WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:04.599 The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:09.160 reaction has just be gone. Kahi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. 3 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:13.759 This is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:18.640 ahead on your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, you, 5 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:24.359 sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers winning once twenty 6 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:28.839 six to one oh five here in downtown Los Angeles over the Charlotte Hornets. 7 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.799 Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up second half highlights of 8 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.359 postgame box score, plus you'll hear from coach Lou and the players after this 9 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:40.000 one. But first we go back to your voice of the Clippers in Noah 10 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.159 Eagle, and we brought it up at the half. The turnovers were the 11 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.000 one blemish on this one. But the Clippers and that three ball, they 12 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.679 were able to keep the Charlotte Hornets at bay. Yeah, and that's I 13 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:52.799 mean, first of all, let's just go back to the start of the 14 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.399 season, Adam. The Clippers couldn't make it three to save the life, 15 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.880 and they were getting open looks and they just couldn't make them. So right, 16 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.520 And but Toomb has found that rhythm. Terrence Mann has found his rhythm. 17 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.879 Luke Kennard has come back and been exactly what Luke Konnard is, which 18 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:11.000 is a sniper. And so they're getting the contributions that we expecting. This 19 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:15.359 felt like for the most part, other than the turnovers, this felt like 20 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.719 a team two years ago. This felt like the Clippers from two years ago. 21 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:21.879 They go twenty threety nine forty seven percent from three More importantly, they 22 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:23.239 go twenty one of twenty three from the free throw line. That's ninety one 23 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.200 percent. And what did that Clippers team from two years ago do well? 24 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.640 They led the league in three point percentage, They led the league in free 25 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.680 throw percentage by a wide margin. And that's what carried them the wins. 26 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.120 And that's what allowed them to continue to win even without Kawhi Leonard in the 27 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.200 playoffs. And so I look at this one and I say that had a 28 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.879 lot of remnants of that season, and then you just sprinkle in a couple 29 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.200 of new parts. Norman Powell had fourteen off the bench, John Wall had 30 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:49.359 a couple of key assists. You know, a mere coffee didn't play a 31 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.920 whole lot that year, But overall, for the most part, other than 32 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.000 those two and Robert Covety comes in at the end, as do most Brown. 33 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.879 But other than those two, Powell and Wall, it's the same team 34 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.319 as two years ago. You miss a couple of pieces that they had last 35 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:07.120 year. Isaiah Hartenstein was big for them, But overall, there's no reason 36 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:08.879 this team can't do this on any given night. The key is can you 37 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.840 limit the turnovers? Twenty seven in a game? Far too many? I 38 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.879 mean that goes without saying Toronto Lou says he wants anywhere from twelve thirteen at 39 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.479 the highest fourteen a game. That's the range he wants. He says, 40 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.319 that's okay because you're playing hard. If you're doing that, twenty seven is 41 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:24.680 careless and you can't have careless turnovers. I don't care who you're playing. 42 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:28.159 You get away with it because of the way you shoot today. But you've 43 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:30.360 got to be better about taking care of the basketball. Yeah. In the 44 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.039 second half, Charlotte took advantage of those fourteen turnovers. They converted him into 45 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:37.280 twenty two points. So they started to attack and do a little bit more 46 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:40.240 damage against the Clippers and came out like the hunger team in that third quarter, 47 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:45.680 but also in the third Nick Batoum Saint Nick tis the season. He 48 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:51.039 starts four or four from distance NOA eagle, and he's just that stabilizing, 49 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:53.560 calming force when you need a big shot. He seems to always come through, 50 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:58.879 starts four or four and then like survivor, he can't hold back. 51 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:05.919 He's one of just busting through. Because in his last eleven games, this 52 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:09.120 is good stuff from Dennis dagustinosition to the Star, thirty one of sixty one 53 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:14.560 from three fifty point eight percent. He's shooting fifty one percent in his last 54 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.199 eleven games from three. Because to his point, I don't know. He 55 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.240 said, He's like, why wouldn't it be easy? I just get an 56 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:21.199 open shot. I just have to make an open shot. I mean, 57 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.080 it's very matter of fact, but it's true. And especially now with Kawhi 58 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:27.439 Leonard, Paul George back in the fold, that's only going to continue to 59 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.479 improve and get better and more volume, and so I think he could have 60 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:35.240 as great an impact across the NBA as anybody, just based on the personnel 61 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.639 key sequence in that fourth quarter speaking of Paul George, but it was within 62 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:44.039 fourteen for the Hornets, and then Luke Kennard rattles went home from distance and 63 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.680 Paul George may have hit the biggest shot the dagger to put the Clippers back 64 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.439 up by twenty. How about the balance attack from Paul George once again, 65 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:54.240 look, he didn't shoot unbelievably shot just below fifty seven to fifteen, he 66 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.199 goes four of ten. I like that he took ten threes in the game, 67 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.639 twenty two points, eight rebounds, eight assists, two blocks, and 68 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:08.199 a steel. Again balanced superstar play. Kawhi Leonard sixteen points, didn't have 69 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.599 his most efficient day five and twelve, seven rebounds, four assists and a 70 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:13.879 steel. Do a little bit of everything. And I like the fact that 71 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.160 the Clippers had twenty nine assists on forty one made field goal. This wasn't 72 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:20.199 isolation ball. This was allow your go to guys to get in the paint 73 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.240 and then use the spray out to shooters. And they've got so many of 74 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:27.759 them, and that's what they did so well two years ago. And this 75 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.800 is what reminded me of that drive kick swing to the max really looked good 76 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:35.160 tonight. And so whether it was Paul George, whether it was Luke Knard 77 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.879 being the beneficiary of course, Nick Patoom. You go up and down the 78 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.759 list of this team, just about everybody got their opportunities, and then it's 79 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:44.720 just a matter of whether or not you knock it down or cash in Clippers. 