Speaker 1: What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to season three,
episode thirty five of Clips in Dim. We have the
full crew today. It is myself, Chuck Mackler, William Updyke,
and Adam Austen here to talk about all the horrible
things that happened in the Nuggets game, as well as
preview what hopefully should be a win against the Utah Jazz.
If you're watching us on YouTube, thank you. If you'd
like to watch us instead of just listening, you can
watch us on YouTube dot complish at Clippers podcast. Before
we get into all that stuff, Adam, Will, how are
you doing? Will? It's been weeks? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: How does it?
Speaker 1: No? It hasn't how you been doing during the Clippers
losing streak.
Speaker 2: I've been doing all right. I mean there was there
was bound to be, uh, there's bound to be a
little bit of a fall, but you know it's it's fine.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: They're just letting us down so they can build things
back up. You know, you gotta take one step back
to take two forwards.
Speaker 1: Sometimes. Yeah, they're like a dad who's like, I'm going
out to get cigarettes and he just comes back way
way later. Uh yeah, he thought and then he leaves again. Adam,
you are in the the parkview studio tonight. For those
of you who can't see Adam is at the park. Adam,
how are you doing amidst this losing streak. You have
to talk with the fans a lot more closely than
we do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people are upset.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think we all tried to prepare everyone for the
game against Denver being a tough one. I think we
did the best job we could, considering it was another
game without Terris Man and Derek Jones Junior, and they
had already beaten Denver twice and it was gonna be
really hard to beat him three times in a row
within like two months. So I think the Clippers, you know,
those four days off and especially the eighth that James
Harden got off really affected him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was pretty evident how much it
hurts this Clippers team to miss Derek Jones Junior and
Terrence Man against that Nuggets team. Kind Of just what
we were talking about, like what things from that Nuggets
game should we actually be worried about long term? But
I thought, you know, like Nico was good defensively, but
if Amir is not hitting shots, which is something that
Derek Jones Junior does. Like if both those guys kind
of have to be on to really help out this
loss of Derek Jones Junior, and if even if one
of amrr or Batuoma is off, it really kind of
just puts constraints on the Clippers offensively.
Speaker 3: Definitely against good teams and definitely against a team like
Denver that was ready. But I'll say this, defensively they
were pretty good. Is their offense that just killed their
defense because they could turn the damn basketball over nineteen
turnovers and James Harden had nine of them. It was
a season high. It looked like some of the passes
he was making were the same ones he was making
in the preseason when he was just overly sloppy, when
it just didn't look very serious out there. And I
got to attribute that to rust overall. But Denver leaves
the league in fast break points at eighteen per game,
and they doubled that. They had thirty six against the Clippers.
That's the game right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know for an offense that's like optimistically approaching
the middle of the league inefficiency. You just like, I
don't know how you win a game where you have
that many turnovers and then you know, with no Terrence
and Derrek Jones Junior, like, the rebounding has taken a
pretty big step back, and the Nuggets were not only
more efficient from the floor, they rebounded at like a
fifty percent better rate than the Clippers. So, like, you're
gonna lose those games. I don't know what else to say, Fellas,
like unless James, like James, Harden and Norm combined for
fifty years, gonna lose those games.
Speaker 1: The thing that got me about the turnovers is that
nineteen turnovers is a lot. Ugets turned it over twenty
one times. That's also what's so crazy about that game
is it's like it's not like the Nuggets were incredibly
on point with their but.
Speaker 2: It just depends on how you're capitalizing.
Speaker 1: One we saw Chris Dunn keeps getting dared to shoot. Adam,
You've kind of been on top of this on Clippers
talk and just especially it's been it's been rough. It's
been a rough stretch. The shooting is very much in
the dirt kind of from the outside. This reminds me
of and feel free to call me crazy. Aside from
Chris Dunn's defense has been phenomenal. It's a lot better
than this fit comp that I'm about to put it at. Obviously,
he's better at defense than this person when this person
played for the Clippers. Do you guys remember when Moe
Harkless was on the Clippers and teams would just stay
he started what like thirty games or something that season.
