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Speaker 1: around this article that just dropped.
Speaker 2: Picked up some traction. Clippers reporter for.
Speaker 1: Espin om Young Massouk did a great piece regarding coach
Speaker 1: lou and his summer and how things went working with
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Speaker 1: So I'll get into the meat and potatoes of this
Speaker 1: article now. The quote that stuck out to me the
Speaker 1: highlight of this, and there's a lot of them. I'm
Speaker 1: going to underscore some of the bigger points here in
Speaker 1: the article, but I want you to read the entire
Speaker 1: thing because OHM does some such great work. I certainly
Speaker 1: just don't want to read the entire thing for you
Speaker 1: and do some AI I don't know narration here that
Speaker 1: you could do on your phone. Uh.
Speaker 2: I want to give you this quote from coach lou.
Speaker 1: Last week. He said this, I guess to OHM quote
Speaker 1: when you lose a guy of Paul George's stature, instantly
Speaker 1: people think, oh, they can't win or they're not going
Speaker 1: to be competitive. But that just challenges me even more. Okay,
Speaker 1: people are counting us out, or people don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to be good. That right there just gives me
Speaker 1: an extra.
Speaker 2: Dose of motivation.
Speaker 1: I can wait to prove everybody wrong. Ooh, that just
Speaker 1: got me fired up, right.
Speaker 2: To run through a wall.
Speaker 1: And I think about coach lew and who he has
Speaker 1: been throughout his career, who he was as a player
Speaker 1: and who he's been as a head coach. He has
Speaker 1: had to deal with doubters and detractors. He was a
Speaker 1: role player that got into an NBA Finals specifically to
Speaker 1: guard Allen Iverson and get stepped over. We know the
Speaker 1: play back in two thousand and one for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: This is somebody that wasn't thought of as being even
Speaker 1: close to a star.
Speaker 2: He was a contributor.
Speaker 1: He always had to prove it. It continues as a
Speaker 1: head coach. He took over for David Blatt mid season
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen for the Cleveland Cavaliers and got them
Speaker 1: to win a championship after everyone doubted them being down
Speaker 1: three games to one to Golden State, the seventy three
Speaker 1: win Golden State Warriors team.
Speaker 2: This is who he is. He's built like this. Guys.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if there's somebody that would take it
Speaker 1: personally that Paul George left his team, it's coach Lou.
Speaker 1: The Michael Jordan and I took that personally meme who
Speaker 1: he played next to with the Wizards, that's Coach Lou.
Speaker 1: Do not think for a second it's lost on him
Speaker 1: that Paul George decided to leave him and his coaching staff. Also,
Speaker 1: that's just the players, that's just the organization, Kawhi, everybody,
Speaker 1: Steve Balmer, they took care of Paul George and he
Speaker 1: decides to go to what he thinks is greener pastures
Speaker 1: with Joel Embiid. But he's leaving someone who coached him
Speaker 1: the last four seasons. He's leaving someone that had at
Speaker 1: times to adjust his game plan to how Paul George
Speaker 1: was feeling that night on whether or not he was
Speaker 1: going to.
Speaker 2: Be a certain him, be a superstar.
Speaker 1: Or kind of fade into the background a little bit
Speaker 1: and just blend in and be a role player. Coach
Speaker 1: Lou was the one that had to set him straight
Speaker 1: multiple times. Paul George says, he's not just the one
Speaker 1: A or one B to Kawhi. He was second fiddle,
Speaker 1: he was the second player, he was the number two.
Speaker 1: Coach Lou I had to correct that. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're a bad boy. You're a bad man, your bad
Speaker 1: mother effort.
Speaker 2: Believe that is what he told him.
Speaker 1: After last season, where Paul George also said he was
Speaker 1: going to try to be the blue guy and do
Speaker 1: the little things. After they had lost four games in
Speaker 1: a row with them trying to make it work in
Speaker 1: the backcourt with James Harden and Russell Westbrook, Coach lou
Speaker 1: did all he could.
Speaker 2: You want to be more on ball, cool.
