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calls. You'll hear from sweet Low Williams postgame, Patrick Beverley in the head
coach Toronto lou After the Clippers get back to their winning ways. But it
wasn't easy. Early on, there was a lot of negativity on Twitter,
people saying the Clippers were playing worse than they did against the Dallas Mavericks when
they lost by fifty one points. They weren't guarding anyone on the perimeter.
But once that third quarter rolls around, once they get out of halftime,
once whatever Toronto Lou says to them to motivate them going into the third quarter
happens. It works. They outscored Minnesota by thirty, They scored thirty three,
They outscored Minnesota by thirteen points in that third quarter, held Minnesota to
just twenty and there was a lot of more energy on the court and some
of it was supplied by Reggie Jackson, who had seven of his fifteen points
in the third. Terrence Mann, though, came in and gave them really
good minutes in that third quarter. He's been playing great lately, probably his
best stretch so far as a pro. Look. He finished with just four
points, just five rebounds, and two assists, but he did all that
in an a minute stretch in that third quarter. You saw the nice alleyup
he put up for Kawhi Leonard, who bounced back after two games where he
combined to shoot just seventeen of forty from the field, tonight he goes thirteen
of twenty five, has thirty six points, his season high, and after
going over seven his last two games, from distance. Kawhi win five of
six from three, had two of them in the fourth quarter. Twelve of
his thirty six points came in that fourth But how about Sweet Lou Williams.
And I've been tracking this as it was his fourth straight game being in double
figures now, But even more interesting than that is how he's getting into double
figures and how he's doing the majority of his scoring. It looks like twenty
seventeen, twenty nineteen Sweet Lou Williams when he led the league in the fourth
quarters scoring. Let everyone still should have been an All Star. But over
his last four fourth quarters now Lou Williams. Going back to the game against
the Cavaliers, the last game of that last road trip, where he had
nine points in the fourth quarter. Then the next game against Boston they're back
at Staples Center, he has fourteen points on the fourth quarter. Then on
Sunday against the Sacramento Kings, he has eleven points in the fourth quarter.
Tonight has thirteen more points in the fourth against Minnesota. He has scored forty
seven points in his last four games in the fourth quarter alone, and his
scoring has gone up a little bit each in every game. And there are
a lot of people that owe him an apology here, not me. You
know, I've always believed in the underground goat. As long as he's moving
well, the shot is the last thing to go. And while the hip
was affecting it a little bit, Lou Williams is a streaky shooter. But
when he gets hot, like tonight when he had a season high twenty seven
points, went ten to fifteen from the field, and at thirteen of those
points in the fourth quarter, he is so tough to stop and gives the
Clippers an extra element. And Noah Eagle was talking about this, but sometimes
when guys are out like Paul George has been third straight game, Patrick Beverley
was back. He provided a shot in the arm in limited minutes, just
played eighteen, but took the ball coast to coast for one of his baskets,
and that was just good to see. One of his was also assisted
by Kawhi Leonard, who caught Patrick Beverly in the first half going downhill cherry
picking for an easy basket. The Clippers haven't got enough of those this season.
It looked like Kawhi Leonard was intent on pushing the ball down the floor,
but when sweet Lou Williams is going like this, and if he can
keep it up when Paul George returns, they are going to be even more
lethal, especially at the end of games when Tehron lu is maximizing and optimizing
lineups and figuring out who he wants to close out games. Lou Williams is
typically one of those guys you know Pg. Thirteen and Kawhi Leonard are going
to be out there. But if Lou Williams can play like this where he
is also assisting guys. He had a beautiful assist under the basket two Kawhi
Leonard in the fourth where I believe they had to foul on that play.
The Minnesota Timberwolves and the Clippers got to the free throw line a lot,
something else we've been stressing. Went twenty five of twenty nine from the free
throw line, went twelve of twenty three from distance, So they were good
in the first half. They were six of twelve, but they hadn't taken
a lot of three pointers. They end up going six of eleven from three
even better in the second half, and there were some timely ones I've been
I need to look this up because I feel like Marcus Morris continues to shoot
his best in fourth quarters from distance. He had a big three pointer in
the fourth even though a tough game, just three of twelve ten points.
