The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just be gone. Kahi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look
ahead on your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, you,
sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers winning once twenty
six to one oh five here in downtown Los Angeles over the Charlotte Hornets.
Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up second half highlights of
postgame box score, plus you'll hear from coach Lou and the players after this
one. But first we go back to your voice of the Clippers in Noah
Eagle, and we brought it up at the half. The turnovers were the
one blemish on this one. But the Clippers and that three ball, they
were able to keep the Charlotte Hornets at bay. Yeah, and that's I
mean, first of all, let's just go back to the start of the
season, Adam. The Clippers couldn't make it three to save the life,
and they were getting open looks and they just couldn't make them. So right,
And but Toomb has found that rhythm. Terrence Mann has found his rhythm.
Luke Kennard has come back and been exactly what Luke Konnard is, which
is a sniper. And so they're getting the contributions that we expecting. This
felt like for the most part, other than the turnovers, this felt like
a team two years ago. This felt like the Clippers from two years ago.
They go twenty threety nine forty seven percent from three More importantly, they
go twenty one of twenty three from the free throw line. That's ninety one
percent. And what did that Clippers team from two years ago do well?
They led the league in three point percentage, They led the league in free
throw percentage by a wide margin. And that's what carried them the wins.
And that's what allowed them to continue to win even without Kawhi Leonard in the
playoffs. And so I look at this one and I say that had a
lot of remnants of that season, and then you just sprinkle in a couple
of new parts. Norman Powell had fourteen off the bench, John Wall had
a couple of key assists. You know, a mere coffee didn't play a
whole lot that year, But overall, for the most part, other than
those two and Robert Covety comes in at the end, as do most Brown.
But other than those two, Powell and Wall, it's the same team
as two years ago. You miss a couple of pieces that they had last
year. Isaiah Hartenstein was big for them, But overall, there's no reason
this team can't do this on any given night. The key is can you
limit the turnovers? Twenty seven in a game? Far too many? I
mean that goes without saying Toronto Lou says he wants anywhere from twelve thirteen at
the highest fourteen a game. That's the range he wants. He says,
that's okay because you're playing hard. If you're doing that, twenty seven is
careless and you can't have careless turnovers. I don't care who you're playing.
You get away with it because of the way you shoot today. But you've
got to be better about taking care of the basketball. Yeah. In the
second half, Charlotte took advantage of those fourteen turnovers. They converted him into
twenty two points. So they started to attack and do a little bit more
damage against the Clippers and came out like the hunger team in that third quarter,
but also in the third Nick Batoum Saint Nick tis the season. He
starts four or four from distance NOA eagle, and he's just that stabilizing,
calming force when you need a big shot. He seems to always come through,
starts four or four and then like survivor, he can't hold back.
He's one of just busting through. Because in his last eleven games, this
is good stuff from Dennis dagustinosition to the Star, thirty one of sixty one
from three fifty point eight percent. He's shooting fifty one percent in his last
eleven games from three. Because to his point, I don't know. He
said, He's like, why wouldn't it be easy? I just get an
open shot. I just have to make an open shot. I mean,
it's very matter of fact, but it's true. And especially now with Kawhi
Leonard, Paul George back in the fold, that's only going to continue to
improve and get better and more volume, and so I think he could have
as great an impact across the NBA as anybody, just based on the personnel
key sequence in that fourth quarter speaking of Paul George, but it was within
fourteen for the Hornets, and then Luke Kennard rattles went home from distance and
Paul George may have hit the biggest shot the dagger to put the Clippers back
up by twenty. How about the balance attack from Paul George once again,
look, he didn't shoot unbelievably shot just below fifty seven to fifteen, he
goes four of ten. I like that he took ten threes in the game,
twenty two points, eight rebounds, eight assists, two blocks, and
a steel. Again balanced superstar play. Kawhi Leonard sixteen points, didn't have
his most efficient day five and twelve, seven rebounds, four assists and a
steel. Do a little bit of everything. And I like the fact that
the Clippers had twenty nine assists on forty one made field goal. This wasn't
isolation ball. This was allow your go to guys to get in the paint
and then use the spray out to shooters. And they've got so many of
them, and that's what they did so well two years ago. And this
is what reminded me of that drive kick swing to the max really looked good
tonight. And so whether it was Paul George, whether it was Luke Knard
being the beneficiary of course, Nick Patoom. You go up and down the
list of this team, just about everybody got their opportunities, and then it's
just a matter of whether or not you knock it down or cash in Clippers.
