The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just be gone. Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker Roo, a recap of today's game and a look
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sir, are a bad man, Adam Oslin. The Clippers start off
their six game ROADI with a W and the atl They win one twenty to
one thirteen over the Atlanta Hawks. Welcome into your postgame show. Coming up.
We got postgame audio from the head coach and the players will get the
second half highlighting or post game box score. But while we have a moment,
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back out to Atlanta with your voice of the Clippers. Noah Eagle,
No, this felt like a game the Clippers may have let slip away to
this Atlanta Hawks team a few weeks ago, as it did happen, you
know, instead, of the backbreaking turnovers, just some bending there and that's
what the chiropractor coach. Lu comes in with some clutched timeouts late, they
have enough composure down the stretch to get the w. Yeah, this was
exactly what I said. The word I used to Luke was mature. It
felt like the Clippers have matured in a lot of ways from just a couple
of weeks ago. And you're right, I think that Toron Louke played it
beautifully down the stretch, but more importantly to do this without Marcus Morris,
Robert Covington, John Wall, but specifically those first two because they couldn't use
those small ball lineups they've been going to and if itsa zoobots had to play
thirty six minutes. And that's why I thought this win was so impressive,
because you're playing lineups that generally you're not trying to play in crunch time.
Generally they wouldn't go to and crunch time, and yet they had to find
a way with it. And so the brilliance of Toron Loup putting his players
in the best position to be successful, understanding what the team needs given any
moment, and then going out there and having the guys execute, you know
when Kawai's cooking, and that second half from Kawhi Leonard was masterful the third
quarter. He took over did exactly what he needed to do in the fourth
quarter to help them eventually close the door as they play silk sonic. Leave
the door open. No, the door has been closed. It's over,
it's blocked, it's semi sonic time. Either way. I just feel like
this was a really important one for them to get to keep that confidence high
after a couple of wins in a row, and more importantly, to understand
for themselves and see the tangible evidence of oh, we can get a game
like this and win it and have it on our side and have a positive
feel afterward. Okay, good, so now you know you can win in
different ways. Doesn't have to be one dimensional. I really liked what I
saw and that three point shooting was really the key for them tonight. Last
four games or last eight games coming into this one, they were shooting forty
four percent from the outside. They go nineteen to thirty nine. That's almost
forty nine percent in this one. But you mentioned closing time. I thought
you can take your pick between the three pointer by Nicholas Batum or this,
but for me, the Paul George step back jumper to put him up by
six when he only had two points total in the second half and with a
minute left he hit that shot. That was clautch. It was huge.
It was huge because, yeah, he was struggling himself, and it felt
like that was a shot that earlier this season the Clippers just miss And we've
talked about that a lot Adam where they actually had been getting a lot of
good looks during that six game losing streak and a lot of those losses were
by one possession. They just missed some open shots. And when it's a
maker miss league, you hear that all the time. Well, for PG
to go out there and it was Kauai who was carrying them and not care
have a short memory, say oh, all I gotta do is get one
to go down. All I gotta do is hit that extra shot. All
I gotta do is put my stamp on it down the stretch. That's big.
That's growth for him too, because it feels like a couple of years
ago that might not have been the case if he had been struggling. That
was a game where maybe he wouldn't be the guy to take it, or
he would pass it up late. No, he went out there and he
took it with confidence over an all league defender, and he got the clip
their breathing room they needed. Now, Yes, the Buttom three was the
one that was the cherry on top and probably put the game completely out of
reach. But that was massive because Atlanta had the momentum at that point and
for PG to hit that, it kind of deflated the energy in this building.
Kawhi Leonard with twenty of his thirty two in the second half. He
also had that fade away on the and one in the fourth quarter and was
just so efficient in the mid range. Once again, he was ridiculous tonight.
I'm this was a Kawhi performers. This was a vintage Kawhi performance,
and it feels like anytime they've needed it from him in the games he's played,
because I think people are forgetting he's only played twenty seven games this year
at him in fifty two games, he's played twenty seven, so he's played
just barely over half and he's probably not going to play tomorrow on the second
out of a back to back. But every time that they've needed him.
We've seen him deliver in so many ways. Defensively another one today, he
gets on the ground, gets it up ahead. It doesn't result in two
points, but hustle play defensively, protecting the rim, getting in passing lanes,
doing all the little things, and then offensively got into takeover mode.
