The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
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sir, are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers make it nine straight
over the Lakers. They win one fourteen to one oh one here in downtown
Los Angeles. Welcome into your post game show. I'm out of Oslin.
Coming up. We're looking to have Noah Eagle here on the post game.
Plus you'll hear from Coach Low and the players, and we'll get to your
final box score. But right now. Second half highlights. Clippers led by
just two and a half after leading by seventeen in the first half, at
fifty four to fifty two. In that third quarter, though, after getting
off to this little start of Bezza's zoo, Bos got it going. They
got another deflection on James He's late to recover a five on four. Morris
George two, the slap Jackson, bounce it, Zu Box, tough catch,
Sue Box, the spin count it in a foul Fizza's zubos working in
the pain vizza zoobots. There was six points in that third quarter. Clippers
would lead after three eighty seven to seventy five. And then on fourth quarter,
just like what we saw Monday night, Norman Powell came alive, tend
to shoot for Powe working on the rookie. Christie Pole rises and delivers Pal
sixteen off the bench. George was twenty nine. Back to Pau all the
way in Norman Pawe the springboard slim Pal was seven points in the fourth quarter.
John Wall Terrence Man were good then as well. Clippers hold on to
win one fourteen to one oh one is really they pulled away from the Lakers
in the second half. Clippers now a couple of games over five hundred.
They tend the Lakers to two and nine on the season. Coming back,
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Clippers push it to nine straight victories over the Lakers with a one fourteenth to
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couple calls already eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy. Clippers were led by PG thirteen once again
a stellar performance twenty nine points on just seventeen shots plus six boards, four
assists and off the bench providing that score on punch being that second score right
now. Norman Powell with eighteen points for the Clippers. Marcus Morris he finished
with eleven with the starters a Visa Zubots after a slow start in the first
half. Had eight of his ten points in the second half plus eight boards,
a big time block on Anthony Davis, a tone setter early in that
third quarter. Luke Kennard also very good, had a couple of three pointers
early on. Finished with thirteen points, three of six shooting from the outside.
And how about Reggie Jackson helping close things out in that fourth quarter with
eight of his fourteen points. The floater is back and John Wall from the
end of the third into the fourth had his moments as well. Getting in
transition was just a blur. This is the quickest I've seen John Wall play
since the Achilles injury. Tonight he was absolutely flying down the court and had
six assists to zero turnovers. So even though not shooting that well from the
outside, can't find a shot right now, still making an impact for this
team. I thought. Terrence Man had those hustle plays and was a plus
sixteen out there, tied Paul George with the team lead being that plus sixteen.
Finished with seven points to assists, three of six shooting, and had
a big dunk. Energy plays. Sometimes a dunk is not just a dunk.
That's what Terrence Man does for you. Also Nicholas Battoon, while not
filling it up, just had two points, had a nice offensive rebound,
almost had two offensive rebounds in the same possession, but stepped out on the
second one. Some hustle plays from him as well. Clippers win one,
fourteen to one oh one. They improve to seven and five on the season,
and they have one five of their last six games now and drop the
Lakers to two and nine on the year. Coming up next, we'll have
Noah Egle on for some postgame analysis right here on the Los Angeles Clippers Radio
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Clippers make it nine straight over the Lakers, thirty four of the last
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We'll have Clippers talk for you eight six six ninety eight seven two five
seventy eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. But now back to the
workhorse, the man who was pulling double duty today doing it on TV and
radio with the simulcast your voice of the Clippers, Noah Eagle, So Noah.
While they did relinquish that seventeen point lead, the Clippers were able to
take control really in that second half. And I thought, in particular of
Visa Zubots came out after an under performance or a poor performance for his standards
so far this season in the first half and just was a monster once again
saying the tone defensively in the second half. Let me start by saying this,
Adam, I sit down. I looked to my right and sure enough,
your Twitter is always up. I mean, that's how it is.
