WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.559 The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:09.560 reaction has just be gone. Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. 3 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:13.720 This is Clippers locker Roo, a recap of today's game and a look 4 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:18.600 ahead on your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, you, 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:23.399 sir, are a bad man, Adam Oslin. The Clippers start off 6 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:27.480 their six game ROADI with a W and the atl They win one twenty to 7 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:32.039 one thirteen over the Atlanta Hawks. Welcome into your postgame show. Coming up. 8 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:34.920 We got postgame audio from the head coach and the players will get the 9 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:37.840 second half highlighting or post game box score. But while we have a moment, 10 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:42.320 let's pause seconds for station and entivocation. Here on the Los Angeles Clippers 11 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:48.280 Radio network. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles, 12 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:53.640 ninety eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart Radio Station. All right, 13 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:56.399 back out to Atlanta with your voice of the Clippers. Noah Eagle, 14 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.119 No, this felt like a game the Clippers may have let slip away to 15 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.840 this Atlanta Hawks team a few weeks ago, as it did happen, you 16 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.400 know, instead, of the backbreaking turnovers, just some bending there and that's 17 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.040 what the chiropractor coach. Lu comes in with some clutched timeouts late, they 18 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.400 have enough composure down the stretch to get the w. Yeah, this was 19 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.439 exactly what I said. The word I used to Luke was mature. It 20 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:22.000 felt like the Clippers have matured in a lot of ways from just a couple 21 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:26.239 of weeks ago. And you're right, I think that Toron Louke played it 22 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.200 beautifully down the stretch, but more importantly to do this without Marcus Morris, 23 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.560 Robert Covington, John Wall, but specifically those first two because they couldn't use 24 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.760 those small ball lineups they've been going to and if itsa zoobots had to play 25 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.680 thirty six minutes. And that's why I thought this win was so impressive, 26 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:45.280 because you're playing lineups that generally you're not trying to play in crunch time. 27 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.719 Generally they wouldn't go to and crunch time, and yet they had to find 28 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:52.040 a way with it. And so the brilliance of Toron Loup putting his players 29 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:56.120 in the best position to be successful, understanding what the team needs given any 30 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:59.760 moment, and then going out there and having the guys execute, you know 31 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.560 when Kawai's cooking, and that second half from Kawhi Leonard was masterful the third 32 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:07.439 quarter. He took over did exactly what he needed to do in the fourth 33 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.840 quarter to help them eventually close the door as they play silk sonic. Leave 34 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:14.360 the door open. No, the door has been closed. It's over, 35 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:19.719 it's blocked, it's semi sonic time. Either way. I just feel like 36 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:23.240 this was a really important one for them to get to keep that confidence high 37 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.759 after a couple of wins in a row, and more importantly, to understand 38 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.719 for themselves and see the tangible evidence of oh, we can get a game 39 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:35.479 like this and win it and have it on our side and have a positive 40 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.400 feel afterward. Okay, good, so now you know you can win in 41 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:40.680 different ways. Doesn't have to be one dimensional. I really liked what I 42 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:45.360 saw and that three point shooting was really the key for them tonight. Last 43 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.199 four games or last eight games coming into this one, they were shooting forty 44 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:52.680 four percent from the outside. They go nineteen to thirty nine. That's almost 45 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:55.159 forty nine percent in this one. But you mentioned closing time. I thought 46 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.680 you can take your pick between the three pointer by Nicholas Batum or this, 47 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.360 but for me, the Paul George step back jumper to put him up by 48 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.840 six when he only had two points total in the second half and with a 49 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:09.960 minute left he hit that shot. That was clautch. It was huge. 50 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:14.240 It was huge because, yeah, he was struggling himself, and it felt 51 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:16.360 like that was a shot that earlier this season the Clippers just miss And we've 52 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:20.520 talked about that a lot Adam where they actually had been getting a lot of 53 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.560 good looks during that six game losing streak and a lot of those losses were 54 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:27.280 by one possession. They just missed some open shots. And when it's a 55 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.039 maker miss league, you hear that all the time. Well, for PG 56 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:34.560 to go out there and it was Kauai who was carrying them and not care 57 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.159 have a short memory, say oh, all I gotta do is get one 58 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:39.800 to go down. All I gotta do is hit that extra shot. All 59 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:44.360 I gotta do is put my stamp on it down the stretch. That's big. 60 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:46.479 That's growth for him too, because it feels like a couple of years 61 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:50.919 ago that might not have been the case if he had been struggling. That 62 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.520 was a game where maybe he wouldn't be the guy to take it, or 63 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.039 he would pass it up late. No, he went out there and he 64 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.960 took it with confidence over an all league defender, and he got the clip 65 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:02.240 their breathing room they needed. Now, Yes, the Buttom three was the 66 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.280 one that was the cherry on top and probably put the game completely out of 67 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:10.520 reach. But that was massive because Atlanta had the momentum at that point and 68 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.199 for PG to hit that, it kind of deflated the energy in this building. 69 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.639 Kawhi Leonard with twenty of his thirty two in the second half. He 70 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.000 also had that fade away on the and one in the fourth quarter and was 71 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:25.319 just so efficient in the mid range. Once again, he was ridiculous tonight. 72 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:28.720 I'm this was a Kawhi performers. This was a vintage Kawhi performance, 73 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.360 and it feels like anytime they've needed it from him in the games he's played, 74 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.720 because I think people are forgetting he's only played twenty seven games this year 75 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:39.480 at him in fifty two games, he's played twenty seven, so he's played 76 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.199 just barely over half and he's probably not going to play tomorrow on the second 77 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.800 out of a back to back. But every time that they've needed him. 78 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.680 We've seen him deliver in so many ways. Defensively another one today, he 79 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:51.959 gets on the ground, gets it up ahead. It doesn't result in two 80 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:57.240 points, but hustle play defensively, protecting the rim, getting in passing lanes, 81 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.040 doing all the little things, and then offensively got into takeover mode. 82 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:03.480 At him. He's gone into playoff mode early and we'll see what that means 83 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.480 long term for him. We'll see if he can continue this, because the 84 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.319 stretch he's on right now in the last ten games is something I don't think 85 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:15.360 I've ever seen period, and it's ridiculous. Right, we're talking player of 86 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:17.199 the month type stuff. Yeah, Western Conference. With the way he has 87 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.959 been playing, Lebron's gonna have something to say about it. Because Lebron's averaging 88 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.759 thirty five in the month, but Kawai's averaging thirty points per game. He 89 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.040 had seven or eight more rebounds today, so get his bump up back to 90 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.519 seven in the last ten games. Fifty six percent coming in. He shot 91 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.319 twelve of twenty, which quick math in the head will tell you that's sixty 92 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:39.759 percent from the floor. He was forty five percent from three coming in his 93 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.120 previous nine. He went five of ten. He was ninety two percent from 94 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.199 the free throw line. He went three for three. He's somehow improved each 95 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.040 one of those numbers from his previous nine games that were ridiculous MVP numbers. 