Speaker 1: Well, I told you if there was some breaking news,
Speaker 1: I would have another show for you this week, and
Speaker 1: it just so happens that we got some welcome into Clipperstock.
Speaker 1: I'm out of Osland here to bring you good news
Speaker 1: in the form of Big Zoo getting paid a big
Speaker 1: bag a well deserved contract. Is Adrian Woodroowski reported that
Speaker 1: he got a three year extension at fifty eight point
Speaker 1: six million dollars that gets him max available money for
Speaker 1: his next three seasons. Is now guaranteed seventy billion over
Speaker 1: his next four. Congratulations to Viza Zoo boss, well earned,
Speaker 1: well deserved, and I'll tell you why in this episode,
Speaker 1: and maybe I'll even spliced in some clips to help
Speaker 1: buttress my point and support it, as VTB would say,
Speaker 1: because I am and have been one of Big Zoo's
Speaker 1: biggest faians for a long time, and I'll try to
Speaker 1: make the case for why you should be as well,
Speaker 1: because to me, he's been one of the most underrated players,
Speaker 1: an unsung hero on this Clippers team, and I don't
Speaker 1: know where they'd be without him. He's been an iron man,
Speaker 1: he's been mister consistent. This last season was really the
Speaker 1: first where he missed a significant portion of the year
Speaker 1: just getting to sixty eight games before that, seventy six games,
Speaker 1: seventy six games, seventy two, seventy two and remember those
Speaker 1: were shortened seasons back then. His first full seasons with
Speaker 1: the Clippers was during the COVID hiatus we had before
Speaker 1: restarting things in Orlando. Beats A Zubots has been mister
Speaker 1: reliable and I am so happy that the Clippers value
Speaker 1: him as many of us do, because I think it
Speaker 1: beats Zuba is one of the biggest wour shack tests
Speaker 1: you can have for knowing if you know ball. He
Speaker 1: has a lot of detractors. There's a faction of fans
Speaker 1: that don't understand what he means to this team. It
Speaker 1: makes me sad. It makes me sometimes call people a casual.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to do that, but I've
Speaker 1: done it at times on Twitter, and some people are
Speaker 1: saying this is some massive overpay. No Vitza Zubos is
Speaker 1: gonna average about seventeen million over the next four seasons
Speaker 1: that they gave him the maximum they could on that
Speaker 1: three year extension, when the salary cap will be up
Speaker 1: by at least thirty percent at the end of this
Speaker 1: based off projections.
Speaker 2: It will be guys.
Speaker 1: He just turns twenty seven. We haven't even seen the
Speaker 1: best of Big Zoo yet. I think we got a
Speaker 1: glimpse and a sign of things to come in the
Speaker 1: playoffs this past year against the Dallas Mavericks, when I
Speaker 1: said for them to have a chance, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to average about seventeen and ten heading into that.
Speaker 2: Series, Well he was close.
Speaker 1: He ended up at sixteen to nine, And the only
Speaker 1: reason his averages weren't higher would be because I don't
Speaker 1: think he was featured enough after Game one. I don't
Speaker 1: when he had twenty and fifteen and was detonating at
Speaker 1: the rim and dunking on Gafford and Lively and taking
Speaker 1: them to school and using the left hand, as I've
Speaker 1: called him for years, a long lost gasol brother.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's high praise.
Speaker 1: I think it beats the Zubats is far more skilled
Speaker 1: than people realize.
Speaker 2: He has a plethora of moves.
Speaker 1: He has a bag that he can reach into in.
Speaker 2: Arsenal of moves on the block. They just have an
Speaker 2: exploited Big z in the good way enough.
Speaker 1: They haven't given him the required minutes that I think
Speaker 1: he's going to get this upcoming season now because he's
Speaker 1: paid more, because he's coming into his prime, because they
Speaker 1: don't have Paul George, they haven't had Russell Westbrook. Too,
Speaker 1: high usage guys are gone. A beata Zubats is gonna
Speaker 1: get plenty of opportunities, plenty of touches to prove himself.
Speaker 1: But something that always helps a player get a little
Speaker 1: bit longer of a leash, well, let's.
Speaker 2: Say money plays.
