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Was Paul George smooth? Tonight in Game five, he drops thirty seven.
The Clippers win in Utah for the first time in four years with the final
score of one nineteen, So one eleven over the Jazz. Welcome into your
Clippers post game show. This is Clippers Talk. I'm at am maslin to
eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven
fifty is the phone number coming up here on the show. We got game
audio from Paul George after this massive performance, I don't want to hear any
more playoff peace stuff, pandemic peace stuff, wayoff peace stuff ever again.
When the Clippers backs were against the wall, the collective backs of this Clippers
team without Kawhi Leonard. Paul George may have just had the best performance of
his professional career. Has thirty seven on twenty two shots, went to the
free throw line, knocked down ten of eleven, including some clutch ones.
Late had seven of his thirty seven in the fourth quarter, including a big
time and one over Royce O'Neill. And oh yeah, he led them in
the rebounding department with sixteen boards, three offensive rebounds and played forty minutes.
Just an otherworldly performance from Paul George, who stepped up in the Clippers darkest
hour when they needed him most. He came through tonight. The Clippers win
Game five. They're up three games to two in this best seven second round
series, and they're coming back to Staples Center and the Cavalry is going to
meet them by way of the Clippers Nation having that place completely full for the
first time in almost a year and a half. Staples Center is going to
be fully loaded with nineteen thousand screaming Clippers fans, with them having their chance
to close out this second round series and get to the Western Conference Finals for
the first time in franchise history. There is more work to be done,
and we're hoping for the best with Kawhi Leonard in that right knee. But
this was one of the biggest wins in franchise history. They hadn't won in
Utah since the playoffs back in twenty seventeen when they won Game six there to
force a Game seven with CP three on the team still. Blake Griffin got
injured earlier in that series and they would go on to losing seven. But
this team, We've been talking about it all season long. They are a
resilient bunch. They just refuse to lose no matter who is out there,
and there were some great performances without Kawhi Leonard. Terrence Man is in the
starting lineup. Give coach lew All the credit for that move. And how
about the move by Terrence Man in the fourth quarter he went kJ Kevin Johnson
on Rudy Gobert. That's what that reminded me of. It was I think
the ninety four playoffs and Kevin Johnson attacked the rim with Achim Elijah On defending
it and threw it down on him. Terrence Man just went after the best
shot blocker, the best rim protector in the game, who just won his
third Defensive Player of the Year Award and Rudy Gobert and Terrence Mann threw it
down and got the N one and would hit the free throw to put the
Clippers up seven. But the Utah Jazz we're not going away, and Paul
George had to hit that N one, that law jumper over Royce O'Neill.
It was clutch and it gave him. I believe his seventh point of the
fourth quarter had thirty points headed into the fourth. Just a spectacular performance from
Paul George. All the haters, all the detractors, the weight and the
pressure that has been on his shoulders and the jokes that have been getting off
from people on Twitter over the past year with him, and this season was
his revenge season. But it wouldn't have mattered if he didn't show up big
in the playoffs. And he has last three games now thirty one points,
thirty one points, and thirty seven points tonight without Kawhide Leonard on the court.
Paul George is a certified superstar. Don't ever doubt that. Again.
He also had five assists. Yes, he had five turnovers, some bad
ones on the fourth quarter. Playmaking is something he's still coming around with,
but he has has been so much better this season. He has had to
run the point a ton and he was in control for the most part in
this game. And there was some spectacular ball movement in that fourth quarter where
the ball ended up in the hands of Reggie Jackson. Action Jackson my player
to watch tonight. You know, Reggie's gonna put him up when he's getting
even more shot attempts because Kawhi Leonard's obviously not out there. This guy has
a green light all the time. So without Kauhai, I figured, okay,
it's a Reggie Jackson type game. The last game against Utah in Utah
back in Game two, he helped spearhead that twenty one point comeback that would
come up just short, but he had twenty two points in the second half
of that one. He finishes with twenty two points in this game, but
he had twelve of them in the fourth quarter. And when the Clippers went
cold, and I mean ice cold, three and a half minute scoreless to
start the fourth quarter, it was Reggie Jackson that got them on the board.
