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including responses from bad losses. The Clippers bounce back after losing by twenty last
night in New Orleans to the Pelicans. They win by ten in Dallas and
hold Dallas to just ninety nine points. Your final score. Clippers win one
o nine to ninety nine over Luca don Chich and the Mavericks. Welcome into
Clippers Talk. I'm at a Maslin eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number coming
up? My friend basketball analyst Bill Horrendi will be here. Plus we will
also have postgame audio from the head coach to Ron lew after the Clippers completely
redeemed themselves. Well, look, this is one of the biggest wins of
the season, considering what happened yesterday and how poorly they played, especially defensively,
where they gave up seventy two points in the paint. Tonight, Dallas
only had thirty points in the paint. The Clippers had forty four. So
let's see what a difference a day makes the Clippers defensive mentality, that sense
of urgency and intensity we've talked about that they need to start games off with.
You saw it from the beginning in the first quarter. And by the
way, they did all this without Patrick Beverley and without Sergebaca, which is
why I said yesterday, they have enough talent to still compete and beat anyone
even when they are down, as long as the two one three connection are
out there. And guess who else was in the back in the starting lineup,
Marcus morrise and beats the Zoobots two starters from last year. We're back
in because of injuries and because I guess head coach Shronloo will hear from him
in a second on this, but he likes Marcus Morris back in the starting
lineup. And Nicholas Battoun performed really well off the bench. He had four
three pointers, two of those came in the third quarter. But Marcus Morris
is the one that got off to a really hot start in that first back
as a starter. He had seven of his fourteen points in the first quarter,
played with great energy, played great defense. I talked about him as
my player to watch because I felt like they needed somebody to just step up
with that passion and energy and presence and be demonstrative out there. And there's
no doubt Kawai was that as well to close this game out. But Marcus
Morris plays with edge and when you're missing someone like Patrick Beverley. The reason
I think he has such a big effect that goes beyond the box score is
because he turns a game into something much more competitive than just a regular season
basketball game in the NBA, and there's seventy two of them normally eighty two.
He turns it into a playoff like atmosphere. He gets chippy with guys,
he gets underneath guy's skitting, and he's able. Sorry I'm pouncing the
as I get intense myself talking about Patrick Beverley, but he's able to bring
out the best in his teammates. He rallies guys. They see the way
he attacks, they see the way he plays, and they know they have
to play at least that hard because the smallest guy on the court is giving
you an effort like that. Without him, they just haven't had that same
desire defensively, and they've been really inconsistent in that area for a lot of
this season. Coming into tonight's game after what happened yesterday, they were fourteenth
defensively going into that game against the New Orleans Pelicans. By the time the
game ended and they gave up one hundred and thirty five points last night,
they had dropped from fourteenth defensively with defensive rating to sixteenth in one game.
While we're more than halfway through a season. That's not easy to do,
but that's how poor they were on that end tonight. Though they only gave
up twenty three points in that first quarter, Dallas did not have a quarter
where they scored thirty or more. Their quarter high tonight was twenty eight,
and a lot of it I felt like was Marcus Moris being out there and
providing some of that spark. But then also Kawhi Leonard was so locked in.
This was the claw. This is a vintage Kawhi Leonard virtuoso performance from
him. Because even though I say, look he was nine of twenty from
the field had twenty two points. That's not as efficient as he typically can
be in his just one of five from three, but he had eight of
those points in the fourth quarter down the stretch and had huge momentum place like
I don't know a dunk on a unicornstat Porzingis got hammered yammed on by Kawhi
Leonard, who also got fouled. They didn't call it, but that was
one of his best dunks in the Clippers uniform so far, and it was
needed. Sometimes a dunk is more than a dunk. Sometimes a play means
more than that. It can be a momentum shift. It can get a
team pointed in the right direction. And when the Chips were down and Dallas
was fighting back multiple times, the Clippers were up by twelve early in the
fourth quarter, but Dallas went on a run. Tim Hardaway Junior was insane.