96 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:54.199 I mean, that's just the type of player he's been. And he's on 97 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.519 a mission right now, Adam. I think he heard the noise. I 98 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:59.360 know he's not on social media, he doesn't pay attention, but he heard 99 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:01.600 the noise. I can bet you that, and he's trying to prove that 100 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:05.600 that noise was exactly just that noise and nothing else. He had a season 101 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:10.319 high five made three pointers in this one. One more four you here, 102 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.759 Noah. A lot of good performances, Terrence Mann and e beats the Zubots 103 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.399 with that hustle play and then Man getting the block on the other end. 104 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.439 But Reggie Jackson will start things off in that fourth quarter where he ended up 105 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:24.160 with ten of his sixteen points in the fourth. But just some big time 106 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.800 shots and some athleticism get into the basket for that tough reverse. Yeah, 107 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.439 I don't think they win this game if it's not for Reggie Jackson in the 108 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.480 fourth quarter. He set the tone that reverse for he's smiling the entire way 109 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:38.199 through. And again we've talked about it the last few but Reggie's playing with 110 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.279 joy again. He's having fun on the court again, and that's when he's 111 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.759 playing at his best. And for whatever reason, he gets moved to the 112 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:46.600 bench. Takes him a couple of games, but once he got adjusted, 113 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.439 this role has been really good for him and it's allowed him to have the 114 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:53.399 ball in his hands. That's what Tron Lou really likes about. It's what 115 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.199 stood out to him about it is that you know, if he's in the 116 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:59.199 starting unit, he's got to defer all the time to Kawhi and PG. 117 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.279 Well, when he's on the bench unit, he can essentially run that second 118 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:06.560 unit. He is uber efficient because he has the ball in his hands and 119 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.279 that's when he thrives, and we're seeing it more and more and more. 120 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:13.319 So come fourth quarter, we know the moment's never gonna be too big for 121 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:15.920 him because he generally finds a way to deliver. And the other thing, 122 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.120 he had been playing so many minutes all through last year and all to start 123 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.279 this year as a starter. I think he's gotten his minutes to decline a 124 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:25.480 little bit and he's healthier, and he's looking fresher, and he's got more 125 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.600 springing a step, and he's got a little bit extra bounce and his jump 126 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:31.079 shot they were all short before. Now they're going down. It's little things 127 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.079 at him, the little things. Over the course of a season, the 128 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:38.199 little tweaks can make the biggest difference. Clippers win one twenty to one thirteen 129 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:44.680 in Atlanta to open up this six game road trip tomorrow during Cleveland tiptime is 130 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:48.120 that four PM against the Cavaliers. We'll have your pregame shows starting at three. 131 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.480 No. I'll talk to you in about twenty hours. My friend safe 132 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:57.120 travels twenty I can't wait. Coming up next second half highlights. Clippers have 133 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.560 won five straight and you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers right is like the 134 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:13.079 sweetest thing up gold thriller Mike Jackson only last excuse him is the Puffs. 135 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.800 Clippers are victorious. Well, the one twenty to one thirteen win in Atlanta, 136 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.720 overture Young and the Hawks. Welcome back into your post game show. 137 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.519 I'm Adam Oslin. Still to come on AM five seventy LA Sports. We'll 138 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:28.879 have Clippers stock for you. Eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy 139 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.960 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, or 140 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:37.360 get to me at follow Adam A. Let's get to some second half highlights. 141 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:43.759 Here where the Clippers, after being down by eleven in the second quarter, 142 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.080 took a fifty eight fifty three halftime lead and Kawhi Leonard after having just 143 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.919 twelve points in the first half, you would outdo that in the third quarter 144 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.000 alone. George rights a left, just passed Leonard left wing, pulled up 145 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.759 from the left elbow and Kawhi Leonard Reynolds at home right over Capella Leonard with 146 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.799 fourteen Clippers up three sixty five sixty two. Here comes George off yallot up 147 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:07.919 ahead for Leonard on the right wing. Caught about the three. Now he 148 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:13.840 will step back and take it and Cahi Leonard drills it Kawai kapoo and the 149 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:18.159 Clippers up by six seventeen for the claw at seventy four sixteen swing it for 150 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.120 Leonard extra feed, No, he does it. Instead, he holds in 151 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.159 his right claw, drives to his right, pulls it from fifteen and so 152 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:31.159 why sticks another Leonard is eight for thirteen with nineteen points and the Clippers leads 153 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:35.120 seventy six to sixty eight. They're largest of the night. Leonard up to 154 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.679 nineteen points on the right wing, with six on the shot clock, He'll 155 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:43.679 try the right wing three and he hits another one. Kawhi Leonard twenty points 156 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.399 in twelve of his last thirteen. He's got twenty two seventy nine seventy la 157 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.480 Norman Pole from right to left screen was left. He moved to his right 158 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.120 instead down the right alley, Pal gets to the rim, whip it nearside 159 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:58.360 corner. Leonard tries another three, and this time he hits Kwhi. Leonard's 160 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:03.720 fifth the night gives him twenty five points and the Clippers go back up five 161 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.759 eighty four seventy nine. Kawhi with thirteen and the third alone Clippers lad heading 162 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.519 into the fourth eighty four to eighty one is Trey Young had ten points in 163 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:16.480 that third. How about though Reggie Jackson early on the start things off with 164 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.200 Kawhi on the bench in the fourth, but Toombs swing it Jackson straight away, 165 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:28.559 three balls, It's good off the front iron. Reggie Jackson big shooters 166 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.120 touch his third three of the night makes it eighty seven eighty one. The 167 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:37.440 Clippers now sixteen to thirty one from the outside crossover step back crossover drive middle, 168 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.720 inside hand corkscrew finish off the window. Reggie Jackson on the left block. 