The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Kawhi 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 home for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, You,
sir, are a bad man. Adam Auslin. Clippers went and John Walls
returned to DC in front of the fans one fourteen to one oh seven,
Clippers over Wizards. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up.
We'll get your second half highlight, your post game box score. You'll
hear from the head coach and to Ron Lew and the players after this one.
But first we get back out to Noah Eagle. Big time fourth quarter
with some crucial shots late one from Kawai and three three pointers from Tis the
season Saint Nick Batouma Batoum was great, but let's start with Kawai. So
he has that drive to the rim for the for the deuce and traffic that
was huge, right Portz thinks is just the game. Clippers have to come
back down and they need a bucket to go back in front and he provides,
and then Kuzma tizes the game and Batoon provides. But it was off
of a Leonard feet. He made the right play every time. Every time
he was doubled, he got rid of it, found the open man.
But every time he had single coverage, he went right to the basket or
to his mid range, found his spots. And again, it wasn't the
most efficient day in the world, but he was aggressive enough five of thirteen
and thirty minutes. Think about it. His normal load, let's say,
is thirty five to thirty eight minutes a game, So in additional five to
eight minutes, he's probably going to get an additional three to five shots.
If he's in his normal rhythm, that's gonna get him up to sixteen to
eighteen shots. And if he's a little bit more in rhythm or he's hot,
he's gonna be twenty plus. And that's eventually where they want him to
be. Where Paul George was tonight going thirteen of twenty seven. But I'm
more concerned then with the defensive side. Not concerned, but excited. He
goes to the defensive side at the end of the game when the Clippers need
one final stop and locks up Chris STAPs Porzingis. He blocks them when there
was a three point clippery lead, the twenty three point eight seconds left or
whatever it was, and they needed one final stop to basically secure the game.
Kawhi forced him to the outside, forced a deep three, and got
a piece of it. That's the Kawhi Leonard we know, the two time
defensive player of the Year that we know, and he went in there and
he got it done when they need him the most on both ends of the
floor. So you've got to be pleased with what Kawai did. You've got
to be pleased if you're the Clippers overall, because again, all they needed
today was a win and they found a way to get it, and that's
all that matters at the end of the day. They win by seven.
I thought John Wall had some crucial plays also in the first half, getting
out and running getting some steals. I thought it was a very successful return
back to his home at place, he says, what was the quote that
he had, I still owned this city. Yes, yes, that was
in fact the quote. It was a little Aaron Rodgers Chicago esque. But
for John Wall, it's warned it had given what he brought to the Wizards
and what he brought to DC and has mentioned even more so off the court
than he ever did on the court. Everything he meant to them was so
just awesome to the community and to the kids, and he formed a bond
with people and with the groups and with the city overall. But yes,
to your point, he was good. I think that he'll probably be frustrated
he didn't even do more. He had that one stretch in the second quarter.
He was unstoppable, and I think that he almost went away from it
at times. Ends up going five of thirteen goes over four from downtown,
only gets four free throw attempts, and that was a little surprising. Overall,
I thought he could have attacked from the very beginning all the way through.
But for the most part successful return home, got a great tribute video,
thirteen points on the night, and the most important thing, and he
would be the first to tell you he got the win. Clippers win in
DC, coming back home now to take on the best team in the league,
lost in the NBA Finals, and they got a chip on their shoulder
right now they're trying to get that ship the Boston Celtics Monday night, taking
on the Clippers back in downtown Los Angeles. Tip time for that one is
that seven thirty. We'll have Clippers count down your pregame show starting at six
thirty. No, a great road trip for you. We'll talk to you
back and down town Los Angeles Monday night, Adam. You know that I'm
very excited to see you and big brother Jake and everybody else in downtown.
Can wait, Adam coming up? Man wait, can't wait? Can't wait
for the Noah Eagle highlights. Next, Clippers pulled out late in Washington.
