The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Khi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
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sir, are a bad man. Adam Ousley Clippers win one oh six to
ninety five over the New York Knicks from KIRPO dot com arena. Welcome in
to your post game show. Coming if you're gonna hear from the head coach
and the players. We'll get the second half highlights in your final box score.
But first back out to your voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle.
No, how about this defense? Second straight game holding the team under forty
percent from the field and second straight game holding a team to one hundred or
less, which has chronicles is a big deal for this team. When they
do that, they're literally unbeatable to this point this year at sixteen and ozero.
But yeah, a thirty six percent clip for a Knicks team that over
the last fourteen fifteen games, Adam was one of the best offense is in
the NBA. They were second in offensive rating over the last fourteen and their
fifth overall on the season in offensive ratings. So they've been one of the
most efficient offenses in the league, averaging more than one hundred fifteen points per
game. The Clippers hold them to ninety five. Sure, no Jalen Brunson
in this game, I get it, But you still have RJ. Barrett
who's averaging twenty. You still have Julius Randall averaging twenty five. You still
have a Manuel Quickly, he's been one of the best players in the NBA
the last couple of weeks. You still have the energy Isaiah Hartenstein and Josh
hard Quentin Grimes has had some explosive scoring games this season, and they did
a good job on most of their main really, I would say threats on
the offensive end. You've got Quickly, who was the leading scorer for the
Knicks. He had twenty six and ten rebounds. So he had a big
game in forty two minutes, mind you. But Julius Randall thirty five minutes,
played five of twenty four from the floor, just nineteen points. RJ
Barrett eleven points. Didn't score in the fourth quarter of this game when it
mattered the most. I mean, this was a comprehensive win in so many
ways. I think the Clippers should feel really good about where they are after
these last three. We talked about it when he had I think nine points
in the third. He would end up with nineteen of his thirty eight points
in that third quarter. But Kawai definitely took over to start the second half
big time. He was unbelievable in this game. So yeah, he had
the huge third quarter, but he scored twenty eight second half points. That's
just what he's capable of on any given day, any given night. And
so thirty eight. And by the way, the Clippers missed their first four
free throws from the charity stripe, they made their last twelve. They turned
it over a ton in the first quarter. They only ended the game with
ten turnovers, all the little things they had to clean up for the second
straight game, it feels like they adjusted as the game went on, and
that to me is as important as anything when you look at what this team's
ceiling could be is how do they adjust on the fly. And these last
two games have been super encouraging against two very good basketball teams, mind you,
and another closing lineup with Eric Gordon out there. Really loved his play.
He had the nice bounce pass to Plumbly early in the fourth quarter,
hit a three pointer, but just steady, reliable Gordon out there, no
doubt about it. He was great and running the point guard, having the
ball in his hands, not really turning the ball over. In fact,
he had zero turnovers himself this entire game, and so the Clippers as a
team with the ten turnovers. But as mentioned, I thought they did a
really good job of taking care of the ball, especially when it mattered with
the most and Gordon was a big reason why. Defensively we still see the
impact he's making. Had a couple of strips, had a couple of good
defensive plays, and sure some fouls that maybe he didn't agree with, but
he was a plus eight in this game. And have a Paul George in
this one. So you could talk about Kawhi Leonard being thirty eight points leading
the way scoring wise, but Paul George led this game in plus minus plus
twenty one in this game and a game the Clippers won by eleven in a
game that RJ. Barrett was a minus twenty one. So you look at
the mirror there. I think that PG just thoroughly outplayed his matchup in this
one, and it wasn't all that close. Yeah, I had that big
second quarter, I should say, with thirteen of his twenty two points.
I thought this was the best game from Marcus Morris in some time, not
just with his scoring, but defensively, he just looked a little bit er
out there. The rest can certainly help veterans. Yeah, and I thought
that the big shot he hit in the fourth quarter, you know, he
had already been building that confidence back, and to your point, the rest
is a big deal for him. His shots were a lot of them being
short, and he was out for a couple of games with the elbow issues,
so he was a little out of rhythm. But I thought not just
the big shots that he made, which were two big threes to open up
that early lead for the Clippers, got them a little bit of good footing
on the offensive end, but then certainly the big shot at the end of
the fourth quarter. More importantly, I thought his defense was stellar and I
know that he ended up this game. He ended up with four personal fouls,
and a lot of them were in the fourth quarter, But I thought
he did a good job moving his feet, staying in front of quicker guys
like Emmanuel Quickly and others. So I think he deserves a lot of respect
and praise for the way that he's played, not just today, but even
the other day against Toronto and then the fourth quarter against Memphis. He was
a big reason they won that game as well. Clippers end up winning by
eleven over the Knicks. Final score one o seven to ninety five. They
get three days off now a mini All Star break, until they're still at
home taking on the Golden State Break Warriors Clippers on Wednesday from Crypto dot com
arena. Tip time is at seven. Wall have Clippers countender pregame show starting
at six Noah Eagle, great call as always. We'll see you on Wednesday.
