WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:06.320 Time for a postgame. Look, it's your La Clippers. This is Clippers 2 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:10.039 Locker Road, brought to you by Cedars Sinai, the official health partner of 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:15.119 the LA Clippers, and by Patschonga, official travel casino of the LA Clippers. 4 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:19.359 Breaking down today's action with the pre and post game voice. If you're 5 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:23.719 La Clippers, they're locking in every game, every night, Adam Osland. 6 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:28.440 It wasn't always pretty, but the Clippers got the w in Miami over the 7 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:32.200 heat. They win one oh three to ninety five. Welcome into your postgame 8 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:36.280 show. I'm Adam Oslin. If you like to get on early for Clippers 9 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:40.240 Talk eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight 10 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:43.439 seven two five seventy or get to me at follow Adam A. But first 11 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.520 let's get back out to your radio voice of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. 12 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:52.039 So in this one, the Clippers started one for eight from distance, Carlow 13 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:57.079 just to hit fifteen of their next thirty one attempts from three. The love 14 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.799 averages was in their favor eventually, and they hit some ones on the fourth 15 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.359 quarter. Yeah, and they really needed it at them because that zone defense 16 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:07.560 of Miami. It thrives on teams missing threes, and the Clippers were getting 17 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.159 open looks in that first quarter, but they just couldn't knock them down. 18 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.959 The tie turns in the second they hit I believe seven threes in that second 19 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:21.079 quarter, and they really were able to force Miami out of that zone defense 20 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:25.400 and able to get into one on one opportunities on the offensive end. It 21 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:27.519 was, like you said, not the prettiest win, but you got it 22 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:32.400 done on the road and a place that look is very tough to win. 23 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.480 This is a hard building to get a win in here in Miami, and 24 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:41.840 a great job by the Clippers to get it done. It was good. 25 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.599 It was I mean, there's a lots of point out that they can improve 26 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:46.079 on, but at the end of the day, he won the game right 27 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:49.040 at him and that's what matters exactly, my friend. And Miami never easy 28 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.359 because of that heat culture and the toughness they possess, and they're a team 29 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.280 trying to dig out of the play in tournament right now. While that has 30 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.879 been a round for them in the past to be successful through, they don't 31 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:02.680 want to be there again. And I thought defensively for the most part, 32 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.120 that zone defense was solid the Clippers. It took some time to adjust, 33 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:12.639 but eventually Kawhi Leonard played very well had twenty four points. James Harden with 34 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.400 a bounce back performance, though, knocking down five to three pointers after going 35 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:20.800 oer for with just four points in Detroit on Friday. I love seeing a 36 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.039 turnaround like that from a superstar. Yeah, you knew what was coming. 37 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:28.159 There is no way James Harden was going to continue to struggle like that throughout 38 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:30.639 the ball game. I think what I was most impressed with Adham was the 39 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:35.639 timeliness of his threes. I mean, the feel for the game that James 40 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.719 Harden has. I think it's just so hard to understand because he just seems 41 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.800 to make the right play that the Clippers need at any moment, where that's 42 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.759 finding the hot hand, whether it's getting to the free throw line, whether 43 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:50.639 that's finding us way to swipe the basketball out of an offensive player on the 44 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:54.879 defensive end, but both all of his threes today were so timely and huge 45 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:59.400 for the Clippers to be able to get this done down the stretch. You 46 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:01.800 love to see the ball in his hands. Good things always happen when he's 47 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:06.199 in double digits. And assists, and he's two rebounds away from a triple 48 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:09.479 double. Fantastic self from James Harden. Clippers battle on the boards, it 49 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:15.159 was forty eight forty four in favor of the Clippers. In the rebounding department. 50 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.599 We gotta see Big Zoo back. Played just eighteen minutes, of course, 51 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:23.599 on a minute's restriction. His first game since early January here four points, 52 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:25.439 two of four shooting. But you talk with Big Plump post game, 53 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:30.560 and he filled in admirably, especially late during crunch time. Yeah, he 54 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:32.560 was great for this Clippers team. I mean, one thing that's been a 55 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:38.039 knock against Mason Plumley ad him is he jumps sometimes when guy's pumping, he 56 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.919 leaves his feet. He didn't commit a personal foul against bam Adebayo, who's 57 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:46.240 been get into the free throw line frequently as of late for this Miami team. 58 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:50.120 And he did an excellent job not fouling, playing defense, making it 59 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.159 hard for out to Bayo, who had to take thirteen shots to get the 60 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:57.719 fourteen points. I thought he did a fantastic job on the defensive end for 61 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.759 this Clippers team. Was great in picking role when they doubled Harden. His 62 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.639 ability to leap in the air, which you know I supposed to leap when 63 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:06.240 you when you don't know where you're going to the basketball. But plumb seems 64 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:11.800 to find his teammates every time when he jumps through traffic. He was great, 65 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.439 and the wealth on the center position for this Clippers team just to continues 66 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:20.160 to increase. Mason Plumbley a huge twenty six minutes time. Impressive to see 67 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:24.519 the Clippers build that lead with Kawhi Leonard on the bench early in the fourth 68 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.480 quarter. But my favorite play of the ballgame was the block he had on 69 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.279 Jimmy Butler where he just had him locked up in Alcatraz there for a second, 70 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:34.600 couldn't get a shot off. I mean, that's an old school Eastern 71 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:39.879 Conference rival where he back with Kawhi on the Toronto Raptors in twenty nineteen when 72 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:43.519 they had to go through a Philadelphia seventy six ers team that had Jimmy Buckets. 