Speaker 1: The Clippers break in their new home with a victory.
Speaker 1: They win one ten to ninety six over the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks in preseason game number four here and Into It Dome.
Speaker 1: Welcome into your postgame show. I'm out of Oslin. Coming up.
Speaker 1: We got second half highlight your post game box score.
Speaker 1: But first let's get back over to your radio voice
Speaker 1: at Carlo Jmenez. And before even that, as I cut
Speaker 1: you off, Carlo, let's pause ten seconds your station identification
Speaker 1: here on the Los Angeles Clippers are your network.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: I guess the joke's on me. Clippers win one ten
Speaker 1: to ninety six in their first ever basketball game played
Speaker 1: here at into It Dome. That's a good way to
Speaker 1: christen things here. They take down the Dallas Mavericks. They're
Speaker 1: our trival and we are just about a week away
Speaker 1: from opening night against the Phoenix Suns. Carlo us dig
Speaker 1: into the box score here and talk about what the
Speaker 1: starters did. I think you brought up was so important
Speaker 1: in that third quarter where they were a plus ten
Speaker 1: the first six minutes after being a negative out there
Speaker 1: in the first half. They just look to be more
Speaker 1: connected and much more like a cohesive unit.
Speaker 3: As you put it, Yeah, I mean James Harden finishes
Speaker 3: the game with twelve assists. He was finding his teammates
Speaker 3: all day long. The Clippers thirty one assists in this game, Adam,
Speaker 3: That's going to win you a lot of ball games
Speaker 3: the rest of the year. But then the other number
Speaker 3: that jumps out to me is the steals. Aviza Zubas
Speaker 3: had four steals today. He led the team. James Harden
Speaker 3: with three steals of his home everybody but Derek Jones
Speaker 3: Junior had a steal. And for the five starters scoring
Speaker 3: double figures really looked like a group that found the
Speaker 3: pecking order and then how they want to approach the
Speaker 3: game on a night in and night out basis, which
Speaker 3: I think was the most important thing today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're establishing an identity and they have been throughout
Speaker 1: the preseason. Once again, they hold an opponent under one
Speaker 1: hundred points. That is a recipe for success in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And while level of competition, okay, the two top guys
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Mavericks were out in this ball game.
Speaker 1: No Luka Dancis, no Kyrie Irving. The second half is
Speaker 1: how you wanted to see the Clippers handle a team
Speaker 1: like this without their stars, and they also were doing
Speaker 1: it in a new Clipper style that we have to
Speaker 1: get used to because they getting out and running any
Speaker 1: opportunity they get in there. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: It is a lot of fun for a team Adam
Speaker 3: that finished last the NBA and passes last year, last
Speaker 3: in pick and rolls, they seem like those are two
Speaker 3: areas in which they're going to shoot right up the
Speaker 3: NBA leader board this season. They're really moving the rock
Speaker 3: on the offensive end. James Horden's getting to a ton
Speaker 3: of pick and rolls, and like you mentioned, fast break
Speaker 3: points go lore thirty six of them today on fast breaks.
Speaker 2: Just an absurd number from this Clippers team.
Speaker 3: And like we talked about, I think although you might say, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're running more, I think that's more rest for the
Speaker 3: starters because now you're not playing a full possession of
Speaker 3: offense or a full possession of defense because you're getting out,
Speaker 3: you're running, you're kicking it ahead and three of the
Speaker 3: guys who aren't running up the floor can kind of
Speaker 3: take a second, take a breath. It's huge for this
Speaker 3: Clippers team if you can score quick and not have
Speaker 3: to expend a ton of energy on the offensive end.
Speaker 3: You're gonna take it every single time, and I think
Speaker 3: the Clippers taking advantage of that was massive. Also, Adam
Speaker 3: points in the paint, sixty two points in the paint.
