Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans? Welcome to the postgame
hang December twenty third. The Clippers just dispatched the Memphis
Grizzlies at home for their best win of the season.
Joel Old postgame hang here at YouTube dot com slash
at Clippers podcast. Come hang out if you're just listening
to this, because I am going to put this out
as just some audio later. Hell of a game. I mean,
Adam and I talked about this on the pregame episode
that this was going to be the Clippers best win
of the season if they got this win. And they
got the win, there was some things leading up to
this game that made it feel incredibly Dicey Zoo was
downgraded to questionable and then he comes back and puts
up twenty and twenty. So I mean, I probably play
the game of eats the zoo bots. It was an
incredibly it's a weird game in Memphis. The the second quarter,
the end of the second quarter was really bleak. The
end of the third didn't feel super good. But the
Clippers got a lot of good stuff in this game.
We're gonna talk about the Kawhi Leonard news that came
out as well, he's not gonna be playing on Friday.
We'll get to that. Yeah, there's a lot of good
performances in this one. Chris Done. While he did not
make threes late, which didn't matter, he played incredibly clutch
defense on John Morant. He played good defense on John
Morant most of the night. So hats off to Chris Done.
Absolutely great performance from him. Zoo had twenty and twenty,
which makes absolutely no sense. Norm had what a third
Norman had twenty nine. He came on late, he was huge.
Harden had a little five oh run in the fourth quarter,
a personal five oh run that that just helped the
Clippers just get over shit. Steve Rodriguez saying, you guys
honestly made me think there was no real chance to
win this one. There's a very tough game coming into it.
The Grizzlies are a really good team, their second in
the Western Conference for a very good reason. You look
at him on paper. On paper, they're an incredibly good team.
But the Clippers were able to bounce back from kind
of some some poor stretches in this game to lockdown
on defense, especially in the fourth. It was awesome to see. Yeah,
there was there was a lot of weird stuff with
a lot of good stuff. I do have to we
have to give a nod to Kevin Porter Junior. He
was a he was a positive. He was a plus
one in his minutes tonight. That was needed. There was
a couple of good stretches where he There's still some
decision making stuff, but a lot of good stuff to
build on from KPJ. In this one. I thought it
was one of his better games and a Clippers win,
which is great to see. Norm twenty nine points. We
needed it. We talked about how hard and Norm we're
gonna have to combine for maybe sixty. They had fifty,
which we'll take. We needed it, thankfully. Zoo came in clutch.
Sue was so physical today. He was incredibly physical. Yes,
Metal Slug twenty six. Uh. He played good defense on
Jared Jackson Junior because we needed it. Jared Jackson Junr.
Was featured heavily by the Grizzlies in this game. That
was That was a very It seemed like a very
clear emphasis that the Grizzlies had made. Manny Lopez saying,
just got home from work to watch the fourth quarter. Yeah,
because I'll tell you what it didn't look as good
as it did as the fourth loooked Manny, so I
hope you enjoy it. Mike Money bring bringing some bad
vibes in the chat, saying great, Debbie, but wake me
up when Kawai actually plays. Okay, come on, let's be
happy about it. Back to the Jaron Jackson Junior thing.
Someone in the chat was talking about how Jared Jackson
Junior zoo played good defense to get him against him.
He did. We also saw some really bad defense against
Jaron Jackson Jr. Which was mobamba mobamba again, really bad
first stint, second stint. Mobamba might be a thing. He
was a lot better in a second stint. A lot
of clippers tonight. Everyone was kind of low at the
same time and then high at the same time, if
that makes sense in a hostile environment. There's a lot
of lot of yapp in in this game. I feel like,
if you watch this game and can corroborate that, let
me know when it was really cool to see Tylero
make some adjustments in this game. They start so they
started doubling off of Chris Dunn in the fourth quarter
the Grizzlies did. He missed two wide open corner threes,
which sucks, would have made this game a lot easier.