And I say, you get an alert for a tweet that you had tweeted
clearly in the first quarter. Clippers start six of nine from three. A
couple of people like that, and then someone liked to reply, nice,
that's where we're at tonight, and it did. It was a nice win
for the Clippers overall, and to your point of Visa Zubots, it was
a different player first half to second half, and what he did in the
second half looked a lot more reminiscent from what we saw in the first matchup
of these two teams on opening night, when Zubots had seventeen rebounds going up
against Anthony Davis. I'm not saying he's Michael Jordan holding the bat in the
locker room taking it personally, but I'm not not saying that. At the
same time, he knows who traded him away earlier in his career, and
it feels like every time the Clippers have a chance to play the Lakers,
Zubots has a little extra chip on his shoulder. He's got a little extra
nastiness in the pain and I thought today was no different. He protected the
rim pretty well, didn't have too many emphatic squats, but just a couple
of blocks to add to his talis. He's at the top of the NBA
in that category. He's towards the top of the league in contested shots total,
second in that category behind only Brook Lopez. Crazy to think those two
guys. You know, Zubots was always a decent enough rim protector, but
he's just improved leaps and bounds over the course of his career. In brook
Lopez to start his career was known as a minus defender and has worked himself
into being at one point a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. Those two
guys have been the best two rim protectors in the NBA this year, not
Rudy Gobert, not at Karl Anthony Towns or Miles Turner, Brook Lopez and
efats the zu Bots. And he proved it again tonight on the defensive end.
Came back on the offensive end. I thought he was huge on the
offensive boards in particular. We saw some carryover from the last week obviously with
Paul George just another fantastic performers twenty nine points on just seventeen shots. But
something that came out on Monday night was Reggie Jackson, some stellar play from
him. He helped close things out with his fourteen points on the fourth quarter.
But Norman Powell being that second leading scorer, improving upon what he did
Monday night with eighteen. So this is Norman Powell to me. You know,
everybody was focused on what he said at media Day, which is I
want to prove that I'm a starter. I always was saying, why why
not be the best six man in the league? Why not win six Man
of the Year. He's more than capable of doing it. And I think
over the last several games during this stretch where they've won five of six,
he's really accepted that role. He's made it a point to say, Okay,
you know what, if I'm gonna come off the bench, I'm gonna
be the best bench player on either side. And I think the last couple
of games he has been against Cleveland, They've got a great bench, they're
one of the deeper teams in the league themselves. Well, Norm Powell just
put that game away in the fourth quarter. He was the reason that the
Clippers came all the way back, and then he put it away with that
huge rebound tap out in the late fourth quarter stages. And today he started
pretty quickly, got himself to the line early six of seven, I believe,
in the first half from the charity stripe, and that allowed him to
get into rhythm. Then he was attacking. Then he was knifing through the
defense, he was hitting threes. This is the Norm Pal we expected to
see from day one this season, and to get it in back to back
games just tells me that his confidence level has raised exponentially. And part of
that is that him in Toronto. Lou had a conversation a few days ago
about hey, keep your head up, and then t LU said, listen,
you're right, but I gotta be better. And he has been better.
He's put him in better spots. He's made him a much more easy
score the last two games. And I think that this bodes well for the
Clippers moving forward, both without Kawai and then of course when Kauwhai comes back.
Clippers with a rare two days off, they're back here in downtown Los
Angeles taking on the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday at tip time for that one is
at one pm. No Eagle great calls tonight, So we appreciate you.
Well done. Let's talk to you on Saturday. My friend Adam, you
know this is the bird rivalry coming up on Saturday. That's right. Hashtag.
It's like the SEC. It just means more, all right. So
all I can say is, kid, wait, let's go coming up.
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I kind of like the way this went down for the Clippers tonight because it
wasn't easy after being up by seventeen, and I know they've been making it
tougher on themselves because of quite frankly, very poor performances in second quarters.
That has been their bugaboo so far this season. Where they've had three games
now where they've led by eighteen, they've led by seventeen and seventeen again tonight
over the Lakers in this case, and they've relinquished those leads now they've won
anyways, They've found ways to win, and they win this one by thirteen.
But they were pushed a little bit and guys had to step up in
the second half, and guys had to play well in fourth quarters. Our
friend Brian Semen would tell you, you know, blowouts they leave you fat
and happy, but closer games leave you more battle tested. And I think
the Clippers are really starting to turn a corner here, not just because that
victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers Monday night, running that into a nice win over
the Lakers once again, but they've won five of six now after losing four
in a row, after starting two and four, and now there's seven and
five, and the difference, the turning point, it's been Paul George.
