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The game is over. Paul George
money in the pain, but the postgame

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reaction has just be gone. Coi
Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.

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This is Clippers locker Roo, a
recap of today's game and a look

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ahead on your hope for La Clippers
basketball at now your host, You,

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sir, are a bad man,
Adam Oslin. The Clippers get the biggest

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victory in the history of the Clippers
Lakers battles over the season. They win

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one twenty five to one eighteen.
Here at Crypto dot Com Arena. Welcome

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into your postgame show. I'm Adam
Oslin. Coming up second half highlights,

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your post game box score. You'll
hear from head coach Toron lou and the

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players. But first back to your
voice of the Clippers in Noah Eagle.

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No, you talked about it early
on with the Lakers having played four games

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in their last six nights. They
just played an overtime game last night against

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the Utah Jazz. The strategy early, run'em ragged, and that's normally

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a game they like, but not
against this Clippers team. Was some of

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the matchups that Coach Leu through out
there. No the Lakers are are fourth

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in the NBA and paced on the
season. They like to get out and

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run, They like to get in
transition. But Tlou said it when when

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I asked him pregame about, Hey, are you gonna start revealing some things

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right now, start to unload the
tank? He said, not playbook wise,

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but matchup wise, line up wise. Yeah, we're gonna see some

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things we haven't seen. And I
think we did and it worked out to

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perfection. You know, bones Thigland
and Terrence Man coming off the bench again,

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energy major, major, energy of
itsa zoobots monstrous in this game.

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Seventeen points, thirteen boards. He
somewhat ruined his field goal percentage against the

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Lakers. On the season, he
came in shooting ninety four percent from the

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field against the Lakers thirteen to fourteen. So after today he's, you know,

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nineteen of twenty four and oh yeah, but he's had just that type

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of year overall and certainly against the
Lakers. And Dennis Degastino just popped this

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over to me. This tells you
all you need to know about this matchup.

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Eleven straight wins for the Clippers.
Of course, Clippers have led by

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double digits in every single game.
At least one point in the game,

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they've led by double digits, the
biggest lead the Lakers have had in all

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eleven games. Six. I was
gonna guess six. Six. Wow.

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That's It's one thing, right,
It's one thing to say, oh,

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they've won eleven straight. It's another
thing to really break down those numbers and

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go, oh no, no,
no, they've destroyed them eleven straight times

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and again tonight. I know they
end up winning by seven. This was

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much more than a seven point game. They were up twenty four, and

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the third quarter they go back up
by sixteen, eighteen, I think even

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at one point in the fourth quarter, maybe even twenty. Actually, I

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think about it. In the fourth
quarter they were up twenty. You know,

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this was one of those games the
Lakers kind of make a slight push,

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but it never really felt like it
was in question. Clippers deserve a

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lot of credit for the way they
got up for this one. They knew

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how important this was. This was
equally as important to the Lakers in so

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many ways, and the Clippers found
a way through all you can ask from

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your team, Kawhi Leonard played the
entire second half of this game, which

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is not something we see all the
time. And they got a huge victory

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to basically put themselves in the driver
seat to get really stay in the top

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six in the Western Conference. And
you talked about the third quarters early in

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the second half. In that third
quarter with five of them, they had

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zero turnovers. In that fourth quarter. They took care of the basketball.

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They were able to hold off runs
by the Lakers because they weren't giving them

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extra possessions out there. Well,
that was Torontlo's biggest key to the game.

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The key to victory was take care
of the basketball. That was the

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first thing he said. His eyes
lit up when I brought by the way,

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did you have two protein drinks today? Or did you have your bits?

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I didn't even get to my beef
jerk, you did not. I

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was gonna say it, and now
you're never gonna let me have it again.

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You can't have it. It's over, it's done, it's done.

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And this is it. I call
game on that beach. This is it.