No big deal. He's out there for his defense. He
played clutch defense on John Morant Lake, what the point
is They started doubling off done Tyler moving to the
other side, they were able to move the ball after
a timeout, with like thirty five seconds left, Harden got it.
They doubled him, passed it to a tomb touched past
a Zoo who got his twentieth point and it wasn't
the dagger, but it was very much ah shit moment
for the Grizzlies. So it was awesome. Gabriel Morrell saying
credit to lou for keeping Done in despite the miss threes. Yes,
it was. I think there were a lot of people
probably who maybe watched the two miss threes and went,
why is Chris Dune out there? And then very quickly
after that, when he played great defense on John Morant
late said oh, that's why he's out there. That makes sense. Absolutely,
best win of the year, no question, the best win
of the year for the Clippers. Zubots goes from sore
calf to twenty and twenty against a former defensive Player
of the Year, which was awesome. Zoo also had nine
offensive reboards rebounds reboards, which was huge. This is this
is a feel good way and this I mean, I
haven't This was a nice ass game from the Clippers.
I loved every second of this game, even when it
got a little gross because the Clippers they were down
every quarter, you know, except except for the third, and
so they're never half this game the second. The end
of the second quarter was really brutal in this game.
The Clippers, it just kind of fell apart. It looked
like the game was maybe it looked like the pace
of the game was becoming too much for the Clippers
at the end of the second. But then their defense
just kind of started to kick ass after the third,
which is great. There were some tiki taki fouls late
in this one, which was annoying. I don't know if
that was fatigue or whatever. But then the hard and
run came and then we just saw some really solid,
just team basketball from the Clippers. Right we were this
this win epitomizes everything I think that we love about
the Clippers this season. And it is a holiday. So
this is similar to the Henny Ween stream. If any
of you remember that stream. We're enjoying some seasonal Evan
Williams tonight. But you just look at how the team
didn't roll over at anytime. It was a very easy
game for a team to be like, ah shit, it's
not only going our way. That closed the second half
wasn't good. How can we dig deep? They dug deep there.
It's I don't know what they did to get zoobots
right for this game, but twenty and twenty after being
questionable was fantastic. There's kind of some negative things in
the chat right now. We don't have to focus on
anything negative. This was a phenomenal game from the Clippers.
Let's just be excited about the win. There's also some news.
I don't know if people saw this. Kawhi is not
going to be playing on the game on Friday. That
was from a law Murray tweet. He said a team
source informed him that Kawai will not be playing on Friday,
which sucks. We'll get to kind of the details on that.
It kind of makes sense. Tylu talked about it pregame today.
Kawhi has done four five on fives. He said, that's
not good enough. They need to stack days up and
stack five on fives up. The quote from Ty that
I'm choosing to give you is we've been trying to
get him closer to playing, but he's still not ready yet.
He still needs some more five on five he needs
to do before we allow him to be on the court.
We don't want to rush. The situation sucks that he's
not going to be back for the home game on Friday,
but you listen to the reasoning, it's it's hard to
not be upset about that. Yeah, this was an interesting
game from Dereck Jones Junior. I don't know if i'd
call it sneaky good. He had incredibly clutch buckets. You
know what this game reminded me of from Derek Jones Junior,
Like an elevated a mere coffee game. It really felt
like he we got bucket Serman when we needed. Harden
hit him with an oop I think in the third
or something like that. That was phenomenal. I agree. I
hope he's good with his lower back. This team looks
a lot different when Derek Jones Junior's available for this team.
Smooth asking, was Derek Jones Junior on a minister restriction?
My guess is yes, we didn't hear anything about that.
He wasn't Dallas, it was. It was kind of made.
It might have been a whole road trip thing. He
played twenty minutes in the first game. He played I
think twenty one in the second game in Dallas, and
then tonight he was right at twenty two. He was
a twenty one to forty eight. So yeah, smooth to
answer you. I think I believe he was. It was
a miniterstriction Sinner j R. Saying Hey, Chuck, have you
noticed they has say leftnee soreness in another game that
said Rightney, not the right If that happened, I'm gonna
be honest, it's probably just a clerical error, you know.