At him. He's gone into playoff mode early and we'll see what that means
long term for him. We'll see if he can continue this, because the
stretch he's on right now in the last ten games is something I don't think
I've ever seen period, and it's ridiculous. Right, we're talking player of
the month type stuff. Yeah, Western Conference. With the way he has
been playing, Lebron's gonna have something to say about it. Because Lebron's averaging
thirty five in the month, but Kawai's averaging thirty points per game. He
had seven or eight more rebounds today, so get his bump up back to
seven in the last ten games. Fifty six percent coming in. He shot
twelve of twenty, which quick math in the head will tell you that's sixty
percent from the floor. He was forty five percent from three coming in his
previous nine. He went five of ten. He was ninety two percent from
the free throw line. He went three for three. He's somehow improved each
one of those numbers from his previous nine games that were ridiculous MVP numbers.
I mean, that's just the type of player he's been. And he's on
a mission right now, Adam. I think he heard the noise. I
know he's not on social media, he doesn't pay attention, but he heard
the noise. I can bet you that, and he's trying to prove that
that noise was exactly just that noise and nothing else. He had a season
high five made three pointers in this one. One more four you here,
Noah. A lot of good performances, Terrence Mann and e beats the Zubots
with that hustle play and then Man getting the block on the other end.
But Reggie Jackson will start things off in that fourth quarter where he ended up
with ten of his sixteen points in the fourth. But just some big time
shots and some athleticism get into the basket for that tough reverse. Yeah,
I don't think they win this game if it's not for Reggie Jackson in the
fourth quarter. He set the tone that reverse for he's smiling the entire way
through. And again we've talked about it the last few but Reggie's playing with
joy again. He's having fun on the court again, and that's when he's
playing at his best. And for whatever reason, he gets moved to the
bench. Takes him a couple of games, but once he got adjusted,
this role has been really good for him and it's allowed him to have the
ball in his hands. That's what Tron Lou really likes about. It's what
stood out to him about it is that you know, if he's in the
starting unit, he's got to defer all the time to Kawhi and PG.
Well, when he's on the bench unit, he can essentially run that second
unit. He is uber efficient because he has the ball in his hands and
that's when he thrives, and we're seeing it more and more and more.
So come fourth quarter, we know the moment's never gonna be too big for
him because he generally finds a way to deliver. And the other thing,
he had been playing so many minutes all through last year and all to start
this year as a starter. I think he's gotten his minutes to decline a
little bit and he's healthier, and he's looking fresher, and he's got more
springing a step, and he's got a little bit extra bounce and his jump
shot they were all short before. Now they're going down. It's little things
at him, the little things. Over the course of a season, the
little tweaks can make the biggest difference. Clippers win one twenty to one thirteen
in Atlanta to open up this six game road trip tomorrow during Cleveland tiptime is
that four PM against the Cavaliers. We'll have your pregame shows starting at three.
No. I'll talk to you in about twenty hours. My friend safe
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Clippers are victorious. Well, the one twenty to one thirteen win in Atlanta,
overture Young and the Hawks. Welcome back into your post game show.
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get to me at follow Adam A. Let's get to some second half highlights.
Here where the Clippers, after being down by eleven in the second quarter,
took a fifty eight fifty three halftime lead and Kawhi Leonard after having just
twelve points in the first half, you would outdo that in the third quarter
alone. George rights a left, just passed Leonard left wing, pulled up
from the left elbow and Kawhi Leonard Reynolds at home right over Capella Leonard with
fourteen Clippers up three sixty five sixty two. Here comes George off yallot up
ahead for Leonard on the right wing. Caught about the three. Now he
will step back and take it and Cahi Leonard drills it Kawai kapoo and the
Clippers up by six seventeen for the claw at seventy four sixteen swing it for
Leonard extra feed, No, he does it. Instead, he holds in
his right claw, drives to his right, pulls it from fifteen and so
why sticks another Leonard is eight for thirteen with nineteen points and the Clippers leads
seventy six to sixty eight. They're largest of the night. Leonard up to
nineteen points on the right wing, with six on the shot clock, He'll
try the right wing three and he hits another one. Kawhi Leonard twenty points
in twelve of his last thirteen. He's got twenty two seventy nine seventy la
Norman Pole from right to left screen was left. He moved to his right
instead down the right alley, Pal gets to the rim, whip it nearside
corner. Leonard tries another three, and this time he hits Kwhi. Leonard's
fifth the night gives him twenty five points and the Clippers go back up five
eighty four seventy nine. Kawhi with thirteen and the third alone Clippers lad heading
into the fourth eighty four to eighty one is Trey Young had ten points in
that third. How about though Reggie Jackson early on the start things off with
Kawhi on the bench in the fourth, but Toombs swing it Jackson straight away,
three balls, It's good off the front iron. Reggie Jackson big shooters
touch his third three of the night makes it eighty seven eighty one. The
Clippers now sixteen to thirty one from the outside crossover step back crossover drive middle,
inside hand corkscrew finish off the window. Reggie Jackson on the left block.
All he could do was smile as he runs back to the defensive end.
