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The Clippers strike first. They hold it down here at home and win game
one, one oh nine to ninety seven over the Dallas Mavericks without Kawhi Leonard.
Welcome into your post game show. I'm at a Moslin coming up on
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radio voice of the Clippers in Carlojmenez. The Clippers did enough to hold on
late, and it was that first half where they were up big and cruising
with all those three pointers falling from the outside, Carlo, that really helped
the Clippers build up that eventual lead, eventual win. Yeah, it really
was the opening the jump by at the opening gate that gave them the cushion
to be able to hang on at him. I felt like they did a
fantastic job in this game of making sure their shots were timely, of making
sure they hung onto the basketball, of really making things tough early on on
Kyrie and Luca. I think getting back on the defensive end, Adam,
how many times did we see Dallas spread ahead for an easy fast break bucket.
I mean, not much at all. They had a lot more in
the second half than the first half. The Clippers did an excellent job from
the jump, focusing on the things that Tyleru talked about, and it felt
like in this one they got it done because of the focus they played from
the start. Not to mention Big Zoo. You brought it up with Terrence
Man post game. He had a double double at the half, he was
dominant, he had he was in double figures in the first quarter. I
just love the fact that they got him a little bit more involved than we
have seen in some time. They knew he had the mismatch and the matchup
advantage in his favor. He took advantage of it, played heavy minutes.
This is what they need all series from Big Zoo, one hundred percent agree.
I mean, he played Gafford and Lively off the floor. I mean
it's really unbelievable because we talked about making sure he plays and when he plays
thirty more minutes a game. The Clippers record this season now thirteen and four.
He plays thirty plus today and he dominated and Klibo was what they went
to to try to stop him. Really a last resort for Dallas. If
if Vita zu Watts continues this play, the Clippers should have a great,
great finish of this series because when he's going, it is just tough to
stop everybody else with the Clippers, we mentioned Paul George struggled a little bit
with the shot eight of twenty twenty two points, but eleven of them came
in the fourth quarter, and I believe he had seventh straight at one point
out of a timeout. Huge buckets from your superstar. Without Kawhi Leonard,
Paul George was able to step up when they needed him to. It was
big. He was really really big the shots out of the time out finding
his teammates. I thought at him, he had a stretch of defense at
one point in this game where he stopped two different layups by driving Maverick players
by going vertical. That was excellent, held them from getting those fast break
points. As good as he was offensively, clearly locked in on the dast
defensive end, and for the Clippers, that's where it started in this game.
Fifty eight points in the first half is good. Allowing thirty is excellent,
and that's how they got this done. Russell Westbrook off the bench gave
the Clippers a spark as you would expect. He's got that playoff intensity in
a regular season game, so I guess in the playoffs it's like an NBA
Finals level intensity out there. He had the crowd into it, but the
defense he was playing, aside from the highlight dunks, he had a nice
lob from James Harden to him. I just love that he took up the
challenge of staying in front of his man, no matter if it was Kyrie
Irving or Luka Doncs out there. Yeah, it really felt like the bench,
especially mean even makes them Plumbley had some good moments. Defensively, not
everyone gave full effort on that side. There was only a couple times in
which Luco was left all alone, the Clippers thirty three points to get to
on twenty six shots. You'll take that every single game did finish with thirteen
rebounds to lead the team as well. It was a great win man of
Clippers because they executed. They executed exactly what they wanted to do. Tyler
said, this is in a feel out game. I want to win this
game, and that's what they did. They came in with that strategy,
they won the game. Now the chess pieces are gonna move a little bit,
the strategies will continue to ebb and flown. What does Jason Kidd draw
up for his group. I'm sure he's already thinking about it. But for
the Clippers, a great way to punch first in this series against Dallas.
You mentioned it, but that move from Maxi Kleeba playing a lot in the
second half. I wonder if they're going to start him. You talked about
it after the ballgame, but just to bring Avista Zubots away from the paint
even more, make him guard on the perimeter, that could be a wrinkle
moving forward in this series. Should be interesting. Game two right back here
at Crypto dot Com Arena on Tuesday night, we'll be tipping off at seven
pregame shows starting at six as the Clippers strike first and get the victory one
O nine to ninety seven in Game one over the Dallas Mavericks without Kawhi Leonard
Carlo Jimenez. Great playoff called by you, my friend. Let's do it
again on Tuesday. Oh yeah, let's go. Clippers come through, hot
shooting, stellar defense, and they were able to counter every punch from Luca
Dongons and Kyrie Irving in the second half. They win one O nine to
ninety seven. Second half highlights coming up next here in her postgame locker room
show right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. Fack to more of
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again, no Kawhi Leonard. They come through with a one nine ninety seven
victory over Luca Dodgers and the Dallas Mavericks in Game one of this best of
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I'm at a Moslin Coming up on the Patriot and eleven fifty. We
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second half highlights. The Clippers led by twenty six in the first half.
It was fifty six to thirty at the half, feest amount of points the
Clippers had given up in a half in a playoff game ever, any half,
and they did so against Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. And they did
so because Big Zoo had twelve and ten in the first twenty four minutes.