Teams would just dare him to shoot and sometimes you know,
and it was similar to this Chris Dunn scenario where
it's like, it's if it continues when the c And obviously, again,
Christine is a much better defender than Moharkless was at
that point. Moharkers was good, but nowhere near what Chris
Dunn is doing. They made a starting lineup change. It
was doc coaching, obviously, but I can see when Kawhi
gets healthy, if Dunn continues to kind of shoot like this,
that he's maybe the guy who goes to the bench
when Kawhi is healthy.
Speaker 3: I don't think it would matter. I mean, Norm Powell,
I don't think he's going to the bench. I think
it's going to be Chris do On either way. But
it certainly doesn't improve his case that he's been this
core from the outside for some time. Now. I want
to say something that like twenty six percent over his
last fifty shots from three somewhere in that range. It's
it's been rough, it's been difficult. Uh maybe it's not
even fifty. He's gotten up, but it's it's bad. It's
twenty six percent. Part is pretty damn elouse. I know that.
So they're daring him to shoot, they're putting different bigs
on him, and it's kind of upbending the Clippers offense
to some degree because like what we saw with Alprinchengoon
just playing off of him, giving him the Westbrook treatment
or doing the Draymond thing. Denver did it a little
bit too, where they would put Yokic on him instead
of Zubats or instead of Batoomb and so then you're
trying to get Jokic in the pick and roll, but
he's not on the guy you want. So it makes
things difficult just getting into your offense.
Speaker 1: Do you just gotta hope the shooting gets better? Will,
because again they're gonna let him shoot. His passing has
been solid, but like it just feels like something we
have to hope swings back to above average.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's just even average, I think would
be I think would be acceptable right now, Like one
for four is is pretty rough. I mean it's not
a whole lot of attempts. But uh, you know, the
bigger issue is just the effect of things becoming more
congested on the offensive end because he demands no gravity.
So he's going to have to turn that around personally.
And yeah, I I don't know. Maybe the Christmas break
will do something for him. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, we.
Speaker 2: Don't have a whole lot of confidence in it, if
you can tell.
Speaker 1: No, I think that's fair because even it's not like
when we were hoping last year that for Terrence Man
to go back to normal, because Terrence Man back to
normal was an above average three point shooter, whereas Done
going back to normal is still a pretty close to,
if not below, three point shooter at stasis. So like, yeah,
it'll it'll be weird, or I guess it continues to
be weird. Jordan Miller fifteen minutes in the game against
the Nuggets, zero for two from the floor, zero free
throw attempts, minus eleven. Very much. I thought we saw
a defensive trial by fire for he didn't have the
best night. I called it a growing Pains game on
the Clippers Pod Twitter, and he looked like a rookie.
I don't mean that disrespectfully, but like rookies aren't always
going to look solid, and that the no free throws
thing bums me out. But again, Adam, it feels like
his usage when we have to have these wonky lineups.
You know, we have to watch like bodes KPJ Miller
all play together and it's gonna get weird. But is
there any concern for Jordan Miller right now? Are we
just kind of riding out these bumps and bruises because
what the hell else are we going to do with
the rookie?
Speaker 3: No concern for me. He was just good the game
before against Houston, where I thought he should have gotten
the basketball. More games like this happened. They happen to rookies.
They happened to a mere coffee. They happened to Chris
dunk three. Like a lot of guys can struggle, it
doesn't matter, you know, in one one game, you can
look bad out there. But I think overall he's been
solid and I think gives them something they need. Still,
I think he's had twelve points, fourteen points, and fifteen
points within the last couple of weeks. He's had good games.
Russell Westbrook got the best of him in the second
half where he got up for that game, of course
and was playing some defense and ripped them a couple
of times. I think going to the basket and that
kind of made things look worse even than they already
are with them down by twenty just look like they
were inept out there and couldn't get anything going on
the offensive end. But I'm staying with them, especially right
now without DJ, without Terrence Man and I don't think
either of those guys. I think the soonest they could
be back, according to the reevaluation, would be the twenty seventh,
that home game against Golden State.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think you're right about that. And this is
like part of too right what we've talked about will
like we have to give these young guys time. There's
gonna be bad with the good with young players, and
if you're the Clippers, it's like we might we have
to do this. We have to see what we have
with Jordan Miller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a different it's a
little bit of a different conversation if everybody's healthy, or
even the majority that's been healthy so far this season.
