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victory here at Crypto dot com arena over the Portland Trail Blazers. Welcome into
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But first, back to your voice of the Clippers, Carlo Jimenez.
Carlo, I'm gonna throw it back at you. Most impressive to me in
this one was the interior defense by the Clippers. No easy buckets, even
when they found you know, the Portland Trail Blade ended up with just seventeen
free throw attempts. That's not a bad number. So they were able to
defend without fouling too much, and they applied that physicality. What say you
on what impressed you most tonight from the Slippers ball club? The biggest thing
for me, Adam is the thirty six assists. I mean, anytime you
get thirty more assists at a game, you're looking at a great chance to
come home with a win. And the Clippers continue to pass the ball like
this, I mean, Russell Westbrook seemed to pick his spots perfectly tonight.
He only shot the ball eight times, five rebounds thirteen assists to go with
him. I think when Russ was brought in to this Clippers team, this
is exactly what they envisioned. His ability to attack, to distribute, to
get other guys open, and it made Leonard and Paul George's night easier as
they combined for fifty Kawhi Leonard with thirteen points in the third quarter alone,
when the Clippers really started to open things up. Now, the starters did
have to come in late, but that's okay. They can get a little
more practice run in right now. It's early in the season. I'm sure
they could use those reps. But I just love what we're seeing from Kawhi
Leonard from distance, because it tells you his legs are there when he's knocking
down three pointers. And look, he shot the ball over forty percent from
the three point line for the first time since his first All Star selection last
year in fifteen sixteen, and buried him tonight and Adam. A lot of
them were wide open. I think Kawhi was open around the screen open in
transition. We saw a great example of Westbrook was one on three. He
attacked the rim, he turns, he flips to a trailing Kawhi Leonard,
cash him out, get back on defense. That is Clipper basketball. That's
what head coach Jaron luis talking about when he says push the pace. You
saw how easy this offense worked. Fifty two percent from the field. It's
a great point because in a half court set, they're gonna double Kawhi.
We saw that throughout the first half. That was their game plan. Try
to take Kawhi out of the ball game. While he had some turnovers,
he had some nice feeds as well for some easy dunks early on. But
you get in the transition and your superstars can get lost in the shuffle and
get some open looks I thought Paul George in that second quarter, especially when
he really started to assert himself. That's when the Clippers said, Okay,
it's domination time. We know who we are and we know who the Portland
Trail Blazers are a young team on the come, granted, and they got
a lot of young talent. But the Clippers, they got their eyes on
bigger fish to fry one hundred percent. I mean it felt like whenever there
was some sort of loll in this game, Leonard MPG thirteen said, let's
pick up the slack a little bit. I really loved Adam Bones. Highland
gets you seventeen off the bench. I mean, this is a starter on
a lot of other teams coming off the bench for the Clippers and efficient seventeen
to two, six for eleven from the field. Still would like to see
that three point percentage jump up a little bit for Bones. It's coming in
rhythm three for eight tonight. But excellent work for Highland off the bench.
I'm excited to see this team take on the Jazz simply because the way they
were able to enforce their will on the inside against two of the premier biggs
in the NBA. In Eton and Williams. Yeah, those guys not exactly
slouches. But talk with the Viza Zubots post game, and the Clippers were
looking for him in the post early and often. You know it's an old
line from Shaquille O'Neil, but if you want the dog to protect the house,
you got to feed him. A Viza Zubots certainly did that defensively,
and I think it helps when he's getting touches on the offensive end one hundred
percent. He was efficient in this game, eight for ten from the field,
twenty points, almost a quiet twenty. When you think about his ability
around the rim, the big number that jumps out four blocks. I mean,
if a Viza can give you half of that every night, to go
along with his twelve rebounds, that is huge for this Clippers team. Just
their ability to, like you say, I'm gonna go back to that analogy
at them, but build the moat, build the moat around the rim,
and nobody's getting much easy unless your name was Malcolm Brogden, who was the
shining stone for the Blazers tonight on what was an off night for everybody else.
I wanna say what you did, Clippers throwing some piranhas in that moat.
