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put the thunder to sleep with a one twenty to one OZH six victory.
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number or get to me at follow Adam a on Twitter. Congrats to the
Batoum family who bring a bouncing baby girl into the family. Earlier today,
Nicholas Batoum was with his wife at the hospital. Then he comes to the
game and goes four or four from distance, has fourteen points to assist,
one steal aboard two blocks. That's a little bit of everything to help this
team. But one of those three pointers came when the Clippers needed one.
Is in the second half, they shot just three of seventeen from three.
Remember, they lead the league in three point shooting and really are doing historic
things things from beyond the arc. This season. They were shooting forty four
percent coming into the night, that leads the NBA. In fact, that's
the best three point percentage through the first fifteen games of the season going back
ten years now. But they were just ten of thirty three tonight. That's
thirty percent. But Nick Batoum did hit a big shot, big three point
or late. Kawhi Leonard when they were only up eleven with about a minute
and a half left, got to work in the mid range. He's the
midrange mid range master. He finished with thirty one points, had just three
of those in the fourth quarter. He went one of seven from three.
But and this is what saved the Clippers tonight, he went ten of ten
from the free throw line. The Clippers are the best free throw shooting team
by percentage, and they went twenty four of twenty five from the charity stripe.
That's how they were able to hold on when they led by as many
as twenty seven in the first half. But it was actually the OKC thunder
who started off ice cold from three. They missed their first twelve shots from
distance, and then at one point in the game they had hit eleven of
fifteen. They got really hot. I thought Mike Muscala was a Clippers legend
and they should retire his jersey because through him they were able to get a
beat of zubots from the Lakers. But he hit some critical three pointers in
the second half to pull it within ten at one point. I believe that's
as close as the thunder would get. The Clippers hold on to win by
fourteen. Paul George had eleven of his twenty nine points in the fourth quarter.
Also went six of six from the line in the fourth quarter. Noah
Eagle took note of it early in the fourth with nine minutes remaining. The
Clippers were already in the bonus and they would hit nine free throws in the
fourth quarters. So it's not sexy. I always say this, but you
can win games at the charity stripe. In fact, that Clippers have done
that a lot the last two seasons. No one had attempted more free throws
the last two years than the Clippers. They led the league in that category.
They got off to a slow start overall this year, but with the
way they're getting into the paint, wherein three of their last four games they've
scored over fifty points in the paint. That has changed. They're being more
aggressive, and that's really how this game started. The first three baskets for
them, it was two from PG thirteen, two nice layups, and then
Kawhi Leonard had a layup and then that opened things up from the outside and
they would hit a couple of three pointers right afterwards. So that inside out
game was working for the Clippers. And what does Toronto Lou always say,
and you'll hear from him in just a little bit here, but touch the
paint and then spray the ball out and you'll find open shooters. And nobody
has attempted more open three pointers this season. Then the Clippers coming into last
game, four hundred and thirty of their four hundred and ninety three point attempts
were open shots where a defender was not within six feet of them. That
tells you why they've been so good from three, why they've been shooting that
high of a percentage overall, where if they ended up shooting forty four percent
on the season, that would be the all time mark. Now it's just
game sixteen, but they do lead the Western Conference once again. They're at
the top of the heap, and this is really early in the season and
they're still learning each other. On the floor. There's two new starters with
the Clippers, and Nicholas Batoum and Sir Jebaca. Serge had a great game,
by the way, My player to watch coming in had seventeen points,
eleven boards. Like PG thirteen, who started seven of seven, Sir Jebaca
was six of six. He didn't miss his first shot of the ball game
until I think there was nine minutes left in the third quarter. So they
started off hot. They had a thirty six point first quarter. They led
by twenty over OKC in the first twelve minutes. That's not easy to do.
But their defense wasn't as good after that. In fact, after the
first quarter through the last three quarters of the ball game, the Clippers were
outscored by four points, so they weren't as dominant as they were early on.
