The game is over, Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
on your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, You,
sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers make a run late
and they win one twenty four to one sixteen in Brooklyn over the nets.
Welcome to your post game show coming up. I'll half second half highlights,
your post game box scoring. You'll hear from the head coach, Toron Lou
and the players. But first that got to Barclays with Noah Eagle all right,
No, we want to see this team close, and they did in
fashion late. Yeah, and honestly back to back games, Adam, in
which they exercise a lot of those demons that you referenced. Considering the way
that Milwaukee game ended to come back against New York after they gave up their
seventeen point lead and find a way to win that was huge, and how
to build on it to go down by eight with all the momentum and all
the gene this building shifting towards Brooklyn, come back with a run of their
own of nine nothing, go up in front, and then close this one
out deep with a fifteen to three extended a run of the final three and
a half minutes. That's progress, that's growth, especially considering it's the end
of a six game trip. These guys are tired. They've been through the
Ringer, they've been through different time zones. That is a difficult win to
get, even with no Kevin Durant and no Ben Simmons and no Seth Curry.
I get it. But Cam Thomas had himself a night the nets.
Overall, we're shooting the lights out from three. They had a lot of
things going for him, and the Clippers still found a way. That's important.
Yeah, you talked with Reggie Jackson post game. He of course drew
that big offensive foul hit, a three point in the fourth quarter, was
a plus twenty seven out there. He and Big Zoo. Yeah, both
of those guys, it felt like, were the MVPs of this game.
Zoobots with another big double double nineteen and twelve. He's had a double double
and three of his last four. And then Reggie Jackson, it was just
a little bit of everything. So you mentioned both sides of the basketball.
First of all is three point shooting. He had been struggling a little bit
from three, but to hit that big one in the fourth quarter, that
that embodies him. That's a microcosm of what he does for this team every
time they need him, the big bailout, big government is there. And
then certainly that charge was huge. I mean, those are the winning plays
that that's what puts you over the top. It's what separates a good team
from a great team. And if the Clippers can get that type of play
from him and everybody else, you're gonna be in a very good spot moving
forward. You mentioned them being down eight, it looked like Kawai had a
little takeover moment. There was a three pointer, a couple of free throws,
that calming force. Your superstar looked to him late, Yeah, big
time, and he had a big fourth quarter. He struggled for most of
this game. Royce O'Neill, to his credit, did a pretty good job
on him. But Kawhi when they needed him the most, the Batman symbol
was out and he was ready to roll with his batmobile and everything in between.
Twenty four points four rebound, six assists, thirty four minutes of action.
Really took over in the fourth quarter and controlled it because those assists in
the fourth quarter, that's what stuck out to me. Ye had that big
one to zoo inside, found Reggie. Jackson found Reggie. Then again at
the end. Those were the facilitating moves that did it for Kawhi Leonard and
the Clippers. Clippers win one twenty four till one sixteen. They finished the
Grammy road trip four and two. They are coming back to take on the
Dallas Mavericks and Kyrie Irving on Wednesday. Weird to say tip time for that
one and down to Los Angeles at seven. We'll have Clippers countdowns starting at
six. Noah Eagle, great call, great road trip all around. Enjoy
being hopeful a little bit. Say hi to your pops for me, and
we'll talk to you on Wednesday. Six up, six, down, four
and two. Adam, can't wait, let's go. Second half highlights.
Clippers come through late, they win one twenty four to one sixteen over the
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Adam A. Clippers had an eleven point lead late in the second quarter,
but it was down to just two by the time the first half came around.
It was fifty five fifty three Clippers. Paul George had thirteen points on
the first half. He would duplicate that in the third quarter alone. Man
leaves at Jackson left wing, chap step drive middle. Jackson gets all the
way to the rim, leaves it last second outside, it goes to George
left wing. T's up the three and knocks it down PG. Thirteen.
He's got eighteen and he's cooking now. To start the third sixty two fifty
seven ninety seconds into this third quarter, ten fifteen to go on the Leonard
shore corner foreside, backing down on O'Neill. Leonard ripped through to the die
of the line outside George straightaway three. This time bottling PG. Thirteen has
come out firing eight third quarter points in the first two minutes. He's got
twenty one. The Clippers lead by six. Outlet goes to George for side,
right to left. George unto the front court on Smith crossover drives.
It was right gets the rim up and under reverse lay up. That was
ridiculous, Paul George with a special finish eighty three eighty two Clippers. Clippers
once again went up eleven just to have that leader raised in about two minutes.
They were actually down in the third quarter, but after three led by
three at ninety one to eighty eight, but then face some more adversity in
the fourth. They were down eight after Brooklyn and cam Thomas, who was
unbelievable, went on a run, but Kawhi Leonard would answer Jackson, leave
it Leonard left wing. Tea's up. The three knocks it down. Kawhi
Leonard puts the Clippers one fourteen, one, thirteen, two forty to play.
Leonard with twenty two loves at Jackson back to pal left wing with fourteen
a shoot. Balanin said it ear side Leonard whipping inside. Two Bots attacks
the rim and rips it down with two nineteen for Zoo assists number five for
Leonard Jackson, will in bound baseline ear side, fine platoon cutting to the
rim. Oh Mick Batoum bakes it in in the fell big plays down the
stretch, starting with Kawhi hitting some shots, but then his passing he found
Zoobots for a big throwdown, Reggie Jackson for a three pointer, and Reggie
in the open court do a little bit cherry picking for an easy throwdown,
but then Nicholas Batoum with the cherry on top for a little and one.
Late Clippers end things on a fifteen to three run after they were down eight
midway through the fourth quarter, and they win one twenty four to one sixteen
in Brooklyn over the nets. They finish the Grammy road trip four and two.
Pretty pretty pretty good. Coming up next, we'll preview Wednesday's game back
home against Dallas and an HS LUCA. They're gonna have to worry about.
Most likely Harry Irving will be playing for the Mavericks in that one. You're
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leave Brooklyn with a victory as they head back to Cali after this six game
road trip where they go four and two, they win one twenty four to
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got a seven point win. Okay, that's abouts far. Stop going.
