Speaker 1: What's going on Clippers fans. I am Chuck Mockler, joined
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Someone said they blamed Chuck on the screen. Unfair, unfair.
It was a trap game.
Speaker 2: They didn't even let him suit up. Could Adam was gone?
Speaker 1: Adam and I talked about this. We said, could the
first game be a trap game? Yes, it can't no
such thing.
Speaker 2: There's no no expectation.
Speaker 1: There's no expectation. I mean, it is game one, right,
play ball. We can all agree that it was incredibly disappointing. Yeah,
we can all say the least, say say what you
want about the randomness of game one against a young
team that has size and shooting that we've seen the
play the Clippers close with before. But the show up
factor was not there for the Clippers tonight, and.
Speaker 2: That is I won't say that for Zue.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, I think Zoo was the most inspiring of
starting five, was our leading scorer. But yes, I agree,
it felt very laxadaisical. It felt like the kind of
thing that we've become accustomed to in this.
Speaker 1: Era except year, which is why I think it's doubly
frustrating because they showed up and again the game one.
Speaker 3: I do think last year we saw a similar thing
to start the season. Uh Like it was a very
disappointing start to the season before they righted the ship.
Uh And this one, I mean, honestly, you asked me
what the takeaways were, and honestly, the biggest takeaway is
I still think brook Lopez is the most underrated acquisition
of the offseason. Uh, he was absolutely phenomenal in his
u In his sub twenty minutes he.
Speaker 1: Took eleven threes and seventeen minutes he took twelve shots total,
which I think is a testament that's bad, that's not
what the game plan is.
Speaker 2: That's as many shots. I think he's Harden, isn't it.
Speaker 1: That is as many field goals as Harden, and it
is three more than Kawhi Leonard, who was not good
in game one. Miles Johnson saying Zua's friend is on defense.
I will agree with that. It was arough. Maybe not
to a t, but it was a rough defensive showing
early in this game we saw they lost. No.
Speaker 3: Two wasn't perfect, Yeah, and Zoo wasn't perfect. I wasn't
saying that by any means. I mean he like I
thought his rebounding was pretty soft. He let some slip
right through his fingers. But I thought that he did
bring like some sort of some energy and stuff that
was not present I didn't feel.
Speaker 2: Like from the other four starters.
Speaker 1: Yes, Uh, Kawhi marketing was their small forward. Marketing is gigantic.
He shoots threes, but he did whatever he kind of wanted,
especially in the first quarter. Oh yes, we're just kind
of putting some postgame quotes up here right now. Shout
out to Justin Rousseau for this quote. Tyler Loose, as
he walked out of the visiting press conference room, said,
I take responsibility for that bullshit. I guess, I don't know.
I don't know who's It's so weird to have this
particular situation happen.
Speaker 4: On game one, you know what I mean, Like and like,
obviously it's not any It's not when you're trailing by
like forty, it's obviously not any one thing.
Speaker 3: And I don't think the coach can take responsibility for that.
But really uninspiring, really uninspiring start to the season. Good lord,
I've been excited for basketball. The restart from what feels
like a calendar were so.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Beale looked like he was still figuring it out. Defensively,
he was in foul trouble. Derek Jones was in foul trouble. Yeah,
Harden made two mid range buckets. That was that was nice,
That was.
Speaker 2: Good, needed that, we needed that.
Speaker 1: The shooting was rough. Someone in the chat is saying
shooting yeah, couldn't make a damn shot. Thank you Jeremy Mormon.
Eighty one and one. Maybe that's what I said. So
we go eighty one and one? Did this loss? What
do we take away from this loss? What can we
take away from the first game of the season losing
to a team that is projected to be so bad
in such a fashion? Is this team? Because this is
a young Jazz team, we were old tonight some nights
we're gonna have old nights for the Clippers, and we were.
Speaker 2: Old to that this one.
Speaker 3: I mean, like the Jazz being projected to be the
worst team in the league. Yes, and I mean obviously
they're they're going to continue to seek a high draft pick.
But it's a little bit like college football season rankings
coming in, like it doesn't really mean anything. It's it's
it's just based on reputation, and I think reputationally like
they looked, they looked a lot. The Jazz looked a
lot better than the Clippers did through one game. Do
I think that that means that that's gonna have any
bearing on the ultimate effects of the outcome of the season. No,
I'm not ready to say that after one game. But
this was this was the type of performance that you know,
we've become sort of accustomed to as Clippers fans. I mean,
and it happens to all teams, but for this to
be the season opener and to just look this disjointed,
especially on the defensive end, I'm giving it up. What's
seventy five at the half? Seventy six at the half? Is?