He kept it going in the third tend to shoot Man find Zoo the upload
the finish eight a Zuo bots with fourteen on tumble Tumble think you've gotta go
to work. We're gonna gets to the smaller Kleva Muscles is waging in the
paint. Turns ready hook shot over the top of the ram and n George
has been delivering all second half deep on the left side, crosses over fly
to the ram up flake effort. Two batts is there to finish. On
the recycle. Zubos stumbles, finds Norman Pound at the right wing, attacks
the baseline, flips it up a left hand, two bats, another rebound,
another finish. Twenty points for Zumbats a super size double double with fifteen
rebounds. Big Zoo was a monster in this ball game. He had eight
and five in the third quarter alone. The Clippers entered the fourth up eighty
seven to sixty four. Things got a little bit dicey, but PG thirteen
would take him home. Swings the pumpley back door Georgie's alone. He dump
to it two hands, Oh tyl, want to play golf. George danced
his left elbow jumper bottoms four in a row from Paul George. Harden finds
George in the right wing, rises for three. Oh yeah, Paul George.
Forty seconds left. George straight away pulls up for two and banks it
in Paul George with a toe on the tape. Paul George had eleven of
its twenty two points in the fourth cour or, and the Clippers go on
to win by a final score of one O nine to ninety seven in Game
one over the Dallas Mavericks. Game two is right back here Tuesday night.
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The Clippers ended up shooting forty six percent from the field, but what saved
them was going eighteen of thirty six from the outside. Dallas just ten of
thirty three from three after they started two of eighteen in the first half from
distance. But the Clippers stayed hot from three throughout it and it was those
timely three point shots in the second half to stem the tide each and every
time the Dallas Mavericks and Luca Donstris and Kyrie Irving were making a run.
Clippers also out rebound in Dallas forty five to forty one. Thanks to Big
Zoo, he had fifteen boards four offensive rebounds, finished with twenty and fifteen,
leading your Los Angeles Slippers James Harden. He had twenty of his twenty
eight points in the first half, went eight of seventeen from the floor,
but six of his eight makes were from three hit a big one in the
fourth quarter as Paul George hit a few of them. He had eleven of
his twenty two points in the fourth when things got a little bit scary against
the Dallas Mavericks team because he never feel like they're out of a ballgame when
they have Luca Donsons and Kyrie Irving. It was Paul George stepping up.
Had seven straight points overall off shooting the night eight of twenty four of twelve
from distance, but stayed aggressive and hit timely shots as well. Leading the
Dallas Mavericks. Luca Doncis thirty three points, right about his average on the
season. Guyriy Iring had thirty one win eight of eight in that third quarter
with twenty points, but the Clippers held the floodgates back and they would win
one oh nine to ninety seven in Game one again Game two right back here
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Adam Osley. Did we just witness your Los Angeles Clippers flip the switch?
They go on to win one oh nine to ninety seven over the Dallas Mavericks
in Game one without Kawhi Leonard. Welcome back into Crypto dot com. Marena,
I'm out a Moslin. This is Clippers stock here on the Patriot AM
eleven fifty. If you'd like to get on eight seven seven five to zero
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camming up on the show. We're looking for postgame audio from Coach Lou and
the players. Well to start to this twenty twenty four playoff campaign by your
Los Angeles Clippers. We found out just about an hour before, make it
two hours before the ballgame from Coach Lou himself at Kawhi le would be out
with inflammation in his right knee. And the one thing that I kept thinking
about over the last week, with all this news swirling and the rumors of
Willie, won't he be able to play? And then over the last forty
eight hours or so most reporters were saying he was going to be out,
kept thinking, you just got to get one at home. If you can
get the split here at Crypto, you can give Kawhi Leonard almost a week
longer to recover before Game three takes place in Dallas on Friday night. And
the Clippers have already accomplished that much winning Game one. But now you got
to get greedy. Big brother Jenk's been telling me this team can go up
two to oh in the first couple of games here at home, and with
the way they played in the first half, setting a franchise record of only
giving up thirty points in a playoff game and a half. They were up
fifty six to thirty on Dallas twenty four minutes in. I believe him,
Yo, Big Bro's onto something. This Clippers team was dialed in, locked
in. You could see it immediately, and that's where I start to think
something has changed. Maybe they have been able to flip a switch. Maybe
a lot of those laps is the last couple of months defensively where they were
a bottom three defense for a period of time, a long period from February
through March. Perhaps they found themselves. I said it in a William Wallace
like rallying speech in the opening segment of our pregame show. But typically when
the Chips are down, when their backs are against the wall, this Clippers
team comes out swinging when they're facing adversity, like not having one of their
superstars. It seems to always be when they play their best. It then
requires you to have a certain level of urgency and effort out there because your
margin for error has shrunk without Kawhi Leonard. So they came out, they
looked focused, They got the ball to my player to watch, not just
in this game, in this series, Big Zoo. They featured him like
they should. He had ten and four in the first quarter, five of
six from the field. James Harden started hot eleven points on the first quarter,
four or five shooting three or three from distance. And they were doing
the other part of the game plan. I was hoping they would attack,
go right at Kawhi, go right at excuse me, Kyrie Irving and Luka
Daancish, go at them. Without Kawhi Leonard to do so, other guys
have to step up and make sure they make Dallas's two best players work defensively.
If you do that, you can take something out of their legs to
where they could get gassed on the other end. Now, they started to
pull through in the second half. They started to play better. It's expected.
