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Noah Eagle. So, Noah, after having seven turnovers in that first quarter,
just ten the rest of the way for the Clippers. They cut down
on him. And when they weren't turning the basketball over, they were executing
very well on both ends. Yeah, and you heard Terrence Man after the
game. I thought he made an excellent point to me. It started on
the defensive end. They locked in defensively, they got stopped and that really
energized them. And this was reminiscent of what they looked like to start the
season, where allowing one hundred points was pretty much what they were gonna do
one hundred pots or less almost every night. And when your offense is playing
the way that the Clippers have over the last several weeks, which for the
most part they did, they may not have point up the major points that
they have, but still they scored thirty two and thirty four and the second
and third quarters, and that gave them more than enough the rest of the
way to coach through you mentioned it. Terrence Mann played the last seventeen minutes
of this ballgame. Coach Slew was riding with the guys that got the lead.
He was out there with Eric Gordon, Kawai, Paul George of Vitsa
Zuboss for Big Man's in the fourth quarter, and Big Zoo played ten more
minutes they did all of last games. So those two days off did quite
well for that calf injury of his. And he's gonna get two more days
off, which should be helpful for him, and then three days off after
that, which would be even more helpful for him. But I think the
team as a whole, look for us, certainly on the defensive end,
a lot of what they've been practicing these last two days looks like it paid
off. But at the same time, what does coach lou always say,
He coaches on feel, and he felt like that group gave them the best
chance to finish out the job. Look, Toronto made their run. They
were always going to make a run, but they had the tools with that
five man unit, and that five man unit delivered a w once again here
in downtown LA. Speaking of guys looking spry, Kawhi Leonard with five dunks
against his former team and the closest dunk we've seen to his dunk over Derek
Favors back in the twenty twenty one playoffs. That was ridiculous. Man,
That one was just launch pad. Realize that you saw what his intentions were
when he started crossing the three point line. The second he took one step
inside the three point line, he said, Oh, I'm dunking this and
I don't care who's in my way. And it just so happened to be
the guy one of the pieces that was traded for him when he got dealt
to Toronto a couple of years back, of course, in the twenty eighteen
nineteen season, But man, that was that was special, and that it's
just another reminder of just how special he truly is and that gear that he
can reach where there's just nothing anybody can do, whether it's a jump shout
in the mid range, whether it's a three ball, which he's been shooting
at a ridiculous clip this year. He only took one three tonight at him
and he made it because that's the way he's been shooting the basketball. And
the Clippers only took twenty threes as a team and won six of twenty.
When's the last time you ever heard of the Clippers only taking twenty three point
attempts in a game. That's crazy to me. Two thousand fourteen, may
not even then they had JJ that he was probably putting up seven at least
was Paul George. And this one, I really loved his defensive effort in
the fourth quarter. He talked about it early on this season, but he
said he wanted to set the tone being the best offender on the floor the
first six minutes and the last six minutes of ball games. I thought he
did that the last I don't know. He played twelve minutes in the fourth.
As long as he was out there, the defense was on point.
Yeah, I completely agree, and PG was taking the responsibility of guarding someone
like a Van Vleet. Then Kawai stepped up on Van Vleet. Then when
Siakam get going the two on three connection, both on there. Kawai had
one double double. This is courtesy of the great Dave Freed, by the
way, one double double in his first thirty eight games this year, now
back to back in these last two, recognizing that the urgency required from this
team, recognizing that they've got to go out there and get these ws and
start to build some continuity. He's done at twenty four and twelve. Tonight
was huge. But you're right. For both those guys, the defense was
paramount. And I love the fact that even though they came out a little
bit flat, it felt a little bit like an afternoon game at first.
They were down twenty five to seventeen after one, but only giving up twenty
five kind of kept them in this thing, waiting for their offense to catch
up to the defense. The defense was great and again they got outshot ninety
six to seventy one in this game. It just didn't matter because Toronto shot
thirty nine percent overall, and that's with them shooting forty one percent from three,
which is a bit well above their season average. I thought defensively forcing
some turnovers, getting it some passing lanes and this was the other part of
all of this. Toronto first in the league in points off turnovers on the
season. They did get nineteen of them, but the Clippers, on fewer
turnover chances, got twenty one points off of twelve turnovers. That was critical.
Clippers win one o eight to one hundred here and down town Los Angeles
over the Toronto Raptors. Their next one is an afternoon context, oh challenge
for this squad against the NIXT team that has been surging over the last three
weeks. Now tip time is that one. We'll have Clippers count down your
pregame show starting at twelve. No what Eagle great call is always. We'll
talk to you on Saturday, Adam, no sugarcoating here, can't wait coming
up next second half highlights. Clippers win by eight as Kawhi Leonard has twenty
four pg as twenty three and they take down Kawhi's former team in the Raptors,
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your second half highlights. Game was tied up at forty nine at the half,
a low scoring affair in the first twenty four minutes. PG thirteen had
just seven points in the first half. He would outdo that in the third
quarter alone labat nearside corners swing it right and winning Greek for George come hover
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Hanks gregsonn PG thirteen big finish fifteen points, seventy to sixty two LA
George Shorge corner J Canton on the near side. PG was seventeen nights mine
by Leonard with his fourth assistant the night and at seventy nine sixty eight LA.