He had sixteen of his twenty one points in the second half, had
four three pointers in the second half, and Dallas was really good from beyond
the arc. They go seventeen of forty one from three and lose because sometimes
it's about those timely threes and the Clippers had four big ones in the fourth
quarter, two from sweet Low Williams, one of them early, one of
them late. Same with Paul George. He hit a three pointer at the
nine minute mark and then he would hit the dagga over Luca Dontech, just
a ridiculous step back handles like Steph Curry at the height of six nine Paul
George. I mean, we've seen this shot from him a lot, but
considering he was four of seventeen before he took that shot, takes guts when
you're having an off night like that to take the biggest shot at the game
and stick it. And it was well defended by Luca Done. Not good
enough, though Paul George is indefensible when he's playing like that on the perimeter.
We saw it actually early on. He had a shot over Maxi Kleiba
baseline in the first quarter that was just sick as the kids say, too
much sauce as. I think the call was from Noah Eagle, and I
thought he was off to a really good start, but then he would struggle
and he has struggled since the foot injury. More on that coming up,
but best win of the year so far put that qualifier on there. We
say that every time best win of the year so far for the Clippers because
of what happened yesterday, because it was gut check time. Kawhi Leonard came
out last night post game and said he's very concerned with their inconsistency. So
to come back and now be seven and zero in the second game of a
back to back, that is the correct response. They had the competitive juices
that you needed to start this one off. If you were ever concerned about
head coach Sharan lu not having their attention, just look at the way they
responned after losses. This team is so good in those situations. Now they
have to move this forward. They have to turn this into winning eight of
ten. They have to get rolling here because there's an opportunity with some of
the other teams in the Western fence right now not playing that well. It's
not just the Clippers who have struggled four and seven in their last eleven games.
The Lakers also right there, and the Utah Jazz their four and five
in their last nine. Dallas, though had been one of the hottest teams
in the NBA. They had won eleven of their last fourteen contests so this
was a big test, and the Clippers were still undermanned and shorthanded, but
I thought they got a special performance from Kawhi Leonard. That offensive rebound that
turned into an and one with under five minutes left in the fourth quarter was
just unbelievable. He also had a step back Jordan esque fade away, as
Noah Eagle put it in the fourth had a couple of those on the baseline
too. That's why I like to call him ninety six MJ. That's what
he looks like to me. But he had more bounced defensively than I've seen
him in a while. He was everywhere on that end. Someone said on
Twitter it looked like he was doing jumping Jack's at one point, going back
and forth. He was just a one man wrecking crew on that end of
the court. And overall, Luca Donche's just nine of twenty three twenty five
points. You'll live with that. Chris stat porzingis he hit some tough shots,
but he only took fourteen finished with twenty two points. It was really
Tim Hardaway Junior keeping them in it when he hit three three pointers in the
last three minutes of the third quarter. See that five times fast. He
was really good for them off the bench, but the Clippers bench, considering
two of those guys were now in the starting lineup, I thought they played
really well. Nicholas Batoum and you know, you don't want to call it
at demotion, but this was the first time he was coming off the bench
this season and he adjusted. And this is a team guy. He'll do
whatever it takes to win. He just wants to be that glue guy.
And has one of his best shooting performances in the last couple of weeks,
going four of six from distance, and then Sweet Lou Williams. I'm just
so sick and tired of hearing people will say he doesn't play any defense.
It's just not true. Now that's been his reputation going back over ten years.
Fine, but there have been plenty of moments going back even to last
year's playoffs, and the numbers support this, where he has been a solid
to good defender. And he had two steals on Luca Dontae in the fourth
quarter, including the old pull the chair out trick Carl Malone's style on Luca
where he ended up getting the steal. And he had fourteen points and two
big three pointers and two steals in that fourth quarter. We'll take a quick
call here before we break, Sean in Inglewood, you're on Clippers stock without
on Maslin. Hush on, Hey, my friend, how are you,
Adam? I'm good. Where you been? Brother's business used to But it's
all good, Sean. What do you think of the win tonight? I
like to win tonight, but you know that is not. Also the only
reason why I called because as a conglomerate of the last games and as of
this season, I'm upset with a lot of things that ty Lew has done.