But I mean, yeah, like what other option do you have.
Everybody has some bad games. I mean, norm has had
some bad games. Like it's it's it's just it's just
part of the whole thing. I would have liked to
see him get more shots up. I know that that
has to come within the flow of the offense. But yeah,
I don't know, he's looked he's looked good overall, and
he was due for a down game. I guess that's
how I feel about this streak, especially just missing guys, Like, yeah,
we're kind of due for a bit of a downstreak.
We you know, like we were overperforming. Things are going
to kind of level out, and right now, I mean
I feel like they're they're not necessarily bottoming out, but
getting closer just due to you know, absences.
Speaker 1: And you know, something sort of regressing to the means.
It could bought about after tomorrow night. We'll see what happens.
We'll talk about that in a bit. But I like
what and they played, you know, they played above kind
of their weight a bit on a trunk haded schedule,
which makes it even harder. I think, right, you're kind
of riding that wave of how good you're playing out
so many games in a row. Then it stops and
you got the older guys like Harden, he's tired, he
getst the rest. He's got nine turnovers. Norm got clamped
by Jamal Murray. Just to say what it is. Jamal
Murray did a good job on Norm Powell on Friday.
Which of these things that we've kind of talked about,
do you think Will is most you know, pays pay
attention to it in the long term. Which of these
things do you think kind of sticks out the most
for this Clippers trajectory heading into the new year.
Speaker 2: I mean, like the offense has been an issue for
the Clippers all year long, and I think if Chris
dun can't like have a reliable shot, it depends obviously
on how much longer the season we're gonna go with
him in the starting lineup. But if that's gonna be,
you know, if that's gonna be our only option or
a prolonged option, that is something to worry about.
Speaker 1: We did just get the injury report for the game
against the Jazz. Same thing. Key Contributors Derek Jones junior
Tarnce Man gonna be out for that one. Adam, what
of these things we've talked about, are you going to
keep your eye on most kind of as you move forward?
Speaker 3: Well, I just ran the numbers on Chris Dunn, So
he's nineteen for his last sixty eight from three, which
is just under twenty eight percent.
Speaker 1: That's what I got up here too, right got there
right after you.
Speaker 3: That's rough, but you're the thing. He was still like
a plus nine in that game. Chris Dunn shooting it's
sick pretty much a bonus because he's that good defensively.
Speaker 1: He was also still sick. Tyler talked about that the
post game. He said, Chris dunkept asking to come out
because the altitude was still messing with whatever he had.
You could see it. Yeah, if it's anything like what
I had, kudos to you, Chris Doune, because I wasn't
playing twenty one minutes in Denver. I like what you
said about the shooting being a bonus, like it being
plus nine in that game is insane.
Speaker 3: The only way it wouldn't be a bonus is if
teams continue to just completely leave him wide open and
he's this bad over his next sixty eight shots, which
I don't think could happen. Honestly, He's not as bad
as a shooter that he's, you know, a twenty eight
percent career three point shooter type of guy. He's better
than that. He's just going through a cold streak, just
like he went through a hot streak to start off
the season. I expect him to be around thirty four
thirty five percent by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I think what I'm looking at
kind of as we go on, just how AMR and
Nico can level out during this absence of Derek Jones
and Terrence Man because we need a mirror with Chris
Dunn together on defense. I absolutely love it. It was
very fun to watch for portions of the game on Friday.
But we just need basically it's falls on a mirror
to shoot from outside because he's more trigger happy and
we'll get more chances from the twom I think, so,
I think that's what I'm looking for. We already have
such thin margins, and I guess for James Harden to
not turn the ball over nine times, I don't think
he will make a habit of that. But even in
that he's.
Speaker 2: Been so much better.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, I would say anything that six
plus range with this lineup, it's putting us in a
tough spot. And yet again the Clippers give up the
most points in the paint. They've given up to the Nuggets,
that's who. They've done it too twice this year, which
I don't necessarily love. If you want a good breakdown
of kind of like the tipping point of that game,
Law Murray did a great little breakdown about it was
just some lazy mistakes from the Clippers and the Nuggets
kind of took advantage. Let us know what you thought
about the game against the Nuggets over at Clippers Pod
or at Clippers Podcast on YouTube. Coming up, we're gonna
be previewing the game against the Jazz. I have some
horrifying statistics to read off to the fellas. But before that,
there's an audio break, so watch your ears in three
two one.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back into Clips and did your favorite
NBA podcast about the Los Angeles Clippers. We talked about
the Clippers losing streak, what's going on, what to watch
for now, It's time to turn things around and look
ahead as the Clippers are taken on the Jazz. Charles,
You've led into this one with a hell of a
tase with some very disturbing stats. Why don't you lay
us on it? Laid on us man?