You know, Adam, it just feels like it's gonna be so look
can't wait at him coming up on second half highlights. Clippers by eleven over
the Knicks. And you're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers radio network. Who
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the defensive man on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers win one
zero six to ninety five over the New York Knicks in downtown Los Angeles.
Welcome back into your post game show. I'm atam Oslin coming up on the
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get underway, when they're on five seventy, will be on the Patriot AM
eleven fifty. Let's get to some second half highlights for you. Clippers were
down two at the half in this one. Kawhi Leonard, though, got
things going in a big way. In the third Leonard chap step ripped through,
drive right out, bump, put it up. Oh how did he
do it? Kawai magic. He just threw it up like Wayne Knight in
Space jam after he got pumped up like an air balloon, and somehow it
fell with a chance for three. Thought about the three on Robinson. Now
he will fire and he ties the game. Gowhi Leonard connects sixteen for the
claw fifty five apiece Johnson left to right. Leonard stepping was straight away three,
but Cowhi Leonard connects again and the Clippers have a lead time out in
New York. Backing down on Grimes forces it up and end from eighteen on
the air side Cowhi Leonard ridiculous twenty one sixty apiece outside Leonard left wing ties
up the three and knocks it down. Kawhi Leonard sixteen in the third twenty
six on the day, seventy one seventy La George attacks looppetside Oh, Kawhi
Leonard takes flight, crocious finish and the Clippers leave by three seventy three seventy
with two thirty five to go. Shout out pitfall anyway, Kawhi with nineteen
points in the third quarter and in under the radar big play Julius Randall,
letting some frustration boil over picking that picking up that technical to end the third
quarter and ended up giving the Clippers three free throws instead of being down one.
Hitting into the fourth, they'd be up seventy six to seventy four over
the Knicks, and then it was more from Kawai to close things out.
George Loppett Jalin exent far side on a court, Leonard down the left alley
to the rim. Oh he fakes it in on a foul quick makeup for
Kawhi Leonard on the bolt to the bucket for two plus one ninety one eighty
two Las Leonard pens off stepped back free throw line concepts a jay Oh Kawi
Letard splash ninety nine eighty five. What a shot from Kawhi who's got thirty
four driving mint letter to the Ramny slams on the left. Kawai up high
for the exclamation point at crypto dot com. Arene. Now he's got thirty
eight points on a Saturday matinee showing of Clippers basketball as they lead one oh
six ninety five. That was your finalist. Kawai close things out with that
big throwdown. He had thirty eight points on fourteen of twenty two shooting win,
three of six from distance and seven of seven from the free throw line.
Underrated fact, Kawhi Leonard has been the best three point shooter in the
league since January. The guy keeps getting better. Clippers make it three straight.
They take down the Knicks, win by eleven, and now they got
three days off until they take on the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday. More
on that coming up here in your postgame show on the Los Angeles Clippers Radio
Network. Oh, Paul George LA Clippers basketball continue facing his pains as he
carries the three on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers win one oh
six to ninety five over the New York Knickerbockers. Welcome back in this is
your postgame show. I'm Adam Oslin. Clippers end up shooting forty eight percent
from the field, just ten of thirty from the outside. Doesn't matter even
with them getting beat up on the boards fifty four to thirty nine in favor
of the Knicks, who had twenty offensive rebounds to just seven for your Los
Angeles Clippers. You hold a team to thirty two of ninety from the field
overall, that's just thirty five percent. You're gonna win the majority of the
time. Clippers, after having six turnovers by the way in the first quarter,
had just four the last three quarters. They were led by Kawhi Leonard.
He had thirty eight. Paul George had twenty two. Off the bench,
Eric Gordon with ten points played great down the stretch in that fourth quarter,
closing line up once again for the Clippers, and meanwhile, Emmanuel quickly,
Yeah, he got his twenty six. He's been playing great. He
may win six Man of the Year, but Julius Randall just nineteen points on
five of twenty four shooting. After averaging twenty seven over his last ten games,
where he's been shooting forty nine percent from the field and thirty nine percent
from the outside. The Clippers hold him to five of twenty four from the
field. Clippers win one oh six and ninety five over the Knicks. Their
next one again coming up against the Golden State Warriors in three days. They're
taking them on on Wednesday night in downtown Los Angeles. Tip off for that
one was at seven. Well, if Clippers campd down before, he's starting
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of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam Oslin. Clipper was throwing it back to ninety
five with their defense. Is they hold the New York Knicks to just ninety
five points and win one ozh six to ninety five in downtown Los Angeles.
