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Speaker 2: The game is ended, gather round boys, time to recap,
Speaker 2: but the post game coverage is just getting started.
Speaker 1: The successes the failure.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Clippers may have had four turnovers in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but they also just had their fourth straight
Speaker 1: victory as they win one oh five to one oh three.
Speaker 1: Hear it into a dome over the Toronto Raptors. Welcome
Speaker 1: into your post game show. I'm at a Maslin coming up.
Speaker 1: We got second half highlights. But first back to your
Speaker 1: radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo wasn't easy.
Speaker 1: They had to dig it out of the dirt. But
Speaker 1: it's another sweep of a back to back, the second
Speaker 1: time we've seen this already this year.
Speaker 4: Slippers just kind of playing more back to backs at
Speaker 4: the second More back to backs, baby, with at least
Speaker 4: one game on the road.
Speaker 1: Adam Silpery's not serious.
Speaker 4: Clippers, big time win gritty one from this group. Adam
Speaker 4: Kip that lead from the one ten mark all the
Speaker 4: way to the end. I think it was so impressive. Toronto.
Speaker 4: Got to give them credit. They fought the entire way
Speaker 4: down the stretch. You get twenty one from Quickly and
Speaker 4: Obaji is a dangerous raft team that clearly has some
Speaker 4: great young talent out there. The Clippers come away with
Speaker 4: the win. Norman Pale another twenty point game. I thought
Speaker 4: James Harden, he's been the Clippers' leader in the clutch
Speaker 4: in points and after not scoring yesterday in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: big time buckets here in this fourth quarter at him.
Speaker 4: Fun one for the Clips, another gritty one. And if
Speaker 4: there's a team that's been tested enough late, the Clippers
Speaker 4: with their seventh clutch game.
Speaker 5: They've played ten games this year.
Speaker 1: It is amazing that we're only ten games in and
Speaker 1: you feel like this has been a roller coaster ride.
Speaker 1: This has been a journey already for this Clippers team.
Speaker 1: As they're six and four through ten games. I said
Speaker 1: I'd sign up for five and five. This team has
Speaker 1: been impressive. They could be even better than that if
Speaker 1: they knocked down their free throws in Game one, if
Speaker 1: they didn't give that one up to the Blazers as well.
Speaker 1: This team, though, I think, all things considered, is on
Speaker 1: the right track two games above five Hunter without Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard so far.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's all you can say is you've talked
Speaker 4: about Adams. You can stay at a five hundred level.
Speaker 4: By the time Kawhi Leonard comes back. You gotta be
Speaker 4: feeling good. And the Clippers have been hanging around there.
Speaker 4: And I think with the emergence of Norman Pale, something
Speaker 4: we talked about pregame, five hundred might not be good enough.
Speaker 4: I mean the bar might be a little higher for
Speaker 4: this team because of the defense, because of the way
Speaker 4: they're scoring. I mean, they dominated this game in a
Speaker 4: lot of categories against the Toronto team that's been excellent
Speaker 4: this year. At pushing in the pace, at getting offensive rebounds.
Speaker 4: The Clippers had more fast break points, they got on
Speaker 4: the glass more, they were able to take the lead.
Speaker 4: Thirty five bench points for this Clipper team. They got
Speaker 4: help from everyone here today, an impressive group. Derrek Jones
Speaker 4: Junior out for the most part with those five fouls,
Speaker 4: but everybody stepped up a group effort. Kevin Porter Junior
Speaker 4: as season high fifteen. He was big off the bench
Speaker 4: to go along with six rebounds and five assists. You
Speaker 4: see why when TYLERU said, he's gonna be a.
Speaker 5: Big part of what we do. He was a huge
Speaker 5: part of what they did today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin Porter's junior are knocking down those back to
Speaker 1: back threes. You wonder what that can do for his
Speaker 1: confidence moving forward. As you mentioned, he had only hit
Speaker 1: two threes heading into this ball game so far through
Speaker 1: nine games, he hits two of those. I also think
Speaker 1: another guy that could get a confidence boost out of
Speaker 1: this would be Terrence Man. The defense he played down
Speaker 1: the stretch. He asked, why is coach lu going back
Speaker 1: to him? What's the reasoning here? We talked about it,
Speaker 1: the defensive acumen from him getting out in transition as
Speaker 1: well in that third quarter, but what he did defensively,
Speaker 1: and they were switching a lot with Emmanuel quickly guarding him,
Speaker 1: and then it was RJ Barrett. Two great stellar defensive
Speaker 1: possessions by Terrence Mann in clutch time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big time possessions. Wait to guard without fouling, Stay vertical,
Speaker 4: keep his line on the drives by Quickly who is
Speaker 4: so fast to the rim. Terrence Man huge stops down
Speaker 4: the stretch, a big time block for him. I thought,
Speaker 4: like you said, Adam, excellent twenty eight minutes today. That
Speaker 4: might be a season I for Terrence Man will have
Speaker 4: to go check and go back and check.
Speaker 5: But he played huge for this Clipper.
Speaker 4: Team down the stretch, huge, huge minutes for him, a
Speaker 4: confidence booster for sure, and the Clippers are gonna need
Speaker 4: him out of that defense. That fifth spot with that
Speaker 4: finishing group still up in the air, could be anybody's night.
Speaker 4: Terrence Man gets the call and he stands up to it.
Speaker 1: And we're starting to see these positive trends here from
Speaker 1: distance with things turning around in the clippers favor where
Speaker 1: once again four straight game they outshoot the opposition from three,
Speaker 1: they end up going ten of twenty six. That's thirty
Speaker 1: nine percent from distance. I know the Rappers technically had
Speaker 1: one more May three pointer, but they had to take
Speaker 1: thirty seven eleven of thirty seven. That's under thirty percent
Speaker 1: from three. All of a sudden, the Clippers, the law
Speaker 1: of averages, the defensive acumen around the perimeter. They're just
Speaker 1: a little bit better there, a little bit more in tune.
Speaker 1: They're getting some stops when teams are lighting them up
Speaker 1: from distance to start the season.
Speaker 4: They are, they're closing out better, they're getting a hand up.
Speaker 4: They fouled early in that game, but not really the
Speaker 4: rest of the way, able to keep Toronto off the
Speaker 4: line late or after. Team that's gonna kick themselves from
Speaker 4: missing nine free throws today, Adam and losing by two.
