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Breaking down today's action with the pre
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LA Clippers, They're locking in every
game, every night. Adam Osland,

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the Clippers went in Detroit as they
come back down fourteen early to win by

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a final score of one thirty six
to one twenty five over the Pistons.

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Welcome into your postgame show. I'm
Adam Oslin, coming up on a M.

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Five to seventy LA Sports. We'll
have Clippers stock for you if you'd

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like to get on early eight six
six nine, eight seven two five seventy

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eight six sixty nine eight seven two
five seventy. But first back out to

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Little Caesars Arena with your radio voice
of the Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo.

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Another victory for the Clippers, a
comeback in this case, down fourteen

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as I mentioned early on, but
you really saw this team start to flex

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their mond muscles at the end of
the second quarter and they were closing out

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quarters afterwards. Yeah, they were
excellent at the end of the first half

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atam, excellent at the end of
the third quarter, and finished strong in

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this one. It was a great
win for the Clippers. Maybe a little

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closer than they would have liked it, but hey, you got it done

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against the Detroit team that's been playing
a lot better at basketball as of late.

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They've flung three of their last ten. So for the Clippers of good

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Win, you handled business and that's
what you gotta do. Adham, stand

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on business. That's what the Clippers
did tonight. Kawhi Leonard with thirty three

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points. Business has been good for
the claw over his last twenty seven games.

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Now, he's getting twenty six points
on almost fifty eight percent shooting and

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fifty one percent shooting from three.
The Clippers have only lost four games during

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this stretch where he has been untouchable
and at one point hit three straight three

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pointers and with six of six from
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here, Carlo, I mean,
and the impressive part at him is it's

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like none of these shots he's take. I hope we're describing this on the

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radio for you. They're not easy
looks like he's not wide open the yep

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three. You don't hear me say
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Kawhi Leonard because he's never there's always
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it never seems to matter. Tough
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Kawhi Leonard all night long. Thirty
three points, six freight from distance tied

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US one under his season high of
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excellent in this one. The Clippers
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while George and Harden were struggling for
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up in this game. Yeah,
it was good to see Paul George really

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find his shot in that fourth quarter. He hit some timely ones, had

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ten of his eighteen and just twenty
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I thought, overall, a pretty
darn good performance, especially seven assists,

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zero turnovers. Yeah, I mean, he was the thing about this

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Clipper team, Adam is all these
players can affect the game in so many

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more ways than scoring the basketball.
Thirty one assists the Clippers now ten to

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zero when they have thirty assists or
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George has three of those plus one
of the clippers five blocks. Daniel

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Tice was the team leader in that
stat line with two. There was so

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many guys that make so much impact
without scoring the basketball, which I think

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is huge for this Clipper team because
they're not gonna have an off night where

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oh, well, we head to
the postgame show we just say, yeah,

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the Clippers just didn't shoot it well, because the team is able to

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find ways to win when they're not
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And you see it with George,
the effort is still there defensively and

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finding his teammates offensively. Mention.
Now, the Clippers were down fourteen early

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on. This game really turned when
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And congrats to us who got to
twenty five thousand points for his career.

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It's a testament to the type of
player he has been. An all round

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player, but a fantastic score and
he continues to stay in shape and stay

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on the grind and perform at an
all time level now with the Clippers.

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Yeah, I don't know what kind
of water he drinks, but I want

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some please. That guy has energy
four days. I mean he needed twenty

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three points to get to his mark, and I believe at him at halftime

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he was sitting at ten, so
to get thirteen in the second half,

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nine assists, three rebounds on ten
for thirteen. This might be Russell Westbrook's

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best performance off the bench this season
when you think about the way he turned

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the tide for the Clippers in this
one from down fourteen to up six at

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half time. And it was a
really big thanks to Russell Westbrook, who

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had a historic club. I mean, how many clubs is russ a part

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of Adham that have less than twenty
five NBA players in them. I mean,

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you think about the history this guy
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and years, decades and decades.
When you compare future NBA stars and when

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they go on big runs, you
know how you see Wilt Chamberlain's name next

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to almost every record book. If
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Russell Westbrook just because of the things
he has done that almost no one else

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has been able to do in the
NBA, no doubt, and was pivotal

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for the Clippers again helping turn this
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They go on to win one thirty
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over the Pistons. Clippers got a
back to back to finish off this road

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trip. Sunday, they'll be in
Miami. Tip off for that one's AD

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three. We'll have your pregame show
starting right back here at two. Carlo

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Jimenez, great call is always safe
travels. We'll talk to you on Sunday.

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Talk to you Sunday, Adam two
more and the Clippers are headed back

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home. Let's come home with some
smiles, huh, no doubt. Clippers

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get the victory over the Pistons and
we got second half highlights next right here

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on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. LA Clippers Basketball is on the two

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one three Era continues. You're listening
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and thirteen and eleven on the road, the best road team since December first.

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Welcome back into your postgame show.
I'm at a moslind Clippers win one

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thirty six to one twenty five in
Detroit over the Pistons. Coming up.

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We'll get to your final box score, but right now, second half highlights

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was just a six point game of
the half. Clippers led sixty five to

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fifty nine after a late surge in
that second quarter thanks to three straight three

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pointers from Kawhi Leonard, and he
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right wing three flash. Kawhi Leonard's
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the left wing pocket pass plumbly in
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wing three cut X Kawhi Leonard six
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Tonight steps through one a double teams
fine to shoot. Clipper's gotta get busy

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with four. Leonard's gonna fade and
fire buriots. He's unfazed, unbothered,

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and unstoppable. Lender's got twenty nine
bulldozes the paint, fades and fires off

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the front of the rim and in
thirty one for the claw. Kawhi Leonard

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with ten more points than the third
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But before that third quarter was over, the Clippers went on a run.

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And it wasn't just Kawhi Leonard,
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he would get things started earlier.
In this one, norm Sripple's right hand

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on the left edge steps back a
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With point nine on the clock,
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Half court heat from Thompson is wide
right and the Clippers take a eleven point

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advantage into the break one a one
ninety. Clippers up by eleven, as

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Carlos said there in the fourth quarter, but the Detroit Pistons were not going

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away, so two point three came
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George, after missing the game on
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the closer for the Clippers tonight.
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George pulls up from fifteen yo.
Yeah, PG knocks it in George

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at the top. He's up the
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leap muscles through. George in the
front court, bounced past Westbrook on the

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edge of history, takes the baseline
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Splash, PG diling from long distance. Paul George with ten points on

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the fourth quarter. You heard that
call though from Carlo talking about Russell Westbrook

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and before this game was over a
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little, I mean a lot.
Cunningham's been ry jumpers off the back round.

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Here comes Westbrook. He's on his
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There's history for Russell Westbrook, twenty
five thousand career points. He becomes

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the twenty fifth player in NBA history
to do so. Russell Westbrook finished with

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twenty three points off the bench on
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would finish off the Detroit Pistons.
They win one, twenty five, make

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it one thirty six to one.
Twenty five in Detroit is a led by

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as many as twenty after being down
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Clippers just continue to keep the good
vibes going. They are now four

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and one on this Grammy road trip
with two games left. It's a back

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to back starting in Miami on Sunday. More on that coming up, plus

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your final box score right here on
your Clippers Locker Room Show. I'm at

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a Maslin and you're listening to the
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Clippers on the LA Clippers Audio Network. Clippers were down fourteen, they led

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by as many as twenty. They
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one twenty five in Detroit over the
Pistons. Welcome back in I'm at a

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Moslin. This is your Clippers postgame
locker room show. Coming up next on

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We'll have Clippers Talk eight six six nine

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eight seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is

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the phone number you can also get
to me. I follow Adam a on

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Twitter. After the Clippers end up
shooting sixty percent from the field. After

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a slow start, there were just
two of seven from three in the first

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quarter. They end up fourteen to
twenty nine. That's almost fifty percent from

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distance. Detroit Pistons shot it really
well, not just from distance either from

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the field. They weren't fifty one
percent. They went seventeen to forty from

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distance. Boyan boy Danovitch started four
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say this Pistons team. Look,
I know Boyan could be in trade rumors.

