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Breaking down today's action with the pre
and post game voice. If you're

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La Clippers, They're locking in every
game every night. Adam Osland, the

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Clippers make it five straight victories.
They have gone nineteen in five in their

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last twenty four games. The Clippers
domination continues as they are now fourteen and

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two since December one. They win
in New Orleans for the first time since

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January of twenty twenty one, eleven
to ninety five, and it wasn't even

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that close against the Pelicans in this
one. Welcome into your postgame show.

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I'm at am Oslin coming up.
Yeah, well, Clippers talk. People

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are calling in early eight six six
ninety eight, seven two five seventy eight

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six six ninety seven two five seventy. But first back out to Smoothie King

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Center with your radio voice of the
Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo, this

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was a tie game heading into the
second quarter, and then the Clippers just

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brought clamp City with them to New
Orleans. That defensive performance was something special.

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They were excellent tonight, Adams,
and they held New Orleans. But

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let's face it, Adams started shooting
them all really well. They were five

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for their first ten from downtown,
then two for their next nineteen from distance.

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The Clippers held them to thirty five
percent from the field. B I,

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who you talked about at pregame,
has killed them. Finished with just

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twelve points. Herb Jones had only
nine. He had eight in a single

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stretch against the Clippers in the fourth
corner last time they faced them, and

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McCollum knocked down four threes, but
thirteen shots tonight to get it done.

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This was a wire to wire victory
since the start of that second quarter and

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utter domination and Adams. I think
there's something to say about this being a

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place where Tyleru hadn't won. It's
the only arena as head coach where he

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hadn't won. I think the Clippers
knew that. I think they came in

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with extra focus, an extra level
of intensity, and for the second straight

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game, Paul George set the tone
early. Yeah, it's a great point.

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PG thirteen was seven points in the
first quarter, eight points in the

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second quarter. Was playing elite defense
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well with the starters plus twenty two
off the bench. Norman Powell was a

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plus thirty six in his minutes,
but Paul George would lead them with twenty

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four points. Light work in just
thirty minutes, but six of ten from

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the outside. When you talk about
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PG thirteen. It does, it
does. He was able to hit big

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time shots in big time moments,
stepped up to the line and knocked them

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down. And he really when he's
knocking down threes and Terrence man is hitting

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threes, this offense just spreads you
out so much. It's so tough to

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guard. And the Clippers showed that
with their efficiency. They started slow from

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outside the arc, they picked it
up in a hurry and ran away with

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things right when they started knocking down
threes. That was the key to this

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one, Adam. The threes fell
and the Clippers went up huge. New

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Orleans wasn't going away in that third
quarter, and after a slow start from

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Kawhi Leonard, he then had eleven
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and that was kind of that exclamation
point that it was just not gonna be

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the Pelicans night. The Clippers weren't
gonna let it happen. They tried to

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chip away at that lead, and
every time Kawhi Leonard seemed to have that

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silencer, and then PG thirteen joined
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the claw on those ISOs in the
posts. It's just so tough to guard

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because this Pelicans team doesn't have a
defender who can maybe stick with them.

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And then the second best defense in
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But this is just such an explosive, deep talented offense that it's so

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hard to find a whole on that
end, and the Clippers made sure they

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picked at the scab. That was
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Terrence Man, the three ball is
coming around. I believe he has

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hit six of his last nine attempts
over the last three games. Now after

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air bawling is first, then he
would get one to go in the first

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quarter and had a big three before
the half when the Clippers really started to

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open this thing up. They led
by fifteen to that the half. Yeah,

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Terrence Man just doing his thing,
just being himself and that has been

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huge for this team. Today he
has just three shots at him, but

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they were big shots every single time, a couple of big offensive rebounds,

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doing the little things for this team. They battled for every loose ball.

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I think that's one of the reasons
why it's so fun to watch them play

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at him. And hopefully we described
this one in the radio, is the

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Clippers are diving for every fifty to
fifty ball. They're on the deck,

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they're getting to the rim, they're
working offensive rebounds. They continue to just

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hound teams when the plays are up
for grams and that intensity, that ability

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to attack when it's just an effort
play is huge. Momentum swings and the

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Clippers who've seen that swing their way
multiple times during this winning street. Yeah,

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we're talking about the hot shooting,
but they won this game with their

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defense holding a team to ninety five
points, and really they got going later

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in that fourth quarter during garbage time
where New Orleans had twenty seven, but

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they look like at one point where
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The Clippers were just so good and
relentless as you bring up defensively,

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swarming, holding a team to thirty
five percent from the floor and a team

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this good that just took down the
Minnesota Timberwolves had one four straight, was

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on their home court and got off
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just I mentioned it early on,
but it seemed like they were tightening things

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up. They were down I want
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but they kept competing and it just
looked like they knew. They had that

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confidence that hey, we can figure
this out. We're gonna overwhelm them with

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talent. At some point here,
they're gonna start missing shot and that's when

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we'll make our move. Yeah.
And it all starts, like you said,

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on that defensive end, when you're
getting stopped, when you're forcing tough

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shots and the Pelicans are making it, you know your time is coming at

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some point. It just has to
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And they stuck with it and got
it done. And Adam, as

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we flipped the calendar, Oh,
does that game on Sunday look so so

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nice? If you can make it
six in a row. Yeah, and

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a get back victory against the Lakers, who broke the Clippers winning streak against

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them. Of I want to say
eleven straight earlier this season. But as

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we have said many times throughout this
broadcast, this is a different Clippers team

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right now than what we saw just
a month month and a half ago with

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James Harden. Now, with this
new starting lineup, they are nineteen and

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five over their last twenty four games, just playing some of the best ball

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in the history of this franchise.
Can't overstate that enough. They win in

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New Orleans for the first time in
four years, one eleven to ninety five

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over the Pelicans. Carlo Jimenez,
great call, Talk to you back at

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Crypto on Sunday. Tip off against
the Lakers is at six thirty. Love

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your pregame show starting at five thirty. Safe travels, my friend, and

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again great call as always, Thank
you so much. Gna monsaid, who

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just can't come quick enough. How
much fun is this? Nineteen and five?

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Let's keep it rolling, let's go
coming up second half highlights, Clippers

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dismantle the Pelicans in New Orleans.
They end up winning one eleven to ninety

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five, and you're listening to the
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Clippers continue their hunt for a Lario
be They still want to get that Lario

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beat. Don't miss a moment all
season long. This is the LA Clippers

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Audio Network. Yeah, the Clippers
will be back in Cali tomorrow. Make

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it Sunday night against the Lakers.
After a victorious road trip, they win

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one, eleven to ninety five in
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straight after losing two in a row, where before that they had won ninth

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straight. They have been lost in
their last twelve games. When Kawhi Leonard

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has been on the floor. They
dominate the New Orleans Pelicans and win in

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a place they hadn't won in since
twenty twenty one, eleven to ninety five.

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What's your final? Clippers led by
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on a twenty three to seven run
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kept it going in the third when
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corner three for the claw. New
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Clippers by twenty two. Frank corner
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He'll try damn come act go Whi
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free throw line. Chimneys and shakes
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back to back buckets, seven to
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on the other side, baseline jumper
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taking Ingram with them. Kawhi had
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quarter. To end the period,
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Clippers went on a sixteen to five
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led by twenty four. It was
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on to blow out New Orleans as
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one eleven to ninety five. In
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Big coming up next, We'll get
to your final box score right here

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on the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network. They want to bring a banner with

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them to the into it down more
LA Clippers basketball on the LA Clippers Audio

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Network. Clippers win one eleven to
ninety five in New Orleans over the Pelicans.

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Welcome back into your postgame show.
I'm at a Moslin. Clippers make

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it five straight nineteen their last twenty
four contests. They have won twelve straight

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with Kawhi Leonard and dare I say
this is the best regular season run this

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franchise has ever had. I know
they won seventeen straight back in the twenty

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twelve twenty thirteen season, they weren't
as dominant as this. They weren't beating

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as high level of competition like this
team is right now. They just destroyed

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the Pelicans. After a game that
was tied in the first quarter, they

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blew them out the rest of the
way. Won the second quarter thirty to

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fifteen, won the third thirty six
to twenty seven. Win the ballgame one

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eleven to ninety five, quick time
out. We got one more break for

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stations following us here. We'll be
right back after this. Clippers win by

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sixteen, but it wasn't even that
close. In New Orleans, listening to

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the Los Angeles Clippers Audio Network,
the LA Clippers continue their hunt for a

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Lario be. They still want to
get that Lario beat. Don't miss a

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moment all season longed. This is
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one elevens and ninety five in New
Orleans over the Pelicans in a game they

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led by as many as thirty one
in starters got to rest much of the

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fourth as Paul George had twenty four
and six threes twenty four points on just

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fifteen shots, Kawhi with nineteen on
fifteen shots. Clippers go fifteen to thirty

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six from the outside. After starting
off three of sixteen, they would hit

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twelve of their next twenty one from
three against a team that holds teams their

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lowest shooting percentage from the outside in
the New Orleans Pelicans, not tonight.

