Speaker 1: What is going on, Clippers fans? I am Chuck Mockler,
joined by Adam Oslin. William Updyke is unavoidably detained. But
we have Joseph for I award with us for episode
twenty nine of season four of Clips and diff You
may remember Joseph from the one whose fault it is
that we lost to the Kings. We're happy he could
be back on this show. We're happy the Clippers are
back to being five hundred. We're going to talk about
the standings, of course, I got a pretty good haggel,
no haggle. We're going to preview the game against the Raptors.
And Yanick had an appearance on the Richard Jefferson YouTube
show that I just kind of wanted to talk about.
But before we get into that, Joseph, now that the
Clippers are back back at five hundred, how are you,
how are you feeling? I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 2: I was fairly desponded because it was all my fault
that we lost for in.
Speaker 1: A row, maybe just the King's game, but if you
want to take credit.
Speaker 3: For all four started there.
Speaker 1: Oh, now Joseph's internet froze, Adam, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: He turned on the washer and the dryer and it
upset everything.
Speaker 1: We slacked the Bucks last night. They were up by
forty six at one point. How are you feeling?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a nice taking care of business type
performance from the Clippers. I think Clipper Nation was waiting
for something like that. That was I don't know how
much you can take away other than mindset, professionalism, and
especially that third quarter where they stepped on the gas
and ended things very quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My note. My note for this was did we learn
anything from this game? Joseph? Did you learn anything from
the Clippers mutilating the Bucks? No?
Speaker 2: Maybe just that they are refocused. Also, it's really good
to be introed and then have your internet cut out immediately.
Speaker 4: When do you start talking?
Speaker 2: I just want everybody to know that it's my favorite
thing that happens.
Speaker 1: We were just bitching about Bluetooth. We can talk about
internet service providers, but it will be for the Patreon.
Speaker 4: Fest of Us is purely a Patreon activity.
Speaker 1: Okay, great?
Speaker 2: No, I mean, what can you learn at this point
against a slate that is this bad?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: I think if if we hadn't had these four games
where you know, the sky started to fall.
Speaker 4: Because we were losing the teams we shouldn't have lost to.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe i'd have a different opinion, but
I just it's hard for me to take anything seriously
against the team as bad as the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Are right now. But does the fact that they showed
up that's been the clear one of their biggest issues.
Yeah that feel good?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it does, it does, and again, it just
kind of makes you all the more frustrated.
Speaker 4: It's like, where the hell was this for a week? Like,
why did we dip for a week?
Speaker 2: You know, particularly defensively. I think that was the piece
that was the most frustrating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know Adam would.
Speaker 3: Have they dip defensively or are they just nineteenth and
defense on the season? And that's what it is kind of.
Speaker 5: I mean, something something Lucas and I have been talking
about that I actually happened to agree with him on
is something that needed to change when James left was
the amount of energy they needed to expend to win,
and a lot of that energy came on the defensive
end when things turned around, And so.
Speaker 4: It feels like we're kind of in the culmination of this.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's an eighteen game month and we got to
the middle of it and they're like, well, we just
tried really hard for the first two weeks, so this month,
I don't think we can try hard anymore. And like
when it when it comes down to effort, yes, obviously
you want to have the context and the perspective, but
the flip side of it is like, these are teams
you should be able to exert a little effort at
the beginning and then coast the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: And it just feels like, yeah.
Speaker 1: The King's name was funny, they were only up by
four after the first Yeah, like they kind of had
to lock in a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Kings, I mean the King seemed to me
came down to everybody not named Russell Westbrook I think
shot eighty five percent collectively, Like they they just didn't miss.
Speaker 3: Did Russ miss that three point or late shades of
Game one? In the playoff series?
Speaker 4: About this with you, you're gonna do this to me again,
look at my name. This is where we're staying.
Speaker 1: We're staying in the not negatives.
Speaker 3: It pulled me.
Speaker 1: Garlands. Pull up threes were a hot topic after the game,
and then Date Duncan tweeted the it the Clippers have
a one to twenty seven point five offensive rating when
Garland's on the floor, which is pretty fantastic to see
him and Kawhi click and fit. Remember remember when Paul
George and Kawhi came and we saw that Kurt Goldsberry
shot chart of their career shots and it was like, oh,
Paul George, it all fit. This works better with Darius
Garland as a point guard filling in all the other gaps, right.