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This is it. Bacon bits,
whatever they are, I don't care

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them out or superstitious here. I'm
gonna start going full Kevin Garnett Craig Sager

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on you if I have to with
it no matter what not happening. Yeah,

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burn it just go all the socks
tup sucks too. This was This

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was just a comprehensive win that the
Clippers needed in the worst way, and

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to your point, to do it
in the fourth quarter by taking care of

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the basketball. To do it in
the fourth quarter with Bones Highland coming off

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the bench and just providing a spark
that they didn't expect for Norman Powell to

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recognize that he needed to attack,
and that second quarter takeover down the stretch,

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in the third quarter into the fourth
quarter, takeover twenty seven points to

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lead the way for the Clippers.
Spectacular performances from them, and the Clippers

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bench outscores the Lakers bench in this
game fifty five to twenty five. That

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is Clipper basketball. It has been
for really quite some time. Kawhi Leonard

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leads to the starters with twenty five. Norman Powell led the Clippers with twenty

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seven. But the end of that
second quarter the three points shooting from Kawhi

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hit three threes to end the second
in one right before the buzzer. The

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first half, just big time shots
from your leader to give you some confidence

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and get you up nineteen heading into
the brain, right. Well, that's

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the momentum shift, right, That
was where it felt like, okay,

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the Clippers had built enough, and
then the Lakers end up coming out and

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doing enough too in the second half, in the third in particular, just

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keep it close enough to keep it
interesting. And that's really Lebron James who

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had thirty second half points in this
game and ends up going four of six

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from three. Now, he didn't
go off from three to the level he

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did in the last matchup with these
two teams. He couldn't miss from the

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outside in that one, and the
Clippers actually won that game by eighteen points

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despite Lebron going for forty six,
eight and seven. I actually thought they

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did a great job on Anthony Davis
today. And look, ad played forty

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two minutes last night, so there's
a good chance that he was somewhat worn

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down. But he only took fourteen
shots. He had seventeen points, eleven

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rebounds in thirty three minutes. I
mean, he got out played again by

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Viza Zuboss And it feels like it
happens every single time these two match up.

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Zoo had seventeen point, thirteen rebounds, two steals, a block,

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and an assist, a D seventeen
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I mean, very similar, I
guess, But if you're an Anthony Davis,

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you should be dominating that matchup.
And you want to say you want

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to talk about taking it personally.
I know. Russell Westbrook still had a

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very solid game despite only playing twenty
one minutes to ninety at fourteen points,

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three rebounds, four assists, a
block in a steal, and he came

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out at the tone really for the
Clippers and deserves a lot of credit for

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that. I beats the zoo bots
every time he plays. The Lakers has

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something for him. I swear every
single time, and we've talked to him

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about it, both myself and some
of the Medium members asked him about it.

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He was hurt when they traded him. He didn't think he deserved to

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be traded by them. That was
his team going out. It was his

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team, correct. Correct. So
he gets there and he's putting together a

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pretty good career, and he's putting
together a really nice season, and he's

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showing the developments that now we've gotten
to see. But Magic Johnson at the

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time felt like it was the right
move for the Lakers to bring in a

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shooter, and they bring in Mike
Muscala and the rest of his history,

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but Zoo takes it personally. Zoo
goes full last dance on this team and

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every example, but every I swear, every single time they play. I'm

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just gonna pull up because I put
it in my phone as to what his

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numbers were against the Lakers this year. Ten points per game, eleven rebounds,

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ninety three percent from the floor,
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he came into that. He was
thirteen and fourteen from the floor coming in

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his mention. So he's now nineteen
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But he went five of six of
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points and thirteen rebounds. I mean, he improved upon what he was averaging

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against the Lakers this year. He
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over the last few seasons. And
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Lou pregame, and you always bring
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It's not only good for him,
it's not only good for the team,

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but I think it opens up lanes
for everybody else because now he's actually garnering

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so much more attention now Anthony Davis
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we've seen him as a lot threat. We've seen him as a duck in

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type of guy, a rollman,
a fill the lane. He's just as

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much of a threat. So defenses
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lot more. I think that opens
things up for guys like Russell Westbrook to

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drive, Eric Gordon to drive of
course Kauai or even Norman Powell. We

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saw got a couple more layups today
because they were extra focused on one of

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each Zubots was doing to them down
the stretch, and the Clippers ended up

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attempting more free throws than a lot
of That is because Norman Powell and his

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willingness to attack the basket. You
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calls early on. He kept fighting
through not getting those calls. Eventually did

