The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just be gone. Cohi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look
ahead on your home for LA Clippers playoff basketball. Now your host, You,
sir, are a bad man. Adam Osley Here Los Angeles Clippers strike
first and win game one one fifteen O one ten in Phoenix over the Suns.
Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up. Second half
highlights, your final box score. You'll hear from the head coach and the
players. But first back out to Noah Eagle in Phoenix. Noah, they
didn't steal this one. They just won this game and outplayed the Phoenix Suns
down the stretch in that fourth quarter with hustle and heart. Aside from really
the last few minutes of the second quarter and the first half of the third
quarter, the Clippers controlled this game. The rest of the minutes went to
them, and that's why it would have been such a crushing loss if they
couldn't figure their way through it. But I think a lot of credit goes
to of course, the players Kawhi Leonard thirty eight points, five rebounds,
five assists, thirteen of twenty four and what did I say? What did
I say, Adam? The Clippers coming in were excuse me Kawhi in his
career, teams with Kawhi Leonard on them in his career in the playoffs,
where fifty three and seventeen coming in when he shoots fifty percent are better.
He shot fifty percent or better. He's now fifty four and seventeen in his
career. That's one part. He's also the only Clipper and only player in
NBA history to average twenty eight plus points, five plus assists and fifty plus
percent shooting for a single team in the postseason. Did it with the Clippers.
He did that again today. So Kawhi Leonard playoff mode fully activated.
I think we've clearly seen that here in Game one. Eric Gordon stepping up
in that first quarters set the tone huge, huge three point shooting and then
made a massive one in the fourth quarter as well, free throws down the
stretch with nineteen points for him massive, no doubt. Terrence Man I thought
was critical to this one. Mormon Pal didn't have his best game he had
some big plays in the fourth quarter when Kawhi was on the bench a visa
zu Bots the double double. But how about Russell Westbrook, And I know
that he'd been hearing a lot of the noise. I know that there was
a lot going on. I know he was not shooting it all that well
today like he had been when the Clippers, especially down the stretch in the
season in the regular season. But ten rebounds, eight assists, three blocks,
two steals, and that last block on Booker to save it off of
him, the wherewithal the presence of mine to do that is unreal, something
that you very rarely see. And then, last, but not least,
Tron Lou, he coached a great game today. He really did. He
had a couple of plays that got them wide open buckets. He recognized,
oh, we don't have the offense, Let's try to get zoo boats to
touch inside, got him posting up, got plumbly posting up when he had
the mismatch, got Westbrook in the right spots. And sure again, he
may have had his miscuse, but he came through when it mattered the most.
And that's Toron Lou trusting him. And I saw it the whole game
t Lou more than he was in the regular season, pulling him aside and
saying, hey, you're doing this wrong. Go do this and you'll be
fine, And he listened. That's coaching and Toronlou playoff mode very much activated
for him as well, employs under noise down this stretch. With Russ knocking
down those two free throws, absolutely clutched the play against Devin Booker, keeping
the basketball alive, grabbing offensive rebounds, had five of them. Just an
unbelievable effort out there. Yeah, the shooting wasn't there for him tonight,
but you know, this Clippers team is so talented. They have so many
guys that can score the basketball. Russ out there can do so many of
the little things to help you win. We saw it all eight and a
couple things that I do want to point out here. The Clippers during the
regular season were twenty eight and eight this season when they outrebounded their opponent.
Today outrebounded the Sun forty eight forty two. The Clippers this year were let
me find this, seventeen and eight when they held their opponents to less than
ten made threes. Phoenix made six. The Clippers this year, did a
great job when they were locked in defensively. They didn't allow less than one
hundred two points today or a hundred two or less. When they did that.
They were seventeen and one in the regular season, but one hundred ten
Phoenix Suns team that had Kevin Durant go for seventeen second quarter points and ten
fourth quarter points and was one rebound away from a triple double, had Devin
Booker go for twenty six points on nineteen shots, had DeAndre at and chip
in eighteen and half about had Tory Craig go for twenty two his playoff career
high. Despite all of that, held him to one ten and got the
job done. That's all you can do in the playoffs is get the job
done. All it matters is that you get the WS. Doesn't count for
style points or anything else. And the Clippers this was a battle and this,
to me, it showed me so much about their mental resolve. Now,
I want to repeat something that I heard from Jeff ben Gundy earlier today
during the Lakers Grizzlies Game one. He said, because they were talking about
learning from losses and how teams always learned from losses in the playoffs. He
goes, teams should learn from wins two, and I think there's a lot
to still take away and learn from this game. Fourteen turnovers far too many,
A lot of them were careless. I thought that the Clippers didn't do
a good enough job of attacking some of the players who were in foul trouble
early in this game and could have probably forced them to the bench a little
bit early. But overall, a lot to be excited about, a lot
to like. Twenty three assists. That's a number that probably could be bumped
up, and if it is, the Clippers generally have an extreme amount of
success when they have twenty seven or more during the regular season. At least
they were thirteen and three. So there are still lessons to take from this
win. But you'd much rather learn those lessons in a win than in a
loss. And especially when you get a one oh advantage in a series that's
a best of seven. One, that's great, but two, you do
it on the road against the team with this much firepower, you feel even
better. And when you reach Kawai will teach that's another lesson for this team.
