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shoot forty nine percent from free and they put the Chicago Bulls away late one
twenty six to one eleven Inshy Town. Welcome into your postgame show. I'm
Adam Oslin. This is Clippers Locker Room. If you want to get on
early for Clippers Talk eight sixty six ninety seven two five seventy. But first
we head back out to Carlo Jimenez, your radio voice of the Clippers from
United Center. Just a much needed dominant performance, especially late by this Clippers
team that was tested a little bit, Carlo, but they rose to the
challenge. They passed that test with flying colors they did. I mean talk
about getting pressured late. I think the lead got to eight down the stretch
after it was twenty points, but the Clippers were able to punch back.
You mentioned the defense from Kawhi Leonard was on another level. But two one,
three at of them without James Harden looked unstoppable today. Twenty eight for
George, twenty seven for Leonard. They were lethal all night long. Impressive
stuff from those two. Yeah, they were ultra efficient out there, which
is what you need from your superstars. And I think there was a little
something extra from the Clippers tonight. They knew they let one get away from
them, being up by twenty two against Minnesota. No Kawhi the last three
quarters of that one. He more than made up for it with his appearance
in this one. His defense late the bucket he was able to get late.
But the three point shooting from this team in that fourth quarter, just
timely bucket after timely bucket, and that helped put Chicago away when they were
trying to make that run. Yeah, the Clippers finished with a ton of
assists in this one, thirty two on the ballgame, as they were able
to swing the rock around the horn. It was impressive stuff. I thought
it started with Bones Highland's ability to find angles. I mean, Adam,
we had the treat of sitting courtside and Hyland would make some passes and you
were like, he didn't see that. I don't know where what other eye
he has in the back of his head, but there was just no way
he was finding guys in the corner. He was excellent. The Clippers really
ripped it around the horn. It led to wide open threes. I'd love
to know how many of those threes they hit today were wide open. It
felt like almost all of them. In Credit Chicago, I mean, how
many times did the Clippers hit a three and the Bulls responded with one of
their own. They shot forty five percent in this one, but the Clippers
were just the better team defensively down the stretch. You mentioned Bones Highland.
He gets the start. No James Harden, there's no Russell Westbrook obviously,
seventeen points, eleven eleven assists, six of nine, shooting four of seven
from the outside, a huge three pointer, or laid one of the daggers
for the Clippers, but for Steals as well. The bugaboo with him was,
oh, can he play defense well enough? Can he stay on the
court on that end? He has more than held his own since he'd been
put on a Clipper's jersey. Defensively, he's been great. It's the second
straight game he sets a career high in steals. I mean, that's how
good he's been on the defensive end, so active with the hands. It's
something Tylu talked about pregame. He said he is trying his hardest and you
can see that every single time Hyland was the catalyst to get this team going
from the get go, the steal, the bucket and then a three and
the Clippers tied it up at five, they would go on a huge eleven
zero run. They would take the lead and they would never relinquish it.
What a start from bones Highland gives Tylu a lot more to think about in
the best way possible. Love seeing Pg. Thirteen get off the snide shooting
wise, where he just hadn't been himself over the last month month and a
half now. The efficiency hasn't been there. He just hasn't had enough of
those games where you look at him and go, okay, that's Paul George
Tonight, though eleven of twelve, six of seven from three to twenty eight
points seven assists to just one turnover. He looked the part of being that
best supporting actor to Kawhi Leonard being best actor you could say with the Academy
Awards coming up this last Sunday. Yeah, that was a dangerous duo today.
I mean fifty five between them. George miss one shot. It was
in the second quarter, but outside of the second quarter he was perfection for
the Clippers. Seven assists, a block of steel. I thought, he
Adam. I thought. When I enjoyed most about PG thirteen is it never
felt like he forced right, I mean, of those twenty eight shots,
did you ever feel like there was one shot he took or you're like,
wow, he must be really feeling it. Not at all. I mean
he took all the shots that he knows he can make and not What was
most impressive to me, this was a repeatable performance for somebody like PG thirteen.
