1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:08,640 What's up, Clippers fans, We're hanging out. The Clippers won their first 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:14,560 home game in five games. They beat the Nuggets. La Murray pointed this 3 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:21,600 out, just like in January of twenty twenty two, Clippers overcome a seventeen 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:26,879 point deficit and Yokic's missed a buzzer beater against the Nuggets. So that's just 5 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:29,960 how we beat the Nuggets. Now, thanks for hanging out, everybody. 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,479 I'm Chuck Mockler, Will Updike is here. Adam Allison's gonna hop on. 7 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,759 We're doing a little live up in the press box. After the Clippers beat 8 00:00:36,759 --> 00:00:40,840 the Nuggs went out, Kawhi Will, how are you feeling? Immediate reactions, 9 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,479 I'm feeling really good. Like this one did not feel good early to 10 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,880 start, and you know, even late, it just felt like we were 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,600 on the precipice of possibly throwing this one away after what it looked like a 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,759 really good game. Defensively, I think we saw things dialed in a lot 13 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:02,679 more. Overall, great stuff from pg G stepping up uh In in the 14 00:01:02,719 --> 00:01:08,079 absence of Kawhi. I thought Zoo also had an incredible game. Clutch clutch, 15 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,480 free throws down down the stretch too, like how many how many points 16 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,760 in the fourth quarter in like the in clutch were of eats the zoobots free 17 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,120 throws. So yeah, he battled all night. He was phenomenal tonight. 18 00:01:22,519 --> 00:01:26,920 He ended with what fourteen and fifteen? Ye, your point about the defense 19 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,920 is great. I think we should we should we should talk about that because 20 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:34,040 that's what everyone's been worried about, Yeah for this whole year, rightfully, 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,799 so, yes, Dark Knight Vibes's great call. This was a playoff type 22 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:41,000 field. The refs were completely garbage in this game. But yeah, both 23 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:46,400 that went both ways though for sure like that that was definitely Yeah. But 24 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:49,159 so the defense on this one, I think specifically for Jokic, we can 25 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,920 talk about this because it's something that other teams do. It's something that Adam 26 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:59,799 Oslin has talked about on this pod before, where you have a big wing 27 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,640 Jokic and PJ is our biggest wing. Tonight, there was no Kawhi. 28 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,319 We're gonna talk about his injury updates that they got or whatever, and then 29 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:12,639 you had Zoo on Aaron Gordon just kind of roaming to make things more difficult 30 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,280 for Yoki. Yokic had twenty in the first half, which didn't feel good, 31 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,719 and then the fourth or in the third he had four points. The 32 00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:23,280 third quarters were the Clippers really came alive in this one. Hardening the bench 33 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:28,439 was nice, but I love the the defensive focus, like they gave a 34 00:02:28,479 --> 00:02:32,879 shit on defense tonight and it showed yeah, yeah they did. And also 35 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:39,240 it helped that the Nuggets bench was absolute zero, absolute nothing. They're bad. 36 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:44,000 They are. That bench is very weak. They had zero points in 37 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:49,120 the first half from their bad Yeah, what do you take? So Clippers 38 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,159 were without Kawhi, which there's no update on Kawhi. He's gonna miss a 39 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:57,840 couple of games, per Ty Lou. No word on if he got an 40 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,639 MRI. I don't know if what you were expecting if you were a Clippers 41 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,080 fan, you know what I'm saying for that, But there will be a 42 00:03:05,159 --> 00:03:08,240 change in his injury status if he's not gonna play the next game due to 43 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:15,599 the NBA limiting soreness to two games. Great point when you if when the 44 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,560 injury report comes out tomorrow, if Kawhi is on it, it will say 45 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,000 inflammation or something like that. They have to put that, like Will said, 46 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:24,759 because of the soreness stuff. So Yeah, so there will be there 47 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,560 will be at least a change in status. As to how much to read 48 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,240 into it, I wouldn't say positive or negative. Obviously, missing this many 49 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:38,599 consecutive games raises concerns. Until we know more, we just can't really, 50 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,199 we can't really speculate beyond that. Yeah, how do you chalk this win 51 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:49,680 up with the Nuggets being without Murray and the Clippers being without Kawhi. I 52 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,639 feel pretty good about how the team looked except for the opening like four minutes 53 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:57,280 or whatever that was, or they were down a bunch, because they looked 54 00:03:57,319 --> 00:03:59,639 like they care. They looked like they had their backs against the wall and 55 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:02,199 wanted to prove something against the team that they don't win a lot against. 56 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,800 And again, first home win in five games. So I love the intensity. 57 00:04:06,199 --> 00:04:10,039 Tyler was communicating well with the guys. They were doing what he said. 58 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:14,159 It was some good stuff after a rough start defensively. Yeah. Look, 59 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,439 I mean, huge losses for both teams, so you can't, you 60 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,839 know, you can't take too much out there. Obviously, in a playoff 61 00:04:19,879 --> 00:04:23,920 situation, you would hope that both teams are both these I mean, you 62 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:27,399 know, as much as it is scary and painful, like seeing both of 63 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:30,079 these teams go at it in a Western Conference final is like, I mean, 64 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,920 that is like the peak basketball. So I wouldn't take anything away from 65 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:39,240 that. From that aspect of it. Great to get a win at home 66 00:04:39,519 --> 00:04:46,480 Russ is kind of I think people do sometimes overestimate the hustle stuff and then 67 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,639 maybe underestimate the crowd effect that he has at home games. He was great 68 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:54,319 tonight, Russ. He he gets the home card going in a way that 69 00:04:54,759 --> 00:05:00,079 this team doesn't. But I was very disappointed in the last win loss sans 70 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,600 Kawhi, and this has been a thing for me, like all season. 71 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,959 I just feel like if Kawhi is not playing everyone, I don't know if 72 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:13,199 they they got a memo that they didn't have to show up to work that 73 00:05:13,319 --> 00:05:16,800 day or it was a half day or something, but I've just been in 74 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,279 general pretty disappointed in what we've seen when Kawhi' is done on the floor. 