So there have been about sevenuary eight games where he called. As for
the Kawai thirty's probably seen our way from the basket. Weave one basket,
no direction, no offense, no no, no coordination, and bad play
and they've lost those games. So we lose the close games. This coach,
it's supposed to help you win the close games. Without a coach at
all, the Clippers record could be when it is right now, Sean,
Sean, I disagree, man. I would need some actual specifics on what
players you're talking about at what point at the end of games, because the
Clippers themselves and Kawhi Leonard has admitted this. They're looking to coach lou because
well, he hasn't installed his entire offense yet, so they're not always going
off of instincts late in games, and that has been a problem. But
tonight I guess they closed things out. I got a specific for you the
Milwaukee game. Seven foot one low pairs, six foot eleven attentive coupo at
six foot eleven port. What does he do? He put a bucket six
eight guys in there to stick him. That was and then and Ganna's blue
six foot six and fourth quarts just like the All Star Game. Nobody that
can tell enough to stick him. He does some things that I just don't
understand. This bad coaching, I'm gonna tell I'm gonna just say like it
is. I've been in love with my Clippers. I moved out here in
eighty four. The Clippers moved down here in eighty four. Nothing but a
Clipper fan, Okay. Never like the Lakers. I'm gonna tell you the
truth. They need to improve in a lot of way. This particular win
is not the season. The season has been really up and down. Sehn.
No one's disagreeing with that one win, one loss has not defined them
so far. But I will say they struggle late in that game against Milwaukee
also because well Kawhi and PG went all nine, and they did settle for
some tough shots and that is something that where they have to learn from.
And I thought tonight was a step in the right direction. I think a
win like this where you hold on against a Dallas team that has been one
of the best teams in the NBA over the last couple of weeks, and
obviously they have one of the toughest players to guard in the NBA and Luca
donchech. I thought this was exactly the type of effort and playoff like atmosphere
victory that you'd like to see from the Clippers. And once again, they
still didn't even have Serge Ibacca or Patrick Beverly Shawn I give them that.
I'm go with a statistic from the game before twenty four and four, when
they're leaving by over ten points the closed game. I get the statistics from
the announcer, Yes, from the game yesterday. Close games they don't win
because they're disorganized in the last two minutes. That needs to be improved.
Other than that, yeah, I still love my Clippers, but you've got
to improved. Okay, I'm just so men like it is yet local clippermation
you Adam. I'm out all right, Sean, thank you for the phone
call. Yeah. I mean they've said it themselves. They have to get
better, they have to improve. But coming off of last night's loss,
this was improvement. Now it has to extend out and they have to string
some wins together here and start to get back on a role because they haven't
won multiple games in a row in about three weeks now. Obviously that extends
also over the All Star break. But this team is better than that,
and I think they showed some of that obviously tonight, and that defensive mentality,
that mindset, the physicality out there, the resistance they showed holding Dallas.
Holding any team in the NBA in this day and age under one hundred
points, it's close to heard of. I think the worst team right now
is averaging one oh seven, and they held the Dallas Mavericks to ninety nine.
That's something, all right. Coming up next, you'll hear from the
head coach Toronto lou Well, I think is the master of adjustments, and
it's proven that well, yeah, this team has a lot to work on,
and they're still fourth right now in the Western Conference, and I think
three and a half games back of the team with the number one record in
the league, in the Utah Jazz. So let's put things in perspective a
little bit here. They haven't played their best basketball, They're ceiling is much
higher, and there's still thirty one more games left to develop. More consistency.
That has been the word of the last forty eight hours. Now,
all right, more Clippers stock coming up next right here on the five seventy
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Don't miss a moment of Clippers basketball all season long. Williams picks up a
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tennis shoot Kawhi at the top of the key, puts the head down down
the middle of the lane. Oh, Kawhi Leonard. He just put his
major seven foot three Christaps Porzingis on a poster Leonard with a right handed plush.
Maybe Kawhi Leonard's best all around regular season games so far as a Clipper,
just twenty two points. What led them with seven assists and had three
of those in the third quarter was hitting Nicholas Batoum coming off a spin moves
in the lane on the outside for three pointers. Was finding a Vita Zoobots
under the basket while putting the ball around defenders. And then also four steals
and just one turnover and eight boards. Kauai put together the type of performance
you want to see from your leader and from a superstar in this league that
is a two time finals MVP winner. He has the pedigree, he has
the resume, and he knows that they have to be more locked in and
he certainly was, and the rest of the team followed. Clippers win by
ten in Dallas with the final score of one on nine to ninety nine.