Yeah, he was in his bag. He was shooting over the top
of Alex Caruso. Not easy to do. But this is what has made
him a Hall of Famer in this league. Yes, he will be there
eventually, and hopefully he'll be retiring with the Clippers at some point here down
the road. But there has worked be done. Speaking of tomorrow, they're
in New Orleans. They're taking on the Pelicans. This is easily the biggest
game of the season so far here, Carlos. Yeah, huge game against
a team that is surging after the All Star Break at the heels of the
Clippers right now in that five spot, and with a win, they can
move a game closer. If the Clippers want to prove that they belong and
have any sort of chance at stealing a three seed, they need to win
tomorrow in New Orleans, a place up until this season they had not won
in under ty Lou. You want to do it twice in one year,
That's what the Clippers are gonna have to do. Tomorrow night. Tiptime will
be at five from the Big Easy. We'll have your pregame show starting at
four for Clippers and Pelicans. Clippers win in Shytown on twenty six to one
eleven, Carlo Jmenez. Great call is always safe travels. We'll talk to
you tomorrow, my friend, talk to you tomorrow, Adam. We'll see
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You know, Clippers didn't have to worry about MJ tonight. They did have
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to second half highlights. Though the Clippers led at the half sixty four to
fifty three, Kawhi Leonard had sixteen points in the first half kept it going
in that third quarter. George on the right wing, fine subots in the
paint kicks at Highland, swings it left corner. It's a three for Kawhi
and it's in bones highlight another assist. The claw with twenty two to one
three is combined for forty points and the Clippers lead Selty six fifty eight bounce
fast to Highland, swings at Leonard left corner three buckets Kawhi from distance his
second three, and the Clippers are up eighty eight sixty nine, largest leader
of the ball game with four forty nine to go in the third Kawhi Leonard
had nine more points than that third quarter. The Clippers extended their lead by
a point. They were up by twelve at ninety two to eighty head against
the fourth, and then to help put this one away, it was his
counterpart PG thirteen. Paul George left wing coffee, looks for Norman pound coffee
instead of text back out George break wing three ferries in again George on fire.
Seven minutes of playing the fourth, Clippers up one oh eight ninety six.
Leonard surveys kicks at George left corner three. That's it. Paul George
went twenty eight on six for seven and the Clippers lead one to eighteen to
one oh two. PG thirteen's three points shooting has been on fire, straight
lethal six of seven from distance for Paul George. He had twenty eight points
on twelve shots on real efficiency as the Clippers hold on to win one twenty
six to one eleven in Chicago over the Bulls. There'll be in New Orleans
tomorrow. This was a front end of a back to back taking on the
team in the New Orleans Pelicans. It is right behind them in the NBA
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two five seventy. The Clippers ended up shooting sixty percent from the field,
and I'm gonna go with this box score because it says fifty percent from three.
I thought it was forty nine percent. No. They went twenty of
forty from the outside, scorching hot shooting, led by Paul George and Kawhi
Leonard. Paul George was eleven for twelve w twenty eight points, seven assists,
one turnover, six of seven from three. Kawhi Leonard twelve with seventeen
for his twenty seven bones Highland in the starting lineup. My player to watch
my guy the skeleton key seventeen points, six of nine shooting four seven from
the outside and eleven assists, a career high off the bench. normOn Powell
had eighteen. Meanwhile, Demarto Rosen with eight quick points to start the fourth
quarter. Then the clock came in, put the clamps on. He didn't
score again, finished with twenty one on six of sixteen shooting. The Clippers
go on to win by fifteen in Chicago. They'll be in New Orleans tomorrow,
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host on your home for the Clippers. They were in attack mode, Adam
Osley, I know MJ wasn't hitting threes like this at United Center. The
Clippers go twenty of forty from the outside. They put up one twenty six
and beat the Bulls one twenty six to one eleven in Shytown. Welcome into
Clipperstock. I'm Adam oslind eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number if you'd like
to get on here on Clipperstock. Well hear from coach lou coming up in
just a little bit. I think Will Updike is going to be joining me
tonight. I don't know. It was a victory. He usually comes on
when they win and not when they lose, but he came on last time
when they lost. So this was quite the response from the Clippers after blowing
a twenty two point lead to the Minnesota Timberwolves where they did not have Kawhi
Leonard the last three quarters of that ball game on Tuesday night, Kawhi flew
with them. We didn't even know if that was going to happen. He
had the backspasms, but I told everyone, if you listen to me,
if I know it's a big one, if you listen to me. I
brought up the situation where he had backspasms in March of twenty twenty one.
Didn't hear anyone else say it, where he missed one game and returned the
very next game. That's what happened tonight, same thing. Flew with the
team, came back to play against the Bulls, went twelve to seventeen from
the field and had twenty seven points. Lockdown defense late on Tamar de Rosen,
guy who I'm rated four from San Antonio to Toronto. There's always something
extra, and Kawhi faces off against him. Deamarrow a quick eight points to
start off that fourth quarter, and then Kawhi just shut the water off,
didn't score again, and the Clippers would end up winning by fifteen, led
by as many as twenty one, but the Bulls had it to within eight.
I believe early in the fourth. My goodness, the hot three point
shooting from this Clippers team and this game was just special. In that fourth
quarter they ended up going seven for eleven from three was some huge shots.
From PG thirteen, Paul George, you want to talk about a complete turnaround?
A response after I criticized him for not taking enough shots, for only
taking I believe eleven against Minnesota and a game where or Kawhi Left didn't think
it was aggressive enough. Well, he only took twelve shots tonight. But
if that's all it takes to get to twenty eight points because you hit six
three pointers, I'm completely fine with that. Elite efficiency. From PG thirteen
Paul George, stellar performance, seven assists, just one turnover. A little
miscommunication with Bones Highland. My guy, the skeleton key, got the start.
