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Clippers are no fools. Goal. They take down the Denver Nuggets here at
Crypto dot Com Arena with a final score of one oh two to one hundred.
They do so without Kawhi Leonard. It's their grittiest, biggest victory of
the season with just six games left. Welcome into Clippers Countdown and make it
Clippers Talk. Make it your Clippers postgame locker room show. Technically webers party
here at Club one eleven. We got Carlo Jimenez post game. We'll take
calls later on on AM five seventy. LA Sports eight six six nine seven
two five seventy is the phone number if you'd like to get on early.
Carlo Jimenez. What a victory by this Clippers team. They didn't have their
best, but they were at their best. When it was required late,
Adam, if you would have told me the Clippers shot twenty one percent from
three, I would have said, there is a point one percent chance that
they win this game. But to get it done, I think it all
starts at him with taking a lead in that third quarter, because they hung
onto it the entire way. Denver did not lead after they relinquished the seventeen
point advantage. The Clippers were able to take hold of the charge and never
let go. It was an impressive win, but most impressed by the process
for this Clippers team, really really great stuff. They didn't turn the ball
over, just two of them in the entire second half, and they made
Denver make mistakes. Jokic got his thirty six, but as we talked about
pregame, Adam, it was let Yokic cook, make someone else beat you.
No one else beat them. The Clippers had half the amount of turnovers
as the Denver Nuggets, the Nuggets with fourteen, the Clippers with seven.
In this one, James Harden was just six of twenty three. Really struggle
in the second half, but made the pass to Big Zoo down low late
who made the free throws that were clutch at the free throw line, and
we just saw beats the Zubats a few games ago go ten of ten at
the charity stripe. That's a nice warm up for what we're gonna see from
him late in this ball game. It ain't sexy, it ain't pretty,
but free throws can win you a game, especially in a low scoring affair
like this one. I mean, and they did. Adam twenty seven made
free throws to the Clippers on thirty two attempts and a game where you shoot
your worst percentage of the season against the team Adam that, by the way,
has lost four games since the All Star Break seventeen and four. They're
the best team in the NBA if you take a twenty game sample size and
the Clippers got it done. You want to talk about a win that really
really could turn things around for this Clippers team. Why I think why this
one could turn things around, Adam, is because in the past it's been
the offense that has shined. But they won this game because their defense was
excellent, because they're tailed Denver to one hundred points, and as an old
voice on this radio used to say, they were the first to one hundred
and it's the law the law was not broken, even by Nikoli Jokic,
who had a look at a three point or late. But guarding him would
be PJ. Tucker, who re entered the ballgame for I believe if it's
a zubos as they went smaller for more switchability out there, and I just
felt like Coach Lee was pushing all the right buttons tonight with his rotations,
with his lineups, and I do think PJ. Tucker, as much as
you can stifle Nikola jokicch and at least give him a different look, did
his thing. Like we saw last season with the Philadelphia seventy six ers,
we talked about a pregame where you'd have PJ. Tucker as his number one
primary defender and then a roaming big man behind him, this time not Joel
Embiid. It was a beats of zoo bots and that look gave Denver just
enough issues. I mean, it was a seat belt from the Clippers underneath.
They really forced Jokic to make tough plays. Adam. He had a
thirty six point seventeen rebound, tennysis triple double, but the Clippers. As
insane as this sounds, he'll take it because he worked. He worked for
every single shot in this ballgame. They made it tough on him the entire
night. I thought it was so impressive by the Clippers defensively. And credit
to you, Adam. The minute Tucker was treated, everyone was like,
what are they gonna do with PJ. Tucker? How are you gonna well,
what are they what's going on? And you said, hey, a
jokic series against Denver. He can provide value, and he provided value in
this game. Missed a couple of shots, but his four personal fouls and
his three rumers. I thought all the bigs today going to even a Mason
Plumley, played really really well on the defensive end. They they made Denver
wake up tomorrow with maybe some scratches and bruises on their arms. It was
a physical game and it was a fun win for the Clips. The Clippers
have just six games left in the regular season and they just secured their toughest
victory without Kawhi Leonard here at Crypto dot Com arena and showed something else we
talked about, you know what their identity used to be being resilient, playing
their best when the Chips were down, when people were counting them out,
when they were missing one of their superstars. They used to gather up victories
like this all the time over the past couple of seasons. We haven't seen
it as much this year. We just got one of their best tonight against
the Denver Nuggets in a time of need, with everything circling around Kawhi Leonard
the right knee soreness, second game out, and the Clippers come through clutch
against Jokic and the Denver Nuggets here at Crypto dot Com Arena. They win
one to two to one hundred Clipper Nation. I'm already hearing the positivities coming
through the phone lines. I know what's happen happening later tonight, Carlo Jimenez
off the top rope. And the best part about this is we're gonna do
it all over again tomorrow. Right back here is the Clippers take on the
Utah Jazz. Carlo, my friend, great call, especially down the stretch,
rising to the occasion as always, just like the Clippers. Here,
let's do it tomorrow twenty four hours, less than twenty four hours from now.