He calls himself out after the loss of the Pelicans, hits the game winner
the next day on the Rockets, and since then has been on an absolute
tear Player of the Week in the Western Conference. And he had twenty nine
points to night on seventeen shots and just some brilliant defensive plays. Had a
steal a block that he just ripped it away from his old buddy and Patrick
Beverley, who he was picking on at times in the MIDI he hit at
least three jumpers over Pat bev not easy to do just because he's the taller
man. Doesn't always work out that way. We know what a good defender,
Patrick Beverley is, but Paul George was going at him, and he
wasn't intent on getting involved early offensively. He wasn't waiting for the game to
come to him or trying to get the rest of the guys involved. Paul
George had fifteen in the first quarter. It's just indicative of how good he's
been leading this team. He said, it starts with me, he said,
I take responsibility for our record, and now he's responsible for this turnaround
because it absolutely begins with Paul George. But now guys are starting to fall
into place with their play around him. They're starting to fit into their roles.
Last two games, Reggie Jackson looks like a different player. Had eight
of his fourteen in the fourth quarter. The float goat game is back.
Okay, that was Isaiah Hartenstein. We used to call the float go But
Reggie Jackson a nice floater as well, especially in big games, especially against
the Lakers, and of course in the playoffs. It looks more like Reggie
Jackson playoff. Reggie Jackson, mister June. The last couple of nights now
finished with fourteen, three assists, seven to fourteen shooting. The efficiency starting
to return. But I told you after that loss to the Utah Jazz that
the Clippers are still trying to find that second consistent scorer behind Paul George right
now without Kawhi Leonard and Norman Powell is starting to emerge. And that is
a big development for this team. If Norman Powell, my player to watch,
can continue to give them around eighteen points per game and effision eighteen,
that's all they need. That's what he had tonight five of ten, shooting
eighteen on ten shots because he gets to the free throw line six of seven.
They got two guys that change the way this team is played, that
fills voys in their offense by putting pressure on the rim. And the Clippers
are now four and oh. When they take twenty or more free throws this
season, they attend to twenty six. They hit twenty of them. And
the other guy is John Wall who was three or three from the free throw
line after struggling there, calling himself out saying he's shooting free throws like Shack
Monday, No make it Sunday. After that loss of the Utah Jazz,
I posted the video post game of him out here getting extra reps. First,
he was at the free throw line, putting up shots. Then he
was putting up three pointers and it paid off. He hit one three pointer
in this one, just one of five. But I've never seen well since
the injury, I have not seen John Wall look this quick. He was
absolutely a blur tonight, and especially in that third quarter, a couple just
downhill attacks, noticeable layups are setting teammates up. John Wall brings that new
dynamic to this team and had six assists to zero turnovers with his ten points,
just three of ten shooting. Some of those shots you can say,
maybe you're ill advised at times from the outside, but when he has an
open look and it's not earlier in the shot clock, he's got to take
that. And I still think he's gonna trend upward with his three point shooting.
But the Clippers another nice victory, and they've been dominating the Lakers,
and I thought in the third quarter the difference was when they started to separate
themselves from the Lakers in the second half, when they got up by double
digits again, it was a Vizza Zubots who had a first half that was
just forgettable, especially with how he's been playing so far this season. He
didn't have a field goal. In the first half, he had two points
off of free throws and five boards. But in the second half he had
a couple of blocks, and one of them early on the third quarter was
on Anthony Davis where he dared him to get to the basket and Zubots met
him there and swatted it and it looked like a d was shying away after
that. I know he's dealing with the lower back injury and Lebron James left
this game with a left leg injury, but Anthony Davis against a Vizza Zubots.
So far this season, Zubots has gotten the best of him. He
has that first game he had five blocks, But this is what he does
now. He intimidates guys at the rim. He's a force. He's been
the best rim protector in the NBA through twelve games. Okay, I don't
see him slowing down. He's still just twenty five and getting better. And
he ended up going four or four in the second half of the field finished
with ten points, eight boards, those two blocks I mentioned, and he
goes into a vicious attack mode now when he's close to the rim. He's
not trying to lay it up. He's trying to put somebody on a poster.