He's ready for this moment. I keep telling everybody this. He's built
different. Bones Highland is a dog out there. He doesn't shy away from
an opportunity like this. No James Harden, he starts. They don't have
Russell Westbrook. Obviously. Bones played thirty one minutes and had seventeen points,
a career high eleven assists on six of nine shooting and four of seven from
distance, huge three point eight. As the Clippers were knocking down everything,
Bones was also a part of that, one of the biggest shots of the
game to put Chicago away. Really happy for this young man. The Clippers
don't have, as people point out, many young guys on this team.
They're an older squad. Just ask Anthony Edwards. Older squads typically are the
ones that win championships. You gotta be a little bit seasoned, you gotta
have that veteran savvy, but you also have to have young legs here and
there. And during this span in March, where I was telling everybody all
season long, I believe he would get his opportunity. Don't like the way
it came with Russell Westbrook breaking his hand, but it created the opportunity for
Bones Highland to step up. No James Harden Tonight first game he has missed
as a Clipper, and Bones shined in Shytown. This is what he's capable
of. He's different than Russ. He's an absolute marksman from the outside.
And even though he started off I think at one point this season he had
missed fifteen straight three pointers. Now it came over the span of three or
four months because he was in and then he was out of the lineup for
some time. You bring in James Harden, you got two Hall of Famers
playing in front of you with him and Russ. That's what happens. Not
gonna get minutes. The guy had to be sent home with PJ. Tucker
right before the All Star break because they won time on the court. They
were upset, thought they were going to be traded. Well, look at
him now getting his shot and making them. I just love to see a
young guy take advantage of the moment like this, because when you play this
well and you have that element to your game where you can spread the floor
and be a marksman from three, I want to say, now he's nine
for his last fifteen from the outside, you can get running a playoff series
two. I think Bones Highland is starting to earn that trust. Got to
keep it going, got to continue to play well. Don't expect Russ back
un till likely the playoffs, or at least the week before. If it's
a six week recovery from that broken hand, Bones has time to show what
he's made of, to show how he can help this team in a playoff
setting. Two you take care of the basketball like this, eleven assists to
one turnover, you can play for Coach Lou. I believe that he turned
some heads tonight, especially because he played defense. Bones ended up with four
steals. He picked up two personals early laun Murray came along with me pre
game. We were talking about it, and he said, his issue is
he can get foul happy. He can be overly aggressive by overreacting to moves
from the opposition, the man he's guarding. Now, you like the effort,
but you don't want to get thrown out of position by overreacting and being
shook and being baited into fouling. Happened early on. Picked up two fouls
in the first quarter, did not fail again. That is huge. So
the one issue he was having he cleaned up during the game and he tied
a career high with eleven assists, set a new career high with four steals.
I'm telling you, guys, Bones is him made for this. One
of the opportunity is seizing it. This is a development for this team.
When you have a schedule like the Clippers do now with seventeen games remaining,
with how congested it is and concentrated it is with five and sevens, three
and fours, the back to backs. You need juice, you need young
legs, you need guys that can explode towards the basket. I talked about
this over the last week, but he went from just getting to the basket,
then one game he just hit three pointers, to now having that mix
and stead. He died of both getting downhill, getting layups, but also
still looking for a shot from the outside. That's what makes him dangerous.
He has enough confidence out there. It's almost that irrational confidence we used to
talk about with Austin Rivers, where even though he's playing next to Paul George
and Kawhi Leonard, as much as he was finding those guys, he still
knows he has to look for his own two and be a threat out there.
You can't teach stuff like that most guys you're next to all these Hall
of famers, you're just gonna defer young players. He's twenty three bones doesn't
do that. He has the confidence you need to play at this level.
That belief in himself. Can't say enough about his performance, can't say enough
about what Paul George was able to do. Started six of six, finished
eleven of twelve, six of seven from three the shots he was making.
Nothing you can do about it. Alex Caruso was there PG. Thirteen six
' nine, just shooting over the top of guys. I'm sure he heard
some of the chatter after his performance against Minnesota, not stepping up without Kawhi
Leonard, not being aggressive enough, not staying in attack mode. He looked
focus. This Clippers team look focus. They haven't lost three games in a
row now since that six game losing streak when they first brought in James Harden,
and we're just figuring things out. But this is the type of performance
you needed going into New Orleans tomorrow. They had the night off. They
just lost to the Calves yesterday at home. They're waiting for the Clippers and
they're looking their chops because right now, standings wise in the West, they're
just two and a half games behind the Clippers, and they've already won two
of the first three. If they win tomorrow, they will have the head
to head tiebreaker. Make it three games now behind the Clippers, because the
Clippers one tonight, but they know they're within striking distance. It is the
biggest game of the season Tomorrow. The Clippers are gonna have a tough time
getting a top three seed. What can't happen is you slide below four,
because that means you don't have home court even in the first round, and
that just can't happen. So this is the one you circle tomorrow against New
Orleans. But the way they played tonight, have them well prepped and just
well rested enough. Paul George at thirty five minutes, Kauiet thirty four,
Zubots at thirty two, Bones at thirty two, team minute thirty. Nobody
played above thirty five minutes. And I'm hoping James Harden is back and he
was getting a night off dealing with a little left shoulder injury because they're gonna
need him against the Pelicans. Hopefully he's ready. Morrison, long Beach before
we break here on Clippers stock after they win one twenty six to one eleven
in Chicago over the Bulls. Morris, what's up, hey, Let's just
talk about the elephant in the room, Adam. The elephant elephant in the
room, namely one NBA team that has not blown a twenty point lead.
