WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:06.200 Time for a postgame. Look, it's your La Clippers. This is Clippers 2 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:09.960 Locker Room, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of 3 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:15.080 the La Clippers, and by Patschonga, official travel casino of the LA Clippers. 4 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:19.280 Breaking down today's action with the pre and post game voice. If you're 5 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:24.480 LA Clippers, they're locking in every game every night, Adam Osland, the 6 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:28.160 Clippers come through late, they win one thirty two to one twenty seven over 7 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:32.520 the Portland Trail Blazers. At home, they improve to twelve and ten on 8 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:36.759 the season, they won their last four. Welcome into your postgame show. 9 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.560 I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. We got your postgame box score. We'll 10 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.880 have Clippers stock on AM five seventy LA Sports. But first back out to 11 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:49.880 Carlo Jimenez at Crypto dot com arena. Carlo loved that interview there with Avitza 12 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:55.280 Zubats afterwards and him saying it's a learning experience. You gotta put young teams 13 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.280 away or else you're gonna be in for a battle the whole night. And 14 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:02.479 we saw that credit the Portland Trail some hot shooting, some bad defense at 15 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:04.400 times by the Clippers, but the Clippers had to earn it late and they 16 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.280 knocked down their free throws and did so they did, and at the end 17 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.840 of the day they came away with a win. That's all you can really 18 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.120 ask them to do is make sure they can get a victory. So it's 19 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.599 fun to watch them turn that out, hang on late, work out some 20 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:22.400 of those opportunities that hopefully payoff down the road. At the end of the 21 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:23.879 day, Adam, if you can come away with a win tomorrow, none 22 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.120 of this matters, because you were able to win both of the back to 23 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:33.439 back and the late game situation tonight did not affect tomorrow. So the Clippers. 24 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.599 It's a strong win against let's face it, a Portland team that was 25 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:41.640 excellent from outside the arc. They had nineteen threes on forty attempts. Ten 26 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.079 of those makes came in a single quarter, and yet the Clippers never panicked. 27 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.200 The Clippers were never phased in a large part because of Kawhi Leonard. 28 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:53.359 Kawhi Leonard with thirty four points and now over his last six games he's shooting 29 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:57.280 sixty percent from the field and fifty five percent from the outside, and he 30 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.560 had some big ones late in the fourth quarter. Two Carlo. He was 31 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:05.040 so good late in that fourth quarter, able to get to the rim, 32 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.479 find his teammates the defensive play when the Clippers were down by one, to 33 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.960 get a couple hands on the ball. Fine Terrence Man in transition, who 34 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:15.759 would end up giving the Clippers the lead that they would hang on to for 35 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.400 the rest of the ball game. That was huge. And Ambertey Simons, 36 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:22.159 Yes, he comes away with thirty eight, but he did nothing easy late, 37 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:25.879 nothing easilate. And why because Kawhi Leonard once again plays defense down the 38 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.840 line that no one in the NBA can duplicate. His ability to stay in 39 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.360 front of guys to make things tough, to fight over screens. We saw 40 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.680 it against the Warriors. We saw it against Denver with Jamal Murray. We're 41 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:42.120 seeing it again tonight. Late in the game, Simon struggled because the claw 42 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.840 put on the clamps for the Clippers. Kawhi played thirty eight minutes, Paul 43 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.199 George played forty one, hit some crucial free throws late. Clippers is a 44 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.719 team twenty one of twenty two from the charity stripe. Gotta praise him there, 45 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.439 even though you know the Portland Trail Blazers got up twenty six at the 46 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.599 free throw line. They started to even out late as they were intentionally fouling 47 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:05.400 the Clippers, and they made them when they had to Kawhi, Paul George 48 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.680 and Norman Powell. So to your point of late game execution, this is 49 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:14.039 something they can remember moving forward. This is a teachable moment for coach lew 50 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.080 and this team and how they have to play in tight games down the stretch 51 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:20.360 one hundred percent, one hundred percent at them. They're inbounded the ball, 52 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.879 they didn't turn it over, they made their free throws, they did all 53 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.680 the right things, and there's an opportunity to come away with this with say, 54 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.240 you know what, maybe we didn't play our best basketball, but we 55 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.759 got the win and that is what matters. A one thirty two twenty seven. 56 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.520 It took the most points the Clippers have scored them all season at them, 57 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.120 but they took down the Portland trail Blazers and finished with the victory. 58 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:46.000 Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland Trail Blazers. 59 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.120 Clippers will do it against the Sacramento Kings tomorrow night at Crypto, same tip 60 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.840 time. Seven thirty Clippers count down your pregame shows starting at six thirty. 61 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.199 Carlo, I'll see you inside the arena tomorrow. My friend Greg call is 62 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.800 always thank you, get some sleep, gets some rap. So three can 63 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:04.199 in another twenty four let us go Clippers win. They make it four straight, 64 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:09.360 one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland trail Blazers. And 65 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.199 you're listening to your Clippers postgame locker room show right here on the Los Angeles 66 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:18.600 Clippers Audio Network, loading Clippers, fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is 67 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:25.120 LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio 68 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:29.519 Network. So I could get with Leon Incs. You don't know we've been 69 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.759 you. She's really fine. I see her all the time everywhere I go. 70 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.759 I even in my dreams. I can Okay, Clippers must have won, 71 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:40.480 cause I'm singing well skalot for your post game. Clippers win one thirty 72 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:46.920 two to one twenty seven over the Portland trail Blazers team they have beaten fourteen 73 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.240 out of the last fifteen times. Now I want to say I'll confirm that 74 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:53.480 in a little bit here, welcome back into your Clippers postgame show. I'm 75 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.720 at a Mouslin coming up on AM five to seventy LA Sports, we will 76 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:00.519 have Clippers talk for you each sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight 77 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:03.399 six six nine eight seven two five seventy. It wasn't pretty, but the 78 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:09.360 Clippers got the dub nonetheless, and they were led by Kawhi Leonard, who 79 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:15.839 just continues to stay on the heater. Thirty four points on just nineteen shots. 80 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:20.199 He goes eleven of nineteen from the field, that is fifty eight percent, 81 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:24.839 shooting three of eight from distance. Clippers ended up shooting thirteen of thirty 82 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:30.360 four from three. Portland though nineteen of forty had ten three pointers made in 83 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.319 that third quarter. Clippers gave them too many open ones. They played with 84 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.879 fire. They didn't get burned tonight. They play with their food. They 85 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:41.519 lived to see another day, no food poisoning. They got the victory. 86 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:45.240 Anyways, you would have rather seen them dominate. So Kawhi didn't have to 87 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.480 play thirty eight minutes, so Paul George didn't have to play forty one minutes. 88 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.639 So Big Zoo wasn't at thirty three, so James Harden wasn't at thirty 89 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:56.439 seven. But you'll take the victory. It's just unfortunate because the Clippers were 90 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.759 up by fourteen early on. They had a chance to put them away early. 91 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.959 They didn't. If you heard of Eatza Zubot's postgame talking with Carlo Jimenez, 92 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:11.600 that's a lesson for them against a younger team, missing three starters Jeremy 93 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.240 Grant, no, Jondre Eighten. I mean they were down guys, important 94 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:20.120 guys on this team, Malcolm Brogden, and it was starting to look like 95 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:26.240 the Denver game again, which is scary. The Clippers just look content to 96 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:30.399 trade baskets. I didn't like that part of it. Now they came through, 97 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.160 and you can make the argument that some of the late game execution by 98 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:39.399 the Clippers will come in handy later on. Getting those reps in could be 99 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:44.199 meaningful in a game to come. They could have that reservoir of confidence to 100 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:47.319 draw from because of the way they were able to knock down free throws, 101 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:51.519 the layup by Paul George, the steal by Kawhi, the block by Viatza 102 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:58.160 Zubots, some really stout clutch time played by the Clippers when they had to 103 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.800 have it. I just didn't think it was gonna come down a clutch time 104 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:05.199 Tonight, so Kawhiet thirty four. Paul George finishes with twenty beats the Zubots 105 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:10.360 with eighteen and six after he got a fourteen point first quarter. I don't 106 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:15.040 understand why he becomes mister irrelevant on this team after getting off to hot starts. 