Speaker 3: This was a Dallas team that was second in the
Speaker 3: NBA after the trade deadline in interior defense. They were
Speaker 3: excellent when they brought Daniel Gafford over and had Derek Lively,
Speaker 3: the second two of maybe the best bigs in the
Speaker 3: NBA in terms of combos. Adam and those two, both
Speaker 3: of them could start on so many different teams, and
Speaker 3: the Clippers dominated the interior. Why well, because you have
Speaker 3: somebody like a viatz Zubas who can play back to
Speaker 3: the basket, who could really go to work over Derek Lively.
Speaker 3: We saw him with a couple of nice right handed
Speaker 3: hook shots. And then Kai Jones, who continues to just
Speaker 3: be so so good for this Clippers team, a lomb threat.
Speaker 3: He rin RUMs.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he gets tired at him.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Kai Jones get tired, And if
Speaker 3: he does get tired, I haven't seen it because every
Speaker 3: second he is running full speed once again, finishes the
Speaker 3: game with the most minutes at twenty four.
Speaker 2: Did that last game at twenty nine.
Speaker 1: He's an energizer bunny. He's got oxygen left in the tank.
Speaker 1: With that track and field background, I think his cardio
Speaker 1: is there and it's real. He can jump just as
Speaker 1: high at the end of the game as he was
Speaker 1: early on in the game, and we did see. I
Speaker 1: thought there was a big turning point because the Clippers,
Speaker 1: we talked about the starters, they struggled a little bit
Speaker 1: early on. Derek Lively had a big throatoun on a
Speaker 1: lob over beats the zubos so Ky Jones comes into
Speaker 1: the ballgame. They tried the same thing now with Daniel Gafford.
Speaker 1: He was able to get up and block that shot
Speaker 1: and redirect it late in the ballgame. By the way,
Speaker 1: we were still seeing his presence there on the interior.
Speaker 1: Guys didn't even want to test him. When you set
Speaker 1: a tone like that, when you establish yourself as a
Speaker 1: shop blocker, guys are not gonna want to mess with
Speaker 1: you in the interior near the moat.
Speaker 3: And we say it all the time, it's not the
Speaker 3: shots you block, it's the presence you have on the inside.
Speaker 3: It's going to make people take different shots, and like
Speaker 3: you said, no one was testing Kai Jones today. This
Speaker 3: Clipper team was so good. Seven blocks, twenty steals, they
Speaker 3: were everywhere.
Speaker 2: I thought the on ball pressure at them.
Speaker 3: I don't think we've seen the Clippers have that kind
Speaker 3: of pressure consistently, especially that first team. You think about
Speaker 3: Chris Dunn, Derek Jones Junior, and Terrence Mann. When did
Speaker 3: you ever see them not on the shorts of the
Speaker 3: offensive player, I mean really hounding them every single time.
Speaker 3: It was a fun game to watch because the effort
Speaker 3: that Clippers put in felt like a playoff like atmosphere
Speaker 3: where every possession matter.
Speaker 1: And that's what is crystallized throughout this preseason possession to possession.
Speaker 1: They are playing with the same level level of effort
Speaker 1: no matter who is out there. All on the defensive end,
Speaker 1: shots are always going to come and go. We know
Speaker 1: they struggle with shot creation at times, but if you
Speaker 1: generate more possessions by getting turnovers, by getting steals, by
Speaker 1: closing out possessions, also with getting boards, you can make
Speaker 1: up for a lack of shooting here or there. And
Speaker 1: it also is a very difficult brand of basketball to
Speaker 1: play against. If you get that as your identity. Teams
Speaker 1: will not want to come in here and go up
Speaker 1: against the Clippers. Add into a dome a defensive minded team,
Speaker 1: or you have the wall behind them fueling them. I mean,
Speaker 1: the energy that can be supplied here and into a
Speaker 1: dome by this fan base is only going to help
Speaker 1: this Clippers team out and propel them forward with the
Speaker 1: brand of basketball they're trying to play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is a perfect storm for this Clipper team.