Speaker 1: I'll give you more on ball reps. Oh, now you
Speaker 1: want to be off ball. Don't like being picked up
Speaker 1: ninety four feet by Drew Holliday. They would bend and
Speaker 1: adjust the game plan for Paul George plenty, and he left,
Speaker 1: and that's fine. Seventy two million dollars more. I understand
Speaker 1: that part of it. The B team comment. We've talked
Speaker 1: about that at nauseum wasn't great. Bad luck sealed his
Speaker 1: fate with now likely being booed when he returns into
Speaker 1: a on November six. If you guys want to get
Speaker 1: in the chat here, please do. This is Clippers Talk.
Speaker 1: It's Clippers Talk Live. Just the second one I've done
Speaker 1: since putting up the YouTube channel about three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: We've been doing a ton of episodes. Is I'd just
Speaker 1: like to work and talk about this team. I am
Speaker 1: most interested in Clippers' basketball more so than anything else
Speaker 1: really in my life right now out even during the
Speaker 1: off season, I'm like this, I can't stop thinking about
Speaker 1: the Clippers.
Speaker 2: This is what I care about.
Speaker 1: So even when something as innocuous there is, I guess
Speaker 1: secondary as an article like this that doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: have anything too inflammatory.
Speaker 2: Or too juicy. Maybe for some, but to me, this
Speaker 2: is big time. This is important.
Speaker 1: This gives a lot of insight into coach Liu and
Speaker 1: who he is and how this season could go for
Speaker 1: the Clippers. And again, Olm Young Masouf did it for
Speaker 1: espen he is the Clippers beat reporter for ESPN. Here's
Speaker 1: a few more as we kind of go through this,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to start with that quote from
Speaker 1: coach lu saying I can't wait to prove everybody wrong,
Speaker 1: because I believe that is what fuels him. There is
Speaker 1: a fire burning in his belly. Former players are often
Speaker 1: like this. You know, eventually they can't stay on the floor.
Speaker 1: They still want to compete, they get into coaching.
Speaker 2: Coach Lou he is somebody that is very.
Speaker 1: Passionate about the game, and you can see it on
Speaker 1: the sidelines.
Speaker 2: He gets after it.
Speaker 1: What happened in Golden State right before the All Star
Speaker 1: break where he was kicked out of that game shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been mentioned the referee post game. There is an
Speaker 1: interesting video out there about that he has an edge
Speaker 1: to him and it goes back to being doubted as
Speaker 1: a player.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Coach Lou is somebody that has had to deal with
Speaker 1: this for so long that I think it is his
Speaker 1: main motivation of just knowing they're trying to count us
Speaker 1: out again. They're trying to count me out again, and
Speaker 1: he stacks another chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 2: Shari or shar.
Speaker 1: Silly A CEO, Hope I got that right? Probably didn't,
Speaker 1: says hoping we get to see DJJ Derrek Jones Junior
Speaker 1: lockdown PG again in the finals this year.
Speaker 2: What mind seeing that? Would mind seeing that? A meet up.
Speaker 1: Against Philadelphia in the finals. Here's a few more excerpts
Speaker 1: here from this wonderful.
Speaker 2: Article by Ohm.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is centered around coach Lou and
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy also being on the Team USA staff.
Speaker 1: Not just getting ready because coach Leu was the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator during the Olympics for Team USA to get them
Speaker 1: prepared each and every night, as they did going on
Speaker 1: to win goal down seventeen to Serbia. Coach Lou was
Speaker 1: out there making the adjustments and they eventually clamped him
Speaker 1: down in the second half. Some of that was just
Speaker 1: really hot shooting from Serbia. It wasn't even so, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of attention and going towards Jokic letting guys
Speaker 1: get open. As Bogie had himself a game, i think
Speaker 1: with five to three pointers at least, but it was
Speaker 1: hot shooting that he really just couldn't slow down. There
Speaker 1: was good perimeter defense and it didn't matter for Serbia.
Speaker 1: But coach Lou and Jeff Van Gundy, Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: talking behind the scenes about the Clippers, specifically over four
Speaker 1: dinners in France. They were viewed quote play sets, pick
Speaker 1: and roll coverages, transition, defensive schemes and Van Gundy was
Speaker 1: crunching in the numbers and researching how to improve the
Speaker 1: team's rebounding been a bugaboo for the Clippers for some time.
Speaker 1: Team rebounding. We know of Eats Zubats is good in
Speaker 1: that area, but he's not playing thirty plus minutes per game,
Speaker 1: which we do expect him to be at this season.