I don't think he says that there Clippers went by a seven in Brooklyn who
tried to go crook from the brook with it. The Nets tried to steal
one from the Clippers, but the Clippers win one twenty four to one sixteen
and somehow hold on against Cam Thomas, who had forty seven, a career
high, second youngest player ever just under Lebron James to have back to back
forty point games at the age of just twenty one. Clippers survive anyways with
a fifteen to three run late they win in Brooklyn, they finish off the
six game roadie four and two and welcome in to Clippers stock long intros.
You're here for it. I know you are. Eight six six nine eighty
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You're gonna hear from Coach Lou post game and the players. We got
big Zoo audio. A necessary victory for the Clippers. We knew it wouldn't
be easy. Sometimes you ever heard the ewing theory when you're missing your best
player, And not only were the Brooklyn Nets missing Kevin Durant, but they
just lost Kyrie Irving yesterday. Who goes to Dallas Clippers will see him on
Wednesday back in downs had Los Angeles. Sometimes it opens up an opportunity for
somebody else, and Cam Thomas has been taking advantage of these opportunities. Forty
seven on fifteen to twenty nine shooting and seven of eleven is what he went
from three. They started off as a team eight of nine. From the
outside, sometimes guys rally around the fact that oh nobody thinks we can win.
We don't have our best players. But instead of laying down, guys
get an opportunity, They get more minutes out there, and they want to
prove what they can do in front of their head coach. It was that
type of game for Brooklyn. Royce O'Neill was five of seven from the outside.
I mean at one point he and Cam Thomas combined to go ten of
twelve from three absurd off the charts, shooting from the nets. Who had
the Clippers in their sights with six minutes left. As we thought once again
the Clippers were unraveling in the fourth quarter because multiple times in this game they
had an eleven point lead in the second quarter. Let's start there to end
the half. What do we talk about all the time? Ending halves strong.
We wanted to see it, but instead the exact opposite happened. The
Clippers were up by eleven with i want to say, just about two minutes
left. It was fifty one to forty with two forty eight left in the
second quarter. A minute ten later, after Marcus Morris gets ejected, it's
a one point ball game, and going into the half, the Clippers had
just a two point lead at fifty five to fifty three. Not exactly closing
strong in that one. I wanted to see it again in the third quarter
where they had an eleven point lead. I don't know what it is with
that number eleven. I can't understand if there was a six in there or
something, but eleven is that unlucky? At thirteen, I don't get it.
They're up by eleven, and two minutes later they've lost the lead,
and they end up going into the fourth just up by three. Things started
well in the fourth quarter thanks to Norman Powell and Terrence Man. It was
normal, I want to say it, with their first four points and Terrence
Man got into transition. But then Kawhi Leonard and Paul George are back on
the court and the Brooklyn Nets go on another run and they are up.
Not just a run, They're up by eight. Was six twenty left at
one o seven to ninety nine. No Egill talked about it. If this
ain't the danger zone, I don't know what is. It sure felt like
it. What had been happening on this road trip consistently in four of the
five games leading up to this one, where the Clippers were giving away leads
late. Happened against Atlanta, they pull her off anyways. Happened against Chicago,
they pulled her off anyway. Happen against Milwaukee, they did not.
Happened Saturday against New York, they pulled it off anyways. They pulled it
off against Brooklyn. But they didn't make it easy on themselves. Down eight,
was six, twenty left. Kawai had his fingerprints all over the end
of this ball game, though out of the time out. He sticks one
in the mid range, hits a tough jumper, then finds Reggie Jackson for
a three pointer, then gets to the free throw line. Kawhi does for
two, and it's a one point game. Just like that. The Clippers
are right back into it and they go up by one after a Vizza Zoo
Bots gets a hook shot to go off another assist from Kawhi Leonard, but
cam Thomas could not be stopped. He'd hit the next couple. Clippers are
back down by three and Aviza Zoo Bots goes to the free throw line makes
one of two. Cam Thomas comes back a couple more three pointers. It's
one thirteen to one on nine. Clippers are down four, were three sixteen
left. And the other half of the two one three connection, Paul George
tough fade away shot Clippers back to within two, and then there was a
turnover as a Visa's Zoobots had multiple steals in the fourth quarter that were clutch
and Kawhi Leonard hits a three pointer to put them up by one. They
would never look back. They went on a fifteen to three run to end
the ball game after that big three from Kauai and they win one twenty four
to one sixteen. They pulled away from Brooklyn in a fashion we wanted to
see them the last couple of games. It happened. It wasn't easy.
No, I don't say a win is a win, they're not. You
gotta close out teams, you gotta play better against lesser competition, you gotta
dominate at times if you're going to be an elite team in this league,
and the Clippers haven't beat a lot of elite teams. This was just,
I believe, their tenth game. They got a win against a team that
was over five hundred and let's be honest, they were missing three best players,
maybe not Cam Thomas, they just didn't know it yet, but they
were at least missing Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons, and the
Clippers still had to dig deep late to find a way to get a win.
I thought Nicholas Batoum also with that, and one play late in the
fourth quarter with about a minute left gave him a little bit of separation,
got him up by five. Reggie Jackson hit a huge three pointer. I
mentioned that pass off of the one from Kawhi Leonard, but also a long
outlet pass from Kawai to Reggie for a dunk and Reggie joan offensive foul.
He finished a plus twenty seven. He and Big Zoo both plus twenty seven's
both great in this ball game. Clippers had to have it, you take
it. You'd rather they learn from sloppy play and inconsistent play while you're getting
victories instead of losses. When there's only twenty five games left, of course,
and that's the position they're in. They're five games above five hundred at
thirty one and twenty six, which twenty five left to go, and they
got the second toughest schedule left in the NBA, so Clippers are in a
position still for a top three seed. That's how Wonky. It's been in
the West all season long. We told you nobody's really separating themselves. Even
the Denver Nuggets slipped up a little bit. They actually lost a game the
other night. Yeah, they have the number one seed and are up seven
and a half games on the Clippers. But look at Memphis, man,
I think they're one in eight and their last nine now since Ship and Sharp
tried to body them the Sacramento Kings. They did end up winning tonight.