169 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:46.480 All he could do was smile as he runs back to the defensive end. 170 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.679 Eighty nine eighty two, La Jackson left wing, jafftip drive middle, 171 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.200 get to the rim, Beson in with the right hand. Reggie Jackson a 172 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.000 bee line of the bucket for two more and LA has extended it back to 173 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:01.600 eleven, their largest lead ninety three eighty two. Two minutes done in the 174 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.879 fourth. The board man getting paid in Atlanta as he moves it right to 175 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.000 left crossover and spin to his right. Leonard against Murray backs him down with 176 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.440 the right hand double team being shade. It spins away lobbin for Pals, 177 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.960 swing at Jackson. The left wing three is up Pottom. Reggie checks in 178 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.440 again sixteen as he's taken over the fourth quarter one oh four ninety two. 179 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.240 Clippers. Reggie with ten of his sixteen points in the fourth, but the 180 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:31.799 Hawks were not going away. The Clippers had some costly turnovers, luckily didn't 181 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.559 cost him the game this time, and up four with just a minute thirty 182 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.279 left. Paul George, who had made just one shot in the second half, 183 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.039 does this man might have to make it happen. Finds Leonard straight away, 184 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.279 driving down the right alley. Leonard spins in the lane outside man swing 185 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.360 at George four to shoot. George drives left, sidestep, eighteen foot spade 186 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:54.960 away. It's good, Paul George. At the end of the shot, 187 00:11:54.000 --> 00:12:01.799 clock ice in his fads one fifteen one on nine Clippers. That was the 188 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.080 biggest shot of the ball game. To give him a little bit of breathing 189 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:09.159 room, Nicholas Battoon would put him away with a three pointer Saint Nick and 190 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:11.879 the Clippers would go on to win one twenty to one thirteen in Atlanta over 191 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:18.200 the Hawks. Coming up next, we're preview tomorrow's contest in Cleveland, Clippers 192 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.279 and Calves coming up on Am five seventy. We still have Clippers stock for 193 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.799 you. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety 194 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.320 seven two five seventy. As you're listening to Los Angeles Clippers, Fred you 195 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.200 on that one, it's like dam the sixty again, A hundred thousand on 196 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:39.440 his neck layer blowf the brand beside the land boat shot go with Snoop who 197 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:46.039 still street without one. Clippers end up shooting nineteen of thirty nine from distance, 198 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.159 that's forty nine percent from three. They win one twenty to one thirteen 199 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.679 in Atlanta over the Hawks. Welcome back into your post game show. I'm 200 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.759 Adam Oslin coming up on AM five seventy LAS Sports. We'll have Clipper stock 201 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.200 for you eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety 202 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.879 eight seven two five seventy or you can get to me on Twitter at follow 203 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.039 Adam a Clippers and end up shooting fifty three percent from the field. They 204 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:13.159 were led by Kauai he had thirty two, Paul George had twenty three and 205 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:20.720 a tough jumper late Luconard second game back three of three from distance at eleven 206 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.360 points in twenty one minutes, and off the bench Reggie Jackson with ten of 207 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:30.919 his sixteen in that fourth quarter, big three pointers, half layups, and 208 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:35.480 the Clippers start off the six game road trip the right way with a win 209 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.600 in Atlanta, with the right back after tomorrow in Cleveland. Tip time for 210 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.200 that one against the Cavaliers is at four. We'll have Clippers countdown starting at 211 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.399 three outside of Los Angeles. We are leaving you until that, but coming 212 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.799 up next here on Amp five seventy LA Sports, it's Clippers took Next. 213 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.000 Welcome into Clipper Stock. Here's a new sheriff in town. You won't be 214 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.679 able to deny it. We're going to go to the NBA Finals. I 215 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.320 believe it in my horror. This is the best team in the history of 216 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:15.000 the franchise. I am all about the Clipper Nationler. This is Clippers Talk. 217 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.399 They're trying to win the whole thing. A postgame look, it's your 218 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.519 LA Clippers recapping the game, the stars and looking ahead to what's next. 219 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:28.639 To hear episodes you've missed. Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever 220 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:39.840 you podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Auslin. Clippers 221 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:46.399 outlast Atlanta and outcast City. They take down the Hawks. One twenty so 222 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:52.360 one thirteen. Welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm out of Oslin eight six 223 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:56.720 six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy 224 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.639 is the phone number if you'd like to get on. Coming up, we 225 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.960 got those game audio from coach Slew and the players. After the Clippers make 226 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:09.919 it five straight, five straight victories and start off this six game road trip 227 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.679 the right way. They may not have closed in style, and that may 228 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:18.600 be an understatement. And I have to be honest about some of those turnovers 229 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.600 in the fourth quarter that could have led to a monumental collapse when you're up 230 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:28.399 by fourteen with three minutes left, and last time against Atlanta, what happened. 231 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.440 Trey Young got hot late after a Clippers fourteenth point come back where they 232 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.480 led by two heading into the fourth quarter. They gave that game away late 233 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.840 a couple of weeks ago. They probably lose a ball game like this, 234 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:46.120 But you're seeing the growth and the progress and development and the Clippers starting to 235 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.080 build better habits. Not good enough yet, but good enough to beat the 236 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.799 Hawks on their home floor, who had just won seven of ten, And 237 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.840 the Clippers get their seventh victory this season now over a team that is over 238 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.919 five hundred that now drops back to five, twenty five and twenty five, 239 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.720 but the Clippers four games above it now at twenty eight and twenty four. 240 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.960 And I gotta tell you, guys, I know it's crazy to say, 241 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.960 but is it possible. Let me just pose the question, is it possible 242 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:22.240 that Kawhi Leonard's actually getting better? It would be the second time in his 243 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:30.360 career that he returns from a significant injury and gets better. I mean, 244 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:37.519 coming off the quad recept, he won a championship in Toronto. Now he's 245 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.639 coming off a torn partially torn acl with the Clippers, and he's been on 246 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:48.440 this absurd shooting run and just went for a season high of five main three 247 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:55.159 pointers, has thirty two points on just twenty shots, and is just ice 248 00:16:55.480 --> 00:17:00.879 cold in the mid range. In Ice Tray's house, Kawai in that fourth 249 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:08.799 quarter hit a fade away on the right baseline between two defenders, got fouled, 250 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:12.279 hit it anyways, went to the free throw line, had seven of 251 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:18.319 his thirty two and the fourth but just tough shot after tough shot, and 252 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:23.480 they're the type of shots you just can't guard. There's nothing you can do 253 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:30.359 against this stuff. It's a type of old man game type skill level. 