Now ten and two when Kawhi Leonard plays, and one of my favorite
prey goals tonight was that connection he had with Paul George, who lobbed it
to him for the alley up. You said, the two one three connection
is back, and early on in the game it was almost like he was
returning the favorit because Kawai found Paul George cherry picking on a runout. So
ten and two, let's start with that. That's a sixty eight win pace
at him, and a twelve game sample size is nothing to sniff at,
you know what I mean. That is something that is legitimate. That's enough
of a cushion and enough of a sample that you can say, okay,
we can we can get something out of this. A sixty eight win pace
for the guy who's the winningest player in NBA history. That's a pretty big
sample size right there. That's a very large sample size, so you know
what you're getting there. But yeah, I think that both those guys felt
like both of those guys were setting each other up. There was the one
pass that Kawai had to PG where that was the over the top pass right
where he kind of lobbed it over the defense and George got the easy layup,
and then he returns the favor by lobbing it to Kawai and he gets
that emphatic alley slam. So they play off of each other. Well,
this goes back to what I talked about with that idea of when you have
a video game, when you're playing as a kid and you finally learn how
to beat the level. It may have taken you twenty times the first time.
Well, the next time you restart the game, it might only take
you five times because you did it once and so you don't have to work
is hard. And then the next time it only takes you two times,
and then the next time you do it right away. That's what it feels
like with this team. So maybe the first couple of years they struggled to
Kawhi, Leonard and Paul George to recognize, Hey, this guy likes it
here, the other guy likes it here. This is how we can play
off of each other in the best possible manner. Now it feels like they're
already ahead of the curve. It's like having a cheat sheet on your exam,
and so we're seeing that they're hitting the ground running a lot quicker so
far this season together, Clippers fully loaded scary hours for the rest of the
league. They led by as many as thirty six. They go on to
win one twenty six to one oh five over the Charlotte Hornets here in downtown
Los Angeles. Clippers next game, well, they embark in a five game
road He's starting in Philadelphia on Friday. Tip time is at four. We'll
have Clippers count down your pregame show starting at three. No Ego, great
call is always safe travels, Oh, Adam, I appreciate you. You
know it's gonna be a nice trip back East and maybe even a white Christmas
first. Can't wait, Adam, can't wait. Happy Holidays to you.
Happy holiday is very Christmas to you, say Finniste Gastino here coming up next.
Second half highlights more from Noah Eagle. Clippers dominate offensively when they weren't
turning the basketball over, but sign of things to come with them being fully
lowered once again. It was good to see. If you're listening to your
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On the home of your LA Clippers Clippers win one twenty six to one O
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number right now. Though, let's get to your second half highlights. Clippers
lad big at the half. Seventy one to forty was the score. And
in that third quarter, as Charlotte came out and they were bent on getting
back into this one, they played with a lot of fire out there in
that third quarter. But then Nicholas Batoum brought the extinguisher Letter drives middle hook.
I know we got it. Don't worry, we got it. I
mean he went four for four for three. We're definitely got Nicholas Batoum.
In that third quarter, Letter drives middle, hook it out, dive straight
away three for Batoum, and he responds Nico Batoum, mister consistency as the
Frenchman delivers eighty one fifty eight la five forty to go in the third can
oar swing it nearside, quarter extra feed right wing three. Batoum, he's
got another. We for three. Nico Batouma his fourth of the night from
downtown. Patum Man's it off George a few feet behind the line, off
the screen to his rights behind the back bounce pass on that point three Batwo
five. Niko Batoomb is unconscious. His fifth three puts the Clippers up eighty
seven sixty how claws Ober drives they old ripped through, gets down the left,
Ali beat it nearside one or three on the way Batoomb, he can't
miss ninety seven sixty nine but two, burying everything. Nick Batoomb started four
of four from three in that third quarter, had twelve points. Clippers led
ninety seven to seventy four heading into the fourth, but it was just a
fourteen point game. About midway through the quarter of Paul George would take him
home. Bounce it now for George says the feet fires are right away,
three and pants it. Paul George sticks it from the outside, forces a
Charlotte time out as the Clippers extended back to twenty. Back to back triples
for LA. One from Canard, one from George, and it's one ten
to ninety. Here come the Clippers. Canard ball feet, George pump,
big sidestep, corner, three ball. It's good Eg thirteen with us fourth
trade and the Clippers, with their twenty first of the night, ties their
season high. Paul George, with those six points in the final quarter,
Clippers your final score one twenty six to one oh five. They get the
victory over the Charlotte Hornets here in downtown Los Angeles. Coming up next,
we'll preview Friday's game in Philly, man as they take on the seventy six
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Here's Adam Osler. Saint Nick dropped a few gifts down the chimney from
the four basketballs through the hoop from distance. As the Clippers go twenty three
or forty nine from the outside. He goes seven of ten from three and
they win one forty six to one oh five here in downtown Los Angeles over
the Charlotte Hornets. Welcome into your official postgame show. This is Clipper Stock.