They got some crocodiles in there, some Boa constrictors with that constricting defense
they showed, especially at the cylinder Clippers next game coming up on the road
against the Utah Jazz, As Carlojmenez mentioned, that's on Friday, tip off
at six thirty. We got Clippers count down your pregame show starting right back
here at five thirty. Carlo, great first call, my friend, and
I'm really underselling it calling it great. It was spectacular. Great to be
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two game trek and they will be on here in the regular season, they
win one twenty three to one eleven over the Portland Trail Blazers. Live from
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Coming up. We'll preview Friday's game. We'll also have our first edition of
Clippers Talk tonight if you want to get on early eight six six nine,
eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. But
right now. Second half highlights. Clippers led by twenty at a half,
it was sixty seven to forty seven, and they really open things up in
the third quarter once Kawhi Leonard got it going long rebound. Pumington has it.
Here come the Clippers left right, George leading the break, bounce past
Leonard. Here rises and puts it over a two ended the Leonard, leaping
in the lane, put two to one three connection straw here. In the
opening night matchup eighty six sixty three, Clippers leads Westbrook the rebound, no
numbers, He'll take it into the front court shovel. Leonard steps into a
right wing three damn burries it go whi. Leonard rips the ropes and skips
back on the defensive end to some string music. Ten no Clipper run,
Clippers out twenty seven on the ball. Leonard right wing hoists the three hits,
the three why twenty one points. Then the Clippers on top, Big
Kauhi at thirteen of his twenty one points in that third quarter. And while
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to seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and
iHeartRadio station. Clippers led ninety nine to seventy three. Heading into the fourth
quarter. The backup started to let the lead slip just a bit, so
Coach Lou wanted to give the starters a little bit more work and to put
a punctuation on this one. It was a stund fast Georgia's a top attacks
the lane right down Broadway. We're right handed hammer PG thirteen chams it through
a one ten eighty nine, Clippers on top six minutes to play on the
board. Two of Paul George's twenty seven points there on eleven of seventeen shooting
with four seven from the outside he led the Clippers, he led everyone,
and they would go on to win one twenty three to one eleven. Here
in game one of the regular seasons at Crypto dot Com Arena over the Portland
Trail Blazers. Coming up next, we'll preview Friday's contest against the Utah Jazz
in Utah. Never easy, remember the start they got off to last season.
Beware, can't take any teams for granted right now, but good to
see the Clippers establishing that identity defensive offense you want to get out in transition
against them. Easy buckets. How about eleven steals in the ballgame. That'll
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seventy after the Clippers had their most assists in three pointers and a season opener
in the history of the franchise. Russell Westbrook with his thirteen assists, most
in an opener since Andre Miller back in two and Big Zoo put up a
stat line of twenty twelve and four blocks, something we haven't seen since DeAndre
Jordan days. Big time victory for the Clippers. A great way to start
off this season, to say the least. They gotta keep it going now
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home for the Clippers, they were in attack mode. Adam Ostley now it's
official. Welcome into Clippers talk. After they build a moat around the rim
hold the Portland trail Blazers to one eleven, it was really well below that
they in one twenty three to one eleven after they led by as many as
thirty points. Here in the season opener at Crypto dot com arena, I'm
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six nine eight seven two five seventy as we identified maybe in identity from this
Clippers team tonight, and it started right off the bat. A lot of
talk coming into this ballgame was Scoot Henderson, what is he gonna do in
his debut? Well, you want to set a tone, how about a
Kawhi Leonard block on Scoot at the basket to start things off. Then Zoobots
got him. The Clippers ended up with seven blocks. Big Zoo had four
of them on his way to twenty twelve and four blocks, a stat line
we haven't seen since DeAndre Jordan and the Clippers defense outside of the fourth quarter,
which beats Zubos, which critical of post came with Carlo Amenez where spectacle
defensively. Going into the fourth, the Portland Trail Blazers had just seventy three
points. We're shooting forty three percent from the field and were just six of
twenty four from the outside. The Clippers defense was consistently swarming, aggressive and
physical, and they did not ease into this ballgame. Coach lou had some
concern over that. It's a pattern we saw all of last season. It
was like the Clippers were waiting to get down twenty, to flip a switch,
to activate their defense, to take things more seriously. Why so serious
tonight, Well, it's a new season and this Clippers team is trying to
establish better patterns and better habits. Kawhi Leonard called him out, including himself,
in the preseason in training camp, saying they skipped steps last season.