Paul George with ten points in the third quarter alone and the Clippers were
starting to create some separation. They led by nine. After three, it
was eighty three to seventy four, and then the two one three connection would
take him home down the stretch. In the fourth. Let's see if George
and get going again. With seventeen point Gerald step in the lane, floats
with the left hand, banks it in over a double team from Paul George.
He's got nineteen eighty seven seventy nine Clippers off a screen to his right
from Man George crossover on Trent Ben's off step back three throw line. Jay
Is butter p g with a game high twenty one and it's ninety one eighty
two lay clocks and drive middle steps it back on Vin. He now drives
down the right alley to the rim and slams with two Paul George climbs the
imaginary latter. He's got twenty three and La leads by ten ninety five eighty
five Leonard into the farnt four down the left alley, lind Kawai Leonard,
the biggest Kawhi light of the year. He just post her poodle. He
put him in the rim. There's a funny lying inside Time Out Toronto.
One hundred eighty five feell intentions from Kawai. One of the best calls of
the year by Noah Eagle. Full disclosure. It was kind of telegraphed.
I could see what Kawhi was up to. We all could, and I
grabbed Noah's right arm and he's still got off the perfect call. What a
play from Kawhi Leonard. Just another statement on back type of dunk from him,
one of his five in this one. But that was the most dramatic
in the fourth quarter over a player he was traded for a few years ago
in Yaku Pearle, and it looked as close as a dunk as we've seen
since. The Kawhi dunk on Derrick Favors in the same game in Game four
against the Utah Jazz right here in downtown Los Angeles before he tore the acl
So it was just great to see him respond like this. Great to see
the Clippers after a really rough first quarter where they had seven turnovers, only
have ten the rest of the way and really pull away late. A nice
lob from PG thirteen to have Visa zoobots down the stretch as well. That
kind of stealed this one. Clippers win one O eight to one hundred over
the Raptors here from Crypto dot com Arena. Coming up next, we'll preview
Saturday's game two more days off. It's weird, get used to it.
There's a reason that the Clippers had one of the toughest schedules to start off
this season and play sixty one games before the All Star Break. I believe
it's the first time it's ever happened, or it's the second, but it's
happened only to the Clippers so far. Into a dumb camp comes soon enough.
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the phone number. I do want to remind you. Saturday's game is an
afternoon start here in downtown, LA. Clippers taken on the New York Knicks,
one of the hottest teams in the league. Julius Randall is taking his
game up a notch recently. I want to say they've won eighth straight.
I want to make sure I get that right and give them their respect because
they've been playing superb basketball and of certainly, oh, they just took it
out to the Charlotte Hornets, one of the worst teams of the league.
Now, I don't know the conditions of that. There could be some caveats.
Some guys could have been out, but before that they had won eight
straight and it looks like ten of their last eleven. This next team is
good, not gonna be an easy one, especially because we know how things
work with the Clippers, and slow starts during afternoons afternoon contests can't happen on
Saturday. They got to figure things out early. They eventually did in this
one after trailing twenty five to seven team to the Raptors, and they had
seven turnovers in that first quarter, but the rest of the way just ten.
And they had some separation in the fourth quarter and some continuity with lineups
that coach lou went with for an extended period of time. We'll talk about
that coming up on Clippers Talk. Saturday's ball game, though tip time is
that one. We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at noon outside of Los
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Your calls Plus coach Lou looking for Kawhi Leonard postgame audio as well, and
Charles Mockler from Clips in dip will be here. I thought coming out in
this one, the Clippers just didn't look right, didn't look to be in
sync. There was very little carry over from what we saw the night against
the Memphis Grizzlies, when I wanted them to bottle up those nine minutes when
they outscored the grizz by twenty to come back down fifteen. The only team
so far this season to have a comeback of that fashion where you're down by
fifteen or more entering the fourth quarter this season. Everyone else was oz in
two thirty nine. But the Clippers made that happen on Sunday, and they
willed it with defense. And while I thought their defense was okay in the
first quarter, it was the turnovers that were doing them in. They had
seven of them, leading to nine points for the Raptors. When they weren't
turning it over, when they were actually able to get shots up, they
were six of thirteen from the fields. They actually held the Raptors in that
first quarter to nine of twenty three shooting. That's under forty percent. That's
basically where they finished at the game or in the final box score. They
held the Raptors under forty percent in this one, it was just them cleaning
up the turnovers, and all of a sudden you saw a very different Clippers
ball club, one that could score at a rate of fifty five percent from
the field, one that still struggled from the outside and only took twenty three
pointers but hit six of them. Hit someone they needed them. PG thirteen
nailed one in the fourth quarter, but he and Kawhi Leonard, just like
against the Memphis Grizzlies, down the stretch of this one, there was a
different level of intensity and urgency on that end, and the Clippers were playing
five guys on a string. And by the way, what a difference rest
makes, and what a difference a healthy Paul George makes. This is the
best he has looked all season movement wise. That is not hyperbolic at all.
