The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
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are a bad man, Adam Ousley. Clippers sweep them back to back.
They win one twenty four to one thirteen in Toronto after the big comeback last
night in Detroit. Welcome into your postgame show coming up. Second half highlights.
You'll hear from the head coach in Toron Low and the players after this
one. But quickly, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on
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Station. We're rejoined by your voice of the Clippers, Noah Eagle in Toronto.
How about that third quarter from the Clippers, Noah, the seemed to
pull away there. It never got closer than what twelve, at least till
the very end. Correct. Well, you know, obviously the eleven point
overall margin of victory, but yes, twelve was really where it got to
and the Clippers extended twenty two twenty three. So Toronto did a good job
of fighting, but a thirty seven to twenty sixth third quarter the opposite of
what we've seen in recent weeks from the Clippers. This is how they need
to play and that how many times have we talked about this, Adam that
third quarters the Golden State Warriors during their five year just dominant run, and
even then last year when they went to the NBA Championship once again and took
another one home, it was the third quarter that they owned that. It
was their quarter every single night. You knew they were gonna come out,
make the necessary adjustments, play the full twelve minutes and either extend what was
a narrow lead, or they could be down eight ten points and go into
the fourth up six eight ten points. It was that type of level of
dominance. And if the Clippers can find that, that's championship DNA. That's
what championship teams do. They find ways to extend leads, or to get
leads, or make the necessary adjustments when they have the opportunity to do so,
and there's no better opportunity than coming out of halftime. So I thought
today was a really good step in the right direction for the Clippers. And
even with Kawhi Leonard not just completely dominating the game again, I thought he
was a very balanced, very under control game for Kawhi on the one turnover
tonight, thirty five minutes or slightly slightly under, but thirty four minute,
thirty six seconds, that's the most I think he's played all season. I'll
have to double check that. But fifteen point seven rebounds, eight assists,
five of twelve shooting, he didn't dominate. So to get a win like
this without Kawai dominating shows just the potential of what this Clipper team looks like.
And now with Norman Powell playing the way he's playing, with Paul George
playing the way he's playing, and we've seen this from Avizza Zoobots all season
long, this is nothing new. And he knew you heard what he said,
Well, you know, I'm the most physical player on the floor.
I love the mentality. That's what you need to have from your starting center.
This is a great team win, and Zoo win from laying it up
in the first half to just throwing it down seemingly with every bucket he made
in the second half. He was an absolute force out there with twenty three
and sixteen. A beast, a Croatian monster in this game. Twenty three
and sixteen is one thing, but to get to the free throw line for
twelve attempts which the other thing. And that's what I like to see a
Visa Zubots because he is a good free throw shooter, and he showed that
again today nine of twelve from the line. He's seen his percentage rise over
the last couple of weeks after a sluggish start. He'll be at about seventy
or even slightly above seventy percent now on the season. If he's taken ten
free throws a game, that's basically seven points on the board and sometimes eight.
We've seen him shooting the eighty percents in his career, so him being
aggressive just earned them points. And we've seen this from the Clippers too.
When they get to the line, it kind of gets them in rhythm a
little bit, it gets a lot it almost it trickles to everything else.
Right, the three start to fall a little bit more. The ball movement
looks a little bit better. They're under control because they can set their defense
so the defense looks better. Free throws can be a great equalizer, and
I think the Clippers did a good job of taking advantage of the times they
could get to the line tonight, going nineteen of twenty three. Toronto went
twenty one of twenty six to the line. But the biggest difference in this
game three point shooting, and the Clippers continue to shoot it well from three
forty percent tonight fifteen of thirty eight Toronto. They have been one of the
poorest three point shooting teams in the NBA this season. They went six to
twenty three. And I said it before the game and during the game.
The Raptors are nine and two when they make twelve or more threes this year.
After tonight they are three and seventeen when they failed to make twelve threes
and six threes isn't gonna cut it now. Fred Van Vleet only plays twenty
three minutes in this game because of the back injury. Malachi Flinn's a good
shooter and showed it again. He went two of three from downtown Gary.
Trent went two of four, so their bench four of seven from three point
territory. The rest of their team. Their starting unit went two for sixteen
from three. That's good defense from the Clippers. A couple open missus,
no doubt, but good defense from the Clippers. That's knowing the scouting report
and playing it perfectly to a team. You know, I'm with you.
They didn't need Kawhi with Leonard to dominate, but I thought at times he
controlled the game with just making the right reads on those assists and not turning
the basketball over. Yeah, that's the reason I think this was such an
important win for the Clippers is because of that. It's because it proved to
them that it's great to have Kauai dominate. And we've seen him do it
right. We saw him do it even in the Philly game when they didn't
win. He brought them back late after they gave up the big lead.
