What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to another postgame live hang after
the Clippers. True, I don't know if barely is the right word.
It might be the right word. Get past the Detroit Pistons. I'm Chuck
Mockler. Welcome to clips and dip here with Will Up. Like Adam Watson
is doing his job over on AM five seventy, he's doing the post game.
One of us is gonna hop on there in the middle of the stream,
but hanging out, letting people filter in after the Clippers versus the Pistons
game, Will, how are you feeling about? Well, wait, we
should first first off, we should say we hope Norm Powell is a doing
okay. He took a inadvertent huge elbow. I think that was from Jalen
Durham that it was a scary scene. Snapped his head back, snapped his
head back, he was leaking everywhere. We hope he's doing okay. He
was, man. Yeah, a lot of blood, really a lot of
blood. Very scary. Yeah, really weird, a weird afternoon overall,
But we hope Norman is doing okay. He had to be carried to the
locker room. Yeah, ghosts in the chat pairs up for norm that was
that was scary. He looked so lobbly on his feet, like he's he's
definitely going to be in a concussion protocol. I would be very surprised if
he wasn't. Yeah, as he should be. We hope he's doing okay.
Weird game overall in a lot of ways for the Clippers. Will,
how are you feeling about just initial reactions before we dive into some specifics of
this Clippers what was it one twelve one oh six victory over the Pistons?
Man? Uh, overall, I'm actually feeling pretty good. Like I know
it's the Pistons. They haven't turning things around a little bit as of late
five, five and seven in their last twelve. Uh, this was just
kind of this reeked of like the typical Clippers sort of brunch performance that we've
come to know, and it looked like it wasn't gonna be that way right
twelve to two run to start things out, looked like the Clippers kind of
had some jews, had the gas going, and then it just completely flipped
around and then they trailed basically for the entire game until what late in the
third some forward It might have been the fourth. Yeah, it might have
been early in the fourth, but you know, they got the win,
and I think, really encouragingly, we got we got the Paul George game
that we've needed. I feel like we haven't gotten that that Paul George game.
Yeah, since he returned to the to the lineup his shot from three,
it was weird. Yeah, definitely some struggles there early, but put
it to put it all together and had I mean, what twenty points second
half? Right, fourth? Yeah, I had as Yeah, there's definitely
I mean, there's definitely things to like amid all this. I thought this
was a really great Mere Coffee performance as well, especially with no Norm,
Like, you know, he has to step up a little bit more,
and so Norm also Jesse w with a good golf pistons are as bad as
people think they've been playing. Well, can I say one thing too?
Sure? I just feel like man in an ideal world. Sure, this
is a game where like Paul George and Kawhi don't play the fourth, Like
it's just not gonna work that way all the time. Like you're you're not
playing a team's record on any given night, You're you're playing the the assemblage
of players that's in front of you. So I well, I agree,
like it was probably a little close for comfort. It was a little bit
difficult. I maybe don't think that our expectations should be though, that the
Clippers are just gonna blow out every under five hundred team. It'd be this
day, but it'd be great. But it's a newer man. I know
it's a new so Kawhi also, Kawhi looked tired. He looked like he'd
been geat. I don't mean that in a mean way. He's been playing
a lot of basketball at a very high level. He looked a little fatigued
in this one. Nicole Marino saying, Clippers need the All Star right,
Yeah, they really do. Kawhi was great from the outside. He shot
forty two percent, but he shot thirty eight percent overall. He was doing
a lot of good stuff. He still had twenty four uh four and five
two steals. But he had rough turnovers. Yes, he had three cop
rough turnovers. There were eight turnovers in the first or no, that was
sorry, that was eight offensive rebounds that the Pistons got in the first quarter.
I can't remember how many turnovers the Clippers had but yeah, Kawhi looked
a little gassed. John stoughters in the chat asking do we know anything more
about Pale? We do not. Oh, here we go, we got
a super chat went on Monday? Will they stay in first? I don't
know. Anything could change on with these these one through four standings right now.
I think I would like them to be in the first. Well do
you think they win on Monday? Before this game, Tylo said he wanted
the Clippers to be the number one seed. Did they play like that today?
Did the Clippers? How do you? Does this change how you feel
about Monday? Baby? No? And honestly, there's one thing like that
we've been talking about. My big criticism of the Clippers has been how the
offense can really stall out when you're playing against a more physical team, and
I think that we saw a lot of that in this game. And to
me, where a turning point was was when they really actually started just attacking
like and I know that it takes a lot of physicality and a lot out
of you to do that, but in the second quarter they were what in
the bonus, like halfway into the quarter, they really turned them around.
They started they started getting very very aggressive and just going going through a lot
of contact, and I understand that you're not going to get that for thirty
one games or however much is remaining, and ideally you really don't even want
to have to do that because it's I mean, you know, we saw
Norm go down in this one, but this was a I thought this was
a pretty physical and and what felt like it would be a pretty punishing game
on your body. But I liked it they were able to make that adjustment
and get through there, because, as we said, that's been one of
those issues with these larger teams, and it'll certainly be an issue with the
Timberwolves. A lot of size, a lot of physicality. They gotta find
ways to make the offense to get it going, to try to make it
hum and it's not going to be as easy as it is against some of
these other teams. The small ball lineup today, but to answer your question,
they did not play like a number one. Nice update, Thank you
for this. Gabriel Burrow. Lou says Lord will get stitches in his head.
That's great. Let's again prayers up for Norm. Hope he's rested.
Luca, Uh, what's up? Luca? E twenty three. Asked a
question because I just want to talk about small ball. He said, how
many playoff games un till we see neither plumber Tice and just go small with
Russ at the five, Tye was a DNP today. Yeah, which was
surprising a little bit. Plumbly firmly that backup center the small ball lineup,
that lineup that was who wasn't in it. It was Hardened, Norm Amir,
Paul, George and Russ And that lineup in the fourth is the one
that really, I mean it really I don't want to say won the game,
but it really helped the Clippers chances in this game. Yeah, we're
just a small ball team now, right, Like we're gonna see it on
Monday. Plumbly played how many minutes in this one? Plumbly played twelve minutes,
and Zoo's on a minutes restriction, So if Zuo's playing thirty minutes a
night, we're probably looking at Plumley's minutes maybe getting cut a little bit more,
right, and like it's I think it's just gonna depend on the matchup.
Yeah, you know, do you think we'll see it? Short rotation
of the playoffs. Plubly still in the playoff rotation. I think we're gonna
I think Luca E two three is onto something. I don't think it's gonna
be. I don't think we'll see no plubly. Yeah, I don't think.
I don't think they'll be completely relegated out of the rotation, just because
I think that that lineup is is best in small doses. Yeah, and
the physicality is an issue right like that. Yeah, the county is an
issue in the rebounding, like I thought they. I mean, obviously we
talked about the zero offensive rebounds, first game in franchise history for that to
happen, but overall that was an area that they struggled in too. Yeah.
