WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:06.519 Time for a postgame look, it's your La Clippers. This is Clippers Locker 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:10.000 Road, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of the 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:14.960 La Clippers, and by Patschonga, official travel casino of the LA Clippers. 4 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:19.559 Breaking down today's action with the pre and post game voice. If you're La 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:24.719 Clippers, They're locking in every game, every night. Adam Osland, the 6 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:28.839 Clippers start the season offense style with a one twenty three, one to eleven 7 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:33.479 victory here at Crypto dot com arena over the Portland Trail Blazers. Welcome into 8 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:37.600 your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up. Yeah, we'll have Clippers 9 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:41.560 top later tonight if you'd like to get on early eight six six ninety seven, 10 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.600 two five seventy plus. We got second half highlight your final box score. 11 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.280 But first, back to your voice of the Clippers, Carlo Jimenez. 12 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.880 Carlo, I'm gonna throw it back at you. Most impressive to me in 13 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.840 this one was the interior defense by the Clippers. No easy buckets, even 14 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.399 when they found you know, the Portland Trail Blade ended up with just seventeen 15 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.439 free throw attempts. That's not a bad number. So they were able to 16 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:07.920 defend without fouling too much, and they applied that physicality. What say you 17 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:11.280 on what impressed you most tonight from the Slippers ball club? The biggest thing 18 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.079 for me, Adam is the thirty six assists. I mean, anytime you 19 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.000 get thirty more assists at a game, you're looking at a great chance to 20 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.079 come home with a win. And the Clippers continue to pass the ball like 21 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:27.239 this, I mean, Russell Westbrook seemed to pick his spots perfectly tonight. 22 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:32.760 He only shot the ball eight times, five rebounds thirteen assists to go with 23 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:34.959 him. I think when Russ was brought in to this Clippers team, this 24 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.920 is exactly what they envisioned. His ability to attack, to distribute, to 25 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:46.280 get other guys open, and it made Leonard and Paul George's night easier as 26 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:51.319 they combined for fifty Kawhi Leonard with thirteen points in the third quarter alone, 27 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.000 when the Clippers really started to open things up. Now, the starters did 28 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:57.079 have to come in late, but that's okay. They can get a little 29 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.200 more practice run in right now. It's early in the season. I'm sure 30 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:04.359 they could use those reps. But I just love what we're seeing from Kawhi 31 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.959 Leonard from distance, because it tells you his legs are there when he's knocking 32 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.159 down three pointers. And look, he shot the ball over forty percent from 33 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.280 the three point line for the first time since his first All Star selection last 34 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:19.400 year in fifteen sixteen, and buried him tonight and Adam. A lot of 35 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:23.479 them were wide open. I think Kawhi was open around the screen open in 36 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.800 transition. We saw a great example of Westbrook was one on three. He 37 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:30.319 attacked the rim, he turns, he flips to a trailing Kawhi Leonard, 38 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:35.759 cash him out, get back on defense. That is Clipper basketball. That's 39 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.800 what head coach Jaron luis talking about when he says push the pace. You 40 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:42.719 saw how easy this offense worked. Fifty two percent from the field. It's 41 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:45.800 a great point because in a half court set, they're gonna double Kawhi. 42 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:47.960 We saw that throughout the first half. That was their game plan. Try 43 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:52.000 to take Kawhi out of the ball game. While he had some turnovers, 44 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.039 he had some nice feeds as well for some easy dunks early on. But 45 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:58.719 you get in the transition and your superstars can get lost in the shuffle and 46 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:02.319 get some open looks I thought Paul George in that second quarter, especially when 47 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:06.919 he really started to assert himself. That's when the Clippers said, Okay, 48 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.280 it's domination time. We know who we are and we know who the Portland 49 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.520 Trail Blazers are a young team on the come, granted, and they got 50 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:15.439 a lot of young talent. But the Clippers, they got their eyes on 51 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:20.120 bigger fish to fry one hundred percent. I mean it felt like whenever there 52 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.000 was some sort of loll in this game, Leonard MPG thirteen said, let's 53 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.159 pick up the slack a little bit. I really loved Adam Bones. Highland 54 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.039 gets you seventeen off the bench. I mean, this is a starter on 55 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:35.080 a lot of other teams coming off the bench for the Clippers and efficient seventeen 56 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:37.719 to two, six for eleven from the field. Still would like to see 57 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:40.159 that three point percentage jump up a little bit for Bones. It's coming in 58 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:45.120 rhythm three for eight tonight. But excellent work for Highland off the bench. 59 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:50.000 I'm excited to see this team take on the Jazz simply because the way they 60 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.199 were able to enforce their will on the inside against two of the premier biggs 61 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.199 in the NBA. In Eton and Williams. Yeah, those guys not exactly 62 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.360 slouches. But talk with the Viza Zubots post game, and the Clippers were 63 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.360 looking for him in the post early and often. You know it's an old 64 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.639 line from Shaquille O'Neil, but if you want the dog to protect the house, 65 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.120 you got to feed him. A Viza Zubots certainly did that defensively, 66 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.240 and I think it helps when he's getting touches on the offensive end one hundred 67 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.120 percent. He was efficient in this game, eight for ten from the field, 68 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:23.519 twenty points, almost a quiet twenty. When you think about his ability 69 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.480 around the rim, the big number that jumps out four blocks. I mean, 70 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:28.920 if a Viza can give you half of that every night, to go 71 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:32.680 along with his twelve rebounds, that is huge for this Clippers team. Just 72 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.399 their ability to, like you say, I'm gonna go back to that analogy 73 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:39.000 at them, but build the moat, build the moat around the rim, 74 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:44.319 and nobody's getting much easy unless your name was Malcolm Brogden, who was the 75 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.920 shining stone for the Blazers tonight on what was an off night for everybody else. 76 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.240 I wanna say what you did, Clippers throwing some piranhas in that moat. 77 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:55.759 They got some crocodiles in there, some Boa constrictors with that constricting defense 78 00:04:55.839 --> 00:05:00.759 they showed, especially at the cylinder Clippers next game coming up on the road 79 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.439 against the Utah Jazz, As Carlojmenez mentioned, that's on Friday, tip off 80 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:08.839 at six thirty. We got Clippers count down your pregame show starting right back 81 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:13.920 here at five thirty. Carlo, great first call, my friend, and 82 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.680 I'm really underselling it calling it great. It was spectacular. Great to be 83 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.279 on with you. Great to be here at Crypto dot Com Arena TM forever. 