73 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:46.639 Yeah, let me tell you something. I'm sure Jimmy Butler is happy 74 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.279 this is the last team he's going to see Kawhi Leonard in the regular season 75 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:54.040 because he made it tough on Butler and at one point, you know, 76 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.000 you wondered Why isn't Butler being more assertive, But Kawhi Leonard was just giving 77 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:02.240 him no window to try to find something offensively. Nineteen shots to get the 78 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:09.160 twenty one points. He made it hard on Butler, who as this as 79 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:14.240 pat Riley says, Adam stirs the straw here with Miami, and he was 80 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:17.279 unable to do so because of the defense from Kawhi Leonard, Who's going to 81 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.959 have a tall task tomorrow with Trey Young on the other side. But this 82 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.959 was a nice win the Clippers, clearly. You know, it took him 83 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.120 a little bit to get going forty three points in the first daft, but 84 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:33.160 they finished with forty nine in that second half. Or excuse me, fifty 85 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:38.079 in that sixty in that second half. Wow, I was a journalism major. 86 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.560 Sixty in the second half to get it done in this one. A 87 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.639 great job to turn the tide, a great job to finish things. And 88 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.240 now, as ot as Mason Plumley said, Adam, the Clippers want to 89 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.480 get it done in Atlanta and really finish this road trip strong Man. Six 90 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:56.120 and one was the goal. Coach Lou told you that before the road trip, 91 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.439 even I was skeptical at times how well this Clippers team was you have 92 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.600 little faith doubting Thomas over here. But they have a chance to have one 93 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.839 of the best road trips, if not the best, in team history. 94 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:12.720 I believe at this point this is the most successful Grammy road trip in franchise 95 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.800 history by this Clippers team, and they have a chance to go six to 96 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.879 one if they can pull off the victory Tomorrow in the atl Tiptime from Atlanta 97 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.360 is at four thirty. We'll have your pregame show starting at three thirty. 98 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.959 Carlo Jimenez, my guy, great call is always safe travels. We'll talk 99 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.160 to you tomorrow from Atlanta. Talk to you tomorrow, Adam, Day thirteen 100 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.959 of this thirteen game trip. Let's finish it with a w coming up next. 101 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:40.920 We got second half highlights as the Clippers win in Miami one o three 102 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:46.000 to ninety five. And you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network loading 103 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:51.439 Clippers fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening 104 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:58.639 to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. The Clippers improved two 105 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.279 five in one on this Grammy road trip as they win in Miami one O 106 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:06.720 three to ninety five over Jimmy Butler in the heat. Welcome back into your 107 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.800 post game show. This is Clippers locker room. I'm at a Moslin coming 108 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.319 up on a M five seventy LA Sports. We'll have Clippers talk for you. 109 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:16.199 Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety seven 110 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:20.720 two five seventy But first second half highlights. It was all knotted up at 111 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:26.000 just forty three points in the first half. I joked, maybe first to 112 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.279 eight you would win this one. The Clippers would be the first to get 113 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:33.240 there thanks to the claw. Kawhi Leonard off the back rim, offensive rebound 114 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.680 Leonard and he'll recycle in the page, curls the screen. Leonard puts it 115 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.800 from behind into the hands of Harden. Full core pass Leonard, no one 116 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.279 in front. He'll pack it with the right hand. Time out, spoolstra 117 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:46.639 Leonard at the top. We'll fakes for three to shoot. It's a hen 118 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.879 grenade, step back, greeball. Got It's Leonard of bail out buckets, 119 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:54.279 games, orchestrating with New York jumps in the air. Leonard's open rightly three 120 00:07:54.519 --> 00:08:00.759 perfect Kawhi Leonard off the hard and assists Kawhi Leonard had ten points in that 121 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.240 third quarter alone after having eleven in the first half, but it was just 122 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.839 a two point game. Clippers did not close the third strong. It was 123 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.560 sixty nine to sixty seven Clippers heading into the fourth quarter, but without Kawhi 124 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.240 Leonard on the floor early in the fourth, the Clippers were able to increase 125 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.160 their lead, and it was James Harden with the four point place only retreats 126 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:26.120 step back three for Harden. He even get the horn and wine. James 127 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.959 Horning a chest throw a four point play as he rambows in a three tobly 128 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.320 downhill, jumps in the air, finds hard in seven is Shue left the 129 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.480 logo, jams left side steph three ball few mans Harden on the right wing, 130 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.759 dribbles left hand. Brochier in his shadow, steps back to their left 131 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:52.519 wing threes in the fowl. The Beard is on Fire a sixteen to Ford 132 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.919 Clipper run insane. He had eleven of his twenty one points in that fourth 133 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.200 quarter, plus had a lef an assist in the ball game, and the 134 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:07.000 Clippers would win in a low scoring nineties basketball affair, oneh three to ninety 135 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.039 five in Miami over the heat coming up next to your final box score right 136 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:16.480 here under Clippers post game show on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. The 137 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.679 LA Clippers continue their hunt for a Lariyo B. They still want to get 138 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.559 that Lario beat. Don't miss a moment all season longed. This is the 139 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:31.039 LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win in Miami one oh three to ninety five. 140 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.360 I'm Adam Oslin. Welcome back into your postgame show. Coming up, 141 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.200 we got Clippers talk on a five seven LA Sports eight sixty six ninety seven 142 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.600 two five seventy of the phone number. Kawhi Leonard ended up with twenty five 143 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:48.240 points on eight of sixteen shooting plus leading them. Board Man gets paid in 144 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:56.039 the rebounding category with eleven four assists, two steals, two blocks. Jimmy 145 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:03.159 Butler got locked up. Paul George struggle for the most part three of thirteen, 146 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.080 but hit some big shots late, got to the free throw line, 147 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.000 knocked them down with six of six there fifteen points, seven boards, four 148 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:13.320 assists. James Harden a nice bounce back performance after struggling with just four points 149 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:18.000 in Detroit on Friday, twenty one points seven of thirteen to five of nine 150 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.039 from the outside and eleven assists off the bench. Norman Powell seven of his 151 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:26.600 sixteen points in the fourth quarter, King of the fourth, six of twelve 152 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:28.360 from the field, just two of seven from the outside, but a clutch 153 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.480 three pointer in a tight game late for the heat, they got just twenty 154 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:39.080 one from Jimmy Butler on nineteen shots. Beam Montebayo fourteen and thirteen. Terry 155 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:43.799 Rozier was seventeen on seventeen attempts. Clippers win one O three to ninety five 156 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:48.120 in Miami tomorrow, last game of the road trip. Hopefully they don't have 157 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.320 a foot out the door yet. They'll be in Atlanta taking on Trey Young 158 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:58.159 and the Hawks. Tip time three thirty, Labor pregame show at four thirty. 159 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.919 Katie, is it three thirty tomorrow? So we got pregame of two 160 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:09.480 thirty pre game of three thirty, Kay Newton, I thought I had a 161 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:16.080 steel trapper of mind, but that one slipped it. Coming up next in 162 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.919 Los Angeles. As we're leaving you on the network side until tomorrow, but 163 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:24.320 we got Clippers stock on AM five to seventy LAS Sports coming your way next. 164 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:31.039 This has been LA Clippers basketball really good on multitude of levels. Don't 165 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.559 miss a moment all season long on their official home Join us next time on 166 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:41.960 the LA Clippers Audio Network. Hello Clippers fans, if you're gonna go for 167 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.879 it, if that's what you want to do, you do. Welcome the 168 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:48.879 Clippers Talk. Your first chance to react to all the action of Clippers basketball. 169 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.639 Do it to hear every episode. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeartRadio or 170 00:11:54.759 --> 00:12:01.000 wherever you podcast me right now your host on your whole for the Clippers, 171 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:07.159 they were in attack mode. Adam Osley Clippers were able to escape Miami without 172 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:13.360 getting burned by the heat as they started one for eight from three just to 173 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.720 hit fifteen of their next thirty one to three pointers and they scrape out in 174 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:24.919 ugly but satisfying victory for Clipper Nation, winning one o three to ninety five 175 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:30.000 in Miami and what looked like a playoff type of setting with the style of 176 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.480 ball being played out there. Welcome to Clippers Talk. I'm at a Oslin 177 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.279 eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five 178 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:39.559 seventy is the phone number. Well, we have a moment though, Let's 179 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.919 pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on a M five, seventy LA 180 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:50.080 Sports, This is LA Clippers Basketball, AM five to seventy KLAC Los Angeles, 181 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.840 ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeartRadio Station. Kawhi Leonard 182 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.879 would lead them in scoring. Again. Now, I got one box score 183 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:05.440 saying twenty four points. I have another saying twenty five points? Which one 184 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.240 do I go with? Do I round up win? In doubt? When 185 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:11.519 a guy's playing this well, I guess you'd give him the twenty five. 186 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:18.080 Let me give you some numbers as we continue to push the Kawhi for MVP 187 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:24.039 agenda here on Clippers Talk. Over his last twenty eight games now where the 188 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:28.519 Clippers are twenty four and four, he's been averaging twenty six points per game 189 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:37.279 while shooting fifty seven percent from the field and almost fifty one percent from three 190 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.720 Wake up national media, Wake up book makers. Kawhi Leonards should be top 191 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.639 five at least in the MVP conversation. When you are the best player on 192 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.919 the hottest team and it is just a game back of me and the number 193 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:56.039 one seed in the Western Conference, that's typically traditionally where those guys end up. 194 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:01.600 I don't know why they're waiting only miss four games this season. Put 195 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:07.279 them in the conversation, keep them in the dialogue and on the tip of 196 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:13.080 your tongue when you talk about the best players in the NBA today. Kawhi 197 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:16.840 Leonard playing his best basketball ever in the regular season, on a top seventy 198 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.480 five player ever, and for some reason, still not being talked about enough. 