Eighty nine eighty two, La Jackson left wing, jafftip drive middle,
get to the rim, Beson in with the right hand. Reggie Jackson a
bee line of the bucket for two more and LA has extended it back to
eleven, their largest lead ninety three eighty two. Two minutes done in the
fourth. The board man getting paid in Atlanta as he moves it right to
left crossover and spin to his right. Leonard against Murray backs him down with
the right hand double team being shade. It spins away lobbin for Pals,
swing at Jackson. The left wing three is up Pottom. Reggie checks in
again sixteen as he's taken over the fourth quarter one oh four ninety two.
Clippers. Reggie with ten of his sixteen points in the fourth, but the
Hawks were not going away. The Clippers had some costly turnovers, luckily didn't
cost him the game this time, and up four with just a minute thirty
left. Paul George, who had made just one shot in the second half,
does this man might have to make it happen. Finds Leonard straight away,
driving down the right alley. Leonard spins in the lane outside man swing
at George four to shoot. George drives left, sidestep, eighteen foot spade
away. It's good, Paul George. At the end of the shot,
clock ice in his fads one fifteen one on nine Clippers. That was the
biggest shot of the ball game. To give him a little bit of breathing
room, Nicholas Battoon would put him away with a three pointer Saint Nick and
the Clippers would go on to win one twenty to one thirteen in Atlanta over
the Hawks. Coming up next, we're preview tomorrow's contest in Cleveland, Clippers
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a tough jumper late Luconard second game back three of three from distance at eleven
points in twenty one minutes, and off the bench Reggie Jackson with ten of
his sixteen in that fourth quarter, big three pointers, half layups, and
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got those game audio from coach Slew and the players. After the Clippers make
it five straight, five straight victories and start off this six game road trip
the right way. They may not have closed in style, and that may
be an understatement. And I have to be honest about some of those turnovers
in the fourth quarter that could have led to a monumental collapse when you're up
by fourteen with three minutes left, and last time against Atlanta, what happened.
Trey Young got hot late after a Clippers fourteenth point come back where they
led by two heading into the fourth quarter. They gave that game away late
a couple of weeks ago. They probably lose a ball game like this,
But you're seeing the growth and the progress and development and the Clippers starting to
build better habits. Not good enough yet, but good enough to beat the
Hawks on their home floor, who had just won seven of ten, And
the Clippers get their seventh victory this season now over a team that is over
five hundred that now drops back to five, twenty five and twenty five,
but the Clippers four games above it now at twenty eight and twenty four.
And I gotta tell you, guys, I know it's crazy to say,
but is it possible. Let me just pose the question, is it possible
that Kawhi Leonard's actually getting better? It would be the second time in his
career that he returns from a significant injury and gets better. I mean,
coming off the quad recept, he won a championship in Toronto. Now he's
coming off a torn partially torn acl with the Clippers, and he's been on
this absurd shooting run and just went for a season high of five main three
pointers, has thirty two points on just twenty shots, and is just ice
cold in the mid range. In Ice Tray's house, Kawai in that fourth
quarter hit a fade away on the right baseline between two defenders, got fouled,
hit it anyways, went to the free throw line, had seven of
his thirty two and the fourth but just tough shot after tough shot, and
they're the type of shots you just can't guard. There's nothing you can do
against this stuff. It's a type of old man game type skill level.
And he's only thirty one. But when you're hitting stuff in the mid range,
which teams aren't even used to anymore, and he's shooting well, it's
gonna be over forty percent now in the mid range on the season. But
there's just no way to stop him. I've said this before, but the
way he practices is the way he plays out there, and when he's practicing
there's nobody in front of him, it looks the same way. Regardless of
where the defender is. He can have a hand in Kawai's face. He's
on phased. It just doesn't matter. He's going through his routine out there
and just getting buckets left and right and has been doing so. It's such
a high clip at such a high level, it's such a high degree of
difficulty at least for anybody else. He's making it look easy. You look
at his last what nine games now ten games, he's had twenty or more
in this month though, he's shooting forty five percent from three, over fifty
five percent from the field. He's had five thirty point games or thirty plus
games, and he's averaging about twenty eight points. And that's with a game
where he played just eighteen minutes when they got blown out in Denver and had
six points. That's including that in the month of January. So we talked
about it post game, but Noah Eagle, we're talking Ester Conference Player of
the Month type stuff, and yeah, Lebron James has been incredible. We'll
see. But the Clippers right now, hottest team in the West, longest
winning streak in the West, have been turning things around and do just enough
to close out Atlanta. But Paul George, I think hit the biggest shot
of the game. Is good as Kawhi was, and otherworldly as he's been,
I thought Paul George, since he only hit one shot in the second
half, that jumpery hit where they were up four and Atlanta was looking to
come back and was making that run once again. I'm sure the Clippers didn't
forget about it the last time. Of course, uh I don't think they