84 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.920 Here we go, TM forever. What a crew we got up here, 85 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.399 Professor Jake Warner. You had Blake today who was fantastic as our statistician. 86 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:33.800 Listen. Might be game one, but we're in mid season four. 87 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.639 Oh I like it. Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven here at 88 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:44.160 Crypto dot Com Arena over the Portland Trail Blazers. Next game on Friday against 89 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.600 Utah. More on that in your second half. 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Pluto 117 00:07:51.199 --> 00:08:00.959 TV stream now pay never fee three floading. Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. 118 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.839 This is La Clippers Basketball. You're listening to the La Clippers on the 119 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:15.000 La Clippers Audio Network. The Clippers are victorious in game one of this eighty 120 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:18.079 two game trek and they will be on here in the regular season, they 121 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.720 win one twenty three to one eleven over the Portland Trail Blazers. Live from 122 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.480 Crypto dot Com Arena. I'm Ada Moslin. This is your postgame show. 123 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:28.959 Coming up. We'll preview Friday's game. We'll also have our first edition of 124 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.320 Clippers Talk tonight if you want to get on early eight six six nine, 125 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.919 eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. But 126 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.720 right now. Second half highlights. Clippers led by twenty at a half, 127 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.720 it was sixty seven to forty seven, and they really open things up in 128 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.320 the third quarter once Kawhi Leonard got it going long rebound. Pumington has it. 129 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.879 Here come the Clippers left right, George leading the break, bounce past 130 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:56.799 Leonard. Here rises and puts it over a two ended the Leonard, leaping 131 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.960 in the lane, put two to one three connection straw here. In the 132 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.360 opening night matchup eighty six sixty three, Clippers leads Westbrook the rebound, no 133 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:07.240 numbers, He'll take it into the front court shovel. Leonard steps into a 134 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:13.080 right wing three damn burries it go whi. Leonard rips the ropes and skips 135 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.279 back on the defensive end to some string music. Ten no Clipper run, 136 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.879 Clippers out twenty seven on the ball. Leonard right wing hoists the three hits, 137 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:28.240 the three why twenty one points. Then the Clippers on top, Big 138 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.679 Kauhi at thirteen of his twenty one points in that third quarter. And while 139 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.279 we have a moment, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Right here 140 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.639 on the Los Angeles Clippers audio network, this is LA Clippers Basketball AM five 141 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.919 to seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and 142 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.159 iHeartRadio station. Clippers led ninety nine to seventy three. Heading into the fourth 143 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:56.279 quarter. The backup started to let the lead slip just a bit, so 144 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:00.559 Coach Lou wanted to give the starters a little bit more work and to put 145 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:05.759 a punctuation on this one. It was a stund fast Georgia's a top attacks 146 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:11.159 the lane right down Broadway. We're right handed hammer PG thirteen chams it through 147 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.679 a one ten eighty nine, Clippers on top six minutes to play on the 148 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:20.360 board. Two of Paul George's twenty seven points there on eleven of seventeen shooting 149 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:24.240 with four seven from the outside he led the Clippers, he led everyone, 150 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.399 and they would go on to win one twenty three to one eleven. Here 151 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.600 in game one of the regular seasons at Crypto dot Com Arena over the Portland 152 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:37.120 Trail Blazers. Coming up next, we'll preview Friday's contest against the Utah Jazz 153 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.200 in Utah. Never easy, remember the start they got off to last season. 154 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.480 Beware, can't take any teams for granted right now, but good to 155 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:50.320 see the Clippers establishing that identity defensive offense you want to get out in transition 156 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.240 against them. Easy buckets. How about eleven steals in the ballgame. That'll 157 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.039 do it. Seven blocks as well. The more Clippers post game next right 158 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:09.120 here from the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. Every Clipper game all season long, 159 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.799 they didn't stop playing hard. You're listening to the LA Clippers Audio Network. 160 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:20.159 I'm streaming on the iHeartRadio Wive. Clippers went one twenty three to one 161 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:24.039 eleven in their season opener live from Crypto dot com Marena. How am out 162 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.000 a Moslim? This is your Clippers post game show coming up on AM five 163 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.440 to seventy LA Sports. We'll have Clippers Talk eight six, six nine, 164 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.039 eight seven two, five seventy eight, six six nine eight seven two five 165 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:41.279 seventy after the Clippers had their most assists in three pointers and a season opener 166 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.440 in the history of the franchise. Russell Westbrook with his thirteen assists, most 167 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:50.639 in an opener since Andre Miller back in two and Big Zoo put up a 168 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:56.200 stat line of twenty twelve and four blocks, something we haven't seen since DeAndre 169 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:01.679 Jordan days. Big time victory for the Clippers. A great way to start 170 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:03.720 off this season, to say the least. They gotta keep it going now 171 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.960 in Utah Friday night tip Office at six thirty, we got Clippers Countdown your 172 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.559 pregame show starting at five thirty coming up next. As we are leaving you 173 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:24.759 outside of Los Angeles, but in LA, it's Clippers Talk. Hello Clippers 174 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.000 fans, if you're gonna go for it, if that's what you want to 175 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.240 do, you do Welcome the Clippers Talk, your first chance to react to 176 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:37.159 all the action of Clippers basketball. Doing to hear every episode. Subscribe to 177 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:43.559 Clippers Talk on iHeartRadio or wherever you podcast me right now your host on your 178 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.799 home for the Clippers, they were in attack mode. Adam Ostley now it's 179 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:54.039 official. Welcome into Clippers talk. After they build a moat around the rim 180 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.600 hold the Portland trail Blazers to one eleven, it was really well below that 181 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.039 they in one twenty three to one eleven after they led by as many as 182 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:07.519 thirty points. Here in the season opener at Crypto dot com arena, I'm 183 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.159 Adam Moslin. Gets me on Twitter at follow Adam A. We'll get to 184 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:15.480 