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Clippers, as Carlo Jmenez put it, have exercised some demons. They take
down the Denver Nuggets for the first time since January of twenty twenty two,
and about a week after their most disappointing loss of the season, they just
had their best victory. Same team, but this time fully loaded with Nikola
Jokich, with Aaron Gordon, with Jamal Murray and the Clippers win one eleven
to one oh two. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, welcome in your
postgame show. I'm gonna Oslin coming up second half highlights, but first let's
get back to your d voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. What a
victory, Carlow and it took everybody loved the rotations from coach lou Some people
were questioning why are you taking Russ out? He just gave him that jolt
of energy. Well, James Harden comes in, has that big step back,
three, a floater, some assist. It was just the perfect blueprint
in almost a playoff type setting here because Denver had a few days off as
well as the Clippers. They were both ready for this one in primed.
But the Clippers defensively were just too good in the fourth. And it all
starts with a defense on Nikola Jokicic career high twenty three misses. And you
heard Daniel Tys postgame Adham, he said, all we tried to do is
give him nothing easy. And outside of those few threes in which they didn't
put a hand up, really nothing was easy for Joker tonight. The rim
wasn't kind to him. He's not gonna miss twenty three shots the next time
you play him, but the Clippers made it hard and he still comes away
with a double double or a triple double, I should say, because why
not. But the Clippers did a great job keeping him in neutral and forcing
other people to beat them. Hey, he's not gonna miss twenty three shots
next time, but the Clippers may not be down fifteen in the first quarter
as well, and Kawhi Leonard eight of sixteen still ends up being efficient,
has six of his seventeen points in the fourth quarter. But there's more there
from him. I thought, Paul George, we were talking about it off
air. That huge three pointery hit was zero airspace in the third quarter at
the end of the shot clock. That was one of those Oh he's got
it tonight. He knocked down two more early in the fourth quarter. He
had some key buckets for this Clippers team. Yeah, five threes tonight,
second most he's made in a game this season. He was excellent down the
stretch. And we've talked about it. When George is out there with that
second unit, he's got a score. That's what he needs to do to
keep that second unit flow. And that's what he did. And you saw
in that second quarter at him, the Clippers were able to make a huge
run. They turned a fifteen point deficit into a nineteen point lead in the
span of eight minutes because PG was aggressive and the Clippers were getting out in
transition. They were excellent running the break fast break points with the Clippers twenty
the better note though, eight for ten from the field in fast break.
You love to see that Russell Westbrook got in transition. He had that big
put back layup to start off the fourth quarter and from then on the block
on Christian Brown and then it was yeah, Reggie Jackson trying to find him
for a lob. Norm gotten easy layup in transition off of that defense to
offense, and it started with Russell Westbrook his energy. After kind of a
lackluster into the third quarter where the Clippers really didn't take advantage with the Big
four being out for the Denver Nuggets, he started the fourth quarter strong.
Russell Westbrook. He was so good. I mean his ability to get that
offensive rebound, that put back, get the block run in transition. There
was one play where Zubots was late to get back. He's running in transition
and the Clippers didn't have numbers, but Russ is so strong to the rim.
He just took it right at Christian Brown finishes with the right hand and
rocked the baby and said I'm too good to guard one on one down the
lane with a full head of steam. Russ was incredible. It's just impressive
to me because this is a guy who came in here, signed that deal
worth less money. To stay with the Clippers, want to be of this
organization. Says he wants to take a step back, to come on the
bench sacrificing again. And he stepped into a role where he has thrived,
where he has made almost all the rank plays on the offensive and defensive end,
and to be honest, where he continues to jolt this offense. They
were slow starting in that second quarter. Russ came in and things really picked
up in the second Yeah, Russell Westbrook fantastic and James Harden with the starters
down the stretch and there were some murmurs, Hey, I don't know,
maybe you should stick with Russ here. The line change was perfect as James
Harden took Jamal Murray off the dribble for a step back three pointer in the
fourth quarter. Was running the offense. James Harden finished with twenty points,
six of ten, shooting two of three from the outside, eleven assists to
four turnovers, and also kept him in it in the first half when the
Clippers didn't look right. That new second quarter unit with him running the show
next to PG that may be something the Clippers tap into moving forward. That
could be part of the turning point of this season good. He was so
good controlling the offense. We just when James Harden made that comment earlier this
year that I'm a system kind of comment, a lot of people shook their
heads. But Adam, when you watch his ability to create for other people,
to create an offensive flow in a movement where so many people are involved,
he wasn't talking about he needs the ball, he needs to shoot.
He's talking about he creates for everyone else. And that's what he did tonight.
I mean, we might have to check the floor here in downtown LA
for some dimes because James was dropping him all night long. I thought the
key late we talked about it was Kawhi Leonard on Jamal Murray when they were
trying to run pick and roll every time down with he and Nikola Jokicic.
It's one of the most devastating pick and rolls in the history of the NBA,
that's not hyperbole. And Kawhi getting his hand in those passing lands and
his hand is like two for anyone else. It was disruptive, it was
key. And you can talk about him only having seventeen points, but what
he did defensively late and some key buckets, that was the difference to meet
down the stretch of this ballgame, and you see why this team is so
dangerous in a playoff like atmosphere. You mentioned that felt like a playoff game
tonight. Playoffs are all about matchups. Where do we have the advantage.
We're gonna keep using that until the other team can figure out an answer.
And with the Clippers right now, they have so many offensive pieces that's just
a headache on the defensive end. And then when they play their brand of
basketball on that defensive end. You look at this Denver team. They scored
thirty six points in the first quarter at them, they had sixty six the
rest of the way, didn't score above twenty five after that first quarter.