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The Clippers hold the Pelicans is just
thirty six percent from the floor ninety five

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points, and really it wasn't even
that close. Some stat padding in the

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fourth quarter from the Pels as the
game was out of reach. Clippers make

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it five straight nineteen of their last
twenty four, fourteen of their last sixteen,

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twelve straight victories when Kawhi Leonard is
out there, and they're now twenty

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two and twelve. That six game
losing streak that was so last year.

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Clippers now eight and eight on the
road, coming back home, although technically

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a road game on Sunday against the
Lakers, tip off is at six thirty.

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I'll have your pregame show starting right
back here at five point thirty.

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Outside of Los Angeles, we are
leaving you until then, but coming up

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next here on AM five to seventy
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This has been LA Clippers basketball really
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the Clippers, they were in attack
mode, Adam Osley. I mean they

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call it the Big Easy for a
reason. And tonight finally it was for

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the Clippers. They blow out the
Pelicans in New Orleans one eleven to ninety

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five, led by as many as
thirty one. Welcome in the Clippers Talk.

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I'm ant a Moslin eight six six
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six six ninety eight seven two five
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on X still going through it with
the cold so more time for you,

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as there was more garbage time in
this one than I ever would have expected.

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But that's how good the Clippers were. They improved to twenty two and

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twelve, eight and eight on the
road. They're coming back to take on

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the Lakers Sunday night. They've won
five straight, longest winning streak in the

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West. Both teams had won four
straight heading into this one. The Pelicans

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just won in Minnesota only the second
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Pelicans just beat them, and the
Clippers just made them look small. A

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team with that size was Zion when
Jones, Valanciunis, Herb Jones his length,

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brandon Ingram just twelve points. The
defense showed up the Clippers defense in

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this game. I'm gonna pull the
box score after the third quarter because that

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was more indicative of how the game
went. New Orleans was under thirty six

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percent from the floor at that time. They had just sixty eight points through

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three quarters. This is not nineteen
ninety five. That type of stuff is

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unheard of. The Clippers holding them
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leading by fifteen at the half,
just suffocating after the game was tied twelve

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minutes in, it was twenty six
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the second when the Clippers opened things
up. They went on a twenty three

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to seven run, fueled by their
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down threes. After starting just three
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hit twelve of their next twenty one. Aviza Zubas got involved on a couple

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of assists midway through the second quarter
from James Harden, who had let me

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check this, thirteen assists to just
one turnover diamond everywhere like my guy dime

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dropper with the pot on locked on. Aviza Zubas gets a couple of easy

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buckets and all of a sudden,
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their biggest lead up till that point, but Brandon Ingram came back hit a

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shot two point game. Then Norman
Palace started to get downhill. Tough floater

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James Harden hits a three. Uh
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James Harden now blows by Larry Nance
Junior for a lamp going to his left

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PG thirteen jumper, Paul George three, another three, Terrence Man three,

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and just like that, a twenty
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and the Clippers are up fifty six
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they let up no an enemy territory? They knew they had to continue to

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play through whatever adversity that crowd was
gonna throw at him. Zion started things

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off after a Clippers turnover with an
easy one in the third, but then

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Paul George silencer three porter of eats
a Zoobots big throwdown, assisted by who

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else James Harden. Terrence Man gets
to the line. Kawhi Leonard, who

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I think had just seven points in
the first half, then got to work

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a three porter off a nice assist
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and then gets in the line,
goes one of two, another three from

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Kawhi, a fade away from Kawhi
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a ten footer from Kawhi. Leonard
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third quarter, but he gets taken
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He knocks down a big three,
Russ hits a three pg, another three,

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Norman Pale a three pointer at the
buzzer to end the third Clippers are

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up ninety two to sixty eight entering
the fourth quarter after a sixteen to five

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run to end the third quarter.
That's what championship teams do. Finish quarters

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strong and put teams away when you're
up big in the third. Norman Powell

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entered the fourth and started things off
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as good as advertised since he has
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I love to move. Then I
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has now if you listen, pregame
had Andrew Gryfon from the La Times penned

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a great article about Norman Powell and
his mentality where he's no longer worried about

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being an All star. He just
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he gets. Control that part of
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most of it. He's turned into
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Powell Rangers, their new death lineup
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and Big Zoo have been destroying teams
where there are plus forty nine. I

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want to say, in sixty minutes
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coach lou is keeping it close to
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with that lineup. He's not gonna
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But Norman is over sixty percent from
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from three and fourth quarters, and
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And at that point I'm like,
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Kawhi out of here. He would
play a few more minutes, hit a

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tough fade away that would get him
to nineteen points. Clippers are up ninety

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nine to seventy comes out of the
game. They end up winning one to

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eleven to ninety five, where Big
Plumb made his re debut, first time

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out there since the knee injury.
Looked all right two two of two,

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had eight points and seven minutes cut
to the line. Look comfortable. Didn't

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need him during the meaningful minutes.
Daniel Tice was good again. Remember Big

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Plump came to coach lew and said, I don't want to disrupt what's going

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on right now and ruin a good
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I see what Daniel Tice has done. Rest assured they will need Mason Plumbley

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as the season moves along. But
love that mentality. Everybody sacrificing, everybody's

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getting touches, feeling like they're involved. This is, I'm gonna say it,

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the best regular season run in the
Clippers franchise history. I know they

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won seventeen straight before in twenty twelve
and twenty thirteen. They also loaded up

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against some really bad teams during that
stretch. Sacramento a few times, the

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Suns a few times, the Mavericks
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times, the Clippers. During this
run, they have been beating up on

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great competition. It started with taking
down Sacramento up in NorCal when Kawhi announced,

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yeah, I'm fully recovered, I'm
two years off the acl Things are

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about to look different, and they
have. Last fourteen games for the Claw

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sixty percent from the floor, fifty
percent from the outside. Didn't even need

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them much in the first half and
they still were up by fifteen. Got

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to work in the third to hold
back any run that the Pelicans were making.

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They beat Sacramento again. They've beaten
Golden State multiple times during this run,

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including a twenty two point comeback.
They beat the Knicks. They beat

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Indiana on their home floor, the
blowout with James Harden going for twenty one

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in that fourth quarter. They won
in Dallas over Luca, over Kyrie.

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They just beat Memphis and gave them
their first loss with jaw back, best

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victory in there though. Probably the
win over Dever today was good too.

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The win in Phoenix without Kevin Durant
still pretty good. But the win over

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Denver to me, when you hadn't
beaten that team eight straight times, I

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want to say Denver Nuggets had beaten
them, dominated them. New Orleans had

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just won nine of ten against the
Clippers and ten in the last twelve,

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and the Clippers hadn't won in New
Orleans since twenty twenty. This Clippers team

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is different, So what changed?
How did they get to this point?

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What's the biggest difference maker? Well, in the over the last twenty four

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games were they're nineteen and five.
That span of twenty four games is since

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they started bringing Russell Westbrook off the
bench, which empowered James Harden to have

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the ball in his hands and do
what he does. Run, pick and

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roll, dissect defenses, throw dimes
to everyone. Or did I tell you

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what was gonna happen Day one?
He's gonna unlock the best version of two

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to one. Three said it day
one. Once he gets comfortable, it's

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gonna look like it did in Brooklyn
when he was playing next to Kyrie and

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KD. And it has, and
he's taken things even further. He's starting

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to get that burst back. He
had a hamstring injury with the Nets.

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In the last couple of years.
He's looked okay movement wise, but he's

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blown by guys lately. Blue Bye
Larry NAIs Junior for that layup going to

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his left as he loves to do. The guy didn't need to score much

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in the game at all, and
he was in complete control of it.

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He goes two of seven hits a
three that blow by. I mentioned eight

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points, but thirteen assists to one
turnover. Are you kidding me? The

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Clippers with twenty eight turnovers or he's
twenty eight use me assists on their forty

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Maine shots. Beautiful basketball. I
heard so often that oh, it's just

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gonna be more ISO ball bringing in
a guy like James Harden. Really there's

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actually been less. Kawhi is getting
to his spots and having to do less

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to get there. Harden's finding him
in his sweet spots. Where he likes

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to be on the court. Same
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Thirteen by Guy Justin Wilson brought it
up the other day. He's like a

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Michael Porter junior on steroids. That's
the beauty of Paul George. He can

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just fit in catch and shoot.
He can ISO. He's so unselfish out

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there. He'll find ways to get
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Kawhi's more of an ISO heavy guy, not as much catch and shoot,

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but he can do it all too. And James Harden, some people

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thought he was done. Some people
thought he disrupted what they had going.

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Please, he's a enhanced at all. Imagine not wanting James Harden on this

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team. Imagine thinking that you'd be
better off without him, that he was

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just a dribbler. How are you
feeling about it now? Clippers have won

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fourteen of their last sixteen twelve straight
with Kawhi Leonard, and they're turning into

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a buzzsaw and they're just getting better. You can see the growth or just

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progressing and tightening things up as the
games go along. I said it early

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on the first quarter, Clippers were
down by six, but they were just

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chipping away. They were zoning in
and focusing more on how they're gonna beat

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this Pelican's team, and eventually they
just tightened the clamps on them and clamp

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City was there elite defense. They
came into this one. The Pelicans were

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the second best defense over the last
twelve games, Clippers' second best offense over

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the last twelve games. Said something
had to give. It was the Pels.