Best player on the court tonight, and he's picking up right where he
left off in twenty twenty one in the playoffs, where everybody said this was
the best guy before he went down with the acl tare. Yeah, it
just looks incredible since January eighth, averaging twenty seven points, seven rebounds,
four assists on fifty three forty seven ninety splits. I mean, you can't
ask for much more, and he delivered a performance like that again. I
would keep talking at him, but I think you probably have to pause.
You're right, the consummate professional. Let's pause ten seconds for station A dentivocation
here on the Los Angeles Clippers radio network. What are you two hands?
This is La Clippers Basketball klac KA HD two Los Angeles, kdid Los Angeles
and iHeart Radio station. You know, when Kawhi was triple teamed in the
fourth and EG had just missed a couple finding him for that deep three point
and we talked about that being in his bag one of his skill sets when
the Clippers brought him back in, and that was also one of the most
crucial shots of the ball game. Well, the two of them were really
the only ones that provided that legitimate three point boost. They want to combine
seven or six of twelve from three fifty percent. The rest of the team
want to combine four from nineteen. So the two of them, those are
the guys you wanted shooting it tonight. And despite EJ missing a pair from
that same spot, the wherewithal and again the confidence in himself to just let
it fly. That's what makes him such a key addition to this team is
that he's he's never phased by the moment, and I think we saw that
in speeds in this game tonight. Clippers win by five. Final score one
fifteen Clippers one ten, Phoenix Suns in Game one of this best of seven
series. Game two coming up on Tuesday, tip off at seven. We'll
have your pregame shows starting at six. Noah, EGO, great call as
always, playoff mode activated for the young Goat as well. Noah, we'll
talk to you on Tuesday. Well, it doesn't stop. You're Adam.
You know this is a long series of kid Wait whoo TM let's go coming
up next second half highlights. Clippers win Game one in Phoenix and you're listening
to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio. No. Clippers win one fifteen O one
ten in Game one in Phoenix over the Suns. Welcome into your post game
show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up on A five seventy LA Sports and the
Patriot AM eleven fifty. But I'll give you the AM five seventy LA Sports
number a little bit more memorable. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy all right. Second half highlights for the Clippers in a game they won
by five. Guess what the score was at the half. They were up
by five fifty nine fifty four after leading by as many as sixteen in that
second quarter. In the third, the Kawhi Leonard just continued to hit that
button act activate playoff mode. Leonard at the free throw line, drive left,
pulls it from twelve. Kawhi Leonard heavily covered by Craig at the cash
Leonard facing up on Craig again, driving middle to the die of line,
sidestep, couple of hump bakes, rips threw. Leonard floats it up and
banks it in with a right hand, A circus shot for Kawhi Leonard,
who was looking for the contact. Didn't matter. He's got seventeen. Leonard
attacking on eight and gets down the right alley, floats it up off the
pump. Oh he puts it in. Kawhi Leonard a chance for three.
Magnificent stuff from the claw, extra pass letter dear side corner three. It's
good Kawhi Leonard with twenty five and the clips are back within one. Kawai
had twelve points there in the third quarter, but we were tied up at
eighty one heading into the fourth. More from the claw we got more here
left elbo It's Leonard against Durant, looking to drive to his right feet from
the right side, puts it in and the foul Kawhi Leonard the mid range
assessin with a chance for three. Leonard left wing, just inside the arc
against Durant, rises from twenty connects Kawhi Leonard with thirty eighty six eighty four
clippers a minute gone and the fourth. Leonard likes this matchup. Drives left,
pumping on the left, devil rips through floats over the right hand,
rolls it in. Kawhi Leonard with thirty two. Go back it out to
Leonard on the right wing, tries the three mets it down. Kawhi Leonard
thirty five. Back to Leonard straight away tries another three. Kawhi Leonard slash
thirty eight for Kawai and its return of the postseason. Even with thirteen more
in the fourth quarter, it was a tight contested ball game down the stretch.