Welcome back into Clippers Stock. I'm at a Maslin. Eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number before we hear from the head
coach t Lou post game. Let's go to Anne in Glendale, Hi,
and you're on Clipper Stock with Auta Maslin. How are you okay, Hi,
Adam. I think this is a terrific team. They have a lot
of talent. A great game tonight My only question to you, you know,
with your background, what do you think about Paul George's problems, because
he seems to be a very talent to player, but I don't feel that
this stage, you know, is comfortable for him. He seems to lose
his energy or his focus, and I feel he's kind of a weak member
of the team. Well, and how about the three point he hit tonight?
The biggest shot of the game was twenty six seconds left. Yes,
I recognize that, but it just worries me that he's It may just be
the pressure may just be too much for him. I don't know, what
do you think. I appreciate the phone call, the Paul George narrative stuff
and the playoff pe talk. While he's had some bad moments in the playoffs
and Game seven last year, yes against the Denver Nuggets, nobody really played
well, including Paul George, but it is over an overblown narrative. For
the most part. You look at the numbers, you look at the big
games. You look at him being the leader of that Pacers team that wins
seven games in twenty thirteen with Lebron James and Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh He's
had spectacular moments in the playoffs, and the majority of his playoff games last
season were good with the Clippers. But people like to harp on the negative
with him for whatever reason, and also they focus on that in general.
I understand, but he has been really good at times in big moments,
and I expect him to rise to the moment like he did tonight. And
I like moments like this or games like this where you are struggling where your
shot isn't there and you stay aggressive. And he was going to the basket
even when his shot didn't look good from the outside, and then late he
still trusted that shot over Luca Dontchich, So it could be something to build
on for him. Now. He has been struggling recently, in fact,
going back, and it's really since the foot injury since he's come back.
Our friend Joey Lynn posted this earlier on Twitter. But in his last six
games coming into tonight's contest PG thirteen, just eighteen points per game, shooting
thirty eight percent from the field under thirty percent from three. So that's a
big reason why the Clippers overall had been struggling. But I don't know if
that foot is bothering him still because this and this stretch of games and these
numbers coincide with him returning from the foot injury, because right before that he
had those eight three pointers in Cleveland. He was unconscious. But I expect
him to get back to there and he's still having an unbelievable season. All
right, Let's hear from the head coach postgame t Lou after the Clippers respond
and win one o nine to ninety nine in Dallas over the Mavericks. It,
Ti, what did you see specifically in what made you want to put
Marcus in the starting lineup? Did that? Did that kind of spark not
only his game but also Nick's game and everybody else's. Yeah, I'll just
think, you know, getting him, you know, to come out there
and start force and getting working again. You know, I thought, you
know, he came into the season, you know, miss the first ten
or eleven games, so we wanted the easier men to it. And Nick,
you know, Nick did a fabulish job. Was nothing nothing to niked
done. You know, he's actually played great for us. We just wanted
something to kick start markets, to get him going and getting ready you know
down the stretch. What you saw tonight. Is this something you think you're
gonna stick with? Yes, sir, Thanks time. Thanks. We'll go
next to Shane Young. Hey, Ty, the team is now seven and
oh on the second night and back to backs. What does that really say
to you about the team like that that they respond emphatically after you call out
their effort defensively? You know you don't want to have to keep doing that.
You know it's not something you want to get used to doing. But
you know, Kawad just showing his leadership or just you know, wanting to
play back to backs. He's healthy and that that's big for us and just
shows that you know, he's trying to he's trying to do the right thing.
And you know back to backs to share. I think we're seven and
oh, so it just you know, back to backs test test your manhood
and test you who you are and test your care And I thought to nine
we responded very well, you know, especially hold his team to nine and
nine points. I have to give it up one hundred and thirty five last
night. Thanks. We'll go next to law As great as Marcus was,
you had Zoo also in the starting lineup, and I thought he did an
now standing job staying with Luca multiple times on an island out there on the
perimeter, and it's it just seemed like an unconventional look for him. And
it's not the first time that Zoo's really done well are you Are you surprised
at his just poise out there, not panicking when he's on his own against
one of the best offensive players in the league this season, you know,
not really long because last year, you know, in the bubble in the
playoffs, he did a great job, you know, with our beers because
of porzingis such a great shooter in Cleverer that we do a good job with
just beering off. And now you know Zoo has to play one on one.