I don't know. You'd think they'd be able to copy
and paste it at this point, but I wouldn't read
too much into that. Those reports gonna be a little wonky. Yeah, hell,
I mean yeah, So DJJ wasn't the Ministerstriction. Who's the
else player of the game. It's for me, it has
to be a Vitza Zubots. He played forty minutes in
this one. They have a lot of time off, not
a lot, kind of a lot for the Clippers. They
have some time off before the game on Friday, where
Zoo's absolutely gonna be needed. I think Zuo's my player
of the game in this one. Very difficult to not
if you. Twenty and twenty nine offensive boards is absolutely crazy.
I need to look it up because I'm pretty sure
the Grizzlies are not a bad offensive rebounding team. No,
they're not. The Grizzlies are a top ten team for
offensive rebounding in terms of or defensive rebound excuse me,
in terms of their first and defensive running per game
in eighteenth rebounding percentage. So they're not a bad rebounding team.
But Zoo getting it was absolutely Yeah. A lot of
people in the Zoo in the chat saying Zoo twenty
and twenty is amazing. We love to see it. Just
good shit all around from the Clippers. We can talk
about this absent regard twenty four. Incredibly deep user name
said clips have a backup center problem. Bamba was minus
fourteen and six minutes. You shouldn't have to play forty
minutes on a bad calf. Tys last year was better
than Bamba would agree with that. Oh, Josephry Award just
textas said big boy Win. He's absolutely right. Yeah, No,
the the backup center thing is for sure an issue.
The Mike Dang I agree, Buddy. I would like Zoo
to go twenty and twenty in every game too, that
would be great. Back to the backup center thing. Yeah,
so this was rough. Mobamba his first shift. Derek Jones Jr.
Just went straight through him. Really. Uh, kind of forced
Tyler's hand into having to play zoos so much. Backup
center is an issue. Kai Jones hasn't really blossomed into
what they need him to be. Mobamba just uh not
as good as you would want your backup center to be.
We know it's a backup center and it's not that
big of an issue, but tonight is where you see
the issue. I don't know what they do, to be honest,
they've been really the Clippers overall have been weird about
backup center. It's just really men maxing, right, they had
like we had like Moses Brown. The next season we
get Plumbing and Daniel Tice, and now we have Mobamba
and Kai Jones. It's just like it's not fitting. I agree,
I wish it was a little more, a little more even. Yeah,
a lot of people agreeing with Zoo player of the game.
We absolutely love it. We have Luke Canard siding tonight.
Uh Luke Canard did not take a shot tonight, which
is which is hilarious. Just if you remember his Clippers' days,
him being passive was always an issue. Uh Senter Jr.
Asking what's the hold up with Kawhi? Now? They just
want him to get more reps. He needs more practices.
He's done four five on fives, I believe is what
we were told, and that's not enough, per tylu He
said that, so that sucks. But also none of us
want him to rush back. This team is is this team.
Let's look, I mean, you can't be that mad with
how the Clippers are playing right now with no Kawhi. Yes,
it sucks. They have maybe bought themselves some time with
wins like tonight. Again, tonight was a gritty as hell win.
The only player on the bench. I know there's a
lot of anti KPg stuff in the chat right now,
the only player off the bench who was a plus
tonight was KPJ. And I know some things he does
are frustrating, but tonight I thought this was maybe his
best team all around basketball game. There was some bad
stuff I'm not gonna it wasn't like an elite game
top to bottom. But when the Clippers are in the
bench situation that they are in, which is the bench
is a little it is struggling a little bit right now.
Being a plus bench player is very useful for the Clippers,
and we can't pretend that. Although sometimes it's difficult to watch. Tonight,
KPJ was big for the clips. There was again, there
were some bad decisions, but the bench is bad. KPJ.