They're great. They're gonna get hot. Kyrie Irving had twenty points on
the third quarter on eight of eight shooting. But they had that cushion because
they played their best half of basketball of the season in the first half.
It has to be considering the opponent, considering the stakes. To execute on
both ends to that level was meaningful. The Clippers got hot from the outside,
and Dallas struggled early on. They were two for eighteen in the first
half from distance. The Dallas Mavericks a top five offense. They've been even
better than that really since the trade deadline. And meanwhile, some of those
guys they acquired had off nights. PJ. Washington was pretty good. Some
of his defense against Paul George was special. I was impressed. I've heard
that since he got away from the Charlotte Hornets. It is a organization that
is going through some turnover again and that perpetual rebuild. Well, he had
eleven points, a couple of threes, seven boards. But the defense on
Paul George I have heard about since he came to Dallas. It's changed this
team him getting into the starting lineup. But Daniel Gafford was just one of
four in fourteen minutes with three points and rolled his ankle in the second quarter
and came back and looked pretty ineffective. And if he'sa Zoo, bots can
do that to you. I don't know how many times I have to say
it. Big Zoo is like that. He's an elite rim protector that has
moves on the offensive end. If you give him the opportunity to cook a
little bit and against this Dallas Mavericks team. I thought coming in he's the
X factor. If Big Zoo has a big series, the Clippers can win
this series even without Kawhi for now open he's back game two, who knows,
maybe he's not back to Game three or four. But getting the split
here at Crypto and winning the opening game and giving yourself from some momentum and
belief that even without Kawhi Leonard you can steal, not just compete, but
beat this Dallas Mavericks team. The defensive effort by the Clippers overall, they
just came after Luca and Kyrie in waves. First it was opening the ballgame
Terrence man on Luca and a mere Coffee who got the start in place of
Kawhi Leonard, something I predicted. And they were giving up fits because then
they could switch and also switch with Paul George. So there were three different
guys that are good defenders that they threw at him from the beginning. It
broke whatever rhythm they were trying to get into. That's what you saw.
And at the half, Kyrie was one for six, Luca was four for
thirteen. You can't hold him down forever, and I thought there was some
slippage on the defensive end, and it eroded a little bit by the Clippers
being that connected as they got into the second half and into the fourth quarter.
But they were so good to start it was enough. Well, they
have to be even better in Game two. Likely, So Dallas is not
gonna shoot twenty two percent and a half the rest of this series. I'm
just gonna say that right now, probably not going two of eighteen from three
and a half the rest of this series. What happened in the second half
was more indicative of who they are. Great Clippers defense combined with Dallas clanking
some shots that they usually make. But there can be nerves. Guys can
get tight in a game like this when you're down twenty that quickly, every
shot seems much more important, and I think it was getting to the Dallas
Mavericks. They were looking for a ten point play to get back into it
and it wasn't happening. So the Clippers led fifty six to thirty at the
half. As I get choked up just looking at that box score. For
a long day, we're working through it here with my voice. But in
the third quarter, it was back to Big Zoo, something I kind of
demanded, get back to your principles. The reason you got up by as
many points as twenty tenn points in the first half is because I Visa Zubats
was detonating, and it's that physical play from him at the rim, where
the Clippers have struggled throughout most of the season with points in the paint.
Big Zuo doesn't struggle there, get him the basketball, so he ends up
with eight more points in the third quarter alone, and the Clippers are able
to absorb another early run by the Dallas Mavericks in that third quarter, And
that was about timely shooting from distance. Look, the Clippers shot fifty percent
from three eighteen thirty six. That's not necessarily sustainable ether, but the timely
threes when it's down to a twenty point game, after Luca hits a three
and Terrence Man out of a timeout knocks one down, just a huge shot.
I think Paul George maybe he was trying to work himself out of that
shooting slump by going to the basket multiple times for highlight dunks that he could
not get to go down. Felt like maybe he was looking for Birdman somewhere
because that was the mode he was in twenty thirteen. VG thirteen tried went
on Maxie ball, went out of bounds, got blocked by Gafford on one.
But in between there and the third quarter, and I like the aggressiveness
Zoo locked up Luca on a possession where he had him completely befuddled. That's
progress, that's growth from your big man who's still witched on to him plenty
on the perimeter. And I think did a pretty damn good job overall,
did what he could. It's gonna happen throughout the series. There's gonna be
times where it's one on one matchup with Luca and Big Zoo, and Big
Zoo more than held his own. I thought Russell Westbrook also very good in
this ball game and hit some timely shots, including after the lead was down
to eighteen early in the fourth quarter. Wasn't just about his defense, but
a huge three. He had two of them. It's not his shot,
but his playoff time, and he knocked him down. It was good to
see. My concern the fourth quarter was they had five turnovers. I said,
if Dallas is gonna get back into this, the Clippers are gonna have
to have some miscues, they're gonna have to help them. They did,
unfortunately, but the Clippers did enough and overall the for the energy level and
the execution right where they needed to be for Game one of this twenty twenty
four playoff campaign by your Los Angeles Clippers. Before we break here, let's
get to a phone call. I believe we have Jose and Downey here on
Clippers Stock on the Patriot, AM eleven fifty. Jose, what's up,
hey, Adam? How you doing? Man? Man? It's almost like
we foresee this coming about Zubac being the big difference, asking for it all
year long, and I'm glad that they waited to the playoffs game one to
deliver. I mean, he just had a stretch of six straight double doubles.