Speaker 1: Hopefully needs to be as a decision for coach lou
Speaker 1: and also beat the subots. Has to stay out of
Speaker 1: foul trouble, but they had to do it by committee.
Speaker 1: With Kawhi Leonard playing power forward. Still looks to be
Speaker 1: this season as well, they just don't have the decide
Speaker 1: to compete on the boards with the best teams in
Speaker 1: that area. Excited to see that from Van Gundy, kind
Speaker 1: of honing in on some of those deficiencies and some
Speaker 1: of the details that the Clippers just have to pay
Speaker 1: attention to next season when it comes to rebounding and
Speaker 1: getting better defensively overall, because I forget, if they finished
Speaker 1: seventeenth or sixteenth defensively this season, that number is inflated.
Speaker 1: As much as you would say, oh, you know, that's
Speaker 1: still bad, it was worse defensively for the Clippers, and
Speaker 1: I'll get you the exact defensive rating for them. They
Speaker 1: end up finishing seventeenth. Let me tell you this. I've
Speaker 1: been pointing out this number for some time because it's
Speaker 1: so damning and alarming and shocking and surprising. And we'll
Speaker 1: leave your mouth agape when you hear this. If you go, oh,
Speaker 1: based off of just the last seventy one games in
Speaker 1: the regular season, the Clippers were twenty first defensively last year,
Speaker 1: twenty first, twenty one Deon Sanders number.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that could happen.
Speaker 1: When you come into training camp saying you want to
Speaker 1: be a top five defense. That is extremely disappointing. You
Speaker 1: take out the first two weeks, two and a half
Speaker 1: weeks of the season and you're twenty first to bottom
Speaker 1: ten defense of the rest of the way. That can't happen.
Speaker 1: Old Dirty Dasher wants to know. Can we get some
Speaker 1: clues on Friday's guest? Okay, I have to come forward
Speaker 1: with this and clear this up.
Speaker 2: I jinxed it.
Speaker 1: I guess we're moving Friday's Special super secret guest.
Speaker 2: Back to next week. He will be on.
Speaker 1: I gave a hint there, but I can't go any
Speaker 1: further with it because I don't want to jinx it again.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have talked about it at all. I shouldn't
Speaker 1: even brought this up. Why I'm old dirty dasher. Come on,
Speaker 1: why would you make me answer that? No? Programming, No,
Speaker 1: we still have coming up later tonight, Chuck Macklin will
Speaker 1: Updyke will be on.
Speaker 2: We'll do some clips and dip here on Clippers Talk.
Speaker 1: I will talk origin stories of how they became a
Speaker 1: fan of the Clippers. Myself included. It's not just because
Speaker 1: I work for them now, there's a deeper story to that.
Speaker 1: And then tomorrow Justin Wilson will be on the show.
Speaker 1: But this is a live here on Clippers Talk because
Speaker 1: of this article. Evil four Letter put it out.
Speaker 2: Olm had it.
Speaker 1: Coach Lou extra motivated if he wasn't already. This is
Speaker 1: somebody that just thrives when you doubt him. This is
Speaker 1: somebody that got a winning season out of the Clippers
Speaker 1: in the twenty one to twenty two season without Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard the entire year and with Paul George only playing
Speaker 1: thirty one games. It's not like Coach Lou hasn't already
Speaker 1: been through something like he's going to face next season.
Speaker 1: With Kawhi being limited, we expect there's multiple back to
Speaker 1: backs right the start of the season. I don't know
Speaker 1: how they're going to treat him. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. After four straight years with him
Speaker 1: not being able to finish the season healthy because of
Speaker 1: his right knee. I would imagine he's not playing back
Speaker 1: to backs, and his coach Lou alluded to at the
Speaker 1: end of last season, after losing that game six to Dallas,
Speaker 1: he jokingly said, we're going back to load management. May
Speaker 1: have been tongue in cheek, maybe the reality of the
Speaker 1: situation too, And so you go back to that twenty
Speaker 1: one to twenty two season where they still had a
Speaker 1: winning record twelve straight years, having a winning record longest
Speaker 1: street currently in the NBA in that respect, he had
Speaker 1: to do it with thirty one games from Paul George
Speaker 1: and zero from Kawhi out the entire year coming off
Speaker 1: the ACL tear. He's seen worse situations. I think this
Speaker 1: team is better. I think this team has more talent.
