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Hashtag. Come Back Clips. Your LA Clippers get their first victory into it Dome in dramatic fashion, just like they have over the years. They came back, this time down twenty six points in the first quarter to the San Antonio Spurs. They end up winning one thirteen to one four to christen their new home with a classic Clippers comeback. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm at a Moslins. We are up second half highlights coming up, postgame box score, but first we get back over to your radio voice
of the Clippers, Carlo Jimenez. Well, Carlo, how about that five man unit KPJ, Chris Dunn, Amir Coffee, Nico Batoum and Aviza Zubas the highly criticized unit to start the fourth quarter against OKAC the other night. They win them this ballgame. They got them back in.
This era of revenge tour for those guys today, Adam. They were so good on the offensive end. They kys chaos, they were locked in, they were excellent defensively. It was so fun to watch them go to work in this game and really put their foot on the gas.
They changed the game.
They changed the game a sixteen to two run, I believe in that second quarter. So good for this Clipper team, Adam, and and really shows that, Hey, while this team might have lost Norman Palace to the starting unit, they did not lose the punch off the bench. Those guys came with the energy in the spark today.
Revenge from the five man unit, Revenge from Amir Coffee, who many wanted to see replaced with Jordan Miller. They don't have a shot in this one without a mere Coffee and those big three points shots in the second half.
And he came off probably his toughest game of the season last time out, struggled with the score a little bit, and boy did he respond today.
Five of six from three.
He hit three huge threes in that third quarter, two big ones there in the fourth, goes eight for ten from the field, twenty one points. We mentioned a pregame, but the Clippers needed that Norman punch off the bench that they had last year and a mere coffee providing that.
So far this season he has been excellent for them, shooting above forty five percent from three on the young year, and just won a performance by a guy who deserves it, a guy who's worked for it every single year he's been with his organization.
And I couldn't be more proud also of Avitza Zubats who stuck with it. He was struggling early. I think he was four of eleven in the first half. He missed some gimmeis, he was being double teamed. He had his shot block maybe three times by Webinyama. How does the game end him dunking on Victor Wembinyama with an and one and at the charity stripe five of five after going one of five last game. He had been struggling there, Big Zoo stuck with it and he helped win this ball game.
He really did. And it's all about what you mentioned. He stuck with it.
When ben Yama had nine blocks today, he could have easily said this isn't working. The guy's blocking me every fourth time I shoot the ball. But the ability to stay with the interior presence on the offensive end keeps the rest of your offense so much more balanced, so much more versatile. And that's why of East Sewats had to be aggressive every single time he got the ball. Adam he finished with over ten offensive rebounds in this game.
The Spurs as a team had twelve offensive rebounds. Big Zoo was excellent for them in this one thirteen boards, continuing to pace the NBA in rebounds. A game so good, so aggressive, and that is the Zubats. The Clippers need. An aggressive Zubots is a good Zubots.
And as much as James Harden struggled early on a big five to zero run during a stretch where the Clippers needed it in the fourth quarter, including a four point play, I believe he missed the free throws. The Clippers miss what the opportunity for two four point plays in this one with miss free throws.
They did well.
It's all the same because the Clippers come through with the victory and James Harden found his offense when he needed it most. And for a team that had been struggling late in ballgames during crunch time, were they able to avoid a clutch time game that they lead by more than five in the last five minutes after coming back down twenty six.
Remarkable, felt like a clutch game with the way it was played down the stretch. But yeah, the Clippers never allowed it to get closer than I believe seven in that final five minutes of this one, just holding, still not being phased. You talked about it when we were off the air, but and the Clippers fell down twenty six.
Well, maybe this is how he turned things around.
Maybe it takes a comeback like this to get your season on the right track. A group that's resilient, that fought together and now comes out with a victory. And I think all the credit in the world at him to Chris Dunn who played a fantastic twenty five minutes today and despite playing with five fouls, was able to
close down the stretch. He brings energy to this team that they need in games like this, really changing the momentum of the ball game with his aggressiveness, with his activity, and with his approach on the defensive end.
That lose ball he was able to get to and draw the foul on CP three was just emblematic of who Chris Done is. It's all hustle, heart, and also in that ribcage dog dog in him confirmed we got the X Rays. Chris Dunne was special down the stretch, not just with his offense and he hit some timely shots, but also those hustle plays including offensive rebounds.
Yeah, big time offensive rebounds, a swing get into the teeth of Webbin Yama. Sometimes on the defensive end. He was excellent today. Norman Powell, I mean, we just continue to expect twenty point games out of him, but once again he goes for twenty three first time in his career.
He's got six straight.
Twenty point games and he's got a chance to do it again on Wednesday night. I thought he came up in big moments for this Clipper team. It was an all around excellent effort for a game that looks slow and sluggish and looked like was going to be one to forget after the opening twelve minutes. It's one to
remember for this Clipper team. Their first win of the regular season here and into a dome that look to make it too straight on Wednesday when a certain player, a certain former friend now foe, comes to into a dome, Paul George will be in the building and well You're not gonna want to miss that one seven o'clock tip.
Been a week of familiar faces in new places. SGA CP three now PG thirteen, coming back to Soakaw to face the Clippers for the first time in a Philadelphia seventy six uniform. Tip. Time for that one on Wednesday at seven. Well off your pregame show starting at six. The Clippers, it took them getting down twenty six to relocate their identity to get back to that scrappy build up that they've always had. This is the team that has had more twenty point comebacks over the last six
seasons now than any other squad in the league. Maybe the Clippers found their identity tonight and they can hopefully build off of this. Wednesday Night's another big one. Carlo Jimenez, great call as always. We got our first nylon in we ready, we hear talk to you on Wednesday.