This is gonna be a tough team to stop no matter the situation, but
especially in playoff like environments. In the playoffs, hopefully they are so hard
to guard into game plan four. This is the blueprint. We've been talking
about it over the last week, but they have been trading wins to then
losses. Now they've won two in a row in games where they were down
twenty two and down fifteen tonight against the defending champs, who were fully loaded
in the Denver Nuggets, and the Clippers come away with the victory one eleven
to one oh two. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena. They will be
up in Utah or you know, East in Utah coming up on Friday night.
Tip off for that one is at seven. Clippers countdown starting at six.
Great call as always, Carlo Jimenez will do it again on Friday.
Oh yeah, we will see you Friday. Concerned, let's go, Let's
go. Oh more second half highlights from Carlo Jimenez coming up. The Clippers
close and they take down the defending champs. Finally. They had lost eleven
of the last twelve to this ball club, eight in a row, and
they end up winning by nine. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, I'm
out a Moslin More postgame locker room coming up next right here on the Los
Angeles Clippers Audio Network. They want to bring a banner with them to the
into a doll More LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers
win on eleven, so one to two. Clibernation. Finally, they have
taken down the Denver Nuggets for the first time since January eleven of twenty twenty
two. And this wasn't against the Nuggets backups in that game. The Clippers
lost last Monday. They had Jokic, they had Jamal Murray, they had
Aaron Gordon, they had Michael Porter Junior. But the Clippers came back down
fifteen in the first quarter and at the half somehow had a lead of sixty
one to fifty seven. But the third quarter was not kind to them,
and those last couple of minutes where Denver had their backups in they were a
plus four in the last two and a half minutes of the third quarter,
and heading into the fourth, Denver had an eighty two to seventy nine lead.
But there was a shot in the third quarter by Paul George, a
bailout shot at the end of the shot clock over KCP where he had absolutely
zero airspace on a three pointer, and we all thought to ourselves, Oh,
Paul George has got to going tonight. I think he's ready for this.
I think you need to help take the Clippers home. And that's what
he did. Early in the fourth quarter, straight away triple George to boom
beg from downtown eighty seven eighty five. Clippers lead by two, nine and
a half to go in the fourth, George ran the logo nine minutes to
go, pulls up for another three and come next pig back to back Dyland
from long distance. Clippers up three ninety eighty seven, eight fifty to go.
On the fourth, George went twenty Paul George big in the fourth quarter,
ended up with eight of the Clippers twenty five make it thirty two points
in the fourth. But then Kawhi Leonard re entered the ball game. Wasn't
having a great shooting night and wasn't taken a lot of shots, and somehow
still found a rhythm and they found the mismatch with him on. Jamal Murray
leading two, looking for as we approached four minutes of play, Leonard on
the base side right in in blimber comes up and in Kawhiant win thirteen and
the Clippers up four. As they double the lead ninety seven ninety three,
Murray heels at the A in Los Angeles, down to right alley, gets
by, Leonard throws it away, parting in a foot race with Gordon Hip
beats him there running with Leonard under a jam time out Michael Malone. Kawhi
had six points in the fourth. Joe and James Harden was seven of his
twenty in the fourth quarter, including a huge step back three pointer over Jamal
Murray. But I'm gonna credit Kawhi Leonard and his defense in the pick and
roll he Anna beats the Zoo Bots where Elite and the Clippers were connected down
the stretch against one of the ultimate death lineups and one of the best pick
and rolls we've ever seen, Whichjamal Murray and Nikola Jokic Zoo had a huge
block on him. Kawhi goes getting his hands in on the passing lanes.
Nothing was easy for Denver in the fourth quarter, where the Clippers outscored them
by twelve. They go on to win one eleven to one oh two.
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the Denver Nuggets, and they do it in style. What a victory.
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break you down. Zachocalady bringing the funk tonight as the Clippers come through against
their nemesis. They finally take down the Denver Nuggets, who were fully loaded.
They win one eleven to one to two. Here at Crypto dot Com
Arena, I'm out of Oslin. This is your postgame show. Clippers ended
up shooting forty six percent from the field, and after starting one of nine
from the floor or excuse me, from the outside, they would end up
going eleven for their next nineteen from three. That's twelve to forty seven.
Overall. They shot forty four percent from distance. Meanwhile, while the Denver
Nuggets, who started eight of ten in the first quarter, they only hit
four more threes on twenty one attempts the rest of the night. You can
say it's cold shooting fluky. We said in the first quarter, Hey,
one team's gonna progress to the mean, the other's gonna regress to the mean.
And that's what happened. And credit the Clippers defense, especially down the
stretch, gave up just twenty points in that fourth quarter. They were led
by PG thirteen Paul George. He had twenty five James Harden with twenty seventeen
off the bench from normn Pals seventeen from Kawhi with the starters, but it
was the defense and him wrecking that pick and roll he and Big Zoo working
against Jokis and Jamal Murray that was the difference. Late Clippers win one eleven
to one oh two. Their next ball game coming up Friday against the Utah
Jazz in Utah, a place they have not won. Well, I'll have
to look up the date. What they've lost their eleven straight time, including
a game earlier this season. They probably should have had so exercising Demons seems
to be on the menu right now. Utah's next, Clippers get a day
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in attack mode. Adam Osley, Oh, did the Clippers finally slay that
dragon? Well, at least for one night, for the first time in
almost two years, they have defeated the Denver Nuggets. They win one eleven
to one oh two. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, I'm Adam Oslin.
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Clipernation. Not just the best victory of the season, but maybe of the
past year and a half. I can't think of many better than this.
Okay, you could say Game one against the Phoenix Suns. Yeah, the
stakes were higher, But when you're talking regular season and a team that has
just owned the Clippers and the Denver Nuggets, coach lose words. This is
monumental. This is big. Now. They can't lose three in a row
after this or else it's not gonna be that big of a deal. But
I think a lot of people are gonna have their ears perked up and their
eyes open looking at this Clippers team after a statement victory tonight against Denver and
they weren't missing anyone. They had Jokic, they had Jamal Murray, they
had Aaron Gordon. Three guys they were missing last Monday when Reggie Jackson DeAndre
Jordan beat the Clippers and Jokic missed the most shots ever in his career.
