WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.960 The game is over all George Money in the pain, but the postgame reaction 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:10.119 has just begote gohi letard is so smooth in the mid range. This is 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.279 Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on your 4 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:19.199 hope for LA Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir, are 5 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:25.359 a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers win one thirty four to one twenty 6 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:30.000 six as they survive fifty from Steph Curry and beat the Golden State Warriors. 7 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:33.840 Here from Crypto dot com Arena. I'm Adam Oslin. Welcome to your postgame 8 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.399 show. Coming up. We got second half highlights in your post game box 9 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:41.840 score, Clipper Nation. What a victory, biggest win of the season. 10 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:47.240 Considering there's just twelve games left now and the Clippers have won four straight and 11 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:52.479 I believe have the longest winning street currently in the Western Conference or at least 12 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:57.479 tied for it. Nope, they stand alone in that category. They improve 13 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:02.039 to being the fifth seed as tonight was to determine that for the moment. 14 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.560 There's still a lot of time left in the season and a lot of jockeying 15 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.719 for position in the Western Conference standings. Of course, with how close things 16 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:14.640 are sees five through ten, separating themselves by just two make it three games 17 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:19.000 now, but the Clippers being able to take down a Golden State Warriors team 18 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:23.599 that got this level of performance from Steph Curry where you could tell they circled 19 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.280 this one. I heard it the other night, but when the Golden State 20 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.400 Warriors, who just had two really good victories over the Bucks and over the 21 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:34.480 Suns. After that Sun's game, Steph talked about getting one on the road, 22 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.120 and they're on a five game road trip. This was game one of 23 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.359 that road trip for them, and I felt like they put out their best 24 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:45.120 effort to try to switch up that narrative. Where they are now seven and 25 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:49.640 twenty seven on the road so far this season, which is a little bit 26 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:55.560 perplexing coming from the defending champs. They gave the Clippers their best shot tonight, 27 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.359 but I felt like the Clippers answered the call each and every time. 28 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.159 They'd end up getting thirty from Kawhi Leonard twenty four from PG thirteen, who 29 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:08.639 hit two huge three pointers in the fourth quarter, including the dagger that had 30 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:13.159 Steve Kerr calling off the Dogs, or so we thought. He took Steph 31 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.039 Curry out of the ball game, but they were still intentionally fouling late. 32 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:20.120 They were still trying to find a way to just get back into this one, 33 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.599 but surviving fifty from Steph Curry where he had a twenty one point third 34 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:27.479 quarter, and the Clippers ended up winning the third quarter. Anyways, part 35 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:34.439 of the reason was Eric Gordon eg He finished with fourteen of his sixteen points 36 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:38.080 in that third quarter. Just an incredible performance, and he kind of countered 37 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.840 some of those deep threes and that ability to stretch the floor. Well, 38 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:46.360 Eric Gordon was able to do some of that. He hit all four of 39 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.680 us three pointers in that third quarter. Or now rejoined by our voice of 40 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.919 the Clippers in Noah Eagle, Noah biggest victory of the season, considering everything 41 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.039 at stake in this one, and I thought they took Golden State's best shot, 42 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.840 who was out Hunteam for a victory on the road, a nationally televised 43 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:07.120 game. They gave the Clippers everything to overcome the Steph Curry performance, to 44 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.360 overcome, to your point, the ferocity the Warriors were playing with to start 45 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:15.000 this game, and to play the way the Clippers did down the stretch to 46 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:16.680 find a way through it. To spike, Golden State making the runs, 47 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:22.919 tremendous stuff, tremendous, tremendous stuff, showing growth again from not giving up 48 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:25.560 their lead for when Golden State makes the run, remaining calm, the veterans 49 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:30.240 playing like veterans, the youngsters playing like young up and coming stars. I 50 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.439 thought this was a complete win, a team win, and a win that 51 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.080 you build on now moving forward the rest of the season. And they were 52 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.159 down fourth about nine minutes left in that third quarter, and it said, 53 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:44.159 I want to see what this Clippers team is made of right now, and 54 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.800 they showed it to you. They're back to that resilient, natured crew that 55 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:51.319 never gives in no matter what the score is, no matter what a player 56 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.639 is doing going supernova like Steph Curry's. Isn't the third They won that third 57 00:03:54.719 --> 00:04:00.639 quarter regardless by three points. That is something that we really haven't. They 58 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.000 beat Golden State at their own game in some ways, no doubt about it. 59 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.280 Look this was you look at this the breakdown and quarter to quarter to 60 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.319 quarter twenty eight twenty three. The Clippers win the first, but then it 61 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:12.759 was highest scoring the rest of the way, and that's what Golden State wants. 62 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:14.719 They're one of the highest scoring teams in the NBA. In fact, 63 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:16.959 they're second in the league behind Sacramento at one eighteen point two a game, 64 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.759 despite being fourteenth and offensive rating. But their pace is so great that they 65 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:24.240 score a lot. So if you want to beat them, you gotta score 66 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.959 a lot, and the Clippers did exactly that. Thirty three, thirty eight, 67 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.680 thirty five the last three quarters. They put up one thirty four in 68 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:30.959 this game. You put up one thirty four most games you're gonna win. 69 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:34.519 But even with Steph Curry going for fifty and Golden State being hot at different 70 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:38.399 points in this game, this one just felt like it meant a little more. 71 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:41.040 And the Clippers get in the w we'll see if they can build on 72 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.439 it even more. The momentum is obvious right now for this team, and 73 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.720 even though Golden State outshoots them at fifty five percent from the field forty seven 74 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.639 percent from the outside, Clippers are respectable forty eight percent and forty seven percent 75 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:58.040 themselves from distance. But the difference was they only turn the basketball over eight 76 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.639 times, and that eighth turnover was well a little bit of a token turnover 77 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:04.360 late. Somebody had to have it. Yeah, the Golden State. Okay, 78 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:08.519 yeah, look, that was one of the biggest factors of this game. 79 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.120 When you're gonna overcome a big scoring performance like that, you've got to 80 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.519 win the turnover battle by a fairly wide margin, and the Clippers did that 81 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:16.040 and then some. So that was good to see. And it's good to 82 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:20.319 see them forcing turnovers the way they did tonight against a team that's got guys 83 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:26.519 who have been in the biggest of moments on the biggest of stages. Usually 84 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.519 