254 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.240 And he's only thirty one. But when you're hitting stuff in the mid range, 255 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:37.400 which teams aren't even used to anymore, and he's shooting well, it's 256 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:42.200 gonna be over forty percent now in the mid range on the season. But 257 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:48.200 there's just no way to stop him. I've said this before, but the 258 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.319 way he practices is the way he plays out there, and when he's practicing 259 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.640 there's nobody in front of him, it looks the same way. Regardless of 260 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.640 where the defender is. He can have a hand in Kawai's face. He's 261 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.640 on phased. It just doesn't matter. He's going through his routine out there 262 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:10.400 and just getting buckets left and right and has been doing so. It's such 263 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.359 a high clip at such a high level, it's such a high degree of 264 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:18.720 difficulty at least for anybody else. He's making it look easy. You look 265 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:26.880 at his last what nine games now ten games, he's had twenty or more 266 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:34.279 in this month though, he's shooting forty five percent from three, over fifty 267 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:42.079 five percent from the field. He's had five thirty point games or thirty plus 268 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:48.880 games, and he's averaging about twenty eight points. And that's with a game 269 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.519 where he played just eighteen minutes when they got blown out in Denver and had 270 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.359 six points. That's including that in the month of January. So we talked 271 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:00.039 about it post game, but Noah Eagle, we're talking Ester Conference Player of 272 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:06.640 the Month type stuff, and yeah, Lebron James has been incredible. We'll 273 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.279 see. But the Clippers right now, hottest team in the West, longest 274 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:17.200 winning streak in the West, have been turning things around and do just enough 275 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:22.519 to close out Atlanta. But Paul George, I think hit the biggest shot 276 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.200 of the game. Is good as Kawhi was, and otherworldly as he's been, 277 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:32.359 I thought Paul George, since he only hit one shot in the second 278 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:37.240 half, that jumpery hit where they were up four and Atlanta was looking to 279 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:41.319 come back and was making that run once again. I'm sure the Clippers didn't 280 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.359 forget about it the last time. Of course, uh I don't think they 281 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.200 had Paul George the last time either. In that one, they were missing 282 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:52.200 one of the two one three connection, but he hit up four with under 283 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.960 a minute and a half left, a tough step back on the far side, 284 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:02.440 short corner on de Jante Murray, a really good de speaking of high 285 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:06.559 degree of difficulty didn't matter, but just the fact that he had the confidence 286 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:08.359 to take that shot when he had only made one so far in the second 287 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:14.119 half. After having seventeen points in the first half. Paul George just five 288 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.279 of his twenty three in the second half, but he also knocked down two 289 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:22.359 plus free throws late. That's huge. Six assists to two turnovers. That's 290 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:29.720 big coming off a game where he had seven to zero. So growth, 291 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:36.400 development progress, positive signs, stuff you can build off of. With thirty 292 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:40.559 one games remaining, it's all there, and they have been better in closing 293 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:44.880 out games recently. I know some of those turnovers and it was a mad 294 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.599 scramble at the end with some wild plays, ball on the floor, guys 295 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:53.200 dive into the floor. Kauwhi was on the floor. Terrence Man Viza Zubots 296 00:20:55.440 --> 00:21:02.640 who Ian Mann had a ridiculous possession of jazz insane hustle. I want to 297 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:07.319 say it was early in the fourth quarter where Man was looking for Zoo through 298 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:10.200 an errant pass, beats, the Zubats goes to the floor for it, 299 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:14.759 comes up with it, throws it up, Terrence Man tips it back to 300 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.000 him and it beats. The Zubats ends up getting an easy one and he 301 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.519 had a great game. By the way, Big Zoo with eighteen I know, 302 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.920 just five boards and the Clippers did get killed there. Atlanta had fifteen 303 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.240 offensive rebounds that can't happen either. There's always stuff to clean up. But 304 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:34.240 I thought it beats the Zubats in that second quarter and they were featuring him 305 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:38.279 where he had ten of his eighteen. It was getting big throw downs and 306 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:42.359 lobs his way. Remember the third quarter against San Antonio where all of a 307 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:48.640 sudden, Kauai and Paul George Thursday Night started to feed him sorry to get 308 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:55.200 him more involved on offense. It translated into this game, and I thought 309 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:59.200 there was some really good moments from it beats the Zubats, but the sense 310 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:03.559 of urgency was there for the Clippers. You can talk about the turnovers and 311 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.559 yet they were bad, but they still only had fourteen. That's not an 312 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.039 awful number when on the season, I think they're still averaging more than that, 313 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.799 even though they've been on a better stretch the last fifteen games where they've 314 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.920 only been turning it over about twelve times football game and only had five against 315 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:25.640 San Antonio Thursday night. So a little slight setback there, but they're good 316 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:30.480 enough with their margin for error because of Kawai and Paul George that they overcome 317 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:36.680 it. Richie Jackson, though, another guy who has been playing so much 318 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:41.599 better now coming off the bench. Didn't look right at first. Last three 319 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:47.720 games though, nineteen points, twelve points, and sixteen this one with ten 320 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:52.359 of those sixteen and the fourth quarter two huge three pointers, two huge layups, 321 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:56.599 one of them on Bodanovich where he just went iso ball and went into 322 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.039 attack mode, put a crossover move on put between the legs, and then 323 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.680 had a nasty reverse where even he was a little bit surprised that he got 324 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.200 it to go. Afterwards, you could see him looking at the Clippers bench, 325 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.559 Reggie playing with joy. That Reggie is the vibes on this team. 326 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:18.119 When he is feeling good, usually everything else is rolling for him, but 327 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:22.079 he plays off positive energy and he was dancing at the end of that thirty 328 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:26.240 eight point victory Thursday night against San Antonio at the final buzzer. We hadn't 329 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.759 seen that in a while. Something's changing with this team. The demeanor of 330 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.559 the Clippers looks much better. You know, winning cures all. Of course. 331 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:38.519 Coach Lewis, asked about that postgame Thursday, said, well, yeah, 332 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:44.119 guys aren't happy when you lose where you expect. It's true, but 333 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:49.160 this team has guys that you can just feed off of. They're infectious, 334 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:56.319 and I think Reggie's one of them. Nicholas Batum the cherry on top three 335 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:00.240 pointer, as Noah Eagle put it postgame, Saint Nick a huge, huge 336 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:02.920 one to put them up by nine and basically put the game out of reach 337 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:10.599 late. So a lot of the prototypical play you would expect from guys and 338 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:15.400 role players and contributors. You know, they played and they start in their 339 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:19.559 roles. They played great. I thought Norman Powell ended up hitting a big 340 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:25.119 three pointer late in the game. But yeah, they got to clean up 341 00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:30.440 the turnovers when they had three straight late in the fourth and Atlanta went on 342 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:37.079 that seven oh run. That's stuff that can't happen against elite, elite teams. 343 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:41.359 Atlanta was playing really well though, and so you'd rather learn from that 344 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:47.480 stuff in wins than in losses, because right now it's not just about process. 345 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:51.920 Wins and losses certainly matter. Which only thirty one games left and the 346 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.400 Clippers in a position where they can go after the three seat held by the 347 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.599 Sacramento Kings. I'll update you on the standings coming up here. Plus we 348 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:04.279 have postgame audio on Clippers Talk after they make it five straight, but before 349 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:10.000 we break I do want to head out to a phone call Lenny in Inglewood. 350 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:14.960 Man, Inglewood up to no good. Finish your baby, listen, 351 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:22.359 man, just I'm impressed. I mean, they finally finally putting together. 