They didn't build that foundation from the ground up. Guys were just too excited
to have Kawhi Leonard back going into last year. That's not enough. You
still, we'll have to have an identity, DNA, a foundation you fall
back on. Shots aren't always gonna fall to this level of efficiency. As
the Clippers shot fifty three percent from the field and go sixteen to thirty four
from three. That's forty seven percent. But if your defense is consistent,
if it's always there, you fall back on that and that keeps you in
games no matter how you're shooting. And I thought through three quarters the Clippers
were spectacular in that area, and they came out with the right mindset.
They shrunk the floor. Roko got the start. No Terrence Man, he's
out with the ankle injury. There was no let down. There was no
deflated team that I saw out there because Terrence Man was just named the starter
and oh, here we go again, Clippers, curse, whatever you want
to call it. They're dealing with injuries. No, the team came out
locked in, focused, ready, prepared, an intent on playing great defense
from the opening ta Yep, they did just that. But I think it
was that block from Kawhi on Scoot starting things off that was the tone setter.
And Kawhi didn't even have his jumper going. The mid range Master was
struggling there until he hit one late, which eventually led to a timeout,
I believe, and the starters were pulled in the fourth quarter after they re
entered the ballgame. Coach Lou didn't like what he saw from the backups.
They were starting to ease up defensively. They were starting to just trade baskets.
Starters were reinjected into the ballgame, and about the five minute mark of
the fourth they were pulled again after you know what, it was a Russell
Westbrook feed to a Vita Zubats. But going back to Kawhi the MIDI wasn't
there. But you know what was the three? The three ball we've been
talking about that looked good in the preseason from him. Really nobody else was
shooting it that well, but Kawhi Leonard, you want to sign that.
His legs are there five of five from distance. I don't know if he's
ever started a game five of five from three. Now, he's a top
seventy five player of all time, so it's likely, but I'm trying to
find that number to confirm that. And he was getting good looks why because
the Clippers were getting out in transition and while the defense is scrambling to get
back for the Portland trail Blazers, Russell Westbrook he can break down whoever is
out there defensively and find Kawhi Leonard for that easy little underhand shovel pass that
he hit him on on the right wing a couple times. In the second
half, Russ was great, thirteen assists to just three turnovers. Clippers had
seventeen as a team. That's something that is somewhat expected on opening night.
You see some sloppy basketball, you see some miscues. Guys can't find each
other. That chemistry isn't quite built up yet, familiarity on the court.
But I like the intent of making the extra pass. Clippers tonight in this
one most assists in an opening night in franchise history, with thirty six of
them. Guys were very unselfish. It starts with your starters, who weren't
just trying to get theirs. Yeah, Paul George flexed on him in that
second quarter with twelve points. Kawhi had thirteen of his twenty one in the
third. But they looked for Vitza zu Bots consistently. Why not, He's
gonna shoot seventy percent from the field. He did better in that tonight,
eight of ten twenty twelve four blocks. You want the dog to protect the
house, feed him. Big Zoo looked as good as ever, as good
as he was defensively to start off last season before he kind tapered off and
he was making up for other guys' mistakes along the perimeter. Well tonight,
the Clippers defense was playing five guys on a string the first three quarters.
With Big Zoo still at that level, he can be a monster defensively.
And when the Clippers are building that moat and throwing the piranhas and cracking and
bowl constrictors and anacondas to constrict the defense in there at the rim, they're
gonna be tough. They set their sights on being a top five defense.
They put a number out there. They're not just saying we want to be
good. They're saying we want to be top five, and they should be
with the personnel they have. They have the guys to do it. The
effort, the focus needs to be there each and every night. And that
goes back to taking the regular season more seriously, and it goes back to
Lawrence Frank in last season's postseason presser at the end of the year, he
said, we gotta get back to respecting the regular season. There was a
lot of respect out there tonight, and I respected the way the Clippers played
defensively, even though they're going up against a young team, a bunch of
guys thirty or younger. Scoot Henderson in his first ballgame just five of eleven
wasn't able to find a rhythm outside of Anthony Simon's in a few different moments
where he finished with eighteen and Malcolm Brogden in the fourth quarter where I think
he had thirteen to twenty. The Clippers never let Portland get too comfortable.
