Episode 406: Clippers Force Game 7, Kawhi, Harden, and Norm Powell SHOWED UP (LIVE Edition)

The LA Clippers fought off elimination and have forced a Game 7! Norm Powell lit up the 3rd, Ty Lue made adjustments, Kawhi and Harden showed tf up, Batum was the ultimate connector, and the defense was active…WHAT A RESPONSE. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
What is going on? Clippers fans, Welcome to the postgame
hang After the Clippers force a game seven, they're going
to be in Denver on Saturday. They beat the Nuggets
one eleven, one oh five. We are live here for
clips and dip Adam is doing the post game for
five seventy. William Pdyke's gonna hop on in a few

(00:32):
I am Chuck Monckler. Thank you for hanging out. We're
gonna put this out on audio later, but we are
live on YouTube right now at Clippers dot com, slash
excuse me, YouTube dot com Slash at Clippers podcast. Subscribe
if you want to hang out and watch these lives. Uh.
What a phenomenal game from Kawhi and James Harden. The
Clippers got a phenomenal game from Norm Powell, but too

(00:54):
Battalion say hello, make yourself known in the chat and
we're gonna be a Denver on Saturday. We're gonna talk
about some of the concerns for that game, but we're
all going to allow ourselves to be excited as the
Clippers did what we needed them to do right. We
needed Kawhi and James Harden to show up. We needed

(01:17):
Norm to catch a heater, which he did in the
third quarter. We needed to see an adjustment from Tylu,
which we're probably going to see carry over to Game seven.
Nick Batube started the second half of this game. Tylu
had to sub Chris Dunn out because the Nuggets were
getting a very favorable matchup in Jokic on Chris Dunn,
so he brought Batum in early, and then he started

(01:38):
Batum in the second half and it worked, which is fantastic.
So we have to imagine that game seven, we're going
to see a starting lineup of James Harden, Norm Powell,
Kawhi Leander, Nick Batuba, Viatsa Zubos. I would hope we
see that. I am Chuck Monckler saying that we're gonna

(01:59):
have will updi on here later. But yeah, what a game.
They weathered. An incredible Jokic game and not really incredible.
Excuse me, not not an incredible Yokic game. It was
kind of teetering on incredible. But we you know, they didn't.
We didn't have forty three from Jamal Burray, which is great.
The Clippers paced this game well. I thought the offense

(02:24):
was fast when it was supposed to be fast. It
wasn't as frantic as the last time. Renzo the old
head and the chat saying the end of the fourth
was joke. Yes, so that this one was close. It
is a very tense playoff series, so every game is
going to be close. But they really let up in
the second half and the fourth quarter. Excuse me, they
looked really tired of the offense. It took a long

(02:45):
time to get into the sets, but they did what
they needed to do tonight, which was get to win.
Lizo was talking about Aviza zubotsh this was a Zoo
statement game. I don't know if this was a Zoo
statement games. You had a really weird first half. Zoo
had a last second put back in the first half,
which was great, but that was his third rebound of

(03:07):
the first half. So the first half of Zoo was
kind of weird. And then in the second half he
was incredibly clutch. He made big plays defensively, He got
a great block on Jokic, might have gotten away with
a foul late, but that's fine. But Zoo had a
bounce back second half. The first half was weird from Zoo,

(03:29):
for sure. It was odd. Hold On, I had some
notes stritting out. I'm hyped, very excited. Uh. We saw
a lineup tonight that for the first time this whole year,
which was James Harden, Norm Powell, Bogninvonvanovic, Kawhi Leonard and
Nicholas Patum. Kind of an insane lineup defensively, but it
worked for a little bit, which was good. One thing,

(03:52):
this game started off kind of shaky, right Jamal Murray
lit it up in the first quarter, and that's what
happened last game. We all remember what happened the game
before this, so that was a little scary. The Clippers
kind of had to figure it out for a bit
in this game. The Nuggets had a ton of turnovers
in the second which kind of helped. The Clippers were

(04:14):
still going bucket for bucket. But then I mean it
just like to open the second half. It was incredible.
And we're obviously going to see I don't say I
shouldn't say obviously we should see Nick Batina in the
starting lineup for Game seven. So Christian Hackney asking, welcome

(04:39):
to everyone who's new to the show, who hasn't watched
the show before. It usually it's myself, Adam oslind and
William Updyke. Adam Oslin is hosting the nine am five
p seventy postgame show, so go listen to him. You
can watch him on Clipperstock. William up Ike should be
on in a sec. Christian Hackney asking why were they
letting so much time off the clock for getting the
ball moving in the f Because they are very tired?

(05:03):
Is I think the simplest answer. Also, shout out PA
two battalion. If you're in the bat two battalion, let
us stole in the chat. So sure from the old
locked on clips days, it's because they were tired. Christian,
It's a very valid question. But the offense stalled really
hard on the fourth. They did not close the game offense.

(05:25):
I'm very excited for the win. I'm not taking anything
away from the total result, but this is a fair question.
It just took him a while to get into the
because they were tired. It's absolutely because they were tired,
Lance saying, making Yoka to score is the move. The

(05:45):
others did nothing in that second half. Aaron Gordon Burry
didn't even exist. Yeah, Murray had a heater in the
first quarter, as I mentioned, and that really really stalled out.
Shout out Nick Batum. Nick Batub was the ultimate connector.
He hit Norm with an assist in the corner, and

(06:07):
I think he hit Derek Jones Junior with an assist
in the corner, basically identical plays. He just knows how
to play winning basketball. He is a floor razor and
a ceiling razor, but most importantly for this Clippers team,
he's a defense. He's an offensive floor raizer who could
still play good defense. Harden and Kohi are both at

(06:27):
or above twenty field goal attempts, which is what everybody wanted,
and we got it, which was great. And the rotation
was eight guys, no more, Ben Simmons, it's eight guys.
Hats off to Tylero for making the adjustments that he did.