Welcome in a Clippers Talk after they make it three straight victories eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five to zero eleven fifty as the
phone number if you'd like to get on on the Patriot AM eleven fifty when
after the Dodgers are on AM five seventy, we'll be on our sister station,
the Patriot AM eleven fifty Still to come. You're gonna hear from Marcus
Morris post game, you'll hear from the head coach, and I believe Charles
Mockler from Clips and Dip will be here to join us as well. Kawhi
Leonard finishes with thirty eight points on just twenty two shots, as the Clippers
didn't have a lot going themselves offensively. One oh six isn't a big number.
They didn't shoot it great from the outside. They missed their first four
free throws and only attempt at sixteen at the charity stripe after the last two
going for thirty plus, but they made enough plays down the stretch on the
defensive end, where they held the New York Knicks is just twenty one points
in the fourth quarter when they scored thirty and would end up winning by eleven.
Second straight game. Now, the Clippers have looked like they've tightened things
up on the defensive end. They talked about the communication and practice and how
they had to be better there. Guys are rotating, guys are staying connected,
five guys on a string. It's starting to happen again. They're looking
more like that Clippers defense we saw the first month or so of the season.
And it helps when you have a Viza zubots back another twenty seven minute
output game in this one eight boards, excuse me, six rebounds, eight
points. But the way he patrols the paint, he makes a difference.
It's just the threat of having a guy like that, who's a great rim
protector in there that makes guys shy away from attacking. And Julius Randol may
have had a career low type of day five of twenty four from the field
against the Clippers, and I got a credit Marcus Morris. He played decent
defense on him. Kawhi Leonard did as well. They threw different guys at
him. Marcus I think had his best game though in a month or two.
Not just with his shooting where you hit a couple of three pointers early
in the first quarter, but then one late in the fourth quarter to help
put this one away, but he was moving his feet much better on the
defensive end. Coach Lew said he'd be on Julius Randall. He was for
some of the time, and I thought gave a really good effort on defense.
That's the Marcus Morris they need sometimes it Helston, you're going up against
your former team, just guess the juice is flowing a little bit, the
competitive juice is flowing when you're taking on a former team that you used to
play for, that traded you to the Clippers. And you know, in
this one, it looked like a lot of Kawhi and Paul George until the
fourth quarter, where I thought other guys started to make contributions, where Eric
Gordon had a really nice bounce pass to Mason Plumley for a flush early in
the fourth He hit a three point owner, a big one in the fourth
quarter. And this has been a trend Eric Gordon in closing lineups. We've
seen it three or four times now. And coach lou went away from starters.
Russell Westbrook played just twenty three minutes, didn't get in in the fourth
quarter, and he went with the guys who were playing well, and it
was Eric Gordon out there next to Kawhi, Leonard, Paul George, Marcus
Morris and Avizza zu Bots. Those were closing core five out, not quite
five out with a vizza zoo bots, although we've seen him hint of three
be four. But those were your five out there on the floor, I
should say. And as much as they needed everything they got from Kawhi Leonard
with those nineteen points in the third quarter when not a lot of other guys
had it going, I felt like the Clippers cleaned up a couple of things
early on in the last three quarters of this one. Remember they started oz
four from the free throw line. They would hit their next twelve. They
finished twelve of sixteen at the charity stripe. They started to knock him down,
and after having six turnovers in the first quarter, they had just four
the final three quarters. So combining that with great defense, with guys digging
their heels in on that end, you get a result where you win by
eleven and a hold of team to ninety five points. After holding the Toronto
Raptors to one hundred points on Wednesday, something has changed on that end,
and I've sent it a few times now, but I think it was a
blessing in disguise. They gave up that fifty one spot in the third quarter
to the Memphis Grizzlies. They came back to win that game down fifteen,
and I think that was their wake up call. It's starting to look that
way because the Clippers defensively have been much better since then. They were embarrassed
with that third quarter against Memphis where they just got whatever they wanted to win
ten of thirteen from the outside and had a fifteen point lead hanging into the
fourth quarter. Since then, this Clippers team has looked much different defensively.
Else they gave up in a quarter and this one was thirty in the second
to the Knicks, but nineteen points in the first quarter, twenty five and
the third, twenty one in the fourth quarter, and only giving up ninety
five total for the ball game to a team that has been the second best
offense over the last fourteen games, including a nine game winning streak in there.
And now they've lost three in a row, and some frustration was boiling
over with Julius Randall getting into it with I don't know if it was assistant
coach or a trainer there on the sidelines, but this Knicks team has now
lost three in a row. I thought that was trouble coming into this one.
They lose the Charlotte, they lose to the Kings, I felt like,
Oh, they're gonna be primed to try to get back to their winning
ways. They've been playing great basketball. They're still thirty nine and thirty on
the season, but a Tom Thibodeau team that was playing that well offensively is
very scary, and the Clippers holding them to ninety five. I just love
the attention to detail on the defensive end right now from this Clippers team.
