Speaker 1: What's going on? Clippers fans.
Speaker 2: Welcome to a very fun, very upbeat post game live
hang after the Clippers clinch the fifth seed in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, what a stressful game that was. They
beat the Warriors, they get to fifty wins. They will
be playing the Denver Nuggets. A lot of emotions right
now after what was an incredibly tense last two games
for the Clippers, because the Sacramento Kings almost almost, but
it took them to the end of the God, that
was so stressful. I don't even know where to start.
I mean, this game was carried by Kawhi James hardened In,
Vitza Zubats. Everyone else was effective was bad this game
for the most part. We had some pretty big lineup
issues with Nick Batoom not being available. We had to
see some of mere Coffee minutes which were not good.
Logan Raps saying his blood pressure is bad. Uh, mine
is great. I feel so much more relaxed now. Also,
welcome to clips and dip Adam OSM's over on Clippers Talk.
Will Updyke is unavoidably detained. We're gonna have a full
crew pod for you tomorrow, but right now we're just
hanging out, feeling fantastic again about the Clippers getting the
fifty wins. Logan wraps blood pressure is bad, goodness, gravy.
Speaker 1: What a game?
Speaker 3: Almost a disaster, not a disaster, almost a very difficult
loss to deal with? Forgotten lool Cow saying, from flag
to OKC to a fifty win season. There we go, right,
and we should feel good about this. Everyone should feel
great about this season. Everyone should feel great about this game,
except for maybe everyone except for Kawhi Harden in Zoo.
There were some rough performances in this one. Shout out
to Chris Dunn, who went four for four. We didn't
waste the Chris Dunn sniper game, which I was really
worried about. Yes, hats off to James Harden. James Harden
scored eleven of the twelve Clippers points or eleven of
the fourteen or whatever it was. James Harden was phenomenal
down the stretch in this game. We got to see
Kawhi Leonard absolutely turn it on. Kawhi played forty seven
minutes for Kawhi, forty eight for James Harden. The guys
did the Big three for the Clippers did everything that
they could possibly do to will the Clippers to winning
this game. Chris Dunn played some fantastic defense on Steph
Curry especially, I think it was in the second corner,
third quarter. It was phenomenal. Again he hit all of
his shots, which I don't know if that'll happen again,
but that's where we go. Great point from Jamie Mormon.
You have to be a top three seed to win
the chip. But what if you have the same record
as the three seed? As Will Updyke would say, it's
our year. So I'm gonna go with that. Okay, Kylie Sparks, Hey, Kylie,
hope you're doing well, saying I just have to shout
out the four Bros and the Rose Garden at Coachella
who did a chanting codging circling four seed.
Speaker 1: Four seed, not quite the four seed, but we will
take it. The fifth seed.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do a full regular season kind of decompression
tomorrow for y'all, Adam Will and myself. But the fact
that the Clippers win fifty games and the fifth seed
makes it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: The point is, of course, the Clipper Nation did witchcraft
in the VIP, which is fantastic, risky thunder saying Clippers
may never lose again. I don't know if I'm that
bullish all the Clippers for the rest of the season,
but this win does feel fantastic. Yeah, I am riding
a pretty intense Clippers high right now as of three
forty four. I am not afraid of Denver. I'm afraid
of Jokich, but I'm not afraid of their team as
a whole. Okay, we do need to talk about this
because missing Nick Batoom almost cost this Clippers the game.
And I don't think that's too hyperbolic of a statement.
We watched I'm here Coffee had to play. He's coming
back from an injury. He was he was really rough.
Boggin Bogdanovich was an issue on defense. He's going to
be a target. I don't think that was a shock,
but it was rough today. Jimmy Butler killed the benchline up.
It made this one a lot more difficult. And the
other issue is Bogden wasn't hitting a shot. So Bogden
can be a sieve on defense if he's hitting his shots,
but he was not. He only played fifteen minutes, not
played off the floor, but effectively kind of just because
of how poorly he was playing. Ben Simmons played ten minutes.