That's the longest stretch of his career, so he was trending this way.
But I knew with this matchup against Dallas he had a huge opportunity and
took advantage of it tonight today. Yeah, and you know what, and
I want to say, man, George did really well manned that defense.
You can see he was yelling at everybody where to be, you know,
win the switch and and that's what we needed from him. If we didn't
need the scoring in that first half, we needed him to set the temple.
But man Harden Zoubach Westbrook offensively in that first half and part of that
third quarter, they did their thing, and Paul George when we needed that
scoring when it was getting a little bleak at times, he either drove,
made the right pass or hit a timely shot and never let up on the
defensive rebounding, the offensive rebounding. I can't say enough about this guy right
now. Yeah, impactful plays there. Paul George did it all on both
ends. He had a rebound where he went to the floor in the fourth
quarter for it. The type of hustle and heart you expect in a playoff
game, but it's just a different game. In the playoffs. You see
guys picking up point guards ninety four feet trying to wear them down. That
accumulation over forty eight minutes of what that can do to a player's legs.
We saw it from both sides. Impressed by the Clippers though, winning in
the fashion they did, especially but without Kawhi Leonard to take Game one one
O nine to ninety seven. After the entire story over the last week with
this time off has been will he won't he play tonight? At least they
did not need him to take down Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks. We'll
take a quick time out here. Eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty
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want to get on here on Clippers Talk. The Clippers get Game one one
O nine to ninety seven over the Mavericks. Game two is coming up on
Tuesday night. We'll talk about that. We'll get back to your phone calls.
We'll hear from coach Lou as well. Right here on Clippers Talk on
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Prior to this group coming together. It could have been a distraction with everything
being asked about Kawhi Leonard the last couple of days to players to coach Lou.
But the focus level was there. Guys were locked in. You could
see it from the outset eight seven seven five to two zero eleven fifty eight
seven seven five to zero eleven fifty here on the Patriot eight m eleven fifty.
If you want to get on, let's go to Don in La.
My man, it's Don. What's up here on Clippers? Well, it's
a good time to have a conversation, right, I know, right,
hey, it's uh. I love what I saw today from the Clifts.
Man. I know we had a little stets back in the regular season,
but that's behind us that we're here now. The regular season's about building good
habits and we know that. Now it's trying to maintain them, not only
from a player standpoint, from USTO or coaching standpoint, and I love what
I saw from to Lou, you know, taking the necessary time out,
you know, regrouping the guys and making sure things don't get out of control
and continue to manage the game so they work from all the guys man offensive
Firecar guys just locked in. Like you said, I think the flip the
switch, and I think the guys, especially everybody thinking about you know,
Kawhi, it is ka Whi that they forget about big zoos, you know,
twenty and fifteen, five guys and double figures and man, yeah,
we were just we were just balling, locked in defensively, I want to
say. I think the last time and played the Mass back in December,
we had seven guys in double figures and Paul George was at one of them.
So Legia basically sticked out to Wise and Paul essentially, you know.
And on top of that, our sixth man of the year hoped to had
a bad game. That's a good point. The Clippers can still play better.
And Mere Coffee had a big six points. I would say he hit
the first shot of the game, a three pointer, and I think one
more in the fourth quarter. But normOn Powell was off and that does not
happen very often. Two of six, just five points. I thought his
defense was pretty good, though there was a possession where he was one on
one against Luka. Doncic accepted the challenge. That's what you see come playoffs.
Just the playoffs show you the difference in skill set because guys are giving
you maximum effort every possession out there, you see the separation and talent level.
And I thought Norman Powell that was raptors. Norm Powell that we saw
some of, but he can get it going. I thought Mason Plumbley also
overall, gave them good minutes. He had early on a steel as soon
as he got into the ball game. I want to say he had a
putback either early in the second quarter or early in the third quarter. But
we were wondering, who's the backup big. They've been playing Tye, they've
been playing Plumbley, they played PJ. Tucker in this series. I came
in thinking it was going to be Daniel Tice the first guy off the bench,
But what happened was Gafford goes out and it was Derek Lively out there,
who's seven to one. So I think they wanted to match height with
HEIGHTE longsword longsword, and they brought in Mason Plumbley. I thought he was
good. I thought he was solid, one of his better performances of the
season, where still felt like for a long time he just wasn't right coming
off that knee injury, but verry good to see Mason Plummey in a good
sign to see him being effective out there in a playoff series like this where
he ended up with I know it was just two points at that put back,
but five boards in twelve minutes, you'll take that. And the defense
was solid enough. There was a play in the second half or a couple
of them where Dallas got the switch and he was on Luca. He was
able to corral him enough deep on the right wing to where help could come
and they eventually got the ball out of his hands. That's all you can
ask for. I think in that situation a precarious position to be putting Mason
Plumbley on Luka Doncic, who looked a little bit at times, almost like
he was laboring out there. Big brother Jake Warner brought it up and he's
got a little bit a pad on the nylons on. I wonder if he's
dealing with something, because I believe he had a knee injury towards the end
of the season. Now he was still playing great, didn't play the last
two games for the Dallas Mavericks, but Luca looked to be laboring just a
little bit. Could be nothing, or it could be something they're hiding.