He talked about it after the last game. He's feeling healthy. He
can actually bounce off of his right foot. His right knee was giving him
those issues. He stepped up defensively in that fourth quarter and was just going
to clamp City with it, and there were some great individual efforts on that
end. Even though Gary Trent Junior made a jumper on PG to start the
fourth, he was all over him, and then we saw it was Terrence
man on Pascal Siaka was some great individual defense drew him to miss, and
then Nicholas Patum on Scotty Barnes was some great defense. And then Kauai getting
a steel getting out in transition and also having five throwdowns against his former squad.
Yeah, he only had twenty four points below his average sinister January,
but he was eight of fifteen and showed off the athleticism and just further progress
along this ACEO comeback trail he's been on. But that was a statement dunk
on Yaka Pearle one are the guys he was traded for. I don't know
if he was thinking about that when he went up for it, but you
could tell he wanted that one. It was the closest dunk that reminded me
most of what he did to Derek Favors in that playoff game right before tearing
the atl. It was a thing to witness here in downtown Los Angeles and
the highlight it may end up number one on Sports Center tonight Kawhi Leonard.
Though having five dunks in a game is not insignificant, It's not just bad
defense. It's a guy who was in attack mode and feels healthy and has
been playing thirty seven minutes a game since January seventh, and played thirty nine
minutes in this one. Outside of missing some back to backs here and there,
he's been playing pretty much every game. He's been at fifty fifty ninety
splits. He's been absurd. But Paul George now getting back to where he
can be athletically dealing with the right knee soreness a hamstring issue earlier this season.
He had multiple dunks. In fact, on the night the Clippers,
and I'm getting this from Trey b on Twitter, they had fourteen total dunks,
five from Kawhi I want to say, three from pg A, couple
from Terrence Man, and three or four from Visa Zubas. But those fourteen
dunks total a season high. They were playing with more four moored downhill attack
and scored sixty points in the paint. This is a team that only averages
forty three. They had forty eight points through three quarters. Sixty from them
is a huge number, and that's how you counter not having a big night
from the outside, just going six of twenty there. Even though that's where
the Raptors were better. They shot it better from three than two. They
were thirteen of thirty two from the outside, but the Clippers ended up with
nine offensive rebounds. The Raptors still beat him in that area because they were
getting to some early in the ball game. They were getting to some late
and made a push. But I thought probably the play of the game,
and this is some growth and some progress from this team that has had their
struggles executing late. But we saw a lineup that was consistently out there throughout
most of the fourth quarter, and it was with Terrence Mann, Eric Gordon,
Kawai PG and Big Zoo, and they worked well and their defense was
on point. But it was Paul George bringing it up there after Eric Gordon
gave it to him with under a minute left in a four point game that
I thought made the biggest play. He saw Big Zoo and they were looking
for him from the beginning of the second half, trying to get him more
involved. Russell Westbrook did a very good job with that. He had four
assists in the first seven minutes of the third quarter, but with forty two
seconds left, PG thirteen through an alley up up to Vitsa Zoo Boss.
That put him up six. That pretty much put the ball game away.
Kawi would sink some free throws to put him up by eight. One oh
eight one hundred was your final. Paul Georges had his own struggles with turnovers
and most of them coming at the end of games. I thought he was
very much in control and he read that play beautifully with he and as a
big man in Big Zoo who speaking of health, after playing just seventeen minutes
last game against Memphis on a minute restriction, I believe still is. But
he plays twenty seven tonight and looked explosive. He also had a huge throwdown
on multiple defenders. He had a dunk at the end of the first half
that didn't count, just couldn't get it quite through in time before the red
light went off. Big Zoo was dominant. And if you want to talk
about a team trying to flip their defense around and get them pointed back in
the right direction, Big Zoo is a huge part of that. It beats
the Zoo Bots when they were playing good defense early in the season. It
was the way he was able to patrol the paint and be that classic defensive
anchor and a smart defensive player with rotations and making up for other guys deficiencies
out there. He's that good. We were talking about him being the best
defensive center in the league. To start off this season. Nobody was better
within six feet in the restricted area than it beats the zoo Bots. So
if they're gonna get back to that level, if they are going to find
that flip to switch, Zubots has to be healthy, has to look right,
and tonight he did. He Kauai, Pa Old George, those three
looking this spride. The Clippers look dare I say for an older team,
damn near athletic tonight these guys look different. And it was a bad first
quarter, yes, but it was mostly self inflicted. I joked at one
point Clippers were down thirty four to thirty one, and I said, the
Clippers are losing to the Clippers thirty four to thirty one. They couldn't say
out of their own way. They were beating themselves just through turnovers. Gotta
clean that up. They have averaged seventeen in the last seven games out of
the All Star break, where now they are two and five. But they've
made it two in a row, and we've seen them maybe start to turn
a little bit of a corner, and coach lou going with those rotations and
sticking with guys and riding guys in the hot hand out there. And Terrence
Man, who have played the last seven team in is the ballgame when he
came in and the third after a really good stint from Russell Westbrook again four
assists and a couple of those were two of Visa Zoo Bots early in the
third quarter got the Clippers offense going. That was their highest scoring quarter at
thirty four. But then Terrence Man, it was like it hit that second
rocket booster, that other ignition, and he kept them going. He kept
them playing with pace and getting into transition. Really from the second quarter on,
this team played a lot faster. Guys were pushing the ball at the
court. But to go from Russell Westbrook then to Terrence Man there to keep
that same motor. That was good to see because those two in the first
half actually I thought, really got them back into it into the second quarter
when they were playing on the court together, but then they were staggered and
Russell Westbrook didn't come back into the ball game a Visa Zoo Bots or excuse
me. Marcus Morris did not as well when he stubbed out in the third
quarter, and coach Luke just said, I'm gonna ride with the guys who
were playing great right now. Three starters in Kawai pg Zoo and then Eric
Gordon, Terrence Man, some Nicholas, but two was thrown in there.
