Speaker 1: Clippers win one four to ninety three over the Orlando Magic.
Here it into a dome, welcome back in I'm out
of Maslin. This is Clippers Talk. Final segment here Clippers
taking it on the Sacramento Kings right back here on
Friday to exit their four game homestand before they head
out onto the road. Join the show right now is
Big Chuck Mockler from Clips and Dip Charles. This was
an impressive victory because of how bad they were with
the turnovers and they still win convincingly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was watching this game and I was kind
of like, is this gonna end up the second most
comfortable win since the seventy six ers one. I called
this on the Clippers pod stream a disgraceful win because
of the turnovers, and we'll take all of those that
we can get at this point. There's a lot of
good stuff, but the turnovers are crazy.
Speaker 1: The turnovers. I mean, Orlando, there's a reason they're second. Defensively,
they have the same type of ballhawk guards that the
Clippers do. It was almost a mirror match at times
where both teams were turning it over, both teams were
getting crazy stops, and they just make it so hard
to score on you. But you know, the Clippers ended
up shooting forty nine percent from the field. They shoot
fifty percent from the outside again, and they didn't have
Norm Powell when they actually got shots off, they were
knocking them down. But I think the story is a
mirror coffee filling the shoes of Norm Powell admirably tonight
and having eleven points what in the first quarter and
helping them get off to a quick start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a norm start, right. I think he
went three for three from three to open this game.
It was exactly what we've seen from Norm so far,
which is awesome. He faded a little bit in the
second half, but again, the start that we got from
a mirror was exactly what we needed, especially with Harden
not starting all that well. He closed great to kind
of trade it off halves in this one. But no,
I mean, a mirror hard to not call him kind
of player of the game.
Speaker 1: What did you make in the minutes from Jordan Miller?
I thought he was solid overall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in terms of you know, this was like
kind of his first real stint, right and against the
team that is a really good defense, and he did
everything that Jordan Miller. Fans wanted him to do right,
show that he can get to the rim, show that
he gets the whistle, which he did, and he made
up for two steals. He was a big part. You know,
Will on the podcast talks about us meeting outlier offensive
nights from guys sometimes two steals from Jordan Miller, and
his first real action is an outlier defensive performance that
they really needed. And hopefully we see more of the
same on Friday, which I think he is capable of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, norm Pal is going to be out again on
Friday against the Sacramento Kings. But to start off this
four game homestand three to zero the Clippers two games
about five hundred. They're doing it. They're exceeding expectations right
now they're playing. I don't know if you want to
say it's above their heads or just above what the
national media thought they could do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's I think it's a little of
both the national media and you know, the win totals
were a little crazy flying around for the Clippers. I
think most of them had a pegged at like thirty
seven wins or something like that. But it's real. I
hope the media isn't the main stream sports media doesn't
start talking about the Clippers because that's some things tend
to kind of unravel a little bit. But this also,
this team doesn't care everything we were sold in the
preseason in terms of this new defensive mentality, what Van
Gundy has brought, it's been what's been happening. So it's
nice to see that bill of goods still be true
this far into the season, with the tough schedule, missing
two key guys tonight. At least.
Speaker 1: Someone brought this up in the chat earlier, and I
kind of wasn't sure if I wanted to ask this question,
but I was thinking about it the other day. Two
there's almost like a heat culture going on with this
Clippers team right now, or just the whole is greater
than some of its parts, and the defensive intensity they're
playing with. I don't know, is that is that crazy
to say or is it too early? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think there's building blocks to it.
Right We saw the building blocks in the preseason for
what this team could be during the regular season, and
if this team continues this mentality kind of throughout the
whole season, that's the biggest building block for kind of
reforming the culture finding a new one in the post,
the very very post two to one three era.
Speaker 1: What have you made of Mobamba so far as a
clipper In just his third game now where he finally
hit a three pointer and it looked pretty good, there
was a battle going on between him and Moe Wagner,
former teammates there. As soon as Mo got into the
ballgame against Mo, they were absolutely pushing and shoving each other.
It was crazy. It was a really physical game, but
those two in particular, there was an individual battle going
on too that was kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the reps were kind of oddom so and they
were letting some stuff go. But no, Bomba's been a
breath of fresh air for the people like myself who
were terrified about the back of five scenarios. The three
is just kind of icing on the cake because he's
also just he's been a big target for James Harden
to find. He's drawn foul, he's finished at the rim
well for the most part, like he's doing everything a
real backup five should do for a team. It's limited minute.
He's not going to really you know, dominate a game
or anything. But that scrappiness that you mentioned is another
thing showing how a guy has fit in with this
new defensive culture, and there's no way the rest of
the team doesn't feed off that when the guy who's
just cut onto the team is showing all the other
things that you know, the regular guys have shown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, outside the three pointer that he knocked down, as
you mentioned, just kind of icing on the cake. He
had a physical layup against Mo Wagner for his first
points and then he put back layup. He plays like
a traditional big that also can give you a three
here and there. Basically, I'm good with that. I hope
he continues to put him up because you know, he's
taken over seven hundred in his career and he's a
thirty six percent three point shooter. I mean, it's real,
I guess. On the downside, not the best performance from
Terrence Man in his minutes you could say, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can definitely say that he had a
nice little He had this dish to Jordan Miller, which
was cool. He had like a nice little pop in
midway through the fourth. But I don't know what's up
with Terrence. He had good performances. Tyler credited him, you know,
praised him in the postgame stuff that he got his
guy back and things like that. But it's a rocky
slope up for Terrence Man. I still think it is
trending up over the last four games or so, but
the lows are kind of hard to deal with in
a new way with Terrence.
Speaker 1: I think you could say the same for Kevin Ford Junior,
where he has been trending upwards in this game, and
he got both once again. I thought he had some
really timely shots, like there was a nine to zero
run by Orlando in the third and he had a
jumper I think out of a timeout on like the
right elbow. And he had a couple of tough ones,
like a spinning layup with some English on it that
he got to go. But then there were some bad
plays too. It's just it's up and down. But I
feel like it's starting to trend towards overall positive play
from him. I know what he misses on the ISO plays.
It makes people cringe, but it still is just a misshot.
It's not like it goes like minus two against them
because he missed that shot necessarily. It's just it doesn't
look great when it does happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like how you said that the positive trending
up with a question mark, because it is. It's the
KPJ roller coaster, right. Some turnovers were rough tonight. There
was one possession. I think he took two threes a
little early in the shot cluck. Like you said, he
he brings things that this team needs. He crashes the boards.
He had six assists the night, like, there are some
things he's doing well just when things aren't going well.
The way that he gets his shot, it's I think
it's it's a bigger spotlight. I thought he was going
to struggle more against this Orlando defense, to be honest,
just because they're kind of built to shut down a
guy like that. But it trending up. Everyone's trending up
in their own special either question mark ended way or
just normal way.
Speaker 1: Quickly, How do you feel about the game on Friday?
Can they close things out and sweep the Homestand.
Speaker 2: I hope they can, But it is the NBA Cup
and the Clippers seem to have the worst luck in
the NBA Cup, So we're going to need more minutes
from Jordan Miller. I think guys are gonna be kind
of tired from tonight, but I think they can. They
match up pretty well with the with the Kings, and
let's just hope we got a third of the turnovers
out of our systems.
Speaker 1: Tonight, Clippers with twenty five turnovers and somehow survive with
the victory one to four, two ninety three over the
Orlando Magic here and into a dome. He is Chuck
Mockler of Clips and dip Fame. Charles, thanks for doing
this on the phone side, on the video side, making
it happen for people in the chat as well, my
friend as we close out the show, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me. Let's go Clips,