Speaker 1: There could be politics, seniority, veteran status, all these things
Speaker 1: can come into effect when it comes to playing time.
Speaker 1: Zoo is reaching all those benchmarks. Now when you're making
Speaker 1: after this season twenty million per year about you got
Speaker 1: to see what you have. You got to see what
Speaker 1: he could do offensively.
Speaker 2: Here's what we know.
Speaker 1: And what areas of eats of Zubats has been thriving
Speaker 1: in for years, and what all already makes it worth
Speaker 1: it when you take into account the NBA and defensive
Speaker 1: anchors and guys who are great at guarding the rim,
Speaker 1: and how they are highly sought.
Speaker 2: After and valued.
Speaker 1: Well, last year, within six feet of the rim at
Speaker 1: his position, no one was better than six ft of
Speaker 1: the rim. Teams only shot fifty one point eight percent
Speaker 1: against the Beasta Zubas best in the league, ahead of
Speaker 1: guys like chet Hartenstein, Chris STAPs, Go Bear and Bead Jokic. Everybody,
Speaker 1: all his peers of East Zubats was better than them.
Speaker 1: And I'm here to tell you this isn't a fluke.
Speaker 1: It's a credit to his consistency because he's always been
Speaker 1: in the top five when it comes to rim protection.
Speaker 1: The year before the twenty two to twenty three season,
Speaker 1: teams were shooting just fifty four point two percent within
Speaker 1: six ft of the rim against him. He's in the
Speaker 1: top five. Then the twenty one to twenty two season
Speaker 1: a little bit higher fifty six point seven percent, but
Speaker 1: still one of the best in the league. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, fifty three point seven percent within six ft
Speaker 1: of the rim. That was the opposition's fuel goal percentage.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen twenty season, his first full season as
Speaker 1: a Clipper, teams only shot forty eight point six percent
Speaker 1: against him, again number one in the league.
Speaker 2: Nobody was better.
Speaker 1: And he did that with broken fingers, by the way,
Speaker 1: which people seem to forget about. Conveniently, so he's booking
Speaker 1: so far in his Clipper's tenure, being the best rim
Speaker 1: protector in the nineteen twenty season, in his first season
Speaker 1: with them, and in his last season. Just this past
Speaker 1: year was also number one when it comes to being
Speaker 1: a rim protector in the NBA. Can't tell you how
Speaker 1: important that is, can't tell you what a difference that may.
Speaker 1: It's not just because he's some athletic freak or because
Speaker 1: he's big. He's great at playing angles and being disciplined.
Speaker 1: He has great instincts on the interior.
Speaker 2: He patrols the paint and.
Speaker 1: Creates a moat, as Carlo Jimenez and I like to say,
Speaker 1: and when he's on the floor, Because I know some
Speaker 1: of you were saying, why weren't they better defensively than
Speaker 1: last season?
Speaker 2: They finished seventeenth.
Speaker 1: Well, when Zoo was out there, they had a defensive
Speaker 1: rating of one twelve.
Speaker 2: Without him, it was about.
Speaker 1: Three points per possession of per one hundred possessions higher.
Speaker 1: So you go from being a top ten defense when
Speaker 1: he's out there to closer to a bottom ten defense
Speaker 1: without him.
Speaker 2: He can only do so much. This has been my gripe.
Speaker 2: I've been.
Speaker 1: Losing my mind a little bit about the lack of
Speaker 1: playing time for viats to Zoo Bots, especially considering the
Speaker 1: backup center options, and this season there are more unknowns there.
Speaker 1: I like the potential of Mobamba. I like that he
Speaker 1: already has an NBA skill and is proven to be
Speaker 1: somewhat of a stretch big in limited time.
Speaker 2: But he has shot.
Speaker 1: Above league average from three, above thirty six percent from
Speaker 1: three on over seven hundred attempts so far in his career.
Speaker 1: He's had seasons where he shot about forty percent from three.
Speaker 1: That's not nothing.
Speaker 2: He's twenty six, still young.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Clippers can tap into more of that potential
Speaker 1: and show what he can do. I'm excited for that signing.
Speaker 1: I think he has more game than we've seen so far.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for Kai Jones non guaranteed contract. Needs to
Speaker 1: prove it in training camp.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for him.