Speaker 4: They shot fifty seven percent from the charity stripe in
Speaker 4: this ballgame. But the Clippers did a great job today
Speaker 4: of playing to their strengths once again, holding a team
Speaker 4: just around one hundred points. I mean, if you old
Speaker 4: team to one to oh three in the NBA, in
Speaker 4: today's NBA, you're gonna win almost all your games. The
Speaker 4: Clippers after holding Sacramento to ninety eight, just five more
Speaker 4: points for Toronto on the second night of it, back
Speaker 4: to back. It's impressive. It's impressive. It's a much different
Speaker 4: team taking on OKC the second time around than they
Speaker 4: were the first time around, riding that two game slide,
Speaker 4: letting two games get away from them.
Speaker 1: Clippers white knuckle another victory here. They win tonight one
Speaker 1: oh five to one oh three over the Toronto Raptors.
Speaker 1: The Cardiac Clips. But we were talking about it a
Speaker 1: little bit off the air. I think you'd rather learn
Speaker 1: during victories than during losses. The last two easily could
Speaker 1: have been Instead, the Clippers did just enough to hang on,
Speaker 1: but they also gave coach Lose some tape and some
Speaker 1: film to look at and point out where there are
Speaker 1: a lot of fixable, correctable mistakes out there.
Speaker 4: Things do improve on, for sure, but things to improve
Speaker 4: on without having to lose.
Speaker 5: That's what you mentioned. That's the biggest part of this.
Speaker 4: The Clippers can go back to the drawing board and
Speaker 4: look at it without having to feel like, man, we
Speaker 4: really let one get away. They came away to the victory.
Speaker 4: There's so much more room to grow for this Clipper team,
Speaker 4: who sits at six and four a win today at them.
Speaker 4: I believe they're sitting sixth in a Western conference with
Speaker 4: fourteen or thirteen teams above five hundred, which is just
Speaker 4: absolutely absurd. By the way, there's two teams in the
Speaker 4: East above five hundred. The West might be calling for
Speaker 4: a reseat of the playoffs. The way this is going
Speaker 4: same as it ever was, so it's bad this year.
Speaker 4: It's historically worse than it's ever been. The Clippers right
Speaker 4: now going through that Gauntlin. They'll continue with OKAC in Houston,
Speaker 4: but a big one you want to take care of business.
Speaker 5: You want to win the games you have to win.
Speaker 5: You've talked about it.
Speaker 4: But if you're gonna play Portland twice, if you're gonna
Speaker 4: play the Utah Jazz fourteen, if you're gonna play Toronto twice,
Speaker 4: you gotta win those games. And Clippers come away with
Speaker 4: the win over a team they're supposed to beat. That's
Speaker 4: what great teams do.
Speaker 1: Clippers come through late, they win one five to one
Speaker 1: oh three, even with some misfree throws, some miscues with
Speaker 1: turnovers in the fourth quarter, they will stood it at all.
Speaker 1: They come through here at into It Dome with a
Speaker 1: two point victory over the Toronto Raptors. And now they
Speaker 1: head out on the road for a couple they will
Speaker 1: be in Oka. See Monday night tip time for that
Speaker 1: once at five. We'll have your pregame show starting at four.
Speaker 1: Carlo Jmenez, great call is always. We gotta hear some
Speaker 1: of your calls coming up next as we got second half.
Speaker 5: Highlights, Adam, talk to you Monday.
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Speaker 1: Clippers come through. They win one oh five to one
Speaker 1: to oh three over the Toronto Raptors. They hold on
Speaker 1: for dear life. Late as Jaka pertl went with the
Speaker 1: intentional miss on the second free throw went right back
Speaker 1: to him like a game of twenty one tippet, he
Speaker 1: almost had it go. Clippers would get the board though
Speaker 1: on the miss jumper and they would run out the clock.
Speaker 1: They win by two. They led by as many as fourteen.
Speaker 1: They are six and four in their first ten games.
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Speaker 1: want to get on early eight six six ninety seven
Speaker 1: two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 1: five seventy. Clippers let at the half fifty two to
Speaker 1: forty seven, but they were up as many as fourteen
Speaker 1: in that first half. Toronto battled. They hit three straight threes,
Speaker 1: I believe. After the Clippers went up fourteen in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, though James Harden started to get cooking a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 5: Slippers have led this entire half.
Speaker 4: They led by as many as fourteen, and on the timer,
Speaker 4: Harden straight away flies by Grady dick Up.
Speaker 5: Float her off in front of the rim and it
Speaker 5: rolls through for two.
Speaker 4: James Harding up to a dozen and the Clipper lead
Speaker 4: at six. Harden at the logo shot clunking game clotting
Speaker 4: separated by six seconds.
Speaker 5: Harrett switches out on.
Speaker 4: Harden on the right wing, James trying to create some space,
Speaker 4: He stops us side step three money, James horning from
Speaker 4: phonus distance.
Speaker 1: James Hardens stepping up in that third quarter. I know
Speaker 1: he hasn't shot it well overall, but he has had
Speaker 1: some timely buckets here and there and still ended to
Speaker 1: the ball game with twenty four. Clippers led by eleven.
Speaker 1: Heading into the fourth, it was eighty one to seventy
Speaker 1: and things got dicey. Some self inflicted wounds from the
Speaker 1: Clippers and the turnover department once again, some bad missed
Speaker 1: free throws, three of them in the last thirty five seconds,
Speaker 1: but they were is a huge shot by who else?
Speaker 1: Norman Storm and Pale Clippers right.
Speaker 5: To left two point Lee looking for more norm left
Speaker 5: angle tripball, Yes, Sir.
Speaker 4: Nine straight games with twenty points for Norman Pale.
Speaker 1: Biggest shot of the game that would put them up
Speaker 1: by five with two minutes left. The Clippers hold on
Speaker 1: late they win by two. Final score one oh five
Speaker 1: to one oh three. Hear it into a Dome over
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors, and now they head out on the
Speaker 1: road for the next three More on that, Kevin up
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Speaker 1: Clippers are victorious. They win one o five to one
Speaker 1: oh three over the Toronto Raptors. Hear it into a Dome.
Speaker 1: Make it four straight victories for your Clippers. They're six
Speaker 1: and four in their first ten ball games, all without
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard so far, and they're staying above water. Love
Speaker 1: to see it. Climbers ended up shooting forty six percent
Speaker 1: from the floor in this one Toronto forty two percent.