They did a good job in the bubble, so that's why we was
comfortable doing it. We know they had great shooting around, so just to
make him play one on one and you know, Zoo me in a big
body, stand in front and just trying to you know, take the first
initial bump because Luke was so strong, and then stay down on all the
shot fakes. And like I said, I thought Zoo did a great job
with him. And and also Luca has seven turnovers tonight, you mentioned last
night you wanted to see more physicality, you wanted to h at the very
least. I know you mentioned that one of the complaints you had about Zion
was he didn't even get to the free throw line. He was just getting
to the basket into his spots, snake shots over and over. How are
you feeling about the defense that was able to force turnovers but also able to
keep this Dallas team off the free throw line for an entire game. Yeah,
I thought it was big. I thought, you know, bringing the
physicality to the game. I'm nothing easy, and you know what felt good.
I was just seeing like when they did score, we got pissed off
and mat about that instead on the other end, and you know, Prezinis
made one like six or seven feet behind the three point in line of Kawa
got matters at itself because we said he would shoot the trail three and from
deep. So just taking that responsible really a holist on ourselves, just to
make sure we follow in the game plan and understanding what we need to do.
And like I said, tonight was a good job just showing the physicality
and also doing without foul. You know, Marcellis Wallace talked about pride like
it's always a bad thing. But the Clippers tonight very prideful in making sure
they bounced back and respond after a loss like that last night. Defensibly you
could see it, and I love what t Luja said there. They got
upset every time they got scored on. By the way, I haven't talked
enough about a Visa zoobots yet. Seven of eighth from the field fifteen points,
eleven boards, all seven makes dunks. And I've been saying this for
a while, but when you're talking about getting more points in the paint,
get it to big Zoo. He is a weapon. And when he goes
lue all cinder like he did on one hook shot. Okay, so six
of seven we're dunks. It just shows off the high skill level yass.
Clippers win by ten in Dallas with the final score one on nine to ninety
nine. More Clippers talk coming up next to my friend Bill Horrenda will be
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remaining. Noah Eagle on the call as the Clippers win one O nine to
ninety nine in Dallas over the Mavericks. They are seven and oh in the
second game of a back to back. Welcome back into Clippers Stock. I'm
Adam Moslin eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight sixty six ninety eight
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one six. Who is the Dicky V of NBA analysts. It is Bill
Horrenda. Bill, thanks for coming back on Clippers Stock. How are you
my player? That's how I praise. I'm gonna try to move up to
it. Oh, it's that time of the year, you know, Bill.
What did you think of this performance by the Clippers coming off of the
disaster in New Orleans last night and the postgame comments from Kawhi Leonard talking about
being overly concerned with a loss like that because it talked about it or it
spoke to their lack of consistency so far this season. Does this give you
more hope that this Clippers team is different, is built different than they have
been going back to last year. Yes, and it's sort of the top
Adam, I mean, Lawrence Frank has talked about the way the Clippers lost
last season that you cannot sweep under the rug shared adversity. You got to
own it. And I think those are very very healthy signs. And what's
even healthier is not what you're saying, what you're doing on the floor.
You hold Dallas to under one hundreds, you hold them scoreless over the final
three minutes. They only go to the free throw line five times. This
is a team that averages in the low twenties getting to the free throw line.
So what did they do? They defended without fouling. It was a
great bounce back and guys step up like Marris Senior of course, and the
Tomb accepting their roles and they produce and you do it without Abacca and Pat
Beverley. Great bounce back game for the Clippers. Time. We just heard
from t Loop post game talk about how he's going to keep the starting lineup
with Marcus Morris inserted there. They put him back there tonight. He didn't
start off there to begin the season because he was out he andjured, and
Nicholas Batoum played so darn well there was nothing you could do about that.
But Marcus seems to help spark this team. Do you like him in that
spot, going back to that starting role? I really do. If you
look at the numbers at him, the Clippers have really struggled if they're not
leading in halftime. So this is the typical argument five best versus best.