He is, He was solid. He did some good things defensively.
He did some good things against the MAVs too, defensively briefly,
but it was just no. This this is a game
where it's like, yeah, there's maybe some momentum to be there.
There's momentum to be Bill tough Es game, Scott Tran
saying we don't need Kawhi to beat the Warriors. That
is absolutely true. We pose a matchup nightmare for the Warriors,
which we all love, which is awesome. Okay, someone send
the link Caesar uh. Caesar's in the chat and if
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Caesar said, seen a tweet on bones account earlier where
he's going one on one with a youtubur. Don't see
him getting a roll here, sadly, No, it sucks it
the Bones thing. It's just like it's felt like when
Bones got here and when PJ. Tucker got here, it
felt like, for some reason it felt like those two
were aligned or something, because both of them got sent
home before the All Star break last year, and for
a young guy like Bones to have that happen, it's
that's it's not a death sentence, but it's very much
not good when you were traded for for two second
round picks. The but it sucks, but I mean there's
they're gonna try and move him, I would assume in PJ.
Tucker he the scoring has been better for Kevin Borter Junior.
Sorry if you're listening to someone in the comments. A
great point on KPJ. He is getting better. I thought
tonight was the game where he showed the best that
he's been because he played a lot more team friendly basketball.
They showed a lot of stats on the broadcast today
about how you know he scored fifteen points in every
game over the last six games. He was like minus
thirty five in those minutes. It was a good game tonight.
Let's build on it. We need it. It would be
great to see. It would be great to see against
the Warriors two. Manny Lopez saying all I want for
Christmas is a ten day bone sample size. I don't
think that's happening, man I don't Maybe when he gets traded.
I don't know when it's gonna happen, Manny. That that
ship has sailed, no pun intended. Hell of a win
if you're just tuning in again. The Clippers beat the
Grizzlies one fourteen to one ten. We said on the
pregame show that this would be the win of the
year if they won, and they won, so this is
the best Clippers win of the year. There was some
Chris Done was fantastic on defense. Avicha Zubots had twenty
and twenty Norm had twenty nine. It was incredibly clutch,
hard in the system, twenty one, eight and nine, kissing
that triple double. I'm waiting for this matchup data to
come in from stats dot NBA dot com because I
want to see what they have for for Chris done
on joh because I don't know. Christine was just fucking
Kristin's got to be it. He's probably gonna get second
team All Defense, but he should probably be first team
All Defense. Call me if I tell me if I'm wrong.
He has jests that Nate Robinson ten day contract. Yeah,
I say Thomas too. Let's sign both. Let's let's sign
the Sea, Let's sign the Washington. Where's the damn matchup data?
All right? Well, the matchup data is not coming in.
I don't know how much long you guys have me.
I got little more Jack Daniels here. Uh yeah, there
is a will Is going to have internet again. Will
srom apart of Montana, where your closest neighbors are like
ten miles away, So we give him a pass on
the internet. Here. Not a whole bunch else to say
about this winner than it feels great to go two
and one on this road trip. Video game poses controller poses,
trying to flame between the words critical hit. Wait, hell, yeah,
I appreciate you, sniper. Yeah, so that's what I'm saying.
I think Done should be first team All Defense. I
don't know if he will get it. That's not uh,
that's not what I meant by that at all. I
just I don't know if people. I don't know, if
you have g NBA fan knows what EPM is, no disrespect, Yeah, Mike,
Mike dang saying Will is on a journey on Discovery. Absolutely,
Oh god, John Wall's coming back? Sorry, real time John
Wall come back. I don't know. I don't think he's
just he's not really coming back. He's just doing the broadcast.