Speaker 1: Clippers ten of twenty six from the outside. That's thirty
Speaker 1: nine percent Toronto eleven of thirty seven from three, and
Speaker 1: that is thirty percent for distance. It's been a tread
Speaker 1: in the last four games, Clippers out shooting their opponent
Speaker 1: from three Toronto with twenty six assists on their forty
Speaker 1: made shots, Clippers with eighteen on their thirty five made shots.
Speaker 1: There were some miss free throws late, three of them
Speaker 1: in the last thirty five seconds. Clippers still ended up
Speaker 1: going twenty five of thirty two at the charity stripe.
Speaker 1: That's seventy eight percent respectable. They beat up Toronto in
Speaker 1: the fast break points twenty seven to twenty three. Toronto
Speaker 1: though fifty two to forty eight, advantage in points in
Speaker 1: the paint and bench points back to your Clippers thirty
Speaker 1: five to twenty eight in favor of the La Clippers.
Speaker 1: They did just enough so win this one by two.
Speaker 1: L Before they head out on the road for the
Speaker 1: next couple they'll be an Okac on Monday Night, taken
Speaker 1: on the Thunder. They own one. They're up by thirteen
Speaker 1: and lost a game here and into it Dome by
Speaker 1: the thunder already this season. Then they'll be doing a
Speaker 1: Texas two Step, a two game mini series in Houston,
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Speaker 1: Well, all's well, that ends well. The Raptors went extinct
Speaker 1: eventually here and the Clippers hold on for another gripping victory.
Speaker 1: A white knuckler here at intu a Dome, Clippers are
Speaker 1: victorious with a one to five to one oh three win.
Speaker 1: Make it four straight. They are six and four in
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Speaker 1: get into here. I want to start with this. A
Speaker 1: lot of people have been tough on Terrence Man, including myself.
Speaker 1: There were plays early on that third cour order where
Speaker 1: he was not even looking at the basket. He'd get
Speaker 1: a board and if it was an offensive rebound and
Speaker 1: he had a shot at a putback, he would take
Speaker 1: it back out, he would kick it out to somebody else.
Speaker 1: He wasn't looking for his shot still. But then he
Speaker 1: had a couple of buckets in transition that were big
Speaker 1: in that third quarter. One of them where he didn't
Speaker 1: have the numbers. It was a one on two in
Speaker 1: favor of Toronto. But the first one of the three
Speaker 1: to thirty mark of the third quarter that was big.
Speaker 1: Then Man, again in transition without numbers, got a layup,
Speaker 1: and Coach Lou I think rewarded him going back to
Speaker 1: him late in this ballgame because not only the defense
Speaker 1: on Emmanuel quickly on RJ. Barrett which came through late
Speaker 1: with Terrence Man, but offensively he won some easy transition points.
Speaker 1: Man didn't come up with that in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but he came up with the two biggest stops of
Speaker 1: the game. And for everybody talking about Terrence Man and
Speaker 1: bagging on him for some time now not looking for
Speaker 1: a shot and some people not even giving him credit
Speaker 1: for his defense, Terrence Man late in this ballgame blocks
Speaker 1: Emmanuel quickly and then got RJ. Barrett to miss as
Speaker 1: he played straight up huge stops in a close game.
Speaker 1: It was two points, it was one point. In fact,
Speaker 1: the La Clippers had the lead or were tied from
Speaker 1: the one ten mark of quarter one, so well, they
Speaker 1: had opportunities to pull away and that was frustrating. And
Speaker 1: there were more self inflicted wounds. We'll hear from Coach
Speaker 1: loupost game about this. There were more misfree throws down
Speaker 1: the stretch, two by Norman Powell, one by James Harden.
Speaker 1: The Clippers did just enough on the second night of
Speaker 1: him back to back to take down a fresh Toronto
Speaker 1: Raptors team was some young, spry legs that can get
Speaker 1: a lot of offensive rebounds. I think best in the
Speaker 1: game or second best when it came to second chance points.
Speaker 1: This season, they ended up with twelve offensive rebounds. They
Speaker 1: got up ninety five shots to seventy six for the Clippers. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is a big number, a nineteen shot attempt differential,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers won anyways, how well, they were more
Speaker 1: efficient from three ten of twenty six, Raptors eleven of
Speaker 1: thirty seven, and the Clippers, most importantly, while missing some late,
Speaker 1: went twenty five of thirty two at the charity stripe.
Speaker 1: They attempted thirty two free throws they hit twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's still seventy eight percent. That's not bad. And the
Speaker 1: Raptors went twelve of twenty one at the free throw line.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't always pretty. Clippers with four turnovers in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter fourteen for the game, still better than
Speaker 1: they what they've been at so far over seventeen heading
Speaker 1: into this one the first nine games. You'll take it.
Speaker 1: They escaped. They escaped late after Yes, it could have
Speaker 1: been a monumental miltdown and if those free throws came
Speaker 1: back to haunt them, those miss free throws and those
Speaker 1: turnovers late, there would be a different tone and tenor
Speaker 1: post game. And I still think, you know that stuff's frustrating.
Speaker 1: They need to be better. They were up twelve with
Speaker 1: nine to ten left after a normOn Powell layup close
Speaker 1: it out pull away. But what if I've always said
Speaker 1: with this team, their defense keeps them in every game,
Speaker 1: their offense keeps the opposition in every game. Unfortunately, so
Speaker 1: it would end up being a tie game late at
Speaker 1: ninety three all the three thirty mark, and then again
Speaker 1: at one oh two all with thirty nine seconds left
Speaker 1: after Emmanuel quickly had a three on the right wing.
Speaker 1: The Clippers, though right out of that time out, got
Speaker 1: it to Norman Palell. He had to rip through move
Speaker 1: the rafts rewarded them and he went to the charity
Speaker 1: stripe hit one O two, one O three, one oh two.
Speaker 1: That's frustrating, But their defense saved them. Terrence Man saved them,
Speaker 1: got the block on a Manuel quickly, Clippers get the
Speaker 1: board James Harden. Now the charity stripe COEs one of two,
Speaker 1: so instead of being up one O six one oh
Speaker 1: two and up by four, which is a big deal.