Speaker 4: Because Darius Garland wants to be a star.
Speaker 2: That's that's the biggest the biggest difference.
Speaker 1: What was your name again on here?
Speaker 2: He's not on the team anymore, I think again, I
think it's just about the Clippers.
Speaker 4: Not negative about the Clippers.
Speaker 1: But I've liked watching the Garland fit. Obviously the forty
point game was great, but like Adam, watching the Garland
fit get figured out, it's been pretty fun for the
most part.
Speaker 3: Well, him and Kawhi. The two male lineup data is
I think there's somewhere on a plus nit plus rating
is twenty four and together they have an offensive rating
of like one thirty one or something like that. It's
it's impressive and defensively, either're one oh eight or something.
It's it's one hundred and fifty minutes. But even if
you cut that in half and it stabilized to them
being a net twelve, that would be great. Yeah, So
that would be elite. And I'm a little bit surprised
just how seamless it's been offensively and Darius Garland with
a catch and shootability and the rhythm that he's caught
with different guys out there on a new team, and
it's just blowing right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's really important to say just that,
like we watched Kawhi drag this team to a certain point,
and of course the offensive numbers are going to be
awesome when Kawhi is playing at this level with literally
one other offensively competent player. I'm not saying like the
starting five doesn't have any other offensive competent pieces, but
there's no other shot creation outside of why it is
because we have if Darius isn't playing, yeah, right, and
and the pop that he brings in the pace that
he brings in the threat of space. Because again, outside
of Kawhi, we do have John Collins who can shoot
but isn't known as quote unquote a shooter, Like, look
at their rotation and tell me who are the shooters
in the lineup outside of Kawhi, Leonard and Darius.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of a little guy named brook Lopez
slash Mountain. You know who was shooting well last night
was Kobe fricking Sanders. Kay's fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah's got well from three for a while.
Speaker 1: He's I don't know how many minuts there will be
for the ninth guy in the playoff rotation, but he's
certainly making a pretty good case for it.
Speaker 2: I really like him, and I think on a team
that is a higher level maybe than this Clippers team,
their ceiling is right now.
Speaker 4: I think he's a perfect rotation piece.
Speaker 2: I understand why Tye is defaulting to the quote unquote
shot creation that Jordan Miller brings, But I prefer a
rotation player like Kobe Sanders who's like not afraid to shoot,
gives littles, facing is in the right place.
Speaker 1: Well, and Jordan Miller like refuses to shoot threes. He
takes like have.
Speaker 2: You seen his shot for him? I mean it takes
him fifteen minutes to load up. So I think, like,
I get it, I get why he wouldn't want to do.
Speaker 3: That, especially the game.
Speaker 1: Well without exactly the standings as of now, as of
five p forty four pm March twenty fourth, twenty twenty six,
the Clippers are thirty six and thirty six. The Blazers
are a half game behind. They're thirty six and thirty seven.
The Clips have two games left. They have two games
left in the series, so they can still split. The
Clips are up two to zero. The Dubs are thirty
four and thirty eight, two games behind. The Clips down
on the season series. The final game of the season
is against the Doves. Are the Warriors doomed to be tenth?
I'm seeing yes, them locked into that ten spot right now.
Speaker 4: At this point, Like do they even chase anything? Moody
is hurt, Butler is hurt.
Speaker 1: Curry is still out pretty like Moses Moody.
Speaker 4: Man, Yeah, that was that looked really bad.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the clip, but I was like, I
don't need to, I don't need to see.
Speaker 2: It wasn't gruesome, but you could tell immediately then something
terrible had happened.
Speaker 3: I think it came out today. Torn attendant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, out for the season, lengthy rehab process.
Speaker 1: I just I cracked my pate in high school, really attendent. Yeah,
I got hockey puck cracked it.
Speaker 3: That's what Blake did his rookie year.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, hockey puck as well for Blake.
Speaker 1: Straight. Yeah, but they're like, they're not trending, No.