I believe in Houston. Yes, one forty two, one twenty, but
they had lost two in a row and we're five and five in their last
ten. So the Clippers remain a game back of Sacramento for the three seed
and three games back of Memphis for the two seed. But they're just one
game up on Phoenix and Devin Booker's coming back soon and they might make a
move still before Thursday in the trade deadline. So sense of urgency to say
the least, you gotta have it. And the Dallas Mavericks they're in the
sixth spot, just a game and a half back of the Clippers. They
all feel like critical games at this point down the stretch of the season,
and we haven't even hit the All Star break yet. Part of that is
because the Clippers have played the most games. I believe still this year to
this point. The schedule will ease up. They'll have more two days off.
I'll have a couple three days off, I believe in between games huge
for this ball club. But as was this win, they just had to
have it. It wasn't pretty at times, but a fifteen three run to
end it to take that, that's something they can grow from. And maybe
the fact that they had to win in overtime and come up clutch against New
York played a role in this one too, and they remember that those little
confidence builders. Okay, we've been here before, the crowds in their favor.
They got a guy going off for forty, just like Jalen Brunson did
for the Knicks. This time it was Cam Thomas. Whether it's the storm
and we'll find a way to win. Hopefully that's what this is. Because
they still got to be more consistent out there. What do I tell you
all the time, They've been consistently and consistent all season long. Coming up
on the show, as I mentioned, you're gonna hear from Coach Low.
We'll have all him up, keon from clips and dip. Let's hit some
phone calls though, eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy Wallace and
ply delray, you're starting things off tonight here on Clippers stop without amass and
what's up Wallace? Oh Adam. I just love listening to you on hold.
By the way, you have such good stats and numbers. And I
just love my Clippers, and I love where they're at, you know,
my feeling, and I hate to talk old school. I remember when the
Clippers were just terrible and they were playing these top shelves teams that would come
in and the Clippers would be winning, and then you knew they were going
to turn it on. And the Clippers are that type of team. I
think they're the best talented team in the NBA right now. And well,
so let me ask you this. On that note, I think I think
that's an interesting point because I've asked before, are they to flip the switch
type of ball club? Now? I think that's dangerous if they believe they
are. I think if it happens organically sometimes where you're gonna have a lack
of focus out there. It's the last game of a six game road trip,
Brooklyn's down all those players. You don't expect them to come out and
hit eight three pointers on you in the first quarter and get ambush like that.
But they're down eight midway through the fourth quarter and they turn it around
and ended up winning comfortably. You could say, do you believe they're flip
the switch team? Oh, they absolutely are. It's just that they're that
good. When you saw Jordan Bird the Pistons come in, you just knew.
Even the old Lakers, you just knew, okay, it's on.
You could you could field in their bench. You just knew it. And
the Clippers are that good. Let me tell you the difference, though a
lot of those teams had to earn it, though they had championship pedigree already.
The Clippers are still trying to get there because right now, I think,
look, I've seen those early two thousand Lakers teams do it all the
time where they had won a championship and they would be lackluster and games during
the regular season, and they certainly would flip a switch and come out on
top during a one out of a two game that they just well, you
couldn't get their attention with until late until it really mattered. But you know,
they had the hardware, they had the Larry O. B I think
the Clippers they can't play like this for much longer because this can't be their
identity, to be consistently inconsistent quarter to quarter. I think that's dangerous for
this ball club. I absolutely agree. But I'll tell you you know,
when if you play basketball, I played basketball, and the people are on
the court, they know they're better than me. You know, Okay,
all right, that's enough. And I think it's that way with the Clippers.
They know they're better than these other teams, and it is dangerous.
And here's the problem, though, team. Look what happened against Milwaukee.
They couldn't find the switch when they needed to because they went up against a
team that was too talented, and they let their foot off the gas up
by twenty one and they ended up losing. That's my concern. You don't
want these habits against lesser teams like Atlanta and Chicago and the Brooklyn Nets,
because then when it happens against a team like Milwaukee, you get burned.
Milwaukee was painful. Yeah, that was painful. I'll be there at the
game wins day I'm really looking forward to seeing Kyrie. Are you looking forward
to her? All right, Wallace, I appreciate the phone call. Come
over to section one of elevens. Come say hi one more before we break
here, Sean and Inglewood. Sean, what's up here on Clipper stock without
in Amslin, Hey do boy? So I want to just talk about what
you guys are just talking about. It seemed like in the first half,
the first quarter, they were just a little bit, you know, black
Luster didn't come out with the energy, you know, And then some of
it though, was just Brooklyn was making everything. Think about it this way.
Yes, they're NBA players. Yes, if you don't play good defense,
they're gonna hit open shots. But some of those threes were, of
course wide open. But even someone as good as Luke Kennard from three led
the league in that category last season, he misses wide open threes he did
in this game, Brooklyn wasn't missing any of them. Luke doesn't have a
sea legs yet. But yeah, they were hitting. But I wanted to
talk about in the fourth quarter, Brooklyn came up, like you said,
they had that run and the Clippers called time out, and after they came
back The first thing that happened was Kawhi Leonard took the ball, nobody else
touched the ball. You got a shot. Then the next possession, Paul
George came down, nobody else to the ball, and he shot at three
in miss and just that's not what happened. The next possession, Reggie Jackson
hit a three. That's not what happened. No, no, I'm talking
about it was another time out before that they did that did happen where Leonard
touched the ball and nobody else touched the ball. And then and then the
next possession, George touched the ball, nobody touched the ball, but Zoos
got the rebound. But then after that they caught themselves and said, hey,
we gotta pass. And then you saw a bunch of beautiful passes and
movement and they won the game. So they have to trust their teammates again,
I mean, I mean, yeah, they're superstars, but they still
gotta trust their teammates. Those guys get paid a lot of money too,
so you got to, you know, you got to believe in them.
Another thing, another thing, I want fred n Fleet, Like I said
before, maybe de'angelo Russell and I want more bumble. That's what I want.
Its prey, did anything else you want? Ninety three? Michael Jordan's
doing it all right, Sean. I appreciate the phone call. We'll take
a quick time out here. We'll come back. Clippers win one twenty four
to one sixteen in Brooklyn. Over the next the Nets. They go on
a fifteen three run to close things out after they were down by eight.
Was six minutes left, down by four or three minutes left. They did
share the sugar, as Noah Eagle would say. Some nice passes they got
Zoo involved Nicholas Patuma or At Jackson. It wasn't just Kawai and Paul George.