Hit a big shot in the fourth if Etsa Zubos didn't have his best performance,
but was better in that third quarter. But Terrence Mann and Sweet Lou
Williams, they were really good off the bench. And then you had Patrick
Beverly providing that energy, providing that jolt, that shot in the arm the
Clippers have needed. He hasn't played in eighth straight games, so to see
him respond in that way. He didn't hit a three pointer, but only
took one, only took four shots, but look good overall. He didn't
get credited with a steal, but I feel like he had at least one
tipped pass. Kawhi Leonard, though had a couple of steals. Nicholas Batoum
had a couple of steals. Clippers didn't play very well in the first half.
You have to admit that. But to flip that switch again in the
third quarter and do so on the road where they are now ten and four
and eight and eight overall on the season, it's a nice win. Minnesota
By the way, I feel like they got a lift from having Carl Anthony
Towns back. He's only played four games so far this season. He has
been under some extraordinary circumstances recently with things off the court, with losing family
members, and then he had COVID. He's been in COVID protocols. Prayers
up for Carl Anthony Towns. It was just good to see him back out
there. At eighteen points and ten boards and thirty one minutes, but to
start things off, I felt like Minnesota getting their leader back, getting their
best player back, also had a little bit of a spark, and they
were up by as many as thirteen in the first half. Clippers led by
as many as fifteen in the fourth quarter, So a twenty eight point turnaround
in a very nice win to start off this quick two game road trip.
They'll be in Chicago Friday. More on that coming up. Plus you'll hear
from Lou Williams. But first, let's take a phone call CJ and Alhambra.
CJ. Anything to say to Sweetie Williams, yo, Hey, sweet
Blue, pull out the lemon and shake that pepper. Baby, You're back.
You are back, and you want to know something. Kauai was the
leading scorer, but this was this was Sweet Lows Night, and you know,
it's made me kind of wonder and open my eyes to a possibility.
And I want to bounce this off of you. Adam. What harm would
it be to have Sweet Lou as our starting one, especially with Paul George's
absence. I think the playmaking, that the offense that he brings would would
actually just be a nice one two punch. While Paul George is still out
with his toe injury. So you're talking about Lou Williams next to Patrick Beverley
in the backcourt. No, no, no, no, I'm saying,
let's put Lou Williams as our starting one, but we even win Paul George,
sorry, even win Paul George is healthy. Well no, no,
no, I'm saying while Paul George is out, because Chicago is our next
trip and we know that Paul George isn't coming back, So I'm saying,
let's put Lou Williams as our starting one and have a second rotation of a
three guard rotation of Pat Jackson and Kinnard. I think Lou Williams would just
be well. Hold on to CJ. You're missing something. Patrick Beverly and
Reggie Jackson started in the backcourt tonight, So which one of them is Lou
Williams starting over? Theoretically, in your in your plan, it would it
would be Pat Bev. It would be Pat. Let Pat Bev get his
kind of limits. I think he would be great off the bench. I
think in the meantime since since Paul George is our number one playmaker, Lou
will could could really help really just motivate this this starting unit. See,
I'll put it this way, CG CJ. I don't hate the idea,
but if I were to do it, I would probably start him over Reggie
Jackson next to Patrick Beverley in the starting lineup because Pat Bev has been so
good with this team. In the starting lineup going back years now, Clippers
are ninety nine and forty seven when he's available, going back the last couple
of seasons. When he's not, they're sixteen and eighteen. He means so
much to this team. And when he and Kawhi play, the Clippers are
now forty six and thirteen. That's a seven eighty winning percentage. That would
be a sixty four win pace during a normal eighty two games schedule. I
just don't know if you want to take Patrick Beverley out of the starting lineup.
He also is a tone setter. I've always said this because I think
it's true. When Patrick Beverly is out there on the court, he can
only do so much cheering guys on on the sidelines, and he's been great
doing that the last couple of games. But when he's with his teammates out
there on the court, he is a constant reminder of how they have to
play. Clippers win one nineteen to one twelve in Minnesota over the Timberwolves.