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They have the worst record in the
league, but they knocked down some

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tough looks Clippers offensively. Yeah,
they have to be better, but this

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is what happens on long road trips. This is what happens when you have

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this much talent. Sometimes you play
down to your opposition. But I think

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also Detroit, tip your cap to
him. They played well outside of those

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seventeen turnovers where the Clippers converted that
into twenty five points. Once again,

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the Clippers getting into the paint like
Pollock fifty eight points in the paint,

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Pistons just forty two, Clippers,
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Clippers sixteen fast break points, the
Pistons just eight, leading your Los

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Angeles Clippers per usual. Kawhi Leonard
had thirty three on twelve of seventeen,

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shooting six of eight from distance after
he started six of six from three,

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deadly accurate as he has been the
last twenty seven games. Mason Plumbley a

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player to watch, twelve and nine, five of seven shooting. I thought

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off the bench, Russell Westbrook was
fantastic and turned this gamer for the Clippers

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when they were down early in that
first quarter double digits. He ends up

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with twenty three, ten of thirteen
shooting, was making his layups plus had

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oh I don't know, nine assists
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James Harden had just six assists,
still just one turnover, but was one

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of ten from the field. Didn't
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the slack and the starting lineup with
his seven assists and then Russ off the

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bench with nine PG. Thirteen was
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hit eight of his sixteen shots.
I should say eighteen points is what he

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ended up with plus those seven assists
to zero turnovers. Love seeing that from

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Paul George. Also off the bench, Norman Palell, king of the fourth,

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hit a huge momentum shot to end
the third quarter. He finished with

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fifteen points, six for eleven from
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Clippers win one thirty six to one
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We were leaving you until Sunday.
Clippers in Miami taking on the heat.

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home For the Clippers, they were
in attack mode, Adam Osley. Everybody

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in the three one three put your
hands up for two one three as Paul

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George returns and the Clippers win one
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over the Pistons. I'm an Am
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Eight six six nine, eight seven, two fives seventy eighty six six ninety

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seven two five seventy is the phone
number coming up. We're gonna have Will

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Updyke gone from Clips and Dip.
You'll hear from Russell Westbrook and your head

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coach, Interhron lou Is. The
Clippers improved to thirty two and fifteen on

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the season, as Kawhi Leonard had
thirty three points and of fishing thirty three

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on twelve of seventeen shooting and right
now, this Clippers team has won twenty

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nine of their last thirty seven games, twenty four of their last twenty nine

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since December, and fifteen of their
last eighteen on real best stretch of regular

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season Clippers basketball in the history of
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to see him getting down by fourteen
early on. They came out lacks of

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days ago. But then Russell Westbrook
after the ball game and does what he

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does best, bring energy. And
oh, by the way, I put

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a tweet out just yesterday talking about
his struggles in January at the rim,

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missing too many bunnies, when after
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the season he was shooting sixty percent
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in January he was just at fifty
three percent. And when he misses going

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that fast, that's a live ball
turnover for a team that doesn't have great

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transition defense. Well, in the
first game of February for US ten to

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thirteen from the field, twenty three
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plus a couple of three pointers,
and oh yeah, reaches twenty five thousand

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points for his career. Congratulations to
Russell Westbrook not just a rebounder, not

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just a great playmaker, a great
all round player, Top seventy five player

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of all time, and became just
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reach twenty five thousand points and does
so in a win for this Clippers team

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where at one point there was a
thirty four point turnaround. Down fourteen early,

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up twenty late, and they win
by eleven in Detroit, as Kawhi

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Leonard had thirty three points and Paul
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fourth hit some really pivotal shots.
First it was Norn Pale knocking down a

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three pointer to put the Clippers up
eleven heading into the fourth quarter. Then

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he knocked down a three pointer to
start the fourth quarter. There was a

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mirror steal in dunk, a Russ
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a lob to Russ from James Harden
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going away. They had a hot
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four from the outside. He ended
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a game, had twenty six nine
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Ib you with twenty eight. I
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then Paul George had a really big
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game. Daniel tye Is steal to
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reverse layup, a PG three,
then put them up by fourteen. Then

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a steal to Kawhi for a dunk
his only points on the fourth. Clippers

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were up sixteen. They still weren't
going away. I think they got it

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down to ten or twelve, and
then finally a Plumbley layup, a PG

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layup, and then that Russ layup
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and the Clippers would go on to
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Pistons. They'll close things out on
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four and one, with a back
to back Sunday in Miami and then Saturday,

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I mean Sunday in Miami, no
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early one in the atl take on
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two five seventy eight six six ninety
seven two five seventy is the phone number

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I want to get something that's been
on my mind for some time now.

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Been a little bit irked, peeved, vexed, annoyed, mostly with the

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national media because Kawhi Leonard, a
top seventy five player of all time who's

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having his best regular season ever,
for whatever reason, has not been included

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in the MVP conversation. I don't
know how that's possible when you have a

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team that's rising up the Western Conference
and now just a game and a half

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back of the number one overall seed
in the Minnesota Timberwolves, number one seed

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in the West. I should say
I think the Celtics, even after last

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night, still have the best record
in the NBA. But here's the numbers

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from Kawhi over the last twenty seven
games he has played, and he has

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only missed four. He's averaging twenty
six points while shooting fifty seven point seven

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percent from the field and fifty point
seven percent from three while being double teamed

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often. The Clippers have lost just
four games over this stretch. He's doing

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all that offensively while giving you elite
defense. The on off numbers with Kawhi

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Leonard on the floor are insane.
Defensively, the Clippers are about ten points

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better per one hundred possessions defensively when
he's out there, They're a completely different

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team defensively without him. He's been
that good on both ends, and it's

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being slept on it is. How
do I know? You look at odds

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makers on the most popular betting sides, let me know if Kawhi Leonard is

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even on there. When it comes
to futures in MVP voting, He's not

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top five, He's not top ten
on some sites. That is wild.

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Again, a top seventy five player
ever, having his best regular season ever,

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has only missed four games and isn't
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that possible? The national media is
more than just dropping the ball. This

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is egregious. This is just being
DERELICTI of your duties, Like have you

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watched the Clippers? Have you watched
what Kawhi Leonard's doing. This isn't about

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games missed in the past. It
is about voting for the twenty twenty three

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twenty twenty four MVP. That's all
that should be taken into account, and

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therefore Kawhi Leonard has to be in
the discussion or else. Nobody should be

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because he's been playing not like a
top five player, a top two player

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before MBID went down. Hopefully he
comes back. Okay, off the tornmniscus.