80 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.680 Now ten and two when Kawhi Leonard plays, and one of my favorite 81 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:53.360 prey goals tonight was that connection he had with Paul George, who lobbed it 82 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.000 to him for the alley up. You said, the two one three connection 83 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.120 is back, and early on in the game it was almost like he was 84 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.160 returning the favorit because Kawai found Paul George cherry picking on a runout. So 85 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.360 ten and two, let's start with that. That's a sixty eight win pace 86 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:09.279 at him, and a twelve game sample size is nothing to sniff at, 87 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.319 you know what I mean. That is something that is legitimate. That's enough 88 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.399 of a cushion and enough of a sample that you can say, okay, 89 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.959 we can we can get something out of this. A sixty eight win pace 90 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.879 for the guy who's the winningest player in NBA history. That's a pretty big 91 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:25.759 sample size right there. That's a very large sample size, so you know 92 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.319 what you're getting there. But yeah, I think that both those guys felt 93 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:30.839 like both of those guys were setting each other up. There was the one 94 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:35.600 pass that Kawai had to PG where that was the over the top pass right 95 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.399 where he kind of lobbed it over the defense and George got the easy layup, 96 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:42.519 and then he returns the favor by lobbing it to Kawai and he gets 97 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.839 that emphatic alley slam. So they play off of each other. Well, 98 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:47.879 this goes back to what I talked about with that idea of when you have 99 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:50.879 a video game, when you're playing as a kid and you finally learn how 100 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.519 to beat the level. It may have taken you twenty times the first time. 101 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:56.920 Well, the next time you restart the game, it might only take 102 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.319 you five times because you did it once and so you don't have to work 103 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:01.439 is hard. And then the next time it only takes you two times, 104 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:04.079 and then the next time you do it right away. That's what it feels 105 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:08.160 like with this team. So maybe the first couple of years they struggled to 106 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.399 Kawhi, Leonard and Paul George to recognize, Hey, this guy likes it 107 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.839 here, the other guy likes it here. This is how we can play 108 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.360 off of each other in the best possible manner. Now it feels like they're 109 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.519 already ahead of the curve. It's like having a cheat sheet on your exam, 110 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:24.000 and so we're seeing that they're hitting the ground running a lot quicker so 111 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:28.439 far this season together, Clippers fully loaded scary hours for the rest of the 112 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:30.000 league. They led by as many as thirty six. They go on to 113 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.839 win one twenty six to one oh five over the Charlotte Hornets here in downtown 114 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:38.199 Los Angeles. Clippers next game, well, they embark in a five game 115 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.439 road He's starting in Philadelphia on Friday. Tip time is at four. We'll 116 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:46.160 have Clippers count down your pregame show starting at three. No Ego, great 117 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.079 call is always safe travels, Oh, Adam, I appreciate you. You 118 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:54.000 know it's gonna be a nice trip back East and maybe even a white Christmas 119 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.240 first. Can't wait, Adam, can't wait. Happy Holidays to you. 120 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.560 Happy holiday is very Christmas to you, say Finniste Gastino here coming up next. 121 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:09.240 Second half highlights more from Noah Eagle. Clippers dominate offensively when they weren't 122 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.480 turning the basketball over, but sign of things to come with them being fully 123 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.040 lowered once again. It was good to see. If you're listening to your 124 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:20.879 Clippers postgame show here on the Los Angeles Clippers say, I never struggle was 125 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:25.680 a hungry Yeah, I got it due was blocked by George. This is 126 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:30.319 LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man record crawl and defensive man. 127 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:36.759 On the home of your LA Clippers Clippers win one twenty six to one O 128 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:41.480 five over the Charlotte Hornets, live from downtown Los Angeles, and this is 129 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:45.439 your Clippers post game show. I'm at a Boslem still come one M five 130 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.360 seventy LA Sports Black Clippers stock for you. Eight six six nine eight seven 131 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:53.439 two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone 132 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:57.120 number right now. Though, let's get to your second half highlights. Clippers 133 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.360 lad big at the half. Seventy one to forty was the score. And 134 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:07.639 in that third quarter, as Charlotte came out and they were bent on getting 135 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.720 back into this one, they played with a lot of fire out there in 136 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:18.319 that third quarter. But then Nicholas Batoum brought the extinguisher Letter drives middle hook. 137 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.360 I know we got it. Don't worry, we got it. I 138 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.879 mean he went four for four for three. We're definitely got Nicholas Batoum. 139 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.160 In that third quarter, Letter drives middle, hook it out, dive straight 140 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:35.600 away three for Batoum, and he responds Nico Batoum, mister consistency as the 141 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:41.919 Frenchman delivers eighty one fifty eight la five forty to go in the third can 142 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.799 oar swing it nearside, quarter extra feed right wing three. Batoum, he's 143 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.799 got another. We for three. Nico Batouma his fourth of the night from 144 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.720 downtown. Patum Man's it off George a few feet behind the line, off 145 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:58.519 the screen to his rights behind the back bounce pass on that point three Batwo 146 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:05.279 five. Niko Batoomb is unconscious. His fifth three puts the Clippers up eighty 147 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:09.679 seven sixty how claws Ober drives they old ripped through, gets down the left, 148 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:13.759 Ali beat it nearside one or three on the way Batoomb, he can't 149 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:24.799 miss ninety seven sixty nine but two, burying everything. Nick Batoomb started four 150 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.559 of four from three in that third quarter, had twelve points. Clippers led 151 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.879 ninety seven to seventy four heading into the fourth, but it was just a 152 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:39.360 fourteen point game. About midway through the quarter of Paul George would take him 153 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.399 home. Bounce it now for George says the feet fires are right away, 154 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:48.480 three and pants it. Paul George sticks it from the outside, forces a 155 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:52.840 Charlotte time out as the Clippers extended back to twenty. Back to back triples 156 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.519 for LA. One from Canard, one from George, and it's one ten 157 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:01.480 to ninety. Here come the Clippers. Canard ball feet, George pump, 158 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:07.120 big sidestep, corner, three ball. It's good Eg thirteen with us fourth 159 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:11.360 trade and the Clippers, with their twenty first of the night, ties their 160 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:15.759 season high. Paul George, with those six points in the final quarter, 161 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:18.279 Clippers your final score one twenty six to one oh five. They get the 162 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.120 victory over the Charlotte Hornets here in downtown Los Angeles. Coming up next, 163 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:26.720 we'll preview Friday's game in Philly, man as they take on the seventy six 164 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:39.360 ers. As you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio network, Henny got 165 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.360 it, count it from distance, the odds on favorite to hoist the Larry 166 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:48.480 O'Brien heavily contest it and it doesn't matter. On the home of your LA 167 