He had ten of their first thirteen points in the fourth. The Clippers
would finish with twenty seven points total in the fourth quarter, Utah had twenty
eight, and the Clippers made just enough big plays late, got just enough
big time rebounds, and Reggie Jackson. I mentioned the ball movement. It
started with Paul George who found Nicholas but Tum in the quarter corner, who
swung it over to Marcus Moores, who then hit Reggie Jackson for a critical
three pointer when Utah was making their run. Marcus moorees, by the way,
let's not forget he stepped up really the first time during the playoffs where
he's had back to back great shooting games three or four from distance, ten
of sixteen from the field, has twenty five points after having i want to
say, twenty four last game where he went five of six from distance.
In Game four back at Staples Center, Marcus was great. Had ten of
those twenty five in the first quarter. The Clippers got off to a hot
start, but nobody could match what the Utah Jazz were doing. They hit
ten threes in the first quarter alone. Bogdanovich started six of six from distance
and the Clippers were still only down one after twelve minutes. They survived the
onslot. The barrage of three pointers coming from the Utah Jazz they were doing
something special. They had seventeen threes at the half. They were ridiculous from
the outside. They could not miss. In fact, they would started seventeen
of thirty from three, but they would hit only three more three pointers in
the final twenty four minutes in the second half, where they would go just
three who of twenty four in the final twenty four minutes of this game and
the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the law of averages snap back
in a wicked, brutal way for the Utah Jazz, where they would go
just three of twenty four in the final twenty four minutes. They finished twenty
of fifty four from three, that's thirty seven percent. Meanwhile, the Clippers
went sixteen of forty. The Utah Jazz put up fifty four three pointers.
The Clippers survive. They're coming back to Staples Censor up three two in front
of nineteen thousand raging Clippers fans that are waiting for them, with a chance
to get to the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history.
Paul George came through with thirty seven. Clippers win by eight in Utah in
Game five, with the final score one nineteen to one to eleven coming back.
We'll get to all your phone calls. Jose and Southgate who called me
at the half and proclaimed that the Clippers would win down five and a half.
He had faith. Jeff and Tarzana's online. We got mores along beat
Sean and Inglewood. More Clippers stuck coming up next. Eight seven seven,
five two zero, eleven fifty. I'm Adam Oslin and this is the Patriot
AM eleven fifteen, which I'm about the Clippers, the LA Clippers and the
Utah Jazz. You're listening to playoff basketball on the LA Clippers official home.
George foulon extended on the fourth side against on a couple of chat steps for
George, he's going one on one. Paul rise Over the topic, got
the foul call, he put it in. Paul George, the eighteen footer
is true and a three point play for PG thirteen tonight. The man has
been rated r. When you say playoff pe, you better mean it affectionately.
After what Paul George just did. He has thirty seven and the Clippers
pull off a Game five victory in Utah without Kawhi Leonard welcome back in the
Clippers talk after they win one nineteen to one to eleven in Utah, first
time they have won there in four years, and they do so without the
Claws. Somehow, some way, they scratched and clawed their way to a
victory in this one, and the law of averages finally went in their favor.
After the Utah Jazz hit seventeen threes in the first half, they would
hit just three in the second half. Marcus Morris finished with twenty five reg
Reggie Jackson had twenty two. Twelve of those points came in the fourth quarter.
He went at Rudy Gobert. Clippers have not shied away, as Noah
Eagles pointed out, from going at the stifle tower. But how about Terrence
Man after what happened at the end of Game five last series against the Dallas
Mavericks where he shied away from taking a lay up late that could have won
that game. That was a redemption dunk. He had the end one over
Rudy Gobert with three minutes left. Tonight, Terrence Mann says, I'm not
gonna be afraid this time around. I'm coming right to the basket against the
best defender rim protector in the league. In Rudy Gobert, Terrence Man was
fearless. And this Clippers team, they've done it all season long. This
is what they do when you count them out, when it seems like things
are falling apart. Tyler and this coaching staff and they're superstars, they just
rally. The role players step up. It was a complete team victory,
as it always is, but especially tonight without Kawhi Leon are different guys stepping
up. Luke Kennard hit a couple of big three pointers in this one.
Nicholas Batoum hit three three pointers. He had four steals in the game.