Hey, all credit goes to Big Bro. Before the ball was timing,
he said, we're getting this win. I don't think any of us
believe them, we were wrong. A wise sage in Big Brother Jake Horner,
Big Bro never lost, never wrong. Coming up next, we'll get
the second half highlights as the Clippers get a two point victory without Kawhi Leonard
over Nikole jokiching the Denver Nuggets. Here at home, I'm out of moslet
and this is your Clippers postgame locker room show. Los Angeles Clippers loading,
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LB Pursuit of Happiness tonight for the Clipper Nation after they win one oo suit
to one hundred over the team, the defending champs that currently hold the trophy.
Here at Crypto dot Com, Marena, I'm Adam Moslin. Welcome back
into your postgame locker room show. Coming up, we'll get your postgame box
score. The Clippers win by two. They hold on late against Nikola Jokic,
who couldn't get a three pointer to go this time from about half court
on his way too likely having an MVP season still, but the Clippers were
down seventeen in the first quarter, not just the first half. The first
quarter they got ambushed in this one. They were down thirty one to twenty
heading into the second. But in that second quarter they would turn things around.
They outscored Denver thirty three to eighteen. They went plus ten with Jokic
off the floor, and then at the half they led by four at fifty
three to forty nine, a twenty one point turnaround from being down seventeen to
up fourth the half. In the third quarter they would extend their lead ever
so slightly, and it was Paul George Pg. Thirteen. You're remaining Superstar
with Kawhi Leonard out helping him out. Left wing, George steps into a
three jack pot Terrence Man finds Paul George, who knocks it in. George
at the FREEKDO line right elbow on KCP, pulls up from the mid range
and rips the ropes. George has been hot with a t I seventeen on
the right wing. He'll try another mid range, He'll buy another ren maage
George left wing. He's feeling good. He drives. He steps back with
ten cat the freakdel line to the ram, the lay up the finish.
Paul George with twenty one time out. Michael Malone in timber Paul George with
nine points there in that third quarter as the Clippers were battling and scrapping,
and they outscored the Nuggets twenty two to twenty one in a low scoring affair.
In those twelve minutes, Clippers led seventy five to seventy heading into the
fourth where PG thirteen would once again step up. Big Lane George pen intries
the defense layup at the lip of the rim, off the windowing in PG
thirteen with a freak line jumper down for two Paul George big buckets. When
the Clippers weren't getting many to go in that fourth quarter, but at the
charity stripe of each the Zoo Bots stepped up. He was clutched late.
There were some interesting fouls being called, an ejection of Mike Malone. Oh,
it was nuts here at Crypto dot Com arena and almost felt like that
playoff preview for what we hope could be a Western Conference Finals type of matchup
against the Denver Nuggets. But here was your final. With the Nuggets down
by two with just five seconds remaining in this one, Carlo Amenez taken away,
everyone standing in sweating Gordon in bouncy Jokicic up in your side with three
spins at half ft with two all right wing, three and the horn for
the win. It's sort and the Clippers strike gold en deempor one O two,
one hundred. They take down the Nuggets without Kawhi. Down seventeen in
the first half, the Clippers grind out the grittiest win of the season against
the best team since the break and come away without one O two one victory.
There was your finals. Nikola Jokicic couldn't get this half court shot to
go like he did against the Golden State Warriors. The Clippers come through late.
They win by two without number two and Kawhi Leonard coming up next.
It's your postgame box score right here on your Clippers Locker Room show on the
Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. LA Clippers Basketball is on the two one three
era continues. You're listening to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network.
Without number two. The Clippers win by two over the Denver Nuggets here
at Crypto dot Com Arena. They were missing Kawhi, but they brought the
heart and the effort with them. Still they take down the Denver Nuggets with
Nikola Jokish having a thirty six point triple double, but was three point shy
of winning this ballgame for the Denver Nuggets. Not this time, Joker.
Welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm ada moslind eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
if you want to get on joining me tonight celebrity Carl Tart, our friend
from Clips and Dip. If you don't know Carl Tart, check out his
IMDb. He'll be here as the CND guys are doing a little live edition
right now on the YouTube. But we're here for you. We'll take all
your phone calls. But first, let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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AM five to seventy KLAC Los Angeles, ninety eight seven KYSR HD two
Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. The Clippers were down seventeen in the first quarter.
They looked like they didn't belong on the floor. With the Denver Nuggets.
Their championship pedigree was shining through. They were knocking down three pointers.
In the first quarter, they went five of eleven from three. They would
end up only hitting six more three pointers throughout the rest of the ball game.
They shot just thirty one percent from the field From the outside, I
should say forty three percent from the field, and that's where I want to
start. The Clippers defense finally showed up for the majority of this one.