107 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.120 At times, they just forget about them. I don't get it. 108 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.639 Beat the Beast. They couldn't stop them. They had nobody to stop them. 109 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:28.439 And Moses Brown played fifteen minutes. We know him been with the Clippers 110 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.879 with two stints, including last season. I don't know why they just didn't 111 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:35.199 let it beat the Zubat's feast, but they made it harder than it needed 112 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:38.560 to be. You can say that for the Clippers tonight. Off the bench, 113 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:43.319 Norman Palad sixteen, James Harden had twenty with the starters and a couple 114 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.360 of back to back big three pointers in the second half. Seven sists to 115 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:51.000 just three turnovers. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the 116 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:56.240 Portland Trail Blazers. Coming up, we'll preview tomorrow night's contest against the Sacramento 117 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:03.879 Kings. That's my concern. Kings put their game away earlier on ice against 118 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:07.279 Brooklyn at home. Now they do have to travel. It's about a forty 119 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:13.920 five minute flight. The Clippers will be hosting the Kings tomorrow, who will 120 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.680 be looking for revenge after the Clippers beat them up last week in Sacktown. 121 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:24.079 More Clippers postgame show right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. Next, 122 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.800 they want to bring a banner with them to the into It Dawn More 123 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:35.480 LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network was not easy, but a 124 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:39.759 win nonetheless for your Los Angeles Clippers. They win one thirty two to one 125 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:46.480 twenty seven over the Portland trail Blazers at home. Clippers improved to twelve and 126 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:52.519 ten. They've won four in a row. They are nine to three with 127 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:58.919 this new starting lineup with James Harden next to Terrence Man. Welcome back into 128 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:03.159 your postgame show. I'm Adam Moslin. Clippers. Right back at it tomorrow 129 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:09.879 night at Crypto hosting the Sacramento Kings. Mentioned it earlier, but the Kings 130 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:16.240 would win tonight at home one thirty one to one eighteen over the Brooklyn Nets, 131 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:22.240 who they put away earlier. Let me look at some of their stars 132 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.799 and how many minutes they played. So Sabonis was at thirty four, d 133 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.320 Aaron Fox was at thirty three. Not quite what the Clippers had to be 134 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:35.600 at with Kawhi at thirty eight and Paul George at forty. But the Clippers 135 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:37.919 at least get to sleep in their own beds tonight. No travel for them, 136 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.360 no excuses tomorrow. As Carl Ojamenez brought up on that home back to 137 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:46.639 back against the Pelicans, and then Dallas had lost that game till the Pelicans 138 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.519 didn't look good, looked fresh, had plenty of energy that next night to 139 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:56.000 hold Dallas to eighty eight points. I'm gonna need that type of effort now 140 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:03.279 against Sacramento because if the Clippers played like they did tonight against Portland against the 141 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.240 Kings tomorrow, let's give me a problem. Kings was too good. Can't 142 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.720 play down to your competition like the Clippers did tonight, but they came through. 143 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:20.440 Clippers win. They make it four in a row outside of Los Angeles. 144 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.360 We'll talk to you tomorrow at six point thirty with the Clippers pregame show 145 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:28.440 for Clippers Kings in LA. It's Clippers stock next. This has been LA 146 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:35.120 Clippers basketball really good on multitude of levels. Don't miss a moment all ceason 147 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.600 long on their official home Join us next time on the LA Clippers Audio Network. 148 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:45.559 Hello Clippers fans, if you're gonna go for it, if that's what 149 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.200 you want to do, you do. Welcome the Clippers Talk. Your first 150 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:52.639 chance to react to all the action of Clippers basketball. Do it to hear 151 00:10:52.759 --> 00:11:00.559 every episode. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeartRadio or wherever you podcast on hemmy 152 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:03.759 right now your host on your home for the Clippers, they were in attack 153 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:11.120 mode. Adam Ostley, Oh, this is gonna challenge some sports cliches. 154 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:15.279 Is a winn win, even on the front end of a back to back 155 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:20.440 where Kawhi to play thirty nine minutes and Paul George forty one. Hmmm, 156 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.399 Well, the Clippers won one thirty two till one twenty seven over the Portland 157 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:31.080 trail Blazers. They'll face the Sacramento Kings tomorrow. Welcome into Clipperstock. I'm 158 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.960 Adam Oslin to eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six 159 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.600 ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number or get to meet at 160 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.159 follow out of May on X coming up on the show. You're gonna hear 161 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.679 from Kawhi Leonard post game. You'll also hear from the head coach in Toron 162 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:52.720 lou who's at the podium right now. Well, I'm seeing Uh. I'm 163 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:58.240 disappointed in some ways because the Clippers played with fire and almost got burned by 164 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:05.519 the Trail Blazers. And I mean it was close. This was almost disastrous. 165 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.200 Just when I thought they couldn't have a worse loss than what happened against 166 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:16.799 the Denver Nuggets or a week ago, they messed around and almost found out 167 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:24.679 Tonight again they played down to their level of competition. I don't like seeing 168 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:30.159 that, especially when you get off to such a quick start, you're up 169 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:35.519 big in the first quarter. Clippers, led by fourteen, went for a 170 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:41.120 quarter high on the season of forty three points in the first But I didn't 171 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:43.879 like what I was seeing. They were trading baskets. They gave up thirty 172 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:50.759 two points in the first quarter. They made the Portland Trail Blazers comfortable. 173 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:58.320 Who liked the Denver Nuggets were missing three starters no Malcolm Brogdon, no Jeremy 174 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:03.240 Grant, no DeAndre eight and it would have been a worse loss if it 175 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.600 had happened, because Portland doesn't exactly have that championship pedigree. They didn't have 176 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:13.519 Reggie Jackson, they didn't have DeAndre Jordan. They did have Anthony Simons, 177 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.279 who's a flamethrower. I've been telling people this for years. When he gets 178 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:24.159 going, it is tough to stop him. And some of the Clippers defense 179 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:28.159 was just futrid. Let's be honest. Some of the defense was just low 180 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:33.720 effort, low IQ basketball stuff, like, hey, we know we're gonna 181 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.759 end up winning this game. To their credit, I guess they knew. 182 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:46.879 I guess they did know. They pulled it out, but it was close 183 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:52.759 to disaster. Flirting with disaster was this game by the Clippers. And if 184 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.320 you want to say a win's a win, I'm not interested in that stuff. 185 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.360 You could say it if you believe in that. I believe in tired 186 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:09.320 legs and I believe in you're a championship team. You want to put teams 187 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.559 away on the front end of a back to back on the first game of 188 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:18.600 a three to four. Yeah, all three games are at home, but 189 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.000 the Kings like to run a little bit. They got plenty of energy. 190 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:26.200 They're gonna bring it tomorrow. You want to make the argument that, well, 191 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.519 they're on the second hand of a back to back and they're the road 192 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.120 team. Okay, like buy that. I don't know what that has to 193 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:39.000 do with the Clippers effort tonight. Let the Kings do whatever they want against 194 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.919 the Brooklyn Nets, and they would win that game, and they would pull 195 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:46.000 away in the third quarter and win in more convincing fashion than the Clippers, 196 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:52.480 who had to go down to clutch time. I'm not saying you don't enjoy 197 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.159 the wins. I'm not saying there aren't positives to take away because what the 198 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:03.919 Clippers had to go through late in this ballgame with late game execution and ramping 199 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.799 up their defense all of a sudden and Kawhi getting that steal and getting it 200 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.200 to Terrence Man for free throws and Visa Zubots with that big block and getting 201 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.960 the ball back for the Clippers and then knocking down clutch free throws. Norman 202 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.879 Powell, Kawhi, Paul George. That stuff can be meaningful moving forward. 203 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.200 That experience is something they can draw from. This is how we have to 204 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:28.159 close in a tight ballgame where they're gonna play the foul game and we're gonna 205 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:33.399 have to hit our shots, and they did. But all I'm saying is 206 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:41.240 if they play defense like this tomorrow against Sacramento, they'll lose by twenty. 207 00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:46.039 They have to be better. And it just looked like a team to me 208 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.480 that once again knew they could out talent their way to a win. They 209 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:56.879 did, But I thought that lesson was already learned against Denver last week when 210 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:03.399 they lost to them, When they lost to Reggie Jackson and DeAndre Jordan. 