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:58.679 Clippers. Welcome to back pg. Thirteen. Welcome back Reggie Jackson, the 168 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.840 betsa Zoobots and Nora and Pal. The Clippers were at full strength and they 169 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.720 flexed a little bit on the Hornets, led by as many as thirty six, 170 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.440 would go on to win one twenty six to one whole five here in 171 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:13.440 downtown Los Angeles. As I mentioned earlier, Clippers about to embark on a 172 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:18.559 five game road he starting in Philadelphia against Joel Embiid, the Bearded Wonder and 173 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:22.159 James Harden and our old friends Tobias Harris. Tip time for that game on 174 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:28.600 Friday is at four. We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at three o'clock 175 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.159 outside of Los Angeles. We are leaving you until then. Coming up, 176 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.639 we got Clippers stalk eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six 177 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.440 six nine eight seven two five seventy outside of Los Angeles. Talked to you 178 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:45.159 on Friday in LA. It's Clippers stalk. Next man would come from me. 179 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:50.919 Include the love rolling back to back games one games. This has been 180 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:56.159 Clippers locker room both side for Paul George. The conclusion to another game of 181 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:01.200 exciting La Clippers basketball. Fill miss set of the action all season long on 182 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:09.080 your home for the Clippers. Welcome into Clippers Talk. There's a new sheriff 183 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.720 from town. You won't be able to deny it. You're going to go 184 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.600 to the NBA Finals. I believe it in my heart. This is the 185 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.879 best team in the history of the franchise. I am all about the Clipper 186 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:24.639 Nation. This is Clippers Talk. They're trying to win the whole thing. 187 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.960 A postgame look. It's your La Clippers recapping the game, the stars and 188 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:35.559 looking ahead to what's next. To hear episodes you've missed. Subscribe to Clippers 189 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:41.600 Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you podcast. Now your host of Clippers Talk. 190 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:48.080 Here's Adam Osler. Saint Nick dropped a few gifts down the chimney from 191 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:52.480 the four basketballs through the hoop from distance. As the Clippers go twenty three 192 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.519 or forty nine from the outside. He goes seven of ten from three and 193 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.960 they win one forty six to one oh five here in downtown Los Angeles over 194 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:05.960 the Charlotte Hornets. Welcome into your official postgame show. This is Clipper Stock. 195 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.639 I'm out of Moslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight 196 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.320 sixty six nine, eight, seven, two five seventy is the phone number 197 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.080 coming up. You'll hear from Nicholas Batoum and the head coach, and Charles 198 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.600 Mockler from Clips and Dip will join us as well. Nicholas Batoum, though 199 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:28.279 this is a staggering number considering how he started off the season. He was 200 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:33.480 brutal from the outside. People were saying he was washed, and now all 201 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:37.960 of a sudden, he's shooting a career best forty three percent overall from three, 202 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.600 So that must mean he's been on a heater. His last eleven games. 203 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:50.399 He's thirty one for sixty one. That's over fifty percent from the outside. 204 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.840 He was one point shy of his season high in this one. He 205 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.440 ends up finishing with twenty one, but starting four four from three in that 206 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:03.720 fourth quarter when the Clippers needed him to to keep the Charlotte Hornets at arms 207 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:09.879 length his former team. In fact, in two games within about two and 208 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:15.120 a half weeks against the Hornets, Nicholas Patum was eleven of sixteen from three, 209 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:20.559 just torturing his former team, and did so in Charlotte's booze were raining 210 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.799 down on him. He just seemed to rise to the occasion time and time 211 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:30.720 again, and started Paul George and Luke Kennard when it was just a fourteen 212 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:35.799 point game. Down from thirty six to fourteen in the fourth quarter, things 213 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.759 got a little bit dicey. It wasn't easy in the second half. The 214 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.399 Clippers weren't playing with the same sense of urgency that they came out with to 215 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.120 get up by thirty six points, to be up by thirty one at a 216 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.799 half, and the turnovers came even more so in bunches in the second half. 217 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.600 They had thirteen turnovers in the first half, fourteen in the second half. 218 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.480 Yeah, they just won a ball game by twenty one where they turned 219 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:03.600 the ball over twenty seven times. That tells you the disparity in talent and 220 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:07.720 the overwhelming talent the Clippers can throw at you when they're fully healthy. Because 221 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.639 the Charlotte Hornets got up eleven more shot attempts in this game, and they 222 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:16.919 got thirty three points off those twenty seven turnovers, and the Clippers still were 223 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.600 able to lean on them late a big three from Luke Kennard, a big 224 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:24.159 three from Paul George, and that fourteen point lead went back up to twenty 225 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.240 quick and that pt thirteen shot. I think that was the dagger at the 226 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.759 six twenty mark. That three pointer gave him enough distance, enough comfortability or 227 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.440 eventually some of the backups were in there. But now the guys you call 228 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:43.519 backups, Norman Powell's one of them. When they're healthy, they just come 229 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.200 at you in waves. Rocco was out there late, have fun dealing with 230 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.799 that. Two guys that could easily start on teams, and they're still pouring 231 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:56.399 it on because they just have so much talent coming off the bench. Norman 232 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.240 Powell had nine points in the first half, had five more than the second 233 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:04.120 half, had two poster dunks that he couldn't get to go, but showed 234 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:08.320 you those hops and showed you that he's feeling much better coming off the groin 235 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:14.120 injury. It wasn't just him though, coming back tonight. Paul George he 236 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:17.799 was back with some left knee soreness, and he led him with twenty two 237 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:23.039 points, had two big threes in the fourth quarter. But most importantly, 238 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:29.159 maybe the big takeaway from this one, Clippers healthy obviously, and I Beatsa. 239 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:32.519 Zubos seems to still be on a minute restriction. Didn't have his best 240 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:34.919 game, but Reggie Jackson was back. He had a couple of catch and 241 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.039 shoot three pointers in this one is the Clippers once again went for their season 242 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:42.039 high twenty three main threes on forty nine attempts. That's forty seven percent from 243 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.799 the outside. But the biggest takeaway you could probably say is that two on 244 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:52.879 three connection is back. Noah Eagles said it after Paul George throw an oop 245 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:57.159 to Kawhi Leonard in the first half, got up, put it through, 246 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:03.840 had another dunk in transition, and he looked spry out there. But he 247 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:07.759 also found Paul George on a run out in the first half for an easy 248 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:11.440 layup as he was doing some cherry picking. Those two guys looking for one 249 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.519 another and making things a lot easier on their teammates when they're out there. 