all your phone calls eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six 185 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:22.159 six nine eight seven two five seventy as we identified maybe in identity from this 186 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:28.159 Clippers team tonight, and it started right off the bat. A lot of 187 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:31.200 talk coming into this ballgame was Scoot Henderson, what is he gonna do in 188 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.879 his debut? Well, you want to set a tone, how about a 189 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:41.480 Kawhi Leonard block on Scoot at the basket to start things off. Then Zoobots 190 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:46.919 got him. The Clippers ended up with seven blocks. Big Zoo had four 191 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.000 of them on his way to twenty twelve and four blocks, a stat line 192 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.799 we haven't seen since DeAndre Jordan and the Clippers defense outside of the fourth quarter, 193 00:13:54.799 --> 00:14:00.000 which beats Zubos, which critical of post came with Carlo Amenez where spectacle 194 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:05.480 defensively. Going into the fourth, the Portland Trail Blazers had just seventy three 195 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.000 points. We're shooting forty three percent from the field and were just six of 196 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:16.360 twenty four from the outside. The Clippers defense was consistently swarming, aggressive and 197 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.399 physical, and they did not ease into this ballgame. Coach lou had some 198 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.120 concern over that. It's a pattern we saw all of last season. It 199 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.120 was like the Clippers were waiting to get down twenty, to flip a switch, 200 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:33.480 to activate their defense, to take things more seriously. Why so serious 201 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.759 tonight, Well, it's a new season and this Clippers team is trying to 202 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:46.480 establish better patterns and better habits. Kawhi Leonard called him out, including himself, 203 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.519 in the preseason in training camp, saying they skipped steps last season. 204 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.240 They didn't build that foundation from the ground up. Guys were just too excited 205 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.639 to have Kawhi Leonard back going into last year. That's not enough. You 206 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.759 still, we'll have to have an identity, DNA, a foundation you fall 207 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:11.039 back on. Shots aren't always gonna fall to this level of efficiency. As 208 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.639 the Clippers shot fifty three percent from the field and go sixteen to thirty four 209 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:18.080 from three. That's forty seven percent. But if your defense is consistent, 210 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.559 if it's always there, you fall back on that and that keeps you in 211 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:30.000 games no matter how you're shooting. And I thought through three quarters the Clippers 212 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.240 were spectacular in that area, and they came out with the right mindset. 213 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.120 They shrunk the floor. Roko got the start. No Terrence Man, he's 214 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.360 out with the ankle injury. There was no let down. There was no 215 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.159 deflated team that I saw out there because Terrence Man was just named the starter 216 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:50.279 and oh, here we go again, Clippers, curse, whatever you want 217 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.120 to call it. They're dealing with injuries. No, the team came out 218 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:58.080 locked in, focused, ready, prepared, an intent on playing great defense 219 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:02.399 from the opening ta Yep, they did just that. But I think it 220 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.639 was that block from Kawhi on Scoot starting things off that was the tone setter. 221 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.799 And Kawhi didn't even have his jumper going. The mid range Master was 222 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:17.759 struggling there until he hit one late, which eventually led to a timeout, 223 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:21.519 I believe, and the starters were pulled in the fourth quarter after they re 224 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:23.960 entered the ballgame. Coach Lou didn't like what he saw from the backups. 225 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:29.320 They were starting to ease up defensively. They were starting to just trade baskets. 226 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.159 Starters were reinjected into the ballgame, and about the five minute mark of 227 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:37.000 the fourth they were pulled again after you know what, it was a Russell 228 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.279 Westbrook feed to a Vita Zubats. But going back to Kawhi the MIDI wasn't 229 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.399 there. But you know what was the three? The three ball we've been 230 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.360 talking about that looked good in the preseason from him. Really nobody else was 231 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.240 shooting it that well, but Kawhi Leonard, you want to sign that. 232 00:16:53.320 --> 00:17:00.360 His legs are there five of five from distance. I don't know if he's 233 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.240 ever started a game five of five from three. Now, he's a top 234 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.680 seventy five player of all time, so it's likely, but I'm trying to 235 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:14.880 find that number to confirm that. And he was getting good looks why because 236 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.519 the Clippers were getting out in transition and while the defense is scrambling to get 237 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.960 back for the Portland trail Blazers, Russell Westbrook he can break down whoever is 238 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:27.680 out there defensively and find Kawhi Leonard for that easy little underhand shovel pass that 239 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:30.960 he hit him on on the right wing a couple times. In the second 240 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:37.359 half, Russ was great, thirteen assists to just three turnovers. Clippers had 241 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:42.440 seventeen as a team. That's something that is somewhat expected on opening night. 242 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:47.200 You see some sloppy basketball, you see some miscues. Guys can't find each 243 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:51.039 other. That chemistry isn't quite built up yet, familiarity on the court. 244 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:57.480 But I like the intent of making the extra pass. Clippers tonight in this 245 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:03.920 one most assists in an opening night in franchise history, with thirty six of 246 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:08.720 them. Guys were very unselfish. It starts with your starters, who weren't 247 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:12.319 just trying to get theirs. Yeah, Paul George flexed on him in that 248 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:17.880 second quarter with twelve points. Kawhi had thirteen of his twenty one in the 249 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:22.920 third. But they looked for Vitza zu Bots consistently. Why not, He's 250 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.079 gonna shoot seventy percent from the field. He did better in that tonight, 251 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:32.839 eight of ten twenty twelve four blocks. You want the dog to protect the 252 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.160 house, feed him. Big Zoo looked as good as ever, as good 253 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:41.599 as he was defensively to start off last season before he kind tapered off and 254 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.920 he was making up for other guys' mistakes along the perimeter. Well tonight, 255 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:48.119 the Clippers defense was playing five guys on a string the first three quarters. 256 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:55.000 With Big Zoo still at that level, he can be a monster defensively. 257 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:00.440 And when the Clippers are building that moat and throwing the piranhas and cracking and 258 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:06.880 bowl constrictors and anacondas to constrict the defense in there at the rim, they're 259 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.559 gonna be tough. They set their sights on being a top five defense. 