The small ball has worked. Welcome back in two Clippers Clippers talk, I'm
out of Maslin all right, Jose and Southgate get things started, all right.
I don't I'm gonna thinks by saying, Liz, I'm so hyped up
right now, So I'm gonna get this in before you come me up because
I'm going too long. Who man first two one hundred wins. It's the
law. And I don't know if I heard White, but Emmy nominated or
Emmy Award winning, No eagle, thank you, thank you at a w
a all right clipping nation you hear me right, Oh my goodness, hey,
like you said, shout out the Canard, shout out datum. But
it came down to Terrence Man being a man and revenging himself. And then
Regie Jackson Man, I told my foremaker. He texted me at six am
breaking me the news about playing and I took my Sheety Cash's home and I
wore him the whole game, just for Regie Jackson. And then on top
of that, it came down to play off key. My girl heard me
whining. She thought we lost. No, it's because Peg made the shot
and one Adam Adam culture at half time and you answered, thank you for
that, and this is why you're ready. Let's go Plappers. Thank you,
Jose and South game somebody else who I want to highlight. He played
seventeen minutes, went two of five, but he had his five points at
the end of the third quarter. Paul George was out of the game.
The last two minutes of the third quarter. Patrick Beverly would hit a three
pointer. He had a floater over Rudy Gobert. Patrick Beverly was huge.
He has had a bad foul in the fourth quarter, but the positives completely
outweighed the negatives with mister ninety four feet. He has helped change the direction
and the trajectory of where this series was going. After the Clippers were down
two games to none and they are trying, they are on the precipice of
history because they could be the first team to come back down two during a
single playoff run multiple times. Nobody else has done that before. Let's go
to oh Man. There are a lot of calls online and I haven't screened
them all. Here we got up. There we go, Morris, A
long beach. Morris, what's up? Yeah, my brother? I looked
like I'm looking at some day Javu in the NBA. Here. Remember back
in the day when the Big Redhead beat Doctor Jay. They were up to
love and the Big Redhead came back in one fourth straight. You might be
kind of young to remember that, but this was the best Clipper game I've
ever seen in my life. I'm gonna tell you why. I was telling
my wife, we need to call Adam Silver and that guy Undone if we're
gonna have to drug test him. This guy, I couldn't believe they got
thirty points on ten shots. And the guy that called you that said the
Clippers gonna win, win the game, they happed. I agree with him
after what I saw and those guys. The Clipper was only down by five,
I said, baby, because they're gonna win the game because these guys
can't go. They can't shoot like this for forty eight minutes in the National
Basketball Association. And then if you talk about the winner at Game five,
where we win Game five normally wins the series, I'm gonna tell you something
right now, Adam, nobody can. This seems as unbelievable, man,
I mean, they just do. They keep talking about how the Clippers had
got depth, right, everybody took the Clippers are deep. The Clippers are
deep. Tonight we saw it. It wasn't no rhetoric. It was the
real deal. Holy tonight, we saw it. They are deep. And
I tell you right now, don't bet against him. Let me calm down.
Talk you lad, Thank you Morris. This was their stiffest test when
you're talking about how deep they are the bench, the depth on this team,
to not have Kawhi Leonard, who has been right there with Kevin Durant.
They've been, I guess, jocking back and forth for who's been the
best playoff performer so far in the twenty twenty one NBA Playoffs. He goes
out with the right knee injury. We find out that news earlier today,
and this Clippers team finds a way to win. Anyways, let's go to
Sean and Inglewood. Sean, what's up. You're on Clippers stype without Muslin?
Hey, Adam, First of all, Clipper Nation, are you not
entertained? Are you not entertained? You go at him? But you know
what I called it at the beginning of the series when I called you from
Houston, I said, Clippers and six and today I was totally confident that
they will win because they have the best bitch and Paul George was the best
player on the floor. And they kept taking it to the hoop, which
is what they had to do. So you really get Rudy Gobert foul trouble
and they moved the ball good. It was just a good win all over.
And then the defense and the last quarter was really superb. Man.
I'm telling you, I'm proud of my guys. Proud of my guy.
Go ahead, Sean, this one's for you. Throw your sword into the
crowd. That's basically what the Clippers did. They were in enemy territory.