I think that's the first time in basketball history that it's happened that since
they've been tracking offensive rebounds since nineteen eighty three. I saw this stat for
Lucas Hahn fourteen. It's only four times that's happened that a team's never had
an offensive rebound. I can't imagine they went I don't know. I can't
imagine they were one and three before that. Uh Rock says it's been the
blueprint all season with physical and athletic teams. It's not surprising Becauston simply got
better since last meeting and they had a bunch of new guys. We talked
about it on the pregame pod with with what all three of us with Adam
was there too. It's like a bunch of random new guys. That Italian
guy fun Techio good was inside, Like you don't, I don't. He's
big too. I like, I like his skill set. I don't know
how you game plan for him, you know what I mean? Like,
I think this is no disrespect to to fun Techio, but it's like those
are the guys where it's like, oh shit, he had a good game.
It's twenty and nine. Yeah, a j with a good point with
with an interesting point here. Uh. They think that if teams are gonna
lean into size and out rebound us, we might as well go small.
Like yeah, I mean it feels counterintuitive, but I think it really does.
I think I think it's one of those things like you just get the
litmus test of whether it's gonna work or not, you know, and sometimes
yeah, sometimes you just have to ride with it, I guess anyways,
and just hope that the offense that things pick up on the other side of
the ball. But it is interesting to me that it that it has worked
like that, that they have been not only not afraid to use it against
these older teams, but actually effective in in fits and stretches. The defense
was really there was a lot of arms in the passing lanes with that small
ball lineup in the fourth, which I really liked. Like a mere hit
of three in the next possession down I think harden caused to steal, says
our Quavas with a great call on our podcast called Clips and Dip. We
do a Player of the Game award, but we've been making it so we
can't say Kawhi is our pick because he's just so good. It's too easy.
It's too easy. But Caesar says we should change the name to the
Khi lettered Player of the Game Awards. I like that. We're going to
do that. That's a great idea. Yeah, this The Clippers did not
play like a number one seed today. They won. As you, I
was kind of bitching about this game and then you pointed out, You're like,
they did still win, so like that's good. I'm very happy they
got the win, and like, look, man, we're going into the
All Star break like it's such a weird season. Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not trying to stand I'm not trying to stand up you to make excuses.
This was not championship basketball, This was not number one seed level basketball.
But like I can't sweat this one too much. You know, like
we still got the win. That's really all that's important. You know,
Let's let's take a little bit of rest, let's regroup. We got a
really hard game coming up, and let's just let's make that the focus.
Like, let's let's move on to that one things we uh yeah, here
we go. This is a great call. Appreciate this rock looked better than
the thunder did today very much. So uh yeah. So before this on
the pregame pod, we talked about we wanted to see how PG looked and
what the defense looked like. PG fantastic got hot from three late. I
think he only missed what like one shot that wasn't that wasn't a three or
something like that. Like it was really really great for Paul George today.
That minutes restriction for Zoo. Who boy, does the defense look rough with
this minutes restriction in place. I'm not trying to say that the minutes restriction
should be lifted or anything like that. But like, man, is there're
such a clear difference. He also can't really get into it, like he
only had three attempts in his twenty minutes today. He was efficient, which
was great, but and two blocks. The first possession of this game was
a great Zoo block actually, But man, like, I cannot wait for
this minutes restriction to be up for the Clippers defense. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's gonna be key to sort of turning things around. And I
wonder what it's gonna look like and what he's gonna look like in this game
against the Timberwolves because we had we've seen flashes of of where he was at,
you know, before going down with the cap injury. But this would
be a big test. So I I loved the Zugo bear batch up always.
What did Zoo have in the last game against the timber Wolves? Let
me Russ had like a crazy deer triple double? So row hith I hope
I pronounced that correctly. I apologize I didn't said Harden needs to be more
aggressive, law Murray pointed out, and the second quarter Harden was rough in
this one. That was kind of that was a bit of an issue for
the Clips. I think he went over to didn't have any free throws,
had like five assists, but three turnovers. Yeah, and this was a
game too where I thought he was really kind of slowing things down on the
offensive end, and normally like it works within the Clippers pace, you know,
I do. I do think that he is well suited to sort of
the tempo that this team likes to play at. But I thought in a
situation where you're trailing by double digits, like you got to kind of you
got to get things moving a little faster, and sometimes yeah, you know,
even just moving the ball up the court, it's like we would just
halt the momentum. And I think that I think that that some of the
part of not getting the foul calls either, because like when you're you're in
the half court, it's it can be a little bit more predictable when it's
that slow. Yeah, it was wonky too. This is great. A
J said, always remember Doc saying Zoo and Rudy is like two dinosaurs going
into each other. Yeah, big, just loveing knocking into each other.
I got those long arms. I feel like not many dinods have the long
arms. That's true. Yeah, Now we're gonna do a segment called which
kind of dinosaur would each Clippers be. We're gonna talk about yeah, no,
the zoo getting back in the form that'll make the defense look good,
and then our co our other host is not here to talk about it.
But actually we really need to talk about actually before we move off the zoo
thing too. Yeah, it is weird. I feel like we've moved away
from using him as an offensive piece, and maybe it's just like still working
him back in the tempo and stuff, but something that was really effective and
was and was really nice to be able to keep things humming when shots aren't
falling, when we're not able to get into the paint with our you know,
with our wings and guards. So I'm hoping that that changes. I'm
not really sure what the rationale is behind that, but I would I would
expect it to turn around once he kind of rounds when we're into form,
yeah against the Timberwolves, like, you know, that's when our offense struggles.
It'd be nice to be able to be like, okay, well,
like let's run, let's run a couple picking rolls, let's get Zoo involved
and and try to get some momentum going that way. But and some touches
in the paint, right, even if it's in the short roll or something
something with it. I totally agree. And like Grisat against the Peals,
right, Larry Nance comes in and all of a sudden, you know,
Zoo gets too looks and then it was just like, okay, we're not
gonna do that anymore. So I hope, and it's the ministerction thing.
Dylan Mayley says, what are your guys thoughts on Coffee switching into the starting
spot for Man or do you think he's more valuable for that spark with the
bench squad. I think you got to keep the start line up how it
is. I agree, I agree. Yeah, Man was clearly really frustrated
this game, and Coffee did have a really good game. Man didn't make
a shot. Yeah. I just I think you gotta stick with Man.
I just think we have enough data at this point that it'd have to be
pretty irrefutable to like usurp him from the lineup, right. I mean,
you know, I like Coffee, I love his development, I know what
he's done this season. Of course, it's just like we know what Terrence
is in this lineup, and I mean I get that offensively, he's had
his ups and downs this season, but I don't know that like moving into
the bench makes that any better. Yeah, and look, you know Norm
is a couple of inches taller than Terrence, but I think Terrence might have
a longer wingspan. Wait, Norm is not taller than Terrence. Not nor
I'm sorry, A mirror a mirror, but I think a mirror my Becauzamir
has the weird wingspan thing. He's like, not as long as I don't.