Talk to you Wednesday at them Let's go.
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Clippers down twenty six, just to come back with a thirty five point turnaround and win one thirteen to one oh four to get their first victory here and into it Dome Clipper Nation. I know you're feeling good after this one. That's how you, Chris and the new building. That's the type of victory this Clippers team has been known for over the years, and they got it backs up against the wall and it brought out the best in this Clippers squad once again. Welcome back in. I'm
Ada Oslin. This is your Clippers postgame show. Coming up. We will have Clippers stock on AM five to seventy LA Sports eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number if you'd like to get on. As mentioned, the Clippers were down by twenty six after the first quarter. It was forty to fourteen. The Clippers were historically bad. They made just four shots total in that first quarter. But then guess who brought him back
from the deaths. It was the same crew that I've been talking about that has been playing well for them and had one bad start to a quarter against OKC. In that fourth that would be KPJ next to Chris Dunn, next to a mere Coffee next to Nico, buttoom next two Big Zoo. They went on a sixteen to two run to start that second quarter. The guys who were scrutinized. Coach Lou was scrutinized for that crew. I asked him pre game because I thought that was the move to
make against OKACE. It had been working. It didn't work that one game, So do you go back to it? Well, he said, it's about feel, it's about flow, the game flow. The game was against them. He goes back to it, and they don't win this ball game. That crew might have gone a plus. I don't know thirty two. I'm gonna check the lineup data later. But at the half, the Clippers had trimmed into that lead. It was down to eight fifty six to forty eight in the third quarter, A mere coffee started to cook.
Harden goes around a mere coffee stream going left, Brandon the switch. Harden drives by, jumps in the air, back down coffee straight away three, got it.
I'm here coffee crop straight away, slobs underneath you box.
You got the.
Smaller Johnson on him, rips a past coffee right wing three, cashes it out. I'm here coffee right corner coffee.
Another three bottoms back to back from.
Bonus distance and the Clippers within four on an eight zero run.
Clippers were down four after being down by as many as twenty six heading into the fourth quarter. But they know about dramatic comebacks when they get that close, when it's even they're leaving. In situations like this and down the stretch, they would knock down three after three after three, Carlo take it away.
Norm straight away three.
That's it.
Norman Powell with this four to three.
Of the game, copy left wing three.
You betch comire Coffy's four to three of the game.
Blippers can take a lead Norm.
Left wing three for the lead on.
The Clippers on a nine ozer run.
The twenty six point lead for the Spurs is gone.
Swings it don't root now holds the ball right here. Back to coffee left wing.
Three Puttex snift of the game Fromire Harden swings it done, left wing three cash, it's raining it into it.
The Clippers with eighteen.
Threes talk about making waves. The Clippers were wet with it. From three. They ends up going nineteen of thirty seven from distance, that is fifty one percent shooting from three. After they came into this one just shooting thirty three percent. We wondered when they would progress to the mean a little bit and when the San Antonio Spurs, when they would struggle from distance, it would do them in. They were eleven of forty one, twenty seven percent from the outside.
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Clippers win one thirteen so one oh four and they come back down twenty six to get their first victory. Heard into its home, welcome back in I'm adam ouslind how bouts your Los Angeles Clippers and the comeback clips Rising from the dead, oh C the Undertaker GIF Clippers turn a game around. It's a thirty five point turnaround from down twenty six to winning by nine. Unreal Clippers in this one, of course, big buckets after big buckets from a mere coffee eight of ten, five of six
from three, twenty one points. Chris Dunn not just the big buckets, the scrappy plays out there. They don't credit him with the offensive rebounds. I don't understand that he had deflections. He caused CP three to have an offensive foul. Kevin Porter Junior was solid one his minutes by fourteen. It was that five man unit that everybody criticized for starting the fourth quarter against OKC that won them this game. A mere big suit not given up finishes just six
of seventeen, but seventeen and thirteen for as cis. He got them going from distance in the second half with some great dimes. When the double would come his way, he found the open shooter, beautiful basketball from Viza Zubots and he stuck with it. Wemby blocked him multiple times. He dunked on Wemby multiple times. You know what you're getting into with Victor wembin Yama. He had nine blocks. That's okay, that's what he does. He still only went nine of twenty two from the field, two of nine
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Game at follow Adam a adam Ousley was something born out of their first victory and into it Dome. As the Clippers were down twenty six to cent Antonio on the first quarter, is stormed back to win one thirteen. So one oh four, welcome into Clippers Talk about a Maslin eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number coming up. We will get to your
phone calls. We'll hear from coach Lou post game. I hope he dunks on everyone like I've been doing about that five man lineup that you all thought was nuts, and it's what won them the ballgame in this one. The same five guys you didn't want to see on the floor to start the fourth quarter against ok See, even though they had already won them two games against Golden State, against It's Denver, he put them in when the going got tough and they were down forty to fourteen,
and what did they do? Go on a sixteen to two run to get them right back into this ball game and it was just an eight point lead for San Antonio heading into the second half. How about coach lose? He gonna get any credit tonight. I've been giving them credit. I think his coaching has been phenomenal so far this season. The talent disadvantage has hurt them at times, the coaching
has not. And Big Zoo believing in him and sticking with him even while Wemby was getting some blocks, even while beats A Zubos I think started three for eleven from the floor, he stayed with it, stayed confidence, stayed aggressive. There's no other path you can take anymore. You need Big Zoo. You'a aren't winning without him. Doesn't mean if you're playing thirty minutes you're always going to win, but you aren't going to win if you don't give Big
Zoo the basketball and stick with them. Just a tremendous performance from a Viza Zubas, with the resiliency from him that I think may have permeated throughout the team. It can be deflating Victor wenbin Yama's there. You're seeing ghosts whether or not he's blocking the shots, you're missing shots because he's already blocked one. He covers half the court. He had nine blocks maybe three against Zubas, and he kept coming and had an and one dunk on Wemby
at the end, he dunked on him twice. Big Zoo's soft. What I don't want to hear any of that. Big Zoos showed the heart of a lion tonight. What a comeback. Third largest regular season comeback in franchise history. Down thirty five against the Wizards a couple of years ago. That's the second biggest comeback in NBA history in the regular season.