Speaker 1: But last season, Daniel Tice and Mason Plumley, who just
Speaker 1: looked like he had lost his basketball powers after the
Speaker 1: Julius Randall play where he ran into his knee. He
Speaker 1: missed significant time, came back maybe too soon. I don't know.
Speaker 1: The guy was trying to tough it out, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't the same player, and he's getting up there. I
Speaker 1: think thirty three or thirty four years of age, Big
Speaker 1: plump now with the Phoenix suns his instincts of the
Speaker 1: ram the opposite of Big Zoo. He might be a
Speaker 1: better athlet, can still jump higher. This guy was in
Speaker 1: a dumb contest to one point, but teams use it
Speaker 1: against him.
Speaker 2: He's overly aggressive.
Speaker 1: Big Zoo stays down when he needs to and doesn't
Speaker 1: fall for as nearly as many pump fakes. That's what
Speaker 1: makes him special. That's what lets other guys be able
Speaker 1: to float a little bit more play free safety.
Speaker 2: Oh, Big Zoo's behind me. I'm good.
Speaker 1: Iviata Zoo bots is gonna make up for my mistakes
Speaker 1: on the perimeter. He's worth this much, and I think
Speaker 1: it's still a bargain because right now, coming into this
Speaker 1: next season, he's going to be making less because he's
Speaker 1: still his old deal before the three year extension kicks in,
Speaker 1: so they got him the next four years. He's still
Speaker 1: gonna be making less, no disrespect, but less than Marvin Bagley,
Speaker 1: former top three pick Sacramento Kings. I think took him second.
Speaker 1: Bagley is making twelve point five million dollars this season.
Speaker 1: The Viza Zubats is at eleven point seven million. Marvin
Speaker 1: Bagley I think, has played fifty games the last couple
Speaker 1: of years for the Detroit Pistons. There's still high potential there,
Speaker 1: I suppose because he was such a high draft pick,
Speaker 1: Iman got a duke, the expectations, all that. But he's
Speaker 1: doing this on a really bad team and getting paid
Speaker 1: more in a Viza Zubats. That's crazy value that the
Speaker 1: Clippers are getting and will continue to get even when
Speaker 1: he's making closer to twenty million, because the cap will
Speaker 1: continues to go up and there's only a handful of
Speaker 1: guys that are as good or better than him when
Speaker 1: it comes to protecting the I think he's already a
Speaker 1: top ten center in the league. He's twenty seven. And
Speaker 1: what I'm most excited about is I think his big
Speaker 1: opportunity is now mentioned Paul George out, Russell Westbrook out.
Speaker 1: The Clippers need to use Big Zoo on offense out
Speaker 1: of necessity. Finally, it's no longer an option to feed
Speaker 1: him here and there, keep him involved. What Shack always
Speaker 1: used to say, if you want the dog to protect
Speaker 1: the house, you better feed him. It's natural. It happens
Speaker 1: all the time when big men get more involved on
Speaker 1: the offensive end, they're even better on the defensive end. Well,
Speaker 1: Big Zoo, the unsung hero doing the dirty work.
Speaker 2: A thankless job.
Speaker 1: It seems like he's already good defensively, he's already played
Speaker 1: his role there. He's earned more touches and opportunities on
Speaker 1: the offensive end, and he has shown enough with what
Speaker 1: he just did against in that series, bodying their centers
Speaker 1: and giving the Clippers a chance even without Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: throughout most of it, where he was the second best
Speaker 1: player in that series behind James Harden. It was easily
Speaker 1: to eat Zoobos then Terrence Man more about him in
Speaker 1: a little bit than Paul George. I have been screaming
Speaker 1: this phrase for a long time on Clipper stock. There
Speaker 1: is an easier path to victory. There's an easier way
Speaker 1: to win, a obvious path of least resistance, and it's
Speaker 1: Big Zoo getting involved on offense. Because guess what, you
Speaker 1: may not believe this. You may think and have these
Speaker 1: images in your mind of him dropping passes back when
Speaker 1: he had broken fingers, and that's still playing an effect
Speaker 1: on you. Our guy Carl Tart, who I love, always
Speaker 1: brings this up with the beats of Zubos, and he's
Speaker 1: not the only one. Many for whatever reason, they won't
Speaker 1: let him shake that reputation I guess of having bad hands,
Speaker 1: which he doesn't. He had broken hands and played through it,
Speaker 1: and that gets criticized for it where he can't catch
Speaker 1: the basketball or he probably shouldn't have been out there,
Speaker 1: and that was their first impression of Big Zoo.