Clippers led one o nine to one oh eight after a time out with
twenty eight seconds left, where Russell Westbrook, who did all the hustle and
made it all the hustle and heart type of plays out there, laid keeping
a possession alive. He would get to the free throw a line after an
over zealous defensive play by Devin Booker and after a rough shooting night overall from
Russ where he was three of nineteen from the field. He knocked down both
free throws to put the Clippers up one eleven to one oh eight, and
then did this on the defensive end, started by Man on that inbounding pass
holding on his right hip. All surveys gets it to Booker at the mid
court logo Booker working against Westbrook. Booker wants to go to work. Driving
down the left alley. Booker floats it up, blocked it by Westo want
a play what Frock knocked it off? A Booker on a bound unbelievable was
able to get the possession narrow back in the Clippers favor hitting off at Devin
Booker, ball goes out of bounds. Clippers would hit their free throws.
Later it was Eric Gordon and Terrence Man would finish things off with a huge
dunk off an assist from Russ and the Clippers win one fifteen to one ten
in Game one in Phoenix over the Suns. Coming up next, we still
got Clippers stock coming up on AM five seventy and the Patriot AM eleven fifty
for the simulcast. We'll get to your final box score. What a victory.
Clippers strike first, they're off one oh when this best of seven first
round series and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio. Clippers win one
fifteen to one ten in Game one in Phoenix. They strike first in this
best of seven first round series. Welcome back into your post game show.
I'm in I'm Oslin coming up on them five seventy LA Sports and the Patriot
AM eleven fifth will have a simulcast if we will have Clippers talk, taking
it till the top of next hour. Kawhi Leonard is the g damn truth.
He had thirty eight points in his forty one minutes on thirteen of twenty
four, shooting three of five from distance, huge three pointers in that fourth
quarter. Best player on the floor, best player on the planet. That's
what we said in twenty twenty one. I think he's picking up where he
left off after the ACL tear. He led everyone in scoring, played great
defense as well. KD finished with twenty seven seven to fifteen, shooting three
of seven from distance. Devin Booker had twenty six for the Phoenix Sunts ten
of nineteen, but Russell Westbrook knocked it off him off the block in the
game ceiling defensive play game or play the game for sure by Russell Westbrook,
who finishes three of nineteen from the field, doesn't matter one of six from
the outside, why heart, hustle and knocked down two clutch free throws.
Late, had just nine points on nineteen shots and still made all the winning
plays. Had eight assists, just two turnovers. Though Clippers with fourteen as
a team can still clean some things up, as Noah Ego mentioned earlier,
they can be better and we're in the second half. Had eight turnovers in
the first half, just six of those coming in the second half. Clippers
end up shooting forty four percent from the field, ten of thirty one from
the outside. They can get hotter from there. Suns finished forty eight percent
from the field, six of nineteen from three. The difference in this one
though the Clippers with fifteen offensive boards, the Sun's just six, and the
Clippers ended up getting up nine more shot attempts. Russell Westbrook with five offensive
rebounds of beats of Zoobots with four, Mason Plumley with three himself. He
had seven and eleven. Some of the un some heroes here, Norman Powell
with some big shots into the third quarter into the fourth he finished with fourteen.
Terrence Mann finished with ten, also had four boards and a couple of
assists. And how about Eric Gordon that huge three pinner off the triple team
on Kawhi Leonard in the fourth quarter, a big time shot after he had
just missed a couple and he hit one from a little bit deeper out just
step back, go logo Lillard with it. Eric ej seven to fourteen,
three of seven from distance, had twelve of his nineteen points in the first
quarter to help the Clippers get off to a strong start. They finished strong
win by five. Final score Clippers one fifteen, Phoenix Suns one ten.
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Yeah. It's a maker miss league, but it's also a heart and hustle
league. In the playoffs, Russell Westbrook goes three of nineteen from the field,
but makes all the plays late and the Clippers win Game one one fifteen
O one ten in Phoenix over the Suns. Welcome in the Clippers Talk.
I'm Adam Oslin. We got a simulcast for you here on AM five seventy
LA Sports and the Patriot AM eleven fifty because the Clippers are in the playoffs
and it's kind of a big deal. Eight six six ninety eight seven two
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if you'd like to get on hold. We'll get to you in this very
segment. We'll hear from Russell Westbrook post game, plus coach Lou We got
the guys from Clips and dip Pod in studio, including myself, plus Charles
Mockler. William Updike is here. They'll beyond. At some point later on
tonight in the late nine hour, we will have a tripod for you.
What a win by the Clippers. I talked about it recently, but I
thought there would be an opportunity to steal Game one. Well, they went
above and beyond just stealing it. As Noah Eagles said, they controlled the
game for the most part. They were up thirty to eighteen after the first
quarter. They led by twelve thanks to twelve early points from Eric Gordon,
who got hot early and got clutched late with another big three pointer off a
kickout from Kawhi Leonard when they tried to triple team him. And that's how
it has to be without Paul George. Right now, they load up on
Kawhi, you gotta make them pay. Somebody's gotta hit those open shots,
and Eric Gordon hit one from about thirty five feet out. I thought I
was watching Steph Curry against the Kings yesterday, even though they lost that game.