I think you got to keep Terrence out there. He's been the start
of this log I don't really think there's a reason to change now. Uh.
Sliva says Terrence is a terodactyl. I can see that. I guess
that's no. Yeah, I'm like, let's get let's get some more ideas
out there. But I'm not bad at that. A lot of thoughts on
going small versus Timberwolves towns of Gobert small ball Gobert. Although that's a good
call. Yeah, No, I think you're right on the money there.
I think against Timberwolves they will imply some small ball. I was just saying
the zoo offensive thing because he's still going to start, like they're not going
to run out a small ball line up to start. Do you remember when
we had to have Marcus Morris taking those jump balls for a couple of games
when the Clippers, uh, we're really going through it that season? That
sucked. Oh yeah, goofy game today. If you're just joining the stream,
thanks for hanging out. It was a weird at Crypto. There's only
three more brunch games in our lives, guys, which is fantastic. Yeah,
Clippers escape with a win. It was it was rough, but but
they got the dub. Other than Paul George, who is your player of
the game in this one part of the Lion god pick in my mine would
actually have to be a mirror I I. I thought he was great.
Well, how is it not Paul George? But I still be fair,
I said, other than Paul George? Yeah, how's it not Paul George?
Why can't it be? Why can't it be Paul George? Are we
worried about Zoom being minus eleven? Nope, nope, just a minute's issue.
Yeah, no concerns there, next point that next question, Yeah,
I don't know I'm feeling I I like that point you brought up. I
just get to get to the All Star break. Yeah, there's just gonna
be it. I mean, it's it's sucked to drop this one, especially
like with Norm geting her and PG having a great game. But like we
got the win. I'll take that. I'll worry. I'll worry more about
whether the Clippers are ready to play like a one seed after we come out
of the All Star break, like yeah, just because we still just did
come up with that day road trip and again, I you know, I
hate making excuses for this team, but this, I just feel like this
kind of little stretch of play right now seems very warranted. And PG is
still coming back right like he we talked about. It's funny on the pregame
pod. We actually talked about maybe wanting PG to set this game out.
We did, yeah, which just because of the way he had looked,
especially in the last game, like it, you know, it's not even
just the shopping off. He was just looking a little lost out there,
looking like he just wasn't one physically. So this is just the exact game
I mean you needed to see, or not even needed to see but want
to see from Paul George. Yeah, that's like, yeah, happy he
played. He made a great comment too in the post game. He was
like, you know, I got all my misses out or something like that.
Yeah, against the Pels, which was a good call we got oh.
Yeah. So there's been a lot of discourse around around the Kawhi letter
double team. Maybe Kuailar with the stat for us. Kawhi is getting doubled
the most in the post this season thirty when he's doubled, his points per
possession drops a ship tone yeah by point to oh, you had a good
idea about this, but this is a real thing. Kawhi is getting doubled
more. It's looking a little he needs he needs to be better at passing
out of the double. Like just bottom line, he needs to be better
passing out of the double. He's at any given point, he's usually gonna
be on the floor with three other shooters. This is just a team that's
built to punish you for doubling. And I don't get why we're not doing
that. And I don't know. I mean many brings up a great point.
He's getting doubled the most, so like he you know, it's not
new coverage. It's not new coverage for him. This isn't groundbreaking. It's
one of those things that we got to work out, and I think it
could be. I think maybe some more off ball movement to so Kawhi has
some more options and he doesn't have to like like the like the bad turnover
this game where he's trying to loop loop a pass all the way to the
far corner and it's you know, I think just having some more off ball
movement to get him some maybe easier options or targets would help. But it's
it is one of those things that is going to have to improve because the
playbook can't be as simple as just double Kawhi in the post. And their
offense, you know, falls into half essentially of what it is of what
it is normally. Yeah, it's like half, like eighty percent or whatever
the actual number is. Yeah, it's like, be physical, double Kawhi.
That's kind of your best shot at beating the Clippers right now. Is
And the refs also just for this Pels game, goofy ass reffing, goofy
reffing. I don't like all this season. I know it's the last two
games, the last two games have been really really weird. Like I don't
know if there was like a collective refs meeting where like the Clippers no longer
get calls very disman it's just like very very strange. Yeah, well he
screamed, that's a foul. Uh hey, it's I mean, it was
a foul. He was foul. So it's all. It is what it
is. But I think the way they we're able to come about that and
turn it around is like just the way they forced the issue in this game.
And I think that that was the best takeaway of this, Like even
going against the physical defense when they really when they you know, get downhill
and then and they like go through the contact. It's not an option at
that point, right, You're not giving the ref an option to call or
not call it. You have to make that call, like you you know,
you have to make that call. And maybe sure they'll miss a couple,
but like nine times out of ten, when you're attacking the rim with
that kind of intent and finishing through contact like that, you're you're just you're
gonna get the call. Yeah, Jesse w saying Terrence is a velociraptor,
I would maybe I think I leave kind of digging that i'd leave. Maybe
rush towards the velociraptor. If you're just joining the chat. We were doing
a bit earlier about what dinosaurs Kawhi, wooly mammoth. Someone's saying, try
seratops. I don't know about that. Maybe I could see it. I
think wooly mammoth would be a beast in the post. Yeah, that's true,
Rock saying if there was ever a time for both to return, it's
going to be. As Powell recovers, please don't rush him back. Good
idea. Sad, We're gonna we do have to take a quick break because
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postgame hangout. It's over on YouTube dot com Slash at Clippers podcast. We
never went away, but Charles, we're talking about what clippers or what dinosaurs,
but what's really going on? Uh, we're talking about Buds Highland Baby
getting some run with Norm Powell out. If you missed it, Norm Powell
took an inadvertent brutal elbow. Uh from Uh? I believe it was Duran.
Uh. Well, I think it's Church of All the Radio. Oh
sure, yeah. We was about to go the radio with our other co
host, Adam Austlin. And he's gonna be out And they said just stitches.
But it looked like a concussion situation, like he was the way his
head snapped back and like how wobbly he looked on his legs. That was
that. It was scary. It was boreline scary. So he's going to
be out. Who's gonna get some run? The Clippers ran a nine man
rotation today. I do not. I hope they don't run an eight man
rotation while Norm is out. It's probably got to be Bones. I love
this. This is a time for This is why you know you don't trade
Bones. It's nice that he's still on the team. As you like to
say, you need good players who are cheap. Bones is a good player
who's cheap. I'm looking forward to see what Bones can do at this time.