211 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.960 We heard from Viza Zubats with Carlo Jimenez postgame talk about, Hey, it's 212 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.919 a good lesson for us young team. You give them life, they're gonna 213 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.799 stay in the ball game. Is that a lesson they really needed to learn 214 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:22.960 after what happened against Denver. I don't know. I mean, I said 215 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:27.840 it in my pregame notes on Clippers countdown keys of the game. If you 216 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:33.600 don't play to your capabilities against Portland and let them hang around, it's going 217 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:36.399 to be a battle and a dogfight, and you're gonna have to play heavy 218 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:40.480 minutes. And hey, that's what happened. They had to play heavy minutes 219 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:45.360 to get the victory. You'll always take the w they've made it four straight. 220 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:51.000 They're twelve and ten. Things are trending in the right direction, nine 221 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.200 to three with this new starting lineup. All of it's great, But I 222 00:16:55.279 --> 00:17:00.080 want to see him win that game now tomorrow, no excuses, because if 223 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:07.240 they're gonna come out and look flat or not have a lot of juice because 224 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.920 they had to play heavy minutes tonight against Portland, that's on them. They 225 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.240 didn't put a team away. They were up by fourteen on a team they 226 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:22.880 scored forty three points on in the first quarter, a team that they let 227 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:30.279 hit ten threes in the third and maybe two of them were contested. You 228 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:36.599 leave a team wide open that much, they're gonna knock them down. I 229 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:41.559 don't care who you're playing. Anfrety Simons is lethal. He had thirty eight 230 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.079 five of eleven from distance. I mean they shot nineteen of forty from three. 231 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.640 You want to spend a positive hey, Clippers absorbed that still one. 232 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.480 Portland was getting a ton of calls in the second quarter. The game was 233 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:02.559 jumped up. They took twelve free throw attempts on the second quarter after the 234 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:07.319 Clippers led by eleven heading into it, and then the Clippers had no rhythm 235 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:12.039 offensively themselves because they couldn't defend without fouling. There were some curious calls and 236 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:17.759 they were hunting Norman Powell, some with Scoot Henderson, who went first career 237 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:26.279 high of nineteen. Clippers got away with it tonight. But did they win 238 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:30.720 the battle but lose the war because they're gonna have tired legs against Sacramento tomorrow. 239 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:34.240 I guess we'll find out. Hey, they win that game tomorrow and 240 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:41.279 shut me the heck up, beautiful love it if they lose that game and 241 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:48.240 they look Lethargicugh, this one's gonna hurt. It's gonna feel like maybe Portland 242 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:53.599 did beat them because they wore them out enough to lose to Sacramento. Time 243 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:57.680 will tell. Those are just my initial thoughts after this one, including this 244 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:07.480 one. How does Big Zoo after starting off the first quarter with fourteen points 245 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:12.279 on seven of nine shooting, detonating at the rim, punishing the Blazers who 246 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:19.119 had No. One, No. Eighton no Robert Williams, Yeah they had. 247 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:23.880 Moses Brown played a few minutes, but nobody could stop Big Zoo. 248 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:29.640 How does he not attempt to shot the next fourteen minutes he's on the floor. 249 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:34.960 I just don't understand it, and it keeps happening. It happened in 250 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:38.640 the twenty two point comeback against Golden State. Granted the Clippers pull it off 251 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:42.160 without him, but Big Zoo was five of five or six of six in 252 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:45.079 that game, couldn't be stopped, and they just went away from him. 253 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:55.680 Make it easier on yourself if it ain't broke, you know the rest, 254 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:00.079 I feed the pig. That's something Doc Rivers would say. Until they can 255 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:07.480 stop it, just keep running it through Zoo. I mean, he had 256 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:12.039 three dunks in the first four minutes. It was a joke. A man 257 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:18.599 amongst boys. Why are you making it harder than it needs to be? 258 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:25.599 I mean, Kawhi made it look easy, no doubt, James Harden played 259 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:30.440 pretty well. But if if heats a zoobots, is seven for nine with 260 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:34.599 fourteen points in the first quarter, comes back in the second, doesn't take 261 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:41.480 a shot, doesn't get one till I don't know midway through the third quarter 262 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:51.240 his next attempt before yeah, he had a dunk in the third after going 263 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.440 seven of nine with fourteen points in the first quarter. How do you go 264 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:59.319 away from him? How do you make him mister irrelevant, just the invisible 265 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:03.839 man out there. All of a sudden, he's too good. You have 266 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:08.960 another element, another guy that you can run offense through at times. Give 267 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:15.240 two, one, three a break, James Harden. Yes, he's dependent 268 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:22.839 on him, but they're working well together and he's finding Zoo and then you 269 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:29.200 just forget about it. You have amnesia. It's Memento guy Pierce. Am 270 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:32.559 I chasing him? Or is he chasing me? What is going on? 271 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.680 You can't forget about Big Zoo. He's the biggest guy out there and they 272 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:45.000 don't have anybody to stop him. Stop treating him like he's a rookie. 273 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:51.200 I don't understand it. I really don't. I know there's a lot of 274 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:55.079 star power on this team, but Zoo is one of their five most important 275 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:59.119 players because of what he provides defensively. And guess what, he's better on 276 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:03.279 defense when you feed him on offense. That's how it works with big men. 277 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:10.359 You want better activity on defense, feed him, get them touches only. 278 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:14.519 Rudy Gobert has been better defensively within six feet of the rim this season 279 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:18.839 of starting big men, and that's not uncommon for a Visa Zubats. He's 280 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:23.799 always top five in that conversation going back yours now, he's always one of 281 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:30.920 the best elite rim protectors there are, but he's got moves too, and 282 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:36.720 you have this size mismatch. Give him the damn ball, Keishawn Johnson. 283 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:44.680 It I just he's playing too good a basketball last twelve games with the new 284 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:49.960 starting lineup of Viza Zubats is thriving. You could easily win this game and 285 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:57.559 pull away just by running offense through him and instead defensively. Too many lapses, 286 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:02.720 too many three pointers given up. You could say I'm being overly harsh 287 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:06.920 and to win. Why because they got a game coming up tomorrow. Because 288 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:10.480 against most teams, you can't get away with the stuff the Clippers did tonight 289 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.599 because you got to build good habits and not play down to your competition. 290 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:22.359 We're talking about a team with championship expectations that needs to be the standard. 291 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:27.240 Right, So is it okay to say you want some style points against a 292 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:32.759 team that's at the bottom of the Western Conference in the Portland Trailblazers missing three 293 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:38.839 starters. I think, so win above all else, pull it out and 294 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:45.640 find a way to get the victory. I understand that, but make it 295 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.680 easier on yourself on the front end of a back to back, so where 296 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:51.680 you don't have tired legs going up against a team that wants to run up 297 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:56.160 and down and is not going to forget that you just beat them. Sacramento 298 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:00.720 is gonna be out for blood tomorrow. Sabonis, who of Viatzu Zubac's dominated 299 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:06.440 up in Sacktown. He's not gonna forget that. I've seen him have get 300 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:12.799 back games against the Clippers in Big Zoo. I don't know. I just 301 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.240 there's some frustrations tonight because the Clippers were asking to be beat at times and 302 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:25.000 they almost were. Credit them for pulling it out. They were great when 303 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:29.759 they had to be. I just didn't expect them to be in a game 304 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:37.240 late, that's all. I didn't expect it to be a game late where 305 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:42.960 they were gonna have to be in this free throw contest. But that may 306 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:48.160 be a sign. That may be a good sign of late game execution and 307 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.880 something they can take away from it. Where you know me in that situation 308 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.079 before, remember that game against the Portland Trailblazers. Maybe when they're in a 309 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:02.279 tight game against Sacramento or team coming up like New York or Golden State and 310 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:04.359 they have to pull out a ball game in the last five minutes within five 311 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.240 points. They're gonna have more confidence because of the way they were able to 312 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:12.599 rally tonight and play their best when their best was required. We will see 313 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:18.240 Lenny and Corona start things off here and clip stop. Lenny, dear God, 314 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:23.519 you're on. I