352 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:25.839 I'm glad Luke Kennar came back and it's, you know, seem like he's 353 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:29.200 settling in. I was just, you know, I was a little disappointed 354 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:30.759 for the game here. Roco wasn't on play because I wasn't sure about that 355 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:34.960 because he's so he's so crucial man on the defensive van and then he's been 356 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:40.240 hitting those rainbow threes lately. But you're right though about Luke. I didn't 357 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.400 mention him. He hit two big threes in that third quarter, and there 358 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:48.119 were some great drive kick swing actions by the Clippers. One of those was 359 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:55.119 off Paul George heading into the pain, just hell bent on getting there the 360 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:57.079 defense collapse on him. He kicked it out to Man. I think who 361 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:00.359 swung it to a wide open Luke can Who's stuck a three pointer in the 362 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.680 face of Trey Young? Who who was there for the clothes out big shot 363 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:08.640 though? Yeah, So just an impressive man. I'm glad Tyler's feeling uncomfortable. 364 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:11.599 With some of his rotations, and uh yeah, we just got to 365 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:14.640 keep it up, man, because because the next six I look, it 366 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:18.079 took a little schedule. The next sixteen games are ridiculously queen. I mean, 367 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:25.799 we're going up against nothing but the playoff contenders. There's only two teams, 368 00:26:25.920 --> 00:26:29.799 the Bulls and the Raptors were worth the clear should be the clear favors. 369 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.359 Everybody else is dark. So I'm glad it's coming together, man, 370 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.160 because that was rough. That was rough. So anyway, go ahead, 371 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:40.640 clip Nations to keep doing your thing, Adam, All right, let me 372 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:45.160 appreciate the phone call. It was rough. Then losing nine of eleven five 373 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:49.480 game winning streak though winning cures all. Then you're right, the schedule is 374 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:53.839 treacherous. The night is dark and full of terror. The schedule is dark 375 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:59.400 and full of terror moving forward. But you know what, it'll make them 376 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:03.200 more battle tested in the long run. Twenty of their last thirty one games 377 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:08.759 all against or twenty one of their last thirty games against teams that are above 378 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:15.559 five hundred. They seem to get the Clippers attention, and they're starting to 379 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.559 be a little bit more consistent out there. That's what you're starting to see 380 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:25.279 consistent effort and urgency and just a team that's getting back to its basics. 381 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:27.759 I mentioned drive kick swing, but they've been better and better getting into the 382 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.759 paint and coming into this one. Last eight games from three, they were 383 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:37.400 shooting forty four point one percent best in the league tonight nineteen of thirty nine, 384 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.799 almost forty nine percent from the outside. That's what the Clippers did two 385 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:48.319 years ago when they sat an all time historic top five ever marked from the 386 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.880 outside, where on the season they shot above forty one percent. But it's 387 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:56.960 because you get two on the basketball at least when you drive into the paint 388 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:00.599 and create havoc there first, and the Clippers are doing it. Clippers win 389 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.319 by seven in Atlanta to start off this six game road trip. Tomorrow they're 390 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.000 in Cleveland. More on that, Plus we got postgame audio coming up. 391 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:12.400 Oh yeah, if you're listening to this on the Clips and dip side, 392 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.720 ya, I did it solo tonight. If you want to hear the rest 393 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.599 of this post game show, though, make sure to check out and subscribe 394 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:30.559 to Clippers Talk also on Spotify, Ihearts everywhere else and William Updyke and Chuck 395 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.480 Mockler. We will be back. Chuck will being with me tomorrow night after 396 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.519 the Clippers are in Cleveland. This is Clippers talk, though you're on Amp 397 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:44.160 five seventy l sports. Oh no thanks, but you reinvest double luck. 398 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:59.400 Then explain what you gotta be up. I don't know. Kawhi was filthy 399 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:06.640 at twenty of his thirty two points in the second half. A couple of 400 00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:11.839 big mid range shots to help close this one out as Atlanta was not going 401 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:15.160 away. But the Clippers win one twenty to one thirteen over Trey Young, 402 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.559 who had thirty one and the Atlanta Hawks to open up this six game and 403 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.559 road trip. Welcome in to Clipper stock. I'm out of Oslin eight six 404 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.920 six and ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty ninety seven two five 405 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.960 seventy. Back to your phone calls. You can also get to me at 406 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.480 follow Adam a on Twitter. Just a little bit, we'll get back to 407 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.599 your phone calls. There was a point though, in that second quarter where 408 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:42.319 something changed for the Clippers because they were given up points that first quarter. 409 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:47.039 They got out scored twenty eight to twenty two and assigned things to come. 410 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:51.160 They had some bad turnovers to end the first as well, but in the 411 00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:56.319 second they only gave up twenty five and only nine of those points came in 412 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:00.200 the last seven minutes of the second quarter for them to take, want to 413 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.039 say, a five point lead heading into the half. They went through a 414 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:08.039 stretch where I think Atlanta had just two points over five minutes. They started 415 00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:11.759 to assert themselves on the defensive end, and they're gonna have to be better 416 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:17.079 there because they haven't been good the last fifteen games, twenty six defensively, 417 00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:22.160 top five offense over that time. And it's great to see and how quickly 418 00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.440 their offense has come together just having Kawai and Paul George on the court. 419 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.440 I mean, it makes sense, but sometimes you wonder we talk about continuity 420 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:33.000 and chemistry and these things, but it's not like they haven't been together in 421 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.519 some capacity, just around each other, whether or not, you know, 422 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.759 I think this was just a little over a hundred games they played now together. 423 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.400 This may have been game one O one in the regular season that they 424 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:51.519 played together. But they have an amazing winning percentage when they're out there seven 425 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:55.799 twenty when seventy two percent of the time in the regular season with those two 426 00:30:55.839 --> 00:31:02.000 when they're available, typically it doesn't take long for them to click in and 427 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:07.960 mesh. It hasn't during this five game winning streak. But I thought a 428 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:11.839 lot of guys showed up. Terrence Man. I mentioned that play between hibit 429 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.960 of eats a zubas the hustle they had there, and I posted it on 430 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:21.039 my Twitter account at follow Adam May. But for Terrence Man then on the 431 00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:25.440 other end to end up with a block, I want to say it was 432 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:30.559 Entrey Young, just elite, elite stuff. It was with five thirty left 433 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:33.920 in the fourth quarter. And Terrence Man has been so good in the starting 434 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:38.720 lineup and now Luke is in there for now it sounds like Marcus Moore's when 435 00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:44.680 he returns, we'll be back in the starting lineup. But to see this 436 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:49.440 team turn things around and start to find themselves once again and who they have 437 00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:56.279 to be and how they have to play and just be more consistent overall a 438 00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.240 cipher sore eyes to say the least, This is more of what we been 439 00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:04.720 looking for coming into this year. And we had a caller earlier in Lenny 440 