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The Clippers dominate the Sacramento Kings here at Crypto dot com Arena. They win
one nineteen to ninety eight. They sweep the home back to back. Welcome
into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Coming up. We got second
half highlights, your postgame box score. Clippers Stock on m by seventy LA
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rejoined by your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, the
best performance of the season, front to back by this Clippers team, and
it started in that first quarter. And once again, its started with Kawhi
Leonard. Kawhi Leonard sent the tone hunting shots he didn't miss after the first
quarter at him, he didn't miss a shot and he finished with thirty one
points tonight. I mean, he's automatic. He was automatic from the field.
It was like he was playing two K perfect release every time string green
green beans, you know what they say. It's like he's seeing through defenders
right now, like he's Superman, which he seems to be. With the
shot, He's just looking right through him to the rim, and with pinpoint
accuracy, everything is falling for the claw. He has thirty one on eleven
or fourteen shooting last seven games. Now, he is shooting sixty two percent
from the field and is shooting fifty six percent from the outside, and the
Clippers are thriving longest active winning streak in the league at him. For a
Clippers team that lost six in a row, you sent it. They gotta
figure out how to win games later in the season to come up for the
makeup for those losses. They're doing that right now. An excellent job taking
on the challenge and an excellent job rising to the challenge. I mean,
you think about coming into tonight a Sacramento team that dominated the Nets in their
last game on the back end of the back to the back they knew they
were going to have to play strong and come in here and make an impact,
and so they made that tonight and really had a great job sending the
tone from the get go. I mean, the Kings started the game kind
of back and forth, but ever since the first couple of minutes, the
Clippers ran away with this thing. Clippers went one, nineteen to ninety eight
over the Sacramento Kings. And while we have a moment, let's pause ten
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KYSRHD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station paper Jake Corner and Katie Newton keeping the
broadcast in line. As always, we took a couple of guys off the
bench for our players to watch in this one, and I thought Russell Westbrook
and Norman Powell both performed very well. Russ just making an impact with everything
he's doing right now. He was a plus twelve out there. The numbers
aren't staggering, but I felt like he impacted winning and keeping the momentum for
the Clippers. Yeah, and he was an energizer from they can't go.
I mean a guy who came in sat the tone felt like he got those
couple of offensive rebound scream towards the crowd, even asking the crowd to get
into it a couple times at him bringing his hands to the air saying,
come on, let's kime behind me. And then they gave him a restper
chant. At the end of the game when he was on the Becks Russ
just like that, he pointed to him, he acknowledged the crowd love it.
It was fun to watch. That's his role on this team. That's
what his role is, and he continues to show that he's accepting of that
role and playing it to the most effort that he can. You mentioned it
at a break Russell Westbrook shot section was great. He turned down a corner
three. What do you doing? Said? He drove to the rim,
where he's been great this year, finished with the right hand. The Clippers
played their style of basketball and yeah, yes the Claw had thirty one points
tonight, but outside of that, at him, this is an ordinary night
for this Clipper team. PG thirteen didn't play the second half and the Clippers
took a Sacramento team that finished top three in the West last year, and
Boat raced him here at home. That is something we'll be monitoring. Paul
George left with left groin soreness, didn't play in the second half. As
Carlo mentioned here. Russell Westbrook finished with eight, seven boards, three assists.
I thought Terrence Man also helped set the tone. Knock down some three
pointers, hit a couple of them, but that play on the out of
bounds, causing the Sacramento Kings to call a timeout. That is just hustle
and heart and Terrence Man afterwards, knowing that he caused them, even down
thirty, to have to call a timeout so they didn't have a five second
call on them, he let out a primordial scream. That's what his game
is all about, the intangibles, the little things that help you win,
and why he's so good at it is because he prides himself on that so
much. He comes into games trying to make the little play, trying to
fight the rebound, trying to in his matchup and affect the ball game anyway
he can. It's not about scoring for Ternceman, and with this offense it
doesn't need to be. He continues to be the connector, the keystone piece
and of this offense. Clippers win over Sacramento one nineteen to ninety eight.
They'll be back here on Thursday, taken on the Golden State Warriors tiptime once
again at seven thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at six thirty.
Carlo fun time tonight. Good to be here with you, A great
call. We'll see you on Thursday. Well see a Thursday where we'll face
the Draymond Green lest Warriors. I think so yeah, don't expect him to
be there. Miss Cleo doesn't have to point out one out for us.
Clippers win one nineteen to ninety eight over the Sacramento Kings here at Crypto dot
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Business Perform Pleasure Clippers All Business Tonight. They win one nineteen to ninety eight
on the second night of a back to back here at crpper dot com Arena
over the Sacramento Kings. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Madame Oslin.
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the second half highlights. Clippers led by as many as twenty nine in the
first half. It was seventy forty eight twenty four minutes in and after Kawhi
had seventeen points in the first half, will he almost outdid that in the
third quarter alone. Leonard drives by to the left handed handle, right handed
folder up and in Gohi with nineteen fakes the handoff drives, the lane goes
up and one Leonard to the rim. Leonard right Obo side step into the
paint. He smells flood in the water. Does he want to go up?
Right? In and quarter? Troo Westbrook rimes box, Eurostat picks it.