I think the dazz happened at thirty six. They come back down twenty eight, fresh off of trading Tobias Harris in Boston back in what twenty nineteen, langr shamit big game, Big Zoo, big game, and then tonight down twenty six to Christen into it. Done with this first win ever? Here buy your Los Angeles Clippers in style, in classic Clippers style, a big comeback. That's how you can find yourself, relocate your identity, and remember the type of squad you
have been over the years, no matter who was available. Hey, kawhiin here right now. We've seen that before in the past. Paul George ain't here, He's in Philly. He'll be back here on Wednesday. We've seen him out a bunch two. This Clippers team has a mentality to not give into that, and we saw it again tonight. Now can they build off of this Philly coming in no embiid. I'll update you on what happened in Paul George's return tonight and
against the Phoenix Suns. But this was incredible. A mere coffee the guy that everybody said this summer after summer League. You know I've said it at times too. If Jordan Miller's taking minutes from someone. It's probably a mere I don't think so. Amir said, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm too valuable to what this team needs now. A mere coffee with five threes on five of six shooting from three in the second half. A mere coffee with the big steel and slam at the end to put
the icing on this one. A mere coffee with great defense and that five man lineup. I told you it was doing work. I told you it was an outlier. What happened against ok see and everybody? What are you getting non coach lou for that? Him being asked, how can you not stagger James Harden and Norman Powell at all times? Guess what? The lineup that got him back in this one didn't have Norm didn't have James Harden.
They still came through in the fourth. But to get back into this ball game, they did it with backups and big Zoo. Just absolute grit and determination by this Clippers team to night to get their first ever victory, heart into it dum when they were da dead on a rival to start and had one of the worst first quarters I had seen by this ball club and we've seen some bad ones. I thought we were heading towards a fifty one point loss, like against Dallas to
start off the twenty twenty twenty twenty one year. It looked that bad, But I said off air, this may be the perfect position for the Clippers to be in because this is when they find themselves. And if they come back and win this game, they may start rolling. They may realize the type of team that they have been can be and will be a team that does not give in, does not quit. Nobody's had more twenty point comebacks the last six seasons than this squad. Nobody
couldn't be more proud of this group. Coach lou Chris Donn big play after big play, but Toom had his moments. KPJ had his moments. I mean a mere coffee though a plus thirty four in a game they were down thirty six. I want to see that five man lineup data. I'll get it for you in a little bit, but I just want to tip my cap to this squad for not giving in and not laying down when could have. I had a ton of tweets coming my way saying, OKAYC is getting the first pick in the draft. They're
capturing the flag. That's all I heard in the first quarter. People clowning the Clippers.
Hell.
I said, it was an embarrassing first quarter.
It was.
It wasn't just offense. Their defense was lifeless too. They were not good enough there. They were getting beat in the non wemby minutes. This team didn't have it. It felt like a matinee start. No more of those, please, And for the most part, they had been starting quarters well so far this season. It had been the second halfs that had doomed them. It completely turns around and they actually execute down the stretch in this one beautifully
to perfection. I can't tell you enough about some of the passes Big Zoo made after doubles coming late in the third when that same five man lineup KPJ, Chris Dunn, a mere coffee, Niko Batooma, Viza Zubas was out there and they went a plus six to cut a ten point lead to four. Heading into the fourth of Viza Zubas found a cutting KPJ for a dunk, then found a mere coffee to get him going from three out of a double. When the doubles came, he started to
find the open man. He banked a shot in end of the third quarter over like a triple team of Vitza Zubas, after he had already been blocked multiple times. It could have been easy to curl up in a shell and say, you know, it's not my night. They're packing the pain. Wemby's there, No, he kept coming, he kept battling. That's what they need from him, and what he needs is the basketball from his teammates and to
have that faith in him. It's eighty six eighty two heading into the fourth in the past from Zoo with point six seconds left. A KPJ was a well executed buzzer beater that almost went right. At the end of the third. With KPJ putting up that three, you could see it the execution was coming. But then Mamu, I think that's his nickname. I'm not gonna even attempt to pronounce.
It his name.
Hit a three to start the fourth, so they're down seven. Norm has a layup going to his right. KPJ had a bad one legged fade away done missed a floater. Wemby had a really bad lob that turned into a Norm pal steel. But then a Norm three pointer made it ninety one to eighty seven, back down by four early fourth quarter. Then they get a shot clock violation on San Antonio, but Wemby blocks a mirror on a fade away I can't believe I can believe it, but he got to his fade away shot, and I don't
know how he did it. Wemby is the eighth wonder of the world. If it's not into it, Dume. But then the Clippers get a stop KPJ with a really bad pass to It beats the Zubos underneath the basket, a fastball turnover, but Norm got it right back timeout. Coach Lou It's still ninety one to eighty seven, but a Wemby steal on Norm right out of the timeout. But then good defense Zoo on CP three created a steal.