Speaker 3: When you talk about their ability to play so feisty
Speaker 3: on the defensive end and then to have a beating,
Speaker 3: loud heartbeat around them into a dome, you're gonna feel
Speaker 3: like you're in the lions Den, hear it, into a
Speaker 3: dome if you're an opposing team. And that's what Steve
Speaker 3: Bomer wanted. He wanted this to feel like the worst
Speaker 3: place to play basketball as an opponent, and it feels
Speaker 3: that way with the way the Clippers are building this arena.
Speaker 3: We saw it with the teaser for what the fourth
Speaker 3: quarter will look like. We saw how engaged the all
Speaker 3: the halftime and in between timeout things were. And in
Speaker 3: this arena, Adam, we're at the top and lower bowl.
Speaker 1: We're close.
Speaker 3: I mean, you aren't close wherever you sit in this place,
Speaker 3: it is pretty cool to see. So interested to see
Speaker 3: how that continues to show itself throughout the season, how
Speaker 3: the Clippers can continue to find advantages through this whole arena.
Speaker 3: On the one thing, though, not having ten twelve thirty games,
Speaker 3: that might be the biggest advantage of all the Clippers
Speaker 3: on a little bit of a regular schedule. But really
Speaker 3: fun to see. This whole preseason has been so fun.
Speaker 3: We think about the emergence of Kai Jones, James Harden
Speaker 3: and if it's a Zubat's finding rhythm. Chris Dunn and
Speaker 3: Derek Jones Junior are showing how they can play. And
Speaker 3: now we turn the page to the opening of Into
Speaker 3: It Dome one more against Sacramento and then we start
Speaker 3: to do it for real.
Speaker 2: It can't come quick enough, Adam can't come quick enough.
Speaker 1: Tip off Thursday night, right back here at Into It Dome.
Speaker 1: I guess the Kings is at seven thirty. We'll have
Speaker 1: your pregame shows starting at six point thirty. More postgame
Speaker 1: coming up. But Carlo Jimenez great call is always see
Speaker 1: you right back here at home at Into It Dome
Speaker 1: on Thursday.
Speaker 2: See it Thursday at them.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Coming up next, we'll get to more of
Speaker 1: your post game box score. The Clippers are victorious in
Speaker 1: their first ballgame here at Into It Dome. They take
Speaker 1: down the Dallas Mavericks the one ten ninety six final.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers. Audio Network's the
Speaker 1: sports cars and my Maserati sports car whom all that? So?
Speaker 3: I can't go back?
Speaker 1: Thanks Katy. People are saying the wall translated very well
Speaker 1: through the broadcast. Let's go. We got a couple more
Speaker 1: post game segments for you, guys, and and depending on
Speaker 1: how long my drive is back home, maybe I'll do
Speaker 1: some Clippers talk after dark. If anybody's still up then
Speaker 1: this is a lot of fun. I appreciate everybody in here.
Speaker 1: Clippers karaoke, Yeah, I can't help myself with that song,
Speaker 1: nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus Old Turn Roll right
Speaker 1: till we can no more. I really like the reaction
Speaker 1: from this first game and the fan experience we're seeing here. Now,
Speaker 1: can I pull up the final postgame box score?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Whatever you're next.
Speaker 1: You start things off with the US.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, maybe a little bit before that, guys, we'll
Speaker 4: take this till a little bit before ten thirty.