He's been really bad in garbage time, but when he has, he's
not been a good garbage time guy. Yeah, but when he got run
in, you know, during games, when it wasn't garbage time, he
looked solid. Yeah. Yeah, how many minutes are we seeing? Someone
was asking the chattoo sorry I missed put it up? Oh John A is
the best is asking who do you who gets the green light first? Bones
or brand in Boston? Which I think is interesting because last time we did
see, we did see Brandon Boston get run into before garbage time, far
before Bones, and I think we kind of or maybe reading the tea leaves
a little too much that maybe that meant that the trade was on the horizon
because of how long it took for Bones Highland to come in. So I
still man, where are you at on this? Because I would still yeah,
I would assume that Bones would be higher in that pecking order on the
fringes of the rotation. But you know, we did see it, We
did see Brandon get the get the earlier green light before. But to me,
I would still say it's Bones. I just think Bones is the more
complete player professional basketball player, Like there's a difference, like he can just
do a little bit more he can actually like run an offense, and yeah,
it's it's just better for what like the Clipper. Yeah, Rock with
a good point too. Norm was healthy in Boston's taller, so it's like,
yeah, that's you know, I think that's a good point too.
This is okay, we gotta talk about this because I know you're gonna get
asked about this on the radio from Adam. He says, maybe PJ sniffs
the rotation with Powell out. I don't see the correlation. I don't.
They're completely different players. What are we doing here? I'm laughing because I
agree with you. Yeah, Norm shoots and makes them. PJ does not
shoot. I I So here's the thing with PJ. I understand the logic
of using him in limited defensive situations. I get that. I get that.
I would We're probably gonna see that. We probably might have to see
that at some point. There are seventeen games coming up in March. Guys
are gonna be gassed. They're gassed right now. But he got his thirty
fifth DMP today at the ripe old age of what is he thirty nine?
He's thirty eight. From a health perspective, basketball health perspective, you can't
just run a guy back out there to play hard nosed defense and expect him
to be at one hundred percent like he If he's gonna play, he's gotta
get eased in. I don't think nor be it out is the ticket to
that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, like, here's the thing.
I ultimately the team does have some sized deficiencies for whatever reason. I think
it's just because of the remaining money on his contract. But for whatever reason,
PJ remains a member of this team post the trade deadline. So I
think, like he should. I think it's a team I think at some
point. Look, I don't know what the plan is if they are going
to use him in potential Nuggets matchup for you know, just to even come
in, get six fouls, you play the possessions game, you get the
better of yo kitchen. You know, four or five possessions that which could
be enough to get you over the hump, could be enough to swing a
game. You don't have to play four on five somehow offense. Yeah,
but if that is the case, like if the intention is for for PJ
Tucker to be in the rotation in the playoffs, I don't know, man,
I guess you have you have to give him some minutes and probably like
how do you feel about this? But probably non garbage time minutes, right,
right, No, that's the other I mean that's the thing with the
Bones thing too, right, Like Bones is getting garbage time, but you
can't judge guys off this. It's it's like it's it's really hard to and
I know I just kind of said, you know, Boston isn't as good
as well as I still believe that even though it's garbage time stuff. But
yeah, if he's gonna be effective, he's gotta get actual run. Like
you're you're totally you're you're right about that. Yeah, it's I I hope
it's Bones. I think if Boston got the run Bones got early in the
season, he would have done about as well and we'd have a higher opinion
of him. I don't think so, we don't have any evidence of that.
Yeah, he has not been good in his NBA. I I like
Boston. He has potential. He has so much potential. He could light
it up. He has potential. I just feel like we've seen more flashes
from Bones. I love what we saw preseason from him and some of his
play it wasn't perfect, but we saw I thought some reassuring play prior to
prior to the hard and trade. So if only you know, we only
have X amount of developmental minutes. So I guess in my mind that I
would rather those go to bones unless he's like pissing them away or something and
it looks really bad, and yeah, sure, bring bad, like bring
bo right, Yeah, it's like I go for it. Whatever. Yeah,
it's it's gonna be well, especially to this really alters what happens with
the game on Monday. Like, no Norm, I I'll tell you what.
I'm assuming Norms not playing on Monday. I don't want him to play
on Monday. What is the NBA's concussion produce. It's like forty eight hours
from now. Let me just pull up Oh yeah, you also have to
do the radio on a second, so I guess it's just me and the
chat. But yeah, so No Norm is really interesting. Let me pull
up the stats from the last time we played them, when we played like
the fifteenth or something like that. But yeah, I don't No Norm versus
the Timberwolves makes Monday really hard. It was already difficult we played them the
fourteenth excuse me. Oh wow. Okay, so there's a reason we didn't
know the exact number because the NBA's concussion policy is that there is no time
frame to complete the process, and each injury and player is different in recovery
time bury in each case. Awesome, Okay, great, So maybe he
does play on Monday. I hope he doesn't. If he does, though,
I like this idea from Jerremy. Are we going masked Norm? It'd
have to be a helmet, put him in a helvet. What I don't
know he's got. You might have a concussion. He shouldn't be playing.
I don't want him to play. Sorry, with how hard that hit was,
like he yeah, it was, it was rough. He got his
bill wrong, dude. Norm Norman had twenty four against the Timberwolves in January.
He was lighting them up. And I know, obviously it's not a
one to one game thing, but like, this is gonna be rough without
Norm, It could be rough. I still believe in the Clippers, but
Tyler doesn't have a lot of time to figure out how to make up for
what Norm does well, and we just don't. We don't have another We
don't really have another guy like that. No, we really don't, you
know, you know, like even the most optimistic about you know, bones
is potential minutes for for cracking the rotation. Yeah, he's more was playing
incredible, especially in the fourth quarter. Caesar Quamas with a great idea,
power ranger helmet, Norm love that. Yes, that's what we do it.
Okay, get visavisor Norm dudevisor night at Into. It is gonna be
crazy. I need one of those. Side note on that. The Clippers
drafting three guys and none of them panting out. Yeah, classic Boston still
last time. Well, and I feel like I feel like coffee is Coffee's
development is a nice It's a success story, right like we missed post parents,
we you know, we missed bites at the apple or like swings at
the plate or whatever analogy you want to call it. But I do feel
well, you know, when you pop for apples, he only gets so
many bites. That's true. I've never bobbed for apples. I will do
that. Uh. But seeing coffee like actually developed. You know, he's
been with the team for so long and just how good he's been, He's
exceeded every expectation. I think that that boats well. For a team that
you know, it really felt like struggled to develop guys internally. We've talked
about this a little bit, but I feel like Terrence kind of developed despite
some of the development for the Clippers. Like he was he was forced to
do so many different things. He was kind of put into a no win
situation, and despite that he managed to flourish. And then you know Coffee.