I'm out of Moslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight
sixty six nine, eight, seven, two five seventy is the phone number
coming up. You'll hear from Nicholas Batoum and the head coach, and Charles
Mockler from Clips and Dip will join us as well. Nicholas Batoum, though
this is a staggering number considering how he started off the season. He was
brutal from the outside. People were saying he was washed, and now all
of a sudden, he's shooting a career best forty three percent overall from three,
So that must mean he's been on a heater. His last eleven games.
He's thirty one for sixty one. That's over fifty percent from the outside.
He was one point shy of his season high in this one. He
ends up finishing with twenty one, but starting four four from three in that
fourth quarter when the Clippers needed him to to keep the Charlotte Hornets at arms
length his former team. In fact, in two games within about two and
a half weeks against the Hornets, Nicholas Patum was eleven of sixteen from three,
just torturing his former team, and did so in Charlotte's booze were raining
down on him. He just seemed to rise to the occasion time and time
again, and started Paul George and Luke Kennard when it was just a fourteen
point game. Down from thirty six to fourteen in the fourth quarter, things
got a little bit dicey. It wasn't easy in the second half. The
Clippers weren't playing with the same sense of urgency that they came out with to
get up by thirty six points, to be up by thirty one at a
half, and the turnovers came even more so in bunches in the second half.
They had thirteen turnovers in the first half, fourteen in the second half.
Yeah, they just won a ball game by twenty one where they turned
the ball over twenty seven times. That tells you the disparity in talent and
the overwhelming talent the Clippers can throw at you when they're fully healthy. Because
the Charlotte Hornets got up eleven more shot attempts in this game, and they
got thirty three points off those twenty seven turnovers, and the Clippers still were
able to lean on them late a big three from Luke Kennard, a big
three from Paul George, and that fourteen point lead went back up to twenty
quick and that pt thirteen shot. I think that was the dagger at the
six twenty mark. That three pointer gave him enough distance, enough comfortability or
eventually some of the backups were in there. But now the guys you call
backups, Norman Powell's one of them. When they're healthy, they just come
at you in waves. Rocco was out there late, have fun dealing with
that. Two guys that could easily start on teams, and they're still pouring
it on because they just have so much talent coming off the bench. Norman
Powell had nine points in the first half, had five more than the second
half, had two poster dunks that he couldn't get to go, but showed
you those hops and showed you that he's feeling much better coming off the groin
injury. It wasn't just him though, coming back tonight. Paul George he
was back with some left knee soreness, and he led him with twenty two
points, had two big threes in the fourth quarter. But most importantly,
maybe the big takeaway from this one, Clippers healthy obviously, and I Beatsa.
Zubos seems to still be on a minute restriction. Didn't have his best
game, but Reggie Jackson was back. He had a couple of catch and
shoot three pointers in this one is the Clippers once again went for their season
high twenty three main threes on forty nine attempts. That's forty seven percent from
the outside. But the biggest takeaway you could probably say is that two on
three connection is back. Noah Eagles said it after Paul George throw an oop
to Kawhi Leonard in the first half, got up, put it through,
had another dunk in transition, and he looked spry out there. But he
also found Paul George on a run out in the first half for an easy
layup as he was doing some cherry picking. Those two guys looking for one
another and making things a lot easier on their teammates when they're out there.