They were still down seventeen. Their offense was failing them early too, leading
to good looks for the Denver Nuggets on the other end, as the Clippers
were turning it over weren't getting back. It looked like the same old story
coming into this one. Last twenty six games since the Grammy road trip,
the Clippers were twenty eighth defensively, and they just held the Denver Nuggets to
one hundred the average points scored per game this season in the NBA one fourteen.
It's tough to play defense when you have to guard the entire floor now
because guys can shoot it from everywhere. But the Clippers have not been given
a good enough effort on that end for a long time. I don't know
what happened post Grammy road trip. Seemed like they flipped found the switch,
but they flipped it off. I'm hoping tonight is them flipping a switch back
on, and this is something you can build off of. You gotta believe
that's the case. With just six games left, the runway is short,
but they're still three games up technically or not technically because of the tiebreaker.
They have a three game lead on the Dallas Mavericks in the four spot,
who won earlier. The Clippers had to have this one. It's the front
end of a back to back, it's the start of a five and seven,
and you learn Kawhi Leonard was going to be out yesterday. He's missed
the last two games right knee soreness. Don't know if we'll be back tomorrow.
Coach Lou was asked about a pregame. You're dealing with adversity from all
angles, from an injury concern with Kawhi and then on the court taken on
the defending champs tonight. It's true they didn't have Jamal Murray either, but
the Clippers rose to the occasion they did. You're down seventeen. I've been
talking about how gritty this Clippers team would be in past seasons when they were
missing a star or both of them, and how many galvanizing wins they would
come up with when they could show out that resilient nature and their depth and
prove that they were more than just their superstars. Tonight, it felt like
they relocated that identity. That's the biggest thing for this team. Players have
been questioning it, what's our identity? Coach Lou called him out for being
soft since then one they went three to one on that last road trip.
Their first game back, they get a victory over the defending champs tonight.
Outside of Kawhi Leonard and that knee injury on the court, things have been
pointing back in the right direction overall. Tonight confirms that you can be upset
about the Sacramento Kings loss, but I don't think anybody cares about that now.
The Clippers showed who they are. We played some audio from Paul George
in the first segment of the pregame show after the loss and Sacramento the other
night, talking about finding themselves again, establishing who they are as a team.
Victories like this reveal your character and your identity. The Clippers are gritty,
are still a tough minded team and for whatever reason, took their foot
off the gas the last couple of months. But four and one over the
last five and getting back to playing some defense. That was a hell of
an effort on the defensive end. They closed out three point shooters after the
first quarter. They threw a multitude of bodies at Nikola Jokic, like you
have to and I said it and tweeted it out as soon as they got
PJ. Tucker. I was looking at tape of him on the Philadelphia seventy
six ers playing next to Joe El Embiid and playing decent defense against Jokic.
I don't know what the numbers ended up being in that one on one matchup,
which really isn't a one on one because the point is you have the
smaller defender front him, you have the bigger defender behind him, and Avitza
zu Bots that has been one of the Formula's teams have tried to slow down
the best player over the last five years. And that's just a fact.
If you have the finals MVP Hardware, two regular season MVPs in your last
three seasons, you're in contention for your third regular season MVP and are likely
going to get it. You're the best player in the league period. He's
incredible. He's a hub on offense. And when that three ball went up,
my heart skipped a beat and I thought it was going to be another
banked in three pointer like he had this season to punctuate his MVP case and
resume when he beat the Golden State Warriors, it looked like it could happen
again, but the Clippers did just enough. They ended up holding the Nuggets
to who is this right? Fifty one points on the second half live with
that all day and forty nine points in the first half. The others weren't
knocking down their shots. Jolkis may have got his at times, but Aaron
Gordon was eighteen and was missing free throws. He was eight or fourteen.
At the Charity Stripe, they went seventeen to twenty five overall, the Clippers
twenty seven to thirty two. At the Charity Stripe. I thought KCP when
he knocked down that three pour in the fourth quarter, was going to start
to get it going, but then he missed one. Jokis didn't have enough
help and the Clippers One of the biggest reasons they won this game is at
the charity stripe at the free throw line, big Zoo. You won't find
a bigger fan of Aviza zu Bus than me and willing to see him on
the court more. He's earned it. He's a made man. And if
you're a big man that can knock it on free throws like he's capable of
hitting clutch free throw after clutch free throw in the last two minutes of the
ballgame, it's gonna be hard to keep him off the court. Love seeing
that from Viatza Zubats who finished with fourteen and fifteen. And it's still gonna
be upset with himself, I know, because he's a perfectionist. For that
miss dunk that he had on the mismatch, the layup that he tried,
it should have been a dunk, but it ended up being a turnover by
Aaron Gordon on the other end, who slipped. I don't know. Somebody
drop a beverage over there, some perspiration. That was a fortunate play going
the Clippers way. I know that's foreign to Clipper Nation, but it just
happened. All the basketball guys looking out, I don't know, seemed like
a good sign earlier today that Kawhi at least was that shoot around. That's
something we don't know the extent of it. It's day to day. But
after the last twenty four hours, forty eight hours from this team to come
through with a victory like this when they needed it, not just because of
the standings, but because it proves something to yourself that we can beat this
team, We can beat Jokic, and we can beat him even without Kawhi
Leonard in this one. They won the last two matchups against Denver this season
after I think losing a straight to them, that's meaningful, not like Denver
wasn't going for this victory. Did you see Mike Malone. I read his
lips. I know what you got thrown out of this ball game? He
said one of those seven words, you can't direct it at an official.