Speaker 1: Down the stretch with under thirty seconds left, it's the
Speaker 1: Clippers up by two. At one oh four to one
Speaker 1: o two. R J. Barrett misses a layup, great defense
Speaker 1: again right the cylinder, Terrence Man Norman Palell gets it
Speaker 1: back to the charity. Stripe misses the first, HiT's the second.
Speaker 1: It's one o five, one oh two, and the Raptors
Speaker 1: still have an opportunity here. Now what I love seeing
Speaker 1: was the Clippers first they had a foul to give,
Speaker 1: and then they fouled Pearl intentionally and put him at
Speaker 1: the line with six seconds left. Toronto didn't have a timeout,
Speaker 1: So Peardle makes the first. It's one oh five to
Speaker 1: one oh three. It's a two point game, and I
Speaker 1: think probably wisely misses the second because they don't have
Speaker 1: any timeouts left and there's only six seconds left in
Speaker 1: the ballgame. He misses it. It goes right back to
Speaker 1: him on the intentional miss. It was beautifully executed and
Speaker 1: it was like twenty one tippet. He grabbed it and
Speaker 1: tried to put it up right away. It rims in
Speaker 1: and out and it beats the Zubats gets the board
Speaker 1: game over Clippers survive, Survive in advance like March Madness tonight,
Speaker 1: as there was some mostly due to the Clippers not
Speaker 1: being good enough late in the game, with the same
Speaker 1: trends of bad turnovers and miss free throws. But you'd
Speaker 1: rather work on these things and know what you have
Speaker 1: to work on after a win than after a loss.
Speaker 1: I know Coach Lee will be frustrated postgame. We will
Speaker 1: hear from him. But they're six and four and six
Speaker 1: and four through their first ten games. I would have
Speaker 1: signed up for five and five looking at the schedule,
Speaker 1: I said that you'll take six and four. Could they
Speaker 1: have been better? Yeah, if it wasn't for these mistakes.
Speaker 1: If James Harden could find his groove offensively, still five
Speaker 1: of seventeen, but he got to the charity stripe and
Speaker 1: missed a critical one, but still win twelve of thirteen.
Speaker 1: So seventeen shots to get twenty four points. You'll take
Speaker 1: that seven assists to was the turnover number four still
Speaker 1: one or two too many? But what could the Clippers
Speaker 1: be if James Harden was just himself right now offensively?
Speaker 1: Now I think it's fatigue. Others have said, no, it's
Speaker 1: season legs, adam me casual. Well, we'll see. I do
Speaker 1: assume he's gonna start shooting it better. How much better?
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's being asked to do a lot.
Speaker 1: And this was the second hand of a back to back,
Speaker 1: and I could see it out there. Hear it into
Speaker 1: a dome as I flipped my laptop around. He was laboring.
Speaker 1: He was extremely tired. This Clippers team there happened to
Speaker 1: rely on guys like Kevin Porter Junior, who had his
Speaker 1: highest scoring game as a Clipper fifteen points. To bring
Speaker 1: the ball up. To alleviate some of this. He had
Speaker 1: five assists of two turnovers. Had some nice defensive plays too.
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior, I don't know, starting to come around.
Speaker 1: He had a tough rebound early in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: The rebounding from him has been good. He ended up
Speaker 1: with six. That stuff's important closing out possessions. Just those
Speaker 1: back to back threes he ended up hitting in this
Speaker 1: game could be big for his confidence from distance, as
Speaker 1: he had struggled. In fact, the only two he had
Speaker 1: hit heading into this game. I think he was two
Speaker 1: of twenty one from three before tonight. One he banked
Speaker 1: in one. He did hit and was fouled. Norman Palell
Speaker 1: had a four point play I believe in the first
Speaker 1: half of this ballgame. But I liked a couple of
Speaker 1: the passes from KPJ. Early on. He had a kickout
Speaker 1: to Harden for three. He had a kickout to Done
Speaker 1: late first quarter for three. Then he had those back
Speaker 1: to back threes around the seven minute mark of the
Speaker 1: second quarter. He responded after turning it over with a
Speaker 1: floater late in the second quarter. I think it was
Speaker 1: just go on a little bit of growth Kevin Porter Junior.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I still need better decision making overall,
Speaker 1: but this is a guy who missed a year of basketball.
Speaker 1: It could just come with time and more reps. But
Speaker 1: that would be a big development for this team, would
Speaker 1: it not? If they had a different, better version of
Speaker 1: Kevin Porter Junior than what we have seen through the
Speaker 1: first ten games. And to his credit, I feel like
Speaker 1: he's incrementally got a little bit better. Seemed like his
Speaker 1: timing has been a little bit better over let's say
Speaker 1: the last six games rather than the first four games.
Speaker 1: Certainly the first three games there were some rough stuff
Speaker 1: in there, but shout out coach Lou pushing the right
Speaker 1: buttons over and over again. They went small the last
Speaker 1: five and a half minutes of the third quarter and
Speaker 1: they went plus seven there. Then the group with Kevin Porter, Junior,
Speaker 1: Chris Dunn, a mere Coffee, Niko Batoom started the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter got blissed initially coach who didn't call timeout. There
Speaker 1: was a five zero run right away by the Raptors.
Speaker 1: He gave it a little bit more time and it
Speaker 1: ended up being just a minus one for that group
Speaker 1: before the timeout came. I think it was called by Toronto,
Speaker 1: and then he got normOn Powell back into the game
Speaker 1: where I think patom with that group that's been working too.
Speaker 1: I just sense of urgency. Timeouts have been stellar from
Speaker 1: coach Lou and nobody has given him credit for this.
Speaker 1: I think the lineups have been pretty good too. Him
Speaker 1: sticking with KPJ looks like the right move right now.
Speaker 1: Ten games in, are there gonna be changes? I don't know.
Speaker 1: People are still talking about getting Jordan Miller in there.
Speaker 1: KPJ might have bought himself more time with this performance tonight.
Speaker 1: So six and four, ten games in, Clippers in solid shape.
Speaker 1: We'll take a quick time out. Sheriff ogs in the
Speaker 1: chat six and four. We are in good shape. We
Speaker 1: need Bomba and Kawhi soon. Well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: Kawhi's gonna be soon. He's not gonna be with them
Speaker 1: on the road trip, so he's at least out the
Speaker 1: next three games. Mobamba, though, we'll give you an update
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: Here from Coach Lou postgame, Boonsaw's given him credit for
Speaker 1: his in game management. I think he's been really good, guys,
Speaker 1: like really good. I wouldn't say that, wouldn't go out
Speaker 1: of my way like this the last three or four games.