250 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.319 If you heard Nick Batoon post game with Noah Eagle, he pointed that out, 251 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.160 all I gotta do is catch and shoot, and not many have a 252 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.559 quicker release than he does. But the ball's coming his way eventually. When 253 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:32.480 there's double teams and triple teams on their superstars and Batum just continues. That's 254 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:37.039 where we call him Saint Nick to just be a blessing for this team because 255 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:42.519 the way he is able to hit timely shots seems like every time he hits 256 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:48.240 a three pointer, it's a big momentum shift for the Clippers. First time 257 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:52.400 I said Saint Nick was against the Denver Nuggets a couple of seasons ago. 258 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:56.279 I believe it was on Christmas Day, or you hit a big shot, 259 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:02.000 but remember the shot he hit against Phoenix, or Paul George just went down 260 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.640 the middle of the lane, knocked over, Devin Booker kicked it out to 261 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.039 him in Phoenix in the corner, hit a big three pointer there. He 262 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:15.319 just established this knack for getting big shots to fall. But the Clippers have 263 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.960 a lot of shooters on this team. No Eagle mentioned in postgame this looked 264 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.279 more like the twenty twenty one squad that was historic from three as shot over 265 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.160 forty one percent from the outside, top five three point shooting team of all 266 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:30.559 time, and they didn't have a short and three point line like one of 267 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.640 the teams on that list. This is what the Clippers are capable of. 268 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:38.000 We saw glimpses of it. They got things to clean up. Twenty seven 269 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:42.319 turnovers is unacceptable, obviously, and you can get away with that against the 270 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.319 Charlotte team that only has eight wins on the season, and it just lost 271 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:51.359 eight in a row before beating Sacramento Monday night. Against quality competition, though 272 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:55.319 against the upper echelon of teams in the NBA playoff teams, elite teams, 273 00:18:55.440 --> 00:19:02.160 teams jocking for position, teams that believe they're tenders. The Clippers have to 274 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:04.920 be more sound like they were against Boston or I believe they only had ten 275 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:10.799 turnovers and won that game by twenty, but they're thirty six point lead in 276 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:15.400 this one, largest lead they've had so far this season. I give the 277 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:19.839 Hornets a lot of credit because they didn't go away and had it to within 278 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:25.240 fourteen and looked like the hungerer team in the second half they did. Coach 279 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.720 lew called a time out early in that third quarter after another sloppy turnover by 280 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:34.319 the Clippers. Some turnovers maybe a little bit more understandable than others, just 281 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:41.920 because well, they're fully healthy first time since Game three against the Phoenix Suns, 282 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:48.680 so guys are getting more familiar with one another and back to being connected 283 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:53.039 out there. But some of the turnovers were careless, sloppy, just misfires, 284 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:59.960 passes that can't happen on this level against great competition, They're gonna come 285 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.160 back to bite you. They almost did tonight. Clippers know about comebacks, 286 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:10.079 and the Starlette Hornets did not give up. Credit to them for playing hard 287 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.160 in that second half. Down by thirty one at the break, But the 288 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:18.200 Clippers now their defense and the reason, one of the reasons outside of their 289 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:23.240 offensive explosion from the outside, is how good they were defensively. I talked 290 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:27.559 about first quarters, and in the last three the Clippers would scored just eighteen, 291 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.559 nineteen and twenty points. Last three ball games. They get off to 292 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.799 a thirty seven point first quarter in this one, where they led by eighteen 293 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:41.599 after one, they held the Hornets in nineteen. The Clippers locked in defensively, 294 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.359 We're great in the second quarter two but an issue all season. Clippers 295 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:52.920 outscored in by thirteen thirty four to twenty one. But in that third wheel 296 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.880 started to fall off for a minute. Too many turnovers nine turnovers in the 297 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:04.160 third quarter alone, a third of their turnovers in that third quarter just brutal, 298 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.920 leading to too many easy buckets for the Hornets. And you give a 299 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:15.160 team like that life that regrouped at the half, they're gonna make a run 300 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.480 top four hundred and fifty players in the league, and they've had guys who 301 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.680 are playing well. LaMelo Ball at a triple double, Gordon Hayward's back, 302 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:29.440 Kelly Ubery's averaging twenty one per game. You can't let up. But the 303 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:34.119 Clippers did enough to keep them at Bay, hold them off down the stretch, 304 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.000 and they do end up winning one twenty six to one hive over the 305 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:45.960 Hornets. A successful home stand for the Clippers, and now they have won 306 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:51.799 five of their last six and in those six games, they've held opponents to 307 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:56.640 forty three percent from the field, thirty percent from the outside, and teams 308 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:03.039 are scoring just ninety nine points per game on them. Worst team in the 309 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:08.319 NBA nowadays scoring wise, and the Clippers are very close to being it. 310 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:12.799 Obviously, when they're healthy, they can unlock their offense very quickly, but 311 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:18.519 in today's NBA, the worst offenses score over one hundred points per game. 312 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:26.039 In fact, oh this is tough to look at it. It's gonna change 313 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.160 after tonight, but the Clippers we're thirtieth and points per game at one oh 314 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:33.880 seven. There were second in offensive rating coming into this one, but that 315 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:41.079 tells you holding teams to ninety nine points over their last six games. That's 316 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:47.240 incredible defense as elite, that's championship level defense, and they have to have 317 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:51.400 it. And I'm wondering if it's even a blessing in disguise that their offense 318 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:55.880 hadn't clicked in so far this season, because it made them focus in on 319 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:03.599 the defensive end even more. I'm just wondering. They've established themselves as one 320 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.839 of the best defenses in the league even with the guys missing. The effort 321 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.720 and intensity on that end was there because they had to have it in order 322 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.960 to stay in ball games because offensively they weren't good enough most of the time, 323 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:22.880 or weren't as good, maybe playing below expectations, but also the injuries. 