There was some interesting calls on both sides. He was upset because he felt
like Michael Porter Junior was fouled by Viata Zoobots on a closeout, but he
kicked his legs out if anything that could have been an offensive foul. Then
on the other end, Paul George got hacked by casep on a breakaway no
call. For the most part, I'd say they evened out and the Clippers
were just two points better, as simple as that. Eight sixty six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Let's start things off with who we got? Morris now in Inglewood, formerly
of Long Beach, of the two one three. They were missing the two
tonight Morris and they still got the victory over Denver. How are you feeling,
man, I'm excited. I'm gonna tell you something. This was a
very important game emotionally, psychologically because the let Clipper nation know, hey,
man, we can still play, and let the people in Denifer know,
hey, the Clippers can still play. And I want to address the elephant
in the room. If I may, I don't listen, Kawhi need to
shut down for the rest of the year. We got two games left to
play with Utah. Okay, we're playing for the fourth spot. We're playing
for the fourth spot. We saw that we don't need the brother no more
and getting ready for the playoffs. Okay. I know it's day to day
and that's important, but he don't have to play no more because we've got
him for the playoffs, the guy who's geared for in the playoffs. So
let's get him to the playoffs and then we can go from there. Now
if we if we needed the brother, you know that. You know we
was battling for a seed, that'd be different, but we're not. And
these guys showed something and they got some heart. And uh, you know,
I like Coffee. I know he have the magn different numbers, but
I for something about that brother. I just like him. And uh,
and I'm gonna tell you about Westbrook or you'll miss the money here and there.
Well one thing about Westbrook. There's nobody in the National Basketball Association it's
gonna outwork him. Now he'll miss the money. You know, he ain't
perfect, but ain't nobody putting in more work and got more energy than that
man. Well, when he's given the effort on defense, I agree with
you, Morris, but there are two sides of the floor. Tonight he
was much better defensively. This was the best he has played on defense in
two months for sure. Go ahead, Okay, well, I'm gonna let
you go with that. I just want you to know we can play the
dead and we're still gonna win it. We're still going win. I don't
give nobody We're still gonna win it. Play for the fourth seed. Sit
Kawhi down. We don't need it right now. We did with the best
we can do with divorce. Why we're playing it. We can't just playing
it by the no more because you don't have the four seeds secured yet,
Morris would be my only point. So we'll see how the Clippers handle it.
They're three games up on Dallas. I said, with seven games left,
they need four more wins and they will have the four seed. They
got one tonight, they need I think three more. There's two more games
left coming up. Tomorrow is one of them against the Utah Jazz, a
game at the end of the season against the Houston Rockets, who might not
be playing for anything anymore because Golden State just be them in Houston tonight.
So it looks like Houston is fading and not gonna have a shot at being
in the play in But I appreciate the phone call Morris and the thought there.
It might be exactly that they win tomorrow. They're in real good shape
for holding onto the four spot and let Dallas and Phoenix battle it out with
New Orleans for whoever wants to meet the Clippers here at Crypto in the opening
round of the playoffs. That's who is jocking for position to end up being
the five seed. We'll take a quick time out. We'll come back.
Clippers win one O two to one hundred without Kawhi over the Denver Nuggets and
Nikola Yokich here at Crypto dot com arena. I'm out a Moslin and you're
listening to Clippers sock. You're only in five to seventy LA Sports. LA
Clippers Basketball is on the two one three era continues. You're listening to the
LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win one O two to
one hundred here at Crypto over Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets, the hottest
team post All Star Break. Welcome back in the Clipper stock. I'm out
of Maslin. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is of the
phone number coming up. We got Carl Tart coming on the show. Yeah,
I'm big time like that from the Grand Crew. Check out his IMDb.
He's a Clipper super fan, he's a friend, he's a good dude.
I'm looking forward to that conversation. It's about that time where I should
remind you why this game was so important coming into it. Not just for
the Clippers to get back to playing Clippers basketball, to find who they are,
their personality, their identity, high character building type of victory over Denver
tonight. There's another reason that I've been screaming about for I don't know a
couple of weeks. You beat Denver to make sure they're not the number one
seed in the West. To make sure if you are lucky enough to advance
out of the first round, you don't have to see him in the second
round. Push him back as far as possible, make them take on okay
See or Minnesota in that second round, then deal with them in the Western
Conference finals if you're lucky enough to get there. I don't want to look
too far ahead, but that is one of the repercussions coming out of this
ballgame. Denver just dropped a half game behind the Minnesota Timberwolves. Like that,
all right back to your phone calls eight sixty six, ninety seven,
two five seventy John and Santa Clarita John, what's up after this huge Clippers
victory? Feeling good, Adam, thank you for having me on. I
think there's a few Clippers fans out there on the internets that can take a
pen and paper and maybe write an apology letter to a few people. Tylu
was just incredible tonight. I was a little incredulous when I heard PJ.