Speaker 2: The opposite, actually, Chuck, I would say they're trending the
opposite way of a and they're not.
Speaker 3: It's the Blazers you gotta worry about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, because the Warriors, like, they're not dropping to eleven,
so like to your point, Joseph, they can't like tank like,
they're just gonna be tenth.
Speaker 3: No matter what, right, Draymond is gonna have to wear it.
Draymon is gonna have to lead them without his supporting
cast that usually carries him and lets him do the
dirty work.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is. We're gonna have to worry about
the Blazers. Yeah, two more games. Last game of March
is against the Blazers and the second to last game
of the season is against the Blazers. How we I mean,
we just have to take care of business. There's nothing
we can really do other than hope that they Man,
we've been so close lest ten games.
Speaker 3: If they win the next game against the Blazers, they
have the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, good thing is we control our own destiny.
Speaker 4: Bad thing is good games like two games at the
end of the season.
Speaker 2: Against the Blazers are huge nail biting experiences right right,
And it's especially frustrating when you look at this stretch,
you know, where they have been a little bit of
up and down. A lot of these games were winnable,
came down to smaller mistakes for some variant stuff like
in Sacramento, and you look at It's true they haven't
been you know, obviously since six and twenty one. They've
been away over five hundred teams since then, and so
it is frustrating to like look at Phoenix, Phoenix at
a skid and you're looking at it.
Speaker 4: You're like, if a few things have gone our way.
Speaker 2: Now we're talking about the seventh seed and we're a
real slide from someone above to be like within shouting distance,
you know. But I think we match up with the
Blazer as well. They don't have anybody to stop Kawi.
I think like we should be able to.
Speaker 1: Take you don't have anyone to stop Garlic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is also true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Blazers. Yeah, true, a little creaky.
Speaker 3: He has some good games and he hates.
Speaker 1: He's annoying to play as the Clippers man. Yeah, George,
ship the Blazer schedule.
Speaker 4: You're gonna drag me back into negative plan. You just
triggered me.
Speaker 1: The Blazer schedule oscillates between very easy and very hard.
They play the Bucks tomorrow, than the MAVs, then the Wizards,
then the Clippers, then the Pels, then the Their last
four games are Nugget Spurs Clippers Kings, so like they
have I mean the two their Nugget Spurs. The last
week of the season helps the Clippers a lot. Just
just depends on.
Speaker 4: Seating, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, is everybody locked in at that point or is
it gonna do.
Speaker 1: You think, mister, I want to I would actually I
wish the season was one hundred and sixty four games.
Wants to sit like, no way we be sitting.
Speaker 3: At He's making his MVP case and he's not wrong
with his dad.
Speaker 4: Take that for data.
Speaker 1: So we we got to take care of business against
the Blazers on the thirty first and the tenth.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 3: If they win the thirty first, though, they're in real good.
Speaker 1: Shape, right, Yeah, it would have they'd have to be. Yeah,
the Blazers would have to win one extra game to
to take over the Clips if they.
Speaker 3: Ended up that Game's into it the thirty first, right, yea.
Speaker 1: And then we are at Moda Center April tenth. Is
it so called the Moda Center?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: I think it's like the Rose Garden at the Mota's
Rose Garden Court, at the.
Speaker 1: Modus Center Rose Quarter.
Speaker 4: There you go at the Moda.
Speaker 3: Center Bonzie Bells Invitational.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're all feeling pretty fine about the Clips.
I mean, they're not gonna be ten, which is good,
but being the eighth seed. It was brought up yesterday
which I missed this that Chris Dunn's five point seven
million dollar contract next season becomes guaranteed if he makes
all defense. TYLERU said, if I'm here, I want kd here. Haggle,
no haggle, he makes an all defensive team and that
contracts become guaranteed. The question is not should he make
a defensive all defensive team? We all know he should.
Will he make the all defensive team?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? It took a year or too long, But because
of that, I think it's a lock. Whether or not
he makes first, I don't know, but he'll definitely make second.
Speaker 1: Yees. So for the uninitiated, their positionless, which is annoying.
There's ten spots. Last year, two guards were on it,
Dyson Daniels, Eluddor.