Don't let Tyler see that. We don't need that z
M I P Yeah. Probably yeah, probably they won't give
it to him. There's this new weird trend in the
NBA where they give most improved player to like the
guy who run who won Rookie of the Year. And
you're like that that shouldn't be a thing. All right,
a couple more minutes here, let me know your favorite
just player from tonight's game again. Can't out stress how
good this game was Niko batoum very good in this game,
just again showing what he brings this team from a
defensive standpoint. Someone commented earlier, this is a sneaky good
game for Derek Joes Junior. I would agree with that.
Started off not the best, but then you see what
the athleticism brings you. My favorite stat from this game
is that the Clippers smoked the Grizzlies in fast breakpoints.
The Clippers had twenty six to the Grizzlies twelve. When
this game was going poorly for the Clippers was when
it felt like the pace was outpacing them, right like
this game when it gets really mucky, the Clippers were
it was great. You know that that's what they need.
They need a slow game. They don't want to run
with Memphis. But to be able to kind of do
what Memphis does better than them while making it mucky
was fantastic. Shout out to Tyler for sticking with Chris
dun Late. Yes, he missed the two threes which was frustrating,
but then he played great defense in quite literally the
most clutch moment of the of the game against John Morant. Yeah,
I mean, if Zoo doesn't play in this game. Who
knows what happens, because Zoo was phenomenal twenty and twenty.
Just showing why, showing why, maybe going to Zoo for
easy buckets is a good idea. You absolutely love to
see it. Ryan saying that they didn't realize that Wall
was only thirty four. Yeah, I mean that's old for
a point guard in the NBA, says the thirty five
year old who does not play in the NBA. But
that's where we're at. Uh yeah, just good shit all around.
Hope Ron has a good rest of their week. I
hope your Christmas Eve isn't too crazy. We didn't. We
talked a little bit about the Kawhi stuff, but if
you're just tuning in, Kawhi is not going to play
on Friday. I was looking at ticket prices. People thought
Kawhi was going to play on Friday, which makes sense.
All the smoke was kind of going towards that we
hadn't heard, you know, we were getting excited. We hadn't
heard anything against it. But Tylu laid out some check
points that Kawhi Leonard has to hit. He's got a
stack five on fives, He's played four five on five practices,
he's got to stack the five on fives. He's got
a stack days up four or five on fives was
not good enough. So there's more boxes for Kawhi Leonard
to check. They have a lot of time between now
and their next game and their next games if you
look at their schedule. The Clippers go the Warriors on Friday,
who they match up very well with the Pelicans on Monday,
so they get two days off against a reeling Pelicans team.
Then they play the Spurs on New Year's Eve, which
might get a little dicey just because it's the end
of the year. New Year's Eve games are always weird,
and then things get a little tough. They go Thunderhocks Timberwolves.
But they have two games between the Warriors and the
Pells where they can between the Warriors, Pels, and Spurs.
They should go to They should go two and one
and stack a couple more wins. Hey, Eric Boie, what up? Eric?
I hope you're doing well. Go follow Eric If you're
not following Eric's art. It's wonderful. Biggest win of the
season by far. Eric agrees. If Eric agrees, you know
that we were right. Best win of the year. I
mean the only way that they Yeah, I mean if
they beat the the the Thunder on the sixth that
are on the second, excuse me, that would be prettyweet.
But no, absolutely win of the year. Love to see it.
I am going to head out. I have a little
bit more seasonal Jack Daniels to drink. Hope everyone has
a great holiday season. Thanks for hanging out. Go check
out Adam over on Clippers Talk right now. We're gonna
have an episode for y'all at some point between Christmas
and New Year's Eve, most likely shout out to the
Clippers for the win of the season. Hope everyone is
happening an enjoyable holiday season, whatever y'all are doing. Thanks
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James Harden, who is the system. We have zubots who
can go from questionable to twenty and twenty. Norm Powell
walking into twenty five points no problem. Wonderful team. The
vibes are incredibly high, even though that Kawhi is not
going to be with the team on Friday. Things are
feeling good. I've been Chuck Mockler. Shout out to Will Updike,
shout out to Adam Oslin. We'll be back at some
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