Tucker starting, but he also deserves many apologies. He was fantastic defensively.
And Paul George, of course, you know he had a slump not too
long ago, but he really turned it on tonight. Well. Love seeing
that if they bring that effort like that with Kawhi, they could be anybody,
doesn't matter who. I'm really popped. I'm excited as you should be
after this one. This is the Clippers team that people fell in love with
over the last five years, that would not give up, that would find
ways to win ball games without one of their superstars. Tonight they did just
that. Appreciate the phone call John Mark and Huntington Beach. You aren't Clipper
Stoff without a Mauzle York, what's up, hey, Adam? Like I
said, this prove's defense can win games, and you know everyone's kind of
worried. I'm not worried if we finished fourth or fifth, because you don't
really have home field advantage, as coach lu said, until the seventh game.
And if you're really a good team, you're going to beat the team
in four games out of six. And so well, let me tell let
me tell you a secret. Mark. That seventh game was pretty critical for
the Clippers against the Dallas Mavericks in twenty twenty one, where neither team won
on their home court until that game seven that the Clippers had at home.
I think you won home court. Well, fly in the face of what
she just said. Well, I know there can be a seventh game,
and that's nice to have it. When they literally got out of the first
round because they had home court, we don't need. I'll tell you what.
I'm so optimusic. We can beat anyone in six. How's that for
a stake. Well, I'm fine with that too. I'd sign up for
that because it's gonna be a war against whoever they face in the first round.
Mark. Yeah, And just so you know, I signed up for
wall tickets for next season. Half season. I'm in the wall. You'll
see me oho on the right in the middle of the wall, right that
center halfway up. I felt like the wall was here. With the defense
the Clippers were playing tonight and the way the crowd was re energized after they
turned things around. Down seventeen in that first quarter, the Clippers got the
victory somehow, some way, one of the most impressive victories of the season,
if not the best victory of the year. This Clippers team showed who
they are once again. It's all still there. I was very encouraged by
the drives to the basket by James Harden. I know he was just six
or twenty three because he went two of thirteen from the outside, but he
showed a little bit more burst against better defenders tonight. That's quite the development
from a guy who's been beat up left shoulder injury, finger injury. He's
been dealing with a lot of discomfort and playing through it and had the biggest
pass of the ball game to a eat to Zoo Boss late in this one,
had to make it was able to Harden to Zoo for that dunk.
As points were at a premium in the fourth quarter, they were running some
of that pick and roll, that high pick and roll I've been calling for.
The Clippers showed a little something tonight with scheme, with lineups, with
rotations. They wanted this one bad and they got it. Let's go to
oh, Sean and Inglewood speaking of the apology tour and guys, you should
be doing that right now. Sean, what's up, my friend? How
are you? I don't know, Sean. I got this email that's about
one thousand words from you earlier talking about the Clippers and when they were down
seventeen. So is the apology going to be as loud as the disrespect was
or what's going to happen here? I want to make a point, okay.
So first of all, Brook you are a sut and you played well
and you brought the energy. And some of the points I brought out is
that maybe if Russ started, he would start with the energy just for a
few minutes. Get the team wrapped up, because they did start very slow,
as I always say they do. But the other thing I want to
make a playoff more interested in execution than energy, Sean, but continue but
for it again, you need that, okay. But the other point I
want to make is that I watched from four months ago with Shaq and Kenny
and Barkley was saying why did they take Subach out when they played Denver before
they lost by a couple of points in the fourth quarter when they had a
lead. This time, they did not take Zoo out. And when they
replaced Zu they replaced him with plumb Lee. So they stayed big the entire
game. They didn't lose the game. Okay, So that's a very important
point that when they stay big against Denver, and even though Tucker was effective,
then you counter when Tuck when uh Joker starts to shoot, then the
big guy moves over to have Tucker's back. Sometimes Lumbly played well. All
their bigs that were out there played well, but you know, when they
want to get you know, when they won the game, Sean, when
Jokis was off the floor, the Clippers went I believe, plus twelve.
That's when they won the game. They took advantage of the non Jokic minutes,
you know what, They went plus fourteen at least from the start of
the second quarters when he was back. In the second quarter, they went
plus ten, and they went plus four in the first few minutes of the
fourth quarter when he was off the floor. Okay, that's true, that's
very true. However, at least they did not take Zubac out the game
and let Joker go crazy and let Aaron Gordon close. Joker went crazy.