That's about their defense, and too often last season we would see them get
off to these lethargic slow starts where teams in this league, no matter who
they are, you let a guy get hot. It doesn't matter if you
put a hand in his face. The next quarter. You let him start
fast. It doesn't matter if you try to play better defense later on.
They already got it going and shots are gonna fall, and these guys are
pros. The Clippers have the talent to be great defensively. It's a mindset,
that's all it is with this team. Speaking of mindset, Paul George
led them with twenty seven, said he was gonna be on his bully stuff
this season, eleven of seventeen from the field, four of seven from distance.
For those twenty seven points, still had six assists. Yeah, some
bad turnovers here and there, finished with four of them. But the aggressiveness
from PG. Thirteen and aggressive Paul George is my favorite version of Paul George.
He's too good. He's too good offensively to just say, well,
I'm a well rounded player. I can do a little bit of everything.
That's great. At times they need that, but you know what they need
first and foremost PG. Thirteen to hunt for his own shots and get buckets.
Paul George is an elite score. It's between the ears when he has
the right mindset of going out there with the intent of putting them up early
and often. And we saw it in that second stint from him in the
second quarter where he had twelve of his twenty seven. He looks unstoppable.
Is, as many people like to point out, one of the smoothest players
you'll ever see a guy at six' eight that can move like that when
he's on. He looks like the best player in the NBA at times.
And put the punctuation point with a big time hammer with the right hand in
the fourth quarter to put this one away for the Clippers. Love to see
it. Fifty points combined from he and Kawhi Leonard. But the Clippers shooting
almost fifty three percent from the field, almost fifty percent from the outside.
But it starts with the defense. To me, you do stuff like this,
double digit steals every night. They had eleven steals tonight, almost ten
blocks. They finished with seven big zoo with four of them. That's how
you ignite runs and get your offense going and keep the energy up. Teams
love to play and transition in this league. I remember when the Phoenix Suns,
and we alluded to this earlier in the pregame, got Mike D'Antoni and
they were running that seven seconds or less offense. Probably should have won a
championship if they didn't have guys suspended or walking off the bench against the San
Antonio Spurs. But immaterial, neither here nor there. The point is guys
love to play and love to run. That's innate to basketball, that's built
in. But it leads to a lot of unselfish basketball where you're moving the
ball and Paul George is finding Kawhi Leonard for a big dunk in the second
half with a beautiful pass, and Bones Highland is getting out and shot out
of a cannon. Every time he comes off the bench for this team,
he's getting out running. This team is capable of being one of the better
teams in transition. They finished with fifteen points in transition tonight. I'm sure
Coach Lou's gonna say you wanted more. And they had a couple of miscues
on a fast break when they add numbers, but they can tighten that up
and the schedule is favorable early on. I've been talking about this for some
time. I want to see this Clippers team in the first thirteen games start
at worst nine to four. I believe during the twenty twenty one season where
they went to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in team history,
they started off the season fifteen to five. Great teams, elite teams,
championship contenders. You look back at how they start seasons, they get off
to hot starts. The Clippers need to be one of those teams. You
want to be a contender, finish top three in your conference. Only other
team, and I'll harp on this, that has won it outside of being
a top three seed over the last thirty years. The ninety five Houston Rockets,
who already had the championship pedigree. They had won the season before they
were a six seed and Clutch City was born, and they won all those
elimination games. Outside of that, it's always a top three seed that wins
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Clippers Audio Network. Trail Blazers lacked the rank draft Clone row step left in
a lamp off the window, no rebound Leonard foll core Path, Cliff Crook
a runway and he put it on with two gruss on what Brook a vendetta
again. A little dunk city, a little lob city tonight, especially in
that first quarter. Seven of the Clippers first twelve makes were dunks. It
was three and D basketball, three pointers being made, defense being played dunks
as well, three D squared. It was incredible to watch this Clippers team
get off to a fast start, something that we haven't seen very often over
the last season. And Russell Westbrook there throwing it down well. He was
a plus thirty tonight, just his sixteenth game with a plus minus of at
least thirty, his first since February of twenty twenty back with the Houston Rockets.