He was nine h thirty two from the field, missed twenty three shots.
You want to say that's fluky shooting. You want to say he missed a
lot of easy ones. Fine, I'll remind you he started this game off
with two made three pointers where the Clippers left him open, wide open from
three. Talked about it early with Carlo Jimenez said, well, I get
the strategy in some respect. He's only shooting thirty percent from the outside on
the season. The problem is, though, he's shooting thirty eight percent on
wide open three pointers. And that's what those were. A defender not even
six feet away from him. They were just giving him free looks. And
in that first quarter the Nuggets were eight of ten from the outside. Some
of that was hot shooting, not all of them were wide open. But
after that, by the end of the ball game, they would hit us
four more threes go four for the next twenty to one from distance. After
the Clippers loaded it up defensively and the law of averages went back in their
favor. Two they started one of nine from three. From that point on
they went eleven of eighteen. Really impressive law of averages coming into effect tonight.
It's notthing we talked about in the first quarter. Okay, Clippers are
down fifteen. It looks ugly. They're gonna shoot eight of ten from the
outside. The rest of the night, Denver, They're gonna shoot eighty percent
from the field, no play through it start chipping away, and five and
a half minutes later it was a tie game. That fifteen point lead was
gone, and the Clippers might be starting something now in this second quarter.
And by that I mean this new lineup where James Harden comes out earlier in
the first to start the second, next to Paul George, next to Daniel
Tice, next to Norman Powell, and I believe it was team Mann out
there. This new second unit lineup might be what the Clippers have been looking
for. They haven't had any consistency with their backups. Starting unit has been
very good overall. The numbers say is so obviously a bad start to this
one against Denver. They can do that to anyone. Kobe Brown was in
there in the second quarter too. I couldn't be more impressed with this team's
resolve over the last two games. Down twenty two two to the Golden State
Warriors early third quarter on Saturday, down fifteen to the Denver Nuggets today,
the World champs who also just had three days off, who were coming off
the loss to the Kings, who were hungry. We didn't know if they'd
have Jamal Murray. He played look pretty damn good at times. He had
twenty three points on ten of eighteen shooting. He didn't look off because of
the ankle injury coming back off the hamstring before that. Look good. Look
good for Kawhi Leonard two when he went at him as Jamal Murray was guarding
him late in the fourth quarter. Kawhi had six of his seventeen points in
the fourth. But I'm gonna tell you this, Kawhi defensively was absolutely elite
and wrecked one of the most dominant pick and roles we've ever seen. Jamal
Murray next to Nikola Jokic are on going artable when they get in that pick
and roll. It is so difficult to defend. They make you take tough
decisions. They get easy looks. They both can hit in a ray of
shots. They have bags, as the kids like to say, just an
arsenal of weapons, moves, counters they can go to. And Kawhi and
Avitza Zubats dominated that pick and roll in the fourth quarter. They made it
so tough on them. Kawhi just crashed that passing lane. They put him
on Jamal top with Mike Fortello post game, he reminded me, wisely the
coach bizarre that they put Kawhi Leonard on Steph Curry to end the game on
Saturday. Worked tonight. It was him on Jamal Murray and Denver didn't look
the same. So as good as he was in the fourth quarter, and
that big dunk he had off the transition bucket off the pass from James Harden,
I think defensively, that's where the Clippers won this game, and Kawhi
Leonard was unbelievable. They won the fourth quarter thirty two to twenty. Zach,
do I need a pause, ten seconds versation identification and he already covered
me. He always covers my back. Like the Clippers last line of defense
Defensively, the anchor Big Zoo, a Viatza Zubots and Daniel Tice just made
Nikola Jokic have the worst shooting game of his career. He had never missed
twenty three shots before in a gotball game. You can say this was the
best defense ever played on him. And it wasn't good early, but when
Daniel Tye came in in that second quarter, I want to say, Jokic
missed four straight shots at the rim and they were all contested. What's the
one thing I told you about Daniel Tye that he would bring to this team.
He contests everything in the basket. Great hustle, great motor, great
effort, and there might have been nine straight shots missed by Jokic at one
point, from the end of the first into the second. It was almost
like Daniel Tye showed a Visa Zubats the blueprint how he should play him.
And then Big Zoo was much better in the second quarter against the Jokich.
But I can't say enough about the lift that Daniel Tye has given this team
since he became a Clipper, but especially tonight, this was his best.
As soon as he entered he got three straight stops on Jokic. He hit
a three pointer, he hit two of them. Tye has been ridiculous.
He played really good defense on a possession in the third quarter, late third
quarter against Reggie Jackson got him to miss. What a pickup? What a
Finde was criticizing the front office. Why haven't they gotten any one yet because
Mason Plumley's out. Apparently they had an idea that Daniel Tyes might get bought
out by the Indiana Pacers. That's what they were waiting for. It was
the right move. Clippers don't win this game without him. And now how
many guys do you have to throw at Jokic once Mason Plumbley comes back,
who, by the way, might have some intel, might have been helping
on the sidelines because he played next to Jokic. He was on the Denver
Nuggets team. Gone too long without talking about Norman Powell. Also, he
helped turn this game around. He had a three pointer off a dish from
James Harden in the first half, a layup and transition in the second quarter.
He had eleven of his thirteen first half points in that second quarter,
multiple layups in transition, pushing the pace and they had a nice pass to
Kawhi Leonard in the third for a layup. He had one bad play,
I would say, trying to foulbait a little too hard into the third quarter.
Outside of that, Norman Powell so good led them in the plus minus
category again. He was a plus twenty four in a game they won by
nine. He was a plus twenty four in his thirty two minutes of play.