I said, other teams with defensive issues, they don't necessarily have the personnel
to turn it around and find that switch to flip. The Clippers may have,
and it may have come because they gave up a fifty one spot in
the third quarter to the Memphis Grizzlies, only to come back and win that
game in a situation where no other team had done it all season long.
Teams were zero and two hundred and thirty nine entering fourth quarters down by fifteen
or more, and the Clippers came back in that one. Was something born
out of that night. I still think time will tell. They got three
days off and these practices they've been getting in obviously it's translated to end game
situations it's helped a lot, but also the rest you can see more pop
and juice out there from Paul George and Kawhi. Leonard Kawhi caught a lab
from Paul George. I want to say it was. It was definitely second
half. I'm not sure if it was end of the third or early in
the fourth quarter. I put it up on my Twitter count at follow Adam
May. Kawhi did have a dunk to end this one, to kind of
put the kapper and the bow on this, but I loved seeing that transition
play. Yeah, it was for three minutes left in the third quarter.
Paul George got out and was running and Kawhi threw it down with two hands,
not just one hand. He had to get up with both and was
hanging on the rim for a second and kicking his legs out and swinging around
there. I loved seeing that the athleticism. After five dunks against his former
team in the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, Kawhi, I want to say,
had three dunks in this one. Both them playing with more force and
you can see it in the amount of points they've been scoring in the paint
recently. They had fifty points in the paint tonight after having sixty against Toronto
on Wednesday night. That's a big number for them. They've been averaging just
forty four per game before the last couple, and you could see they had
thirty of those fifty points in the first half tonight, and you know what,
I believe they ended. Yeah, it was with fifty total. But
you'll take that against a Knicks team that has some big bodies in there,
and Mitchell Robinson and our old friend Isaiah Hartenstein some good battles between him and
Mason Plumley, who I thought had a good ball game overall. I know
he was just one of four, but he had a couple of blocks,
six points, four boards. The Clippers physicality had to be ramped up.
They had to meet this New York Knicks team with the way in the style
that they play. If they were going to be able to beat them,
you just have to start to play harder. And I've said it before,
but sometimes it's just that simple. Paul George said it after the Memphis game.
We just gotta play harder. They have the personnel, they have the
roster to turn this thing around. And I really like what we've seen ever
since that fourth quarter against Memphis, you can start to talk about this team
turning the corner. Now. I think they beat the Golden State Warriors Wednesday
night, who struggle on the road. I want to say they're seven and
twenty six, but they do have step back. We'll see if Andrew Wiggins
is back by then they take down the Warriors and make it four in a
row. Then you got to say, Okay, something has changed with this
Clippers team. That five game losing streak where they lost a couple of close
ones in ot another one point lost in the Kings, they started to battle
back. Now there's thirteen games left in the regular season and they're three games
over five hundred, and they're still room to maneuver in the Western Conference standings.
I'll update you on those coming up. But while we have a moment,
let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on the Patriot AM eleven
fifty, this is LA Clippers Basketball AM eleven fifty k IB Los Angeles,
an iHeart radio station. It was Gordon to Aviza Zoobots. I believe actually
who had that throw down in the fourth Just want to correct myself there,
Big Zoo he's been needed this level of big zoo where he is playing once
again, like he's got juice out there, like he's recovered from that calf
injury, which apparently was a lot scary than anybody believed. He thought he
tore it, and I think he meant he tore he Audi tours Achilles.
That was against the Phoenix Suns the last game before the All Star break.
Obviously that didn't happen. Thank goodness. Their defensive anchor is back, and
coincidentally, Clippers defense looks to be back. Hassan and Anaheim, you're on
Clippers stop without Amas and what's up us on? How's it going, Adams?
What do you think of the ball game? Two takes number one?
Let me be the first to Joe and welcome back Marcus Morris. Okay,
fair enough, I thought it was his best game in quite some time.
Yes, so welcome back Marcus Morris. I apologize that my frustrations got the
better of me. Glad to have you back. It's good. Good to
see Marcus Morris playing at a high level again. I'm with you as on
yes, second takeaway, glad to see that I have no problem benching what
Brook because everyone thought that he would be a problem if he got benched in
the four quarters. So that helps a lot because he was smoking a lot
of layups. Russ didn't have a good game. This was the first game
as a Clipper where I'd say definitively he had a bad game overall. You
mentioned those two miss layups, but he had three turnovers as well. He
just had one of those days and they didn't go back to him after the
third quarter, right, And so this will show everybody and calm bent down
that tylu can bench Westbrook and it won't be a problem. So that's my
take on the game to talking to you. Have a good day, See
you Wednesday. All right, assn I appreciate it. Having said that,
a big congrats to Russell Westbrook. He moves up the all time assist leaderboard,
passes Isaiah Thomas. In the third quarter he caught Paul George on a
back door cut for an easy one, and now he's ninth all time as
he passes up the great Isaiah Thomas. In assists, Mitch and the Jersey
Mitch, what's up here on up stock without a Maslin him match? How's
you going to end? I love all those trades, been a while since
they've spoken to you. Nice to have the early game. I love the
pickups. What's going on with Bones and I would say Gordon who should never
left being a Clipper. Gordon and Man they got CP three four. I
don't know if that was the worst trade. Yeah, CB three. Uh,
he's still waiting for his first chanceship too. But I think I don't
really think Phoenix. I think Demon's gonna hear you failed. But I think
Man and Gordon is a nice backup backcourt to get in there. What's going
on with Bones Highland? And I'm looking forward to see if it's Kings and
Clips in the first round. I want to be in the top six.