He gets them back in front in the fourth quarter. Sometimes they're gonna need
that, and come playoff time, I can almost guarantee or promise that they're
going to need that. But for right now, this is good. This
is a good sign that Norman Powell or Paul George, or of Viza Zubats
or Reggie Jackson and it didn't happen tonight. But a Marcus Morris can take
over a game for the Clippers and find what they need offensively when they needed
the most. I mean Nick Patoum again, it's big shots late in that
second half, ends up going three of eight from downtown. Luke Kennard just
didn't have it tonight was oh for three from three? How many nights is
Luke knar gonna take an O for from three and you're gonna be the very
good playoff team from a year ago by double digits. It just shows you
the depth of this team first and foremost, but it also proves to themselves
like, hey, we can win in multiple ways and that's as important as
anything in the NBA. Scary hours. Clippers next game coming up in Boston.
Speaking of tip time, Thursday is at four thirty. We'll have Clippers
countdown starting at three thirty. Noah, great call. As always, We'll
talk to you in Beantown on Thursday. Oh you know, Adam, It's
funny because I'm pretty sure Bart Scott was talking about going to Pittsburgh after Foxborough.
Can't wait, Adam coming up next. Second half highlights Clippers waiting one
twenty four to one thirteen in Toronto over the Raptors. And you're listening to
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second half and win once twenty four to one thirteen in Toronto over the Raptors.
Welcome into your post game show. I'm at Am Moslin coming up on
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six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's get to
your second half highlights. Clippers lead at the half by just four at sixty
to fifty six. But in that third quarter, just like in the second,
Norman Powell came alive against his former team. Leonard back to Canard,
right wing, down the right alleys, swing it, patom extra pass Powell
nearside corner three is on the way at good Norman Powell sticks a big one
from the outside and makes it eighty nine seventy one La power from rights a
left lobb at for Leonard on the right wing, get it right back to
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is showing out in his return to Toronto. Was sixteen pal attacking on Flynn
down the right alley, pulls up from twelve and hits another jumper eight point
five on the third quarter clock, and pale is killing his former team.
What's twenty two? Norman Powell with the eleven points in the third quarter,
just like he had eleven points in the second quarter. And the Clippers won
the third quarter by eleven points and led ninety seven to eighty two heading into
the fourth. And to close things out, how about big Zoo Canard outside
Patuma left wing three two strong rebound poked around Zubots, got it and slaps
it back Za su Bots just dominating the paint tonight George against Sanna Noobi.
Looking at drive right, George goes down the middle of the lane, lobs
it towards the rim su Bots air Croatia. He takes off and comes down
hard one eleven eighty eight cliphers Vizza Zu Boss finished with twenty three and sixteen
boards will go in nine of twelve from the free throw line. Clippers go
on to win once twenty four to one thirteen in Toronto over the Raptors.
Their next game coming up in Boston on Thursday. Clippers now two and one
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Claw controlled the Raptors like he was Chris Pratt one of those stupid Jurassic World
movies that I hate. Clippers win in Toronto one twenty four till one thirteen.
Welcome in to Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Osland to eight sixty six nine
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Coming up on the show, we'll have Charles Mockler on for some clips
and double dip. Plus you'll hear from Coach Low and Norman Powell, who
was back playing in front of fans for the first time in Toronto since he
left there went to poor. Now with the Clippers and Clipper Nation, you
are blessed Norman Powell playing some one of the best basketball of his career right
now. But I think it's very sustainable on this Clippers team. He's never
been on a team this talented, this stacked. You can say that Raptors
team was in twenty nineteen. I think this Clippers team could have more talent.
He finished with twenty two off the bench, eleven of his twenty two
in the second quarter, eleven of his twenty two in the third quarter,
a couple of huge throwdowns, one in the second half of a beautiful feed
from Kawhi Leonard, who led them with eight assists. And that's why I
say the Claw controlled this ball game. He didn't have to dominate with the
scoring, just five of twelve, took just twelve shots, had fifteen points.
Because I told your pregame one of my keys was the Raptors. They
are the kings of getting the ball out of your SuperStar's hands and making somebody
else beat you. But if you're superstar was an elite playmaker, and Kawhi
certainly looked like that in this one. You can find the open man and
you can beat him that way, and that's what he did over and over
again. He could have had four or five more assists if the Clippers knocked
down a few more shots, but he had some great kickouts to three point
shooters and just seemingly always made the right basketball play when it was there to
be made, like in the first half when he was quadruple teamed by the
Raptors and found Norman Powell for his first three pointer, first of two.
That's what makes Kawhi Learns so special. He can control a basketball game in
many different facets. Today it was with his passing, and they don't win
this game without him. Second night of a back to back, they sweep
the back to back, coming off the big fourteen point comeback with three minutes
left last night in Detroit. They get Kauai back. He goes back to
Toronto along with Norman Powell. This is a huge victory for the Clippers.
