Clippers Hit the Right Tune versus Jazz

twenty plus. The Utah Jazz made a run and the Clippers were able to answer it late and hold on.

If you can win games without knocking down threes at a high rate, that shows how versatile and effective you can be on a night.

on ball. But KPJ tonight, I think this was easily his best game as a Clipper so far as he was looking to pass first instead of looking to score first.

before the shot clock. So really Adam in shots that Kevin Porter took in the flow of the offense that weren't Hail Mary's at the end of a shot clock or the end of the quarter.

He looked like he was more comfortable in the flow of the offense today than ever before.

time stock up on James's defense. I love it for James Harden and for this Clipper team, they were feisty. They forced a lot of turnovers in this one nineteen for the Utah Jazz, and they played a balanced attack. Everyone who came in scored significant minutes. How about Mobomba, I mean, talk about a debut. He looks like he could be a game trainer for that Clippers second unit,

not only with his defense, but with his offense. He was eating up every rebound and came away with nine points and eight boards.

force at the backup center spot. We talked about it a lot in the pregame show, but I know he missed a couple of three pointers, but the energy was very infectious out there.

well off of James. Feels like for the Clippers that two man punch of Bomba and Zobots in the pick and roll. You talked about it on Clipperstock at YouTube at clipperstock where you better subscribe. But the pick and roll numbers for James Harden had been lower than people expected, had been lower than last season, in which the Clippers as a team were bottom five in the league and pick and rolls per game. Maybe Mobomba re energizes the pick and roll for this Clipper team.

If Norman pal is getting up eleven threes, the Clippers have a high chance to come away with a win. He was aggressive, he was effective, and he finished with nineteen points, had a chance for twenty at the free throw line. Great game from Norman Pale, a super balanced attack for this Clipper team today. Chris Dunn pours in eleven as well. He knocks down three threes after going one for seven in Houston, Adam, big bounce back game

for him. Really, everybody played well across the board, and a big tune up game for this Clippers team, who's got a tough, tough Golden State team the number one seed out West after OKC lost to Dallas today, waiting for them tomorrow.

won late. You heard that big make from Chris Dunn kind of was the dagger shot for the Clippers. But the most important number in the box score is nine. I'm referring to only nine turnovers by the Clippers. It is their lowest amount on the season. Meanwhile, the Utah Jazz had nineteen. That's the difference of the ballgame. Clippers turned that into twenty two points. They led by as many as twenty three. It was down to seven late

the Jazz made a run. They were not giving up, even on the second night of a back to back for them, as they lost a close one to the Kings last night. But the Clippers ran through the tape big shots late, Chris Donne that three pointer, James Harden a dunk that put him up by twelve with two twelve left, and the Clippers would hold on to win one sixteen to one zero five And our night where beats a Zubas led them in scoring? Where did I

tell you feed the beast? Twenty two and eleven is what he had and I don't even think had his best game. They still missed some good looks. James Harden twenty points seven to fourteen shooting, eleven assists to zero turnovers plus six boards. It's a stat line no Clipper has ever had before. Thanks for letting me know that one chat. I appreciate you. Norn Powell with nineteen points,

six of seventeen shooting and off the bench. Kevin Porter Junior his best game as a Clipper, twelve points, six assists, It could have easily been ten. Guys were missing some good looks that he created for them. Loved this game from Kevin Porter Junior was a past first player and playmaker out there. Clippers would win one, sixteens a one oh five. Hear it into it Dome tomorrow night. They're right back here taking on the Golden State Warriors tip off is that seven thirty pre game at six thirty

outside of Los Angeles. We were leaving you until then. Kevin up next here on a five seventy LA Sports we got Clippers.

Talk on the YouTube side. Eight six six nine seven five seventy eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number if you'd like to get on unnecessary victory for the Clippers. With how tight things are in the Western Conference, the Utah Jazz are down right now. They were on a back to back. You have to take advantage of that. You had to find a way to win this game. Now. You would have liked the starters to get more rest, but credit Utah, they kept playing.

They weren't giving up in this one, and it took the Clippers knocking down some big shots late finally to hold on and a twenty three point lead. So just that cushion they had against the Utah Jazz was enough. But I thought there were some really good performances tonight. I haven't talked about Amir Coffee yet. Some of the defense he played on Jordan Clarkson was elite, The on ball defense and just that one on one staying in front of her man taking up that challenge of defense

from a mire. Coffee was special tonight. I know you're not gonna see that in the box score. You'll just see the seven points two of six from the field. But a mere Coffee's defense was absolutely special tonight. And Jordan Clarkson as always a Clipper killer. He still got it going in the fourth quarter as he does. I was somewhat expecting it. He just turns into the flamethrower on sometimes Jordan Clarkson is that good. He's a tough