(06:50):
He thought, he said pregame he thought about making a
starting lineup change, and then he did it, and then
he made one pretty quickly into the game again because
Jokic was getting the mismatch un done and he said,
I don't I don't want to do this anymore. And
Batumb came in and was fantastic. What's funny is uh

(07:10):
Norm in Batumb both hit two threes, but it feels
like they made twelve just the magnitude and everything like that.
I'm gonna get to some stuff from the chat. I'm
very excited from that win. Let's go clips. Yeah, b West,
you said it, okay, yawning tears, saying, I wonder if
dun will be out of the rotation next game. No,

(07:32):
I don't think they're going seven guys. I think Derek
Jones Junior did a lot to show what he can
be offensively, not like a knockdown shoot or anything like that,
but he had this The last part of his shift
was really good from Derek Jones Junior. We can't deny that.
Out there with Batum again, Floor Razor for everybody was

(07:55):
helping him. But I don't think I think we're gonna
see the same eight guys. I don't think Done is
out of the rotation because you still need his defense
to a point, you can't play seven guys. I just
don't think you can play only seven guys for the
whole game. I think probably, Yawning Tears, to your credit,

(08:16):
I think it'll probably be ten minutes and if you
can't get it going offensively, then he's done. No pun intended,
trust me, that would not be intended. So I don't
know if they go to that yet because Tyler also
likes Chris Dunn. David Harr saying tired Holden was hard,

(08:39):
Harden was holding the ball too long. Being tired had
nothing to do with it. I think being tired had
something to do with it. I think that's fair. Definitely
probably part of the strategy almost backfired, almost turned into
a real heartbreaker of a game, but it didn't. Lawler's

(09:00):
Law was followed, which we appreciate and celebrate on this podcast.
I don't know if I'm basking in this win, but
I feel good about it. V World saying, but Toom
is our sixth man, but Tube is about to be
our fifth man. He's about to be in the starting lineup.
Uh is what is about to happen? He was great

(09:23):
this game. I mean everyone again, kind of except for
Chris Dunn. I don't mean disrespectfully to Chris Dunn was great.
There's some weird performances Zoom again, weird first half, Derek
Jose Junter, some weird minutes to open this one, but
guys came around. Okay, David r is not having a
good night. I'm sorry about that. Buddy. Norm Powell had

(09:47):
an incredible third quarter. We haven't even talked about that
yet either. I'm looking at a shot chart in the
third quarter and it is insane. He's absolutely on fire.
Five of six, he had one to three and everything
else was basically at the rim. Norm Powell's third quarter
is exactly the kind of thing you need in this

(10:09):
Max Skywalker saying asking, oh yeah, I like this point
from CALLI is it? CALLI love Norm not forcing up threes.
I thought he made a lot of winning plays this game.
Monster dunk as well. Absolutely could not agree more. You
love the dunk. The dunk got people fired up. Anytime

(10:30):
Norm dunks, it's aggressive, which is good. And he tried
on defense two steels. You'd love to see that. Where
did the question go about the momentum? Okay, Max Skywalker,
is the momentum on our side? Now? I think the
momentum is on the Clippers side in the sense that

(10:51):
they have the default amount of momentum you get from
winning the previous game. They didn't close the game very well.
It wasn't, you know, a stomping or anything like that,
and they're going into an environment that is going to
be incredibly difficult to play in and They looked a
little gassed at the end of that game, so did
the Nuggets. But there is some momentum on the Clippers side,

(11:16):
but not any in a sense where I don't think
the Nuggets feel incredibly uncomfortable about Game seven, no more
uncomfortable out of Game seven than you would usually feel.
And this is not a credit a discredit to the
Clippers at all. They had to win this game. They did.
They did everything they should have had to do to

(11:37):
win this game, and at the same time almost messed
the whole thing up. Klee, Sorry Kaylee, but I think
the momentum, it's kind of even right now. I just
think the Clippers have the momentum of the sense that
they won the last game is the momentum. Hell of

(11:59):
a performance from James Harden, and I mean, we've been
I don't know if bagging on him is the right word,
because he's been bad the last couple of games. Forty
six minutes, he takes twenty shots. I mean, yeah, it's
it's nice. He was able to get eight assists because
other guys were hitting shots. The Clippers started this game
so cold. The Clippers started this game oh for nine,

(12:24):
from three to oh for ten or something like that,
and they were still in it, which is a testament
to just kind of not rolling over or not you know,
letting that bother them. But they started off so cold
in this game and they were able to pull it out. Yeah, guy, hilarious,

(12:51):
This is very funny. Uh Kawhi is clippers second tallest
starter and he is shorter than three of the Nuggets starters.
Think about that. I don't want to. I don't give
a shit about that. It's game seven that has nothing,
that has not affected anything. Thank you for the comment,
but I don't. It's funny to think about because it
doesn't matter, as is asking what am I sipping on

(13:15):
a whiskey soda? I'm having four roses and Lacroix lemon
cello kind of tastes like whiskey cake would be my advice.
It's pretty good. Yeah. The Clippers were one of twelve
at this point, thank you, Wabbi. And they kept going.

(13:36):
They were getting the shots, they were getting the looks.
They did it back down from that. The other fantastic
thing about this game is if you look at the
field goal attempts at the end of the game, the
Clippers only had two more than the Nuggets, but at
one point the Clippers had seven more. It was like
the third quarter. I think they had seven more and
that was good. They were winning the possession battle early

(13:58):
late in the game, they couldn't close defensive possessions. But
two got a fantastic block. But two is leading the
series in blocks, by the way, which is crazy. But
they couldn't close possessions in this game late, which coming
back to that momentum question is why I think there's
no real momentum on a huge momentum swing, right, saying

(14:20):
seven dollars for Game seven, appreciate it. Ray, Shout out
any Clippers fans We're gonna somehow be in the building
at Game seven. That's gonna be incredible. Shout out to
the Into It crowd too, I have not mentioned them yet.
Hats off to the wall, Hats off to everyone who
is an Into It Dome. A fantastic ah, hopefully not final,

(14:43):
you know, for game for the Clippers this year, but
a fantastic first round for the Into It Dome. And
now joining the show, we have William Updyke. Well, I'm very.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Impressed for time.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah, how you feeling, man, I've kind of I was
just talking a little bit about the slow end to
this game.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
But they were tired, man, they were tired.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
How you feel it that after the wind though.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
I'm feeling great, I'm feeling great. It got a little
maybe closer than it needed to. But I do think
that that was like a function of how much they'd
expended on the floor. And it does like, I mean,
this was the thing that was so puzzling to me
in that game five is I do understand the impetus
to get into actions a little bit quicker in the

(15:31):
shot clock. I just thought it felt like a big
over adjustment to try and play as fast as they were,
And I think we got a good medium balance here
for the majority of this game where things did look
a little quicker, we certainly saw some better ball movement,
like at the peak of when this offense was looking
like it could and then late it just you know,

(15:54):
it was the opposite end of the spectrum where.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
It really really slows down, and unfortunately the efficiency, the
efficiency just wasn't really there.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Which someone pointed out that it was like the slow
down was like part of the strategy and that they
were tired.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Of it was it was, it was one hundred percent
strategic with with that kind of like with a double
digit lead, it does definitely behoove you to take as
much time off the clock as you can. You'd hope
to get uh, you would hope to get some better
shots off. I am going crazy. I try to contain this,