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The Clippers looked like the better defense
and obviously better offense. Beautiful basketball

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to watch, Just a well organized
group right now. Give coach lou a

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ton of credit. But I'm telling
you this team is going to get better

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and they need to get better.
They're not getting complacent, they're not satisfied.

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It's still early January. But there's
something about going through that adversity early

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on, losing those six games in
a row and five straight when they first

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got James Harden. Some teams are
dealing with adversity now like the Lakers.

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Clippers got theirs early and they overcame
it. They turned a corner and when

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they inevitably have to go through some
more later in the season, they'll look

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back and have that confidence to say, we've done this, We've beaten it

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before. They'll go through a stretchfel
they've got three straight losses, probably,

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and they'll remember who they are and
how they've been able to work and climb

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their way out of it. They
dug themselves a hole. They were three

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and seven, Now they're twenty two
and twelve, first in the Pacific.

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They got a shot at a top
three seed. What have I been saying

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for years outside of the ninety five
Houston Rockets, if you aren't a top

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three seed, you aren't winning the
championship. That's what history says. It

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matters what happens in the regular season
does translate to the postseason. To act

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like, oh, we'll just watch
games once once the postseason comes around,

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it's all a crapshoot anyways. No, it's always the top three seed that

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wins it. Clippers positioning themselves right. Just love the way this team is

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playing basketball, and I think it's
the best regular season run in the history

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of the franchise. That's war seeing
right now. To start things off,

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Don in Lembert Park, Don what's
up here on Clippers? All right?

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Right? Alright? What's up done? All right? Long time listener man

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listen to Clippers talk after every game. I've been watching this team man,

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real hard since Thanksgiving, and I'm
loving what I see. I've seen the

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I have I have an eye test
thing where I'm not really big on percentages.

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It's great with Kawai is doing in
this teen game twelve game stretch with

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sixty forty ninety is crazy, but
I'm loving new idea. Yeah, sixty

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to fifty ninety, oh exactly,
that's ridiculous. But yeah, man,

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I think we found our new identity. I think our identity is defense.

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Defense. Defense. We know what
Kawai can do, he says the tone.

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I believe he's a two time defensive
Player of the Year. Yep.

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And when Russ comes off the bench, he doubles down man on the defensive

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intensity. And when we keep,
when we keep that high level of defense

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where I'm loving to see the active
hands guys in the passing lanes and you

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know, getting deflections and leading to
steals, that that leads to our transition

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points, who ultimately you know,
gives us you know, four or five

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six point leads, which you know
ends up the fifteen point leads. You

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know what I mean. And once
once our guys, you know, established

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about a ten to fifteen point lead, it's like now they can Now they

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can play free. They can play
free. You know, there's kind of

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no pressure and they start knocking down
shots. And that's what I'm loving.

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That's what I'm loving about this team. Man, it's ridiculous, but yeah,

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the defense is going to be our
identity moving forward. They say defense

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wins championships. I really think that's
gonna be our modo for twenty twenty four

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You know, I'm with you,
don It starts on that end. And

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guess who else is with you?
Kawhi Leonard, he's been preaching this.

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He always stresses defense. He was
brought up with the San Antonio Spurs organization.

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He's got that championship pedigree, won
the Finals MVP in twenty fourteen with

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them. He knows what it takes, he knows what a championship squad looks

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like. And I said this early
on, but there was something different in

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the PEP and the step from Kawhi
Leonard and just how in tune he was

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in focused possession to possession and holding
guys accountable. And I thought to myself,

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he knows the ingredients are there.
That this team can win it all,

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and that's why he's been so demanding. That's why he doesn't want any

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slippage on either end of the floor. He can see it. They can

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build the right way, step by
step, building championship habits to try to

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get to the top of the mountain. The roster is there, the pieces

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are there. They got everything they
need. Kawhi and PG had been asking

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for a point guard like this with
James Harden for some time. They got

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it. Now it's coming together.
Work to be done is still early,

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no doubt, but you gotta like
what you're seeing. Suk and Fullerton.

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Suk, He're on clipperstock without a
mazl Adam. Hope you're feeling better.

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What a game, sweet victory on
the New Orleans floor. You know,

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I just wanted to chime in on
whether this is the greatest run we've ever

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had. I definitely think, though
not even so much because of the teams

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that we've beaten how we've beaten them, but because of where we're at right

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now. I mean, you just
see the sacrifice that the players are making.

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You see the energy everybody is bringing
in, and like you said,

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everyone still wants to get better.
I mean, I think I heard today

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that the squad is actually doing more
shoot arounds, like you know, they're

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still ramping up. So it's where
this is the greatest run, not even

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because of what's happened, but because
of I think where we're at and what

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we expect to happen next. This
is the most confident I've seen this team.

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The organization feels confident, players feel
confident, and I think even the

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fan base is feeling great. Obviously, want to give a shout out to

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coach Lou. I think every time
I call in, I mention him a

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Coach of the Month for December and
the Western Conference, and he's just got

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such an amazing arsenal to pick from. You know, you want you want

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lethal offense, bringing Powell, you
need more defense, see man, you

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need energy, bring in Westbrook.
I won't even talk about Kawhi and PG

406
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because one or both of them are
going to be playing at an m VP

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level. Obviously, Zoo just uh. And then I think Lou is really

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helped by probably one of the best
floor generals out in the league right now.

409
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You know, there's a lot of
people that were you know, there's

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this debate going on of did people
want Harden or did they not want Harden.

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I don't think anyone expected it to
be this good. I did,

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did I not say he'd unlock the
best version of Kawhi and PG. I

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thought the fit was perfect. I
talked about it back in July and I

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said, then, if you get
hard and you've got to bring Russ off

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the bench, that's how you get
more defined roles. And it's worked perfectly

416
00:34:54.400 --> 00:35:00.559
since then. I'm amazed. I'm
amazed at how how well he's orchestrating the

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game. I mean, the end
of the third quarter today, you know,

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just the sense of the shock clock, you know. I think he

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made the three and then he dishes
dished the Powell for the last three at

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the buzzer. I don't know.
Pieces are all just hitting. But I

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just love where we're at right now. Greatest run because of where we're at

422
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.840
right now and what I see coming
next. All right, Suke, I

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appreciate the phone call. We'll get
back to your calls coming up quick time

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out. Clippers went in New Orleans
for the first time in four years.

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They are able to take down the
Pels slay the Dragon in impressive, dominating

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fashion. One eleven to ninety five. They're coming back to take on the

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Lakers on Sunday Night. More Clippers
stock next year on the M five to

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seventy LA Sports. They want to
bring a banner with them to the into

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It doll More LA Clippers Basketball on
the LA Clippers Audio Network. Down well

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living, lack of Rockstar and no
money on my brand new gets are up

431
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and up. It's up to something
here. My mouser, a sports car,

432
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got a cold, so it makes
it even better. Okay, Clippers

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win big over the Pelicans, one
eleven to ninety five. And while we

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have a moment, let's pause ten
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Clippers dominate the Pelicans. Finally they
beat this team, and they just continue

438
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:53.360
to do things that we've been waiting
for them to do in the regular season.

439
00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:58.519
It all goes back to media day
Coach Lou and really, you know

440
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:04.519
what exit interview with Frank l Frank
last season. You gotta respect the regular

441
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.679
season is what he said. We
got to get back to respecting the regular

442
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:15.400
season. They have. They're twenty
two and twelve. They're being more serious

443
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:21.599
with their play, with their lineups, their rotations, availability has been there,

444
00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:29.119
knock on Wood and things are going
their way since the James Harden trade.

445
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:35.119
Everything you're wanting to see those hurdles
they have to get over checking those

446
00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:37.480
boxes of Okay, can they beat
this team though? Can they win big?

447
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:43.000
Can they close out? Can they
just stand a run, make one

448
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:46.519
of their own and put a team
away. It's all happening. Let anythingle

449
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:51.719
Wood, You're on Clipper stock without
a mousling and Billy Ray? What's up?

450
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:57.039
Lenny? Who next? Where?
Okayc at listen? I don't even

451
00:37:57.079 --> 00:38:00.760
say something. I don't even care
about the Lakers on Sunday. We should

452
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:06.519
we should time News to just mess
with their heads and load managed Paul and

453
00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:13.239
Kawhi and beat him with promptly tys
Powell and Harden. I'm telling you,

454
00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:17.159
man, we're good. We're good. We there were there because like you

455
00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:22.400
said, Kawhi knew early on we
have to build good habits and that's what

456
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:28.000
we're doing, man. And we
basically anybody who's to saw that game.

457
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:31.960
No, we know we beat them
by thirty. We switched out the entire

458
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sub, out the whole starting lineup, and brought in our bench bench bench

459
00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:38.360
Jews. And obviously he takes the
minute to get they get warnd up,

460
00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:43.239
but we basically punched them in the
mouth and took their lunch money, all

461
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:45.920
that stuff they were talking and every
tidy I said last year, I was

462
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:50.960
a little afraid of Zion. Zion
has immense talent, but he's not the

463
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:55.360
competitor that Kawhi and PG is right
now because they got chips on the shoulder.

464
00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:00.760
Kawhi knows he's been overlooked for too
long. He knows he that dude

465
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and PG and it hasn't tasted the
cup. It hasn't drank from the cup,

466
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:09.960
and neither has Neither has Hardened or
Westbrook and they coming and Powle too.