That'd being awesome series. Yeah, I think, look, there aren't any
good options, and be careful what you wish for. But considering Sacramento doesn't
have playoff experience. They haven't made the playoffs since two thousand and six,
longest playoff drought in North America in sports, and they got a lot of
young guys there. I think out of the teams available, it's them in
the Memphis Grizzlies who you'd want to see over teams like the Denver Nuggets and
the Phoenix Suns in the first round. If somehow you can get into a
series against the Dallas Mavericks. I know there's a lot of PTSD there from
what Luca Doncher has been able to do against the Clippers, but bottom line
is they beat them both times they faced him in the playoffs. Yes,
Kyrie Irving is there now, but they just don't play a ton of defense.
They lost their best defender and Dorian Finney Smith to bring in Kyrie Irving.
I think those will be the preferred options, you could say, but
there's no easy series in the West with how tight things are and talent wise,
there just isn't a huge gap. So yeah, it'd be nice to
see the Sacramento Kings, I think in the first round as opposed to some
of those other options. But I can't be careful what you wish for.
You know, the Beam team would be rocking up in NorCal if they saw
the Clippers. Clippers win one oh six to ninety five over the Knicks,
they sweep the two game season series. Remember that game in New York where
Nicholas Batoum hit the three to send him into ot to get them a victory.
There about a month ago. Patum oh three from distance this time,
but you know it's more than that. He was still a plus five and
sixteen minutes. Clippers got huge production from the two one three connection where those
two ended up combining for sixty as Kawhi had thirty eight, Paul George had
twenty two and a thirteen point second quarter. Clippers win one oh six and
ninety five more Clippers stop next here on the Patriot AMBLYM fifty. Who is
blocked by George This LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man defensive man
on the home of your LA Clippers. Kawhi leads and the Clippers with thirty
eight and a couple of tough and once they win one oh six to ninety
five over the New York Knicks. From Crypto dot com, Marino, welcome
into your postgame show. This is CIP for Stock. I'm out of Moslin
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five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty is the
phone number let's go to Damien in La Damien. What's up here on Clippers
stock triple? Ay? Man, that's three in a row. Man,
here we go. I'm loving it. Clippers are making a move here,
and you know what, they've gotten some help in the standings as of late
two. So we'll update the standings in a little bit here. But you
know, for once, it seems like the Clippers are getting a little bit
of good luck a little bit right, we're finally getting the shamrock. Let
me know to some isle on it's a little bit with you know, Saint
Patty's day coming up. You know, Morris had a great game. I
want to talk about plum Ly though I thought what plum Lely did today isn't
gonna show up in the stat line. But I think he did a really
good job in his role destensively. And I know we've talked about his role
defensively and what to expect from him. I think that if he can give
us that type of performance every night, you know, and backup Zoo,
and then Zoo can get his breather, come in and retch shop like he
does, we could be looking at a mean two headed monster there. Man.
So I'm real, you know, Juice about what I saw from the
team. To your point, I was actually talking to Brian Seaman at the
down there at the arena tonight. Look at you, you know, Marcus
Morris, great energy man, great energy, and I was happy to see
him have a better game. Missed you at the game, bro, I
was looking for you after that. But you know, I'm real happy about
the way the guys came out and played. I will see you in Clibor
Nation there on Wednesday. Appreciate the phone called Damian. You mentioned Mason Plumley.
He had that big block on Isaiah Hartenstein in the third quarter after he
missed a layup on the other end. Kind of made up for it there.
He was battling, He was doing what he could. He's not the
rent protector of Visa zubats this, but he gives your great effort. What
more can you ask for? And he has some skill set that offsets some
of what Big Zoo does. They compliment each other well because they have different
strengths and different weaknesses out there. I thought though it was a great pick
up at the time, it certainly worked out. He played twenty minutes.
He had six points and four boards and a couple of blocks overall. One
more before we hear from Marcus Morris postgame Sean and Sean, hello are you?
I don't know? Take me off speaker and I'll tell you. Okay,
okay, you hear me now, I hear you much better, Sean,
you want to sound good on the radio? What's up? Okay?