(16:29):
but defensively they.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Were like they were just so much sharper as well.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
They there was an early uh, there was an early
Gordon baseline cut that I think Harden could have sealed
them off from the basket and didn't, And I got worried.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
But they were able to course, you were really able
to turn it around.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Any rational Clippers fan was worried for Yeah, like they
almost they almost pissed this one into overtime.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
The crunch tile offense was bad. Jonathan Day, Yeah, I
mean you have to assume that Patom's starting on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
I think so, man, I think I think again, Done
is going to have a like a very small amount
of wiggle room, a very small amount of leeway. You know,
if he gets the switch onto a bigger guy and
they're able to score and then he misses a three,
I mean he's getting pulled. He played what like ten
minutes tonight. I like, don't be surprised in a winner

(17:29):
go home situation, like if he's not immediately popping, if
his impact isn't immediately felt, and they can't mitigate, you know,
some of the shortcomings on the offensive end, He's just
not going to be able to stay on the floor.
And they are gonna run. I mean, they're gonna run
with their whoever happens to be the best five that night,
which I mean we already know three of them, and

(17:51):
then you know, pick pick your other two, but likely
Norm Powell and Niko Batum and they will run those guys.
And that is you know, what those guys can do
is whether or not you get out of this series.
And I you know, it's it's tough that it's come
down to this, just because I feel like, obviously, outside
of that Game five, we've looked like the you know,

(18:15):
we've overall looked like the better team. It really it
really sucks to have done to have dropped both that
game one, uh and that game four at home. Those
ones both really really hurt. And when the game that
Game four happened, I mean, it was like one of
the craziest like moments I've seen playoffs, but I mean no,

(18:38):
but I mean initially when that happened, I was like, oh,
I mean like I'm not pleased with the result, but
like things were so close I felt, I still felt
really confident that they would be able to maybe snag
one on the road and close it at home. That
wasn't the case, and I felt a lot worse obviously
about this series going through two, especially with just how
poorly they looked against Denver in that game.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
So so yeah, well we'll.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
See, but it comes down to like how how how
long can you ride your best five?

Speaker 1 (19:07):
And well, because we saw some new stuff rotation wise too, right,
like Harden, what was it?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (19:15):
I had it in here quiet Harden started the second
together for the first time this series, but Harden didn't
play the whole first so Ty was kind of stealing
this rest and forget. But you're I think you're absolutely
right about dub I don't think he starts. I think
he'll probably get ten minutes because well maybe he doesn't.

(19:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Charge again, it's just it's just gonna depend, like I think,
you know, if he can make an impact on the game,
which we have seen him do it's not like, you know,
it's not like this is impossible. If he can make
an immediate impact on the game, yes, I think he
can get into that ten to twelve minute range. If not,
I would be very surprised if he If he played,

(19:57):
if he played double digit minutes.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
So Firstub off the bench is Bogden, Probably Bogden. Also,
he was only two of six in this game. Bogged In.
Bogden played well in this game. There was some good
bogged In moments of this game. He hit a huge
three in the second half, which which was nice. But

(20:20):
I don't know, guys were clutch when they needed to
be in this game, you know what I mean. Like
it wasn't a totally overall smooth game from everybody, but
guys stepped up what they needed to step up. I'm
excited for one thing that I'm a little worried about
with Batub starting is Yeah, Jonathan Ang saying he thought

(20:41):
Derek Jones Junior was more impactful tonight than done. Derek
Jones Jr. Absolutely was. Derek had a good game. Yeah,
I liked LA Clippers Film tweeted this like this kind
of later when Derek Jones was like hitting shots he
was like, this is the Derek Jones we need. Just
like this idea of his offense could be so helpful

(21:02):
to the Clippers.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
I mean, how could it not be.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Like we've talked all season about how I mean, I
you know, I love the look that he I love
the look that he.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Brings out there.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
I mean, I love the athleticism I love you know,
I love the size and the way that he can
guard up. It's just knocking down those open threes.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
And they were even.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Talking about it on the broadcast, like Denverrick sort of
wasn't leaving a body on him on some of those
offensive rebounds and unfortunately he didn't convert. Because that, I mean,
that makes an even stronger argument for like why he
needs to be out there on the floor. But who
you know, who knows we could see more of that
in Game seven.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
I like this probably form weds though he has a
nice jumper for it to be cliking so much, like
it's not like a busted looking jumper. Someone in the
chat was asking about if Ben Simmons was at the game. Yeah,
Ben Simmons is out of the playoff rotation at this point,

(22:01):
because I mean he.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Was good, But yeah, unless like unless there's Fouel trouble
or something. I think that, yeah, I think that he
we might have seen the last of him in this
series for now.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I mean you know it is for now because there's
only one more game with a series.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean like we're from where I'm
sitting right now, like maybe there's situationally something that comes up,
but I'm not seeing it from this vantage point.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
So we got some postgame quotes to talk about. We're
gonna take a quick audio break actually because I we
are going to put this out on audio affter this game,
so there would be a quick audio break and then
we're back talking post game and three two what hey,
we're back, well back into the post I'm back. End
of the post game logan wrap. Hello logan saying I'm

(22:53):
not worried Aboutkawhi and Hard and gasing out so much
as I worried about Zoubot's gassing out. Fair call did
have a quote about from postgames from Justin Russo. Support
all the Clippers beat writers support Justin Russo, support, Lobry support,
Timer support, Joey Lynn support, Farbaud, everybody. If I forgot anybody,

(23:15):
I'm sorry, support Jana's carr. Tyron Lew said that James Harden,
who played the final thirty six minutes tonight and forty
seven overall, was pretty gas down the stretch as you'd expect,
to which Tylu said that he took a couple of
timeouts to try and save him for the end. Not
incredibly surprising. Yeah, if you watch this game, ty said

(23:42):
that Zoom was a monster on the defensive end tonight
for his work on the Kola Jokic.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Incredible, absolutely incredible. They got back to that.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Too, because we did see a lot more of Harden
on Joic last and uh and like getting back to
being able to keep Zoo on him and really make
him work. Nick Batoomb also did an excellent job. Like
you know, Yokic was able to get the better of
him on on some possessions, but it wasn't it wasn't easy.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Right, They made him work. There was a good foul
in this game. I liked that Van Gundy pointed out.
I think it was the end of the second half
where it was like Jokicic was setting It was late
in the clock, Yokic was setting a screen and Derek
Jones Junior because they had a foul to give just
like fouled him, like purposely fouled him. But Van Gundy
pointed out he was like, that's just an extra bump