If you heard Nick Batoon post game with Noah Eagle, he pointed that out,
all I gotta do is catch and shoot, and not many have a
quicker release than he does. But the ball's coming his way eventually. When
there's double teams and triple teams on their superstars and Batum just continues. That's
where we call him Saint Nick to just be a blessing for this team because
the way he is able to hit timely shots seems like every time he hits
a three pointer, it's a big momentum shift for the Clippers. First time
I said Saint Nick was against the Denver Nuggets a couple of seasons ago.
I believe it was on Christmas Day, or you hit a big shot,
but remember the shot he hit against Phoenix, or Paul George just went down
the middle of the lane, knocked over, Devin Booker kicked it out to
him in Phoenix in the corner, hit a big three pointer there. He
just established this knack for getting big shots to fall. But the Clippers have
a lot of shooters on this team. No Eagle mentioned in postgame this looked
more like the twenty twenty one squad that was historic from three as shot over
forty one percent from the outside, top five three point shooting team of all
time, and they didn't have a short and three point line like one of
the teams on that list. This is what the Clippers are capable of.
We saw glimpses of it. They got things to clean up. Twenty seven
turnovers is unacceptable, obviously, and you can get away with that against the
Charlotte team that only has eight wins on the season, and it just lost
eight in a row before beating Sacramento Monday night. Against quality competition, though
against the upper echelon of teams in the NBA playoff teams, elite teams,
teams jocking for position, teams that believe they're tenders. The Clippers have to
be more sound like they were against Boston or I believe they only had ten
turnovers and won that game by twenty, but they're thirty six point lead in
this one, largest lead they've had so far this season. I give the
Hornets a lot of credit because they didn't go away and had it to within
fourteen and looked like the hungerer team in the second half they did. Coach
lew called a time out early in that third quarter after another sloppy turnover by
the Clippers. Some turnovers maybe a little bit more understandable than others, just
because well, they're fully healthy first time since Game three against the Phoenix Suns,
so guys are getting more familiar with one another and back to being connected
out there. But some of the turnovers were careless, sloppy, just misfires,
passes that can't happen on this level against great competition, They're gonna come
back to bite you. They almost did tonight. Clippers know about comebacks,
and the Starlette Hornets did not give up. Credit to them for playing hard
in that second half. Down by thirty one at the break, But the
Clippers now their defense and the reason, one of the reasons outside of their
offensive explosion from the outside, is how good they were defensively. I talked
about first quarters, and in the last three the Clippers would scored just eighteen,
nineteen and twenty points. Last three ball games. They get off to
a thirty seven point first quarter in this one, where they led by eighteen
after one, they held the Hornets in nineteen. The Clippers locked in defensively,
We're great in the second quarter two but an issue all season. Clippers
outscored in by thirteen thirty four to twenty one. But in that third wheel
started to fall off for a minute. Too many turnovers nine turnovers in the
third quarter alone, a third of their turnovers in that third quarter just brutal,
leading to too many easy buckets for the Hornets. And you give a
team like that life that regrouped at the half, they're gonna make a run
top four hundred and fifty players in the league, and they've had guys who
are playing well. LaMelo Ball at a triple double, Gordon Hayward's back,
Kelly Ubery's averaging twenty one per game. You can't let up. But the
Clippers did enough to keep them at Bay, hold them off down the stretch,
and they do end up winning one twenty six to one hive over the
Hornets. A successful home stand for the Clippers, and now they have won
five of their last six and in those six games, they've held opponents to
forty three percent from the field, thirty percent from the outside, and teams
are scoring just ninety nine points per game on them. Worst team in the
NBA nowadays scoring wise, and the Clippers are very close to being it.
Obviously, when they're healthy, they can unlock their offense very quickly, but
in today's NBA, the worst offenses score over one hundred points per game.
In fact, oh this is tough to look at it. It's gonna change
after tonight, but the Clippers we're thirtieth and points per game at one oh
seven. There were second in offensive rating coming into this one, but that
tells you holding teams to ninety nine points over their last six games. That's
incredible defense as elite, that's championship level defense, and they have to have
it. And I'm wondering if it's even a blessing in disguise that their offense
hadn't clicked in so far this season, because it made them focus in on
the defensive end even more. I'm just wondering. They've established themselves as one
of the best defenses in the league even with the guys missing. The effort
and intensity on that end was there because they had to have it in order
to stay in ball games because offensively they weren't good enough most of the time,
or weren't as good, maybe playing below expectations, but also the injuries.