He had multiple possessions where Chris Paul tried to take him out to deep water and it beats the Zubos locked him up. He got zero separation, a mere three one point game. Another stop Norm three Clippers up to ninety three to ninety one. We get the nylon call from Carlo Jimenez and they never looked back travel on CP three right afterwards out of a timeout. I believe Norm lay up then blocked by Wemby just an insane chase down block. I can't you think he's not there,
You think you've gotten away from Wemby. There's just no escape. He's just following you like pan Shadow. It is unbelievable because you can't shake him. You can't. Wemby then fouled, knocked down some free throws, I mean even a shooting stroke of the charity stripe. It's like, I don't even know what to say. Does any big man have an excuse anymore? When Wenby is this good at the charity stripe of missing free throws, this is just next level. Jay wants that Carl tart zubat segment. Now, you can't
shake Wemby. He is everywhere Defensively, I told you a pregame. They're nineteen points better per one hundred possessions on the defensive end. The San Antonio Spurs when Wenby is on versus off, the court comes back in. It's a tie game at ninety three. Your lineup now is Harden done? Amir Zuo Powell last six forty five a mere three pointer. His fifth Clippers have their largest lead Wemby misses Harden
kickout done three zoo defense on Wemby. He had a remarkable possession where Wemby was short on a shot from about ten feet out and then's big Zuo dunked on Victor Wembin Yama and got the and one defense to offense one individual doing this just a hell of a game. By beats a zooboss, putting haters in a body bag.
I can't believe some of the stuff he had to deal with, with the amount of guys who were fronting him trying to stop him from getting the basketball, then double team's, triple teams or just Victor woman y'ama waiting stick with it. That was the key, that was everything for this team. And by the time he got the and one where he went five of five from the charity stripe after going one of five last time out, the Clippers are all of a sudden up eight. It's
one on one ninety three. They started the quarter down four, twelve point turnaround less than seven minutes in just incredible basketball. You want to talk about fast and furious, like comeback this Clippers team. Harden then has the four point play but missed the free throw. Harden has a step back, so a five to zero run generated by James Harden. For those trying to hate Wemby hits a three one oh seven to ninety eight. They're not quite out of
the woods yet. There's too much time left. There would be a bad possession. Zoo lost the ball, but then the effort by Chris Dunn to get it back to the Clippers, it would not amount to a bucket. Chris Dunn would end up missing a floater eventually, but he got it back off diving for the basketball where CP three had an offensive foul. Awesome, they're both scrambling for it. Foul on CP three, Chris Dunn out working dudes and then late, I love the move. About a minute left,
Zubos was cassed. You need more switchability to stop threes from going down. Because san Antonio is down seven, bring in Nico more switching. CP three misses the three, Dune gets fouled, goes to the law and AMR has the steal and dunk late to put this one away. Poetic one twelve one oh two final score one thirteen one
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Look look, look a look and look and look a looker here, look a short Clippers look a look at look a look at the comeback down twenty six first quarter. They come through and win one thirteen to one oh four over San Antonio to get their first ever victory here at Into It Dome. Welcome back into your Clippers postgame show. I'm at a miles Land taking you till eleven o'clock Pacific time. If you're on the chat side at Clippers Talk on the YouTube, appreciate you. Yeah. Coach
Lou is a top three coach in the league. Guys, every year he gets voted the best in game adjuster by his peers. Other people who coach, people in the front office, you think you know more than them. He had some masterful rotations in this one, including not giving in to the angry mob about his five man lineup that had been good but wasn't in one stint last game against ok See to start the fourth quarter to coach Lou panic and go away from it tonight. No,
he didn't go away from it. That lineup won them the damn game. That's coaching, that's sticking to your gut and the analytics. I told you that lineup was good and had been and victor Woman Yama still almost had a quadruple double. My god, Clippers would stand it and get the victory. Oh, this was a fun one Cliper Nation first ever here at into a dome. Let's go the phones, man, we got tagous and Walnut Tagous, you're on clippers, stop with out of Maazon.
He ay Adam Man. What a There was no other better way than having a comeback clips victory at our first victory into a dome. You know sometimes I you know, I'm more nervous when we get a big lead and when we're down, I just have that feeling that we're gonna come back and win. And it happened again. You know when we were down I think seven or eight at halftime, and then the third quarter, Norm hit that three pointer and it's got fouled and we cut it to three and I was like, here we go. We're
gonna take it home. And then within the blink of an eye, the Spurs pushed it back to fourteen. Yep, and I was a little I'm sorry now.
Keep going, Tajus, I'm agreeing with you. That was a big moment.
Yeah, And for a second, I'm like, man, maybe our comeback is going to fall a little bit short. But we kept grinding, kept grinding, and what happened in the first quarter as opposed to the previous games. We limited our turnovers quite a bit and we got real good shots from three, all a mere coffee. Most of his threes were wide open. Norman Powell had his threes within the offense, within the sets, and even Chris Done at the end he had a wide open three that he
connected on and that was I think the offense. And it went much smoother today than the previous games, which if we didn't and we had all those turnovers, I don't know if we complete the comeback. But man just really happy that we got the victory. Clipp Our Nation has been wanting it, and nobody deserves it more than Steve Bomber.