It's what a lot of people have been waiting for with Big Zoo,
and it's happening now. Before we get your phone calls, let's pause ten
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Los Angeles and iHeart radio station Sean and Inglewood. Shan, you're on Clippers
stop without amsl and starting things off tonight. How are you? I'm fine?
How are you? I'm good? Sean. There is absolutely nothing better
than the Clippers winning and the Lakers losing, And the only thing better than
that is the Clickers beating the Lakers, which is what happened tonight. So
I'm overjoyed. They came out. If they could come out every game like
they came out tonight, and they came out on a purpose, they came
out with a theory. I loved it. So they gotta keep it up.
And I think they got a little too much of a three point happy
and then second quarter there for a while, but they weren't really bad shots
and they're not taking that standalone dribble for six seven seconds and didn't take a
standle on three, so they were taking it in the rhythm Elsie offense,
and the offense played very well, so the victory even though sometimes the offense
candle with stagnants, but overall, you know, you give them maybe an
a minus and you know, hey, Paul George showing everybody who he was
tonight, and I'm happy about that, all right, John, I appreciate
the phone call. It's a good point by you. In the second quarter,
they went oh of six from three after starting six of twelve. For
whatever reason, that's been the problem quarter for them so far this year.
And you could say it's the backups and when you don't have Kauai, and
it's just Paul George. He's playing the majority of the first quarter. He's
not coming back till at least the seven minute mark of the second quarter,
and that may be a big reason for it. But they got to hold
onto some of these early leads which they have given back and gone on to
win anyways, and there's something to that. But I think eventually what's going
to happen is they get into more of a well oiled machine mode and they
run away. In some of these games, they continue to pour it on.
They win though by thirteen thanks to PG thirteen, they win one fourteen
to one oh one over the Lakers. Paul George finished with twenty nine points.
Coming up next, back to your phone calls. We'll get to postgame
audio and we still got Charles Mockler coming on from Clips and Dip. You're
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You have the Los Angeles Lakers here in downtown LA. I come back
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the phone number if you'd like to get on. Still to come, Charles
Mockler be here from Clips and Dip. Also a postgame audio from the head
coach and looking for PG thirteen audio. Who led the Clippers with twenty nine.
He's been leading them. Clippers now have won five of their last six
games. They've improved to seven and five after starting two and four, and
they've won nine straight over the Lakers and thirty four the last forty one matchups.
Javier and lahabber heights. Javier, you're on Clippers Talk without Am Aslin.
Surprise. I didn't go to you first, right, Yeah, I
fall surprised, but it's all good. What's up, Adam? What's up?
Adam? I can't remember the last one. Honestly, Lebron James and
the Lakers beat the Clippers. I mean it's just it's it's just I'm loving
it. But it just recall on it which a long time. But but
anyways, enough of them real quick. This game. Yeah, everybody pretty
well, the starters and the bench. One thing you brought up earlier was
John wall I was at the game or was it a Sunday or Monday when
they team missed like what fight feet throws? So I was like, wow,
he meet three out of three. Maybe you said that was that was
pretty good. And the next thing is Morris Diky grabbed eight rebounds. I
can't recall it. He did. He's been rebounding much better than last week.
Yeah, and I was like wow, because he was averaging honestly at
him, like three or four re months a game, and I, as
a Ford, you got average more than that. Well, let's see,
he's been averaging seven now so far in the month of November. That's pretty
good, especially because Big Zoo has been swallowing up a lot of rebounds.
Yeah, that's true. And the last thing is, I know you have
a lot of calls. Covington did not play okay or just he just I
guess. I don't know if he's just working himself because he hasn't played big
minutes since he got out of health and safety protocols, And I'm just guessing
perhaps they didn't need him tonight. They had enough guys out there and they
wanted to give him a day off. He hasn't quite looked like himself,
and he hasn't played big minutes, as I mentioned, so far since coming
back. I appreciate the phone call, though, Javier, as always,
we'll talk to you on Saturday, I'm sure, and talking about the dominance
of the Clippers over the Lakers here nine straight victories They've led by ten plus
points in all nine games, and their average margin of victory is ten point
eight points. Lakers biggest lead during these nine games that the Clippers have one
straight over them is just six points. Their biggest lead tonight was four Clippers
win one fourteen to one oh one. Let's go to Damien in La Damien.