More of your phone calls coming up eight six six ninety eight seven two five
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this segment you will hear from Sweet Lou Williams. He goes for a season
high twenty seven points on ten of fifteen shooting. But let's get to Jose
and south Gate. Jose, what's up here on Clipper Stock with Adam moslind
Hey, Adam, once again, thank you for another great post game,
oh man, twenty three points in twenty three minutes. I'm pretty solid in
the only Kiver fan who so guilty of having Lou Williams on the shopping block
for a trade. But to tonight just called all that bag. If he's
still vulnerability deep down in the playoffs on defense, maybe, but right now
it's not about that. Go I saw one of his signature shoes, and
when I saw that, I knew he was a baby up plays. I
love you Adam all right, Jose, thank you, Hey, do not
sleep on the underground Defensive Player of the Year, Sweet Lou Williams, who
once again We've seen this all season long, even going back to last year
in the bubble. At times in the fourth quarter he comes away with big
steals. He had one for himself where he got out into the open floor
for a layup in the fourth quarter, and then he had another one late
in the fourth quarter where Reggie Jackson showed off the hops. He still got
them. Lou Williams post game is coming up in just moments, but I
want to say it's not just tonight. It's what he's done the last four
games, scoring fifteen points, then eighteen points, then twenty three points,
and then tonight with this season high twenty seven points. So things have been
building. They have been trending in the right direction for Lou Williams. And
his three point shooting actually has been really good all season long. He's shooting
after tonight, I think he's gonna be shooting about thirty nine percent from three
on the season. So he's been missing some easy ones, he's been missing
some floaters, some shots at the ram. He's been missing when he goes
left in the mid range, or he was missing earlier this season. That
looks to be fixed now. The underground got is back and this is a
huge development for the Clippers. Tagus in Walnut, You're on Clippers stop with
Adam oslin Hi they adam to go on that point. I think early on
lou Williams was he was missing a lot of those shots. I know he
was injured, but part of the reason was he was trying to I think,
build that chemistry with the second unit, especially Zoback like he did with
Montrez. I saw for so much early on in the season where he was
kind of he had a lot of those open shots, but he was looking
to pass. And now you know, for the past four or five games,
you can see he's looking to shoot when he's open and just playing with
the defense is giving him and he's you know, just playing in rhythm now
and I think that makes a big difference. It took some time, but
I think that's one of the bigger things that I saw. And I just
wanted to say also, Nick, Buttom this probably went under the radar,
but he guarded positions from one to five again, some on Karl Anthony Towns
for a lot of the game and then at times on Rickey Rubio. So
you won't see it in his offensive debts, but I mean to guard one
through five takes a lot of pressure off the other guys like Kawhi. Thanks
Adam, that's a great point Tagus. You will see this in the box
score. He led the Clippers with ten boards. Kawhi was second with eight,
but sweet Low Williams had also four sis to go along with his twenty
seven points. And here was the underground goat post game after the Clippers win
one nineteen to one twelve in Minnesota. The effort was there all year long.
I know you were nicked up maybe the last ten games, but it
feels like to me the last four games you have returned to who you are
and happened for the Clippers for the last three years. Is that a fair
statement. Yeah, just trust in my training, being confident in my abilities.
You know, when you're shooting your score, sometimes you go through last
wore you just can't can't make the ball going a round. I always say,
if you're gonna go out on the floor, you're gonna get inside of
the line. You make no excuses for yourself. Silver, I never make
excuses for myself. You know, if I'm a play, I'm a play.
Whatever injuries I'm dealing with, So I'm happy that I'm starting to get
it gone, Lou Jimmy Jackson, congrats twenty three on Sunday twenty seven,
this evening. How much of being a profession on a pro has allowed you
to weather the storm when you were younger, maybe you react to not shooting
the ball well differently, but now at thirty or you seem to have weathered
that and now I've gotten back to who we are accustomed to scene absolutely,
Like I said, just trusting the process. At this point in my career,
I know who I am, I know what I bring to the table.