Speaker 2: First impressions do a lot for you.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been able to overcome that with some people.
Speaker 1: So even if it only happens seldomly now, whatever it does,
Speaker 1: they have it stuck in their mind that, oh, this
Speaker 1: is who beats the Zubats is, always has been and
Speaker 1: always will be. None of that is true a visas Zubos,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. I know this is going to
Speaker 1: rock the foundation of some people's basketball principles and minds,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a paradigm shift, hopefully because I
Speaker 1: tell them this.
Speaker 2: This is that Rorschack test.
Speaker 1: Those who saw Bigsho was a good player probably already
Speaker 1: knew this. From five to nine feet out. He just
Speaker 1: led the league in field goal percentage from five to
Speaker 1: nine feet out this past season. He just shot in
Speaker 1: that area sixty three point eight percent. That's better than
Speaker 1: Jokic shot. Yeah, Jokic took two hundred more shots in
Speaker 1: that area because they feed him much more. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best players in the NBA. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying if eatsa zubats as him, but I am saying
Speaker 1: from five to nine feet out, he just shot better
Speaker 1: than Jokic. And it wasn't like it was on a
Speaker 1: small sample. We're talking about one hundred and thirty eight attempts.
Speaker 2: It's not nothing.
Speaker 1: That's a healthy sample to say, oh, he has touched
Speaker 1: around the basket.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have bad hands. If you had bad hands,
Speaker 2: he'd have five turnovers per game.
Speaker 1: Prove he has bad hands.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 1: All you can do is pull some past history, anecdotal
Speaker 1: evidence when he had broken hands.
Speaker 2: Get it to big Zoo.
Speaker 1: And get out the damn way. Because this guy, well,
Speaker 1: he's made it clear to a few different players that.
Speaker 2: He can also be nasty.
Speaker 1: Ask Demanta Sabonus, Ask Jericho Sims, ask the Spurs, Ask
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert, ask Pascal Siakam, ask Bobi. There is a
Speaker 1: confidence to have eats zoobots around the rim where he
Speaker 1: is looking for a body and looking to embarrass someone.
Speaker 1: He just needs more opportunities. Guys, he can't be at
Speaker 1: twenty six minutes per game season. That's the only thing
Speaker 1: that's been holding him back. Somebody hit me up on
Speaker 1: X after I tweeted out he's the third most important
Speaker 1: player on the team. He is when you account for
Speaker 1: offense now and what he's been doing defensively for them,
Speaker 1: saving them at times on that end, doing everything.
Speaker 2: Someone said a.
Speaker 1: Ten to nine guys or third best player.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, Well, first of all, that's somewhat inaccurate if eats
Speaker 1: a zoobas and his numbers.
Speaker 2: Were higher than that.
Speaker 1: Overall, he was last season twelve and nine, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't tell you represent the entire picture. He only got
Speaker 1: twenty six minutes per game, actually less than he got
Speaker 1: the year before. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I know he got injured at one point.
Speaker 1: I sure that was it. It just seems like he almost
Speaker 1: has been getting a rookie treatment or is on the
Speaker 1: shortest leave possible. When he messes up, he doesn't get
Speaker 1: the same opportunities to fail. I think that's about to change.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I think coach lu trusts him he did in the
Speaker 1: playoff series, and that's how his numbers went up, because
Speaker 1: if you look at his per thirty six numbers throughout
Speaker 1: his entire career, well, if he gets thirty six minutes
Speaker 1: last season, he's likely putting up sixteen and twelve. That's
Speaker 1: where he's at. Has to watch out for foul trouble.
Speaker 1: But he's been okay overall in that area. I know
Speaker 1: he filed out before he got to thirty thirty against
Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers a couple of years ago, and that
Speaker 1: was unfortunate.
Speaker 2: He should have had that bilestone. Still a crazy game.