Leonard weft corner a three yafie do I went twenty seven. Kawhi Leonard
with fourteen points in the third quarter. Carlo Jimenez on the call there and
he was perfect from the field, just unstoppable and thirty one minutes had thirty
one points, was a plus twenty one. Clippers led ninety nine to seventy
heading into the fourth. They would close things out with a one nineteen ninety
eight victory thanks to Xavier Moon, Kobe Brown, a Mirror Coffee, and
Bones Highland getting into the act late, complete domination and just a dismantling of
the Kings. Tonight here at Crypto dot Com Arena, by your Los Angeles
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had to try one of my favorite songs playing here. Clippers win one,
nineteen to ninety eight over the Sacramento Kings at Crypto dot Com Arena. Welcome
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Get on early eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six
six ninety seven two five seventy after the Clippers hold the Kings to forty two
percent shooting from the field, nine of thirty six from the outside, where
at one point Sacramento missed sixteen straight three pointers. Dearon Fox almost non existent
in this game, five of sixteen, just fourteen points. Demontes a bonus
just fifteen. Keegan Murray was set seventeen. Nice night for him. Kawhi
Leonard, though led all scores, he had thirty one points. Paul George
didn't playing the second half. Left groin soreness is what they're calling it.
We'll give you an update coming up on Clippers Talk with the Clippers shoot fifty
two percent from the field, eleven of twenty nine from the outside. That's
thirty eight percent. I see you, Jake Warner, see walking here at
the Crypto dot Com Arena. Clippers win by twenty one over the Kings.
They have won ten of thirteen since the new starting lineup with James Harden next
to Terrence Man, who was asking for that all along. This guy right
here, all right, I won't pat myself on the back too much.
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Clippers dismantled the Sacramento Kings here at Crypto dot com arena. They went one
nineteen to ninety eight and they sweep the home back to back. Welcome in
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You'll hear from Coach Lou and the players after this one. Couldn't be
more impressed with the Clippers in this victory. I even got to call myself
out now because last night I was a little bit frustrated. I thought that
would take something out of their legs having to go the distance with Kawhi plan
almost forty minutes. Paul George was at forty one. We'll give you an
update on him in a little bit. James Harden was at thirty seven.
It took everything to win by five over a Portland Trailblazer squad missing their three
stars, and I wondered what that would do to the Clippers tonight against Sacktown.
Well, this team looked energized, as they have on the second night
of back to back so far this season. We saw it against the Lakers
in their first night or second night on a back to back. They played
well in that game, lost in overtime. They didn't look tired, they
didn't look lethargic out there. We saw it against the Dallas Mavericks when they
held them to eighty eight points on a Saturday after losing on a Friday to
the Pelicans. They played well enough, close enough to make it a game
against the Golden State Warriors on the second night of a back to back after
they beat Sacramento in Game one up North tonight, though the most impressive performance
of the season by the Clippers, just complete domination, Sacramento looked discombobulated out
there. They looked like a team that hadn't played together. That's how bad
they looked. Offensively, the Kinks one of the best offenses in the league
going back over a year now. They shot forty two percent from the floor,
nine of thirty six from the outside. They missed sixteen straight three pointers
at one point they were coming off a game and maybe it's the law of
averages where they hit twenty five to three pointers last night up North, that
gold won center against the Brooklyn Nets tonight, who they shoot just twenty five
percent from three after setting a franchise record for three pointers made in the game
last night. Tonight, they shoot just twenty five percent from three. They
looked disorganized, and the Clippers were smothering with their defense. Some of it's
poor shooting, it's an off night, and maybe the basketball gods giving one
back to the Clippers after Portland hit nineteen three pointers last night here and they
knocked down every open look they got, So maybe the Clippers were due for
an opponent to actually have a cold shooting night. But I think some of
it had to do with their defense. I think a lot of it had
to do with the Clippers perimeter defense and just playing faster, beating the Kings
at their own game. I know the Clippers only had seven fast break points,
but they were getting into their offense quickly. That's what coach lou likes
to see. But it starts with Kawhi Leonard, who is on another level
and otherworldly shooting streak right now. Last seven games, he's at sixty two
percent from the field and fifty six percent from three. He has thirty one
on fourteen shots, two of three from the outside, eleven of fourteen from
the field, and everything is falling with ease. It's effortless, stephordless.
Maybe he's not taking that many three pointers, but he is shooting a very
high percentage from the outside when he takes them. It just looks like he
can't miss off balance left handed. Since that runner up against Utah in a
game where he had forty one on Friday night, it just seems like Kawhi
Leonard can do no wrong offensively. And for anyone who was questioning whether or
not he's still that guy, He's still that guy. Pal he is.
He is him. And I'm gonna say something, and this may sound a
little bit bold, but it's accurate. I think I've been watching him closely.
This is the best he has looked since the ACL. Now, I
know he had that three month hot shooting stretch shooting forty seven percent from the
outside last season, but I'm just talking about movement wise. I think this
is the best Kawhi has looked since coming off the ACL. He looks quicker
on his feet, he's playing great defense. He's right now looks like he
should be in the running for first team All Defense, back where he's been
in his past. A two time Defensive Player of the Year winner with the
San Antonio Spurs. He's taking up the challenge. And when they were up
by thirty, Kawhi was not having defensive lapses by his teammates. He was
calling guys out, he was chirping, he was barking for as much creep
as he gets for not talking. Kawhi is very vocal on the court if
you watch closely. And then when the young guys came in late to put
this one away, it was awesome to see he and Russell Westbrook in the
huddle, both of them talking to Bones Highland, Xavier Moon, Kobe Brown,
who played twenty five minutes, a mere coffee who got run late.
Good leadership there, but it started with a Kawhi layup in transition, then
in a jumper late in the first quarter, a couple of them, a
three pointer. Near the end of the first quarter, he had a beautiful
pass to Daniel Tice for a dunk when the defense and all that attention comes
his way. He has been finding tys in the dunker spot rolling to the
basket, but then a jumper as soon as he re entered the game.