I don't know if he said at post game. We'll find out in a
little bit here, but I gotta think the Clippers are feeling like that right
now, and so is Kawhi Leonard. Because they had twenty seven assists on
forty five made shots. That is elite. That is getting the ball to
the right places at the right time. That's assisting on over sixty percent of
your makes. But it wasn't just them too. It wasn't just Paul George
with his twenty three points on nine of eighteen shooting. Couldn't get a call
and goes to the free throw line. It was funny. Late in the
fourth quarter, Raptors had at two. Within twelve, We're making a little
bit of a run after the Clippers led by as many as twenty three,
I want to say, and Paul George goes down the right alley, puts
up a tough layup, looked like he was hit, doesn't get the call.
So the next possession down just goes behind his back, puts Scottie Barnes
on skates and sticks a jumper, which I think was the dagger in this
would It's like, Okay, you're not gonna give me any of these calls
at the basket, at the rim, I'll just do some fancy dribbling,
lose my defender, make it look like the N one Mixtape Tour, and
hit a tough jumper. Five of nine from the outside. Recently, we've
seen Paul George take and make a lot of three pointers, and that's a
good sign. We always looked to see he take ten threes. Well,
in three of his last four games, he's taken nine or more. Very
good sign from him. And the aggressiveness was much more steady in this game
than what we saw in Philly, where he took half as many shots in
the first half as he did, or excuse me, in the second half
as he did in the first half of that one. He stayed aggressive.
Kawhi Leonard went out, it was early second quarter and Paul George scored a
quick five points and then Norman Powell took over with those eleven points he had
in the second quarter. Just a scoring machine. He's different than Lou william
and Jamal Crawford in that way. He's just much more efficient than both guys,
Quicker than both guys, the way he can get to the basket with
ease. That's what makes him so special. He has burst. You're seeing
it, and this is coming off the groin injury, but he has hit
the ground running coming into this game. I said this during the pregame show,
but Norman Powell and I'm looking for the stat here. As I mentioned,
he is on one of his best runs but last fifteen games coming into
tonight, scoring eighteen a game in just twenty four minutes while shooting fifty one
percent from the field forty four percent from the outside. And during that those
fifteen games was in double digit scoring points wise, and all but one now
he gets twenty two off the bench in twenty two minutes against his former squad,
and when the Clippers went on their runs and really started to separate themselves
in that third quarter. That has been a problem for them the last three
thirds. Coming into tonight, Clippers were outscored by nine points, eight points,
twelve points. Tonight in the third quarter, they came out and won
it by eleven thirty seven, twenty six, and they went into that fourth
quarter with some cushion, led by as many as eighteen in that third quarter,
led by as many as twenty three in the fourth, would hold on
to win by eleven. And I shouldn't say hold on it. I don't
think the game was that much in doubt. But that number twenty three also
belongs to a Vita zubats I tweeted that follow out of May. Early in
the game, in the first couple of minutes, Zubos has to punish this
smaller Raptors team. And while he had a good first half, I want
to say he had nine and nine, he was going for layups instead of
dunks. In the second half. I think every shot he made, including
a beautiful alley off a pass from Paul George in the fourth quarter, was
a throwdown. Zoo was a four. I put up the old shack Reebok
logo. That's what he was looking like. Finished with twenty three points,
sixteen boards, and his Noah Eagle point out. He goes nine to twelve
from the free throw line. That's big. Did miss a couple on the
fourth, but nine to twelve for your big man. Making them pay at
the charity shipe as well. He led everyone in the plus minus category,
was a plus fifteen. That's his best game since returning from injury. Zubos
was great and he needed to be. They had the advantage find him.
He knew who was the most physical player on the court. He said it
postgame with no Eagle and the Clippers had that advantage. They finally really started
to exploit it. Just find Big Zoo and get out the way. But
there was great ball movement, there was balanced scoring. Four players with twenty
or more, Zubos with twenty three. Reggie Jackson had an under the radar
stellar performance. Everything from him. I think there was one floater the rest
all threes and buckets and layups right at the rim. He was nine to
fifteen to get to his twenty points and put a lot of downhill pressure on
the rim, twenty and thirty one minutes, his best game since returning from
the injury. So some really good performances heading in. So what's gonna be
a good one on Thursday in Boston? You know they're looking for revenge after
the Clippers beat him up in Los Angeles. They win one twenty four to
one thirteen in Toronto over the Raptors. Raoul and Baldwin Park. Start things
off tonight here on Clippers Talk. Rool, you're on, man, you're
killing me, Smalls. Damien in LA. I didn't even screen this call,
but I know it's Damien in Los Angeles and he's not gonna let me
down. Sir, Damian, what's up? You're on Clippers Talk, Yo,
what's up? Adam? How's it going? Man? Great win?