75 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:25,720 Now, obviously hard to evaluate the team without Kawhi because you know that's not 76 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,480 the team. It's not really the team. But you know, with two 77 00:05:29,519 --> 00:05:34,480 players of certainly Paul George and Harden's caliber, like you they need to step 78 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,079 it up in these types of games, and I thought they did just that 79 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,279 and this so I thought that was really reassuring because there are going to be 80 00:05:42,319 --> 00:05:45,639 minutes in the playoffs when Kawhi is not on the floor. So yes, 81 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:50,199 maybe some people are pointing out in the chat, which I think is is 82 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:55,879 kind of a good call here. The defense was good from from the team 83 00:05:55,879 --> 00:05:59,079 for the most part, especially with Kawhi being now the offense. Credit to 84 00:05:59,079 --> 00:06:02,759 the Nuggets defense. There were multiple drafts of multiple minutes for the Clippers offense. 85 00:06:02,759 --> 00:06:11,160 In this one, the start was rough and then Jimmy Williams of the 86 00:06:11,199 --> 00:06:14,399 Great take hold. The refs were complete garbage for both times. Yeah, 87 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,399 but so Kawhi no excuse me not Kawhi PG and Harden in the fourth, 88 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,120 I'm assuming it's tired legs weren't getting into the paint as much. They were 89 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,319 a little jump shot heavy. They were settling for those jump shots, and 90 00:06:26,399 --> 00:06:30,240 that I mean the Clippers they won by one possession, right, Like it's 91 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,600 like, so, I don't I'm not going to say that, like, 92 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,639 oh, that was the reason they almost lost because the defense also couldn't get 93 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:41,519 stop slate. But that wasn't ideal. I think offensive process wise, you 94 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:46,920 want to see it a little more tight down the stretch. But like you 95 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:49,680 look at the box score for this also, yeah, can we talk about 96 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:55,439 that, like, I mean, I like, I like PG. I 97 00:06:55,439 --> 00:07:00,279 guess on the final possession, I thought that was a bad shot. PJ 98 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,920 in closing esque lineups is that's gonna the offense is gonna struggle. Oh yeah, 99 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,319 like Clayton Stevens is saying Coffee had an awesome game as well. Absolutely, 100 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,240 yea. Coffee was huge on the boards. Early in this game he 101 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:23,519 had six boards, which is great. Yeah it uh PJ late, Yeah, 102 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:26,279 this is a great point, uh Trance adding our last play, it 103 00:07:26,319 --> 00:07:30,279 was just straight ISO. It was very odd PJ got subbed out late because 104 00:07:30,279 --> 00:07:35,279 he got a really bad tech, which again the rest were weird, but 105 00:07:35,639 --> 00:07:40,319 the tech I think was maybe warranted. Uh, But PJ for what he 106 00:07:40,399 --> 00:07:45,879 was supposed to do defensively, Hey, he bothered Jokic. He did make 107 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,279 things a little more difficult. But it's it's like what Adam says, right, 108 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:53,680 it's small doses. Yeah, what we saw tonight was for the playoffs 109 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,959 for small doses. Because he doesn't there's no offense, and I understand people 110 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,519 say he's not there to play offense. He needs to have some kind of 111 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,199 threat if he's gonna play ex sentiments, which I don't think he will. 112 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:07,399 But in the short term it was good tonight. It just shrinks the floor. 113 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,319 I mean when he's out there and that, you know, like the 114 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:15,720 the offense is just gonna it's gonna continue to hit hiccups. Yeah with him 115 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,920 scenarios. Yeah, but no, he showed why in the playoffs. He 116 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:26,639 definitely has some utilization against Jokic. Adam is right about that. Adam also 117 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:33,559 should be joining soon. Yeah, this was I feel, you know, 118 00:08:33,639 --> 00:08:39,200 this game doesn't change like you know, obviously, everyone's expectations are still the 119 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,919 same. This team needs to win a championship. But this game was part 120 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:48,320 of the good process we need to see, we need to see leading to 121 00:08:48,399 --> 00:08:52,519 this, Michael Yun pointing out everyone beats team man off the dribble. Tonight 122 00:08:52,639 --> 00:08:56,679 was kind of a rough Terrence game. This was not the best Terrance game 123 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,759 offensively and defensively. He was part of that run in the in the beginning 124 00:09:01,799 --> 00:09:03,759 too, right, like he wasn't really getting back and stuff like that. 125 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:07,799 So yeah, you hope he can bounce. I hope he plays tomorrow. 126 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:11,200 People in the chatter saying to rest a lot of people tomorrow. I'm probably 127 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:16,240 fine with resting PG and James because James is tired, He's played a lot 128 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:20,279 of basketball. But Terrence, I'm excited to he needs to play tomorrow. 129 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:24,200 He needs to play a lot tomorrow because I just want to see him runing 130 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:31,120 into form two. Uh uh oh uh oh. Folks, we got out 131 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,080 of oson in the building calling for you. What's going down? Boys? 132 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,200 You got me got I just like to point out that a couple of shows 133 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,639 ago, I said the reason they've been running out PJ Tucker with the Vitza 134 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,840 Zobots is to have him as the primary defender on Yo Kitchen zu Bots as 135 00:09:48,879 --> 00:09:50,440 the help defender. They did it in the third quarter, they did some 136 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:56,519 of the fourth. They got just enough stops Tonight, wait a while on 137 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,120 that final shot on the heat from half court. We know Jokis has already 138 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,200 made this season to win a ball game for the Denver Nuggets. Impressive, 139 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:09,360 best victory of the season for this Clippers team. I would agree with that. 140 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,480 We were singing your praises before you hopped on about the zoo and PJ 141 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:18,120 combo. This is I think this is probably the best win snaps the home 142 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,240 losing streak. There's no Kawhi, and they looked focused without Kauhi as what 143 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:26,159 we were talking about. That was good to see. They cared about defense 144 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,279 in this one after the first four minutes, down seventeen in this one, 145 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,960 the Clippers may have found themselves because this is the type of victory we talked 146 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,840 about this on the last show that they used to get all the time when 147 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:41,480 the ships were down, when superstars were out, they would rise above it, 148 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,480 play harder, give better effort, and we finally saw it after that 149 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:48,320 first quarter. As you mentioned there, Chuck, maybe they relocated their identity 150 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,600 tonight in a victory like this. Now it's just six games left, that's 151 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,000 pretty big time, big time. It's big time and tomorrow. What do 152 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,279 you think of tomorrow, Adam? Do you want to see everyone play who's 153 00:10:58,279 --> 00:11:03,679 available or you want to see maybe some guys get some rest? Utah is 154 00:11:03,919 --> 00:11:07,919 uh not playing to win right now, so to speak. There's another word 155 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:09,519 for that. I'm not going to disrespect him like that, but marketing is 156 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:13,200 out. They're playing a bunch of young guys. The Clippers have a chance 157 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,320 to wrest some guys tomorrow and still win if you bring this same level of 158 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:22,159 play an attitude out there. Yeah for sure, totally have you had any 159 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,200 all right? We going at him. Thank you. Jabo's asking if something 160 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:28,759 was born from this wind tonight? Jabo's you know, something was born from 161 00:11:28,759 --> 00:11:35,480 this win? Always win and some losses weirdly, Yeah, those aren't fun 162 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:39,639 though. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm feeling solid after this game. 163 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:43,879 This is exactly what we wanted to see, you know, aside from some 164 00:11:43,919 --> 00:11:48,200 of the offensive lapses and stuff. James Harden, who's been you know, 165 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:56,720 kind of a light rod not lately. He has been due to lately, 166 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:01,120 the percentage was not there tonight. He went six for twenty three. That 167 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,200 was not good. However, eight assists, just one turnover, but he 168 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,360 took twenty three shots. Yeah, like that has be encouraged, right, 169 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:13,600 Like, sure, what'd you think of Harden tonight? Yeah? I thought 170 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:18,440 overall he looked good. Was kind of I was worried he was losing steam 171 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,960 late, but he was, you know, he was putting in effort on 172 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,639 the defensive end, and I think I would like to see him not settle 173 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:30,000 for so many jump shots because all of those twenty three shots, thirteen of 174 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,759 them were from three, and I you know, obviously he's a great three 175 00:12:31,799 --> 00:12:35,159 point shooter. I'm I'm not opposed to that, but I just think this 176 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:41,240 team is so much more dynamic offensively when he's when he's really getting to the 177 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,960 paint and aggressively going north south. Yes, the north south movement was I 178 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,519 wonder if I think it's maybe just tired legs, you know, kind of 179 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:54,440 going into maybe resting tomorrow. But we saw tonight I think he took I'll 180 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,960 have to look at the shot data when it comes out from NBA. He 181 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:01,840 took a couple of mid range shots, Like there's the shot where he comes 182 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,000 off a pin down or he snakes the pick and roll and it's right there 183 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:09,039 that like that like twelve to seventeen footers right there. Yeah, but he's 184 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,360 hesitant, he's not shooting well from there. But when he does, like, 185 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,480 that's what he's gonna get in the playoffs. And we saw him take 186 00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:18,960 a few more of those tonight than we used to do, which was huge. 187 00:13:18,279 --> 00:13:20,360 Yeah, And I mean he doesn't even have to make him He has 188 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:24,519 to take a couple to keep the defense honest, and then he just needs 189 00:13:24,519 --> 00:13:26,480 to continue collapsing the paint like that, because then I trust him to make 190 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:30,480 the right, the right, the right play on the floor, whether that 191 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:33,879 is him looking to score for himself, which I think he has been doing 192 00:13:33,919 --> 00:13:37,360 a better job of, thankfully with this misstretch without Kawhi, but he you 193 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,159 know, he's also gonna I trust him to make the right read. I 194 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,559 trust him to make the right read more so than anyone on this Clippers team, 195 00:13:43,919 --> 00:13:46,679 right, Yeah, like that's what we got him for, right, 196 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,679 like make the right read. So the attempts were great. The Clippers also 197 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:54,320 did a really good job of taking care of the ball on this one. 198 00:13:54,519 --> 00:13:58,919 Six turnovers yeah, three of which were from Paul George, which is right, 199 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:01,279 and that that one that was late, that one that was late that 200 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,200 I think was to norm or No, that was hard. Well the jump 201 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,240 the jump pass, Yeah, that would have been rough. But no, 202 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,120 this I mean again, other than the offense. Jay Mitchell saying, the 203 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,120 best win of the year, I'm assuming. Yeah, if we have Kawhi 204 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:20,279 and then everyone else plays like this, it's hard to you know, We've 205 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,440 we've seen the model, right, Like, we really do have to hope 206 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,720 that they flip the switch which isn't my favorite thing, but that's where we're 207 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:35,360 at. We've seen this Clippers team this season do things well at different times, 208 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:37,240 you know what I'm saying. Like tonight it was like, oh, 209 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,440 the defense was really good, Like this was a good defense, but the 210 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:43,519 offense is still a little shaky. I'm really excited for when Kawhi gets back 211 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,120 for it all to coalesce, because that's what we need. We need to 212 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:50,799 be either. I don't think we're gonna be an elite defense because the defense 213 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,759 has not been elite all year, but the offense can be top five. 214 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,679 And if the defense is average with who this personnel is, that's the shopper's 215 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,840 pass. They should be able to get to average defense. I mean, 216 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:09,279 like hasn't been great, they should absolutely Yeah, thank you O. Kawhi. 217 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:13,840 Is the problem confirmed? For sure? People aren't talking about it. 218 00:15:13,919 --> 00:15:16,240 A lot of people are talking about yeah, uh Jimmy g asking what did 219 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:20,480 you think about that MPJ no call? So there was a couple no calls 220 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,720 on MPJ. He should have gotten a foul for kicking out, Yeah, 221 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,320 but also that foul on Zoo that they didn't call maybe should have been a 222 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,480 foul on Zoo on mpj mm hmm. But the refs again this goes back 223 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:37,320 to the rest, were kind of doctor yeah, which was not good. 224 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:43,840 Yeah, Michael Eun with the great point here. Uh the NBJ was neutralized. 225 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:46,759 I agree because that that was like, that was also super That was 226 00:15:46,799 --> 00:15:50,519 super egregious. I liked seeing Paul George dive on the floor for the ball, 227 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:56,720 but I'm also happy if I never see that again. Yeah, perspective. 