(24:35):
you're giving this guy now, like he's like, this is
like I think he might have said, like a chopping
down a tree, like like they're making him work for
that kind of stuff. The block he had on him
was great. That was like a textbook I think it
was like third quarter or something like that. Yeah, hello,

(24:56):
a get happy that James Harden gets to talk to
the media today, right.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, yeah, I mean if you just continue the tradition
of bailing, I feel like it'd be pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Pace to get Mark Mark Jag asking who's the backup center? Two.
It's it's always been I'm houlding the gun. It's always
been Nick Patoo. Dude.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
It's good that we can get back to that like
that we can that we can play small ball in stretches,
especially against a team like Denver, because when you look
at actually, you know what, I don't even want to
go there. I don't even want to talk about it.
I don't even want to start to think about it.
Look at matchups for a potential future series.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
So that yeah, we can't even my brain. The only
thing I have past Saturday in my brain is that
I'm playing baseball on Sunday. That's it. That's all I'm
thinking about. B West saying I love the lineup of
James Harden, arm Power, Bogging Kawhi and Nick Batub. That
was the first time all year that that lineup played,

(25:57):
which makes it makes it's it's a wild light up
and I don't than that disrespect, like it's a light
up that works in small bits in the playoffs, but
like it was, it worked.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, well, and I mean, you know, Bogen has
ups and downs in the regular like in the regular season,
was a little bit slow to start, and he played
his way into being like a part of this lineup
you know, through through this series.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Really, Mark Jagg, thank you freak for the super chat.
Mark Jagg asking questions that have answers. If you use
your brain, how does Batoob start and as the backup
center unless you start Derek Jones Junior, because they're probably
gonna sub out Batoom for Derek Jones Junior, and then
Zoo will come out, and then Butto will play again.

(26:45):
The main guys are gonna have to play a lot
of minutes.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh yeah, I mean like like thisriction.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Like yeah, I mean as as I said as soon
as we got on here, like it comes down to,
like your five best guys, how long can you ride
the how long can they be effective?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
And that's it? Like that, you know, that's kind of it.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, the way that it works also, I don't mean
to be disrespectful, but the way that it works is
guys play multiple positions throughout the game and they all
play forty minutes. Like that's kind of how it goes. Dan,
dam if this if this is my handyman, Damn, I
am gonna lose my mind, said, rank the best Yokic

(27:28):
defenders all the Clippers, because I mean it's zoo and
then it doesn't really I don't know. So it was
great tonight, like wonky but good.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Someone asked about momentum earlier, will I said the Clippers.
They asked, who has the momentum. I said that the
Clippers have the momentum only in the sense that they
won the game before.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Only in the Yeah, oh wow, ay.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
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(28:17):
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Speaker 2 (28:29):
You need a haircut.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I love that place.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
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Speaker 1 (28:33):
What up, Santy? Yeah, the last six minutes almost gave
Chunk a heart attack. Agreed that, Like, so that's why
the men momentum. Also right, like they didn't like stomp
them out. They didn't finish this game strong, not like
we would have loved that to have happened. Obviously it
is a playoffs that's more difficult, but it was it

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was not.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
I mean, I agree with you, and I do like
I do agree and here with everyone's frustrations about holding
onto the ball and really like draining those possessions out.
There wasn't enough gas in the tank to get into
any sort of foot race, and there wasn't realistically.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
I mean, like, look at they built that huge, huge lead.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
I like, so much went right for the Clippers and
a lot went wrong for the Nugets. You weren't going
to get back to back quarters like that, and then
the Clippers went so cold.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, yeah, they went so cold.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I mean that's that's just how it happens. And I
just think, I mean, it was it just it was
strategy to run that much time off the clock. It
was not strategy to go like three and a half
scoreless minutes. I think three and a half minutes without
even a field goal attemp, a registered field goal attempt,

(29:54):
So that wasn't ideal, but.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Attemps, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
I just don't think there was another I don't think
there was another run left in these guys.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, and I'm happy they did what they did instead
of trying to speed it up, because trying to speed
it up would have looked a lot worse.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, oh I do. We've just seen this. I will
never get over that in game five.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
I just I feel like that was like a hyper
over adjustment to something that like, not that it didn't
need work, and they do need to get into actions
faster than seven seconds left on the shot clock. But
to try and like play fast when that hasn't been
your game all year, I.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Think is I think was a little foolhardy if I'm
being totally honest to.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah, mister Polymedia, what a great day.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Said.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
One thing that worries me is they only shot nine
free throws. They might get more in game seven.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
We'll be at home.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
We'll be at home. That was incredibly fair thing to
worry about. That that we're here to judge what you
worry about. But I think I.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Think it's a fair thing to worry about. They did
do like there's been a weird whistle all game. I
thought that this was one of the more diplomatic and
I do also feel at the same time though the
Clippers did a much better job of defending without fouling.
Like you you know, there was you know, there was
maybe a couple that they might have gotten away with,

(31:27):
but otherwise, like a lot of that, Like it was
it was ball contact, it was all. It was just
really dialed in.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
You know what else the Clippers that they made their
fucking free throws. Yeah, yeah, we made our free throws
in this game. Finally, bus pointing out another good stack.
Clippers only turned the ball over seven times.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh, Charles.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
So Charles had a huge gripe with how long the
team waited to go to Denver for Game five? Yeah,
are you hoping they're gassing up to play and.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
They need to be in the air. They need to
be fill Collins after this game in the air tonight
is what the Clippers seem to be. Get to Denver
right now. They have the reservation. Get your ass to
Denver right now, acclimate as quickly as possible to the
Denver altitude. Like, I know, DA is a nightmare the land,

(32:21):
the land at like what is it like? Probably midnight
and they'll get to the hotel by three in the morning,
because that's how DA works. But like, get to Denver? Please?
Were they gonna get there tomorrow at three pm?

Speaker 2 (32:38):
It'll be a morning play.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
See it could be a it's a red eye. Who cares? Chat?
Let me chat, Let me know if your team get
to Denver tonight or not. Okay, there's a lot of
people talking about Westbrook in the chat. He was half
he played for both teams tonight because he did shoot

(33:03):
fifty percent and he did have ten rebounds and six assists.
But he did also fuck up a couple of times. Yeah,
hold on in what sense, Chuck? In what sense is
flying the day before and saying to you, is it
it's too late or too soon? Because you get we

(33:23):
just need more detail. I'm right by the way.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Charles is convinced they waited way too long to get
to Denver in Game five and that is the That's.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Not why they lost, but it didn't help, Thank you, Logan.
What's just what's the issue?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
He had a comment that I actually want.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
To go back to. Are you on the host?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
This was Eric Pugh.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
He was asking why not post up Kawhi more on
those run out of the clock possessions?