Great win? You know, I really I can't say enough about the performance,
but I'll keep it brief because we go over so much. I got
three things that I want to get to. Man. First off, I
gotta get my game ball. Game ball has to go to Zoo, you
know, And it was tough between him and Norman Powell, but Zoo gave
us everything that we need. I got a new nickname for him. I'm
calling him to La Zoo. All right, that's what I'm gonna do.
Man. You know, we started from the bottom and now we're here.
Brother, Hey man, you know, Coach Lou went into this game and
he asked Clippers, he said, I better find your loving I better find
your heart. And we responded, you know what I'm saying, like,
I mean, what a win. Like. It's a different team from last
night. They looked like they just never turned back after that over time,
you know, and they just went forward with it. It was great.
Yeah, the Clippers showing some improvements out there and some growth, not relinquishing
a lead in this one. They win by eleven, but they led by
as many as twenty three. He never really felt they were in too much
danger. They were able to hit big shots when they needed them, including
Nicholas a big three early in the fourth quarter. Once you know that's what
he does. One at the eleven minute mark, one at the nine minute
mark. I thought the Clippers just hit a couple of those big shots when
they were going through a little bit of a scoring slump. The Raptors were
starting to make some end roads and then Reggie Jackson hits a floater and puts
the Clippers back up by fifteen. Just little shots like that make all the
difference. I mentioned that step back jumper from Paul George put them back up
by fourteen. They couldn't break it down to single digits tonight. That's Toronto
Raptors after being down big and Betune finished things off with the three pointer or
to put him up one twenty four to one O nine. That was the
Dagger. Raptors weren't going to be able to overcome that over the Clippers dead
body to keep up with the Drake lines there. Clippers win with Drake and
attendance in Toronto one twenty four to one thirteen. Norman Powell first time playing
in front of fans back in Toronto since he left there after winning a ring.
He had twenty two off the bench, one of his best games so
far as a Clipper. But I still think the best is yet to come.
I mean, we've seen twenty two points in just a quarter from Norman
Powell before when he came back to bite his former team in the Blazers,
right before he got injured. So that's how good he's been after a slow
start to this season and the Clippers are finding something and maybe that victory in
the style and the fashion they wanted in in Detroit, maybe they reminded themselves
of who they are, and maybe they have had enough of these close calls
with teams coming back on them that they've learned their lesson in that way too.
We'll see they're going to be embosson on Thursday. Should be a good
one. More on that, plus coming up postgame audio from coach Lou and
the players. Clippers win one twenty four to one thirteen in Toronto over the
Raptors. Jeff Mockler will join us from clips and Dip two here on Clippers
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Clippers stock. I'm Adam Moslin eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight
six six ninety seven two five seventy. I talked about Kawhi Leonard controlling this
game, doing it with his passing and making some of those little plays that
fly under the radar that you forget about. But with the Clippers up by
twelve with just under four minutes left on the ball game, they were in
a proprecarious position as the Toronto Raptors were trying to make a run and Reggie
Jackson missed a shot and Kawhi Leonard got in there, boardman, gets paid,
gets the offensive rebound, puts it back up and was fouled. Hits
both free throws and they go back up by fourteen. Just little plays like
that from Kawhi And by the way, after that challenge by Nick Nurse,
anybody could have gone up for that jump ball, and Kawhi Leonard faced up
against Scottie Barnes and won the jump ball if you want to know how his
acl is feeling there, there was some leadership there and just Kawhi feeling good.
He also had a tip in off a miss from Norman Powell. He
tried to get it in, followed his own shot and eventually got it to
go. Was one twenty one to one oh seven. Just winning plays by
your superstar when you needed him most, and the Clippers win by eleven.
He was a plus eleven in Toronto over the Raptors, who I know are
fifteen and eighteen. That is an injury influenced record. They're better than that.
They're tenants seven now at home. They're a really good defensive team.