All that together and the lack of continuity has turned them into a team
that's a bottom two offense right now. That's where they stand. But tonight,
fully loaded, they score one hundred and twenty six points. Kawhi looked
good, Paul George looked good. The guys who returned. Reggie Jackson just
picked his spots and knocked down a couple of catcher shoot three pointers. Luke
annard I said this early in the season. I think I just retweeted this
earlier at follow out of May, but I'm not even gonna say I was
joking about it, because I wasn't on October twentieth. Canard might shoot a
Steve Kerr like fifty percent from three this season, and I think Steve Kerr
did it with a short and three point line. He's dangerously close to hitting
half of his three pointers tonight. He did at four of eight. He
was shooting about forty nine percent from three coming into this one, but on
wide open threes where a defender is six plus feet away, he's shooting sixty
percent, basically almost layups for him. He's incredible, and he's not just
a three point specialist. He can play make, he can create for himself,
get his own shots. He's a special player, especially because he's playing
much better on the defensive end now and he's been praised for that. He's
improved in that area. He figured it out. It's still it's always gonna
be a work in progress, and sometimes there's this mismatches or being the worst
defender on the floor with this Clippers teams. Sometimes it's no slight. If
you got Kauai, if you've got Paul George out there, if you've got
Nichols Batoum, if you've got Terrence Man, and then you're Luke Nard out
there with him. Yeah, they're gonna try to pick on you. That's
just the way it goes. But the Clippers win by twenty one tonight,
and let's start things off with Wallace and Plia del Rey. Wallace, you're
on Clippers to thank you so much, Advers, always so great to talk
to you. I gotta tell you, you know, I was listening to
the commentary tonight and you look at Luke. Luke leads the league again and
three point shooting, and he's only putting up four shots per game. When
you look at Stephan Curry and all the top top twenty leaders, they're putting
up, gosh, at least nine ten shots of games. So I think
it's, uh, you gotta think that our coach Tyron is a little flawed
because even when lou is putting up he's creating his own shot, which he
really douglan't do very well, Wallace. All coach lu does is preach how
Luke needs to take more shots. He has literally benched him for not taking
shots it's on Luke. He's got to get him up. He's unselfish to
a fault sometimes, my friend, Oh, I agree, but you gotta
say that's the coach's fault. And obviously benching him would be the correct thing.
But what else can you do at that point? Wait, what else
can you do at that point? If he's in position to get open shots
and he's not taking them, what else can he do? Give him over
to a psychiatrist. So it's the coach's fault. He hasn't sent him to
a psychiatrist. And I will say this. The other guys who are at
the top Walla. So let me say this, the other guys who are
the top of three point percentage. Damian Lee takes three point nine a game,
Malcolm Brobden four point one a game, Isaiah Joe three point seven a
game. Contavious called to a pope four point five a game. So it's
not just Luke. A lot of those guys that shoot the highest percentage from
the outside, they are only taking about four a game. Yeah, and
that's obviously accurate, and obviously you know what the Clippers are trying to do.
But I think that's a real flaw in our season this year, and
maybe it is not fair to just think that Tyron's he's the problem. He's
certainly not the problem. The guy's one of the best coaches in the league.
But we gotta figure out how to get looked to put it up,
or we gotta run plays for him. But okay, Boom, get to
your spot, Boom, put it up. They do. I appreciate the
phone call, and I'm with you. They have a weapon in Luke Kennard.
Whether he has to play more or just be more aggressive out there,
I think he's gotten the message time and time again. Tonight in this one
he took eight three pointers. Now that's more like it. The key could
just be playing more minutes, and he got twenty five in this one,
and coming into the season everyone wondered how he'd get minutes. But he's busted
through the wall like the kool aid Man into this rotation because you can't keep
a guy out that's that good. I doesn't have as many flaws as he
used to. So we'll see as things transpire here and the season goes along.