I'm confident in my ability. So you know, a hard time never
humble me, man, I just keep playing. You were greeted by Pat
Beverley there. Can you tell us what the team gains when he is on
the floor. What did you guys miss when he was off of it?
Just what he did? Energy, he brings, excitement, gets everybody going.
And you know those times where you're looking for that all you're looking for
that that next push, You're looking for some energy, looking for something to
get you going. Pat has always been that guy. So it was happy
that we were happy to have them back tonight. You know what Lou will
I knew you were special because your birthday is October twenty seventh. I'm the
fourteenth. But you're in the customer that libra, the scorpio size, but
you're touching the greatness of the libra. And I'm glad to see that.
You've got a smile on your face, bro, and you're playing well.
I appreciate it, Lou, appreciate your time. Go celebrate with your teammates.
I'm not going to say the stars aligned for Sweet LEEUW. Williams to
get twenty seven points in the fourth quarter, to get twenty seven points in
the game, thirteen in the fourth quarter. But I will say, and
I've said this before, back during that twenty seventeen twenty eighteen season, he
became one of the best players in the league that you would want on your
side in fourth quarters where he just feels it and starts to get hot.
And they didn't have Kawai then, they didn't have Paul George then. So
in theory, Sweet Lou should be getting easier. Looks more so now than
ever. So this is a great sign for the Clippers that he started to
get it going, and hopefully it continues They're in Chicago Friday night. More
on that coming up, plus far about Essenshari will be on next You also
hear from Pat Beverley. He returned for his first game in three weeks,
had just six points. Who cares, he was a plus eight out there
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win. Shawty Clippers win one, nineteen to one twelve over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
They stopped their two games slide. They were up just six or down
six and a half, up seven going into the fourth quarter. They were
up eleven in the first minute of the fourth quarter, but less than a
minute and a half later thanks to Nas Reid, who went illmatic with it
for the Minnesota Timberwolves. He had nine points during about a minute and a
half stretch. It was just a two point game, Clippers leading by just
two, but then sweet Sweet loew Williams had a quick five points. Kawhi
Leonard had twelve of his thirty six in the fourth, Clippers led by as
many as fifteen. They go on to win one nineteen to one twelve.
Welcome back into Clipper stock. I'm Adam Oslin to eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. Can you believe this? I got sent straight to
voicemail by far bought Essen Shari just because he's talking to Kawhi Leonard and I
guess that's more of a big deal than coming on here. Next segment we'll
have far Bought on until then mentioned New Jersey. What you got? Heaps?
How I'm good match? What do you think about the game? Uh?
Great games Corey, We's kremb team, Lou Williams is back, Maybe
we'll win the six. Keep keeping up his playing comes SA and I'm good
man scamblers. I want to see young guys do managem family get him experience.
But specially made all right match, Thank you for the phone call.
You mentioned Kawhi there and I think he brought up MVP and I got a
tweet just a few minutes ago talking about how Kawai was over seven from three
his last two games, and then tonight he goes five of six. He
was my player to watch. I decided that stat earlier in the pregame show
because I thought he would bounce back and respond after having two days off.
But then I get Johnny Mobile tweeting me he is good not great. I
look, you don't even have to wear a Lakers hat. You could just
hate in that way, and I know you're a Lakers fan already. Kawhi
is good, not great. He's a two time Finals MVP. He's finished
top three in MVP voting during the regular season before, and he's top five
right now in my estimation this season when it comes to being an MVP candidate
and people have to take notice, but especially right now when you win a
ballgame like this without Paul George. I just find it hilarious that people have
Kevin Durant above Kawhi Leonard when he's playing next to James Harden and Kyrie Irving.
When they use the logic logic for Kawhi that well, he's playing next
to Paul George, Well, okay, make it makes sense. Katie is
playing next to Kyrie Irving and James Harden, Jeff and Tarzana. You're on
Clippers talk. Hey, hey, uh, you know what you know?