Speaker 2 (33:52):
I agree hundred percent. I do think that that was.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Like really died from the elbow, and.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
I think that they were trying to get to him.
But with how efficient? Why was in his spots that
like the Denver defense was hyper aware of that and
they were sort of content.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
To let the Clippers keep the ball sort of on
the perimeter.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
And yeah, it was an ideal, man, It wasn't ideal,
but it was effective, is all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah, it worked, we got the win. It was you know,
it was.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Fine, uh, nostalgically and just for what gave me a
lot of what gave me confidence early in this game
was Kawhi from that elbow, Kawhi on the left elbow
was cash.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Oh yeah, well in just the way that he was
able to get there. I think Adam Adam brought up.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
A really good point.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
It's just like it's just a matter of like can
he get can he get to the spot? Like how
much can a defense counter to keep him from getting
to those? And it was it was easy, it was
it was easy for him.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
It was easy for him tonight.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Also, I just wanted to pose this question, Yeah, was
this James Harden's like maybe best game of his entire career?

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Uh chat look up his stats if you could, in
his game six, but probably I just want to level
set before we move further about the James Harden game six.
If you'd like to look and see visually how everyone
in the chat is agreeing with me that the Clippers
should get to Denver as soon as possible. You can
should subscribe to the channel at YouTube dot Collage Cyclomber's podcast.

(35:25):
Everyone is saying get to Denver. What's the downside? They're
not missing work like they're not.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
You recover better at home, it does.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Game seven.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Get there, Yeah that's fair.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Get there. Get there, and stay in a hotel that's
even higher than all the other hotels. So that way
you're even double elevation. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Get that mile high hotel.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Also, we got a just some marketing talk. I'm tired
of the five and eighty in Denver. We get it.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, we all know what.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Okay, we lost our train of thought, chunk saying the
damn season is on the line. Oh, here we go.
From Law Murray via ray I get all my law
Murray tweets from ray Tonight was the first time James
Harden won an elimination game since the Bubble. Game seven
versus Oklahoma City broke a five game losing streaking games

(36:30):
where his team had to win to stay alive. Wow,
Lux on our side, baby, he was Yeah, he was phenomenal.
He was great. Best Game six since Houston. Yeah, I'm
gonna take a shot for Clipper Nation. So it is
an early game. Will would you vam? Wait?

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Which Game six in Houston? Because didn't they get eliminated
six to the Warriors and then didn't. Weren't they up
three to two and then lost Game six and then
lost Game seven and the Warriors.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Let me look, dude, that I need you?

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Is my memory serving me correctly?

Speaker 1 (37:03):
I don't know. I'm gonna look and then I need
you to vamp while I go make another just victory soda? Yeah, okay,
career playoffs, hold on, I could use a computer. Wow,
he's had a lot of Game six is game six?

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Okay? Steve is disagreeing.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
He's saying, get a good night's rest at to Denver
early tomorrow morning, which I'm kind of on board with.
I think that's where I'm at.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
How early it's ten thirty right now?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Nine.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
They're not getting the bet, they're not. These guys are
going to These boys aren't going to sleep.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Wings up at nine, Wings up?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
All right? Wow. Basketball Reference has a horrible way to
organize this. Okay, Yeah, I'm not looking at this right now.
It was his best game six, and someone I think
we can easily say, yeah, I think we can easily.
I think we can figure that out. Oh, here we
go hard twenty fifteen games six ROS with Clippers twenty three. No,

(38:13):
that's not as good as tonight. Okay, Cicadian rhythm is important.
Our reptility, I mean our reptility, your sleep. It's just
like a cicada. He would sleep just like a cicada. Oh,
very noisily, very noisily, very loud. Okay, we got to

(38:34):
get off the flight subject. Oh yeah, one last thing
I do want to circle back to, though, Yeah, circle
back to make another drink.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah, reflight is how is everybody.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Feeling about Wait are we talking about the flight again?

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (38:46):
How is everybody feeling about this four thirty pm game?

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Because incredibly fair question, though, because I don't like that
at all.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
It's an it's an interesting star time.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
The Clippers have, you know, struggled with alt with all
Star Time all start.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
They're you know, they're they're like.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Me, They're more of a seven pm kind of that's
when you wake up that that's when you start to
get to it.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
They do need those rem dreams, they need that that
that deep sleep.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Guess I don't know how to feel about it. I'm
glad that it's earlier in the day just.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
So I don't have to be on on pins and
needles all day long personally.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
But oh yeah, as far as for them.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
I mean for Denver. You know, they're you They're a
mountain time over there. It's five three.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
They're losing their damn what. Yeah, they haven't advantaged an
hour ahead in their own city. Now, the afternoon time
is weird, But I think I think because the Clippers
got bit in the last afternoon time game, that they're
not going to fuck this one up.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
You know what I mean, Joshua Man come through the
clutch snatch.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Tonight was Harden's first ever game six win, with twenty
plus points on above six sixty per century shooting percent, which,
just by the bye, if you drop a realistic enough
sounding stat in this just on this show, it might
just pop up on here.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
I'm not going to fact check you.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, can we say drop a link?

Speaker 2 (40:21):
You don't have to send me a no till needed.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
I'm going to need a receipt one D. Sorry. So
what are we looking for in game seven other than
the lineup change? If there's not a lineup change, I
would be surprised, and I would also be incredibly upset
at this point.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
The only reason, the only reason I could for see
there not being a lineup change is you just want
to see you just want to see.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Thank you, Joshua, I appreciate that. I was just double
checking for those of you listening, Joshua said, I have
bassa reference. Okay, I didn't think you were lying. I
just want to you know, I like sources.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
I lost my train of thought.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Sorry, that's not bad. No, you were saying, you can
only see not change in the starting lineup.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
If oh, if you're worried about the if you're worried
about the motor or along ja jevity of the tune,
because this is.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Which is it? He's played?

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Well, this was what like the fourth thirty plus minute
game he played all season.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, he averaged seventeen minutes per game.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah, yeah, that's the only reason that that would be
the only reason. Or if you think, if you if
you think, if you think that you can get enough
out of Done to keep him on the floor, then
why wouldn't you you know, it just it just alleviates,
it alleviates some of that burden. We've already had people

(41:49):
bringing up the very astute point. You know, if Simons
out of the rotation, but two is your backup center.
If you can keep you know, if you can keep
Chris Done on the floor. That would be a huge man.
And that was another one of those bummers about Chris
Done shooting so well in that game five and then
still getting there out.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I hate wasting the good Chris Doune shooting game. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's hard, it's yeah. I think the point about
Batoom's energy is entirely fair, and I hope people listening
and watching understand that because if you can get because

(42:31):
maybe maybe dun does only play ten minutes again right,
like we're not maybe he does just play ten minutes,
you hope he shoots fifty percent or whatever in those
minutes and you go from there. Because Bogie was good.
So like I think, like you look at the minutes
tonight and like bog Bogie played nineteen between that goes down. Yeah, Like,

(42:58):
I don't know. I don't think we can get so
Chuck is saying, if we can get away with it,
Chris Done doesn't play.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
A minute, that's what. I don't think that's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
I don't think they can. I don't think they can
get away.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I don't think they can.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
And I realized I've said, like, you know, the entire
ye of this game is gonna come down like to
how how long.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
And like how long you can ride your best five?
It can't be forty eight minutes?