things don't FaZe them, but it felt like today the Clippers got to them 85 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.480 just enough. And there's not enough superlatives about this win. There's not enough 86 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:35.759 superlatives about this team, the way they're playing right now. It's crazy how 87 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:39.560 much can change in the matter of two weeks. Two weeks ago you would 88 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:43.079 have thought the season was over, and now new life with only half a 89 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.639 game separating the Clippers and the four seed, with one more matchup with that 90 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.120 same Phoenix Suns team at the end of the year. Good things happening now 91 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:54.279 it's about continuing there. Clippers win one thirty four to one twenty six over 92 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:58.639 the Golden State Warriors. Their next one is coming up against a team that's 93 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.959 been playing better basketball and beat the Clippers in ot in Orlando, Clippers host 94 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:08.560 the Magic on Saturday. Tip Off is at noon. We'll have Clippers countdown 95 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:12.480 for you starting at eleven. No Ah Eagle, great call. We'll talk 96 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.600 to you on Saturday, Adam. This has been a joy. Although I 97 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.160 don't think you're gonna be in the building Saturday. But even without you here, 98 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:23.480 can't wait. If Bob Costas is still here, We're all good. 99 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:28.000 Right Hey, big brother Jake got his photo with him, so we're good. 100 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.720 Check out the grand later. Clippers win one thirty four to one twenty 101 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:36.399 six over the Warriors. What a victory. Clipper Nation coming up second half 102 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:41.639 highlights right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Who was blocked by 103 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:46.759 George. This is LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man king for 104 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:51.240 all the defensive man on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers win one 105 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:56.600 thirty four to one twenty six over the Golden State Warriors. Here from Crypto 106 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.680 dot Com Arena with their postgame show. I'm out of Moslin. You guys 107 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.199 are live and with us still to come on a seventy LA Sports, we 108 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:09.040 will have Clippers stock eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six 109 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:13.480 six nine eight seven two five seventy. Before we get to second half highlights, 110 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.720 let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on A seventy l A 111 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:24.240 Sports on Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM five 112 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:30.920 seventy KLAC Los Angeles eight seven KYSR HD two Los Angeles and iHeart Radio station. 113 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.759 You hear that throw. It's your heart out, Bob cost Us. 114 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:38.639 Yeah, the goat was in the building and the young goat and Noah Eagles 115 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.399 speaking of let's get to him. Clippers were leading at the half by just 116 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:48.279 three at sixty one to fifty eight here. Even though they shot worse than 117 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:54.160 the Golden State Warriors in that first half, the difference was offensive rebounds and 118 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:59.759 not turning the basketball over. That continued into the second half and Eric Gordon's 119 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:05.800 up up Big Gordon a right wing three, big yall. Eric Gordon makes 120 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:11.480 it rain time out Golden State seventy seven seventies six forty to go on the 121 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.120 third Loony cutting the room. Oh e raced at the rim. It's soup 122 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.480 block number one. Gordon, same spot, save resolved book it for Eric 123 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.600 Gordon on the right wing for three, and the Clippers have their largest lead 124 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.439 at ten. It's eighty to seventy. Blab it outside Gordon a right wing 125 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:33.519 three is up, book it. Eric Gordon drills another, his third three 126 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.240 of the quarter makes it ninety four eighty eight. La Gordon gets the spring 127 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.039 from fumly bounce bass inside, flummy kick out man swing. It's Leonard pump, 128 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:46.840 big drive middle outside Gordon a left wing three kaboom, great book wood 129 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:52.159 been by the Clippers and they lead ninety nine ninety one. They would lead 130 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.960 ninety nine ninety three by the end of the third quarter, a quarter where 131 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.639 Steph Curry had twenty one of his fifty points, and the Clippers still outscored 132 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.639 the Golden State Warriors by three in the third well the score of thirty eight 133 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.399 to thirty five, so they're up six heading into the fourth quarter. Down 134 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.279 the stretch. You always got to rely on your superstars. In the two 135 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.519 one three connection, Leonard left point three is up. It's down kol wide 136 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.679 Leonards got thirty one eighteen one oh six. Clippers back up twelve. Gordon 137 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.440 will take his time from right to left. Find George top the Keys. 138 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.639 He's up the three ball knocks it down PG thirteen with twenty one, one, 139 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:35.759 twenty three, one fifteen, La George and left wint three book it. 140 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:41.039 Paul George, Butter and the Clippers lead by thirteen. They're largest of 141 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.399 the night, one thirty two, one nineteen. That was the dagger thanks 142 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:52.720 to some hot shooting, some hustle plays, Clippers getting sixteen offensive rebounds. 143 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.919 They would withstand the fifty spot from Steph Curry and win one thirty four to 144 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:03.440 one twenty six over the Golden State Warriors. Coming up next were previous Saturday's 145 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:09.279 game Clippers staying here, final game of this five game homestand they're taken on 146 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:15.559 the Orlando Magic. You're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network. Oh, 147 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:22.159 Paul George LA Clippers Basketball continue facing his pains as he ferries the three 148 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.440 on the home of your LA Clippers. Roll on. Clippers win one thirty 149 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.559 four to one twenty six over the Golden State Warriors thanks to thirty from Kauai, 150 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:35.919 twenty four from Paul George, and a couple of clutch threes late And 151 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.919 how about a Visa Zubosch clutch at the free throw line finished with nineteen and 152 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:45.000 sixteen and a block. This was someone who used to get played off the 153 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:50.919 floor by Golden State's small ball. You see the maturation of Big Zoo there. 154 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:54.399 Eric gordon I mentioned him. Sixteen points, fourteen of which came in 155 00:10:54.440 --> 00:11:01.919 that third quarter, and Terrence man unbelievable performance three offensive rebounds, was making 156 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:07.240 the hustle plays, giving them extra possessions. Clippers ended up getting up eight 157 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:11.200 more shots than Golden State, and that was the difference because the Warriors actually 158 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.080 outshot them fifty five percent from the field forty seven percent from the outside, 159 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.799 Clippers forty eight percent from the field, also forty seven percent from the outside 160 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.240 forty seven point one compared to forty seven point two for Golden State, if 161 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.000 you want to be technical about it. Clippers four straight game of having fifty 162 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:30.120 points or more in the paint, they finished right at fifty. Warriors with 163 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.960 forty eight. Clippers second chance points though twenty seven on eleven of sixteen. 