Speaker 1: Talking about it, I can go back to the game
Speaker 1: against up twenty three against Phoenix or twenty one, it
Speaker 1: gets down to seventeen, he calls a timeout, like he
Speaker 1: has called timeouts early in third quarters, right away when
Speaker 1: he doesn't like what he sees, twenty five seconds into
Speaker 1: a quarter, like this is how it has to be
Speaker 1: right now. These are all teaching moments for this team,
Speaker 1: and they got a few more lessons that Coach Lou
Speaker 1: will be given to him after the lack of late
Speaker 1: game execution again, but they hold on. They win one
Speaker 1: oh five to one oh three over the Raptors. You're
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Speaker 1: Thatch Golcaldy calling for he delivered little All Eyes on
Speaker 1: Me Clippers, All eyes on the clips. For those who
Speaker 1: are doubting this squad, they're at least thought they were
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the worst teams in the Western Conference,
Speaker 1: a bottom four team. They are six and four in
Speaker 1: their first ten games. Wake up, national media, where you
Speaker 1: had Big Park? How'd you guys not know that this
Speaker 1: team had a defensive identity They were building this off
Speaker 1: season right after they lost Paul George. They made the move.
Speaker 1: They brought in Derrick Jones Junior. They brought back Nico Batoom,
Speaker 1: they brought in Chris Dunn. And right now Clippers, I
Speaker 1: would say is successful six and four in their first
Speaker 1: ten ball games. But I want to ask Big Chuck
Speaker 1: Mockler about this record right now as he joins the
Speaker 1: show A little clips and we'll dip here on Clippers Talk. Chuck,
Speaker 1: how we feeling after the Clippers start off their first
Speaker 1: ten games two games above five hundred.
Speaker 8: I'm feeling great. Adam six and four and not just
Speaker 8: a six and four in the first ten games. Three
Speaker 8: back to backs in the first ten games is absurd.
Speaker 8: We all thought the schedule would get easier with a
Speaker 8: new stadium, but you know, here we are No. Six
Speaker 8: and four. With the wins that they have and the
Speaker 8: way they've gotten them, it's been kind of a variety, right,
Speaker 8: Like we've seen the Cardiac Clippers, as we saw tonight,
Speaker 8: they handedly beat the seventy six ers the other day.
Speaker 8: So the identity is there, which I think is the
Speaker 8: important thing which makes it easier to get wins in
Speaker 8: different ways, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Zach Ocaldy is is that a stenographer that's in the
Speaker 1: courtroom that writes out everything. Somebody says he's doing that
Speaker 1: right now on the YouTube side back Clippers talk. That's
Speaker 1: what Chuck is saying. Quote Chuck Macler says, I'm feeling great.
Speaker 1: Adam six and four, three back to backs. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Terrnce Man late in this ballgame here, Charles,
Speaker 1: because he made two stellar defensive plays. They don't win
Speaker 1: without him, and coach Lou went back to him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean a huge shoutout to Terrence he's obviously,
Speaker 8: you know, he's caught the most flack of any Clipper
Speaker 8: during the start, really just because he's in the starting lineup.
Speaker 8: But he hit shots in the late in the in
Speaker 8: this game, and he had a little kind of mini
Speaker 8: Terrence run. I think it was to open that third there,
Speaker 8: and that the block and the contest right at the
Speaker 8: end of this game is hard enough as it is,
Speaker 8: but when you're kind of gone through the start of
Speaker 8: the season that Terrence has, I think it's even more
Speaker 8: difficult to kind of get up for those moments, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean. Not that I didn't think he could,
Speaker 8: but to see it happen on the second man of
Speaker 8: the back to back in a lineup where they haven't
Speaker 8: been closing with the starters, you know, and it's just
Speaker 8: great to see. I hope this gets him going. I
Speaker 8: think offensively with this team, it looks like this might
Speaker 8: be his ceiling, which is a little unfortunate. But we
Speaker 8: remember what Ty said a couple meal maybe last week.
Speaker 8: He said, I need Terrence to bring me things defensively
Speaker 8: and rebounding, and we saw him do the most important
Speaker 8: stuff defensively late tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of happy in some ways. I'm not happy
Speaker 1: about them missing free throws. I'm not happy about the turnovers.
Speaker 1: But to have this happen in two straight games where
Speaker 1: they still win, I think it tells you about their
Speaker 1: margin of error. And it has grown because Norman Powell.
Speaker 1: Because of what Pal's been able to do, averaging twenty
Speaker 1: five points per game. With the level of efficiency we're
Speaker 1: seeing right now, nobody expected this, like if they were
Speaker 1: going to make these mistakes, and he just said, Okay,
Speaker 1: this team coming into this one is averaging seventeen turnovers
Speaker 1: per game. And you ask somebody what their record would
Speaker 1: be if you knew that information, they would say definitely
Speaker 1: under five hundred. But they're getting by any ways while
Speaker 1: not playing perfect basketball.
Speaker 8: I mean, the Clippers have needed every single one of
Speaker 8: the nine straight game the Norm has scored over twenty points. Right,
Speaker 8: They're six and four, right, and it's the best start
Speaker 8: to Norm Powell's career that he'll ever have probably so
Speaker 8: Norm has been the player of the season. We know
Speaker 8: that James Harden is kind of the engine, he's the
Speaker 8: conductor's the system. Norm Powell's been the best player so
Speaker 8: far in this season. Specifically, It's awesome to see you know,
Speaker 8: for your UCLA guy. But he was just he's just
Speaker 8: doing Norm stuff, Like I don't really know what we
Speaker 8: can compare it to, because he just keeps figuring out
Speaker 8: ways to get buckets. He ends up what fifty percent tonight,
Speaker 8: Like the efficiency is off the charts, and we need
Speaker 8: it to keep as fun as it has been. Thirty
Speaker 8: eight minutes from Zoo tonight, thirty five from Norm, thirty
Speaker 8: four from James the day after they played, you know,
Speaker 8: a very heavy minute fload two. We need as much
Speaker 8: of this from Norm Powell as possible, and I think
Speaker 8: given the schedule, they've been able to take advantage of
Speaker 8: it as much as they could have for the most part.