199 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.919 He's not the one that's gonna campaign. We'll do it for him. 200 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.080 Eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety seven two five 201 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.759 seventy. As I mentioned, it was an ugly ball game. The Clippers 202 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:39.360 were down twenty two to nineteen twelve minutes in twenty two to nineteen, they 203 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.600 started one of eight from distance. This is a lesson, though, on 204 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.919 why you have to keep shooting him from the outside, especially when you're the 205 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.519 best three point shooting team in the league. Eventually, the law of averages 206 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.480 will play in your favor, and they did. I believe they hit seven 207 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.759 threes in the second quarter after just one in the first cour and they end 208 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.200 up sixteen of thirty nine. That's forty one percent from three, and it 209 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.039 saved them. We talked about it during the broadcast Carlo Amennez asked what they 210 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.879 need to do to break the zone? What starts with the shooting. They 211 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:18.559 had to be better there. They weren't early on. They weren't close to 212 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:24.919 shooting to their capabilities early on this Clippers team, they struggled immensely. The 213 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:30.559 zone can junk up the game, can make you play outside yourself. It 214 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:33.320 can just throw a different wrinkle at you that you don't see very much. 215 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.480 And it's not just a team going to the zone. It's a team that 216 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:43.039 is very familiar with running it to perfection. In the Miami Heat, nobody 217 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:48.039 plays zone better than they do, and they got a great head coach and 218 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:56.159 Eric Spolster leading them. Luckily, the Clippers have Toron lou and a heck 219 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:58.679 of a lot of talent now that he gets to work with, including James 220 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.799 hard And, who, after having just four points in Detroit on Friday, 221 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:12.799 dropped twenty one, including multi pull four point plays where he was fouled on 222 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:18.080 a step back three pointer, the one he patented, the one that is 223 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.360 as deadly as any shot in NBA history, the one that will make him 224 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.559 a first ballot Hall of Famer, and he was too enticing with it. 225 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:33.799 In Miami, and the defenders could not help themselves common fouls on both They 226 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.559 didn't get called for correculus closeouts, but fouls Nonetheless, James Harden had ten 227 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:44.879 of his twenty one in that fourth quarter, huge buckets as the Clippers started 228 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.840 to pull away with Kawhi Leonard on the bench. You don't see that very 229 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:52.799 often. So when you talk about encouraging signs from this team, even in 230 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.559 a sloppy game where yes, they ended up with one of my box scores 231 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:02.960 says fifteen turnovers, the other says sixteen. I'm gonna go with fifteen. 232 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:07.880 They had their issues hanging onto the basketball and made it far too interesting late 233 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.160 when they were up by I want to say thirteen at one point in the 234 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:18.279 fourth quarter in a tightly contested ballgame where thirteen felt more like twenty five because 235 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.599 points were at a premium. But the Clippers continue to turn it over, 236 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:29.799 keep Miami believing, keep Eric Spolser calling time outs and extending this ballgame. 237 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.599 Rightfully so, but I'll say this, it gives coach lou a lot of 238 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:38.119 ammunition, even in a victory, to get this team's attention, to say, 239 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:44.400 you have to be better, you have to close out teams stronger than 240 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:48.319 this. So you know what, one of the box scurs says, seventeen. 241 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:52.640 I'm gonna go with that. It felt like seventeen turnovers leading to nineteen 242 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.960 points for the Miami Heat. Clippers, too loose with the basketball, too 243 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:00.400 sloppy, too careless, self inflicted wounds kept this game close, but they 244 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.400 knocked down their free throws late. Give him credit there, Paul George at 245 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:08.640 the charity stripe, Kawhi Leonard as well, Norman Powell once again King of 246 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:12.759 the fourth, seven of his sixteen points in a clutch three pointer when the 247 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:17.599 game was still in the balance late in the fourth quarter that they really needed. 248 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:22.799 And then a jumper where he's just so good. Now when they're trying 249 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.680 to run him off the line, I'll just take guys off the dribble man, 250 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:30.599 they'll knock down a long two point two. But PG had a nice 251 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:37.079 block and steal on Heimi Hawkes. Those two have had some runs at UCLA 252 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.160 in the past. Hawky has went at him lost crossed over Paul George a 253 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:44.720 couple of times. At one point early in the fourth quarter, Paul George 254 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:47.200 came back at him, had the block steal, not sure where they ended 255 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:48.480 up calling it, but then hit a three on the other end. That 256 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:52.160 was a big shot in the fourth quarter. And how about my guy big 257 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:59.119 plumb coming through the reverse layup was really the dagger in the game. Turnover 258 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:02.960 still made an interest, but Mason Plumbley was very good down the stretch. 259 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.960 He knocked down the majority of his free throws as well left handed. Now 260 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:11.759 he ended up three or four at the charity stripe they found him. I 261 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.440 want to say for a dunk late. Was it James Harden who found him? 262 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:21.680 I just that reverse layup was special, But in a game where Big 263 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:26.559 Zoo returned and only had to play eighteen minutes, probably was at twenty minutes. 264 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.559 Was his restriction two of four four points three boards. You have a 265 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:34.720 guy like Mayson plumbing the act disposal to give you five nine rebounds, two 266 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:40.599 offensive rebounds, and yeah, that reverse was his only make from the field, 267 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.319 and it was a big one, a critical one. I think it 268 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:47.640 gave them enough cushion to eventually go on to win one to oh, three 269 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:52.400 to ninety five. A lot of good performances, Clippers went small at times. 270 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:55.200 I liked what I saw with two on three, next to Harden, 271 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.400 next to a Mere Coffee and Terrence Man a lot of switch a bill out 272 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:04.079 there, I thought you know. Paul George struggled just three of thirteen, 273 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:08.519 but again a big shot, big free throws James hard to bounce back performance. 