I love the Clippers and it's really hard to call after they lose two games
like they did. But I have to be honest, Adam, the best
player in basketball is Lebron James. And that's fine. You gotta prove it
against him in a seven game sitting. Wait, wait, who said otherwise?
Who even brought up Lebron James? Jeff were talking last year? Yeah,
Lebron James should have got the MVP last year. You're honestly then,
and Kompo had better numbers, his team had. His team had the best
it's a regular season award. He had the best numbers. He was the
best player on the best team during the regular season. That's how MVP regulars.
You ever seen the guy that's thirty six year old, It's still been
the best player in the league at thirty six. Lebron's amazing. Yeah.
I the only thing I've ever met at Lebron was he picked the wrong LA
team to go to. Jeff, the Clippers win by seven to night and
you're stuck on Lebron. He's living rent free. But here's what I wanted
to ask you add him. Remember I was a little bit down on Lou
Williams earlier in this year. Yeah, you were. You can apologize no,
because we're not over yet. He is a great player. He just
came out of the slump. You know, these players are hot and cold,
and you know what, I don't take much stock and beating a team
that is six and eighteen. You know, when they start beating teams that
are that are over five hundreds, that I'm glad that they won and I've
always root for them, but have them What is your record at home and
what is your record against teams that are over five hundred. I'll try to
get that for you, Jeff. But to act like Minnesota is six and
nineteen now after this loss with Carl Anthony Towns would be incorrect. This was
just the fifth game he's played all season, so it's an injury influenced record.
There's a difference. They are more talented than the record would speak to.
But yes, there's hot, there's cold during the season, but there's
also banged up and injured, and that's where Lou Williams was at. So
you had to let him fight through that hip injury and get healthy and then
assess where he's at the age of thirty four coming off the bench, and
what he can still do and what can he still provide this Clippers team,
and tonight it was twenty seven points on just fifteen shots. He looked like,
as Noah Eagles said postgame, this was a class sick, virtuoso performance
from Lou Williams. All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll come
back. You'll hear from farbod essence Shari eight six six ninety eight seven two
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a little bit from Patrick Beverly post game. He plays his first game in
three weeks at six points three boards. But first let's get to a man
that sent me straight to voicemail just because he was talking to Kawhi Leonard post
game. So I'm not gonna act like I'm a bigger deal than that.
I'm gonna be understanding here. Far Board, thanks for coming back on Clippers
stock. It's any consolation. I told Kawai I put him on voicemail.
Next time you guys got a trade off? Does he have a phone?
Kawhi's got a pager? I think yes, A far bodes and sorry covers
the Clippers for SI now follow him at farbod underscore e on Twitter. So
far Board, you know, I'm not going to name any names, but
there were some people that were really freaking out early in the game, overreacting,
just making fools themselves on Twitter. What change for the Clippers in the
second half? It was some guy whose name rhymes is far Board. But
it wasn't No, it wasn't just you. It was not just you.
Kawhii. Actually, one of the things he said postgame was we were awful
in the first quarter. I asked tylu I mean, obviously the adjustments were
there and they changed that. But I asked Tyler, what did he say,
because it felt like in the first quarter they were just ball watching everything.
I mean even a good chunk of the second quarter, it was just
wide open threes and ball watching. And Tyler said he gave a speech halftime
about how all the guys were soft and that they're letting him be more physical
than them and they need to start crashing the boards. And clearly that speech
worked because the first half to second half difference was huge. He really rallied
the troops there. Well done, head coach tehron Lou. Kawhi Leonard bounced
back, he rallied himself. He was good in the first quarter overall.