Speaker 1: Like he started this game off. I joked pregame. I
Speaker 1: was like, let's see if Norm's still on the heater,
Speaker 1: give him a heat check. And he had a four
Speaker 1: point play and then another three, and you know, he
Speaker 1: had seven points early on just by knocking him down
Speaker 1: from distance and then being fouled on one of those.
Speaker 1: But the ability to get to is right, and you
Speaker 1: can see the difference in teams loading up on him
Speaker 1: a little bit more and guys shading over. The word
Speaker 1: is getting out it doesn't take long in the NBA,
Speaker 1: with how many scouts, with how many coaches you have
Speaker 1: out there, and they're playing him differently. Tonight was different
Speaker 1: and he's still twenty four points, as you mentioned, on
Speaker 1: just fourteen shots. Now, the two miss free throws were
Speaker 1: brutal late and if Yakaperle ends up getting that to go,
Speaker 1: which I think was one of the best executed miss
Speaker 1: free throws I've ever seen, it went right back to him.
Speaker 1: It was only like twenty one tippet right chuck, where
Speaker 1: you get it in the air and you try to
Speaker 1: put it back up. I mean, there was more time
Speaker 1: he could have gone down with it, but it was
Speaker 1: a great look. It just rimmed in it out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yig Zoo was right there too. He made a
Speaker 8: little more difficult for him. He ended up getting the
Speaker 8: ball and he was off ballot to make the past
Speaker 8: the hardened after, which was great too. Very weird for
Speaker 8: Pearl to have the ball in his hands that late.
Speaker 8: But I'm not here to question decisions by opposing coaches
Speaker 8: that make it easier for the Clippers to win. At
Speaker 8: this point.
Speaker 1: I would not question Darko or give him some bad calls.
Speaker 1: I would not do yet of those things who I
Speaker 1: do love. And that was one of my favorite rants
Speaker 1: in NBA history because it happened against the Lakers and
Speaker 1: his stuff I wanted to say for so long. So
Speaker 1: James Harden is still in this shooting funk, and people
Speaker 1: have told us that no, no, no, guys, this is just
Speaker 1: early season. Got to get his sea legs underneath him.
Speaker 1: It's not happening so far. Now. It's the second night
Speaker 1: of a back to back and he looked noticeably gassed
Speaker 1: at times. But he's still because he got to the
Speaker 1: charity stripe so much and he still was doing hard
Speaker 1: work getting downhill. I mean, thirteen free throws attempted, so
Speaker 1: he still gets twenty four points on seventeen shots. Like
Speaker 1: the over we're all true shooting efficiency, I guess was
Speaker 1: good enough, even though he's having trouble just knocking down
Speaker 1: threes and getting some of the easy stuff to go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was good to see him go back to
Speaker 8: the old, reliable right, get to the drive plane, get
Speaker 8: to the line, hopefully hit the free throws. I don't
Speaker 8: really know what can be fixed, if that makes sense.
Speaker 8: I think this is just something right of what have
Speaker 8: people been telling you. He's got to get his game
Speaker 8: legs back. Well, we're ten games in, they have a
Speaker 8: free game road trip coming up. We're gonna we're really
Speaker 8: gonna see how much this rest is gonna help him
Speaker 8: and stuff like that. But when if slash when, because
Speaker 8: who knows, maybe Norm does cool off at some point.
Speaker 8: We just got to hope that Harden's efficiency, you know,
Speaker 8: goes the other goes up when Norms. If Norms goes down, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean Norm still went fifty from three. He was
Speaker 1: at forty nine percent. He was just touching, almost kissing
Speaker 1: fifty percent from three. You could say kissing that. What's
Speaker 1: what's the phrase kissing the bottom of what is the Uh?
Speaker 8: Yeah he was. He was kissing fifty percent. He was close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's right there, so he's not going to lose
Speaker 1: any ground there. He was shooting fifty one percent from
Speaker 1: the floor. He goes only fifty percent from the floor.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this is insane the stuff Norm Powell is doing.
Speaker 1: What do you I guess, are you expecting anything now
Speaker 1: that we're ten games in, Charles, because coach Flue always
Speaker 1: looks for that ten game sample size, could we see
Speaker 1: some moves coming now? I mean KPJ. Probably just had
Speaker 1: his best game at least scoring wise for the Clippers.
Speaker 1: If anything, what are you expecting?
Speaker 8: I don't know. I think the big change we've already
Speaker 8: seen at this point in the season, which is kind
Speaker 8: of not playing Kai Jones, Right, We've gone down to
Speaker 8: a nine man rotation, which if you look at this roster,
Speaker 8: that is putting some stress on an older batomb and
Speaker 8: stuff like that. Postgame, Tyleru said this is kind of
Speaker 8: where he thinks the rotation is. So it might just
Speaker 8: be based on availability, you know what I mean, as
Speaker 8: much as you know bone to stand after Acte doing
Speaker 8: all these things, I you might. I mean, kpj did
Speaker 8: have his best game. We need his outside shooting. He's
Speaker 8: a lot better when he's shooting threes and when he
Speaker 8: he was driving and taking weird mid range ones tonight.
Speaker 8: But I think the big change with the margin of
Speaker 8: error for this team is just taking Kai out of
Speaker 8: the rotation. The margin of error is so thin you
Speaker 8: can't really make big changes, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good point, And maybe they're just
Speaker 1: you know, Kai got minutes again in the first half,
Speaker 1: but none in the second half, and they were a
Speaker 1: plus seven with those small ball minutes to end the
Speaker 1: third quarter. It worked and apparently, according to Tomrrazari, Mobamba
Speaker 1: has been participating in Stay Ready, game day, practice, five
Speaker 1: on five's and everything. He hasn't been limited, says to
Speaker 1: coach Lou but his status for the trip is still tbd.
Speaker 1: Kawhi is not going on the trip, but maybe they're
Speaker 1: getting Mobamba back sooner than later, and you know that's
Speaker 1: the move, that's the change, just getting him back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in his first.