I mean, that is just an unprecedented level of bad
uh to start the season. And again, I don't you
can't overreact to one single game, but you know, we
we worried in the offseason. We worried in the offseason
about this team maintaining that that sort of identity that
they had created last year. And I would say through
Game one, they fucking threw it out the window.
Speaker 2: They pissed on it.
Speaker 1: Miles Johnson in the chat, And if you're listening to this,
because we're all gonna put this out on audio later
and you want to watch us talk about this, you
can see my horrible beard, you can see Will's driving.
It's YouTube dot colle at Clippers podcast.
Speaker 2: Driving more radically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to keep things into you know, Miles Johnson
in the chat said, I think this in game Seve
would be the last two games we've seen. It's just hurtful. Yeah,
it just because like we kind of thought it was
a clean slate from what.
Speaker 2: The preseason means nothing to Yeah, we kind.
Speaker 1: Of thought it was a clean slate from what happened. Yeah,
Ad Will's birthday, which is what the Clippers do every year. Yeah. Yeah,
a lot of shots were short, didn't have their regular
season legs under him. We guess, like.
Speaker 3: I don't know, is that is everybody planning on playing
their way into shape.
Speaker 1: John Collins look good off the bench. I like seeing
John's college energy off the bench.
Speaker 2: Jere Jean Junior has some has some good energy too.
Speaker 3: I mean he's got some paths, you know, one of
those athletic guys, young.
Speaker 5: Ish Yeah, I mean, I don't know, just a bummer,
just a genuine bumber and shout out.
Speaker 1: Also, we have to tip our hats to the Jazz.
They played good back. Yeah, the Clippers didn't. The other
thing that I think that's frustrating is the Clippers didn't
piss this one away. It was just never there to
begin with, Like from the first.
Speaker 2: Order, it never started.
Speaker 1: It started a little rough and you're like okay, and
then it just got bad. I like this point from
crime side. We need everyone to underestimate us, miss and accomplishment,
I said on an episode with Adam, I was tired
of how many people were like, look, key, I think
the Clippers are going to be a fun team to
watch this year. It's like, you can't get away, get
away from us.
Speaker 3: No, even, I mean, honestly even like the line in
Vegas on the win over under total, I mean I
liked it, but at the same time, I you know,
I want us to be rooted out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this puts a weird a different pre sure
if you also want to pause and go into your house,
that's the only point.
Speaker 3: No, I'm at the drive to right now. I'm gonna
eat this. I'm getting I'm getting some taco bell long line.
I was gonna say, you haven't moved.
Speaker 1: What are you getting one? We'll get back to the
basketball in a second. What are you getting a taco bell?
Put your taco Bell order in the chat with what
you would order after this horrible loss.
Speaker 3: I'm sticking to my irregular I go bean burrito, two
soft potato tacos, a lot of fire sauce. Maybe I'll
maybe I'll just add on a bunch of ship though,
is just really eat through this one.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair, I should have done that. I'm gonna
make some tiktos a little bit.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: This puts a weird vibe on the home opener.
Speaker 2: Oh, it absolutely does.
Speaker 1: Against a team that has spoiled things before. I don't
think the Clippers will lose on Friday. To be fair,
I don't think they would lose tonight. Chris gia is saying,
you're getting your next dip show for the next episode.
You missed the last dip episode, Dude, we were bummed.
It's okay. I personally Will's muted because he's ordering Taco
Bell right now. I just from the fan of the
team perspective, would agree with the it's hurtful situation. It
just sucks to watch the that's just a gut bunch
right like h And again, there's obviously there are eighty
one more games to go. They have a chance to
they have a chance to redeem themselves on Friday, and
we hope that what we heard about in the off
season materializes. A lot of people in the chatter saying
they don't want to eat Taco Bell right now, Shelley anonymous,
which I think I might know who this is. That's fine.
Pepto Bisball is also a completely fair response to this game.
No one would knock you for that. If you were
at the postgame party with a thing at Pepto Bisball,
people would say, I got two bucks on it. Give
me a pull for two bucks. Just a weird game that.