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earned him and then went ten for
ten at the charity stripe. That's it,

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and that's his game. What I've
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and I said this about any great
bench scorer, and that's what Lou Williams

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was taught early in his career.
He was taught get to the free throw

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line. Let that be the first
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off the bench, you're cold.
You know you've been sitting there for a

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little bit, a couple of minutes
into the game. You're not going to

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just go out there and knock down
the first three. You might and there

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if you're open, you take it. But the best thing you can do

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for yourself is get to the free
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the line the first time, it
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went for it. He just fought
through everything. He just made it happen

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and did it the rest of the
game. I kept his foot on the

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gas, pedal to the metal,
made sure it happened for this team.

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So twenty seven points the hard way, I would say, in many ways,

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because he only made one three,
and he did it in a Norman

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Powell sense of Okay, get myself
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off from there. Then once he
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dagger jump shot at the end of
the fourth quarter. That's Norman power basketball.

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Clippers win one twenty five to one
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the Lakers, and what we were
saying was the play in to stay out

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of the play in, And it
looks like the Clippers are in a very

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good position. We'll update you on
the standings coming up as Noah Eagles going

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nowhere. First of all, we
got second half highlights next, and then

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after that, Noah Eagle's gonna join
us on Clippers talk for a few So

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get online now eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six

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nine eight seven two five seventy.
Clippers make it eleven straight victories over the

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Lakers. They have won thirty six
of the last forty three matchups and now

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they're at forty two wins on the
season. Twelfth straight year they've had a

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winning season long and seven. That's
the seventh longest streak ever in the history

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of the NBA. Unbelievable. It
is considering this franchise. About that for

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a second, Steve Bomber, Clipper
fans, you are lucky to have them.

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I know item says it all the
time, but it's true. Now,

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Adam, I'm gonna go use the
bathroom, but I will be back.

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Better be coming up nex second half
highlights. Clippers win one twenty five

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to one, eighteen over the Lakers
here at Crypto dot Com Arena and we

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get your postgame show more coming up
next right here on the Los Angeles clip

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First Radio Network. Clippers are victorious
once again over the Lakers. They make

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it eleven straight victories as they win
one twenty five to one eighteen in the

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biggest showdown between these two teams in
their history, as the Clippers are in

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the driver's seat for staying out of
the play in now after getting this win,

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welcome back in this is your postgame
show. I'm Adam Oslin still to

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come on m five seventy LA Sports, so we will have Clippers Talk for

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you a special edition with Noah Eagle. Eight six six nine eight seven two

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five seventy eight six six nine eight
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Let's get to your second half highlights. Clippers led seventy one to fifty

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two at the half, as Why
hit a big three pointer to end the

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second quarter. In the third,
Lebron had it going, but as did

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Norman Powell. Vanderbilt left blod block
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and here it comes left to right
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the third. How loll gonna drive
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the ram and swoops it up an
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is seventeen. Norman Powell with ten
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that third quarter. But Lebron James
had sixteen points in the third after just

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three in the first half. Clippers
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into the fourth, and early on
it was Bones Highland taken over Leonard back

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to Highland. Top of the heat. Deep three is up, head down.

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Time to get busy Bones. Thailand
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six, Clippers nine twenty to play. How the clubs over tried middle,

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kickout horsyke quarter Highland another three,
another three ball Bones, Thailand finds Nylon

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and the Clippers lead one oh six
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is Thailand on the right. Wake
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line. Wholso with the right hand, get to the roll off the front

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iron and bone. Thailand coming alive
with eleven and the fourth Bones had all

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fourteen to his points in that fourth
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Clippers were starting to open things back
up again, and then they got a

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little bit flashy. It was Norman
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with Noah. After the Clippers biggest victory

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ever over the Lakers, the biggest
victory of the season, and they are

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in a great spot now Noah to
stay out of the play tournament. Look,

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that was the name of the game
coming into the night, and everybody

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around the NBA world and certainly in
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levity of the game that was about
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anticipation beforehand. You could feel the
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off the bat, Russell Westbrook set
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back from there. The Lakers made
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without it being a wired to wire
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we've talked about this a little bit
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when their back is against the wall, when they need something in the worst