don't think you're taking my call. Bed. I 315 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:26.559 was pumped up the other day when I was talking to you, A great 316 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.359 game, But tonight, you know we're not. They're not supposed to be 317 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:33.319 in the gaming. We're supposed to blow them out. We got to depend 318 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.039 the three, I mean, and here we go. Here's the thing, 319 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:41.759 Lenny. They're six best in opponent three point percentage on the season, so 320 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:45.640 they have been very good there. They weren't tonight, especially in that third 321 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:51.039 quarter. No, No, I think those nine of those ten. Yeah, 322 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:53.759 like you said, they just didn't defend it. And you took the 323 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:56.880 words out of my mouth about Zoo. I said the other day, I 324 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.839 saw those step that Zoo had. He showed it a little bit of a 325 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.160 a little bit of cockiness, and I love that, you know. I 326 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:06.960 just he's tough and tonight I was wondering in the fourth quarter why it is 327 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.880 hard not going to zoo. Why are they not getting too easy too? 328 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:11.720 You got to get to easy too. But they're shooting the ball well, 329 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:15.640 and they shot over fifty percent. We won the game of the line. 330 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.880 We shot twenty one to twenty two at the line that was it was impressive, 331 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.400 but our defense was was weak. I saw some tired legs in the 332 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:25.200 fourth quarter. I think we need to get in some I think we meet 333 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.640 might need to get some some other players in the game. Tomorrow night. 334 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:32.200 We're gonna have to. Yeah, I agree, they're gonna have to dig 335 00:26:32.279 --> 00:26:37.279 deep into the rotation because they just went nine guys deep and one of them 336 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.039 only played five minutes in Kobe Brown's right. But yeah, they're gonna test 337 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:45.880 their depth tomorrow. Sacramento will do that. Lenny, what did rough have 338 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.200 fifty to thirteen minutes? Twelve minutes? Some I got. He didn't play 339 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.119 like sixteen and that was even with playing him next to James Harden, which 340 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.079 I don't like. And those minutes don't work. They were I know, 341 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.559 from the end of the third quarter into the beginning of the fourth. When 342 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.319 Sacramento got up, they were a minus two with those two guys on the 343 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:08.480 floor. It just even against Portland. Yeah, I believe so. I'll 344 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:14.240 find it from Justin Rousseau officially later, but that's that's what I calculated as 345 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:18.559 if it can't work against Portland, it can't work. That's gonna work. 346 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.880 It can't work, right, they're forcing it, they're trying to figure out 347 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:25.759 a way to make it work with those two on the floor, but it's 348 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:30.559 just fundamentally flawed. That's when that's when Zoo gets left out. You got 349 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:32.799 to go to the big man. I mean, when you're playing above the 350 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:34.200 wind and he can do that, nobody can stop him. You got to 351 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.279 go to the big man. You got to you know, I just don't 352 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:40.480 understand what that. I think. I got to put that on Lou. 353 00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:42.279 Who's gonna tell him the time? I just get the big guy in the 354 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:48.279 game. He's important, he's huge. I don't know if it's the players, 355 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.240 if it's coach Lou, if it's everybody, because there have been so 356 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:56.240 many times where Vitza Subas doesn't get a close out games even when he's playing 357 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.720 well. The game in Denver that they lost down the stretch, they went 358 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.319 small they never went back to a Visa Zubots. Now credit coach lou and 359 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:08.720 that win over Denver against jokicch he did play him in crunch time and it 360 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:14.359 worked, and it seems to usually work with him. I don't understand it. 361 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:19.519 Man. Let's say, I just hope tomorrow night. Tomorrow night's the 362 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.079 whole thing to mean. If we win tomorrow night and I just know the 363 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:25.960 rest of the NBA knows who's playing, we're playing good ball. We went 364 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.839 nine nut of twelve, nine thirteen something like that. Yeah, nine three 365 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:33.160 of the line three or in the last twelve now since the news starting lineup, 366 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.839 beautiful, That's that's that's beautiful. I've been watching them clickers since I 367 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:38.359 don't know when, I mean since I'd go to San Diego and watch him. 368 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:41.599 I've been around a long time. I'm a little man. I've a 369 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:45.200 you know. I used to go watch you know, Ram Vodkowski and I 370 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.039 watched tomorrow night, I'm gonna see the son of the of the guy that 371 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.400 we used usually watch him on at Portland our Venus. Yeah, I used 372 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.640 to watch the big boy, watch the old Man. But he was getting 373 00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:56.680 a little old dead, but still it was fun to watch. We never 374 00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:02.400 saw the best of our Vitas Sabonis in the his knees were already worn down. 375 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:06.400 I think he tor you know the game, my friend, You know 376 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.119 the game, and I'd like to listen to you talk. Man. You're 377 00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:12.480 really knowledgeable about the Clippers and nobody, nobody else knows more. I appreciate 378 00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:15.839 it. I thank you for gritten me talk and tomorrow night. So tomorrow 379 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.400 night we do something. You know all right? I like your style too, 380 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.759 Lenny, come on tomorrow night. Okay, postgame, appreciate it. 381 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.359 Adam, have a good night, are you too? Jose and Downey Jose, 382 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.000 you're on Clipper stop with auta Masam before we take a break here. 383 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:32.319 After the Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Blazers on 384 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.440 the front end of a back to back, Hoose, what's up, hey, 385 00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.359 Adam? How are you doing? Uh? Yeah, man, I 386 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:40.839 got to grow one hundred percent, and that of the caller would just right 387 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:42.960 before me. I mean, they got to make things easy on themselves. 388 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.839 You know, you want to feel good about a win, but this is 389 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.359 not the way that I expected him to win, especially when you take a 390 00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.519 big lead right in the beginning. And then I mean, you're you're one 391 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.759 hundred one thousand percent correct about Zoobok Why they go away from him at times? 392 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.960 You know, And I was thinking it right before you were saying it, 393 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:08.400 And and it is truth. If you want to to play great defense, 394 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:11.039 because he's already pretty solid, but you want to play great defense, 395 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.880 you gotta feed him. You gotta give him worth his wild man. And 396 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:18.839 in that third quarter to end the third quarter, kind of to begin the 397 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.000 fourth quarter as well, when they when they were trying to take a six 398 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.599 point lead again, they were doing it inside the paint. Paul. They 399 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.960 set up a play for Paul George right right at the free throw line. 400 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.480 He knocks one down. Kawhi comes and does it again. They take a 401 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.480 six point lead, and then they take uncalled for threes. I know, 402 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:40.759 when the three is going in, it's nice, it's great, you know, 403 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.720 it gets me excited too. But if something's working, it's working, 404 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.200 you don't have They have no size, like you gotta go inside, You 405 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.519 gotta go inside. How is the biggest guy on the floor getting left out? 406 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.119 How is the most obvious path to an easy victory tonight being forgotten? 407 00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:02.079 And they started off the game with the plan to get beats the Zubas involved, 408 00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:07.200 and then just completely went away from it. It's bafflinging, it is. 409 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:11.519 It is, especially and you can tell he's really working with Harden and 410 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.039 you know they got him on the pick and rolls. They both are working 411 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:17.839 with him, you can tell. But it's just, you know, if 412 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.000 you want to see that displayue, you gotta give him the ball. And 413 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:22.400 even then, this is one of those games, maybe not even just a 414 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.480 pick and roll you got you got to give him the ball inside he's gonna 415 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.839 move whoever's with him down there. He's too big. And the other thing 416 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.839 too, is kind of like what you said, if you wanted to play 417 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:37.240 well on defense, you gotta get him going offense. But when they stopped 418 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:42.200 giving him the ball, he was getting beat by Anthony, by Simons when 419 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.920 he had to go guard the pick and roll. And you know, if 420 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.279 he's not being effective on the other side on the offense so side, you 421 00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:52.960 know his production is gonna go down. I mean, look, I'm not 422 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:56.880 trying to be harsh. Tonight. They did win, but they're down one 423 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.519 to the Blazers with two minutes left in the fourth core. It shouldn't be 424 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:05.680 that difficult, but they made it. They made it that hard on themselves 425 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:10.400 that it was self inflicted wounds by the game plan at times, and just 426 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:15.000 by a team that I don't know. I don't know if it's confidence or 427 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.519 arrogance to just believe that, hey, we're gonna outscore this Portland Trail Blazers 428 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.559 team. We're better, we'll eventually pull it off. And I appreciate the 429 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:27.680 phone call, Jose. They did credit them, but they better win tomorrow 430 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:31.839 night against Sacramento now because they had to play heavy minutes with their starters. 