324 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:27.480 All that together and the lack of continuity has turned them into a team 325 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:33.319 that's a bottom two offense right now. That's where they stand. But tonight, 326 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:40.400 fully loaded, they score one hundred and twenty six points. Kawhi looked 327 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:42.920 good, Paul George looked good. The guys who returned. Reggie Jackson just 328 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:48.839 picked his spots and knocked down a couple of catcher shoot three pointers. Luke 329 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:52.279 annard I said this early in the season. I think I just retweeted this 330 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.559 earlier at follow out of May, but I'm not even gonna say I was 331 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:03.319 joking about it, because I wasn't on October twentieth. Canard might shoot a 332 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.559 Steve Kerr like fifty percent from three this season, and I think Steve Kerr 333 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:14.279 did it with a short and three point line. He's dangerously close to hitting 334 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:18.000 half of his three pointers tonight. He did at four of eight. He 335 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:21.279 was shooting about forty nine percent from three coming into this one, but on 336 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:27.400 wide open threes where a defender is six plus feet away, he's shooting sixty 337 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:34.160 percent, basically almost layups for him. He's incredible, and he's not just 338 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:37.720 a three point specialist. He can play make, he can create for himself, 339 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:45.960 get his own shots. He's a special player, especially because he's playing 340 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:49.440 much better on the defensive end now and he's been praised for that. He's 341 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:55.000 improved in that area. He figured it out. It's still it's always gonna 342 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:57.440 be a work in progress, and sometimes there's this mismatches or being the worst 343 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:03.119 defender on the floor with this Clippers teams. Sometimes it's no slight. If 344 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.039 you got Kauai, if you've got Paul George out there, if you've got 345 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:10.160 Nichols Batoum, if you've got Terrence Man, and then you're Luke Nard out 346 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:11.799 there with him. Yeah, they're gonna try to pick on you. That's 347 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:17.519 just the way it goes. But the Clippers win by twenty one tonight, 348 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:22.599 and let's start things off with Wallace and Plia del Rey. Wallace, you're 349 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.039 on Clippers to thank you so much, Advers, always so great to talk 350 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:30.640 to you. I gotta tell you, you know, I was listening to 351 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:37.039 the commentary tonight and you look at Luke. Luke leads the league again and 352 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:41.960 three point shooting, and he's only putting up four shots per game. When 353 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:48.240 you look at Stephan Curry and all the top top twenty leaders, they're putting 354 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:52.559 up, gosh, at least nine ten shots of games. So I think 355 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:56.960 it's, uh, you gotta think that our coach Tyron is a little flawed 356 00:25:56.599 --> 00:26:02.160 because even when lou is putting up he's creating his own shot, which he 357 00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:06.680 really douglan't do very well, Wallace. All coach lu does is preach how 358 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:11.240 Luke needs to take more shots. He has literally benched him for not taking 359 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:17.279 shots it's on Luke. He's got to get him up. He's unselfish to 360 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:21.480 a fault sometimes, my friend, Oh, I agree, but you gotta 361 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.160 say that's the coach's fault. And obviously benching him would be the correct thing. 362 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:29.599 But what else can you do at that point? Wait, what else 363 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:33.319 can you do at that point? If he's in position to get open shots 364 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.720 and he's not taking them, what else can he do? Give him over 365 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:42.039 to a psychiatrist. So it's the coach's fault. He hasn't sent him to 366 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:48.039 a psychiatrist. And I will say this. The other guys who are at 367 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:49.720 the top Walla. So let me say this, the other guys who are 368 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:56.079 the top of three point percentage. Damian Lee takes three point nine a game, 369 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:00.839 Malcolm Brobden four point one a game, Isaiah Joe three point seven a 370 00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:03.759 game. Contavious called to a pope four point five a game. So it's 371 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.960 not just Luke. A lot of those guys that shoot the highest percentage from 372 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:15.160 the outside, they are only taking about four a game. Yeah, and 373 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.640 that's obviously accurate, and obviously you know what the Clippers are trying to do. 374 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:22.720 But I think that's a real flaw in our season this year, and 375 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:27.319 maybe it is not fair to just think that Tyron's he's the problem. He's 376 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:30.240 certainly not the problem. The guy's one of the best coaches in the league. 377 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.000 But we gotta figure out how to get looked to put it up, 378 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.960 or we gotta run plays for him. But okay, Boom, get to 379 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.359 your spot, Boom, put it up. They do. I appreciate the 380 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.559 phone call, and I'm with you. They have a weapon in Luke Kennard. 381 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:49.960 Whether he has to play more or just be more aggressive out there, 382 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.839 I think he's gotten the message time and time again. Tonight in this one 383 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:00.519 he took eight three pointers. Now that's more like it. The key could 384 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:03.799 just be playing more minutes, and he got twenty five in this one, 385 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:11.160 and coming into the season everyone wondered how he'd get minutes. But he's busted 386 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:17.440 through the wall like the kool aid Man into this rotation because you can't keep 387 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:21.079 a guy out that's that good. I doesn't have as many flaws as he 388 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:25.400 used to. So we'll see as things transpire here and the season goes along. 389 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:27.759 I appreciate the phone call, Wallace, but yeah, they have to 390 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:34.640 unlock Luke Kennard because he opens things up for everyone on offense. They gotta 391 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:38.319 find ways to get him the ball as much as possible, but it's not 392 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:41.880 easy that. It's also a really talented team, and it's a good problem 393 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:48.319 to have because so many guys on this team can shoot. The three Clippers 394 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:52.119 win thanks to the three ball. They go twenty three to forty nine from 395 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:55.759 the outside. It's forty seven percent. They win once, twenty six to 396 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:57.799 one oh five over the Charlotte Hornets. More of your phone calls coming up, 397 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:02.279 Plus you'll hear from Coach lu on Clippers stock on m five seventy l 398 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.799 A sports you flow with that. My DNA I was born like this, 399 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.240 this more like this, the making Lick conception. Not just reform like this, 400 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:12.119 but form like this. Yell you on new weapon, not now, 401 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:17.440 Penny got it? Count it from distance? The odds on favorite to hoist 402 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.759 a Larry o'bright heavily contest it and a doesn't matter on the home of your 403 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:25.880 LA Clippers. And when the one twenty six to one on five victory, 404 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:30.759 the Clippers make it ten straight wins over the Hornets, thirteenth straight wins in 405 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:36.839 downtown Los Angeles over them Clippers with a season high and points at one twenty 406 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:41.240 six, a season high from distance, they hit twenty three three pointers. 