Great? Great? Great? All right, So two couple of things here.
Looks like we have a chance to catch Phoenix, but the number four
spy and another thing when you're talking to the color I was just thinking,
it looks like injuries are catching up to the opponents now and the Clippers are
finally healthy. Knock on what, Sean, knock on wood. They're still
not healthy. Norm Palills still out for at least another week. Well that's
the only thing. But they should definitely beat the Warriors. The words are
terrible on the road, seven and twenty six on the road, twenty seven
and seven at home. So you know, play that good defense and play
with confidence. We'll take the Warriors and just make that momentum go. I'd
like to see him get about eight or nine in a road that would really
be nice. Yeah, they're playing better Kawai. You're surprising me when he's
the best three point shooter, says January. That's very very nice. He
may be the second or third best now, it's on so many attempts you
take. Of course, like guys who have taken just one or two and
or two for two, he can't be better than one hundred percent. But
in terms of guys who have been putting them up, and maybe I've taken
at least fifty since January, I believe he's right there at the top of
the list of three point shooting. He's basically right underneath fifty percent, or
he might be there after going three of six today against the New York Knicks
from three. Well, I like to see what they've been doing defensively.
It looks like they're able to concentrate better on the d on the double teams,
as well as being able to take their leading scorer or the other team
out of his just out of his usual you know, activity, and just
make it uncomfortable for him. So that's a good way to go, and
hope they keep the good work up. All right, Sean, appreciate the
phone call. I know we'll talk to you on Wednesday. Glad you didn't
give up on this team. Huh me, who you what do you mean
gave up on the team? You want me up up the email? How
about my email today? You didn't mention that at the pregame analysis. Yeah,
except they still got beat on the boards fifty four to thirty nine.
I mean, we all knew coming into this one it was gonna be a
tall task against the New York Knicks. They had to compete with them on
the boards, and the Knicks had twenty offensive rebounds. Clippers still one though.
Bottom line, their defense was that good. Even though they got those
extra possessions, the Clippers clamped down. So Sean, I'll give you,
I'll give you a partial credit at least. Okay, okay, but one
last thing, we do still have to work on that last second shot when
we have the ball. We had to just actually have better plays called Now
be happy, all right, Sean, appreciate the phone call. Those atos.
I think they've been pretty good with them. But Sean disagrees in that
area. Let's hear from Marcus Morris, who I want to say, maybe
he had his best game of the new year so far, hit two threes
in the first quarter, a big three in the fourth quarter, finished with
eleven points. But his defense was good, his feet were moving out there.
He just looked a little bit fresh for in those thirty one minutes on
the defensive end. And here he was post game on Valley Sports with Teamie
Macio the season sweep of the New York Knicks. How'd you guys get it
done today? Play hard. That's a good team over there. Just play
hard and we've got the win. It's good to see you getting those three
balls to go early. You had another big three late in the game.
This is now three wins in a row for the Clippers after a difficult stretch.
What corner have you guys turned? What have you guys figured out?
I was just playing a little harder. We had a couple of days of
practice, so we started to figure each other guys out and getting a rhythm,
and you know it's turning into wins and you'll have a chance for a
few more days of practice after this game. Couple of days off, well
deserved rest. But thirteen games are left in the regular season. It's a
very crowded Western Conference. How do you guys approach these remaining thirteen We approached
as is a playoff games, one game at a time and what time better
than now? And to get on the street. There he was Marcus Moore's
post game on Ballet Sports. Clippers win over his former team in the Knicks,
one oh six to ninety five. That ninety five number you love to
see it. Clippers gave up just one hundred points against the Raptors. Yes,
in this league, holding a team to one hundred nowadays his an accomplishment.
I think the worst team in the league averages one hundred and five or
something like that. Clippers make it three straight. Coming back, we'll get
back to your phone calls eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty. We'll also review some audio from Kawhi Leonard
who spoke post game Wednesday night and made an interesting comment that was making the
rounds. I want to bring that up as well. Coming up next,
Seria Clippers stalk on the Patriot em eleven fifty Oh. Paul George, La
Clippers Basketball continue face in his pains as he carries the three on the home
of your LA Clippers. Big winning Clippers win one oh six to ninety five
over the New York Knicks and Queens. They win by eleven, and they've
made it three straight after losing five straight coming out of the All Star Break.
And I'm telling you that win over the Memphis Grizzlies, coming back like
that in the fourth quarter, that was meaningful. Them giving up fifty one
in that third lowest point of the season, they just look completely disconnected and
discombobulated on the defensive end. Since then, much better. They didn't give
up more than I want to say, twenty eight and a quarter against the
Toronto Raptors, and they don't give up more than thirty in one quarter.