Fantastic. I thought Kobe Brown gave him something in this too, and
this ballgame tonight, Kobe Brown gave him something. He's the one who hit
the three to tie the game at forty six in the second quarter, and
he's been unafraid from the outside. Yeah, the shots aren't falling like we'd
like to see. There was one that went out, rimmed in and out
in the second half. I thought it was gonna fall be a big momentum
swing. Couldn't get it just one to three, but nailed the one to
cause Mike Malone to call time out to complete the comeback to have it even
again at forty six. In just five and a half minutes. Clippers went
from down fifteen into the first where it was thirty six to twenty one to
five and a half minutes in to that second quarter being all tied up.
What a turnaround, and Kobe Brown contributed. He hit that three at the
six to twenty five mark of the second. When you beat a team like
this, the defending champs, it's gonna take extra efforts and different guys stepping
up at different moments. I thought early in the first or fourth quarter.
Russell Westbrook, who didn't have a great first half, came in early at
the six fifty two mark in the first quarter. For James Harden didn't really
help, didn't have it going. He did get a tip in off a
zoom miss early, but then had a jumper a turnover looking for a lob
with Tye Christian Braun went the other way or Brown, don't call him Braun
even though it spelled that way. He got an easy one and transition off
that turnover. But in the fourth quarter, they don't win this game without
the hustle plays from Russ, the putback layup to start the fourth. People
keep talking about Lebron versus Father time. Russ is thirty five and still has
insane bounce. He's still I think the best athlete on this Clippers team.
He's still one of the best athletes in the league. But he was so
good with the block on Christian Braun as Reggie Jackson tried to lob it to
him, which got norm a transition bucket on Jokic with the little side step
in the fourth quarter. Russ was hustling, and that's how he's got to
be. If he can be this souped up version of Terrence Man who's still
struggling with the shot. Just attempted to does everything else right, the shot
will come. But if Russ can be another guy that does all the little
things and just gets high percentage looks, turns down some of those jumpers,
plays defense, gets boards, had eight of them, four offensive rebounds and
one big one when I mentioned the put back early in the fourth quarter.
If that's what he can do, that's a perfect role. Played sixteen minutes,
but those fourth quarter minutes before they brought back in James Harden, critical
pivotal stretch there from Russ. No chance in this game without him and Coach
Lou I saw it on Twitter. People will say, what right the hot
hand stick with Russ, it's working. How can you take him out?
Coach lou stuck with his convictions. He brought back in James Harden at the
seven oh two mark, and after a bad turnover, stuck a step back
three over Jamal Murray. Then had the assist to Kawhi on that dunk.
Huge momentum play. All of a sudden, the Clippers are up six.
He assisted back to back buckets from Kawhi. Finish with eleven assists. Knock
down a floater, knock down some free throws on the fourth big time play.
Clippers win a big time ballgame here at Crypto dot com Arena, one
eleven to one two over the Denver Nuggets. They had lost a straight eleven
of twelve to this ball club, and tonight they gave Jokic his worst shooting
performance. Coming up next, we'll get your phone calls. Eight sixty six
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I'm out of Moslin. This is Clippers stock here on AM five to
seventy. LA Sports Every Clipper game all season long. They didn't stop playing
hard. You're listening to the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win one eleven
to one oh two here at Crypto dot com Arena over the Denver Nuggets.
What a ballgame, What a victory. First time they had beaten this team
since January eleventh of twenty twenty two. Clippers had to have it if they
were gonna show that Hey, as I mentioned on Saturday, something may have
been born out of that twenty two point comeback against the Golden State Warriors.
It had to carry over. They had to parlay that into a victory over
the Denver Nuggets. I'm telling you right now, a lot of people are
about to wake up about this Clippers team. I've been talking about the vision
since July. When you get James Harden, bring Russ off the bench,
play through James Harden, good things will happen. And that's what we're seeing
now. They are seven and three with this new starting lineup. Now,
the starters struggled out of the gate, but they came through late. And
when Norman Poub comes in for Terrence Man that has also been lethal. You
need more offense, Okay, switch out Man for Norm. He finished with
seventeen four points in the fourth, five of twelve shooting knock down a three
pointer, almost threw down one of the biggest dunks in the season. Not
just for the Clippers, for anyone. If you remember the dunk he had
on Julius Randall in New York last season, that's what we almost saw from
Norm. He didn't get the foul, but my goodness, he was out
for blood. That was been dead against the rim type of stuff. He
wanted that to be the exclamation point on this victory for the Clippers. It
happened in the fourth quarter. Couldn't get it to go, but the Clippers
get the victory all the same. They win one eleven to one O two
over the Nuggets. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm out a Moslin eight
six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. Paul George with two huge,
nasty ISO threes early in the fourth quarter. We talked about a postgame with
Carlo Amenez when PG is out there with a lineup of Russ with Norm,
with Kobe Brown, with Daniel Tice. I got a block on Reggie Jackson
early in the fourth quarter. Two he's got to be looking to score.
That's the solution for bringing it together. With this new second unit, Paul
George has to be featured. He has to be aggressive, he has to
be assertive, back to back possessions, knocked down three pointers, answered one
from Reggie Jackson, his friend. After Reggie made it eighty five eighty five
Denver, Paul George came right back, made eighty seven eighty five with a
three DJ then catches a lot from Reggie Jackson and was starting to feel like
last Monday again. It's eighty seven all and then Paul George knocks down a
three pointer. It's ninety eighty seven and the Clippers, I believe, never
looked back after that. They never relinquished the lead, and they go on
to hold on. After holding Denver to just twenty points in the fourth quarter,
they won it by twelve. They win one eleven to one oh two.