But it worked. It worked beautifully. Their switchability was there, and I
just loved seeing that level of intensity from them digging in their heels on defense.
There were glimpses in this game of what we've been asking to see all
season long from this team. Paul George said it after they're winning Memphis,
when they came back big down late, he said, they just played harder.
I mean, sometimes it's that simple. Play harder, and defensively,
guys took the challenge of staying in front of their man. It's been an
issue all season long. While we have a moment less pause ten seconds for
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Eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. Let's go too before
we get to Big Zoo. We got postgame audio there, Howie in the
eight one eight you're on Clipper stock with Adam Moslin. So, Howie,
Adam, I love your passion. Man, you got a lot of passion
tonight. Boy, that brings it out of me. Exhibition. You see
a performance like that the last three quarters, the potential of this squad,
even with things for the most part, not going their way so far this
season. I tell, I tell everybody in Clipper Nation keep the faith.
Yeah, thank you for nagging Zoo, because boy, what a difference.
I mean, what a major, major difference when he plays like that.
I got some calls the other night, and I love Mason plumbly. Do
not get me wrong. He was a player. He's not the defensive center
of each zoobots is not many are. This guy has been decriminally underrated for
years. He dominated it. Yeah, I think we slipped up into the
sixth spot, didn't we? Warriors lost last night? Dallas lost tonight.
I'm gonna update the standings in just a little bit. Howid but you got
anything else you want to say about the night's ball game? No great?
Garon also shout out to Terrence Man. Terence Mann played a great game tonight,
a really great game, one of his better games, his best game,
i'd say, post All Star break, after having the great game against
Phoenix going into the All Star break. How are we? Thank you for
the phone call. Let's go to Javier and Lahabber Heights. Javier, you're
on Clippers stoff for that. I'm aslt. What's up? Thank you for
taking my car again? Yeah? You know, what's the difference a couple
of days off? Mate? When they they look fresh, they look young.
I mean it's just that first quarter graph of that. I mean it's
funny, Javier, and I understand the sentiment that people's, you know,
they want to see them. These professionals play at their highest level all the
time, like their robots, regardless of travel schedule, back to back.
Who's on the court. But the truth is the not even Kawhi Leonard,
even the terminator, and a couple of days off, they get their legs
back, especially with an older team like this, it's visible. You can
see the difference in their play out there in the pop that they have no
for sure. I mean you saw it in Zoo Box, you saw it
in and uh in Kawai. What was what we have five done? I
mean I was like, man, this is a Kawai san Antonio's first back
in the day. And I could just see in the fourth quarter. I
was like, you know what, They're not gonna lead, They're gonna finish
the house. And they did. I mean, they got down to four
points, but I said, you know, they'll win this game, and
they did. They one by eight, so it's a it's good game.
And then you know they have the Knicks on Sunday, so I mean on
Saturday, right Saturday, so it's a new game, and I'll be there
at the game. That's one of my games. So they got to keep
it going at them, the lasting at them. Here with Marcus Morris,
I mean, I know I talked to him all year. Is he ever
going to take him out of starting nine? Adam? I mean, in
your opinion, that's all I gotta say. I'll talk to you on Saturday,
all right, Javier. I appreciate the phone call, Coach, lu
talked about it pre game and talked about the continuity of having these four guys
played together for a few years now and what that meant to the team,
Kawhi, PG, Zoobots and Marcus Morris, and the quote was this,
I want to make sure I get it right. It's coming from Joey Ellen,
one of the great reporters for SI now who covers the Clippers quote.
Coach Lew said this pre game regarding that quote. With our starting unit,
we know one thing that's been here for three to four years. It's Marcus,
PG, Kawai and Zoo, So we got to start building off of
that. And we've been really good offensively with those four guys starting. We
just have to make sure defensively we have a defensive mindset. So I don't
know if that is going to change. But Marcus started the third quarter,
and when he and Russell Westbrook went to the bench, Coach Slew went with
what was working. The rest of the way, there was certainly a little
bit more of we gotta get this one tonight. There was that type of
energy out there and just seeing them go with the guys that are playing the
best right now, and I love seeing that I think we're going to see
more of that. The rest of the way was just fourteen games left.