But Sweet Lou Williams, I thought, got them into a great rhythm
when he had and I had to double check this to make sure it was
true. He came into the ball game and had four assists in the span
of a minute and a half to end the first quarter. It was all
sweet Lou finding a visa Zubots finding I think Nicholas Batu Man Kawhi Leonard as
well. In all three of Zubots's makes. He went three or four from
the field for eight points, but was a plus fourteen that would lead the
bench in the plus minus category. All three makes from him were assisted by
Lou Williams, who had seven assists in his first ten minutes out there in
the first half. He finished with eight, but did five of his nine
points in the fourth quarter. I mentioned it on the Network postgame show,
but this is someone who has led the league in fourth quarter scoring just two
seasons ago. So Lou Williams wakes up late. He hit some off balance
floaters where he was fouled. The Clippers hold on. They win one twenty
to one ZO six over a scrappy OKAC Thunder team that got hot eventually from
three and our old friend Shay Gildas. Alexander, averaging twenty one points this
season from the floor, had thirty had ten of those in the fourth quarter.
He wasn't going away had eight assists as well. It's good to see
the maturation from SGA. He just gets better and better. But through that
trade you got the two one three connection with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard.
I think he'd signed up for that any day of the week. All right,
Coming up next, we'll get to your phone calls. You'll hear from
the head coach toron loop postgame. Clippers improved to twelve and four on the
season. They're seven and two at home. They run it back at Staples
against these same OKAC Thunder on Sunday. More on that too, Plus we'll
have valio from Paul George. You're listening to Clippers Talk. You're on a
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Clippers. You're Los Angeles Clippers improved to twelve and four on the season after
they win one twenty to one oh six over the Oklahoma City Thunder and SGA
sick up as Petros and Money would call him, welcome back into Clippers Talk.
I'm at a maslin to eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy
eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy before we hear from PG thirteen
post game, before we hear from the head coach to Ron lou Let's go
to Will and Mount Claire. Will you're on Clipper stock without a Maslin?
How are you? Well? Say? Quick? Love the show, love
everything about the clip of broadcast. I just have a question for you real
quick. Is there an alternate universe where we can go back in the trade
with the Oklahoma City Thunder and just leave the draft picks but keep shape that
deal doesn't get done, then will let me tell you what wouldn't happen.
Then they wouldn't have Paul George, and that means they wouldn't have Kawhi Leonard.
To get Kawhi Leonard, you had to get PG thirteen. It's a
two for one type of package deal. But Kawai was a free agent.
Do you feel what I like? Right? But in his meeting with the
Clippers, all the reports say his guy that he wanted to play next to
was Paul George, out of all the guys they had on a white board
or however they pitched in the meeting to him, he said he wanted to
play next to PG thirteen and I see that. But at the same time,
I'm looking at a night's games. Alexander Gill just outganded, looks so
impressive, and I'm just like, if we could have given him another player
in seat with all them draft picks, that would have been like, Look,
Louis Williams was good, but he's old like Gil just had was going
up. He's going up and he's hitting the peak right now that we see
with the Oklahoma City Center. I still see him as somebody I could have
been a Clipper. Well, I understand where you're coming from, Will,
but I don't think that trade was available. Sam Presty is a shrewd GM.
Look what they ended up getting recently, just for Danny Green after they
brought him in and then traded him to Philadelphia. Look what they got Dennis
shrewder. He's done a wonderful job rebuilding after they lost KD and then Westbrook
and hardened before all of that. You're not going to be able to win
a negotiation usually against him, or pull one over on him and include sweet
lou Williams instead of SGA. That wasn't going to happen. That deal was
packaged around them. Getting a young building block for the future in SGA.