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It was him and Kawhi by far
affecting the game, impacting the game,

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putting up the big numbers, getting
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Yeah, Jokic is in there.
Giannis is in there. Although I

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mean a coach gets let go and
there are bottom ten defense, I don't

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know how high he should be in
there. You want to talk about Luka

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Dancic his Gotti numbers. Okay,
they're a playing team. That's where they

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stand right now. I'll put Sga
at the top. He's been that good

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for a team that has been a
top two seed throughout most of the season

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in the West. Kevin Durant,
he has the numbers. They are also

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on the verge of being a playing
team. They've been hotter recently, but

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they got off to a very slow
start. They just started to turn the

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corner. What are we doing here? It's Kawhi Leonard. The only knock

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on him has been availability. He
has missed four games. That's it.

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He is well within being in that
range, you have to play at least

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sixty five games to be considered he's
there. Maybe that changes at some point,

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but until it does, you better
start talking about him now. The

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good news is Kawhi doesn't give a
damn about the MVP, at least the

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regular season one. That's what makes
this even more impressive to me. We

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already know that he has another level
to get to in the playoffs, and

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he's been this good. He's a
playoff riser. He is not just one

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of the best players of his generation
in a seven game series, he is

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one of the top ten best playoff
performers easily in NBA history, and has

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the hard ware to prove it and
some amazing carry jobs like that Game seven

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for Toronto with the game winning Plinko
chip bucket fading away over Joe l Embid.

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But can I stick up for him? Can clip a Nation asked to

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make a little bit of noise nationally
from the media, the people who all

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said it wasn't gonna work with James
Harden and the Clippers should blow it up

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and coach lou should leave the team. Stephen A said that can they pull

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a pretty drastic, fast and furious
U turn and now say, hey,

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you're wrong, we were wrong.
That's okay, but make the apology as

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loud as the disrespect was, as
the kids say, you got a lot

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of airtime and a lot of wind
in your jaws. As my friend Petro

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Spapadekus would say, getting real excited
when the Clippers lost five straight with James

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Harden, well, they've had the
best record in the NBA since then,

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are you acting like it or are
you just moving the goalposts and saying,

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oh, you got shows in the
playoffs? Now? So the regular season

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mattered when they were losing five straight. Now that they've won all these games

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that I just rattled off the record
for you, you're going to the postseason

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with it. That's disingenuine us.
It's not arguing in good faith. It's

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weak. And Kawhi Leonard has been
the driving force for this. Yes,

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James Harden has been Big two,
but the gaudy numbers from Kawhi efficiency wise,

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we're talking about an all time stretch
here in the history of the NBA.

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I don't know if you can find
a better stretch of a guy for

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twenty seven games straight shooting almost sixty
percent from the field, and fifty percent

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from three. Let me know,
I know MJ wasn't doing it because he

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wasn't shooting that good or that good
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different game back then, I understand
Steph Curry Kevin Durant maybe the only other

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two guys to touch these heights in
a regular season efficiency wise. But then

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you take into account the defense.
Kawhi Leonard's all world there. He's the

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gold standard wing of his era,
and he's still doing it all at thirty

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two when they beat Denver after losing
eighth straight to them. Going back years,

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the way he disrupted the pick and
roll with Jokic and Jamal Murray was

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special. I've never seen anyone else
do it like that. He and Big

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Zoo, who they're still missing right
now, just wrecked it. The best

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pick and roll combo in the league. And while that was Kawhi that he

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guards Steph Curry lay in the ball
game can't even get a shot off on

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him. He's guarding everyone's best player
when it matters most. Should defense not

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be taken into account If you want
to say, well, he's only scoring

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twenty six points during this stretch of
shooting fifty eight percent from the field and

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fifty one percent from three, if
I get it right, in twenty seven

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games, so he's always scoring twenty
six points. Yeah, well, in

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ten of these games he hasn't even
had to play in the fourth quarter.

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That's what happens when you dominate teams
and blow them out. And I believe

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the Clippers have the most games this
season of a team leading by twenty or

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more. Don't faul him for that. That's how you load manage. You

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destroy teams, You dismantle them,
you pick them apart. And the Clippers

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did so again in the second half
after only leading by six. But they

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wouldn't have even been up by six
if Kawhi doesn't have three straight three pointers

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in that second quarter where they closed
out the half strong, and then he

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has ten more points after ever in
twenty one at the half in the third,

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I only needed two from him in
the fourth. Got a little bit

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too close for comfort, but they
handle business okay. So just lost in

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Detroit. If you want to come
at me and say, well, we

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need some more style points, it's
a seven game road trip. This is

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game one of another three and four. It's not that easy. There's another

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team out there containing twelve of the
or fifteen now of the four hundred and

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fifty best players in the world.
Boy on Bogdanovic. If they want to

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trade him, they're gonna get a
lot for him. Kay Cunningham played well,

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Ivy. Yeah, they're the worst
team in the league. They lost

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twenty eighth straight. That's an all
time dubious historical record, tying the Philadelphia

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seventy six ers when they were in
trust the process mode. But on any

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given night, did you not watch
what happened to the Boston Celtics losing to

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a Lakers team without Lebron and AD. It's hard to win in this league.

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I want more style points too.
But they did lead by twenty after

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being down fourteen? Did you ever
feel like they were going to lose the

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game even when they were down fourteen? I put out a hashtag comeback clips.

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It was the first quarter modern NBA. I mean, that's like a

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five point lead. It's nothing.
Clippers win big one thirty six to one

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twenty five after leading by twenty in
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let's pause ten seconds for station and
edification. Here on a five seventy LS

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and iHeartRadio station. Let's start things off

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with Javier and Lehabra heights. Xavier, your on Clipper stop without Amazon?

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What's up bad? I'm think you
were taking my call again. Before I

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get into it with Kauhi, I'll
start with Paul George. He was with

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eight out of sixteen and you did
mention earlier. I saw the stats.

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Yet zero's turnovers. That's what we
need from put George, you know,

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be efficient and I turn the ball
over. Next thing. Kawhi Adam would

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he shoot twelve out of seventeen by
do the map, that's what's seventy percent?

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I mean he makes six out of
eighty three pointers. I mean those

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are be Smode numbers. He's looking
crew defenders right now, Javier, he

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doesn't even see them. They're just
translucent. It's amazing, Guys, these

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weren't easy shots. These weren't open
looks. Guys that are handed in his

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face doesn't matter, no. Yeah. And then to top that, all

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of he has zero turnovers in thirty
what thirty two minutes? Zero turnovers.

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I mean that's I'm telling you.
Those are be smote numbers right there.

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I mean, yeah, you can
have somebody scored fifty fifty points. That

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doesn't mean they're efficient. And you
mentioned earlier, I mean he's only averaging

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whatever he is, what twenty seven
to twenty eight, But he's been efficient.

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I mean that's what you want,
so you know. And also you're

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talking about him, I guess national
media not gain consideration for the MVP.

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And I think you brought it up
is because his injured history, you know,

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like you say, should you know
that those are years before? But

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this year he's doing what miss four
games? But that's why I think that's

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why they're not mentioning him. But
at the end of the day, if

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the Clippers do finish on the number
one seed, if he do finish the

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get the number one seed, I
guarantee you at him, he's gonna get

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some votes and he should win the
MVP. And all I'm saying is I'm

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gonna get ahead of it now.
I'm not gonna wait. I don't need

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to see much more to know he
should be in the conversation. That's my

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point, Like, why do we
need to wait until game seventy. Other

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guys are getting talked about for MVP. Why isn' kawhi Yeah, I know,

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no it is. I mean you
could think you brought it up so

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hopefully people could you pay attention and
like I said, work there profensial.