It was a lot of Kauai and he initiated some of that. But
good to see him be that level of playmaker. Two down the stretch,
the offense did look better, making some strides there and crunch time. You
would hope more Clippers stock next year on the AMP five seventy sports. Yes
it was Steve doing this show. Yeah, chuck me out straight six He
j can't keep it home a lot. Clipper's coming back to Los Angeles after
a successful four and two six game Grammy road trip. They win once twenty
four to one sixteen in Brooklyn over the nets shout out, Dre won the
Worldwide Impact Award. I think it's named after him. Now. Last night
at the Grammy's Welcome back into clipper Stock, I'm out of Oslin to eight
six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two
five seventies still to come. We'll hear from Coach Low and William of Dyke
from Clips and Dip will be here. Let's go Steve in La Steve,
what's up your un clippers Stock? Hey, Adam? Back at it?
Yeah? That is the people call me Steve or Rex. I called myself
rights five time. It's really Steve. I would so. I have things
in common with Chuck Mockler, the fact that we're both positive. But I'm
gonna I'm gonna take the negative approach today just because I've been feeling a little
little insecure about our team. I don't feel like you kept mentioning and everyone
is alluding to what is wrong with Why do we keep falling behind? Why
do we keep giving up? It's the coach. Do we need an extra
player? I love for you to tell me what you think is necessary.
Do you think we just needed more time to mesh because this is every year
we've had Kawai pv to go back. The last three years, we've seemed
to lay off a little bit and not be persistent. I think this is
part of why we gave up Denver forgetting Doc Rivers. Three one lead is
not blown just because of the coach. Well, it's never just one thing.
But remember with Tylu they came back down O two and back to back
series, so they're quite a big difference there. The best as I could
due to point to the fact that the Clippers let up sometimes when they're up.
Maybe they do think they're the more talented, superior ball club. Maybe
this team has gotten into a habit and pattern of finding themselves and being gritty
when they're down. Because they've had more comebacks down twenty than any other team
the last three seasons. Makes you not a whoopie kishing. I think he's
closing the door that they only know how to play with that sense of urgency
sometimes when they're down big, it's just a role reversal. But that has
to stop when you have championship expectations, when you're a favorite you're gonna be
up in a lot of games, and you gotta put teams away, and
third quarters are huge, and the Clippers have actually been pretty darn good in
third quarters over the last month and a half. But in this one,
it looked like they were going to get up by more than eleven again.
Instead they relinquished the lead and they only had a three point lead heading into
the fourth, and then things got real tough down the stretch. Now it
shows that they could pull out a ball game where they're down eight was six
minutes left and then the eye of the storm of everything can go wrong and
has gone wrong, and they figured it out anyways, and then down four
or three minutes left. But I think there's going to come a point in
the last twenty five games when they're playing lesser competition, which isn't going to
happen that often because their schedule is difficult, to say the least. But
if they're going to be that championship ball club, the team that we thought
they'd be coming into this season and have a top three seed in the West,
they're gonna be times where they stomp teams out and get guys rest who
desperately need it. With veterans. Let's go to and Lenny in Englewood.
Lenny, what's up here? On Clippers song with that them asson. Hey,
what's up Adam? I'm joined a little bit late, but okay,
So look once again, what's going on? What's happened with Luke Kennard?
And I mean I ain't saving him, getting ready to trade him or what's
up because I just don't see. I don't see the look. Man.
Remember, he's this is only I think his fifth game back coming off that
injury, and he hasn't played a lot of minutes. It's it's been up
and down play and I think some of that is just he hasn't that consistent
minutes man all year. That dude hasn't scored more than twenty points in more
than two games. And I just don't. I just don't. But they
don't. They don't. I mean, they don't need him for that.
Like, that's not why he's there. He's there to be efficient from three
when he gets his opportunities, He's there to be it, to be it,
to be it yeah, to the sniper, to space the floor.
But like I said, he I guess you know, we can continue to
continue to give him a space, to a room to get to get better.
But like I said, the pas aren't there yet. I'm hoping that
the front office is able to do something because Paul George is getting overwhelmed by
trying to be the point guards. He's not natural, he's not comfortable at
it. And the reason why Kawai goals for the ball in the fourth quarter
because he's the only one that has a championship and he knows what that that
kind of pressure is. Like they it's a lot to put on these dudes.
Everybody looks at it as being you know, superstars. It's still pressure,
man, it's still pressure. And they read the papers. They know
what's up to so and the whole thing about flip the switch, they are
not a flip the Switch team. And anybody who says that doesn't know nothing
about basketball, because like you said, that has to be earned. The
Golden State can be flip the switch. They've been there. They know what
it takes. The Lakers teams, they know what they know what it takes.
This is not only there's only one dude. The only way it is
is if they go on to win the championship, improve it and then we
can look back and say, oh, they knew it all along, but
as of now, I don't think you could say that, no exactly.
So you know, Clipper Nation needs needs to needs to share that that that
way of thinking and realize that, you know, we're not there yet.
Let's less, let's less, let's get expectations there in terms of we're not
we're not a complete teammates. So I hope the front officers can do can
do what they do and pull something off. Man, because like I said,
I don't see this team making a deep run. I mean they're there,
they don't hold the lead, and they don't dominate when they're supposed to.
They don't dominate throughout. They used to be able to use a good
team, used to put a team in the third quarter. We used to
have some of that. But it's harder now. You gotta admit that that's
true, but it's still you gotta be able to you have this is you
look, man, Maxi money, MAXI money boys, get do Maxi Money
things. Okay, we got two Maxi Money dudes, we got the highest
payroll in the end. Be a right, this, this is we're not
supposed to be here at this point. I understand injuries it there, but
they are not there yet, and a good team on his way to championship
has to put a team down and keep him down. So, like I
said, you know, I'm still clip clip nation, but this is not
it. And I'm hoping that the one offs to do anything to do to
go out and get a point guard and take something that fresh on with George
is too much on him and you can see it. It's just too much.
He can't do it all. So anyway, I'll good man, let
let's keep up to you know, let's keep it the good vibes and see
what we can do. All right. Let me appreciate the phone call.