In the second quarter, he blocked kee Can Murray. He had a fade
away out of a timeout, then a long two that was well contested,
a no look passed to a Vitza Zubats. Kawhi then went ats a bonus
for an and one layup in the third quarter where he had fourteen of his
thirty one points, had a nice little push shot, a steal where he
just ripped it away. Free throws to end the third and we were wondering,
Oh, it is Kawhi's night done. Yes, that's how it is
done. That's how you get rest, you put your team up. End
of the third ninety nine to seventy, Clippers led by as many as thirty
three. Kawhi is back to be in the number one option. Now.
Some concern with Paul George didn't play in the second half, was out with
left growing soreness. Don't know the severity of it. Looking for an update
from coach lou we'll hear from him coming up. Obviously, you never want
to see that. And with the history of the two to three era and
their stars and how unfortunate it has been with them being snake bit by injuries.
Yeah, you got a little PTSD. I'm sure tonight. The hope
would be that they saw they were up twenty two at the half, and
they figured they could close this one out without pushing it with Paul George.
That's the hope that it's nothing too serious. But these were some of my
concerns just with the minutes load on these guys recently. Paul George played forty
one last night, just fifteen because you only played the first half tonight.
Didn't seem like there was a certain play where he came up lame it just
the third quarter started and Norn Powell was in the starting lineup for him.
Clippers win one night team to ninety eight over the Sacramento Kings, who looked
like a team that just didn't have an identity. They didn't know what hit
him, and that's shocking to see from a Kings team this connected, that
has been this good over the past year. But that's what good defense can
do. As bad as I thought the Clippers were at times defensively last night,
and Kawhi Leonard went after a post game, they were the team playing
five guys on a string against Sacramento, and tonight they only gave one quarter
the fourth after it was as Iron Eagle would say, extended garbage time with
the Clippers up by as many as thirty three points, but some really good
performances. Aviatza zubats I thought really made an impact in that third when he
dunked on Sabonis again, he got him on some The bonus was with the
Pacers. He dominated him up north last week on the King's home court.
The Big Zoo had a nice hook shot in the second quarter. Didn't have
to play heavy minutes, just a twenty two, but Terrence Man hit two
three pointers. Good to see it's coming. It's coming around. The three
point shooting had ten points. And what he did in the third on I
think it was late third quarter on an out of bounds play, Sacramento had
to use a time out because they were about to get five seconds called on
them because they couldn't get the ball in because Terrence Man was terrorizing with his
defense and he let out a scream. Afterwards, he was pumped. It
was a big play. It just underscored how hard and the effort that Clippers
were playing with all night. Even when they were up by thirty, they
just kept coming. Great to see this game from Terrence Man and just see
him knock down a couple of three pointers. He also had a really nice
reverse. I want to say it was a beats to Zubats who found him
might have been Daniel Tice, But Terrence Man starting to look better and better.
And this is what's crazy with this new starting lineup. Man hasn't even
gotten close to playing his best basketball yet. I don't think Harden has either.
He had fifteen seven assists, some quick hands leading to a steal on
somebonus early on. Harden going left on a layup. He had back to
back steals in a layup early on. But he's great at going left.
That's where he's most comfortable driving, obviously, but he also went right and
finished with the left hand on a layup and had a really nice bounce pass
to Tyson the third for an easy one. Daniel Tye was excellent. I
thought a nice kind of bounce back game from him. Didn't play bad yesterday.
He just didn't stand out, didn't pop his performance. Daniel Tize four
of eight, eight and three and was just really active out there. He
had a dunk off that hardened feed in the second, a block on the
other end, I think on some bonis. He had a put back off
his own miss and a nice feed from Russell Westbrook, who I felt like
played one of his best games since coming off the bench too. Just everything
Russ did very impactful. He had a great save on a Kawhi turnover on
a play where Kawhi just threw the ball away and somehow Russ got to it
before the Kings did as it was about to go into the backcourt. He
had a put back dunk in the second a little fade away. And the
best play though, for me from Russ was in the third quarter he turned
down a corner three for a layup where he just bullied his man on the
block and got it up and end win one, nineteen to ninety eight.
Let's get to a call before we break here, Howie in the eight one
to eight, how are you're on Clippers South without a Maslin? Hey,
buddy, so good game is a good win for the Clippers. I just
don't want to take this game too much out of context. I mean,
look at the reality of this game. You got two teams coming off back
to back. I mean, yeah, that was not Fox and Monk was
out if Monk was in foul trouble early. I mean it was a great
win and everything, but you know, you got two teams off back to
backs, and I'll tell you what, Howie, The Kings look, Howie,
the Kings look whooped. So your point is both teams had an even
playing field. They were both coming on the second night of a back to
back. Yeah, that's that's yeah, that's that's true. That's that's a
correct statement. But the Kings look whooped. Until I was there, the
Kings just look whooped. Man. Fox didn't look like Fox. Monk wasn't.
Let me tell you. I mean Fox and some bonus played less minutes
last night against Brooklyn, who they put away early. Then the Clippers with
Kawhi and James Harden. If anyone should have been tired and had tired legs,
you would have thought it would be the Clippers. It didn't happen.