Speaker 3: I like the question pregame from Jess Rousseau. It was
a good one. But I will also say there was
no chance that they weren't bringing Chris dunneback for five
million dollars and helped me to guarantee a damn thing.
Speaker 1: He's on the team.
Speaker 3: He's playing like a fifteen million dollar guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on the team. Yeah, But I was because
I was looking at the team last year and it
was like Derek White was the next most voted for guard,
which has me a little worried about him getting a
spot this year because there's been a lot of Derek
White love media wise this season, despite him thinking the
moon landing was faked. Yeah, he said that on a
pod the other day.
Speaker 3: That's happening.
Speaker 1: Well, look, the anti intellectualism stuff is also on the Patreon.
So I think, like, if Derek White is one of
the guards, there's probably only one other guard. I want
Chris done to make it a maintedly, I have not
watched a lot of other guards play defense. It's in
this league unless they're playing the Clippers.
Speaker 3: So who are the other nine guys last year? You
have it?
Speaker 1: Look at that. This is what I did instead of
working the.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to think who who is not going
to make it? Maybe because of injury. This season is
all defense, also tied to games played.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why he didn't get it last year, okay,
and enough he didn't have enough games of over twenty
man Okay. So last year first team Evan Mobley, Dyson Daniels,
Lou Dort who they listed a forward, Draymond Green, Amen Thompson,
not a single second second team.
Speaker 3: Has the Dort played enough this year?
Speaker 1: Second team? This is what I mean? Jaron Jackson, Jalen Williams, Kamara,
Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the Beast the Zoobots is not making it
this year. There's a spot open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wenby On there no, okay.
Speaker 2: So I just think it's a matter of right who
gets the sixty five games because there are stars who
have been playing defense this year, and so I just wonder.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Man, there is a reason he went
on Amazon Prime recently, Chris Dunn that he's this has
been out there. They have been pushing for this. He's
gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope so for him.
Speaker 3: Why brought it up unprompted post game?
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, I like that.
Speaker 4: I think that was actually a part of his aspiration deal.
Speaker 2: It was in the very very fine print, but that
he needs to promote. And then he planted a tree
after that. I don't know if you saw them, Christ
that's what gets uncovered. We're like, wait, okay, this is
actually pretty cool. Now Chris Kristin makes all defense and
then gets his contract for it because it turns out
he was behind the whole aspiration.
Speaker 1: That would be the Clippers thing. Yeah, okay, yeah, he's
got Yeah. The the game limit is interesting too, because
I just I'm worried about other guards, dort. Is it
fifty nine games?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You might not make it.
Speaker 1: You might not make it.
Speaker 3: I don't think it would be anyone would be too
upset about that outside of Okay, see, you gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 4: Okay? Blink twice if you need help.
Speaker 3: Dude, my eyes are so strained. From blinking.
Speaker 1: If you're not watching the stream at YouTube dot com
slash at Clippers podcast, you are missing Adam's cats.
Speaker 3: Uh this is this is the low dort defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your cat is a huge dor heead I
had no idea. Okay, yeah, so I feel better about
this now that we've talked this out. But I was
at work, which no one else wanted to talk about
this at work. So I'm happy that we nailed this.
I alone, who's getting sixty getting sixty five games? What
guards are?
Speaker 3: This is John Fox, former NFL coach for the Carolina Panthers, said,
when it comes to Pro Bowls, it takes one year
too long to get in sometimes and one year too
long to get out. And I think, you know, Chris
Dunn did his time last year, and there was kind
of an uproar at the very end, like how he
didn't make it. That carried over into this season and
then after the slow start, it got back on everyone's radar.
They've been talking about it. I think he gets in.
Speaker 1: And yeah, defenses, I think defensive awards specifically in the
NBA are very They have a much heavier, like like
aura level. I was trying to think of a different
word to use, but like you know what I mean,
Like the idea of your defense plays a much larger part,
not a large part, but compared to offensive. Right, the
stats are right, right, but like the rap is huge
for sure and his grown lot. Yeah okay, hell yeah,
I'm glad that we have a no.
Speaker 4: Haggle that's related, hagle, No haggle here.