They don't want to give the opposition any intel on that. Again, he
still ended up with thirty three points, right at his average, but it
took twenty six shots to get there and just four of twelve from the outside,
and didn't have the fifteen assists, didn't have ten assists, he had
six, So he was more one dimensional. Something we've been talking about for
a while now. That's how you have to defend Luka Dancic, Kyrie Irving.
I don't know how you defend some of those shots he was making in
the third quarter. You wonder if those guys caught a rhythm that they can
take into the start of game two or not. Hopefully not. We'll see
Sean in Inglewood. You're on Clippers suck without a Mileston after they win one
or nine to ninety seven in game one over the Dallas Mavericks, Hi Sean
Heya, I was very proud of the way they started the game with a
purpose and they emphasized getting in front and stand ahead. I really liked that.
So that's one of the things that say I think they went coast to
coast. I don't know. I don't think Dallas ever led. Yeah,
they let Sean awesome, awesome. I really liked that everybody played with energy,
and as you mentioned, we didn't really get a good game from Coffee
or a Powell, and I also didn't think that. I think Terrence Mann
turned down a bunch of shots that he could have took or normally would take
in the first half. He had eleven of US thirteen points in the second
half and went three of three from three in the second half, so I
liked the bounce back performance by him. He also had a really bad whistle
going his way. He was on the floor multiple times, and I don't
know how some of those weren't fouls. But I was pleased overall. When
you're doing as much as he has to do defensively as the primary defender against
Luca don sometimes your offense can get lost in the shuffle. But he was
looking for it in the third and fourth quarter. Yeah, I noticed that
myself, but overall, very good games. Zoo was fired up as he
should be, and as another caller mentioned, almost on every time out they
scored, they came back, they ruled it back in when Dallas was making
their runs, and of course Dallas has to be thinking, Man, they
beat us like that without Kawhi, you know, so they they are not
the best defensive team, so that the Clippers should just keep taking it to
them. And I love the way they handled Daniel gafferd I really loved they
made him I have to defend Zoo and they got him into the foul trouble
area. I mean, I did foul trouble earlier and that was really important.
So thumbs up all the way to the Clippers. Let's do it again.
It's fifteen more to go, all right, Sean, I like it.
It's a good point. Rafford had two fouls early in the first quarter.
They had to bring in Lively. Eventually they went with Maxi Kleba.
They went small with the center position, wondering if that's a chess move,
and early one that Jason Kidd probably didn't want to have to play that was
in his back pocket because it eventually led to the Clippers going small at the
very end of the game. But what it can do is is bring a
beach zubats out to the perimeter and take him and his rimp protection away.
So just one of the first wrinkles we really saw, but it's because Gaffer
was overall ineffective and he did get banged up. He left and went to
the locker room in the second quarter and rolled his ankle out there. And
Derek Lively's been dealing with a lot some personal issues, death of his mother,
sad situation going on, miss a ton of games at the end of
the year, also because of a right knee injury. Had a great rookie
season, but timing wise, he didn't look right to me out there in
his nineteen minutes, just one of three, because we've seen what he's capable
of. Lone regular season game where Dallas beat the Clippers. They had Derek
Lively for that one. So they have guys that can obviously play much better.
And the Clippers aren't gonna shoot fifty percent from three the entire series.
Now, can they do what Dallas did the first three games against them in
twenty twenty one, where they shot fifty percent from three? Literally the first
three games, just extraordinary shooting that had the Clippers down in the series two
games to one. I don't know we speculated whether or not the Clippers were
due for a three point onslot because they've missed a lot of good looks the
second half of the season where they were leading the league in three point percentage
and dropped to being I think fourth or fifth by the end of the year,
just because they had like a late season swoon. I guess you could
say from beyond the arc, where they just weren't the same and the looks
were there. If you looked at wide open three pointers, they were shooting
thirty four percent on wide open looks. It made no sense. How about
James Harden those six threes, nasty, his twenty points in the first half
and really stepping up in the moment, And I thought this was an interesting
comment from him. Earlier this week, leading up to the game, he
was doing a media session. He was asked about the playoffs, and instead
of dodging the question where he's obviously had down moments, he took it head
on. James Harden said, look, I've had some not so great moments
and some great moments, and hemost definitely has. It's been hot and cold.
He was hot. He ended up just eight of seventeen. But when
six of those are made three pointers and you get twenty eight points on just
seventeen shots that is very efficient plus eight assists to one turnover. He's the
catalyst, the straw that stirs the drink. As Brian Seman would say,
another key to the series, James Harden has to be great without Kawhi Leonard.
For now, he just does it. Beats the Zubots. He continues
to play like this Clippers are in good shape. James Harden continues to be
aggressive, looking for his but also getting everybody else involved and getting them touches.