They win one fourteen to one oh seven over the Wizards. Big shots late
coming up and play by play form from your voice of the Clippers, Noah
Eagle, right here on the Los Angeles Can't Wait Radio Network. Yeah,
what's the foul? Every game all season long on their official home Clippers get
the w over the Washington Wizards one fourteen to one oh seven. INDECU,
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five seventy is the phone number. But right now second half highlights. Clippers
were down three at the half. It was sixty three sixty in favor of
the Wizards thanks to a twenty five point first half by Kyle Kuzma, who
was on fire from the outside. Started six for six from three, just
a ridiculous number. But in that third quarter, speaking of threes, well,
the Clippers got a lot from Paul George. He had nine points.
But to end the quarter they went on a huge fifteen to oh run capped
off by this George will up to write three seconds left shovel at Canard pump
fake left point three at the horn ho Luke Canard connects Clippers with their first
lead of the night as they end the quarter on a fifteen nothing run.
Big time shot in DC from Luke Canard Winshan Know and after three Clippers led
eighty six to eighty four. As Noah Eagles said, that was the first
time they took the lead in this ball game. It was an uphill battle
and it continued late in this one. It was a tie game at one
oh five before Kawhi Leonard the Claw started to take over. Leonard on the
right wing one minute to play, fourteen to shoot, drives Finnal into the
pink, gets to the rim, bakes at home in the right hand a
bully in a sandbox Kawhi Leonard for two one oh seven, one oh five,
fifty five seconds remaining of the fourth. Kawhi Leonard will play some great
defense on Chris Staff's Porzingis, which came after this bucket from who else but
Saint Nicholas Batoum. Looking to get it back to Leonard, they can't do
so chance of defenses, they lob it to him the nearside short quarner double
Batoum a right wing three. It's good Nick Patoum clutch bucket. Who's your
daddy in Washington? I put the Clippers up one ten to one oh seven.
Porzingis tried to answer with a three of his own, but was blanketed
by Kawhi Leonard. Clippers would hit their free throws. Paul George went four
for four on clutch free throws late, and they go on to win one
fourteen to one oh seven in DC over the Wizards. They're coming back home
Monday night to take on the best team in the East, the best team
in the league right now in the Boston Celtics. More on that, plus
postgame audio coming up, plus Clippers Talk at eight sixty six nine eight seven
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to get on on AM five seventy LA Sports and just a bit. Clippers
finished the road trip two and two, but a big victory in DC over
the Wizards. They overcome the hot shooting from the Wizards, who went sixteen
of thirty three from the outside. Clippers win by seven. You're listening to
the Los Angeles Clippers, right you network Clippers improved of fifteen and thirteen as
they win one fourteen to one oh seven in DC over the Wizards. I'm
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the season for Saint Nicholas Batoon to make a big appearance, as he did
in that fourth quarter with three three pointers, including a big one late under
a minute with trust twenty three seconds left, actually to put the Clippers up
by three at one ten to one oh seven. They go on to win
in DC over the Wizards one fourteen to one oh seven. Welcome into your
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is the phone number if you'd like to get on. Coming up, we're
looking for some postgame audio Coach lew and the players. But this was a
big win for the Clippers, necessary win in some ways to just swing momentum
back in their favor. And they had Kawai Back who had a big lay
up late to put them up by two with fifty nine seconds left. Kyle
Kuzma, who was amazing for the Wizards in this game and has been all
season long, had a phenomenal performance with thirty five points and started six of
six from the outside finished seven of ten from three. The Wizards, who
shoot thirty three percent on the year from three, went sixteen to thirty three.
That's forty eight percent. Goodwin had a couple, Porzingis had a couple.
Just a really good effort by a Washington team that does have a lot
of firepower. I told your pregame, they still got Kuzma, they still
got Porzingis, even without Bradley Beal. They can beat you, and they
were on a back to back and execute offensively, but looked like the desperate
team out there because they had lost five straight, but the Clippers had lost
four or five. They finished the road trip now two and two. It's
not great, satisfactory a C grade because they lost the back to back in
Orlando and in Miami, two very winnable games. Yeah, I'd probably give
them a C minus on this trip and they're coming back home to take on
the Boston Celtics. Not going to be easy Monday night, to say the
least. Tip time for that one in downtown Los Angeles at seven thirty.