Og Nanobi maybe your defensive player of the year. He's spectacular and Kawai took
him to the woodshed a few different times. He had a turnaround shot,
he hit over him. He had a block on him, another Chase Down
block, speaking about his explosiveness. He was called for the foul, but
Kawhi looked really good out there. And now they're going and facing a Boston
Celtics team that is out for revenge on the Clippers after what they did to
them in LA just a few weeks back. Eight six nine eight seven two
five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
before we hear from Coach Low. Let's go to Lenny in Inglewood. Is
this Lenny? Lenny? What's up? Adam Moss? Lenny? What's up
here? Clippers Talk? I got you, Lenny, I got you,
I got you Lenny? All right, I guess I'm on listening. You're
dropping jams on him. Man, he said, uh PC, but og
on skates and he shook up block and one mixtape. I like that,
the professor word Smith. Good wind to night, though, man, really
good wind to night. I like the fact that you know there's three,
you know, our three scores between Kauai PG and Norman Pow. It's it's
it's it's like almost avery. How we'd line up with some of these other
cats, because because you take Boston, he take Nets and particularly the Nests,
the way that they're they're they're they're they're bomber. Right now, you
gotta walk into the gym and to be able to put up eighty points on
the board before the game even starts, and with Norm Powell coming off the
bench playing like that, and to mean, nobody else plays like him,
because you're right, pg's finesse, the wise power and power is explosive and
that's that is a three prong attack. And now that's fourth. That fourth
attack is Luke Kennard. And you know, like you said, I don't
think he's gonna go like that. You know, uh, three games where
he goes only hits what he got any points tonight, but as long as
he could find his stroke. Man, we don't go d because Eva is
holding it down in the middle of which I like. But even when we
get even when we got to go small ball, we could put points on
the board. And Nick Batoum is just I mean, I almost want to
say, man, he's the leader of his team. You know what he
said the other day to get those guys together, like we've been here before.
That's just long, that's just experience, man, veteran leadership. Just
you know, I mean the voice of you know, of calm in the
storm. So yeah, very good win tonight. And I like the fact
that you said we want it and quiet and have to dominate. You know,
we're rounding in the rounding in the form and uh yeah, so good
things. They had met for the Clippers. I've been excited. Lenny a
great phone call and good call on Nick Batoum. I've been saying it for
a while. He is the Clippers. He embodies Clippers culture, their identity,
his leadership invaluable. You can't quantify just how much Nick Batoum means to
this team. He is his doc Rivers once said about another player unsteatable.
Now the stats have been pretty good. He's been shooting over forty three percent
from the outside. He had nine, he had seven to assist a steal.
There was a play. I marked this because the passing was so elite,
But it was Kennard attacking who went over four in this game. By
the way, it doesn't matter. That's how deep this Clippers team is.
Kennard driving, kicking it out to Batoum, and I want to say,
yeah, I was Norman Powell putting up a three pointer. It was just
elite ball movement. Hot potato, Idaho, hot potato by the Clippers.
They were really good in that area. But Nick Batoum is one of those
nexus points, a connector. He just makes everything work. Someone set on
Twitter I retweeted it. But Nick Batouma is like the long piece and tetris.
That's we're always looking for to save you. All right, let's hear
from coach lu post game. Clippers win one twenty four to one thirteen in
Toronto over the Raptors. There was coach, but it was what seven zero
or seven two had a look confusion and start the game, and I thought,
I have to call that time out and just got everybody locked in.
I thought he did a good job just playing it all the way through the
game for forty eight minutes. And this is one of our most complete games
of the season. And just like you know, no excuses, like every
team plays back to backs, every team has playing trouble, but just to
come out and you know, a good team like this and play the way
we did, especially on their home floor, it was a good thing to
see. It's fun to see Norm have that kind of game from this oh
for sure, you know, come back and gets his tribute and I'm playing
well like that. It was good to see and so the guys were happy
for him, and I'm happy for him as well. So it was it
was good. Coach. What was that conversation like with Kawhi about Wine playing
this game? Was there a short conversation. Did he just tell you that
he wanted to do it or how did that go? Toronto? Great,
that's what he said, and we went back to back Detroit of Toronto,
Toronto, short conversation, Doctor forty one minutes last night, come in and
you know, two he did on the glass again, just how impressively been
by what he's been able to do this year. Yeah, he's been great,
you know, and my problems just trying not to run him down too
early in the season, you know, and so he's been amazing for us
all year and playing forty one minutes last night, and you know, just
try to get his minutes down as best as we could. And so Nico
him came in. They did a good job. Our small line up was
pretty good tonight, and so he was able to get him down to thirty
one. But he was a monster on the glass. Ten offensive rebounds,
you know, or three at the basket verticality, and then he did a
good job of guarding Scottie Barnes and he just did a lot for us.
And so off of back to back for big Man, you know, he
really did a good job tonight. Coach how White had a really good game.
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Iimportune utes to up like this a player. What is you know, it's
very important, you know, especially coming back to Toronto, just having you
know, your star player just taking the defense gives him, not forcing it,
not worrying about shots. And your team was gonna double team, and
like we knew, Nick wasn wasn't gonna let him play. So you know
when he double team and triple team, just making the right reading, the
easy pass, and we got a lot of shots that we didn't make tonight.
You know that we got a lot of open three So I love the
offense. You know, the first three quarters of just how we generate open
shots and they double team. Kai made the simple past simple play, and
that's when it takes to win. You know, you got a sacrifice.