What's up here on Clippers? Stop with Autam Oslin triple? A awesome
Adam Auslin. How are you doing? Brothers? What's up Damien? Good
to hear from you, man. But what a great win, what a
solid win? Right, you know? Like I mean PG taking over the
helm. You know, one of the things that I'm noticing about these guys
leave talking about the mentality of these guys. You know, we're not talking
about a bunch of dudes that were you know, highly scouted and first round
picks and people drooling all over and we're talking about journeymen. We're talking about
dogs. We're talking about people that you know, got counted out and all
types of things. So, you know, I remember Reggie Jackson talking about,
you know, being with this Clippers organization is really revitalized his whole playing
career. And you're seeing it. A lot of these guys are finally finding
their place and finding out that, you know what, all those people that
believed in you guys and thought that you guys were out the dogs, we
weren't wrong, you know, And you just needed an opportunity and a chance
to be able to breathe in a system that works for you. And it's
just really a breathless fresh air, you know. I know we were planning
on having Kawhi from the start, and you could see that they had to
flip that switch, you know, and get into a different gear. But
I'm so glad that, you know, these guys are professionals and they have
exceeded, you know, taking on that task. Man. I mean,
I can't say enough about these guys. Did you see Zoe tonight? Did
you see Zoo? Is he gonna Defensive players of the Year? Away that
I saw? I saw some early defensive player of the Year leaderboards that didn't.
I think he was ten people had him there, and that's that's way
too low. He's been the best defensive center in the league period period.
Bro. If you want to argue it, you still have to make him
top three. If you want to argue with you you don't have to make
him. You know who else, you know, who else gotta be top
ten at least Paul George. It's not just what he's doing on offense.
He's making things happen on the defensive end and speaking a guy that just don't
get no shine and no flowers. How many times does Paul George have to
do this? You know what I love about Paul George, you know what
I'm saying. And what's great about having them on our squad is when he
doesn't sell wolf tickets at all. He doesn't go out there and you know,
and give you a bunch of gas bag type stuff. If he says
that he's gonna pick it up, he picked it up, man. And
I couldn't I just I couldn't be happier for him. I couldn't be prouder
of him. You know, Like what I what I loved is like all
the stuff that happened in the offseason that maybe Clipper Nation might not know about,
all the marriages and the camaraderie and everybody really you know, trying to
get their backyard in order, and it's showing out there on the court because
the body language, you know, just from did you see Marcus Morris's body
language tonight. I mean, the guys really confident. They look like they
are ready to go. You know, he didn't look like they're ready to
shoulder the load. I'm with you, man, great phone call is always
Yeah, guys are in good places right now, and Clipper Nation looks to
be in a much better place than they were. I don't know, a
couple of weeks ago, when I was getting a lot of skies following calls
here on Clipper Stock, I'm not getting a lot of those all of a
sudden. It's almost like it was too early in the season to judge this
team. I'd say they still have a lot of work to do, but
they have turned a corner and it's due to the play of Paul George and
the leadership from Paul George. So it starts with me, it has Tageous
and Walnut. You're on Clippers Stop without Aim Awsome. Hey, Adam,
you know what you're not getting is you're not getting those calls of fading Marcus
Morris. Yeah, how about that too. Marcus Morris with his best start
to a season as a Clipper. Yeah, I know, he's playing phenomenal
phenomenal And what are two or three things that I observed. Paul George is
playing amazing. Of course, do you get a little uneasy going back to
Minnesota with when Beverley was on there, when He's dribbling around a little bit,
and I'm just like going to post, and that's what happened. Like
I think in the second or third quarter he started making it, But I
feel a little uneasy when he's dribbling around Pat dev I mean he rose and
sunk at least three jumpers over Patrick Beverley in this game. And Paul George
has been working more out of the midpost during this well five out of six
game winning streak you could say for the Clippers where he's been unbelievable. He's
been getting into the mid post and going to work on a lot. Yeah,
that's what I was like. I was happy when I saw him get
into the post. And then I think in the third quarter we went up
by eleven and then they cut it down to four six and I think Norman
Powell he picked it up and he really gave that boost and put it up
and then he made I think Morris made three, Powell made three, and
the Morris made a four three. I think that little stretch there pushed him,
gave him a good, you know, comfortable lead, So I think
that stretch was important. And then early in the fourth I really liked John
wall pick and rolls. I think that one that those plays were really like
under the radar, but it's set up easy shots for Tarret's men. I
think Zoo and he just he just kind of kept that lead going until Reggie
came in. And Reggie kept driving and picking on Austin rees and getting those
floaters, so everyone had a hand in the game, which I like.