We got Clippers count down at six thirty. But I thought there were some
big moments in this game that the Clippers could build off of, and really
it started late in that third quarter when they clamped down defensively and held the
Wizards scoreless. Basically the last five minutes of that third Clippers go on a
fifteen to O run, extended into a seventeen O run as PG had a
two point start the fourth and for the first time in the game, as
Luke canard, you know what, we got the highlight for you. I
got zach o'quality with me, so I can just call for whatever I want.
Now we got the highlight of Luke Canard maybe hitting the biggest shot of
the game at least to that point for sure, to put the Clippers in
front for the first time all game long. It was an uphill battle.
They were skating uphill. They had it to within one multiple times, like
after the first quarter when they started down ten. Nothing talk about an uphill
battle. But here was Luke Canard. To end the third quarter, George
will up to write three seconds left shouble at Canard, pupfic left wint three
at the horn. He Luke Canard connects Clippers with their first lead of the
night as they end the quarter on a fifteen nothing run. Luke would hit
another big three pointer at the eight minute mark of the fourth. But Paul
George, what have we been saying? Put up more shots? Being selfish
is the new unselfish when you're Paul George, it helps your team when you're
that good to shoot more. And I believe not his season high, but
maybe second in shot attempts because he had twenty seven attempts. He I want
to say early on when he had the forty point game against the Kings.
Yeah, he had thirty one shot attempts, second most shot attempts this season
for Paul George. Got to thirty six points, five of twelve from the
outside, perfect at the free throw line. Paul George needed a game like
this coming off what happened in Miami where he played very well but the Clippers
lost anyways, And it was that game in Orlando where he just didn't look
like himself. He wasn't being aggressive enough. Now he's been able to string
a couple of games together, three of twelve against the Orlando Magic. I
don't care about the number three. Remember Kobe Bryant would say, one of
Paul George's heroes, I believe his favorite player ever. You know, he's
gonna go three for twenty before he goes three for twelve. He's gonna keep
firing. He's gonna shoot himself out of that slump. And Paul George is
just two efficient of a player and now on the season, and this is
why we've been screaming about this. I want to say Clippers are five and
two when he takes twenty or more shots, it's probably better than that.
But Shane Young did say this on Twitter. Now, Paul George's averaging twenty
four points per game on fifty one percent from the field, thirty eight percent
from the outside, eighty seven percent from the free throw line. After getting
off to a miserable start this year and calling himself out after that loss of
the Pelicans, then he hits a game winner the very next night against Houston
and things have pretty much changed since then. But that game against Orlando,
the Clippers lost in overtime, one that got away from him. He regressed
back to being that guy that was too passive out there. In fact,
until the Miami game, he had six straight games of not taking more than
eighteen shots. It's just not enough. He's too good. He has to
stay aggressive, mind you, a lot of those games or without Kauai.
Now he and Kawhi just got back and Paul George has been available for the
last four, Kawai for the last three, and they go two and two
on the road trip. But I thought it was a building block in that
fourth quarter as they were running the offense through Kawhi. Leonard some growing pains.
Yes, he's still trying to get his timing back. One of five
from the outside. Just had thirteen points, but a big bucket late and
then the assist to Nicholas Patoun for that three pointer. So Kawhi is the
focal point offensively. We know that's going to happen in the playoffs. Big
moments happening against Charlotte game one of this road trip, where you hit the
game winner. You gotta get those reps in. You have to play through
him. Now. It's just this eighth game of the season. The Clippers
have been very good with him, by the way, I get people asking
me all the time, so what's the record with Kawai. It's good.
They only got two losses. They're six and two with Kawai, and that's
with him not even playing like himself yet, not even close. He's still
rusty. Noticeably, he hasn't scored more than sixteen points in the game.