When teams are gonna do that, we have to pick them apart. But
you gotta move the basketball and make the right play. He did it all
night. Oh by the way, Clippers had just nine turnovers, six in
the first half, just three in the second half. That's another way you
can hold onto a lead before we break. Here, Javier and Lahabra heights.
Javier, what's up? You're on Clippers stop without hm, Austin,
I don't can hear me, I can hear you. I don't know what
dull to be on far Uh real quick, you took the wars out of
my mouth. You just said it's a couple of secons ago. I can't
believe nobody brought this up about he had nine turnovers for the game, and
that's that's a key there, nine turnovers. Also, I'm you know,
I always look at stats, and I'm looking at the stats here and what
they made fifteen threes and they shot at what eighty two percent on the feet
to line. That's that's the that's the way to do it. And also
look at the statue under starters. I guess Tylou did want to win this
game because I think most of the starters did play over thirty minutes. So
that was a good sign there. Next thing is real quick at him uh
zoobok. Like you said earlier, he had to take over and he did.
That was the lueback that we saw in November, so that's good for
him. And then Norman Pow I mean, what twenty two points, that's
that's the normal pow. We we were used to, so you know,
acting is just hopefully john Wall made attention and saw that the Clippers only he
turned the ball over nine times. Hopefully when he comes back, you know
he protects the ball and doesn't turn the ball over because you know how he's
been playing, so he's been a little bit erratic. I appreciate the phone
call high here and I apologize to Raoul earlier. Maybe he just couldn't hear
something wrong on the phone lines to nine. I don't know what it is.
John Wall has been up and down, especially in the month of December,
but wasn't in the game for this one. He hasn't played back to
back so far this year either, But they had enough. They had plenty.
Luke Nard goes oh for four and it doesn't matter. The best three
point shooter in the league, a guy flirting with fifty fifty ninety splits that
hasn't been done since the nineties with Steve Kerr with a short and three point
line. Clippers unreal the amount of talent they've accumulated. Credits to the front
office. Norman Powell is a big part of this. I always he thought
he'd be the perfect fit next to Kawai and Paul George. And now you're
seeing it because he's one of those missing links when it comes to getting easy
baskets, rim pressure points in the paint, gain to the free throw line.
Norman Powell provides all that speed and this is this is as explosive as
I've ever seen him. Look with some of these dunks he's had since returning
from the groin injury, it's been unbelievable, including a couple of poster dunks
he missed. He's got bounce. Clippers win once twenty four to one thirteen.
They bounce out of Toronto. They're going to Boston. Tiptime Thursday is
at four thirty. Well, I've Clippers countown at three thirty. Coming up
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LS fours. Speech they're now was blocked by George. This is La Clippers
basketball. He is a one man ricket crawl and defensive man. On the
home of your LA Clippers. Last time that five times on my neck,
it was no smart on my BP. Last time that I was winning Toronto
one twenty four to one thirteen as they dominate the second half and improved with
twenty one and fifteen on the season. Next up the Boston Celtics in Boston
Thursday. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm autam Oslin. We'll get to
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It ain't the bat signal, It's a stash signal, I guess with Charles
Mackler in this case, Charles Mockler from Clips in Dip is joining us does
the tripod as we're doing once tomorrow with William Updike as well. Charles,
thanks for doing this tonight. Who do you give the gold medal too in
this game? Oh man? The gold medal for this game? I'm stealing
Southern from the law of the jam. All right, little it's that joke.
Can we give it to all four guys who hit twenty points. I
mean, I might go zoo. The sixteen boards were huge. We just
had so much efficiency from guys. But I think in terms of the field
goodness of it, you gotta give it to Norm Powell. First time back,
I'm in Toronto with fans, coming off the injury. He's just fantastically
efficient. Again, he looked charged up, So I think I gotta give
it to Norm Powell tonight, charged up, super charged, twenty two points
off the bench in twenty two minutes on eight of fourteen, shooting back in
Toronto, got his flowers, his tribute video. They've been very appreciative of
he and Kawhi Leonard. I thought Kawhi really controlled this game with his passing.
You knew the double and triple and quadruple teams at times. We're coming
from Toronto. That's just how they played defensively, That's what they like to
do. But Kawhi was ready for it and just made the right pass over
and over again. E'd assist to one turnover. Yeah, I mean Norm
said at post game that everyone just kind of worked well around the A tenth
attention that Kawhi and PG were getting from the Raptors. It's something that a
bunch of people in Raptors Twitter we're tweeting about not feeling too excited about it,
considering how well everyone was able to move off the ball when it hit
our two main guys. But I think clips fan got to see, if
you weren't really aware of it now, just how important Kawhi is this team.