274 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:12.599 Terrace Man was good overall, but just twenty minutes seven points. Russell 275 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:17.480 Westbrook struggled, missed that dunk leading to a three pointer the other way. 276 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:19.920 That is the stuff that can't happen. He was just two of nine. 277 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:25.039 When he smokes layups and dunks like that, it is a live ball turnover 278 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.200 and they seem to always end up in buckets going the other way. But 279 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:32.640 still had a great performance Friday night against the Pistons. These days happen. 280 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:37.240 Clippers have so much talent they overcome it. Anyways. A Mere Coffee again 281 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.119 got to his me hit a three pointer as well, five points. Just 282 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:47.079 he's special. Not many guys can thrive in a role when they don't know 283 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:51.480 what exactly that moving target of their role will be on a night to night 284 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:56.200 basis, and a Mere Coffee's just two good stars in his role. Love 285 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.839 what he has brought to this team of last month and a half was screaming 286 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.279 to get him on the court right after the trade. They don't have any 287 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:06.559 more wings. Put out a mere coffee, I said, And now, 288 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:10.799 well the rest is history. Hopefully he's been that good. He's been integral 289 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:12.839 to what this team has been able to do as the Clippers. Now, 290 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:17.480 let me give you this Cliper Nation. When I tell you this is the 291 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:21.359 best regular she's in stretching franchise history, I am not lying to you. 292 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:25.440 They have now won thirty of their last thirty eight games, twenty five of 293 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:30.559 their last thirty since December first, and fifteen of their last nineteen and they're 294 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:33.920 five and one on this Grammy road trip. That's already the best mark they've 295 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.839 ever had. Even if they lose tomorrow hopefully not, but even if they 296 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.839 do, it's still the most successful Grammy road trip in franchise history to my 297 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.720 knowledge. They're in Atlanta tomorrow. We'll preview that as well. But first, 298 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:49.720 to start things off, Jabbier Lahabra Heights, Jabber, I'm short on 299 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:52.640 time. Give me about thirty forty five seconds here, Okay, my friend, 300 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:56.960 all right, you got a real quick games like this. It was 301 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:00.599 an ugly, ugly win, but they they got it real quick. I 302 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:07.240 know, hey, ugly went better than a pretty loss, right, But 303 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.799 yeah, I noticed that's cool. I had mentioned this the last couple of 304 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:14.079 games. They've been starting slow and they got to lock up on defense. 305 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.680 I mean they started slow again today. But you know, I guess talent, 306 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.559 you know won them the game. But but I just you know, 307 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:23.720 good game. Russell Westbrook can have a good game. And he only played 308 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:26.319 with fifteen minutes. That was pretty good. Tyleron knew that was not his 309 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.400 night, and he took him out last. Thing's real quick, man. 310 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:33.240 Paul George, like we mentioned last game, yet, zero turnovers, man, 311 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:37.160 those two turnovers at the end of the what the fourth what the last 312 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:38.759 four minutes? Those are crucial, man, He's got to protect the ball. 313 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:41.720 I'm talking about Paul George. So that's it, Adam, thank you 314 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:45.000 everything. I'm gonna call. I agree with tomorrow, all right, hob 315 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.079 here, Yeah, for sure. Yeah, Paul George has to be better, 316 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.079 especially having miss cues in opportune times like that late in the ball game. 317 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:57.319 He knows it. There were definitely mental lapses out there they had. 318 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:03.680 Geez, I want to say, seven turnovers in the first quarter after you 319 00:23:03.720 --> 00:23:06.640 know they're a team on the season that's one of the best when it comes 320 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:10.440 to taking care of the basketball. They came into this game averaging just twelve 321 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:15.279 turnovers on the dot. I believe that's top five in fewest turnovers per game. 322 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.960 That's a testament to James Harden when he has brought to this team because 323 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:22.599 last season they were almost turning it over fifteen times per game. That's a 324 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.839 huge difference. That is championship type of ball. Only turning it over, 325 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:30.240 uh that infrequently. All right, quick time out, We'll come back. 326 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:33.000 Clippers win one oh three to ninety five in Miami over the heat. We'll 327 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.920 get back to your phone calls. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five 328 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:41.160 seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. I'mt a Moslin and 329 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:45.359 you are listening to AMI seventy LA Sports. They want to bring a banner 330 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:51.000 with them to the into it down more LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers 331 00:23:51.079 --> 00:24:03.680 Audio Network. Kawhi Leonard refuses to turn things down. He's playing as loud 332 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:10.759 as ever eight of sixteen with twenty five points in a game where the Clipper 333 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:14.000 shot just forty four percent from the field. He was still a fifty percent 334 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.000 from the floor, fifty percent from the outside big three pointers in that third 335 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.440 quarter, went three of six from distance, plus he led them in the 336 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:27.240 rebounding department eleven three boards, guarding Jimmy Butler, locking him up in a 337 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:32.920 possession where he had him in Alcatraz, plucked his shot and looked like multiple 338 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:36.720 times. I think he was having flashbacks to that seven game series back in 339 00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:41.880 twenty nineteen where Kawhi was on the Toronto Raptors and that Philadelphia team was stacked. 340 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:45.960 Kawhi somehow carried Toronto to the victory and then to a championship. Welcome 341 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.599 back into Clipperstock. I'm at a Moslin eight sixty six ninety seven two five 342 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:55.519 to seventy Mitch in New Jersey. You got thirty seconds match? What's up, 343 00:24:55.559 --> 00:25:02.079 my friend? You doing everythinkskam of cool. I wish they wouldn't starts 344 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:07.640 slowly make it easier for themselves. I agree, uh Kawaii lands winning his 345 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:12.440 MVP. Whether you like him that looking to this census to be like Jaen 346 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:18.680 Danny Darren's Whinnigan and I like this kid kid, I like this young player 347 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:22.279 that we have in the course me a coffee. He's really really good to 348 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:25.880 have off the bench. Be a star someday, and I'm wonning about Bosston 349 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:30.119 Junior one day till I hope to see him since edit Clipper only anyway, 350 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.799 All right, match, I appreciate the phone call. Your phone sucks. 