He had a play though, in this one that I thought was special and
very encouraging. He went at the basket a quick move and he was going
in to hammer it and was fouled by Christaps Porzingis. I put the play
at follow out of May on Twitter because I thought it showed that explosiveness and
Kawai taking it up a gear and then also his defense laid on Porzingis,
who was trying to tie the game after the beatumb three pointer. Kawhi gave
him zero airspace. That was the two time defensive Player of the Year Kawhi
Leonard. So we're seeing pieces of who he's been in the past more consistently
now, and I think it's eventually going to come together. He just gotta
get more reps. He's played eight games. Clippers as a whole have to
get more games with him and Paul George out there. Not their fault.
Guys have just been banged up and injured. They still don't have Norman Powell.
Terrence Man was coming back from concussion protocols. Luke Nard, I think
is on a minute restriction because he didn't play more than twenty four even after
hitting some really big shots and helping stretch the floor. You know, I
thought Brandon Boston the last couple of games, and really all season long,
he's doing more of the little things and under the radar, like good start
to the season from Boston, who hasn't had a crazy game against the Boston
Celtics like he did last year or the twenty eight points. But I feel
like he's playing within himself more and playing within the flow of the offense and
doing some of the little things. He played really good defense at times in
this one. That was the big question mark on him. But hustle plays
being scrappy out there. If he's gonna get on the court this season,
win this team is healthy, it's gonna take plays like that. It can't
just be his scoring because they have plenty of guys that do that already.
But the Clippers survive a sixteen for thirty three three point performance by the Washington
Wizards and Kyle Kuzma's twenty five point first half because they get thirty six from
Paul George, who eventually outdueled him, the thirty five from Kuzma, and
they win by seven in DC. Nick in La, you're on Clippers stock
with Adamassin high. Nick, Hey, what's up at him? What's up?
Nick? What do you wanna say? Are we gonna get rid of
this medical training staff? Because it ain't it. Everybody's getting hurt? Nick?
Anything positive after the win, anything positive after the win? Anything?
Yeah, they played to night points, but before in just three for twelve,
that's oh all They should be big, keep playing better. Okay,
Nick, I appreciate the phone call. Look, there's been a lot of
erratic plays so far from the Clippers, and they've been up and down so
far this season. But when I mentioned that number of Kawai Learns played just
eight games, Paul George has missed I think nine games. Norman Pale has
been out, Terrence Man has been out, Marcus Morris has been out.
They've dealt with a lot. It's somewhat understandable why they're at fifteen and thirteen,
and somewhat impressive that they're still above water. They got to get a
long stretch together of good health. Yes, they need it badly in this
month leading into January. Very portant coach Lewis already said it also important.
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five seventy is the phone number. Clippers win one fourteen to one oh seven
in DC over the Wizards, who got sixty five points combined from port Zingis
and Kuzma. It was a battle. Clippers had to win it late,
but you saw some glimpses and shades of things to come running the offense through
Kawhil eight, Paul George taking over, Luke Kennard hitting big shots in DC.
Stop me if you've heard that before. Hit the biggest shot in that
thirty five point comeback last year, second biggest comeback in NBA history. I
know if you knew that, wouldn't it be the Clippers You did it?
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on their official home Clippers take some good vibes away from Washington, DCBTV style
as they win one fourteen to one oh seven in DC with the return of
John Wall in front of the fans this time, got the tribute video and
got the w Most importantly, that's all coach Lou wanted. They talked about
schematics and what are you looking for from your team? A win? A
win. It was one of those I don't want to say desperation back against
the wall. There are no regular season must wins, but along the way
you see some important wins, some character building wins. Maybe this is one
of them. I think this is more along the lines of just the Clippers
getting healthy, getting right and starting to build around the two one three connection
again. And they won late, playing through Kauai and that kick out to
Nicholas Betune plus the layup he had. They win by seven. Welcome back
in the Clippers talk. I'm out of Oslin to eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone
number Morris in Long Beach. Morris, what's up? Yah? I'm proud
of my guys, Adam, I don't care when nobody say listen. They
was down by thirteen points in the third quarter on the road against a hot
Kusman and they came back. Shout out to George George need to shoot more.