467
00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:15.119
That's a great article that that dude
put up about Powell And one example

468
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for young cats. It's the same
thing like they're saying acting. There's no

469
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:23.480
such thing as a small role,
only a small actor. So you got

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to bring whatever you got to the
to the to the to the to the

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game. And make it work for
you and your team. So proud of

472
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.800
power, so proud to see these
guys developed, so proud of promptly.

473
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:37.840
And it's good to see him get
some run. He was, he was

474
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:42.000
contributing and he's definitely gonna be ready
when when we get to March in April.

475
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:45.360
So just a really good win man. Man, Like I'm saying,

476
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:46.760
we just got to stack him.
We got to stack him. We know

477
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:52.480
the ultimate goal is, but first
we gotta we got to pay off you

478
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:57.559
know who basically took took out lots
of money in the past. We paid

479
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:01.559
off the Nuggets, hitting paid now
we changed back. We did our work

480
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.719
on the Pelicans, and like I
said, okay, see is next.

481
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.400
Okay see in Boston is next.
Thing. We don't get them both.

482
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:10.800
I don't even care about that Lakers
game. Man, let them. I'd

483
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:15.440
rather, I'd rather, I'd rather
rest our boys and take take suns on

484
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:20.679
Monday again. So keep it up
at them, get better and let's do

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00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:27.559
this. Thank you, Lenny,
appreciate the phone call to me. The

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00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:31.519
most positive sign in this ball game
was how the Clippers ended quarters. I

487
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:36.840
mentioned the second and third quarter runs
they entered the first quarter on a ten

488
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to two run, second quarter twenty
three to seven run got them up fifteen,

489
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third quarter sixteen to five run got
them up twenty four. That stuff

490
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:55.360
that when you're looking at building the
right habits, that's what it is.

491
00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:04.400
It's about closing quarters. It's about
getting up on teams and not letting them

492
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:09.239
back into ballgames. And the Clippers
haven't always been great with that. They've

493
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:14.639
been great and their identity for the
most part in the two to three era

494
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:21.519
is coming back. They got the
second biggest comeback in regular season history,

495
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:27.639
the biggest comeback in postseason history for
the twenty nineteen squad. So before Kawhi

496
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:31.559
and Paul George, but they've been
gritty, little engine that could team that

497
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:39.880
has to overcome a lot. But
now you want to embrace being that big

498
00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:46.760
dog, that dominant team with all
the expectations. And I'm not saying they

499
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:50.639
have it at times, because I
think they were gonna win in twenty twenty

500
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:53.920
one. If Kawhi doesn't go down, they're clearly beating Phoenix with him.

501
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:58.519
They took them a six without them, and I think from what I saw

502
00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:04.079
against him and Giannis in twenty nineteen
with the raptors. They're winning in the

503
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:09.320
finals too with Kawhi. But there's
something with the fan base where I keep

504
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:12.559
seeing people say, no, no, no, we want to fly under

505
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:16.840
the radar. We don't want people
to know we're good guys. It comes

506
00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:25.960
with the territory. You got to
embrace it, those expectations, that responsibility

507
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:34.639
of being a great team. You
can't win it all flying under the radar.

508
00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:39.039
At some point you are going to
be talked about. And the Clippers

509
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:44.079
are on a lot of people's radars
now in the national media. They flipped,

510
00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:49.719
they didn't stay on their side.
They're coming back. I knew they

511
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:53.559
would wouldn't take long. Morris in
Long Beach, you're on Clippers stop without

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00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:58.599
a Mauslim. Hey you know what, Adam, I want to thank your

513
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:02.360
previous caller. Everybody know that Tyron
Lue was the coach of the Coach of

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00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:07.039
the Month for December because I don't
know who. I don't know who else

515
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:08.159
it would have been. And now
I don't know if people know this.

516
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:13.840
This December the first the Clippers have
been. I don't know who the statistics

517
00:43:14.119 --> 00:43:17.599
they are, but they're first in
like three different categories. Shooting from the

518
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:21.679
floor from the I mean, they're
just awesome. Not in the top ten,

519
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:25.000
they're number one. And you know, the low point, the low

520
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.239
point just this my opinion, the
low point for the Clippers when they lost

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00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:31.880
to Denver, when they lost to
Denver and nobody was on the team that

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00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:36.519
night for Denver and they lost.
The high point for the Clippers was when

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00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.880
they beat the Joker. And in
my opinion, the Denver Nuggets are still

524
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:43.639
the world champions until somebody stayed different. And you saw what they did yesterday

525
00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:45.840
to Golden State. They had a
big league Golden State did and Joker hit

526
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:49.639
that shot at the last what point
something at the end of the winning game.

527
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:52.159
They're tough, Denver Stubb. But
I'm gonna tell you about the Clippers.

528
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.480
The Clippers got three All Stars.
Come to All Star Break, they're

529
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:58.599
gonna be the first place team and
the West gonna be lost Angels, Slippers,

530
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:00.199
and they're gonna have three guys and
all start. You're talking about making

531
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.840
runs, you're right at and we
always feel him a thumbder And the NBA

532
00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:06.800
is about how do you close a
quarter? How do you close the quarter?

533
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:08.639
You could be doing real good that
quarter and throw it at the end,

534
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:13.760
they are closing quarters big time.
We got us a team here at

535
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:15.639
him. And by the way,
I'm gonna let you go with this.

536
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:20.039
There's an apology church. There's apologetic
term going on a tour. There's a

537
00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:23.760
how apologetic tour going on. Everybody's
apologizes for what they said about James Harden

538
00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:27.760
When when when the Clippers bird lost
four or five games, you know,

539
00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:30.559
bad trades. I mean they were
just jumping all kinds of stuff on the

540
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:32.480
guy. You already hear this tour. People are just praising him left and

541
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:36.440
right now. Your voice, steven
A. Smith, I know you like

542
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:38.239
him. I'm being sarcastic now.
He ain't came around yet. But if

543
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:40.719
you listen to stephen A. Smith, he knows the English language. He

544
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:44.719
always uses the conditional chance to give
him a way out. But I'm still

545
00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:45.840
mad at him because, like he
said, he needs to go on the

546
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:50.360
campaign and that everybody knows the choir
is back, that boy is back.

547
00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:52.599
Okay, you behave yourself. I'm
glad to do him better at him,

548
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:54.760
you sounds better too, all right. I wish steven A would stay on

549
00:44:54.800 --> 00:45:00.480
his side like last season when he
said Kawhi Leonards should retire. He's already

550
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:06.880
flipped. He doesn't think we have
those receipts. I've made sure to post

551
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:16.280
that audio often. It was a
lot of disrespect, and I get what

552
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:22.880
his gig is. It's hot take
radio. He's built a career doing it.

553
00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:29.719
I just would like a little bit
more accountability when you're that insanely wrong.

554
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:37.000
Make the apology as loud as the
disrespect was. But it's still early,

555
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:42.559
guys. As exciting as this is, as encouraging as this is,

556
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:47.519
as much as you should celebrate wins
even during the regular season, it's okay

557
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.840
too. It's okay to talk about
how this is the best stretch of Clippers

558
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:59.400
basketball in the regular season in franchise
history. The focus still has to be

559
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:05.800
win in that first championship. That's
it. The good news is I'm not

560
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:09.519
worried about this team losing sight of
that. Coach lou has them focused.

561
00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:15.440
Raoul in Baldwin Park the first stop
for that. I'm awesome. What's up,

562
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:20.440
roll yo? What up? Man? Yeah? It was it was

563
00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:22.480
a good good w I don't know
what to say about this team, but

564
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.880
looking good. Hopefully it can stay
healthy. I know they competed it's good

565
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:34.239
last year year before that. The
healthy part of that worries me. You

566
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.800
know, you can't you can't predict
that part of it, Raoul, You

567
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:42.119
just can't. What can you do
about it? Or I have a history

568
00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.920
with this team, didn't dating back
old three when had Elton brands so good,

569
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:50.440
you know, so oh yeah,
hopefully hopefully that's how I cross your

570
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:54.599
fingers, cross your fingers, cross
my fingers. Yeah, and then uh

571
00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:59.920
oh, then yeah, we're cool
without James Hornier. I went to okiy

572
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:05.480
opening night and when Westbrook was starting
point guard, the office is looking smoothly

573
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:08.519
even in him as a starting point
guard because he just drives it in defense

574
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:14.880
and sold with so much energy.
And it's just a just a flashback memory.

575
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:19.960
Remember when Westbrook was a Laker,
I remember, yeah, it was

576
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:22.320
it wasn't that long ago. I'm
pretty aware of what he was a Waker.

577
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:28.800
I remember. I remember he said
that I never want to be a

578
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:35.559
he never. I will never want
to be a Clipper never. But yeah,

579
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:39.159
I was reported. Then he became
a Clipper. The Clipper farent welcomed

580
00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:44.760
him with the open arms and the
family, the fans, they they didn't

581
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:49.599
disrespect his son didn't say called Westbrook
for the the Sun. And then next

582
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:52.440
thing you know, he's he's probably
a Clipper. He's waving his flag,

583
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:54.559
you know, waving his Clipper shirt, going and give me high virus to

584
00:47:54.599 --> 00:48:00.280
the front row fans and he's like
so he attitude change and energy change and

585
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:02.480
everything. He's happy, just put. He's happy to being a Clipper.