They were in the lions den, and they survived without Kawhi Leonard. They
had won there since twenty seventeen in Salt Lake City. What a victory?
All right, coming back, I'll screen some of these phone calls. I'm
all discombobulated. What a win. Paul George thirty seven points. What's some
respect on his name? Mark Clippers stock next right here on the Patriot amble.
This is the second round of the NBA Playoffs. Why Renard, I'm
your official home of La Clippers basketball. Jackson will be the cattle. Let's
get it's a man nearside corner, Pump thick and drive on, go Bear
with seven shoot back to Jackson knocked out of his Handrew Covers puts up the
corner three on the nearside and hits Ruttie Jackson full's eye in the corner one
oh three, ninety seven. Jackson's got eighteen and the Clippers go back up
by six. Reggie action Jackson, big government with the bailout. Just a
ridiculous park on some of those shots from the outside from reason. He has
twelve of his twenty two in the fourth quarter, and the Clippers win in
Utah one nineteen o one to eleven. In Game five without Kawhi Leonard,
Paul George finishes with thirty seven Welcome back into Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Aslin
to eight seven, seven, five, two zero eleven, fifty lines.
They're letting up. Must be a good subject. Let's go to who we
got your Kevin in Culver City. Kevin, you're on Clipper's tale without Aim
Aslin. Adam, what is up? Brother? Great win? I tell
you you're a great host. You kept the passion in there, and I'm
gonna let you try. I just got a couple of things. First of
all, I didn't hear any playoff Pete Champs in Utah to night. Yeah,
put some respect on his name. Like Birdman said, Paul George must
have been listening to this show. He's doing everything I said. Go to
the basket. The mid range game was great, the three point shooting was
great and opened everything else up. And the reason I'm so hard on this
guy is because when he puts his head down, he goes to the basket
and he just says, I'm a dog and I'm a score. He's one
of the best players in the league. He was the best player on the
court tonight with Donovan Mitchell, and Paul George showed why he's a superstar.
I'm so proud of him. I'm so proud of this effort and RP Kobe
Bryant. That move he had to win the game. The and one was
Kobe Bryant. It was picturesque. It was perfect poetry in motion. The
post up, he had the mamba shake, the little jump shot the mid
range that was Kobe, and he worked out with Kobe and you saw it
right there in this game. He had the mamba mentality. And I'm so
proud of Paul George. That was the best Clipper game I've ever seen.
That was one of the best playoff performances I've ever seen. This is a
great Utah team and Paul George stepped up and put this team on his back.
All you Clipper fans in here, Morris Jeff and Tarzana Jose, respect
Paul George and to call these other shows and let these guys know, these
talking heads, Paul George is a real deal and this Clipper team is a
championship team and we're not backing down. This is the type of effort we
needed to see. I'm so proud of Clipper Nations. Stand up and Solucia
Clippers and stand up proud. What playoff peat it tonight? What an effort
and what a great team win playoff Adam cheer, stand up? And what
a phone call? Oh, Zach, I'm sorry I could do that again.
Respect on my name, Zach L. Cowley pulling out all the stuffs.
He's got the sound ready for you. We had the Russell crowe are
you not entertained? Last segment? That was for Josean Southgate or Sean and
Inglewood Moore's the Long Beach. I can't remember. We've had so many calls
tonight after this big time Clippers victory. Let's get to one more. Bill
and Irvine. Bill, what's up here on Clipper Shop without must I'm standing
up in the studio like j the brick, what's up? Thanks for taking
my call? That one color was alluding to Bill Walton against the Philly six
ers and seventy seven. But it's great to really finally have a Game five
that rings so loud and true. Bill, let me tell you something.
This was the first Game five the Clippers have won in a second round series.
I believe first time, right, because you start, you start with
Sam Castille smiling up and saying, what eight second violation? You know,
they after Phoenix eliminated Lakers and the Clippers, You're right, and then against
Oklahoma City with the two turnovers by Chris Paul, You're right. It's it
feels so special and they're going home and you know for game six, whereas
before they go home and have an impressive win on it a losing seven bill
strong memory there, my friend wait to go. Also speaking of memories,
Rip City or Clutch City. Yeah, the same year they beat Utah,
Phoenix and Houston. You had that great play that you were talking about with
the kJ. So it was ninety five when kJ dunked on a chemolize unless
they played two years in a row, unless those two teams played in that
round. But I'm pretty sure because they were down, their fans were booing
him. They were down in Houston, two out to Phoenix, and they
also won the last two against Utah the best out of five. But yeah,
kJ was something special. I got to see him play against Magic back,
you know, when like the ninety after after the I forget which after
the Magic return in ninety five six. Actually it was after eighty seven.