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way, when it's essentially win or
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this team has come through. Let's
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two years ago, down two zero, to the Dallas Mavericks, going to

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you go down thirty to eleven to
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on the road, then you win
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lose Game five at home in a
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Terrence Man maybe had a layup,
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it was an awkward shot for Nick
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go ahead final minute shot. Instead, Dallas comes back the other way,

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extends it and wins game five.
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Kawhi Leonard herculean performance. JJ Redick
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he's ever seen. I think we
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five points, step back threes on
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game in the fourth quarter. Win
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go home. Then in the second
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the number one team in the NBA, team with the best record in the

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NBA that year. People forget that
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at times during the regular season.
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year nineteen twenty games and they were
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yeah, and that was a great
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Clippers win the next two. What
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goes down, comes out that it
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a death sentence, but not for
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is against the wall, that's when
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sure enough in Utah, Paul George
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win. And still most people are
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there's no Kawhi Leonard here. Who
cares? You know? They go down

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twenty five and the third quarter of
Game six, a game that you almost

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didn't show up at Adam, You
were this close to not coming. What

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happened to me? We could talk
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got you here, and that was
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No, the Clippers went down twenty
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Logo three essentially, which he kept
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if it went back to Utah for
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compete. Sure enough, come back
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Western Conference Finals in dramatic fashion.
Let's fast forward to the next series.

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Go down Oh two again, you
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lose just a rock fight of Game
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and quite honestly, a Game two
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So you could look at that series
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look at it like this. They
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three, to lose game four,
Game five. I remember showing up to

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Phoenix that year and the Suns,
the media, the broadcast to group for

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the Suns, and a lot of
the workers there had brought champagne and cake

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that they brought champagne and cake and
told me before today is gonna be really

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special. And Paul George put up
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I wonder if they had that when
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the elimination. We're not gonna go
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there. We're not We're not trying
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stay in the day out. Now, it's just stating the facts here.

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All this to say backs against the
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last year twenty five point comebacks?
Five comebacks of twenty or more last year

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set an NBA record thirty five point
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I mean, this is a team
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wall, they bring their best.
And tonight their back was all the way

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up against the wall. They were
getting measured with their height where the parents

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put the little mark on the door, and sure enough they grew a couple

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inches and they matured and bones Thailand
came in the fourth quarter and they just

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made it work and they made it
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right now is put them in position
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There's two more games left on the
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have it against a Blazer team that
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down, January Grant, shut down, maybe use of Nurkic. You gotta

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win that game. And if the
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pretty good about where the're at They're
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because they have the tiebreaker over the
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over them. With this victory over
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down to division record, then the
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So as much as we sold this
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game between these two teams ever,
it was endingwise, this was the most

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meaningful, crucial game that has ever
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and the Clippers come out on top. And you mentioned all those moments,

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and the first thing I think of, because a lot of different players,

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a different roster at times. No
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Conference finals, No Paul George right
now, the common denominator to me Coach

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Lou. Yeah, and he was
magnificent tonight. I thought Russell Westbrook got

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getting them off to the hot start, but then Coach Lou only letting him

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play five minutes in that third quarter
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to him when he saw guys who
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d percent right, And so he
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way he's handled, not just this
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last couple of games where he's been
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Not for the most part, he
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Phil Jackson and learning from the zen
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work through their problems and they got
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were good enough to do it,
and some of the past teams the Clippers

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have had probably good enough to do
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don't have Paul George out there and
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as much as they possibly can with
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to be that quick trigger, and
he's recognized it. And I think he

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deserves a lot more credit than he's
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tumultuous season with injuries and so many
other factors. With this team bringing in

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four new players after the All Star
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the level that they are, that's
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in a similar boat, but it's
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the time you bring in four new
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finish the season. Both these teams
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now, and they're getting that level
of production. So I think both Darvin

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Hamm and certainly Toront Lou deserve a
whole lot of praise for the way they've

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handled it. And you're right tonight
he was spectacular Leberna. So we're gonna

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get to your phone calls in just
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KLAC Los Angeles, ninety seven KYSR
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Morris and Long Beach. You normally
close things out, start things off.

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Tonight you got Noah Eagle here on
Clippers Talk. Morris. What's up?