Yeah, he tends to be, you know, in top five conversations
right now already. It's funny people have been saying this season Kawhi doesn't look
right. He looks washed, and I don't know what they're watching at times
because speaking of charged up, he's moving the ball to the front court with
more pace than I think he played with his first couple of years as a
Clipper. It just seems like he's intent on speeding things up and helping guys
get to their spots quicker, because we know how much more efficient this offense
is when they get into their sets faster. Yeah, I mean, he's
kind of had a couple of ramp up periods for the Clippers, but it
feels like, I mean, it is hard to deny that he just is
moving with a bit more pep in his step. I know the Raptors do
a really good job of maybe too good of a job of focusing on stars.
So tonight he did only get full field goal attempts. But you're right,
he's getting guys, you know, kind of locked into where they're supposed
to be a lot sooner, and that's just going to help the Clippers so
much, specially when it comes to playoff time, when the half court offense
becomes that much more important with a shortened rotation, which we did kind of
see tonight with only you know, eight guys playing over twelve minutes or so.
But you'll love to see, you know, Kawai the general Leonard of
getting into farm. He goes for his season's minute high at just under thirty
five minutes. Slowly but surely he's getting back to his usual minutes and we're
not even in twenty twenty three left yet. That is a great sign.
So was what we saw from a Vizza Zoo boss, because two things you
knew were what we're going to happen tonight. The Toronto Raptors. Defensively,
they were going to load up against the Superstars. But also they play small,
they don't really have many options to anything else, And I vizza zoobots
had an opportunity to punish them, and that's what he did. Yeah,
I mean, twenty three and sixteen by itself is very impressive, but when
you look at the fact that he had ten offensive boards against the Toronto Raptors
team, who it's hard to get offensive boards again, I mean, it
really helped set the tone early and kind of keep the tone set, if
that makes sense. We love seeing Zoo get over thirty minutes. I mean,
he was a team best plus fifteen tonight it was you know, nine
to twelve. He's great from the free throw line too. So Zoo continues
to have his best season in the NBA. And yeah, you know what
I'm this was a fifteenth double double. He's already had as many as he
did all the last year. And you know, like you just said,
we're not even in to twenty twenty three yet. So Zoo's an iron man,
which is probably at one point was his biggest, you know, piece
of value of the Clippers. But now he's just stepped up so well defensively,
and this season or this off season with zero basket seems to have made
him a little more assertive on the other side of the ball, so I
mean, just it keeps going up into the right for zoom, big zoo,
a force on both ends right now. Sorry, Carl Tart, and
I'm sorry for that indirect he caught a stray. I don't know. I
don't know. I had to go there, Nichols Batum, I think I
saw you tweeted it out at Clippers Pod, but somebody had one of the
best tweets I've seen all season long so far, saying Nick Batum is that
long extension piece and tetris that you're always looking for because it just makes everything
else work and you just clear a bunch of blocks at once. Yeah.
I mean, if you look at lineups and I don't have all the days
in front of the lineups with the Nick Batoum and Luke tend to be ones
that played pretty well for the Clippers. And this is because not only can
Nick Batoum move the ball well, he can shoot the ball very quickly and
very well. He constantly just makes the right decision, and you know,
it's great seeing him play with kind of the top of the line lineup sick.
He should be playing with with everyone healthy or as healthy as the Clippers.
He can be with only missing John Wall today compared to having to kind
of clean up worst lineups defensively, so just being able to slot him in,
you know, next to Morris and PG and Kauai, you just absolutely
want to see it. We saw the lineup of Kennard, Norm, Kawai,
Morrison, Battum and it was just fantastic to see the switchability and the
offense that they can bring together. Nick Batum hadn't hit a shot until the
fourth quarter and then all three of his mates were from three just big shots
to keep Toronto at bay. Because there had been some worry with the Clippers
blowing leads recently, most recently in Philadelphia up by Mony, that a team
could come back on them, this seemed like, you know, a character
building type of win, even going back to yesterday. Maybe there was some
carryover when you come back on a team down fourteen after you blow a fifteen
point lead and find a way to get the victory. It just seems like
the Clippers things are starting to click for them, and maybe there's some vibes
from that big comeback victory a few years ago over the Atlanta Hawks, where
Nick Batum said something was born out of that game. Maybe we're seeing that
once again with this new group. I think we might be. I loved
how Tyler kind of kept going with more. He was having a great game,
so I think he got some extensive run. But we're now two days
past the Nicholas Batum deadline of the Clippers starting to turn around around Christmas,
and he's pretty on point with it so far. I'm gonna also check my
gant chart to see where we're at progress wise, but he's pretty on point
with that. It is funny the game yesterday. I woke up and almost
felt like we lost it based on kind of what the timeline was looking like
in things like that. But there's not a lot of There's not too much.