I love that. I love that Tajus and Walnutt pointing out that nobody deserves us more than Seve bomb first ever victory. Hear it into a dome. This one is for Steve. He built this palace, He came up with these innovative ideas. The wall, everybody there was fantastic tonight. The place was electric. It is almost like a basketball theme park, a cathedral, and now it has a Clippers w here and the type of w we're used to seeing from this ball club, these gritty Clippers wins, these
comeback clips wins. Again, if you didn't hear it earlier, since the ninety seven to ninety eight season, this is the third biggest regular season comeback in franchise history, fourth biggest total No. Fifth Because they've had a playoff come back down twenty seven and a playoff come back down thirty one. The resolve is special. Ray said it in the chat, thank you, Steve. The wall was chanting, Balmer, give him the damn game ball. I don't know, I know.
There's some postgame audio Katie Newton has back there, including a short clip of Vitza Zubas in the locker room after their first win. Okay, let's hear from that right now. A little bit of a flair of a dramatic get us.
That's how we do it.
We can we can't do it easily.
We always gotta fight back.
It always gotta be a dramatic but win, its a win.
That's how we do it. That's a Clippers win. Not gonna be easy. Gotta fight back. Big Zeus said it all there. This is just a microcosm of what this team has been about. This is what they do. They're made for when they're backs against the wall. I mean, they've had a twenty five point comeback also to get themselves to the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs. I think we remember that one game six Utah Derek Jones Junior did have a scary fall going up against Wemby
for a layup where he was holding his shoulder. I don't have anything on that yet. Fifty percent shooting from three, I mean the numbers finally went back in their favor. They were shooting thirty three percent from three on the season. And finally James Harden goes three of six from the outside when he had been shooting just over twenty percent from three on the year. Are the legs starting to come around? I don't know. He still had a rough twenty five minutes, but the last six were good. Real
nice hashtag comeback clips. Chemo said, he sat in the wall tonight. It was awesome. My normal seats are an M one, but wanted to experience it. That's great, man, Thanks, Steve Balmer Rock said, when when Terrence Man in that conversation is going on right now? Hey, guys, I'm with you. If Terrence Man is not gonna shoot the basketball. We got problems and he may get pulled from the starting
lineup at some point. I get it. I thought he had some good moments in this game, but still saw too much of the same from team ann regarding not looking for his offense enough. Now he did have a three to start it, he had a reverse layup. He had a tough fall also early on where I just felt like Terrence Man wasn't going to the basket with the intent to score, but with the intent to draw the foul on Wemby instead, he fell sideways. Didn't get
to go like this. Look, I want to go over the second quarter, because that's when the game truly changed. They were down twenty six. Zoo hook shot immediately a mere dunkin transition, KPJ fadeaway, KPJ step back, eight oh run. They had four makes in about the first two minutes of the second quarter, when they had four makes oh
of the first quarter. Then Wemby had a dunk driving faster beats the Zubats after Zubas fell for a pump fake on a three pointer, and then you see a seven to three guy just go around to him like he's a guard. It's just Zubos kind of shrugged afterwards, like what are you gonna do? Chris Dunbucket, He was really good in that second quarter, guys, but toom three Clippers are all of a sudden down fifteen done three.
Then Zoom missed multiple shots over Wemby. He had I want to say, three offensive rebounds tip shots that didn't go. But then he finally got one as a ten point game. That is what I'm talking about, Big Zoo not giving in just because it's Wemby. Stay with it. That was a big moment, I think, honestly in his career, because there have been too many times where Vitazubots is having a bad game to start, he doesn't turn around. This
time he did knock down his free throws. Norm comes back in because remember that was the crew that eight into the lead and god to ten. The Chris done kpj Emir Coffee, Niko Batoum, Big Zoo crew turned the game around, and I hope Coach Lou lets everybody know that he went back to the lineup. I asked him
about a pregame. I knew the lineup was working and he was taking far too much grief for once didn't it didn't work to start the fourth quarter against Okay see Zoo had the dunk on wemby then to end the second quarter, and then a norm three down eight heading into the third that second quarter with special two guys, we will take a quick time out. We'll come back. Get your phone calls. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy.
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You're excited. Feel these Clippers win down twenty six. They come back to win one thirteen to one oh four over the San Antonio Spurs. The losing streak get into a Dome is Ova. They get their first win here at the Dome. Welcome back in I'm out of Maslin. Live with your Clippers postgame show Clippers Talk. You're on m five to seventy LA Sports and at Clippers Talk on the YouTube side. Join the show right now. You hear the music that means we got them. Will Updyke
is in the house. He only shows up for wins, and none better than this one so far this season was something born out of this victory.
Will Updike oh Man Do I hope though? Uh?
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Incredible game. Biggest takeaway A coffee was incredible. Great bench Ron Harden able to turn it around a little bit after a super rough start, and Zoo continues to do Zoo things despite having what most his least efficient game in the season thus far.
I said at the half, I love the game from a beats to Zoo Bots. Even when we started off I think eleven or four of eleven because the aggressiveness was still there. He wasn't being deterred by the fact that Wenby had blocked him a couple of times, he kept coming. I mean he had a hook shot over the double team in the second half, might have been a triple team. And then he dunked on Wemby multiple times in the game. Like just stay confident, and the
team was confident in him too. I couldn't be more proud of Big Zoo animeir coffee.