I think there's something to that. Maybe that conditioning during training camp has been
talked about a lot. Guys are feeling good early in the season because they
were put through the ringer two a days, three a days, running a
ton during training camp and it has paid off. I just don't want to
downplay this victory, Howie, And on my parade with the first call my
goodness, now come on man, you know, you know me. I
just think also, the Kings don't match up good with the clip Clippers are
a lot deeper than the Kings too. That's in my opinion. I think
the Kings don't you know, it's basketball is a game of matchups. I
just don't think the Kings match up good with the Clippers. Clippers are a
lot deeper than It's a lot easier to say that now, right, it's
a lot easier to say that now. I think a lot of people can
bring into this season. I didn't hear much of that. In fact,
I would have thought the opposite because of how quick and how young the Kings
are, that it would be a bad matchup for an older team, and
like the Clippers just saying how I gotta keep it fair. Yeah, by
the way I see it now, I just think that they're deeper. And
I mean it was a good win. I mean, the Clippers are on
a roll. It's great to see, you know, and and Kawhi is
playing unbelievable And I just hope all the Kawhi bashers will apologize in the past
two years saying you know that Kawhi sitting on the bench, he doesn't want
to play and all this blah blah blah. So you know, like goal
Clippers man, that was a big win, all right, how I appreciate
the phone Bring Bring on the war Bring on the Warriors. Warriors coming on
Thursday. Thanks to the phone call. Howie Kawhi Leonard has played all twenty
three games to start off this season. Knock on wood as we did get
some bad news regarding Paul George and that left groin soreness didn't play in the
second half of this one. Clippers didn't need them. They showed off their
depth. Guys performed at a very high level tonight against the Sacramento Kings,
especially on the defensive end. More Clippers saw coming up right here on a
Sports every Clipper game all season law, they didn't stop playing hard. You're
listening to the LA Clippers Audio Network streaming on the iHeartRadio Lab. Clippers win
one, nineteen to ninety eight over the Kings on the second night of a
back to back here at Crypto dot Com Arena. For the first time this
season, Clippers swept the back to back. They played great tonight. I'm
not going to diminish this effort by the Clippers. I think Howie in the
eight one to eight's a little bit off with his analysis there. There's a
reason the Kings looked this bad. Another team out there made them play like
that. Some of it was bad shooting. Sure, you missed sixteen straight
three pointers, but that was happening after the Clippers were already up big.
They just outplayed them. They outworked them, they out talented to them.
Clippers said sixty two points in the paint, led by as many as thirty
three. Impressive victory. And here's the update on Paul George. Looking at
to mayr Azari at clutch points on X, Tyleru says, no update on
Paul George, but he could have returned to this game if he was needed.
So it sounds like they were being overly cautious. That is best case
scenario, Clipper Nation. If this was a playoff game, it sounds like
there'd be no doubt Paul George would have been playing in the second half.
When you're up twenty two with the half, you should be able to handle
things from there without him. With how good this Clippers team is, they
did. Let's go to Lenny and Corona. My guy, Lenny what's up
here on Clippers? Stop with Adam Aslin Adam anybody, Hey, my voice
is a little messed up. I get a little bit excited when we're up
prety over a good team. So, uh, I have to agree with
you. The reason why they played like they did to night Sacramento. We
took the heart out of him. We we took the heart out of that
team. That's what happens when you're playing as good as we played tonight.
That that's simple. It wasn't. It wasn't if they weren't playing good.
It's we We just they were. They were in a they were messed up.
They didn't know what to do. We we took the heart out of
him in the first quarter. We looked good to night. I mean,
what can you say? We look really good. Kui is back, like
you said, he looks as good as he's looked since his injuries. He's
he looks great. I remember Robinson handing David Robinson handing the baton to to
Uh to Duncan, and Duncan giving it to Quiet and when when he did
he was on quite quiet. Look like that tonight with with the youngster,
she was on it. He was he was, he's teaching him, he's
being a mentor, and I love it. We look we look, we
looked, and we're not at our best yet. We're a lot different than
we were three weeks ago. But I think we're still going to get better,
and I think the team to beat. I just can't wait to have
a great finals Western Finals against the Lakers and smash them. As can't wait.
We look like the team to beat. What do you think, right,
Lenny. I like the phone call. I like the optimism. I'm
gonna let it marinate a little bit more here Denver. There's still the champs
until somebody knocks them out in a seven game series. But right now,
Clippers have the longest winning streak in the NBA, five straight. They've won
ten to thirteen. They have certainly turned a corner with James Harden, and
I agree with you, there's still room to grow Offensively. This was a
team coming into this one shooting thirty seven percent from the outside, top ten
from three, but they can be better than that. They have been in
the past. They've been top three pretty much every year with coach lou from
distance. They have the shooters to do so tonight they shot thirty eight percent
from the outside eleven of twenty nine. I think they can improve there.
I think James Harden is still he'll He took nine shots tonight in twenty eight
minutes. He's still getting comfortable. But he's such a great facilitator. And
I can't stress this enough. Some of you were so fixated on him being
called the dribbler by the guys at TNT and the isolation ball that he has
played over his career when he was the primary option, that you haven't paid
attention to just what a masterclass he puts on passing the basketball to what a
great facilitator he has been, especially over the last few years since he's adjusted
his game. He doesn't have the same bursts that he used to, but
the passing's better than ever, and I don't think he gets enough credit for
that. He's one of the best passers of his generation. He takes care
of the basketball, just two turnovers and had seven assists. I just want
to make sure he gets his flowers in that area of his game, because
I was telling telling people from the beginning, I think you're gonna be surprised
with how seamless James Harden can fit in now they started off on one five.
Why they were playing him next to Russell Westbrook in the backcourt. That
doesn't empower James Harden to be at his best. If they hadn't done that,
who knows what their record would be right now. But maybe you have
to go through those going pains sometimes to get to this point where they've now
won ten to thirteen. But James Harden can still score with the best of
them. Had multiple forty point games last time he saw him in the playoffs
with Philly last season against Boston. But I don't think he's getting enough credit
for how he's turning down shots and playing team basketball and making everyone around him
better and sacrificing in that way. He hasn't played much, isoball. He's
not dribbling out the clock, he's moving the basketball. He is a cis
them. He said it. It's true, and I said the entire time.
The Clippers will be at their best when they run it through James Harden.
Well, what have you seen now? There's some people that are still
upset. They just don't like James. It's unfair. How about grade him
off of the way he has played as a Clipper to this point and understand
what he can do by just setting the table out there. Beat the Zubots.