164 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.440 Shooting those extra possessions, those hustle plays, those offensive rebounds and taking care 165 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.799 of the basketball. It got them the win. That is championship level type 166 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.240 of stuff. And they do so against the defending champs and the Golden State 167 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.799 Warriors tonight with just twelve games to play. That next game is coming up 168 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.600 on Saturday. Tip Off is at noon. Clippers right back here at Crypto 169 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.919 dot com arena hosting the Orlando Magic. They got some unfinished business against them. 170 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.200 They lost a game in Orlando to one of the worst losses of the 171 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.120 season in ot It was a tough one. Clipper's gotta keep this going and 172 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.440 trying to get to five straight victories. All right, outside of Los Angeles, 173 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:11.879 we are leaving you until then, but coming up next seventy LA Sports, 174 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:16.200 we will have Clippers Talk eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy 175 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.000 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy We'll get to meet at follow 176 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.480 Adam a on Twitter. Outside of Los Angeles, we'll talk to you on 177 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:30.919 Saturday in LA. It's Clippers Talk next. This has been Clippers locker room, 178 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:35.519 oh both side for Paul George. The conclusion to another game of exciting 179 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:41.320 LA Clippers basketball. Don't miss any of the action all season long on your 180 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:48.279 home for the l A Clippers. Welcome into Clippers Talk. Here's a new 181 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.320 sheriff in cown. You won't be able to deny it. If we're gonna 182 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.159 go to the NBA Finals. I believe it in my heart. This is 183 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.159 the best team in the history of the franchise. I am all about the 184 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.320 Clipper Nation. This is Clippers Talk. They're trying to win the whole thing. 185 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:09.480 A postgame look. It's your La Clippers recapping the game, the stars 186 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.679 and looking ahead to what's next. To hear episodes you've missed. Subscribe to 187 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:18.919 Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you podcast. Now your host of Clippers 188 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:26.679 Talk. Here's Adam Oslin. The baby Faced Assassin had a grown man's fifty 189 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:30.799 spot, but the Clippers had Terrence Man making hustle plays which would tell the 190 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.399 story in this one as the Clippers survived fifty from Steph Curry and win one 191 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:39.440 thirty four to one twenty six. Here at Krypto dot Com arena over the 192 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.720 Golden State Warriors, welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm at I'm Oslin to 193 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:46.600 eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven 194 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:50.480 two five seventy is the phone number if you'd like to get on. Coming 195 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:52.399 up on the show, You're gonna hear from coach Lou and we got player 196 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:58.720 audio postgame, plus Will Updyke from Clips and Dip will be here. Best 197 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:05.200 win of the season. Can't emphasize that enough, not just because it gets 198 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:11.559 into four straight, but the quality of competition that they were able to take 199 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:15.759 down in this one because Golden State, yes, I know they were seven 200 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.919 and twenty six on the road heading into the ball game. They did not 201 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:22.919 play like that team they're trying to flip the narrative. They gave the Clippers 202 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.519 everything they had, including fifty from Steph Curry in a game where they shot 203 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.200 fifty five percent as a team forty seven percent from the outside, and the 204 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:39.360 Clippers win the difference. Clippers with half as many turnovers as Golden State Warriors 205 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:48.000 had sixteen, Clippers just eight, and the Clippers had nine more offensive rebounds 206 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:54.559 sixteen of them. They end up shooting under what Golden State was at just 207 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.879 forty eight percent from the field to Golden States fifty five percent, but they 208 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.320 got to the free tri line because they were scoring points in the paint with 209 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:07.600 fifty of them and a few more shots up let's call it, yeah, 210 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.720 eight more shots up than the Golden State Warriors, and that made up the 211 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:15.919 disparity in terms of shooting percentage, more possessions out there for the Clippers, 212 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:22.480 attacking the basket, rim pressure, hustle plays, Russell Westbrook two offensive rebounds 213 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:28.240 in that fourth quarter, Terrence Man three offensive rebounds, huge place. When 214 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:33.559 the Clippers were missing, they were getting extra shots up anyways and making the 215 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:39.320 most of them. And how about Big Zoo with nineteen and sixteen. This 216 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.879 was someone who the Golden State Warriors used to pick on when they went small 217 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.960 Zoo couldn't stay on the floor with them. Now it's going the other way. 218 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:56.720 He's punishing them on both ends. Sixteen rebounds, got Draymond Green and 219 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.639 foul trouble. They went to him to I to get Draymond and foul trouble 220 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:07.519 and get him that six foul in the fourth quarter. But Zubots finished with 221 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:11.519 nineteen and sixteen and a block, one of the best games really of his 222 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:17.320 career on the regular season, because I'm telling you the maturation process and what 223 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:22.159 you're seeing from him is a completely different player than he was in twenty nineteen. 224 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.960 In that playoff series against Golden State Warriors, they took him off the 225 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:33.080 floor. He would just was rendered ineffective because they went small. They'd bring 226 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.559 him out to the perimeter where Visa Zubots is much better now guarding guys. 227 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:40.440 And don't get me wrong, Steph can hit shots over anyone at any time 228 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:42.679 in the history of the NBA. There's never been a better shooter like this. 229 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:47.639 The Clippers played great defense on him most of the time. He still 230 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:53.480 had fifty, He still hit eight threes. He had as many miss shots 231 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:59.200 as he had made threes, just eight missshots when eight to fourteen though from 232 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.720 the outside, twenty of twenty eight overall to get to fifty, and had 233 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:06.960 a twenty one point third quarter, a third quarter that the Clippers won. 234 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:12.880 Anyways, that is the growth from this team. That is them turning a 235 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:19.440 corner. I said it did the Clippers save their season after they came back 236 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.440 down fifteen in the fourth quarter. Nobody had to come back like that all 237 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:27.200 season long. Against the Memphis Grizzlies about a week and a half ago on 238 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:32.359 that Sunday night, they gave up a fifty one spot in that third quarter. 239 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.880 They were down fifteen, down by as many as sixteen in the fourth. 240 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.480 After giving up fifty one points in the third, and they came back 241 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.440 and won, and it looked like they flipped a switch. Finally they dug 242 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:48.880 their heels in defensively, and I thought, believe it or not, they 243 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:55.400 played pretty good defense. It just doesn't matter against that Curry sometimes and a 244 00:17:55.480 --> 00:18:00.200 hot Street and Golden State Warriors team that hit seventeen threes. But the last 245 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:04.559 three games now, they played with a sense of desperation out there. You 246 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:10.039 can see it when they need big shots, their superstars are stepping up. 247 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:15.559 Paul George two huge threes and the Dagger three and the fourth Kawhi Leonard. 