shot maker out there. But we talk about good offensive process of Eatsa Zubats, playing through him more, finding him early and often. To me, that's the key to this Clippers team and the way they have to play. And they got back to it tonight. They got back to playing Clippers basketball. He had a left handed hook to start a dunk early on second quarter, a big Zoo block, then another dunk, left handed hook shot. But that third quarter he put in work. He had ten points in

the first half. He had ten points on the third quarter alone Ofviatza Zubats. He looked like a guy that got his groove back in that third quarter. He had a tip in, he had a great pass to KPJ for the reverse dunk. The plumbley dunk as you guys in the shat called it the lefty hook over. U Banks dunk off a Norman Powell pass, and then late in the ballgame had a key two points too, still missed two free throws late. Didn't like seeing that. But this Clippers team, they just they have to stack up

wins no matter how you get them. Would you love to see them run through the tape and not have to bring their starters back in late? Yeah, they got a game coming up tomorrow that could come back to hurt them, come back to haunt them. Starters minutes. Norm Powell was at thirty five, James Harden at thirty four, Aviatsa Zubots at thirty two. There could be some tired legs tomorrow because the backups, unfortunately weren't able to hold

on to that lead. When they went with Mobamba, a Mere Coffee, Terrence Man out there, Kevin Porter junior, Niko Batoom. I thought there were very good moments from the backups. I mentioned Amir Coffee and Kevin Porter junior. Terrence Man would eventually knock down a three, find his offense a little bit more after I thought early on the ballgame, he just didn't look right, he's not first coming off the bench, so this is a tough role for him

right now. He only ended up playing thirteen minutes. He's got to take advantage of all those minutes right now. Cap Array and the chat said the tone was set early, hard and looking to set up the table for others early. He got Norm and Derek Jones Junior going early on, and the offense started to flow. That's the key, it was. The Jazz are also one of the worst defenses, if not the worst defense in the league right now, but they have been playing better. They're three and three over

the last six heading into this ball game. They beat Dallas. They had a close one last night against the Sacramento Kings. Marketing doesn't look quite right yet. Eighteen points, a couple of big threes in the fourth quarter that brought the game closer. But he just hasn't looked right so far early in the season. John Collins just thirteen points. Does everybody still won a trade for him? They're still gonna give me those PJ. Tucker for John Collins trades, which

would never happen. I thought the Clippers defense, for the most part was very good. They got off to a ten zero run to start the game, and it was through those turnovers that they were generating over and over again. In fact, in the first quarter, Utah had nine turnovers leading to twelve points for the Clippers. Clippers led by ten after one, thirty five to twenty five. Relentless on ball pressure. That's what this Clippers team does best. They

had to get back to that tonight. They did. You can say level of competition, but the Jazz had the eighth best offense over their last six games. They were shooting it better from the outside, and they had an eight oher run to counter the Clippers ten oh run. So I think this Utah Jazz team is better than their record right now. And if people are gonna downplay this victory, I'm gonna say watch the Jazz moving forward.

I think that's a team to look at because last season and the season before, they got off to hot

starts and then they cooled off. This season, they started zero to six, got off to a slow start, but they have been playing better second n half a back to back not easy, and for the most part, I'm proud of the way the Clippers asserted themselves early on, looking to take control feed off of the energy here it into It Dome, the wall that had market and missed a couple of free throws while he wasn't even facing the wall. Love some of the chances that we're out

here tonight. Cliper Nation. Patch yourself on the back. It's a good win for this Clippers team right now. You have to get victories against what people deem lesser teams right now. They still lost a game to Portland. Hear it into It Dome. They still have one they need to get back now. They are back at seven and seven, five hundred, but they're also on a back to back.

Tomorrow they're taking on the Golden State Warriors. We don't know the status yet of Steph Curry if he's playing in that ballgame, but I like the energy and the spirit the Clippers played with defensively. The turnover game was the difference twenty of them make it nineteen, leading to

twenty two points for the Clippers. With the Utah Jazz and those nineteen turnovers, and the Clippers finally took care of the basketball after averaging around seventeen per game heading into this one, almost cut it in half nine turnovers. Clippers also were better in the paint. Sixty four points in the paint. That's defeats a Zubos. That's what he does for you. And those are possessions that wear on

the defense. When Big Zoo starts rolling and leaning on guys and getting some easy buckets to go, it is taxing for the opposition. Those can really affect you and compound on you. I love seeing a Vitza Zubas being featured again. Norman Pale got off to the quick start also ten points in that first quarter, finished with nineteen. Eventually cooled off, but pal three point from the left wing, three pointer from the right wing, a couple of other

buckets in that first quarter. Just the aggressiveness was back. They needed that. Norman Powell has to get back to scoring around twenty per game, and you had him, James Harden, and a Viza Zubos all off in that last game against Houston. It's no wonder they lost big, but I think twenty one points. It's just this is the DNA and makeup of this Clipper team. This is who they have to be, This is who they this is how they have to play out there. Tonight it happened. We'll

take a quick time out we'll come back. We'll get your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight two five seventy. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number. Clippers win one sixteen to one oh five on the front end of a back to back. Here it into It, Dome. I'm at a mazand and you're listening to Clippers Talk on a five to seventy LA s fours.