Some ridiculous hot shooting. The Clippers overall only shot forty four percent from
the field. The Suns weren't forty eight percent. The Clippers were just ten
of thirty one from the outside. And if it wasn't Kawhi Leonard, if
it wasn't Eric Gordon, not many of the guys were hidden. But here's
the difference, heart, hustle, energy, effort plays and it comes down
to this number. The Clippers cleaned up the boards. The offensive rebounds in
this one were heavily in the clippers favor. They would end up with fift
keen offensive boards suggests six for the Phoenix Suns and ended up attempting eleven more
shots out there ninety three to eighty two. When you shoot a lower percentage,
you gotta get more up. The Clippers did. They controlled the glass,
and it was Russell Westbrook with five offensive rebounds and keeping plays alive late
with a minute left, saving a possession multiple times. The Clippers would eventually
call time out with twenty eight seconds left with the one o nine to one
oh eight lead, Russ drew a foul on Devin Booker. I don't know
why he was fouling or playing him that close when on the night Russ was
three of nineteen from the field, but Russ on that fade away that time
was fouled. And this was just an unbelievable clutched charity stripe situation. I
didn't know how it would look with Phoenix and Sons and four guys out there
in the crowd just raining booze on top of Russell Westbrook on an offshooting night.
He showed poise under noise and knocked them both down. Clippers with a
three point lead, Suns with a time out very next possession play of the
game. It was Russ on defense. Booker working against Westbrook. Booker wants
to go to work. Driving down the left alley, Booker floats it up,
blocked it by Westbrook. Fall on a play, Westbrook knocked it off
a Booker at a bounds game ceiling defensive play from Russell. Westbrook knocked down
the free throws little offensive defense and then blocks Devin Booker and knocks it off
of him out of bounds. Clippers basketball, they got a foul, Eric
Gordon, they do. He knocks down two clutch free throws. Terence Mann
finished things off with a two handed throw down and the Clippers win one fifteen
to one ten in Phoenix over the Suns. And I've gone too long without
talking about the mid range mastery of Kawhi Leonard, who stepped back and knocked
down two huge three pointers in the fourth quarter as well. Didn't matter what
the defense through at him, he was thirteen to twenty four from the field,
best player on the court, thirty eight points in the ball game,
playing defense as well, hitting shots on Kevin Durant had two jumpers on him
early in the fourth quarter. His shot shart. Did he have anything at
the rim? Maybe one layup attack? He blew. One of his easiest
shots was in the second half, one of his closest shots of the basket.
Kawhi is insane. I've never seen someone well, look, we know
how good he's been the last three months, but to take it up a
notch in the biggest game of the season, first game of the playoffs,
without Paul George out there on the road, back against the wall in the
lion's den and put a performance together like this when other guys weren't hitting.
It's one thing to get that hot start from Eric Gordon early on the first
quarter and helped carry some of the offensive load. But in that second half
Kawai had twenty five of his thirty eight points twelve and the third quarter thirteen
of them in the fourth, It's a recipe that's repeatable. This is what
he can do. He has averaged thirty five points in a series before,
an efficient thirty five. Did it against Philly when they easily had the talent
advantage over the Toronto Raptors in the twenty nineteen second round, and Kawhi Leonard
beat him with a historic, iconic game winning Plinko chip like shot that eventually
fell in Game seven. This was Game one, though, and with how
good the Clippers were early on, especially defensively, holding Phoenix as just eighteen
points in the first quarter, they had to find a way. They played
too well to give this ball game away. They would eventually relinquish a sixteen
point lead that they had in the second quarter. In the third, it
was back and forth. It was tightly contested down the stretch. Kevin Durant
hit a big three pointer with one twenty four left and the fourth to bring
them to within three to try to match with Kawhi Leonard and then Eric Gordon
was doing from the outside. But the Clippers, and we've talked about them
having issues closing out ball games and getting good looks and getting good shots.
And while they would miss some, Terrence Man missed one, Kawhi Leonard missed
one under a minute left, it was Russell Westbrook keeping the possession alive.
He missed a wide open three point or two. Wasn't his night. But
they kept getting offensive rebounds, they kept out hustling the Phoenix suns. And
that's the difference usually in playoff basketball, getting the fifty fifty balls that can
determine your fate, and the Clippers well, they found a way and this
was just a win I think they had to have. If you're gonna win
this series, you gotta get game one in Phoenix. Because this Sun's team,
as time goes on, they're gonna be more connected, They're gonna have
better chemistry out there, They're gonna know where guys want it. They're sweet
spots, and they're likely gonna shoot better from the outside than just six of
nineteen. But hey, Tory Craig, who I thought would start at some
point in this first round series just because the matchup is better for him against
Kawai than a cog off the bench. He's taller, he's bigger, he's
stronger, he's a better three point shooter. He had twenty two his playoff
high. They withstood one of the Phoenix Suns rule players going off and Russ
just being three of nineteen and still won by five. That is extremely encouraging.