260 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.200 They put a number out there. They're not just saying we want to be 261 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:17.480 good. They're saying we want to be top five, and they should be 262 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:22.039 with the personnel they have. They have the guys to do it. The 263 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.720 effort, the focus needs to be there each and every night. And that 264 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.559 goes back to taking the regular season more seriously, and it goes back to 265 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.480 Lawrence Frank in last season's postseason presser at the end of the year, he 266 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:40.000 said, we gotta get back to respecting the regular season. There was a 267 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:42.920 lot of respect out there tonight, and I respected the way the Clippers played 268 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:47.839 defensively, even though they're going up against a young team, a bunch of 269 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:53.599 guys thirty or younger. Scoot Henderson in his first ballgame just five of eleven 270 00:19:56.039 --> 00:20:00.000 wasn't able to find a rhythm outside of Anthony Simon's in a few different moments 271 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.680 where he finished with eighteen and Malcolm Brogden in the fourth quarter where I think 272 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:08.440 he had thirteen to twenty. The Clippers never let Portland get too comfortable. 273 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:15.920 That's about their defense, and too often last season we would see them get 274 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:22.519 off to these lethargic slow starts where teams in this league, no matter who 275 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.799 they are, you let a guy get hot. It doesn't matter if you 276 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.160 put a hand in his face. The next quarter. You let him start 277 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:34.359 fast. It doesn't matter if you try to play better defense later on. 278 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.519 They already got it going and shots are gonna fall, and these guys are 279 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:45.960 pros. The Clippers have the talent to be great defensively. It's a mindset, 280 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:51.079 that's all it is with this team. Speaking of mindset, Paul George 281 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:53.680 led them with twenty seven, said he was gonna be on his bully stuff 282 00:20:53.960 --> 00:21:00.319 this season, eleven of seventeen from the field, four of seven from distance. 283 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.960 For those twenty seven points, still had six assists. Yeah, some 284 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.720 bad turnovers here and there, finished with four of them. But the aggressiveness 285 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:12.920 from PG. Thirteen and aggressive Paul George is my favorite version of Paul George. 286 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.640 He's too good. He's too good offensively to just say, well, 287 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:19.119 I'm a well rounded player. I can do a little bit of everything. 288 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.759 That's great. At times they need that, but you know what they need 289 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:27.480 first and foremost PG. Thirteen to hunt for his own shots and get buckets. 290 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:36.000 Paul George is an elite score. It's between the ears when he has 291 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:41.079 the right mindset of going out there with the intent of putting them up early 292 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:44.559 and often. And we saw it in that second stint from him in the 293 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.680 second quarter where he had twelve of his twenty seven. He looks unstoppable. 294 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.759 Is, as many people like to point out, one of the smoothest players 295 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.960 you'll ever see a guy at six' eight that can move like that when 296 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:00.279 he's on. He looks like the best player in the NBA at times. 297 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:07.279 And put the punctuation point with a big time hammer with the right hand in 298 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:11.680 the fourth quarter to put this one away for the Clippers. Love to see 299 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:18.359 it. Fifty points combined from he and Kawhi Leonard. But the Clippers shooting 300 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:22.000 almost fifty three percent from the field, almost fifty percent from the outside. 301 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.880 But it starts with the defense. To me, you do stuff like this, 302 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:33.079 double digit steals every night. They had eleven steals tonight, almost ten 303 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:37.000 blocks. They finished with seven big zoo with four of them. That's how 304 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:42.960 you ignite runs and get your offense going and keep the energy up. Teams 305 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:48.519 love to play and transition in this league. I remember when the Phoenix Suns, 306 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.079 and we alluded to this earlier in the pregame, got Mike D'Antoni and 307 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.960 they were running that seven seconds or less offense. Probably should have won a 308 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.559 championship if they didn't have guys suspended or walking off the bench against the San 309 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:07.000 Antonio Spurs. But immaterial, neither here nor there. The point is guys 310 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:10.960 love to play and love to run. That's innate to basketball, that's built 311 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:15.160 in. But it leads to a lot of unselfish basketball where you're moving the 312 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.440 ball and Paul George is finding Kawhi Leonard for a big dunk in the second 313 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:23.319 half with a beautiful pass, and Bones Highland is getting out and shot out 314 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:26.640 of a cannon. Every time he comes off the bench for this team, 315 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:33.319 he's getting out running. This team is capable of being one of the better 316 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:37.480 teams in transition. They finished with fifteen points in transition tonight. I'm sure 317 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:41.440 Coach Lou's gonna say you wanted more. And they had a couple of miscues 318 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:47.960 on a fast break when they add numbers, but they can tighten that up 319 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.039 and the schedule is favorable early on. I've been talking about this for some 320 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:56.480 time. I want to see this Clippers team in the first thirteen games start 321 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:03.680 at worst nine to four. I believe during the twenty twenty one season where 322 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.480 they went to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in team history, 323 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.839 they started off the season fifteen to five. Great teams, elite teams, 324 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:18.559 championship contenders. You look back at how they start seasons, they get off 325 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:22.680 to hot starts. The Clippers need to be one of those teams. You 326 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:26.759 want to be a contender, finish top three in your conference. Only other 327 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:32.279 team, and I'll harp on this, that has won it outside of being 328 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:36.440 a top three seed over the last thirty years. The ninety five Houston Rockets, 329 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.720 who already had the championship pedigree. They had won the season before they 330 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:44.200 were a six seed and Clutch City was born, and they won all those 331 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:47.920 elimination games. Outside of that, it's always a top three seed that wins 332 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:52.839 it all. This is Clipperstock live from Crypto dot Com Arena, coming back. 333 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.279 We'll get to your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven two, 334 00:24:56.319 --> 00:25:00.440 five seventy after the Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven in their 335 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:07.640 home opener over the Portland Trailblazers. Your phone calls plus get to me on 336 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:15.160 Twitter X. It's X elon you wont X, we'll call it X fine, 337 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.480 break me off. So Clippers Wednesday night up by as many as thirty 338 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.200 final score one twenty three to one eleven. They're in Utah on Friday for 339 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:26.880 game two. More on that and your phone call's next right here on Clippers 340 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:37.160 Stock on a five seventy LA Sports floading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. 