351 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:37.400 I'm sorry. Thank you said you loved the mirror coffee there, we all 352 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.240 do. The mirror coffee is awesome, and what he's brought to this Clippers 353 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:47.839 team has been invaluable because he can just blend in and fill a role and 354 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:51.599 thrive in it. Morris in Long Beach, young Clipper stop without a mals 355 00:25:51.640 --> 00:26:03.559 in thirty seconds here Morris basically be mad up in his right Clippers. All 356 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:07.279 right, Morris, I appreciate it. I don't know if that was on 357 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:11.519 purpose to fit the theme there or not. Normally, your phone's much better. 358 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:17.200 Age sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number. Can't 359 00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:18.720 say enough about what this Clippers team has done over the last two and a 360 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:25.240 half months on this road trip. Being five and one, I thought four 361 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:29.319 and three would be successful. Coach lou and this team wants to get greedy. 362 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:32.720 They want to end up six and one. That was the goal coming 363 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:37.039 into this trip. He told Carlo Jimenez that before they left Los Angeles they 364 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:41.119 have a chance to Now tomorrow they'll be in Atlanta taking on Trey Young and 365 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:45.440 the Hawks. We'll take a quick time out here. We'll come back. 366 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.880 We'll get to your phone calls and will Updyke will join me from Clips and 367 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.559 Dip. Still searching for some postgame audio as well. Clippers win in Miami 368 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:56.279 one O, three to ninety five. You gotta find different ways to win 369 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.960 ball games. This was a rock fight, a slug fest, and the 370 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:07.440 Clippers came out on top. Heat culture. What about Clippers culture. I'm 371 00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:12.279 saying more Clippers sock next year. Already up by seventy LA Sports loading Clippers 372 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:18.039 fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is La Clippers basketball. You're listening to 373 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:23.920 the La Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers are victorious in Miami 374 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:29.279 and they're five and one on this Grammy road trip making some sweet music. 375 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:36.119 This team working in unison. Kawhi Leonard led them with twenty five, led 376 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:41.039 them on defense to Big Zoo was back. Just played eighteen minutes, but 377 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:45.960 you'll take it. Didn't even think he'd be back till maybe March. That's 378 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:48.599 what a lot of people were guessing after they said he'd be reevaluated in four 379 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:52.960 to six weeks. Surprise, and it was a good one for this Clippers 380 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.759 team. Coming up, we're looking for postgame audio, but first joining the 381 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:02.799 show is Will Updyke from Clips and Dip. Will thanks for doing this here 382 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.119 postgame. I do want to ask you about Kawhi Leonard and the update on 383 00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.720 the MVP conversation. Have you heard from anybody talking about him as anyone mentioned 384 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:15.400 it? I know this game was on Espen. Were any of the announcers 385 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:19.359 you know, on the ball and in tune with what Kawhi Leonard has been 386 00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:22.880 doing. You know, no one's been hitting me up, no one's been 387 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.240 reaching out to me. I'm checking my mail. I'm ready for apologies. 388 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:32.200 I'm ready for people to send me a photo copy of their ballot with with 389 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:34.359 Kawhi at the top of their MVP voting. Still not happen, man, 390 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:37.880 Maybe it must be the rain. You know what the rain I think is 391 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.759 what is what's holding people back? Yeah, that takes out those carrier pigeons 392 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:47.200 with the message of Kawhi Leonard being this dominant for this long last twenty eight 393 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:49.920 games, shooting fifty eight percent from the field, fifty one percent from three, 394 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:52.920 while getting twenty six points per game, and oh yeah, playing that 395 00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:57.240 other side of the court that everyone seems to neglect, nobody seems to care 396 00:28:57.279 --> 00:29:02.079 about when it comes to HEAVP voting wild. But let's talk about were you 397 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.400 shocked, surprised, or just encouraged by the fact that a Visa Zuboss was 398 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:11.039 able to go today? Shocked? Absolutely, odd jaw on the floor. 399 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:14.880 I I mean, honestly, I wasn't even sure, if you know, 400 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.400 because we knew about the reevaluation, if he had been traveling with the team 401 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.759 the whole time, or you know, like what his situation was. So 402 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.920 I was absolutely shocked. I mean, I mean, it's great to see 403 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.759 Big Zoo back there. We talked a little bit about what his return would 404 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:33.359 look like. You were a pro, You were a proponent of having him 405 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:37.279 just return immediately to the starting lineup minutes restriction, you know, kind of 406 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.000 just have that in place and work rotations around that, which is uh, 407 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.799 which is great, which is what we saw. So you nailed that one, 408 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:49.960 and well, yeah, I'm curious to see how long it's gonna take 409 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:56.839 him to get back into our rhythm, because you know, he's just been 410 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.559 looking so good for so long, even before we were on that win streak. 411 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:03.400 I brought up multiple times that like we were, I kind of felt 412 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.519 like we were blowing Good Zoo games when we were when we were in that 413 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.799 sort of slump. That's how good he's been since the James Harden edition. 