Speaker 1: You guys want me to turn the camera around. Some
Speaker 1: of you weren't in here pregame, although it's now saved
Speaker 1: in the live section on YouTube at Clipperstock, So we're
Speaker 1: a little bit higher up right now. It's a great
Speaker 1: bird's eye view. You can see all the action, obviously
Speaker 1: a great call from Carlo. Clippers open up the into
Speaker 1: a dome in style with a victory with some style points,
Speaker 1: with some lobs. One ten to ninety six is your
Speaker 1: final welcome home Clipper Nation, get comfortable here and into
Speaker 1: a dome as they take down the Dallas Maverick in
Speaker 1: the first ever basketball game played here. And it was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We'll get into all of it
Speaker 1: here on the post game show with you till about
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour here just had Carlo Jomenez
Speaker 1: on and I do want to highlight a few players
Speaker 1: after I get through the box score here. This Clippers team,
Speaker 1: they shot fifty and a half percent from the floor,
Speaker 1: just six of twenty two from distance. Wait, they only
Speaker 1: got up twenty two shots from the outside. Now I
Speaker 1: have to cross reference that. Yeah, they only took twenty
Speaker 1: two threes. But they scored so many points of the
Speaker 1: paint that does track and there were count them twenty
Speaker 1: nine turnovers by the Dallas Mavericks. They were a disoriented
Speaker 1: mess here. It did to it dome. Now, they didn't
Speaker 1: have their two top players. They're two top ball handlers,
Speaker 1: the guys who have the highest usage rating and one
Speaker 1: of them that is an old timer, and Luka Nacish
Speaker 1: and of course Kyrie Irving, so you have to take
Speaker 1: that into account here. This was not the entire Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks team. They didn't even have Dante x Maxi Kleiba.
Speaker 1: They were missing guys. But did the Clippers take advantage
Speaker 1: of that. They did so enough in the second half,
Speaker 1: I believe, where it was only a five point lead
Speaker 1: for them in the first half, and the starters actually
Speaker 1: struggled against some of the backups for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: That was not what we wanted to see. But then
Speaker 1: as this game went along in that third quarter first
Speaker 1: six minutes, the starters were a plus ten out there.
Speaker 1: That was much more encouraging. That's what you want to
Speaker 1: see step on their throat when you have the talent
Speaker 1: advantage in your favor. The Clippers, they seem to be
Speaker 1: much better finally in the second half, and it could
Speaker 1: take a little bit of time. It could take some
Speaker 1: time for this Clippers team with this starting unit that
Speaker 1: I believe is going to be the starting unit, should
Speaker 1: they not have Kawhi Leonard opening night. This was a
Speaker 1: bit of a dress rehearsal tonight. Derek Jones Junior in there.
Speaker 1: Let me go by position here your backcourt was Norman
Speaker 1: Powell next two? You know what, Norman Powell was still
Speaker 1: playing a little bit of the three like it was
Speaker 1: Norman Powell next to James Harden next to Terrence Man
Speaker 1: with then Derrek Jones Junior the four and of Eatsa
Speaker 1: Zubats obviously at the five. This is what has been
Speaker 1: my prediction for a while of what they're gonna go
Speaker 1: with should Kawhi leonderd not be available opening night, just
Speaker 1: about a week from tonight against the Phoenix Suns, make
Speaker 1: it a nine days from now. Did they perform at
Speaker 1: a high enough level? Well, look, there there's something to
Speaker 1: be desired. James Harden was three of twelve from the field.
Speaker 1: I think the positive there is I don't expect that
Speaker 1: to happen very often where he shoots that poorly. So
Speaker 1: if he just gets back to shooting like he normally
Speaker 1: does and gets back to his usual efficiency, you're talking
Speaker 1: about a completely different ballgame. In the first half, now
Speaker 1: he still had twelve assists, he still was diming out there,
Speaker 1: but this was not your prototypical James Harden game. He
Speaker 1: had a layup early on off a steal by Norm
Speaker 1: then had a bad behind the back turnover in the
Speaker 1: second half early in that third quarter where he would
Speaker 1: steal it back James Hall and loud it from half
Speaker 1: court almost to a Visa zoobots for an easy layup.