We talked about the margin for air being so slim. Coach Lu talked
about a pregame and the Clippers still overcame a woeful shooting night from Russ,
a good shooting night from Craig. Kevin Durant did his thing, still had
an efficient twenty seven, eleven assists, a couple of blocks, some great
defensive plays, and they still want but they can trolled CP three, something
we talked about recently on the Clips and Dip podcasts, and the guys are
gonna be with us in studio in a little bit here. But what if
they just slowed down Chris Paul who is slowing down? Overall? He's older.
He's not the same guy he was two years ago when he destroyed the
Clippers in that Clinton Game six performance back at Staples Center. At the time,
he was just two of eight seven points. Now he had ten assists,
and he had eleven boards somehow, I'm not sure how many of those
were contested. He had one offensive rebound, but they did a very good
job against him and Davin Booker just having twenty six. Look, if he
and Kevin Durant are both on the under thirty points, you're probably in good
shape. Now, let's not forget about Big Zoo. The way he played
especially, I think it was early on after a time out in the third
quarter when Kauai was the only Clipper scoring had their first seven points in that
third. They came out of the time out and they featured big Zoo and
he was getting hook shots. He had a huge putback tip slam, I
thought, Mason Plumley. I don't think it's a stretch to say he had
his best game as a Clipper, considering what was at stake. Three of
three, seven points, eleven boards and a no look one eighty throw it
behind your head and hope and pray it goes in and one just ridiculous.
But you need plays like that, You need bench guys to step up.
Bones Highland didn't do much one of six, one of three from distance,
should have been at the free throw line, got hit in the face from
Devin Booker and they didn't call it. But that one three is still big.
On a night where the Clippers only hit ten of them, that's still
a big shot. Norman Powell, he only had fourteen, but he had
a big jumper at the end of the third quarter, and he was still
putting pressure on the rim. And even if guys were missing in this one,
they were getting extra opportunities because of fifteen offensive rebounds, Clippers controlled the
glass. They overcame thirty three free throws attempted by the Phoenix Suns two twenty
nine for the Clippers. But it was that second quarter where Phoenix got up
to fourteen of them just in the second it really got them back into the
ball game. Down sixteen, Clippers still led by five, how a little
bit of a cushion at the half, they win by five thanks to Kawhi
Leonard's brilliance and other worldly basketball play. There are not many guys in NBA
history that you'd rather have in a big game than Kawhi Leonard. Ever,
he's not. You know, if they did top seventy five for most clutch
players of all time, he might be top five. He is just an
absolute killer when it matters most and the high degree of difficulty shots that he
hits, not many in the history of the game can get off and knock
down. Kawhi leaves them with thirty eight. Russ makes plays late, even
on an offshooting night. Clippers win one fifteen to one. Ten. Sean
and Hawthorne start things out here on Clipper Stock. Sean, what's good,
Hey, Adam, Hey, how are you doing? Sean and Englewood,
I'm sorry it comes up. Hawthorne. That's all right, it's shown in
Inglewood. That's my last name. It's Okay, hey, listen to your
point. A couple of things I want to bring out I think had to
hear. First of all, Zoo had to hear out played their center,
So that was one thing, doing a double double at the half sean,
Yeah, he was out playing him. Another thing, if you realize it,
Kauai has one series against Lebron, against MBID and against Young and he
was the MVP and all those series. So the only one left on that
ledger now is KD. He's beaten KD in the series before. Katie's also
beating him before. But the last two series where they faced off wasn't exactly
a good sample size. It was Kevin Durant not being able to go in
twenty nineteen the NBA Finals after about half a quarter, and then Kawhi Leonard
was out in the first quarter of the first half of that twenty seventeen Western
Conference Finals when he was on the Spurs and Zaza Pachulia had that dirty play
which had a rule change. So this is the first time in a while
we get him both healthy at the peak of their powers, and Kawhi Leonard
absolutely outclass him tonight. Absolutely, And of course Russ is not going to
shoot that bad the next game. Okay, we're gonna get a little bit
more from Bones. I think plumb we play well, we're gonna get a
little bit more from the tune. And just think we won that game with
out Paul George and Marcus Moore. I mean, really, I can see
the Clippers winning this series. And I can also see it not even going
to seven. I really hit Hey, Sean, you're preaching to the choir
here. I had clips of six coming into this one. Now I may
be overlay optimistic, but after this game one, I think people are starting
to turn their heads. Oh they're gonna shoot better when they get home too.