He was not very solid either. Having Nick Patum is
crucial for this Clippers team, and the five days off,
as f is pointing out, is a blessing. If you're
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Speaker 1: Well, I hate to shave, I look like shit. Yeah,
the Denver matchup is really interesting again.
Speaker 3: I feel I like when this person said, I'm not
afraid of Denver again, afraid of Jokich for sure. Denver
is a team. If Nick Patum is healthy, I'm giving
the Clippers the edge. Not comfortably because it's the playoffs
and anything can happen, but not incredibly uncomfortable. Norman Bogie
were tough today. Norm picked it up a little bit
at the end. Norm hit effectively two buzzer beaters in
this game, which was pretty funny at one point is
only two makes were uh two buzzer beaters. For the
most part, the energy for the Clippers really picked up
in the second Jim Jackson said that the said this
with like two and a half minutes left in the
second that that's when the energy really kind of shifted
up for the Clippers. And he was totally right. There
was some good defense to easy offense, which they needed.
We're not I don't know, we're not sweeping the Nuggets.
I do not think we'll be sweeping the Nuggets. Uh,
let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here. Let's
let's not I don't know. I would not put money
on sweeping the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Who is your guys' player of the game for this one.
It's probably James Harden thirty nine points, tenn assists. He
did have six turnovers. The turnovers almost doomed us in
this one. The turnovers were really sloppy in this one.
Clippers started this game great and then it really just
like then it became a really difficult battle. Steph Curry, Uh,
we had a mini Steph storm, you know what I mean.
There was like a Steph swell. I guess he still
scored thirty six points, but it almost felt like it
could have been worse.
Speaker 1: Into a Dome is gonna be awesome. I cannot wait.
Speaker 3: With the into it for the Into It Dome with
the playoffs, the wall is going to be crazy.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3: Risky Thunder saying player of the game James secondary would done.
James Harden was phenomenal. Chris Dunn was really good. He
was a menace on defense yet again a lot of
good deflections and he hit all of his shots.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy we.
Speaker 3: Didn't waste the four for four night from chrisdal with
three of those being threes. Yeah, obviously, Cowhi did great.
Zubots was phenomen When the Clippers basically played through Zoobots
to start this game and things were going really well,
Zoo got doubled very quickly in this game.
Speaker 1: He responded great.
Speaker 3: He had some turnovers, he didn't get a couple of calls,
but overall, I think you got to be really encouraged
from the intensity at which Zoo was able to deal
with the double teams and stuff like that. Yeah, the
wall is absolutely gonna be extra out of pocket with
the posters. It's gonna be a good time harder. Turnovers
were terrible the first half, Yes, they were. There was
some bad from the first half. There's some miscommunication on defense,
which is why Bogga didn't play a lot. Who's just
getting blown by j C C saying, why do you
feel so comfortable with the Nuggets? Rockets would have been
the easier matchup. I don't feel so comfortable with the Nuggets.
They just don't have anyone who I think is able
to guard James Harden. And if you don't have anyone
who's able to guard James Harden with how much better
I think Norm will play than he's been playing. Kawhi
is playing so well too. They just don't have the
defensive chops I don't think for how the Clippers play
we talked about on the last full pod we talked
about so maybe Yokic is the best player in this series. Maybe,
but two, three, four are all Clippers you have in
no particular order. Kawhi, Harden, Zoo are the next best three.
So that's why I feel comfortable about it. Also, the upheaval,
the coaching change, I don't think that helps them out,
Uh you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And this is not to disrespect the Nuggets.
Speaker 3: That's not I do not think it will be uh,
you know, a cakewalk or anything like that. But that's
why I feel more comfortable with the Nuggets than some
Maybe I don't know, there's always an easier matchup.
Speaker 1: I feel like, right, I don't know. This is a
great comment. Buddy Hill thought he was Chris Dune.
Speaker 3: Horrible last shot, great last play drawn up by Steve Kerr.
Speaker 1: I mean, just a just a rough go of it.
Speaker 3: I guess I wanted to talk about to uh. Moses
Moody played really good defense in the first half. I
mean Jimmy Butler again killed the bench. I think we
saw we saw the worst bench game we'll see, and
that was partly due to the fact that we were
missing Nick Patub Devil dog Aaron C saying, I wish
Ben Simons would dunk when he his three from the basket.