played it for you. And that was all created by Kevin Porter Jr. Who was in past first mode tonight against the Utah jass This is the best game he has played all round, game scoring wise, an efficient twelve points,

six of nine shooting. Almost had that three at the end of the third quarter that was waved off eventually, But to me, it's what he was doing passing the basketball, six assists to one turnover, finding others, making his teammates better, and that passing was infectious throughout the night for this Clippers team. They had thirty assists to nine turnovers, better than the three to one ratio. Impressive After Carlo jimen Has alerted to me that Clippers only had twelve assists

last game. That was their lowest amount of assist in two years. They bounced back in a big way. They cleaned up a lot of the stuff that they needed to. I'm proud of them now. It would have been nice to run through the tape, put this game away and the starters not even have to play in the fourth quarter. That could prove to be problematic tomorrow right back here against the Golden State Warriors. Those tired legs are going to catch up to you. But what was coach Lo

was supposed to do? It was a ballgame. They had to win. All of these games against quote unquote lesser competition they have to have this season. So the starters come back in, they find a way late get a couple of stops after a scorching hot Jordan Clarkson. I called him a Clipper killer in the intro earlier, and he started to get off shooting wise in that fourth quarter where he ended up with sixteen points in the fourth Jordan Clarkson, I shorted him earlier saying it was

only fourteen. Now it was sixteen points for Jordan Clarkson in the final period. I thought a mere Coffee played some dazzling defense against him, locked him up a few different possessions in this game, but he also found him on a three pointer after some really good defense early in the fourth quarter, fighting through screens. A mere Coffee is not a guy who is looking to lose minutes. There's a minutes crunch. There's a lot of guys fighting for minutes. A mere Coffee is trying to make sure

he's getting consistent minutes out there. You can see that with his play. Now, a guy I haven't really talked about yet here on Clippers Talk, Mobamba his debut. Incredible Mobamba in the first half was shot out of a cannon. He starts things off his first points as a Clipper, a dunk off a great from who else, Kevin Porter Jr. Then there was a goaltend that went against Utah. So we had four points in the first minute and a half.

I think out there on the court, second quarter Mobama and one off a pass from Kevin Porter Jr. Then some great defense near the end of the first half with a steal. Was playing to his size, was playing big out there and at the half, Mobamba. Listen to this. Mobamba at the half in ten minutes, had nine points and eight boards, four of eight shooting, missed a couple of three pointers. That's basically what he finished with. Wasn't

as maybe uh the win caught up with him. The lack of cardio, the lack of reps at this level caught up with him. He didn't look as spry in the second half. But this is big for this Clippers team. If you could just have a consistent, rely eyable, stabilizing force at the backup center position, that's huge. That's something I think a motivated Mobamba could give you. I know he has been consistently inconsistent and there's a lack of motor that has contributed to him now just being on

a veteran's minimum. But with Jeffvan Gunny coaching him up with Tylu, I think they might be able to get more out of Mobamba. I am hoping. Cap Ross said Harden even had a dunk. Yeah, it was a big one too, to put him up twelve late after the lead was down to seven. But this is exactly what I wanted to see from Obamba. Just play with more energy, more spirit. Sometimes getting in the right situation, that change of scenery can change everything for a player. He's still

only twenty six. He's not a fully finished product. If you can get him to play harder at a high, higher consistency level, then you're getting a better player. As for what it means for kai Jones, it's likely what we thought coming into the season. When Mobama's back, he's the backup center. He's a much more proven player in this league. Kai Jones will likely be getting reps in this Z League soon as long as Mobamba stays healthy.

But with the Clippers next five games being very difficult, starting tomorrow against Golden State, then Orlando, then Sacramento, then Philly then Boston both of those last two on the road. This was as close as you can get to an early season must win, at least in the month of November. Honestly, you have to get this one. You want to finish somewhere six through ten in the West. This is a necessary victory and they still have one. They need to

get back that loss of the Portland Trailblazers. I haven't forgotten that they still got a make up for that somewhere. A win against Golden State tomorrow that would give them two wins against the Warriors, who were playing like the best team in the West. That would go a long way to make it up for that loss to Portland. Himothy says, we are going to play the Warriors in Magic the next two games. Both teams are top five defenses, so that's a good way to judge him. Mobamba, Melvin