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Nor You're the best. No,
I'm telling you right now, you are

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the best. Don't get jealous at
him. You are the best. Let

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me say that you know some Let
me tell you about the Clippers. What

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the Clippers got? The Clippers got
six guys. They get in a multiple

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three in the fourth quarter. Now
think about this rowcode up a tune,

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Gordon, Powell, Bones Highland and
the Man Kawhi. The Clippers remind member

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stick shift in the first the first
gear is Westbrook, The second gear is

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either gonna be Man in power is
gonna be Man and Gordon, and then

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the third gear is Kawhi. The
fourth gear who's ever is hot. The

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most valuable player on the Clippers is
Zoobok. He's not the best player on

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the Clippers. He's the most valuable
player because you didn't kept the fourth He

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hailed it out until we got our
team together. And Westbrook, I'm say

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why he was hurt. He wasn't
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The Lakers didn't have any shooters.
Well, Westbrooks feel like he's in a

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candy store. Now, all right, go up to you later, Morris.

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Appreciate you Man. I love hearing
your calls. Morris. He always

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brings some positivity, always bring good
analysis. And you're absolutely correct. You

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didn't even mention Terrence Man as somebody
who can knock down a number of threes,

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which he did tonight. Again,
shout the ball really well with good

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confidence two for two from Downtown four
or five overall and was second on the

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team and plus minus. He always
loves, always loves looking at it.

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What does he always say at him, don't play with me? Plus twelve

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off the bench from Terrence Man and
night Nico Putuma the only one better at

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plus thirteen. But I love the
Morris is saying, and he's right of

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Echa Zoo bots deserves if you want
to just talk about who who needs their

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flowers more than they've gotten over the
course of not just this year, but

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over the course of his career of
Echa Zoo botch is at the top of

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the list. Yeah, I'm always
happy to see Big Zoo thrive because he

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does all the little things, all
the dirty work. When guys get beat

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on the perimeter, he is there
covering for them in the post. Terrace

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Man also in that second quarter a
couple of huge momentum throwdowns when the Clippers

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were getting into transition over and over
again, twelve of their twenty four fast

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break points coming in that second quarter
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meet out there, and that's the
game they wanted to play. It's the

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game that they felt was best suited
for this particular day against the Lakers,

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because of the back to back,
because of the logjam in their schedule,

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because of the heavy minutes that their
guys had to play. They felt like

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if they could run, they could
be successful. And sure enough they were

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right. They win once twenty five
to one, eighteen over the Lakers.

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Javier and Lahabra heights. You're on
Clippers top with your voice at the Clippers.

407
00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.079
Noa eagle, Javier? What's good? What's all the guys? It

408
00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.839
just left the game? Man.
It was like always when they play the

409
00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:49.759
Lakers. The cripple was always loud, and I lost my voice. What's

410
00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:56.880
going on? No eagle? Good? Good? Good? Real quick?

411
00:25:56.759 --> 00:26:02.079
A couple of things. Don't know
if you talked about Adam, but bones

412
00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:06.119
Highland man, he was clutching the
fourth quarter. He made those couple of

413
00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.799
those threes and a bucket. I
don't think to win the game without him.

414
00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:11.960
I mean tylu did put him in
the fourth quarter. He didn't put

415
00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:15.400
Russell Westroll back in the game.
That was smart. I told everybody around,

416
00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:19.240
all the season ticket holders there,
Russell Westbrook can not come back in

417
00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.960
the game. He gotta keep Bones
and look what happened ride the momentum.

418
00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:26.240
Bones Highland was a killer in that
fork. Noah, yeah, no,

419
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.599
they don't even come close to winning
this game. I think if it wasn't

420
00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:33.400
for what he provided, because it
felt like every time the Lakers drew closer

421
00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:37.799
and closer and closer, it was
either Highland or Powell who had the bucket

422
00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.720
to keep the Clippers in front and
keep a enough momentum in their favor just

423
00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:45.319
to push them through that finish line. But what always stands out to me

424
00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:48.279
about Bones Highland is he's never afraid
of any moment. We saw it last

425
00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:52.480
year in Denver as a rookie in
the playoffs. He came up sometimes Shoston