Speaker 1: And of course, if you swap out Paul George only
Speaker 1: playing thirty one games for whatever you get from Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard this year, we're expecting more than thirty one. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping it's sixty plus. They're not in a bad spot,
Speaker 1: not as bad as it looks. Elgony said this, We
Speaker 1: still have hardened in Kawhi didn't have Harden that year,
Speaker 1: and we got younger, more athletic in a defensive minded squad.
Speaker 2: Had the squad the quote.
Speaker 1: From Van Gundy about getting better at rebounding exactly what
Speaker 1: we need. How do you improve in all these other areas?
Speaker 1: You lose Paul George, you lose a lot offensively, a
Speaker 1: guy who averaged twenty three per game last season with
Speaker 1: a high level of efficiency, one of the most if
Speaker 1: not the most efficient season of his career. How do
Speaker 1: you replace that guy? Get more possessions through offensive rebounds
Speaker 1: and keeping the opposition off the glass on the other end,
Speaker 1: and then also soh clamping down and getting back to
Speaker 1: a clamp city mindset after what happened last season and
Speaker 1: really the season before too, where they were sixteenth overall defensively, Guys,
Speaker 1: they haven't been good defensively since that twenty one to
Speaker 1: twenty two season without Kawhi, with Paul George playing thirty
Speaker 1: one games where they were eighth defensively.
Speaker 2: How do they do that? That season? The hole was
Speaker 2: greater than.
Speaker 1: Some of his parts, and they really zoned it and
Speaker 1: keyed in and had a defensive mindset from the outset
Speaker 1: and knew they had to be good on that end
Speaker 1: because the offense wasn't gonna be as good without as
Speaker 1: much firepower, without the star power, without the star power
Speaker 1: of Paul George. They should be in that same spot.
Speaker 1: They have to be a top ten defense. They have
Speaker 1: to be a top eight defense. I'm gonna say, if
Speaker 1: they want a chance of staying out of the plan,
Speaker 1: gain the sixth spot, maybe the five spot, if you're
Speaker 1: really optimistic, they have to be at least a top
Speaker 1: eight defense. And yes, they do have the guys to
Speaker 1: do it, the personnel, the roster construction. I said it
Speaker 1: right after they brought in djj oh we're losing Paul George.
Speaker 2: Here's Dereck Jones Junior.
Speaker 1: That was Laurence Frank in the front office tipping their
Speaker 1: hand and saying, this is how we're building this team.
Speaker 1: This is how we're going to do it. It's a
Speaker 1: defensive identity. Now, a defensive makeup defensive DNA you bring back,
Speaker 1: but Tom, you bring in Chris Dunn. They have the
Speaker 1: guys I want to see in that starting lineup. Still
Speaker 1: Tearnce Man in there, because there were thirty games over
Speaker 1: five hundred, basically going back to January of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three when he had that brief fourteen game stint before
Speaker 1: they brought in Russell Westbrook of being in the starting lineup,
Speaker 1: and with Terrence Mann in there.
Speaker 2: They went ten and four from that point throughout this
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 1: They were I think fifty eight and twenty eight with
Speaker 1: Terrence Man in the starting lineup. Keep him in there
Speaker 1: next to James Hard in the backcourt, djj at the three,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard at the four, of Easa Zubats at the five.
Speaker 1: That's the defensive orients is starting five right there. You
Speaker 1: can insulate and make up for the deficiencies of James
Speaker 1: Harden by having Terrence Man next to him. By having
Speaker 1: those other guys, they can do it. Here's some more
Speaker 1: positive news from that article. Mark Few, another head coach
Speaker 1: next to Eric Spolstra, next to coach lou next to
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr with TMOSA said they were obviously so dialed
Speaker 1: into into helping us talking about ty Lou and Jeff
Speaker 1: Van Gundy with Tmosa basketball. But then they'd be meeting
Speaker 1: on the side, eating or riding together somewhere. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: would sit in and listen to them. Top Clippers, Top
Speaker 1: Clippers Basketball. They're both just basketball grinders, big time. Sporlzer
Speaker 1: said this about Coach Lou. He's like Russell crow in
Speaker 1: a Beautiful Mind, comparing him to the Academy Award winning
Speaker 1: Oscar winning performance from Russell Crowe in that movie. He's
Speaker 1: got papers, diagrams, notes all over the place. In fact,
Speaker 1: after Paul George was out, apparently Coach Lou was scribbling
Speaker 1: sets and diagrams on anything he could note, pads, napkins,
Speaker 1: and he's got three hundred plays stored in his iPhone
Speaker 1: photo album, his iPhone photo album, I'm a Android guy.