It's a good team win. I'm just probably waiting for only Betune to get
you know, hot from the three because you know, he's just missing really
easy ones and we know he's gonna start hitting him. But Gray win.
Thanks for the client. They just appreciate the phone call. Yeah, complete
team victory. I mentioned Paul George a lot for for good reason. But
seven guys and double figures after they had five guys with fifteen or more on
Monday, and the big comeback against the Cleveland Cavaliers coming up next year.
On Clippers Talk, we'll get to Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip after they
win one fourteen to one on one over the Lakers here and downtown Los Angeles.
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least in the second half. After the Clippers led by as many as seventeen
in that first quarter, they let up. They got down by four,
but they were able to take control of the game. And there were a
lot of guys to choose from. When you're talking about stellar performances and standout
performances. Who do you think was the most impactful non Paul George player in
this one? Charles Charles Mockler Charles and charge, Well, I'll tell you
what I think. There we go, we got you, there we go.
All right, we're back, I think so. Despite going three for
ten from the field and taking away too many three pointers, John Walla's performance
kind of towards the end of the third, where he made good decisions when
passing the ball, you know, he got to the paint and things like
that helps the Clippers out so much to really kind of avoid what would have
been I mean, I I can't imagine what the clipperstock College would have been
like tonight if he would have lost this one. But John wall late in
the third I think was probably the biggest spark we needed. He had the
pass to Terrence Man, he had the pass to PG with a dunk to
end the third quarter. But this was the most explosive I've seen him look
since the injury. And granted I didn't see his games in person when he
was with Houston, but I've seen a few now at the Clippers, and
he was flying. It was unbelievable how fat much faster he was than everybody
else on the court. Maybe SAMs Westbrook, maybe even faster in Russell Westbrook
right now, but somebody else who I thought was really good in the third
quarter. He's been the most consistent player. We've talked about him a lot,
Charles all season long, and he's been one of the most under a
players for years. Hopefully that doesn't continue much longer, but if he's the
Zubats had a block on Anthony Davis early in the third quarter where he basically
challenged him. They were going one on one mano a mano, and Anthony
Davis couldn't get by him without Zubos rejecting his shot. I just felt like
that was the tone setter because Big Zoo actually didn't have a great first half,
but he finished strong. Yeah, Zoo didn't record a point in the
first half, still end up with ten and I know that if people look
at, you know, the box score, they're gonna say, oh,
ad, put up you know, twenty one nine. He must have,
you know, absolutely cooked a Zoo. He had to work for this point.
Zoo on the defensive end was as he's been his whole time with the
Clippers, except for member that first year. I'll stalwart he was taking He
got hit in the face by Bev early in this when he bounced back from
that, and he almost finished with a double double again despite not scoring in
that first half. So he's had kind of some rougher offensive games. He's
pasked, you know, a couple outings, but the defense is consistent and
it's there, and you know, weirdly, the small ball lineup looked pretty
solid tonight too. Zoo is actually the worst plus minus, which is kind
of interesting. But that being said, yeah, I mean Zoo's really feeling
himself after that summer of EuroBasket. I think that's the best thing to happen
to Zoo's game in a really long time, other than being traded for Mike
Mscalin to the Clippers. I love what you say they're about the small ball
because this was the second straight game. For those who haven't liked it,
the Clippers are starting to work out the kinks. This was the second straight
game that they've started to pull away because of small ball, and they did
that against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday. That's not easy to go small against
them and win those minutes, and that's what's been happening lately. So as
much as they struggled in those areas, you know, there were some growing
pains early on this season, but it's starting to pay off now, and
so is the play of Reggie Jackson the last two games now, been much
more efficient in the fourth quarter though he really took him home. He had
eight of his fourteen in the fourth and he's getting the floater going again.