Okay, so you won't have Bones and Rust shooting bricks when they get
home. So yeah, I like that. Clippers and six maybe five hopefully,
but you know, you know first and another thing, let me not
be remiss if I don't congratulate both LA teams that won on the road in
the playoffs today. And this is Clipper stalk Sean, I could care less
about what the Lakers did earlier today. Hey, good for the Lakers either,
but I just wanted to give him an honorable mention. They don't need
it. They don't need it. They'll tell you they don't need it.
It's just one game. They'll tell you how many banners they have. All
Yune, All Yune in Las Vegas. What's up? You're on Clippers Talk,
Clippers Talk. Oh man, it's Clippers talk. Yes, I don't.
Yes, Are I'm here? He wasn't him? Yes? Alli?
And what'd you think about the ball game? Yeah, I'm wet. I'm
weston to gim here and dig with your all, my friend, Yes,
I die. He wasn't a big day. I just want to say,
Man, I'm so happy Allie, and I'm happy for you. You got
a crowd there, yea that many people screaming and nobody swore on the air.
I appreciate that. Allie and great phone called have fun in Vegas.
Hopefully come back with something Damian in La You're on clipperstock. Oh man,
that was awesome, Bro. That was worth the price of admission right there.
Man, Hey, great Win brother, great Win. I am encouraged.
So Hey, we talked about it, man, Everything basically that we
talked about the last time, uh kind of came through. You ask the
question as we were leaving as to whether the Clippers can turn it off and
on. And you know, we saw them play with what some people might
call desperation. I say desire. You know, I thought that was great,
obviously fun guy in his element killing it. But man, I'm talking
about Russell Westbrook, you know, on his Kumo D mission. How you
like me? Now? You know what I'm saying. He has pop star
going at him. He was never stopping, never stopping. Can you believe
it? That's what he does. He's an energizer, bunny. I never
worry about Russ running out his steam. Sometimes he's a little too amped up,
I think for his own good with some of his shots. But that's
what makes him hitting those two free throws so clutch, right. You know
what? Sometimes he reminds me of like, you know, just like a
really talented kid on the sugar Rush. He kind of just gets ahead of
himself, you know what I'm saying a little bit, and that's okay.
But that's why we have coaches and Russell's coachable guy. Rain him in,
get him, you know, reset, take a quick time out. Let's
you know, let's not rush anything. We don't need to be panicked about
a KD team. These guys don't have anything that we need to be overly
concerned about or worried. We need to go out there and play our game.
I was happy to see them do it. I didn't want them to
just steal the game either, Adam. I wanted them to go out there
and smash them in the mouth. And that's what I saw again. We
took their best bunch, came back and won the ball game. Damian,
I appreciate the phone call. I'm short on time tonight. I'm sorry if
I put you on hold. It's not cutting you off, it's putting you
on hold. That's all ye. Clippers win one fifteen to one ten in
Phoenix over the Suns, holding the Sun seamed to one ten. You'll take
that every time. Clippers had a good enough first quarter defensively to sustain them
throughout it, and then a great offensive fourth quarter, scoring thirty four points
to just twenty nine for the Suns they outscore by five, and the fourth
they win by five. In the ball game. Final score one fifteen,
one ten. In favor of your Los Angeles Clippers. More of your phone
calls coming up eight six, six, ninety seven, two five seventy.
The guys from Clips and Dip are in the house here in the bank as
well. You're listening to Clipper Stock here in M. Five seventy al A
Sports on the Patriot M eleven fifty. We got the simulcasts and this is
pretty cool. Clippers State game one one fifteen to one ten in Phoenix over
the Suns Kawhi with thirty eight and forty two minutes and Russell Westbrook making plays
down the stretch. Credit Coach Lou. A lot of talk in that third
quarter, even from years truly was at some point you got a pool Russ.
If he's not hitting shots, Coach lu stuck with him, went back
to him in the fourth quarter and he made the hustle plays that won the
Clippers this ball game. Welcome back in the Clipper Stock. I'm at I'm
oslin eight six six ninety seven, two five seventy Coming up, you're gonna
hear from Russ, plus clips and DIP podcasts will be in effect. We
got will Updyke and Charles Mackler in the house. But somebody else who's usually
in the house here during the weekdays would be our friend Rodney Pete from Rogan
and Rodney, who's calling in. Oh, I'm honored, Rodney. What's
up, y'r Clipper stock, Oh, what's up? Double A Man,
I just had to call you. I'm hearing you talk, and I gotta
say it was it was all hard. Listen, it's the Clipper. It's
the Clipper talk. Yes, the Lakers won, but the Clipper game was
all hard. Like you said, credit tylu for keeping Russ in the game.
It was all hard and I was proud. I was proud of russ
Man. The way he played, you could tell he was feeling it.