I feel like the way they've been able to work him in and even
him starting for for stretches, I feel like that's been one of the bigger
talent development success stories for the Clippers. Yeah. X Bongo Project. Also
hello x Bogo Project. You're in the chats. He said, we got
bones anyway for those failed drafts. Hell yeah, we did two second round
fix with cares. This is really funny. I didn't realize this, did
PG give during his jersey? Yes, that is kinda yeah, that's I
mean, thankfully it was obviously it wasn't an inadvertent one, but I did
not notice that. Thank you for bringing that up. Yeah, that's why
PG was like in the compression thing post and the post green interview. So
why does he wear like it's so padded? Dude? There he's taking hits
like, I guess that's fair. I guess that's fair the way that Yeah,
it just feels like it would to me. It seems like it would
inhibit your movement a little bit. But I'm sure they got that. Figure
don't know, I think PG. I don't know if I think P's got
it nailed out. You've got some access to some non stock stuff. It's
you know, it's it's not the floor model, custom ship, bespokes ship
our h asks. Are we getting anyone in the buyout? If yes?
Who? I don't know. But we talked a little bit about the buyout
Marcus last episode, so that young is still out there right, Yes,
And I mean we've talked Charles and I have talked to you if you're familiar
with this podcast about We've talked about fur Con, which I'm who I'm a
little excited about. Okay, I was excited about fur Con, and then
fans of the seventy six ers and Pacers were in our comments being like,
he sucks. It's a bio guy, dude, Yeah, that's what do
you think you're getting on the bio market. It's a guy that stopper,
a guy who can stop Giannis and hit threes and defend one through five.
He can hit three, he can hit threes, and he's played at the
floor and he's six seven, and you know, I don't know. I
don't know what to tell you, man. It'd be I'm not mad at
it. Harry Giles. I don't know about that. He would have on
the radio. Will's going on the radio. So it's just me. Uh,
you gotta deal with me. Uh, I'll take what off. Harry
Giles will be interesting former Clipper. I haven't seen his stats, but so
who knows. So this is the other issue. This is a great point
by Chris. We can't get bio players because of the second apron. The
second apron is basically like a hard gap. Effectively for teams you get punished
in a really weird way like later down the road with your picks, which
sucks, and we can't so again, Manny, thank you again. We
can get some but not all right, like we can't get you know,
anyone who's really over, like any kind of substantial amount. Russ the Builder
giving a shout out Harry is a good reminder Giles was doing some crazy things
with the Clippers. That was a That was an interesting run from him.
It was productive ish basketball, which is what the Clippers need on a buyout.
Right, Like, as we'll just talked about, we're getting a guy
who's coming in to like Russ the builders saying, get some boards, defend
little bit and that's it. We're not talking a guy who's probably getting even
what over twelve minutes a game, Like I don't think that's gonna happen.
Michael Yun asking how do you fix the rebounding problems Zoobot's not being on a
minute restriction that was huge in this game. We saw that it was rough,
But I don't know. I think one way. As we've talked about
sometimes because people keep bringing him up. PJ. Tucker is a rebounder,
but he's still on the team. Everyone thought he was gonna be gone,
but he remains on the team. He doesn't seem happy about it, but
he's here. So if you do need some rebounding and you need a guy
to maybe defend and play five minutes to be you know, a disruptors,
let's trot him out there. Let's try it again. He got fifteen cracks
at it before. He's had thirty five games to rest up for the playoffs,
so we'll see what happens. Oh yeah, Otto Porter has been brought
up in the chat a couple of times. I'll check out his contract,
but I wouldn't be mad at auto he's check ganted. Yeah, this is
a great point too. We need a guy who's cool with being benched and
cheap. PJ Tucker is expensive and not being cool with bench So that's a
great point. PJ. Tucker is the opposite of those things, which is
brutal. We did Brad Brown's asking any word on norm Tylos and he's gonna
get some stitches and he'll be okay. I think that's pretty normal coach speak.
The stitches was crazy. If you saw that he was leading the whole
lot. You don't see a lot of blood is not something you see a
basketball games very often. It was a weird day for the Clippers. If
you're just joining the stream, what's going on? Welcome to clips and dip
Will Updike is on the radio with our other co host right now, Ada
Last and I am Chuck Mockler. So we're hanging out. Yeah, weird
night, No norms hopefully Okay, no way, he's gonna play on mone
Day. I don't think I don't want him to play on Monday. He
torched the Timberwolves last time, but I you know that was that was a
scary injury. Michael Yuna, again with the heavy hitters in the chat today,
can we talk about the fact the offense has not improved since December first,
QUI said that they're completely relying on talent. When you see a team
like Denver, the offense clicks like crazy zoos on a minutes restriction. Pg
Is was hurt, he had the growing thing. He's coming back. I'm
not saying it has been good. I'm not saying anything like that, but
we've seen this team click. They had one hundred, they had one hundred
and twenty two offensive rating like two weeks ago. I I, you know,
I don't know if I don't know how much more you can be clicking
than that. But you're you're not wrong today specifically, Michael Yune, I
think really illustrated that today was rough. It was it was dog shit for
like the first three and a half quarters or something like that. So so
they do got to step it up. Losing norm is not gonna make that
easier. What's up Von Jacoban, thanks for catching us live. We appreciate
that. Will's again, it's not just me. Will's going to be back.
I know there's a bunch of updyke heads in the in the chat right
now. Okay, Asland doesn't want us to get Cork miss because he needs
them back in Turkey for his Yeeraro League team, fair reason. I get
that. A Pacers fan said that they cut Corklias and they're not as good
as the Clippers is the Clippers are, so I think that's a I think
maybe that's kind of where I'm at. But again it's a buyout guy.
So so who knows in the chat? Let us know. If you're watching
this, thank you so much for hanging. If you're listening to this,
you can catch ups on Clippers YouTube dot com, slash at Clippers podcast.
What do you guys think is gonna happen on Monday? There's no Norm Pale.
He was great last time we played them. Oh, I do want
to bring this up plubly and ties to complete the nine man rotation with Norm
out and compete with their two big lineups. That's not hey, I don't
mind that right, Like we've seen the Clippers kind of lean into this size
thing, you know, like we we have three centers. Plubley's firmly in
the backup role. He didn't get a bunch of run today, mostly because
the small ball lineup, which the Clippers just playing now regularly, it's kind
of crept up on us was playing really well. I bet we'll see some
tys run, but I don't know. I think Bones should get the nod
on Monday. Thank you Vaughan. I took the words right out of my
mouth. So yeah, Bones needs to get some run on Monday. I
don't know if he needs the runs necessarily, but run would be good.
Brad Brown making his first life appreciate that. A lot of gallow talk while
we saying this talk about bringing Gallo back needs to stop. The the nostalgia
vibes among Clippers fans, which I'm guilty of some times, can be very
real. But I think I agree with you Wanby. I think I think
I'm on team Wabi on this one. I don't think we need Gallo.
He's he's not a defender. He's not a defender. That's kind of the
issue with the Clips right now, right like, the issue is that you
know, sometimes the defense can get bullied sometimes the offense too, but I'm
less worried about the offense than the defense, and Gallow doesn't bring anything on
the defensive end right now. Yeah, this is a pretty funny thing.
Yeah, we do kind of suck rebounding. Uh if again, it's still
blowing my mind. The Clippers won a game without getting an offensive rebound.