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You know, we see it.
Maybe don't the games start laying they don't

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see him, but they're gonna they're
gonna notice him. Just watch after like

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you said, they don't have to
wait that, you know, game number

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seventy. But he'll get some votes. So that's it. Thank you for

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taking them accn We'll talk to you
on Sunday and let's go get the heat.

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Thank you, Thank you AVI here. I just I don't like the

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he'll get some votes. I know
that's not how hobby or meant it,

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but I feel like a lot of
people right now. Yeah, he'll get

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he'll get some consideration eventually if he
stays healthy. It's like, no,

404
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:47.480
it's happening now. Enjoy and appreciate
what a guy is doing now over a

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thirty game stretch in all time stretch
for one of the best players in the

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NBA when he's been healthy, a
top seventy five player ever and He's been

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healthy this season, so give him
love. Why are there ten guys in

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00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:08.680
front of him as I'm looking at
MVP odds on different different betting sites.

409
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:15.480
That is ridiculous. How sway?
All right, let's take a quick time

410
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:23.240
out here. I'm gonna get off
my high horse or bully pulpit or whatever.

411
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.160
I just want people to appreciate what
they're seeing right now because it's not

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gonna happen very often in NBA history, may never happen again in a Clippers

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00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:42.319
uniform. This is all time stuff. What Kawhi Leonard's doing? Clippers win

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in Detroit one thirty six, one
twenty five. Back to your phone calls

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next year on Clippers Talk on seventy
LA Sports. LA Clippers Basketball is on

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the two one three Era continues.
You're listening to the LA Clippers on the

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LA Clippers Audio network. I'm coming
for the neck of the national media.

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I guess I'm at it. The
Clippers have won twenty nine of the last

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thirty seven games. Maybe start thinking
about putting Kawhi Leonard in the MVP conversation.

420
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.760
I know he doesn't care. He
just wants to Larry o B.

421
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.559
We could still make some positive noise
for him on his behalf and Clipper Nation.

422
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:29.039
I know loves watching what he's been
able to do, the mid range

423
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:36.280
mastery, but the three point marksman
he's become. He's the only guy I've

424
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:42.320
seen have significant injuries and come back
and just look better than ever. It

425
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.360
goes back to the last three months
before he tore the meniscus last season,

426
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when he was putting up fifty three
forty seven eighty nine splits. Last twenty

427
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:57.639
seven games, Kawhi is at fifty
eight percent from the field and fifty one

428
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:04.199
percent from three have lost just four
of those games. It's incredible. Welcome

429
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.960
back into Clipperstock. I'm at a
Mosland eight six six nine eight seven two

430
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:13.199
five seventy is the phone number.
Also incredible, Russell Westbrook getting to twenty

431
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:17.480
five thousand career points in this game
with a layup late, and here he

432
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:22.000
was postgame on Ballet Sports speaking with
Christina pink. I don't know if everybody

433
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.000
at home can see this, but
someone's got the game ball in their hand.

434
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:31.440
Twenty five thousand career points for you. Your teammates were excited, But

435
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:36.159
Russ, what does that say about
the career you've had Oh. I mean,

436
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.119
first and foremost, it's like to
give thanks to government for allowing me

437
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:43.320
to be able to just play the
game I love and be grateful for that.

438
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:45.679
And it's a blessing. Man.
I don't take any day, any

439
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:50.840
night for granted. Grateful to better
play a game of basketball and better use

440
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:53.519
my platform and be able to share
an impact and aspire other people. Man.

441
00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:58.400
And I'm super grateful to be a
kit continue playing and gay for tonight's

442
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.960
home. What does it mean all
the love that your teammates gave you when

443
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:04.960
you headed over to the bench.
I mean, it's amazing, man.

444
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:07.480
It's a fun group. We got
a good group of guys that we all

445
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.679
hang out, we all have fun. Oliver us from hometown and and just

446
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:16.039
see all the love and support here
from the coaches, from my teammates.

447
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:20.599
I'm truly truly grateful for that.
Still doing it big in year sixteen.

448
00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:22.519
Thank you so much, Rick,
thank you, Thank you. NOA Jordan's

449
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:27.199
guy. Hi, Wifey, Hello, Mom, Dad, Ray, Love

450
00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.639
y'all. Appreciate y'all. He's a
family man off the court, a bad

451
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:37.199
man on it. Russell Westbrook their
post game after he crosses twenty five thousand

452
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:43.360
career points with a milestone, just
the twenty fifth player in NBA history to

453
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:47.039
accomplish such a feat. Eric in
Hollywood, Eric, you're on Clipper Stop

454
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:54.639
without a MAUSM. What's up?
You? Clear your throat? Eric Keith

455
00:36:54.719 --> 00:37:01.800
in La You're on Clipper Stop without
a mauson. Hello there, hi keys,

456
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:06.320
What did you think of the ball
game? Oh? Oh you recognized

457
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:08.639
with me? Adam? How you
doing? I got you? I got

458
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:14.639
you. You were my favorite call
in the last month, you know.

459
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:16.519
And I meant that like I didn't
get a chance to call you regarding the

460
00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:21.119
Celtics victory and all that. But
we have been waiting, as you know,

461
00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:22.840
I got to say it, Bro, been waiting since the mid eighties.

462
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:25.559
Bro. In a way, I
lost my point, Adam, because

463
00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:30.239
you made such a salient point,
Bro. And but again, true Clipper

464
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:35.039
fans are kind of used to the
aterism because you know, it's we're in

465
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:38.239
the shadow of another great team.
And I really mean that, not you

466
00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:45.280
know, but it's true, not
a great team right now. But hey,

467
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:49.719
they got a big victory last night. Well I'm a bee sweet at

468
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.599
him, you know what I'm saying. Wait, I mean but nonetheless,

469
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:55.400
what the Clippers are doing this year. It's phenomenal. And I'll just say

470
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:58.599
a couple of things, man,
you know, but number one, my

471
00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:02.519
Clippers are something else when they're and
they are playing d Remember I fell in

472
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:07.119
love with the Clippers because of a
Norman Norman Nixon. There's another Norman brother.

473
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:10.079
We got another storm in Norman.
Do you hear me, brother,

474
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:17.800
Adam Man, I'm telling you Norman
Powell is just I'm gonna say this if

475
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:22.360
I don't say anything else. I
think it's on the table. I don't

476
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.159
think I'm gonna of course, we'll
tighten down the nuts and bolts after the

477
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:30.400
All Star break, but Clipper Nation, I think it's on the table this

478
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:34.159
year. I yield the mic,
I layd my blade. What do you

479
00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:40.000
say, Adam Keith, you're not
lying. It has to be when you

480
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:45.320
have this level of talent like they've
never had before. People are starting to

481
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:47.239
bring up is this is the best
Clippers team ever? Of course it is

482
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:53.239
talent wise, whether or not they
were able to pull it off and meet

483
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:59.039
that talent with Larry O'Brian trophy,
who knows, you gotta have a lot

484
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:04.960
of luck seeing the team win a
Championship recently because Kevin Durant's foot was a

485
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.639
little bit too big and on the
line. There's some stuff that's out of

486
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:14.920
your control. But the things that
the Clippers can't affect, they've been so

487
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:21.119
much better at this season. This
regular season. They said they were gonna

488
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:24.239
attack it with more of a sense
of urgency, they were gonna take it

489
00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:28.280
more seriously. But then you just
have to have some good luck with injuries,

490
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:34.760
and they've still had. Paul George
missed five games, Kawhi missed two

491
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:38.400
of beats. The Zoobots has missed
a few now, but they've had enough

492
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:45.599
good fortune with Kawhi and Paul George
being able to play. They played the

493
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:50.800
first twenty three games together. That
has been the difference, along with the

494
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:58.239
pickup of James Harden, who just
amplifies what they do and makes life easier

495
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:01.880
for them so that they can perfor
form at the highest level where they can

496
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:06.280
do everything they need to on both
ends of the floor because they have more

497
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:09.480
energy when you don't have to handle
the rock. That's a taxing task,

498
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:15.599
and James Harden and Russell Westbrook take
that off their plate. Let's go to

499
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:23.320
Morrise Long Beach. Morris here on
Clippers sock with Amlson, pleaseer beat the

500
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:36.000
Detroit Piston in ay go to Miami? What a note? Got some glass?