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.000 who point out, Yeah, they didn't even have Rocco in this game. 441 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:12.359 They couldn't go wingstop plus norm they couldn't play some of those lineups they would 442 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:16.960 have liked to. But of beats, the zoo Bots played heavy minutes thirty 443 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:22.440 seven and while the Clippers did for the most part, they gave up too 444 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:25.519 many boards. Certainly some of that is because the zoo Bots was getting pulled 445 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:29.759 out into the perimeter. But he had eighteen points and they were using him 446 00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:34.680 and making Atlanta pay when they were playing smaller on the other end. That 447 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.680 was good to see. I just liked to see that other element, that 448 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:43.440 extra element, that other dimension to their offense, which is get some easy 449 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:47.440 ones with Big Zoo, whether putting him in the pick and roll or a 450 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:51.440 short roll where he can pass and kick it out to guys too. And 451 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:55.400 he ended up with three assists. But he's got to be more involved, 452 00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:00.759 I think offensively that is an area can still get so much better in. 453 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:07.079 And he has shown a lot of development there over the years, where I've 454 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:13.759 called him at times a long lost Gassaul brother. Maybe that's high praise. 455 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:17.599 But guy had a thirty one and twenty nine game this season and coach Lewis 456 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:21.559 asked, is he going to be feature more in the offense? He said, 457 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.119 yeah, even when Kawhi and Paul George are out there, and that's 458 00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:28.759 what we've seen the last two games. Now, saw it in that third 459 00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:34.079 quarter against San Antonio specifically, but then tonight against Atlanta in the second quarter. 460 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:38.440 And I don't know if that's why their defense ramped up, but there's 461 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:43.599 always something to get in the big man involved. You want the dog to 462 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.759 protect the house, you gotta feed him. That's what Jack said. A 463 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:49.960 little more pep in his step. And by the way, six of six 464 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.079 from the free throw line. Clipper seventeen of nineteen overall as a team, 465 00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:59.960 but they had to withstand a storm from Atlanta and Trey Young in the second 466 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:00.960 and a half. Who was getting to the free throw line at will. 467 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:07.599 Seemed like eleven to fourteen, just Trey, but he didn't hit a three 468 00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:13.880 pointer, and he had been struggling there the last few games overall, over 469 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:15.760 the last week and a half, and I thought, oh, no, 470 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.960 he's prime for a big one, a big breakout game from distance against the 471 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.320 Clippers. No, they continue to hold him down and the Clippers find a 472 00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:28.400 way to win by seven. Let's hear from the head coach though post game. 473 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.199 They start off the road trip the right way, and they are now 474 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:35.159 four games above five hundred in Cleveland. Though tomorrow I'm not going to be 475 00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:38.960 easy on a back to back. Still not sure if Donovan Mitchell we'll be 476 00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:43.119 playing, he's had a growing injury. But here was coach lou post game, 477 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:47.199 what have you noticed most about this team during the five to win streak? 478 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:52.880 Besides, of course, have him kawhim PG on the floor. I 479 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:58.039 think the biggest thing just excited, you know, just the excitement enjoy of 480 00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.920 basketball. You know, again sometimes he gets to when you lose six games 481 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:02.599 in a row. You lose six games in a row, it could be 482 00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:06.800 tough, but you know, we didn't feel sorry for ourselves. We kept 483 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.719 working, you know, more practices and then when Kawhi and PG came back 484 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.760 to hit our stride. The way we've been playing as late has been really 485 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.800 good. So just excitement and a joyful basketball again, you know, getting 486 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:20.440 back on track and it's been fun. And then can you just paying point 487 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.159 Kawai's game. I mean he's been on a tear these last five games. 488 00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:29.519 Just efficient, you know, really efficient getting to his spots. You know, 489 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.559 he's healthy, you know, had some pop, you know when he 490 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:35.159 gets to his spots on his fadeaways and his pull ups, and like I 491 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.159 said, he's been playing at a very very high level. And so when 492 00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:40.639 he's playing like that and Pg's playing away, he's been playing. Like I 493 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:44.239 said, we're a totally different team. And so it's just good to see 494 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:47.880 him healthy, being back and playing away he's been playing. There was coach 495 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:51.199 of the post game, there was something in the background there. Can we 496 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:54.039 just hear the beginning of that once more? K what have you noticed most 497 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:58.599 about this team during the five and winning streak? Besides, of course having 498 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:04.840 Kawai and PG, for I think the biggest thing just excited, you know, 499 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.840 just the excitement, enjoy of basketball, you know again, Sometimes he 500 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:12.480 gets tough when you lose six games in a row. Is anyone else hearing 501 00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.400 a toilet flush? Or is that just having enjoy of basketball? You know 502 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:17.760 again? Sometimes he gets tough when you lose six games in a row. 503 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.320 Atlanta flushing the game plan since it didn't work against the Clippers, obviously, 504 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:27.039 I don't know. I don't know that's what it sounded like. But coach, 505 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.840 they're talking about the joy this team is playing with again. Yeah, 506 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:34.360 you're stringing together five straight longest winning streak in the Western Conference. Just a 507 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.519 game back on the three seed, now, that happens, but it gets 508 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.679 guys to play for one another and to accept roles when you're winning ball games. 509 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.280 Reggie coming off the bench now, when he had played, I don't 510 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.119 want to say it was around one hundred and twenty straight games as a starter 511 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:53.079 for this team when he was available, that is a huge adjustment. That 512 00:36:53.239 --> 00:37:00.440 is a huge shift. But he's embracing it and they needed him. Those 513 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:06.679 early seven points in the fourth quarter were so big because Paul George simply wasn't 514 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.400 putting him up. Reggie was leading him to start the fourth when it was 515 00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:15.199 just a three point game. But he plays with that swag to him. 516 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:21.400 He just has that charisma. Remember the game when he had against the Lakers 517 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:27.760 last year where he's skipping into the front court, skipped to my loop style 518 00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:31.719 and eventually as this spinning layup to get him a win in a crazy ball 519 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:37.360 game. This is someone who has played heavy minutes the last season and a 520 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:42.400 half because of all the injuries, and it looks like with him, he 521 00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:45.679 finally got a DMP. He finally got some rest along the way. But 522 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:50.800 now he hasn't been playing as many minutes and not starting, but he has 523 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:53.199 more juice when he's out there. He's got more pop to his game. 524 00:37:53.760 --> 00:38:00.719 He needs it because it's either catching shoot stuff or getting to the basket for 525 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:07.239 tough layups against the teeth of the defense. I love seeing Reggie Jackson playing 526 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:10.519 the way he is, but I think all the Clippers kind of rally around 527 00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:17.079 it. He's just one of those guys and has been the entire time since 528 00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:21.519 he's been a Clipper, been a god said like Nicholas Patuma, has been 529 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.039 like Norman Powell now is. And he didn't have a great game, but 530 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:30.760 he made some plays late. He had a floater in the fourth quarter that 531 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:35.880 was big for him. Probably is I don't know, worst shooting percentage in 532 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:39.920 maybe a month. Four of eleven, ten points, two of six from 533 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:45.679 the outside. Start off really slow, but I thought still made an impact 534 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:51.840 out there and still contributed to this win. But you know that floater, 535 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:53.920 he had to put him up. I think it was a seven point game 536 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.000 at the time and Atlanta was making a run. You gotta hit some of 537 00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:00.800 those momentum shots, and that's what the Clippers were missing at times this season. 