Speaker 1: Then had a hard and three pointer after a Dereck
Speaker 1: Jones junior lob from Terence Man in the third quarter
Speaker 1: that got everybody up and out of their seat. If
Speaker 1: you're on the wall, you probably were already up and
Speaker 1: out of your seat. The people at the wall tonight,
Speaker 1: you got to give it up. They were fantastic. And
Speaker 1: this was somewhat of a sparse crowd compared to what
Speaker 1: it will be opening night. It's a preseason game, you
Speaker 1: understand that, and it was still loud, guys. In fact,
Speaker 1: I almost felt like when the crowd dispersed when they
Speaker 1: left then it got a little bit awkward. I realized
Speaker 1: how much louder it was when they were in here,
Speaker 1: and then it was like, oh, I can hear myself
Speaker 1: so well all of a sudden, maybe I'm talking too loud.
Speaker 1: That's how it felt to me. So it was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was noticeable here into a dome, and the Clippers
Speaker 1: did feed off that energy, I believe, with the backups
Speaker 1: and that second unit in the first half, and then
Speaker 1: the starters to start that third quarter and to really
Speaker 1: find a rhythm. Speaking of Kevin Porter Junior led them
Speaker 1: with eighteen points eight of fifteen shooting guys, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that right elbow step back jumper, he hit three
Speaker 1: of them in this game. But Carlojmenez brought this up
Speaker 1: with KPJ. He also had six assists, now four turnovers.
Speaker 1: There was still up and down play. There were still
Speaker 1: some ill advised shots, you could say from KPJ. But
Speaker 1: let's just go through some of this. He had a
Speaker 1: floater off a screen from Kai earlier on the first half.
Speaker 1: Then he had that tough step back jumper on the
Speaker 1: right elbow, then went coast to coast at one point,
Speaker 1: I think midway through the second quarter for a little
Speaker 1: eight footer, then a lob to Derek Jones, who had
Speaker 1: a few of them off a steal, then a step
Speaker 1: back three pointer, and in the third quarter kpjuh he
Speaker 1: lobbed it to big Zoo Like. Seeing that the similarities
Speaker 1: between him and James Harden are very much apparent, you
Speaker 1: can see there are real parallels between those two players,
Speaker 1: not just because they're both lefties. They both love getting
Speaker 1: into their bag, they both love ISO basketball, and there
Speaker 1: are times where it went a arrive for KPJ in
Speaker 1: that area. There was a possession where he brought it
Speaker 1: down and put up a three pointer pretty early in
Speaker 1: the shot clock and kind of said, ah, I probably
Speaker 1: should have let us set up our offense here and
Speaker 1: got into some actions and ran a little bit of
Speaker 1: the offense more. And it was hard on himself, it
Speaker 1: seemed like. But then you know he got up for
Speaker 1: an alley from a mere coffee and transition because he
Speaker 1: also if you didn't know, yeah, he's got a forty
Speaker 1: inch vertical KPJ is an athlete out there. Another right
Speaker 1: elbow jumper in the fourth quarter from him, and then
Speaker 1: the best highlight of the night maybe at least from
Speaker 1: a shooting perspective. He's falling out of bounds on the
Speaker 1: far side short corner left base line and gets it
Speaker 1: to go on a fade away and it's an and
Speaker 1: one as well. So KPJ is showing off tonight. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of you guys were impressed and can
Speaker 1: see why I said. You know, at some point, Kevin
Speaker 1: Porter Junior, I think he could end up starting on
Speaker 1: this Clippers team. I think right now it makes sense
Speaker 1: to bring him off the bench to help lead and
Speaker 1: playmake in the bench unit and shot create because they
Speaker 1: just don't have enough of those guys. Some people are
Speaker 1: saying my tone is shifts on KPJ. You know why
Speaker 1: because the evidence shifted because what Coach Lou said shifted.
Speaker 1: When that changes, I'm changing with it. You got it evolve.
Speaker 1: When Coach Lou said this is when I flipped a
Speaker 1: switch and was like, Okay, I see how he sees KPJ. Now,
Speaker 1: when Coach Lou said for us to be successful, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be a big part of that, that's
Speaker 1: when I said, okay, and I did a deep dive
Speaker 1: watched up of his defense, which was also pretty darn good. Tonight.