You gonna be upset at two and oh on a back to back like
this over the holidays. Yeah, And Kawhi Leonard makes all the difference in
this one in Toronto, controling the ball game, Clippers winning one twenty four
to one thirteen over the Raptors. He is Charles Chuck Updyke, excuse me,
Charles Mockler. William Updyke, also of Clips and Dip. He'll be
on with us, I think on Thursday. But We got a tripod tomorrow
with myself, William Updyke and Charles Mockler. Charles, thanks for doing this
tonight. Thanks for having mus go clip Coming up next, You're gonna hear
from Norman Powell post game after the Clippers go back to Toronto. He was
playing in front of fans for the first time since he left them and left
him wanting more. He had twenty two and twenty two minutes. Clippers win
by eleven over the Raptors, and you're listening the Clippers top. You're on
Amp five seventy only Sports, trying to take away from an play again and
pray for you and people. He got it. Count it from distance,
the odds on favorite to hoist the Larry o'bright heavily contested, and it doesn't
matter on the home of your La Clippers. Still Luca did one. Sorry,
I got distracted. Clippers win one twenty four to one thirteen in Toronto
over the Raptors, Kawhi with eight assists to one turnover four players with twenty
or more and Kawhi wasn't one of them. Zoo Boss Reggie Jackson, Paul
George and Norman Powell off the bench Clippers get the victory. They dominate the
second half. They improved to twenty one and fifteen before we hear from Norman
Powell. Let's get to Morrison, Long Beach, Morris, what's up here?
On Clippers? Stop without Amasson Morris? You're oh, Adam, I
couldn't hear you. What a Clipper's going to show you? How thero You
got another game on Thursday? Make it Funday. Everybody's gonna say, hey,
but a nice player's got a real nice team. Wee can back that
thing up. Man, we're in a playoff. Run back that thing up.
I'll see you thay behave yourself. Oh the juvenile remix once again?
Amazing Morrison Long Beach. Everyone, all right, let's hear from Norman Powell.
He went eight to fourteen, two or three from distance, got to
the ram and threw it down multiple times to get to his twenty two points.
And here he was on Valley Sports post game, which iman Maggio.
Uh, Norm your first time back in this building with the fans. Here,
you heard the tribute, you saw the standing ovation. You started your
NBA career here. You want a championship here? What was it like for
you? To be back here with the fans, it was amazing. You
know, things happened to make this happen. Last year I had a chance
to come back with their no fans, and unfortunately I have some family issues.
But to be able to come back here and uh play in front of
these these amazing fans that supported me from the beginning is amazing. The tribute
was great. Fray was messing with me thinking I was gonna cry. So
this is a good feeling to be back in the city, be back under
this roof here where everything started. So it's a fourth circle moment for me.
And what an awesome game you had, incredibly efficient twenty two points in
twenty three minutes. You were eight of fourteen from the field. Clippers.
Great job tonight overall two It was in the third quarter where you guys were
able to create some separation. In fact, you finished with the final eleven
points in the quarter and Clippers went into the final frame with a fifteen point
lead. What were you guys able to take advantage of there in the third
quarter. I'm just a kidder to play, you know, I know how
how they like to play this playing style in the third quarter. They like
to get up and be aggressive and speed the game up, especially how the
game was going. So I just told the guys to be ready for their
pressure and how they're gonna try to speak up and we're able to handle that
and take advantage of their over rotations on the doubles with PG and why and
in our second unit came in and kept the same manage. I didn't even
know I had those eleven points, but just work in a game and uh
then I letting the excuses of last night of coming in late with the playing
issues and everything affect us, but coming out here and putting our best foot
forward and coming out with energy. I was gonna say that was the most
impressive to me because it was a late night, get into the hotel around
four am, just knowing it's a second night of a back to back,
it's on the road. You're getting in at four am. What was the
mindset coming in to bring the energy? Yeah, you know, I'm make
sure we hide jaded and were ready for me. It didn't matter if you've
got in at six I was gonna be ready. I was looking forward to
this game, so I had all the energy I needed. But the guys
did a great job and being ready, and they hit that the first initial
pushing the first quarter, and we're able to sustain that and spload a game
down and make place for all of us. Clippers improved to two and one
on this road trip. Thank you, Yeah, keep it going. Clippers
overcome a late flight on top of it all, they win one forty four
to one thirteen after getting into Toronto late. They take down the Raptors,
win by eleven, and up next they will be in Boston to face the
Celtics again, a team they dominated it in Los Angeles. Celtics will be
looking for a retribution. Not going to be an easy one. Tip time.
On Thursday four thirty Clippers pregame show Clippers countdown three thirty before we get
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