I appreciate the phone call, Wallace, but yeah, they have to
unlock Luke Kennard because he opens things up for everyone on offense. They gotta
find ways to get him the ball as much as possible, but it's not
easy that. It's also a really talented team, and it's a good problem
to have because so many guys on this team can shoot. The three Clippers
win thanks to the three ball. They go twenty three to forty nine from
the outside. It's forty seven percent. They win once, twenty six to
one oh five over the Charlotte Hornets. More of your phone calls coming up,
Plus you'll hear from Coach lu on Clippers stock on m five seventy l
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a Larry o'bright heavily contest it and a doesn't matter on the home of your
LA Clippers. And when the one twenty six to one on five victory,
the Clippers make it ten straight wins over the Hornets, thirteenth straight wins in
downtown Los Angeles over them Clippers with a season high and points at one twenty
six, a season high from distance, they hit twenty three three pointers.
That's two shy of the team record and season high in points up on opponent
where they led by as many as thirty six in this one. Welcome back
into Clipper stock. I'm Adam Mosland eight six six ninety eight seven two five
seventy eight six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number you want
to know? Who was on the Hornets the last time they beat the Clippers
back on November eighteenth of twenty seventeen. Since then, the Clippers are one
tenth straight. In that game, the Hornets won one O two to eighty
seven, and Nicholas Patum had twelve points in the three pointer. He was
on the Hornets. Tonight he goes seven of ten from distance against his old
team and the Clippers win by twenty one. Let's go to Damien and Los
Angeles. Damien, you're on Clippers stop without hm awstin triple A? Man?
How you doing? Great? Win? What's good? Almost dominating win?
But the twenty seven turnovers that can't happen? That actually wasn't just the
Clipper season high that's hied in NBA season high. Yeah, Zack to back
can ever happen again? You know, And that's one of the things I
think we talked about that before, is like what are the things to really
look at is that sometimes these guys they get out there and you know,
they get a little chillous with that ball and even in good games. But
like you said earlier, it really does go to show you that we have
kind of an embarrassment of riches as far as talent is concerned on this team.
And you know, if we can lock in. One of the things
that I really love is that, you know, we were ninety percent plus
from the freefo line. It really frustrates me when we start missing from the
line. A lot of the things that I think that the kinks to work
out with this Clipper team is just focused. I know that once we're healthy
again and you start putting everybody back in their roles, because remember Roco,
Luke, Kennard, uh, even you know, Terrence Mann, these are
guys are role players. You know. Although I would love to see Terrence
Mann step up a little bit more into a leadership role, I think he's
earned that. I think the team would respond well though him. In fact,
he said this last post game, how do you get minutes out there
as a young player, and he told him energy, just bring energy.
It starts with that. Yeah, yeah, definitely true. Definitely true.
But you know, like I think he's earned the right to ascend to the
next level. You know, I want to I want to see a little
bit more leadership from the second unit, just so of those guys aren't out
there, you know, kind of wondering what they're supposed to be doing and
in spots you know, where they feel uncomfortable. But I'll think a lot
of the comfortability is going to come back by having our two on three connection
back. Everybody's you know, back where they need to be, and they're
not, you know, feeling like so much of a fish out of water.
All in all, love to win, Hey, I really love LaMelo
ball giving us a couple of shocks and the fool uh you know, nominees
U in the game. I don't know what was going on there his legs.
Did he look all right to you? At times? He didn't look
steady in the legs to me at times like he would like something happened or
stuff like that. Eleven and twelve. I think they call that a triple
double. Her. I think he did. He did all right, you
know, but like it just did time. I don't know, maybe he
was just getting ahead of himself or whatever. That guy's special, you know,
and I love watching him play. You know, he's really a beautiful
talent and and it's really great to see him play again. Man, free
throws were locked in at the free throw line. It was beautiful. We
tightened up those turnovers. I mean, I don't see any reason why this
couldn't have been one hundred and forty one hundred and forty five point you know,
uh game for us. You know what I'm saying, he's kind of
turnovers. I'll give him four or five of them, you know, because
they were trying some things, and you know, Paul George tried to get
cute, you know, in the corner right there and everything, and you
know, they were having some fun out there. And I'll give him a
few of those. But I love Kawai getting to a spot. I love
the efficiency of our starting unit as far as our offense concerned. And then
obviously we were dialed in. Man. But if I let you go any
longer. We ain't gonna be able to get to anyone else. My friend
call in on Friday. We'll do it again. I promise Clippers win by
twenty one. Here in downtown Los Angeles. As you're listening to Clippers Talk
live over the Charlotte Hornets, let's go to Raoul and Baldwin Park. Raoul,
what's up? You're on Clippers Talk without Amslin? Yo? What up?