341 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:41.279 This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA 342 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:48.680 Clippers Audio Network. Trail Blazers lacked the rank draft Clone row step left in 343 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:52.000 a lamp off the window, no rebound Leonard foll core Path, Cliff Crook 344 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:59.319 a runway and he put it on with two gruss on what Brook a vendetta 345 00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:03.839 again. A little dunk city, a little lob city tonight, especially in 346 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:10.119 that first quarter. Seven of the Clippers first twelve makes were dunks. It 347 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:17.160 was three and D basketball, three pointers being made, defense being played dunks 348 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:22.920 as well, three D squared. It was incredible to watch this Clippers team 349 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:26.279 get off to a fast start, something that we haven't seen very often over 350 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.039 the last season. And Russell Westbrook there throwing it down well. He was 351 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:36.000 a plus thirty tonight, just his sixteenth game with a plus minus of at 352 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:41.160 least thirty, his first since February of twenty twenty back with the Houston Rockets. 353 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.119 But I was more impressed not just with the dunks and he had a 354 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:49.799 couple big ones, but the underhand pass to Kawhi in transition for a three 355 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:55.799 pointer near the end of the third also fed Kawhi in the fourth instead of 356 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.559 taking a three, defense was playing off of Russ. He attacked the space, 357 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.000 got it to the claw for a mid range jumper, one of the 358 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.559 few we hit. But the threes were falling. Kawhi, Leonard was five 359 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:10.559 of five and the Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven in their home 360 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:12.799 opener. Here at Crypto dot com, areno welcome back into Clippers Talk. 361 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.279 I'm at a Moslin to eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight 362 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:21.759 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's start 363 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:26.200 things off with James. Who's in Utah waiting for the Clippers on Friday. 364 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.480 James, what's good? How you doing? First game in the Leader had 365 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:36.440 had to make the phone call. Roll with it. It's your time. 366 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.079 I'm so excited for this season. It feels like the first time that we're 367 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:45.720 one hundred and ten percent healthy going into the year. And just like you 368 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.920 said, it's so important to get off to that good start and we're not 369 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.519 sitting here waiting for people to come and get healthy at some point during the 370 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.559 year. And it shit, man, we got such confidence this year. 371 00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:02.400 It just feels like it's different. This year. Feels like they're a team 372 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:06.839 with a plan and guys know the roles out there, and you mentioned the 373 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:10.200 health. They still don't have Terrence Man right now. Right after he was 374 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:15.319 named the fifth starter, he turned the ankle in practice, but Roko slid 375 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.519 into that starting spot and I thought performed very well. When I talk about 376 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.359 contesting everything at the basket, a lot of that was Robert Commington, who 377 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.119 had a couple of bad calls go against him with fouls, and also he 378 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:33.039 had a strip of it was Anthony Simon's in transition. Rocco had no business 379 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:37.559 contesting this layup and somehow swiped the ball from Simon's in the second half I 380 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:41.319 think it was a fourth quarter, but they said he stepped on the line. 381 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.440 Well, replay said, uh, it was a clean strip. Roco 382 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:51.079 fast his hands in the west. As Brian Seeman likes to say anything else 383 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:56.359 here, James, Well, the one with Man being hurt, he's not 384 00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:00.400 going to be out long, which is which is great because he will be 385 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.400 way more deadly with him out on the field, giving us a little bit 386 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:07.960 of a better shooter. That Rocos is a little screaky. He can get 387 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.720 hot, but he's just he'll miss a lot, and Man just seems more 388 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.920 comfortable. And then when you were talking about them being selfish, it feels 389 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.720 like we're last year. It was like here you shoot, no, you 390 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.319 shoot, you shoot. It feels like, oh, you got a better 391 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.720 shot, knowing that that guy's gonna take that better shot and knock it down. 392 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:29.440 So, like you said, they have an idea of what the role 393 00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:33.519 is on their team. No, I agree with you, James, turning 394 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:38.119 down good shots for great shots. We saw that often and that's why you 395 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:44.000 get thirty six assists. You know, seventeen turnovers. Those doesn't look that 396 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:48.640 bad when you have thirty six assists out there on they're forty seven made shots. 397 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.960 Let's go to Sean Engelwood, a long time caller here on Clippers Talk. 398 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:57.480 Sean, nice to talk with you. Hey, my friend, Adam, 399 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.200 how are you, man? Man, I'm good. I'm better now 400 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.599 that you're back and the Clippers are back. Okay, okay, yeah, 401 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.640 I'm back. Hey, okay, So let me get into it. First 402 00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:15.319 game of the season. Russ is the catalyst. They have an edge with 403 00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:18.400 Russ is about, Hey, we're down here to do business. We're not 404 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.759 gonna be spectators for the first three quarters or have the game come to us. 405 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.519 We're gonna force our game. We're gonna force the defense. And like 406 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:32.480 you said, you didn't. They didn't let Portland get into their offense. 407 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:36.480 They were just like, hey, we're not having it. Okay. It's 408 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:40.440 a different sheriff in town right now. So that attitude that they have, 409 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:47.519 it's awesome. We do not need James Harden at all. I don't even 410 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:51.400 want to see him in the vicinity, Okay, I don't want him dribbling 411 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:55.640 the ball for twenty three seconds. Everybody look at me and my fancy little 412 00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:02.000 crossover. A crossover means nothing. He even gain means something, and he's 413 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:04.279 got an attitude. We don't need him. Nobody else in the league wants 414 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:07.720 them. Well, let me ask you this, Sean. Let me ask 415 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:15.000 you this is Russ playing differently than he did with the Lakers, absolutely, 416 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:21.119 Okay. Do you not think James Harden would play differently also in this locker 417 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.240 room, knowing that he's next to Kawhi and Paul George and he hasn't been 418 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:27.200 the third option since okay, see days. You could say maybe he was 419 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:33.039 