Powell Junior said, Mobamba is legit. Again, it's one game, but it's a great start. Mobamba has it in him to be better in this league. If he's just more consistent period, that's all it takes. And tonight great effort. That first half. The crowd was behind him, everybody was into his play. He was electric. But I know his rap sheet, I know his reputation, I should say, and how fans feel about him in past cities he has

played in. As soon as I said, Mobamba playing with a high motor right now, I said, the exact tweet was, this is what I'm talking about. When Bamba plays with the motor out there, he can be better than Plumbley was last season, which is all I'm asking from him. Be better than Plumbley was last season. And Betsy Chase money on X said, quote when he plays with a motor unquote is a very important qualifier because it's not often that has been the knock on Mobamba. Can the

Clippers get more out of him? Can they get a more energized Mobamba? That's it. The skill set is high. I know he missed a couple of looks from three badly tonight, but I'm still counting on that because he's taken over seven hundred in his career and he's a thirty six percent shooter from the outside, and it was at least good to see because I'm guessing the coaching staff said, yeah, that's what you do, so take them. If he can help spread the floor, stretch the floor

at all with the second unit. That would be big because that opens up driving lanes. If the backup big guarding him has to come out and d him up on the perimeter, that opens up the paint more. He also was rolling to the basket nicely. Guys were finding him. Kevin Porter's junior James Harden, so I have high hopes from Obamba and having his best stint in this league as a member of the Clippers. Melvin Powell Junior said,

you made a great point. Mobamba is going to benefit from playing for ty Lew and Jeff Van Gundy Fia fire Budgie uh Jonathan Ning pointed out that Harden was able to get to the paint more than usual. Saw that tonight and once again congratulations to James Harden. Six minute mark of the first quarter. Zach o'caldy, maybe we could pull up the call from Carlo Jimenez here as James Harden made some history tonight from distance. This happened early on in the ballgame. Here's James Harden.

We are you second all time now in NBA history in May threes, only behind who else but Steph Curry, who I'm looking for an update on chat if you got one for me with Steph Curry on if he'll be playing tomorrow. I would love to hear it, because obviously that is quite a factor in a game against the Golden State Warriors, whether or not Steph Curry plays now. The Clippers took him down in just their third game of the season up north at Chase Center in San Francisco.

That was the second night of a back to back they've won in Denver the day before. Again, they're playing him the second night of a back to back, and Steph Curry left that game. Clippers were up by I think nine when he left in the fourth quarter. I don't think it would have made a difference. I mean it could have. It's Steph Curry, but he wasn't playing great. Popers were on one and they got that victory. And that's the only team I believe that has won up

at Chase Center. You're Los Angeles Clippers. So whether it was a one off or they match up well against Golden State because they have so many good on ball defenders, you gotta feel like, Okay, maybe a back to back, but we've seen this happen before where they take down Golden State. Anyways, who's going to be at the rest advantage? The Beard is a legend, preach here on the chat, we got Ray doing a little bit of research for us. Checking hoops hype right now, Melvin Powell Junior said, man,

I can't wait Untilkawhi Leonard returns. The Clippers are going to be really tough. Whose minutes are he going to cut into with coffee Batoom or Derreck Jones Juniors? Well, right, off the bat, Chris Dunn will likely be the guy who's out of the starting lineup. I'm gonna guess they can Derek Jones Junior in there at the three with Kawhi at the four, so you could say Chris Dunn will lose out in some minutes. I think Jeremy Mormon said Curry Mee is listed as questionable for Monday's game.

Thank you, Ray, he had it as well. James Harden historic night. Cool to see that in person. This is somebody that I don't think anybody had foreseen this coming out of Arizona State, a so cow guy to end up being second old time in three pointers made. Is anybody ever gonna catch Steph? Probably not, but James Harden does it a little bit differently. Steph does a lot off the bounce too, but more catch and shoot stuff than James Harden at least. I mean that step back

three is lethal. Let's change the game the way guys play. You see, Luka doncis now that system basketball where James Harden has always been great at elevating the floor for teams during the regular season and getting them far more victories than I think most would believe they'd be able to get to just elevating guys around him. People are talking about Buddy Heal has been hot, So even without Steph, it'll be tough, says Cap Ray. We roll and said

we need to harden Curry Jersey suat for most threes. Ever, that would be cool. I like that, Ray said. Om Young with Suke reported that Seth Curry has listened as questionable with left knee versidas against the Clippers from Monday's game. So Om Young Wassuke, who has been on the show here on Clipperstock m seven MD boys said one a six Man of the Year and then twelve years later he is second old time in threes. That's a good point.