And Paul George did have a bad turnover with under a minute left with the
Clippers up five. That just can't happen in situations like that. He's had
them Layton ball games where they're blitzing him, firing, doubling him. And
we'll see, because I agree with you, they're not there yet. They
won eight of ten, but they're not there yet. They haven't hit their
stride yet, they haven't peaked or come close to it, and maybe it's
just more time on the court. Maybe it's a roster change. We'll find
out by Thursday. Let's go to Ryan and Burbank. Ryan, what's up
here on Clipper stock without Amassin? What's up bad? All right? So
a couple of things I want to get to. And I know this is
Clipper talk, But first off, if I'm Kevin Durant right now, I'm
loving what I'm seeing from the nets. You're talking about without Curry thal Ben
Simmons, without you, and they lose by eight. It's one game,
but sure, that's one game. I'm just saying, like, that's I'm
just saying, like Cam Thomas is again, we're looking at Cam Thomas is
legitimate top three player now on the net. And if you can put up
thirty at least in the NBA, that's that's good. You're good. Like
that's if I'm Kevin durand I'm going there might be something here. Maybe you're
not winning the title this year. I mean, I saw Tony Delk have
a fifty point game, but you're right, Cam Thomas is the true.
Yeah, I'm decided to saying, like, I like what I'm seeking out
of some of these some of these guys, they have some pieces here without
Dorian Finney Smith even playing tonight without Spencer Dandy. Yeah, Spencer Danwoody play
tonight. You've got some pieces there. So I'll just say that. First
off, well, they're gonna have to or else Kevin Durant's gonna ask out.
So their goal is not to go into a rebuild mode. They're trying
to prove to him that hey, we're still going to compete. And I
don't I think they. I think they will compete. I look at this
team like they can win two playoffs. Heres, this team can make the
Eastern Conference finals with Durant like, I agree? All right, what about
the Clippers though, So let's now let's everyone's to talk about the Clippers need
for a point guard. And I think that this is very much true because
you cannot expect Paul George to be your point guard when it comes to crunch
time. He's never been that type of player and you can't expect him to
be that play. Well, the question is Reggie Jackson was out there as
well late that was the true point guard. Paul George has had the ball
in his hands a lot more. Is Reggie the guy? No, he's
not, And and and looking I just want to remind people he was during
the twenties twenty one playoff run. Reggie Jackson was incredible and he looked good
then. But again, I just feel like my thing when you watch the
Clippers as its cancer. And I want to say this too about the Clippers
road trip. Look four and two road trip, that's very solid in it.
And I think things would be colored differently if they won that game in
Milwaukee, if they went But here's my problem, Ryan, the reason they
lost that game in Milwaukee, the problems they had there they got away with
against some lesser teams on this road trip, but when they arose against Milwaukee,
they couldn't overcome giving away that lead. Well and and and Adam,
let's be honest, the problems in Milwaukee. We're a part of the problems
of you. You have turnovers, you have miss shots. And again I
just look at like, look, we all know the rumors. There's Van
Vliet, There's Connolly. There's a couple of these guys out there that are
are Look, I look at Connolly as a guy that like, yes,
he's not going to put up thirty points in a game, but he's a
facilitator. He's somebody that gets guys to their spot and he says, here
you go, you take the ball. I'm gonna get you into your spots
and you hit a jumper. The guys don't have to be tasked with forming
the offense and rather can just be like, I'm going to get into my
spot to shoot the ball, or I can take a dribble or one or
two dribbles and shoot and they're not walking the ball up. I agree with
you. It's something we've talked about ad nauseum. This is nothing new here.
Ryan. My point to add to that, though, would be this,
the difference between Conley and Fred Van Vliet and Kyle Lowry and DeAngelo Russell
is that those guys can also play off the ball and shoot it from the
outside when it's in their hands, unlike gen Rondo who's just not a shooter,
Unlike John Wall who's played forty games the last three seasons and has never
been a great outside shooter. That's I think what they need most a point
guard that can also hit shots. Because it is going to be in the
hands of Kawai, they're gonna double, it is gonna be in the hands
of Paul George, They're gonna double and those guys have to play off the
ball too. No, I agree with you. And look, here's the
other and here's and this is always the lesser thing, right, we don't
talk about it as much, but look, zo Zoo played great tonight,
and he's played great the whole season. Five thousand tonight. Yeah, five
out night against a small team, against the team that wins, that goes
small most of the time, because Claxton is an undersized center. So you
still have the situation too, where look if Zoo gets into foul trouble in
a series. But I'm looking I'm just saying, we're looking at Denver,
We're looking at No. I can't see a scenario where they don't have a
different backup Big by the time the playoffs come around, whether it's through a
trade or picking somebody up, and there are guys that are out there available.
I just can't see them not having somebody else to back up Big Zoo.
You're right, it has to happen, because again, in a playoff
series, where your guy gets into two quick fouls in the first quarters,
you're gonna have to have somebody or a stretch of eight to ten minutes.
But preferably if you don't go completely small where somebody's going to have to come
in and play solid, whether it's the West and you're talking about Yokich or
maybe a d or maybe DeAndre Ayton who they lost zubots against in that series
against the Phoenix Centers in the Western Conference finals who went down with injury,
or the NBA Finals against Embiide or Jannis like, there are guys that are
a problem that are going to get you into foul trouble eventually. So I
appreciate the phone call. Ryan. Let's take one more here, Javier Lahabra
heights, Javier, what's up? Fiend? Clipper suck Hey was going on.
I don't thank you for taking my call again real quick. It was
a positive road trip, honestly, maybe it would. It could have gone
six and oh, I mean I game in Milwaukee you had it, and
then the other one was the back to back game. Do you know what,
though, they could have gone six and oh they also could have gone
one to five. There's another way to look at that, hobber. Look
at those games against Atlanta and Chicago at the end. Look at the game
tonight. They're down eight. No, no, I'm taking positive. I'm
not thinking negatively. I'm just telling you you gotta be realistic about it too.
There's another ball club out there. Oh yeah, no no. And
it was a long road trip, so I mean they should be happy,
and like I said with the four and two mark, with this road trip
for so you know. But another thing too, I know callers are been
calling and saying that Clippers can't close the game. And you know I've been
telling you said last year, Adam. I just don't understand Marcus Morris.