Speaker 2: If Chris Dunn decided to play football tomorrow, he would
make a Pro Bowl as a corner.
Speaker 1: No haggle.
Speaker 3: It have to be like strong safety.
Speaker 1: Can he tackle?
Speaker 4: He can, he can pick, he can pick the ball.
I mean he literally I think so.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'll end doubt him. A big guy Troy Paul Mollo,
but he'd be pretty good.
Speaker 1: He's six three two oh five so probably has to
play safety's strong safety.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's got the hips for free safety,
but strong safety I could see it. He puts on
fifteen pounds.
Speaker 4: Hey, why don't you why didn't you analyze his hips?
Speaker 2: Analyze his hips for the next month and then get
back to us on with safety here.
Speaker 3: Well, remember Taylor Mays at USC no hips. That's why
Earl Thomas was to pick got it?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think he could do it. I just
I think the I mean meant like cerebrally, absolutely he
could figure it out. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking. I'm thinking Bob Sanders. I don't know. I
see it in Krista.
Speaker 1: I want to look up. Bob Sanders was five eight
and weighed the same amount. He was a dude. I mean,
that's why he had to like stop playing, because he
only knew how to like tackle with his head. I
think he got pop for steroids too, which is hard
to do in the nfloids. No, no, we're not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, Roys, I saw the pressure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, any other haggle though haggles before we
move on to this preview. No ha from Joseph. Uh,
coming up, we're gonna be previewing Clippers versus Raptors. And
then Jan was on Richard Jefferson's show, and we have
a giveaway update.
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Speaker 3: One welcome back. In his Clips and Dip episode twenty
nine of season four, I'm at a mauzle. We got
Chef Mockler and guests Joseph Riah Ward, who's cooking Kraft
macaroni and cheese because he's no William Udek Bye, thank you?
Oh how would sultic that was? Let's talk about this
Raptors team that could have a few guys out tomorrow
that could help out the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what they have kind of a length theyet not
as long as the King's injury report, but they have.
Speaker 3: No Ingram is one of them. Ingram is one of them,
and that's a Clipper killer.
Speaker 1: Yes, Emmanuel Quickly, Brandon, Ingeb and Yakub Pardle are all
questionable for the Raps. Ingram was a late scratch last game.
He like was like a game time decision. I think
because of his heel stuff.
Speaker 3: His villain stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was being.
Speaker 4: He was more of a babychase.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There are also for those interested in such things.
Tomorrow night, we should be rooting for the Nets and
the Bucks because those are the two teams playing the.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure they'll help us out.
Speaker 1: Two teams interested in winning games. The big injury stuff though,
for the clips, John Collins and Math are in her back.
Speaker 3: This is good news. I was worried about Collins. He
rolled that ankle pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm also a little surprised that Math is back
because they were like, oh, he's just gonna he played
some five on five. We're hoping he gets back, and
he's just he's not even all the injury report.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he proved himself in the five on five. I mean,
I think he just wanted to give him some extra
rest that week offer him since he was dealing with
the toe issue. He's also young.
Speaker 2: Young people bounce back, they really do. I fell at
basketball yesterday. I'm going to be aching for like a
week and a half.
Speaker 1: How'd you play?
Speaker 4: Honestly terrible? But I did hit two game winners.
Speaker 1: That's not what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: And I'm really embarrassed with my reaction. I'm so embarrassed.
Speaker 1: Did you cry?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: It was worse.
Speaker 4: So the last game was like a thirty five minute
just rock fight.
Speaker 1: I mean we were.
Speaker 4: All tired, just awful, right, Oh man, to.
Speaker 2: Make matters worse, I just like threw something out because
I was exhausted and it was like a bank three
that I made that won the game, and I pumped
both fists and screamed at the top of my lungs
in this man's back yard, and I felt terrible about it,
like immediately afterwards, I regretted it.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. Congrats on the game winners, dude.
Speaker 4: I didn't do it to brag. I swear to God,
I didn't do it to brag. I played terrible basketball.
Speaker 1: Very cool, you hit, you hit some game winners.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna leave now. I'm uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: No, that is great. Kauhi's question with the ankle and
Jordan Miller his back locked up on him late in
the game yesterday, per Tyleru. Some people think it was
the dunk.