And he was the third and fourth option at times and ok see, and then he starts running his own team in Houston to great success. I know they never won it at all, but probably only because they ran into the Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant when they were at their best. They ran into the ultimate super team. Absence said, Man is only playing thirteen minutes, so he'll be pushed out of the rotation when Kawhi comes back. Man is the last guy off the bench. I don't

think Man is just gonna completely follow the rotation. Guys, he just got a contract extension. If you're saying trade Man, well, I mean if he's not even playing, that's going to crush his trade value. Yeah, Terrence Man needs to be better. I've been disappointed with this play so far this season. I did like the fact that after missing a three pointer in the second quarter, he came back with a little fade away, got that to go, and then in the second half knockdown three. I think it was was

an early fourth quarter. Yeah, three in the far side corner. Bamba also found Man out of a time out for an easy one. That was good to see Mobamba passing. Malcolm Maxwell says at Clippers Talk, Zoo had a nice bounce back game today. Clippers will be fine with their defense and passing the ball more like tonight. Thirty assists to nine turnovers on real Yeah. Tom van Dyke points out how Zoos still had to play thirty two minutes,

but Bamba filling in for fifteen was huge. I think Tom Van Dyke told me Zu bought sweet spot is twenty six minutes. I disagree, thirty plus minutes per game this season. They need him He's too crucial for this team right now. Without Kawhi, it's not just about Zoo's defense. He has to be a staple on the offensive end. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back. We'll hear from Big Will Updyke, next from Clips and Dip. I'm out of Osland live from into it Dome. Come

through and bounce back. Much needed victory over the Golden State Warriors. Excuse me, that's future victory tomorrow tonight over the Utah Jazz. Let's be taking out of the Golden State Warriors tomorrow right back here at into a dome. Amuta Mazlin, And you're listening to Clipperstock. You're on M five seven E LA Sports.

dip Fame. Will, it's a win. Thanks for coming on.

are imitating what James Harden sort of pioneered. And it's interesting because he comes, you know right after like Stories and sort of step currying Klay Thompson completely revolutionized with their accuracy and the depths from which they could shoot the three. But him just adding the step back to that, it's just it's one of those things that's going to.

with him cranking up a shot. So I think that him being aggressive as he is only behooved him to open up the passing game a little bit more, because it's it's not only going to make things easier on him and on his teammates, but it's not what the I's not what defenses are expecting from Kevin Porter junior.

Harden eleven assists by the way to zero turnovers. The stat line he put up, I guess no Clipper had ever put up four seven of fourteen from the field twenty points, eleven assists, zero turnovers plus six boards was special. But the Clippers overall ended up with thirty assists to just nine turnovers. When they take care of the basketball will with the way they can create turnovers on the other end, it makes this team much more difficult to play against.

taking care of the ball. I mean, over half those turnovers were from the zoo, which you're not gonna see that often, so that that's kind of an anomaly there. But it is one of those things that it sort of is what it is I think with this team. But if they can even tighten it up to say fourteen a game average on the season, I'm liking what that will do for their offense so much more, and Norm put it really well, He's like, we just got to be getting up a shot on every offensive possession,

like it can't. Like it's the turnovers that are really really killing them when they already have sort of you know, like in the modern NBA, which is kind of a middling offense.

of just having a prototypical size. They don't necessarily have to be the standard mold of what a traditional sort of center is in the backup spot. But I think the I think the Mobama fits that well. It seems like he is a very coachable player. You know, he has made a lot of stops, but I do think that he is a guy who can fill a role and he's you know, he doesn't strike me as a guy like you know, maybe I mean only two three point attempts. I would say that's the only thing you

would maybe maybe worry about. You know, He's not going to be doing Mason Plumley like behind the back passes and not you know, trying to take it end to end or anything like that. So I think that it's a really really solid backup. With Kai Jong's being completely out of the rotation at this point, it's definitely very needing for the Clippers. We no Nipa Tumbe can't do those center minutes heavy, at least during the regular season. So I'm I'm optimistic and I'm excited to see more.

you load up against him. He finds that open man and he did so offend tonight, finishing with six assists, his most complete game, as Will Updyke said, as a Clipper so far. Slippers win one, sixteen to one oh five over the Jazz. More Clipperstock next year on the F five to seventy LA Sports Clippers.

Clippers respond one hundred and sixteen points they put up tonight while having an off night from distance, they shot just twenty eight percent from three. They were just under thirty eight percent from three heading into this one, so we'll see. I think they're around a thirty six thirty seven percent three point shooting team. Off Kawhi comes back sooner than later, then I'm saying, yeah, thirty eight thirty nine percent, because he is very efficient from the outside too.

normOn Pal four of eleven from three, really started to cook early in that first quarter as the Clippers got back to basics, feed big Zoo. Get Norman Pale rolling to his right. He had a three off of steal on John Collins. Then he got a three off a done steal who then found Norman Powell. Then he had a nice sixteen footer making eighteen feet straight away as he turned down a three pointer as the defense was playing him up close, went around a defender, then just

got a long two to go. There was another three pointer made in the second quarter by Norman Palell where it beats a zoobot screen. Collin Sexton completely out of the picture. He was on his backside and Norman knocked down the three pointer. Third quarter, normOn Palell got up for an alley ut from James Harden, one of his eleven assists, and boy did he get up used two hands for that value. Carlo Amenez I think brought up how he was in a dunk contest back in high school.