I mean he was fourteen to twenty four. He had thirty six points,
seventeen boards, tennissists that they shut They shut down the others. He did
have to work for it, but the other guys going so cold, and
you can't let Jokic be both the score and the playmaker tennissists. You can
live with if he had sixteen assists tonight, you lose that ballgame. That's
the difference, Okay, And you're right about that because they did shut down
the other guy and that was their focus. Of course, it was easier
with Javon Murray not being there too. Yeah, well they didn't have Kauhai,
so I think it evens out. Yeah. I agree with all your
points, so I'm not arguing with you. I agree with Sean. You
sent me a long ass email earlier, and now you're not bringing up any
of that stuff. But it's cool. I get it. You wanted Zubats
and Daniel Tice to start the game. Yeah I don't. I didn't see
that happening. But let me mention one thing from the Sacramento game. So
they went small and it was a point turnaround and the first the second quarter,
Sean, you only you only call in when there's confirmation bias on your
side when it works out the other way, which it has recently in some
games for the Clippers. You're nowhere to be found. I appreciate the phone
call, but we move. We move, Sean, because you gave up
on him early on in this game. Daniel in Echo Park, Daniel,
you're on Clippers. Stop with that, Allison? What's up? Daniel?
Hey, double A. How's it going? Hey? I just kind of
there's one thing that stood out. Obviously it was the defense, but there
was a point where the ball movement was like quiz it and it made me
think, you know, the ball doesn't really move like that that often,
and obviously we're not gonna win with the Kuhi, but it seems like it
kind of goes into like Iso ball when it gets into his hands. But
that's because he gets the most points per shot attempt in isolation in the NBA,
so probably the is that gonna work in the playoffs? I mean,
yeah, that's actually what happens all the time. My friend in the playoffs
in a seven game series when teams have seen everything. Do you know why
game sevens are so little scoring because there's not much scheming left. It's your
best versus their best. That's exactly what happens in playoff games more iso than
ever. Welcome to the NBA, my friend. Yeah, I love it.
I love this game, and I love tonight's game. It seems like
our ADHD Clippers, let's to turn it on tonight and didn't procrastinate. I
loved it. Hope, hope, hope. We uh don't have to see
these guys until the Western Conference Finals. I'm with you. That would be
the best path for this Clippers team. You don't want to have to take
them on too early. Maybe you take them on when they're a little bit
more worn down, when they've had to go through a couple of tough series
just to get there. Path of least resistance is the goal always. I
believe there have been teams that have won championships based off of that they had
the right layout in front of them. Who you play, matters, styles,
make fights. Coming up, we'll have Carl tart On. We'll celebrate
more of those victory by the Clippers over the Denver Nuggets one to two to
one hundred. I'll email back Sean Inglewood. We'll get to it all tonight.
Speak for the Jake Moarners shaking his head. You know we got some
positivity coming up as well. Clippers win by two over Nikola Jokics without number
two in Kawhi Leonard. And this is Clippers Talk here on five se sports
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to the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win one two
to one hundred over the Denver Nuggets. Welcome back into Crypto dot com,
Marina. I'm Adam Mouslet. This is Clippers Talk coming up. We'll get
back to your phone calls at eight sixty six ninety eight seven two five seventy.
But first we got someone who has the super secret celebrity hotline. It's
Big Carl Tart. He's at Damnit Carl on Instagram. Nobody knows what his
Twitter burner is. It's probably something like at Big Zoo's the best ever.
I don't know what it could be, but Carl, thanks for joining me
after a Clippers Big victory over the Denver Nuggets tonight, My friend, Adam,
I have been waiting to do this for so long. Thank you for
having me. And what a special night it was. What a special performance
by Viza Zubots knocking down those free throws in the fourth quarter, Your guy,
Carl, Okay, maybe not something you know? You mean listen,
you mean when he missed that layup to give us a solid so we wouldn't
have to worry about all of our hearts jumping out of our chest when Yokis
put up their three. Thank you guy for PJ Tucker. Huh how about
that? Are we really doing this on a night where big Zoo at eight
of his fourteen points in the fourth quarter and is a big man hitting those
clutch free throws with a minute and a half left? Are we really not
going to give a beat to Zubat's credit for this one? In the defense
on Jolgic slate, he got that stupid. I know, Adam, every
time you say do you believe there are people out there who don't believe in
Zubat? I know you always directing that at me. And that's okay.
I told you I like Zubat. I the guy. He's the only guy
you don't have a jersey up on this team. You got John Wall jerseys
and stuff, but you won't have one for Big Zoo. I tried to
get this. I try to get the Zubac gameplay jersey. Can you believe
that? Remember on NBA auctions. NBA auctions they had a Zubat jersey for
two hundred and fort y'all. But I said, I can't wear that.
That dude is two feet taller than me. I'm gonna have to. It's
gonna be a dress on me. I want to wear it to the guy.
I have to tuck it into my khakis. Yeah. Well it could
be a gown. It could be a nightgown because he put Denver to bed
tonight. It's Carl Tart from the Grand Curve joining us here postgame on Clippers
Talk after they win one O two to one hundred over the Denver Nuggets.
Okay, big picture here, Carl, has this team gained back your trust?