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number. One of the more underrated ways the Clippers won this game. That
Dennis Degastino are statisticians to the stars over here. Just point out the Clippers
attempted thirty one free throws last game. They attempted thirty five. Both of
those are really good numbers. Both of those feign to this team. But
they've been getting into the paint and attacking more, and while they did miss
seven of them, still getting up thirty one. You could win games at
the free throw line. I thought that definitely kept them in it early on
when they were turning the basketball over and having some struggles. In fact,
at the half they had fifteen free throw attempts to just four for the Toronto
Raptors. So they did a nice job overall defending without fouling while playing aggressive
defense. All right, Chris and La Chris, you're on Clippers stock without
mass Hi, Chris, Hey, how are you? There's a big win
there. I would say that it looks like the lineups from this game from
a twenty three minute standpoint to Terrence Man playing twenty nine minutes with him playing
down the stretch was the key. Right. So the rotation now with fifteen
games left, is starting to get tighter. You know, you saw Zoback
with twenty seven minutes and Plumbly only playing sixteen, So those are like they
looked at this as a playoff game. They only shot twenty three pointers,
which I've always believed that at the Clippers shoot you know, twenty five to
thirty two, thirty three, three, pointers that puts them right where they
need to be. So I felt, all in all, it was a
fantastic game, and attacking the paint was key, you know, the efficiency
and really allowing Westbrook to be the positive role that he can play on the
team, but not putting too much on him in the fact that he just
came over. I really liked this game from Russell Westbrook and the way he
was in control, especially in that third quarter where, yeah, Russ at
one point look to have an open layup and instead I want to say,
he made a tough pass to a Visa Zubos who missed the shot, and
I thought to myself, he was a little bit too unselfish there. And
you don't always say that about Russ because he's just so aggressive and he's gonna
try to get his But I have felt like there have been clear cut moments
as a Clipper where he has been more in control and has been a much
better decision maker and just trying to get the rest of the guys going,
and I thought he did a fantastic job of that early in the third quarter
in twenty three minutes to have seven assess I mean, look, he's a
piece to me that is an upgrade from John wall He's All of Famer,
we all know that, and he's just getting acclimated and him and PG have
that chemistry. But I also like the fact that there was a couple of
times where Paul George hadn't shot the ball much going into the third quarter and
Kawai made it. Made it. Hey, Paul, you know, go
post up your man. You have a mismatch, and remember that in the
third quarter about halfway through, you know, getting PG his touches, but
later in the game, letting Kawhi establish it. But also the others.
I mean, you know, it's all about the analytics. If you look
at Westbrook three of six and Man six of seven, right, you know
that's not an analytics. That's as basically box scores you can go. But
yeah, I mean it's as basic as you can go. Right. So
the reality of it is they're ready. I think you'll see over these next
fourteen games remaining you know what we saw tonight, a titan bench and going
with the hot hand, but also letting Man be the closer. And it's
regards regarding Marcus Morris, Marcus Morris Senior will always start for the Clippers,
and anyone who says he doesn't doesn't understand the dynamics that twenty four months ago
or whatever it was, we were going to the Western Conference Finals with Marcus
Morris shooting over forty percent from three. He can start the game and finish
and start the third quarter and again down the stretch. He may not be
part of that small ball lineup he's you know, it will probably be,
but tune Paul, George Kauai and whomever else is in man and whoever else.
But if it is great, Marcus Morris is a key component to this
teaming, some sort of toughness, like I appreciate the phone call. Look
what happened twenty four months ago, and I love Marcus, but he's been
in a funk. You can't just go off of what happened twenty four months
ago and say that's who he is as a player today. And I don't
think coach lew is doing that. I think he's evaluating and saying, Okay,
this is somebody that helps spread the floor when PG and Choir out there.
And yeah, traditionally those three have been very good together. But at
some point down the stretch from the guys in that big of a funk,
Well, you gotta go with someone else, And he did it tonight.
He's done it multiple times coming out of the All Star break where he went
away from one of his starters. Let's go to Oh Got Mike and La
Mike, you're on clipperstock. I just want to give a shout out to
Pence who played such an amazing game and we just look so much better with
him on the floor. It's amazing. The other thing is that I was
thinking watching tonight, you know, if we had a healthy Zoobos for this
five game losing streak, you know, the two Sacramento games, in the
Denver game, at least one of these has to be at w course.
Mike, You've heard me say it. I don't think they lose five in
a row if it beats the Zoo bosses out there and healthy, I mean,
he's so important for him being healthy, and you know, playing like
he's capable of is so important for this team being what it is. And
I know also this guys overshadow, but that blocked by Rust in the in
the second quarter, I know, you know, the rest of the team
kind of you know, didn't follow up on it, and you know resulted
an offensive rebounded Donal Clan That block was really nice. You know, I
appreciated the block he had. Yeah, that I think it sounded like flop.