the third option at times in Brooklyn with KD and Kyrie, But I don't 420 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.680 think you'd be seeing the same James Harden. But I don't want to focus 421 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:41.319 on that would be trade or trade that's possibly out there for the Clippers right 422 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.000 now. Do you want me to answer your question. Yes, sir, 423 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:51.440 the juice is not worse to squeeze. He's had too many opportunities to be 424 00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:55.519 a good guy and work in the system, and he's always pal team. 425 00:31:55.880 --> 00:32:00.119 We do not need his negativity. We have a flow that's stay with the 426 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.880 flow, all right, Sean. I appreciate the phone call and the love 427 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:08.160 for Russell Westbrook. Yes, his mentality, the dog he's got in him, 428 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.359 whatever you want to say. He does play with an edge. This 429 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.000 is something that's been missing. I've been talking about this since they brought in 430 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.400 Russ, since they lost Patrick Beverley, Pat beb. The greatest thing about 431 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:23.279 him is he could turn a one of eighty two regular season game that maybe 432 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:30.079 seems meaningless to some into a playoff like environment because of the competitive spirit he 433 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:34.680 played with. Russ has that too, and when he's in control, as 434 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:40.519 he was tonight, a plus thirty out there, he looks like the same 435 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.880 Russ that was an MVP averaging triple doubles. But he's doing a little bit 436 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:51.319 differently. He's not looking for a shot as much and doesn't need to looking 437 00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:55.319 for Kawhi Leonard, looking for Paul George. I'm here for it. I 438 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:59.039 guess we're here for a time out. Zach's keep me in line. Tonight 439 00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:04.400 Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven over the Portland trail Blazers. Here 440 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:08.000 at Crypto dot Com arena, morgarphone calls coming back. I see a lot 441 00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:13.839 of them, Hobbier, Sean, and we just got Sean Hobbier stageous, 442 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:20.799 we got Raoul Morrison, long Beach. Oh, they're coming out of the 443 00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:24.680 woodwork tonight. No Clippers victory like this will do that more Clippers stock next 444 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:35.240 year. On M five seven E LA Sports every Clipper game all season, 445 00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:38.680 law, they didn't stop playing hard. You're listening to the LA Clippers Audio 446 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:50.319 Network streaming of the iHeartRadio WAPP Defense leading to Offense tonight for your Los Angeles 447 00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:57.000 Clippers practicing what they've been preaching throughout training camp, throughout the preseason. It 448 00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.680 crossed over. It applied all the positives, the negatives, the poor shooting 449 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:05.240 in the preseason. It didn't survive in the regular season. It's the Clippers 450 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:07.800 shot fifty two percent from the field and forty seven percent from the outside, 451 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:13.400 knockdown sixteen threes. Kawhi was five of five, Paul George four to seven, 452 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:15.280 Bones hit three of them. Norm Powell had a couple, and the 453 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.800 Clippers go on to win one twenty three to one eleven in Game one, 454 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.000 the home opener tonight over the Portland Trail Blazers. Game two coming up in 455 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:30.360 Utah on Friday. Let's go with who do we got here? Tegus and 456 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.960 Walnut Tagous another long timer. Welcome back into Clippers soft Tagous, how you 457 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:40.159 been I've been good at him. Great to be back, especially after a 458 00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:45.280 Clipper victory. I know you got calls. I'll get into it. Please 459 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:51.639 shot that uh uh, you know the defensive league, like you said, 460 00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:55.079 they were swarming and that was awesome and Covington had a lot to do with 461 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:00.840 it. And I don't know going forward if they're gonna you know, tried 462 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.719 Tea Man in the starting lineup and Covington. I know Tea Man was tame 463 00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.880 starter, but if he went off of today's game, you almost would think 464 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:15.599 that the bench was kind of missing. Terrence Man and Covington just fit seamlessly 465 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.360 in the starting lineup. I don't know what you've thought about that. I 466 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.599 mean, they could do it by committee. It seems like from some of 467 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:29.239 the verbiage we've heard coach Lose open to that it could be matchup dependent. 468 00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:30.840 I don't think it's that big of a deal. As long as you have 469 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.519 Kawhi and Paul George, if those two are in the starting lineup, you 470 00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:39.199 got Russ, you got Zobots. I feel like it could be a revolving 471 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:45.679 door for that fifth guy and it wouldn't upset the chemistry much. I agree 472 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.800 two things. One, you know, Russell Westbrook gets the law a grieve 473 00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:55.360 for his turnovers and his outside shooting. But we never it was unfortunate that 474 00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:00.719 we never got to see really last year Russ with Kawhi and p together. 475 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:05.639 And when you see him together, you see the pace. And that was 476 00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:07.960 one of the biggest things that they lacked, was paced. Last year. 477 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:10.320 I don't know where they ranked, but I'll tell you before Uss, they 478 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:15.320 were twenty fourth in pace. After they brought him in, they were thirteenth 479 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.800 in pace. Yeah, and there you go. And you know, with 480 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:25.639 KWin PG there and Russ creating easy baskets, it's gonna be a big problem 481 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:30.400 for the other team. And the biggest probably recipient of these easy baskets is 482 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:37.440 Big Zoo. Big Zoo healthy looking. This spry dominated, not just DeAndre 483 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:43.079 eight who was just two to four four points twelve boards, was in foul 484 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:45.679 trouble, had a couple early, but they bring it off the bench. 485 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:51.199 Remember the best backup big in the league between him and Mason Plumley and nas 486 00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:54.639 Reed Robert Williams, who they picked up. He had ten and seven. 487 00:36:54.840 --> 00:37:00.960 He was okay, but Visas who botched twenty twelve four blocks. I appreciate 488 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.440 the phone call, Tages. I know we'll be talking all season long. 489 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:06.320 We do have to get to all these callers before we get to will Updyke. 