He passed up at least one today where it was
like you just gotta go up with that man. He
quietly had kind of a bad game. He found Derek
Jones Junior with a really nice pass. I think it
was in the third or maybe I think it was
in the third. But other than that, Ben Simmons was
a little rough today. Wow, that's crazy. Six assists, his
most in ten games done. Absolutely stepped up. Christin was
phenomenal in this game. He did everything that we needed
him to do, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: I have to now.
Speaker 3: I'm also out of town next weekend, so that'll be fun.
I don't know, how are you guys feeling about the
Nuggets matchup. Yeah, Buggie needs to be better, but was rough.
The defense is gonna get him. I think it could
get him played off in the playoffs, which will not
be ideal.
Speaker 1: But he was I don't want to say he.
Speaker 3: Was exposed today because it's not like his defense was
thought to be good, but it was rough that when
the start, when starters are playing more minutes like they
do in the playoffs, Bogie has thin margins for like
staying on the court. Wise, I think he can heat up, obviously,
but if he's not not going nuclearan but if he's
not shooting good, it's a really tough go. Bogie was rough.
Derek Jose Junior, Duncan Curry was amazing. I think Brian
Semens said, it's like, I don't think Steph recognized who
was going up there, and I think he was right.
I don't think he recognized either, but credit him trying
to stop it. But that was a big energy play
that the Clippers needed. I think Derek Jones Jr. Bringing
a lot of good energy yet again. Yeah, John de Ware,
I was just talking about this. Simmons was not very
good tonight. And he's not very good because you have
to have him out there next to someone like Nick
patom And and stuff like that to help space and whatnot.
So yeah, it was tough. The bench was was bad
this game. The bench was really bad this game. I
don't think anyone would deny that. At eight points this game.
It took the bench ten shots to get eight points today,
which was really bad. It's not really time to rethink
the bench. This is what happens when Nick Patuba is out,
you know what I mean? Ben Simmons will play some
meaningful minutes, but he's not gonna play a ton of them.
I mean, even with a shortened rotation today, right, Ben
Simmons played ten minutes and a here Coffee played three.
So like I, I don't think he's gonna be asked
to play a bunch of.
Speaker 1: Meaningful minutes if that makes sense. Hell yeah, sending huge
w virus from Australia.
Speaker 3: Let's go, we got as Drew you makes Australian do
I just keep making that up No, he's American.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I thought he was Australian because
we got two Australians. That's good.
Speaker 3: Shout out Australia. Hope y'all are doing well. Yeah, it's
not been good.
Speaker 1: He had. He passed up an easy one today. I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna deny that at all. It was a
rough Ben Simmons game. Get away from me, kiddie. Yeah,
Murray is gonna be back, but hobbled Jamal Murray. The
Clippers are effectively fully healthy. Knock on wood. Nico should
be back. They get some rest, might be a week
that would be nice, but the Clippers are healthier than
the Nuggets. See thank you for Shizzle Bizzel. I'm not
crazy for thinking Drew Eubanks was Australian.
Speaker 1: Is this the.
Speaker 3: Mandela effect thing? Let us know if you think it is.
For some reason, he has us he gives off Australian vibes.
I guess, yeah, that's true. I guess people don't consider
Ben Simmons Australian despite being from there. Yes, Harden answered
the call, as he did all season this season. We're
gonna again, We're gonna do a full breakdown, just kind
of decompressing from the season tomorrow for y'all with Will,
Adam and myself. No, Harden was phenomenal today and I'm
really happy. The Clippers played some bad basketball at points
in this game. There are some unforced errors, some not
cohesive defense that took place. They played some bad basketball.
I'm really happy they at least started the game well
because they could remember, you know, they could just fall
back into that rhythm.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 3: They saw that what they could do worked early and
it was never gonna be a blowout or anything like that. Yeah,
Zoo every time, Zoo base. They basically played through Zoo
for the first six minutes of this game, and that
was some of the best that they looked in this game.
It went really downhill after the first time out from
Steve Kerr, but the team looked really good to open
the game. They were playing through Zoo for the most part.