Speaker 2: And notes.
Speaker 1: Knowing how the Clippers will play differently now than they
Speaker 1: did with Paul George, three hundred plays already seems good,
Speaker 1: seems very encouraging. Coach Lou said this, My mind's always going.
Speaker 1: When you lose an important piece like Paul, you gotta
Speaker 1: do it by committee. He's a very huge defensive player,
Speaker 1: for us. He was handling the ball, scoring the basketball.
Speaker 2: Making plays.
Speaker 1: So losing him is going to be tough. They know
Speaker 1: the task at hand, they're aware it's not easy to
Speaker 1: replace a guy like that. You got to do it collectively.
Speaker 1: But he's been good at doing more with less, getting
Speaker 1: the most out of guys, overperforming and outperforming expectations when
Speaker 1: they have had teams that are limited talents wise, talent wise,
Speaker 1: or when their backs are against the wall. It's twenty
Speaker 1: one to twenty two season. It's not like that's an
Speaker 1: isolated thing where that was the only time coach lou
Speaker 1: didn't have his stars.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was extreme that year, but.
Speaker 1: We're talking about overall during their Clippers' tenure two to
Speaker 1: three era, Kawhi and Paul George missed I think over
Speaker 1: three hundred games combined. Nay Gee said, if they didn't
Speaker 1: trade for Harden, they would have been better defensively. Losing
Speaker 1: Roco but and kJ is a big deal. AJ Martin
Speaker 1: who hasn't really proven anything yet, not a huge deal
Speaker 1: written for the guy. But uh Roko who wasn't playing
Speaker 1: that much. No, but to im sure, Uh, there's a
Speaker 1: trade off. They also went to an elite offensive place
Speaker 1: like we've never seen with the Clippers winning on twenty
Speaker 1: six to five run because they traded for Hard and
Speaker 1: I think it was the right move, especially now that
Speaker 1: you get But tune back anyways, Old Dirty Dasher says,
Speaker 1: can you ask your guests about their Clippers origin story
Speaker 1: if they have one. I know some media can't or won't,
Speaker 1: but other mine. Well, Chuck Mocklan will Updyke tonight we
Speaker 1: will talk about Clippers origin stories.
Speaker 2: How you became fans. Uh coach lu said.
Speaker 1: This speaking of James Harden, it'll be it will make
Speaker 1: quote a huge difference having him the entire training camp.
Speaker 1: It will You have to consider that there were growing pains,
Speaker 1: there was a learning curve. It took a little bit
Speaker 1: of time before they eventually hit the ground running, and
Speaker 1: their offense was a well oiled machine with him, he
Speaker 1: said quote. Having to learn how to best use him
Speaker 1: on the fly was tough. What he's shown us is
Speaker 1: that we could run a pick and roll, scoring the basketball,
Speaker 1: making plays for each other, making it easy for everybody
Speaker 1: to play. Harden's so critical for this season with elevating
Speaker 1: guys around him. That is one of the keys to
Speaker 1: getting more out of contributors and role players like Terrence
Speaker 1: Man and Vitza Zubots have to be huge. Big Zoo,
Speaker 1: I think is the third most important player on this team,
Speaker 1: behind Kawhi and James Harden. Now and James Harden, I
Speaker 1: think we'll be able to get the most out of him.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Kawhi Leonard, coach lou said this quote, I
Speaker 1: speak to him all the time. He'll be ready for
Speaker 1: training camp. He's feeling good, and I know he'll be
Speaker 1: ready for training camp. That might be the most important
Speaker 1: quote in this article, or at least right up there
Speaker 1: with coach Luce saying I can't wait to prove everybody wrong.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard much outside of we had the report
Speaker 1: from Kelly Johnson, brought her on, talked about Mobamba at
Speaker 1: opening night for Into It Do. I'm saying he had
Speaker 1: gone to San Diego to work out with Kawhi Leonard,
Speaker 1: so it sounds like he's ready to go. Guys, all
Speaker 1: this talk of proving people wrong and being extra motivated,
Speaker 1: none of it matters. If Kawhi isn't healthy.