586
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:10.000
He was missed kills, he kills
they all you know, you know,

587
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.719
they just takeed all this mess and
you know he wasn't doing that with you

588
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:20.920
guys being all happy and so no
Saul turned Paul whatever you want to say.

589
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:27.000
He's been embraced by Clipper Nation.
They love him. He gets the

590
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.719
loudest cheers at the arena. I
thought it was a bit of a roller

591
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:35.599
coaster game from him. He had
a steal and a score early on.

592
00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.880
He had a couple of steals right
off the bat, stolen from Zion,

593
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:44.320
a layup to start the second quarter, forced a couple of passes that turned

594
00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:46.960
into turnovers. In the second missed
a couple of threes, but then ended

595
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:53.679
up knocking one down. You take
the good with the bad with Russ When

596
00:48:53.760 --> 00:49:00.920
he is that focused on showing off
his defense and playing hard on that end

597
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:07.880
because he's such a great athlete.
That's what they need from him. That's

598
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:12.559
what they need out of him,
to be a defensive stalwart and to bring

599
00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:15.960
energy off the bench. Five assists
of four turnovers. I just don't like

600
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.840
that number. Four turnovers. That's
far too many and twenty two minutes.

601
00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:24.400
Clippers win though anyways, one eleven
to ninety five. They led by as

602
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:28.280
many as thirty one. Coming up, we'll get back to your phone calls

603
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.239
and will Updyke of clips and Dip. We'll be back with us here.

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00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:35.400
Plus we got postgame audio from coach
Louin the players. They make it five,

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00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:43.880
five straight straight victory. Clippers win
in New Orleans for the first time

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in four years. Amdam Anson,
this is Clippers Dock here on AM five

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to seventy his sports. The LA
Clippers continue their hunt for a LARRYO.

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B. They still want to get
that LARRYO. Bea don't miss a moment

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all season long. This is the
LA Clippers audio. Clippers win in New

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Orleans one eleven to ninety five over
the Pelicans. Welcome back into Clippers Talk.

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I'm in a Moslin's here on M
five to seventy LA Sports. We'll

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get back to your phone calls at
eight sixty six nine eight seven two five

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seventy eight sixty six, ninety seven
two five seventy. But first joining the

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show for the first time in a
good week week and a half is big

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Will Updyke from Clips and Dip.
We got the Clips and Double Dip going

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on right now on Clippers Talk.
The man who coined the nickname for the

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Powell Rangers death lineup is with us. Luckily they really didn't even have to

618
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use it down the stretch and this
one Will they led by as many as

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thirty one. Yeah, it was. It was absolutely unreal. At one

620
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point in that second quarter, I
was wondering why parents man hadn't come back

621
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.199
in yet. But the with Norm
out there plus the starters, the Powell

622
00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:59.559
Rangers were just going off. And
the thing I think that is so impressive

623
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:01.719
about win is this went to me
a little bit, kind of showed the

624
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:07.480
depth. You didn't have like huge
scoring explosions, but the Clipers put this

625
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.239
one away. I mean it was
easily over in three quarters. And that

626
00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:16.280
was with not high scoring or high
efficiency games from Kawhi Leonard or James Harden.

627
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:22.559
I mean, if this game didn't
get your feeling like what the ceiling

628
00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:25.679
of this Clippers team could look like. I don't know what to tell you.

629
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.440
I don't know what to tell You're
not seeing the vision yet. You

630
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:35.840
should get that check. Some went
to Lens Crafters a while ago and have

631
00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:39.960
been seeing clearly with this team with
James Harden. Both of us were pretty

632
00:51:40.039 --> 00:51:45.599
high on them bringing in James Harden, knowing that you know Russell Westbrook,

633
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.400
as good as he is, he
has his limitations with erratic play as your

634
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:53.320
number one play maker, and James
Harden just takes care of the basketball thirteen

635
00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:59.199
assists, one turnover. Since they
took Russ out of the starting lineup,

636
00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:02.320
the Clippers have all been turning it
over twelve and a half times per game.

637
00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.719
But you know, I asked this
question a little bit earlier. Put

638
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.679
it on Twitter, put it out
here on Clippers. Talk to me.

639
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:15.280
This is the best regular season run
in the history of the franchise. I

640
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:22.280
know Ralph Lawler is somebody who would
be more adept at answering something like this.

641
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:27.679
He is the Clippers historian in some
ways as well as a great broadcaster.

642
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.480
But The only other team I can
compare it to is the twenty twelve

643
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:36.800
twenty thirteen team that won seventeen straight, and a lot of those wins they

644
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:38.920
were against some cream puff teams in
there. To me, these wins have

645
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:43.400
been more impressive. What's say you
about this stretcher in the regular season?

646
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:49.280
Will I? This is unreal,
Like this is just a different gear that

647
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:52.960
we haven't seen two one three in. I thought even last year there were

648
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:58.039
some glimpses, but it would it
would rarely even extend the full games.

649
00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:01.119
You know, you might get a
really good or a quarter that you know,

650
00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:06.320
a quarter could bail two on three
out of an entire game. But

651
00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:09.000
now they're kind of playing that they're
on all cylinders. And I do think

652
00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:13.400
the hardened thing is so significant,
both of his efficiency with the ball,

653
00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:17.400
but also just sort of fitting into
the tempo, the rhythm, the metron,

654
00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:22.000
almost of wherever it is this team
likes to operate. That think has

655
00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:27.079
been perfect and it's one of those
things that I think Russell Westbrook does really

656
00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:30.639
well at his own tempo. But
I don't know that it's always the best

657
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:32.840
fit, but I do. I
got to mention him because I thought that

658
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:37.159
he had a superb game tonight eight
five and five with two steals and two

659
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:42.880
blocks. He was really, you
know, doing everything else to help things

660
00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:45.679
happen. And that's what I was
saying when I think that this is the

661
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:49.920
best depth win of the season,
Like, we just got really solid performances

662
00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:53.039
out of the entire bench, and
it's one of those things that you know,

663
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:57.920
with the loss of some of the
wings, I had questions about this

664
00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:00.880
depth, and from where I'm sitting
right now, like it it's just looking

665
00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:07.199
really good and everything is so strong
that if you know, you even have

666
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:09.719
questions about Okay, so like when
did Mason Plumbley fit back in? Where

667
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:13.760
does he come back in now?
Because we know where he was at pre

668
00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:17.119
injury, and that's a perfect fit
for where this team is and where they're

669
00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:21.039
heading. Because I still do not
think that we've seen the ceiling yet,

670
00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:23.079
which is crazy to say. This
has been an insane stretch of games.

671
00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:27.039
Charles and I were just talking,
you know that he loves to talk about

672
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:31.039
March. Clippers have a brutal schedule
in which they play seventeen games, and

673
00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:36.559
after to night, I was thinking, it's not unfathomable to me it's not

674
00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:42.800
unstatholable, fathomable debate. If we
were looking at fourteen and three, thirteen

675
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:46.599
and four, is that insane?
I don't think Pet's heads are falling off.

676
00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:52.320
I don't think it's insane. I
don't think it's that crazy. I

677
00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.599
think it's still true that gauntlet of
the season. I mean, this could

678
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:59.880
be a top two team. This
a top three team for sure, but

679
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:06.199
possitively top two. No, they're
They're right there now. Now. The

680
00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:09.559
teams in front of them aren't exactly
losing much either. Oklahoma City, while

681
00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:13.360
they just lost two in a row, they still have won seven of their

682
00:55:13.440 --> 00:55:15.519
last ten. The Denver Nuggets they're
eight and two in their last ten,

683
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:20.679
Minnesota six and four in their last
ten. Those are the teams they're chasing.

684
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:22.679
But the Clippers are one game back
of the OKC Thunder, who they've

685
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:28.960
only seen one so far this season. Didn't have Kawhi and they would fall.

686
00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:30.119
And I think that was the second
game on the back to back after

687
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:35.960
the game in Dallas, so a
tough one for them. But I agree

688
00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:37.039
with you, I don't think they
have peaked. I don't think they have

689
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:42.800
reached their ceiling. What's been impressive
to me is early on with James Harden,

690
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:49.480
it was hard to keep everyone in
rhythm. And now even when Kawhi

691
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.480
Leonard has a slow first half,
he gets cooking in the third quarter.

692
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:59.079
Like guys are just taking turns and
still staying in the flow of the offense

693
00:55:59.559 --> 00:56:04.400
and finding their quarter or their stretch
of time where they take over the ball

694
00:56:04.519 --> 00:56:08.400
game. Within all those moments where
they're just sharing the basketball and everyone's doing

695
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:15.039
damage at once, you still see
individuals pop within the game and do what

696
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.199
they do best and control the game. When you talk about tempo with James

697
00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:22.440
Harden, he's just controlling the game
and knowing how to keep everyone involved.