He just looks closer to what we expect from Reggie Jackson when he's on a
nice streak. It felt like he was taking the floater from further and further
away from the rim just to demoralize the Lakers tonight, Like I swear he
took one like one step in from the three point line and it was nothing
but back iron. And then at Reggie shows up to play the Lakers every
time, I think we saw a Reggie Gallop tonight, which you know means
that good things are gonna happen for the Clippers. So this Lakers team is
a team, and I'm kind I'm laughing as I say, it's a team
to get back on track with. You know, like we had a horrible
second quarter. Thankfully the Lakers are terrible and third quarters, so we made
it up for there. But any team that's gonna get Reggie back on track
is this Lakers team. And you know, we get a little bit of
rest now. We don't have a couple you know, we don't have a
game for a couple of days, so just more opportunities for Reggie, who
needs probably the most resturbating on this team, especially after last year and the
you know kind of what. He's got two lower body injuries right now.
So just great to see from Reggie, who's definitely not playing at one hundred
percent. He's strangely looks more athletic than he did earlier in the season when
he was supposedly it's just sometimes it makes you focus more, play harder.
I don't know, but I love his play and I love what we've seen
from Norman Powell. Now the last two games too. He also at seven
points, seven of his eighteen in the fourth quarter, and he has that
ability to get to the free throw line, something the Clippers have sorely needed.
They're now four and oh when they shoot twenty or more free throws this
season, so that's a really good barometer for them. And Norman Powell was
six of seven from the free throw line, so on his ten shots.
It just took ten shots to get to those eighteen points. But maybe now
he's starting to find his role and he can emerge. Is that more consistent
second score, second option right now without Kawhi Leonard out there? Yeah,
efficient Norm Powell is terrifying if you're an opponent. I think the game before
this he had, you know, seven shots, and you put up you
know, double digit scoring and that one too. And if you look at
our guards, you know Reggie with fourteen, John Law with ten, Norm
with eighteen. That's kind of where we need the guards to be. If
Paul George we haven't really talked about yet, it's putting up thirty points.
That's the perfect kind of scoring zone for those guys. Because you've got Marcus
Morris, who, although he only scored eleventh night, is he's gonna put
up a little more than that. Like this is these like kind of meaty
double digit lines from these guards are exactly what the Clippers need. And at
some point we got to figure out, you know, the math on how
many total free throws Normwall and Reggie can take to really put the Clippers over
the edge per game. I think once we get to like twenty five games,
we'll have this kind of set number of combined free throws from those three
guys to indicate how things are going for the Clippers. Okay, so not
to bury the lead or the leader right now. It's been Paul George and
this may be his best regular season stretch as a Clipper. I know when
he finished third in MVP voting, there was a month with Okac where I
think he averaged thirty six. But he's been spectacular since that Pelicans game where
he put it on him. He said, this is my fault. I
have to get us turned around. I take full responsibility and I'm committed to
turning this around. And he's done all that and then some. And I
thought he was so aggressive early on with those fifty points in the first quarter,
and that was exactly what they needed. Yeah, we've come a long
way from Paul George's quotes that used to be like I think we're in the
driver's seat and then the car completely crashed and fell off the cliff. Now
he's saying things like I need to put this on me, and he does
and he might win another Player of the Week award. Him and Pat beb
were going out it quite a bit. It was friendly, it was intense.