Speaker 2: He has to be. I've had my concerns. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you've had yours.
Speaker 1: How can you not four straight years of Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: either not able to start a playoff run or finish one,
Speaker 1: and it's the same right knee going back to the
Speaker 1: the meniscus and the swelling this past year. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can play them back to backs. Therefore, that
Speaker 1: sixteen games already missed right off the top.
Speaker 2: But if he can get.
Speaker 1: Sixty plus in, you're in business still to get out
Speaker 1: of the play and I think you have an opportunity.
Speaker 2: You have a chance.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be easy, losing Paul George has
Speaker 1: a lot to overcome, but I think they have the
Speaker 1: personnel and the right mindset, knowing that you have to
Speaker 1: lean to defense more, knowing that you have to be
Speaker 1: much better defensively overall. If you're a top eight defense
Speaker 1: while still being a top fourteen offense, that's that sweet
Speaker 1: spot where your net rating is still around top ten
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and therefore you have a chance to
Speaker 1: be a top six seed. More on Jeff Van Gundy.
Speaker 1: Coach lou won him in Cleveland. Remember, he hasn't coached
Speaker 1: at the NBA level. He's been with TSA for a
Speaker 1: while in different roles, but he hasn't coached in seventeen years.
Speaker 1: Coach Lou played under him in Houston, played for his
Speaker 1: brother in Orlando with stam Ban Gundy and Jeff. Van
Speaker 1: Gundy said this about being back in coaching, quote, I'm
Speaker 1: a little nervous and on edge because i want to
Speaker 1: do my part and blend in with the other coaches
Speaker 1: and help Tye because I'm really grateful for the opportunity.
Speaker 1: Coach Lou said this about him, He's a basketball film rat.
Speaker 1: He's calling me, asking me questions offensively, defensively, all the
Speaker 1: different things about game seventeen of last season. As Ben
Speaker 1: Gundy has been watching every single Clippers game from this
Speaker 1: past here and trying to find ways to optimize the squad,
Speaker 1: Coach lu said he is locked into all that. Quote
Speaker 1: that's what we need of Van Gundy when it comes
Speaker 1: to figuring out life without Paul George quote, losing PG,
Speaker 1: starting over with a younger team and doing things the
Speaker 1: right way. It's going to take both of us to
Speaker 1: really get our guys on track. The addition of Jeff
Speaker 1: is going to be huge for us. Quote the pieces
Speaker 1: that we added this year. We've got to play a
Speaker 1: different style, but we're going to play winning basketball and
Speaker 1: I know we're going to have a chance to be
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's going to be my job to make
Speaker 1: sure we get to that point.
Speaker 2: Whatever I have to do, what do I have to
Speaker 2: do right now? Get on a call with Fred Rogan,
Speaker 2: producing Rogan or Rodney today. We're gonna have our little
Speaker 2: pregame chat here.
Speaker 1: So I have to leave you, but I'll leave you
Speaker 1: with this. This article got me even more pumped up.
Speaker 1: It's not that I didn't think the Clippers would be
Speaker 1: extremely motivated for life without Paul George and trying to
Speaker 1: prove people wrong. But from the horse's mouth, these quotes
Speaker 1: coming from coach Lou the way they're going about it,
Speaker 1: they're saying all the right things. I think they're going
Speaker 1: to be doing all the right things, as we outlined
Speaker 1: here from this article from Ohm from ESPN.
Speaker 2: Read the entire thing. I think he'll be very encouraged.
Speaker 1: I think you'll be more hopeful and optimistic coming into
Speaker 1: this season and how the Clippers are going to attack
Speaker 1: this year without Paul George for the first time in
Speaker 1: five years.
Speaker 2: It's a new era.
Speaker 1: But I think they're doing this the right way. Still
Speaker 1: need some luck, good health from Kawhi Leonard of course,
Speaker 1: but they do have a team that's going to be
Speaker 1: very competitive.
Speaker 2: Coming up later tonight and new Clippers Talk.
Speaker 1: It will not be alive, but we will have Chuck
Speaker 1: Mockler and William up dot com. We'll talk origin stories,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about how we became Clippers fans all that.
Speaker 2: How about am maslin.
Speaker 1: This has been another edition of Clippers Talk, a live one.
Speaker 2: Love y'all.
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