I think you're talking about the block. I think we're on the same
page here. That block he had when the Raptors got in transition and nobody
else helped him out to get the basketball. The Clippers were late in getting
back. That's been an issue all season long. Still plenty of stuff to
tighten up, obviously, when you're just two games above five hundred and two
and five in your last seven. But the athleticism and explosiveness from Russell Westbrook
on that block was insane. When Lawrence Frank was talking about, hey,
he's thirty four and he still might be arguably the best athlete on this team.
Still, he showed it off there. Mike, thank you for the
phone call. Lenny in Inglewood, Lenny your on Clippers stop without Oslin.
Hey man, a win is a win, and I'm glad we got it.
No one's not. It matters how you win. It does? It
matters how you win and who you beat. A cliche is a cliche is
what that is. That's true. But we still got to do it against
Uh, you know, so we still we still got to give those we
got a tough schedule. Well that's exactly why a win isn't a win if
you're already going to We got to do it against top to your competition,
So it's not the same, that's true. And give the Raptors some credit
though they've been playing well. They had one nine or fourteen and they just
pushed the Denver Nuggets and almost beat them in Denver there at night. The
Raptors I just I just a piece away from from doing something. Many they
really that Siakam kind of Noby Scottie. You mean, they're they're they're they're
really good. I mean they're they're a solid team. But what's the deal
with Norn Powell. Uh, it's a shoulder injury. He was practicing getting
shots up yesterday. But we don't exactly have a timetable on his return.
Some people were going with the sublexation and Steph Curry had it before and it
costed him ten games. So people are trying to project that maybe they get
him back a week before the end of the regular season or two weeks before
the end of the regular season. But nobody knows how he's going to respond.
Right now, I got you, We'll listen. My last things point
is this, I really hope that you know, I know you you've given
Russ. You know his is credit, which you know he he's playing better,
but the fact that Man missed some crucial minutes in his last five games
because you know he uh, Tyler had to experiment and see what's going on.
What's what. I hope he's done with that and he realizes, you
know that we're a much better team with Man on the floor. Even the
announcing, he kept staying throughout the game. He took energy, he uh,
he just he impacts the game. Man. I think, you know,
one of the most one of the most five most impactful players on this
Clippers team, I think is Terrispan is one of them. Yeah, and
I'm I've been hearing him mentioned in the same vein as uh as Maxie out
of Philly, and that's you know he has that he's not the story is
which he does impact the games offensively and offensively. So you know, I
hope last said, I hope thylu uh is kind of settling in. The
guy had some who called before him he had some good tistics and I'm weighing
all that. So yeah, let's let's just alves that they settling in and
and and and take it to some of these good teams because some of the
other captain balling, I mean, no Phoenish, little scary and it's just
it's just unfortunately, because it's the year with Memphis having these problems, if
we would have just been where I feel we should have been, no way,
we wouldn't been number two or one. So you know, once again,
we we got to come from behind and prove it. So you know,
we just got to keep going on. But I hope, I said,
hopefully tyd Luken figure this thing out and settle in and and and and
get and get those those kym Maason together. All right, Lenny, I
appreciate the phone call. Eight six six ninety seven two five seventies the phone
number. We'll come back. We'll quick take a quick time out here.
We'll have Charles Mockler on from Clips and dip Terrence Man that third quarter,
though, was just shot out of a cannon. He had that duncan transition
a steal and then found Mason plumbly for an easy lay up. The show
and go move at the end of the third quarter. Energy. He's been
a spark for this team for years now. He just changes trajectories of games,
like he can take a game where the Clippers seem down and out and
lifeless out there and give them that spirit. It's something we saw a lot
with Patrick Beverley, and I think he learned that from him. Something he
did a lot for this team, just playing with that edge, playing faster,
pushing the basketball. Terrence Man's critical to this Clippers ball club. All
right, coming back, Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip Pod. You're listening
to the Los Angeles Clippers radio networking an five seventy a sports Fenny got it,
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Clippers over the Toronto Raptors, they make it two in a row. Here
from Crypto dot Com Arena with their postgame show Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin
coming up back to your phone calls at eight six six ninety seven two five
seventy. But you know the music that means we have Charles Mockler on from
the Clips and Dip pod does it with myself and William Updyke. All right,
Charles, not a ton of time here, but you know, would
you take out the turnovers and watch the rest of the possessions of this ballgame?