228 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,159 I thought he was talking about the one the basket where he got Paul 229 00:16:02,159 --> 00:16:07,480 George gets like double hand hit. That was crazy. Yeah, Jake Burns 230 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:10,240 is on the stream. If you haven't purchased a Jake Burns shirt, I 231 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:15,519 have the OG, we have the o G Jake Burns shirt. Order a 232 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,519 Jake Burns shirt makes great shirts for a multitude of teams, but if you're 233 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:22,559 a Clippers fan, you can't go wrong with having the Jake Burns in the 234 00:16:22,559 --> 00:16:30,320 closet. I did the math, and we'll need to win the next six 235 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,480 games to secure the four seed. Yeah. Great, really, I'm sure 236 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:41,159 that was quick math. Jeremy six and no sweat. Hard to not feel 237 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:47,000 great after this win. Everyone, I mean, Mace was okay in this 238 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:49,200 one. No Daniel Tye on his birthday, which probably bums him out a 239 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:55,600 little bit. But yeah, like this was this is a wind you build 240 00:16:55,639 --> 00:17:00,440 good process on. Uh oh, Dike Coke. Indeed, if Will could 241 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:06,599 replace his blood with diet Koke would do that. Just for full disclosure, 242 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:11,880 just for fun, I'm looking through just some of these notes. So one 243 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:19,519 thing that was terrifying to start this game. The Nuggets average fourteen fast breakpoints 244 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:25,039 per one hundred possessions on the season, and they had thirteen in the first 245 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:27,640 quarter this game. It was brutal. I Like, I thought it was 246 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:33,079 going to be more of the same. So them actually like facing adversity a 247 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:37,440 couple of times in this game, right, like going down deep early, 248 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,200 which I guess is something we're just going to have to get used to and 249 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,559 be okay with. I mean we should be used to it, I guess 250 00:17:42,559 --> 00:17:48,279 at this point I'm just still not. And then as things crept up and 251 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:52,960 got close, right like we've seen this team when when they're yeah, when 252 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,519 they're when they're eyeing down a comeback from an opponent, I feel like we 253 00:17:56,519 --> 00:18:00,559 see them get really tight and we see things really start to crumble because of 254 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,559 that and the offense did get a little jammed up, but again I do 255 00:18:03,599 --> 00:18:08,720 think some of that was due to rotations and then obviously being down Queah is 256 00:18:08,759 --> 00:18:12,119 a huge thing. But yeah, the I don't know, like I think 257 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,880 the PJ thing is is gonna is a mixed bag and I don't really see 258 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:22,000 like I could see him in a spot in a possession battle right like he's 259 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:25,160 in he's in for a spot possession here or there, but him getting like 260 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,039 extended run as part of like the closing or pre closing lineup I think is 261 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,799 Yeah, I don't know about that. I agree with that. Uh lizo 262 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,559 l z O, excuse me, sorry if I you know, they said 263 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:41,319 what was our identity for this game? Weirdly, the identity for this game 264 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,200 was kind of hard nosed defense. We need, you know, Paul George 265 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,799 needed to take as many shots as he took with Kawai out, and he 266 00:18:47,839 --> 00:18:51,480 took them, which I was hyped on twenty eight points on forty. It's 267 00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:53,799 hard to be super upset with that, especially when they need it, but 268 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:59,680 it was nice to see a defensive identity. They're not a good defensive team 269 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,960 if you look at all of the stats, they're not good, but tonight 270 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,920 they were good, which is what we can kind of build off into the 271 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,640 playoffs. And one thing I will say that it has been encouraging even though 272 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,519 they've been a bottom three even though they've been a bottom three defense since the 273 00:19:15,599 --> 00:19:19,079 All Star break, is like guys are still communicating out there, right. 274 00:19:19,279 --> 00:19:22,400 It's not like someone's blowing in an assignment and everybody's just kind of throwing their 275 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,079 hands up, like they are still talking about this. They are still trying 276 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:27,480 to get this too. They are still trying to get this locked in, 277 00:19:27,519 --> 00:19:33,559 which it's been one of those things. It's it's been one of those things 278 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,920 where I know it seems like they haven't they haven't been super caring and they've 279 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,200 they've been a little soft, which is true. Yeah, but they have 280 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:45,119 still been communicating, So I think that's good. Someone said, like, 281 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:48,880 drink regular coke instead of diet coke. It's too sweet for me, and 282 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,240 I'm on, yeah, it's it's too sweet for me on the diet coke 283 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:59,160 stream and you put the comment up. I love me. Yeah, Scott 284 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,759 Tran saying, uh, we got bench scoring from someone other than Norm. 285 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:07,319 Norm was he first of all, only made four of his twelve shots which 286 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:11,640 is not ideal. But the movement he had off the ball, and he's 287 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,200 made one point the entire second half, right, it was not ideal. 288 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:21,200 He did have The Nuggets had five seconds on their second to last inbounds and 289 00:20:21,279 --> 00:20:23,720 Nuggets had five seconds for possession and Norm knocked the ball away. They got 290 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,519 the ball back, but it still cut their time down by one second. 291 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:32,200 I love that little thing by Yeah, he's been doing these little tiny things 292 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,920 on defense that that I think about. Obviously, that's not what the Clippers 293 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,359 need him for they do, I think Jamal Christopher said this on Twitter Clippers 294 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:42,079 Twitter power user. He mentioned that the Clippers kind of seemed to dependent on 295 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:48,200 Norm scoring sometimes, but he's he had one point in the second Yeah, 296 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,799 he had one of two free throws and he only took three shots though in 297 00:20:51,839 --> 00:20:53,920 the entire second half. So but he's gonna have a player. He's gonna 298 00:20:53,920 --> 00:21:00,839 win the clips of playoff game. I think it's gonna be he's moving. 299 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:02,680 Well, that's what we need to see. But yeah, I mean, 300 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,519 Russ was efficient. Russ was Russ efficient. He was four of nine, 301 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,480 twelve, six and five from Russ on over forty percent shooting. It's hard 302 00:21:12,519 --> 00:21:17,480 to really expect more from that. Ye, and I mean that in a 303 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:19,799 nice way like that is exactly what the Clippers need. And they won this 304 00:21:19,839 --> 00:21:26,519 game because they lost an efficient Russ game recently, which was annoying. You 305 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:30,559 can't really waste those, so I mean Sacramento game whatever it was, Yeah, 306 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,480 which we heard some scuttle but about, but we're not allowed to say. 307 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:38,400 Nuggets had to account for normal, so they That is another thing too. 308 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,799 I know I was kind of bagging on him his second half points, 309 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:48,440 but they they were covering norm pretty well. There were a lot of possessions 310 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,319 out there where he was just he was not getting He was not getting the 311 00:21:52,319 --> 00:21:55,200 looks that he normally does. He was not getting the space that he normally 312 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:00,160 does. By the way, Harden got twenty points. First, I'm in 313 00:22:00,279 --> 00:22:07,079 ten or eleven games, it's been a while. It's clothes. There's a 314 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,240 great dunk from Russ. You know what made me happy to see is the 315 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,920 James