Adam? What's good man? What'd you think of the victory? Yeah?
Yeah, we smashed them d's uh yeah. Kick the Hornets, yeah
they kicked. We kicked these like we kicked the v's says, and they
try to come and attack us, We're just like hitting the slatting away like
flies. Now. It was a good win. It was good to see
the whole team healthy. It's good to see screaming Norman Smiley back. I
mean screaming Norman pile back. I got he confused to a professional wrestler from
w c W. Yeah, it's Storm and Norman, but I always always
compare him to screaming Norman Smiley. Look him up if you have a chance.
Other than that, it was good w everyone was healthy. You know,
you gotta work on the turnovers. Other than that, it's all good.
It's all good in the neighborhood. And then on the other side,
no, check out the on the Ontario Clippers. And then they're they're they're
looking good. They're going to the win the Cup finals. I'm not gonna
check I'm actually gonna check out that game. Well. The Clippers being healthy,
Brandon Boston and Musa Diabat are gonna be running things in the league.
Yes, right, even what's your name of Preston too O good. I'm
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna season ticket older. I go to those Ontario
Clipper games. Uh, and then uh, I get the phone. I
got the close seats and we see him up close. It's it's actually fun
experience to going to Ontario Clipper games on Ontario. Damian. Excuse me,
Raoul. I appreciate the phone call. I still got Damien on my mind.
I think he's still talking somewhere to the phone line. I didn't even
know I got him off, Raoul. Thank you for the phone call,
my friend. Clippers win one twenty six to one oh five over the Charlotte
Hornets. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back still to come.
You're gonna hear from Coach Lou. But up next Charles Mockler from Clips
and Dip. We'll have some clips and double dip. Here Clippers Stock Holman
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Here from downtown Los Angeles, you're listening to the Clippers Stock Live.
I'm out of Oslin. Get back to your phone calls at eight six six
ninety seven two five seventy. But on the Super Secret Guest hot line right
now, we have our friend Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip as we do
some clips in double Dip post game, Charles, most impressive thing tonight about
this Clippers win in your mind? Oh man, that's all I can think
about as the turnovers. If I'm being totally honest, I didn't say most
depressing. Sure, I think I think the thing that everyone liked was Sure.
The opponent we were playing is one that maybe on paper isn't the level
of the Clippers. You know, they're very low. I think they're twenty
ninth of offensive rating and maybe thirty at the defensive rating. Of those,
i'd be flipped. But yes, there were turnombers. But this team gave
us another glimpse of what it looks like fully healthy. We got to see
I actually might go Norman Powell's the most impressive parts a month off because he
was hurt. He's fifty percent shooting, He was good when he needed to
be. He almost had a couple of posters, which was great. So
I got I think I gotta give it to Norm Powell for most of Norm
Powell coming off that groin injury, just had juice out there. As the
kids might say, the way he turned the corner on defenders, had a
couple of quick layups right away. Someone else who looked explosive. Sorry Brian
Winhorst Kawhi Leonard with two throwdowns, one in alleyoup from Paul George. The
one in transition though, was even quicker and more impressive to me. But
Kawhi continues to look more and more like himself while getting other guys involved.
Four assists in this one, and yeah, he finished with a plus twenty
eight. Only other guy that tied him in that category, Paul George,
was also a plus twenty eight. The two on three connection looking for each
other early in the first half after not having played together for a little bit,
that was I think really encouraging. Yeah, you love to see that,
and I wish Kawai would have had a few more field goal attempts,
but I think that was just the byproduct of how absolutely insane the first half
was. We kind of every other Clipper as well. Paul George did have
the seven turnovers, which is a little rough, but again, if their
first came back together, and who knows how I came to keep track at
this point, but those two, you know, the Clippers will go as
far as those guys take us. And we have to give credit to Kawai
who has been able to just block out all the you mentioned Brian Winhorse,
the kind of absurd noise about him and how he's going to ramp up.
It's not a linear process. I think eli Clippers film said that on Twitter.
But the line is still going up into the right, which is where
you wanted to go. Progress is rarely linear, that's how it usually works.