431 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.240 Paul George forty one minutes, Kawhi thirty nine, Big Zoo, thirty three 432 00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:39.200 Hard and thirty seven coming up next. You're gonna hear from Kawhi Leonard post 433 00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:44.839 game and coach Lou Clippers win by five over the Portland Trail Blazers. They 434 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:50.599 run it back at home against the Sacramento Kings tomorrow. I'm Ata Moslin and 435 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:55.960 you're listening to a five to seventy LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers 436 00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:01.039 fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on 437 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:07.319 the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers a little naughty, naughty, but they 438 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.519 win one thirty two. It's a one to forty seven over the Portland trail 439 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:14.240 Blazers on the front end of a home back to back. They're taking on 440 00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:19.400 the Kings tomorrow. Welcome back in two Clippers talk, Sleep, Sleep Sleep, 441 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:21.799 I'm out of Osland. We'll get to that in about an hour. 442 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.200 We got more Clippers talk here. While we have a moment, let's pause 443 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:29.400 ten seconds for station identification. Here on a five to seventy LA Sports, 444 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:35.880 this is LA Clippers Basketball AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven 445 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:40.559 KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. Look. If you think I'm 446 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:45.440 being harsh on the Clippers tonight because they only beat the Portland trail Blazers by 447 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:49.400 five, and I'm George castanz At criticizing the New York Yankees for winning the 448 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:53.799 World Series in six games, I guess I am. I guess I'm holding 449 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:59.200 them to their own words of how they were going to handle these games, 450 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:05.160 because I remember on podcast P before the season started, Paul George talking about 451 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:09.840 back to backs and locking in and being focused on that first game, putting 452 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:15.159 teams away. So you can get some rest for the next team. That's 453 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:21.039 how you manage this tough, treacherous schedule where they have twenty five instances of 454 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.440 three games and four nights. I'm just holding them to their own words, 455 00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:30.599 that's all. Now they win tomorrow, I'll shut up. They beat Sacramento 456 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.079 and Paul George plays thirty five plus minutes again when they look great. Cool, 457 00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:42.320 But eventually this stuff adds up. You can't be playing guys this heavy 458 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:47.079 minutes all the time and being chasing wins because they have to. After losing 459 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:51.639 six in a row, there's still just two games over five hundred. Now 460 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:55.039 they've righted the ship. They're nine to three with the new starting lineup, 461 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.000 the starting lineup that I said they should have been playing back when the rumors 462 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.360 started in July about getting James Harden. Of course, you have to bring 463 00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:07.599 Russell Westbrook off the bench. You can't play him and James Harden next to 464 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:12.800 one another. It didn't work again tonight. If it doesn't work against Portland, 465 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.239 this Portland team missing three starters, I don't see it working. But 466 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:22.360 what do I know. I'm just a doctor, Okay, I'm not at 467 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:27.920 all. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland show 468 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.639 Blazers. I need a doctor, give my head examined before we hear from 469 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:37.440 coach Loup posts game, somebody who does make all the right adjustments, the 470 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:43.280 chiropractor, Tajus and Walnut. You're on clipper Stock without Ausselin hay Adam. 471 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:46.440 A happy birthday to the young go like you always say, No Ego, 472 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:50.519 him and I always share. He share the same birthday. Let's go. 473 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:58.280 Let's go. Happy birthday, YG. No, what are you doing, 474 00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:00.599 Burbank, You're supposed to be a crypto. I'll be there tomorrow night. 475 00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:06.840 No. My wife got me tickets for you know, for my birthday. 476 00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:09.000 And we were there and it was cool, and I'm like, you know, 477 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:12.679 it was the first quarter. You know this is how it's gonna be. 478 00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.000 We're gonna be up twenty fourth quarter. I saw some of the young 479 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:19.280 guys and I was hoping Brandon, Boston and all them would get a run, 480 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:23.400 but you know, it didn't work out that way. I don't want 481 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:27.519 to get too much analysis to this game. I feel like it is just 482 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:35.639 the one off. But just luckily they won and we'll see what happens tomorrow, 483 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:39.679 but they gotta I don't know. I just felt like they knew that 484 00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:44.519 they could get a basket anytime, and they felt like the law of averages 485 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:47.079 would work out where they would miss a three. But it wasn't happening if 486 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.280 you were in the arena. Every time they shot three, it just felt 487 00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:55.320 like they were gonna make it, And probably because they were wide open and 488 00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:01.480 and they got so much confidence in Simons and Shane Sharp. Those are scorers. 489 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:07.559 You can't play with fire. That third quarter, that third quarter Tages, 490 00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:12.719 there were sixteen threes made combined, ten by the Blazers, six by 491 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:17.840 the Clippers. That tied an NBA high for teams combining for three pointers made 492 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:22.039 in a quarter this season. The Clippers also having twenty eight points in the 493 00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:28.239 paint in the first quarter also tied an NBA high by any team and a 494 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.119 quarter this season with points in the paint at twenty eight. So there were 495 00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:39.000 some statistical anomalies or achievements, you could say, But ultimately I didn't like 496 00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:44.639 it. I didn't like seeing ten threes being made by Portland when almost all 497 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.519 of them were wide open, and the Clippers were just giving them to a 498 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:53.599 team of professional basketball players and guys who obviously have a track record like Anthonty 499 00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:59.519 Simons, who of course is gonna knock him down. Yeah, agreed, 500 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:05.000 man. And another point is, like you said, in that first quarter, 501 00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:08.960 Zoo had a going uh Ian Terry's man. He was getting some baskets 502 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:13.760 in the pain and it just felt like, you know, maybe were playing 503 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:17.639 smart basketball. And then I don't know what happens, Zoo gets lost in 504 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:22.320 the second quarter or I don't know what happens. I would like to also 505 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.880 see him kind of call out the guys and just kind of command it and 506 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:29.400 feel his guy like kind of like Shaq used to do, and just demand 507 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:31.039 the ball. And you know how Shaky's to say, if you feed the 508 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:36.119 big dog, think dog would play, you know well or whatever something wrong 509 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:37.519 with protect? If you want him to protect the house, you got to 510 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:43.760 feed the dog. Yeah. And yeah, it's not in Zoo's nature kind 511 00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:47.639 of to do that, but I wouldn't mind seeing that, especially when she 512 00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:52.039 dominated that first quarter like that. But let's see what happens tomorrow at him 513 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.079 uh, I think they'll be a lot better. Thanks Ed, all right, 514 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:59.960 Tay, just appreciate the phone call Big Zoo. His last ten game 515 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.400 games. Now is getting fourteen and ten in a block and a half per 516 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:09.920 ball game in just twenty seven minutes. That is impressive. He's been as 517 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:15.920 disappointed in his performance as I was the first ten games of the season over 518 00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:22.039 the last twelve. Now with this new starting lineup zubats in his up and 519 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:27.000 down play, it's evened out. He has been mister consistent, mister reliable 520 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:32.840 again. Reward him for that. Let's hear from Coach Lou postgame Clippers win 521 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:37.480 one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland Trail Blazers. Here was 522 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.639 Coach Lou. Yeah, you know, coach, you know when you see 523 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:45.400 your top four guys and they're all able to get over five assists, what 524 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.280 type of flow does that that give your offense when they're sharing the ball the 525 00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:50.800 way that they were today. Yeah, a good flow. I mean, 526 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:52.159 if we're playing the right way, like I said, attacking the basket, 527 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:55.519 making the right play, that's how you get your rhythm, that's how you 528 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:59.239 get more shots, you know, by you know, making the right play. 529 