Speaker 1: There are some mixtapes out there on YouTube. Got to
Speaker 1: know his offensive repertoire a little bit more of his bag.
Speaker 1: That right elbows step back jumper is real. He is
Speaker 1: very talented and you can see the skill level and
Speaker 1: that is why this Clippers team brought him in. Now
Speaker 1: we still don't know. There's an investigation going on with
Speaker 1: the NBA. He could still be suspended to start the season.
Speaker 1: That would set him back greatly. But it has to
Speaker 1: be pointed out at this point at least that Kevin
Speaker 1: Porter Junior, and i'd say two of the last three games,
Speaker 1: has looked much more comfortable out there. He ended up
Speaker 1: being a plus six with eighteen points, six assists, but
Speaker 1: eight of fifteen shooting. And you need another guy that
Speaker 1: can iso and get a bucket when times get tough
Speaker 1: against really good defense. Sometimes you just need a guy,
Speaker 1: or you say, great offense beats great defense. Kevin Porter
Speaker 1: Junior can hit shots at a high degree of difficulty.
Speaker 1: So I came around pretty quickly once coach lew said, Hey,
Speaker 1: for us to be successful, he's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: a big part of that. But again, a suspension possibly
Speaker 1: looming that would change things more Clippers postgame coming out
Speaker 1: at your Clippers post game locker room show live from
Speaker 1: Into It Dome. Guys, I'll give you the view again
Speaker 1: after they take down the Dallas Mavericks in our trivel
Speaker 1: in their first contest, first basketball game, played it into
Speaker 1: a Dome. What a night, historic night. Shout out to
Speaker 1: everybody on the wall. We could hear you loud and clearly,
Speaker 1: and shout out. Most importantly, should be going to Steve
Speaker 1: Balmer for a dream realized here. He's delivered completely. You
Speaker 1: will not be let down Clipper Nation with the amenities,
Speaker 1: with everything here at Into It Dome, It'll be blown away.
Speaker 1: I still can't believe I'm sitting right here right now.
Speaker 1: It's surreal because the Halo board is as you would
Speaker 1: expect right above us, and it's just a sight to behold.
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Speaker 1: Hey still here. I appreciate you, guys. William Blast says
Speaker 1: we need somebody physical other than Zubas kai Jones. Kai
Speaker 1: Jones is leaps and bounds better than he was his
Speaker 1: first preseason game. We saw him a little bit against
Speaker 1: Daniel Gafford. That was his biggest tests so far by far,
Speaker 1: and the last two teams. It's hard to put a
Speaker 1: lot into that going up against Portland and before that
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn nets. That just is but I am very impressed.
Speaker 1: I was watching him in the layup line earlier. I
Speaker 1: actually said what's up? Because the ball went flying my
Speaker 1: way as I was sitting courtside where Steve Balmer is pregame,
Speaker 1: and he is so locked in focus right now, do
Speaker 1: I think make a run at the backup center position.
Speaker 1: I've been saying, you know, there's not a competition going
Speaker 1: on because he has to get a two way. He's
Speaker 1: fighting for a two way. Mobamba is on a veterans minimum.
Speaker 1: He's on the squad. Kai Jones is not in the
Speaker 1: same position. But man, he keeps playing like this, He's
Speaker 1: gonna push Mobamba. Who Look. I've seen guys lose their
Speaker 1: job due to injury before. I'm not saying that's happening here,
Speaker 1: but Kyle looks great. Clippers win tonight add into a
Speaker 1: Dome Night one game one preseason game number four for
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Clippers. The regular season is starting in just
Speaker 1: about nine days from now October. We're twenty third against
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. Still nice to christen into it Dome
Speaker 1: with a victory. Nice to start things off with a
Speaker 1: victory Ecliper Nation as they take down the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: one ten to ninety six. Welcome back into your post
Speaker 1: game show. I'm Adam Osland. One more segment here for you.