501
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:42.519
Probably just broke some china somewhere.
Morris in Long Beach breaking the tunes

502
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:47.519
is always mentioning the jerzzy youre on
Clipper sock? What's that, Mitch only?

503
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:54.320
I agree? Yeah, he definitely
should be. How about just getting

504
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.239
the conversation at least I'm not even
just saying he has to win the MVP.

505
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.639
He's not even being talked about.
He's not even there. Are there

506
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:09.000
are ten guys betting sites are putting
ahead of Kawhi Leonard Well, some of

507
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:13.840
them are gonna play less than sixty
five And does that take them out of

508
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.400
consideration? Yeah, And it looks
like Joe El Embiid's gonna be out because

509
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:20.960
of that. But and that's unfortunate. I love Mbid, He's one of

510
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:24.280
my favorite non Clippers. Uh he's
going through an injury bug right now with

511
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:31.679
the meniscus. So yeah, there
will be guys who fall out. But

512
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:38.679
my point is when you're this good
over a thirty game span almost half of

513
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:44.719
the season, you probably should get
a little bit more attention when your team

514
00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:49.679
is flying up the standings and you're
putting up god tier basketball numbers like Kawhi

515
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.599
Leonard has been. That's what I'm
saying, match, and we're only and

516
00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:55.639
we're only one and a half games
out of the first seat, and I

517
00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.440
like to play a bench, especially
coffee. I don't see any of you

518
00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:07.960
who just starts trained. Anybody what
good the way we are? All right,

519
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.760
miss, appreciate the phone call.
We'll talk to you on Sunday.

520
00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:13.480
Tags and Walnut Tage just here on
clippers. Off with that, I'm asa

521
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:20.960
hey a permission to lose yourself with
this Kawhi MVP talk because we talked about

522
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.280
this a few days ago. But
because they're in Detroit, you better lose

523
00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:30.480
yourself. Yeah, uh no.
Shout out to Russ for that twenty five

524
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:36.280
thousand mark. You know, sometimes
we see the good and bad in him,

525
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.039
but I mean with him. But
what we don't always bring up is

526
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:45.000
that I don't think they're a better
value contract out there than what we signed

527
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:51.079
Russ for in his sacrifice. So
I think it's just four million year or

528
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:57.440
correct. I love what Russ brings
off the bench in this role, especially

529
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:01.000
in games like today where the Clippers
came out with they were sleepwalking. They

530
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:04.840
were sleeping a little bit like the
media on Kawhi Leonard when it comes to

531
00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:12.119
MVP talk and Russ comes in and
you better keep up or it's gonna be

532
00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:15.559
a mess out there. He forces
you to have to play faster and to

533
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.440
have to play together or else you're
gonna have about fifteen turnovers in five minutes.

534
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.280
So he gets their attention. And
when a guy's playing and moving like

535
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:30.599
that, you know that's your teammate. You're gonna feel like you're not carrying

536
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:35.360
your weight if you're not giving it
your all and playing as hard as Russ.

537
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.719
And I love that intangible about him. Yeah, I agree at him

538
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:44.519
and two other points really quickly.
One, I remember I listened to you

539
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:49.599
on dime Grubber and you guys were
talking about PG. You know, is

540
00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:54.719
catch and shoe PG versus creating PG
A creator PG, and like what's better?

541
00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:58.320
What's the balance? And to me, it's kind of simple. When

542
00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:00.639
James Harden's off the floor, that's
when I want to see him doing it.

543
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:06.519
But when Harden's on the floor,
I think the best Clipper offense is

544
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:10.079
catch and shoot PG. Do you
agree with that? Yeah, I think

545
00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:15.480
I would, because everything has to
be a quick decision. When there's that

546
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:17.280
much talent on the floor or else, it just turns into a lot of

547
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:23.079
isole ball like we first saw when
they got these guys together, and they'll

548
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:28.000
be out of position and there won't
be much rhythm or timing. So I

549
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:30.199
think you're right. It's a very
good point to just and on the season,

550
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:36.039
Paul George now is shooting forty four
percent on catch and shoot three pointers,

551
00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:38.719
so it's down. He wasn't about
forty eight percent. Obviously, dealing

552
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:45.559
with a groin injury, the efficiency
hasn't been as perfect or as close to

553
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:49.719
perfect as we would like, but
he's playing through it right now. I

554
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:52.880
like that He'll take that foot,
Paul George. Eric in Hollywood, Let's

555
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.239
do it again, Eric, what's
up here on clipperstock with that Almasen?

556
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:01.239
WHOA? Sorry about that? Mad, I'm such a knucklehead. You're hearing

557
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:06.360
you. I love what you're talking
about, Kawhi, but I just got

558
00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:08.760
to give it to you straight.
As a basketball fan, I love what

559
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:13.800
the Clippers are doing. I love
what Tyrone's doing, when Lou's doing with

560
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:17.000
the Westbrook and Harden having them buy
in. Those two guys, man,

561
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:20.920
I've been like doing trying to do
their own thing, but now they're kind

562
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.719
of fitting in the beaches of the
puzzle. Kawhi is just balling then and

563
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:29.440
steaming a man. That's a show, dude, what happened, Brover?

564
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:36.440
Here's my problem with guys like that. They do it for the attention They

565
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:40.119
win on the front end by getting
all that attention out of saying stuff like

566
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:46.880
he did when he called for Kawhi
Leonard to retire after last season. So

567
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:52.679
I'm gonna make sure they get the
attention on the back end too. When

568
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:59.960
that take is as freezing cold as
Alaska in the new season of True Tech,

569
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:05.039
which is pretty mediocre too, That's
where I'm coming from. Oh,

570
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:07.760
you want to take advantage with that
hot take, you want to seek all

571
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:12.239
that attention. Okay, Well,
when it doesn't turn out, I'm gonna

572
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:17.320
make sure you look like a damn
fool. Bro He already looks like a

573
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:22.559
fool man. He's got no credibility. He had a KD story where he

574
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.440
said his boys pulled him such and
such, and KD denied the whole thing.

575
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.960
I really don't like Steven Ang.
I mean, good for him.

576
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:32.920
He's making money by just glowing hard
and people are listening to him, and

577
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:36.840
hey, good for him. Eric. What do you think about the game?