698
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:28.760
It's it's such a beautiful brand of
basketball, oh one hundred percent. And

699
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:31.960
I like that you bring up the
great individual performances because I think one big

700
00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:36.719
issue that I've had, certainly I
think a lot of Clippers fans have had

701
00:56:36.760 --> 00:56:39.199
throughout the two and three Eras you
know, sometimes it does feel a little

702
00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:44.039
bit like okay, your turn,
my turn thing. But with this edition

703
00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:47.079
of Harden, we're still getting you
know, guys can shine in their role

704
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:52.440
and in their spots, and you
do see these great individual games but it

705
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:57.920
just feels so much more cohesive.
The flow of the game is just it's

706
00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:01.800
it's suiting sort of everybody. And
I think that like the flour has been

707
00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:07.159
raised so much. I mean,
since the addition of harden Lake, you

708
00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:08.840
know, Vitza Zubos looks like a
different player. We're starting to see Terrence

709
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:12.599
Van come back into his own,
which if that trend continues, I mean,

710
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:19.159
this is just a terrifying starting lineup. But yeah, it's just it's

711
00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:22.840
just the most cohesive that's ever looked. And I that is not that those

712
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:28.000
were not my thoughts coming into the
season, and I think this has exceeded

713
00:57:28.039 --> 00:57:30.840
my expectations of, you know,
of a hardened trade. To be perfectly

714
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:36.320
honest, I Beatza. Zubas had
fifteen to eight and two blocks on six

715
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:38.320
of seven shooting. I don't know
if I've talked about him enough tonight.

716
00:57:38.719 --> 00:57:44.960
He had the left handed dunk over
Jones Valanchutas in that first quarter. He

717
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:47.840
had a hook shot in the second
quarter over him, a dunk off,

718
00:57:47.880 --> 00:57:53.079
a hardened oop, a throwdown again
in the second quarter, a bucket when

719
00:57:53.079 --> 00:57:57.159
they went through a drought in the
third quarter. With that lineup where it

720
00:57:57.280 --> 00:58:00.239
was the Big Four again where they
tried Russell Westbrook next to James Harden,

721
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:06.599
Kawhi PG and Zubots twice in this
game they tried it and the Pelicans would

722
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:10.159
go on runs, but Zoo again
in the third put them up by seventeen

723
00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:15.440
off a nice pass from James Harden. Just he's unlocked the best version of

724
00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:20.440
Avitza Zubots, and the full potential
maybe of Avitza Zubots is still to come

725
00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:23.960
because he has a playmaker like James
Harden. He has his CP three.

726
00:58:24.119 --> 00:58:29.800
Now we love Avitza Zubots of course, will just talk about the play we've

727
00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:35.280
seen from him next to Udo.
I mean, it's been unreal. You

728
00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:38.400
know, we heard them talking about
the chemistry. Obviously it wasn't the smoothest

729
00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:43.840
to start, but Zoo has always
been, you know, a good roller,

730
00:58:44.199 --> 00:58:47.320
a great screen setter. He has
picking roll chemistry to a certain degree

731
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:52.440
with everybody who handles the ball,
you know, with Kawhi and Paul George

732
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:58.679
certainly, but never with a never
with a guard like Harden. So you

733
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:00.719
know, we knew it was gonna
be working progress. It's still not at

734
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:05.199
a ceiling, but where it's at
right now is incredible given the amount of

735
00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:07.840
time. But the thing that's so
impressive to me is that, you know,

736
00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:12.599
we've always thought like Zoo was capable
of being a double double guy.

737
00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.199
But I think this stretch, to
me, what's been so impressive is like

738
00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:20.599
beyond the box scores, he just
looks like a different guy out there.

739
00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:22.320
I mean, I mean, he
just looks you know, we would always

740
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:25.360
get into things of how like Zoo
needs to be that needs to play like

741
00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:29.360
the biggest guy on the floor,
and I just think he's doing that one

742
00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:32.920
hundred percent now. He just he
looks different. He has a different sort

743
00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:37.519
of confidence, he's playing the game
with a different sort of aggression. It's

744
00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:43.280
it's incredible, it's incredible, and
it's uh. I think that that is

745
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:46.519
just another one of those things that
like, with this sort of cohesiveness or

746
00:59:46.519 --> 00:59:51.199
whatever that they found, everybody is
really shining. And this just, I

747
00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:55.360
don't know, it just feels like
a championship team. This team feels ready.

748
00:59:55.960 --> 01:00:00.679
It's like Zuo's a made man out
there. Finally he's a part of

749
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:05.239
being one of the stars on this
team where it's not just oh and then

750
01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:08.400
we have this big man starting with
us a Vita Zobots. He's so important

751
01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:12.960
to what they do. It is
critical and a lot of us have known

752
01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:15.480
this for a while, but I
don't know. There's a different or about

753
01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:20.360
him, a different level of confidence. He's coming into his own. James

754
01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:23.960
Harden has emboldened him. It's just
so fun to watch because I've always felt

755
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:28.199
like he's just this unsung hero on
the team, willing to do whatever it

756
01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:31.639
takes, and now he's really being
rewarded offensively for how good he is and

757
01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:37.920
being the backbone of their defense.
Let's talk about your guy, Norman Powell

758
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:42.000
and the Powell Rangers. How did
you come up with that beautiful nickname which

759
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:45.079
is going to live on for a
long time here, Will, I'm a

760
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:50.119
keeper of receipts positive and negative.
You are the man for coming up with

761
01:00:50.239 --> 01:00:54.000
that. It's unbelievable because that is
their death lineup with Norman Powell, who,

762
01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:58.239
by the way, is also playing
the best, most efficient basketball of

763
01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:02.599
his career. Oh, unreal,
unreal. Yeah, I think I think

764
01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:07.039
there were a couple of nicknames floating
around, but uh, yeah, Powell,

765
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:12.079
you gotta have power Rangers in there. Uh, they're a whole squad

766
01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:15.920
and it's you know, they are
the doors. The sum is more than

767
01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:19.239
the parts. But no, I
can't say enough about about Norman Powell.

768
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:22.400
Correct me if I'm wrong. This
has got to be the longest un This

769
01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:27.559
is definitely the longest uninterrupted stretch of
play. He's he's gotten to play as

770
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:30.400
a Clipper, so of course he's
you know, he's playing some of his

771
01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:35.199
best basketball. Of course he's like
it speaks again to this cohesiveness where he's

772
01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:37.400
finally had a chance, you know, even though he's been with this team

773
01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:40.559
for for a couple of years,
to have a full stretch. Uh and

774
01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:45.800
and not only him, but have
the actual starters available for you know,

775
01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:50.679
nearly every game. It's just there
has been an embarrassment of Richards thus far

776
01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:54.920
this season for the Clippers. He
is will Updyke of clips and dip Fame,

777
01:01:55.400 --> 01:01:59.840
the one with the nick names.
Not like it's a friend's episode,

778
01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:02.400
but the guy who's come up with
a lot of these nick names. It's

779
01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:07.719
it's it's awesome. Well, thanks
for doing this tonight. My throat is

780
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:10.960
killing me and you help pick me
up and take a lot of the workload

781
01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:14.480
off my plate. But I know
we got a clips and dip YouTube.

782
01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:16.760
I think coming up tomorrow will preview
the Lakers game and we'll have the Big

783
01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:22.199
three back together to join up with
this new Clippers Big three here. Thanks

784
01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.039
for doing this tonight, will absolutely
thanks for having me. Let's go quit

785
01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:30.280
quick time out. Clippers led by
as many as thirty one over the Pelicans.

786
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:37.199
They win one eleven to ninety five, five straight victories nineteen and five

787
01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:43.440
over the last twenty four games since
the new starting lineup. Y'all want Terrence

788
01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:49.039
Man on the starting lineup? Are
you sure about that? Huh doesn't make

789
01:02:49.119 --> 01:02:52.559
sense to me. Terrorce Man is
starting to find a shooting stroke six for

790
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:57.920
his last nine from the outside.
Looks confident as well out there. Love

791
01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:01.199
what te Man is bringing, helping
set that to early on. If it

792
01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:07.920
ain't broke, don't fix it.
Clippers far from broken right now. Unbelievable.

793
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:12.800
More Clippers stock next year on the
buy seventy LA Sports. They want

794
01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:16.679
to bring a banner with them to
the into a doll More LA Clippers basketball

795
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:24.159
on the LA Clippers Audio Network.
I can't get jiggy with this. See

796
01:03:24.199 --> 01:03:32.360
I think of next Friday whenever I
hear this. Now, not that Chris

797
01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:37.079
Rock got knocked the f out by
Will Smith, but no Michael Blaxon and

798
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:44.559
his character in it. Clippers win
on a Friday one eleven to ninety five

799
01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:50.360
in New Orleans over the Pelicans.
Let's go to Demetrious in Manhattan Beach.

800
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:53.320
Demitrious, you're on a Clippers stock
with that them all. How you doing

801
01:03:53.440 --> 01:03:57.280
man, I'm gonna have to bring
you down to the wellness center. Man.

802
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:01.280
How you feeling. It's been a
while since we but seemed like you

803
01:04:01.800 --> 01:04:05.719
hanging in there. How you feeling
tonight? The Clippers got me on the

804
01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:11.679
mend. I'm doing better with every
victory. I'm feeling a little bit better.