Harden lob to Russ as he's cutting from the corner. That is a 316 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:21,400 play where guys other teams will lose account of Russ on the perimeter, which 317 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,720 kind of does make sense. Yeah, of course they'll crash on Harden he 318 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,359 backed or cut here we go, thank you, Michael. You and with 319 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,359 the assist here he's opened me. That's what we need to see. That's 320 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:37,160 when you know that guys are kind of communicating in simpatico on offense. Yeah, 321 00:22:37,759 --> 00:22:41,359 what's up? Yeah, I mean you you pointed out how like he's 322 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,599 already getting slept on on the perimeter. So it's one of those things where 323 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,079 you can kind of it's almost like a sleight of hand where if you if 324 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:51,759 you stack everything sort of strong side and then you just have him cut. 325 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:53,920 I mean, it's not gonna work all the time obviously, but uh, 326 00:22:55,319 --> 00:22:57,200 it is like a good it is a good opportunity because a lot of times 327 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,400 he's gonna get a back turn to him essentially when he's out there on the 328 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:06,000 perimeter. Yeah, totally. Yeah, the decision making was nice for the 329 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,240 most part around it. And that's what you're worried about a lot with this 330 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,359 Clippers seemed too, is the unforced errors. Yeah, that they that they 331 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,880 put on themselves. And I think the turnovers, that's I mean, that's 332 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,920 a crazy low turnover game for this you know, that's half of what their 333 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:26,599 average is. Yeah, and I can't remember I was gonna say, well, 334 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,519 and also, so like the offensive droughts tonight right, which there there 335 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:33,000 was a couple of them. I think was more so, like you mentioned, 336 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:37,000 it was rotation issues. And again, the Nuggets defense was good tonight, 337 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:41,720 right like it was solid tonight. The Clippers scored one hundred and two 338 00:23:41,759 --> 00:23:45,359 points. That's not very much in the modern NBA, but they played good 339 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,200 defense. And the Clippers didn't get rattled. They kept using their process and 340 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:52,000 doing the things that they do. But the actually, we're running plays in 341 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:56,079 the half court, so it was good to see. It's weird how that 342 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,319 works. Michael Yune pointed this out. Yeah, so Zoo missed this layup, 343 00:24:00,519 --> 00:24:06,160 but this was a great ato from TYLERU. And I think we're seeing 344 00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:10,880 some small wrinkles added here and there. Obviously nothing crazy new, but like 345 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,720 you mentioned, they were running plays in the half court, Like this was 346 00:24:12,759 --> 00:24:17,680 the most organized that felt like the Clippers offense leop in a while. Yeah, 347 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:21,279 yeah, I mean doing that stretch, it looked it looked really damn 348 00:24:21,319 --> 00:24:25,079 good pre All Star break. Yeah, but since then this is Yeah, 349 00:24:25,079 --> 00:24:27,319 this is probably this is probably the most cohesive it looked, and yeah, 350 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,559 the assistant turnover age. It is like, what twenty two or twenty three 351 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:37,319 total assists and six turnovers? Really good? Oh oh yeah, twenty two. 352 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,200 Yeah, it's still really good. What was that point you made the 353 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,319 other day on the show about like the equation of like you take time off 354 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,599 and it takes x amount of time to get back into Oh yeah, I 355 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,359 mean like physical trainers and stuff will tell you that, like if you take 356 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,480 a week off from training, it takes you two weeks essentially just to get 357 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,680 back to the point that you were at. And so, like I was 358 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,759 talking about, like maybe with a with an older team, it's kind of 359 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:03,759 a it's it's kind of a similar thing, right where it's going to take 360 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:07,480 a couple of weeks just to get back to like the base level that you 361 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:14,799 were at and then and then go above and beyond that and really yeah, 362 00:25:14,839 --> 00:25:18,559 really it's like I think that it's different for this team too, because that 363 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,359 you know, as old and their old team, they're old, and as 364 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,880 we know, like practices like can kind of come and go with how much 365 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,759 they're they're able to practice, especially due to the schedule, right, So 366 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,599 you're like trying to when you're trying to like play. I don't. I 367 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,160 hate to say back into shape because it's not like they're out of shape. 368 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,720 It's more that they're out in shape. It's more that they're out of rhythm. 369 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,319 I think there's more that they're out of sync. So to get back 370 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,640 into that, uh, it's hard to do under the scrutiny of a game 371 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,000 that you actually have to that you actually have to win. Yes, yeah, 372 00:25:48,319 --> 00:25:53,920 they need it. Call thing. Yeah, I thought so much, 373 00:25:55,079 --> 00:25:59,279 like as like, as much as we have praise, like the offense looking 374 00:25:59,319 --> 00:26:03,079 better, I thought late and in the clutch it it really it was. 375 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:04,440 It was not good. But we talked a little bit about that, and 376 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,880 we talked about you know, some of the rotation stuff that that you know, 377 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,319 it was a little bit of an anomaly for this game. So yeah, 378 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,200 hopefully it'll look a lot better, look a lot better moving forward. 379 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,759 And Kawhi, I mean, for those of you who just joined, first 380 00:26:17,799 --> 00:26:19,839 of all, thanks for hanging out. Uh here on clips and Dip. 381 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,440 We're gonna put this out his audio probably later, but yeah, if you 382 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,759 miss it, the Kawhi stuff. A lot of people are wondering. No 383 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:32,599 word on if you got an MRI or not. He's probably out tomorrow is 384 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,680 kind of the scuttle, but from like everyone we talked to tonight, I 385 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:40,119 feel like everyone's kind of assuming he's out tomorrow. Well, and isn't that. 386 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,400 I thought Tyler said something. He's like he's gonna miss a couple of 387 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,680 games, like it was something where it was like, okay, but I 388 00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:51,000 like, like Phoenix, we wight not see him again until Phoenix. Yeah, 389 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,039 and I bet, and I bet it's the Phoenix. It's the game. 390 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,319 It's the home game against Phoenix, you know, because if he's not 391 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,720 gonna play, which is the second one right there? Yeah? Mix and 392 00:26:59,759 --> 00:27:03,000 then yeah, yeah that would make sense. I liked law Murray's take where 393 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,720 he was like he was like, the players don't seem concerned, so I'm 394 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,720 not gonna be too worried about