I don't know what you can take away from other
than everything needs to be different Neck on Friday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, do everything better. Would be a completely different
team than what we saw at the night.
Speaker 1: Which just doesn't feel for a team of veterans. Will
go ahead and mute, don't want to. I don't want
to mess up the transaction for a team of veterans
who have played a handful of opening nights, you would
just think, hey, they know what's going on, or just
be locked in a little like, well, is it a
game plan thing? I don't know, man. Like what someone
said a funny comment on Twitter and they said that
Tyler always underestimates small market teams, and I thought that
would be funny if he was like, if you got
a population under X amount million, I'm not I don't
give a shit, right, So d flu is it? D
Flu said, I usually have a lot of shit to say,
but tonight nothing. That's kind of how I feel is
I'm just like usually I have a lot more things
in my head about the game, but it's just like, Okay,
that was horrible. I hope we can bounce back on
Friday and do what we're supposed to do, which is
play good defense. We started Derek Jones juniors and the
defense would be good, but no one was good at
defense to start this game. Bill losses a side in
a couple of times. He swiped it guys a couple
of times. He wasn't the whole problem, obviously, but that
was just kind of frustrating. It also seems like Beale's
minutes restriction is around twenty minutes, which I think is fine.
The turnovers were brutal. Nine turnovers in the first quarter,
I think, and like turnovers, turnovers in any way you
could have a turnover.
Speaker 2: Like, oh yeah, they really had the full menu.
Speaker 3: They had like a Midwest what was the final what
was the final turnover count.
Speaker 1: On this one? They had a Midwestern cookbook called one
Thousand Ways to Do a Turnover. It's a pretty good cooking,
pretty good cooking jack. Final tally on turnovers fifteen, Okay,
but the majority of them happened in the first quarter,
and it was lazy passes, as Jeremy Moore want to say.
And it was just like.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of heat on those paths.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of heat, no heat. If you or
I could have caught one of the passes, maybe that's
not a fast enough pass. I have been him. It's
like it did feel like Utah couldn't miss a shot.
They I mean, if.
Speaker 2: It's if it's not smashing through my hands and breaking.
Speaker 1: My fucking glasses. Walker Kessler all of last year, the
whole year last year, made six three pointers. He shot
eighteen percent from three. Tonight he goes two for two. Goofy.
Weird thing to happen. It happened in the first quarter.
So it was yeah, but and it was part of
the swell of just like, oh great, this weird anomaly
happens in the beginning when we're still apparently getting our
under us. It adds to the fact that everyone else
was hitting too. It was like a perfect storm of
just shit. Yeah, it wasn't just one guy going off.
Speaker 3: I mean we talked about like how uh sphee even
like what like he looked great out there, and not
that he's a bad player or anything, but like it
speaks to the defense not really putting that much pressure
on guys or not making them.
Speaker 2: Feel uncomfortable or out of their element at all.
Speaker 3: And yes, they were at home, so you know everyone's
getting a big soda thet night or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 1: Crime side ring up a good point, And Adam and
I talked about this on the pregame a little bit.
Is like they're huge, they shrunk the floor. Uh yeah,
and our guys aren't guys that have speed. H Like
that's not because I was wondering when the Clippers were
down ten in the first when I guess things were
going good considering now the rest of the game went
after that, I was like, what does this team's offense
look like when it needs to speed up? For the Clippers?
What right? Yeah, with these older guys, it's like, what
does this offense look like when they're like, we gotta
get some quick buckets because that is completely dependent on
the defense, not to you know what I mean, but
like and if the defense is not getting stops, I
don't have a lot of faith in the offense. I'm
not projecting what the Clippers record is going to be
or anything like that. I'm just saying that's what I
was thinking watching this particular game.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was a huge thing, and it was
you know, how they would get started offensively, even when
they were abysmal.
Speaker 1: In games last season.
Speaker 3: But you know, again, it's game one, so I don't
want to take too much away defensively from that, not
that there's much to take away from that one at all.
I'm curious though, Like I mean, I think we both
agree that the starters.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 3: I don't want to say apathetic, because I don't think
that's the right word, but they felt a little anemic
out there. Yeah, what did you think of the second
Were there any parents that you liked out there? I mean,
I'm gonna jump the gun and I'm gonna say I'm
still gonna love any time Derrick Jones, Junior, and Collins
are on the floor together with Brooke and.