That's pretty much how it went down from my understanding. But I appreciate the
phone call tagus in Walnut, Tajus. What's up your on Clipper stock A,
Adam. Just gonna keep as short. I think it's good that the
Clippers are rolling and taking advantage of this schedule that's kind of soft right now
before they go on the road. So it's good that they're taking care of
business. Just got that that day in twelve thirty game on Sunday, so
hopefully, you know, I might be a trap game. But other than
that, I'm gonna give you a football analogy, Adam. I'm convinced that
if Patrick Beverley was fighting football, he would leave the NFL and fumble recoveries
and Kawai would leave the NFL and pick sixes. Where do you think,
Adam, Yeah, that's not bad. Pat bev Mister ninety four feet was
found on the floor in the first half, or he tipped a ball away,
it got redirected to where he fell. Then he ended up getting it.
I think it was too Kawai and they got out in the open floor.
It just epitomized Patrick Beverley and what he's about and doing the little things
because I don't know if that showed up in the box score. I don't
think he got credited for that steal, but that was all him. The
plus minus does him well usually. Even though he was over two from the
floor, he did have eight boards, which is insane for someone at six
one. But we've seen that over and over again. He's still got three
steals, but he was a plus twenty three that led the starters. In
thirty minutes. He was a plus twenty three while scoring one point. His
impact is vic The Brake used to say this about yac Puig six tools.
Y'all six tool player is impact is bigger than just the box score out there.
That's always been like that with Patrick Beverley. Before we break here Jeff
and Tarzana. Jeff, you're on Clipper stock with Adamas and how are you
doing? I'm doing okayam, how are you? You know? I'm really
happy that the Clippers are twelve and four, but you know they haven't played
exactly the toughest schedule. And have you noticed how good Utah is in third
place? Yeah, and the Clippers had a comeback against them. When they
were down twenty, but it came up just short earlier. Yeah, I'm
just thinking how tough the Western Conference is. Yeah. We could say this
every year. For the last twenty one years since Michael Jordan left the East,
basically the West has been dominant. Yeah, but they're even more dominant
now. How good is Golden State playing and they don't even have play Thompson.
I don't think they are that great, to be honest, I think
they're a playing team. There's somewhere between seven and ten. Well, okay,
well, the fact, the fact of the matter is aren't they the
only team that's come back from over twenty points and beating both the Lakers and
the Clippers. Yeah? I think it was just nineteen against the Lakers.
It wasn't quite twenty. But yeah, I'm being pettant with it. Yeah,
okay. Well, the thing, the thing that I don't understand the
does the NBA take into effect when there's other sports events to have the Clippers
play at one o'clock on Sunday? I'm not sure, Jeff, But obviously
the Clippers have third billing at Staples Center, which is the real issue.
It's been like that forever. You know there's an NFL championship game that day
or where there's a couple of them. I just couldn't figure out why they
can't have that game at seven a night. Well, other teams are going
to be playing that day too. It's not just the Clippers and the Okay,
see thunder, Jeff, I can assure you. Okay. The other
thing, Adam is, you know what how long does Sir Jabacca signed with
the Clippers for. He signed a one and one, so he has a
player opt out after this season. It was a two year, eighteen million
dollars deal, I believe, but that second year as a player option.
Okay, because Scott is he good? You know, I really thought we
were gonna miss Montres Harold and he was a very good player. But I
think Sorgibaka is a better player. Well, there's no degree, of course,
Jeff. Even though look I loved watching Monster Tress and his energy and
his motor, but Sir Jibaka is an upgrade because he's a two way player
and a three and D player. And while he had been struggling, was
one of six last games just shooting thirty three percent on the season from three
which is well below as percentage is the last couple of years with the Toronto
Raptors years with the Toronto Raptors well, yet seventeen points went one of two
from distance on seven of eight shooting. He was my player to watch coming
in because he had been struggling so much. He just knew he was due,
and without Steven Adams anymore in the paint for the OKC Thunder, there
are different vibes from Clippers big Men. In fact, with Lou Williams and
his second assists early on in the first quarter or early second quarter to beats
the Zoobots, Zubats was hesitant at first. The lane was wide open,
and I think he was in shock because normally Steven Adams just with the OKC
Thunder Aquaman is there and they've had some great battles back and forth. But
eventually you figured it out and just went into attack mode and threw down a
huge slam on three different guys. Lou Williams had some ridiculous wrap around and
behind the back passes in this one too. Of his eight assists there were
style points included some flare. Clippers win one twenty to one oh six over
the OKC Thunder, who they will see again on Sunday. Coming up next,
you'll hear from Paul George post game. He finished with twenty nine points,
five assists, but five turnovers. He's still making that adjustment to playing
that point forward position this year. Still had twelve assists last game, type
of career high. So it's a work in progress, but it is working.