it. And I was like, Okay, 395 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:15,000 that's actually a pretty good I'm not mad at that. Yeah, no confirm 396 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,640 or deny on the MRI is kind of weird, but whatever. I don't 397 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,279 know. It's we're never gonna get any clarification either. If you're a new 398 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,400 man. That's how the shit goes. Like, look, man, you 399 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:33,559 know, with I certainly hope that it's not this, but like it could 400 00:27:33,559 --> 00:27:37,039 be a tear And honestly, like, what would it matter if we knew 401 00:27:37,079 --> 00:27:38,279 now or if we knew at the end of the season. Not really, 402 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:41,839 the outcome is kind of the same. Yeah, the team doesn't have Kawhi, 403 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,440 they're not getting very far. I don't know, yeah, Jay saying, 404 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,440 no way they try and push Kawhi back, Oh of course not Yeah, 405 00:27:48,519 --> 00:27:49,920 yeah, no, They're not gonna make him rush anything. And he's 406 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:56,079 also the only one who we have seen actually flip a real switch and win 407 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,799 a championship. Oh and it's not even flipping a switch, man, I 408 00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:02,480 mean, I think that this has been we've been seeing peakwa. We haven't 409 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:07,359 seen him like at this long of a sustained level since I don't know, 410 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,160 twenty twenty, like most one, like it's been a while that he because 411 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:18,279 he's he's looked dominant and been more available than like his entire Clippers tenure. 412 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:23,559 So yeah, Alfredo Rodriguez asking what's our current assessment of the Clippers internal improvement 413 00:28:23,599 --> 00:28:27,559 since I didn't bring in any players after the hard and trade, it's been 414 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,000 really bad. If you look at the last twenty five games or so, 415 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,640 it's been really bad defensively, So we hope the defense keeps trending up like 416 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:44,319 it was. It's been poor, yeah, like twenty seventh or something in 417 00:28:44,359 --> 00:28:48,160 defense since like February first or something like that. So I hope that gets 418 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:55,960 better. Malcolm says, it makes you wonder if the Clippers are just trying 419 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,720 to avoid the playing schedule or they're just tired or inconsistency. They don't want 420 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,640 to be in a play. I talked about that. What of course olost 421 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:03,480 to All Star Break. He was like, we want to We don't want 422 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,759 to be in the sixth. Yeah, you just want to be top top, 423 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,400 top six seeds. Look, I don't I don't think that they're doing 424 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,359 anything cheeky with these games. I really like they need to have good process. 425 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,839 Like they're not in any they're not in any sort of position where they 426 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:22,519 can like really throw games. I don't. Look they're I mean, they're 427 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:26,200 fairly cemented in that four or five matchup unless things go really poorly, And 428 00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:32,680 I don't know why, Like there's no advantage to being five over being four. 429 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:34,759 Right, Yeah, we want the home court I can think of. 430 00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:38,440 So, yeah, I think that a lot of it has just been inconsistencies 431 00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:45,200 and I don't know, lack of focus. I'm not really sure, and 432 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,079 they're definitely yeah, this is fair, thank you. We are traumatized on 433 00:29:49,119 --> 00:29:52,680 the plan and there still is like we're waiting for some postgame quotes to come 434 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,440 out and everything like that, but they've been you know, if you've been 435 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,359 reading them from say, you know, the quotes from Paul George and the 436 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:07,480 quotes from uh, you know, Tylu, there doesn't seem to be some 437 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:11,039 cohesiveness with the res with the quotes again before this game, with things like 438 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:18,039 that. So winning does cure everything. And I think winning like this helps 439 00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:21,200 because it was like a defensive win, right, like defensive wins or wins, 440 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,480 you can really rally everyone around because defense is usually a team effort in 441 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,640 basketball. So I think it's it's something like that. That's nice. Logan 442 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,079 Rapp with a great take. There's no conspiracy. Sometimes they played amazing and 443 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:37,759 sometimes I play like Garb. Absolutely. That's the thing with a five hundred 444 00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:41,799 team, which the Clippers have been over these last couple of months, is 445 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,119 when you're five hundred team, there's nights for you're this, and there's nights 446 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,480 for your this, and the Clippers were higher than that tonight, which is 447 00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:52,799 great and you'll love to see the win. Shanina Shakes has upset at us 448 00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:59,920 for some reason. We did win one of the best wins of the season, 449 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,359 best sans Kawhi win the season for sure easily. Oh and the Clippers 450 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,960 might have actually just put out their best meme of all time on Twitter. 451 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,440 We're going to screenshare this because we appreciate a good meme and we talked shit 452 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:15,960 on the Clippers marketing. But this is funny. This is a good bit. 453 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,400 Thank you Clippers for putting this up. This is a fun time. 454 00:31:23,599 --> 00:31:32,160 Shout out Clippers social uh for putting this one up. Yeah, okay, 455 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:37,359 so ooh that's not the angle we need it at all. Hey, shout 456 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:41,200 out Peter at Drinking six. Can the Diet Coke daily? We got the 457 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,839 diet cokeive in the chat. I hope everyone's doing good. Marlene has asked, 458 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,599 do you think Kahi will be back before the playoffs as of right now? 459 00:31:49,359 --> 00:31:53,720 Yes? Yes, yeah, I mean we, I mean we we 460 00:31:53,839 --> 00:31:59,000 just we have no reason. We have no reason to believe otherwise, So 461 00:31:59,359 --> 00:32:04,480 yes, logan with just two for two on the takes. This is the 462 00:32:04,559 --> 00:32:08,799 exact when you're looking for gritty, gross against a very good team. Yeah, 463 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,079 these kind of gritty wins. And I know that people aren't exactly happy 464 00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:16,079 with like grinding out wins against Charlotte or whatever, but like, I still 465 00:32:16,079 --> 00:32:22,440 think that those wins are are important and and they are like I don't know, 466 00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:25,359 I like, look, I guess I would love to see this team 467 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,640 just kind of running, uh just a well oiled machine. Yeah, running 468 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:36,440 teams out of the gym. It's just not realistic. And I do think 469 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,519 there's happening. Isn't built for that the way the Clippers seems scorers like and 470 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:45,519 just old just just old and like and and you know, transition play like 471 00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:47,759 they don't they don't get a lot of I feel like I talk about this 472 00:32:47,759 --> 00:32:52,119 pretty often, but they don't get a lot of easy buckets. Yeah. 473 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,200 For so it's I think I feel like it's kind of difficult to get those 474 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:59,799 runs going where you're just like, we're running teams out of the gym, 475 00:32:59,839 --> 00:33:02,039 were not playing your starters in the fourth quarter. And we'll see we'll see 476 00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:06,599 him get to the thirty point or kissing the thirty point per game mark in 477 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,079 the playoffs because he averages twenty eight, twenty nine or something like that, 478 00:33:12,039 --> 00:33:14,920 Jay asking, well, Kobe Brown and Dioboti to be available postseason if we 479 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,720 need to. If these two guys are playing in the postseason, we are 480 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,920 fucked. Sorry, Jay, but I don't want to see Kobe Brown and 481 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,920 Diabote in the postseason unless things are going really well. They're not playoff caliber, 482 00:33:25,039 --> 00:33:30,119 but yes they are playoff elev Yes, they very much are playoff eligible. 