And I know that's asking a lot, but this Clippers team looked pretty
good on both ends. They looked much more locked in. It was a
more complete effort overall. Yeah, I think you know, you take out
the turnovers and you still look at the fact that the Clippers had twenty five
fewer field goal attempts then the Rappers, which is pretty incredible. Things look
good on both ends. You're right, and I think that's because we got
a good Tylou game in this one, right Terence Man, Yes, he
had to play the last sixteen minutes, but he finished with more minutes than
Marcus Morris, which a lot of people wanted. Russell Westbrook only took six
shots. He was the best plus minus on the team. Like this was
Tyler made the right decisions in this game. It you know, I'm not
totally sure I'm back on the World one hundred percent Contenders wagon, but this
is as some people would say something may have been born out of this game,
hopefully rotation wise. What kind of crazies would say anything. Okay,
so Vizza Zoo Bots. We've talked about him a lot, just how much
he's been missed, and it feels like it's flown under the radar. I
mean, I've gotten calls here postgame of start Mason plumbly look at the impact
of a Vizza's zoo Bots on both ends. As he's starting to get healthier,
I'm not even sure if he's one hundred percent yet. He said he's
been feeling better coming off the calf injury, but he played twenty seven minutes
tonight was huge. Yeah, I mean, he was only two boards away
from a pretty assertive double double. Seventeen points is a lot for Zoo,
especially with only four free throw attempts. Look, I love Mason Plumley.
He's good at some things that Zoo isn't good at, But one of those
things is not defense. Zoo being back, this team is completely different on
the defensive end of the floor. To start games, he's been fantastic And
you know, you said it's kind of flown under the radar, but that's
what Zoo does. He's the quiet giant, but you know, he was
incredibly efficient tonight. He looks happy to be out there, which is gonna
be huge for the Clippers heading into this incredibly crucial stretch. Hey, and
mid range zoo is a bucket. He had that free for a lunch chopper.
Uh, speaking of a bucket. Kawhi Leonard a master of the mid
range, but he also can throw it down when he needs to and had
five dunks in this one. This is maybe his most most athletic performance coming
off the ACL he just looked like he had so much bounce. Yeah,
I mean it, he destroyed you know, Parnel at the rim, which
we all love to see. But this is I mean, Kawhi is in
inevitability stage. He's inevitable now for games the Clippers, in between games coming
up. It's the perfect chancelly at all the Vets kind of warmed up,
you know for the playoff push. But if they want some of the you
know, follow my example to it's Kawhi Leonard because he the strategy sometimes seems
to be Kawhi, please do all that you can, and thankfully right now
he is doing all of it more. You know, I heard Paul George
after the last game talk about how he's feeling healthier and he can push off
of you know, both feet again and explode. And I didn't realize you
know, how much or what he was dealing with throughout the season. I
know there was the hamstring, I know there was a sore right knee,
but he said basically as the healthiest he had felt all season coming out of
the Memphis game, and tonight it showed the movement from him, the way
he was slithering through defenders and getting to the basket for tough layups. He
looked as athletic as ever. Yeah, I'm not sure those injuries were either.
I think a lot of the times with Paul George, I think several
of these things are maybe in his hand. He's just not feeling quite right
for whatever reason. But he's feeling right right now. It's I mean,
you know, I we didn't see a complete, you know, dominant game
from this team, which is led by you know, two, one,
three, But we're getting there. If in the next fourteen games, if
we can see you know, eight to ten wire to wire, good process
games with PG you know, slithering like you said, Kawhi doing Kawhi things,
zoos, stepping it up time, making the right rotation. There will
be very legitimate reasons to believe in this team making the goings in the playoffs.
Terrence Man, you mentioned it. He played the last sixteen seventeen minutes
of the ball game, and I thought it was interesting seeing because he and
Russell Westbrook played off each other very well in the first half when they got
back into it down ten and had it tied at forty nine and a half.
But then they were staggered obviously Westbrook with the starters. Terrence Man comes
in about five minute mark of the third quarter, plays the rest of the
ball game, and it was like he kept the same pace up without Russell
Westbrook on the floor. Ter Man kind of carried that over because that's the
type of player he is, and the Clippers found a rhythm. There was
some real continuity out there, which is tempo. Yeah, I mean,
I'm sure it was a bit of a I let's say shock, but maybe
something hard to adjust to if you're Terrence from starting and the team is playing
really well and then getting Russell Westbrook and you know, not really even competing
for that job anymore, and just kind of having it given to Russell Westbrook,
who has been, you know, okay to solve for the Clippers.
But it feels like Terrence has kind of bought into yet another system that he's
going to be a pretty important cog in, and that's really important for the
Clippers right now. I have all of the lays in the world that Terrence
Man is going to make a huge difference in the playoffs, and I bet
his minutes per game grows every real the big playoffs if the Clippers get passed.
I know Eric Gordon struggle a little bit with some kill shot type three
porters that he would have liked to hit at the end, and he was
just three of seven out there. But I kind of liked that lineup with
him and Terrence Man the backcourt with the rest of the starters. I just
feel like there's a lot of stability there with a couple of other ball handlers
and a couple of guys that can do a multitude of things out there on
the court. How did you feel about it, because obviously Coach lew was
riding it late. I mean, if it's working and Coach New's going with
it late, I really have no other option. To be all for it,
you know what I mean. He's talked about how even in the starting
lineup, you know, there's kind of four legitate, there's four solidified spots,
which is everyone but the point guard. With the closing lineup, we
don't really know for what three of those spots are going to be other than
Kwai and Paul George. So if it's working, I'm on board with it
at this point. There's not a lot of time to be picky right now.
