Clippers lose, you ot to the Lakers. That's where to say, hasn't
happened three years? Where it happened tonight? To one twenty five was your
final welcome back into Clippers talk. I'm mean a Moslin Paul George was a
plus twenty two in a game they lost by five. You know what that
means? They were outscored by twenty seven points when he was off the floor.
Quite a swing. That's tough to overcome. But again, I go
back to those Lebron James list minutes to end the third quarter that the Clippers
somehow lost. Join the show though, now is our friend will Updyke from
clips and dip little clips and double dip tonight. Well, how are you
feeling, man? You're not down the dumps? Are you not? At
all? Man? That was that was the most exciting game of this young
Clippers season so far. Know what, we saw a repeat of some things
that we've seen before, mostly endgame execution. There was certainly some you know,
unforced errors and fouls that were not necessary. But man, that was
a fun game to watch. I think, you know, I think that
performance knowing that the Clippers are going to be adding even more talent should give
Clippers fans a lot to look forward to. Okay, Okay, I like
it. It felt like to me they just needed one more guy to be
on his game tonight scoring wise, because outside of Paul George, Kawhi Leonard,
and Russell Westbrook, the one other player who was in double figures was
Norman Powell with twelve, but it took him fourteen shots to get there.
Bones Highland off tonight two of seven, Avitza Zubas three of eight. They
just didn't get enough contributions. But I agree with you overall, it's still
encouraging style of play wise. It was a very entertaining ball game out there.
It was just I was looking for one more role player to step up
lay for him. Yeah, I mean I think you know, you look
at the efficient. I mean you mentioned Bones have an off night, but
the efficiency of Russ and Norm both was not great. There were forty three
percent overall from the floor. Norm didn't make a three. But even if
Paul George fouls out right, which once again you hope that you're not even
in that situation that early and overtime, but you swap out one of those
guys for a more efficient scorer, and I, you know, I feel
like that's probably getting you over the hump. Paul George was twenty of his
thirty five in the fourth quarter to get them to overtime. The Clippers were
down by nine with just over two minutes left. This would have been one
of their more improbable comeback Clippers victories if they have, if they were able
to pull it off, and Paul George was leading them there. And he
has been spectacular through five games so far. You backed up the talk will
He absolutely has. And I got a shout out our play by play guy
Carlo with an iconic Nylon call with Paul after Paul George hit a three to
take the to take the Lakers lead down to one there in the fourth quarter.
Absolutely loved it. But Paul George, you know, he has been
doing what he talks about all off season. He's been talking about his approach.
He's been talking about taking stuff more seriously. He's been talking about putting
away these games. While they weren't able to put away this one, they
like, you know, he still did all of that. And how about
Kawhi Leonards second night of a back to back, he comes out career high
in single quarter scoring that first quarter, and he just continued to do it.
What a way to respond, I think for both of these guys,
the minutes that they put in and the performances they got on the second night
of the back to back after we had to hear all summer about Oh,
these guys are the faces of the new league resting policy. Oh these guys.
These guys don't try hard. They won't do this, they won't do
that. I think so far, once again, in a very young season,
they have answered the call. Yeah, it looks like a different mindset
out there, just a Clippers team that is taking the regular season more seriously.
Even on the second night of a back to back like this, I
thought, you know, they missed ten free throws in this one. They
left some points out there. But I want to know what you thought of
one of our newest Clippers that we've seen out there on the court now in
PJ. Tucker first impressions of him and a Clippers uniform, Will oh Man
offensively worse than Marcus Morris. Come on, well, he took one shot
at the end of his tenure, defensively. Loved what I was seeing out
there. He seemed to be one of the only Clippers who could defend without
fowling Lay, although he did have a bad foul in that first in the
first half. But you know, it's interesting. I'm really curious to see
where he fits in right because we've heard, you know, Terrence Man could
be in the starting lineup. They could go with two guards, although Tyler
didn't say post game that he would prefer to play things a little bit bigger,
which could be an indication of how he's gleaning but tougher. To me,
I think that it makes sense to have guys who are as offensively capable
as possible around him and let him take on those heavy defensive assignments. So
whether that means he's in the starting lineup or not, I'd like to see
him. If the Clippers are getting cut like torched early by someone, maybe
toosson Tucker in there with the other starters to try to slow things down or
try to cool somebody off a little bit. TYLERU said postgame he hasn't had
that conversation yet with James Harden and Russell Westbrook about how the Clippers will divvy
up ball handling responsibilities, but that'll happen as they have four days off now
to figure some of these They had that conversation, though, have they not
been talking about this then? You know what, July, I'm sure they've
had some ideas and guys know how it could end up maybe just nothing official
since he officially became a Clipper, you know, Yeah, yeah, that's
all it is. But I look on a night like tonight, you can
really see down the stretch because Russ unfortunately had three of his turnovers three of
his six in the fourth quarter. And to have someone like James Harden who's
just a little bit more stable with the basketball. They're both both very good
playmakers, but you'd feel pretty good with Kawhi Paul George on the wings and
James Harden bringing the ball up late in games. You feel a little bit
more secure just because of his steady play in late game situations come down to
a lot of isoball That's something also James Harden really thrives in. Yeah,
it gives them additional weapons and just you know, you look at the shot
distribution tonight and I think, you know, the obvious criticism or the obvious
skepticism of the arrangement is you know, Paul George, you know, pretty
ball heavy guy, Kawhi ball heavy guy, adding in another ball heavy guy,
you know, will that work? I think that there is a lot
to figure out, but I do think his playmaking elevates that and just James
has increased efficiency as a scorer. I think, you know, things will
have to change. Some other people, I think more obviously more so than
Kawhi and Paul will will have to change their approach and their touches will decrease.
But I think there's a pretty clear lane for this team to improve while
still building along this foundation of once again, in this in this very young
season, what already is looking so good, which has been the improved approach
and incredible play of the two to three connection. Hey, if you want
to win a championship, guys are going to have to sacrifice. That is
part of the deal. And I'm sure James Harden's coming into the situation with
his eyes open and knows that Clippers lose tonight one thirty one twenty five to
the Los Angeles Lakers. Still weird, just weird to say that. I
just it's been so long. The first next game coming up next Monday.
Well, I appreciate you coming on Clips, Clippers Talk with the little Clips
and Double Dip tonight is my voice is just falling apart at the seams.
Overtime for me has done some damage tonight, but Will thanks for picking me
up, my friend, absolutely and for the listeners. Catch us on Clips
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