248 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:19.640 He had ten of his thirty in that third quarter. Eric Gordon, who's 249 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:25.240 been a bit of a revelation now in closing lineups. He's playing crunch time, 250 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:30.519 clutch time minutes the last three games now and had fourteen of his sixteen 251 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:37.599 points in that third quarter alone and hit four three pointers. He tried to 252 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:42.720 counteract Steph Curry's twenty one, but also was doing some of the little things, 253 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:48.839 making hustle plays. And when the Clippers do that, when they get 254 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.319 down and dirty, and when you see are superstars on the floor diving from 255 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:55.799 loose balls. We saw it with Kawhi Leonard. I couldn't believe they called 256 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:56.519 it a jump ball there. I think it was him in Jordan pool. 257 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:02.240 Looked like Hawai was easily fouled. But seeing your stars like that play both 258 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:07.440 ends of the court, dig in defensively and then also show up on the 259 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:12.920 offensive end, you get behind him as a leadership guys rally around that. 260 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.200 But I thought there were so many big plays, including a Nicholas Battoum three 261 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:23.559 pointer in the second half that was very much needed to stop a Golden State 262 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:27.119 Warriors run, and they had a four point lead early in the third quarter, 263 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.000 and Noah Eagles said it, coming back from time out, you could 264 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.559 sense the momentum shifting, and Noah said, I want to see what this 265 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:40.039 Clippers team is made of right now, because this game could go one of 266 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:45.039 two ways. It could swing right back into the favor of the Golden State 267 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.920 Warriors like it did a week ago in Golden State where they just ambushed and 268 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:52.519 blitzed the Clippers in that third quarter and the rest of the way, and 269 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:55.119 the Clippers were waving the white flag at the seven minute mark of the fourth 270 00:19:55.160 --> 00:20:00.359 quarter and lost by I want to stay twenty four or this Clippers is going 271 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:07.799 to show us something that they have matured that they aren't that team that they 272 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.319 are playing for Forty eight minutes hard on both ends doesn't mean you're always going 273 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.559 to get the victory. Sometimes the team has a hot shooting night. Golden 274 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:19.319 State did, though, and the Clippers still won. That speaks to the 275 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:25.000 talent level of this team. Golden State didn't have Andrew Wiggins got it. 276 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:30.720 Clippers didn't have a Norman Powell, and they have guys coming at you every 277 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:34.920 which way and so many little things in this one. Decided it would just 278 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:41.519 get into extra rebounds out there, offensive rebounds and punishing a smaller team and 279 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.000 taking advantage of the size that the Clippers had in their favor. Credit Big 280 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:49.279 Zoo. I thought Russell Westbrook had some big moments. He had two offensive 281 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:53.519 rebounds that he turned into points for himself in that fourth quarter and seven assists 282 00:20:53.759 --> 00:21:00.079 to zero turnovers. He found Nicholas but tune for that big three. But 283 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:07.279 Kawai steady ten of nineteen, three three pointers, thirty points. Paul George 284 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:11.039 twenty four was aggressive, took more shots than Kawai at twenty one, just 285 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:12.480 went eight of twenty one, but the timing of some of his shots in 286 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:18.480 his makes were big. Those two three pointers in the fourth quarter. I 287 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.079 don't know if they can hold back the floodgates of the Splash Brothers and Steph 288 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:27.799 Curry without him Terrence Man though, end of the third end of the fourth, 289 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:34.160 when they were having those issues midway through the third quarter and it was 290 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:41.759 going back and forth, it was really Terrence Man and Eric Gordon three pointers 291 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.440 that I thought turned this game right back into the clippers favor, even while 292 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.839 was standing twenty one points in that quarter from Steph Curry. There's only so 293 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:55.279 much you can do there. But if you make up for the hots shooting 294 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:59.839 by getting extra shots up yourself through hustle plays and just continue to play through 295 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:03.960 it, that's something to be admired. A team winning a game where it 296 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:10.319 looks like Steph Curry is in god mode and can't miss and it's just inevitables 297 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:14.519 that he's going to beat you, and the Clippers just kept fighting. Okay, 298 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.160 We're gonna play through all these made shots by step Eventually he might cool 299 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.160 off, and hey, he only had nine points in the fourth quarter. 300 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:27.039 Best victory of the season for the Clippers eight six six ninety eight seven, 301 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:30.920 two, five, seventy eight, six six ninety eight seven two five seventies 302 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:37.079 sewn in Inglewood. Sean's not back, Steve and Lahabra Habber Heights. Steve, 303 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:41.440 what's up here on Clipperstock, not Labber Heights. I'm not that fancy. 304 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.559 I lived in Lowlands. That's fine. Lab works for us here on 305 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:49.599 Clipperstock. What's up Steve? Home of the Highlanders sleeps Sonora. Anyways, 306 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:53.839 you know, I've been watching basketball a really long time. I'm fifty six 307 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:59.039 years old. I remember it enforcers like Maurice Lucas, Bill Lambier, Rick 308 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:03.960 Mahorne, Farrows Oakley. Those guys played clean, you know, did they? 309 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:07.519 But you know, I think many people of that arrow would beg to 310 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:12.799 differ. Those guys played clean, including Robert Parrish. I think you're compared 311 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:18.240 to that's a little bit revisionist history. I'm old, I'm old, I've 312 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:23.920 been ricking whiskey. But compared on that six foul on zubos, he tried 313 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:29.119 to injure his zubos. So what Green did is what he was laying on 314 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:33.200 the ground. He twisted his feet and ankles against zu bots knees like an 315 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.119 MMA wrestler, literally trying to injure him. If you look it over again, 316 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.960 look at the tape, that's where he did. Green's laying on his 317 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:45.079 back and he rolls over, tried to twist his legs almost like an NFL 318 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:49.960 football player. Well and to almost injury. They overturned the call. That's 319 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:55.839 that's what hurt the most. Is a bum And you know Adam Silver wants 320 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:57.519 to clean the image up of the NBA. But then I get that which 321 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.759 she really needs to do. But what uh Silver nes do is put his 322 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:07.720 silver hammer hit down and disciplined Green. Go over that tape him suspending Luck 323 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:10.759 Steve because he is going to be suspended the next game because he picked up 324 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:15.519 a sixteenth technical, so he's due for a suspension. That technical will throwing 325 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.359 the ball at Russell Westbrook in the first half will get him one game miss 326 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:22.559 coming up here. Well, that's it. How do you have sixteen technicals 327 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:26.400 in a season? It's not even towards the end of the season. I 328 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.599 mean I would say after ten you get your eleventh, that's one game, 329 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.799 you get your twelfth, that's two. It's so on and so forth. 