Then the bench came in and it was it was
just rough, soft switching. Adam Oswoll was complaining about that. Yeah,
we talked about this during as hard and already a
better Clipper than PG is what they're asking.
Speaker 1: Harden. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: I think this is the way I mean as of
right now, like one hundred percent, because you just have
a guy who's doing the things he said he was
gonna do and very well. Right he's saying, give I
can do this, let me help, right, Like he's been
a great leader to start to open the season. He
was taking the young guys in le Rico Hines runs,
they did the workouts at ASU. He doesn't have a
stupid podcast. He backs up.
Speaker 1: What he says.
Speaker 3: There's no excuses really with Harden. Yeah, I think Harden's
a better Clipper than PG. He's been phenomenal. It's absolutely crazy.
I thought someone else said, Okay, thank you Andy Ate
two eight one, two ninety three.
Speaker 1: Did he come from the Australian League.
Speaker 3: For those of you just joining, if you thought that
Drew Eubanks Will was Australian, put it in the chat
because there's dozens of us apparently who thought that Drew
you Banks was Australian.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love this point from Clipper Alex. We played mature
basketball today. It was a playoff game. They played a
mature playoff game. That's a great call. Some chaotic calls.
Steph got hot towards the end. Really also seems like
Steph's thumb is ft.
Speaker 1: Which is tough. See Yeah, no podcast is huge for
James Harden.
Speaker 3: I don't have to hear of bullshit while he lost
or anything like that. And he plays, he is available.
He's not only available, he is incredible when he is
available and has been a culture center for the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Very much. So, Man, what hell of a win? That
was incredible?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Curry had eight turnovers, Harden had six or something
like that. It's high usage intensity, It's gonna happen like
it's annoying. You just hope that they're not as boneheaded
as Yeah, Kawhi had five turnovers in this game. Like
we can talk about Harden having bad turnovers. Kai also
had five. Norm had two really bad turnovers.
Speaker 1: So it was just tough.
Speaker 3: What's up with Tyler's refusal to put Dereck Jones Junior
in over Norm? The lack of adjustment is gonna cost
us a champion of this year if he doesn't change. Uh, Well,
we have seen Tyler change, so I think we can
take some solace in that. It's not like we're not
accustomed to seeing Tyler make changes in the playoffs and
the Clippers aren't playing well. They're losing, so there could
be changes on deck for sure, but you do that
because that's just who's been playing well. I'm surprised you
didn't say you wanted to put DJJ in overdone because
those lineup numbers are actually better. TD saying Chuck Nuggets
are a good team. I know they're a good team.
Speaker 1: I did not say they're gonna be a pushover team.
Speaker 3: I just feel it's gonna be. I feel comfortable in
the playoffs sense.
Speaker 1: For this team.
Speaker 3: It's probably gonna be a dogfight. I didn't I don't
think it'll be. It's not gonna be a sweep at
all or anything like that. But I like the Clippers chances.
The matchup I think favors the Clippers. We'll get more
into it next week, of course, but it's gonna be interesting. Yeah,
still has to be respected, still helps the spacing, But yeah,
not a good game. LA Clippers Film just tweeted this.
He said game was kind of escaping the Clippers late
in the fourth and Kristen's playmaking out of the short
rule stabilize them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Done, got the ball a couple of times in
the middle of the paint with no one around him.
You hit a floater on one.
Speaker 3: He made the right outlet pass on a couple of rooms. Yeah,
Chris Donne was fantastic today. Nougs, Bugs, Hugs, Clippers and five.
I don't know if it's gonna be five. I do
not think it will be five.
Speaker 1: Like that. Series will still probably go six. Most likely.
Speaker 3: This wind does buy Betune sometime. I think the Lord
Hopefully he's okay. We're still waiting for some post game quotes.
Let me get over to last Twitter real quick because
we need Niko Batum. You saw what happened.
Speaker 1: A vizza. Zubas needs to win MIP also, which is insane.
That needs to happen. For sure he won't, but it
needs to. Man. I just feel good after this win.
Speaker 3: Yes, everyone, please please pray for Nico's growing. Put that
put one in the air for Nico's growing.