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:00.679 And so I thought we did that for the most part tonight, and 530 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:04.159 I got to go back and watch it, but you know, The biggest 531 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:06.960 thing is defensively, we couldn't get stops. You know, they scored every 532 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:08.599 way we tried his own. We try to buckets, we try to fire 533 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:13.440 like and they just you know, Chauncey's like done a hell of a job. 534 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:15.880 Just you know, no matter who's on the floor, they're gonna play 535 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:17.239 hard and compete, no matter how many points they get down, they're gonna 536 00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:21.360 fight back. And you know, it's I know, it's gonna be a 537 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:22.559 tough game for us. You know, you got five guys on a team 538 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:25.880 that are alive, they can all do something. It's tough, you know. 539 00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:29.599 And so, like I said, Chauncey's done a heck of a job 540 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:31.199 just making sure his team is prepared and ready to play every night. And 541 00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:36.039 you know, Simon is a tough cover, you know, so with him 542 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.440 and Sharp out there leading the charge and you know, creating for their team, 543 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:43.920 I mean it was very tough for us to get stops tonight. Yeah, 544 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:47.360 no doubt, especially in that third quarter. Clippers gave up thirty four 545 00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:53.199 points, but they got stops down the stretch when they had to. Clippers 546 00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:57.519 win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Portland Trail Blazers, and 547 00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:00.719 maybe we should give more credit to Chauncey Billups and the hot shooting from the 548 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:06.199 Blazers. I just felt like, well, the Clippers were leaving them open 549 00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:12.320 in that third quarter, especially when they led by fourteen in the first and 550 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:15.639 they let them get back into it at the free throw line. And you 551 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:19.119 give a team confidence like that, well, they're gonna feel good about themselves 552 00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:22.280 and say, oh, we can get our best win of the season against 553 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:27.119 this Clippers team tonight, the team that has dominated us for years now. 554 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:31.599 Clippers had won thirteen to fourteen against Portland coming into this one. Now it's 555 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:37.239 fourteen to the last fifteen contests. Unreal. More Clippers stock coming up next. 556 00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:40.000 We'll get back to your phone calls and Chuck Mockler from CND will join 557 00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:44.599 me. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine 558 00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:47.480 eight seven two five seventy I'm out of Ozzland and this is a five seventy 559 00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:55.119 LA Sports loading Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. 560 00:41:55.480 --> 00:42:02.400 You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Last 561 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:08.760 time check chis Flippers Wine one twenty seven over the Portland Trailblazers at Crypto dot 562 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:14.719 com arena. I'm Adam Oslin. Welcome back into Clippers Tuck eight six six 563 00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.360 nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. We'll get back to 564 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:21.719 your calls the very next segment. We'll also here from Kawhi Leonard postgame. 565 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.000 But first for a little clips and double dip, let's bring in Chuck Mackler 566 00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:31.159 from CND pod so Chuck two themes tonight. Clippers to me looked like they 567 00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:37.599 were playing down to their competition again, and they also weren't choosing the path 568 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:40.360 of least resistance to win a ballgame, which was just Hey, I don't 569 00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:44.800 know feet of eatsa Zubats who had fourteen points on seven of nine shooting in 570 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:46.559 the first quarter. Do you feel the same way? Or am I being 571 00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:50.559 overly harsh and I should give more credits to Portland because I mean, they 572 00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:53.480 did have good victories over the Cavaliers and Pacers on the road recently, but 573 00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:57.440 they were missing three starters and if the Clippers lose this game, to me, 574 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.920 this would have been worse than what happened against Denver. Oh yeah, 575 00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:06.039 this this the would have got away from us. It would have been a 576 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:07.840 total nightmare. On our on our pod the other day, Will and I 577 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:13.000 were just talking about how the taste, the bad taste of that loss was 578 00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:15.079 kind of out of our mouths so happy that there wasn't a new one to 579 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.880 replace it tonight. But I think you're definitely right about the first part. 580 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:25.000 This was another instance of another team really playing harder and refusing to let anything 581 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.920 about the Clippers intimidate them. The Clippers were slow on the defensive end to 582 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.880 open this one, which gave the Blazers hope, which also coincided with an 583 00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.920 absurd shooting night from them as well. I did see you kind of go 584 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:43.239 a little crazy about Zoo on Twitter, which was funny to see. But 585 00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:47.840 Susan playing so well, Yeah, I think it makes sense to feed him 586 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:51.840 when the offense is getting slow, and that means were hard to initiate the 587 00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:53.920 pick and roll more when he's out there. We should. It felt like 588 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:58.159 the Clippers needed to kind of spam that a little bit more in this game 589 00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:01.880 to get things going. All I'm asking for is you have this clear advantage 590 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:07.639 because Portland doesn't have DeAndre and they don't have Robert Williams. They have Moses 591 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:12.559 Brown, Clippers should be familiar with him. If that's their best option to 592 00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.719 stopping of Vitza Zubots. You gotta give him the rock. You got to 593 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.639 make him feel comfortable like he's a star. Sometimes, when you have a 594 00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:23.840 mismatch like that they did in the first quarter, the game plan was there. 595 00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:28.039 That's what's perplexing to me. They just went away from it after it 596 00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:32.039 worked. Yeah, I think part of that, I don't really know. 597 00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.079 It was a little confusing it sometimes. The other part that I mean, 598 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:42.159 at least helps was the fact that Kawhi Leonard was there tonight. He did 599 00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.119 it really in all three levels, which maybe that played a part in it. 600 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:47.000 But I definitely got to help more than hurt. And if we had 601 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:51.960 to trade that for maybe more as you buckets, I think we'd all take 602 00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:59.920 that situation right there. Kawhi was phenomenal again tonight, ends up with thirty 603 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.880 four points, an easy thirty four on just nineteen shots and a couple of 604 00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:08.440 big ones in the fourth quarter, a layup, a jumper, knockdown, 605 00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:14.360 clutch free throws. All that talk about Kawhi's He's still the same guy. 606 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:17.239 He was for that three month stretch last season, which first of all, 607 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:21.920 holding him to that standard. I mean, that's some of the most absurd 608 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:27.000 shooting splits you'll ever see in the history of the NBA. You can't do 609 00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:30.880 that. But ability wise, to me, it's all still there, and 610 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:36.159 that is the most important thing right now for this team, that Kawhi Leonard 611 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.960 is still a number one option on a championship level team. Is that what 612 00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:44.280 you're seeing? Yeah, the number one option on both ends by far. 613 00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:49.400 I was on I think this very show when we kind of talked about these 614 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.800 early rumblings of this concern quote unquote over Kawhi, and we basically said, 615 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:58.079 well, let's not be surprised when the Clippers turn a corner and that also 616 00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:01.280 coincides with Kawhi Leonard, you know, getting out of that funk or whatever 617 00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:05.039 people thought it was. We've seen him the last two nights. We've seen 618 00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.519 it during this eleven game stretch, excuse me, this twelve game stretch. 619 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:14.480 Kawhi is still very much Kawhi. I thought James Harden had a nice ballgame. 620 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:19.440 Those threes he hit in the third quarter were necessary since Portland wasn't missing. 621 00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.679 They started five to five from the outside and ended up going I think 622 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:27.760 ten of sixteen or something like that from distance in the third. But Harden 623 00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:32.800 also has been closer to taking double digit shots, you know, more consistently 624 00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:36.800 now over the last couple of weeks. And while people have said, well, 625 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:40.320 you know, the russ stands and God bless them whatever, they're talking 626 00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:45.199 about Russell Westbrook sacrificing with his minutes, but I think you can make the 627 00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:50.519 argument that James Harden has been sacrificing with shot attempts and has never complained once 628 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:54.039 when he has taken single digit shot attempts so far with this Clippers team. 629 00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:59.239 And he was seven to fourteen, twenty points, seven assists, three turnovers. 