538 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:04.159 When teams were coming back on them. When the Clippers will be down, 539 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.039 they'd make a comeback, they'd storm back, but they'd run out of 540 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:12.320 gas in the fourth. This is a game I think the Clippers lose a 541 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.360 couple of weeks ago, a month ago. So that's what I'm talking about. 542 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.760 When I'm in progress by this team. You can see it. It's 543 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:24.920 happening right now in real time against a real good opponent. Atlanta's likely a 544 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:30.400 playoff team. They have a superstar and Trey Young. They had won seven 545 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.280 or ten. Do not take this win lightly or diminish it just because yeah, 546 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:39.320 the Clippers didn't have any style points at the end and almost turn the 547 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:45.519 ball over enough to give Atlanta a victory. Hey, they have to be 548 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:47.159 better, they have to be more sound in that area. But overall, 549 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:52.679 you look at the last fifteen twenty games, they have been so a slight 550 00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:57.159 setback, but not to the point that it takes away to win, not 551 00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:00.440 to the point that you can't see all these other encouraging signs right now. 552 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.280 And what's more important than Coachley was just talking about it, than Kawhi Leonard 553 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:08.559 looking like himself again. And when we say looking like himself. We mean 554 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:15.400 it, and I'm wondering, is it possible he gets even better? Seen 555 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:21.920 it before, coming off a major injury, got better. Now it's a 556 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:27.639 partial partially torn ACL and he's shooting so well. And I thought this could 557 00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:32.360 happen just because Kauai is one of the most driven guys out there and puts 558 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.079 in the work. If you listen to de Jontay Murray, who was on 559 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:39.239 a pod recently. I think it may have been the Up and Smoke podcast, 560 00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:44.199 but he talked about what a hard worker he was. Would he learn 561 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:46.360 from him. They were lay together, I think for a year in San 562 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:54.599 Antonio. But Kauai obviously couldn't explode, couldn't do a lot of the normal 563 00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:59.280 movements coming off the injury. But the one thing you could work on is 564 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.960 you're touched with your shot. He looks more dialed in than ever in the 565 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:07.800 mid range, and over the last month is shooting the ball better than ever 566 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:14.800 from three. It's possible that he becomes an even better shooter now at thirty 567 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:17.960 one than he was before. And he still has a strength and the power 568 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:22.159 to drive pass guys and the quickness to get around guys and get to the 569 00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:29.679 basket and move bodies there. It's all still there. That is the most 570 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:34.360 encouraging sign through everything this season with the Clippers and for them to be a 571 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:38.079 game back of the three spot in the standings with everything they've gone through, 572 00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:42.320 all the adversity, Kawai missing twenty of the first twenty five games, Paul 573 00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:47.639 George and the hamstring, the different lineups and rotations they've experimented with that now 574 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:52.840 they're shortening those rotations, They're finding how they want to play, the guys 575 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:55.239 they want to have out there, who works with who? And the four 576 00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:59.679 games number five hundred and they're right in the mix for being a top four 577 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:04.559 season the West. So I don't know if that makes them right on schedule 578 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:07.039 or just a little bit behind from where we thought they'd be, or maybe 579 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.880 you think they're ahead. Kawhi is ahead of schedule, that's for sure. 580 00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:16.480 I never thought with thirty one games left to play, he'd look this this 581 00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:23.639 level of Kawhi Leonard playoff mode activated Kawhi Leonard, where you feel like, 582 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.880 if you get into a seven game series right now, he could have that 583 00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:30.440 same performance he did against Dallas in a must win Game six, where he 584 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:36.679 had forty five. That's the level of confidence Kawhi gives you watching him all 585 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.800 right, coming up NEX, still looking for postgame audio from the players. 586 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:43.519 We'll get back to your phone calls. Eight six six nine eight seven two 587 00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:46.159 five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number 588 00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:57.559 Clippers. Also, there's something encouraging tomorrow. Today's Tomorrow. Tomorrow will conclude 589 00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:00.639 their last back to back for a month. They don't have a back to 590 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:06.480 back in February. I'm telling you the schedule lightens up, not when you 591 00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:14.280 consider strength of opponent, but travel days off. They're all there more practices 592 00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:19.719 for the Clippers. There is a chance that they can take off like an 593 00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.079 SR seventy one blackbird, off the runway into the playoffs. With the way 594 00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:28.159 the schedule lines up, we'll see the runways there. More Clipper Stock next 595 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:43.480 here on AMPI seventy l A Sports at fourteen. I'll never let you down. 596 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:49.119 Say what's your baby, mama? The crib blow back out, showy 597 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:54.000 Filipino as you call me, man, you back out. Welcome back in 598 00:43:55.440 --> 00:44:00.400 Clipper Stock. I'm out of Osley brand New that considered a rick roll like 599 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:06.559 a reverse Rick Roll. You think it's Rick Astley and then it turns into 600 00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:10.400 this new remix. Clippers win one twenty to one thirteam in Atlanta over the 601 00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:14.440 Hawks. Yeah, welcome back into Clippers suck. I'm out a Moslem eight 602 00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:17.800 six six ninety seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five 603 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.840 seventy is the phone number. Clippers make it five straight. They'll be in 604 00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:28.039 Cleveland tomorrow, still under the status of Donovan Mitchell. He's missed the last 605 00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:30.760 couple of games for them. They're coming off one where they lost SG in 606 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:37.639 the OKAC thunder last night at home, so obviously they're much more vulnerable without 607 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.239 a starting All Star there. And Donovan Mitchell, who's having an incredible first 608 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:45.199 year with the Cleveland Cavaliers, was already a great player, but I think 609 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:49.679 he's taken his game up a notch. Somebody that is one of my favorite 610 00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.320 analysts of all time. And I don't normally do this, but you know, 611 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.679 if I see the audio there, I'm gonna pull it. I'm gonna 612 00:44:54.719 --> 00:44:59.159 steal it. It's coming from Valley Sports because it's a big victory for the 613 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:00.679 Clippers. As I mean, in five straight, I want to hear from 614 00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:08.760 d mac don McLean postgame the Snake Killer here he was on Valley Sports afterwards 615 00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:12.760 the Clippers did tonight. I mean, we're going to talk about Kawai and 616 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.599 PG, and that's kind of been the story of this winning streak. But 617 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:20.760 a lot of good performances. I thought Reggie Jackson's night tonight was encouraging. 