Speaker 3: The miss dunk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's let's just play. We need everybody.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what if Kawhi doesn't play tomorrow after
him being in the game up by forty plus, I
don't know.
Speaker 1: That's Uh, that was weird. Why was he in the game.
Speaker 3: I know there's adrenaline. I know they're trying to get
more reps out there. They had some opportunities to work
on some things. He already was at twenty points. I
was kind of thinking, this must mean Kawi is feeling
good if he is still in the game and they
are up literally by forty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also like, what can you really work on
up forty like this? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I guess there was no Joseph game winner in that one.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you Noah, Thank god they didn't need me.
I had this note on, here are the Clippers just
an elite true shooting team?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: They had almost They had seventy nine and a half
percent true shooting through three quarters last night, and they've
been the number one true shooting team since the All
Star Break? Is this just who they are?
Speaker 3: I hesitate to say that because a lot of it
is weighted on a guy that's been shooting from three
on high volume in Darius Carlin.
Speaker 1: That is fair, and Kawhi is shooting phenomenally well.
Speaker 3: Where do some of the others picked it up? I
did like seeing Brooke pick it up last night.
Speaker 1: Brooke was huge and will be. There's so many people
hurt for the Raptors. I don't really know what to
expect from them.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to expect from the Raptors in general.
Speaker 2: Like they shot it off really hot, and then they've
been kind of bad but also sort of whatever since then.
Speaker 3: So they're a game up or there are a half
game up on the Atlanta Hawks. They're in the fifth spot.
Atlanta's in the sixth, so they probably do want to
hold on to that fifth spot. I guess. I guess, well,
when you would you rather play Cleveland or the Knicks?
Speaker 1: Cleveland?
Speaker 3: Philadelphia is actually not that far behind. They are a
game and a half and the seven, so you don't
want to fall into the play in I'd say there's
incentive to play well here, so.
Speaker 1: Probably Okay, So it's going to be a difficult, but
more difficult than what it could be. Game plays.
Speaker 3: Let's see what their upcoming schedule is, because do they
have some of these Eastern Conference teams that they'd rather
load up and beat in New Orleans, Orlando, Detroit. Yeah,
I don't know what was Ingram's.
Speaker 1: Injury inflamed heel weird? No idea what timeline? Yeah, right,
and no idea what the timeline is for.
Speaker 3: That inflamed achilles heel the ultimate weakness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be Yeah, it's gonna be weird. I
think it's gonna be kind of a weird game. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: I feel good of Kauwhi Plas and they don't turn
the ball over seven times in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Yes, that would be a plus. That was that note.
I had a note near too, as like because of
offensive rebounds and turnovers, clips were only up four on
the Bucks last night after one. If you saw the
final score, you assume this must have been from the jump. No,
it was kind of gross to open the game last night.
Speaker 4: It's bad. It was bad at the beginning.
Speaker 3: I didn't like it, honestly though. As soon as they
took care of the ball, they started turning Milwaukee over.
It kind of played out exactly how you thought it was. Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 1: That is incredibly fair, So take care of the ball.
Guys need to crash the board. Did are How many
rebounds did our centers have yesterday?
Speaker 3: Not enough?
Speaker 1: And as far as I'm concerned, it's never enough with
these centers.
Speaker 4: What do we feel about Isaiah Jackson?
Speaker 1: Good Brooke had three, Isaiah Jackson had four? Nice Isaiah
Jackson man, He's yes, exactly what Adam said. He pops.
He's a perfect third center to have where you're like, oh,
this guy can pop sometimes and then when it's not
very good, he's not like completely terrible.
Speaker 4: Right, Also you can just sit him down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's nice that he's like not good enough
to be like shoot, you know what I mean, Like
it's like, yeah, very clearly.
Speaker 3: Oh, you'd be surprised. And how many people are saying
you can just started over Brook before last night.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Jackson muse the the Raptors are the seventh best
true shooting team since the All Star Break, which I
don't go here absolutely, I'm on a true shooting Yeah. Everyone,
I'm putting it in my work now. People are going
and what is this.