Speaker 1: Okay, So weirdly enough, just like in November, the Clippers
can stop a three game losing streak when they're playing
the Jazz at home. I was looking at over the
last ten games, and the Jazz's offense has been better
than the Clippers offense over the last ten games. Right.
That disturbed me. The defense is not. The defense for
the Jazz is horrible. It continues to be literally I
think dead last and defensive rating at least over the
last ten games. The Clippers are six. That's going to
help the Clippers out a bunch. But the Jazz are
six and three point percentage over the last ten games,
while the Clippers are seventeenth. They're sixteenth in points while
the Clippers are twenty fourth, and they have the fourteenth
best offense while the Clippers have the third best offense. Again,
the defense for the Jazz is so bad. I cannot
stress that point enough, But looking at these stats on
just a ten point average made me feel a little
more nervous. I guess than I thought I would feel.
They're also turning the ball over the most in the league.
Speaker 3: They're a better offense on the season, forget the last
ten games, the third the Clippers are twenty fifth offensively
on the year.
Speaker 1: That I believe it feel worse, I believe it. So
where that leads me to my next into my question,
which was going to be Adam Will after hearing these
horror I know, I've just handed you some horrifying news.
What is your nervousness level for this game? Knowing that
the Clippers are now going to be out Derek Jones
Junior and tear It's man, we got the fitter roster.
The floor is, y'all's I don't know how I'm supposed
to feel their defense has been so bad, but the
offense is looking solid. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think this will say a lot about
how the Clippers are going to go into the end
of the year. Here, you know, we've seen them continuously
show up, I'd say, like outside of that Portland loss,
like they show up to play these games even against
much lesser teams. And I think that this is you know,
like for the offensive woes, this is kind of the
perfect game if you take advantage of it. You know,
you have to actually take advantage of it. But like
as a as a get right game, sort of a
feel good thing going up against you know, just a
barbecue defense. Yeah, like everybody, you know, have everybody get
into a little bit of rhythm. I think that this
could be a little bit of in game rest even
if they if they come out and treat it the
right way. That's the thing though, if they come out
treat it the right way, So we'll see. But I
overall have been impressed with the way that the Clippers
have shown up even in these types of games this season.
Speaker 1: I like that the show up thing that's still you know,
in years past we've seen them not show up. So
maybe that's why I'm say, habitually eventually not show Yeah, absent.
Speaker 3: And they did show up the first time round against
the Jazz into a dome this season. They played well
in that game, uh the Jazz though, if you go
over the last so the last three games for them,
they blow out Portland by forty, then they lose by
forty to the Sacramento Kings. Then they get into a
crazy shootout with Phoenix where both teams hit twenty two
threes and they lost by like seven because they had
more turnovers than the Suns, but nobody could stop the
other team.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: The Jazz over the last three games are the hottest
three point shooting team in the league. They're at forty
five percent from the outside. The Clippers are shooting thirty
one percent over the stretch from three. I feel like
the Clippers are due though, like Will said, if there's
a team to get right against, as you mentioned, Chuck,
they're consistently bad defensively. There's no way to cut it.
There's no way to slice it, or there's any section
of the season where the Jazz have been better than
a bottom five defense. They have been pretty much that
bad all season long. I honestly don't know why they're
this bad though, Like they only have five wins. You
look at their lineup. They got Marketing, Kessler is back,
Collins has been hot from the outside. He's been shooting
like sixty percent over the last five games from three.
John Collins, who everybody's gonna be crying forth the Clippers
don't make a trade for him by the time we're
done with this episode. They have talent there. They have
Colin Sexton, who actually has been kind of quiet lately,
and I worry about that. But I don't see them
as a team that should only have five wins this
year if you just look at their roster on paper.