Speaker 8: As a Clipper, and he's a different center than Kai Jones, right,
Speaker 8: He's a lot, he brings different things. He's more of
Speaker 8: a pick and pop guy, that kind of thing. I
Speaker 8: think you're right. I think it's trying to you know,
Speaker 8: they take Kai out and then they just see what
Speaker 8: we kind of have with Obama because we still don't really,
Speaker 8: I mean, we have no idea in game, but you know, hey,
Speaker 8: the team six and four, so it's like we just
Speaker 8: kind of got to the Clippers are a ride ride.
Speaker 8: What's going well team?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 8: If things are going well, we just have to keep
Speaker 8: doing it until it doesn't and then we have thankfully
Speaker 8: Tiloud a pivot thing. So right now things are going well.
Speaker 8: Who knows how much Obama's going to play when he's back.
Speaker 8: But I mean the nine guy rotation, they're they're what
Speaker 8: two and oh since they or maybe three and o
Speaker 8: since the nine man rotation started. It A lot depends
Speaker 8: on Norm Powell, a lot depends on James Harden. But
Speaker 8: for now, we should all be very excited.
Speaker 1: So we're looking at this team. I guess I don't
Speaker 1: know a little bit more back to the big picture
Speaker 1: here as we close things out, Chuck. But they're six
Speaker 1: and four. They've made mistakes, they're still above five hundred.
Speaker 1: They've had three back to backs already. As you mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: they're going into OKAC on Monday, but okay, see will
Speaker 1: actually be on a back to back. So that's nice
Speaker 1: to see. This is a team that is dangerous, and
Speaker 1: you think about if they can get Kawhi Leonard back,
Speaker 1: and I know that's asking a lot right now, but
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I've been mentioning this in the
Speaker 1: last couple of days, but the power forward issue may
Speaker 1: have been an exaggeration. They've been a very good rebounding team.
Speaker 1: The Zach Levine talk and bringing in another scorer when
Speaker 1: you have Zach Lavine at home, It's called normOn Powell,
Speaker 1: and that's no disrespect. He has been that good so far.
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't give him up for Zach Lavine right now,
Speaker 1: when you compare contracts and everything it would take, I
Speaker 1: would not do that move. I would not be close
Speaker 1: to making a drastic move like that. Look at normOn
Speaker 1: Powell and his efficiency, it's just it's otherworldly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean you're not. You can't move off norm
Speaker 8: right now. They need as many wins as they can get. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it is early in the season, but you know, we
Speaker 8: were all worried about the rebounding rightfully, so I don't
Speaker 8: think anyone was wrong to be worried about the rebound them.
Speaker 8: I'm excited for now. I do think there might be
Speaker 8: a wall coming up, no pun intended at around fifteen
Speaker 8: to twenty games. We're gonna see how their legs feel
Speaker 8: because it's been a lot of it.
Speaker 1: Is going to break through so you can start shooting
Speaker 1: well again.
Speaker 8: That wall, I hope so, but there just might be
Speaker 8: a fatigue wall. I hope it doesn't hit too hard.
Speaker 8: But this is where the identity comes into play. This
Speaker 8: is where guys like Van Gundy teaming up with Tylo
Speaker 8: to really instill in these guys a defensive identity that
Speaker 8: they can fall back on them things get rough offensively,
Speaker 8: which is what they've done for the most part.
Speaker 1: He is Chuck Mockler of Cliffs and Dip fame, joining
Speaker 1: me here on Clippers talk for a little Cliffs and
Speaker 1: Double Dip. After the Clippers win one five to one
Speaker 1: three over the Raptors here at Into It Dome, Charles,
Speaker 1: great stuff as always. We'll talk to you as soon,
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 8: Let's go clips.
Speaker 1: Kevin up next. That's our final timeout. Yeah, this is it.
Speaker 1: I had to check my text message. Zach o'calley was
Speaker 1: like in the chat transcribing everything Chuck was saying, which
Speaker 1: is hilarious and very much needed. You can hear the
Speaker 1: guests when the Clippers are on the road and I'm
Speaker 1: back in Burbank. You can't hear the guests when I'm
Speaker 1: Into It Dome. But uh, no matter. We pushed through
Speaker 1: just like the Clippers. Yeah, a couple of turn overs late, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some miss free throws get the dub Anyways, Clippers have
Speaker 1: won four straight. There's six and four in their first
Speaker 1: ten games. We'll unpack some of the quotes coming out
Speaker 1: from Coach lou next to our final segment here on
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Speaker 1: I don't know if this represents Clipper Nation correctly, but
Speaker 1: on the chat, David Holmes said, my heart and stomach
Speaker 1: really needed the beating tonight. Ugly win is still away.
Speaker 1: Clippers win ugly five to one. O three miss free throws,
Speaker 1: turnovers late, but a huge three by Norman Powell around
Speaker 1: the two minute mark of the fourth quarter, and they
Speaker 1: do enough after being up by twelve and the fourth
Speaker 1: after being up by fourteen in the first half, to
Speaker 1: hold on and win over the Toronto Raptors by two.
Speaker 1: Hear it into a Dome. Make it their fourth straight victory,
Speaker 1: and Norm Powell with nine games so far nine straight
Speaker 1: games now of twenty or more points, he ties Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum for the most such games of twenty points or
Speaker 1: more in the NBA. Are you kidding me? Aco? Quality?
Speaker 1: Is that's still true? I know Carlos said it earlier.
Speaker 1: Make it true that Norman Palell has tied Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: with the most games of twenty years more so far
Speaker 1: this season with nine and Anthony Edwards he's got nine
Speaker 1: nine nine nine.
Speaker 9: Sorry, political season's over alright, p uh yes, it is incredible, guys,
Speaker 9: Norman Palell, I could not be happier for this man.
Speaker 1: I could not be happier for this man. We got
Speaker 1: Lee Iban in the chat saying Norm over PG. I
Speaker 1: mean when you consider contracts, yes, how can you not
Speaker 1: say that? I mean, Paul George is making over twice
Speaker 1: as much money than Norman Powell for the production you're
Speaker 1: getting out of norm I said before the season started.
Speaker 1: The busiest way, the quickest path to replacing Paul George's
Speaker 1: production is through Norman Pale. If anyone could fill the
Speaker 1: void and fill it up, it was Norman Powell. And
Speaker 1: you see it. Understand the grind. Norm is just one
Speaker 1: of those guys that is the consummate professional that has
Speaker 1: been waiting his turn and is now just kicking ass
Speaker 1: and taking names. We're past safe harbor hours. Some people
Speaker 1: understood the nine to nine to nine deep cut like
Speaker 1: I was Philly feeling right now, I don't want to
Speaker 1: focus too much on Paul George and other teams. But
Speaker 1: we just saw him here and Norm while people were
Speaker 1: saying this offseason, like, I don't know, he's got two
Speaker 1: years left around twenty million dollars. Not a great contract.