Uh. I don't have the stats in front of me, but there are
some this season I don't know if Denver's giving up a twenty point lead this
year, I guess they did. They came back foot Well, they didn't
give it up, but they did come back. Well, I'm gonna give
you amen on that one, my brother, Amen. But you know,
I'm gonna tell you something. I wouldn't trip on this. Everybody goes through
this and something that Kawhi Leonard said, uh that made me feel confident about
the team this year. He said it last year. He said, I'm
built for the playoffs. Okay, I'm built for the playoffs. And and
the next time the Pippers get home, I have a home game. And
he said the free throw line, everybody needs to be hollering MVP. MVP.
Put some pressure on him. Let him know that we riding him.
Kawhi, you are man, Okay, we go as you go. And
and he inspires people around him. You don't have to score forty points to
inspire that team. And I'm gonna tell you something. He's leading the team
with his defense. If you don't think this is the court, look what
happened in Minnesota. We'll forget that one. But he leads his team with
defense. Okay, So everybody need to get behind this man. Let him
know we following him on his shoulders. Give me some tickets out of him.
You got to get me, and I'm gonna take something you give me.
I'mamma signed and they're gonna have to throw me out. Man, they
would have to. That's okay. I'm not violent, but they didn't have
to throw me out. The last time I was there, I embarrassed everybody
that was with me. But I don't give their old people. You got
to get me in the business for fans, fanatics people like me. Get
me in there, put me on the hold, Get me in there at
them, because we need some crazy people in there right now. We need
some inspiration right now. We got a few games left me. The season's
almost sober, and we can't get up. We got a team that can
do it well. We got to believe too, and we've been blessed.
Our guys ain't hurt. Okay, people, the old Kawhi is out.
I know Steven Adam went great, Not Stephen Avenue, Stephen D. Smith.
He probably went crazy for a day, but that's for one day.
Man. You probably said you should retire again. How's that looking right now?
When he was Kawhi in the policy. You ought to see what this
fool was doing in the NBA this year. So he is an MVP candidate.
But because he don't have like forty four points like Kawhi, like or
Rods in there the other night against Indiana, you know, people ain't looking
at his defense, but you saw how important defense was the other night against
Minnesota. I've been looking at his defense, Morris, because you brought it
up. Here's the on off numbers. When Kawhi is on the floor,
the Clippers have a defensive rating of one ten, which is about top five
in the league. When he's off the floor, it goes to one twenty,
what should be bottom of the league. Got him, I got him,
good guy. I didn't know where that draft. Now that's that brother,
that's that's too that's drastic. But I'm trying to tell you that's what
makes him a bad You know what his defense in an NBA god him.
You know that's better than me because you get paid. If you can't stop,
nobody forget it. Because all of them guys, the guy is sitting
on the bench and never get on the floor. That's a bad man.
If you can't stop nobody forget it, and Kawhi will slow. He won't
baby fletch you out flat. But you're not gonna get your average. And
that's the name of the game. Keep a guy below his average. And
he kept the Marrowroth to blow his average, did me? But anyway,
get me in that building at them. They're gonna have to throw me out.
But I ain't violent. We need some crazy people right now in that
building for the last few games. I mean, we got to be crazy,
all right, flor all right, all right, I got you,
Boris. I'll look for some tickets if I can find play to win the
game. You're the guy, thanks or netwards, you do play the win
the game. And the Clippers won in Chicago one twenty six to one to
eleven. I thought you were going for that. Steven a Clip saying Kawhi
should retire after he tours Meniscus in the first round last year against Phoenix,
do you know over Kawhi Leonard's last one hundred games or so in the regular
season, and that those two games he played in Phoenix last year in that
first round series, he's got shooting splits of about fifty two, forty five,
ninety over one hundred games sample size, just unbelievable efficiency. And then
you add in the defense. Yeah, he should be in the MVP conversation.
You know, I've been preaching it hashtag Claw for MVP. More Clippers
sock next after they win by fifteen in Chicago, they're in New Orleans.
Take it on the Pelicans tomorrow, a game with huge seating implications. This
is Clippers socke. You already in five to seventy ELI sports. In the
case of Kawhi Leonard, I stand alone probably on this, but I don't
care. I think the man should retire. George on the right wing finds
Zu wants in the paint kicks at Highland Swings it left corner. It's a
three for Kawhi and it's in phones highlight. Another assists the claw with twenty
two to one. Three is combined for forty points and the Clippers lead seventy
six fifty eight. Bounce basket to Highland Swings at leonard left corner. Three
buckets go Whi from distance his second three, and the Clippers are up eighty
eight sixty nine, largest leader of the Bowl game with four forty nine to
going the third Carla Jamenez on the call, zachar Ocaldi with a mixed stephen
A Smith with a bad take as the Clippers when in Chicago one twenty six
till one eleven, steven a you bum apologize. Kawhi is having one of
the best seasons of his career, if not his best. Clippers, for
the thirteenth straight season have secured a winning record that is the longest run in
the NBA. Currently, they win by fifteen over the Bulls. They will
be taking on the Pelicans tomorrow. Welcome back into Clippers Stock. I'm Adam
Osland. Let's go to Keith in La Keith. You're on Clippers Stock.