It was eighty It was like eighty a when Magic and Kevin got into a
scrap after they got their rings. They both got kicked out because they they
like each other, but they were basically real competitors. Game. Yeah,
I think with the excitement of everyone stepping up in Kawai's absence, I'm hoping
that. I know it's every other day, but let's say the Clippers get
it done. I hope Kawai might be able to be back for Game one
Sunday in Phoenix. Unless I'm dreaming. Well, Bill, you might have
to pinch yourself because tonight's victory for the Clippers must have felt like a dream
for Clipper Nation after this morning going through that nightmare. While we have a
moment, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on the Patriot AM
eleven fifty, This is La Clippers Basketball AM eleven fifty KADIV, Los Angeles,
an iHeart radio station. Let's talk history for a second. Paul George
is the first player in franchise history to have at least thirty five points,
fifteen rebounds, and five assists in a postseason game. He also had a
postseason career high for himself sixteen boards. Marcus Morris Senior had his postseason career
high twenty five points tonight, and Paul George joined Kevin Durant is the only
two players this postseason to have at least thirty five points, fifteen boards,
and five assists. Everybody was talking about earlier today how they need to see
Paul George do what Kevin Durant did last night carrying the Nets to a victory
over the Milwaukee Bucks. A PG did it and then some what a spectacular
of their performance and he's dealt with so much throwing his way. He talked
about it after that early victory in the season where Nicholas Batoum hit that corner
three in Phoenix where they got that victory over the Suns. It was a
big one and if they could get past this Utah team, they would see
the Suns in the Western Conference finals. No love lost between these two teams.
But Paul George had I think three eight in that game was huge,
had to assist to Nicholas Batoum, and he said, if I have to
go through the fire this season because guys are calling me out all the time,
on the court, so be it. I'll go through the fire.
And this Clippers team, they may be taking the longer route, not exactly
the path of least resistance, being down two zero in back to back series
here, but the heart and just the effort they played with tonight, Clipper
Nation, you got to be proud. Let's go to Greg and Vince Eura.
My bad, Zack, Greg, what's up? You're on Clipper's side
without amazin. Hey, Adam, the last time I called was after the
second loss, and I hammered you for talking about tired legs. Do you
remember that you did? Yeah, And you know I still maintained that they
didn't have tired legs. But Adam, I asked you, has any team
lost the first two games in a series and then one and then gone on
to the next series in the lost two games? And you said, well,
I'll check it out. But it turned out that nobody has ever done
that. But here we go, Adam. The Clippers are way out to
break that record. And it was a great game tonight. And I'm just
so happy that playoff Paul came through. Aren't you Playoff Paul? He was
amazing. He came through when they needed him most tonight, not just having
thirty seven points and doing it on twenty two shots, but sixteen rebounds.
This Clippers team has gotten so scrappy on the defensive rebounding end because they're constantly
playing small. They did it last round against the Dallas Mavericks. They're doing
it against Rudy Gobert, and he made him pay for a while. There
was a point where he had three straight offensive rebounds. He turned that into
six points. But the Clippers have had to out hustle and out work teams
and get to those fifty fifty balls during these playoffs because Avizza Zoo has Avizza
Zoobas hasn't played as much just eight minutes tonight, and they still don't have
search Abacca, who's gonna be out for the season. We're still hoping for
good news when it comes to Kawhi Leonard in that right knee. I don't
have an update for you yet, but coming back, we'll get to CG
and Alhambra, We'll get to Keith and Marvin as well and Jeff and Tarzana
is still online more Clippers talk. After they win in Utah one nineteen to
one eleven, they're coming back to Staples Center with Clipper Nation, back to
the eighteen thousand that we used to know and love to see at Staples Center.