578
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:37.880
What did you think about the game? O? Yeah, yeah,

579
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:42.800
yeah, he's playing it. But
shows like this that know about basketball and

580
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:45.800
know about what Kawai's really doing,
great, Hey Kawai. They don't want

581
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:49.920
to talk about him. Hey,
so lot Man, his game will do

582
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:53.920
the talking. I just care about
him hoisting that trophy at the end of

583
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:57.960
the year. That's all I care
about. And one last thing, Man,

584
00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:00.760
and I appreciate the time you're giving
me, is man. I just

585
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:05.039
don't trust Harding Man. I just
hope he stays on board, man,

586
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:09.840
because he looked just like this last
year with the seventy sixers, and something

587
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:15.079
switched and he changed one hundred and
eighty degrees And just how did he change

588
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:19.280
one hundred and eighty degrees? How
did he change one hundred and eighty degrees?

589
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:23.679
He was playing like this last year
with the fixers, playing like this,

590
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.199
don't he got snub for the All
Star and all of a sudden,

591
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:31.119
that's what Eric, Eric, would
it surprise you if I told you.

592
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:36.679
If you look at first half and
second half splits from James Harden last season,

593
00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:40.480
they're almost identical. I know.
Doc Rivers came out and said,

594
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:44.639
oh, it completely changed afterwards.
I love Doc and what he did for

595
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.800
the Clippers, but it just doesn't
line up with the numbers, and it

596
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:52.639
doesn't line up with a guy who
had two forty point games against the Boston

597
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:57.079
Celtics. Well, you know what, then I'll eat my work. Then.

598
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.360
I did not back it up with
that. And yes, I was

599
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:05.320
tainted a little bit with Doc what
Doc said, because I mean I love

600
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:07.079
Doc. I do. I think
he's a great coach. There's a couple

601
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.599
of things that he's done, but
I love the way he knows basketball and

602
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:14.199
the way he talks. So I
believed him when he said what he said.

603
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:15.559
But hey, man, I'll roll
with you. Man, I'm in.

604
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:19.360
I'm in. I'll roll with you. I got you. I'll take

605
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.559
it back. Eric. I appreciate
you, my friend. Let's do it

606
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:27.400
again on Sunday. All right,
absolutely, Man, have a great show,

607
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:30.519
great talk. Keep doing your thing. Man, I love this.

608
00:48:30.719 --> 00:48:32.639
I love this show very much.
All right, thank you, Eric,

609
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:38.000
I appreciate you. I'm not trying
to belabor the point. I just can't

610
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:43.599
believe it's gotten to this degree where
Kawhi is playing at this level and there's

611
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:47.039
just gross negligence going on by the
national media. It's not just hot take

612
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:52.320
artists, it's former players who maybe
have turned into them and Kendrick Perkins.

613
00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:55.480
I don't know if Richard Jefferson has
talked about it much. I'm guessing JJ

614
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.000
Reddick has since he seems to be
on top of modern bath and giving guys

615
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.159
their flowers when they're due, and
that's all I want to see for Kawhi.

616
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:07.800
Leonard just put them in the conversation. Doesn't mean he has to be

617
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:13.360
number one, but he can't be
number ten. He can't be out of

618
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:20.920
the discussion and discourse regarding all the
MVP talk right now. That's just unacceptable

619
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:24.239
in my opinion. Now to what
Eric said, does Kawhi care know?

620
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:30.360
Wouldkawhi even know whether he's being talked
about or not? No, And that's

621
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:34.840
what we love about him. But
we can still point to these positives and

622
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:38.800
just how good he is playing and
make sure others understand what they're watching right

623
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:44.039
now, because this is an all
time performance in a regular season by one

624
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.920
of the greatest players of all time. And yes, it's all going to

625
00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:50.800
come down to the playoffs with this
team, and that's how they'll ultimately be

626
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:52.840
judged. But you can still enjoy
the journey and the little things along the

627
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:57.960
way. And these aren't little things. What he's doing, these shooting splits,

628
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:06.320
this effectiveness, this efficiency is it
is something we may never see again

629
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:09.760
over stretch of games this long.
That's what Kawhi has been up to.

630
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:15.639
All right, quick time out,
come back back to your phone calls eight

631
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six six ninety seven two five seventy
eight six six ninety seven two five to

632
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seventy and will updyke from clips and
dip. He's been on the warpath with

633
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:30.519
me. He's been preaching the good
word extra extra read all about it.

634
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:36.559
Kawhi Leonard shooting fifty eight percent from
the field, fifty one percent from three

635
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last twenty seven games, Clippers winning
in Detroit one thirty six to one twenty

636
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:45.280
seven. I'm Ata Moslin and you're
listening to Clippers socke. You're on the

637
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INFI seventy LA sports LA Clippers basketball
is odd the two one three era continues.

638
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:57.800
You're listening to the LA Clippers on
the LA Clippers Audio Network, Clippers

639
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:00.760
were down fourteen. It's turn things
around. They led by twenty. They

640
00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:05.840
win by eleven in Detroit over the
Pistons one thirty six to one twenty five.

641
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.119
I'm Madam Oslin. Welcome back into
Clippers talk. Coming up, you'll

642
00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:14.519
hear from the head coach. But
first joining us is Will Updyke from Clips

643
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:19.599
and Dip after another Clippers victory,
because he only comes on after wins,

644
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:24.880
after Big W's Will did you want
more style points? Take it well?

645
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:28.679
Did you want more style points from
the Clippers in this game? Or did

646
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:31.280
you see what you needed to see
that they had that ability to once again,

647
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.880
just like against the Wizards, figure
it out, pour it on and

648
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:39.480
play well enough when their best was
required. Yeah. I mean, look,

649
00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:44.639
it looks very much like the last
game, towards the end of a

650
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:47.679
road trip. Seems like legs were
a little tired. I mean, how

651
00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:51.800
slow is this thing to start?
Like twenty to six run in favor of

652
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:55.039
the Pistons. It looked like the
end of the road, Like you know,

653
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:59.079
they're getting towards the end of a
road trip. But I think in

654
00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:01.880
that second half you see them break
off those runs, you know, a

655
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:07.159
little twelve nothing run that's followed up
by another nine nothing run a little bit

656
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:10.800
later after it was broken. Like, I think that this team still looks

657
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:15.639
dominant in these stretches, and I
think that that's sort of the most important

658
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:19.840
thing, right, Like, they're
not gonna blow the doors off every team.

659
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:23.360
The Pistons were at home, they
fought, They fought incredibly hard in

660
00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:28.199
that one. But yeah, I
think I think it's more of the same,

661
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:32.280
Like it just very much feels like
not any game is being taken lightly

662
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:37.280
like this, this was still we
still had Kawhi in the fourth quarter.

663
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.239
He was still trying to win this
game until they had a comfortable enough lead,

664
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:44.639
which you know, this is one
of the more he's played in the

665
00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:49.480
fourth quarter during this road trip.
Yeah, Kawhi learned with two of his

666
00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:53.760
thirty three in the fourth. I
just posted on x that follow out of

667
00:52:53.840 --> 00:53:00.360
May some of the latest these were
MVP odds coming into today. Is just

668
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:04.559
one website, not gonna give him
the credit, not gonna sign him because

669
00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:07.519
I may get in trouble for that. But there are seven guys ahead of

670
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:14.480
him, and the odds of Kawhi
winning MVP are at plus ten thousand meeting.

671
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:19.280
If you bet one hundred, you
would win ten thousand. So we're

672
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:28.039
talking about Han Solo navigating through the
asteroid field here, like just ridiculously far

673
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:32.000
off odds. And I don't know, I'm I'm still irked about it.