But I was more impressed not just with the dunks and he had a
couple big ones, but the underhand pass to Kawhi in transition for a three
pointer near the end of the third also fed Kawhi in the fourth instead of
taking a three, defense was playing off of Russ. He attacked the space,
got it to the claw for a mid range jumper, one of the
few we hit. But the threes were falling. Kawhi, Leonard was five
of five and the Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven in their home
opener. Here at Crypto dot com, areno welcome back into Clippers Talk.
I'm at a Moslin to eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's start
things off with James. Who's in Utah waiting for the Clippers on Friday.
James, what's good? How you doing? First game in the Leader had
had to make the phone call. Roll with it. It's your time.
I'm so excited for this season. It feels like the first time that we're
one hundred and ten percent healthy going into the year. And just like you
said, it's so important to get off to that good start and we're not
sitting here waiting for people to come and get healthy at some point during the
year. And it shit, man, we got such confidence this year.
It just feels like it's different. This year. Feels like they're a team
with a plan and guys know the roles out there, and you mentioned the
health. They still don't have Terrence Man right now. Right after he was
named the fifth starter, he turned the ankle in practice, but Roko slid
into that starting spot and I thought performed very well. When I talk about
contesting everything at the basket, a lot of that was Robert Commington, who
had a couple of bad calls go against him with fouls, and also he
had a strip of it was Anthony Simon's in transition. Rocco had no business
contesting this layup and somehow swiped the ball from Simon's in the second half I
think it was a fourth quarter, but they said he stepped on the line.
Well, replay said, uh, it was a clean strip. Roco
fast his hands in the west. As Brian Seeman likes to say anything else
here, James, Well, the one with Man being hurt, he's not
going to be out long, which is which is great because he will be
way more deadly with him out on the field, giving us a little bit
of a better shooter. That Rocos is a little screaky. He can get
hot, but he's just he'll miss a lot, and Man just seems more
comfortable. And then when you were talking about them being selfish, it feels
like we're last year. It was like here you shoot, no, you
shoot, you shoot. It feels like, oh, you got a better
shot, knowing that that guy's gonna take that better shot and knock it down.
So, like you said, they have an idea of what the role
is on their team. No, I agree with you, James, turning
down good shots for great shots. We saw that often and that's why you
get thirty six assists. You know, seventeen turnovers. Those doesn't look that
bad when you have thirty six assists out there on they're forty seven made shots.
Let's go to Sean Engelwood, a long time caller here on Clippers Talk.
Sean, nice to talk with you. Hey, my friend, Adam,
how are you, man? Man, I'm good. I'm better now
that you're back and the Clippers are back. Okay, okay, yeah,
I'm back. Hey, okay, So let me get into it. First
game of the season. Russ is the catalyst. They have an edge with
Russ is about, Hey, we're down here to do business. We're not
gonna be spectators for the first three quarters or have the game come to us.
We're gonna force our game. We're gonna force the defense. And like
you said, you didn't. They didn't let Portland get into their offense.
They were just like, hey, we're not having it. Okay. It's
a different sheriff in town right now. So that attitude that they have,
it's awesome. We do not need James Harden at all. I don't even
want to see him in the vicinity, Okay, I don't want him dribbling
the ball for twenty three seconds. Everybody look at me and my fancy little
crossover. A crossover means nothing. He even gain means something, and he's
got an attitude. We don't need him. Nobody else in the league wants
them. Well, let me ask you this, Sean. Let me ask
you this is Russ playing differently than he did with the Lakers, absolutely,
Okay. Do you not think James Harden would play differently also in this locker
room, knowing that he's next to Kawhi and Paul George and he hasn't been
the third option since okay, see days. You could say maybe he was
the third option at times in Brooklyn with KD and Kyrie, But I don't
think you'd be seeing the same James Harden. But I don't want to focus
on that would be trade or trade that's possibly out there for the Clippers right
now. Do you want me to answer your question. Yes, sir,
the juice is not worse to squeeze. He's had too many opportunities to be
a good guy and work in the system, and he's always pal team.