483 00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:35,880 Hold on, there was another one in here, THEO asking what do 484 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,799 you think has been the biggest reason for our inconsistencies? Could it just be 485 00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:40,519 old age and tired legs or do we just go on the greatest ons? 486 00:33:43,119 --> 00:33:47,839 Do? I think it's old I think it's legs, And I think part 487 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:52,680 of it is like I just don't think there were when things are up and 488 00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:55,079 down. It just seems, again back to the quote, stuff guys weren't 489 00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:59,799 on the same page. I don't think with how Maybe if it's preparation, 490 00:34:00,039 --> 00:34:02,400 it's what needs to happen every possession. We've heard that from Tylo and other 491 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,640 coaches and stuff like that, like it needs to be in every possession thing. 492 00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:08,840 So I think that is kind of ties into the old age or something 493 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:13,239 like that, trying to capture some rest here and there. But there's also 494 00:34:13,519 --> 00:34:16,760 I mean, I think Adam has talked about this before, like there's a 495 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:23,199 lot of agendas going on in that locker room, right, Like everybody kind 496 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,320 of has their own thing going on. And and I'm not saying that they 497 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,599 can't overcome that. We've obviously seen them do that, but I think that 498 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:35,280 leads to those things where people aren't on the same page, right Like PG 499 00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,239 has his idea of what's best for this team, Russ has his, Harden 500 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:46,719 has his has his and so that's you know, the Clippers aren't any exception 501 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:51,199 in that way, you know, Like I think that that is a that's 502 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,480 sort of the double edged sword of like putting a bunch of superstars together, 503 00:34:54,599 --> 00:34:58,320 a bunch of people with a ton of experience, I mean, hall of 504 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,159 famers of you know that they all have an idea of how things are gonna 505 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:07,760 run and how they should do things. And I think that at times those 506 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:12,159 were at odds with one another, but I think that they're I just it's 507 00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:15,159 not anything that's like insurmountable. I don't think that it's as toxic as as 508 00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:21,559 what we saw going into the bubble with that Clippers team and really just winning 509 00:35:21,599 --> 00:35:24,840 solves everything. So they have been stacking up some more wins lately, so 510 00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:30,280 I think that some of that stuff will be alleviated. Yeah, I mean 511 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,440 yeah. Alfred Rodriguez saying, is this like the Bucks when they called everyone 512 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,960 out, including the equipment manager. I don't think so, because the Clippers 513 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,039 haven't called out people who have nothing to do as happening on the court. 514 00:35:40,159 --> 00:35:43,719 It's all been guys on the court, and that is who is to blame 515 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,800 for. Even in the Bucks scenario, it's not the fucking equipment guy's ball. 516 00:35:47,519 --> 00:35:54,440 Yeah, I think it's that. Should we rest Harden tomorrow? I 517 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,719 think we should. Dude, I don't think his finger is doing right. 518 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,800 I think yeah, maybe a little. Yeah, let the man sit. 519 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:07,360 They have a twelve thirty game on Sunday against the Calves, not their last 520 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:16,599 twelve thirty game. Unfortunately. I don't think he hasn't resting because he's still 521 00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:22,800 been playing thirty five plus minutes every night and continues to I see what you 522 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,519 mean though about like in I always wonder I always wonder about in game rest, 523 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,159 you know, and like what that looks like. But I do think 524 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,719 fatigue is a factor. I would love to see him get a couple of 525 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,760 nights off. Yeah yeah, against this jazz team. Yeah, all right, 526 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,519 Shanina said she pressed send too soon. She didn't watch, but we 527 00:36:42,519 --> 00:36:45,760 were so solemn. You should have been here in the beginning. Yeah, 528 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,800 we're we're ride. We're still high will juiced up on diet coke. Yes, 529 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,840 Alfredo, thank you for clarifying. If you're new to the Clippers, 530 00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:59,000 the canoes means no superstars are playing, So tomorrow might be a canoe game, 531 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,559 which would be fun, I guess, because that was cool to see. 532 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:07,880 The turning point in this game was hardened in the bench. Was it 533 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:13,559 was Harden, Emir Russ I think it was Mace, Yeah, and I 534 00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:16,440 can't remember who else, but that defense and yeah, when they locked in, 535 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,960 they had hands in the passing lanes, they had transition. They had 536 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,360 good transition defense that led to transition offense. Like I think there was that 537 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,800 that lineup. In terms of film or whatever you want, that's something ty 538 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:34,000 Lu can point to after these last two months of not very good plays as 539 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,320 an encouraging sign for these guys. We saw Harden and all bench guys make 540 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:40,000 shit happen. Yeah, which we won't see in the playoffs. We will 541 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,440 not see that in the playoffs. But the essence of it is, what's 542 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:52,119 so nice. Let Russ start tomorrow and let Gems race. Sure, I 543 00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:57,480 guess I'd like to win. Yeah, Amir was great in transition today. 