426
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.319
fall he was never afraid to take
them. That's always that's the biggest part

427
00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.279
for a kid who's never been in
that moment before. Bones just torn two

428
00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:03.160
years old, and the Clippers really
view him as a big piece for the

429
00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.519
future. You know, Lawrence Frank
in this front office. They traded for

430
00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.720
him with the intention of having him
as a long term option as a guy

431
00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.079
who can develop into a point guard
or a Lou Williams type guy off the

432
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.359
bench. We've seen flashes of both, And honestly, today we saw flashes

433
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:21.000
of both. Hits, big jump
shots, got to the rim, got

434
00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:22.960
to the free throw a line a
couple of times, nice float in the

435
00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:26.200
lane. But how about some of
the feeds. He had no look inside

436
00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:29.640
a Mason Plumley at one point he
had a couple of spray outs to three

437
00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:32.559
point shooters and then they had a
lob to a Visa Zoobots. That was

438
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:36.319
a huge, huge finish down the
stretch in this one. Yeah, the

439
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.720
Clippers ended up with forty six points
in the paint, not a huge number,

440
00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:44.440
but the Lakers just fifty four,
and they had been averaging over sixty

441
00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:47.640
over the last week. The Lakers
were so good in that area, you

442
00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:49.559
know, their fifth in the league
in that category for the season, fifty

443
00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:52.680
five a game. What makes them
so dangerous to me is they don't need

444
00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.599
three pointers to beat you. Sometimes
is a bonus. But even though the

445
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.680
Clippers gave up twelve of twenty nine
shooting from the out side to the Lakers

446
00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.519
and they end up shooting fifty one
percent from the field, I felt like

447
00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.000
most every bucket they really had to
work for the Clippers defense was about as

448
00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:10.799
good as it could be our most
shots, no doubt about it. I

449
00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:14.640
just felt like they were attached on
a string for the most part in this

450
00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:17.559
game. And look, the Lakers
in the second half put up sixty six

451
00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:21.400
points to get up to one eighteen, But the Clippers had done so much

452
00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:23.480
great work in the first two quarters. They built up enough of a cushion.

453
00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:26.759
And that's why we've seen for how
many how many of these last few

454
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.279
years, how many games were they
got off to the slow start, and

455
00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:33.400
now they're the team that's battling back, and a lot of times they could

456
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.880
make their way back and just expend
so much energy. This game they got

457
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:38.720
off to the quick start. And
almost every game of this eleven game win

458
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:41.920
streak against the Lakers, they've gotten
off to the quicker start. They've gotten

459
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.759
up big early in the game,
and so even when the Lakers make their

460
00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.920
run, there's this sense of calm
and confidence and poise from the Clippers.

461
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:52.119
And I thought we saw that again
tonight. They answered those runs. Damien

462
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.160
in LA You're on Clippers Talk,
their Voice of the Clippers, Noah Eagle,

463
00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:03.079
Damian what's up? Deatho Man and
Noah Ego triple A man, Great

464
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:07.559
win. Great call. I really
enjoyed it. I had some late work,

465
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:08.680
you know, so I got to
catch the first half with you.

466
00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:14.599
Noah, Man, you know,
I think probably you should be the one

467
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.559
getting the go chance and stuff like
that. Bro, like yourself. Man,

468
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.720
I you know, I'm gonna speak
to him in his native language when

469
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.440
I see him next. I'm gonna
be there on Saturday. Bro. But

470
00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:32.240
man, what a great win.
We don't you guys were talking about Tyler

471
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:36.319
not being talked about enough as far
as this is, this philosophy and being

472
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:40.200
trusted. So let's talk about it
a little bit. The toomb one per

473
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:42.000
seven from the field. He left
him in there for twenty nine minutes.

474
00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:48.400
You know, I really love the
fact that he's trusting guys. The trust

475
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:53.920
is obviously being infectious because you know, four or five games ago, you

476
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.839
know Hyland, he couldn't get a
sniff of that ball in Kawai. Kawai's

477
00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:03.200
looking for him. Now we're finding
trust. Kawai's trusting guys. He's feeling

478
00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.119
comfortable with these guys. Obviously,
practice and everything has something to do with

479
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.759
it, but it starts from the
top down, and so you're seeing kay

480
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:14.880
Lou and it's imprint and what he
actually brings to a team. It's gonna

481
00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:17.920
start coming out. We've been playing
possum for a little bit. If you

482
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.839
guys seem beer fest, I feel
like it's that part at the end.