630 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:01.840 A lot to like there. Yeah, it's good to see him being 631 00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:07.559 more aggressive and feeling more uncomfortable in the moment that big Folk flint play he 632 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:09.639 hit earlier in the season, you know, I think really helps you know, 633 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:13.719 games like tonight, you know where you want him to be more aggressive, 634 00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:15.760 and he can remember that he is still one of, you know, 635 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:20.639 the alphas on this team and we need him to be good or at least 636 00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:24.320 aggressive throughout the game, but especially late. So yeah, it was it 637 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:27.519 was good to see. He made three threes the whole game, and two 638 00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:30.599 of them were in that third quarter, So yeah, very big there from 639 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:36.159 James. Didn't like the Norm technical late in a game that close, but 640 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:42.480 yeah, he did play some important minutes at times Portland was hunting him out 641 00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:45.119 on the defensive end, but ended up six of nine two or four from 642 00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:51.079 the outside sixteen points. He's shooting over around forty five percent from three now 643 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:53.519 on the season. I don't know if we could have asked for much more 644 00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:59.079 from Norm, which has been him actually getting off to a quick start so 645 00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.239 this year, which flies in the face of what he's done throughout most of 646 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:07.480 his career. Yeah, the normcore lineup was great for those of you unfamiliar 647 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.000 with it, that is Norm Powell with James Harden, Paul George Kuileonard and 648 00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.280 Avita Zubats. But yes, his start to the season has been much needed, 649 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.960 especially when you look at the Clippers record and things like that. But 650 00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:23.239 Norm did get a little singled out on defense in that lineup. But I 651 00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:27.360 just kind of mentioned there, so that'll be something to monitor the closer we 652 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.559 get to the playoffs. Some things that be slow down more in the half 653 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.760 court. But we've needed every single one of these main threes that Norm this 654 00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:38.000 year. So I think he had twelve in that one quarter or something like 655 00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:42.079 that. But he's been great off the bench. We've talked about how, 656 00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:44.320 you know, he talks about how he wants to be an All Star and 657 00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:46.159 stuff. We would all settle for Norm being six Man of the Year. 658 00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:50.840 I think we'd all be okay with that. So let's hope this streak from 659 00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:54.800 him continues. Who do you think gets extended minutes or some run off the 660 00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:00.360 bench unexpectedly, maybe tomorrow in this home back to back, someone who didn't 661 00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:05.039 play much tonight or somebody who just didn't play at all. Yeah, looking 662 00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:08.519 at the minute. Someone just tweeted the to US minister a little rough on 663 00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:12.920 this one. Yep, not what we expected to see. I think it's 664 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.320 probably gonna be a mirror. And maybe Brandon Boston. He's coming back. 665 00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:20.280 He had a great game of the league the other night. He postterized someone, 666 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.760 which is awesome to see coming off the injury he had. So I 667 00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:24.880 think I'm probably one of those two. I'm not sure if PJ. Tucker's 668 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:29.039 minutes are in the cards yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's Brandon 669 00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:34.039 Boston Junior to Mere Coffee. Okay, I like that. There's his player 670 00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:39.000 pick C and D listeners. He is Chuck Mockler, a little clips and 671 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:44.360 double dip tonight here on Clippers Talk. So, Chuck, I guess Will's 672 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:46.679 coming on tomorrow unless the Clippers lose, because I thought it was in your 673 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:51.679 contract to come on when they lose and in Will's when they win. But 674 00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:53.519 he didn't come on tonight for whatever reason, even though they did win. 675 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:59.280 It's all convoluted mess. But we make it work either way. And I 676 00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:04.079 think what a YouTube on Wednesday? Possibly, Yeah, something like that. 677 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:07.199 It's the holiday season. Thanks, a little chaotic, but we'll have something 678 00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:09.239 for people out there. For sure. I'm getting healthy, baby. The 679 00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:14.400 comeback is on. Let's go, let's go heavy minutes for me this week, 680 00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:19.039 all right, Thanks Chuck, Yeah, thank you, quick time out 681 00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:21.519 here. Our clipperstock will come back. We'll get to your phone calls eight 682 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.639 six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two 683 00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:29.639 five seventy. Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Blazers. 684 00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:34.599 Clippers we'll see Sacramento at Crypto tomorrow night. You're listening to AM five 685 00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:39.840 to seventy LA Sports loading Clippers, fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is 686 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:45.440 LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio 687 00:50:45.599 --> 00:50:51.360 Network. Clippers were hot with the shot scored a season high one thirty two, 688 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:54.400 gave up one twenty seven, but still five point win over the Portland 689 00:50:54.440 --> 00:51:02.280 Trail Blazers. Taxing ballgame though on the starters play some heavy minutes and I 690 00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:06.440 could come into play tomorrow when they're taking on the Sacramento Kings. But the 691 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:08.840 Clippers win one thirty two to one twenty seven over the Blazers. Marvin in 692 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:13.199 downtown Los Angeles, you're on Clipper stoff without a maze. Hi, Marvin, 693 00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:16.639 Hey, I don't I love your passion, but you're being the David 694 00:51:16.719 --> 00:51:21.360 I say of Clippers talk. Maybe both of you should have a show right 695 00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:24.559 after Fred and Rodney. But nonetheless, I was at the Clipper game and 696 00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:29.639 it wasn't that the Clippers were lostargic. They looked like they were facing themselves, 697 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:34.920 more like trying to conserve energy and keep the game close. Keep in 698 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:37.719 mind that they wanted. They wanted to keep the game the game, all 699 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:42.000 right, so they'd rather not blow out the Portland Trail Blazers. They just 700 00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.679 wanted to keep it close. Marvin. Well, keep in mind of the 701 00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:52.519 Portland players playoff bound was the Sacramento and the Golden State Warriors. No Portland. 702 00:51:54.199 --> 00:52:00.400 That's the point. Mortland wanted to be free. Go ahead, Marvin, 703 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:01.639 you don't think it would be a good idea to put away a team 704 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:07.079 like the Portland Trailblazers early when you got the case coming tomorrow, Absolutely, 705 00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:10.880 one hundred percent, so that that way they can go ahead and bring in 706 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.519 the reserves. And that's usually the case, but in this case it was 707 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:20.440 not. It hasn't been the case enough, Marvin. I gotta be honest 708 00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:23.840 with you. It hasn't been the case enough. And that's that's concerning a 709 00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:29.239 little bit. They played down to competition, and now tomorrow they're going to 710 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:31.719 have to play up to their competition. And hey, they win against Sacramento 711 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:37.440 tomorrow, it's all good. But I'm just looking at Paul George playing forty 712 00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:40.719 one minutes, Kawhi Leonard playing thirty nine minutes, James Harden playing thirty seven 713 00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:45.280 minutes. That's not exactly what you want to see on the front end of 714 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:51.000 a back to back. Yeah, but it's not. Yeah, but in 715 00:52:51.079 --> 00:52:53.719 this case, it's not about the minutes. It's about how they're using those 716 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:58.719 minutes, all those quality team minutes where they're conserving themselves so they can remain 717 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:05.000 injury free versus winning the game. I mean, what game is more significant 718 00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:07.800 to win? That would be Sacramento, that would be Golden State. Now 719 00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:10.280 the Denver games when they lost that was an operation. Well, it's the 720 00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:16.440 likelihood of them facing Reggie Jackson and deanmi Jordan alone in the playoffs not very 721 00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:23.199 likely. Well, that's true. But having that game underneath you already where 722 00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:29.559 you got burned by a team missing three starters, and to see the Portland 723 00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:35.679 Trail Blazers with a one point lead with two minutes left tonight missing three starters, 724 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:38.239 it's a little bit alarming. I would have thought, because of what 725 00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:42.920 happened against Denver, the Clippers would have played like their hair was on fire 726 00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.880 like they did early in the first quarter, up by fourteen, and put 727 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.039 this team away. That's my only point, Marvin. Now, as a 728 00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:52.800 fan, I will I like to say, being at the game. I'm 729 00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:54.800 glad it was in the blowout. I'm glad that he kept the clothes and 730 00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:59.400 they grind it out and they won the game. So as a fan, 731 00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:02.159 I'm glad it wasn't in the blowout because I like to see an entertaining game. 732 00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:06.519 Mumbo left all right, I understand that perspective. Appreciate the phone call, 733 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:09.559 Uh, Roman in Santa Clarita. Roman, you're on Clipper stop with 734 00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:14.119 that of Austin. Hey, how you doing, Adam? Haven't been been 735 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:17.920 on in a while. Again, lifetime Lakers fan, Go Lakers, hang 736 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:23.280 that banner. But you know, like I said, I've been watching your 737 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:29.320 Clippers all season, and the turnaround they've had in the last twelve games has 738 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:31.039 been great, been great to follow. Again, I you know, I 739 00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:35.480 agree with you on a lot of points that you're making on this Uh. 740 00:54:36.159 --> 00:54:40.480 In this game with Big Zoo, I do I do believe that they could 741 00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:44.480 have had an easy win if they went to him more and again, not 742 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:47.360 just going to him to score, but going into him and if it's not 743 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:52.079 there, then he dishes out. He makes shots easier for other players. 