Next Up: Los Angeles Clippers | Raptors Today Jan 26th

Next Up: Los Angeles Clippers | Raptors Today Jan 26th

Welcome back to Raptors today Paul Jones alongside Ashley dacking and Savannah Hamilton let’s talk about the Raptor’s next opponent the Los Angeles Clippers finally getting it together this team is it’s like permanent potential you look at who they have they just can’t perform and all of a sudden now don’t look

Really closely at the standings but they’re fourth and after the James hard trade they they took a major dip they were working out roles and who was going to do what and I I tell you something Tylo is a smart dude and he’s got a great coaching staff they have started

To figure it out I think this team as well as Phoenix are two of the more dangerous teams that people maybe aren’t looking out for uh in in the west with Minnesota and OKC garnering so much attention but actually this is a really good team and they got some great pieces

Guys that are stars and know how to be stars and pull the cart the talent was never a question right the talent of this group was never in question um and actually just on our previous conversation about Doc Rivers and how you you two kind of wanted to give him a

Pass for the difficult players well that’s what happened that the difficult players and situations that he went into but to the credit of tyo and I’m not necessarily negating that but to the credit of tyo he was able to take what could have been a really difficult and tumultuous situation in the Russell

Westbrook SAA is he going to start is he going to sit is he going to come off the bench and he was able to make that work with Allstar players so a credit to him more than anything I was just giving a cheap dig cuz like why not spice it up a

Little bit but with this team they are so good and their big three are astounding every single game you’re like oh what’s kawhai going to do okay Paul George can do a little something oh James Harden oh wait Russell Westbrook then you have Terence man then you have

Norman Powell like every single aspect of this team gets you excited in a certain way shape or form depending on what type of basketball you’re into and it’s a really beautiful thing to see I was watching uh Clippers Lakers the and one of the things I don’t even know how

I forgot about it with kaai just we talk about his dominance so much his fingers must have eyes like the way that he can pass he stands up straight puts you off balance almost like that JV pump fake that you know is coming and you fall for

Every time and then can just like seek you out man he is so fun to watch and to your point you were saying it’s nice that he’s healthy finally yeah exactly we were just talking about that but I mean even the fact that tyou like and

Hats off to him because you’re right it takes a special person to make all that Talent combined together and to have a player like Westbrook willing to now then come off the bench and what we were also chatting about off camera it didn’t happened right away but now that it has

Happened it’s working because you know what is better than uh losing winning even even if even if that means your rule has slightly changed too I I I give I give Russ credit because he has sacrificed for the team and they always say winning is about sacrifice I want to

Go back to Kawai we just saw his numbers up there with all the fuer around player participation policy and lo spell that load manag take a second and spell that load management and all the like off air I will uh he’s played 38 games yeah and

Over his last 10 he’s averaged like 35 36 minutes a game it’s not like he’s sitting out going I’m chilling here he’s really really up the level of his play and as good as Paul George is as good as James Harden is I just still feel that

Kawh is their top dog th% a million yeah he’s and with the Raptors going and taking an opportunity to play them cuz they played them January 10th or 11th in that West Coast trip yeah yeah um it was a close game but the Raptors had 15 turnovers

Which led to something like 17 points for the Clippers the other way Raptors only had two points off turnovers so the Raptors continue and you guys know this more than anybody the Raptors continue to be in these close games with teams that on paper are superior to them but

Then it’s just like one key stat category that just falls off everything else is on par so it’s frustrating and then I also understand why fans are sitting there being like well maybe we’re maybe we’re close maybe we hit the plane and d d du it’s like it it’s going

To be a tough sell but the thing that you can depend on almost every night with this team now is that they will compete which is at least better than what we felt like we were in like December yeah I believe it was a Sixpoint loss 26 126 12 and even going

Into the game coach Darko said like Hey we’re up against a championship caliber team this is a essentially a good measuring stick to see where where we are and this is don’t forget this is when the new transaction still happen they’re still adjusting on the fly so

You’re right it was actually good to see the level of compete that the Raptors could step up to their competition um but at the same time there’s always that one category that is like is a killer it’s fall of a it’s a killer it was free throws earlier then it was turnovers

Which they haven’t actually been terrible on but they’ve been a little better hey but at least the calls were Fair don’t do that raptors raptors had more free throws money for that fine Raptors had more free throws in that game than the Clippers funny that would happen after uh crazy after coach dark

Having said what he has to say Friday night just got paid no I didn’t um Filipino Heritage night at Scotia Bank Arena as the Raptors take on the Los Angeles Clippers you can see it on sportset hear it on sportset 590 the fan and for all of us here for Ashley

Savannah Jake and Jasmine behind the camera we say thank you for watching us here on Raptors today thanks for watching the Toronto rappers YouTube channel check out our latest video And subscribe for more denied lead pass here’s McDaniels in a crowd wide open here come the that was great

After three days of practice, the Toronto Raptors face off against Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers. The Raptors Today panel breaks down the matchup ahead of the game.

0:00 Introduction
0:15 Form of the Clippers
1:20 Westbrook
2:00 Kawhi Leonard
3:28 Next Matchup
5:23 Thanks for Watching
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