490 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:09.760 So next up, we have Morris in Long Beach. Please just everybody 491 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:14.760 give us thirty seconds and then get in, get out. You know what 492 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:16.639 I love about the Clipper team. No hype this year, ain't no hype, 493 00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:21.360 no pressure, and they're looking good. Game one, behave yourself at 494 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:28.239 them now. That's short and sweet. Well done there, Morris. A 495 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:30.760 lot of teams are a lot of pundits, I should say, are counting 496 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.440 them out. The media. They think of them as a second tier contender 497 00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:39.039 in the West. They're putting the Lakers, Denver Nuggets, and Phoenix Suns 498 00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:43.599 in one bracket. And saying the Clippers are a tier lower than that. 499 00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:47.639 Some are counting them out completely. They just don't trust Kawhi and Paul George 500 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:52.280 to stay healthy. Well, you can't predict health, obviously, the track 501 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:58.519 records there. It's been unfortunate. But these guys want to play, and 502 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.000 they have been elite when they've been out there on the court together. They 503 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:06.519 have won seventy of the ball games. They've won it a seven hundred win 504 00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:10.760 percentage. Last season, for reference, I believe the Denver Nuggets, the 505 00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:16.440 eventual champs, won at about a sixty two hundred or six six twenty win 506 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:21.960 percentage. The Clippers, they have the guys, They just got to keep 507 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:27.440 them healthy. Damien in La Damien, what's up here on clipperstock? What's 508 00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:31.079 up about him? Great to be back, man, great win. There's 509 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:34.559 so much to be said, but I'll just say my part. Man, 510 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:37.960 I love the energy, I love the focus. I love the fact that 511 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:43.679 these guys were back to Clipper style of basketball, and to me, that 512 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:51.480 means you're playing two ways, aggressively and intensity on both ends of the floor. 513 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:54.760 There was a lot of heady plays going on out there. I like 514 00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:59.639 that the veterans were frustrating the young guys, and I think that's gonna be 515 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:01.559 something I'm gonna look for with a lot of these young teams. Are we 516 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:06.400 gonna use our brains in order to take some of the stress off of our 517 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:08.440 bodies. And I think that we have the personnel to do that. I 518 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:13.039 mean, we got the chiropractor back there. He knows the game better than 519 00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:15.760 anyone. You know. Let's just see what we get, man. But 520 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:19.239 what a great win. And I think it's gonna be more of the same, 521 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.920 damn it. I appreciate the phone call. Great points. I'll think 522 00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:30.440 your opponents old age and treachery will overcome youth and exuberance, I believe is 523 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:37.039 the line. Okay, maybe I'm being going too far out in the weeds 524 00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.559 for you, but okay, before we break Javier in Laha riodes Hoabier, 525 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:44.880 what's up? Hey it, what's up? I thank you? I think 526 00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:47.320 them a call again real quick. You said it right, they have to 527 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:52.360 start strong and quick. So you said, what nine and four, I'm 528 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:55.280 thinking you can probably go eleven and two. That's that's that's that's my opinion. 529 00:39:55.280 --> 00:40:00.960 But eleven too, I said nine or four at work in their first 530 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.000 thirteen years old. Oh at worst, Oh I think he said at best, 531 00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:07.320 No, no, no, okay, you got it. Okay. 532 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:12.639 I was like, okay, three things for the Tippers to finish the top 533 00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.159 seed, top two seeds. There's three things, real quick health. That's 534 00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:22.000 number one, Number two. Bones Highland. He scored what seventeen points? 535 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.400 He reminds me of those other lou Williams. If you could get seventeen points 536 00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:30.639 at him every game, they're gonna be okay. And the last thing is, 537 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.320 I've been saying it for three years, Adam, do not play Marcus 538 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:37.280 more Is for one second and they'll be okay. I don't know if you've 539 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:40.280 been saying for three years, but you definitely said it last year. Hobbier. 540 00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:45.599 I appreciate the phone call Marcus. He's been hurt, he's been banged 541 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:49.400 up. He's got a growing issue. Bones Hyland though, the energy and 542 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.960 juice he brings. You know, people have been talking about James Harden. 543 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:57.960 Do they need him? Should they get them? To me? The biggest 544 00:40:58.119 --> 00:41:02.039 X factor to this season is Bones Island because you don't know what his ceiling 545 00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:07.400 is. We've got a better idea of what Terrence Man can do than what 546 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:09.679 bones Highland can do. Who's just twenty three years of age with all this 547 00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:15.239 potential that made a tough layup and has been showing that he could finish in 548 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:21.000 the basket. Now those flaws in his game, he's starting to figure it 549 00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:24.280 out how to overcome him, how to turn them into strengths. It's not 550 00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:28.679 just hiss outside shooting. Now you can turn the corner and anyone get to 551 00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:30.800 the basket and finish among the trees. That's the difference to me. Coming 552 00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:35.800 up next will Updyke from Clips and Dip will be here. After the Clippers 553 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:38.239 win one twenty three to one eleven bones, yes, seventeen off the bench, 554 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.000 six of eleven, three of eight from distance. You're listening to Clippers 555 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:57.159 stock right here on five seventy l A Sports Clean one night shot loading Clippers 556 00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:02.440 fully loaded with Clippers fans, LA Clippers Basketball. You're listening to the La 557 00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:08.320 Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers when the home opener, indecisive 558 00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:12.360 fashion, led by as many as thirty would go on to win one twenty 559 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.760 three to one eleven over the Portland trail Blazers. Welcome back into Clippers talk. 560 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:19.039 I'm Adam Osland. Let's get out to him. You hear the music 561 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:22.039 a little clips and double dip for you. Will Updyke, who was in 562 00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.719 the building tonight is joining us. Will. We don't have a lot of 563 00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.880 time. Most impressive thing you saw from the Clippers tonight that gives you hope 564 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:36.400 that this team is still a contender. Look. I talked about this a 565 00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:38.719 little bit coming into the game. The Clippers seem to be backing up everything 566 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:44.440 they've been saying through preseason, through training camp. Paul George was certainly on 567 00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:50.079 his bully as I thought. That moment in the third when they were already 568 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.880 had a commanding lead, but he took a he got a deal and went 569 00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:57.920 end to end for the dunk just kind of feeled it for me. Everybody 570 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.679 looks locked in. Everybody is you know, they're committee, they're walking, 571 00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:07.039 They're walking the talk that they've talked through this entire period, and that was 572 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.559 super reassuring to see. And No, norm also was great. Yeah, 573 00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.639 he shook that rust off immediately. So I think Norma is one of those 574 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.239 great regular season ending eaters. But I love what I saw A top to 575 00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:23.000 bottom from the Clippers is from the Clippers game, I was talking about Bones 576 00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:30.480 Highland before the break. The most intriguing player on this team is Bones Highland. 