I'll say this, double A. You know, there's a lot of talk
you know about you know, Kevin Durant being the best, Lebron James is
the best. Jannis is the best. I'm gonna tell you something. Give
me a healthy Kawhi Leonard every day in a week, every day a week,
the freaking terminated guy. I want the guy makes me swear on Twitter.
Not on the air, but he makes me swear on Twitter. I
get so excited. That's the only place I could do it. That step
through a movie had the push shot on the end one on Devin Booker where
he went by him and Booker wanted the foul it's just unbelievable. Roddy,
let me ask you this. I know you've been on a lot of teams
that were underdogs. Did you like that environment? Did you thrive in that
environment where you felt like, hey, backs against the wall, it's us
against the world. Loved it, loved it, And I think that was
the best thing for the Clippers to have to go on the road and play
these first two games, especially especially for Russ. A lot of a lot
of the things that you said earlier in the show. You know, he
can say all he wants, there's no beat, there's no you know,
this is another game, all that kind of stuff. It meant something to
him to play it against Kevin Durant. You saw how he was playing defense
on him, guarding him, guarding Booker. It was a challenge to him
and he thrived in that him. You forgot that he was three for nineteen
shooting the ball. It was all about his heart, his defense, his
rebounding. Yeah, it was definitely an environment, underdog environment that he thrived
in. He is a dog, He's got that dog in him, as
we like to say. He had a block on KD, he had a
steal on KD. You knew he'd have a little something extra. I feel
like sometimes it works against him with the shot because he's just too hyped up.
But hitting those two clush free throws that really said something about Russ that
calm the poise there. I just I mean, I don't know if he
heard the crowd or he was just you know, in his own head.
Tell me what that's like being a pro in those big moments like that where
you have to have it. Do you hear anything else? No? You
you you don't hear it till the place stops. But you feel it right.
You feel everybody's against you, and you feel you thrive off your teammates.
So when when Kawai is getting doubled and triple you feel like, I
gotta give a little something extra because my man is going off. If you're
Eric Gordon, I gotta hit the shot. Even though he missed a few,
he hit a big one right down the stretch. My guys in trouble,
I gotta come through. It's you and us against the world, and
it's a it's a it's an interesting feeling, man, but it's a fun
feeling and fun environment to be in. You know, the Clippers are one
and else so far in this series. There's another way to say that,
never lost, never know that. I'm going, Man, I appreciate you.
Love you brother, I love you, Rodney. We'll talk to you
this week. We'll see in studios, my friend, you got it.
Oh that's cool. That makes me feel good, as if I didn't have
enough wind to my sales already. Rodney Pete calls it Rogan and Rodney week
days at noonone on AM five seventy, La Sports, Javier and Lahabra Heights.
What's up? You're on clippers stock? Hey? What's up at him
again? Disness diusness playoffs atmosphere here? Man, what a game? I
mean? You said it in the beginning. They had to get to keep
one, very important. They get this game one now, honestly they should
go after game two and just don't give Phoenix no life. And like you
said earlier, if if if let's say, Phoenix would win this game,
they would have confidence, because you said, because they don't. They haven't
played with each other, so you don't want to. You don't want to
do that to them, so you just game two. They gotta just play
the way they play, you know, with a lot of hard and very
importantly, I told you this last week playoff time. Whether pat Riley used
to say rebounds wins championships to rings, they outrebound the Phoenix, what forty
eight forty two, So that's that's that's vital. So they got to keep
it going and if they if they win game two, it's over, Adam,
They'll probably winning the four. And the last thing, Adam, I
know you've got a lot of calls, please do not put Marcus Morris in
the game for one second. That's it. Thank you, Adam, Without
you Nixon, all right, have you? I didn't have to end on
something negative of there. I saw Marcus moorees out there on the bench cheering
his guys on, talking to them during timeouts. The veteran leadership on the
bench is required during moments like these, especially with young guys out there that
the Clippers have. I'm just gonna go wildcard line with it, and guess
this is Morrison long Beach Morris. The Clippers got to get to rebounding,
then they got to do to throw down. Those guards have got to get
the balled out and start that break. Morrison lob Beach with the parody do
we need music going out to break now. Yes, we still do.
Clippers win one, fifteen to one ten in Phoenix in Game one over the
Suns. Coming up next, we got the guys from Clips and Dip here,
Jack Mockler, William Updyke in the house. Clippers are one and oh
in the postseason, never lost. They had to get Roddy Peeper called it
o more Clippers stock next, Clippers on fifteen to one ten and Phoenix over
the Suns. Welcome back in the Clippers stock. I'm out of Moslins coming
over. We're gonna hear from Russell Westbrook. Big plays, late free throws,
the stop, the block and knocking it and off Devin Booker are not
of bounds to get the ball back in the Clippers hands. They close things
out and win by five. And now we are joined in studio. Oh
my guys, William Updyke, Chuck Mockler here from Clips and Dip Pod.