Norm Powell has hops at thirty one. Still he has bounce. So I'm wondering a couple of things here. People are talking about this in the chat now at Clippers Talk, saying, yeah, Harden still shot twenty five percent from the three point line tonight he did uh? He started what one for two and that one make in the first quarter got him above Ray Allen for second most threes made all time, but still was two for eight? Is it legs? What

is it now? I can't remember I can't recall what he shot in that second quarter, but I will calculate it during the break because it's basically guys the second quarters that have been tanking his field goal percentage and three point percentage. It is six and a half minutes that he is averaging playing in second quarters. That is careening his percentages. He came into this game eight of

forty six from the field in second quarters. If you take out second quarters, he's shooting forty five percent from the field and thirty five percent from three on the season, basically his career averages. So I'm just wondering if he figures things out in that second quarter. Whatever it is, and the starters got back in late in the second quarter because the backups were making such a good run.

Maybe a rotation pattern changes with him not playing as much in the first quarter, so he's sitting for far less time and that helps him in second quarters. I don't know where it is, but it is strange to see one quarter tank of guy's efficiency. Is that simple? This post from La Murray saying zoo back on track. With thirty three minutes played, Mobamba debuted with his fifteen points.

New second unit intact. Yeah, that second unit. I think there were a couple of different iterations we saw, but there was one to start I think the second quarter that had Mobamba in for Vitza Zubas. Let's see if I can find this, So it was Niko Batoum, Terrence Man Mobamba. Who else was in? Was Chris Done in that second unit? A mere Coffee and I think KPJ

were the guys out there. So it's really interesting to see how things develop here as coach Lou now has a ton of different rotations in lineups he can go to just by having a different backup center and by having Chris is Done in the starting lineup. This was just his third game, the first win they have gotten since they put him into the starting lineup. Not that I'm saying they lost those games in Houston because of Chris Done. I don't think that was the case at all.

But as things evolve here, and this was just Game fourteen, we're gonna see different lineups from rotations than we thought coming into this season. Things are materializing, and you got to shout out coach Lou guys for sticking with Kevin Porter Junior for this long as he just had his best game as a Clipper, his most complete game as

a Clipper is will Updyke put it. That's big. His confidence has stayed high enough as he has stayed in the rotation, and they've given him all this time to try to figure it out, to see where he's at as a player after missing an entire year. So Kevin Bord Junior, tonight, it looked like the game was slowing down for him. It looked like for the first time.

And there have been moments and flashes of this play in him over the last week or so, but tonight you could really say he was a pass first guard out there, a pass first guard looking to get others involved first, trying to make the others better, elevating guys around him. Capra said, KPJ hopefully becomes that legitimate secondary playmaker, so hard and he can get some in game rest like tonight to be fresh for the clutch period. Here's

the thing. His shooting percentages in the fourth quarter have been fine. He was shooting fifty four percent from the field in fourth quarters. His assistant turnover ratio, though, was not Clippers only had three turnovers though total in the first half, so just six in the second half. You'll take that if you keep it around twelve turnovers or less per game, you're in business. It's gonna be tough to beat this team because they're likely with their defensive

prowess turning you over. You win the turnover battle, you win the possession battle. And again they were cleaning the glass too. It was forty one forty one on the glass, but the Clippers had four more offensive rebounds than Utah. Just a lot of good signs that they're getting back to playing Clippers basketball. Now. If you want to say it's just because of the Jazz, don't get too high on this win. It's the Utah Jazz. I can understand

that to a point. But I think with the Clippers, they still have to build on those good habits, and those Clippers basketball habits, meaning James Harden and Visa Zubos working in tandem, them finding Big Zoo early and often. That third quarter where he scored ten points and they were just featuring him over and over again. That's Clippers basketball now. It has to be. They got away from it in Houston. It is not an option, I will say it again, to get a Beata Zubas involved anymore.

It is necessary, and you saw it happen tonight. James Harden obviously the engine of the offense high assist total after having I think just two last game against the Rockets, eleven assists, zero turnovers. Now, the zero turnovers aren't always going to be there, but ten plus assists or a round ten assists football game, that's Clippers basketball. Norman Powell

putting them up from distance. Carlo event has brought it up pregame, but this is somebody that could take a few more three pointers considering how efficient he has been over the years from there. And he got up eleven tonight, hit four of them. I like seeing that number. He got up seventeen shots total. He matched the Beata Zubas they both got up seventeen. And then Chris it's done.

Just taking a little bit of that pressure off the playmaking duties of James Harden as well now in the starting lineup, and I thought he had another really good game, and Chris Dunn rarely has a bad game. He had that steal and then got his norm for a three point in the first then he had a three in the far side corner, and then he had a steal and score to start the third quarter in a left wing three in the third and then maybe the biggest shot of the ballgame after the lead was down to seven.