Oh yeah, agree, one hundred percent. And Norm Powell continues to crush it. But yeah, big Zoo U man. He he just continues to impress when given the opportunity, and he was absolutely needed against Wemby, who was a black hole down low, real problem for the Clippers. You mentioned him and blocked a couple of times by Wemby, he was not the only one. Wemby ended with nine blocks or something unreal. Always a triple double with block.
Also quadruple double, right, Like this guy, this is like David Robinson achem Elijahan type stuff, like some of those blocks on Norman Powell where you think you're safe, where you think you've got enough distance between you, and he makes up ground like that because he's just he's slender man. He knew it. Like his first Halloween in the NBA, came dressed up as that it's it's gotta be haunting out there for guys to have to deal with Wemby
like that. But as much as a lot of this was yes, hot shooting to get them back into it, like there's a mentality there, like you could have given in down twenty six, and we saw that same Clipper spirit that we have seen over the years, where they have these dramatic comebacks and it's just the way they're built, it's just what they do. They don't give in.
Well, and I think that's like what's been different or frustrating about this year, Like what we came accustomed to was sort of like the slow starts, right and then the team being able to sort of turn it on in the back half. And in this season so far, we've actually come out to a lot of really strong starts.
We've seen some pretty sizable leads against against difficult teams, but they've struggled to execute down stretch and this one coming back from a major deficit and just being able to get not only a win, not only eke out a win, but a fairly convincing win in the final minutes of this game off of a run that was kickstarted with a believe a coffee three to cut this thing down to one. It was just incredible to see. And I talked about this a little bit with Charles
in the post game. But like this team has a lot of time to figure stuff out in the clutch, right Like they are going to have a a whole lot of times.
Can you poy this out before anyone this season? Will with that this out before anyone this season, before the Clipper said We're gonna be in a lot of close games, you were.
Saying it, yeah, oh yeah, I mean, like it's just the way that they're built right now. Like things could change, and they could they could be more handedly winning games and go on a little bit of a run with the return of Qilanders, But as currently constructed, like it takes this team executing at a high defensive level. We need, you know, a baseline of performance from all of the starters,
which we didn't quite get across the board tonight. Terence Man, Dereck Jones Jr. Not their greatest outings, but still and then we still need like one guy from the bench to to like to come through, uh In sort of a big way. Uh, and you know this time he was a mere coffee. But it's this team has always embraced sort of a next man up sort of mentality. So it's it's it's nothing new, uh, but it is just one of those things that you're gonna have to keep going.
And this was also a.
Bit of an anomaly because as good as the clip was a then rebounding, this was a team that they did not have an advantage again, and that is one of those things where this could have turned into a very ugly loss. Because the Clippers improved rebounding with a Vita Zu being i believe the leading rebounder in the NBA right now, had kept them in a lot of games. It's able to mitigate some of their issues, certainly get them extra opportunities on the offensive end, and help clean
things up on the defensive end. So when that when that margin also gets slimmed down, things are going to get a little tricky. But I like the composure in this one to be able to pull through.
Yeah, And I'm surprised so far this season just how good they've been rebounding wise, rebounding percentage, they've been top five so far A Viza Zubots did have ten offensive rebounds. Of course a lot of those were off his own misshots in this game, but I'm fine with that. It's not going to be perfect all the time. You gotta battle,
you got to go through it. I mean the way they were packing the pain against him with what OKC did the other night, and they couldn't even make a post entry to a Vita Zuba to get him the ball when guys like Alex Ruzzo were on him. I will take a game like tonight because san Antonio has
some beef. They got some guys guarding the moat, and it's not just Victor Wemenyama, So he was either getting doubled or Victor women Yama single covers with guys shading over like and he just played through it the entire time, didn't get too overly frustrated when he got off to a bad start. Somebody though that people are talking about in this one. You brought him up for a second
with Terrence Man. They are calling for him to be out of the starting lineup, and you know what, I can't keep defending it if he's gonna turn down shots. Like last game, there was a moment where Vitzu Zubats told him to shoot the basketball after he wouldn't shoot it on possession. It's there are multiple times where he's not looking at the rim. I was watching him today and some of that maybe because a Wemby, but it's been happening throughout the seven games so far. I don't
know where you're at with this. Obviously they're three and four. Do you want to make wholesale changes? Do you want to make a move that big to take out Terrence Man? Is that really gonna help his confidence? But on the other they gotta win games, So I kind of get it if he's not gonna take shots will.
I mean, I see both arguments, Like like, on one hand, like the margins are incredibly slim for this team, you know, Like I just said, we got to get baseline performance out of the starting five at the very least, and we got to have an outlier bench performance. So I don't think that Terrence Van is necessarily actively losing enough games right now. I do think that if you're calling for Terrence Man to be removed from the starting lineup,
I hear you. I would say, look at the minutes breakdowns and look at the way the rotations have been running and tonight, like, how is it necessarily any different if he is the starter or he's not the starter when you look at how those minutes actually broke down, and I think if you look at the closing line, that's across the entirety of this season, things have leaned a little bit more towards other players who are more willing to take shots or who have a hot hand,
and Tyler was keeping them on the floor.
So that is the thing.
I totally understand both sides of the argument. At three and four, I still don't know, like there's still so many kind of new moving pieces within this system. And I also, I guess I just conceptually, I know we don't do full five out changes, but conceptually, I guess I do have issues in removing Coffee from some of those bench minutes because he is needed in those. So like, again, you could still, you know, you could insert him in the starting lineup and switch the minutes rotations that way.