414 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.720 So I'm hoping that he comes back up to speed. I'm assuming that it's 415 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:19.240 going to be more difficult on the defensive side of the ball for him, 416 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:23.880 but you know, hey, having him back this early I did not I 417 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:29.359 did not think he would be playing in games before the All Star break. 418 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.599 Yeah, it looks a little hesitant. The timing wasn't quite there. He 419 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.960 did have a nice knockaway on a lob pass that ended up being a turnover 420 00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.839 from the heat and a throwdown in the second and then a layup where Kawi 421 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:44.640 found him beautifully in the third quarter over Jimmy Butler looking for the mismatch with 422 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.759 Big Zoo. But we'll see, it'll take time. It's it's all still 423 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.480 just huge for this team right now, so to speak, because they have 424 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.119 needed him. They've been getting by without him, but eventually, especially come 425 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.720 March in the seventeen games, they need him full up to speed. And 426 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.079 with him coming back this soon, it seems like that is a very much 427 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.359 in play and a possibility, and he could be trending towards that. Oh, 428 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:11.880 it's like it's like good news on top of good news for the Clippers. 429 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.480 I mean, we just talked yesterday about Kawhi and how he's not happy 430 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.960 with the team's approach, how he wants everybody to step things up on the 431 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.920 defensive end of the ball, and then the next day we get our defensive 432 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.079 anchor back in the rotation. Man, I tell you what, the Clippers 433 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:33.039 are ready for March. Yeh in February. It's your heart out, Chuck. 434 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.680 Now he wants to come back on tonight. He couldn't do it though, 435 00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:38.680 because the Clippers got another victory, So that means it's will Updyke. 436 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:42.839 Well, we've talked about James Harden and him having that down game, and 437 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.160 we got some comments doing the live like what's wrong with James Harden. Well, 438 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:51.960 it seems like he's okay. Played forty two minutes, went seven of 439 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.480 thirteen, five to three pointers made, two of them turned into four point 440 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.799 plays, big clutch shots, and he ended up with twenty one points in 441 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:04.839 eleven assists. He was right next to Kawhile Leonard for being the best player 442 00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:08.000 on the floor tonight. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, when he can 443 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:14.519 be aggressive, obviously, it just adds an entire another scoring dimension to this 444 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:20.079 team. The thing, the thing with James is scoring is I'm just wondering 445 00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.319 how he can continue to stay in rhythm when he's you know, he's not 446 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:25.720 used to being off ball. He's not, He's not used to taking a 447 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:31.039 whole lot offtball threes. He does a great job obviously facilitating everyone around him. 448 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:35.519 I'm just wondering if there's more ways that we can kind of unlock him 449 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:38.359 on nights where you know, tonight was great forty one minutes. He could 450 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:43.240 he could really you know, score and be the offensive player himself. I'm 451 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:49.119 wondering if there are ways we can sort of maximize his skill set without him 452 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.119 having to like be on ball the whole time. I know, obviously the 453 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.359 team is better with the ball in his hands, but yeah, it's I 454 00:32:57.359 --> 00:32:59.960 guess I guess basically what I'm saying is if we can get him more involve 455 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:02.240 when he is off ball, Yeah, more catch and shoot threes, and 456 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:06.359 hey, he has adapted his game. He's been pretty damn good in that 457 00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:09.359 area as a clipper. But we know at his best when you give him 458 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:14.720 the controls or the controller U, he can take this team to new heights. 459 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:19.279 Mike got Norman Powell my pick for this three game road trip. Stepping 460 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.119 up once again in the fourth quarter. Had seven of his sixteen a clutch, 461 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:28.000 three pointers, six of twelve from the field. But the guy continues 462 00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.680 to be the king of the fourth God bless him. Will this is I 463 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:36.079 don't think anyone came into the season thinking that Norman Powell was going to play 464 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:42.039 at this high of a level for this long of a sustained period. Well 465 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.839 no, I mean I think that we've seen flashes of that, and certainly 466 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:50.000 when Norm was healthy, like you could see the potential. But I think 467 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:53.920 the reason that he was so involved in you know, basically every trade machine 468 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:58.200 someone sent to you over the summer before the start of the season was he 469 00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:00.440 is just a little bit of an un want a fiable entity, right, 470 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.519 It's a little bit unknown, like we just we hadn't seen prolonged stretches of 471 00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.559 him healthy with the team, and we certainly hadn't seen prolonged stretches of him 472 00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:14.639 healthy with with two, one, three, So I'm so happy for him. 473 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:19.159 He gets to play his game while contributing to wins, you know what 474 00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:22.440 I mean. Sometimes sometimes these guys who were like who are great spark plug 475 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:28.960 off the bench scorers, you know, it doesn't always translate to wins. 476 00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:34.480 Uh and norm with even given some of his physical limitations, the effort that 477 00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:38.760 he expounds on the defensive end of the floor and just how he how he 478 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:44.800 just creates so much gravity in space for everyone around him is just so so 479 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:51.039 immeasurably valuable. And I like too that he you know, he's adapted to 480 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.679 this role, seems to love it, really fries in it. But you 481 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:58.920 will also see him in closing lineups, like I have no doubt that at 482 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:01.559 some point we will see more in closing lineups in the playoffs. And to 483 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:07.360 have a guy who's that versatile, it's just great. Like outside of your 484 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:09.639 top five guys when you're you know whatever, you want to consider Norman the 485 00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:15.280 sixth or seventh guy up, is that darn good. I'm telling you, 486 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:17.960 you're sitting pretty. He's a scoring machine. He's a microwave. And of 487 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.840 course he helped form the Powell Rangers, as you dubbed the starting lineup with 488 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:27.719 Norman place of Terrence Man that we haven't got to see much of recently in 489 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:31.360 fourth quarters because Noah beachs a zoobots. But it's coming, It's coming soon. 490 00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:37.079 It may happen tomorrow in Atlanta. Last one for you here will quickly. 