Speaker 1: Showing off just how amazing he can beat, how incredible
Speaker 1: he can beat, how much potential there is for this.
Speaker 2: This center that is coming into his own.
Speaker 1: I believe right now, age of twenty seven, athletically stole
Speaker 1: in his prime and things are gonna start slowing down
Speaker 1: even more. I think I made a meme one time,
Speaker 1: or a photoshop edit of Keishawn Johnson give me the
Speaker 1: damn Ball his book, and I put Aviatza Zubots's face
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel about it. Beatza Zoobots.
Speaker 1: It's so simple, guys, instead of settling for jumpers, and
Speaker 1: tough shots.
Speaker 2: You need to get easier shots.
Speaker 1: That is something the Clippers of needed to generate for
Speaker 1: a long time, and it's no longer an option to
Speaker 1: do so, it's a necessity because no Paul George.
Speaker 2: So how do you make up for some of that production?
Speaker 2: Big Zoo's going to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: And he's coming off a series where he just outplayed
Speaker 1: Paul George and Average sixteen to nine against the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks and showed great footwork, awareness.
Speaker 2: Heart.
Speaker 1: I've always trusted him in big games, in big moments,
Speaker 1: seems like he embraces them. There's a level of almost
Speaker 1: cockiness to Big Zoo that I like, Like remember this
Speaker 1: clip on Podcast P. I know, I know, but for
Speaker 1: the sake of this Vista Zoobots quote, I want you
Speaker 1: to hear it. He's been like this. He has been
Speaker 1: someone that has wonted a larger role going back to
Speaker 1: his Lakers days and by the way, he's had some
Speaker 1: of his best games.
Speaker 2: Against the Lakers, some of his best games against Anthony Davis.
Speaker 2: He had last season a.
Speaker 1: Twenty two to nineteen game where they lost by three.
Speaker 1: Mounts it to come back late and I thought he
Speaker 1: outplayed ad I thought he did. He got thirty seven
Speaker 1: minutes in that game. More Zoo for the opposition. That's
Speaker 1: typically how it works, Coach Lou. Part of it is
Speaker 1: he likes to play small sometimes. If you have the personnel,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. They certainly had it in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one in the playoffs and it worked beautifully. And
Speaker 1: at that time, Big Zoo's coming off. You know that
Speaker 1: series against the Golden State Warriors in twenty nineteen where
Speaker 1: he got played off the court at times.
Speaker 2: But he's not that guy anymore.
Speaker 1: He has progressed so much further since then, and they
Speaker 1: kept him on the court against Luka Doncic, who he
Speaker 1: still hit some incredible tough shots against. Zoo also blocked
Speaker 1: him on one of his patented step back fadeaways this year,
Speaker 1: showing some growth there, just saying step per step with
Speaker 1: Luka Doncic, you could just see he's not the same player.
Speaker 1: He's progressing. He is arriving, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: his ceiling is. I think all Star with the front
Speaker 1: court players we have in the West, it goes backcourt
Speaker 1: front court.
Speaker 2: I think with voting and.
Speaker 1: Just all start voting, you never really count on anyways,
Speaker 1: I mean, Yaoming still getting voted in probably uh SASA.
Speaker 2: But can he forget All Star?
Speaker 1: Can this season or these realistic expectations get to me
Speaker 1: in the comments section?
Speaker 2: Can he make an All Defensive team? I think so?
Speaker 1: Can he be in the hunt for most improved player?
Speaker 1: There's going to be more of a spotlight on him.
Speaker 1: He's going to be more of a focal point. People
Speaker 1: are gonna be watching him, and there's a chance if
Speaker 1: he really shines, he starts off the year averaging fifteen
Speaker 1: to ten the opening month, people are going to take notice.
Speaker 1: And I think he's capable of that. In fact, I
Speaker 1: think he's capable of averaging seventeen and ten seventeen and
Speaker 1: eleven this season. It's just dependent on minutes, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why he wouldn't be playing more. If he
Speaker 1: gets the minutes, he'll get the numbers.
Speaker 2: He'll give you the production period. Fully believe that he's
Speaker 2: my favorite Clipper.
Speaker 1: I should say full disclosure because I feel like he's
Speaker 1: been overlooked and undervalued, and those are the guys I rootfore.