That was the Knicks high in this one today, it was no just twenty
six for the Toronto Raptors. That was the most they gave up in a
quarter. Remember they had those seven turnovers against Toronto and they were down by
seven after the first but the Raptors only had twenty five points, so they
stayed within striking different distance because of their defense. That's where it has to
be. But I think something may have changed after they outscored the Memphis Grizzlies
thirty eight to seventeen to come back down fifteen to win that game. About
a week ago, only gave up seventeen points in that fourth quarter against Memphis.
Guys were rotate, guys were everywhere defensively, and since then, I
think the Stars in particular have been leading on that end. They've been really
good there. But I like seeing a guy like Eric Gordon being in that
closing lineup because he can guard up, he can guard multiple positions too,
and also for ball security reasons. He had three assists to zero turnovers zero
two zero turnovers, and he's another playmaker ball handler out there. It's just
a veteran presence to have next to Kawai and Paul George late to close games,
along with of beats the Zubos. Who was in the game. Marcus
Morris was out there in this one. He hit a big three Clippers holding
a team to ninety five points. You'll take it, Morris and long beach.
Morris, what's up you're on clipperst Hey, Adam, I need to
fact check some You know you hear something, but you ay sure about it.
You were speaking earlier about NBA history stuff like that in the fourth quarter
about teams fifteen points behind. It was just in this season teams that were
down fifteen heading into the fourth quarter were zero and two hundred and thirty nine.
They had not come back down fifteen or more entering a fourth quarter this
season. No team had until the Clippers did it against Memphis. You know,
lost your mind, Adam, zero and what two hundred and thirty nine?
Wow? Man, I can't fact check that because I'm gonna have to
take it. It's a fact. Take it to the bank. Trust me
on this one. Trust your boy. Come on, that's some crazy stuff,
Adam, Come on, but I want to taste them. I had
a little tune for you, but I couldn't get that the chesting out of
my mind. I want to tell you them. The tune I had was,
they got to look Kawhi Leonard. It's got to look that fool gonna
be the MVP next year. I'm telling you right now. He can do
whatever heck you want on the basketball court. And you know, when I
played basketball, wasn't no good. Everybody's plays of fun. But whoever had
the best players won the game. And the Clippers right now, they got
a bad They got a bad dude now in Kawahi. I mean, you
know, we don't it's hard to remember how good he was. Now we're
seeing it the best player of the game. Remember that left hand dunk.
He brought the ball down court right and he would have done with the left
hand at him. That was some cold stuff. So I believe that the
Clippers got the best player in the league right now because he ready to go.
So I'll see you on Wednesday. I had a little tune for you,
but I couldn't move past that number. You was talking about steel camping
pathtic. But anyway, these guys they got to look, they got to
look at him. Hey, that number was music two ears enough apparently,
all right, Morris, that's that I appreciate you. Look Kawhi Leonard Now
since January seventh, The reason I go to that point is that's when he
started playing regular minutes again. Since then, this is in twenty four games
including today, he's at thirty seven minutes per game, getting twenty eight points
per game on fifty three fifty ninety one splits. Those shooting splits being fifty
three percent from the field, fifty percent from three, and ninety one percent
from the free throw line. That's where Kawai has been his last twenty four
games since January seventh. Now, dominant and just makes it look so easy
in the mid range. But some of the end ones he got when he
came back into the ball game just under the seven minute mark of the fourth,
he had that tough move past. I want to say the blowby was
on Josh Hart, got fouled, got it to go. He had a
push shot. I want to say it was in the third quarter where he
was fouled and just threw it up there, a circus shot, got it
to go, but hit three three pointers. And Yes, of guys who
have taken fifty or more threes since January, nobody's better than Kawhi Leonard from
the outside. He has shot forty nine point two percent. And I don't
think that counts today's game where he was three of six fifty percent from the
outside, but forty nine point two percent from three since January. Of guys
who have attempted at least fifty three pointers, nobody has been better at wait
son of a bitch, Nikola Yokich. Nobody who has attempted one hundred or
more three pointers since January, let me put a new qualifier in there,
has been better than Kawhi Leonard. How is this even possible. Yokich is
fifty two percent, but he's only attempted fifty two since January. Kawhi three
pointers he's put up since then one hundred and eighteen and he's at forty nine
point two percent. Here was coach lu post game after the Clippers win one
oh eight two. Let me get there right, one o eight one hundred
was last game six ninety five today over the Knicks, the biggest things are
defensively. I think those two guys locking into the other team's best players and
taking that challenge. And so when they're playing at a high level defensively,
you know we're a different team. I thought we did a good job of
taking care of the basketball. You know, only ten turnover tonight, and
you know when we got Kawhie out, he played the whole third quarter to
start the fourth, I thought PG really came in and offensively just kind of
took over the game and kind of give us a good cushion. And then
in that first half the Knicks grabbed a ton of offensive boards and got a
lot of points in transition. What changed in the second half, Well,
we talked about it at halftime, and you know, my team shoots thirty
five percent from the field. They're gonna get some offensive rebounds, but the
ones that we gotta take care of. I thought we'd hit, you know,
Mitchell on a few of'em, but he's just so long and athletic,
you know, it's tough to get to him all the time. But
as long as we're making the right plays or just making sure we hit bodies
and you know, not staring at the basketball when the shot goes up,
and I thought we did a better job with it. In the second half
tie up before the game, I asked you how you guys were and handle
Randall. He said, Marcus was going to do a good job in there,
and but I think overall, you guys did a solid job five of
twenty four shooting. Just talk about the job that you guys did. Guardian
brand I thought Marcus just being physical with him early, you know, kind
of got him frustrated a little bit, and then our shrinks defensively, I
thought we were you know, we didn't leave him on an island by myself.