Five. Now, he tonight was terrific along with zubots right, thirteen of
nineteen combined from the floor. That's sixty eight percent, twenty nine point seventeen
rebounds between the two of them. And but toomb yes, twelve points floor,
six all from downtown, but also seven rebounds. So I do really
like this move, and you know, at him, here's something for a
lens for perspective. You be brown. January and February in the NBA are
dog days. This is where you're if you're an underdog, if you're a
team with potential, you can make progress. Emerging teams can steal games because
top teams are not paying attention. Now you have to hope that the Clippers
are paying attention, that they focus, they compete, they dial in,
and consistency in this league is progress. As Michael Cage, the Oklahoma City
Thunder analysts has said, he is Bill Horrenda. Follow him at Bill at
R E N d A on Twitter. Bill, let me get your thoughts
on this as well, because the Clippers, when we've talked about their weaknesses,
but they don't get in the paint a lot. They don't get to
the free throw line enough. They only attempted eleven free throws tonight, but
they did do a great job, as you mentioned, defending without fouling when
it came to Dallas. But to me, when I see a Visa Zubos
play like that near the rim, he's such a monster and he's such a
weapon out there. Their points in the paint issue could easily be remedied by
getting Zoo Bots the ball in good positions inside height. Tylan talked about it
previate getting to the rim, attacking, getting to the paint, getting to
the free throw line, Adam. And you know why he's doing that because
listen, you listen to Das are the great assistant coach to the late Jerry
Sloan with the Utah Jazz. Frequently in the playoffs, what happens, you
have to score through physicality, and what happens is the teams that usually win
are the teams that are scoring the most points in the fourth quarter from the
free throw line extended and below. So you need that. Where are you
going when the opposition takes away your first option, your second option and your
three point game is not there. And you're right, it's at the rim
attacking, and that's something of course you want to inculcate into this team.
I know they leave the league in three point field goal percentage, that's terrific,
But you're right to amplify your point. You've got to be tough,
you've got to have that physicality, and you have to have balance. We
have only had two champions in the past twenty years outside of the top ten
and defensive rating, and in the last ten years only three teams in the
finals with a worse defensive rating than the opposition has won it. So it's
about balance, getting to the rim, at protecting the rim. Final one
for you here, Bill, because I got a call about this earlier talking
about Paul George and well he was just five of eighteen. He hit the
biggest shot of the game to put it away from the Clippers with twenty six
seconds left over Luca don chich And to me, when you are struggling at
times and there's a narrative surrounding him in the playoffs, whether it's fair or
not, moments like that, to me can be character building but also confidence
builders because he wasn't playing his best and then he stepped up and hit the
biggest shot of the game. How do you view PG. Thirteen Because he
has struggled as of late since coming back from the foot injury, but that
was a big time shot in the big spot for him. I thought tonight
absolutely Mkudgrass for the evening and listen, I mean, confidence can be fragile
even with four hundred and fifty of the top players in the world. And
not to mention Paul George an All Star, but my perspective is this that,
yeah, there must be lingering effects of this foot injury, and he
is a veteran mature enough to recognize that all that talk, that's just noise.
You've got to ignore it. Play through it hope that you stay healthy
and continue to play your game and focus collectively. So again, there are
things that the Clippers certainly need to work on and continue to focus on without
a doubt, individually and collectively. And you've got to stay, stay humble,
and stay hungry because this league will do that to you. Clippers right
in the middle now eight of nine on the road. Of course, they
had lost four or five coming into this one. This has got to be
a turning point after the ignominious loss that they had in December against Dallas.
Funny they can turn the page to night against them, and then of course
the ignominious lost last night in the Walls. Yeah, hopefully Paul George can
build off that shot and the Clippers can build off this victory tonight. They
win by ten with a final score of one o nine to ninety nine in
Dallas over Luca down hitch in the Mavericks. He is Bill Horrenda again.
Follow him on Twitter at Bill h r E n DA Bill. We'll talk
soon, my friend, Happy march madness right right backus coming up next.
We'll take a quick break here. We'll get to your phone calls to close
things out. CJ. Mits. Jeff Tagis will get to you somebody else,
going on to highlight and underscore his performers a little bit before we break
here, before I forget Reggie Jackson was really good again coming off eighteen points
last night, even though the Clippers didn't play well. I thought he was
good. In the starting lineup without Patrick Beverley, Tonight led them in the
plus minus, was a plus twenty two, had seven crucial points in that
third quarter, and was playing downhill with some acrobatic layups that he got to
fall and had three assists. People always talk about the lack of a more
traditional point guard, and I'm not saying Reggie Jackson has always been that,
but he is a solid playmaker and he is someone that can cure what ails
them in some ways. Was getting downhill and getting out and transition. More
Clippers had eighteen fast break points Dallas just fourteen. Clippers win by ten.