But overall, it's certainly pointing in the right direction physically for Kawhi Leonard
and the movement out there, he's looked good now is just timing a rhythm,
and I think when he starts hitting three pointers you'll know he's feeling that
much better out there because he is a good three point shooter. Just hasn't
looked like that the Clippers overall, though we're twenty three to forty nine and
somebody have I mentioned yet, and this happens far too often, but Marcus
Morris was three or four from distance, plays so well next to Kawhi Leonard
and Paul George. When those two guys are out there, it just powers
Marcus and it brings the best out of him and why he's on this Clippers
team. Nobody questions it when the two and three connections are there. Yeah,
that's a great point. Last year, myself included, some people were
like, Oh, this is what the team looks like when Reggie and Marcus
are the one in two options, which they shouldn't be. It's no knock
on them, but just not how the team is constructed, and I want
to give kind of some kudos. There are a couple of possessions where Marcus
Morris dug in and kind of puts the clamps on some guys for the Hornets,
so that pressure that's taken off of him offensively, he can kind of
use it, I think, to expel a little more energy on the defensive
end, which is really where that starting lineup can just make things hellish for
other teams right from the joke. Nicholas Batum a big part of the story
tonight, going up against his former team and after Frances lost in the World
Cup, obviously playing with a heavy heart in some ways. Goes seven of
ten from distance, and he cooked him last time too. He was four
of six from the outside. But when they needed big shots, when they
needed to kill some of the momentum of the Charlotte Hornets, it was Batoum
haunting his former team. Yeah, anytime that the ship feels a little off
and Nick Batoum comes back in it gets back on course. We also,
I don't know if people saw the postgame presser, but someone asked him basically
like, do you play harder against the Hornets? And he said, you're
trying to get me in trouble. So I don't know if that's totally there,
but Batum continues to be maybe not the he's probably like the third or
fourth most important player for the Clippers, not the best or most skilled or
anything like that, but what he does, and even when he's off offensively,
which he very much was not tonight, he still contributes. When you
get nights like this, it's just great to be able to overcome the turnovers
and all that stuff to not you know, weighs such a great nick fortune
befall this, and he's thirty one for his last sixty one from three in
their last eleven games. He's now shooting forty three percent on the season.
That would be a career high if it ended today. After he got off
to a miserable start. Outside of that's seven for seven game, he's really
turned things around. He's been able to right the ship and he is very
steady out there as is Luke Kennard. He's leading the league in three point
shooting. We've talked a lot on the podcast on Clips and Dip with Luke
Kennard and just what he means to this team, and you know, getting
him going unlocks so much more the offense. Some people have been screaming get
him into the starting lineup, get him next to Kawai and Paul George even
more. But even if he's not starting, they find ways. He played
twenty five minutes tonight where Luke Kennard in that third quarter and then in the
fourth he hit maybe the biggest three up to that point because it was a
fourteen point game. But they do find him, They do look for him.
I think it was the very end of the quarter where they found him
to take the buzzer beater. He couldn't get it to go. Yeah,
I love seeing his aggression kind of in that second half. He missed a
couple of shots in a row. But he's a player where no one is
mad if he's taking shots, you know what I mean, Like you's a
oh yeah exactly. Ty Low said in the pre game that there's ten premiere
outside shooters in the league, and he said that Luke Kennard was number ten
because he passes up more shots than the nine guys in the front of him.
So maybe after the night he's up to number nine or eight or something
like that. But it was great to see from Luke, and he's got
to feel energized by the whole team being healthy again too, where now it's
like, hey man, we've kind of uncovered that you're still really good at
kind of seeking out shops and saying the real point guard position. But also
everyone on the court wants you to let it fly, so just let it
go and hopefully we'll see that more on this upcoming road trip. He is
Charles Mockler does it for clips and Dip with myself and William Updyke a little
double dip tonight. Charles, thanks for doing this here on Clipper Stock absolutely
thanks for having me. Coming up next, we'll preview Friday's contest and get
back to your phone calls at eight six sixty nine eight seven two five seventy
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some Nick Vatoum and some hot three points shooting. The Clippers win by twenty
one over the Charlotte Hornets. As they get back to whole strength, Clippers
fully loaded, it could get scary on there. Stay healthy, Clippers,
that's what we need. Nick Batoum, though I mentioned him going seven of
ten and how good he's been from the outside of recently last eleven games shooting
over fifty percent, which is about fifty one percent from three. But in
that third quarter at one point he hit three threes in the span of a
minute, in three seconds. It's just ridiculous. All right, Well,
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