I think it's the first time that's ever happened in the history of the NBA.
Yeah, the small ball lineups rock saying the physicality issues depth flies won't
help, and it seems like we will lean on small ball. We are
leaning on small ball quite a bit. It's been the two to one to
three era has been marked by a lot of things. One of them is
the weird usage and not usage of small ball lineups. Uh today we saw
it and it worked well, and it's just something the Clippers do. Now
they had wings stuff. We were pitched wingstop last year. We did not
get that. We got olive Garden. We saw like four guards lineups all
the time, and now we don't have those wings and we still we just
go small. So it's very odd, but it does seem to be working,
which is good and we are definitely gonna see it on Monday the against
the Timberls. The absence of Norm does make it a little weird, but
I still think we'll see it. We'll see it out there. Hey,
time to cut Primo and sign Thatad. Sign us up that Young. We
talked about that Young a couple episodes ago. Why not. We don't need
Josh Primo on the team. He's not gonna get any burn. We already
have too many guards. Like we it's yeah, let's cut Josh Primo and
signed Fad Young. Let's sign cork Mos like like, let's figure something out.
Yes. So this was the other we came back into the Wolves and
we did a small ball the last time we also got our asses kicked in
the first part of that small ball lineup and they kind of had to make
up some of the ground. But I do think it will be better this
next time around. On Monday. Will mentioned too, like this is a
weird part of the season. We don't really know what the Timberwolves are gonna
look like. Really happy. It's a home game for the clips, you
know, just for the vibes. The fans at Crypto have been great this
year. If you've been at the games, you've been fantastic. I do
not think Primo is an asset for next year. He's not really playing that
well and I just don't I don't see him kind of being an asset.
Like what, I don't know we're gonna know some of the people are arguing
about Paul George in the chowlenge doesn't make any sense. Wake Griffin can rebound
wink wink Man. I can't he He's It's weird right now with the buyout
market for the Clippers, Like this situation is weird, right, Like we
need a guy who is not going to play a lot, but what he
does is still going to be effective defensively and things like that. So I
don't know if Blake Griffin fits that. Again for the Vibes, sign me
up. If we had the extra roster spot, that would be great.
But they maybe do need to go get a guy on the buyout market who
can shore some of that ups. It's something that you know, one move
isn't just gonna all of a sudden make the Clippers like a big, physical
rebounding team, especially a buyout move. They can take some steps right the
Clippers not making a move with the trade deadline is going to be judged by
what happens at the end of the season. People are gonna be either really
upset or not say anything about it about Larrence Frank not making any moves.
So it's gonna be interesting. Chris with a great idea in the chat if
we could combine Dwight, Howard and Cousins into one player game over, sign
me up. You know Bomber's done a lot with the into it though,
but where's his player combining contributions? Right, Like, let's let's get that
figured out. Brad Brown saying, asking, aren't we limited on the buyout
market because of the new CBA a little bit? It's very weird. The
second apron kind of is effectively a hard cap, so it just kind of
like makes things shitty, Like the Clippers already don't have a lot of picks
and things like that. Oh, this is a perfect question. Do they
still sell the twenty two to twenty three city jerseys in LA or in the
USA? It's not on the NBA store website anymore. Try clippersstore dot com.
Donald Sterling shit the bed with the Clippers merchandising, and we use like
clipperstore dot com is kind of janky, so check that out. They might
have them, because those are those were solid jerseys, Vaughn says, knowing
Lawrence Frank, he still has one more move in his sleeves. Yeah,
he's a tinker, you know, he's he wants He's a guy who wants
to improve the roster, you know, kind of whenever he can. So
I totally agree with this. I don't think it would be It's not going
to be shocking when if slash when the Clippers do sign some random guy on
the bio market, so it will be interesting. I'm looking ahead to this
Monday game and I don't know, I'm really worried about it. I don't
know if that's I think that's valid. No Norm makes this one tough,
but yeah, I want to see the defense looking good. All right,
we got this from Marlen. Hello Marlene. I don't think you've been in
the chat before. I hope you're doing well. I'm starting to doubt the
Clippers. They are relying too much on ISOs. They have not improved on
defense yet. Hey, not totally unfair points here the defense. I think
we got to wait for Zoom to be off the minutes restriction before we can
totally judge what the defense looks like, because again, he's at like twenty
minutes right now, which is ten fewer minutes than he should be playing.
Probably, So I think that I think that's fair. And the offense,
I don't know, the ball is moving around really well in the pick and
roll. Again, Zoo being back helps the short role passing and stuff like
that, and the small ball lineup. Yeah, that's not a very argument.
Oh, Will's back, Will. How's the radio? It was good?
Yeah, it was good. Clips and Double Dead. You can listen
to that wherever you get your podcast, I'm pretty sure later today. But
as far as downing the Clippers, we talked about it a little bit up
top. I actually thought there were some reassuring things in this game. I
like the way that they really forced the issue on offense. I like the
way that they started attacking the rim playing downhill. We know, you know,
We're like, it's it's just one of those things. Like the whistle
I feel like has been very weird the last couple of games. And I'm
not a guy who likes to blame things on the whistle. It's so for
the most part. It's out of your control, right, there's nothing you
can do with it. The best thing you can do, though, is
to try to try to force the issue, to try to get downhill,
to try to force the rest to make that call. And I thought that
that they did that very well today, even in a you know, even
in a brunch performance, even in a game where man, it seemed like
it just seemed like they were very tired. That they were well, but
they were a little out of form. And I think in terms of doubting
the Clippers, I mean, this is the best PG game we've seen in
a while. This is the best he's looked since the groin injury. That
compounded with you know, a nice stretch of rest. I don't know,
man, I get that people, I get that people are upset that this
wasn't an easy win. But I'm still feeling pretty good. Yeah, I
mean they're still so for all intents and purposes. And the four block of
number one seeds right now, right like, there's four teams that are basically
jockey excuse me for the number one seed we're talking by out guys. I
was singing the praise as a fur con. Of course, all the updyke
heads in the chat were loving it. Me too. Is he does that
pretty good? You know he can shoot threes? Like, I don't know,
I don't, I don't. It's not gonna be a groundbreaking move.
I was. People are talking about Blake, people are talking about Gallo.
But we need a shooter, I'm so sorry. Like, and a defender,
a guy who may be defend a little bit. Yeah, we need
a We need a plus defender that you know, they don't have to be
an insert blank great player stopper they need to be, but they need to
be a plus defender and they to me, it's absolutely essential that they shoot
threes. Just with Russ on the floor. They are going to be spending
time with Russ. It's gonna be weird. And if we you know,
the way we've transitioned into small ball makes me think less that they would pair
like even if we had gotten a Linic, right, it makes me feel
less like they would they would pair o Linic with Plumble or any of the
other bags, which I like, I thought that would be a very bad
idea, But obviously we were We were nowhere close in that bidding war to
what the what the overcharge was on the h that's it. That was a
steep price tag on o Linic. In my opinion, I have a weird
war chest. The Clippers don't have a lot of guys are playing so well.