I think he had eight points in the first quarter, but finished with thirty
six, had twenty of those in the second half, and goes five of
six from distance. What do you think the difference was for Kawhi Leonard in
this game as opposed to the last two. Honestly, I mean, it
felt like there wasn't that much difference. Just the shots were kind of going
in. I mean, it felt like a lot of a lot of his
points came at the very end where it was like that weird stretch of time
in the final two minutes where Minnesota had lost, but they just kind of
didn't want to lose, and they kept pulling a ten to twelve point lead
into a nine to eight point lead, and he just kept hitting big shot
after big shot. But I don't know, it just seemed like he was
playing with more of a sense of anger tonight. I mean, he looked
angry at the rest well when he didn't get that call accident at one point,
well, he was. He was just much more determined to get a
win. It felt like, don't upset the claw. He also led them
with five assists. I felt like he was one of a few players that
was trying to move the ball down the floor faster. The Clippers ended up
with eighteen fast break points, not too shabby. He had a nice outlet
pass after a steal to Patrick Beverley for an easy bucket in the first half.
But is that something that they have to get better at with this offense,
just playing a little bit faster and getting more easy buckets out there.
Yeah, they play really really slow. I mean, the only guys who
seems to really push the pace is sometimes Kawai or Lou or Reggie, But
when Reggie pushes the pace, it's like a double edged swordy Either it's like
most Yolow shot of all time or it's something pretty solid yolo. Reggie's my
favorite. Sweet Lou Williams you mentioned him there, he goes for a season
high, just like Kawai did with thirty six. Lou had twenty seven off
the bench plus four assists his last four games. Now he's been in double
figures scoring wise. So is he just healthy? Is it a hot streak?
Because I was thinking about this earlier and we talked about it with Noah
Eagle. He brought up the point that you know, there are opportunities for
players when somebody else is out, not that you ever want to see someone
hurt. And we hope Paul George is back as soon as possible. He
won't be with them Friday again, but it provides an opportunity for someone else
to step up, play heavier minutes and maybe get in rhythm. And is
that what maybe is happening with Sweet Lou Williams right now? I think it's
a combination of things. Still, like I think he's got his legs underneath
him more and more. I mean, I think the hip injury is probably
bugging him more than anybody wanted to say, because you know, the Clippers
don't really say things when it's like bothering them. I mean, we just
saw Patrick Beverley told us today, he said, we knew I was coming
back this trip the whole time. We just didn't want to tell anybody.
But the thing with Lou is it's it's interesting because it felt like today they
were kind of reverting to the offense they had last season, where it was
a bit more ISO and a bit more just getting the hands inside of one
person instead of moving the ball around. But when you revert to that style,
it benefits Lou pretty well, and I think he capitalized on it more
than anyone today. Obviously he's good in isolation, Kawhi Leonard is a great
isolation player. But overall, to me, it's look like and I think
coaches and players have talked about this a little bit, but since that game
against the Brooklyn Nets, it threw off their offense a little bit. They
got into a heavy ISO game back and forth down the stretch. They almost
pulled it off. But since then, to me, there's been slippage offensively
when they were the best passing team I believe overall, and that was setting
up them shooting so well from three. Have you seen the same thing,
Yeah, I don't think I've seen the same offense that they've had. I
think maybe they had it for one quarter against Boston and then they didn't really
have it again after that they I think it has something to do with just
the fact that the Clipper system is such a it's such a two headed monster
where if you have one of them out, the whole thing kind of changes
dramatically because the concerns of, you know, we need a ball handler and
we need a playmak here and this and that that doesn't really exist when they
have both of their guys. But once one of those two monsters comes out,
then they actually kind of need one. So it's a it's a weird
knee jerk reaction where people are clamoring for a ball handler, but they won't
need one as soon as they're healthy. What they need more at home.
Last one for you here, far Bod Terrence Man I thought was pivotal,
especially in that third quarter where the Clippers won the third by thirteen points.
His energy, his hustle. He was doing his best Pat Beverly impersonation.
I think he had four of his five rebounds in that third quarter alone plus
four points. Are we starting to see the type of player he's going to
be in this league crystallize over the past couple of weeks. Yeah, it
seems like he's way more of an identity this season than he did in previous
seasons. He's kind of really becoming like a like a junior Pat Bev this
season. And Pat had Pat had jokes that he texts him and that he's
going to get on him if he doesn't perform like this because that's his rookie
And so it seems like he just has a really really good work ethic and
he knows what they need from him, and he I mean, you saw
it in the first half. I felt like everybody was lack a daisical except
him, and he really really really brought the hustle when they needed it.