330 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.119 I mean sixteen technicals. The dude's a dirty player. I mean what he 331 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:41.759 did in Lebron kick him in the team. Anything on the positive side without 332 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:45.200 just focusing on Draymond Green and the hatred coming his way from you tonight. 333 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:49.720 I'm really, really, I'm really happy of this Clippers team. I'm a 334 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:56.160 Clipper fan going back to Bill Walton, Marcus Johnson. Loved those teams. 335 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.400 But when they were playing, you know, I was at Anaheim could Benchet 336 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:06.920 Center when our arena when they Danny Manning and hit that group had to play 337 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.720 Charles Smith, you know, over there against Harpodcast five. Lou was a 338 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:17.599 great coach for this team. I wish the claw would play a lot more 339 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:21.000 during the regular season, but they're jelling at the right time, and I 340 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:23.960 think they're gonna go deep into the playoffs if they stay healthy and play as 341 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:30.000 a team. Russell Westbrook is a graded player for this team, as long 342 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.119 as he plays under control and realizes to drive and pass or just shoot within 343 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.039 all right, Steve, I appreciate the phone call. I think the whiskey 344 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:41.799 starting to slow down. I appreciate you, though, and we'll talk to 345 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:47.240 you on Saturday eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six 346 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:52.440 ninety eight seven two five seventy. Clippers win one thirty four to one twenty 347 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.119 six. Even with a wild Turkey game from Steph Curry where he dropped fifty 348 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:02.839 doesn't matter. Clippers overcome that with stand it somehow, some way, great 349 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.960 team basketball, some critical shots and free throws made. They went twenty six 350 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.400 to thirty two from the free throw line. We've been talking about it for 351 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:12.359 the last week now. They've been much better in getting points in the paint 352 00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.000 and usually when you do that, you're gonna get to the line a lot 353 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.200 more. You can win games there. No Eagles brought it up. They 354 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.759 did so a lot a couple of seasons ago when they made that Western Conference 355 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.440 Finals. Run more Clippers stock. Next, you're listening to AM five seventy 356 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:33.839 LA Sports. Oh Paul George LA Clippers Basketball continue fis in his pains as 357 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:37.119 he ferries the three on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers win one 358 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.440 thirty four to one twenty six over the Golden State Warriors. Here from Crypto 359 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:44.599 dot Com areno welcome back into your post games show. I'm Adam Oslin. 360 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:48.759 This is Clippers Talk. Eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight 361 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.480 six six ninety seven two five seventy. I want to highlight Terrence Man here, 362 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:56.599 who was averaging just six point seven points per game in his last seven 363 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:03.720 games. Tonight was his highest points total at sixteen, since the great game 364 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:07.319 he had in Phoenix right before the All Star Break where he had twenty six. 365 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.680 But the end of the third quarter offensive rebound leading to an Eric Gordon 366 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.400 three, huge play from Terrence Man. Then to start the fourth quarter, 367 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:22.480 multiple offensive rebounds leading to him getting a two point shot up and and one. 368 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:26.279 And then he was and he's one of the best guys cutting through the 369 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:30.680 lane on the Clippers, probably the best, but Paul George found him for 370 00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:37.519 an assist for an easy layup. That stuff is just invaluable. It's so 371 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.200 critical energy plays. He was getting the crowd into it. And then Russell 372 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:47.359 Westbrook had an offensive rebound, hit a bank shot, had another one, 373 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:51.599 got a layup assist Nicholas but Tune for a three pointer. In the fourth 374 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.359 quarter, Terrence drew another foul, got to the free throw line. Clippers 375 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:00.240 got there early and often can win games there too. But then Kawhik comes 376 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:04.079 back in he knocks down a big three point or trying to match what Steph 377 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:08.720 Curry was doing, and the Clippers end up pulling this one out with a 378 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:14.440 couple of big threes from Paul George in the fourth quarter and Big Zoo at 379 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:17.839 the free throw line. How many did he end up taking in the fourth 380 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:22.920 quarter? He was three or four he ended up taking. Let's see, 381 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.119 he went four or four from the free throw line in the fourth that's big. 382 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:30.799 Your big man can't get played off the court if he's hitting free throws 383 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:36.319 like that and rotating like that and doing his damn this to try to stop 384 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:41.119 Steph Curry from getting off shots in the perimeter, rainbow threes over the top, 385 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.759 hierarchying drk Nabinski type three point shots from Steph Curry when he has to 386 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.920 put him over big Zoo, Jeff, and you're Belinda, Jeff, you're 387 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:53.440 on Clippers stop without hm Oslin. What's up, hey, Adam? Just 388 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.079 heading home for the game. And that was awesome. I'll tell you. 389 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:00.640 I think it's the only way we stop Steph three tonight. It was to 390 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:07.200 put it that on. But his fifty points, two rebounds, I think, 391 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:14.240 and six assists, I'd much rather have the Westbrook man than Gordon eight 392 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:21.119 thirteen and eleven. And then we have our two superstars in George and Kawhi 393 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:25.599 doing their things. So awesome game. Well, the Clippers certainly had more 394 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.759 balanced. They had six guys in double figures Kawhi, Big Zoo, Paul 395 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:33.680 George Russell Westbrook, Eric Gordon, and Terrence Man off the bench. Nicholas 396 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:38.119 Batoum though in twenty minutes I mentioned that three hitting the fourth quarter went two 397 00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:41.000 or four from the outside. That was good to see. It's been really 398 00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.400 feast or famine up and down season shooting wise for Nicholas Batoum. Would love 399 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:48.720 to see him catch a rhythm as they get closer to the playoffs. Here, 400 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:55.960 let's go to Sean and Inglewood or now he's in Chicago Shytown. He's 401 00:29:55.960 --> 00:30:00.599 watching Patrick Beverley. Sean, what's up, Mr? Free How are you 402 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.400 stayed up late to watch the game? They call you and just want to 403 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:10.319 say, man, when I like was the offense just kept pushing, kept 404 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:15.119 flowing. They didn't get nervous like they usually get rattled when they play Golden 405 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.880 State. They just kept up the intensity and they played with a purpose. 