618 00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.199 He's back in the rotation. So a lot to talk about, but a 619 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:28.119 good win and just keep it rolling. Now back to back tomorrow night in 620 00:45:28.199 --> 00:45:30.920 Cleveland. As you said, we're gonna talk about Kwai PG. So let's 621 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:37.320 start with Kawai who played thirty nine minutes tonight, thirty two points and defensively, 622 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.760 I think he left his mark as well. We're kind of getting used 623 00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:43.920 to that all. And I said that in the pregame Jennie, and that's 624 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:45.840 still true. But there was a couple plays tonight he made. There was 625 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:50.679 a pull up in the second half in the third quarter where I hadn't seen 626 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:53.400 a two dribble pull up from him. Be that sharp, like that quick 627 00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:58.440 feet down, really fast. He is there. We need to end the 628 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:02.440 discussion if he's back, Goodwin. That's what I needed to hear that was 629 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:07.639 the analysis. There a two gerbil pull up that quick from Kawhi Leonard d 630 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:12.920 mac talking about him. Yeah, you can just tell it's all coming back. 631 00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:17.199 The pieces of the puzzle they're starting to be put together, and Kawhi 632 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.119 being one of the most dominant players in the league before the injury and coming 633 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:30.639 back this quickly looking like the same guy. Give credit to the doctors involved, 634 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:35.360 the medical staff, the trainers, Kawhi Leonard trusting his body, knowing 635 00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:37.760 his body. There was so much made of, oh, why isn't he 636 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:43.039 playing tonight? Where's Kawhi all this? Considering where he's at now, Don't 637 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.639 you think it's worked? Don't you think the plan has worked out just perfectly 638 00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:51.039 to get Kawhi Leonard at his best. The only way you're winning a championship 639 00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:54.840 is if he is playing at this level and he's there with thirty one games 640 00:46:54.920 --> 00:47:00.920 left. Looks to be because I still think he still another notch, another 641 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.599 gear, a sixth gear or seventh gear or whatever do they make that in 642 00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:06.199 the McLaren I don't know. I haven't played a name for speed in a 643 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:10.639 while, but Kawai can always reach a level that I think very few players 644 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:15.639 in the history of this game can top seventy five player ever for a reason. 645 00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.840 All right, Morrison, long beach, Morris, what's up? You're 646 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.880 on Clippers? So withoutim awstin Hey checked this out at him three the three 647 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:28.840 threes, the canard had wide open looks. You didn't have to rush anything. 648 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:32.000 Jackson. Jackson looked like he was fishing. He was so calm and 649 00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:36.679 he was so relaxed. Man, I look he looked like another player. 650 00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:38.760 I'm gonna tell what a couple of beautiful plays did you remember the two players 651 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:43.760 the Terrence man made when he passed the ball into Zubak. Remember those two 652 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:46.039 Yeah, I brought it up earlier. That was huge. And then he 653 00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:50.320 had the block on the other end. That was some pretty pretty stuff. 654 00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:52.079 I'm gonna tell about Kwai no kawaii. He can get his own shot, 655 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.639 and that's important when the clock is going down. And now tomorrow we got 656 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:59.760 to back to back, and the problem's gonna have tomorrow is we don't have 657 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.480 two of our best defenders. And I'm gonna tell you what really impressed me 658 00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:06.840 about another play. They're really impressing about clip of tonight. Remember when Paul 659 00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:09.159 went to the rim, This is where we're going left or right. He's 660 00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:13.159 going to the rim right, but two guys meet him there. They were 661 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.320 so close you could smell his breath. And then he threw a pass out 662 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:20.440 to Kawaii for three. That was That was Kawai's fifth three pointer. I 663 00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:23.559 put that on Twitter at fallow out of May. You're right, the reckless, 664 00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:27.960 abandoned and the speed that Norman Powell was able to get to the basket 665 00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.159 and collapse the defense. That's what leads to open threes. And while Kawai 666 00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.320 was still guarded, it's Kawai and he was that hot, so he took 667 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:37.280 it and sunk it. Let me ask you a question, Adam, because 668 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:38.559 I know you watched a lot of the clips of dang Me all the names. 669 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:43.639 Have you ever seen the ball move that Crisp's crispy as you saw tonight. 670 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:47.320 I'm gonna say yes, only because they've hit more than nineteen threes before. 671 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:52.239 I think they've hit twenty five in a game. I'm gonna say it's 672 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:54.400 been even better. But that tells you they're ceiling. They can actually be 673 00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:59.039 better than this. They ended up with twenty six assists on their forty two 674 00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:04.480 makes good it's great, but they can still be more sure with the basketball. 675 00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:07.840 Obviously, those turnovers in the fourth quarter, four of them, they 676 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:09.800 got to clean that up. Thank you, Morris, appreciate the phone call. 677 00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:13.800 Eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy. Will come back. 678 00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:17.639 We'll close things out here. On Clipper stock. Next they win one twenty 679 00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:24.440 to one thirteen. I think I'm still hearing mclin I mean, I mean, 680 00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:30.400 I love them, but Don McClain and mac miller is the mashup that 681 00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:35.480 you know, I don't know, I deserve the two of my favorites ever. 682 00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.159 Clippers win by seven in Atlanta over the Hawks. I matam Oslin is 683 00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:45.440 the Clipper stock here to day on Top seventy Sports, I've been getting paid 684 00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:54.320 about Clippers. Hold on. They win one twenty one thirteen in Atlanta over 685 00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:59.079 the Hawks as they shoot forty nine percent from the outside. Kawhi leads them 686 00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:04.800 with thirty two and have had five of their nineteen made threes, those five 687 00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:10.639 for flys when they went five straight a season high. I told you earlier 688 00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:15.719 in the year, when he starts feeling good, you're gonna know it because 689 00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:17.519 he'll start hitting shots from the outside. You'll know the legs are there. 690 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:23.440 Oh, they're there. Those thighs, the thunder thighs that we saw preseason 691 00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:28.679 people are freaking out about. They're helping drive in some of those shots. 692 00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:35.880 Now thunder thighs and powerful Quaudzilla's type stuff. That's where mate. Clippers in 693 00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:39.000 Cleveland tomorrow tip off at four pregame at three. Before we get out of 694 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:42.039 here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Should know what you 695 00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.519 go. Brian Seeming, Ralph Flawler, big brother, Jake Warner, ahead, 696 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:49.440 engineer, producer, Katie don McLean for the audio, the callers, 697 00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:53.559 the listeners. Madam Oslin will talk to you. Yeah, in like nineteen 698 00:50:53.599 --> 00:51:04.920 hours, gave you the flower. What's your jas maintain. This has been 699 00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:09.840 Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about your LA Clippers with Adam Oslay. If 700 00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:15.679 you like the show, subscribe to Clippers Talk on the iHeartRadio app or wherever 701 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:20.639 you podcast. They have the best tape. This team has those championship ingredients. 702 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:23.559 They have some of that DNA. You can see it. This is 703 00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:29.360 Clippers Basketball. Join us next time on the LA Clippers Audio Network