744 00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:55.840 Kawhi, Paul George, you know, and even even Terrence Man I mean, 745 00:54:57.320 --> 00:54:59.400 you know, like some of them, like I know, I know, 746 00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.360 they're getting there points, Paul George getting his points, getting his minutes, 747 00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:05.960 But on the defensive side, like you said, it wasn't there. 748 00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:08.599 You don't let a young team getting the shootout with a young team that has 749 00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:13.400 a bunch of shooters and expect to, you know, expect to come out 750 00:55:13.440 --> 00:55:16.239 on top of these they're young legs, you know, and they're all shooters 751 00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.000 on that Portland team. And that's what I mean, that's what Chauncey Billups 752 00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:22.679 is doing with him. He wants them to be shooters and he wants them 753 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:24.559 to get back in the game like that. I think they played kind of 754 00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:31.320 into Chouncey Billups' game plan after that first quarter going up that high. And 755 00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:35.679 I mean, Kawhi gets his points, Kawhi gets his rebounds, he gets 756 00:55:35.679 --> 00:55:38.320 his you know, he dishes the ball when he needs to. James Harden 757 00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:42.599 again, I think he needs to take more shots, just like you said. 758 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:45.960 And Paul George, I don't know, I don't know, Like watching 759 00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:49.760 Paul George over the last few years, it seems like this year his his 760 00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:53.239 shot is just not the same. And I like to see more from him. 761 00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:59.119 I mean, I don't know what you think on those at high volume. 762 00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.199 That's pretty damn good. Yeah, yeah, And that's what I'm saying. 763 00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:05.000 It's like if we're dishing to Zoo, if you're giving the ball into 764 00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:08.960 big into Zubac and there's not a and there's not a shot for him, 765 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:15.840 that's an easy dish out outside to like Paul George or or Man or you 766 00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:19.400 know, even Kawhi, you know, like uh, and then and then 767 00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.039 we look at it like too. We don't know what toron Leu was thinking 768 00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:28.880 and saying. Maybe he was conserving Zubach for tomorrow's game against Sabonis because you're 769 00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:30.880 I mean, you and I are both expecting Sabonas to come out on fire 770 00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:35.800 and try to try to get like a revenge game. I mean, Zoos 771 00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:38.320 still had to play thirty three minutes tonight. I don't know if that's concern. 772 00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:44.679 Yeah, and it's he plays and his thirty three minutes are an effective 773 00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:49.719 thirty three minutes, with the exception of why if something's you know, it's 774 00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:52.320 not broken in there, the pick and rolls working hard and dishing to him 775 00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:57.639 inside whoever whoever else needs a dish to him. Inside until they stop it. 776 00:56:57.760 --> 00:57:00.400 You're right, I don't think we go away from that because you've seen 777 00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:02.599 what happened today. I mean, they were going to him. Kawhi was 778 00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:07.440 getting his shots. That lead in the first quarter. They could have maintained 779 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:09.800 or doubled that lead by the second quarter. Yeah, but it's like the 780 00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:14.000 foot off the gas pedal. You know, I know it, Roman, 781 00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:17.360 I appreciate the phone call. Look, I'm not as sounding alarm bells. 782 00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:22.000 Of course, I'm nitpicking some here. You know why, because they're trying 783 00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:28.480 to win a championship, and when you have the toughest schedule in the NBA, 784 00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:32.880 the only way to make it easier on yourself is by handling business against 785 00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:37.119 a lesser team with six wins on the front end of a back to back, 786 00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:40.320 when you got a much tougher team coming in the next day. That's 787 00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:45.199 all. I don't know if it should take thirty four from Kawhi to beat 788 00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:49.719 the Portland Trailblazers. I didn't expect to see him late in this ball game. 789 00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:55.559 But let's hear from Kawhi postgame on Ballet Sports with Christina Pink. Kawhia 790 00:57:55.920 --> 00:58:00.440 defense hard to come by early in this one, But you guys found it 791 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:02.360 here in the final minutes, coming up with critical stops. What did it 792 00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:07.400 take to get it done? Just flying around now, letting them get open 793 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:13.039 shots, using our length on the court and getting some deflections. Why you 794 00:58:13.159 --> 00:58:16.880 followed up a forty one point performance with thirty four tonight? Just describe the 795 00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:20.920 ribbon rhythm that you've been able to get in over the last couple of games. 796 00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:24.159 It's been great, a good team effort. I'm happy that we're winning 797 00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:29.119 these basketball games. You know, That's all I can ask for it. 798 00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:30.960 Let's get ready for tomorrow. We talk about the team effort, but it's 799 00:58:31.039 --> 00:58:35.239 really been over the last twelve or so, it seems like collectively, you 800 00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:38.480 guys are starting to come together. What have you seen just seeing us, 801 00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:43.599 you know, kind of find a rhythm together, building on a chemistry and 802 00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:46.119 you know, we just need to keep playing our game together and keep figuring 803 00:58:46.159 --> 00:58:50.599 it out. All right, Thanks, Kawhi. Look, I'm not trying 804 00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:54.519 to be harsh, but if you have four stars like this, if you're 805 00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:59.239 counting Russell Westbrook in there too, with Paul, George, Kawhi, Leonard 806 00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:04.239 and James Hard and finish off a team like the Portland Trail Blazers that's missing 807 00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:08.559 three starters and put them away and it was there for the taking. Now 808 00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:15.920 the Clippers come back and win tomorrow again, and they take down the Sacramento 809 00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:19.360 Kings, and they beat the Golden State Warriors, and they go four and 810 00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:25.199 zher on this four game Homestand hey, they knew all along that they had 811 00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:30.440 it in them to do so minutes be damned. Paul George playing forty one 812 00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:35.639 tonight, Oh well, and there has been president. They played heavy minutes 813 00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:38.480 against the Pelicans, lost that game, then came back the very next night 814 00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:44.400 and had all the energy in the world to shut down Luka, Doncic and 815 00:59:44.559 --> 00:59:47.599 Kyrie Irving the very next game and hold the Mount Dallas Mavericks to eighty eight. 816 00:59:47.639 --> 00:59:51.920 All right, before we get out of here, I'm still little Katie 817 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:59.559 Newton Katie's casual NBA corner where she asked me casual NBA questions. Oh, 818 00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:01.360 she's going the notebook, She's going to read this one, Okay, I 819 01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:05.440 mean I write down all sorts of questions. Today I wrote down three. 820 01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:12.480 But has Zoo in a game ever shot and more importantly made a three pointer? 821 01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:21.039 He has I believe he's one for one in his career from three, 822 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:24.039 and it happened in twenty twenty one. In the twenty twenty one season, 823 01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:30.280 he knocked down a three pointer in one of the last games of the year. 824 01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:35.079 Then they took him out so he could maintain that. He played all 825 01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:43.079 eighty two games, and I think he's one for one for his career from 826 01:00:43.199 --> 01:00:46.920 three, one from distance. I'm trying to double check that. That is 827 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:51.599 a very detailed answer. I was expecting like, oh, yeah, one 828 01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:54.840 game, that one time or no, never, But Zoo's got range. 829 01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:58.920 Don't you dare ever question him? Okay, oh no, He's one of 830 01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:01.880 my favorites. I think he is my favorite now the whole time. He's 831 01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:07.599 one for twelve, oh from three. But we'll just save between now and 832 01:01:08.079 --> 01:01:12.679 then that he made. But that one he hit in the twenty twenty one 833 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:15.320 season before they took him out of the ball game so they could say he 834 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:20.480 was the iron Man and played every game. It was impressive. We love 835 01:01:20.519 --> 01:01:22.519 Big Zoo. Give him all the praise, give him all the flowers. 836 01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:27.239 Good question, Katie, Appreciate you. Katy Newton, our producer. Tonight, 837 01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:30.840 Clippers win over the Portland Trailblazers. Final score one thirty two to one 838 01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:36.840 twenty seven. They got sacked down. Coming in tomorrow night. Pregame at 839 01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:39.119 six thirty, tip off at seven thirty. Before we get out of here, 840 01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:43.880 I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Ralph Law, O'Brian Seaman, 841 01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:46.079 Noah Ego, Carlo Hemenez on the call, big brother, Jake Warner, 842 01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:50.280 our head engineer, Katie Newton, our producer, the callers, the 843 01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.239 listeners. I'm medam awesome. We'll talk to you tomorrow night. At six 844 01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:58.440 thirty, the White was doing his thing. All they want to do is 845 01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:01.719 win in La. I thought they gave everything they had. I'm of them. 846 01:02:01.960 --> 01:02:07.960 This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. 847 01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:10.280 God bless Paul George. Are you not? It's a change. 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