It was Chris Donne three of six from distance, eleven points, four assists, also zero turnovers. It's a great ballgame. Twenty five minutes. Might have to play more tomorrow, we'll see. It could be Jordan Miller time tomorrow. I don't know, because a lot of the starters ended up at plus thirty minutes because the Utah Jazz well, they would not

give up credit to them. And you look at the guys that went over thirty No weren Palette thirty five minutes, Visa Zubots at thirty three, James Harden at thirty four. It's troublesome what happens in one game can affect another. Yeah, as many good things as we have talked about, it is still disappointing. They weren't able to close it out without the starters having to come back in. I think

that's understandable. There's criticism to be had even in a victory because if there's tired legs tomorrow against the Golden State Warriors, Steph Curry's questionable, but it's gonna be because of what happened late in this game and letting a twenty three point lead get cut down to seven with three minutes left. So they still need to close better. That's been a consistent theme so far this season. Clippers win one sixteen to one oh five over the Utah Jazz.

I think we'll get our last time out here. We'll come back, we'll close things out here it into a dome. After the Clippers get back to their winning ways and they're taking on Golden State tomorrow. We'll talk about that matchup coming up next here on Clippers Talk on Ampire seventy l A Sports.

And I know they have played well without Steph Curry though so far this season, but Clippers beat him up in San Francisco. They're not going to forget that either. Steve Kerr and that twelve man lineup, he ghosts to the twelve man rotation. I should say, I'm at a maslin. This is Clippers talking on the five seventy LA Sports and at Clippers talk on YouTube. So I felt like that third quarter the Clippers let their foot off the gas just a little bit at times. Defensively, it wasn't

the same intensity we saw in the first quarter. Carlo Jimenez and I both felt like, Eh, they're getting a little bit locks of days goal. On the defensive end, they look like a team that knows they have a twenty point lead. Now this happens human nature, but they still led by twenty two. They opened up the lead by twenty two heading into the fourth. So what happened in that fourth quarter to lead to the comeback to

where it was down to seven with three minutes left. Well, here's who was on the floor for the Clippers starting off the fourth man bomba a mere coffee. Uh, who else do we have here? Kevin Porter Junior. Uh I want to say, was Nico out there? Yeah, Nico batoum And things started off Okay, it was one four to eighty five. It's still a nineteen point lead. At the eight thirty mark, the Clippers were fine. They were treading water in some ways. You can say the starters were

not good enough. Now, what people make a mistake of doing when they look at plus minus stuff is saying, oh, well the backup unit. Look look at how much they won their minutes by. Well, the backup unit is going up against the other team's backup unit. The starters are going up up against the other team's first unit. That's the difference. So the Clippers are up by sixteen. Still, when Norm James Harden and Aviza Zubats get back into the ball game, they didn't do a good enough job closing.

Some of it was some hot shooting, but there was a bad turnover by a Viza Zubats who didn't hold the ball high when the double came in the key. I didn't like seeing that. There was a steal by Jordan Clark's in there. That's just sloppy play. You have to be better in that. And now it's one O eight ninety seven. The next time out where Chris Dunn would come back in for Nico Batoum, who is low key in a very, I don't know, light struggle, at

least a struggle for his standards. Nico Batoum is fantastic and rarely ever loses his minutes or rarely ever is a negative out there. But they brought back in Chris Dunn, so it was starters with KPJ for Derreck Jones Junior. They eventually closed things out, but it would be just an eight point lead after the lower marketing three pointer at the four minute mark. KPJ made a layup on the other end, a tough layup by the way, guys that KPJ layup at the three forty one mark where

he levitated in the air for that long. That was kind of nuts showing off the athleticism there. That was go get a bucket. Somebody get a bucket. We're not getting anything easy right now. Vitz Zubas just missed a couple of free throws. Somebody create for themselves, and Kevin Porter Junior got him back up ten with just flying through the lane. But Utah wasn't going away and Jordan Clarkson had sixteen points on the fourth quarter and knocked down three on the other end, So it's that seven

point game. So I would say the biggest shot of the game came from Chris Dunn, who missed a three pointer on a possession, but the Clippers got to stop Keyantae. George Wild missed a three pointer, so still a seven point game. And then in the two thirty one mark off that Kevin Porter junior assist after he sucked in the defense as he got the attention drawn his way, then he found Kevin Porter Junior for that three pointer.