544 00:37:57,519 --> 00:38:01,840 Amir is gonna be so crucial for the Clippers of the playoffs. Yeah, 545 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:06,559 I mean he's like, you know, I've talked about how short ultimately this 546 00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,079 rotation could be, right if you're playing a really good team, I mean 547 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:14,519 I could see it being as short as eight guys. Uh. Yeah, 548 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:20,199 A mirror is one of those guys who you really do trust to to soak 549 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,559 up some minutes and and like be a plus contributor in those minutes. Yeah. 550 00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:27,360 His his development this season. I mean, I know he's not gonna 551 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,639 be in the mip conversation, but he's definitely I mean, he's definitely mip 552 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:36,280 clipper. He's your MIP go. Yeah. Yeah. And for his role 553 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:37,480 is what I mean obviously, like there's not gonna be in a mere like 554 00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:40,000 forty point game, but there's gonna be in a mirror like oh, timely 555 00:38:40,039 --> 00:38:45,159 bucket game, timely board game stuff, like that. I like this point 556 00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:47,559 from Starman Hove. We beat them during the non yoke its minutes in the 557 00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:52,519 second quarter, didn't settle to their level for once. Exactly. Our bench 558 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:57,360 is miles better than the Nuggets bench, especially in fully healthy. They also 559 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,719 gave us a lot of help. That bench didn't score any points in the 560 00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:07,639 first because yeah, yeah, it was uhl attempt to float yes yes, 561 00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:15,239 and then and then the practice one after he did not make it. Unfortunately. 562 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:21,559 PJ debuted I think three different pairs of shoes tonight. He had a 563 00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:24,320 like a new book one p on and then he had like a new air 564 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:29,320 flight thing that he had, So that's good. Happy for him there. 565 00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:37,239 Yeah, I'm feeling Booker shoes. Yeah he does whatever. Aaron Gordon's superstar 566 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:42,280 whistle. Aaron Gordon took like a shot to the head after that. Terrence 567 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,599 man foul and looked pretty dazed. I hope he's okay. Legitimately, Yeah, 568 00:39:45,679 --> 00:39:50,039 he looked like he maybe needed a Braine A pretty friendly whistle. He 569 00:39:50,079 --> 00:39:53,800 got a crazy friend list. He also shot like dog shit. Yeah he 570 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,440 made I mean just everything was at the ram all right, Sorry, I 571 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,840 got the James Harden shot. Yeah, he took one, two through four 572 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,800 five what you could classify as mid range jumpers. Made two of them tonight. 573 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,760 Oh isn't that like about what his average is at. It's a little 574 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,719 bit better than what his averages, which is nice to see. Today was 575 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,599 not a playoff whistle. It was bad reps. It was just bad refs. 576 00:40:19,639 --> 00:40:21,440 Dude. Yeah, because like in the beginning, it was just like 577 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,119 people were getting smacked the hell around. And this happened in a playoff game. 578 00:40:24,119 --> 00:40:28,559 I feel like people be pissed. I feel like there'd be a riot. 579 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:35,000 Yeah, riot, the other rioting in Denver. All the breweries are 580 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,199 boarded up. But yeah, like there was like no whistle in the first 581 00:40:37,199 --> 00:40:42,320 three quarters and then the fourth. The refs just felt like pissed off this, 582 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,119 Okay, Paul George had Oh wait, no, this is a different 583 00:40:45,119 --> 00:40:49,519 call, but I'm gonna I'm gonna bitch about something different. Paul George had 584 00:40:49,519 --> 00:40:52,440 his best contest at the rim all year. Oh wow. Yeah, on 585 00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:58,119 Jokic tonight it was he went straight up. It was Yoka. It should 586 00:40:58,119 --> 00:41:01,400 have been a travel on Jokic because he just he didn't get the shot up. 587 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,880 He jumped in the and they called a jump ball. But I love 588 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,840 that PG challenge, that shot. I love that it went well. You 589 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:14,159 know it should have been, you know, a travel on Jokic but doing 590 00:41:14,199 --> 00:41:19,559 some other grittier stuff tonight, right like he dove on the floor last two 591 00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:22,039 minutes before going to be spicy or what it always is. The Clippers have 592 00:41:22,079 --> 00:41:29,880 had a pretty kind last two minute report. Oh, fantastic point by Alfonso 593 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:36,519 Lopez. Here is it right to wrest bad oh man? Nah, real 594 00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:40,639 beard on that thing, real beard on that thing. They probably shouldn't do 595 00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:45,519 that, right is it human hair? Yeah? Wait, didn't do what 596 00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:50,880 the beard part or the rest. James haven't played, haven't played five minutes, 597 00:41:51,519 --> 00:41:53,639 haven't maybe hold a bobble head up then sit up. I think that's 598 00:41:53,679 --> 00:41:58,519 fine. What's up, chunk? He's saying, good dub y'all? Yeah, 599 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,360 bearded monstrosity. It's a little off putting the Clippers. I will say, 600 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,519 I love the the Clippers having two of the weirdest bobbleheads in the NBA 601 00:42:08,599 --> 00:42:12,760 this year is awesome. I don't know, I don't know what is happening 602 00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:15,800 with the balloons. Still doesn't do that. I think you gotta do the 603 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,840 peace sign and then the balloons come out. No, mine, letn't do 604 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,440 any of them. Wow, my computer's awesome. Oh, is there an 605 00:42:23,519 --> 00:42:28,519 update on the stress balls there? So the stress balls are being given away 606 00:42:28,679 --> 00:42:34,239 against the Suns on that second night of the back to back I don't know 607 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,679 why they moved it, but that's when the stress balls are going to be 608 00:42:37,679 --> 00:42:43,719 there. Rest Harden play Moon, I don't know about that. Can we 609 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,920 beat the mass and the play I'm assuming Joseph, you mean the MAVs. 610 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:52,960 I think we can, but it's their defense is playing really fucking good right 611 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:59,400 now? Get here? But yeah, so well we'll see what happens with 612 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,039 the MAVs. I think we got to shut this thing down, y'all. 613 00:43:01,079 --> 00:43:06,719 I think we got about like five minutes after or so. I'm feeling pretty 614 00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,400 good though. I think the thesis for tonight if you're a Clippers fan is 615 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:15,000 they played gritty defense, like Logan Rap said best when you could get without 616 00:43:15,039 --> 00:43:17,159 Kawhi, gritty defense. Feeling pretty solid. Will, how do you want 617 00:43:17,159 --> 00:43:21,800 to send these people out on their merry way on this Thursday evening? I 618 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,920 mean, let's just hope for the best. On the Kawhi situation, we 619 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:29,079 got kind of a we got a t ball game coming up, but hopefully 620 00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:30,920 we can put it away and continue to stack some wins. So let's go 621 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:36,199 clips, let's let's let's have a good weekend. We got so many damn 622 00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:40,559 games coming up, but thankfully this season is the season's almost over. We 623 00:43:40,599 --> 00:43:46,559 can play games on a normal ish playoff schedule, meaningful basketball. We hope 624 00:43:46,599 --> 00:43:49,599 everyone has a great night. Thank you for hanging out. There's the most 625 00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:52,519 people you've had in the stream. Drink diet coke. As Michael Yun says, 626 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:57,000 will's ding a bunch of it. We'll be back with a double dip 627 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,800 with Adam tomorrow after the game against the Jazz. We're gonna do it a 628 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,840 full EP on Saturday again. Thanks for hanging Thank you Logan for your great 629 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,079 takes. Liso, thank you, well, thank you, Malcolm, thank 630 00:44:07,159 --> 00:44:12,039 you. Let's get HiPE, going to work and be hypes.