406 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:25.640 I like it so, and then they worked the boards like they should work 407 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:30.200 the boards, and ty Lou didn't get small ball itis. He didn't try 408 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:34.400 to out Golden State Golden State. He just kept the big guys in there 409 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:38.359 and kept them on the boards. Even though sometimes they got exploited on the 410 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.559 pick and roll, it didn't matter because they were killing them on the boards 411 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:48.920 and getting Golden State into foul trouble. So I liked the game plan. 412 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:53.799 I liked the purpose. Eric Gordon, thank you very much. And it 413 00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:59.680 was just a good game from beginning to end. And keep fighting because as 414 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:03.960 I told you, they're going over to take seed. They're just a half 415 00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:10.839 game out and pretty much, you know, I just like their chances of 416 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:15.720 being a fourth seed, maybe possibly if Memphis goes on the loosing street to 417 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:22.160 third Street. See so, anyway, how are you today? I'm good, 418 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:25.599 Sean. I appreciate the phone call. I don't know if anybody's asked 419 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:29.759 me that before on Clipperstock. We're all fine here. How are you? 420 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:34.119 The old Han solo running out stuff to talk about? Eric Gordon? You 421 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.839 mentioned him also had a floater in the fourth quarter that was big. I 422 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:42.640 know Sean and Engle would love seeing the Clippers play some bulleyball, playing big 423 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:48.960 out there and a visa Zubots playing late in games where you had some combination 424 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:55.599 of the guards between Eric Gordon and Terrence Man and Russell Westbrook out there at 425 00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:59.119 times in the fourth quarter you had Nichols, but toumb given minutes in the 426 00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.960 fourth big zoos. I mentioned Paul George and Kauai, of course, but 427 00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.880 I really liked the rotations for the most part. Obviously, things also changed 428 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:14.240 because Marcus Morris was ejected at the ends of the first half. He got 429 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.880 into it with Draymond Green. He was ejected. I didn't think it was 430 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:22.480 gonna be a flagrant too, but the Clippers started the second half and put 431 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:29.319 in Eric Gordon. I believe, and he's worked everything with Eric Gordon so 432 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:31.880 far back with the Clippers has been so positive. I know he had a 433 00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:36.880 couple of bad games coming out of the All Star Break, but I want 434 00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:42.200 to say since the game up in Sacramento, he's been huge for this team 435 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:45.559 and maybe one of the guys in death lineups because he can guard up. 436 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:50.279 He's a better defender than Norman Powell, someone who they still have to find 437 00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.240 minutes for of course when he returns, and he'll be reevaluated with that shoulder 438 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:58.119 injury coming up in a couple of days. But Eric Gordon could find himself 439 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.000 in a lot of big spots late in playoff games, I think because the 440 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:04.759 way he can stretch the floor and the way you can also switch defensively. 441 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.359 I thought there were a couple of times where he got switched on. The 442 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:08.519 Steph did all he could. He got him to miss a shot in the 443 00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:13.000 fourth quarter, and by the way, Kawhi and Paul George didn't shy away 444 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:17.079 from the challenge. There was a I think it was second quarter where PG 445 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:22.119 they tried to get the switch with him onto de Vincenzo so Steph could be 446 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:29.279 matched up against Russell Westbrook and PG just fought right through the screen. And 447 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:32.720 then there was a moment in the fourth quarter when they tried to get the 448 00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:38.440 switch. The problem was the man who was screening had Kawhi Leonard on him. 449 00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:42.799 So you gladly go, okay, you don't want to be matched up 450 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:45.839 against Paul George. Steff, Well, here's Kawhi Leonard being thrown at you. 451 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.200 That's the type of stuff we've been looking forward to with the two on 452 00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:53.680 three connection and just how good those two wings are defensively there are otherworldly on 453 00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:58.680 that end, especially now they both look healthy out there, as healthy as 454 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:02.000 they have looked all season. Why, of course, coming off the ACLUH, 455 00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:07.759 he's making history, I believe with this response off a serious knee injury 456 00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:12.360 and coming back stronger once again, had the quadricep injury with the San Antonio 457 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.159 Spurs, came back better than ever. The same thing is happening now with 458 00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:20.679 the ACL where he is at fifty fifty ninety splits since January seventh or eighth. 459 00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:25.199 Now, he's been that good. He's been arguably the best player in 460 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:30.119 the league. I know, Nicola Yokic, just he doesn't slow down and 461 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:31.960 will likely win. All right, you know what you honest, Danna Komper 462 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:37.159 will making a run here. Let's go to James and Saint George James. 463 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:44.039 There's an MVP James. What's up here on Clipper side without himss? So 464 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:52.480 give him credit to is Tylu because okay, can you hear me, James? 465 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.320 Your phone sucks as usual. I don't know what the deal is. 466 00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.440 Maybe just get to be all on Twitter at follow out of a appreciate the 467 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:01.920 phone call. We'll take a time out, We'll come back. More Clippers 468 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:07.199 Talk. They win one thirty four to one twenty six over the Golden State 469 00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:14.079 Warriors and Steph Curry who had fifty and eight threes, and some of the 470 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:17.400 shots that he hits can be really demoralizing because you do all you can. 471 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:24.039 Paul George played him perfectly on this baseline. Fadeaway in the nearest side and 472 00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:29.519 Steph got to go anyway. He's just that good, greatest shooter ever, 473 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:34.360 still doing it at thirty five, So coming back More Clippers Talk eight six 474 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:38.000 six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy 475 00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:44.000 year listening to AM five seventy LA sports. Who is blocked by George this 476 00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.840 LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man king, crawl and defensive man 477 00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:52.480 on the home of your LA Clippers. Clippers win one thirty four to one 478 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:58.559 twenty six silver Steph Curry in his fifty spot and the Golden State Warriors. 479 00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.440 Welcome back in Clipper Stock. I'm at a Moslin taking you till the top 480 00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:05.880 of the hour eight six six ninety at seven two five seventy eight six six 481 00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.239 ninety at seven two five seventy is the phone number still gonna hear from coach 482 00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:13.760 Slow when we got postgame audio from the players as well. But I just 483 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:20.840 saw this quote Paul George post game said, and this was regarding surviving a 484 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:24.280 fifty point game from Steph Curry quote, We're gonna be good. We got 485 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:29.079 two on our side. That's the number of choir. Whereas you want to 486 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:34.320 talk about poised, that's the most poised guy in that situation. Kawai is 487 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:39.280 as steady as it gets. He could have a monster dunk and be expressionless. 