Clippers win one O eight to one hundred over the Toronto Raptors. They
make it two in a row. They'll see the New York Knicks right back
here on Saturday. He is Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip. I believe
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Thanks for coming on and doing the double dip on Clippers stock tonight, my
friend. Anytime, let's go. Clips coming up next, final phone calls
and we'll close things out. In preview Saturday afternoon and that contest that Clippers
hopefully come out strong and as they have struggled in those situations. But they
got two days off once again, so guys got plenty of opportunity to rest
up and ramp back up for this one and just show off that pop and
juice and turbo that we've seen the last couple of games. The movement's been
different from this team. There's still a ton to work on, of course,
with fourteen games left, just got to keep that same sense of urgency
for Clippers stock next year. MP five seventy LA Sports George and Lennard running.
You're listening to LA Clippers basketball clip puts it down plus the foul every
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eight percent shooting from the field after giving up fifty percent shooting in seven of
their last ten games. Clippers win one O eight to one hundred. You
hold a team to one hundred in today's NBA. This is the way.
This is good. The Clippers have the guys to play defense. We saw
it out there tonight. They just maybe played harder. Whatever PG thirteen says,
I'm going with it after the Memphis game right now, eight six ninety
seven, two five seventy quickly, two phone calls and we'll close things out
here. Jeremy in La Jeremy are on Clippers stock Withoutam Moslin? What's up
Adam Clipper Gang? Y'all here, man clip gang? Or do you know
what it is? A couple of things. Love the rotation to night by
tie. We need Terris man Lay thirty minutes every single night. He just
is an impact player. He can stand to be better defensively as well,
to be quite honest with you, just as the rest of us could.
But I love the defensive game from us tonight. First day round of applause
for an actual good defensive game from us. Happen to the All Star break.
About that last point a Clipper fans, it's about playoff time, man,
Let's go get in there, make some freaking noise. It's it's time.
We can't be sitting back just chilling waiting for something to happen. We
have to make it happen too with them, all right. I was at
the game tonight. It was it was good. Feel sleepy man, it's
smart. Let's go. We need more, all right, Jeremy rallying cry
a Clipper nation out there. Like I thought, the second half was much
better. I thought the second half of the fourth quarter, specifically on Sunday,
was fantastic. I thought that the crowd helped fuel that Clippers comeback.
I don't think they do it without them and Terrence Man he had a couple
of great defensive plays on Siakam and it just didn't matter in the first half.
Siakam though, finish with twenty points on nine or twenty one shooting,
So I not the most efficient night, Damian in La Damian, you're on
Clippers stock with Atmslin triple a man quality win finally putting it together. Excuse
me, Man, I can't say enough about the team. But you know,
looking forward, I think the things that we need to do to be
better are very simple, man. You know, we just need to,
you know, kind of lock in on the fundamentals. When I think about
greatness, you know, people's Patriots. The Patriots didn't have a whole bunch
of great you know, top tier athletes. They had guys who knew their
positions, and they were very disciplined and they didn't make any mistakes. That's
what made them so frustrating. We need to frustrate teams the same way,
and we can do that. People out there questioning or basketball IQ obviously know
nothing about the game. These guys have a lot going on. Like you
said before, you want these guys to be superheroes, but they're not.
They're human beings. They're starting to get it together. You're starting to see
it click. You look at the body language, the look in their faces.
Everything is different. Everything is striking more confidence, and that gives me
more confidence in the team that they're going to figure it out. But the
things that they need to do immediately while they're getting to where they want to
be very simple in nature. I feel all right, David. I appreciate
the phone call. Look after that first quarter, they were much better.
Those seven turnovers, some of them in the first quarter were absolutely careless turnovers
that just can't happen where guys couldn't make simple passes. And I understand the
ball pressure that a team like the Toronto Raptors play with, Like they're different
in that way. They get up underneath you a little bit, they crowd
you and that can lead to turnovers. And it's a bit of a culture
shock earlier in the game, and maybe that's just what happened, but after
that they were much better. Before we get out of here, it's casual
Katie's corner, Katie, what's up? Producer, Katie Newton? Here are
some basketball questions? All right, it's a real, real quick one for
you, Adam, Why vanilla protein tonight? Come on? It's not basketball
related because they were out of the chocolate one on Amazon. Who shifts it
to me weekly? That is the reason why. But it still had forty
two grams of protein and the Clippers got the win anyways, and Noah Eagle
had the great call of me shaking it up and having a hard time doing
so. Don't you always sometimes you have to add water because I just left
it in the freezer for too long. I'll want it cold turn into a
slushy. Basically, Clippers win tonight. Thank you, Katie Newton. It's
a great segment. Just need some music, a little more production, and
better questions. That's all I'm asking. Clippers win one O eight to one
hundred. Kidding over the Toronto Raptors here at Crypto dot com. Are you
know they're coming back on Saturday taking on the new or Knicks. Tip time
is at one. We'll have your pregame show starting at twelve before we get
out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle,
Bryan Seaman, Ralph while there, Big Brother Jake Warner, Big Brother
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