Is playing some of the best ball of his career, maybe the best
stretch during the regular season. Since this new starting lineup came together in the
last thirteen games, that's not a coincidence. A lot of that has to
do with James Harden, Marvin and downtown Los Angeles. You're on Clipper stop
without a Mauslam, what's up, Marvin Hey, and had a great game
as we last night. That was more like a Clippers playing the doper rope
against the Portland Trailblazers. But then I was like the more like a Mike
Tysons versus Michael Spinks first round knocked out against the Sacramento Kings, which that
was to be expected, and to our surprise it did happen. And then
this sets up, like Carlo mentioned, the stage for this Thursday, Romul
and the Jungle against the Golden State Warriors. So yeah, they played more
minutes yesterday, but they built endurance both mentally and physically, and that prevents
them from being charm and soft, especially against the Golden State Warriors. So
Greig Games, thank you, Adam Ted Marvin. Now, you called it
last night. You felt like they would come out with this same energy they
did. Great call by you. Now, when it comes to Paul George
in those heavy minutes, the accumulation of those may have led to this injury.
We don't know. It could just be a minor tweak. It sounds
like he could have played in the second half. I'm glad they didn't push
it. They were up by twenty two. But what I'm saying is you
do have to monitor minutes this early in the season still, And coach lu
brought that up yesterday saying, you know, we don't want to push them
too much, but we also need to win games right now. So there's
that balance they have to strike. But you win like this and Kuhi only
has to play thirty one and they aren't as taxing of minutes because they led
throughout most of this game. They were up thirty two to twenty four in
the first open things up winning the second quarter by fourteen. Clippers just dominated
completely. Josean Downey, you're on Clipper stop with that. Mazzle Adam great
Green showing out man. I gotta say that the Kings looked off because the
Clippers did something that they normally don't do, and they took it to the
team this time instead of letting that let the other team take it to them
and to open up the game. And I think that made the big difference.
Yeah, and there was tired legs on both sides. I don't know
who that caller was. I said, oh, you know, the Kings
are coming off to back to back and that's why they looked tired. I
mean, I would think we would look more tired because we're older and they
played half minutes last night than Sacramento had to. Yeah, yeah, I
agree, and I just I think the difference was that they took it to
them defensively, they didn't They had some some lapses, but it was nothing
like yesterday, like they were contesting threes. They were contesting uh any ball
that came to the middle and and uh it was. It was great to
see Zoobac. I mean I would have liked to see him get a little
bit more touches, you know, get that confidence of you know, again
have a good game against the bonus in the middle. But I mean him
working on the glass and you know, being able to switch around. There
was a couple of times that day that the switch did pull him out and
he was able to handle himself, And I thought that was really great.
And I think you're on point with Russ I mean his energy. I mean
he was in everything. It seemed like in the second quarter when he came
in and he was in everything, every rebound, every challenge, everything,
And that's great to see, especially him being able to control the ball,
I mean being able to take care of the ball too. That was big
two when he would come in. Yeah. I appreciate the phone call,
Jose. I just can't emphasize it enough. You know a lot of people
were coming at me when they started zero to five with James harden See,
I told you it's not gonna work. No, what's not gonna work is
him in the starting back court next to Russell Westbrook. I said from day
one, that is fundamentally flawed. Now tonight, those two in their minutes
against Sacramento won those minutes. They were that good. But I think this
was the first time where they played really well out there on the court together.
But this starting lineup with Terrence Man next to him, who, by
the way, loves being the point of attack defender, which they need because
you don't want Kawhi and Paul George having to chase guys around early in the
first quarter. You wait till later. Then you put Kawhi and Jamal Murray
and Steph Curry in these guys when you have to. But if you couldn't
see the vision, I don't know what to tell you. It seemed obvious
to me. James Harden is a pick and roll master. He's bringing out
the best in a Viza Zubats. He's bringing out the best in Kawhi Leonard,
now, who has been on this tear, it took him some time
to adjust. He's there now. He found his rhythm, he found you
found the way he can fit in is the number one option next to James
Harden, and that's what has been. Kawhi is taking the most shots consistently
over the last couple of weeks. That's where it has to be because that's
what's going to take in the playoff to win. Before we break Mark in
Huntington Beach, Mark here on clipper Stock without amusel Hey, I think some
of our listeners have either bad memory or selective memory. I remember last year
when we got Westbrook and we went on to five with him and me being
in the sports fars on my clipper gar see it's Westbrook again and this and
that. I said, wait a minute. We lost two or three of
those games like one best. Yeah, that wasn't Westbrook. Same thing here
with Harden. We weren't yelling and he didn't. He wasn't in shape like
Westbrook was compared. You know, he was game ready when we got Westbrook.
So you know, I said, just wait a couple of weeks and
everyone said okay, okay, I said, And now here we are,
and tonight was same as last night. They last night, I was going
to call in and say, if they keep up this intensity, we're going
to have a six six seven record or two out of three all the time.
Because last night's intensity and I could see it again tonight. I can
remember I watched the game at Bjay's Brewery down here on Main Street and Huntingdon
Beach, and I gotta get Petrolls down here. He doesn't ever come down
here, but anyway, you know, and he goes to Orange Orange and
your rhyme, but he doesn't come to my where I lived ten minutes away
from the play. We lost touristop will be there eventually. Don't worry about
it. Keep going, Mark. Yeah, well, well I'm going to
see him. I'm going to see him Friday at Tarantia Hill golf Course and
remind him anyway. But tonight, I can remember seeing several times two or
three Flipper White Jersey's going for the rebounds. We were going for the rebounds.
We were going for this, and Harden he was dishing just like Joe
Imbleed, only we had three of them. He get dished to, so
you know he can get to that big guy, whether it's Tye or Zubac.