had Paul George the last time either. In that one, they were missing
one of the two one three connection, but he hit up four with under
a minute and a half left, a tough step back on the far side,
short corner on de Jante Murray, a really good de speaking of high
degree of difficulty didn't matter, but just the fact that he had the confidence
to take that shot when he had only made one so far in the second
half. After having seventeen points in the first half. Paul George just five
of his twenty three in the second half, but he also knocked down two
plus free throws late. That's huge. Six assists to two turnovers. That's
big coming off a game where he had seven to zero. So growth,
development progress, positive signs, stuff you can build off of. With thirty
one games remaining, it's all there, and they have been better in closing
out games recently. I know some of those turnovers and it was a mad
scramble at the end with some wild plays, ball on the floor, guys
dive into the floor. Kauwhi was on the floor. Terrence Man Viza Zubots
who Ian Mann had a ridiculous possession of jazz insane hustle. I want to
say it was early in the fourth quarter where Man was looking for Zoo through
an errant pass, beats, the Zubats goes to the floor for it,
comes up with it, throws it up, Terrence Man tips it back to
him and it beats. The Zubats ends up getting an easy one and he
had a great game. By the way, Big Zoo with eighteen I know,
just five boards and the Clippers did get killed there. Atlanta had fifteen
offensive rebounds that can't happen either. There's always stuff to clean up. But
I thought it beats the Zubats in that second quarter and they were featuring him
where he had ten of his eighteen. It was getting big throw downs and
lobs his way. Remember the third quarter against San Antonio where all of a
sudden, Kauai and Paul George Thursday Night started to feed him sorry to get
him more involved on offense. It translated into this game, and I thought
there was some really good moments from it beats the Zubats, but the sense
of urgency was there for the Clippers. You can talk about the turnovers and
yet they were bad, but they still only had fourteen. That's not an
awful number when on the season, I think they're still averaging more than that,
even though they've been on a better stretch the last fifteen games where they've
only been turning it over about twelve times football game and only had five against
San Antonio Thursday night. So a little slight setback there, but they're good
enough with their margin for error because of Kawai and Paul George that they overcome
it. Richie Jackson, though, another guy who has been playing so much
better now coming off the bench. Didn't look right at first. Last three
games though, nineteen points, twelve points, and sixteen this one with ten
of those sixteen and the fourth quarter two huge three pointers, two huge layups,
one of them on Bodanovich where he just went iso ball and went into
attack mode, put a crossover move on put between the legs, and then
had a nasty reverse where even he was a little bit surprised that he got
it to go. Afterwards, you could see him looking at the Clippers bench,
Reggie playing with joy. That Reggie is the vibes on this team.
When he is feeling good, usually everything else is rolling for him, but
he plays off positive energy and he was dancing at the end of that thirty
eight point victory Thursday night against San Antonio at the final buzzer. We hadn't
seen that in a while. Something's changing with this team. The demeanor of
the Clippers looks much better. You know, winning cures all. Of course.
Coach Lewis, asked about that postgame Thursday, said, well, yeah,
guys aren't happy when you lose where you expect. It's true, but
this team has guys that you can just feed off of. They're infectious,
and I think Reggie's one of them. Nicholas Batum the cherry on top three
pointer, as Noah Eagle put it postgame, Saint Nick a huge, huge
one to put them up by nine and basically put the game out of reach
late. So a lot of the prototypical play you would expect from guys and
role players and contributors. You know, they played and they start in their
roles. They played great. I thought Norman Powell ended up hitting a big
three pointer late in the game. But yeah, they got to clean up
the turnovers when they had three straight late in the fourth and Atlanta went on
that seven oh run. That's stuff that can't happen against elite, elite teams.
Atlanta was playing really well though, and so you'd rather learn from that
stuff in wins than in losses, because right now it's not just about process.
Wins and losses certainly matter. Which only thirty one games left and the
Clippers in a position where they can go after the three seat held by the
Sacramento Kings. I'll update you on the standings coming up here. Plus we
have postgame audio on Clippers Talk after they make it five straight, but before
we break I do want to head out to a phone call Lenny in Inglewood.
Man, Inglewood up to no good. Finish your baby, listen,
man, just I'm impressed. I mean, they finally finally putting together.
I'm glad Luke Kennar came back and it's, you know, seem like he's
settling in. I was just, you know, I was a little disappointed
for the game here. Roco wasn't on play because I wasn't sure about that
because he's so he's so crucial man on the defensive van and then he's been
hitting those rainbow threes lately. But you're right though about Luke. I didn't
mention him. He hit two big threes in that third quarter, and there
were some great drive kick swing actions by the Clippers. One of those was
off Paul George heading into the pain, just hell bent on getting there the
defense collapse on him. He kicked it out to Man. I think who
swung it to a wide open Luke can Who's stuck a three pointer in the
face of Trey Young? Who who was there for the clothes out big shot
though? Yeah, So just an impressive man. I'm glad Tyler's feeling uncomfortable.