It's gonna be fully loaded, a packed house Friday night for the first
time and almost a year and a half, you're listening to Clippers talk.
I'm out of Moslin and this is the Patriot. The quest for the Larry
O'Brien is off for them to get to the Promised Land for the first time
in franchise history. You're listening to La Clippers playoff basketball on their exclusive hold.
George rightaway boots, twitch right crossover and splits a double team. George
inside kick out Man, full fake hump, fake drive, middle to the
ram Hoh terrets Man slams over Gobert, cutting in a foul. The kid
is fearless and the three time Defensive Player of the Year just caught another body
inside. Terrence Man a big play late in the fourth quarter with a chance
for three. Tupac would have turned fifty today puled. George almost had fifty.
He finished with thirty seven and the Clippers one nineteen to one to eleven
victory over the Utah Jazz. Terrence Man had that big time play on the
stifle tower would convert the and one and the Clippers just continue. I don't
want to say shock the world because Clipper Nation knows what this team is all
about. This is what they do. When the Chips are down, they
find a way to pull out a victory. They did so again without Kawhi
Leonard Marcus Morris had twenty five Reggie Jackson had twenty two, twelve points in
the fourth quarter when the Clippers offense was really sputtering. They had multiple shot
clock violations, but they did just enough to pull out a victory in a
Game five, and they're up three games of two in this best of seven
second round series. CJ and Alhambra, you're on Clippers stock with Adam as
and what's up? CJ. Hey, Adam. In the immortal words of
James Brown, this is a man's world, and Terrence rocked it. Terrence
rocked it. This kid is the future, and I loved everything that he
did. The second thing is that there are a lot of haters out there,
especially guys that are in the AM dial one forty north of you,
that we're saying that PG needed to do it all by his damn self and
he didn't, and I take umbrage with that because we need the Marcus,
need Reggie, and they stepped through and our ex factor in Nicholas Patum.
We also need to marinate in the fact that in the first half the Utah
Jazz probably played their best postseason game ever and we still withstood all thanks to
defense. So you know, I know, a couple of nights ago,
I swore that I wasn't going to call back. Your producer wants to throw
on that snoop dog bite, But you know what this game brought me in,
brother, I am all about the Clipper nation. I will never die.
I will never stop to exist. Adam, you and Noah Eagle are
doing it like you can. Thank you, brother CJ. I'm glad you're
back. I hain't no fun if the Clippers can't happen. Hey, that
Snoop dog bite, that's okay, because he said this Clippers team was better
than the Lakers, and he actually was on board back in twenty nineteen when
he saw the Clippers come back down thirty one of it or Colorina against the
Golden State Warriors. So even though he's a Lakers fan, he might I'm
not gonna say get converted. But it's hard not to root for these Clippers
with the guys on this team, they are extremely likable. And how can
you not root for Paul George? Like what is wrong with people just attacking
him out of nowhere? And Paul George just shook it off and played maybe
the best game of his career considering the stakes, considering all the pressure on
him, and his CJ brought up everybody saying he has to do it all.
He didn't. That's just not possible against this Utah Jazz team. Not
one guy is going to be able to beat them. But Paul George led
them thirty seven points, sixteen boards, five assists and that and won late.
And it was Kobe Bryant esk And that was his mentor. That was
his favorite player ever growing up here and here in southern California. That was
his guy. And uh, that was a great call. Earlier we had
a caller point that out that that was a cool moment. Definitely some mamba
mentality tonight from PG thirteen Marvin in Downtown Los Angeles, you're on Clipper stop
with Adamson. Hey, Adam, what a great Clipper win? Props to
Tylo and also palled George and Team Man for setting it up. It was
also great TC two a tea man's sensays who been in a back burner,
Pat Beverly, and also Rajon Rondo, who I'm sure had had some influence
on Team Man defensively and offensively to up his game. And last, if
we end up going I don't get ahead of myself, but if they end
up going to play the Suns and c P three is still out, let's
hold back on Kawhi Leonard until he's he's back, Like Kawhi Leonard gets some
rest, gets some acupuncture, quarterson shots, and also I'm astage with a
championship ending. That's all. Thank you, Marvin, appreciate the phone call.