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Oh shit, idea eighty six. That I saw y'all at
Shadow Lanes a while back. That's probably my birthday party.
Nice Adam was there too.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I was probably crushing. It was actually skilled bowler.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
If anyone ever sees me at Shadow lay and say
what's up, I'm my friendliest at Shadow Lanes. Okay, we
gotta nip this a little bit in the butt. If
they go away from Dune, they need to play Derek
Jones Junior and a Mere Coffee.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Coffee's not playing in this series.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
And it's that I don't like. It's not the we
don't think a Mere Coffee is a good player or
anything like that. Tylu has explicitly said that this isn't
the series for a Mere Coffee. The man hasn't played
basketball in a very long time. His last appearance was
I think on like April thirteenth, and he played four minutes.
And I don't mean this disrespectfully, but he's just just

(44:19):
don't hope for a mer to get tied, because that's
not gonna happen. And it's not what the Clippers need,
Like they're not going to Game seven because of Meer
hasn't and I've got shitting on a mirror. I like
a mere coffee as a regular season player a lot.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Yeah, I do too, and in I mean, I guess
it would just depend.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Like if his the rest of his regular season had
gone a little bit better, I could see maybe a more.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Of a spot for him in this playoff rotation. But like,
who would you play him.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Over in the rotation tonight, because I gotta be honest
with a beer, Yeah, there's no one that I would
like take. There's there's no one that I would have
taken minutes from from tonight's rotation to give him your
coffee minutes. And that's not again, not a knock on
a mirror. It's like playoff rotations just what they are.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
They're short.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I want to find this law quote because this is
so good. Thank you Logan rap Nikola jok Nicholas Patou
is a much better shooter than Chris Dad. Even Carl
Tart would agree with that take from Nikola Jokic. Thank
you for relaying these tweets. I have Twitter open, I'm

(45:31):
just not looking at it. So I appreciate everyone's sending
us these. Okay, sorry, last thing about Amre coffee. I'm here.
Coffee is going to be traded. He's an unrestricted free
agent after this season, so he's gonna sign for somebody anyway.
And I don't again disrespectfully, We're not gonna talk about
a mere coffee anymore. I'm feeling another quick audio break

(46:01):
that we're gonna talk about how you feel about game seven.
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Speaker 3 (46:23):
Welcome back in Eclipsing Dip. We are live over on
YouTube dot com. That's at Clippers Podcast, just talking about
this crazy Clippers win game six to stay alive, looking ahead,
looking ahead of game seven, Charles, what do you what.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Are you expecting to see? What do you want to see? Basically,
just Nick Patum in the starting lineup and more of the.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Same Nick Patu in the starting lineup. I would like
to see, and I don't think. I think there's so
little things we can really choose from. Right, Like I
loved what ty Loot did with the rotation tonight, I
want what.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Do you think about Harden, like sitting less than ninety
seconds of this game?

Speaker 1 (47:08):
I think he should sit the last ninety seconds of
the first and that's it. Well, if he's only gonna
sit ninety seconds, yeah, sit in the last ninety second,
which is basically what happened tonight. He sat, Kawhi came
back in for Harden with one twenty five left in
the first, and then he might have played the whole way.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
He finished with forty six thirty five.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
So so it seems like the math checks out. Is
I love what Tyler? Did you sit James for that
last minute and a half? They start the second together
for the second time this season, you start but two
and you hope that the turnovers stay chill and that

(47:58):
someone else for the Nuggets doesn't go off because I
think is going to have a great game.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Well, so Mark Jack has an interesting question, just because
we're pretty dead set on probably.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Batom being in the starting lineup.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
We were even talking about this in our pregame last
game or stream or whatever.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Had some wild ideas whenever.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
We were doing the last time we were there. But Bartjak
wants to know why not start DJ and I think
instead of Batom?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
What do we mean.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Overdone? No?

Speaker 3 (48:32):
I know, but like, well, I I mean, I just
think I think that Batom is like he is as
he's the more reliable shooter. He is definitely a better facilitator,
and I think.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
He's just a everything.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
He's just been a lot more and he's just been
a lot more composed throughout this series.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Yeah. Uh, Derek Joch, your will have minutes not to say,
oh yeah, but you start Nico because yeah, because you
need that that settlement. Oh but that's what I'm thinking.
I'm sorry, I'm looking for your my notes to try
and see what are you looking for? Like what are
you having for in game seven? Like because it's a
coin flip. Also, like this is gonna be an incredibly tense,

(49:17):
horrible game. Oh, William Gonzalez, We're gonna get to our
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Speaker 2 (49:31):
Oh uh.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Also, Christian Hackney wants to know if the tomb starts
his dorm first off the bench like Nigo was. No,
I think Chris don is coming off the bench really
for Nico. Sure, no, that's not how our rotations work.
You don't bring in a guard for forwards.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
But uh, sure Norm's not going to the bench if
the tomb starts, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
No, yeah, Norm, I don't think Norm going anywhere, especially
after tonight. Norm's not going anywhere. Okay, uh, Ray says
one if you needs to call Adam. He keeps chugging
diet coke during breaks and I fear for his kid days.
I said to him the leak though.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
I don't want to get into the man's dietary habits
here for another album, Okay, I don't want to get
into it.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
He eats what he eats. Yeah, So I mean, yeah,
Norm is not going Yeah, No, it's done. Who's going
to the bench. It's not Norm Who's going to the Yeah?
And the first off the bench will I don't know.

(50:47):
I feel it's a game set. Yeah, man, because everyone.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Off the bench.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
What Sorry, because I think Bogan is still probably one
of the first off the bench in that scenario.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Yeah, yeah, Bogden for a I mean Bogden for Jane
for the last minute and a half, right, Yeah, that's
where you steal the rest.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, because there's just not another facilitator, and you do
need to find that out way. I mean, obviously you
need to find ways to get everybody's some rest. But
I think James is the one. Well you're probably worried.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
About, and Bogden can do the pick and roll. He can.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yeah. Oh yeah, there's not another ball handler that like that,
Like the drop off in ball handler is uh so
it is so high.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, okay, Wibby with a good point. Hoping Norm starts
the first half hot in Game seven, that would go
in incredibly long. Wait, the third quarter was phenomenal tonight.
Not throwing that out the window, but I kind of
in the first half tonight Norm was. I mean, you
show fifty were scent, but he didn't hit a three.