We got one coming for you in about an hour. It's going to be
out. Believe that. Okay, I'm just gonna go super calling Cowherd generic
for you here, Chuck, and then will do it. Biggest takeaway from
the ball game that if Russell Westbrook is going to be this engaged when it
comes to a rebounding and on defense. The Clippers kid survive if he shoots
not nineteen times a game, but maybe rounding ten to twelve times a game.
Yeah, I understand, there's no Paul George right now and you're trying
to shoot yourself out of a slump. But they had other guys who were
capable of scoring out there. Clipper survived though anyway, it's because of his
heart and hustle. Will. Yeah, some other guys are going to have
to help Kauai out there Offensively. I think that's a given over you know,
seven games, but overall, really really good stuff. Limiting Durant to
just fifteen shots I think is huge. Any game in this series where where
Kauai is taking more field goal attempts than Durant, I'm liking those odds,
even though the Suns have a little bit more top end talent, Chuck,
what do you think the adjustment is we see from the Sun's in game two?
In this one they started Tory Craig, which I thought was really smart
and obviously worked out there, but what else could they do Schematically? I'm
gonna be honest, I'm not entirely sure. I was surprised why the rotation
tonight. Only one guy on the bench played more than six and a half
minutes, so that was Landry Shammitt. So I think the Suns have a
whole lot more to figure out than we initially thought, even with a pretty
thin rotation. Man that's more top heavy than Dolly Parton on stilts Will.
I mean, that's the issue with the Sun's team, right when you go
all in on the top tier talent. Any minutes, like all of the
bench minutes are were a win for the Clippers in a in a big way.
So I don't really know how they can counter in terms of rotations.
I do think we will see, you know, like I said, a
field goal attempt disparity, Like, I don't think we'll continue to see eight
and taking more shots than Durant as this series goes on, unless the Clippers
are really really effective in stopping him. A lot of the talks has been
about Russell Westbrook just three of nineteen, but they win with that anyways,
And Norman Powell just took ten shots and just had fourteen points. I mean,
Terrence Man had just ten points. Those were two guys that I thought
they needed more from offensively, and the Clippers still get one fifteen in this
one. So there were encouraging signs overall. Yeah, absolutely, especially after
Gordon kind of slowed down after a really hot start. But toom also,
you know, offensively not really a huge game for him, not like not
as mega impactful as I thought we would probably need from him in a game
one. So there are some things there that, like, I guess what
I'm trying to say is that this isn't like lightning in a bottle right out
of this I feel like is is definitely think something that the Clippers can build
on moving forward. It's not like we had some absurd shooting night. It's
not. It's not like we had a bunch of lucky calls really break our
way or anything. It really just came down to hustling out some extra possessions,
getting more shots up even though we didn't have the same efficiency and locking
in defensively. Yeah, we had the opposite of good calls. The refs
were out of their minds for most of this one. Bones Higler got hit
in the face. Devin Booker's defensive highlight. I'm using the biggest of air
quotes here in the studio. So I think the activity that the Clippers can
bring for pressuring you know, the glass. When it comes to our guard
position, we have more active guards than they do, especially deeper or the
roster, so it's more intensity, it's more you know, intention, and
just all of what we saw from bro Us again except for the shooting previated
everyone else's Chuck Mockler and William up Dike from Clips and Dip Pod. We
got a tripod coming up later tonight. We got all your Clippers coverage on
Clips and Dip. Close things out on Clippers stock coming up next. Jose
and Southgates calling in. I think I know what's going down. Clippers win
one fifteen to one ten in game one in Phoenix over the Sun's final secondment.
Next right here in Los Angeles, Clippers right doing network. Can they
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Sports speaking with Christina pink Wine Round one goes to the Clippers. Russ.
We have just showed your critical play here over and over the block the stays
to retain possession for the Clippers here when the game was on the line.
How are you able to make those impact late effort? Hart? Who win?
I'll grin a group four group believe in another Suns and the Oli French
from It's gonna come out with a win to night. We knew this game
was gonna be a slug Betton, but to silent fish crowd on the road
when everybody was counting you guys out, what did it take for you guys
to do that? Today? Together? Miss, we'll do a good job
with sticking together. Two, they're wrong. We've got together being solid,
thank god, playing the right ready on the should and on a cousin quarter
rest. This is your first time in a playoff series alongside Kawhi Leonard.
How is he able to take over this game late? Maybe you can get
it any spot on the floor. An He's Tommy Wall septional tiling and I'm
just happy to be a part and trying to help him doing it all right,
Thank drav Jose and Southgate close things out. I just want three words.
You know what they are. Clack Clay Park Clippers went one fifteen to
one ten in Phoenix in Game one over the Suns. They're running back on
Tuesday, tip off at seven, while your pregame show starting at six.
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