407 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:51.759 That's two shy of the team record and season high in points up on opponent 408 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:55.319 where they led by as many as thirty six in this one. Welcome back 409 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:59.359 into Clipper stock. I'm Adam Mosland eight six six ninety eight seven two five 410 00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:03.400 seventy eight six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number you want 411 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.920 to know? Who was on the Hornets the last time they beat the Clippers 412 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:12.880 back on November eighteenth of twenty seventeen. Since then, the Clippers are one 413 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:18.279 tenth straight. In that game, the Hornets won one O two to eighty 414 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:23.400 seven, and Nicholas Patum had twelve points in the three pointer. He was 415 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:29.240 on the Hornets. Tonight he goes seven of ten from distance against his old 416 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:33.000 team and the Clippers win by twenty one. Let's go to Damien and Los 417 00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:37.920 Angeles. Damien, you're on Clippers stop without hm awstin triple A? Man? 418 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:44.160 How you doing? Great? Win? What's good? Almost dominating win? 419 00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:48.119 But the twenty seven turnovers that can't happen? That actually wasn't just the 420 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.000 Clipper season high that's hied in NBA season high. Yeah, Zack to back 421 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.680 can ever happen again? You know, And that's one of the things I 422 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:57.559 think we talked about that before, is like what are the things to really 423 00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:02.319 look at is that sometimes these guys they get out there and you know, 424 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:04.599 they get a little chillous with that ball and even in good games. But 425 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.599 like you said earlier, it really does go to show you that we have 426 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.079 kind of an embarrassment of riches as far as talent is concerned on this team. 427 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:15.400 And you know, if we can lock in. One of the things 428 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:19.079 that I really love is that, you know, we were ninety percent plus 429 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:22.599 from the freefo line. It really frustrates me when we start missing from the 430 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:27.440 line. A lot of the things that I think that the kinks to work 431 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:33.400 out with this Clipper team is just focused. I know that once we're healthy 432 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.559 again and you start putting everybody back in their roles, because remember Roco, 433 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.680 Luke, Kennard, uh, even you know, Terrence Mann, these are 434 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.079 guys are role players. You know. Although I would love to see Terrence 435 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.400 Mann step up a little bit more into a leadership role, I think he's 436 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:56.440 earned that. I think the team would respond well though him. In fact, 437 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.880 he said this last post game, how do you get minutes out there 438 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.000 as a young player, and he told him energy, just bring energy. 439 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.119 It starts with that. Yeah, yeah, definitely true. Definitely true. 440 00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:12.680 But you know, like I think he's earned the right to ascend to the 441 00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:16.039 next level. You know, I want to I want to see a little 442 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:20.279 bit more leadership from the second unit, just so of those guys aren't out 443 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:22.119 there, you know, kind of wondering what they're supposed to be doing and 444 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.720 in spots you know, where they feel uncomfortable. But I'll think a lot 445 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:30.000 of the comfortability is going to come back by having our two on three connection 446 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.000 back. Everybody's you know, back where they need to be, and they're 447 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:35.440 not, you know, feeling like so much of a fish out of water. 448 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:39.559 All in all, love to win, Hey, I really love LaMelo 449 00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:45.759 ball giving us a couple of shocks and the fool uh you know, nominees 450 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.079 U in the game. I don't know what was going on there his legs. 451 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:51.559 Did he look all right to you? At times? He didn't look 452 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:53.880 steady in the legs to me at times like he would like something happened or 453 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:59.400 stuff like that. Eleven and twelve. I think they call that a triple 454 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:01.240 double. Her. I think he did. He did all right, you 455 00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:04.440 know, but like it just did time. I don't know, maybe he 456 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.640 was just getting ahead of himself or whatever. That guy's special, you know, 457 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.640 and I love watching him play. You know, he's really a beautiful 458 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:15.960 talent and and it's really great to see him play again. Man, free 459 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.039 throws were locked in at the free throw line. It was beautiful. We 460 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:22.279 tightened up those turnovers. I mean, I don't see any reason why this 461 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:24.720 couldn't have been one hundred and forty one hundred and forty five point you know, 462 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:28.559 uh game for us. You know what I'm saying, he's kind of 463 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:30.880 turnovers. I'll give him four or five of them, you know, because 464 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.160 they were trying some things, and you know, Paul George tried to get 465 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.359 cute, you know, in the corner right there and everything, and you 466 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.400 know, they were having some fun out there. And I'll give him a 467 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:44.160 few of those. But I love Kawai getting to a spot. I love 468 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.799 the efficiency of our starting unit as far as our offense concerned. And then 469 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:53.759 obviously we were dialed in. Man. But if I let you go any 470 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:57.599 longer. We ain't gonna be able to get to anyone else. My friend 471 00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:02.799 call in on Friday. We'll do it again. I promise Clippers win by 472 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.519 twenty one. Here in downtown Los Angeles. As you're listening to Clippers Talk 473 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:13.280 live over the Charlotte Hornets, let's go to Raoul and Baldwin Park. Raoul, 474 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:16.039 what's up? You're on Clippers Talk without Amslin? Yo? What up? 475 00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:22.079 Adam? What's good man? What'd you think of the victory? Yeah? 476 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:28.840 Yeah, we smashed them d's uh yeah. Kick the Hornets, yeah 477 00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:31.960 they kicked. We kicked these like we kicked the v's says, and they 478 00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:36.400 try to come and attack us, We're just like hitting the slatting away like 479 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:39.079 flies. Now. It was a good win. It was good to see 480 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:45.119 the whole team healthy. It's good to see screaming Norman Smiley back. I 481 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:49.440 mean screaming Norman pile back. I got he confused to a professional wrestler from 482 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:57.239 w c W. Yeah, it's Storm and Norman, but I always always 483 00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.760 compare him to screaming Norman Smiley. Look him up if you have a chance. 484 00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.280 Other than that, it was good w everyone was healthy. You know, 485 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:09.480 you gotta work on the turnovers. Other than that, it's all good. 486 00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:14.199 It's all good in the neighborhood. And then on the other side, 487 00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:16.360 no, check out the on the Ontario Clippers. And then they're they're they're 488 00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:20.519 looking good. They're going to the win the Cup finals. I'm not gonna 489 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:23.559 check I'm actually gonna check out that game. Well. The Clippers being healthy, 490 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:29.639 Brandon Boston and Musa Diabat are gonna be running things in the league. 