With some of his rotations, and uh yeah, we just got to
keep it up, man, because because the next six I look, it
took a little schedule. The next sixteen games are ridiculously queen. I mean,
we're going up against nothing but the playoff contenders. There's only two teams,
the Bulls and the Raptors were worth the clear should be the clear favors.
Everybody else is dark. So I'm glad it's coming together, man,
because that was rough. That was rough. So anyway, go ahead,
clip Nations to keep doing your thing, Adam, All right, let me
appreciate the phone call. It was rough. Then losing nine of eleven five
game winning streak though winning cures all. Then you're right, the schedule is
treacherous. The night is dark and full of terror. The schedule is dark
and full of terror moving forward. But you know what, it'll make them
more battle tested in the long run. Twenty of their last thirty one games
all against or twenty one of their last thirty games against teams that are above
five hundred. They seem to get the Clippers attention, and they're starting to
be a little bit more consistent out there. That's what you're starting to see
consistent effort and urgency and just a team that's getting back to its basics.
I mentioned drive kick swing, but they've been better and better getting into the
paint and coming into this one. Last eight games from three, they were
shooting forty four point one percent best in the league tonight nineteen of thirty nine,
almost forty nine percent from the outside. That's what the Clippers did two
years ago when they sat an all time historic top five ever marked from the
outside, where on the season they shot above forty one percent. But it's
because you get two on the basketball at least when you drive into the paint
and create havoc there first, and the Clippers are doing it. Clippers win
by seven in Atlanta to start off this six game road trip. Tomorrow they're
in Cleveland. More on that, Plus we got postgame audio coming up.
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Then explain what you gotta be up. I don't know. Kawhi was filthy
at twenty of his thirty two points in the second half. A couple of
big mid range shots to help close this one out as Atlanta was not going
away. But the Clippers win one twenty to one thirteen over Trey Young,
who had thirty one and the Atlanta Hawks to open up this six game and
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your phone calls. There was a point though, in that second quarter where
something changed for the Clippers because they were given up points that first quarter.
They got out scored twenty eight to twenty two and assigned things to come.
They had some bad turnovers to end the first as well, but in the
second they only gave up twenty five and only nine of those points came in
the last seven minutes of the second quarter for them to take, want to
say, a five point lead heading into the half. They went through a
stretch where I think Atlanta had just two points over five minutes. They started
to assert themselves on the defensive end, and they're gonna have to be better
there because they haven't been good the last fifteen games, twenty six defensively,
top five offense over that time. And it's great to see and how quickly
their offense has come together just having Kawai and Paul George on the court.
I mean, it makes sense, but sometimes you wonder we talk about continuity
and chemistry and these things, but it's not like they haven't been together in
some capacity, just around each other, whether or not, you know,
I think this was just a little over a hundred games they played now together.
This may have been game one O one in the regular season that they
played together. But they have an amazing winning percentage when they're out there seven
twenty when seventy two percent of the time in the regular season with those two
when they're available, typically it doesn't take long for them to click in and
mesh. It hasn't during this five game winning streak. But I thought a
lot of guys showed up. Terrence Man. I mentioned that play between hibit
of eats a zubas the hustle they had there, and I posted it on
my Twitter account at follow Adam May. But for Terrence Man then on the
other end to end up with a block, I want to say it was
Entrey Young, just elite, elite stuff. It was with five thirty left
in the fourth quarter. And Terrence Man has been so good in the starting
lineup and now Luke is in there for now it sounds like Marcus Moore's when
he returns, we'll be back in the starting lineup. But to see this
team turn things around and start to find themselves once again and who they have
to be and how they have to play and just be more consistent overall a
cipher sore eyes to say the least, This is more of what we been
looking for coming into this year. And we had a caller earlier in Lenny
who point out, Yeah, they didn't even have Rocco in this game.
They couldn't go wingstop plus norm they couldn't play some of those lineups they would
have liked to. But of beats, the zoo Bots played heavy minutes thirty
seven and while the Clippers did for the most part, they gave up too
many boards. Certainly some of that is because the zoo Bots was getting pulled
out into the perimeter. But he had eighteen points and they were using him
and making Atlanta pay when they were playing smaller on the other end. That
was good to see. I just liked to see that other element, that
extra element, that other dimension to their offense, which is get some easy
ones with Big Zoo, whether putting him in the pick and roll or a
short roll where he can pass and kick it out to guys too. And
he ended up with three assists. But he's got to be more involved,
I think offensively that is an area can still get so much better in.