That's the recipe for this Clippers team to not just compete, but to
beat the Dallas Mavericks, even if they don't have Kawhi Leonard. And one
of my other keys was Russell Westbrook. Felt like it was a good matchup
for him because size wise and with his athleticism, he's another guy you can
throw a Luca at times. We've seen it in the regular season and Kyrie
Irving and his defense was really good. He had a couple of deflections early
on in the first half, hustle plays from Russ that I loved seeing out
there. Good defense on Luca. He had a nice layup transition, was
in control more when he was getting downhill, but the lob from James Harden
in the second quarter had everybody out of their seat here at Krypto dot Com
Arena. And then to boot a couple of three pointers and a big one
in the fourth run stopping silencer threes. That was a common thread in the
second half by the Clippers. Every time Dallas was starting to chip away,
the Clippers would get back with a three pointer against him. Good to see
clutch shots. Big shots. Again, I don't think they're shooting fifty percent
from three the rest of the way. So what are areas you can improve
in? Well, they only had thirty six points in the paint. That
can go up. Nor and Powell can play better, Russ can have more
than thirteen, and I think Paul George and we know we can go for
thirty plus just eat twenty from the field. But fourth quarter mastery when he
had to be great, when they were looking there's somebody to be a stabilizer
out there without Kawhi Leonard, I had somebody Athal out of May get to
me on X and say, this is where we really miss Kawhi. Who's
gonna stop these Dallas Mavericks and put together a run and make a couple of
shots in a row. Paul George that dunk out of the time out on
the back door cut with a pass from Mason Plumley. When I thought of
eats the Zubas was gonna come back into the game, but that's a patented
pass. Plumbly with the dish to PG thirteen, who was hunting a dunk
earlier in the game, finally got it. Then he got in the mid
range. Then he got a three pointer that pretty much iced the game,
along with a big Terrence Man. I would say three point dagger, But
I was a little bit worried at times the Clippers were settling too much for
threes and out running offense. It worked tonight, but there are times where
you can't just always rely on the long ball. We know that with this
team they get a little three happy sometimes when they're not falling. Don't let
Dallas off the hook by settling for long jump shots. All right, quick
time out. Clippers win one oh nine to ninety seven in Game one here
at crypto dot com arena of this best of seven first round matchup against the
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one o nine to ten ninety seven over the Dallas Mavericks in game one of
this best of seven first round matchup. Welcome back into crypto dot com arena.
We are alive. I met up Adam Ousland coming up. We're looking
for coach Lou postgame audio, but we do want to get back to your
phone calls at eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Before any of
that, though, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on the
Patriot eight eleven fifty. This is LA Clippers Basketball AM eleven fifty k EiV,
Los Angeles, about and iHeartRadio station Marvin in downtown Los Angeles. Marvin
you're on Clippers stock without a Moslim Hi, Marvin, Hey, Adam or
shall I call you Peter R. Thomments. Could I have some faith and
believe in the Clippers miracles? Like oh, Michael will say, do you
believe in miracles? Yes, even though there's one game, but at least
it's just the tonk So when, if, and when Tawi comes back.
Anyways, this is a great game for the Clippers. Let's go, Clippers
take it all the way for the rest of the series. You just said
that we're gonna be competitive. I give you that, so let's go.
Let's do it with I'm out racking. Thank you incredible. I don't know
this is a Rackham type of show here, Marvin, but we appreciate the
phone call. Nonetheless, yeah, I thought they'd be competitive even without Kawhi
Leonard. They were. They won the ball game. You gotta get greedy,
though, Now try to win game two because right now you're just holding
serf winning at home. It's almost expected. Now. The Clippers were the
underdogs in this game, don't get me wrong. If you were checking out
the betting lines at all, but without Kawhi Leonard, if he was out
for the entire series, and Paul George said yesterday expect him back at some
point. I've kind of been feeling the same way. No insider information,
just the way it was talked about last week with Lawrence Frank and the way
he's been progressing in practice. I would guess i'd lean towards he's back at
some point. But you gotta take advantage of an off shooting night by the
Dallas Mavericks or an off shooting half like the Clippers were able to do.
That's the difference in the ball game. Tagus in Walnut Dagus you're on Clippers
staff and that of Mawson when they win without Kawhi Leonard in Game one,
that's right, what's up at him? A great win. You guys talked
a lot about what I was gonna say, but some subtle points I thought
that, you know, in the first half with Zoos dominating the inside,
not only did he dominate, but then we were able to get a lot
of offensive boards through Terrence Man and Westbrook. It just like I think Luca
was guarding Terrence for a while, but he's not gonna be the best guy
to box out in Terrence Man's activity. Even though I thought he passed up
a lot of shots in the first half. He took him in the second
half, So there's no on that point. There's no reason for him to
pass up shots. He's been lights out for a while now and we saw
that in the second half. But I definitely think that we got to keep
attacking the inside. Even with this trade that Dallas did today. We saw
how much that helped get all those easy baskets, and that's gonna help us.