Speaker 1: I was talking about Kay Jones with some of you
Speaker 1: guys on the YouTube live during the chat as we're
Speaker 1: also on AM five seventy LA Sports currently. But this
Speaker 1: was another game where you can see a guy developing
Speaker 1: right before your eyes. And while there were still mistakes
Speaker 1: out there, you take them from young players when the
Speaker 1: upside is this great. He came in and had a
Speaker 1: block and disrupted in Ali up to Daniel Gafford right away. Now,
Speaker 1: he did miss a lob from James Harden. I think
Speaker 1: this is the second time this has happened in the preseason,
Speaker 1: where shockingly enough, he and James Harden haven't been able
Speaker 1: to as well with lobbs. But you know what has
Speaker 1: impressed me about Kai Jones, it's the little thing sometimes
Speaker 1: forget the lobs, what he has done defensively and also
Speaker 1: the way he has kept the ball moving on offense.
Speaker 1: He's making quick decisions. He's not playing with his food,
Speaker 1: he's not trying a long jumper. He's giving the basketball
Speaker 1: up quickly to somebody coming around the perimeter. He's finding
Speaker 1: his guards and then trying to run a little pick
Speaker 1: and roll, which he still had a ghost screen tonight,
Speaker 1: where he's got to be more physical there. But there
Speaker 1: were plenty of good moments as well, plenty to look at.
Speaker 1: But he had a pass and it didn't end up
Speaker 1: with a bucket, and I think if it had it
Speaker 1: would have been a big highlight. He had a dump
Speaker 1: off in the first half to Dereck Jones Junior, who
Speaker 1: missed a layup. Might have been late first quarter, and
Speaker 1: Derek Jones Junior was very good at eight points in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, but he missed a gimme off of
Speaker 1: kai Jones dishing it to him. But then he had
Speaker 1: a block on Gafford, who then got it back and
Speaker 1: dunked it on him. But then KPJ tried to find
Speaker 1: kai Jones and you saw a little miscommunication and kai
Speaker 1: Jones couldn't handle it. A little too much heat on
Speaker 1: the pass turnover, but then in oop from KPJ to
Speaker 1: d the first quarter and then in the second half.
Speaker 1: It was funny when the Clippers were making their run
Speaker 1: and early in the fourth quarter when KPJ had it going,
Speaker 1: they weren't looking for Kai Jones, who was doing his
Speaker 1: thing defensively, and they were a fortress to start off
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter. Guys, that was I know, Mavericks backups preseason.
Speaker 1: I don't care in some ways because the Clippers' mentality
Speaker 1: was we're not giving up any points here, and the
Speaker 1: Mavericks had I want to say, multiple stints in this
Speaker 1: game where they went four or five minutes without scoring.
Speaker 1: But to start off that fourth quarter, the amount of
Speaker 1: turnovers the Dallas Mavericks had, the amount of bad passes
Speaker 1: turned into steals by guys like Chris Dunn who had
Speaker 1: two of them early on. Then KPJ had a steal
Speaker 1: like the Clippers were in complete Alcatraz lockdown mode. This
Speaker 1: was this was what we used to call it clamp City.
Speaker 1: This was wing stop. It's preseason, I know, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you the message has been received with the way
Speaker 1: they need to play, and that to me is what's
Speaker 1: most impressive building those good habits right now. I don't
Speaker 1: think Dallas had a bucket till the seven to twenty
Speaker 1: one mark of the fourth quarter. They had some free throws,
Speaker 1: but they didn't have a field goal made till the
Speaker 1: seven to twenty one mark by my count in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I mean, but toom was in there. The
Speaker 1: length defensively by these guys has to be scary for
Speaker 1: the opposition, this Clippers team. They were flying around perimeter,
Speaker 1: but also secondary rim protectors, collapsing on the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: on the interior. There were so many positives from the way,
Speaker 1: and they have played defense so far in the preseason.