674
00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:37.760
Will I just I can't believe a
player of his ilk is not getting more

675
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:43.440
love and respect with where the Clippers
are right now too. I yeah,

676
00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:46.119
I'm just not getting it. I
don't know if it's because the Clippers have

677
00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:52.599
hit that point in their window where
like this is just this is like expected

678
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:54.440
now, you know what I mean. I think it was like a bit

679
00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:58.840
of a turnaround or a surprise to
some people after the you know, the

680
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:02.480
terrible start of the games hard An
era. But I feel like maybe there's

681
00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:07.280
there's a bit of an old toy, like it's not the shiny new thing

682
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:12.199
Syndram anymore. With the Clippers and
the media, it kind of feels like

683
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:16.719
this is what they were supposed to
do. And I still think that that

684
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:23.360
is both overlooking how great just like
the level of talent overall across the league

685
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.599
is right now, how competitive this
West is, and just how special Kawhi

686
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:31.280
Leonard has been despite all that,
I don't care if it's expected, I

687
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:36.760
don't care. You know, if
this team has consistently you know, if

688
00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:38.960
you want to say, let down
some of the larger media with you know

689
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:45.079
this what this team has made their
postseasons. But this is the most serious

690
00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:49.119
the two and three era has taken
the regular season. And it's not just

691
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:52.960
seriousness, Like I don't think they
were not trying hard or anything before,

692
00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:59.800
but that availability that they've had and
with that time, I mean, how

693
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.639
they've how great they've both been.
But Kawhi Leonard has just been on another

694
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:07.719
level. And I don't see I
mean, like, correct me if I'm

695
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:10.960
wrong. I'm just not seeing anybody
doing it on both ends of the floor

696
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:15.880
at the same level right now this
season. I'm not seeing it. The

697
00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:19.840
only guy who I think could make
that argument on both ends of the floor

698
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:23.719
would be Honest. But the Bucks
are a bottom ten defense and had their

699
00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:29.400
coach fired basically over it. What
are we talking about. He's plus eight

700
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:35.039
hundred, Kawhi is plus ten thousand. He's tied with Anthony Edwards. The

701
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:38.360
rest of the guys with better odds
than him are Jalen Brunson, who has

702
00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:44.159
a cheerleader on TNT and Charles Barkley
talking about him every night. Great player.

703
00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:49.559
I'm fine with him being in the
conversation, but not over Kawhi Jason

704
00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:53.039
Tatum. Okay, Clippers just blew
out the Celtics. Now the Celtics have

705
00:55:53.159 --> 00:55:57.480
lost to the Lakers, and he
doesn't have the numbers, but he does

706
00:55:57.519 --> 00:56:00.400
have a team with the best record
in the league. I'm okay with that.

707
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:06.480
Giannis, No, I'm sorry,
like your coach was fired and you've

708
00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:10.000
been a bottom ten defense. Luka
Dancis. Are they eighth or ninth?

709
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:13.880
Right now? Will? How far
down are the Mavericks and the standings?

710
00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.599
I mean, come on, Shake
gills Is Alexander I'm okay with SGA.

711
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:22.159
You're too far for me to say
exactly from way up here. Nikola Jokic,

712
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:27.079
I'm fine with I'll give you like
three of those guys, but that

713
00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:32.119
means Kawhi Leonard should be top five, not eighth. Top five, and

714
00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:39.280
it is not five folks exactly.
All right, Let's move on to somebody

715
00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:45.239
that got twenty five thousand points in
his career now in Russell Westbrook, who

716
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:49.519
I thought played one of his best
games this season off the bench for the

717
00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:54.159
Clippers and was so vital, especially
in that turnaround where they Lookedda to start

718
00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:59.039
off the game in Detroit. Then
Russ got in there and he did what

719
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:01.239
he did best, and that's push
pace, or did what he does best,

720
00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:06.039
push pace, play with tempo speed, and everybody else kind of followed

721
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:08.880
him. Yeah. Absolutely, And
tonight the finishing was there, which is

722
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:13.400
is kind of the big thing,
right It's he still has that. I

723
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:15.039
know we were talking a little bit
about this, but he still has that

724
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:20.480
athleticism, Like the way he still
gets up at this point in his career

725
00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:23.840
is wild. It's just a matter
of if he has the touch around the

726
00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:30.360
basket obviously incredibly efficient tonight, and
that like when he has his offense going,

727
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:32.719
it allows him to be more of
a facilitator, like nine is siss

728
00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:37.199
only two turnovers tonight. I think
those things obviously go hand in hand.

729
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:44.079
But the bench overall really great performance. Fourteen points from very efficient a mere

730
00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:47.800
coffee and fifteen from Powell, which
is, you know, I think he's

731
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:52.760
good for twenty on any given night, but still extremely efficient. When you're

732
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:57.920
getting that sort of bench production,
I mean, you would have thought in

733
00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:01.760
a vacuum that the Clipper are walking
away with a win pretty handedly in Detroit.

734
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:07.239
But uh, you know, some
some struggles from some of the starting

735
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.559
lineup tonight. It's a good point
the bench got them pointed back in the

736
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:15.480
right direction for the starting lineup two
outside of Kawhi eventually come around a little

737
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:19.280
bit, with Paul George having ten
of his eighteen in that fourth quarter.

738
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:22.519
You mentioned Norman Powell, the King
of the fourth on the season. Now,

739
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:25.960
he is shooting fifty eight percent from
the field in fourth quarters and fifty

740
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.800
four percent from three, and he
booken the end of the third into the

741
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:36.400
fourth with three pointers that I thought
were huge momentum plays. But it's not

742
00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:38.119
out of the ordinary with this guy, Norman Powell. That's what he does.

743
00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:43.880
Yeah, I mean, he's he's
that, I don't know, he's

744
00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:46.800
the he's can be the closer.
He's the perfect off the bench guy.

745
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:52.039
I love where he's at in the
rotation right now. Would have love to

746
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:57.880
see some more. I'm curious to
see some more when James comes back in.

747
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:00.679
If we stagger Russ back out and
us go a little bit larger,

748
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:06.400
just have Powell. Uh and James
in the backcourt, just for a little

749
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:10.719
bit of size given some matchups when
they're running the bench backcourt. But uh

750
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:15.960
yeah, man love norm I love
him in every lineup. Incredibly efficient.

751
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:19.159
He was my Wait, who chose
him as player of the game? You

752
00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:21.800
choose? Did you choose me his
player of the series over the end of

753
00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:25.920
this road trip? That's right,
baby, pushing your attend to here.

754
00:59:25.960 --> 00:59:30.079
I love it. Hey, you
brought it up. I haven't even said

755
00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:37.159
that yet. Come on, if
it's Powell Ganda, I won it well.

756
00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:40.199
Afdyke is our guest here on Clipperstock
for a little cliffs and double dip

757
00:59:40.679 --> 00:59:46.000
on M five seventy LA sports.
Okay, so you mentioned the bench,

758
00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:50.000
but I thought Mason Plumber he was
pretty good in this game too, a

759
00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:52.920
former Piston just played there one year, but he had twelve and nine.