Like we've been talking about the easy shots we saw in the second half,
I think they got a little bit away from Zoo. Paul George was
kind of grinding it out, and he was. He took a lot of
tough, contested shots. I would like to just see Zoo get some more
touches again in the second half like he did in that first quarter. But
overall, great win and we'll just keep it going. I agree more from
Zoo. I'm telling you, one of these days, I'm coming up with
that dre parody they forgot about Zoo. It happens far too often. There's
an easier path to victory. It's playing through a viza Zoo boss. Now,
he had a good third quarter and Dallas ended up going small and that
affected his game, I think a little bit. But a great point regarding
Terrence man in four offensive rebounds. By the way, he went four for
four in the second half. It's not like he wasn't taking any he was
missing some gimmes, but in the second half he was perfect. But you're
right, that's what he has to do, crash the glass. And the
Clippers ended up with ten offensive rebounds to nine for the Dallas Mavericks, and
they got up seven more shots than Dallas, winning that possession battle. Mitch
and the Jizzy. Mitch, what's up? You're on Clippers South with out
of mauzl Hi, Mitch, I's going him great, great gang, let's
see get let's tea a little bit in the fourth quarter where it's nice to
see it to have four guys I think on the banjic stuff for a lot
of teams, and would you say, I've never seen a combo they started
a lot together talking about Harden and Westbrook three different teams. I don't know.
That's never happened in the NBA. I know, and nowadays with the
free agency and the trade hap is a lot. But to see these guys
come to go in teams, and it's nice that they get to hear for
us now and hopefully he's goin next game. I'm sorry I didn't give you
a chance, no match. It's an interesting point when you're talking about Hall
of famers moving from team to team like that, from OKAC to Houston.
Now both of them here with the Clippers. He may be onto something there.
You know. I could see Lebron has brought guys with him here and
there at different stops, but they weren't necessarily Hall of Famers. He did
bring Wade to Cleveland for one season, but yeah, I'll try to look
at that. Kevin Love, Uh, yeah, I appreciate the he is
although he only was at one stop with Lebron. He didn't play with him
in Miami. You play with them the second stint in Cleveland. One.
Thank you for the phone call, Mitch. Let's hear from Morrison, Inglewood,
Morris, what's up here on clippersock? Hey? Check because the pundits.
Listen, the pundits had George and Harden losing to Luca and Kyrie.
You heard what they were saying. People forgot who was coaching. They were
talking about who wasn't played. They forgot who was coaching today. That's why
they called him the kyropactor. I'm gonna tell you something. The guy they
put in some work and I don't know, but the bookies were saying that
the Clippers were underdog, and I think he said that the Clippers were favored.
But I'm gonna change something right now. This is this is Clipper time.
This is their time, this is their time. We've been losing too
long. We win it. This is the year. The Clippers are gonna
do it. And if I'm gonna teach them. They started rolling when they
were twenty six points behind in that Cleveland game, when he was twenty six
behind in that Cleveland game, and they came back and won. Ever since
then, they've been another team. They ain't been the same team. A
lot of teams have changed, but the Clippers have changed for the better.
And in the playoffs, two things changed. Number one. Number one,
they get physical. The referees that you played short punching each other, they
let you play okay, And the Clippers can't play physical, and the game
slows down. You all going these some isolations. They're bill perfect to win
it this year. Adam and my crazy I don't do nobody to say they're
gonna win it this year. So I'll see you on Tuesday night, Okay,
when we pick up game two at home. Talk to you later,
Morris. I'm with you. It's all there. They're just missing one guy
right now that will put them over the top. And Kawhi Leonard him being
out for now. You're right the odds makers. Because of the uncertainty surrounding
Kawhi Leonard, things swung to Dallas being the favorite in this series. But
I like what I saw tonight. This Clippers team looks scrappy. I'm telling
you. It brings out their identity of being that resilient team when they're down
a guy. It happens like that with them. Ryan and Burbank, you're
on Clippers staff with out of Mawson, Hi, Ryan, Adam oh Man.
This this I loved. I loved everything I saw about. I've been
calling from the jump. Luka Kyrie combined for six four Clippers still beat him
by double digits. It's not about Luca and Kyrie for the mass, It's
always been about their role players. When their role players took us to seven
those first two games to shout over fifty percent from three. I don't see
anything on this mass roster to me from this game that I'm going, oh
yeah, we're gonna be real worried about that guy coming in. It's all
about Luke and Kyrie in this series, and we know they had great second
halfs of this game. Of the game, the Clippers regressed a little offensively,
That's okay because they were so hot for the first half. You held
a playoff team to eight points in a quarter. Eight points in a quarter.
Yes, some of their offensive you know, stuff will come back for
the Maps. Regressive issues will come back. They'll hit a little bit more
from three. But is anyone worried about PJ. Washington? And I mean
gafferd looked absolutely outmatched by Szubac, who completely killed him in those first two
quarters. I just I don't know a lot of matchup things that kid can
solve in this particular series. I just think kylu is gonna run circles around
him. Again. My prediction for this was Clippers and six. We may
get Clippers in five year at them. I'm not exaggerate, and I really
think the Clippers are just a much better built team than the Mavericks when it
comes to this particular matchup this year. All right, I appreciate the phone
on the optimism there, Ryan, I don't necessarily disagree. I just think
a lot of these guys are capable of much more than what they showed today
for the Dallas Mavericks. You give the Clippers credit, but when a team
scores only eight points in a quarter, that is a rarity. No matter
how good your defense is. That's a little bit fluky shooting. And both
Luca and Kyrie Irving being cold for a half also, Isn't that sustainable?
I just great, kid, don't get cocky the old Han solo line.
The Clippers were good. They got the coaching advantage with coach Lou, of
course, but I still expect Dallas to hit first and start much faster on
Tuesday night, and the Clippers just have to be aware of that. We'll
take a quick time out. We're looking for coach Lou audio. We do
have audio from James Harden postgame. Clippers win one O nine to ninety seven
in Game one of this best of seven first round series over the Dallas Mavericks.