I saw all of that coming together, and then man on his defensiveness
like that, Like you mentioned that out of bounds play and he should have
yelled because that was a great play. Made him waste of time out.
But yeah, no, very good. They keep up this intensity, we'll
win two out of three. I don't care who the hell we play,
all right, Mark, I appreciate the phone call. Clippers. Gotta keep
it going. They're still thirteen and ten. They still are digging out of
that hole when they lost six straight. But they got two more here at
home this week Golden State Thursday, the Knicks on Saturday, get greedy win
both of them, find a way. Clippers had the depth to do so.
Was good to see Bones Highland get some run late Exavier Moon, Kobe
Brown played twenty five minutes, knock down a three pointer. Look to be
a little bit more in tune defensively. Some of those mistakes along the perimeter.
He's got to clean up, obviously, but it's coming. The seasoning's
coming for that young man. Clippers win one nineteen to ninety eight over the
Kings. Coming up next, we'll have Will Updike on from Clips and Dip
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We got a little clips in double Dip action. You hear the music.
Will Updyke of Courses on tonight. Because the Clippers won big. I think
that's what's in his contract. They can't just win. It's gotta be a
big victory, right Will Oh yeah, it's gotta be a stomping And it
was. This was to me well, their most impressive front to back four
quarter victory of the season given the opponent tonight. Yeah, absolutely absolutely to
be able to come out and dominate like that and then stick with it,
I mean really putting this game away for I mean, not a full four
quarters, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they could have
done it for a full four quarters. But I was really impressed by the
way that they came out on the second night of a back to back because
I thought something that they did really effectively was use a little bit of pace,
be able to kind of change things up a little bit on this Kings
team and really flip the script on a team that likes to use pace against
the Clippers, and when they were able to get into a sets, I
thought those were some of the few times we saw some defensive breakdown, but
overall, just a great win. Kawhi Leonard I was watching him closely when
they were up by thirty in the third quarter. He got on Norn Powell
and I think Terrence Man had some miscommunication on a play where they gave up
an easy bucket. Mind you, they are up thirty and Kawhi wasn't having
it. He demands perfection. He knows there's bigger things in play. He's
looking at the long game, long term wise. He wants this Clippers team
to be focused. And there's Jason perfection and I just love that from him.
And defensively, when he had that rip away near the end of the
third quarter that almost ended in a dunk, he ended up getting fouled,
went to the free throw line. That was spurs Kawhi defense that was just
nasty. The octopus defense where it feels like the guy is guarding you with
eight arms. Yeah, I'm not sure what Like Kawhi is hitting just an
insane stride right now, and I don't know what fully is clicking, But
I mean, I know you keep having a bit where you're talking about is
he okay though? But physically he is, Like what is going on?
Like I haven't seen him at this less so early in the season, And
I don't know if it's just I think that, you know, maybe it's
just the time on court with like actual time to gel. We hear all
the time that this team just due to the schedule and and everything, that
they don't get a lot of time to practice, that they have to work
out a lot of these things on court. Is that what we're seeing here
is just it is just this extended run of play for kawhis Does it just
have him in this form this early in the season, Like, what what
are we witnessing? Hit? Yeah, I mean it's the first time since
the twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen regular season where he's played this many games straight.
So it's kind of uncharted territory over about a six year period now.
Or maybe he's finding things out about how he feels now at the age of
thirty two playing all these games, what works, what doesn't. He's obviously
caught a rhythm. There was that adjustment period at first bringing in James Harden
and just where he fit in and how he was going to get up his
usual amount of shots. It's all I'll come together now, But Will what's
your level of concern with the Paul George injury. It sounds like it's best
case scenario at least where if it was a playoff game, if it was
a closer game, even during the regular season, he might have been able
to play in the second half. Yeah. I just wonder too, what
the calculation was with it being the second night of a back to back,
I think, you know, level of concern is still relatively low for me,
but we'll see. Obviously, I mean ending the streak of his availability,
does you know it raises an eyebrow. I don't know that it goes
to like full level sweating concern yet, but it is something to consider it,
and he did look. The thing about it is too is like he
didn't look. He looked a little out of sorts. I thought on the
court tonight as well. The last couple of games forty one minutes yesterday,
thirty seven minutes against Utah, thirty eight against Denver, thirty eight against gold
State, thirty seven against Golden State, forty against Sacramento in the win up
North, He's been taking a heavy burden when it comes to minutes and up
until this point, I would say tonight is the night that Kawhi really took
the torch from Paul George from being the best player to start off this season.
But over the last two weeks, I think Kawhi has been the guy
again. He's the number one option and I'm not saying there's any issue there
between those two in a pecking order. We know how Paul George feels about
it. But it's good to see that. Okay, Paul George not quite
shooting the same way he was to start off the year, But now Kawhi
hits the ignition and he starts to get it going. But somebody else who
I don't think he's gotten enough credit for how he's playing in terms of his
passing. James Harden, to me, has sacrificed shots to make this team
better by just being a facilitator out there. And I'm not sure enough people
were familiar enough with that part of his game will at just how elite he
is in that area. Oh. I mean, if you're not familiar with
that part of his game, I think you gotta you gotta pull the rock
up over over top of where you're living or whatever. Because this has been
like the I feel like this is the cliche thing of the James Harden experiences.
