next night. Chuck. Yeah, I think
everyone should play in this game, right, If they're not hurt, they're
gonna play. That's been what we've been seeing for the Clippers. So I'm
assuming everyone's gonna play in this Sun's game. The last time we played the
Suns, it was kind of a walky game. Both teams had a seventy
point half. Like the Clippers shot so well for the entire game, the
Suns were absurd in that second half. Will Where do you think the Clips
can improve on that last matchup? Who is better? Whistle on the table?
Is that? Yeah? Oh god, I hope we get a different
ref crew. That was a nightmare to watch that game. Man. I
we just got such great performances out of the big three in that one,
Like really everyone stepped up. Maybe hmmm, I guess I'd like to see
Zoo have have a better game, maybe be able to go to him offensively
a little bit if the shooting isn't as hot as we were. I think
you are you already mentioned with clip shops fifty three percent from three, So
I kind of like that matchup of Zoo on Nurkic. I think he's a
little slow footed. He's still got the size, But the way Zoo has
been expanding the range lately he's been showing off his work is nasty. This
season. He looks a lot lighter on his feet than he has than he
has in previous years. So I think that that's one of those things that
we can if the shooting doesn't have the same level of efficiency, which I
don't expect it to, we can kind of go to and we need to
be exploiting some of those matchups. We need to keep Big Zoo involved because
that's the best way to get to get his peak performance on both ends of
the floor. Really, truly, it's a good call, Adam. What
are you looking for? Uh yeah, Big Zoo to have a big game.
He's one of our young guys. It feels like right now, Like
when he's dunking on Valanciunas in that first quarter, he's not just dunking on
him, He's dunking on the Zoo haters. He's dunking on Carl Tart.
Zubots is a maid the way man. He's a made man happy birthday,
Carl. He is being respected now as being one of the guys, not
just a starter that gets twenty five minutes. Yeah, Will and he'll do
the same for Mason Plumley. Comparing what Mason Plumbley did last year to Daniel
Tize. This year, Daniel Tys is playing next to James Harden. James
Harden next to Mason Plumley is going to work very well. But yeah,
he has unlocked to Viatza Zoobots. They didn't just get James Harden in the
trade, they got a better version of Aviatza zoobots. That is a huge,
huge difference maker for this team and just one more weapon. I still
get frustrated sometimes. It happened against Miami. I think where is Miami or
Phoenix where they just weren't scoring for about five and a half minutes. Yeah,
it's like, guys, just look for big Zoo, just get him
some easy touches here. But James Harden, for the most part, he
has kept him involved offensively. It also helps your defense. Of course,
you keep that guy. We talked about it earlier, but players getting touches,
feeling like they're involved on offense. It just a rising tide lifts all
boats. Whatever you want to say, it helps in every area of the
game. So I'll say I want to see a lot from Beats, the
zoo Bots, and more from Terrence Man on Devin Booker what he did in
that first half against Booker, especially, He's gonna have an even bigger responsibility
on book if KD plays in this one, Yeah, exactly, I want
to see. I want to see this team sweep this not quite a home
stand, but take care of business against the Lakers to put themselves in a
better position against the Phoenix Suns. Yes, I would agree with that would
be interesting if KD plays kind of where Kawhi and PG end up. I
think that I would love to see Kawhi on KD the whole time, but
I don't think the Sons will let that happen. So it's yeah, anxiously
waiting for this injury report for this Clippers Sons game. All right, will
who's your uh, your player of the game for Clippers Sons M I I'll
go Kauhi again. Well, I'll go Harden. You said you already said
Kui. Well, I I mean, I don't know if he's gonna I
don't want to say that your prediction is gonna be wrong for Kaui against the
Lakers. I don't know if he'll go, if he'll go back to back
on it. He will play in both games, but I don't I don't
know that he'll have like knockout performances in both of them. Okay, well,
I'm gonna go Harden in this one because I hesitated to go Harden in
the Lakers one seemed too easy. Adam, I'll go a mere Coffee against
the Suns back to back, all right. I like that logic. Coffee
quietly has been giving him good minutes. Now Kawhi has come back. He's
been getting about fifteen minutes per game. He hasn't popped, though, he
hasn't had as many highlights, and he was good against the Pelicans defensively,
but on a back to back, tired legs. I want to see a
mere Coffee get a few more shots. I think he'll get more minutes in
that ball game. Hopefully he takes advantage of them. I like that.