805
01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:15.239
It's just a little cold, no
big deal whatever, Clippers would play

806
01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:18.800
through it right. Well. You
know what I like about you, Adam,

807
01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:24.400
is me and you both on the
same page here. I've been very

808
01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:30.239
consistent with you when I called in, and I've always said our main problem

809
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:33.840
is availability. I think that you
touched on the last segment when you brought

810
01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:36.840
up Terrence Man. I was waiting
to bring him up. But I'm glad

811
01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:42.519
you did bring Terrence Man up,
going six or nine or six for eight

812
01:04:42.639 --> 01:04:47.039
from three point range, his strokes
looking much better. His pressure and defense

813
01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:50.840
has always been there. I think
that. And like I told you again,

814
01:04:51.800 --> 01:04:57.920
Denver lost a close one tonight to
Orlando. Orlando came back and won

815
01:04:58.039 --> 01:05:02.599
that game tonight. Okay. Uh, And so you know I've always pitched

816
01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:08.239
and I'm going to be very consistent. I'm telling you that the Clippers will

817
01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:13.199
be the number one seed and it's
it's and it's gonna come pretty fast.

818
01:05:13.800 --> 01:05:18.119
I see the Clippers not really losing
Sunday. I see them playing with a

819
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:23.599
chip on their shoulder Monday night against
Phoenix, a team they really don't like.

820
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:27.920
And so you know, Adam,
you got to feel real good about

821
01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:30.199
where we're at with the Clippers.
Yes, we don't want to be under

822
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:33.400
the radar. We want to be
the hunting, okay, because the fact

823
01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:36.920
of the matter is we are the
hunting. We're doing the hunting this year,

824
01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:42.159
and so everybody is on our radar. It's not just Dinverering. What

825
01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:47.920
people don't understand since James Harden percent
me and you both is right on the

826
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.239
money. With Harden, it took
little time from me get in shape.

827
01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:56.599
He's starting to get better in shape
now he does have that burst. I

828
01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:59.000
mean, you can look at him
now and it's like, Wow, that's

829
01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:04.239
period. And we talked about it, Adam. The main thing for us

830
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:08.599
is is that, look, we're
going to get better every day. I

831
01:06:08.800 --> 01:06:13.280
like what Frank said has take the
season much serious. I think they're coming

832
01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:16.599
out with a chip on their shoulder. And listen, it's the Clippers against

833
01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:24.079
the whole NBA, including the commissioners
and everybody else that the Clippers wanted this

834
01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:29.719
year. I listen, my only
issue is availability. If they are available,

835
01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:33.159
Adam, you'll be I'll be right
there with you at the door arena.

836
01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:39.880
Trust me to raise that Larry O'Brien
trophy. I see no reason why

837
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:45.639
this team that is going to get
more better and more scarier. Okay,

838
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:47.800
more better, more scarier. And
let me make this last point to you.

839
01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:54.079
Since James Harden has came over and
since then the last twelve or thirteen

840
01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:59.920
games, him and Kawhi Leonard is
the top duor in the pick and roll,

841
01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:03.280
and I make I think that I'm
right on the money there, but

842
01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:08.480
I'm for sure they're right at the
top at him in the pick and roll.

843
01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:15.400
And so what what can you say
about this team that's that's that is

844
01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:20.199
a top premier offensive team. Now
you're getting a chance to seedium on defensively.

845
01:07:20.320 --> 01:07:26.119
And I'll tell you this, that
Pelican team is a very difficult team

846
01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:32.000
to stop. That row so mad
Adam oh, we know that they had

847
01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:38.679
beaten the Clippers nine in the last
ten games, right, And what people

848
01:07:38.719 --> 01:07:42.280
don't understand is the link that they
have. But I love the fact that

849
01:07:42.400 --> 01:07:45.480
we picked up Tys. We got
Plumbly back, Thank god he was.

850
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.719
He's ready to go, and he's
and listen, give Plumbley, give it.

851
01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:53.639
Give Plumbly all the credit in the
world. He went to Todd lew

852
01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:56.719
and say, look, you know, let me sit on the bench.

853
01:07:56.840 --> 01:08:00.800
Let this this train keep rolling.
You know, uh, when you need

854
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:02.920
me, call on me. And
so I love players like that. I

855
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:09.400
love players like him and Westbrook to
understand that listen, we're here. We

856
01:08:09.519 --> 01:08:13.679
want a chip. And like you
said about Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard is

857
01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:19.880
back in his Toronto mode. And
listen, if they follow him and they

858
01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:25.520
follow exactly what Kawhi Leonard is doing
each and every day and taking this very

859
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:30.000
serious on the defensive end, the
team is gonna be unstoppable. And I'm

860
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:33.560
not concerned about Denver. I'm not
gonna disrespect Denver. They are the reigning

861
01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:38.640
champion. But the fact of the
matter is this Clipper team this year.

862
01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:42.920
I don't see anybody stopping this team. I'm very serious about it. I've

863
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:45.720
been very consistent. Yes, it
is early, Adam, like you said,

864
01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:50.359
but listen, we're gonna take every
game, every possession, you know,

865
01:08:51.039 --> 01:08:55.479
and then we're gonna see what happens. But if we're there in April

866
01:08:55.640 --> 01:08:58.920
the first round and we're feeling good, I don't care who we mean,

867
01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:01.560
the first round, second, d
third route, Okay. I expect this

868
01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:05.520
team to come out and I expect
us to win a Larry O'Brien Trophy.

869
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:12.680
About in that will available boom,
Demetrius has spoken I like it, and

870
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:16.319
he has been consistent. He's been
saying this early on the season since they

871
01:09:16.399 --> 01:09:21.399
brought in James Harden right there with
him, It's always been about availability with

872
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:25.920
this team. I don't think Kawhi
Leonard, though, is on his Toronto

873
01:09:26.039 --> 01:09:29.560
raptor stuff. I think he's back
to where he was pre ACL in the

874
01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:33.840
twenty one playoffs tearing it with the
Clippers, he was as dominant as he

875
01:09:34.039 --> 01:09:41.279
was, playing better during that playoff
run than he played during the Toronto Raptors

876
01:09:41.359 --> 01:09:45.960
playoff run. He just unfortunately went
down with an injury. But he's back.

877
01:09:46.479 --> 01:09:49.960
Tajus and Waldutt also back on Tajus
here on Clippers South with that of

878
01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:59.039
Austin. What was up that great
game? That's an understanding a few observations

879
01:09:59.319 --> 01:10:01.800
that first quest. You know,
we were down eight, and to me,

880
01:10:01.920 --> 01:10:05.399
the offense was really clunky and it
was just they didn't have a lot

881
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:10.399
of room. And then what happened
was Westbrook came in and to his credit

882
01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:15.079
his intensity, he got back even
and it seemed like when Harden was on

883
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:20.079
the bench and went down by six
right away when Russell Westbrook came in.

884
01:10:20.279 --> 01:10:26.119
But I'll give it to you,
I think in the second quarter he was

885
01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:28.159
still playing and they got it or
I don't know, something like that.

886
01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:31.239
But what happened was in the second
quarter was when Harden came back in,

887
01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:35.000
the spacing got so much better.
And I don't know if they just you

888
01:10:35.079 --> 01:10:39.560
know, Tyler said something, but
well, a couple of times they tried

889
01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:42.399
it in the first half. They
tried it in the second half to bring

890
01:10:42.520 --> 01:10:45.880
in Russ next to James Hard next
to two point three and it beats the

891
01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:50.880
Zubos and that lineup ended up getting
killed twice. And then he would bring

892
01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:58.760
in Normurn Powell for Kawhi and they
would get something going. Uh But even

893
01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:02.960
Joan Adam in that first five six
minutes, it seemed like even before Westbrook

894
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:08.319
was in there, the offense wasn't
clicking like they weren't. They weren't operating

895
01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:12.800
well. I think it was tied
at sixteen when he came in, and

896
01:11:12.920 --> 01:11:15.119
then they got down. So I'm
just trying to be accurate. Now.

897
01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:19.279
I'm not not going after a russ
or anything, just making sure we uh

898
01:11:20.159 --> 01:11:25.520
eke sure it's an accurate display of
what happened out there. Yeah, that

899
01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:31.560
Russell Westbrook, James hard and Paul
George Kawhi Leonard lineup ended up being let's

900
01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:35.479
see in this game, well I'll
find it here. Keep going here day,

901
01:11:35.640 --> 01:11:40.640
just the roll with it. I
know you got a keena, no,

902
01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:44.880
no worry. And then what happened
was he when when they Harden came

903
01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:46.600
back, they were they were running
a little bit better, picking rolls,

904
01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:51.680
PG was catching and shooting again,
which I really love because when when they're

905
01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:55.680
all on the floor to get it
you don't. PG doesn't need to really

906
01:11:55.920 --> 01:12:00.119
get into his bag. Catch and
shoot is so much more efficient, And

907
01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:03.680
like I kept referencing last call,
it started, it seemed like in that

908
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:09.039
Miami game in the third quarter,
and he was doing a lot of catching

909
01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:12.199
and shooting, which is great,
uh, and kind of one of the

910
01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:15.479
reasons why I was really wanted Hardened, you know, to make the Clippers

911
01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:19.760
to make a train for Harden and
you we're just all seeing the benefits of

912
01:12:19.880 --> 01:12:26.920
Harden across the board. And in
that third quarter, it was like a

913
01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:29.920
twenty to twenty two point lead,
it went down to thirteen, and I

914
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.600
was like, okay, I think
Kawi went on the bench, but Harden

915
01:12:33.079 --> 01:12:35.520
ran the offense through Zoo pick and
roll, pick and roll, and Zoo

916
01:12:35.560 --> 01:12:40.359
got like two or three easy baskets
and somehow McCullum ended up on Zoo box.