And he has shown a lot of development there over the years, where I've
called him at times a long lost Gassaul brother. Maybe that's high praise.
But guy had a thirty one and twenty nine game this season and coach Lewis
asked, is he going to be feature more in the offense? He said,
yeah, even when Kawhi and Paul George are out there, and that's
what we've seen the last two games. Now, saw it in that third
quarter against San Antonio specifically, but then tonight against Atlanta in the second quarter.
And I don't know if that's why their defense ramped up, but there's
always something to get in the big man involved. You want the dog to
protect the house, you gotta feed him. That's what Jack said. A
little more pep in his step. And by the way, six of six
from the free throw line. Clipper seventeen of nineteen overall as a team,
but they had to withstand a storm from Atlanta and Trey Young in the second
and a half. Who was getting to the free throw line at will.
Seemed like eleven to fourteen, just Trey, but he didn't hit a three
pointer, and he had been struggling there the last few games overall, over
the last week and a half, and I thought, oh, no,
he's prime for a big one, a big breakout game from distance against the
Clippers. No, they continue to hold him down and the Clippers find a
way to win by seven. Let's hear from the head coach though post game.
They start off the road trip the right way, and they are now
four games above five hundred in Cleveland. Though tomorrow I'm not going to be
easy on a back to back. Still not sure if Donovan Mitchell we'll be
playing, he's had a growing injury. But here was coach lou post game,
what have you noticed most about this team during the five to win streak?
Besides, of course, have him kawhim PG on the floor. I
think the biggest thing just excited, you know, just the excitement enjoy of
basketball. You know, again sometimes he gets to when you lose six games
in a row. You lose six games in a row, it could be
tough, but you know, we didn't feel sorry for ourselves. We kept
working, you know, more practices and then when Kawhi and PG came back
to hit our stride. The way we've been playing as late has been really
good. So just excitement and a joyful basketball again, you know, getting
back on track and it's been fun. And then can you just paying point
Kawai's game. I mean he's been on a tear these last five games.
Just efficient, you know, really efficient getting to his spots. You know,
he's healthy, you know, had some pop, you know when he
gets to his spots on his fadeaways and his pull ups, and like I
said, he's been playing at a very very high level. And so when
he's playing like that and Pg's playing away, he's been playing. Like I
said, we're a totally different team. And so it's just good to see
him healthy, being back and playing away he's been playing. There was coach
of the post game, there was something in the background there. Can we
just hear the beginning of that once more? K what have you noticed most
about this team during the five and winning streak? Besides, of course having
Kawai and PG, for I think the biggest thing just excited, you know,
just the excitement, enjoy of basketball, you know again, Sometimes he
gets tough when you lose six games in a row. Is anyone else hearing
a toilet flush? Or is that just having enjoy of basketball? You know
again? Sometimes he gets tough when you lose six games in a row.
Atlanta flushing the game plan since it didn't work against the Clippers, obviously,
I don't know. I don't know that's what it sounded like. But coach,
they're talking about the joy this team is playing with again. Yeah,
you're stringing together five straight longest winning streak in the Western Conference. Just a
game back on the three seed, now, that happens, but it gets
guys to play for one another and to accept roles when you're winning ball games.
Reggie coming off the bench now, when he had played, I don't
want to say it was around one hundred and twenty straight games as a starter
for this team when he was available, that is a huge adjustment. That
is a huge shift. But he's embracing it and they needed him. Those
early seven points in the fourth quarter were so big because Paul George simply wasn't
putting him up. Reggie was leading him to start the fourth when it was
just a three point game. But he plays with that swag to him.
He just has that charisma. Remember the game when he had against the Lakers
last year where he's skipping into the front court, skipped to my loop style
and eventually as this spinning layup to get him a win in a crazy ball
game. This is someone who has played heavy minutes the last season and a
half because of all the injuries, and it looks like with him, he
finally got a DMP. He finally got some rest along the way. But
now he hasn't been playing as many minutes and not starting, but he has
more juice when he's out there. He's got more pop to his game.
He needs it because it's either catching shoot stuff or getting to the basket for
tough layups against the teeth of the defense. I love seeing Reggie Jackson playing
the way he is, but I think all the Clippers kind of rally around
it. He's just one of those guys and has been the entire time since
he's been a Clipper, been a god said like Nicholas Patuma, has been
like Norman Powell now is. And he didn't have a great game, but
he made some plays late. He had a floater in the fourth quarter that
was big for him. Probably is I don't know, worst shooting percentage in
maybe a month. Four of eleven, ten points, two of six from
the outside. Start off really slow, but I thought still made an impact
out there and still contributed to this win. But you know that floater,
he had to put him up. I think it was a seven point game
at the time and Atlanta was making a run. You gotta hit some of
those momentum shots, and that's what the Clippers were missing at times this season.