(51:59):
The Clippers were incredibly cold from three to start. Norm
getting into a grip early would be nice. I don't
know if it's completely necessary because he wasn't in one tonight,
but I would prefer to not be down to start
this one. Hot take.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Yeah, that's a good take.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
The Clippers were in the first five minutes of this game,
a stat we talked about last live we did. The
Clippers actually won the first five minutes of this game,
which is only the second time I think the series
that they won the first five minutes of this game.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
And they were plus one, so.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Oh yeah, and they won. They won it to the
nth degree. Idea eighty six, who we met when they
worked at Staples. I don't think they introduced themselves as
Idea eighty six. They said, the Clippers playing quick. I
love when they don't hold the ball. So what I
liked about the Clippers playing quick, which I hope translates
to Game seven, was it felt like they owes the

(53:00):
right times to push the pace.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
It's I mean to me, it's.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Game five was frantic, Yeah, and this was focused. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
I feel like pushing the pace.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Involves like more running, which like this isn't like a
running team.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
I think, the hell are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (53:21):
I think maybe just bring the ball up a little
bit quicker and maybe just get into your first action
with let's even say what I generously sixteen seconds on the.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Shock I would love for Maybe twelve would be great.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, okay, d Flow saying, is it Denver going back
home tonight? Follow their asses?

Speaker 2 (53:44):
I like that, good point. I could save money on
a hotel, maybe bunk up with some of those guys.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
What you know what would be very funny in all
of this, as if Baber was like somehow just as
cheap as sterling, Like Baber's just paying to suppress these
stories of him.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Say, Yogi's brothers are out of town. I only got
a couple extra bedrooms over there.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Uh that's a funny bit. No, we love Steve Balmer.
If anyone is watching, we love.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Charles. Are you safe?

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Oh yeah? Fine? Who is our who's your Player of
the game pick for game seven?

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Oh wait, regular rules apply?

Speaker 1 (54:26):
I love this bit, same play, both teams flying back
on the same plan as genuinely hilarious. Okay, we're having
actual questions which I would like to answer. But so
we're gonna do Player of the Games for game seven,
and then we're probably gonna ramble a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Are they? So is this our regular rules?

Speaker 3 (54:47):
Because can I say, do I get to do a
victory lap for my Player of the game?

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Absolutely? We never do because we never keep track of it. Wait.
So for the new people to the show, if you're
new to the show, welcome. We try and keep it fun.
We try and keep a light The point of the
show is to be able to talk about the Clippers
when you're asked, why the hell do you root for
the Clippers. We pick a player of the game every game,
but because we don't take the easy road, Uh, we're

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not allowed to pick James harden Kawhi, Leonard of Vitzizu Bots,
or Norm Powell because obviously if one of those four plays, well,
things are it's too easy. Right.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
Yeah, but the restriction for some reason was lifted last
game because it was an illumination game.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Yeah, but I think we're gonna put it back on.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Restrictions back on.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Restriction is back on because the ats are also way
better when it's just when there's two people.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Okay, well then I get to go first. I'm going
Nico Vitim.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
I mean that makes sense. He was so good tonight.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Man, incredible, incredible.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
What was it? He had two assists for a corner
three in this game, just like the same play, like
twice in a row, like just like the epitome of
a connector.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
He had six, five and six. It's insane.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Oh I said this, and let me get your haggle.
No haggle on this.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
I want to double check it to make sure I'm factual.
Norm and Nico each only made two threes, but it
felt like they made twelve. Yeah right, they were so important. Okay,
so we got uh derder pooh saying but two. William

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Gonzales saying bogie.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I like the bogie pick too, But Charles, did you
make your pick?

Speaker 1 (56:38):
I haven't yet, nor Jeremy Mormons saying Norm Palace should be.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Up for grabs. Too easy.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
He just had a good game. We can't pick him. Ooh.
I like where Logan Rap is going with this. Logan
Rap drilled down his player to watch is their player
to watch? Is Nico Batoum's legs. I like that love.
I hope you're doing well. By the way, Okay, we're

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gonna talk about the bogie and rest stuff in a second.
I guess I have to make my pick. I'm going
Dereck Jones. He's gonna have like fifteen minutes, and I
hope that he can provide a couple of deflections. Make
a couple of smart cuts and hit one three. I
know he went to for six tonight, but I don't
think he'll get that many attempts. So if he hits

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one three, I think it will be important.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
I'd like to see him give out like a.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Great fit. Lance says, can we pick Ress? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (57:38):
You can absolutely pick Ress?

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Okay. So the Bogie Westbrook thing is interesting. They they
are developing a rivalry in this series which I would
say has seemingly all the tension and weird stuff and
the skurfluffles have really only benefited the Nuggets.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Yes, which has kind of been the history of sort
of the Clippers playoff kerfuffles.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Yes, and then, but there wasn't There was no bullshit
weird chaos tonight, you know what I mean. There wasn't
any extracurriculars. There wasn't any jawing or anything like that.
It was nice to see. Can we talk about peacout
game lest so? Can we talk about hedging off the screen?

(58:28):
I've had a couple of drinks. I don't know if
I can fully give justice to hedging off the.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Screen right now? As he takes another what.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Do you want me to do? Yeah? Okay, so there,
here's another thing I hope for Game seven. Before tonight's game,
Tylu talked about how the game where Jamal Burrays scored
forty plus, we let him kind of walk into those
easy buckets in the first quarter, and they let him

(58:59):
do that again in tonight. For the most part, Jamal
Murray crushed it in the first quarter. For this game, Yeah,
they gotta limit him to start the game because he
is incredibly comfortable mid range. Thank you peacok gang, first
time we've seen you on the stream. Appreciate this. But

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we gotta make life a little more difficult for Jamal
Murray in the first quarter. And I think Nico does
that right.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Yeah, definitely definitely makes every.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
Great word six. What are you drinking a whiskey soda?
What'd you say? Brian saying? Are we taking a couple
more than we're gonna head out? Brian saying it was
frustrating that Tyler did not put Zumbats in earlier when
the Nuggets went a little run. Other than that great game,
Yeah he had. He should have made that switch a