I mean, look what happened today in the second quarter. You said it
four point play. They were up by eleven. It was an a one.
He followed them make their faithro plus a tentacle. That's four points right
there. And it was one of the quickest ten o runs I've ever seen
in my life. It was a ten o run in a minute, in
ten seconds exactly. And who's involved, Well, yeah, he lost his
school. It can't happen. He knows it. I had him. He's
been with how many teams? Clippers are the only team that he's lafted?
What four years? He's going Phoenix, New York? What is it?
Atlanta? I mean, I mean, I'm just telling you. If they're
gonna trade somebody, I've tell you say last year they got to find a
big man and trade him for Marcus Morris. I told you last year about
Bledsoe and what happened. They trade him. I told you about I Vaka
and what happened. I think we gotta get they trade him. So please,
Clippers. I don't know if we said save those phone calls, but
uh, and Marcus Morris, he's got to go. I mean, that's
it. But thank you at him now. It's like your opinion, dude.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. Marcus had a rough one obviously, but he has
looked good coming off the rib injury against the Lakers, and he's played well
in big games and was not the issue at all against Milwaukee. He definitely
picked up the slack there in that third quarter. He's had some really good
moments for this team recently. But yeah, couldn't happen that that eleven or
that ten o run by the Brooklyn Nets and then it happening again in the
third quarter when you just thought the Clippers okay, they're gonna go up by
twenty here and put this ball game away. But that's what's been happening recently.
Now, it's happened five times on this road trip, and they ended
up winning four of those games anyways, but the game that they lost it
to was the best team of those. There's something too that they couldn't overcome
those mistakes against a team like Milwaukee, and those are the type of teams
you're gonna end up seeing in the playoffs. More Clippers talk coming up next,
we'll hear from the head coach. But oh, we have a moment.
Let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on a five seventy LA
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in Brooklyn over the nets. Look, they went four and two on this
road trip. That is undoubtedly a success, but this teams championship expectations.
So when we're nitpicking, we're saying, okay, but they're giving up a
lead here again. This has become a trend, that's why. And when
you lose a game like that to Milwaukee where you do the same thing in
your margin for airs much slimmer because of the talent on the other end,
or you gotta point that out. Good news is Clippers winning while not playing
the best basketball, and I still think that's yet to come. Were twenty
five games left listening to M five seventy l A Sports the impact. Cam
Thomas became the fourth player age twenty one or younger with more than ninety points
in a two game span in NBA history Lebron James, Devin Booker and Allen
Iverson or the other three guys. Cam Thomas has forty seven. But the
Clippers will take the victory and come back to California with a four and two
winning record on the six game Grammy road trip. As they'll take on it
looks like Luca don Chich with Kyrie Irvy On'sday Night and downtown Los Angeles welcome
back into the Clippers stock. I'm out of Oslin to eight six ninety eight
seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number coming up? We'll hear from Big Zoo in the head coach.
But first let's get out to will Updyke of Clips and Dip Fame does the
podcast with myself and Charles Mockler. Okay, well, so were you having
any PTSD in that fourth quarter where it looked like the Clippers were going to
give this one away after multiple times being up double digits or did you have
faith that they were going to pull through and eventually win by seven? I
don't know that I had faith. It did feel like the same movie that
we've been seeing again and again and again, just some lapses they're kind of
leading to letting another team back in. But I mean you mentioned of top.
I mean, the shooting was incredible from the Mets camp. Thomas like
absolutely insane performance. So it's not just the Clippers kind of coughing one up
in this one. And I think we saw I thought that we saw some
better execution in that fourth quarter down the stretch. Now it's not say that
there weren't some still still some kind of bone headed possessions, you know,
one path, no path taking a contected sort of jumper possessions that are pretty
empty. And I know that a lot of people were actually kind of clamoring
for Reggie to be out down the stretch in this one, but he actually
had a nice little, uh like three three possessions span where he came up.
He came up with the turnover, he got the assist to Kauai I
believe in the corner, and then yeah, he just he was actually able
to get things done on both both sides of the floor. So you know,
it was good to see there that. Like I said, the execution
overall, I thought that that was a little enlightening given what we've seen thus
far. Yeah, no, that's a good point because I think there were
some strides made late in the fourth quarter with that execution, with them moving
the basketball, creating better looks, getting easier shots. The long outlet passed
to Reggie Jackson from Kawhi who was doing a little bit of cherry picking.
You need some of that, and you need some easy ones from Big Zoo
as well, who had a huge throwdown off a pass from Kawhi Leonard a
hook shot. Zoo was awesome nineteen and twelve, but he had two steals
as well. In that fourth quarter, he had a block in the ball
game. This was one of his better games in a bit now. Yeah,
yeah, absolutely, And and what game was it that we were talking
about too, where like Zoo can sometimes be leaned on in some of these
situations where the offense is kind of flogging, you know, finding ways to
be able to exploit that mismatch and get him going a little bit offensively,
which definitely like heightens his whole game. You know, it's kind of interesting.
I'm sure you talked about this, but you know, we saw some
of the three guard lineups again, and I thought in some of those minutes
with Big Zoo, we saw some of the same kind of frustration that we
know he's had with those lineups. He just asked the were a lot defensively.
Nick Batoum was out there to help him, but I think the quickest
way to turn the frown upside down for the big man, it's just just
just scream feeding him a couple of shots down low. He's asked to do
a lot, and I think, like I think that that keeps him,
you know, it keeps him focused, you let him get his he can
he can help cover the cover and fill in the cracks for everybody else.
No, definitely, you gotta feed him once in a while, especially because
you look at his advanced stats and he's great on the block with his back
to the basket. I forget what his point is per shot in those situations,
but it's at the top of the league. It's kind of an under
the radar, crazy thing. But yeah, Viza Zubos turns out he can
get it done when asked to. Norman Powell also had a quick six points
to start off the fourth quarter. He was in those small ball lineups.