Speaker 2: It's close to home. No, it's just.
Speaker 1: I like his style.
Speaker 2: I like his effort and energy I know.
Speaker 1: He wasn't drafted as a Clipper, but he's been here
Speaker 1: for a while now. I've been in southern California in
Speaker 1: his entire career, and we see him play internationally.
Speaker 2: I tend to gravitate.
Speaker 1: Towards those guys. My dad, we always like the international
Speaker 1: guys back of the day, different skill set as as
Speaker 1: martial Iwness, Drazen Petrovitch, guys like that. And now you
Speaker 1: see it at the highest level with what we saw
Speaker 1: from Dirk and now Jokic and Luken Dancic. But his
Speaker 1: potential is tantalizing. It fascinates me to think about what
Speaker 1: a Beats's Zubas could do if they really give him
Speaker 1: a green light, if they give him the keys, if
Speaker 1: they show the confidence in him that I think he
Speaker 1: has in himself.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's lacking any confidence.
Speaker 1: I think he knows that this is his time.
Speaker 2: There's a few guys right.
Speaker 1: Now that have a chance to prove something. Terrence Man
Speaker 1: is another. I'd expect him to get an extension too.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with that. But I wasn't surprised
Speaker 1: at all seeing this news with the beats of Zubas today, and.
Speaker 2: I couldn't be here.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even having a good day, and for some reason,
Speaker 1: Big Zoo getting sixty million made me feel better too,
Speaker 1: turned my day around. I just he's easy to root for. Man,
Speaker 1: He's one of the fan favorites. My god, Patrick Beverley
Speaker 1: after he left the Clippers, after they moved him, came
Speaker 1: back to a game wearing a Viza Zubas jersey on
Speaker 1: the sidelines.
Speaker 2: Courtside was rooting on and Visa Zubas. The players like him.
Speaker 1: I remember this clip of Kawhi giving him props after
Speaker 1: having a big game, and my goodness, he has had some.
Speaker 2: It's just it flummixes me.
Speaker 1: It's mind boggling that they will talk about trying to
Speaker 1: get him more involved, and then they do for a
Speaker 1: quarter or a game or two, and then.
Speaker 2: They just forget about him. I keep joking about it.
Speaker 1: I should probably just do it at some point, But
Speaker 1: Chuck Mockler might be right. We talked about this earlier
Speaker 1: on Clips and Dip as we did a Live at five.
Speaker 2: The parody I'm gonna do at least on World two
Speaker 2: or two.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm probably not never gonna do it here.
Speaker 1: I just talk about it and fantasized about it. It's
Speaker 1: my little fan fiction. Uh the parody of Dre's Forgot
Speaker 1: about Dre.
Speaker 2: On the two thousand and one album with the chronic two.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I Forgot about Zoo is what always seems
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: It is memento with Guy Pierce, with him. I don't
Speaker 2: know why.
Speaker 1: It's not the coaching staff, it's not the players, it's everybody.
Speaker 2: It's it's not one in particular person. Really, it's not.
Speaker 2: It's just.
Speaker 1: He gets lost in the shuffle. He has been in
Speaker 1: the past. I don't expect that to happen much more.
Speaker 2: How's a guy.
Speaker 1: Go from playing thirty seven minutes getting twenty two to
Speaker 1: nineteen to one game to play in twenty eight minutes
Speaker 1: the next game that happened after that game against ad
Speaker 1: in the Lakers. How does a guy who has given
Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic two of the worst shooting games of his career,
Speaker 1: which happened over this past season, where he went nine
Speaker 1: for thirty two against Zuo and one and eight for
Speaker 1: twenty three against Zuoe in another not get more run,
Speaker 1: not get talked about enough for how good he's been defensively.
Speaker 1: He does get up to play against Jokich. In particular,
Speaker 1: it seems like he's had his highest scoring game against Jokich.
Speaker 2: Zu had thirty two.
Speaker 1: Jokic I think still had almost forty and the Denver
Speaker 1: ended up winning that game, but Zuo was trying to
Speaker 1: match him bucket for bucket, the amount and the array
Speaker 1: of shots that he can hit, you know, in the pain.