You're late. But I'll tell you what I'd like to see Kawai shoot
more. Kawai shoot twenty five times. Anyway, the big day you talk
about a transcending game is on Monday against the Celtics. You want to talk
about lockdown. Let's lock Downtatum win on Monday, and we're rocking a moment.
Thank you Adam, thank you Morris. Yeah, it is a big
game Monday night. Boston currently taken on the Golden State Warriors. But Clippers
were without Reggie Jackson for the first time this season today, who has been
an absolute warrior and mister reliable with just being available, best ability availability.
He's been playing three injury all year long, and they finally gave him a
rest a day off. And maybe we should have seen this coming because John
Wall was going back to DC and it makes sense. He gets the start,
he gets the acknowledgement, the pregame or first time out ceremony with the
tribute video and a standing ovation. That's what I hear. But John Wall
had a run by himself. I think it was a five zero or six
zo runner. He scored six of their nine points in the second quarter and
he got hot quick and hit a jumper and said, this is still my
city. It was a cool moment for him. The fans acknowledged it.
They fed off of it. When you play in one place for that long
and you're a five time All Star, that's the type of reception you're going
to receive. They had some good years there with John Wall, but it
was interesting to see him out there with Kawai and Paul George. This is
something we wanted to see more of all season long, but injuries gotten in
the way, and coming into this one, there were only about sixty possessions
so far with those three on the court together, and we were looking to
see, okay, it was walking to defer more, play, make more,
get them easier shots. He only finished with three assists. He hit
a block on Kuzmano that was fantastic in that second quarter, but five or
thirteen thirteen points, I thought for the most party played within himself. I'm
sure there were a lot of emotions being back this time because he was there
during the COVID season but obviously nobody in the building, but this time in
front of the fans that he performed for for so long and I thought this
was the quickest he had looked all season. John Wall was flying up and
down the court, creating for himself off a couple steals, had that wrap
around that he didn't end up scoring on. But the style, the flair,
the burst is still there from him. Three point shooting still struggling in
that area. Four did hit three of his four free throws, which also
uncharacteristically shooting about sixty five percent of the charity stripe this season. That's well
below his career highs. But you gotta think of it this way. He
played forty games total the last three and a half years. That's it.
It's gonna take time and reps. Same with Kawhi coming back after missing an
entire season. So the good news is while the Clippers are learning and either
reconnecting or getting familiar with one another, they still have enough talent to win
ballgames like today because I don't think they played their best, certainly not defensively
at times. Now. There was some hot shooting from the Wizards that you
just can't do a lot about with Kyle Kuzma, but the Clippers locked in
played much better when they went small. The second half of that third quarter
and went on that eventual seventeen to oh run to get them up by four
after they were down yes by thirteen in the third and it was looking bleak.
They just didn't look like they had a lot of life to them,
a lot of energy, and Coach Low made the move to go small and
it worked and Brandon Boston played some of those minutes. Luke Kennard was great
there. Terrence Mann was out there a little bit, but it was mostly
centered around Paul George who in forty one minutes had thirty six points and really
was in the driver's seat for this victory for the Clippers. But down the
stretch, Nicholas Batoum three three pointers in that fourth quarter. I told you
pregame. Batoum coming into this one had hit fourteen of his last thirty one
attempts from the outside. Now he's at eighteen for his last forty. He's
been almost shooting fifty percent from three of the past handful of games. Aside
from everything else great that he does, which is picking up guys full court,
covering for other mistakes defensively, he's a multi tool Swiss army knife out
there. He's been a godsend for the Clippers Saint Nick. They called him
that for a reason. I think I can put that name on him.