It was him, It was Luke and Reggie as the Smalls, and it
worked for the most part in the first half actually, but not as well
in the second half. But I thought Norman Powell a really important stint to
start off the fourth quarter where the Clippers did have that lead after being up
by three heading into it. And he's just been so good and so efficient
lately, and he's playing with so much confidence. Of course, the throwdown
he had on Julius Randall, that doesn't hurt your confidence at all. No,
No, not at all. And I mean Norm struggled a little bit
from the outside for him just one of four, but the way, yeah,
like what he does is just so invaluable. I mean, you know,
still a few days until the trade deadline, but I would be very
surprised if if Norm wasn't about as safe as you can be outside of the
two, one, three. So let's talk about it a little bit.
Then Kyrie Irving ends up in Dallas. There were rumors that Los Angeles one
of the teams we're gonna pick him up. Doesn't happen. Who do you
have your sights on? Who do you think could help this team most,
and what's a realistic trade for the Clippers that you would before, you know,
the Fred van Bleep move is still really interesting to may. I think
that he's a good fit for this team. Defensively, I do think,
you know, there are some there are some sort of concerns about him just
being a rental and I think that, you know, with this Kyrie deal,
does it drive down the asking price for someone like Fred van Bleet?
You know? I mean, like you know what what Dallas gave up.
Don't don't get me wrong, if they gave up some good pieces that nets
are going to get some value there, but like you know, it wasn't
exactly a king's ransom, right, and so I don't I don't know if
that changes the market at all. I'm still like in a little bit of
the place where if you're positive that you're going to resign him, I mean,
I am still feeling very tentative about the twenty twenty eight first and I
just think that looking that far ahead, I think that some people, even
like in front offices, are undervaluing how huge that asset could be. You're
talking about Kway and Paul George at thirty eight years of age. Who knows
where they're at, you know, But isn't that the argument on the other
side of it, Why are we worried about when those guys are that old,
they're trying to win a championship with them Now it's win now, that's
fair. No, that's weird. But like I said, it just can't
be for a rental, you know what I mean, Like, you can't
take a big swing on somebody that you're not going to resign. I do
think a safer move is going for someone like Conley, and you have that
we have to figure out the backup center situation. I mean, I was
hoping to not give up an asset, even in terms of a player or
something, just picking somebody off the buyout market. But we need to get
somebody in. We need to get that figured out, because, like time
and time again, it's an issue. You know, we're still, for
whatever reason, seeing Robert Covington stack up dnps, even with a weird Marcus
Morris objection in this one. So it's very clear just from a roster perspective,
we just need another center. And I think it's solidating the guards is
still a great idea, but you still you need that big body or I
just teams are going to be able to punish you in the playoffs. Well,
let's do an update on where you think the Clippers can land and need
to land in the Western Conference standings, because right now they're just a game
back at the Sacrament of Kings, who, by the way, they're going
to see two more times in the next twenty five games, so they can
very much determine their own destiny. And really the Memphis Grizzlies absolutely reeling.
They've lost three in a row. I think they're one and eight in their
last nine ball games. The two seed is within range two. Where do
you think this Clippers team could get to. I still think I still think
by the end of the season we're probably sitting three. We might be able
to make a move for two, but it's going to depend on how obviously
we use Kawaii and Paul George down the stretch. I don't know if coming
out of the All Star Break, I want to see them at you know,
unless it's like a huge in conference game that's an actual like measuring stick
of the playoffs. I don't really want to see them playing, you know,
more than say thirty thirty four, thirty five minutes, which I think
could alter things a little bit. But I think you're in that three feed.
Uh, that's a still a very nice place to be for the Clippers.
I do think you want to avoid that four or five matchup, mainly
for the second round. I mean, I think the Nuggets have the one
locked up. I would be very surprised if they've faltered from that. But
I think this road trip, and I know, like some people might discredit
this, this this most recent win, it gets sort of the mess B
team, But like that road trip, I mean six and two, like
this team is clearly turned a corner. Uh there. You know, we
talked about some of the strides in the fourth quarters tonight. I think they're
gonna pull away from more of these close games, and I think I'm just
hoping that we get to the point where things are looking a little easier for
the Clippers at the same time, you know what I mean. Like,
I think it's great to see them on the road sort of you know,
gut out these sort of these these sort of gritty wins, but like at
home, I would like to see them, you know, establish enough of
a lead and hold on to it well enough that they don't have to like
pull out all the stops. You know, every game doesn't have to be
a cardiac Clippers game. But that being said, I'll take the wins where
I can get them. I'm still thinking three. I'm thinking the Clippers can
be can three, can do three. I'll go as high as two,
But I'm thinking, realistically we can get to that three spy, And that's
really I do think that, you know, barring any sort of injury stuff
that needs to be a priority, and considering the up and down season,
that would seem like a windfall. Then getting the three seed after going through
all this, so I'm all forward. I'm with it. Here's William Updyke
of Clips and Dip Pod with myself and Chuck Mockler. Well, we'll see
on the tripod tomorrow, my friend. All right, sounds good. I'll
talk to you then time out here on Clippers Talk coming back. We'll get
to your phone calls. Morris Zach will close things out with you. We'll
hear from the head coach post game. Clippers win by seven in Brooklyn,
got a little sketch down the stretch, but they pulled it out. They
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After the school was done, Clippers one four one sixteen in Brooklyn washed the
end of four and two in the six game road trip by eight. Why
I was saying seven early twenty three? Did they give the Clippers a three?
They had a point? Am I losing my mind? All the above?
Eight six, six, eight two seventy Clippers next ball game coming up
back home against Alice, who will now have Kyrie Irving to try to torment
them, not just Luca Tonchet's should be a good one. Wednesday night tip
off at seven. Well, Clippers Countdown live from downtown Los Angeles at six.
Zach in Santa Monica, you're on Clippers stock without Aim Oslin. How
Zach? Can you hear me? I can hear you, Zach? What's
up? Okay? So well, first of all, I want to give
the Clippers credit for breaking Lawler's law and coming back to night. That's not
easy to do, so I'm happy with that. But I agree with you
it is very concerning to see them like constantly. I don't know what they
call it, just not closing out games. I guess I have a theory
as to well, I think there's only one thing I can think of as
to why that's been going on lately. I don't know if you would agree
and what you think is the reason, But I guess what do you think
they need to do? If to make any changes, if it all to
stop closing, you know, be able to close games out effectively. Some
of it is just make or mis league, but I do think there's something
to being too comfortable facing adversity and being down in games because they've faced that
so much over the last couple of years. That's when they play their best.