But I would say for anybody who's like really concerned about Terrence Mann remaining in the starting lineup despite some of his hesitancy to shoot, I would go ahead and stress you to look at some of those some of those rotations, because clearly when it's not working Ty, it's not like tylu is giving giving Terrence a whole lot of slack, like he's he's not in He's not in closing lineups for the most part.
Yeah, outside of I think two games he hasn't been in closing lineup. So maybe both were against Phoenix where he's pretty good against Devin Booker. So it makes a lot of sense. But I like what you're saying too. I think we get too hung up on starters and bench. If Chris Done still getting more minutes than him, if a mere coffee is still getting more minutes than him, what does it matter? How much is it really hurting them?
Because outside of tonight, believe it or not, the starters have been very good in the first eight minutes of games. Third quarters they hadn't been. Brian Stemen brought this up pregame.
I brought up something that Coach Lou because I wanted to get his back on this because I've been talking about it the last twenty four hours when so many people were bringing out the torches and pitchforks for Coach Lou with that five man Labs to start the fourth quarter against OKCE okay, so he didn't have SGA out there, and he went with the same five man lineup that had been really good and won them two games against Golden State against Denver and it was KPJ, Chris Done,
a Mere Coffee, Nico Batoum, and a Visa Zubats. Coming out of last weekend when they swept the road trip, they were a plus ten and fourteen minutes. You can say it's fourteen minutes, but it's also like, well, I'm not gonna go away from it until it stops working. In fact, he had that to start the second quarter against OKC and they played the minutes even against them, So then he goes to it in the fourth and they get ambushed and they lose. I think they're by ten,
Like in five minutes they went minus ten. Tonight, that lineup started the second quarter and made the sixteen to two run and absolutely won them this game. They don't win it without him going to that lineup heavy and sticking with it. I love seeing that.
Well, I mean that's the thing too, is like you can't have too much of a hair trigger with some of these things, Like we still you know, while we don't have a lot of margins for error, we still don't have a full sample size. And I think in that situation, especially against OKC, like you know that you're going you know that you're gonna need your best guys to bookend this. Like you know that this is gonna
be a close game. There's no way around that. Obviously it didn't necessarily enough that way because of that that massive deficit. But I like that thought process isn't so like alien to me that I'm like, what the like, what the hell is he thinking?
You know what?
I mean? Like that that to me doesn't it doesn't like it. I'm not getting any red flags or fire alarm bells on on that logic.
Yeah, I kind of tried to, I don't know, get his back pregame with the question I asked. It was a little bit leading because he got frustrated when he was asked about not having Norm or not having James Harden on the court to start that fourth quarter. And I was thinking, wait a second, guys, he's been doing this and it's been working. It doesn't work in one stint, and now you're killing him about it, and tonight they win the game without those two guys on the court.
Those are the guys that brought him back. They might have gone like plus twenty five or something like that. That lineup. I'm gonna check the lineup Dad in a little bit. But I'm just I'm happy to see him. I don't think he needs to be vindicated or validated or anything like that, but I'm glad that it wasn't so reactionary that, oh it doesn't work for one stint, everybody's getting on me and now I'm gonna go away from it, when in fact it ended up winning them
the game tonight. So I think his coaching has been really good so far this season and there's not much you can complain about there. It's a talent deficit that the Clippers have been at for the most part that has come back to bite them in late game execution tonight. Just two turnovers in the fourth quarter when I think they had god fourteen combined the last two fourth quarters. Like it has been absolutely brutal. He is Will Updyke of Clips and Dip. I think we got a show
coming up tomorrow for you guys as well. Will Thanks for joining me for a little Clips and Double dip after the Clippers twenty six point comeback on San Antonio their first ever victory. Here it into a dome.
Absolutely my pleasure. I think I'm gonna be coming on a lot more. I'm sensing I'm sensing a win streak. I don't know, call me crazy, but thanks so much for having me. I'll talk to you soon.
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A mere coffee goes five of six from three, had twenty one points and the dunk with some icing on it at the end, and the Clippers are able to come back down twenty six against the San Antonio Spurs. They've had two twenty six point comebacks without Kawhi Leonard April versus the Cavaliers. Of course, Paul George was in that game, and I think he crossed over Evan Mobley with the game winner. And then tonight versus the Spurs, they won't have Kawhi on Wednesday, they won't have Paul George.