What's up, Adam? Good to talk to your brother man. First of
all, man, you know as a former DJ man, I dig your
punk, my brother, man, I hear you bumping. You know what
they call the bumper music and all that I was back in my foot.
That was all Zachi zach O calledy Well, shout out man to you know,
former professional DJ, term musician here and forty year Clipper fan. Let
me tell you something, bro, sit me next to Morris. If you
send out some tickets, man, I'm serious about that. Adam. You
nailed it, Bro. I mean this when tonight, I'm gonna say a
couple of things that won't be too long, Bro, but I got to
use. Adam, I'm talking to you is Clipper. We're Clipper Nation here.
I'm saying, I need to give a Star Wars analogy. That is
what this unit here. We've been dealing with dark Lords and Darth Vadis for
forty years, bro, laughing stock of the Let me tell you something.
The Clippers were not shooting like Stormtoppers tonight, they say. And that's the
thing, as I said it before, Adam, this could be the unit.
When the Clippers are playing that kind of defense, when they're focused,
when peg is on fire like tonight, they are are going to be something
to continue. But it's the reason I'm gonna say this, and now I'm
kind of leave it alone or kind of hop on off. The reason I
used the Star Wars analogy. You remember that they had to use the right
kind of proton bomb. Remember it was just like only like the little three
foot thing, y'all. Remember Star Wars and all that Clippers knew. You
don't use an analogy. I'm cunning, yeah, to blow the death Star
exactly. But the point is, even though our chances are narrow and slim,
this is the unit we got, the Luke Skywalkers. We got to
see three pie know, we got our team to do it. And I
yielded my explain or whatever, I uelded the plane. Hey they got they
got Zubaka as well. Uh too easy, Hello Mercy, All right,
tulle next time, my brother, go Clippers tomorrow man, no doubt,
go Clippers. Appreciate the phone call. Keith as always one of my favorites.
Here. Look, if the Clippers are going to do something that's never
been done by this franchise, they need everybody to play, to be playing
at the highest level. So it was a sight for sore eyes to see
Paul George go eleven for twelve from the field and six of seven from three
twenty eight points on twelve shots. This is the type of stuff he's capable
of. If they're gonna be able to win at all, he has to
play like Robin to Kawhi's batman, and at times, I don't know,
be more like night Wing. Be his own guy, be a one to
a to what Kawhi Leonard's doing out there. Paul George is as good as
he wants to be. He has all the talent in the world. Sometimes
it feels like it's between the ears a little bit, he loses focus.
But to respond and bounce back like this very encouraging. Let's go to John
in La John, you're on Clippers stop without a month soon after they win
by fifteen in Chicago, John, what's up? Yeah? Wow, Yeah,
thanks to you have a great shows. Always three game post game listen.
I think it's gonna be pretty hilarious when the Lakers season ends prematurely and
they're hanging their hat on the end season tournament win and and and the win
against the Clippers, and the series win against the Clippers, where the Clippers
most likely will be deep in a playoff run. It looks like we'll see
John. Nothing nothing is guaranteed. Nothing is guaranteed right now. I don't
think there's as much difference between the top of the West and the bottom.
I think there's some really dangerous teams that are just trying to figure they're just
starting to figure things out. I should say it's gonna be a blood bath
of first round series in the West. Yeah. And a good friend of
mine always says health equals well. So that's the Clippers, I mean,
for sure in a nutshell, but it's yeah, good win. You know,
Chicago's coming off over time, unreal game last night and losing Kobe White.
So Clippers went in tonight and that's what they have to do, you
know, they have to take someone out while they're down a little bit,
you know, and it's good. They got good energy, you know.
I hope Hardon can for a switch. I know he's played a lot of
minutes, but I feel like he's kind of been a little lackadaisically, just
a little sloppy with the basketball, you could say, John I agree on
that. I think a game off his first as a Clipper. If he's
back in tomorrow against New Orleans, and we'll update you on that. We'll
hear from coach Louke coming up. But that could be exactly what he needs,
a little reset after having I believe, five turnovers against Minnesota and he
was hard on himself post game, so that could be part of the calvary
arriving. If he's able to go tomorrow against the Pelicans, biggest game of
the season. We'll have your pre game starting at four We'll have coach Lou
Audio coming up next. After the Clippers went into Chicago and won one twenty
six to one eleven as they shot fifty percent from three and sixty percent from
the floor. You're listening to Clippers Sock here on MPI seventy LA Sports.