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little earlier. That was tense.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Yeah, I I get it, I get it. Go back
to Zoo. I just understand wanting to test sort.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Of like what you could do with the small ball
then as.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Well, trying to see how it works a little bit,
get a little more of it, because that was the
first time, right that that whole that line up had
ever been together.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Yeah, and again you don't want to like over it,
you don't want to overadjust.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Which you would say he was guilty of last I
like that. That's a good point actually to kind of
what you were saying at the last game. How he
over adjustment for last game. This game, it was just
little wrinkles I hate you know what I mean, like
not to set, Like the adjustment wasn't everybody play faster?
The adjustment was managing guys. But it's like that kind

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of thing and it was great.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Yeah, yeah, don't need to like reinvent the wheel. Yeah.
De flu is talking about like the doubles on Jokich.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
I think like just being able to keep deep Zoo
on him more was was way more effective.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
So it was great on him. Like, yeah, I I'm
feeling And the word confident is that the word you
use going into a game seven, because it's a way
that Arena is gonna be crazy. I think there's gonna
be a lot of guys on the Nuggets who are

(01:01:24):
gonna want to make up for how they played. And
I also like the nut Both teams are kind of
playing with house money, right, Like maybe the Clippers a
little bit more because they're not at home. Yeah's you know,
like the Clippers have a little bit more house money maybe,

(01:01:45):
But like Michael Porter Junior, I think looked more actually
affected by his injuries tonight than the last game.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Yeah. Well, I mean the like, you know, the inflammation
and stuff I would think is ongoing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
Flix has a great question biggest thing that would make
us lose in Game seven into meets turnovers.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
We had seven turnovers tonight, which.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Like that was the difference in the possession battle with
these two teams being sort of as evenly matched as
they have been throughout this series.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Yeah, turn like it's gonna be turnovers.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
I think turnover turnovers one hundred percent. And it's a
forty eight minute game, obviously, but putting yourself in a
position with the first five minutes to not have to
be second guessing your game plan is yeah, so that
we can lose the first five minutes, but not by

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what they have been losing them before this game, you
know what I mean? Like, yeah, all right, I day six,
who has more pressure?

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Well, using you think the Nuggets.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
I think it might be the Nuggets. They're at home.
And I also love, just as a weird aside, I
love that we have a historically very loud home advantage
in the Nuggets against a very new home advantage and

(01:03:16):
into it though. Yeah, I think both environments have done
a great job at representing what NBA fandom can be
from home fans, and I just really appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Well, and you know, you know, and both teams have
snagged one win on the road, and like, really, whoever
gets two out of the series is is moving on?

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Yeah, the crowds have been great, the crow, the crowd,
just both sides of the crowds have been phenomenal. I think
it might be the Nuggets. They're the higher seed, they're
at home. Yeah, great point by Joshua Mann. Michael Porter
was minus twenty four tonight. He played a bunch of
his minutes with the bench. Matt Moore was pointing this

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out on Twitter. Yeah, but he played a bunch of
his of the bench which really squandered. So here we go.
La Murray and the twenty three minutes that Michael Porter
Jouni was off the floor in Game six, Nuggets outscored
the Clippers by eighteen points, and the twenty four minutes
that Porter Junior was on the floor, La outscored the

(01:04:16):
Nuggets by twenty four points. Wow, he's the only Nuggets
starter with a negative plus minus. Do they make a change? Like,
what what is their change? I guess do they have
a counter? Russ played thirty four minutes, Peyton Watson played ten,
DeAndre played three. They're out of counters and I don't

(01:04:42):
mean that, like, but that's a where do they go?
You know what I'm saying, Mines, I would love more
DJ minutes, but like they don't really have any other counters,
whereas the Clippers have things. Tonight, I think they showed
we just have a couple of things we can shuffle,
you know what I.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Mean, Yeah, when things are working, because that I mean, well.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
That's been the difficulty of this series two is like
there has been a lot of self inflicted stuff and
then just floor level performances not being what we've been
used to from this team. Because yeah, coming into this,
you know, I was pretty confident Clips would be able
to close this out in six.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Yeah, the clip. I'm I just again the clips in
five people lost their minds. But different different topic, different day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Are you speaking on certified ball?

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
No where, Josephine saying I think the game comes down
to thousand free throws. Thousand is something that I wanted
to talk about because we haven't talked about the whistle
of this game, which is good because it's been junkie
the last couple of games. Oh yeah. Not blaming the
losses obviously, but this is a good thing to bring

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up because again, the Nuggets only took nine free throws
this game, which is I bet, just call me crazy.
I bet they get more than nine in game seven. Yeah,
at home, at home. So I'm hoping that that also
that dictates down in batombs minutes. Is the whistle too.

(01:06:22):
I think because of the whistle, there's no question that
done still gets time. I think we're still at a
seven guy rotation, excuse me, at an eight guy rotation.
But like with the whistle, dictating in a bit all right,
Liso saying hard did not look lost on defense. No,

(01:06:43):
Harden was locked in, James Harden was great, all right,
we got anything else you want to say about this
before we head into an incredibly nervous Friday workday for
all of us, and then incredibly nervous pre four thirty
Game seven.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
I mean, the rest of the series doesn't matter. We
lost a couple that we should have won. It's tough,
but we have I think Tye at this point it
has enough data after six games under his belt to
know how to push the right buttons and it's just
gonna be about execution and just avoiding self inflicted sort.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Of you know, stupid errors.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Yeah, I do think that, Like I do think that
we're the better team, and I think that we have
been the better team overall, just in moments, you know,
like in big moments and moments where it matters. We've
kind of dropped the ball at times. So if that happens,
we're gonna lose this game. If we can keep it
as tight obviously as we did tonight, then I like

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our shot, even even on the road.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
There we go hardening kawh. I gotta show up Nick
Batwo in the starting lineup. It's a game seven, Game seven.
Shit happens, is the best way I can say it.
But we not sure. If we're gonna have a pregame
live on Saturday, we will be back on Sunday no
matter what happens in Game seven. Go watch Adam on

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Clippers Talk. Well, where can these people find us if
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Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
We absolutely do. And Adam osen is out hearing you
the one positive thing, So I guess I have to
do it. What's that third quarter from Norm? And tell
me that you are not confident that he will play
great with Nick? But two in the starting lineup right
next to him. Come on now, it's gonna be a

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good time. Adam apparently signed off, but it's gonna be
back online at midnight. Go check him out. I will yeah,
hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
All y'all get back on there at midnight.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
All y'all get back on a minnite. Thank you for
hanging out. Thanks, Let's go Clips. All the new people,
welcome to the Nuggets fans room. Maybe watching hell of
a season. Man, Here's to a Game seven and here's
to all of us keeping our wits about us. Let's
go Clips.