Speaker 3: I went after Carlo last night for saying, like the
Clippers have had the best fueld goal percentage in the
month of March. I'm like, field goal percentage a year?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Come on, Carlo, he's young too. He should be talking.
Warp he should be talking.
Speaker 3: Plus we got into a big, friendly on air debate
about it. Yeah, bifocals when he said that, Brian Steemen
came over and just slapped the ship out of both
of us and we settled down.
Speaker 1: Yeah that sounds about right. Shout out Brian oh Man
and shout out Brent Barry. He did great on the broadcast.
Speaker 3: So he's always good. He's been doing. He's on Prime now.
Speaker 1: I don't watch Prime.
Speaker 3: I like their broadcast is the best. Yeah, I honestly
think it is, like okay NBC because no one's on
the call like he is right now. But the tind
out the studio show, I gotta give it up to Prime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the studio show is great, but yeah, he crushed
the last night.
Speaker 1: What else do we need to do well in this game? Joseph,
You're here asking you questions. Great this is and then
you got to pick a player of the game.
Speaker 4: Okay, I will do I will do both of those things.
Speaker 1: Darius Garland, Okay.
Speaker 4: You keep throwing rules at me. I'm getting lost, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously we talked about taking care of the backball,
but just just shoot three d's. I think the more
this team is willing to let it fly and like
get get the defense, you know, and transition and and
let the ball fly, I think the better we're going
to be. I think the more we allow our offense
to be constipated in the paint, the worse it's gonna
Because it's gonna be harder for us to be able
to operate that way anyway, as a.
Speaker 4: Black cat just totally envelops Adam Auslin. Yeah, yeah, player
of the game.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say Ben matherin coming back,
wants to assert himself again.
Speaker 4: He was on a little bit of a role before
he got hurt. I think he's probably gonna be ready.
Speaker 1: Again. You gotta, you gotta. If you want to see
Adams Katz.
Speaker 3: I literally threw on the ground. She jumped back up
and went right towards the camera again.
Speaker 1: I think she likes Joseph liked the math and call.
If everybody play, let's say everyone's healthy, everyone who is? Yeah,
what do you think the starting lineups?
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be Darius dj Kawhi Collins Brook.
Speaker 1: I done in math off the bench is a pretty
damn good bench. Like further around, I'm not for those
of you watching who love Benedict Mather, and I'm not
saying that's his lot in life. I'm saying for currently,
people really want that bathroom to start the Ben Mather stands,
believe in him. Uh, But I'm saying for right now,
that's a pretty damn good the first seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just don't get how do you want
Ben Overdone or DJ in the starting lineup right now?
You need one of those defenders. I agree hasn't been bad,
but I have to go feed my family.
Speaker 1: So thanks for stopping in the restaurantie. Oh, thank you
Joseph for coming on. That was a good time. Who
is your player of the game?
Speaker 3: So Darius Garland officially is off the table.
Speaker 1: He had forty the other night, and it's very it's
very clear here that if he plays well, there's more.
Yeah again, there's not Pingalore rules where we can choose
anybody we want.
Speaker 3: I will go with give me John Collins, then I'll
piggyback off the guys that are returning in this game.
Speaker 1: That was gonna be my pick.
Speaker 3: Damn, maybe you should have texted it to me.
Speaker 1: Fuck matthe Collins is a great pick. I'm going m
I've said DJ like the majority of the last month,
so I'm not going to do that. I'm going, Uh,
Kobe Sanders maybe gets a few more minutes with the
banged up Jordan Miller kind of comes in does his
best Nick Patum from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Impression one thing I keep thinking about with Kobe after
last night's performing it is, you know, if they managed
to get into a playoff series or even just in
the play in A lot of the time, things start
evolving into isolation basketball in mid range a guy who
can just go get a bucket, turn around, fade away style.
Kobe Sanders, with his size and his tough shot ability,
I can see that being handy in a playoff series.
Speaker 1: You're not wrong. The game slows down, Well, let's play in.
Let's they'll be handed.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying if should they get into a playoff series?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been awesome to watch him get better. Any
other thoughts on this Raptors game.