I think it was far side corner. Collier missed a driving layup Clippers got in transition, Harden makes a dunk. I think just his second of the season. Is one to fifteen to one to oh three with two minutes left, that was all she wrote in all that jazz. You could say, YadA, YadA, YadA. The game was over. Clippers win one, sixteen to oneh five. I don't know, is it good to be tested with this a little bit of adversity late. I think you learn more in those

tough moments than just in blowout victories. But in this particular case, when you got the Warriors coming in tomorrow. Yeah, I would love to get greedy poured on and have this just be a blowout victory where the starters didn't have to come back late in the game. That would have been nice. Rock said, So, do we still talk about the Jordan Miller era or just wait it out and see what happens. I don't know if there was

a perfect time for Jordan Miller tonight. I think he was going to get minutes if the Clippers had held on to a twenty plus point lead heading into the fourth quarter. That's what hurt Jordan Miller tonight. I wouldn't be shocked though, to see him at all tomorrow against Golden State. But again, Ken Boord Junior's playing this well, how do you find minutes? To me? They come from batoom a mere coffee, Terrence Man, all those guys having some minutes shaved off, and therefore you make room for

Jordan Miller. But it is not an easy thing to do. Who's the Clips MVP candidate so far? Jay Felix, Oh you're talking about Avitza Zubas oh g is a Laker fan in the chat here at Clippers talk on the YouTube side, who's still upset about Magic Johnson with that assist to the Clippers. Oh, it was the best assist in my opinion, with handing them a beats the zoobots for Mike Muskala Clippers legend who never played a game, Yeah,

that was a fleecing. Rock said, I think the Vets are more so locked in man and but tomb But I would love a stretch just to see how Miller and Kobe Brown look with a chance. I get it. There are ways to get Jordan Miller some minutes here and there. We just saw it the last two games. Now, some of that is because Clippers are down big in Houston. That's not necessarily how we want to see the young

guys implemented. Clippers are down twenty, let's try something else, or it looks like they're waving the white flag sometimes. But Jordan Miller came into that game when it was still relatively close Wednesday in Houston, and the young guys made a dentse and had it to within four with a minute and a half left and gave a really good effort. Stump said. The Clippers relaxing in the fourth

quarter because up twenty points is a bad habit. But I can understand minutes for third stringers, but they should wait until five minutes left. I think they were coming if the Clippers held onto the lead. Nay G said, more offense off the bench is the reason why I think Ty should play Miller over Batum or team man. Eventually,

I could see it happening. I could see Batoom getting a little bit of a I don't know, just a rest period, a little two week rest period where he's playing less minutes because he just hasn't looked as batumish the last three games or so. He played eighteen minutes tonight.

What if Jordan Miller's playing those eighteen minutes instead, because I have no worry about Batum coming back and maybe look looking fresher after playing all those minutes in the Olympics for France, but coming back and just looking like himself. He's a vet. He's turning thirty six in December, like he's not gonna lose a rhythm. He's gonna stay ready. If Batoum misses some time to implement a young guy, he's also going to be rooting for that young guy

and helping him. And then when they need him, and they will because Batoom is an all world role player like in NBA history, he is one of the best I've ever seen. He just rarely makes a mistake. He'll hit the ground running when he comes back. People asking what KPJ's ceiling is ceiling We talk about him being a poor man's James Harden at times. That's no disrespect.

James Harden is the second best three point shooter of all time, or at least has the second most made threes now and his top seventy five player ever Hall of Famer like. He has some of that to his game, where he can control an offense, but he needs to be smarter about it and balance when to look for his own shot and when to get others involved. And tonight he was spectacular in that area. Can he build off of it? Can you do it again tomorrow? KPJ

got to close out this game for a reason. I love the way Coach Lou has been using his rotations. Who's hot tonight, who's playing the best? You're gonna close that simple. I don't think Coach Lou's got nearly enough credit for the way he has managed games so far this year. The way he has taken those sense of urgency timeouts when he doesn't like something and they don't get back in transition like we saw in the fourth. I think he's been damn near perfect with pushing the

right button at the right time, but KPJ. He's been far from perfect so far this season. But this is the best game he's played in the Clippers' uniform. And I'm hoping this is the start of something because little by little he we've been looking a little bit better and better. Tonight, you really put it all together in his most complete performance so far. That was really encouraging. Guys. Ray said, side note, can we never play the Calves

this season? They're fifteen or no? Shout out Bob Schmid his Cavaliers.

Slippers wins tonight. Let's see if they can stay hot. They got a game coming up tomorrow. But they win one, sixteen to one oh five over the Utah Jazz here and into a dome tomorrow that'll be facing the Wow the Okay, big big brother Jake just gave me this. Guess who they're facing The Golden State Warriors, who I should have guessed have the longest winning streak to begin a season at twenty four straight wins. That was during their seventy three game win season in the fifteen to

sixteen year Big Brother Jake with the number. Thank you, big Bro. I think it was a good night for you, right, great night, Great night. Okay, Chargers one Clippers win. We're back tomorrow six thirty pre game. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Lawler, Brian Seemen, Noah Eagle, Carlo Jimenez on the call, zach O Kaldy, our producer back in the bank, our head engineer here at into a dome. That would be

Big brother Jake Warner. Coming up next, we got Chargers Talk with the hardest working man in tours Radio Isaac Lohan crawl I'm out of Oz and talk to you tomorrow. You've got these records.