When teams were coming back on them. When the Clippers will be down,
they'd make a comeback, they'd storm back, but they'd run out of
gas in the fourth. This is a game I think the Clippers lose a
couple of weeks ago, a month ago. So that's what I'm talking about.
When I'm in progress by this team. You can see it. It's
happening right now in real time against a real good opponent. Atlanta's likely a
playoff team. They have a superstar and Trey Young. They had won seven
or ten. Do not take this win lightly or diminish it just because yeah,
the Clippers didn't have any style points at the end and almost turn the
ball over enough to give Atlanta a victory. Hey, they have to be
better, they have to be more sound in that area. But overall,
you look at the last fifteen twenty games, they have been so a slight
setback, but not to the point that it takes away to win, not
to the point that you can't see all these other encouraging signs right now.
And what's more important than Coachley was just talking about it, than Kawhi Leonard
looking like himself again. And when we say looking like himself. We mean
it, and I'm wondering, is it possible he gets even better? Seen
it before, coming off a major injury, got better. Now it's a
partial partially torn ACL and he's shooting so well. And I thought this could
happen just because Kauai is one of the most driven guys out there and puts
in the work. If you listen to de Jontay Murray, who was on
a pod recently. I think it may have been the Up and Smoke podcast,
but he talked about what a hard worker he was. Would he learn
from him. They were lay together, I think for a year in San
Antonio. But Kauai obviously couldn't explode, couldn't do a lot of the normal
movements coming off the injury. But the one thing you could work on is
you're touched with your shot. He looks more dialed in than ever in the
mid range, and over the last month is shooting the ball better than ever
from three. It's possible that he becomes an even better shooter now at thirty
one than he was before. And he still has a strength and the power
to drive pass guys and the quickness to get around guys and get to the
basket and move bodies there. It's all still there. That is the most
encouraging sign through everything this season with the Clippers and for them to be a
game back of the three spot in the standings with everything they've gone through,
all the adversity, Kawai missing twenty of the first twenty five games, Paul
George and the hamstring, the different lineups and rotations they've experimented with that now
they're shortening those rotations, They're finding how they want to play, the guys
they want to have out there, who works with who? And the four
games number five hundred and they're right in the mix for being a top four
season the West. So I don't know if that makes them right on schedule
or just a little bit behind from where we thought they'd be, or maybe
you think they're ahead. Kawhi is ahead of schedule, that's for sure.
I never thought with thirty one games left to play, he'd look this this
level of Kawhi Leonard playoff mode activated Kawhi Leonard, where you feel like,
if you get into a seven game series right now, he could have that
same performance he did against Dallas in a must win Game six, where he
had forty five. That's the level of confidence Kawhi gives you watching him all
right, coming up NEX, still looking for postgame audio from the players.
We'll get back to your phone calls. Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Clippers. Also, there's something encouraging tomorrow. Today's Tomorrow. Tomorrow will conclude
their last back to back for a month. They don't have a back to
back in February. I'm telling you the schedule lightens up, not when you
consider strength of opponent, but travel days off. They're all there more practices
for the Clippers. There is a chance that they can take off like an
SR seventy one blackbird, off the runway into the playoffs. With the way
the schedule lines up, we'll see the runways there. More Clipper Stock next
here on AMPI seventy l A Sports at fourteen. I'll never let you down.
Say what's your baby, mama? The crib blow back out, showy
Filipino as you call me, man, you back out. Welcome back in
Clipper Stock. I'm out of Osley brand New that considered a rick roll like
a reverse Rick Roll. You think it's Rick Astley and then it turns into
this new remix. Clippers win one twenty to one thirteam in Atlanta over the
Hawks. Yeah, welcome back into Clippers suck. I'm out a Moslem eight
six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Clippers make it five straight. They'll be in
Cleveland tomorrow, still under the status of Donovan Mitchell. He's missed the last
couple of games for them. They're coming off one where they lost SG in
the OKAC thunder last night at home, so obviously they're much more vulnerable without
a starting All Star there. And Donovan Mitchell, who's having an incredible first
year with the Cleveland Cavaliers, was already a great player, but I think
he's taken his game up a notch. Somebody that is one of my favorite
analysts of all time. And I don't normally do this, but you know,
if I see the audio there, I'm gonna pull it. I'm gonna
steal it. It's coming from Valley Sports because it's a big victory for the
Clippers. As I mean, in five straight, I want to hear from
d mac don McLean postgame the Snake Killer here he was on Valley Sports afterwards
the Clippers did tonight. I mean, we're going to talk about Kawai and
PG, and that's kind of been the story of this winning streak. But
a lot of good performances. I thought Reggie Jackson's night tonight was encouraging.