Speaker 1: You look at the numbers, I think they're top two
Speaker 1: when it comes to defensive rating in the preseason and
Speaker 1: also top two when it comes to opponent field goal percentage.
Speaker 1: Those things typically go together. But the message from Jeff
Speaker 1: Van Gundy, the message from coach Lou of the type
Speaker 1: of team they have to be, get deflections, get out
Speaker 1: and run the other way and get some easy points.
Speaker 1: It's there. They did it in space tonight. I'm not
Speaker 1: expecting twenty nine turnovers by a team against the Clippers
Speaker 1: in the regular season. There might be a game where
Speaker 1: they get twenty off a team. But the Clippers had
Speaker 1: thirty six fast break points. They had sixteen last game tonight,
Speaker 1: thirty six. It was incredible. I just can't say enough
Speaker 1: about the defensive intensity and commitment to bringing it possession
Speaker 1: to possession. No matter who's out there. Throughout the preseason,
Speaker 1: teams aren't scoring on them. They're holding them under one
Speaker 1: hundred points. That's what we wanted to see, right, That's
Speaker 1: what it would be a little bit more reassuring for
Speaker 1: a group that lacks the scoring. It's about defense. With
Speaker 1: this group, it has to start there, and I think
Speaker 1: it will. All the signs are pointing that way. And
Speaker 1: you can make up for a lot when it comes
Speaker 1: to a lack of shock creation if you just get
Speaker 1: a lot of easy ones in transition. And they have
Speaker 1: so many guys that can beat you in transition. Now,
Speaker 1: we were laughing about it during the broadcast, but a
Speaker 1: mere Coffee missed a couple of gimmes for him in transition.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best. And after he was fouled
Speaker 1: on one that could have been an a one grabbed
Speaker 1: the basketball and he was putting it in a vice
Speaker 1: gript between his two hands, upset with himself, but there's
Speaker 1: just so many guys that can beat you in transition
Speaker 1: on this team. Right now you got Derek Jones Junior,
Speaker 1: and Terrence Man and Norm Powell with the starters. Then
Speaker 1: off the bench, Kai Jones is gonna beat his man
Speaker 1: down the floor a mere coffee. Chris Dunn, I think
Speaker 1: got one easy bucket. Jordan Miller, can Kevin Porter's junior?
Speaker 1: Can they just come at you in waves? They are
Speaker 1: making waves in transition, and I hope you guys are
Speaker 1: appreciating the effort they're showing on the defensive end, because
Speaker 1: this is what's gonna fuel this team. They're gonna end
Speaker 1: up this season the sixth seed, a high playing team,
Speaker 1: maybe the fifth spot. We don't know the health of
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. It's hard to project, but it's got to
Speaker 1: start with their defense, and that has been showcased so
Speaker 1: far in these four preseason games. The fifth one is
Speaker 1: coming up right here on Thursday, Clippers taking on the
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings. Tip time, same time, seven thirty pregame shows
Speaker 1: starting at six thirty. Before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: I do want to thank the Clippers organization and Steve
Speaker 1: Balmer for giving us the Into It Dome. Welcome home,
Speaker 1: Clipper Nation. Shout out, of course always to Ralph Waller,
Speaker 1: Bryan Seaman, Noah Igo, Carlo Jimenez on the call, big brother,
Speaker 1: Jake Warner, our head engineer here Into It Dome. Now
Speaker 1: not used to saying that. Katie Newton back in Burbank,
Speaker 1: our producer. Tonight, the chatters, everybody in here. I'll see
Speaker 1: all long it takes to get home. Maybe I'll do
Speaker 1: some Clippers talk after dark for you. Definitely got a
Speaker 1: show coming up tomorrow. Regardless, Clippers win in their home
Speaker 1: opener and Into It Dome they take down the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks with a one ten ninety six victory. Talk to
Speaker 1: you Thursday night,