577 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:36.119 To me, he had seventeen, but we really don't know if he's 578 00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.679 fully realized or even come close to his potential yet and what type of player 579 00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:43.920 he can be. The Clippers ceiling may be somewhat tied to Bones Highland. 580 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.159 I know that's a bold statement, but just how do you unpack it? 581 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:52.719 Will So I don't know about the ceiling. I don't know if I don't 582 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.039 know if Bones is that player yet, right like I don't know if Bones 583 00:43:55.119 --> 00:44:00.639 is the player. I don't know if he's quite the player that can swing 584 00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:05.039 a game in a series. Yet he's certainly someone who can help. I 585 00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:08.000 don't know that he's like the individual performance that can do it. He is 586 00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:15.920 the absolute key to extending whatever window is left for the Clippers. If you 587 00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:22.480 think that there is anything beyond this year, it is one hundred percent tied 588 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:28.400 to Bones. But I love what I saw. I think that his growth. 589 00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:31.639 I think his growth is going to be something to watch. I love 590 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:37.320 that he's back at that thirty eight percent number from three. He's bounced back 591 00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:39.639 from what we saw in the preseasons. The biggest thing for me continues to 592 00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:44.599 me with Bones, I just need to see a little bit more control around 593 00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.840 the rim. And then I'm telling you, this guy is pretty darn close 594 00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:52.559 to the complete package. Seeing the praises for your guy, I eata Zoobots. 595 00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:55.119 I know he hasn't grown the hair out like you would like, but 596 00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:05.280 he was dominant tonight, absolutely dominant twenty and twelve with four blasts in the 597 00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.760 first game. I loved what I saw. I loved the matchup. Anytime 598 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:14.039 Zoo is going up against the beat of Zubot. One of the first games 599 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:17.480 I remember of Zoo, uh certainly it was the first game that I ever 600 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:27.320 covered as media was the Suns at Clippers and Zoo just going going at eight, 601 00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.519 and so I love that matchup. No, he absolutely ate. They 602 00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:35.719 fed him a little bit early, which I love. I think that that 603 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:39.920 just adds another dimension to this offense. I think that he and Westbrook have 604 00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:44.480 great chemistry, and you know, we already know what his chemistry is like 605 00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:50.159 with Kawhi and Paul George. I'm feeling really good. I gotta be honest 606 00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:52.239 with you, I was feeling excited. We talked a little bit about this 607 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:55.320 game and what we were looking forward to coming into it. I think we 608 00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.360 all collectively, you know, psyched ourselves up, and I would say that 609 00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:05.000 this game lived up to the expectations. It's one of those games where at 610 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:08.960 the end Clippers only won by twelve points. This was easily a twenty I 611 00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:13.719 mean, this was a twenty point plus victory for you know, the majority 612 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:17.280 of the game. And while the Blazers do look to be maybe the worst 613 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:22.320 team in the Western Conference, it's you know, you still got to put 614 00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:23.800 the game away. You're still gotta put the game away at the end of 615 00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:29.599 the day quickly will because you're feeling good. And part of the reason maybe 616 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.039 you were at a bachelor party tonight for our friend Joseph ry Award who's getting 617 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.679 married on Saturday. Congrats to Joseph, but extoll the virtues of Russell Westbrook 618 00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:45.679 before we get out. Russ I mean, look, man, he continues 619 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:51.519 to be the energy guy that the Clippers have needed. If Patoma is the 620 00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.800 glue, he is the I don't know what like the cap being. I'm 621 00:46:54.840 --> 00:47:00.639 not sure, but he also is looking to be an engine for this Clippers 622 00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:06.840 team. I love the emphatic dunks. I love the eleven and thirteen assists. 623 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.599 You know, he brings a lot of life to this team, and 624 00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:15.519 he does bring a different look, and you know his look. Man, 625 00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:19.119 it's hard to not get into cliches that we've talked about with Russ before. 626 00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:23.280 But his energy is infectious and it was certainly felt tonight and I hope that 627 00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:29.480 this was his stamp on the start of what is to be an impactful season. 628 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:34.239 Listen up Joseph, Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven. Will 629 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:37.559 Updike from Clips and Dip Fame was our guest, will talk to you tomorrow 630 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.159 on the podcast on YouTube. All right, he sounds good. Thank you. 631 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.599 Before we get out of here tonight, a lot of people think Slippers 632 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:51.679 organization, no at ego. Brian Steemen, Ralph Lawler, Carlo Jmenez your 633 00:47:51.719 --> 00:47:55.480 new radio voice of the Clippers. Great call Carlo back here at Crypto dot 634 00:47:55.559 --> 00:48:00.440 com arena as well, Big Brother Jake Warner, Big b Before we get 635 00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:06.719 out, please some positive, some positive moments with the fake philosopher. All 636 00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:09.880 right, Dark times teach you a lot. That's why you can't regret what 637 00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:14.840 you went through, but rather be thankful for all the lessons it taught you. 638 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:17.880 This is apropos after last season for the Clippers. It was a dark 639 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.719 time, but it taught them lessons and they seem to be learning from them. 640 00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:24.760 Before we get out of here. I also want to thank Zach Ocalady 641 00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:29.400 back in Burbank, our producer tonight. Great job, Zach, the callers, 642 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:35.800 and how about this, We love and miss Dennis Dagostino and honor him 643 00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:40.159 stat of the night Clippers with thirty six assists, most in a home opener 644 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:45.960 ever. Dennis, we love and miss you, will be honoring you all 645 00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:51.480 season long. Clippers. Next game coming up on Friday in Utah against the 646 00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:53.440 Jazz. Five thirty is your pregame show. Until then, I'm Ata Mollison. 647 00:48:53.519 --> 00:49:02.360 We will talk to you on Friday. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM 648 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:08.880 five seventy KLAC Los Angeles ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio 649 00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:14.159 station. Why I was doing his thing. All they want to do is 650 00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:16.480 win in La a way. I thought they gave everything they had. I'm 651 00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:22.280 very proud of them. This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction 652 00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:25.079 of the LA Clippers. God bless Paul George Are you not, It's just 653 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:30.480 changed. Don't miss an episode all season LAW. Go to wherever you podcast 654 00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:32.280 and subscribe today. Well off the show, I got you on the iHeart 655 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:36.760 Radio. You guys are great. Thank you for joining us for another exciting 656 00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:38.360 broadcast of LA Clippers basketball