491 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.880 Paul George is three of thirteen, but knocked down a big three pointer 492 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.960 after a nice block or a steal on Haimi hawk Is in the fourth quarter, 493 00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:47.519 knockdown his free throws late. Any concern overall with Paul George or do 494 00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:51.440 we just have to tip our cap and say he's playing injured right now and 495 00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:53.639 he's still helping this team. He had the second best, third best plus 496 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:57.320 minus in the ball game, Okay, fourth, fifth. I think I 497 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.960 think it's definitely the latter. Like ultimately, look, Paul George is only 498 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:07.199 four games removed from another twenty point twenty point plus performance. He just had 499 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.119 an insane stretch. He's dealing with an injury. I think it's I think 500 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:13.760 you just got to ride the ups and downs. I like that it doesn't 501 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:16.960 appear to be getting into his head. And you know, while he certainly 502 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:22.480 doesn't look one hundred percent physically like himself, I'm not super I'm not super 503 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:28.440 concerned about it, and I trust, at least I hope that he's not 504 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:32.119 playing through a high level of pain or anything like that, because it's it's 505 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:35.719 just an injury that you know, you don't want to take too many chances 506 00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:38.559 with. You don't want to reaggravate because it's an issue. I mean, 507 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:42.840 we know we've had players with it before. Yeah, I don't want to 508 00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:49.159 linger like the Cramburs he is. Will Updyke from Clips and Dip Will thanks 509 00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:52.239 for doing this to night a little double dip here on Clippers Talk. We'll 510 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.800 talk to you soon on the YouTube. My friend sounds good. Thanks for 511 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.880 having me. Let's go clip quick time out. After the Clippers win one 512 00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.719 O three to ninety five in Miami over the heat, we'll come back, 513 00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:06.880 we'll close things out, we'll preview tomorrow's game in Atlanta. Clippers on that 514 00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.360 back to back final game of the road trip, we'll be taking on Trey 515 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:15.440 Young in the atl Plus we'll get to Kay Newton in her casual corner. 516 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.239 Next right here on Clippers Stock on a five to seven LA Sports, The 517 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.480 LA Clippers continue their hunt for a Lario B. They still want to get 518 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:27.320 that Lario bat. Don't miss a moment all season long. This is the 519 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:32.599 LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win in Miami one O three to ninety five. 520 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:36.440 They're five and one on the Grammy road trip with one to go. 521 00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:39.679 Tomorrow, they're in Atlanta taking on Trey Young. No Clip Capella in that 522 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:45.199 game. He's out due to injury. We'll see what it looks like for 523 00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:53.159 Beats Zoobots and his minutes restriction against that Atlanta team. Tiptime is at four 524 00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.199 thirty. We get tor pregames starting at three thirty. I got some good 525 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:01.000 and bad news for you here. The Rockets were not able to come back 526 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:06.079 and win over the Timberwolves. Tea Wolves will win at home one eleven to 527 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:14.000 ninety over Houston, but but second overtime and okasee. Raptors and Thunder locked 528 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:17.599 up at one hundred and eighteen points. Let's go Raptors. I'm like Chuck 529 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:23.159 now. Toronto is my favorite city in the world. I gueah and see 530 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:25.800 oh god loud, door's a three pointer? All right. Before we get 531 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:30.719 out of here, let's get to Katie Newton's casual corner here, Katy, 532 00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:32.719 you got a question for me? Yeah, how many years of college do 533 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:37.679 you have to go to before entering the NBA? I believe zero? Now, 534 00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:39.760 oh really, I think you have to be eighteen and one year out 535 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:45.480 of high school. They've changed the one and done rule a couple different times, 536 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:50.199 so who knows. Really, it's just like I think it's one year 537 00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:52.880 out of high school. All right, Maybe you could look that up for 538 00:38:52.920 --> 00:39:00.480 me right now now. Katie Newton, head of our research department, always 539 00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:02.639 doing a fantastic job. Now, don't producer here. There we go, 540 00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:07.320 tease it out. We're coming back tomorrow again, pregames starting at three thirty 541 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.639 after Petros and money. Before we get out of here, I do want 542 00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:14.039 to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, No what Ego, 543 00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:16.920 Carlo Amennez, big Brother, Jake Warner, the callers, the listeners 544 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:22.119 will talk to you tomorrow at three thirty. Be here, please, I 545 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:24.480 will be We got a good pregame. Trust me, you can always trust 546 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:30.039 me. Come on, raptors. Why he was doing his thing. All 547 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:32.960 they want to do is win in La. I win. I thought they 548 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:38.920 gave everything they had. This has been Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction 549 00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:44.360 of the LA Clippers. God Bless Paul George. Will you know it's changed? 550 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:47.280 Don't miss an episode all season law. Go to wherever you podcast and 551 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:51.320 subscribe today. Well up the show. I got you on the iHeart Radio. 552 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.159 You guys are great. Thank you for joining us for another exciting broadcast 553 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:57.039 of LA Clippers basketball.