Yeah, his hustle plays for rebounds. There's that resemblance to Pat Bev.
He had two offensive rebounds the Clippers. Overall, they were down ten one
in the first six minutes of the game. In terms of the rebounding battle.
They ended up being a plus eight on the board, so that also
turned things around in a big way for them. They end up winning by
seven in Minnesota one nineteen to one twelve. Farbod s and Shari does a
great job covering the Clippers with good analysis for SI. Now he's been coming
on with me for like a couple of years now, Farbod. I'm sorry
about the shade early on, but at Farbot underscore E is where you find
him on Twitter, and if you're real tight with him, you'll get his
phone number and he'll send you straight to voicemail. Anyways, thanks, Farbod.
At least we got the winning record in a month. He has a
good luck charm as well. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Before we get out of here, on Clipper stock, Corey in Tampa,
Corey, was that you on the boat catching the Super Bowl the Lombardi
Trophy from Brady earlier today? I wish I was Man, but I was
at work. It's actually Corey. By the way, Corey, what did
I say? Yeah, you said Corey, but it's Corey. But it's
okay. Play the two corries. What are we talking okay either way,
Corey, what did you think about the game tonight? Calling from Tampa?
It was good, man. You know, I was worried in the first
quarter, first half, but you know the third we are the third quarter
Clippers this season, and he turned it up with our sworn defense. I
like what what Kawa was doing. I like what Luke did. Scares me
sometimes because we hear you know about trade, trade him in trades and as
scared as me. You can't have games like this and he just bread count
and I'm like, man, can we just keep them? Keep them going?
But I like, you know, was Zoo doing, sir so a
little bit today? To him is always on in the in the Cornerston and
Lawrence too. But actually I want to know who can we target in a
trade, like I was hearing reports about, like Rondo possibly, or do
we need to add another wing like PG Sucker or try to get another big
in here. That was I was wondering about, Like, couldn't think if
we can get Rondo like on the buyout market or even just like trade.
I think that could be big for us, like you know, pass and
having a fourth general on the court. You know, thank you for the
phone call. We're just not there yet. Look after a nightlight tonight,
when everybody was throwing around sweetleew Williams's name when it came to trades, it's
hard to talk about trades tonight here on Clippers Talk. Yeah, Rondo maybe
one of those names, George Hill, maybe one of those names. Lonzo
Ball maybe one of those names, although he's been great the last i think
five or six games for the New Orleans Pelicans, who are starting to turn
things around. I don't know if that's the answer to everything for the Clippers,
and keeping their offense clicked in and locked in and in rhythm. I
think it's just passing the basketball. That's been their identity, everybody being that
willing passer out there, because that means everyone's a threat and they become so
much more difficult to guard. So I don't know if that point guard narrative
that everybody's always been talking about even before the season began, is the solution
for the Clippers. The solution maybe in the locker room already. It may
be internal and as these guys get better this season, especially with the way
the bench has been playing. They had fifty seven points last game, tonight
they had about forty five points. They've looked like the bench from the last
couple of seasons. Clippers win. They're eighteen eight ten and four on the
road. They're in shy Town taking on the Bulls Friday tip times at five
pm. We'll have Clippers countdown for you at four pm before we get out
of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization Fox Sports Prime Ticket
for the audio we used post game with sweet Low Williams. It was Brian
Seamen and Jimmy Jackson on the call. Noah Eagle, Ralph Lawler back here
in the bank, Zach o'caldy, who likes to video I want to say
videotape, but video phone me. He likes to stream it when I give
him credit at the very end of the game, and really likes to put
me on the spot, flashing his iPhone up while I'm doing this currently right
now, Zack, great job, there's documented put it on your resume.
That'll get you far. Clippers win one nineteenth to one twelve in Minnesota over
the Timberwolves. Until Friday with your pregame shows starting at four pm. I'm
out of Maslin. We'll talk to you then