488 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:45.000 It doesn't matter. It's rare to see him show emotion. And that's 489 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:52.320 a great quality to have because you're always steady, you're even keel, never 490 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:57.880 two up, never two down, and he leads by example in that way. 491 00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:00.840 All Right, we got Will Updike on from Clips and Dip does the 492 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:05.960 podcast with myself and Charles Mockler. Well let's start with this and maybe this 493 00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.079 will be the only question I have. Was something born out of that fifty 494 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:13.239 one to the third quarter that was put on the Clippers where they had to 495 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:16.440 come back against Memphis about a week and a half ago. Oh God, 496 00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:21.880 I hope so I can only hope though it felt like that was definitely burning 497 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:25.800 in their veins tonight at a home What a win, just firing on all 498 00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:31.679 cylinders. So just so much good to come out of this game, from 499 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:36.440 just the performance from Kwai and Paul George to all the contributing players. And 500 00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:39.239 how about that closing lineup. We got Terrence Man, we got Paul George, 501 00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:43.239 we got Kawhi, we got the two. Even Big Zoo was in 502 00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:46.679 there after a monster game. I got a question for you, does that 503 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:52.440 happen if not for the Marcus Morris subjection? I can't answer that. We'll 504 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:59.039 see if there was anyone asked that post game afterwards, I don't know, 505 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:01.719 but it was a winning formula. Obviously. Eric Gordon was in there a 506 00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:06.280 lot of the fourth quarter two. I thought he was critical for this team. 507 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:08.760 You know, we talked about it on the podcast recently. Who are 508 00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:14.599 those guys outside of Kauai and PG that we know are going to be there 509 00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:17.760 in crunchtime situations And it's starting to look like Eric Gordon could be one for 510 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:22.719 coach Lou Yeah. I mean when he has it going like that. He 511 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:27.880 was absolutely pivotal in that second half where we kind of let the rein slip 512 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.400 a little bit after a little bit of a shaky clothes to that to the 513 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:37.320 first half, just absolutely incredible, just these beep three, his physicality and 514 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:43.199 switchability defensively, it's really really good. I mean I think that you know, 515 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:47.119 I said coming in the season, this is gonna be Tyler's hardest season 516 00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:51.599 to coach, right, Like, you have so many guys who are who 517 00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:54.760 are begging for minutes in this rotation, and now you know with the emergence 518 00:38:54.760 --> 00:39:00.360 of Eric Gordon, so certainly we saw some great stuff from Rust and Night 519 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:05.840 and how solid Terence Man has been. You know, I just wonder now 520 00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:09.239 it feels like so long since Enormous even been in this lineup. It's just 521 00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:14.079 there's it's a good problem to have, but at the same time, it's 522 00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:16.199 you know, it is a little bit of a it is a little bit 523 00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:19.400 of a problem. It is a little bit of a log jam with this 524 00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:23.280 many guys begging for minutes. There was a play by Eric Gordon the fourth 525 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:27.119 he didn't score on it. I think he was up against Stevencenzo though, 526 00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.719 like the matchup, and was just trying to back him down like he was 527 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.760 Anthony Mason. He missed the shot, but it was tipped in by a 528 00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:37.960 Beza Zubots who had a stellar performance. And I brought this up earlier, 529 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:39.599 Will, but this was someone who used to get played off the court when 530 00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:45.119 teams went small, specifically the Golden State Warriors. And now he's a weapon 531 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:51.599 on both ends. He's punishing them. Oh absolutely, And this was I 532 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.880 mean, yes, while he was played off the floor in a playoff scenario. 533 00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:59.400 He's grown so much since then. But I said this game, this 534 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.559 was a good opportunity, especially the Warriors with no Wiggins, for the Clippers 535 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.519 to kind of leverage that size that they had, and I feel like big 536 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.119 Zoo with sixteen boards, he was able to do just that. I was 537 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:14.280 a little bit surprised that we didn't go to him a little bit offensive early, 538 00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:16.559 especially when the shots were looking off for both Kawai and Paul George. 539 00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:22.119 Warriors got off to that quick start. But you know, ultimately, yeah, 540 00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:27.400 he made a massive impact, and yeah, he's just he can. 541 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:32.000 He's his progress is steady, but it does seem to be continuous thus far 542 00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:36.599 in his tenure worth the Clippers. Someone else who made a ton of hustle 543 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:39.519 plays from the end of the third throughout the fourth quarter was Terrence Man, 544 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:43.880 who looked like he was shot out of a cannon. He got Eric Gordon 545 00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:45.960 a three pointer at the end of the third through an offensive rebound. He 546 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:51.280 got himself in and one an old fashioned three point play to start off the 547 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:54.679 fourth quarter. This was the best game he's played since the game right before 548 00:40:54.679 --> 00:41:00.559 the All Star break against Phoenix. No. Oh, absolutely, I mean, 549 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:04.000 you know, huge matchup for the Clippers, huge matchup for the standings, 550 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:07.880 and like, once again, he's another guy like with the size, 551 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.679 with the physicality in some of these matchups. I you know, I thought 552 00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:14.159 coming into this game this was going to be a match up where Terrence could 553 00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:15.800 really shine. I wasn't sure how much it would show up in the box 554 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:21.719 score seventeen four and three highest scorer off the bench. I just don't know, 555 00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.960 like if if that's the performance you're getting out of Terrence Man, that's 556 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:30.039 a guy who has to be in your nine or eight man lineup, which 557 00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:32.880 I do see him being. But getting like getting to see him close out 558 00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:37.079 the game tonight, it was absolutely great. It's you know, definitely a 559 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:42.199 step in the right direction for the squad. Played twenty five minutes in this 560 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.519 one. I still felt like the two on three connection Paul George and Kawhi 561 00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:51.639 Leonard were very much present and asking for the basketball and asking for the tough 562 00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:55.119 defensive assignments on Steph Curry, especially late in this one. Steph only had 563 00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:59.280 nine points of his fifty in the fourth quarter. I just want to throw 564 00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:02.079 that out there. But I love the way the two one three connection has 565 00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:07.280 been closing ever since that Memphis game where they took over late and Kawai hat 566 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.159 fifteen points in the last six minutes and Paul George had that big footback rebound. 567 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.639 It just looks like, Okay, it's our time to take over. 568 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.360 This is what we're here to do. And they've they've lived up to their 569 00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:22.639 end of the bargain. I feel like the last four games, oh definitely, 570 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.679 yeah, And they've both been kind of uh, you know, Paul 571 00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:30.639 George is ascending to the peak that Kawai has been on for this last stretch 572 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:34.280 of games, and Kawhi right now, it's just it's starting to look so 573 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:37.960 effortless. And that's not to say that he isn't trying, like it's just 574 00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:43.559 he he's gotten back to his fuel for the game, where you know he's 575 00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:46.800 getting to his spots offensively, he's more than capable of taking on the toughest 576 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:52.880 assignments defensively, and it just seems like everything is moving like a step slower 577 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.760 around him than where he's at right now, which you know, God if 578 00:42:55.800 --> 00:42:59.719 he could stay for this, for this last stretch of games and ends the 579 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:01.760 play off. Look, I know we've talked a lot about seating. I 580 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:06.000 know we've talked a lot about how close things are on the West and even 581 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:07.320 in the first round, you could have a you could you know, you 582 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.360 could have an insane matchup. But with this guy on the floor, I 583 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:15.280 don't know, it's it crazy. I think anything is kind of possible. 