We were digging in and out, you know, cat and mouse,
getting in and out, and so I just try to keep him all balanced
as much as we could. And the when he spun baseline, we had
Mason Zoo on the baseline, you know, waiting for him. So when
you didn't want a guy like you know, random, we can score the
basketball. And he's a tough cover, you know, so he's got to
just mix up the coverages on him and try to keep him all balanced.
And I thought we did that tonight. There was Coach lou postgame Clippers win
by eleven over the next final score one oh six to ninety five. Coming
up, I got some interesting Kawhi Leonards sound for you. Okay, have
guys who have attempted one hundred. It's unbelievable. He's turning into a splash
brother. I told you guys this though. The one thing when you're out
with the lower body extremity injury you can work on you're shooting. We still
may see the best version of Kawhi Leonard off of two major injuries in his
career this season, and you know he saves the best for last in the
playoffs. More Clippers stock next here on the Patriot EM eleven fifty, who
is blocked by George This is LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man
kra defensive man. On the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers win one
oh six to ninety five over the New York Knicks. They have won three
in a row currently, and there's some games coming up later tonight that could
affect this. But the Clippers are in the five spot. They are three
and a half games back. Yeah, of the Phoenix Suns who are in
the fourth spot. Phoenix is taken on the Sacramento Kings later tonight. The
Memphis Grizzlies, who are in the three spot Sacramento on the two are taken
on the Dallas Mavericks in the six spot behind the Clippers who are in the
five spot. Are you following me here, camera guy? So here's what
I think you'd like to see, and it would be this something I brought
up earlier. Phoenix continues to win, the Clippers continue to win, obviously,
and Memphis loses and the Clippers end up catching them in the four or
five matchup. You would take that because of four or five matchup against the
Phoenix Suns with Kevin Durant supposedly be back by the playoffs or by the end
of the regular season, but who knows. That freaky ankle injury it was
very unfortunate. He had what in the layup line or in pregame shoot around.
It was just unbelievable to see. But I think Memphis obviously better options
than Phoenix with Kevin Durant in the first round. But we'll see. You
can only do so much scoreboard watching and looking at standings, and there's still
thirteen games left to be played. But I wanted you to hear this from
Kawhi Leonard. This was Wednesday night after their win against the Toronto Raptors in
this former team where he had five dunks. Here he was post game and
speaking with the media. Listen to this. Why you kind of talked about
in these last games that they all start bringing up in one possession here or
there for maybe this being much different, these games going differently. Now you
got some momental women, what have you seen? And this this new team
with all these new pieces, that kind of makes you believe you guys can't
make that deep run into playoffs like many people expect you guys do. I
mean, our heads are still high, you know, even when we lost
those games, Uh, you know, we're still confident in ourselves. So
and then I'm on the floor and you know, whenever I'm playing, I
feel like we gole Main. I'm in a basketball game, and I think
everybody else feels the same way. Whenever I'm playing, I feel like we
can win a basketball game. Oh that's that superstar confidence. That's that quiet
killer confidence that Kawhi Leonard has run, silent, run deep. He is
the machine out there. He is so good and has mastered the game on
so many levels, the top seventy five player of all time. But here
in a different level of energy than we typically hear post game. This is
the type of stuff that was only rumored to be heard. Like went against
the Milwaukee Bucks when he was playing for Toronto in twenty nineteen the Eastern Conference
Finals and they were down two oho and Nick Nurse was talking about all these
adjustments they're gonna make, and Kawhi apparently stood up in the locker room is
said, here's the adjustment. I'm garden Jannis, that's what's happening. And
they would win four straight and he held under forty percent the next four games.
That's what that reminded me of. It gives you confidence. The Clipper
nation, so is this they've won three in a row. They got three
days off. They're taking on Golden State back in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Before we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers
organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawlor, big Brother, Jake
Warner, the callers, the listeners, Katie Newton, our producer here in
the bank until Wednesday. With the Clippers taking on the gold State, it
wors with their pregame show starting at six. I mean, I'm awesome.
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