You brought up Coach Lou earlier there, and there were people here at
this station going after him a lot after the Clippers were down two OHO to
the Dallas Mavericks, and I'm sure some people were doing it again when they
were down two OHO to the Utah Jazz. But what I love about Coach
Lou is his flexibility, and he just soaks up all the information early on
in a series and then just start suggesting and tightening things up and finding the
right matchups and finding the right rotations and the right groups out there. And
for Terrence Man to not play hardly at all, at least he was playing
inconsequential minutes in the first two games. To then him starting without Kawhi Leonard
tonight, I think it says a lot about t. Lou. He is
willing to give a guy a chance. And the impact that Terrence made Man
made in this game, they don't win it without him. He was in
there during crunch time down the stretch and the Clippers win one nineteen one to
eleven. So to me, Coach Lou deserves all the praise throughout these playoffs.
He's just been the king of adjustments and finding the right matchups and that's
what he was here to do. And some people were mocking them, say,
where are those adjustments. They're not happening yet. Well, Dallas wasn't
missing from three the Utah Jazz. They weren't missing from three of the first
couple of games. They weren't missing from three in the first half tonight.
Sometimes you're out of team's mercy if they get hot from beyond the arc.
In this league nowadays, with all the great shooters, but the Clippers have
taken things into their own hands with the way that they have gone small and
that's turned things around for them. But I just can't say enough about coach
Lou And here he was postgame speaking with the media, right, Reggie obviously
asserting the complimentary of what Paul did today. You obviously before the games that
this was not all on Paul, but thirty seven points sixteen rebounds, knowing
the reception he gets with his performances good and bad throughout the year, what
did you make of his statements night? That was a big statement. I
mean, just also in the words it really doesn't matter like they just trying
to make up anything, you know, But man, he's a great player.
Like I said tonight, you know, he carried us. He had
to step up in the first half he really you know, he really dominated
expensively. And then second half he made some great passes. We didn't knock
down shots every time, but he made some good reads as well. And
I thought, just you know, like I said, having those rebounds was
was key because as a stretch with Goldbery really hurt us on the glass.
But for PG half sixteen, you know, rebounds that was hum So there's
a total team effort. Man. Like I said, I'm five of our
guys. We've been any situations before, you know what, guys had to
step up and be ready to play. And every guy that played tonight contributed.
And that's a team that we have mentally tough, mentally strong, and
we just keep fighting to the end. Last year, you guys went through
stretches where the lineups were all over the place, there were injuries, and
it seemed like that was something that hobbled the team's potential of the lack of
continuity. Why this year you guys seem to have gained strength from not playing
with regular rotations and playing shorthanded. Why why is there such a difference this
year? And even I mean, I don't know. We just wasn't afraid
to try new things. I mean, we tried a lot of different guys
with a lot of different positions, a lot of guys got a lot of
time playing with each other when guys were out, and we just had to
find ways to win. Sometimes it was ugly, but we had to do
it. And I just think when guys being out this season, playing a
lot of different combinations, a lot of guys with a lot of different positions.
That's really helped us, you know, and like I said, with
Kawai going down, you know, for guys to step up, playing out
like we had Team Man playing the five today, you know, so guys
to step up. We just plugged guys in. We just continue to keep
playing all we played the right way. We played together, and we had
that tough toughness about us and we're gonna be fine. And we move over
to Mark mcdina. That's I get a sick and rats on the wind.