Marketing has been dealing with a back injury and he's
scoring almost five less points per game. He hasn't been
as efficient from two. He just hasn't looked like himself.
And that's supposed to be your best player out there.
But I don't know Will Hardy. I kind of think
he's a good coach and they've just had, you know,
some mediocre rosters. Remember it's basically the same roster that
they had last year that started off hot and was
at the top of the West for a minute, a
hot minute. Like they shouldn't be this god awful.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, the nerd, So what I'm hearing is
right now, they seem to have chaotic offensive vibes where
we just might get a Jazz team that just hits.
Speaker 3: Oh Jordan Clarkson last game, by the way, and had
twenty three.
Speaker 1: Right, So like what I like this, Like we're kind
of running into like the Clippers being prepared for any
type of game. This Jazz team that is full of
chaos right now, and like we need and I know
that this is the Jazz, but because we have such
a thin roster, we need Norman James to have good
starts to this game. We need them to put any
idea of some jazz witted into it in the dirt,
like in the first quarter, Like we need one of
those norm heaters where it's like dorms got worms, got
eight like sixty five percent shooting after this first quarter.
We can't give them any belief because they only have
five wins. They wouldn't hurt the tank if they beat
the Clippers on Monday. They could try and beat the
Clippers and it wouldn't hurt their tank. Which worries.
Speaker 3: Do players care about that? You think market is like
we got to get Cooper Flag or you know, like
I'm not going to play well tonight because I'm trying
to get Cooper Flag on my team. You can institutionally tank,
you cannot play rotations. You can have guys sit out,
but I don't think the guys that are out there
on the court aren't necessarily caring about a future nineteen
year old coming. Maybe if they win the lottery.
Speaker 1: Institutionally they can take. They cannot care about the tank.
How about that on Monday they can really that extra
support will with them with what we've been said about
how good their offense has been, their defense has been horrible.
The Clippers just got to hold onto the ball because
the way that the Jazz sneak a win in this
one is another sloppy game from Harden, which we've seen,
and then non existent bench scoring from the Clippers. And
I hope KPJ ken because KPJ was not bad against
the Nuggets. He would right. He was decent again, one
of his better games, and the Clippers loss just a
pattern that seems to be continuing with Kevin Porter Junior.
Him talk about a time to get right for someone
whose offense is not very fun to watch. Kevin Porter
Junior could do that against this Jazz team, and we
need it off the bench. Like Will you mentioned in
game rest. I would love if they got two minutes
of in game rest against this Jazz team because that
would mean the bench is playing better than the Jazz bench,
which it should theoretically, you would hope, So.
Speaker 3: I uh, you know you you mentioned how Norman pal
and James Harden have to play much better, and I'm
sure they will. There's just no way this Clippers team,
I don't even know can they beat the Jazz if
those two both have stinker games. Of course, they lost
that badly to the Denver Nuggets. Norm got shut down,
James Harden had nine turnovers. Like, they can't afford to
have both of those guys play that poorly. If East
the Zubots wasn't that impactful against Denver either, top three
players weren't good, I don't even know if they could
beat the Jazz if their top three players play that poorly.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, if we were shutting down Norm.
Speaker 4: On the Jazz team, hopefully no one. My god, Norm
is that's the thing, is like yeah, I mean, well,
that's the thing, like against the defense and again the defense,
as Adam said, any way you slice the season, they're here,
it's not they haven't even had a random peak Like
the Clippers would beat themselves, Norman James would beat themselves
to get the Jazz this win. I think that's the
only way it happens. Like we're not getting clamped like
like it's just I don't think anyone's.
Speaker 1: Been clamped by the Jazz this year.
Speaker 3: No, that's not gonna happen. And maybe it's a good thing.
Maybe a loss that bad to the Denver Nuggets where
they were up by five early in that third quarter
and then Denver just took off and the Clippers couldn't score.
But that could get their attention knowing that, Okay, we
got three tough games, four tough games coming up right afterwards,
we're about to be out on the road for the
next three This feels as close as you can get
in December to a must win game against the Utah
Jazz on Monday, after the way they've worn against Denver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Willie, you're putting this it must win because.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely must win.