Clippers twelve and four on the season at the top of the Western Conference.
More Clipper stock coming up next here on AM five seventy LA Sports.
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and eighteen. You're twelve and four through sixteen games. That's over twenty percent
of the season. After they win one twenty to one oh six over the
OKAC Thunder. Coming up, we'll get back to your phone calls here on
Clippers sock at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy Clippers make it six in a row PG thirteen.
By the way, at twenty nine points, just three of seven from
distance. Oh man, he'd been shooting fifty one percent on the year and
actually got some love on Twitter from CJ mccollumn. If you thought they were
still beefing from what happened in the bubble. I'll talk more about that coming
up, but I want you to hear from Paul George post game after the
Clippers win by fourteen over Okay, s Hey, Paul, congrats on the
win. Just you know, you guys didn't really know what would happened with
with with Nick today. I'm just is you know your thoughts as a teammate.
He's had a pretty emotional day. But what is it? What does
the say to you guys that he's able to, you know, go from
you know, being a father one minute, coming to having a game,
playing well, and then going back to being a father. What what does
that say to you as a teammate? You appreciate it? I mean we
would have respected him either way. We know the decision and how big of
this of a moment this is, This is for his family, you know,
it's you know, my respect for him is one hundred. He he
had a win win situation, you know, and uh, I mean I
think you know he's just he's just showing his commitment to this team and you
know, to be able to balance both. It's an incredible, incredible uh,
you know thing that he did. Honestly, you know, this game,
you know, it's it's it's it's it's a game. At the end
of the day, he would have had my full you know, vote to
be with his family and missed the game tonight, but you know it just
shows, you know, his commitment to this team. Thank you. Next,
we will go to law Marie. Hey, Paul, congrats on the
win tonight. You got the same team on Sunday, but it's a Mattenee
game and this team has had inconsistent performances in early starts before going back to
last year obviously the tough game against Dallas and then the rough start against Chicago,
even though you guys were able to get that one in the end,
how do you kind of change the preparation and knowing that's the same team but
a different start time in less than forty eight hours. Yeah, I mean,
we just gotta come ready, that's all it is. Just come ready
to just be prepared, get into our preparation early. That's all it is.
It was that just we just got to be ready, whatever it is,
whatever it takes, whatever it is, everybody's just got to start that
engine early. Thank you. Next, we'll go to Andrew Grave. He
Paul from the scene started. You know, you and Quired talked a lot
about how important it was that you were both starting off from training camp together
healthy and what you thought that could do for you guys as a team now
that you're you know, more than a fifth of the way through the season,
Like, how important has it been for not only you guys getting up
to start your pad, but you think the whole team. Have you guys
ready from the jump? Oh, I mean, it's it's very important,
you know. I think just sooner we can get chemistries as sooner we can
be on the floor together and build and grow the better. I think everybody's
starting off healthy. Besides mood, it helped us and you know, as
Greg Mook came in and it picked up right where you left off. But
you know, the more we can the us starting off together, it was
only just better for the team. Yeah. Thanks, Next we'll go to
Miriam Maybe. Yeah, congrats on the wind. So you guys, you
know, obviously you were just saying it's and you guys are kind of getting
down there now. You guys had the you know, a good start,
like you guys liked that, but you were able to kind of maintain your
composure, you know when Oklahoma when when you know the shots weren't falling in
Oklahoma City was kind of chipping away. How important is it that for you
guys, just kind of the experience kind of holding on to a lead like
that. I mean, it's just learning with to deal with adversity. Team's
gonna make runs, regardless if it's a top team or you know, young
team. You just gotta learn how to win in adversity and know how to
weather the storm. You know, it makes no difference which team gets hot,