Let's go to Lenny and Inglewood. Lenny, you're on Clippers stop without
a maslin. What's up? Lenny? Come on, preacher, come on
preaching. We got a squad, We got a squad. Man. Now
you're preaching. I'm telling you, huh. Now you're preaching, you man,
you're skippy man, because they've they've been busting out, you know what,
since the bubble, Baby, they've been And I'm gonna tell you something
like I said, we said last week, Harden got to get the majority
of his points in that first half and that second half. Just run that
thing, baby, just run it like and let me tell you something,
man. Uh. Kawhi said it last week. He said with hardened there,
he's able to focus a little more on defense. And you write shutting
down that that pick and roll between Murray and Djokis is huge, huge,
And my man, Daniel Dice is so damn nice. I mean, he
just but you know what, man, I remember watching him like two three
years ago when he was on the Celtics, and I swear I said,
I wish we could get him too. You know who dunked on him,
Kawhi? He was coming, man. Remember kaw caught him at a Staples
Center. Yeah. But I liked Tye because you can test everything. But
I love him a man. And then and then he started developing that that
consistent three pointer man, And that's in the last two years. He wasn't
doing that first first off, but he came in the last years for that
with that with stepping out space and the floor. He's nice, man,
That's all I can say about the boy. He's nice. Uh, you
know, I'm I'm curious, but I gotta be honest, man, I
like what Wes is doing, but I wish they would stop or I wish
they stopped saying I know he wants to play more minute. Look, man,
Wes, you had, you got, nobody's ever going to forget your
place in this game. You got the m v P, you got your
flowers, you got dieted out, whatever. Man, what what we need
you for is exactly what you're doing right now. And this is you gotta.
He's buying in. But I whatever they needs for him to get over,
I wish they would stop saying it, because it's starting to bother me
that they always got to say that he's you know, he wish he could
play more minutes. Yeah, I'm sure he does, but that's not when
they need you right now. Russ, You're doing what you're supposed to be
doing. And I'm gonna tell you something. You write about the NBA pun
that's being talked with. I forgot what's to do on ESPN? Man dud
us to play for Atlanta Hawks. He he always commentates the white guy with
Tim Tim Lagler. Yeah, Tim Lagler, let me tell you something man.
He used to do. He used to dog off he was dog off
the Clippers when they got when they made that Tason hard, he said,
this ain't gonna this ain't gonna be nothing. They said that that did that
tonight he had a whole different tune he's saying. He was saying, with
Kawhi playing like this consistently healthy, he said, they're as good as any
team in the league. He said, they are. That's taround. I
say a little watch because there's still at just five hundred. But maybe he's
starting to see the vision now. How can you not, man, because
lou he's back to he's back to playing Queen's gambit, and he's started to
figure out, like you said, he's experiment with those lineups. And my
boy Norman Powell coming in there a walking bucket. We always got to have
Norman Powell. I oh, Norman Powers retires here, man, I love
his game. Man, this just I mean, but just getting back to
Harden real quick. This cat, I mean, twenty points on ten shots,
come on, prettacha, Glen. But this we got a squad.
Man finally got a squad, so I whoplee plumbing. And then like you're
right, uh, Zubac was getting more aggressive because he sees Ty's doing what
he's doing, and you know Joe Vich is not gonna have two games like
that against this But oh but you know what, Kawhi can play better,
Paul George can still play better, and the Clippers can still not get down
fifteen in the first quarter. So if you want to talk about outliers and
anomalies, Clippers don't need to get down far seeing in the first quarter.
Making that Harvard themselves. We may might not see that again against Never Absolutely,
and just last point, Paul George has gotta make He's got that's what
they're paying him for. Man, He's got to he's got to earn his
money. He's gotta stay aggressive. He's got to knock down those threes.
He's got a particular set of skills and that's what that's what he has to
do, man, because he can't do what Harden does and he can't do
what Kawhi does. Like you said with shutting down that we need him to
stay an aggressive and score. He's got to earn his money and keep doing
what he's doing. And if we do that, man, we're gonna be
nice. I think I think it's gonna come around right around in January February,
you're gonna see exactly what they capable of. But this is yeah,
we're on the way man, absolutely anyway, awesome show, Adam, keep
it up, money my guy, one of my favorites, if not my
favorite caller over the years. Lenny in Inglewood. I'm gonna tell you this,
they can't win till January. This was game fifteen with James Harden.
Yeah, this was game fifteen with him. Tonight, there's seven and three
since they made that move in the starting lineup bringing Russ off the bench.
I mean, I was asking for that in July. They didn't need to
go on a five game losing streak. But maybe, you know, maybe
it's all blessing in disguise, and guys have found their roles and are figuring
it out. And this Clippers team is right where they should be now at
ten and ten, with the ability to start to make a move now in
the West because they're finding themselves an identity out there, and there may be
something cooking with what we've seen in the first quarter the last two games.
Now with taken out hard early. Now, I'll say this, I think
if Harden gets off to a quick start, they might ride him in the
first quarter, stick with them not bringing Russ. But if he's not and
if the starters aren't getting off to a quick start, I think this might
be how Coach lou is looking at it. Then you bring in Russ for
that change of pace to inject some life. Didn't exactly work out that way
the first quarter, but did happen early in the fourth quarter tonight. But
I like that option. That could be something that we pay attention to and
something worth monitoring moving forward. Just one of those slight adjustments where Okay,
this is how the pieces fit together. Now, this is how it all
comes together. Tajus and Walnut. Tajus, you're on clipperst oft without a
Mason. I'm finally, finally we got this. In the first quarter,
I was like, oh man, here we go again. But uh,
you know, it feels like after this win, it feels like no lead
is big enough like from before the comeback clips. It feels like, you
know, this squad's believing now and more in sync. So that's good to
see. When I kept calling a few times a few days ago, I
kept saying, you know, as good as Jokich and Murray are offensively,
defensively, they have some liability and we need to attack them. And it
was so good to see in that fourth quarter that they kept hunting Murray down
the stretch, and it was a few times it was hardened and a few
times it was Kawhi. But that's really like championship basketball there because it just
made the game so much easier. That's what I said postgame. Just in
the first quarter, in the first half, it was Denver hunting mismatches.