584 00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:22.400 They have a certain level of belief with Kawhi Leonard out there, and as 585 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.519 does he. He said it the other day post game, like if I'm 586 00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:29.559 out there, I feel like we can win, and he doesn't often. 587 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:34.079 I think that's more of his personality maybe behind the scenes. We heard that 588 00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:37.599 story before in the locker room in the Eastern Conference Finals back in twenty nineteen 589 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.719 when they were down two oh with the Toronto Raptors, the Milwaukee Bucks and 590 00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.119 Kawais said, here's what's gonna change. I'm gonna guard Yannis, and he 591 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.639 did, and he wrecked his offense the rest of the series, and they 592 00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:55.039 won four straight. But Kawai certainly has a quiet confidence about him, and 593 00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:59.880 these guys all rally around it. All right. Well, I appreciate it 594 00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:04.000 doing this tonight. I know we have a tripod coming up on Friday with 595 00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:07.679 myself and Charles Mockler as well. But thanks for doing some clips and double 596 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:12.599 dip tonight here on Clippers Talk. Absolutely, anytime after a win like this, 597 00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:15.000 I'll take that every time. Don't even don't even give Chuck the call. 598 00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:21.639 We'll only call Will when the Clippers win. We'll call it Chuck. 599 00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:23.719 For losses, we could give me things up that way. Let's seem a 600 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.159 little bit unfair, all right. Coming up next here on Clippers Talk, 601 00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.039 we'll get back to your phone calls eight six six ninety eight seven two five 602 00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:36.320 seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy Jose Tanner, Damian, Mike 603 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:38.280 hold on, we'll get to you. Sorry, James and Saint George. 604 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:42.199 Your phone just doesn't work, man, I don't get it. More Clippers 605 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:46.920 Talk next here on AM five seventy alight sports. Oh Paul George La Clippers 606 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:52.239 basketball continue fis in his pains as he carries the three on the home of 607 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:57.559 your LA Clippers. Clippers win one thirty four to one twenty six over Steph 608 00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:00.360 Kurr and his fifty points in the Golden State Warriors. Well, come back 609 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:04.960 into Clippers talk. We are short on time, so please give a brief 610 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:09.440 brevity the soul of Wit Damien in La Damien. You're on Clippers side without 611 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:14.400 I am awesome triple Hey man, thanks taking my call. Bro, I 612 00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:17.440 know you don't have a lot of time. Man four little quadtrow. We're 613 00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:21.679 on a row, baby, A life with the team is headed. The 614 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:24.880 last time we talked, I had a simple point for the team. Was 615 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:29.159 was to tighten up on the fundamental. Happy to see that they did that. 616 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:32.000 It was the difference I thought in the win. You're looking at everybody 617 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:37.440 having a plus in the plus minus except for Marcus Morris, and we're not 618 00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:39.840 going to count a Mirra coffee because the scarbage time and everybody else had a 619 00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:45.000 plus. You're looking at Russell Westbrook coming up huge, helping us get in 620 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:50.559 that zone of going after the ball, coming through the ball, winning the 621 00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:53.760 fifty fifty balls, the offensive rebounds, the things like that. We're really 622 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:58.239 infectious. You can see you know where he's coming from with the team. 623 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:01.719 You can see the two one three to actually dialed in. It was maybe 624 00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:05.480 and I like the phone call. I appreciate it, but I mentioned we 625 00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:08.679 gotta keep it brief. Let's go to Mike in La Mike, you're on 626 00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:14.000 clipper Stock. Best win of the season, Adam, best win of the 627 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:21.840 season. This was an incredibly important game, you know, neck and neck 628 00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:24.679 in the standings, and the clip shift came to play. I loved it, 629 00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:29.599 and I think that for all the people who say, well, maybe 630 00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:31.519 they should try to get to six or whatever not. We just got to 631 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:35.760 win games. You know. If we can get to the fourth seas and 632 00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:38.719 take on Phoenix in the first round, bring it all right. I like 633 00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:43.840 the confidence there. Uh. Who else? We got Tanner in Santa Monica. 634 00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.280 Tanner, you're Adam, long time listener, first time caller. I 635 00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:52.000 got two quick points. First, this is the Russell Westbrook that we've been 636 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:55.159 waiting for. He wasn't pressing, he was playing composed, and he didn't 637 00:46:55.159 --> 00:47:00.320 take the bait when they were staying off my kind of four assists night, 638 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:04.039 when they were letting him have space, which I think other teams are going 639 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.320 to regret moving forward. Second point, you've been touching on this. When 640 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:13.360 we had our five game skid and all the focus was on Westbrook, we 641 00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:16.679 weren't counting on the fact that Zoo was out all but one of those games. 642 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:21.119 And when I think of the most important player on this team outside of 643 00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:24.079 Paul George and Kawaiet, it's Zoo. When he's on the court, he's 644 00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:28.320 a difference maker and he's gonna need to continue to be on the court for 645 00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:30.480 us to go to get a trip. Thank you, Tanner, appreciate the 646 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.840 phone call. Agree there, Jose and Southgate quickly close things out. You 647 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:40.039 know what to do. What's looking forward to the tripod on Friday, Adam 648 00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:46.360 at bedtime, let's get out of there's Clippers. There we go and and 649 00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:52.159 it's strong like the Clippers, Zay and Southgate. Clippers win one thirty four 650 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:58.039 to one twenty six over the Golden State Warriors here from downtown Los Angeles. 651 00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:01.119 They are in the five spot now in the West, just a half game 652 00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:05.360 back of the Phoenix Suns. Who are in the fourth spot. Before we 653 00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:07.199 get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah 654 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:13.440 Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Waller. Back in the bank, we had 655 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:16.960 Katie Newton our producer here at Crypto dot Com arena. Our head engineer. 656 00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:21.400 That would be Big Billow Jake Warner, Big Blow Jake Podcasts. Check it 657 00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:24.480 out. The callers, the listeners, Dennis Dagastino, Satisticians to the Stars. 658 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:29.519 Thank you, Dennis. Until Saturday with the Clippers taken on the Orlando 659 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:31.760 Magic and we'll have your pregame show starting at eleven. I'm Adam Oslin. 660 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:37.039 We will talk to you then Levin. Heyah, of course this has been 661 00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:43.920 Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about your LA Clippers with Adam Moslay. If 662 00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:47.119 you like the show, subscribe to Clippers Talk on the iHeart Radio, wapp 663 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:53.480 or wherever you podcast. This team has those championship ingredients. They have some 664 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:59.119 of that DNA. We can see it. This is Clippers Basketball. Join 665 00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.480 us next time on the LA Clippers Audio Network.