Speaker 1: After this, the Clippers go two games in Dallas and
a game in Memphis, and then they play the Warriors
on the twenty seventh. Who are who are going for it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: As we've mentioned in the standings, last time Adam, you
and I talked, we were a game out of the
twelfth spot, or we were two games out of the
twelve spot. We're one game out of the twelfth spot.
Right now we are sitting at nine. It's a time.
Speaker 2: We're also half a game out of the sixth spot, right.
Speaker 1: So that but that's what I'm saying these next couple like, so,
this is a must win, and then we have to
split in Dallas.
Speaker 2: And you gotta keep it in the Warriors.
Speaker 3: Tough sled, especially because for all those that were wondering
about Kawhi and if he was coming back, babohead night,
he's out the report Just in case you're wondering he's out,
it's not happening.
Speaker 1: We need to clip Adam and I talking about the
Kawhi return and then looking at the schedule and clearly realizing, oh,
it's just the only date that's close to Christmas that
they could give away this bablehead for it to make
any sense.
Speaker 3: That was our best investigative report. That was all the president.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was good ship. Now I'm feeling I feel
that it's a must win, but I don't know. I
don't I feel confident lowercase all letters, lowercase that the
Clippers will win this game.
Speaker 3: The only question I have is it feels like, look
at it where the Jazz have been recently, their offense,
like they're peaking their way to finally getting a big victory.
Like they are, they're knocking on the door of getting
that big victory because they almost beat Phoenix the other night.
They easily could have won that game. And I know
they're like eleven of their last thirteen games they have lost.
But they shouldn't be this bad with this roster. I
understand what's going on with the Pelicans and why they're
at the bottom of the West. The Jash should not
be this bad. There is a reason that Golden State
was like willing to give up four first round picks
for marketing.
Speaker 1: All right, so that brings us Adam, can we get
your dome lighte on real quick?
Speaker 3: I'm sure?
Speaker 1: Oh? No? All right? The most important picks this might
be up to this point, the most important player of
the game picks we've ever done, considering this is now
a must win against the Jazz. Will you were not
here last episode? We gave you a mere coffee as
your player of the game pick, not the best pick,
and that was our bad. We know you would have
picked a better player. Who is your pick for the Oh?
We also need to discuss as a group with this
many people hurt, can we pick one of James Harden
or Norm Powell?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Worre split because I'm picking both.
Speaker 1: Will's back and he's saying, f the rules.
Speaker 2: I think you mean to have a great, great game.
Speaker 1: I don't. The thing, though, is like you're not wrong, Like.
Speaker 2: All right, who turnovers combined for fifty points?
Speaker 1: They might need it? That's not crazy?
Speaker 3: Is it available yet? Because he's been kind of mediocre
the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Sure, everyone's on the table, everyone's hurt, everyone's able to
be picked. A player of the game who cares?
Speaker 2: What's left of the starters? How about they do? How
about they get this one done and maybe maybe earn
themselves some in game rest. How's that sound? How's that
for your player of the game?
Speaker 1: Curious? This is what three game losing streaks do when
there's not a lot of time where there's too much
time between games, Adam, who's your pick? Spill it too?
Can I pick Zoo?
Speaker 3: Because I'd like to pick Zoo. He's he's very much due.
It's not an easy matchup. He's against Kessler. Have we
on marketing? Probably at times? I have to be on
Drown Collins at times. It's not gonna be easy. But
I need I need sixteen and twelve from Zoo minimum.
Speaker 1: Efficient sixteen and twelve. I would put it. I would.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna get a lot of opportunities if he's
not right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's not gonna get a lot of opportunities
in general, I think, all right, So that leaves me
everybody else because these guys pick the three people were
we're not usually allowed to pick. Yeah, it's gotta be
someone off the bench. It has to be KPJ. Yes, dude,
we need someone off the bench to score a little bit.
We can't have a ship. We need someone off the
bench to be efficient. No one off the bench is
which makes this a difficult player to pick.
Speaker 2: But you're gonna ride with kp.
Speaker 3: You can pick off the bench for Utah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to put that
energy out there based on hierarchy touches. I have to
pick KPJ. He has to shoot, he's gonna hit. He's
gonna take so many stupid mid range jumpers and I
just hope they go in.