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O nine to ninety seven here at Crypto over the Dallas Mavericks, and they
do so without Kawhi Leonard big Zoo played to his size twenty and fifteen.
A player to watch for the game, my player to watch for the series.
This is the way as the Mantalhrian line. Cos I'm Adam Moslin.
You're listening to the Patriot am eleven fifty. James Harden Great out of the
Gate, had twenty points in the first half, finished with twenty eight.
Here it was postgame on the Evil four Letter. We know how offensive power
those guys are over there, so we can't ease into games. We gotta,
you know, be a physicality team from the beginning game. We did
that. They are great teams. You know how easy they can score a
basketball, so we wanted to make it as different as possible. I think
we did that for four quarters. And James, this is your fifteenth straight
playoff appearance, but the first with this veteran Clippers team. What did you
think of the overall effort tonight, especially with five players in double figures?
Unbelievably, it's going to take that, you know, quarterback quarter game by
camp game. We can't get satisfied for winning the first game, you know
what I mean? So tomorrow we watched film, get better, see what
we can get, we can correct and be ready to go for even better
game too, And you get this win even without Kawhi Leonard, who's expected
back in this series. Where is the confidence level at heading into game two?
We believe in each other, you know what I mean. So obviously
we miss Kawhi, but you know, we still got to win games,
and we did a really good job of tonight, so I was ready to
game for Game two. Congratson on the one oher series lead. James James
Harden their post game again twenty eight points, eight assists to just one turnover,
and made six to three pointers for the Clippers and some big ones to
open this ball game up. Clippers hold on to win one oh nine and
ninety seven, something I thought might happen when everybody was, I don't know,
overreacting a little bit with how the Clippers were playing myself at times too.
But I continue to remind people that they were inconsistent heading into that first
round series against the Phoenix Suns as well last season, and then immediately snapped
into a mode where they were playing at a different level. Effort wise and
energy wise and attention to detail wise. Were the Clippers were really good in
the first half, got a little bit sloppy at times in the second half,
gave up some open looks. But for the amount of discussions being had
in conversations at the end of the season and talking about, well, the
Clippers just don't have it. You can't play like this come playoff time,
guys, Flipping a switch is real. A playoff environment is different, it
always is, and this team has always been built for a playoff series.
An older squad that looked like they had tired legs at times. It's just
one game, but you could see the difference out there. The Clippers were
fully focused and I'm proud of the way they played in Game one without Kawhi
Leonard, extremely holding a team of thirty points in the first half eight points
in the second quarter. Coach lu didn't say postgame there are no bad wins
in the playoffs, but also stressed, quote, we got to do a
better job getting to the free throw line. However you want to take that,
that's interesting. That's another way the Clippers can improve. In Game two,
I mentioned just having thirty six points in the paint, they only attempted
thirteen free throws. They do need to be more aggressive. Thirty six three
pointers taken on a night where you hit eighteen of them, fine, it's
great, but it's about three above what they normally attempt from the outside,
and you want to continue to play with force and punish teams in the basket.
There was a play by James Harden with about the five minute mark of
the fourth quarter where they had just hit another timely three point shot. But
I wanted to see them win this game with some good process down the stretch,
with making Dallas continue to have to defend, and Harden went down the
left alley and by the way, his burst and movement very different than what
we saw the last two months. I'm not shocked, trying to tell you
guys, I'm not that worried. Once Game one starts, then you can
start to judge where guys are at. But he forced the issue and drew
a foul and got to the free throw line. Need more of that.
Dallas got up twenty more free throw attempts than the Clippers. I thought there
were some touch fowls being called on the Clippers in the second half, and
a little bit of a bad whistle that they got in this game, which
I guess is encouraging. You can win a game where a team takes twenty
more free throws than you handily, by the way, but Tyler w also
said we can and have to be better, and they will be. They
at least need to be Tuesday night, because I know Dallas will play a
better ball game. Some of those role players will step up, somebody will
get hot, and Luca and Kyrie are not going to start that cold in
the first twenty four minutes of a game. It's just not that repeatable,
not that sustainable, not that really bowl. So adjustments will be made,
some progression to the mean in some areas, regression in others, But overall,
I like this Clippers ball club one, the way they played. Big
Bro Jake some positivity before we get out of here. Big Brother Jake Warner
from The Big Brother Jake Podcast Podcast one network. He was very confident heading
into this one. Yes, sir, here's what I got to tell you
all today. A lot of people won't celebrate you until your wins feel big
enough, but you don't need their approval. You get to celebrate yourself today.
You get to be proud of every step you take and every sacrifice you
make. And once you see this for yourself, you'll realize that you never
needed other people's permission to be proud of how far you've come. I like
that any win in a playoff series is a good winner. Got that right.
Before we get out of here, I do want to thank big brother
Jake Warner, a head engineer Clippers organization, Ralph Lauler, Bryant seem to
know it, Ego, Carlo and Metis on the call, Kay and Newton
our producer k Fig I'm out of Maza. We'll talk to you on Tuesday
night. So why he was doing his thing? All they want to do
is win LA win. I thought they gave everything they had. I'm very
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