You touched on Pig's performance, but were there any leadership moments that jumped out
to that Paul showed whether it was you know, after you guys learned the
news about Kauai's injury, or team meetings and the huddles, what sort of
things jumped out to with that. I mean just this morning, you know
before Shooter and I said, t I got us, and he said the
same thing after the games and just thank you for trusting and believing in me,
you know, all season long. And I said, man, come
on, he's serious, like he's been phenomenal. So like I said,
he did that tonight. Marcus was great, said the tone really, you
know, offensively, you know, Team Man's big play down the stretch,
Veggie's two big threes down the stretch. You know, we all just you
know, stuck together and we found ways to win. And that's what you
gotta do when you when you want to compete for a championship. There was
Coach lou post game. He talked about Paul George making a statement there to
start things off. I mean, he is caught so much flak, so
many unnecessary strays all the time. He misses any shot and people start trending
with playoff p It's really been unbelievable the amount of criticism and scrutiny and I
think undeserved that has been on Paul George since what happened in the bubble last
season. He's responded, he's become stronger because of it. And I just
saw this. Paul George scored thirty seven points on twelve of twenty two shooting,
with just one of the attempts coming uncontested. Meanwhile, he held Utah
Jazz players to four of thirteen shooting. Just a spectacular all time performance for
PG thirteen. All Right, speaking of an Ald Timer, let's go to
Jeff and Tarzana. I said, ald timer, not old timer, Jeff,
what's up? Let me tell you something I haven't. I've been a
Clipper fan since they played at the Sports Arena when they had Charles Smith and
trying to think of the other the other guy that played Lloyd Vott. I
could not be happier with this team as they played tonight. This shows class,
dignity and charm. Steve Bamber ought to be the happiest he's been since
he made all that money in the stock market. I have been a Clipper
fan. I've taken abuse for years and years, and I said at the
start of the year, Adam, if you remember me correctly, that this
is a team that could win the championship. And until Doris Burke gave the
Clippers the nodding that they were the best team, or she said she thought
they were the best team, we have nothing but heard bad things about the
Clippers and everything. And I am so happy to be a Clipper fan.
And I hope Kawai can come back to play. I don't know how how
serious this injury is, but you know the Sons are not going to have
Chris Paul for a while, so that should probably even enough. And Adam,
you've done a terrific job on the show, even though you've not been
right about everything. Oh I'm not perfect, Jeff. I just have to
be more right than you at all. That will be the day. But
I'm very happy to be a Clipper fan and I am delighted to how they've
been playing. And I really agree with the gentleman that called I think his
name was Kenny from Cliver City or something about how the supports this team.
And I don't think like other people have stated on another station, I don't
want to give that station credit that it's a Laker town A ninety five to
three. Do you understand what you're saying happened, don't you? Yeah?
I think I'm picking up what you're putting down. But Jeff, your faith
is being rewarded this Clipper team. You got to be proud of the way
they played tonight. I appreciate the phone call, Jeff. We'll talk to
your Friday night, hopefully, because you only call when there's a victory.
Before we get out of here, I do want to hear from the man
of the hour. He deserves all the love for what he did tonight.
And this Clippers team overcoming the odds once again. Here was Paul George postgame
PG. What an incredibly hard fought game this was tonight. This Jazz team
would not go away. You had six different players and double figures. Can
you describe the resiliency that your squad show playing this game without Kawai Leonard tonight?
Yeah, this was I thought this was our toughest match up this postseason.
This was the biggest game of our of our season, especially being down
our best player. We wish Kawai the best in the speedy recovery, but
we knew coming into this we had we had to play together. We had
to step up, but we didn't have to over lead to it. I
thought everybody played their roles. We did a great job. We played collectively
and against this team you have to you know, we've limited our turnovers and
I thought that school was the keeping up when you took a look at the
first half, they shot lights out. Then in the second half you held
them to just three made threes in the entire second half. Defensively, what
was the key there? Just stick with it. I mean, I thought
a lot of their threes were tough ones. We didn't overreact. They came
out hot. Good thing about it was we was able to read that weather
the storm. We came down. We attacked him on offense as well.
We just took their blows, We took their punches. But I know we
just thought they couldn't sustain that over a full forty eight game. When you
take a look at where this series now is, you go up three two,
you're heading home, you are one game away from heading to the Western
Conference Finals. What's it gonna take to close this thing out at home?
Put this one behind us, get ready for you know, a rock and
crowd back in La. Unbelievable opportunity we got waiting for us back. We
just gotta go into the midset that we don't want to come back to Utah.
Thank you, Hey, Mom, may Dad. There's Paul George postgame.
He said, coming into this one, the goal is to not have
to go back to Utah after this trip. So hopefully they're coming back home
and they're staying there until the Western Conference Finals, but that means they have
to close things out in game six. Friday night tip time is at seven
pm. We'll have Clippers count down your pregame show starting at six pm with
a packed house, a full house at Staples Center for the first time in
over a year. Before we get out of here, I do want to
thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, and
back here in the bank Zach L. Caul d until Friday night with the
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