Do you have more faith in the Clippers after a victory like this?
They're four and one in their last five ball games since coach Lou called him
out for being soft. They didn't have Kawhi Leonard. It just seems like
maybe they've turned a little bit of a corner here with just six games from
any let me tell you something, what a statement win without Kawhi. I
love that That game was like, that was so exciting, And again I
tell you, my heart was jumping out of my chest for most of the
time. I was in a bar with a bunch of Laker fans and they
was on my head, but I stood strong. I still ten toes down
for the nation, and That's what I'm always gonna do. And we pulled
it off at the end. What a statement win without Kawhi. There.
Shout out to PG, Shout out to PJ, shout out to Zubats,
shout out to the whole squad. I think we have turned a little bit
of a leaf. That was a good statement when we needed that. And
I think the rest of the season, you know, we're gonna We're gonna
keep it up. We gotta maintain our spot and I'm ready to go into
the playoffs with these guys. I'm ready to you know, I'm you know,
I'm a surgeon general in the PG army. At him, okay,
that's fair, And he had been taking a lot of flak. He didn't
show up against Sacramento. He didn't have his best game. The Clippers got
run in that one, and he only took twelve shots. I know he
didn't play the fourth quarter because he got out of hand. But tonight,
without Kawhi, he got up twenty one shots and hit some clutch, tough
buckets against great defense in the fourth quarter and it just didn't matter. Plus
he was fouled on that transition play and they didn't call it. Just talk
about Paul George stepping up in a big time moment here, it looked like
twenty twenty one Paul George when they were missing Kawhi Leonard the last few games
of that of the the biggest run the Clippers have ever had in the playoffs
all the way to the Western Conference Finals. That's what we needed them to
do. That's what we gonna need them to do in case Kawhi is out
for more games. We got to be able to trust the guys that we
have, and PG showed us tonight why we can trust them. That was
it. That's what we need. Paul George. He came through. I
thought, man, there were some interesting calls down the stretch of this one
on both sides. Did you see because I'm not watching it on TV.
You know I'm big time here in person luckily tonight for this one here,
Carl, not big time like you, But did you see what went down?
Without dropping anything? I know it's safe harbor hours, but what exactly
was happening there with Mike Malone losing his cool on the sidelines, did you
get any insight on that? I did. I saw that it was completely
overreaction by Mike Mike Malone. I like Mike Malone. It was a complete
overreaction because let's let's we know that you cannot kick your leg out on a
three point I shout out this box for that defense right there, and he,
uh, Mike, Michael Porter Jia kicked his leg out, which you
cannot do when you shooting. And then on the other side of the court,
that was an absolute foul and we got the call. And Mike Malone
is not used to getting that type of treatment because they never call anything on
that damn team. Uh but uh we we uh we we we won that
one far and squad. That was far and squad, Now that was some
questionable. It was it was a little bit of question questionables in there on
both sides, but I think we definitely took the harder spot. Paul George
should have had about four more free throws at the end of that Uh,
at the end of that game, for sure on a couple of them drives.
But hey, beggars can't be chooses. Okay, we begged for it,
and we got what we wanted. I pleaded all of it. Uh.
Speaking of choosing, if you had a choice, Carl of who you'd
want to see in a first round series against the Clippers, what opponent are
you taking? What gives the Clippers the best chance to win in the first
round? Oh, my gosh, Adam, that's a tough question. But
I'm thinking about it from this standpoint. Those guys down in Dallas, they
don't play good enough defense, and I think our shots will fall, which
it was it was looking it was looking a little shaky than not. I
can't lie, uh they if our shots can fall, I think we can
compete with them offensively because they're gonna have to score more points than us.
And I think Kawhi has the upper hand defensively over that guy. I can't
think of his name, but it starts with an L the same letter that's
that uh you spill a loser with and uh I uh, I would rather
have them than that than than those boys down in the big easy. I
think they're a little bit more spry, they're harder on defense, they're a
little bit bigger than us, and they got some tough guys down in the
middle. I'm not gonna say how I feel about our middle on on the
air. I'll tell you about that in through text messages with the with Charles
and Will, But uh, I think i'd rather I think i'd rather face
Dallas in At first. I know it may sound crazy, but I'm I'm
I'm praying for rain and I think if our shots, if our shots are
hitting, they can't really defend us, and I think our defense should be
able to There's no good option. It does sound crazy to want to play
Luka Doncic or whatever you're trying to call him. There. I wasn't gonna
go there. I got too much respect for the guy. He's tough.
I forgot his name. I forgot his name in the moment. He might
just call him twenty twenty four MVP winner, because that might have been that
should belong that should belong to our cousin Shane. That's fair enough. Look,
there's no good options. It could be them, it could be the
Pelicans, it could be the Phoenix Suns. He is Carl Tart from Grand
Crew. Again. He's not on Twitter unless you can find his burner.