Speaker 1: Whoever else around them.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to watch that group play against second units.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I was kind of disgusted by the
whole thing, So I don't know if anything really stuck
out to me, If that makes sense, I understand. I
just wanted to. I was really looking forward to seeing
Chris Paul and brook Lopez. I mean, brook Lopez was
great obviously, but again, he's not taking eleven threes in
the game, so like we didn't even get to see
how I think the bench offense would function normally. Yeah,
save like the first couple of minutes they were together.
But I dude, Collins off the bench was awesome, Like
his effort was there, like he's gonna be him and
brook Lopez. Maybe they do split six Man of the
Year votes or whatever, But like, I love Collins off
the bench and Collins energy off the bench. But Tom
hit Collins with like a like a handoff in transition
I think for his like second or third bucket, and
it was just such a nice, like veteran guy making
a veteran move to a guy who like expected I
think at the last second. So I think Collins Collins
on the bench is real. I think Collins with any
of the vets on the bench is gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are we counting Collins as a VET? I feel
like he.
Speaker 1: Kind of have to not on this team. How old
is he?
Speaker 2: All right? Fair? Not on this team.
Speaker 1: Good lord, he's twenty eight. That's young.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's been in the lead for like a decade.
Speaker 1: He's been in the league for nineteen years. Miles Johnson
brought up a point with Zoo. Yeah, the Jazz I
think in the first quarter they made Yeah, they made
all of their two pointers. So when Zoo gets I
don't know, man, it's just like shit was just broken everywhere.
You're right, Miles, when you pull Zoo away from the rim,
if other guys aren't doing what they're supposed to do,
it's just like and that goes to Kawhi's point too,
because Kawhi again was not good in this game. No,
Harden only had two turnovers, so we can't really fault
the turnovers. The shooting wasn't there from Harden from the outside.
He wasn't particularly efficient. I think he was overall he
was facilitating, right, Yeah, he was facilitating phenomenally. But again,
it's just like looked a.
Speaker 2: Little old movement wise, I thought.
Speaker 3: But like, you know, he saves his way into shape,
he's gonna have to play as way into shape and
that's fine.
Speaker 1: And we are an older team, so like this is
what this is the reality of the older team. Is
that like we're gonna play our way into shape, Like
these guys aren't young coming into the coming into the
season feeling good. When you're a young guy in the NBA,
is I'm ready to play in mid season? For him?
From day one, coming into when you're an old guy
in the NBA, is I'm excited for a productive ramp
up process.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean I don't know, like before before
they start doing stuff to alter their pickstanding, I think
you want to show get out there and show what
you can do. And one, yeah, get out there and
show what you can do, and like, you know, stack
of a couple of wins before you know, those mystery
whatever marketing for Yeah, start keeping out of games and stuff,
because that's gonna be frustrating as hell too.
Speaker 2: And just coming in, you know, projected to be.
Speaker 3: The worst team in the league. I mean, I mean,
you want to kind of put a stamp on it, right,
We certainly did. They certainly did. All Right, what's one
bad thing from this game that you're worried about for
Friday and one good thing that you're excited for on Friday.
Speaker 1: One bad thing I'm worried about is the turnovers. Yeah, yeah,
I don't want him to come in bunches. That would
be ideal, Yeah, would not be ideal on Friday in
the first is that ideal? The Suns starting line up
because Jalen Green, I think, is out, So their starting
lineup might be hold on, I swear I have notes
on this. I want I just want to see Zoo
and Harden look good. Yeah, like I want them to
be productive together. You know what I'm saying? What's Yeah,
what's a bad thing? You're worried about it?
Speaker 3: Man, I don't want to lose the fucking Sons at
home on our first thing. And I know that's like
a very broad general.
Speaker 2: You don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: So here's their starting five. Their starting five is going
to be I think Devin Booker, Grayson Allen, Dylan Brooks,
Ryan Dunn, Mark Williams. Apparently the Jazz are the best
team in the NBA. Right They're probably gonna win like
sixty five games, seventy seventy seventy six games. A chap
but fear, but again, this is also a team. The
Sons are a team that's been projected to be not good.