More Clippers talk coming up next year. On a five seventy LA Sports floating
with the right hand well short and the rebound goes to Morris up ahead for
George of the leak out here it comes down the left Dalis site stepped past
Leiba no foul at the rim rebound by Leonard. He put it in plus
the foul and add one for the claw to extend the Clippers lead and give
him twenty one to night. That is all hustle, all hard from the
board man getting paid in Dallas, Kawhi Leonard with a massive clutch bucket down
the stretch. Noah Ego on the call. Biggest rebounds of the game came
from Kawhi Leonard. There that offensive board and the Clippers out rebounded the Dallas
Mavericks by thirteen. In the ball game, they had five more offensive rebounds,
including that one. They win by ten. They run it back against
Dallas Wednesday, still in Dallas. Tip time is at six thirty. We'll
have your Clippers pregame show starting right here at five thirty. Welcome back into
Clippers Talk. I'm at a moslind Okay, here we go, CJ and
Alhambra. You're on Clippers stop with Autam Maslin. Thanks for calling. Hey,
Adam. First of all, big props to you, buddy. During
the pregame, you called out Morris to be the guy to shine and you
called it. You called it. He knew, he knew you had money
on it. I guess broken clock is right twice a day, CJ.
But however, big props to me CJ from Alhambro because prior to the All
Star break after the Washington game, I called in and I really felt that
that Zubos really needs to get into the starting five and if it's going to
be a tandem with Surge to make the Zubaka tandem, or even with Morris
and do the zoorris Uh, it's needed for Zoobots to be at the five.
And we also showed that this puts Patum coming off the bench where he
excelled tonight. He really came through along with Jackson and you know with PJ
or I'm sorry. PG thirteen Slumping Kawai had a good game, maybe not
one of his best, but really put the defensive vices in the fourth quarter,
which which is also encouraging. I thought. Defensively he was spectacular CJ.
He had that steal on Luca Donchis where he poked the ball away.
He was everywhere out there. He was omnipresent Kauai, and it carried over
to mister Sweet Lou who got two big steals in the fourth and two really
needed buckets from from the tray. So I think we are addressing some of
our issues. We're ten days away from the trade deadline, and instead of
having like a knee jerk reaction, let's just kind of play up these the
good wine ups again a little bit more, and I think again going forward
with Zoo up to five. This is what works. This is what really
works, man, all right, CJ. I appreciate the phone call.
We'll see if that's the direction t lu goes. Viza Zubos did play thirty
five minutes without search of bucket tonight and he looked fresh down the stretch,
which was critical. And he didn't get into foul trouble either. He had
just one after struggling in that area, especially in the first half. He
had three fouls yesterday in the first half against New Orleans. Viza Zubots has
untapped potential. He is really one of the more underrated players in this league,
and I do think can be a force for this team whether or not
he's starting or coming off the bench. But you just knew Nicholas Batum.
He's going to fit in wherever you need him to complete team. Guy just
wants to keep this thing going. He had seven boards himself. Let's go
to Tagis and well that Tagu. What's up? You're on Clippers styth without
of Maslin. How are you, hey, Adam. I think before the
season started, I think this is been the starting lineup that we kind of
anticipated. I think we thought maybe a Bocca would come on with the bench
with Pat beb Yeah, yeah, exactly, and I know he thtretches the
Flora Bucca, but I think going back to last year, I feel like
zoo Bug plays his best with Kauai and think you saw something with that today.
Kawai was able to feed him, get him some easy dunks, and
I think that gets him going. Well, let me say this real quick,
Tagus. The good thing is even when a Visa zoo Bos doesn't start,
he comes in usually with five minutes left in the first quarter, and
he's been playing late and big minutes in fourth quarters. In fact, when
we were just twenty games into this season, somewhere around there, he already
played more minutes in the fourth quarter just twenty games into this season than he
did all of last season. So you know he's able to finish games off.
And coach t lou does like to ride the hot hand and does trust
him late and you gotta love that. No, that's a good point,
that's true. I think also, I wasn't very impressed in the last four
minutes of their offense today. I think other than Paul george last second shot,
I think the only basket they really got was a Kauie offensive rebound.
I don't think they were able to score in between on set possessions. Is
that correct? Yeah, they had six points in the last two minutes.
But on the other hand, their defense completely locked up Dallas. They didn't
score in the last three minutes. The defense was great, I think.