The LA Clippers continue their hunt for a Lario B. They still want to
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the LA Clippers Audio network. In the case of Kawhi Leonard, I stand
alone probably on this, but I don't care. I think the man should
retire. I mean, maybe he should take his own advice. Clippers win
in Chicago, final score one twenty six to one eleven as Kawhi goes twelve
of seventeen from the field, returns from backspasms, and drops twenty seven points.
Plays lockdown defense laid against Amar de Rozan did not give up a point
and the Clippers would win by fifteen as they get ready to go into New
Orleans tomorrow to take on the Pelicans, which could decide who's going to be
four or who's gonna be five in the West. Yeah, the game is
that important. Clippers three games in front of the Pelicans, but they're two
and one so far against the Clippers. They win that game, they'll have
the head to head tiebreaker. If the Clippers win, it comes down to
division record and if you win your division. That's why there's still divisions in
the NBA. I think it's kind of silly, but it comes down to
tiebreakers. The Clippers look like they're gonna go on to win the Pacific Division,
but the Pelicans look like they're going to go on to win the Southwest.
So then what's the third tiebreaker? Conference record? The Clippers are twenty
five and seventeen in the West, the Pelicans are twenty four and eighteen,
so the Clippers one game better there tomorrow is a big one. Let's hear
from cod a post game. This also was very important and just the way
in the manner the Clippers were able to win, pulling their starters with about
four minutes left in the fourth quarters, they handled business. When Chicago got
hot themselves, from three, they went sixteen to thirty five from the outside.
That's forty six percent. And it seemed like almost every time the Clippers
hit a three, shy town had the reprisal. The retort, they knock
one down. It was almost impressive if you're a Clipper fan, it was
probably more annoying and frustrating. But the Bulls played well, but the Clippers
closed and put them away. Let's hear from coach lou post game after a
victory on the front end of this back to back. I thought we did
a good job taking care of basketball. I thought we did a good job
just getting inside to side, you know, and then just getting to our
next actions, you know, so just playing with pace, getting it up,
getting to our next actions. And so like you know, we're totally
different team, two different teams. When you know Bones is playing and you
know when James is playing, and so you know, James so dynamic and
pick and roll and makes every play, every pass, every play. And
then today we had to do it by committee, so we had to run
picking rolls of Bones PG Kawhi, and we all did a good job was
just taking care of the basketball and making plays for one another, you know,
And so that was just good to see. I thought we did a
good job helding the double teams, the best we've done in a while,
you know, as far as when they double team Kawhi and the post ups
and so just a totally different game, you know, just a totally different
field. And so we have, you know, ways we can play differently,
you know, every night and so on. Tonight was one of those
nights, you know, missing James for the first time and so hopefully he's
healthy, he can get back soon. H what he says soon is soon
as soon as tomorrow hopefully. And when he was there, like a point
of emphasis specifically about how the Bulls were going to play, especially with the
double teams, like they had keepable defenders to go our Kawhi and Paul and
visiting out of thru s to Tory Craig, and they still seem like they
were just gifting y'all three's Like what was the point of emphasis and preparing those
guys to play through those double teams. Just something we've been working on for
the last four years and all year just preparing and you know, like I
said, we haven't been doing a great job of it. And so you
know, I credit Billy for doing it because we haven't handled it. Will
and some we work on and someone used to be really good at, so
just got to get back to being good versus double teams being good at versus
Blitzez and the five man being up, and I thought, PG, you
know, really did a great job of just handling that getting to the short
role with Zoo and DT and those guys making players out of the short row.
You know. So just something that we needed to get better at and
so hopefully we can build out this game. A couple of things there.
It was Coach Lupost game after the Clippers want one by fifteen in Chicago,
but he mentioned handling double teams better, which they certainly need to do because
Kawhi and Paul George and James Harden when he's available, see they see a
ton of them. But he mentioned having multiple ways to play, and when
you create different ways to win, it makes you so much tougher to game
plan for. So tonight they don't have James Harden, who has been a
system for them, so they're running pick and roll with a multitude of guys,
not just bones get the starting spot in place of James Harden, but
Kawhi and Paul George. They haven't done it as much lately. They haven't
had to because James Harden has been there. I like the fact that they
may be unlocked a little something that has been missing for a while with running
pick and roll with their wings. They need that. You gotta be versatile,
you gotta find other ways to win in the playoff. It's playoffs series.
It's all about matchups and having one more move on the chess board than
your opponent. Nobody's better at that. I believe maybe expulsers right there with
him. But coach Lou often gets voted as the toughest guy to game plan
for end game. He's the chiropractors, know what Eagle would say. He
is a strategist, tinkering tie. We'll take a quick time out, we'll
come back well. Hear from I don't know if it's Will or Big Chuck
who's coming on to join me. I believe it's Chuck Mankler coming on.