Speaker 1: I think his offensive game could be much low, larger
Speaker 1: and grander and special than people have any idea because
Speaker 1: he hasn't had a chance to show it.
Speaker 2: Now he has to meet the opportunity. Stay rasied. You
Speaker 2: don't have to get ready. I think he's been standing by.
Speaker 1: I think he's been ready for this. I think he's prepared.
Speaker 2: I think he has the tools.
Speaker 1: He's more than capable of proving that the Clippers are
Speaker 1: still getting a bargain even with this three year extension
Speaker 1: for almost sixty million.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it means he's going to start
Speaker 2: hitting threes or anything, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that he finally got an opportunity to show that
Speaker 1: in one game at the end of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: I just want Big Zoo to be unleashed because I
Speaker 1: have full faith that He's going to prove the Zoo
Speaker 1: truthers like myself right, and the doubters and the tractors
Speaker 1: and the haters and people that quite honestly don't understand
Speaker 1: basketball and how you win in this league and what's
Speaker 1: important and don't look at the advanced stats ever, which
Speaker 1: always favor Big Zoo. And I know the coaching staff
Speaker 1: in the front office know all these things. But he
Speaker 1: was second in the league last season when it came
Speaker 1: to defending the pick and roll.
Speaker 2: The only guy better was Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1: Tell me that's a meaningless stat When the only guy
Speaker 1: better was Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 2: Was he four defensive player of the years?
Speaker 1: Now, so big day for Big Zoo, Big day, I
Speaker 1: believe for Clipper Nation. He should be rejoicing and praising
Speaker 1: this and feel good about the fact that one of
Speaker 1: your youngerish players that is still entering his prime is
Speaker 1: locked up throughout his prime. Now, don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about it. Don't have to go into a season and say,
Speaker 1: who's our center, who's our starting center? You have a
Speaker 1: mister consistent there. That position is taken care of. Next
Speaker 1: four seasons, Big Zoo, a Clipper all right. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know if I do another show on Monday. Thought
Speaker 1: about doing something up for Terrence Man.
Speaker 2: Maybe I will.
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to be doing this today. But I
Speaker 1: can't talk about the Clippers enough. I can't talk about
Speaker 1: it eats a Zoo bots enough.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is it.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most intriguing storylines of this season,
Speaker 1: and we'll determine a lot of the Clippers' success at
Speaker 1: Big Zoo has a big year. They're in the hunt
Speaker 1: for getting out of the planet. I think he's the
Speaker 1: third most important player. I hope I have given you
Speaker 1: reasons to believe that too, and believe in Zoo. If
Speaker 1: you didn't like him before, if you didn't understand his worth,
Speaker 1: if you're saying, hey, what are you me and Adam?
Speaker 1: Look at his career numbers nine and seven, ho hum,
Speaker 1: not that special. Yeah, that includes a career minutes per
Speaker 1: game of twenty one. Get it up to thirty plus
Speaker 1: this season.
Speaker 2: Have to If.
Speaker 1: You're skeptical, and I think it's fair to be, If
Speaker 1: you are curious and have a little bit of trepidation
Speaker 1: regarding the backup center position, well, here is a way
Speaker 1: to mitigate some of those concerns play big Zoom more so,
Speaker 1: the backup is only getting twelve minutes a night. That
Speaker 1: was an issue last year. I don't know how he
Speaker 1: was only playing twenty six minutes.
Speaker 2: This year thirty plus.
Speaker 1: He averaged thirty three in the playoff series. I really
Speaker 1: believe that's a sign of things to come.
Speaker 2: Make it thirty two wouldn't be accurate.
Speaker 1: As always, here's the Big Zoo making a big impact.
Speaker 1: Prove the doubters wrong and proving Zoo nation at Zuo
Speaker 1: al Cinder fans at guys like me that when he
Speaker 1: has a dunk, when he's hanging from the rim and
Speaker 1: kicks his legs out, and I go back to the
Speaker 1: old Tequille O'Neil reebok logo and do the side by
Speaker 1: side comparison.
Speaker 2: Prove us right. Please, we're all rooting for you. We
Speaker 2: are in your quarter. Zoo, do it this year.
Speaker 1: I'm certain you will.
Speaker 2: I'm Adam Ansland.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy Labor Day.