He'll be playing against them. With Philadelphia back in this building, well for the first time for him, Clipper Nation back in this building, add into a dome tiptime Wednesday night, seven pm, six pm. Is your pregame show? Clippers are three and four. Look, it is one game. I understand
you want to say it's one game. I'm gonna say the Clippers relocated their identity and remembered how they have to play with grit, determination, toughness and a high basketball IQ when they had to have it, when they had to be crisp. Just two turnovers in the fourth quarter. You live at that all day. I mean, they pulled away in an unreal fashion. They never got into clutch
time after being down twenty six. They somehow passed up San Antonio so quickly in the fourth quarter with the threes with Big Zoo dunking on Wemby that they never got into clutch time last five minutes, within five points after down twenty six. It's a thirty five point turnaround. One thirteen to one oh four is your final Let me look at the Paul George stats from today, as people in the chat at Clippers Talk on YouTube are talking about, I know he came back. I'm just glad
he's it wasn't worse that injury. He's able to play, and that injury wasn't worse because it looked terrifying at first, did it not? It looked very similar to the OKC injury. Kadi had a clutch bucket and Phoenix would win one eighteen to one sixteen over the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Paul George four fourteen, one of seven from three, fifteen points, four assists, five boards, six turnovers. Still was a plus three in a game they lost by two. But that's
gonna be fun Wednesday night. I know Cliper Nations looking forward to that. I know plenty of people are gonna boo Paul George, and I think it might be seventy eighty percent. He called him the b team said they did him dirty because they only offered one hundred and fifty million. I mean, I think this organization did right by him. I think they brought in every player he wanted, Russell Westbrook, Reggie Jackson, John Wall. If he wanted to
play on ball, the acquiesced. He wanted to play off ball, the acquiesced. So I know there's gonna be no mercy from Clipernation on Wednesday night. I am gonna reflect on the good times with PG thirteen. I'd like to remember those instead of, you know, him contradicting himself on a podcast and talking about the situation here. Because he did help get them to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history. I just know what's coming
Wednesday for him. I don't know if he's prepared for that, but I hope he's good to go, and it's not something where first came back from injury. Now he's got to take a couple of days off. I would assume he'll be ready to go. Everybody can respond with a paying ticket how they I want to within you know the balance of what that ticket also says. You know, there is a code of conduct for fans, but booing, cheering, whatever you're feeling like for Paul George, it will be
welcome on Wednesday. And I'm glad they got their first victory out of the way and in dramatic fashion, in Clippers fashion like this heading into that game, so momentum hopefully build off of it. Julio Muchada says in the chat. These are the must win games, Adam, like you said, against lottery teams, so we can stay at a fifty percent win rate by the time Kawhi returns. Greetings from Italy. What's up, Julio? You know I'm Sicilian love hearing from you.
Uh what time is it there? By the way, Julio, I want to know, But yeah, this is a game. I mean, if you drop the first game against Portland and the San Antonio Spurs, that just can't happen. Stay it for around five hundred before Kawhi gets back. When if that happens, we're hoping that obviously it's still a win. We don't know anything otherwise, but you have to handle your business against lower tier teams in the Western Conference, especially they get San Antonio three more times, they get
Portland three more times. That needs to be six wins period. If you want a chance of finishing six through ten in the West, I think six is the high end them just staying out of the plan, and I'm hoping ten is the low end and they won't be worse than that. But look, it's one win. It puts some wind in your sales. Here, it into a dome making waves, and a lot of it was due to shooting fifty
one percent from three. Is that sustainable. No, But the heart and the effort and the determination to come back down twenty six is that's what we've always seen from this team. So I'm proud of the effort and I'm proud of Big Zoo not giving up when you could crumble going up against Wemby and having your shot block like that, when nobody else can get to those blocks and Wemby can, that has to be demoralizing into flating. And instead Big Zoo came back and he dunked on
him multiple times. That was the highlight of the game to me. Big Zoo dunks that Norman pal three with the nylon from Carlo our first of the season, Chris Dunn unleashing the dog in him against CP three going for that loose ball foul on Chris Paul. That's the type of stuff I love seeing. And yeah, the Clippers also need to make sure they stay in front of
the Houston Rockets. So okay See at the end of the year takes the lower pick between the two pickswaps and hopefully Houston's is the better pick in the draft, meaning that's the one okay See will want to take over the Clippers so they can hold onto their first round pick. Zachary said he chatted with my guy Dime at the half and wanted to say we were going to win. But I've done that every game so far, so glad I was wrong. Let's build off this. Something
has to be born tonight. You know, guys know me. I don't like to toot my own horn or pat myself on the back, but I did come into this one and tell big brother jk hey, I'm making a Big Brother Jake like level guaranteed that the Clippers win tonight. Did it look good when they were down twenty six? No, I look like a fool, But I did point out that if they can come back and win this game, it's exactly the type of win they need to build off of. This is who they are. This is who
they've always been. You count them out, they come back on you. But it has to turn into a victory now on Wednesday against Paul George and the Philadelphia seventy six ers. If something was born out of this night, it can't end with them a loss the very next ball game. Right back here, it into a dome, right, You got to see this turn into a string of victories, at least two in a row before they head out on the road. Establish yourself in your new home. Now.
I expect Clipper Nation to be even louder for that one, not just because because it's Paul George, but because they know what this Clippers team is capable of. They finally got a victory here, it into a dome, and they got it in the most Clippers way possible. That's what you love. This kind of reinvigorates you as a fan and renews your love with this team when you see victories like this, This is what it's about. Clipper's overcoming odds, grinding, finding a way, a mere coffee. He was on his
way to a twenty one point night. Nine in the third, ten points in the fourth, Big Zoo just battling in an absolute war with Wemby, and it was won by a big Zoo. Late Wemby can have his nine blocks. He still went nine of twenty two, two of nine from three. He had thirteen boards. It doesn't matter. Big Zoo got the w and continued to push this team forward and was on the floor when they made that big run in the second quarter to get him right back in it right away here down forty to fourteen,
They win the second quarter thirty four to sixteen. They win the ballgame one thirteen to one oh four to get their first ever win. Hear it into a dome. What a night Cliper Nation. Remember this one. History was made. There's much more to be done, but first ever victory here and into a dome historic, and the Clippers do so in typical Clippers fashion. Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Steve Balmer,
God bless Steve Bomer. This one's for Steve Bomer. He built this home for the Clippers when they have never had one. Big thanks to Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, Noah Ego, Carlo Jmenez on the call, Big Brother, Jake Warner in the house head engineer, Katie Newton, our producer back in the bank, Clippers Talk after Dark. You know that's happening in about forty five minutes. We'll talk to you then. Love y'all, this.
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