They went after James Harden early with Aaron Gordon, Michael Porter Junior. Then
they did the same to Russ when he came into the ball game late.
Who was the other way around where the Clippers were matchup. And by the
way, there was before this sixth Kawhi on Jamal Murray. There was a
great possession where the Clippers got to stop and it was Harden who locked in
on Murray, and you could see, oh, defensive intensity late in the
fourth quarter when you need it most, it's there. With James. It
isn't always consistent. I understand that his post defense is, but perimeter defense
isn't. But he had a couple of good possessions against Jamal Murray as well.
Yeah, and a couple of things. One, it felt like in
that third quarter we got a little stagged in and when we lost and we
were down five, but there were a few instances where Harden was able to
drive and he got to the paint, but he wouldn't shoot it. I'm
like, he has an open six or seven footer, she just take it,
because when he passes from there and he's open, chances are somebody else
is not open. And in that fourth quarter he had that little seven footer
and he took it and it went in. It was a huge shot,
And I'm like, he just needs to be little bit more aggressive because he's
so unselfish looking for everyone else. But when he when he has that seven
foot are open, he's got to take it. But that was good to
see. And I think with Tys and Westbrook, their offensive rebounding is something
that we've been lacking, and they gave us so many more opportunities. It
was good to see. So I like that, And I was thinking,
Adam, did you see any instances where when Plumbley comes back against these big
squads like Denver or Lakers, where they might have a chance to put tys
with Zoo or Tyson Plumbley for a few minutes and see how it goes.
What do you think, Adam? I appreciate the phone phone call tagous.
It depends on if the jumper's fallen. Traditionally it just hasn't. He's a
thirty two career three point shooter. He knocked down to tonight. They were
big shots to a four. But to be able to spread the floor,
team are going to have to respect him from the outside. They didn't tonight.
Those were wide open shots and he knocked him down. He does more
of that. It can work. He can play next to Zoo, he
can play next to big Plump. Quick time out here, We'll come back.
Get back to your phone calls. Eight sixty six ninety seven two five
seventy eight six six ninety seven two five to seventy. Clippers win one eleven
to one oh two here at Crypto dot Com Arena over the Denver Nuggets,
who had beat them eight straight times, eleven of the last twelve. They've
had their number, their social their mailbox, they've docked the Clippers. They've
had it all, and the Clippers tonight pull it off against Jokic and a
fully loaded Denver Nuggets team they win by nine. You're listening to clipperstock here
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Clippers Audio Network. Slippers win won eleven to one oh two over the Denver
Nuggets, their best victory of the season, their best regular season victory.
And I don't know how long they were down fifteen in the first quarter.
Five and a half minutes later it was a tie ball game, and the
Clippers slammed the door with their defense. In the fourth quarter they outscored the
Nuggets thirty two to twenty. Oh. You know something else that didn't happen
tonight, Well, Russell Westbrook and James Harden were never on the court together,
something I've been harping on going back a long time now. And in
the last nine games coming into this one, when those two were on the
floor together, Clippers have only been shooting thirty eight percent from the field twenty
five percent from the outside. It's just not working. The spacing's not there.
Maybe it will at some point, but in a big game like this
tonight, I think splitting them up. I think it worked. I think
it was necessary. I think you got to start making those tough decisions.
I know Russ only played sixteen minutes, but he was good in that fourth
quarter, and he was spry and making plays and hustling and a huge block.
James Harden just he has more of what this team needs. With the
starters eleven assists to four turnovers. Shooting has never been more important in this
league. You can't overstate it because when you don't have shooters out there,
you don't have space to operate. You don't let Kawhi and Paul George get
loose, find driving lanes Norman Powell. So when you have Russell Westbrook next
to a big that's already two non shooters, the difference with James Harden is
huge. This is modern NBA basketball. Doesn't mean Russ is invaluable to this
team. He is. You saw it tonight early in the fourth his energy,
he can help this team. This is the role. This is what's
gonna take. Guys talking about sacrifice, That's what's gonna take for them to
win. Let's go to Daniel and echo park Daniel, what's up here on
Clippers stock with that, Amasa Adam, how's it going? Uh? If
I guess started? I want to give you some pops here. Last week
I was driving from a meeting and I heard you on Rogan and Rodney sans
fred Man. You absolutely held it down. You came with the analytics and
I was so impressed. You're so prepared and and you absolutely killed it.
Love. You get a little heads up when you are on there, especially
with with Fred. I just want to hear when I hear you guys lock
horns again. It's always created the game, and that's when the salta comes
out. Now. I appreciate it, Daniel. They're nice enough to have
me on once a week at least, So it's been good. It's been
a lot of fun. Yeah, totally. Tonight's game fantastic. Of course,
it's good to get the monkey off the back there with with the wind,
you know, it looks like we're spending a lot of energy trying to
catch up and and and it seems like when we come back from a large
amount a deficit like this, the next game we tend to lose them and
we fall flat. It didn't happen this time. They just came back down
twenty two against the Warriors on Saturday and come back down fifteen. This was
Saturday. I mean it is Wednesday now, so they have some time to
rest, all right, that's fair. Yeah, I agree, it's a
bad habit. It's a bad habit to keep getting down early. Now,
I guess Denver it can just happen. They go eight of ten from three.
Some of those. I didn't like seeing Jokic being left alone wide open
threes. I know he's shooting thirty percent from three on the season, but
when they're wide open threes, no one within six feet, he's shooting thirty
eight percent. So that didn't make a lot of sense to me. But
a lot of averages came into effect late. Daniel, Yes, and kind
of getting to that, the defense was excellent on him today. When he
missed, he looked goofy, you know, and he missed a lot tonight.