He comes to a new team, everybody is excited and then they're like,
oh, wow, he can pass, and it's like, yeah,
no, that's actually why he was an m VP. That's that's that's why,
that's that's why those rackets teams made Western Conference Finals, That's why the
seventy sixers were as good as they were. That's part of the reason,
Joel indeed one m v P. Yes, the man is is a very
gifted passer, and I like how much more aggressive that he's getting offensively,
but within the flow of the offense. Right, He's not looking to take
away from that part of his game. He's not. He's still reading the
court looking to get his teammates involved. But we see him a lot more
of going to the rint. We see him a lot more aggressively shaking off
the defender, just creating more space, and I think that that has been
huge and it allow him to be even more teams harden right to continue to
pass that way and just set things up on ball is Will Updyke follow him
at Will Updyke on X of Clips and dip Fame. I think we got
a YouTube coming tomorrow, Will Up against the Clock tonight. Wish we could
do this for a little bit longer, but I got to take a break,
my friend. We'll talk to you tomorrow, all right, all righty,
sound good with thank you? Then? Clippers win one nineteen to ninety
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Thursday, they're back taking on Golden State third time in the past two and
a half weeks. Before we get out of here tonight, I want to
bring in the fake philosopher Big Brother Jake for some positive moments with the fake
Philosopher Big Brother Jake podcast on the Podcast one Network. By the way,
thank you sir. What's up my friend man, Living life? Baby nice
win tonight. I see you, I saw you dancing, I saw you
see walking the Crypto Little Victory, Little Victory then wasn't good with the clothes
tonight? All right, you've worked too hard to let a season of darkness
convince you that there's no light at the end of the tunnel. Ooh ooh
seep. Like three pointers that the Clippers made all night long, I mean
you're not lying. Nope, they knocked down eleven of them. They go
on to win by twenty one. And yeah, there's a lot of people
a few weeks ago that would have never thought the Clippers would rip off winning
ten of the thirteen, which is what they've done over the last few weeks
now. Just took a small adjustment in the starting lineup and a little more
familiarity out there. It's coming together, Clipper Nation. It is. Get
behind James Harden with this crew talking to you, Sean and Inglewood. I
don't believe he ain't calling in still just because they keep winning, you know
what. I'm fine with it, but don't expect to get back on as
soon as they lose and then you call in all of a sudden, all
right, before we get out of here, I do want to think the
Clippers organization. Brian Seeman, Ralph Lahler, Carlo Amennez on the call.
Noah Egle birthday. We happy birthday, know Egle. Katie Newton back in
the bank, our head engineer here, big brother Jake Warner holding it down.
Clippers win by twenty one over the Kings, thanks to the callers,
the listeners. Miro of ae W who joined us earlier pregame. Maybe you
got to give him some credit for this victory. Very cool. We'll put
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Well, we have a moment. Let's paus ten seconds for station identification
right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. This is LA Clippers Basketball
AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and
iHeartRadio station. All right, Clippernation coming down off the top rope and onto
the hardwood. Is quite literally the biggest member of Clipper Nation who happens to
be a Bulgarian wrestler who's a three time United States champion in WWE before moving
on to the hottest league in the game now with ae W where he's held
that TNT championship proudly. He's the best man and the best fan when it
comes to your Los Angeles Clippers. It's wrestling superstar, Clippers super fan Miro
joining me here on Clippers Countdown pre game as we get ready for Clippers and
Kings. Miro, it's a pleasure. Thanks for doing this. What introduction.
Thank you so much. You got it. You favorite champion though,
But I'm not mad at you, all right. Look, we can't have
that here. There's enough steel chairs between the two of us. I can't
have you getting upset with me right now, right, So let's start with
your fanship with the Clippers. What made you gravitate towards them and then being
your team that has your allegiance. I was a big Shack fan always have
been, and when he came to town with Miami, you know, I
wanted to come and watch him. So the Clippers were here, and I
came and watched them once, then came again, watched Shack second time,
and I would looked around and was like, man, you know, Clippers
need more support. And I didn't have a team at a time, and
they watched and appreciated the struggle and the hustle that they're going with. I'm
like, this is my team. Okay, So the underdog type of mentality,
street lights over spotlights, I like that. I like that was there.
So that's about five six in that range. Was there a particular player
that was your favorite on that Clippers team? Elton brand was there at the
time. You had Corey mcghetty out there. I loved col mcghetty, clearly.
Everybody loves Corey, you know. And then Baron Davis came in,
and you know, I love him. But everything changed by once Lop City
came to town. You know, I feel we were to talk of the
whole NBA and we were such an exciting team to watch. And I don't
think Slipper fans often realize how privileged we are to watch such a great basketball,
no doubt. They've had eleven straight winning seasons. That's the longest stretch
over this period of time in the NBA. Still trying to get to the
top of the mountain. This year could be the year, samra are you
balling me? Can you dunk? How much basketball do you play? I
played, I played in high school, played before that, you know,
studied old shack moves and I applied it heavy on the court. I'm not
trying to front you in the post. I'm gonna have to use all six
fouls. That's my thing. We might need you tonight. I mean the
Clippers are on the second half of a back to back. If they start
running out of guys, we might have to throw you in there. Daniel
Tye, Daniel tis Man, he's my man. Go to great signing.
You know. I love player to coming off the bench and hustle and go
hard like we talked about, Like he goes out for the rebounds on the
defense. He shoots three. So if we need a big guy, I
love Daniel Tye. Especially with Mason Plumby being out. You know, he's
a great substitution. So I can tell you have been keeping up with this
team very close, so because Daniel Tice has only been here for about three
weeks, but he has made a huge impact for the Clippers. He knocked
down a three pointer last night and their five point victory over the Portland Trailblazers.
Tys is nice. They call him Tyson, Tys baby as well.
He's got his own plethora of nicknames. But because you're called the redeemer,
the Clippers have felt that redemption a little bit. After starting zero to five
with James Harden, they've now won nine of their last twelve ball games.