After he hit a big shot against the Denver Nuggets his first season with the
Clippers. I want to say it was Christmas Eve or on Christmas. But
Nicholas Batoum has been so good for this team. He ends up a plus
fifteen out there. Luke Kennard a plus seventeen in just twenty four minutes,
and he passed up a shot in the first half. There might have been
early in the third quarter. Actually, now I understand kicking it out to
Kawhi Leonard, who was also open. But if Luke Knard has an open
three in the farside corner, he's got to take that shot. He just
does. Noah said it during the broadcast. If you're shooting close to fifty
percent from three, you probably should get up ten a game. Now.
He's coming back from injury, but this has been an ongoing thing where they
encourage him to shoot more and more. He has been benched before for turning
down shots. That's how much they want to emphasize. Hey, Luke,
you're too great of a shooter. Don't be passive out there. You help
this team, just like Paul George when you put him up because of your
efficiency. He is an absolute weapon. Led the league in three point shooting
last season, and he's at I want to say, about forty seven percent
now after going three or six from distance and two crucial ones end of the
third quarter and then at the eight minute mark of the fourth when the Clippers
were looking for a bucket, they win the fourth quarter by five points.
They win the game by seven one fourteen to one oh seven in DC over
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And the Clippers have been running into teams that were down and out,
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best shot, and I thought the Wizards did that Clippers were just better.
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Clippers with the win in DC one fourteen to one oh seven thanks to some
big shots late three three pointers in the fourth from Nicholas batoumb God. I'm
still old enough to remember earlier this season when people said he was washed.
Now it looks like once again he's their third and most important player behind the
two on three connection. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm auta oslin to
eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy or get to me at follow Adam a seeing some postgame quotes
which could actually find some postgame audio. Oh you know what, I did
find some from Andrew Greife. We'll hear from John Wall coming up as I
talk in email. This is Zachoccaldy at the same time. But coach Lew
said that, and he was asked about going small in that third quarter because
remember what they did to the Dallas Mavericks a couple of years ago when they
had Porzingis in the playoffs. They went small and played them off the court
in that first round series, and that's where they had that big advantage over
Dallas by being more switchable out there. And the Clippers, I know you
probably think because Luca Donchich was so crazy that Dallas won, But no,
actually the Clippers and back to back years beat the Dallas Mavericks, believe it
or not. And Kawhi Leonard was the best player in both of those years.
We talked about it earlier with Noah Eagle, but Kawhi Leonard was putting
up set ninety split sixty like he was Shack back in the year two thousand,
which was the only comparison for an entire series of someone putting up these
numbers. But the difference was Shack was doing this yes, in the NBA
Finals, but he was attempting most of his shots, and I have it
here for you. He was attempting most of his shots from five feet out,
Kauai from fourteen feet out and shack. Was the last time in the
year two thousand, in the NBA Finals against the Indiana Pacers, that someone
averaged thirty points per game on sixty percent shooting in an entire series until Kawhi
Leonard did it in the twenty twenty one first round playoff series against the Dallas
Mavericks. It is one of the wildest stats he'll ever see. And I
saw some moments, some glimpses of that Kawhi in this game. Kyle Kuzma,
actually when he was on the Lakers, I thought defended Kawhi better than
anyone else could when he was going up against KCP and those guys, and
Kawhi had a couple of mid range shots over him in this one. I
was like, Okay, there's vintage Kawhi Leonard. That looks like Kawai and
the MIDI need to see more of that. And he's just been short on
so many three pointers and I'm just wondering if it's just still getting the timing
back, getting his legs underneath him. I think that's all it is.
The good news is twice now I make it three times because he hit the
big shot over Lebron in Game one for the Clippers this season, the dagger
shot to put that game away. But then he has the game winner against
Charlotte on this trip, and then the big lay up late in this one
just under a minute left. Here was John Wall though post game after he
comes back to Washington, DC and gets a victory as a Clipper now against
his former team. Here he was hopefully audios, good goods and share him
for whatever expectations you have for the night. How did this went up to
him? It was amazing. It was dope. Yes, the appreciation and
fans coming out on the city, coming out showing love. It was surreal,
you know what I mean, Like, just try to live in a
moment. I'm enjoyed every step in the process that was here and uh,
most important for me just trying to get a in which we give it's a
good game and I know I'm just a bad We work. There's a there's
a moment after U string lamps and the ripports the tip hop where you kind
of positive beat and from the visiting bench where you're thinking about the game at
that point, thinking about ten years here, what's going to your mind?