It was wonderful to see, you know, all around. I wasn't
worried when they were down. I kind of, you know, before you
know, we kind of get get down the Pomps against you know what I
mean. But tonight I wasn't worried. It feels like we've we're definitely making
that turn for the better. I am kind of worried about Terrence. I
don't know what the plus minus is on him, but I'll leave that to
the expert. You let us know what's going on. It wasn't good tonight.
I appreciate the phone call, Daniel, but I'm not plus minus has
to also correlate with the eye tests in a one game sample. Over a
season, yeah, there's a lot of truth to it. Over a month,
over a couple of weeks, a lot of truth to it. I
still think Terrence Man, while in a shooting slump and not attacking enough right
now, he's gonna be valuable for this team because he does everything else well,
so once the shot comes, it's almost like a bonus. This starting
lineup with Terrence Man, I love it. It's the right move, that
defensive versatility and the point of attack defense that he offers, so Kawhi and
Paul George don't get worn out early having to guard the other team's best player.
He was the one on Murray early. Pam in Temple City, quickly
here, Pam, what's up? Thank you? Adam, and and I
hope this is the advent of things to come. In this advent season.
You know, I just think that if these comeback games are just going to
help us in the future. If we do get down, we'll have the
ability to come back. And I just think that this Tryron new has the
pieces of the pressure of the way he needs to He knew exactly what to
do. Our energy is stiller. There's no ego involved, and I don't
think of us played like his norse was out of joint. And I couldn't
be more proud to be part of this super's family. Thank you, Pam,
thank you for the phone call. I'm with you on that. Of
course, I'm just wondering what that twenty two point comeback victory against the Golden
State Warriors. I wondered on Saturday what it could do moving forward. Well,
we saw the result. They had that confidence, that reservoir of confidence
to draw from after being down fifteen early. Here they've been here before.
Yeah it's Denver, but this Clippers team, they're resilient. If there's anything
that has defined this two one three era, it's the resiliency. I believe
we are now joined by Charles Mockler, Is that right, Zach, Hey,
Hey, hey child, I'm here I appreciate you coming on tonight.
I want to make it like you're just any other caller. We want to
make it special for you. He is Charles Mockler of the Clips and Dip
podcast. I think we got a new one coming on the YouTube tomorrow,
joining the show after the Clippers win one eleven to one oh two. Follow
him at Chuck Mockler on X Charles, your biggest takeaway from this performance from
the Clippers. I know a lot of people were doubting them after being down
fifteen. It felt like Groundhog's Day. It was gonna happen again. Denver
was gonna dominate, and then they figured it out. Uh am, I
crazy for My biggest takeaway is a little more belief in ty Lou. Is
that a crazy takeaway to take from this game? He made some good rotation
choices. We saw the usual, you know, we stuck with you know,
Harden for like the five to eight minutes or whatever the first but things
went a lot better when he was made when he was kind of pulled the
strings lineup wise. So my hat's off to Tyler. While this one he
split up James Harden and Russell Westbrook, which we talked about This is no
shade on either of these players. They just can't play together right now,
this current version of the Clippers. So I like a lot of what Tyleru
did it. Yeah, that's my biggest takeaway. We needed this win.
They're back at five hundred, which is a little tough, you know,
when you take a step back and look at it at the whole thing.
But this, hey, it feels good. First time since January twenty twenty
two. So we'll take where we can get it. How about Daniel Tice.
I thought the game really turned when he came in the hustle plays he
made to end the first quarter, and I know they were still down fifth
team, but he was playing really good defense on Nikola Jokic. I mean,
he had his worst shooting performance of his career, and it started with
Daniel Tye. I mean he's Zubas wasn't effective early. He certainly was late,
But Tys being undersized like that and giving that level of effort. I
don't think anyone expected him to be this good in the Clippers uniform. No,
And it was funny he kind of sparked a bit of the offense for
the Clippers. Him and Harden had a little pick and roll going when things
were not going well, and I think that was I think Tys got his
first bucket off that but no, I mean eleven boards excuse me, yeah,
eleven boards total, five offensive rebounds from Tys. This was his best
game as a Clipper for sure, but hey, we needed it. It
happened to come and side with a night when Jokic was incredibly cold. But
when ty started playing good defense, then it felt like when things were getting
a little shaky, Zoo wouldn't come back in. And Zoo picked up his
defense on Jokic late in the game, I thought, which was nice.
So no, hats off to Dangle Tys. I said he wouldn't be an
outside threat, but tonight he kind of proved me wrong. So yeah,
I mean a lot of things had to go right tonight and they did.