We also heard from coach Loeu who's optimistic and saying he hopes James Harden is
available tomorrow. So it could come down to how he feels when he wakes
up dealing with that left shoulder issue which he has been working through. Clippers
working through it, trying to get back to closing teams out stepping on their
throat. Late We saw that in Chicago tonight, something to build off of,
but a huge game against the Pelicans in New Orleans tomorrow. More Clippers
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the outside twenty to forty from distance? I see you, Zach o'caudy.
Clippers win in Chicago one forty six to one eleven over the Bulls. Welcome
back into Clippers, Doc, I'm into Moslin. Let's get out to our
friend Jack Mockler from cliff in Dip Fame. After a ballgame where Paul George
put up a stat line that only Nikolajokic had before in NBA history. There's
two guys that have had twenty eight points, seven assists, five boards,
one steal, one block on eleven of twelve shooting Nikola Jokic and PG thirteen
Paul George. So we can start there, Chuck, Was that the most
encouraging sign you saw tonight from this Clippers team? Just Paul George getting his
offense on glued? Uh? Yeah, the efficiency was great to see.
I you know, had stops to Paul George for what he did tonight after.
I think after a lot of us are going be disappointed about the game
before this one. But I still don't love the field goal attemps if I'm
being honest. Obviously James Harden isn't there, which makes getting shot, you
know, more difficult, But I still would have liked to see more than
twelve attempts. I guess he didn't necessarily need them because he was so efficient.
He had twenty eight on twelve tams. What do you know? I'd
want more tamp because what happens when the efficiency isn't there? Right, Because
that's what we've been worried about. We need the efficiency to be there.
This is something he can build on, which is great. So TVD on
if he plays tomorrow. I think he probably will, but I hope to
see it again tomorrow because the efficiency was great and he was more aggressive to
start this game, which I think everyone was excited about. Yeah, he
had fifteen points in the opening quarter and I guess coach leu we heard from
him earlier. But he also said the Clippers are going to emphasize getting the
ball back in pg's hands more during the rest of the season and have him
run more pick and rolls. Something he mentioned that you know, without James
Harden, it's kind of a culture shock because you've had him running high pick
and roll for so long. Now. This is the first game he has
missed as a Clipper tonight, though it was Bones Highland running it, it
was PG, it was Kawhi, And I think that's a good thing overall,
to just have more looks and more of a varied attack out there.
Chuck, Yeah, I think the varied attack. I totally agree with you
there. It's going to be TBD on us getting the ball in Paul George's
hand Moore will be an overall good thing. Or you know, depending on
what the turnovers look like, there might be some adjustments there. But bone
Tiland was phenomenal tonight, the skeleton key your guy making. I think this
is his best case so far obviously for minutes in the playoffs, which is
going to have to be a discussion if he hopefully keeps playing as well,
because he was phenomenal tonight. He threw in a couple passes the zoo that
you couldn't quite handle it. I thought you maybe should have gotten a hand
on so he would have had even a few morrises. But yeah, half
off the ball in's career highs of what this am deal tonight the exact kind
of thing the Clippers need on a back to back, you know, with
this March schedule. I complained often about him being out of the rotation.
I understood it to a degree because you have James Harden to Russell Westbrook,
but considering how different of a player he is than Russ and being able to
spread the floor like he can where I think now he's nine for his last
fifteen from three or something like that, when everybody was worried about his shooting,
Oh you missed fifteen straight? Is he the same guys. The volume
really there, Yeah, it's all still there. He just needed to get
some reps. Like as you said, I think he's making a pretty damn
strong case that you can't go in a playoff series and not get him some
run somewhere. Yeah, he's gonna be you know, even if it's just
a small amount of minutes. The way that he plays is designed kind of
his play style is perfect for we need a couple buckets, we need something
like that. You know, there's there's one hundredth I'm going to be used
for him. Got to watch the files a little bit. That's you know,
obviously, I think that's one of the harder things to figure out when
you're already a guy who's not necessarily known for his defense and you have time
off. That's gonna be something that I think probably takes the longest to come
back. Yeah, and that might be his biggest turtle to more playoff minutes.
But yeah, I'm looking forward to the there's going to be a Bone
playoff game, I think, and it's going to be a lot of fun.
I think he can swing a series. Can you imagine Bones going up
against his former team and the Denver Nuggets and how those minutes to be fair.
But say it's the Western Conference Finals. Okay, let's talk about Norman
fowl here, who I just saw this. He had his fiftieth game of
ten points or more off the bench. He leads the NBA in that area.
I don't even think they have him top ten in six Man of the
Year voting based off the betting odds, which is crazy and wild and uninformed.
Norm also hit big shots in this game eighteen points, only had to
take ten shots to get there. I don't know where they'd be this season
without Norman Powell and how good he's been when we started the year, Like,
you know, Norm could be trade bayed at some point. Maybe he's
a guy that's, uh, what do this it have a surplus of shooting
and he's too small. And now it's like, man, Norman Powell is
unbelievable. What a professional. Yeah, he's kind of a New lou right,
Like he's known for going out there and getting buckets and that's kind of
it. And I do not mean that in a bad way. Norman has
been phenomenal. I don't think enough is getting talked about. Felt that elbow
we took and how it's completely changed, like it's crazy, but no,
Norman has been fantastic. He came into the season talking about wanting to be
an All Star and we talked about this on Clippers on Clips and Dip.