We do not need his negativity. We have a flow that's stay with the
flow, all right, Sean. I appreciate the phone call and the love
for Russell Westbrook. Yes, his mentality, the dog he's got in him,
whatever you want to say. He does play with an edge. This
is something that's been missing. I've been talking about this since they brought in
Russ, since they lost Patrick Beverley, Pat beb. The greatest thing about
him is he could turn a one of eighty two regular season game that maybe
seems meaningless to some into a playoff like environment because of the competitive spirit he
played with. Russ has that too, and when he's in control, as
he was tonight, a plus thirty out there, he looks like the same
Russ that was an MVP averaging triple doubles. But he's doing a little bit
differently. He's not looking for a shot as much and doesn't need to looking
for Kawhi Leonard, looking for Paul George. I'm here for it. I
guess we're here for a time out. Zach's keep me in line. Tonight
Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven over the Portland trail Blazers. Here
at Crypto dot Com arena, morgarphone calls coming back. I see a lot
of them, Hobbier, Sean, and we just got Sean Hobbier stageous,
we got Raoul Morrison, long Beach. Oh, they're coming out of the
woodwork tonight. No Clippers victory like this will do that more Clippers stock next
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Clippers practicing what they've been preaching throughout training camp, throughout the preseason. It
crossed over. It applied all the positives, the negatives, the poor shooting
in the preseason. It didn't survive in the regular season. It's the Clippers
shot fifty two percent from the field and forty seven percent from the outside,
knockdown sixteen threes. Kawhi was five of five, Paul George four to seven,
Bones hit three of them. Norm Powell had a couple, and the
Clippers go on to win one twenty three to one eleven in Game one,
the home opener tonight over the Portland Trail Blazers. Game two coming up in
Utah on Friday. Let's go with who do we got here? Tegus and
Walnut Tagous another long timer. Welcome back into Clippers soft Tagous, how you
been I've been good at him. Great to be back, especially after a
Clipper victory. I know you got calls. I'll get into it. Please
shot that uh uh, you know the defensive league, like you said,
they were swarming and that was awesome and Covington had a lot to do with
it. And I don't know going forward if they're gonna you know, tried
Tea Man in the starting lineup and Covington. I know Tea Man was tame
starter, but if he went off of today's game, you almost would think
that the bench was kind of missing. Terrence Man and Covington just fit seamlessly
in the starting lineup. I don't know what you've thought about that. I
mean, they could do it by committee. It seems like from some of
the verbiage we've heard coach Lose open to that it could be matchup dependent.
I don't think it's that big of a deal. As long as you have
Kawhi and Paul George, if those two are in the starting lineup, you
got Russ, you got Zobots. I feel like it could be a revolving
door for that fifth guy and it wouldn't upset the chemistry much. I agree
two things. One, you know, Russell Westbrook gets the law a grieve
for his turnovers and his outside shooting. But we never it was unfortunate that
we never got to see really last year Russ with Kawhi and p together.
And when you see him together, you see the pace. And that was
one of the biggest things that they lacked, was paced. Last year.
I don't know where they ranked, but I'll tell you before Uss, they
were twenty fourth in pace. After they brought him in, they were thirteenth
in pace. Yeah, and there you go. And you know, with
KWin PG there and Russ creating easy baskets, it's gonna be a big problem
for the other team. And the biggest probably recipient of these easy baskets is
Big Zoo. Big Zoo healthy looking. This spry dominated, not just DeAndre
eight who was just two to four four points twelve boards, was in foul
trouble, had a couple early, but they bring it off the bench.
Remember the best backup big in the league between him and Mason Plumley and nas
Reed Robert Williams, who they picked up. He had ten and seven.
He was okay, but Visas who botched twenty twelve four blocks. I appreciate
the phone call, Tages. I know we'll be talking all season long.
We do have to get to all these callers before we get to will Updyke.
So next up, we have Morris in Long Beach. Please just everybody
give us thirty seconds and then get in, get out. You know what
I love about the Clipper team. No hype this year, ain't no hype,
no pressure, and they're looking good. Game one, behave yourself at
them now. That's short and sweet. Well done there, Morris. A
lot of teams are a lot of pundits, I should say, are counting
them out. The media. They think of them as a second tier contender
in the West. They're putting the Lakers, Denver Nuggets, and Phoenix Suns
in one bracket. And saying the Clippers are a tier lower than that.