No, I don't know. I think was Lou Williams in the in the
game in the last two three minutes, because I do feel like that's a
a bit of a problem because quite often he's not on the floor, and
going back for years now, he's been one of their clutch players. And
I know there's a offensive defensive rotation, but I think something. I think
today they had Reggie Jackson in there. Reggie wasn't there the last two minutes
of the game. I don't know if that was by designer, just because
Lou Williams came in at the end of the third quarter and played I think
about fifteen straight minutes then, right. It was great that Paul George stayed
aggressive and he took that last shot, but that's the same kind of shot
that he took in Milwaukee, and he was criticized, as you know,
in him and quiet that they were playing hero ball taking less second shots.
I would like them to see more getting those set plays when the defense is
set, the posing defensive set, and they're able to score. I think
there's really critical going down the line. The only step played that they really
have is posting up Kawai, which I think is great, But even then
when he passes out, they're not getting clean looks like that they should be
getting. And I think they just need a lot more reps in that,
and I hope they play a lot more close games, which will pay dividends
in the playoffs. I'm with you to a just a great phone call.
I think these type of victories, when you have to face adversity like this,
when you're playing a good team on the road and you're in a tight
game down the stretch, they most definitely can be confidence builders and something you
keep in the back of your mind moving forward. So tonight step in the
right direction. They can still be better offensively down the stretch, but they
were unbelievable on defense against a potent Dallas Mavericks offense. Mitch in New Jersey,
what's up? You're on Clipper stop without a Muslin. I's going to
a good game, good show. Und from their sense games usually knowly Houston
zions it's point guarding. It's like a bull going. I ain't even gonna
wear them dyeing and we would like the matter was, he was just unstoppable.
He was just general. Anyway, I love the lineup. I hope
to be permanent, and I saw true they truth to this. The Clippers
like interest in Hill. I don't think the Hill. I think he's he's
pass's fine. I was get a training by the Hill in my book,
I hope not match. I appreciate the phone call. I think you're talking
about George Hill, who's been a really solid player, a veteran. We
have heard his name being brought up before U and look, he's had a
lot of playoff experience in his career. And I trust this Clippers front office
completely and whatever move they made, considering the stuff they've done over the last
couple of years. You got to have a lot of confidence and they're making
the right move. Uh final call the night. Who else could it be?
Jeff in Tarzana, Jeff, how are you well? Adam? You
know what, I was so embarrassed last night after that game. Giving up
one hundred and thirty five points to a mediocre New Orleans team is ridiculous.
And you know Dallas is better than New Orleans. They shouldn't ever give up
that many points. You know, you score one hundred and fifteen points in
the game like the Clippers did, this should win the game. That's got
to be one of the worst performances they've had all year, except for when
they lost by fifty one. But I like the idea of the Clippers points
in the paint. That's where zubecks dos strength us. And I was wondering,
with all the buyouts and everything, do you think there's any possibility of
the Clippers getting Lane Alrich, You know, if they're not gonna if they're
not going to get Andre Andre Andre I'm losing his last name here for Cleveland,
Andre Draummond. I would think one other guy would be really good.
Lino Outage can still play, so I would think that'd be really good.
And I was wondering what your opinion was about, Jeff, thank you for
the phone call. I like LaMarcus Aldridge. I don't know if he's a
need, though, I don't know if I want him taking away many minutes
from Zubots or Sergebaca. At this point in his career, he's thirty five.
He was getting thirteen and five this season and just twenty five minutes a
night. But he's been beat up a little bit. He hasn't played as
much and just doesn't fit in anymore with more of a youth movement going on
there in San Antonio. So there's going to be that mutual parting of ways.
But I would think they will be able to get something for him and
not have to just buy him out. Same with Cleveland and Andre Drummond.
I don't see how they don't get at least a second round pick, which
is I think what they used to get him initially. We'll see. Trade
deadline is ten days away. Clippers. Though they win by ten in Dallas
with a final score one on nine to ninety nine, they run it back
against the Mavericks that's coming up. On Wednesday. Tip time will be at
six thirty. We'll have Clippers countdown for you at five thirty. Before we
get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization, Noah
Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph lawlor get Well, big brother Jake. I'm
back here in the bank, Zach Elcaldy, Zach, thank you a great
job as always until Wednesday with your Clippers countdown shows starting at five thirty.
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