Speaker 1: It's very funny. Yeah, I don't know. I feel I
feel great.
Speaker 3: I do have some questions about what this team's gonna
look like in the playoffs in terms of rotations. It's
hard to get a sense of it without Nick Watum
being healthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is fair.
Speaker 3: One thing that always makes Clipper Alex's blood boil is
how often z he was fould but the fact that
he's so big he doesn't flop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of non calls. Yes, how can you go back
and forth? Someone's asking, do we still prefer Bogey to KPJ?
I go back and forth. Yes a thousand times. Yes,
he can do more than and KPJ, and is a
better fit for the team. We've seen the team play
so much better with Bogie then with KPJ. Why are
you worried about that right now? That's so funny Edward
John saying Norm's confidence is in the garage. Well, that
means he can just open the door and take it
right out. So I think that'll be fine. Yeah, when
he's not making shots, everyone's a liability. But I don't
think tylu is going to change the starting lineup for
the NBA playoffs. Call me crazy, I just don't think
that's gonna happen. I also like, what do we think
is more common Norm Powell to shoot thirty percent for
the rest of the playoffs or Norm to get back
to his usual self. I think it'd be fine. I
think Norm's going to be okay. I think we're gonna
see better, and it's distributions obviously, Like I don't think
Norm will have to play forty four minutes. That's another consequence,
right of not having Patomas. Everyone's minutes got crunched. Amir
only played three minutes, Ben Simmons played ten minutes. Having
the having Nico back will be a lot better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: There's people who are upset about the result. They won
fifty games and they're in the five seed and they
have a matchup against the Nuggets that they can win.
They can absolutely win. I think we could feel pretty cat.
We get the rest, which is phenomenal. We very much
need Norm back one hundred Yeah, we really need Norm back.
We need Nico back one hundred percent as well. The
Big three played phenomenal today, which is fantastic. Okay, I mean,
I'm not gonna go back and forth about KPJ versus Bogdanovic.
You can miss KPJ. That's totally fine. I would wait,
I would think about other things.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 3: Kevin Porter Junior on the Clippers. He because he's not
on the team anymore. Yeah, the bench was incredibly bad today. Uh,
we talked about it a little bit. Bogie's gonna be
hunted to the max in this Denver matchup for sure,
So yeah, we don't have to regard Westbrook either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Norm is clutch. He hit two At one point.
Speaker 3: The only field goals he hit in this game were
with less than a minute on the clock in their
respective quarters, So that's good. Thankfully he hit those. Yeah,
I'm feeling pretty good about this one. We are going
to have a full episode for y'all tomorrow, and then
another preview episode for the first round against the Nuggets
as well. Later on this week, we're gonna give out
some regular season awards. We'll preview that game again against
the Nuggets. Go listen to Adam over on at Clippers Talk.
He's probably gonna be Adam was probably gonna stream from
the end of this game just until the end of
the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Adam just might be on a continuous stream over there. Yeah,
John to Ware, this is kind of how I don't
and it feel good.
Speaker 3: I think for me, it means feel good in the
playoffs since right the games is probably still gonna go
six games, but I feel that the Clippers are feeling good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Kawhi free throws were wonky today. I will
say that the Kawhi free throws felt just annoying, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's fine to be annoyed by him.
Speaker 1: Simmons isn't supposed to look at the basket. He does.
Speaker 3: There are some times where it's like he had he
passed up one today, Logan, I think that's fair. Someone
named we Roland is upset that the Sippers won in
the comments. I don't know what to tell you. The
Clippers got the dub. I'm gonna pop over and see
if Adam needs help. On the Clippers talk stream, We're
gonna have a full episode for you all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Again. I've been Chuck Mockler. Thank you for hanging out.
Speaker 3: Here's to fifty wins, Here's to the five seed. Let's
feel good. Great way to end the weekend. Onto the
Nuggets next week, hopefully play Sunday. Give Nico a little
more time off. Yeah, have a good rest of your night,
and let's all be grateful that the LA Clippers won
fifty games. Shout out to the LA Clippers, thanks for
hanging out.