917
01:12:40.439 --> 01:12:45.239
So they played really smart basketball.
Harden could read what they needed at

918
01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:48.600
the right times. Uh. It
just that part of the aspect of it

919
01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:54.479
was like something that sometimes we didn't
always see before. And sometimes when we

920
01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:59.520
would start losing our lead, we
would go into ISO mode and now it's

921
01:12:59.880 --> 01:13:02.439
you know, pardon, we just
have a little pep in our step and

922
01:13:02.520 --> 01:13:08.079
we're not ever worried if we're down
or something. It just feels like we

923
01:13:08.199 --> 01:13:11.600
can pull through through anything right now
and we have that confidence, which is

924
01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:15.000
which is just like, you know, we feel like we're a championship team

925
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:21.000
right now with a championship organization and
a championship owner. So I think everything's

926
01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:25.920
clicking at the right time. And
I was just gonna say, you know,

927
01:13:26.039 --> 01:13:30.239
when stephen A said that Kawhi should
retire, Uh, it was just

928
01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:33.920
funny to me because when he came
into the league as a Spur, he

929
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:38.000
was only a defensive player. That's
what he was known for, maybe average

930
01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.000
seven or eight points a game,
and to get to the point where he's

931
01:13:41.039 --> 01:13:44.960
at, he had to put a
crazy amount of work. And I don't

932
01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:47.479
think we've ever seen in the league
someone who entered the league as a defensive

933
01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:51.039
player to be one of the best
scores in the NBA. So hey,

934
01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:59.079
for Paula, George is the same
way, right, No, yeah,

935
01:13:59.319 --> 01:14:02.159
I think about it like that,
but I think Hawhi would be like,

936
01:14:02.680 --> 01:14:04.880
I don't know, I just was
when stephen A said that, I was

937
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:09.359
just like, come on, it
was disgusting. It was gross. It

938
01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:15.399
was an attention grabbing, click bait
like statement to make. But I guess

939
01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:18.239
he gets away with it because outside
of me, nobody's gonna check them on

940
01:14:18.359 --> 01:14:24.159
it. And who the hell am
I? But thank you, jac Adam,

941
01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:29.079
your wallet's kinna kind of Oh I
got the George Costanza, Yeah yeah,

942
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:32.800
I hurt my back. I can't
sit down right, I'm leaning over.

943
01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:36.960
Thank you for the phone call tags. Tonight, the Russell Westbrook,

944
01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:42.119
James hard and Paul George Kawhi Leonard
lineup was tried for the first time since

945
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:45.920
November thirtieth. It did not go
well. They were minus fourteen and four

946
01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:54.119
minutes and twenty five seconds. Yikes. Let's hear from rus though Clippers all's

947
01:14:54.119 --> 01:14:56.920
well. It ends well. They
would win one eleven to ninety five.

948
01:14:57.039 --> 01:15:00.800
Here he was postgame on Ballet Sports
with Patrick O'Neill. Also, when you

949
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.159
entered the game, you absolutely changed
the entire complexity of this game. How

950
01:15:04.199 --> 01:15:09.239
are you able to do that?
Defensively? My energy, my effort and

951
01:15:09.359 --> 01:15:12.920
some I pride myself on every night. I'm very grateful him, blessed for

952
01:15:13.039 --> 01:15:15.680
the men above will allow me to
be able to go out and have that

953
01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:19.239
energy, have this effort and energy
and go out and every night that's my

954
01:15:19.359 --> 01:15:23.520
job for this team. So listen, it really seems like you're having a

955
01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:26.479
lot of fun. You're showing so
much leadership even when you're not on the

956
01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:30.199
floor. It's almost like you're a
coach out there. You're just supporting everybody.

957
01:15:30.600 --> 01:15:32.479
Leadership is a trade that I'm really
really enjoying. I love saying my

958
01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:35.840
teammates do great and having fun is
the best part of this game. And

959
01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:39.000
if you're not having fun, you
should be playing. And then I really

960
01:15:39.119 --> 01:15:41.880
enjoy playing this game. We gotta
farm people of guys, and tonight was

961
01:15:41.880 --> 01:15:44.279
one of those nights. It's a
tough building to play in. You guys

962
01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:46.720
have won five in a row.
But the defensive effort for everybody tonight,

963
01:15:46.760 --> 01:15:50.359
in every possession that was pretty intense. It was important. Man, our

964
01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:54.960
defense is gonna win this games and
not just as gonna have an opportunity wake

965
01:15:55.039 --> 01:15:58.159
championships. And every night I want
to lean on my defense and I want

966
01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:00.880
our guys to this same. Last
one tied never won here in New Orleans.

967
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:03.239
He was over seven times, So
make sure you let him know.

968
01:16:03.319 --> 01:16:05.319
I'll let him know. I'm fresh. I was coaching the mine. So

969
01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:12.399
we get him right, damn straight
Coach of the Month tylu has Since December,

970
01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:17.359
Clippers have just lost two games.
They are fourteen and two over that

971
01:16:17.560 --> 01:16:21.600
time. I hope I'm not shortening
them. I maybe there's so many good

972
01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:25.319
numbers right now going for this team. I did want to be clear on

973
01:16:25.399 --> 01:16:29.359
the Russell Westbrook stint in that first
quarter. They were up sixteen to fifteen

974
01:16:29.399 --> 01:16:31.680
when he came into the ballgame.
Then they got down twenty four to sixteen

975
01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:35.479
as he came in for Terrence Man. So it was that lineup next to

976
01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:39.760
James Harden, next to two pine
to three next to Vias Zubas didn't work.

977
01:16:40.359 --> 01:16:44.800
But then after being down twenty four
to sixteen, they brought in Norman

978
01:16:44.880 --> 01:16:49.560
Powell for Kawhi Leonard and that lineup
played well and went on that run ten

979
01:16:49.640 --> 01:16:54.439
to run to end the first quarter
where the Clippers were tied up twenty six

980
01:16:54.920 --> 01:16:58.920
all, they got up by thirty
one and they win one eleven two ninety

981
01:16:59.000 --> 01:17:01.319
five. Before get out of here, let's get to Katie Newton, our

982
01:17:01.359 --> 01:17:08.159
producer. Tonight here in the bank, Katie's casual corner wasn't the biggest basketball

983
01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:11.439
fan to the last couple of seasons. Now she's a huge Clippers fan.

984
01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:13.880
She wants to go to a game. But she still asked me some of

985
01:17:13.880 --> 01:17:17.680
the more rudimentary questions as she,
you know, moves along in her basketball

986
01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:20.880
fanship. Right, you know what
I was going to ask you a fun

987
01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:24.199
one, But you know what I
will ask the other one that you made

988
01:17:24.239 --> 01:17:27.800
fun of me for. What What
are the position names? I know there's

989
01:17:27.880 --> 01:17:31.800
forward, power, forward, center, point guard. You're missing one.

990
01:17:33.399 --> 01:17:43.479
Defense it's uh tall the guy next
to the point guard catches it and catch

991
01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:48.359
her thrower. I got nothing.
It's not there. Shooting guard, shooting

992
01:17:48.439 --> 01:17:54.079
guard. Oh okay, so defense. But it is more of a positionless

993
01:17:54.680 --> 01:17:59.359
league now. But you're figuring it
out quickly. The Clippers make it fun,

994
01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:02.520
make learning fun. The more you
know. Oh I saw the star.

995
01:18:03.399 --> 01:18:08.680
Thank you, Katie. Great job. Tonight Clippers win one eleven to

996
01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:12.359
ninety five in New Orleans. They'll
be taking on the Lakers Sunday. They'll

997
01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:15.239
technically be the road team for that
contest, tipping off at six thirty at

998
01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:18.119
Crypto pregame at five thirty. Before
we get out of here, I do

999
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:23.800
want to think Ralph Lawler Brian Seeman, Noah Ego, Carlo Hemenez on the

1000
01:18:23.880 --> 01:18:27.479
call for this one, Big Brother, Jake Warner or Hen engineer at Crypto,

1001
01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:30.960
Katie Newton our producer, the callers, the listeners will Updyke for coming

1002
01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:34.680
on until five thirty on Sunday night. I met Amasam. We'll talk to

1003
01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:39.680
you then. Ma Whi was doing
his thing. All they want to do

1004
01:18:39.840 --> 01:18:42.840
is win in La. I win. I thought they gave everything they had.

1005
01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:47.000
I'm proud of. This has been
Clippers Talk, the official postgame reaction

1006
01:18:47.199 --> 01:18:51.439
of the LA Clippers. God Bless
Paul George. Will you not changed?

1007
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Don't miss an episode all season law. Go to wherever you podcast and subscribe

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today. Well up the show.
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You guys are great. Thank you
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LA Clippers basketball.