Some are counting them out completely. They just don't trust Kawhi and Paul George
to stay healthy. Well, you can't predict health, obviously, the track
records there. It's been unfortunate. But these guys want to play, and
they have been elite when they've been out there on the court together. They
have won seventy of the ball games. They've won it a seven hundred win
percentage. Last season, for reference, I believe the Denver Nuggets, the
eventual champs, won at about a sixty two hundred or six six twenty win
percentage. The Clippers, they have the guys, They just got to keep
them healthy. Damien in La Damien, what's up here on clipperstock? What's
up about him? Great to be back, man, great win. There's
so much to be said, but I'll just say my part. Man,
I love the energy, I love the focus. I love the fact that
these guys were back to Clipper style of basketball, and to me, that
means you're playing two ways, aggressively and intensity on both ends of the floor.
There was a lot of heady plays going on out there. I like
that the veterans were frustrating the young guys, and I think that's gonna be
something I'm gonna look for with a lot of these young teams. Are we
gonna use our brains in order to take some of the stress off of our
bodies. And I think that we have the personnel to do that. I
mean, we got the chiropractor back there. He knows the game better than
anyone. You know. Let's just see what we get, man. But
what a great win. And I think it's gonna be more of the same,
damn it. I appreciate the phone call. Great points. I'll think
your opponents old age and treachery will overcome youth and exuberance, I believe is
the line. Okay, maybe I'm being going too far out in the weeds
for you, but okay, before we break Javier in Laha riodes Hoabier,
what's up? Hey it, what's up? I thank you? I think
them a call again real quick. You said it right, they have to
start strong and quick. So you said, what nine and four, I'm
thinking you can probably go eleven and two. That's that's that's that's my opinion.
But eleven too, I said nine or four at work in their first
thirteen years old. Oh at worst, Oh I think he said at best,
No, no, no, okay, you got it. Okay.
I was like, okay, three things for the Tippers to finish the top
seed, top two seeds. There's three things, real quick health. That's
number one, Number two. Bones Highland. He scored what seventeen points?
He reminds me of those other lou Williams. If you could get seventeen points
at him every game, they're gonna be okay. And the last thing is,
I've been saying it for three years, Adam, do not play Marcus
more Is for one second and they'll be okay. I don't know if you've
been saying for three years, but you definitely said it last year. Hobbier.
I appreciate the phone call Marcus. He's been hurt, he's been banged
up. He's got a growing issue. Bones Hyland though, the energy and
juice he brings. You know, people have been talking about James Harden.
Do they need him? Should they get them? To me? The biggest
X factor to this season is Bones Island because you don't know what his ceiling
is. We've got a better idea of what Terrence Man can do than what
bones Highland can do. Who's just twenty three years of age with all this
potential that made a tough layup and has been showing that he could finish in
the basket. Now those flaws in his game, he's starting to figure it
out how to overcome him, how to turn them into strengths. It's not
just hiss outside shooting. Now you can turn the corner and anyone get to
the basket and finish among the trees. That's the difference to me. Coming
up next will Updyke from Clips and Dip will be here. After the Clippers
win one twenty three to one eleven bones, yes, seventeen off the bench,
six of eleven, three of eight from distance. You're listening to Clippers
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Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers when the home opener, indecisive
fashion, led by as many as thirty would go on to win one twenty
three to one eleven over the Portland trail Blazers. Welcome back into Clippers talk.
I'm Adam Osland. Let's get out to him. You hear the music
a little clips and double dip for you. Will Updyke, who was in
the building tonight is joining us. Will. We don't have a lot of
time. Most impressive thing you saw from the Clippers tonight that gives you hope
that this team is still a contender. Look. I talked about this a
little bit coming into the game. The Clippers seem to be backing up everything
they've been saying through preseason, through training camp. Paul George was certainly on
his bully as I thought. That moment in the third when they were already
had a commanding lead, but he took a he got a deal and went
end to end for the dunk just kind of feeled it for me. Everybody
looks locked in. Everybody is you know, they're committee, they're walking,
They're walking the talk that they've talked through this entire period, and that was
super reassuring to see. And No, norm also was great. Yeah,
he shook that rust off immediately. So I think Norma is one of those
great regular season ending eaters. But I love what I saw A top to
bottom from the Clippers is from the Clippers game, I was talking about Bones
Highland before the break. The most intriguing player on this team is Bones Highland.