We were like, that would be great too, but if you're if you're
also maybe six tent of the year, that really helps the Clippers. And
he's worked at that. He's put in the work. He doesn't ever get
too down. You know, shoot shoot, and he very much does that.
So yeah, it's he's going to be huge in the playoffs as well.
The Clippers have a lot of scoring on the bench. How surprised and
relieved are you that Kawhi Leonard was the very next game. I think I
was the only person out there that remembered he had backspasms in twenty twenty one
and came back the very next game, and he looked great tonight against Chicago.
Yeah, he was getting anything he wanted. It didn't matter at all
who was in front of him. We say that every single time about when
Kawhi Leonard plays well. His full game was on display tonight. Offensively,
he just you know, he got those mid range spots. He made this
happen. He had a chunky stat line. Yeah, five boards through or
fifth stealing the block. So other than the turnovers, it was a fantastic
performance from Kawhi. Do you think he goes tomorrow? Do you think he's
going to get the back to back. I'm gonna say yes. I'm trying
to be optimistic here, just based upon how he looked tonight, and I
just think back spasms can be something different. Like once they settled down,
just like last time, he was fine. He was good to go.
So we'll see it. I mean, it depends how he feels coming out
of this. Same with James Harden, depends how he feels when he wakes
up tomorrow. But I'm trying to be optimistic with it and that maybe both
of them can go considering the magnitude of that game against the Pelicans. That's
the biggest game of the season right now, right, Chuck, yet again,
I feel but this is the real one, guess Minnesota. Yeah,
right, that's how it goes. But when you you know, when a
team that maybe should have won some games that they didn't, this is now
you know we're in a very important game season. Yeah, I want to
see the Clippers have some good process to build. I've said that I want
to see them build good process in this month, hopefully winning at least ten
games, and they're so far. They're on that path right now. Tomorrow
obviously the win is important, but good process against a larger team will be
very important in the long run too. Well put He is Chuck Monckler of
Clips and Dip. You'll find us on a YouTube later on this week.
But the Clippers are in New Orleans tomorrow taking on the Pelicans, who are
games behind them but lead the head to head season record two games to one,
so they beat them tomorrow. If they can take down the Clippers and
have that head to head tiebreaker, who then we really start sweating. But
the last time the Clippers were there, they played one of their best games
of the season. They completely dismantled the New Orleans Pelicans, So hopefully they
got everybody ready to go on the second night of a back to back.
Chuck, thanks for joining me here with the little Clips and double Dip here
on Clippers Talk. My friend Hey, thanks for having me. Let's go
clips before we get out of here. After the Clippers won one twenty six
to one, eleven in Chicago. Let's hear from the mix, maestro Zach
l Kaldy. Hi, we got more credit from the college tonight than I
did, Zach. I'm jelly over here like you're getting all the love,
Zach. Attack on the board making it sound good. I'll give you some
song suggestions. How about that making me sound good? Making steven A sound
terrible? I love it, Zach. You want to play a little one
in one here? Yea, all right, one question for you, one
question for me. You go first. Yeah, as you know, I
did price picks and I got a little too excited, but I did have
the most fun. I'm just wondering what would be some of your go to
winners when it goes to price picks, Like who are the players you fall
back on? I mean, who did I have tonight? Did I go
with PG? Thirteen? Typically I look for him to bounce back after bad
games. Kawhi Leonard's been the easy call all season long because he's had so
many few bad games. You gotta go more for the next one. I'm
usually looking at points and then I try to look at who Kawhi Leonard is
guarding off. And now tonight I went with Nikolavusevich to have less than twenty
one points. He did, He only had nineteen, So I think I
was a big winner tonight on ice picks. Yeah, what you're saying is
we should probably listen to your picks for price picks. Yeah, that's the
one thing you should listen to me on. Okay. I put all my
energy and effort and knowledge it's power into that. All right. I got
a question for you. Do you like my hat? Yes? I do,
actually, and I like where do Where can people see it? At
follow out of May? You didn't like my tweet from earlier on X at
follow out of May? You know, I get a lot of tweets yound.
So yeah, you gotta scroll through late at night and then respond to
everyone pretty much. Okay, you're big time like that. I get it.
When you mix it like that, that's what's going to happen. Zach
o'cauley, Where can they find you on X? So it's Zach Elk.
So it's so it's z A c E. Okay, So it's Zach Elk.
So it's okay, Okay, very cool, Zach. Thank you for
doing this to night and filling in admirably for Katie Newton. Thank you so
much, Adam. Before we get out of here, I do want to
also thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Bryan Seamen, no ego,
Carlo Jimenez on the call, the callers, the listener, his big brother
Jake Warner. Until tomorrow with your pregame show starting right back here at Park
Clippers in New Orleans taking on the Pelicans, and I'm out a Moslim.
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