He's back in the rotation. So a lot to talk about, but a
good win and just keep it rolling. Now back to back tomorrow night in
Cleveland. As you said, we're gonna talk about Kwai PG. So let's
start with Kawai who played thirty nine minutes tonight, thirty two points and defensively,
I think he left his mark as well. We're kind of getting used
to that all. And I said that in the pregame Jennie, and that's
still true. But there was a couple plays tonight he made. There was
a pull up in the second half in the third quarter where I hadn't seen
a two dribble pull up from him. Be that sharp, like that quick
feet down, really fast. He is there. We need to end the
discussion if he's back, Goodwin. That's what I needed to hear that was
the analysis. There a two gerbil pull up that quick from Kawhi Leonard d
mac talking about him. Yeah, you can just tell it's all coming back.
The pieces of the puzzle they're starting to be put together, and Kawhi
being one of the most dominant players in the league before the injury and coming
back this quickly looking like the same guy. Give credit to the doctors involved,
the medical staff, the trainers, Kawhi Leonard trusting his body, knowing
his body. There was so much made of, oh, why isn't he
playing tonight? Where's Kawhi all this? Considering where he's at now, Don't
you think it's worked? Don't you think the plan has worked out just perfectly
to get Kawhi Leonard at his best. The only way you're winning a championship
is if he is playing at this level and he's there with thirty one games
left. Looks to be because I still think he still another notch, another
gear, a sixth gear or seventh gear or whatever do they make that in
the McLaren I don't know. I haven't played a name for speed in a
while, but Kawai can always reach a level that I think very few players
in the history of this game can top seventy five player ever for a reason.
All right, Morrison, long beach, Morris, what's up? You're
on Clippers? So withoutim awstin Hey checked this out at him three the three
threes, the canard had wide open looks. You didn't have to rush anything.
Jackson. Jackson looked like he was fishing. He was so calm and
he was so relaxed. Man, I look he looked like another player.
I'm gonna tell what a couple of beautiful plays did you remember the two players
the Terrence man made when he passed the ball into Zubak. Remember those two
Yeah, I brought it up earlier. That was huge. And then he
had the block on the other end. That was some pretty pretty stuff.
I'm gonna tell about Kwai no kawaii. He can get his own shot,
and that's important when the clock is going down. And now tomorrow we got
to back to back, and the problem's gonna have tomorrow is we don't have
two of our best defenders. And I'm gonna tell you what really impressed me
about another play. They're really impressing about clip of tonight. Remember when Paul
went to the rim, This is where we're going left or right. He's
going to the rim right, but two guys meet him there. They were
so close you could smell his breath. And then he threw a pass out
to Kawaii for three. That was That was Kawai's fifth three pointer. I
put that on Twitter at fallow out of May. You're right, the reckless,
abandoned and the speed that Norman Powell was able to get to the basket
and collapse the defense. That's what leads to open threes. And while Kawai
was still guarded, it's Kawai and he was that hot, so he took
it and sunk it. Let me ask you a question, Adam, because
I know you watched a lot of the clips of dang Me all the names.
Have you ever seen the ball move that Crisp's crispy as you saw tonight.
I'm gonna say yes, only because they've hit more than nineteen threes before.
I think they've hit twenty five in a game. I'm gonna say it's
been even better. But that tells you they're ceiling. They can actually be
better than this. They ended up with twenty six assists on their forty two
makes good it's great, but they can still be more sure with the basketball.
Obviously, those turnovers in the fourth quarter, four of them, they
got to clean that up. Thank you, Morris, appreciate the phone call.
Eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. Will come back.
We'll close things out here. On Clipper stock. Next they win one twenty
to one thirteen. I think I'm still hearing mclin I mean, I mean,
I love them, but Don McClain and mac miller is the mashup that
you know, I don't know, I deserve the two of my favorites ever.
Clippers win by seven in Atlanta over the Hawks. I matam Oslin is
the Clipper stock here to day on Top seventy Sports, I've been getting paid
about Clippers. Hold on. They win one twenty one thirteen in Atlanta over
the Hawks as they shoot forty nine percent from the outside. Kawhi leads them
with thirty two and have had five of their nineteen made threes, those five
for flys when they went five straight a season high. I told you earlier
in the year, when he starts feeling good, you're gonna know it because
he'll start hitting shots from the outside. You'll know the legs are there.
Oh, they're there. Those thighs, the thunder thighs that we saw preseason
people are freaking out about. They're helping drive in some of those shots.
Now thunder thighs and powerful Quaudzilla's type stuff. That's where mate. Clippers in
Cleveland tomorrow tip off at four pregame at three. Before we get out of
here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Should know what you
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