Speaker 3: He's kind of been on a heater last three games seventeen,
nineteen and sixteen, and he's shooting.
Speaker 2: He was efficient. He was efficient in that loss of Denver.
Speaker 1: I yeah, they're all the again. Look at look at
where these good games are coming from losses. I want
him to flip that. I need him to be efficient
and here's that, not maybe just the scoring. Have a
couple boards, have it, like, have basically the game he
had versus Denver versus the Jazz and we win, and
I would he.
Speaker 2: Had he had sixteen three and four with two steals
and shot fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: Like I just feel like, in a loss, have that
exact game against the Jet But like, what does.
Speaker 2: That have to do? I don't. I don't, I don't.
I don't know that that's fully.
Speaker 1: Core garbage because I think I think some of it
was maybe garbage time.
Speaker 3: All right, just came in and actually went to work
early in that game against Denver.
Speaker 1: Well, it didn't turn into anything, so I hope I
didn't realize this was the KPJ and dip pod. All
I'm asking for him to do.
Speaker 2: What's good work?
Speaker 1: If you still suck, that's what I'm saying, good work.
We lost. What I'm saying is give me that exact game,
which wasn't like an over the moon game. He didn't
come out and it was like, who do you want
from it? That's what I'm saying, do what he did
against a horrible defense during a win, and I'll be
way more a static about the performance.
Speaker 2: That's fair. That's absolutely fair.
Speaker 1: And we need it because who else on the beat
which is gonna be a microwave except for your coffee.
I guess.
Speaker 3: Emirs kind of do. Yeah, his last two games ten three, A.
Speaker 1: Mirror is very much due. So are the Clippers for
a win, and they're playing the perfect opponent theoretically to
get that win. It's scary. I don't like how nervous
Adam is about this game. Usually Adam is the most
locked in of all of us for Clippers dubs.
Speaker 3: Like the numbers that I've seen from Utah right now,
it just feels like something is rising to the surface
right now, a jugg ornut.
Speaker 1: I wish you guys released on the league.
Speaker 2: I wish you could see stock and there's like that
scum that comes up to the top. I scrape it off.
That's Utah right now.
Speaker 1: The soup scum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't you want to have a clear broth,
it'll be cloudy.
Speaker 1: That's true. I wish you guys going to see me
researching it because I felt like I was in a
movie where they uncover horrible information. I was like, oh, no, six.
Speaker 2: It was your spotlight.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah. I picked up a yeah, a
rotary dial phone because I just had to tell you guys,
all right, So we got a player of the game picks.
There might be if the Clippers lose tomorrow, I will
there will be alive. There will absolutely be a Clips
and Dip live. I don't know who's gonna be on it,
but there will be one. There's gonna be an episode
out on Wednesday proving the game in Dallas, probably a
postgame live after that game will If people wanted to say,
you know, you forgot to give someone a gift at
the family Christmas, and right off the head you have
to think of a great piece of information to tell
them there is just as good as a gift had
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tell their family member to listen to us as a
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Speaker 2: The gift that keeps on giving this holiday season is
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That's how great of a subscription is cost you. You
get so much in return. If you don't, if you
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Speaker 1: To see us on video.
Speaker 2: You can listen to Rever, you get your podcasts, Apple podcasts, Spotify,
I don't know, Stitch, your deezer, wherever. You listen to
those things. So uh yeah, check us out. But however
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Speaker 1: Happy holidays. I would I want to know the amount
of people who have listened to us, decided to watch us,
said I don't want to see those boys went back
to listening to us, Adam. Before we get out of here,
we need one positive thing to send these Clippers fans
into what seems to be possibly a bloody Monday.
Speaker 3: The Clippers are about to play lights out. It's the
Utah Jazz Baby. Now, I'll give you something real. If
you think the Clippers, I got sucked in the black hole.
If you think the Clippers are bad with turnovers, the
jazz yus there thirtieth on the season and turning the
ball over almost two more times than the team that
is twenty ninth in turnovers. They're eighteen point three turnovers
per game. Slippers are sixteen point five sluck eighteen point
three laughable.
Speaker 1: Laughable over from Utah Adam, thank you for the positive note,
Thank you everyone for listening to us. We will be
back with you pretty soon, and as always, let's go
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