It's so hard to justify trading some of these guys on their contracts and
stuff like that. They literally need someone who is fine playing twelve to fifty
minutes to grab wars. That isn't Yeah, that's they need to be not
just yeah like and also I still think they need to be able to shoot
if you're a little yeah, not like five threes a game or something like
that, Like, no more than they can. They can take that like
two to three attempts. It just has to be enough to get you a
little bit of space. Yeah, that's it. It's got to be in
their heads. It's gotta you gotta give, you gotta give the opponents sick
thoughts. That is what you gotta do. What about Daniels? Sure like
all of these guys fit that mold where it's like, if he's cheap enough,
let's cut Josh Pribo and get him on the dang team. Will What
do you think the small ball is gonna look like against Mini on Monday.
Do you think we lean into it more or do you think we pumped the
brakes on that with Lo Norm because Norm's pretty key for that small ball light
up in his spacing. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, and
and just you know the way he can attack the room as well. He
sometimes he's like shot out of the cannon. I think. I think part
of this is really going to depend on I think this is gonna be a
good litmus test for where Zoo is at right. Yeah, I'm curious to
see how he looks and if we're gonna be able to use him as an
offensive chess piece as well, which it's gonna be tough, But I would
like to see us sort of getting back into the realm of those those picking,
those hardened picking rolls that were really affect did As. And as far
as Marble is concerned, Uh, the way that we've been leaning into it,
I don't expect that to change. I would assume that that's what the
closing lineup is, and yeah, I think that it can be effective.
No No, Norm though makes it really weird, But I don't know.
According to the NBA concussion Protocol, I mean, he could he could he
could be back to play, so we'll see and maybe and you know,
maybe it's one of those things where it did look look worse and I don't
know, and was an elbow, you know, I will say an elbow.
It is pretty easy to cut open a gash on someone's head. It's
like a pretty you know, it's sharp bowe part of the body. But
the way his head snap back and how wobbly he looked, I don't.
I would not assume that he's ready to go on Monday. But I hope
that I'm wrong, you know, I hope that that's not the situation.
It does make it more difficult, But I will also say this, what
about some just really good coffee minutes helping someone that was helping a small ball
lineup out. That would be great. Amir is gonna be leaned on more,
probably with without the Norm thing. Spanker was saying, y'all are not
ready for mass Norm. I would love Mass Norm. If Norm plays on
Monday, he'd better be in a mask of some kind. Well, you
said, full helmet, full face, helme, dude, full face will
be sick. So Emir only played nine minutes last time versus the Timberwolves,
which is I don't expect that to hold hold decent. Yeah, I'll give
you a bull I'll give you a bold prediction right now. I don't expect
that you're taking the over on eight and a half minutes for Norm. I
think yeah. And also the last time we didn't have Zoo last time in
January, yep Adam brought that up on the radio that he was that was
the game. He was the late scratch and we that was kind of the
start of the calf. It was the late scratch game. Damn. I
didn't realize it was that one. Yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be
big. What's the line on that right now? I should check that.
I don't know. I was saying I was being nervous to the chat.
I was saying, I'm not feeling super good without Norm heading into Monday against
Minnesota. But I'm happy it's at home, you know. But yeah,
I don't know, Yeah, I kind of I'm interested. This has been
a kind of a recurring theme in the chat. Spankum wants to know if
Norm is out, are we expecting the Bones appearance or PJ to maybe guard
Cat. I'm leaning towards bones appearance. I still don't know like how many
minutes, though I would still say it's like around five ish. I would
say I think that the I think that the minutes distribution is gonna swing.
It's just gonna be more time for guys like coffee. And then as far
as the PJ thing, we talked about this a little up top. But
if there's any intention, like even a even a glimmer of an idea that
that PJ. Tucker is going to play any and I mean any minutes in
the playoffs, I think they had get better, get him some amount of
run I need. Yeah, yeah, I just I just don't know what's
saying. I don't know that it's gonna look good, especially a thirty eight
year old guy after thirty five DMPs. I that doesn't sound like a recipe
for success to me. But if there is even, like like I said,
a sliver a hint of the sliver of an idea that he is going
to somehow be soaked you know, playoff minutes, they had damn well better
like figure out a way to get him in, not only get him back
up to game speed, but like figure out how they're gonna like, what
rotations they're gonna be able to put around him to make that actually work?
Because we saw offensively, you know, it was it was a nightmare.
And lineups with him and Russ are gonna be like, they're gonna be have
negative spacing, right and with no norm I don't want to see norma,
you know, I don't want to CEPJ on the floor if there's not four
other guys who shoot capably from three right, like nor makes that really difficult
project to the G League. I like, I actually think that that's the
right move. War he would just he's not gonna do it. He's not
gonna do it. He would be furious. I understand. I understand.
I understand why. I'm just saying, like, maybe easing into a little
bit of competitive basketball doesn't sound like the dumbest idea to me. That's all
what I'm saying. You're saying, don't run a marathon fresh off the couch.
Yes, okay, yeah, that's not how the flat couch the five
K actually works. You know, just get off the couch and you're on
the five K. I could get off the coucher on a five K,
yeah, but I don't know if it's a popular training plan, and that's
not the plan, right. It's not step one, get off the couch
to run five kilometers your first step on a five k race? Oh whoa,
I don't know what these balloons are. I don't like them. Sorry
about that. How far the LA Marathon could you get? If you if
it was tomorrow? You gnnison. I think I could do ten miles.
I could get ten and then I could do like a really pathetic like kind
of walk jog for maybe another maybe another five miles. I want to say
another five miles, but I don't know if that would be true. Ship
your pants at mile six? Whoa, we got out of Bostle. Oh
no, you're muted. We can't hear you. I'm not now what the
that's cursing? But what's going on? Man? We were just talking Norm's
absence against the Timberwolves, most likely about what about the Timberwolves? Norm not
being there for the Timberwolves game. Yeah, that's tough, but maybe it
opens up the possibility of them, you know, having a less likely chance
of going small and Big Zoo can really have his I don't know his recoming
out party, you know, give I'd love to see a Visa Zubots get
to thirty minutes in that game, that would say a lot. That's a
good call. I was not privy to the radio. How are the callers?
How are the vibes after this exhilarating win against the Pistons. They were
overall more positive than me, but some of the callers they did agree that,
you know, you're trying to win a championship. Here. I understand
a win is a win, but when you have championship expectations, you want
to see championship habits. And this was another game where I felt like they
just didn't build any like maybe they've had a stretches down the league player.