Patrick Beedley obviously finished with an astounding two for eight from the floor while
trying to do his best against Paul George. He's really just got whatever he
wanted the mid range against him. But you know, you just love to
see it. It's it's making the absence, you know, the the indefiniteness
of Kauai a lot easier to deal with when Paul George is able to put
to go to these results and unlike last year, remember he scored forty against
the Blazers and we lost last season to open it up when he was just
on that crazy run before he got hurt. Now we got guys who could
really back it up and pick up some of the flack that he can't,
you know, pick up him self. And the Clippers are also starting to
come come alive from the three point line. I know Paul George just two
of seven in this one, but over the last six games, I think
he was shooting close to fifty percent from three. And the Clippers now the
last couple of games after missing sixteenth straight three pointers Sunday against the Jazz,
they've shot forty one percent from three in the last two games since then,
So trending in the right direction on that end as well. Of course,
you find Charles Mockler on the clips in Dip pod also trending upward with myself
and William up Dyck little clips in double Dip tonight. Charles, thanks for
doing this here on Clippers Talk. Absolutely happy I can come on for a
win coming up next. Quick time out well here from Coach lou post game
after the Clippers win one fourteen to one on one over the Lakers and improved
to seven and five nine over the Lakers. Now more Clippers stock next here
on Amp five seventy fours. Take new he was blocked by George. This
is LA Clippers basketball. He is a one man record crawl the defensive man
on the home of your LA Clippers win one fourteen to one on one over
the Lakers. Come back at the Clippers stop. I'm out a Moslin live
from downtown Los Angeles. Big thanks to Nick Hamilton for coming on pre game.
By the way, he kills it every time. Serious XM's where you
find him. Let's hear the postgame audio from the head coach Toehronolu after the
Clippers make it nine straight over the Lakers. Oh, probably just halftime,
you know, getting out to a big lead. We just talked about,
you know, taking care of the basketball, getting good shots, and you
know, got up seventeen again in the first half, and they came back
and cut the lead because we had some turnovers and then we took some bad
shots, and so you know, I just gotta continue to keep learning from
that. But I was proud of how we came out in the third quarter,
think seven oh or nine oh run and start the third quarter and then
kind of take control of the game again. And so just be able to
get it back in that second half and understanding and that you know, it's
it's a competition, not a show, you know, And so I know
it's the two LA teams, but you know, we're playing to try to
get better, you know, each and every night, and so it's not
about the show. There was that play where we're Pat bodied up PG force
and passed the ball, was drawing back and forth with them. See it
again, there was that play where Pat, Pat was boughting up PG forced
them to pass the ball. And I think ever since that that possession,
PG looked a bit more decisive with his moves. I think he got through
his wonder, we'll pull up a lot more of a Pat. Did you
see something change after that possession there with PG. Yeah, we just told
PG, just catch it and shoot it right on the top of'em,
Like, don't wrestle with him, don't get I just shoot right on top
of'em. You know, we know Pat, it's a fights he defended.
He wants you to put the ball down so we can poke at and
you know, try to steal it and strip it. You know, you're
six nine, you know, just raise up and shoot and that's what all
right. There was a coat the post game on Valley's Sports. That is
most definitely what he did. Like the bluntness there. Just shoot over the
top of him. He's got he's eight inches taller than Patrick. Beverley we
love and Clipper Nation is still very fond of but he's with the Lakers right
now. It is where it is, and Paul George was definitely picking on
him. It was good to see that level of aggressiveness and when he's getting
up shots close to twenty. Clippers are in real good shape, but only
needed seventeen to get his twenty nine points in this one. Clippers win one
fourteen to one oh one over the Lakers. They get a couple of much
needed days off. They're back here in downtown LA on Saturday, taking on
Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets. Tip time one pm. We'll have Clippers
count down your pregame show starting at noon before we get out of here.
I do want to thank the young goat, Noah Eagle, pulling off double
duty making it look effortless, some say Stepford less. It was incredible.
Also sitting out love to our friend Brian Semen. Thanks for Ralph Wahler here
in downtown LA. Our head engineer who was doing a heck of a lot
more than that tonight was big brother Jake Warner. I don't know what type
of producer he was, but he was. He was doing it all all
world effort to died by he and Noah Eagle and Katy Newton in Burbank.
Thanks of the callers, the listeners until Saturday with their pregame show starting at
noon, Clipper Steaking on the Brooklyn Nets. I'm out of Oslin and we
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