And like I said, we will take it a couple more for you here
before we get out. We don't got to play him out. I don't
think Saint the Gomp Show not Mike. Oh, I don't know. Yes,
I messed up. I thought we were gonna get out earlier. I
do that often. I'm sorry. Zach could give us a couple more minutes,
Buddy, I'd appreciate it. James Harden and Russell Westbrook and Russell only
playing sixteen minutes in this one. But there were a lot of people that
questioned coach lou in going back to what you were talking about with him earlier
in this performance, in the way he was pulling the strings and punching the
right buttons at the right time. He went back to James Harden, even
though Russell Westbrook had his best stint early in the fourth quarter, and it
worked and it was the right move and the Clippers offense was humming down the
stretch. Yeah, this is this is the part of the game where I
don't think Tyler gets enough credit, where when the feel is off, you
notice it. You know, when there's a lineup change that doesn't work,
you really don't so well, there's one that works. I think a lot
of the times we're all content with the fact that worked, and we don't
give credit to the fact of when the change was made. So, yeah,
that was I will say, it's not, you know, the most
secure position to be in. I would like to see a bit more of
a process from the Clippers offense, maybe dictate these kinds of changes late as
opposed to vibe or energy or something like that. But Ty got it right
tonight and things are trending up for the Clippers. The winds have been good,
so I'm hoping we get a little more less feel decisions and more pattern
based decisions for this offense late. He is Chuck Mockler following him on x
at Chuck Mockler with the Clips and Dip podcast. One more for you here,
Chuck, your guy Kobe Brown. I mean he hit the three pointers
to tie the ball game. Hey, hey, I didn't want to say
anything, but he was. I think what was the Was he a team
best plus seven teed or something insane like that, which I think goes to
show how important the plus minus stats are. No, sorry, he was
the second best plus lightest of the team behind Norm. We didn't talk about
Norm, but he had a phenomenal game offensive weight when the Clippers really needed
it too. But no Kobe Brown plus seventeen. It makes no sense how
PJ. Tucker had his plus minus stats than Kobe Brown has his plus minus
staffs. I think we all know that maybe Kobe Brown or a beer coffee
needs to take those PJ. Tucker, but it and the Clippers will not
be worse for the wear. Paul George knocked down some huge three pointers in
the second half. But the one shot where I went, Okay, Paul
George has it going tonight. It was that all out three pointer on the
left wing over KCP at the end of the shock clock. Absurd. And
then he was hunting for those three pointers in the fourth quarter, and when
he hit that second one, the Clippers never looked back. That was when
they took the lead and took control the ballgame. But the confidence, I'm
wondering how much that game winning three pointer did for him against the Golden State
Warriors on Saturday, and just that carryover effect because I felt like, you
know, he was brimming with confidence in the fourth quarter from distance. I
do respect how you didn't say was something born from back? I already did
on Saturday? What do you mean I already did on Saturday? I tweeted
at you was something born out of this victory? How can you deny it?
Chuck? After what happened tonight the Clipper First of all, the Clippers
pod account is all three of us, not just me. No, you're
I don't think you're totally wrong. I think a part of you is correct
to that. It was nice to see the confidence from Paul George lift the
rest of the team because that, you know, the Clippers do go as
far as two of three goes, as much we want to get into,
you know, the stay in wars between you know, Hard and Westbrook.
The team goes as far as Paul George and Kawhi Leonard takes them. So
when you see Paul George's confidence lift the rest of the team, it makes
you happy. There was some points in the game where we were working a
little too hard for shots for the two made guys. I think that's going
to get ironed out. But you're right, something was was potentially bored out
of that three from Paul George. I love how they responded after being down
with some days off and rest and whatnot. So here's here's to Here's to
the thing being born growing up, I guess will be the best thing I
could say off of that. I'm a big kid now, ye all right,
all right? They need to win in Utah, another place they have
struggled. But why Leonard quietly now, over the last couple of fourth quarters,
he was four for four in the fourth on Saturday, and he was
three for five in the fourth tonight with some big shots over Jamal Murray.
It's been one of those things that Clippers fans have been a little bit irked
by, just Kawhi Leonard not closing well enough. The last couple of games.
He's been awesome. Yeah, I mean, I think I talked about
that after one game when I was on here where it was just like,
he's going to figure it out. It was fine. He made eight shots
tonight, three of them in the fourth quarter. Kawhi, even when he's
still ramping up. You know, I'm not going to pretend like he's had
a consistent stretch of games and where he's been elite the whole time. Is
still a top fifteen player in this league. We have been spoiled, I
would say, with how many games in a row of Paul George and Kawhi
we have got. But we're lucky that he's ramping up right now. I
think everything is going to come. I want to play what it really needs
to. I wish that they were better than five hundred, obviously with this
ramp up schedule, but there was never any real reason to be concerned about
Kawhi. Yeah, it's just steady as she goes with Kawhi. Clippers win
one eleven to one two here at Crypto dot Com Arena over the Denver Nuggets.
Finally he can relax, take a deep breath. They not just beat
the Nuggets, they beat now the defending champions tonight, and they were fully
loaded. I think we'll have a fully loaded podcast tomorrow night with clips and
dip. Chuck. We'll talk to you then on the YouTube, my friend,
thanks for doing this tonight. Hey, thanks for having me happy.
I can come on after a win. Yeah, well, is that a
shot at Will? Okay, I'm gonna take that as a shot out.
No, no, no, no, come on. Will thought he had
it in his contract that whenever the Clippers win he gets to come on.
When after the Clippers lose, you have to come on and explain it.
So that's rough for you. I hope you get paid, you know,
hazard pay or something like that. All right, Chuck, thanks for doing
this tonight. Before we get out of here, we got the head engineer.
It is big brother Jake Warner, the fake philosopher positive moments. Yes,
big Brother Jake Warner. Ever so quickly. I don't want the music
playing you out yet. But big Bro, you thought early on you were
confident about this team going up against the Denver Nuggets. I walked into the
building knowing we were going to win today, Yes sir, yes sir,
And it happened. Could I felt it? Bro? With the Chucks onto
now Chucks, we're not on today. As soon as we got here,
got some Nike like van looking Nikes. You know they were on sale,
so it did knock. But then you know what, they look good.
They look good. I appreciate that, Big Bro. What's the positive thought
tonight? Positive thought for tonight, my friend. When life is sweet,
say thank you and celebrate. When when life is bitter, say thank you
and grow news. I just want to do this, big Bro, always
says, is Zachocaldy back in Burbank and the studios holding it down. Clippers
win one eleven to one oh two. Before we get out of here,
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Paula, Bryant Steeman know
what ego, Carlomenz on the call, the callers, the listeners, Big
Bro, Jake, our head engineer, I metam Oza we'll talk to you
Friday at six pm when the Clippers are in Utah taking on the Jazz.
What a victory. Mauhi was doing his thing. All they want to do
is win, La Win. I thought they gave everything they had. I'm
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