Maybe you can say that you know the fact that they won and they came
through late, that's something they can keep in their back pocket, a reservoir
of confidence to draw it from. But it's still frustrating to see them go
up twelve to two and look like they were about to buck the trend of
Matt named madness games, and then they just let the Pistons get right back
into it. They went back into sleepwalking mode. It's like, wait,
you hit the smelling salts and then you hit the snooze button again, what's
happening here? It was it was tough to understand, but I love what
coach Lou did. And this may have legs two, but hot three point
shooting team put out a small ball lineup and switch everything, and that's what
did it. Because the Detroit Pistons started seven to fourteen from three and then
ended up hitting just two of their last sixteen shots from the outside. Wow.
And that's really the only reason they won. Because you look at it
points to the paint. They doubled the Clippers at sixty eight to thirty four.
You look at shot attention, that maybe doesn't tell the whole story because
of the free throws up. It's true the Clippers free throw advantage was huge,
and a lot of that is because they were more aggressive in getting to
the paint. But it's still it's still a big like it's not as big
when you look at it that way. But the fact that they got up
twenty more shots and got twel I need two more rebounds and the Clippers didn't
have an offensive rebound in the game. I said on the last podcast,
the Clippers could play miserably and still beat the Pistons. Team and that's pretty
much what happened. I also said that I hope Paul George doesn't play,
and I'm glad I was wrong about that because he looked like his best version
of himself in a while. Yeah, it was great to see PG,
and I mean great game to get rolling into Minnesota, right, We're gonna
need Paul George to be elite. Zoo gets to actually play against Minnesota this
time, which is awesome. But PG was bad against Minnesota. He shot
twenty six percent in January when we played them, So like he maybe has
something to you know, circle on the on his bulletin board, because like,
we're gonna need probably thirty from PG to get past the timberwles and good
defense, likely against Karl Anthony Townells, one of his best friends in the
league, because he was guarding him last time out, who is a guy.
Even though he's big, he plays a lot on the perimeter and we'll
likely have to once again. So this is a big measuring stick basely since
the Boston game. This is probably the best measuring stick like game for this
Clippers team since they won big in Boston. If there's a game you're circling
right before the All Star break to see where you're at. This is it
against Minnesota, This would potentially be for me, like if they want obviously
I don't I don't expect them to blow the Timberwolves out like they did in
Boston, but if they were able to nail down a convincing victory here,
that to me would be even bigger than the Boston game. Like this is
the template of a team that kind of gives the Clippers trouble. If they
were able to sort of get over that, you like, exercise those demons,
to me, that would say a lot about where this Clippers team is,
even at this point in the season where it's like we're in the dull
drums before the break. They just come off a huge road trip, they're
obviously very tired that you know, the habits are trending down where they could
get a convincing win this one that would be I mean, that would be
the best win of the season. To me. It's this and then they
play the Warriors on Valentine's Day on Wednesday, and then it's the break,
so they just they need to like I'd love them to go to and zero
and things like that, but we'll see xbogo Projects, saying, is the
blueprint to defend many we did last time still doable? I mean yeah,
because Norm isn't really a huge part of that and we have Zoobac. So
the defense should theoretically look better than it did last time out against the Wolves.
It was still very good. Holding them towe hundred and nine, you
know, is nothing to really sneeze out. But I'm really hoping the defense,
That's what I'm mostly looking for on Monday is the defensive process there is
it? Like Adam said, is it actually championship level? And Tyler said
he wanted to be the number one seed? So is it gonna look like
a number one seed's defense on Monday? Yeah? It just we talked about
a postgame Will and I. But maybe these last two games where they go
one in one and don't look very impressive in overall, even the victory today
against the Detroit Pistons is kind of the calm before the storm because there is
a big game coming up Monday for first place in the West, and maybe
it's just a little bit of a ramp down before a ramp up, and
we're gonna see a more focused team, a team with much better attention to
detail and connected out there. Because Minnesota is not a great offensive team.
They're about a bottom ten offense on the season, so there is an opportunity
to flex your defense a little bit against them, and if it turns into
a rock fight, so be it. I would love to see the Clippers
win playing big against a team that also is one of the biggest front that
has one of the biggest front lines in the NBA. To me, that
would be a really encouraging sign. All right, So, Adam, as
the resident PJ. Tucker optimist, where are you at? With Norm likely
out of the lineup, possibly out of lineup, who do you see getting
more run between Bones and PJ Tucker? And what do you think your boy
PJ. Tucker could bring to this matchup if he were to get some minutes.
I mean, Bones is more likely to soak up guard minutes than I
think PJ. Tucker is. But I didn't bring the ball up. Let's
see what he can do. You never know. Maybe he's got some point
Plumb in him, Maybe he's got some sham guy today did you see that
Plumb had like no outlet the way up? But hey, you got found.
I if like I was calling for PJ Tucker during this game because I
just felt like the intensity was so poor by the Clippers. How about bringing
a guy that you know is desperate just to get out there on the court
and see what he could do. But Coach Lou pushed all the right buttons
and they got by. We'll see maybe because of the matchup against Minnesota that
is an opportunity, because Coach Lou said he's going to give him an opportunity
moving forward and said he's not worried about what he said on Instagram and the
locker room. All the guys have just said going things by him, and
what a good teammate he's been so at least it seems like we don't have
to worry about some disgruntled guy that's going to poison the locker room or anything
like that because it's happened. Yet he has no beef with his teammates,
between him and the coaching staff, whether or not he gets minutes. Yeah,
And I think, like I will say, to Pj's credit, I
feel like, other than the stuff with the media, he has been incredibly
professional about this whole thing. Like he's still chewing guys on on the bench
he doesn't. He's not like pouting on game, so I you know,
you do have to give him a lot of credit for that, because it's
not an easy position to be in for a guy who's what two three years
away from removed from a championship run. Like yeah, yeah, we'll see
if there's any game to do it. It's either to Mark, it's either
Monday or one of the games in March. Right, guys are tired,
they were exhausted today. They're still playing every other day after that seven game
road trip. It's crazy. Did Daniel Tye get missed today? Well,
there may be even less of a chance than the PJ. Tucker plays because
Daniel Twins will still get minutes first in the pecking order, especially after not
playing today in a game where they got out rebounded to that extent. Yeah,
that's a good call. I think we got about wrap this thing up,
Adam. I'm happy. We're always happy when you join the live streams,
but I think we need a patented Adam Oslin. One positive thing.
Look, the Clippers can't play much worse than they did the last two games,
and they still split them, and they're going to be at home,
and this is a measuring stick, test yourself, opportunity Monday night, and
maybe the fact that we've seen this. It's funny Kawhi Leonard when he had
that little joelts at the end of the third quarter and he had that big
dunk and all of a sudden he started to come alive hit a three pointer.
The team followed. When Kawhi Leonard plays with that level of pop and
juice and energy out there, it seems like it permeates throughout the team.
I think on a big game Monday night against Minnesota, that's the Kawhi we're
going to see for the forty minutes that he's on the court of thirty eight,
and the rest of the squad is going to follow up there. We
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