760
00:59:53.480 --> 00:59:57.719
I know his play has been up
and down. He has. He is

761
00:59:57.760 --> 01:00:02.719
someone coming back from a significant knee
injury. But he and Daniel Tice,

762
01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:08.239
I'm not gonna say they've been spectacular
picking up the slack for Big Zoo,

763
01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:13.920
but they have done what's been asked
of them overall. They have played to

764
01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:17.320
their abilities. And giving you enough
beef near the moat, near the rim

765
01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:23.639
to help this Clippers team. Yeah, absolutely, And I think you mentioned

766
01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:28.920
up and down play, which is
fair. I think that they've performed admirably

767
01:00:29.119 --> 01:00:32.039
given the size of the gap of
what they were expected to fill. And

768
01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:36.519
we've seen it kind of across the
board, right, I mean, James

769
01:00:36.519 --> 01:00:40.360
Harden's rebounding has come in hand some
of even his post defense at times.

770
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:47.400
But back to like Tys and Plumbly
both, I look, things get a

771
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:52.599
little bit different if Big Zoo isn't
good to go for the playoffs. But

772
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:57.480
I think for the time being,
this is one of the better or deeper

773
01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:01.440
sort of rotations at the five,
which, you know, given some of

774
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:07.039
your Western Conference matchups, could prove
to be pretty valuable even you know,

775
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:12.199
even in more limited minutes as Big
Zoo returns. But yeah, Mason Plumbley,

776
01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:15.599
I mean offensively love him what he
you know, he's still a rim

777
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:21.159
deterrent. And yeah, I mean
for a guy who's coming back from injury

778
01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:24.679
and immediately back into the starting lineup, I think he looked pretty good overall.

779
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:29.360
But I agree there's been inconsistencies from
both of them. I think some

780
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:34.599
of them. I think it's still
a work in progress as to where they

781
01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:37.239
fit. But I gotta say yeah, back to my point, I just

782
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:42.239
think that this is one of the
deepest one of Visa Zuobus returns. Gotta

783
01:01:42.239 --> 01:01:46.760
be the deepest rotation as the five
in the West. Yeah, and you're

784
01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:50.719
gonna need it if you go up
against Nikola Jokics and the Denver Nuggets,

785
01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:53.440
and you likely will have to to
get out of the West. Clippers win

786
01:01:53.519 --> 01:02:00.440
in Detroit one over the Pistons.
He is will Updyke from Clips and Dip

787
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:04.599
big will Big victory for the Clippers. Once again, Thanks for doing this

788
01:02:04.599 --> 01:02:07.079
tonight here on Clippers Stock. Love
it. Love getting a win in the

789
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:13.159
MotorCity. Let's go fuit Coming up
next, Well, previous Sundays a game

790
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:19.639
in Miami. You'll hear from coach
Lou and Katie Newton's casual corner thinks she

791
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:22.519
already did some prep earlier with some
questions she was asking me. I'm Adam

792
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.679
Oslin. This is Clippers Stock.
You're on five to seventy LA Sports.

793
01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:31.880
LA Clippers Basketball is on the two
one three era continues. You're listening to

794
01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:39.280
the LA Clippers on the LA Clippers
Audio Network tightly flow le Okay Daniel Tys

795
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:43.800
eighteen minutes, five points, a
couple of nice finishes around the ram,

796
01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:50.320
two blocks though contesting everything to me
is his best asset trait. He was

797
01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:54.079
a plus eleven Clippers bench big for
them tonight they come back down fourteen.

798
01:02:54.199 --> 01:02:59.400
They win one thirty six to one
twenty five in Detroit to the Pistons.

799
01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:04.239
Their next game coming up in Miami
on Sunday, tip off a three pregame

800
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:07.880
at two. Here was Coach Lulo
post game after the Clippers win by eleven

801
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:10.480
in Motown. So I was the
first parentel. He talked four game about

802
01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:16.239
all the sacifics and mad to see
a player like him making it. Did

803
01:03:16.239 --> 01:03:21.119
that both on the box score as
well as on the court with the with

804
01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:24.719
the actual games. For like,
how's he continue to evolve on this year's

805
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seat. Just his energy off the
bench, you know, and so we're

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not starting games, well we don't
have that energy. You know, he

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brings it every single game and he's
he saved at least you know, five

808
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or six just with his energy,
playing hard, you know, competing,

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getting out in transition, making easy
plays and just you know it just says

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a lot about the work he's put
in in his career. You know,

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I think one of three people with
twenty five thousand points, ten thousand rebounds,

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ten thousand assists, you know,
and so just a tribute to him

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and his hard work and the style
of play it and he brings it every

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single night. You know. That's
what you love about Russ No matter what,

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you can always count that energy,
net juice every single night. Coach

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lu their post game, it's a
ballet sports for the audio. Russell Westbrook

817
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a historic game for him as he
becomes just the twenty fifth player in NBA

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history to score twenty five thousand points
plus. He had nine or sis,

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just two turnovers, twenty three points
off the bench, maybe his best performance.

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I don't know if they win this
one without him, because he was

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that driving force to turn things around
early in the first quarter with the Clippers

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down fourteen. All right, before
we get out of here, let's get

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01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:39.039
to Katie Newton's casual corner. What's
up, Katie? Well, not allowed

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01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:42.360
to ask my one question. Yeah, there's a reason for that. I

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still think it's not a basketball question. It's not it's about FCC rules.

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But Okay, we just took that. It is not safe for me.

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Hey, hey, hey, listen, listen, hey listen. All right,

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01:04:55.719 --> 01:05:00.000
so Westbrook, yay, he did
over. I was sure realize it

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01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:02.920
like that. Well, I had
originally put two hundred and fifty thousand accidently

830
01:05:02.960 --> 01:05:06.199
out zero, and I was like, so you're not as impressed because you

831
01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:11.639
thought it was two hundred and fifty
thousand points, and now I'm trying to

832
01:05:11.719 --> 01:05:15.719
get to the point. Gosh,
good for you Russia. Anyway, what's

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01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:23.880
who's scored the most and what is
the most scored If you don't know,

834
01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:30.280
it's okay, another Lebron, James
je who's about to hit forty thousand career

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points, who came into the league. It's like scoring wasn't his biggest attribute.

836
01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:41.480
It was his passing. But yeah, Longevities, he was a bit

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01:05:41.559 --> 01:05:45.840
all the drug. Not anymore.
He's thirty nine. He's a grown ass

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01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:50.800
man. Thank you, Katie.
Glad we could get that in celebrate Lebron.

839
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:57.039
Here on Clipper's Talk. Who's the
highest scoring Clipper ever? Oh that's

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not a bad question. All right, we'll save it for next time.

841
01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:09.679
Yeah, Clippers went in Detroit by
eleven. They'll be in Miami on Sunday.

842
01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:15.519
Is it still Randy Smith? I'm
trying to think, is it CP

843
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:20.679
three? Is it Blake? Probably
know this. I mean give two and

844
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three a little more time, they'll
figure it out. Sunday Tip time three

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pregame at two. Before we get
out of here. I do want to

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thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seeman, Ralph Lawler, Carlo

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01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:34.320
Jimenez on the call, big brother, Jake Warner, our head engineer,

848
01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:38.119
Kay You Newton, our producer back
in the bank, the callers, the

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listeners get to meet at follow Adam
a on X and I will talk to

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you Sunday at two. Jason Show, So why was doing his thing?

851
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All they want to do is win? I thought they gave everything they had.

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This has been Clippers Talk official postgame
reaction of the LA Clippers. God

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01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:05.599
bless Paul George. Are you not? It's a change. Don't miss an

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Thank you for joining us for another
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