Speaker 3: I was I was trying to see because they played
a really fast pace last season Toronto. Right, let me
look up, let me get into a dome, dude.
Speaker 1: They ran the Clippers their twentieth in pace.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's interesting to me.
Speaker 1: And their field goal attempts line up with that, right
they're only they're taking the sixth fewest field goals per game.
Speaker 3: And the Clippers. It's funny. As much as we've talked
about their pace being faster, the last ten games, they're
twenty first in pace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Raptors, they don't shoot a lot, they're just
really efficient on their twos. They're bottom ten and their
bottom five and three points attempted, their bottom ten and
three point percentage. But they're top ten and two point attempts.
That's not how that that's not how new NBA math works. Yeah,
I mean you shouldn't be top ten in every two
point statistical category, bottom ten and every three point one
including attempts and also take Yeah, that's not They have
it backwards I think right now for the current.
Speaker 3: NBA Yeah, fifth and two point percentage. But it's hard
to project much when they have some critical guys that
are questionable tomorrow. And I know the Clippers have a
couple too. I'm just expecting to quite a place. You know.
He was in the game, but they were up forty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're only they're only scoring one hundred and
fourteen points a game. Yeah, they got some stuff to
figure out.
Speaker 6: Weird also them the Raptors, Well we do too, but
thankfully help Did you watch any of yannik on Richard
Jefferson YouTube show?
Speaker 3: No, okay, kind of jealous. That was Richard Jefferson deserving
of him so Honor will up deck. I didn't read
the runs.
Speaker 1: It was clearly filmed during All Star whatever. I do
just want to show a screencap because Richard Jefferson was
dressed insane. He was kind of rocking like uh like
the fit was like a joke. I think he was
wearing like very unbuttoned shirt, sunglasses.
Speaker 3: I forget was the Heal Star game in LA or Miami.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of it's an I mean, go check
it out. Just type in Yanick, Richard Jefferson, Richard Jefferson,
and this is all wanna say about it. Had him
play start bench Cut twice and then also had him
choose three musicians for a desert island. I feel like
they need to juice up those questions a bit. Yeah,
you can't do the same game twice.
Speaker 3: You mean they played start Cut Mary twice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with Clippers players and then all time. Yannick knew
who Bob McAdoo was, did not know who Elton Brain
or Corey mcgetty were.
Speaker 3: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: Corey mcgetty is especially funny because he feels he's like
around the franchise. Yannick is a young he's young, he's
what twenty I.
Speaker 3: Think I thought he's twenty two. Twenty three now fIF
six isn't and older?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was older. He was mad we drafted
an old guy.
Speaker 3: They're still mad.
Speaker 1: He's twenty three.
Speaker 3: I can't tell.
Speaker 1: He just turned twenty three on March fourteenth.
Speaker 3: Just turned twenty three.
Speaker 1: Okay, but yeah, it was an interesting segment. Go check
it out. Yannick seems like a fun guy.
Speaker 3: Richard Jefferson was Okay, he can be a fun guy.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I have nothing against Richard Jefferson. But again, I
think it was maybe the format. We have a giveaway update.
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Speaker 1: That is the first time I think I've heard Bradley
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Speaker 1: End, that's that's your positive thing. Okay, it's been a
bleep week. We are going to have a live stream
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get out of this responsibility, what's one positive thing for
these Clippers fans heading into the last week of this
godfirstsaken month.
Speaker 3: One positive thing that Joseph was less negative. I wouldn't
say not negative negative man claw Land as they're calling it.
There is Garland and Kawhi Leonard. Those metrics are pretty
impressive early on here. I just like the chemistry and
the way they've been able to after the first quarter.
I think they only had six turnovers the rest of
the game last night. Yeah, and again this is something
we've been tracking, but their turnover rate has been way
down post All Star break with a lot of new
guys at critical positions. That tells you something about focus
with this team, and there's a real purpose out there.
They are trying to apply what they work on in
practice out there on the court and be sharp, so
I'll grant them that first quarter. They were great afterwards.
Let's see if they can put it together for four
full quarters against Toronto. Carol Knight, I.
Speaker 1: Love a professional start, professional middle, professional end. That's what
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you for hanging out. We'll be back on Thursday for
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