which team goes on a run that we're playing against. It's more so
about us we're standing at and you know, executing down a stretch when we
need to win a game. The Clippers were able to weather the storm against
the OKAC Thunder. They win one twenty to one oh six. There was
PG thirteen post game. While we have a moment, let's pause ten seconds
for station identification. Here on the M five seventy l A Sports, this
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to Los Angeles and iHeart radio station coming back. We'll get into Sunday's contest,
and I'll give you that sweet from CJ. Mccollumn, who unfortunately is
out right now with the Portland Trailblazers as his use of nurkicch. They've been
snake bit with injuries going back to I mean Bill Walton, Sam Booie,
my guy Brandon Roy just can't catch a break. Poor short supports there at
him more Clippers stack coming up next eight six six nine eight seven two five
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LA Sports. The Clippers extend their winning streak to six games. They win
one twenty to one oh six over the Oklahoma City Thunder and in their last
four victories they've outscored opponents by a total of one hundred and four points.
They have been dominant as is PG thirteen Paul George all season long. He
has twenty nine points. Kauai had thirty one. But there was some beef.
There was some bad feelings between the Clippers and the Portland Trailblazers inside the
bubble. They played each other in one of these seating games. Damian Lillard
missed some free throws late. The Clippers were getting after him. They were
going back and forth the two ball clubs on social media, including Instagram,
and you thought that would lead into this season, but it really hasn't.
They talked about it. They played each other once already, the Clippers were
victorious and they said, we buried it. What happened in the bubble stays
in the bubble. But CJ McCollum specifically someone who went after Paul George and
it was all in good fun for the most part. But he just posted
this. He retweeted somebody who had PG thirteen stats for this season twenty five
points per game, six boards, almost six assists on fifty one fifty one
ninety one splits, and CJ McCollum added to that with his own comments saying
he said he was going back to MVPPG that fifty fifty ninety is elite game
recognized game. Tip of the cap to the Northwest team in the Portland Trailblazers
and CJ McCollum, he's on the mend. Hopefully a speedy recovery for he
and the Portland Troilblazers, who I would like to see be one of the
top eight teams in the Western Conference. But they just have to stay healthy
and they haven't been able to do that. So with Charles Barkley, you
picked them to go to the NBA Finals, I think, and win it
all again. But the Clippers in the second half, they did struggle more
tonight. They had seventy points on the first half, just fifty in the
second half. Fifteen of their twenty one assists came in the first half.
It wasn't a perfect performance. We've seen some of those recently, but they
still did enough and found a different way to win without the three point ball
ball, which I think is important. You have to win in a variety
of ways, in a multitude of ways, and when what you do best,
and it has been the three point shot this season, isn't there for
you. How else do you win? Well, you outrebound a team by
nineteen, you also take fourteen and make fourteen more free throws. That'll do
it. Clippers still ended up shooting fifty one percent from the field overall,
but they were at sixty percent at the half. They were scorching hot.
But again they win by fourteen. They're twelve and four on the season.
Game seventeen comes up on Sunday, back at Staples Center, back against the
same Oklahoma City thunder Club and Shake Gildas Alexander. Tip time is at one
pm. We'll have Clippers countdown for you starting at twelve pm before we get
out of here. I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle,
Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, big brother Jake Warner out at Staples Center
or head engineer, our technical producer here in Burbank was the fantastic Sam.
Thank you, Sam. Appreciate you all the music, all the sound,
the highlights. He does it all, and he does it very well.
And one of these days maybe I'll just learn how to run the board so
Sam doesn't have to come in on Friday night like this. But I appreciate
your brother until Sunday, starting at twelve pm with your Clippers countdown show.
I'm Adam Oslin. We will talk to you then