I like that call. I'm gonna go Kawhi Leonard again. No, I'm
just kidding. I'm going I think Russ we mentioned the back to back thing.
I think Russ is gonna be maybe a little needed in the Phoenix game.
I hope it's a little more controlled maybe than the last time. There
was some rough possessions against the Suns for us the last time we played.
But I think he might help us out a little bit. And I'm just
excited to see Paul George be better than Devin Booker again. I think we're
all excited for that. All right, let's get to the most important part
of the episode. We have to pick the YouTube comment winner from a week
and a half ago. They're gonna send They're gonna get a free They're gonna
get the Adam has to grab more props. For those of you who are
watching Adams once again left, we are giving away in a Vitza zu Bots
Croatian Night T shirt. They didn't advertise that it was Croatian Night at all,
despite having a starting center who is a crow. They should have advertised
it more. The shirt is awesome. Adam is gonna show it to you
right now. Adam will personally put this in the in the USPS mail slot
to send this to you. We're gonna splurge for some padded envelopes, so
it comes to you padded nailer's, padded mailers, so it gets to you
in one piece. Hey, complete with into a dome rock. You're gonna
get that too, Yeah, hopefully it dirty's the shirt up in there.
So we had, we had, Here's here's what we had. So Nicholas
Ramos three one eight seven said, willing to buy a car next year in
order to get that zoo shirt. But I'm gonna be honest, he said
next year. I I don't know if I totally believe him. Well,
some one said in the comments section in this in This Live that they bought
a car. Luca E two three said, if you don't want to lose
your only listener from Ibban Buren, you better send that shirt my way.
That is that is in Germany. I said, I wasn't a fan of
the threat. Uh, and then Mike just said ultrazord with an exclamation point.
Who do we think Who's going directed my dumb ass? I was like
super Zord thingy, No, it was the Altarsord? So who who will?
Who's your pick for best comment? I mean, I gotta go.
Luca E two three A, I don't want to lose an international listener.
I think Adam should pay for that international shipping. Okay, he didn't buy
a new car this year, he's got Adam. What's your pick? Uh?
I actually agree, or I did agree until I thought about the shipping
part of it. Yeah, you can split the shipping. It's Daniel Tice
is German, right, we got to expand our brand there. Can you
even take a padded mailer oversea? Because three d all right? I mean
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gonna talk the standings after this. Back to back, Adam, let's send
us off with the pause thing. Let's let's how are you feeling on this
this Saturday evening. I'm feeling good. Let me play my flute all right
now. Thank goodness. Norman Powell wasn't included in that trade to go back
with Nick Nursus former coach to go to Philadelphia. Thank goodness, Norman Powell.
And I was one that speculated he might be involved in a trade for
James Harden. Yeah, glad, I was completely wrong about that, because
where would this team be without Norman Powell. They finally figured it out how
to optimize him perfectly in a lineup that is their new death lineup thanks to
this. I don't even know if they'd have it if it wasn't for the
great nickname that will Updyke gave. I'm sure somebody's gonna ask coach Lou or
Norman Powell at some point, but it is the Powell Rangers death lineup,
and it is destroying worlds in the NBA right now. And I just love
washing it out there, cause who do you pick? The Clippers are becoming
a team that has some of those unsolvable problems, and that is what's important
right now? Hell yeah, it is. Make the defense think and you
will probably find a way to win. Thank you everybody who hung out on
the live. This was a super fun time. Welcome to all the new
subscribers. We'll have another video out on Tuesday. Yeah, we'll have the
double Dips in between them. Thank you as always, and as always,
as always, let's go clips.