But one just thinking about all the issue I have here. Uh, so
many people I touched here, so many people touching me, watching and grow
from a young boy to a man. Looked over at the seats where my
mom used to be sitting there, uh and the other fourth seats where my
family used to see that, and just try to uh fantasizing me in that
moment for me, you know, I mean, I feel like, uh,
just being there. Like I said, it's still so severe to me.
Still don't feel right and still feel different. But like I said,
I enjoyed every part of this game and I'm glad we gotta win. And
uh, it was it was. It was a a lot of chills,
trying not to cry, I hold back a lot of emotions and kind of
be in a moment of the game and trying to win. When you have
that six straight points run in the second quarter, you paused in front of
the stands from two sections of stands. For the record, did you say
still my city, Yeah, still my ship or something else? Still in
my city. Yeah, and she's like, I gotta say, just being
in that moment and just being up going on runs here when I played for
ten years. Uh, I just know how much of the city means to
me. Like I said, it's always second home to me. And uh
kind of flat back and forget like I'm in a different jersey. I mean,
just being in that moment and electrifying the crowd and you know, that's
what I've been doing for a lot of years in my career when I was
here, and I think that's a lot of appreciation I get here and how
much effort I give when I stepped between those for a longs and uh,
just to see the crowd stand up, I'm like, damn, my might
feel like me. I'm still in the Wizards jersey, you know what I
mean. So it was a dope moment from me. Did you hear that?
I knew it? He said, still my city, That's what he
said. Really cool moment for him. Time out was called afterwards after that
run he had and played some good defense was picking the pocket of his former
team there in the Washington Wizards. Clippers win one fourteen to one oh seven,
and John Wall did note that, Yeah, we got the victory.
That's kind of a big deal as well. He played twenty nine minutes.
Got the start first time this season, I believe, And a lot has
been made of whether or not he could be starting or if it should be
Reggie, and they battled it out in training camp. But one of the
reasons he hasn't started is because he's still not playing back to backs. He
still has a minute's restriction on him, just because he hasn't played much basketball
at all the last three and a half seasons. But he's had some difficult
years in a lot of different ways. If he read the article I believe
he wrote for the Player's Tribune, and it was cool to see him come
back to Washington, DC and be embraced like that. And then the Clippers
get the one fourteen to one oh seven. Coming up next, we'll preview
Monday night's ball game back home. Clippers go two and two in the four
game roadie. They're taking on the Boston Celtics in downtown Los Angeles Monday night.
We're on that here on Clippers Talk on AM five seventy LA Sports George
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This is our final segment here on Clippers Top. With this song,
Clippers win one fourteen to one oh seven as they hold the Wizards to just
forty four points in the second half. They finished the road trip two and
two. They're coming back home to take on likely an angry Boston Celtics team
that's down big right now in Golden State. So you're gonna take on the
best team in the league that's coming off a loss to the team that beat
them in the finals. They could come back. They're down fifteen with eight
forty six left. I just don't know if that's when you want to catch
the Boston Celtics, But you know there's never a really good time. Clippers
will take them on Monday night. Tip time for that one is at seven
thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown at six thirty. I do want to give
someone else their flowers who I've overlooked in this one. Marcus Morris went five
of ten, all five makes from three and a big one at the six
minute mark of the fourth quarter to put them up by four. Marcus was
really good, finished with nineteen points. I thought defensively, he played one
of his better games on that end of the court. Two and then also
I got a response to my tweet at follow out of May that Kawhi defense
on Porzingis was elite. Clip City said finally, but Zoo, in my
opinion, needs that task as a big It's like clip City Spencer. They
literally won the game going small, and I think you want Kawhi Leonard's defense
on the perimeter in that situation. I just guess absolutely blanketed poor Singis he
had oh he didn't have a look all right, before we get out of
here, Damien in La Damien? What's up here on Clippers stock without amostin
trip bo Ay? How you doing brother? How is it tonight? I
mean, the Clippers got a victory, they needed it. They're coming back
home to take on the Boston Celtics. Now you want a little bit of
momentum, I mean a little bit, you know, like I mean,
you know, I don't know how much that it's going to help us.