Have you noticed this team starting to gel out there and come together with a
bearded wonder? Has you got a nice beard yourself there? Benkie, thank
you. I always thought it was a matter of time, you know,
with so many good players on this team, Hall of Fame players, that
it just doesn't make sense for them not to gel right, And it's all
about, you know, getting together practice because there's so many games you know
that they need to play in at the same time, catch to get in
practice. So it was a matter of time, and it showed that it's
been working. You know, Russ coming off the bench now and you can
see every time he gets off the bench to get in, people are clapping
and cheering because he's selfless, you know, and that's what we need.
That's what the Clipper's been all along, and that's what we appreciate players like
him. I love this analysis. I mean, Brian Seeman might use you
of Jim Jackson moves the seat over a little bit later on on Valley Sports
as well. Miro knows his ball. So let me ask you this,
let me meld the two worlds together. If you had to pick a tag
team partner to take down Ricky Starks and Big Bill in ae W, who
you choosing off the Clippers bench? You going with the biggest guy and it
beats a Zubots or you going with the guy with the biggest hands, maybe
in Kawhi Leonard. Who would you like as a tag team partner with this
Clippers team. You might even like Steve Balmer because he's got that big personality
as well. I definitely get Steve Balmer as a manager outside the ring because
we need that support. But inside the ring, man, you know,
nobody talks about Plumbley because I don't know if you knew it, but he's
Adam Copeland some kind of a cousin, Okay, so he may have that
professional wrestling blood in him, But man Zoo is like from my part of
the world, so I gotta go with it. Eats a zubots Man and
you. So last night he had twelve in the first quarter. He was
dominating, so he can do the same thing in the rain. Big Zoo
is an absolute beast. The NBA is the greatest basketball league in the world.
We know that, But what's with aw and the way they're able to
separate themselves because it's four wrestlers by wrestlers. You guys know the game better
than everyone, and it seems like it just feeds into that cycle, that
system that you guys have going there, and you guys are at the top
of your game right now. What's setting you apart in that league? I
think it's just creative freedom. People being able to bring their specifics about their
professional wrestling, about their approach, about their character. It's more of a
like, you know, everybody's doing their own thing instead of one combined under
one umbrella type of thing when everything is the same formula. I don't know
how to explain it, but I feel like We're exciting. We're new.
We've been on TV for five years now, We've only been growing. We
have three shows on TV in no time. We're doing great rating. Thanks,
So we're doing great. You guys are hot right now. I gotta
give it to you. What do you like about this atmosphere? You talked
about coming here in five and six back when it was Staples Center now as
Crypto dot Com Arenas we get ready for the Intuit Dome next season. Aw
might want some events in there, I'm sure, But just being here with
Clipper Nation, for a lot of people, it just feels like home.
It feels like an extension of a bigger, larger family. It does.
It does, but you know, just looking up and looking all the banners,
it's so fantastic. But somehow it doesn't feel like our arena for some
reason, you know, because we all get the people get mad that we
cover banners and dah dah da da da. It's time to break this.
We're gonna have the hottest, new, biggest, most exciting arena with the
most exciting team and most exciting owner. I mean, we're the team of
the future. I feel like everybody's want to come and play for the Clippers
because everybody wants to play in Ala who want and a brand new arena,
who wouldn't. I feel like this became a destination franchise when Steve Balmer came
here and then they acquired Kawhi in PG. It's transformed Clipper Nation, has
transformed the Clippers trajectory and where they're going. And as you mentioned, the
into a dome coming next season, they will have their own home finally and
that will make all the difference in the world. That's something Steve Balmer has
wanted for quite some time. It kind of touched upon something there. Have
you had to deal with some haters because you're a Clipper fan, maybe on
the Gram, maybe on Twitter, maybe from the other side of the hall
Laker fans. I mean, we know it's out there. You talked about
covering banners and stuff like that, but we know it's very prevalent. There
is a rivalry between these two fan bases, whether the other one wants to
admit it or not. Have you had to deal with any fans because I'm
sure nobody will want to mess with you, maryl Yeah, you know they
always you know on Twitter, they come come at me but I don't know
where you're coming from. I know you want a championship, but they haven't
been that. They haven't been the Clippers in how many games they wont?
One recently they lost. You're thirty or whatever, like you have no bragging,
right, I mean, enjoy your team. I love Lebron. Who
doesn't love Lebron? Sure, but that's the only reason why I would watch
the Lakers. Otherwise it's always Clippers, and people should come and experience this
man because especially next year, it's gonna be a special, special place,
very much so at the end to it home. So Clipper's got some young
guys on this team. You know how to bulk up, you know how
to put on some pounds when you need to for a match. I'm looking
at Moss of the Aabate, Brandon, Boston, guys like that. Give
me the workout plan. How do we get these lean young guys to be
a little bit bigger so they can get to that big Sue level in the
post protecting the basket. They got to eat a lot of meat, a
lot of rice, some potatoes, you know, get a good workout for
I'm sure that the training staff is amazing and the Clippers Arena. I've seen
them right after the game. They will go back and they'll work out right
after the game, which I've never seen before in my life. Oh,
they put the work in right after. And seeing Kawhi and bg Ow these
guys right after game, it's impressive because these guys they probably don't have to
do that, but they still do because they want to be on top of
their game. And that's what it takes. It takes a dedication, it
takes the extra work. It takes the extra you know, attention to the
sleep, to the food, and that's how we grow. That's how you
succeed in life, not just in with your body. I mean I've been
growing wider recently because of those things. A lot of meat, a lot
of potatoes. Get back to basics. Listen to Miro from All Elite Wrestling
at to b Miro on x on Instagram is where you follow him in Clippernation
if you didn't know, he is a Clipper super fan. He is a
big part of Clippernation. He comes to the games. Was here tonight,
myro, thanks for doing this here on Clippers' Countdown. I appreciate it.
Very nice to meet you. Thanks to far about Us and Shari for putting
this together and hooking it up. Coming up next as we got clippers taking
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