They handled us last year in the regular season. This
is another game where it's like we don't know what's
going to happen. We know what statistically probably should happen. Uh,
but I don't know. I want to see Christine be
good at defense. I want to see him put point
Devin Booker in hell, because they don't have a point
guard really on the suns. That's the other things, like
we're facing a team that is trying to do what
the Clippers did with Paul George. When we were all like,
I don't know if we need a point guard, then
it was like he sucks at facilitating, Like.
Speaker 2: You need a point guard.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just see the point guard. I was wrong
about that.
Speaker 2: I was wrong too. We were wrong. We boozled, We
got caught up in the moment.
Speaker 1: In the moment, all right, you gotta take your taco
bell inside. Yeah, man, all right, I can van for
a bit if you want to hop back on. But
if not, I understand.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I'm gonna go eat My feelings from
this game. The thing I'm looking forward to though, is more.
Is definitely more, brook Lopez. That was my biggest takeaway
from this one.
Speaker 2: I'm loving it. I can't wait to see more.
Speaker 1: Of that.
Speaker 3: I also think Bradley Beal is gonna is gonna have
some some added impetus. Yeah, he's gonna have some added
impetus to pour it on him as one. Although two
for five, I mean it's really nothing to stoff about.
That's like not that's not that bad. The one for
four from three, I guess would be concerned. But eat anyway,
even that, it's kind of like you make one extra three,
it's a completely different ball It's a completely.
Speaker 2: Well, a completely different ballgame. Frankly, they're right in at
that point.
Speaker 3: I kept waiting for the like someone to hit a
big three to cut the lead the thirty, so we
get those classic moments.
Speaker 2: But yeah, shit game to start out.
Speaker 3: But I will say, I can only go up from here,
you know, can't get anywhere.
Speaker 1: That's a great call.
Speaker 2: We hope, we hope.
Speaker 1: For sure, I'm gonna get out of here once I
finish this drink. Will thank you for thanks for watching
that game. Man, here's to a better game too.
Speaker 3: Yes, thanks listeners and viewers for bearing with me in
my card. You know how to get some card, dude,
how to get some how to get some sustenance after
this one. But yeah, we will. We'll be back at
you and we will be in house on Friday.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'll do it, all right, talk to you later,
all right. Will's gone, Adam might pop in. I don't
have too much else to say. Everyone was kind of
bad again. I know that Brook Lopez went five for
eleven from three. I don't think the game plan is
going to dictate him ever needing to take eleven threes.
The good takeaways, as kind of Will pointed out, John
Collins looked good. Zoo was trying hard down there. The
shot distribution was so wonky in this game because things
were just so off the rails. And I don't even
really know what the offensive profile is for this team.
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background soon. I'm about to head out. Put your final
thoughts on this chat, because once this is gone, I'm
leaving hell of a way to start the season. I
personally blame the refs. No, I'm just kidding. That was brutal.
Everyone needs to show up and kind of be the
complete opposite of the kind of player they were tonight.
Except for Zoo and John Collins. Harden was dealing the assist.
But why was bad Bradley Beal still getting his legs
under My guess, Derek Jones Junior, It's just it's just
a weird, weird night tonight. Shout out to the Jazz
for playing a hard fought game. Friday is now going
to be difficult. I don't know what to say. I
don't expect the Clippers to trounce the Suns. This game
hopefully will not matter in the long run. It might,
it might, which is Unfortunateuh, the schedule was set up
for the Clippers to kind of take advantage of a
softer start. Oh for one of that right now, Friday's
not of must win because it's the second game. That
being said, who it would be nice to win that
game on Friday. Everyone, Thank you for hanging out. If
you're listening to this at nine pm when this comes out,
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Adam Osmin is gonna be live on Clippers Talk. Go
say what's up to him? And yeah, just hope everyone
has a good rest of your night. It is the
first game, as Leah Prince is saying in here, Uh yeah,
first game, zero to one, plenty of chances to bounce back.
We'll be back with you after the game on Friday.
If you're going to the game on Friday, you see us,
say what's up. I've been Chuck Mockler, go check out
Adam Oslon on Clippers Talk. Will Updyke was in here tonight.
We are the triumphant of Clips and Dip. Thank you
for hanging out. Let's hope Friday is competitive. Let's hope
we get that uns time. It's actually not competib Let's
hope the Clippers are winning by so much that it
doesn't matter. Thank you for hanging out, and as always,
let's go clips h