To me, he had seventeen, but we really don't know if he's
fully realized or even come close to his potential yet and what type of player
he can be. The Clippers ceiling may be somewhat tied to Bones Highland.
I know that's a bold statement, but just how do you unpack it?
Will So I don't know about the ceiling. I don't know if I don't
know if Bones is that player yet, right like I don't know if Bones
is the player. I don't know if he's quite the player that can swing
a game in a series. Yet he's certainly someone who can help. I
don't know that he's like the individual performance that can do it. He is
the absolute key to extending whatever window is left for the Clippers. If you
think that there is anything beyond this year, it is one hundred percent tied
to Bones. But I love what I saw. I think that his growth.
I think his growth is going to be something to watch. I love
that he's back at that thirty eight percent number from three. He's bounced back
from what we saw in the preseasons. The biggest thing for me continues to
me with Bones, I just need to see a little bit more control around
the rim. And then I'm telling you, this guy is pretty darn close
to the complete package. Seeing the praises for your guy, I eata Zoobots.
I know he hasn't grown the hair out like you would like, but
he was dominant tonight, absolutely dominant twenty and twelve with four blasts in the
first game. I loved what I saw. I loved the matchup. Anytime
Zoo is going up against the beat of Zubot. One of the first games
I remember of Zoo, uh certainly it was the first game that I ever
covered as media was the Suns at Clippers and Zoo just going going at eight,
and so I love that matchup. No, he absolutely ate. They
fed him a little bit early, which I love. I think that that
just adds another dimension to this offense. I think that he and Westbrook have
great chemistry, and you know, we already know what his chemistry is like
with Kawhi and Paul George. I'm feeling really good. I gotta be honest
with you, I was feeling excited. We talked a little bit about this
game and what we were looking forward to coming into it. I think we
all collectively, you know, psyched ourselves up, and I would say that
this game lived up to the expectations. It's one of those games where at
the end Clippers only won by twelve points. This was easily a twenty I
mean, this was a twenty point plus victory for you know, the majority
of the game. And while the Blazers do look to be maybe the worst
team in the Western Conference, it's you know, you still got to put
the game away. You're still gotta put the game away at the end of
the day quickly will because you're feeling good. And part of the reason maybe
you were at a bachelor party tonight for our friend Joseph ry Award who's getting
married on Saturday. Congrats to Joseph, but extoll the virtues of Russell Westbrook
before we get out. Russ I mean, look, man, he continues
to be the energy guy that the Clippers have needed. If Patoma is the
glue, he is the I don't know what like the cap being. I'm
not sure, but he also is looking to be an engine for this Clippers
team. I love the emphatic dunks. I love the eleven and thirteen assists.
You know, he brings a lot of life to this team, and
he does bring a different look, and you know his look. Man,
it's hard to not get into cliches that we've talked about with Russ before.
But his energy is infectious and it was certainly felt tonight and I hope that
this was his stamp on the start of what is to be an impactful season.
Listen up Joseph, Clippers win one twenty three to one eleven. Will
Updike from Clips and Dip Fame was our guest, will talk to you tomorrow
on the podcast on YouTube. All right, he sounds good. Thank you.
Before we get out of here tonight, a lot of people think Slippers
organization, no at ego. Brian Steemen, Ralph Lawler, Carlo Jmenez your
new radio voice of the Clippers. Great call Carlo back here at Crypto dot
com arena as well, Big Brother Jake Warner, Big b Before we get
out, please some positive, some positive moments with the fake philosopher. All
right, Dark times teach you a lot. That's why you can't regret what
you went through, but rather be thankful for all the lessons it taught you.
This is apropos after last season for the Clippers. It was a dark
time, but it taught them lessons and they seem to be learning from them.
Before we get out of here. I also want to thank Zach Ocalady
back in Burbank, our producer tonight. Great job, Zach, the callers,
and how about this, We love and miss Dennis Dagostino and honor him
stat of the night Clippers with thirty six assists, most in a home opener
ever. Dennis, we love and miss you, will be honoring you all
season long. Clippers. Next game coming up on Friday in Utah against the
Jazz. Five thirty is your pregame show. Until then, I'm Ata Mollison.
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