I've been looking forward. You can to night. You can't find a burner
to night. But I tweeted you all the time at him. Are you
the ones saying let the callers talk more? Is that you? I definitely
feel that way. Shout out to my man Morris the Long Beach. I
love looking at his call at damn it Carl d A M M I T.
Carl on Instagram is where you find him as well, if you're not
watching them on the tube. Carl, thanks for doing this tonight on Clippers
Talk. We'll do it again soon. What no, thank you, Adam,
whatever coming up next. We'll get back to your phone calls. Well
did you just take a bow? You think you're on stage right now?
Still? What's going you? And my brother I said, thank you,
There we go, There we go, there we go, Thank you,
Carl, Thank you. Clippers winning one o two to one hundred over the
Denver Nuggets. We'll come back. We'll get back to your phone calls.
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LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win one O two to one hundred over Nikola
Jokisch and the Denver Nuggets without Kawhi Leonard tonight ballgame with a victory. Cliper
Nation, patch yourself on the back for this one. The game really turned
early in that second quarter where the Clippers play with more energy and you help
provide that extra boost. The crowd got into it. That lob from James
Harden to Russell Westbrook was huge. Just a ton of energy highlights by this
Clippers team, underscored by the crowd underneath them. Just Clipper Nations showing up
in a big spot for this team when they needed it. Let's go to
Paul and Rancho Kook the second straight post game. I like Paul, Paul,
what's up here on Clipper staff and that I'm Auzl Hey, Adam,
Wow, A good game, great game, great game, no doubt about
it. I'm just looking at the stats you cover everything turnovers. Did you
see that they only had six six turnovers? I got seven on my statue.
We mentioned it earlier with Carlo they turned it over half as many times
as the Denver Nuggets. Yeah, no, but I mean that six is
good compared to what are they lately. It's been twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
so I think that's the credit. I mean, anything twelve or lower
is good, So this is outstanding. Yeah. They held what's his name,
Porter, who always burns him from three. I think he was two
for ten, two for ten from three point land and I noticed they weren't.
It didn't seem to be giving open threes, which is really nice.
You've talked already about their defense and stuff, so that's nothing new. But
that guy's really been on fire Porter, and he always seems to come up
with the big shot too, from from three, so it was nice that
they held him in check. Yeah, and they only shot what, like
everybody did you guys say in the beginning they shoot forty percent from three?
They only shot thirty one percent, So that was huge because the Clippers of
their three point defense. It's been kind of week so among other things,
Yeah, it was a great game. I was going to ask you.
You probably answered it while I was on Well, I was on hold with
your buddy there. Who do you think? I like the Clippers matchup against
Dallas. I think that would give them confidence that they beat Dallas. I'm
a little nervous about here. Here's what I'll say, Paul, and I
appreciate the phone call, But Dallas, there's a misconception going on around them
right now. They may be a bottom ten defense on the season, but
they've been a top ten defense since the trade deadline. They made some moves
in the front court. They've been completely different on that end. I'm leading
Pelicans, but I don't like either matchups. Probably the Phoenix Suns over both
of those teams. We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back,
we'll close things out. Clippers win one o two to one hundred over the
Denver Nuggets. Here at Crypto dot Com Arena, I'm out of Osland,
and you're listening to Clippers sock here on the mPire seventy LA Sports loading Clippers
fully loaded with Clippers fans. This is LA Clippers basketball. You're listening to
the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. The Clippers never relinquished the
lead in the second half. It was never tied and the Nuggets never led
at any point in the second half. The Clippers answered runs. What was
their biggest issue over the past couple of months, just laying down when a
teammate a run. When the Clippers went three minutes about in the third quarter
scoreless, I thought they missed a big opportunity there. I thought that might
be their undoing late where they could have extended the lead because Denver wasn't scoring
either. But they held on. They showed that heart, that toughness,
that mental toughness that coach Luke called him out for a reason about being soft
tonight. They hardened up without Kawhi Leonard and came through late to take down
Niko Yokis and the Denver Nuggets. Before we get out of here, let's
get to Big Brother Jake Warner. Need a moment of positivity. Big with
a Jake Podcast, the fake Philosopher. He's got a lot of nicknames,
Big Brow. What's up? Everything's good? Man? Got that dough?
Got that dough? Baby? What else matters? Nothing? You got some
positivity? All right? Here we go. Adversity shakes the foundation of our
character to see if what we believe in value is really worth standing for Ooh,
I like that. Yeah, Clippers standing on business tonight. It it
turns down and revealed their character. Yes, something born out of tonight's ball
game. We'll see they're taking on the Utah Jazz tomorrow, tip off at
seven thirty, pre game at six thirty. Before we get out of here,
I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lailobryan Seeman, who
I saw earlier and came on pregame, No Eagle, Carlo Amennez on the
call, Katie Dudon back in the bank, the callers, the listeners until
tomorrow with the pregame show starting at six thirty. I'm out of Mazam.
We'll talk to you then. So why was doing his thing? All they
want to do is win in La? Oh Wait? I thought they gave
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