491 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:34.280 Yes, right, even what's your name of Preston too O good. I'm 492 00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:37.440 I'm gonna say, I'm gonna season ticket older. I go to those Ontario 493 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.800 Clipper games. Uh, and then uh, I get the phone. I 494 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:44.079 got the close seats and we see him up close. It's it's actually fun 495 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:49.880 experience to going to Ontario Clipper games on Ontario. Damian. Excuse me, 496 00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:52.400 Raoul. I appreciate the phone call. I still got Damien on my mind. 497 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:57.280 I think he's still talking somewhere to the phone line. I didn't even 498 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.480 know I got him off, Raoul. Thank you for the phone call, 499 00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:05.400 my friend. Clippers win one twenty six to one oh five over the Charlotte 500 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.360 Hornets. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back still to come. 501 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.320 You're gonna hear from Coach Lou. But up next Charles Mockler from Clips 502 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:19.719 and Dip. We'll have some clips and double dip. Here Clippers Stock Holman 503 00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:25.400 Clippers win by twenty one over the Hornets. You're listening to the Clippers stock 504 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:29.599 You're on in five seventy l A Sports Week. I mean the Rookkies. 505 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:32.920 Myst is old up extremely for cookies, just clips good been ninety two, 506 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:37.239 Fanny got it, count it from distance, the odds on favorite to hoist 507 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:42.039 the Larry O'Brien heavily can test it and it doesn't matter. On the home 508 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:49.920 of your LA Clippers last time friends of five and one in their last six 509 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.039 teams as they win one one six to one oh five over the Charlotte Hornets. 510 00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:57.920 Here from downtown Los Angeles, you're listening to the Clippers Stock Live. 511 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:01.000 I'm out of Oslin. Get back to your phone calls at eight six six 512 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:06.559 ninety seven two five seventy. But on the Super Secret Guest hot line right 513 00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.280 now, we have our friend Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip as we do 514 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:15.000 some clips in double Dip post game, Charles, most impressive thing tonight about 515 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:20.679 this Clippers win in your mind? Oh man, that's all I can think 516 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:23.360 about as the turnovers. If I'm being totally honest, I didn't say most 517 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:30.800 depressing. Sure, I think I think the thing that everyone liked was Sure. 518 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:35.760 The opponent we were playing is one that maybe on paper isn't the level 519 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:37.159 of the Clippers. You know, they're very low. I think they're twenty 520 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.239 ninth of offensive rating and maybe thirty at the defensive rating. Of those, 521 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:44.719 i'd be flipped. But yes, there were turnombers. But this team gave 522 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:46.880 us another glimpse of what it looks like fully healthy. We got to see 523 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:51.880 I actually might go Norman Powell's the most impressive parts a month off because he 524 00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:54.119 was hurt. He's fifty percent shooting, He was good when he needed to 525 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:57.280 be. He almost had a couple of posters, which was great. So 526 00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.840 I got I think I gotta give it to Norm Powell for most of Norm 527 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:05.280 Powell coming off that groin injury, just had juice out there. As the 528 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.239 kids might say, the way he turned the corner on defenders, had a 529 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:14.880 couple of quick layups right away. Someone else who looked explosive. Sorry Brian 530 00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:20.280 Winhorst Kawhi Leonard with two throwdowns, one in alleyoup from Paul George. The 531 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.800 one in transition though, was even quicker and more impressive to me. But 532 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:30.280 Kawhi continues to look more and more like himself while getting other guys involved. 533 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.440 Four assists in this one, and yeah, he finished with a plus twenty 534 00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:37.119 eight. Only other guy that tied him in that category, Paul George, 535 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:40.960 was also a plus twenty eight. The two on three connection looking for each 536 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.760 other early in the first half after not having played together for a little bit, 537 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.719 that was I think really encouraging. Yeah, you love to see that, 538 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.800 and I wish Kawai would have had a few more field goal attempts, 539 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:57.599 but I think that was just the byproduct of how absolutely insane the first half 540 00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:01.039 was. We kind of every other Clipper as well. Paul George did have 541 00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:05.880 the seven turnovers, which is a little rough, but again, if their 542 00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:08.639 first came back together, and who knows how I came to keep track at 543 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:12.800 this point, but those two, you know, the Clippers will go as 544 00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.440 far as those guys take us. And we have to give credit to Kawai 545 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:21.960 who has been able to just block out all the you mentioned Brian Winhorse, 546 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:24.480 the kind of absurd noise about him and how he's going to ramp up. 547 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:28.800 It's not a linear process. I think eli Clippers film said that on Twitter. 548 00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:31.280 But the line is still going up into the right, which is where 549 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:37.960 you wanted to go. Progress is rarely linear, that's how it usually works. 550 00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:42.920 But overall, it's certainly pointing in the right direction physically for Kawhi Leonard 551 00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.280 and the movement out there, he's looked good now is just timing a rhythm, 552 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:50.679 and I think when he starts hitting three pointers you'll know he's feeling that 553 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:53.880 much better out there because he is a good three point shooter. Just hasn't 554 00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:59.360 looked like that the Clippers overall, though we're twenty three to forty nine and 555 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:02.079 somebody have I mentioned yet, and this happens far too often, but Marcus 556 00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:07.239 Morris was three or four from distance, plays so well next to Kawhi Leonard 557 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:10.519 and Paul George. When those two guys are out there, it just powers 558 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.960 Marcus and it brings the best out of him and why he's on this Clippers 559 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:20.079 team. Nobody questions it when the two and three connections are there. Yeah, 560 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.719 that's a great point. Last year, myself included, some people were 561 00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:25.639 like, Oh, this is what the team looks like when Reggie and Marcus 562 00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:29.480 are the one in two options, which they shouldn't be. It's no knock 563 00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.320 on them, but just not how the team is constructed, and I want 564 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:36.039 to give kind of some kudos. There are a couple of possessions where Marcus 565 00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:39.400 Morris dug in and kind of puts the clamps on some guys for the Hornets, 566 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:44.599 so that pressure that's taken off of him offensively, he can kind of 567 00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.679 use it, I think, to expel a little more energy on the defensive 568 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:51.920 end, which is really where that starting lineup can just make things hellish for 569 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:57.639 other teams right from the joke. Nicholas Batum a big part of the story 570 00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:01.599 tonight, going up against his former team and after Frances lost in the World 571 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:06.679 Cup, obviously playing with a heavy heart in some ways. Goes seven of 572 00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:10.519 ten from distance, and he cooked him last time too. He was four 573 00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:15.599 of six from the outside. But when they needed big shots, when they 574 00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:19.000 needed to kill some of the momentum of the Charlotte Hornets, it was Batoum 575 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:23.280 haunting his former