I think that would you rather have him play him after a loss though,
well, well, you know what, I don't know, because I meant
to call in a couple of times in the last couple of games, because
we found ourselves in some trap games. And if you, if you took
pre game calls, I would have told you that the Orlando game, for
sure, I was worried that it was a trap game. I was worried
that it could end up like that. And you know, you know what
though, Damien, you know what, though, Yeah, I don't think
the Clippers are in a position to overlook anyone right now. There are two
games over five hundred. They've had guys in and out of the lineup for
a while, Like, there should be no trap games, right you know
they're that That's probably just me speaking as a fan, you know, and
what I expect from the team of what I think they can do even when
we're shorthanded. But you know, these are not This is not typical.
You know, We're not gonna be uh, you know, down the road,
We're not gonna be having a bunch of teams struggling and everything like that.
Once we get going, this is gonna be crazy. I really like
the fact that we got Luke Kennard in there. One are the things that
if Luke Kennard was even lifting in what I would tell him, Man,
you gotta take the shot because that's the team shot. I understand that you
want to be unselfish and everything, and the same thing would cause me,
I think coffee. He passes up a lot of wide open shots, and
those are the teams shots. The teams struggled to get you open, to
get that shot. Take it for the team, don't worry about it,
make miss or whatever. That's the team's shot. I'm always gonna applaud that,
but you know, I'm happy for the win. And yet I do
like the little bit of momentum going into the ball thing. I hope we
can really lock in and give him everything that we got. Though, I'm
with you, Damien, good phone call. I agree with you too.
You're being selfish if you're not taking an open look as Luke Kennard. And
sometimes even when it's not a wide open look, we've seen him relocate off
the bounce and knock down threes. He can do that too. He's playing
much better defense than he has in recent years. I think he's earned the
right to take ten shots per game out there. Make them all threes,
at least nine of them, because that's gonna help the Clippers. He's gonna
knock down four of them at least and if he gets hot, he may
hit seven. See him go eight for eight in the game before where they
came back, but it was against Atlanta two years ago. It hit that
half quarter. Luke Kennard is the best three point shooter in the league.
A certain yourself like that have that swagged that confidence. The thing is you
trust him late in games and in big moments. He's hit big shots.
It's not the issue. He's just unselfish to a fault sometimes and he overpasses
and the Clippers have had this problem at times. Two. What I do
like, though, is that as Kawhi Leonard, and we had to call
for Morris earlier talking about he wishes Kawhi would take more shots, there's something
to that. But also Kawhi, I think, has been intent on keeping
the ball hopping and making sure that he doesn't become a black hole on offense.
And it's just the Kawhi Leonard show in isolations all the time. He
had six assists. He and Paul George led the Clippers in assists. They're
two superstars. They both had six. Luke Nard had five, probably too
many for Luke, too many passes he's he still got up seven shots,
six of them were from distance, and he made a big one who was
a twenty eight footer in the fourth quarter. But something the Clippers can build
off of. But we'll see what happens Monday night against the Boston Celtics,
who were now down one h three to nine. He was seven forty five
left in the fourth quarter. All right, before we get out of here,
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagles, safe travels,
my friend. Same to Brian Semen. I love you, Ralph Lawler,
big brother Jake Warner, will see you out there Monday night. He's
our head engineer, producer, Katie and Burbank, Katie Newton, and Zach
l Caldy. Zach Attack was on the board for this one the entire way.
Guy's been known to come in for just like the first half a pre
game and help out the highlights, the mixes, the music, all Zach
Attack all the time until Monday night with their pregame show starting at six thirties.
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