But you gotta put teams away as well, and we just haven't seen
enough of it recently. But I'll say this, I've mentioned it before.
You know, this is a team that struggled late in games during the twenty
twenty one season, and then after the All Star break they corrected it.
They were fine. They were great in clutch situations, obviously in the playoffs.
So it's not like what happens now has to translate into the playoffs.
They can still figure this out, right, Well, yeah, I hope
that, you know, they do have time. Yeah, I as far
as I see it, it go though either way, So I hope that
they do figure it out. For mistake of all of our sanity. Why,
I'm kind of what you there. Thank you, Zack. I appreciate
the phone call. But you know, when they come out on top,
you can exhale and take a deep breath, all right, Kevin and Huyton
Beach. Kevin, what's up here in Cliverer shock? Appreciate Hi, Kevin
what'd you think of the ball game and your station? And you know they're
playing great. I look at it possibly finishing what forty nine and thirty three
ish, and I'm not sure where that exactly would put us as far as
you know, a feeding goes. I think that would be, uh,
that's what I'd be in the hunt for a top three seed definitely with forty
nine wins. That means they're saying they're going nineteen and six, I believe.
Then the rest of the way I am I looking at that, Yeah,
not not easy with their schedule eighteen and seven possibly, okay, right
exactly, and that falls in about the free spot. Huh. I think
the way things are tracking right now, the trajectory of some of this Western
Conference beat each other up, track down records. You know, that's what's
been happening in all season long. It's really interesting. It's amazing that the
Lakers are, like, what, only five games out of the rats.
It's the it's the incincredible. Not concerned with them right now, but yeah,
anything else, Kevin, Nope, go clip all right? I like
it and it's strong there Morris in Long Beach, Morris thereon Clipper Stock all
right, the question on the floor. Are the Clippers that flip the switch
team? Yes they are. I've lost my mind. I don't get none.
Say they show it up on the defense. I remember the game the
other day with Kawhi literally had five deals and no files. Listen, when
these guys got to turn it up, they can turn it up. Now,
there's a lot of parallel in the NBA today. I don't run away
with nothing. But they got a defense out of the turnovers. Remember when
they were get the kings of the turnovers? Then not like that. No
more. You don't go back to back turnovers in the fourth quarter, no
more. In terms of adding to the team, that we can get a
guy like Valutinus right on and get that guy bow Bowl from the from the
Magic Great. But otherwise d Malone's okay, then them go ahead and do
what they're gonna do. They're getting better. They're getting better, and they're
getting better. We'll see what's up at the waivers and the buyout. Okay,
but you know what, at them, they're gonna win it. Man,
We've just come too far and you keep them taking I'm telling me the
truth. They're gonna win it. Talk to you later. All right,
Morris, you bring up the turnovers again, just seven in this ball game.
They've been really good the last you know what, I'm just gonna go
back the last six games now and pull this up. They've been averaging just
eleven turnovers per game over their last six. But that's about where they've been
over the last fifteen. And this is a team that's at fourteen turnovers per
game on the season, so early on, it tells you they were getting
fifteen sixteen turnovers often. Clippers have cleaned that up. That is a big
part of how they've been able to pull out victories. When they weren't playing
their best down the stretch, they still weren't turning it over and giving away
too many easy buckets. Here was coach lu the post game after they win
one twenty four to one sixteen in Brooklyn over the Mets. What you said,
can tellas was on roll Night's on a bigger roll. This ain't even
the final will that they can Yeah, how many points you have? Oh?
Really? Okay? I thought he had fifty one my fault, so
so they had had eight point league game's obviously rolling. How did you get
control back in the game. The closest thing out. I thought defensively,
you know, it was able to get some stops and get out and transition
a little bit, and then went to our small, small pick and roll
and Kawhi and PG was able to get into the paint score and also get
into the pink, got Reggie a big three, Kai got a normal open
three that he you know, he didn't knock down. But I thought,
we really just settled down after that, being down eight, we just kind
of settled down and took the time out, and then we came out.
We went on a nine a run and then kind of had I control of
the game. But I knew it was gonna be a tough game tonight,
you know, And like I said, Jacques got these guys playing playing extremely
well, extremely hard. They played together and he's done a fantastic job.
So I knew tonight coming into it was gonna be a tough game. But
we did a good job taking care of the basketball, only having nine turnovers
again, you know, under double digit turnovers, and you know, just
a way to just to fight it out. We could easily gave in last
game of a road trip, but we stuck with it. And like I
said, was able to come out with the win. So Kaui DC they
had these fourth quarters were I mean, it doesn't look like the first threecorders.
The games seemed to change. Those shots aren't looking like they did to
the game games, and they missed the first five shots in the fourth quarterer,
What do you think got them kind of going to finish especially it's I
mean, I don't know. I mean, just talking to our analytics guys
and talking to Jed, you know, just trying to figure it out.
But he said, I shot quality in the fourth is the same shot qualities
in the first three quarters and as usually unusual. So just you know,
we just got to step up and make shots. I think gotta get in
some better shape a little bit as well, you know, and I think
in that fourth quarter shots are flat. You know, guys are not able
to make shots. But continue to keep getting better shape and it's gonna come.
So, you know, every time somebody just happens, you want to
you look at myself first and just kind of see what I can do better,
But you know, putting our guys in the right spots. Kawhi in
the mid post, PG in the post on the pick and rolls and like
I said, we get the same shot quality, but now we just got
to make shots. And so however I gotta figure that out. I will
do that make or miss leak. Yeah. At one point in the fourth
quarter, the Clippers missed eight straight shots to get down by eight with six
minutes left, but then Kauai with hit a jumper a pig shots settle them
down and they would go on to win by eight one forty four to one
sixteen in Brooklyn over the nets they go four and two on the Grammy road
trip. They're coming back home to take on the Dallas Mavericks Wednesday night tip
time at seven. Will I Clippers countdown for you at six? No,
Photophs got a new album coming out hit April. That's a song here.
You could be grade by photo Ops if you're a wonder. Before we get
out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization. No It
Eagle, Brian Seeman, Ralph lawl Our, big BROTHERER Jake Warner or head
engineer producer Katie Newton. Back in the bank, the callers the listeners until
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