team. Yeah, anytime that the ship feels a little off 576 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:30.119 and Nick Batoum comes back in it gets back on course. We also, 577 00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:34.039 I don't know if people saw the postgame presser, but someone asked him basically 578 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:36.360 like, do you play harder against the Hornets? And he said, you're 579 00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:39.079 trying to get me in trouble. So I don't know if that's totally there, 580 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:45.519 but Batum continues to be maybe not the he's probably like the third or 581 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:50.320 fourth most important player for the Clippers, not the best or most skilled or 582 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.960 anything like that, but what he does, and even when he's off offensively, 583 00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:57.559 which he very much was not tonight, he still contributes. When you 584 00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:00.480 get nights like this, it's just great to be able to overcome the turnovers 585 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.280 and all that stuff to not you know, weighs such a great nick fortune 586 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.639 befall this, and he's thirty one for his last sixty one from three in 587 00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:13.199 their last eleven games. He's now shooting forty three percent on the season. 588 00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:15.480 That would be a career high if it ended today. After he got off 589 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:20.719 to a miserable start. Outside of that's seven for seven game, he's really 590 00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:23.480 turned things around. He's been able to right the ship and he is very 591 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:28.280 steady out there as is Luke Kennard. He's leading the league in three point 592 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.960 shooting. We've talked a lot on the podcast on Clips and Dip with Luke 593 00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:35.800 Kennard and just what he means to this team, and you know, getting 594 00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:38.920 him going unlocks so much more the offense. Some people have been screaming get 595 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:43.559 him into the starting lineup, get him next to Kawai and Paul George even 596 00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.000 more. But even if he's not starting, they find ways. He played 597 00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:51.440 twenty five minutes tonight where Luke Kennard in that third quarter and then in the 598 00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:53.719 fourth he hit maybe the biggest three up to that point because it was a 599 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:58.519 fourteen point game. But they do find him, They do look for him. 600 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:00.960 I think it was the very end of the quarter where they found him 601 00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:06.000 to take the buzzer beater. He couldn't get it to go. Yeah, 602 00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:08.400 I love seeing his aggression kind of in that second half. He missed a 603 00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:12.559 couple of shots in a row. But he's a player where no one is 604 00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.400 mad if he's taking shots, you know what I mean, Like you's a 605 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:21.440 oh yeah exactly. Ty Low said in the pre game that there's ten premiere 606 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.719 outside shooters in the league, and he said that Luke Kennard was number ten 607 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:29.599 because he passes up more shots than the nine guys in the front of him. 608 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:31.679 So maybe after the night he's up to number nine or eight or something 609 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.039 like that. But it was great to see from Luke, and he's got 610 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.800 to feel energized by the whole team being healthy again too, where now it's 611 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:43.079 like, hey man, we've kind of uncovered that you're still really good at 612 00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:45.320 kind of seeking out shops and saying the real point guard position. But also 613 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:49.280 everyone on the court wants you to let it fly, so just let it 614 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:52.360 go and hopefully we'll see that more on this upcoming road trip. He is 615 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:55.880 Charles Mockler does it for clips and Dip with myself and William Updyke a little 616 00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:00.159 double dip tonight. Charles, thanks for doing this here on Clipper Stock absolutely 617 00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:05.000 thanks for having me. Coming up next, we'll preview Friday's contest and get 618 00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.360 back to your phone calls at eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy 619 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:14.559 Oh, Morris is home. They have a rhyme tonights goodness by right. 620 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:19.800 Clippers win by twenty one over the Charlotte Hornets. As you're listening to Clippers 621 00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.920 talk here on AM five seventy ALI Sports. They said mc kills, he 622 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:30.760 doesn't take clip, you'll take boots, and he got it. Count it 623 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:36.760 from distance. The odds on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bright heavily contest it, 624 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:44.199 and it doesn't matter. On the home of your LA Clippers, they 625 00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:47.000 some Nick Vatoum and some hot three points shooting. The Clippers win by twenty 626 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:52.800 one over the Charlotte Hornets. As they get back to whole strength, Clippers 627 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:58.360 fully loaded, it could get scary on there. Stay healthy, Clippers, 628 00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:02.599 that's what we need. Nick Batoum, though I mentioned him going seven of 629 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:07.559 ten and how good he's been from the outside of recently last eleven games shooting 630 00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:12.119 over fifty percent, which is about fifty one percent from three. But in 631 00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:19.719 that third quarter at one point he hit three threes in the span of a 632 00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:23.679 minute, in three seconds. It's just ridiculous. All right, Well, 633 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:28.599 we have a moment. Let's pause ten seconds for station identification here on AM 634 00:45:28.679 --> 00:45:35.159 five seventy l Sports, this is LA Clippers basketball. AM five seventy KLAC 635 00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:40.159 Los Angeles, seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart radio station. And 636 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:44.119 before we get out of here, Morrison long Beach close things out to night 637 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:50.039 here on Clippers stock Well, yes, that little Clippers. I don't care 638 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:54.719 what people say when they win they lose that on l because they are my 639 00:45:54.920 --> 00:46:00.960 deep lord. I knew that if they would become me. Clipper Day loaded 640 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:08.239 with fun, and I think my Clippers debunk you next time. Morrison Longbeach 641 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:14.239 has left the building with this Elvis parody. There Clippers win one twenty six 642 00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:16.199 to one oh five over the Charlotte Hornets. They get back after it out 643 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:21.599 on the road for the next five starting in Philly on Friday. Tip time 644 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:23.119 is at four. We'll have Clippers count down at three before we get out 645 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:25.880 of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Noah Eagle, 646 00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:31.239 the Young Goat was back. Brian Semen, Ralph Lawlor, big Brother, 647 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:38.480 Jake Warner, head engineer, home man Away, Katie Newton, our producer, 648 00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:46.039 Dennis Dagastino, statistician to the stars. Thanks to the callers, the 649 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:50.880 listeners until Friday at three with their Clippers pregame show when they're in Philly. 650 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:59.639 I'm Outams and we'll talk to you then you good came out of the plays. 651 00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:06.079 This has been. Clippers Talk a postgame conversation about your LA Clippers with 652 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.280 Adam Oslam. If you like the show, subscribe to Clippers Talk on the 653 00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:15.119 iHeartRadio app or wherever you podcast. They have the best team. This team 654 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:19.840 has those championship ingredients. They have some of that DNA. You can see 655 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.840 it. This is Clippers Basketball. Join us next time on the LA Clippers 656 00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:24.960 Audio Network.