Speaker 1: How about now he's a bargain and this ain't some
Speaker 1: dumpster dive. This is a guy or bargain Ben. This
Speaker 1: is a guy who has had this potential. He has
Speaker 1: average about twenty points per game in Portland. Give him
Speaker 1: the green light and he's taken off the line like
Speaker 1: a like it's just a uh, I don't wanna a
Speaker 1: drag is a dragster? Yeah, fast and the furious final
Speaker 1: seam in the original. I don't know who's raising.
Speaker 5: Him, but.
Speaker 1: I do love that original movie. Norm palle is just incredible.
Speaker 1: Zero to sixty is how he's living his life right now.
Speaker 1: It's just is I gone sixty seconds? Okay, I'm miss
Speaker 1: quoting a lot of stuff and that's a terrible analogy.
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you they gave him the
Speaker 1: keys to the car and pedals to the metal for
Speaker 1: Norm Palell. Okay, I'll stop. Uh, this is just insane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not just twenty plus points every game on extreme efficiency.
Speaker 1: That's what Norm Powell's doing. I did not expect over
Speaker 1: a ten game stretch, when he's one of the number
Speaker 1: one options, when teams are scheming against Norm Powell each
Speaker 1: and every night. Now for him to just keep this
Speaker 1: up forever, I don't expect that. But I feel like
Speaker 1: I don't know a fifty forty. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we'll get the free throw shooting in ninety season eighty
Speaker 1: five season. Isn't that crazy? Like Norm shot forty four
Speaker 1: percent from three last season. He can shoot over fifty
Speaker 1: percent from the floor. He can shoot over forty percent
Speaker 1: from three. He is a flamethrower, says bone Saw. Everyone's
Speaker 1: saying PG is old news. That's why they had the
Speaker 1: newspapers and they were shaking them at Paul George at
Speaker 1: the wall. This is about the twenty twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Clippers. I just can't stop thinking about
Speaker 1: how well Kawhi Leonard could fit into a team like
Speaker 1: this that's so defensive oriented, that has so many guys
Speaker 1: that can play defense, so uh he can guard. I
Speaker 1: don't know, the third best offensive player on the opposition
Speaker 1: every night, Farbaud said, quote the Clippers lead the league
Speaker 1: in most unnecessary stressful home games. Unquote that comes from
Speaker 1: far bad Essen Shari. I guarantee you there's some other
Speaker 1: fans out there that are thinking the exact same thing
Speaker 1: of their team. But it's just fan bias. It's hey,
Speaker 1: you'll take it. You can say it's unnecessary, but this
Speaker 1: is what happens when your offense can go into deep,
Speaker 1: deep funks in lolls because they're a defensive team. But
Speaker 1: mister additioned by subtraction might change the narrative. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You get Kawhi back, and you got a new Big
Speaker 1: three with Kawhi, James Harden and Norman Powell, who stands
Speaker 1: on business. The guy said it. He called his shot,
Speaker 1: and I know he's got a bad game coming. It's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's not gonna shoot fifty to fifty ninety
Speaker 1: all year. But I mean he's built up this equity
Speaker 1: and this good will with the fan base. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna matter. They're not just gonna turn on him. It's
Speaker 1: just gonna be Oh, Norma had a bad game tonight,
Speaker 1: He'll pick it up. He's establishing this standard where you
Speaker 1: feel like he's making it every time he takes a shot.
Speaker 1: I'll say those two free throws. Outside of those two
Speaker 1: free throws, at least big four with Big Zoo, Hey
Speaker 1: Zoo was good tonight, guys steady again, seven of twelve.
Speaker 1: At one point he was seven of nine, so he
Speaker 1: did miss his last three takes, but he had fourteen
Speaker 1: to twelve. Another double double. He had a double double
Speaker 1: at the half with ten and ten. Three blocks. Ooh,
Speaker 1: he had some nice blocks. I think he got RJ.
Speaker 1: Barrett on a rear view contest that was nasty from
Speaker 1: Big Zoo. A left handed hook to start spinning to
Speaker 1: the hoop for a layup. Second quarter, he ripped it
Speaker 1: from Perl who was coming downhill in a hurry, went
Speaker 1: out of bounds on the Clippers, but still it was
Speaker 1: great post defense. Then he had a put back with
Speaker 1: the right hand off in a mirror miss a lot
Speaker 1: from Harden at the four minute mark of the second
Speaker 1: and then swatted went away a transition bucket. I forget
Speaker 1: who had it, but then he blocked RJ. Barrett had
Speaker 1: a bucket to start the third quarter, a hook shot
Speaker 1: in the lane. Big Zoo is just another good ball game.
Speaker 1: Anybody have his averages including this game through ten. Now
Speaker 1: you're talking about Big Zoo Bacon Double Swiss with how
Speaker 1: young he still is at the age of twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Done is gonna be on Shay a lot Terrence Man
Speaker 1: will be on him. Derrick Jones Junior. Look, they could
Speaker 1: have won that first game easily against OKAC. They were
Speaker 1: up by thirteen. They let it go to some extent.
Speaker 1: So it's crazy to say, but I don't hate the
Speaker 1: Clippers chances in Okay see with them coming off of
Speaker 1: back to back the thunder on Monday, I'm here for that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Niko Batoum had a couple Batumbo's rip to
Speaker 1: Ken Bae Matombo. He had a couple of nice blocks too.
Speaker 1: Clippers win. They hold on one O five one oh
Speaker 1: three year final over the Toronto Raptors. Here at into
Speaker 1: it before we get out of here. I do want
Speaker 1: to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler, Brian Seaman, Noah Eagle,
Speaker 1: Carlo Jimenez on the call in this one. Flawless is
Speaker 1: always our head engineer speak Brother Jake Warner, hear it
Speaker 1: into a dome. We love him. Zach o'caldy producing has
Speaker 1: took us off as PCV would say, back in the
Speaker 1: banks that assisition Joey. The listeners, the people in the
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