483
00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:25.160
We're not that front. We're not
that drunk Sellis, you know. So

484
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:29.640
I feel really confident about where we're
headed going into it. I like all

485
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:33.680
the contributions we've talked about Highland and
uh you know, and and our young

486
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.240
guys. I love what they're doing. The Kauai not I'm gonna go ahead

487
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.519
and say that I love what they're
doing. I love what Kawhi and Russ

488
00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:45.640
are doing together in the first half. Let's go. Let's keep it going,

489
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:48.079
all right, Damon appreciate the phone
call. Yeah, Damian, appreciate

490
00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:51.279
you. Man. Always go to
insight from you as well, always here

491
00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:55.400
at the game and always on Clippers
talk. But the one part that that

492
00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:59.559
he brought up was Nick Patoum staying
in there, and that was a huge

493
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.039
factor. Nick was the guy who
led the team in plus minus a plus

494
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:06.240
thirteen. He played thirty minutes tonight, and despite going one of seven from

495
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:10.319
downtown five points in the game,
just two rebounds and an assistant two steals.

496
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.079
You might look at that and say, why why did he play so

497
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:17.720
much? And I believe it was
Morris who brought up how a Visa Zoobots

498
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:19.839
is the most valuable player on this
team. Well, I don't know if

499
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:22.799
I could go that far, but
how often have we said that those two

500
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:29.400
guys are the two most undervalued players
or underappreciated players by maybe people outside of

501
00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:32.480
cliber Nation, People who don't follow
this team on a day to day basis

502
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:37.079
might look at Nick Batoum said he's
averaging six points per game and four rebounds.

503
00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.519
Who cares? Well? I care
because he is an impactful player on

504
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.200
both ends of the floor. Defensively, you know that he's gonna give you

505
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:47.880
maximum effort, and you know he's
gonna be willing to take challenges that maybe

506
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:52.000
other guys won't, and he's willing
to expend that energy. Offensively, he

507
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:53.680
goes through streaks. We talked about
it before the game. He was on

508
00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:56.960
fire in the last three home games
before this one. Then he couldn't hit

509
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.000
water in the previous three games heading
into this one on the road, and

510
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:04.000
he goes one of seven tonight,
but he keeps shooting it. He stays

511
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:07.119
confident, and this team lifts him
up. They know what he does well,

512
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:09.799
they know how he can help them, and he knows how he can

513
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:13.599
help them. So he just goes
out there and plays his tail off every

514
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:17.799
single night. And he's incredibly valuable
for Toron Lou his switchability going from guarding

515
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:23.039
Lebron to Anthony Davis. They threw
so many different looks at both those guys

516
00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:27.920
throughout the ball game. And speaking
of Coach Lou and just being a mastermind

517
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.119
out there, you may have heard
Clipper Nation him say yesterday at practice that

518
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:36.160
they were going to guard Anthony Davis
won on one with the Vizza Zubats.

519
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:38.759
Well, from the get going this
one, they were throwing all kinds of

520
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.359
looks at Anthony Davis and he never
got comfortable out there. No, he

521
00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.720
didn't, he didn't. His numbers
really show that this is a guy that's

522
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:50.720
averaging twenty seven points and twelve and
a half rebounds per game on the season,

523
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:52.839
twenty seven and twelve and a half. He finished with seventeen and eleven

524
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:57.680
and Iviza Zubats just outplayed him.
Again. It's just plain and simple.

525
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:00.079
So I think the Clippers have done
a great job on Anthony Davis, and

526
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:02.200
for the most part, they'd done
a great job on Lebron. James had

527
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:05.400
a huge second half, but he
was still a minus ten on the game,

528
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.519
and the rest of the starters for
the Lakers were all positive plus minus.

529
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.599
That should tell you all you need
to know. That second quarter where

530
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:15.920
the Clippers were beating the Lakers and
outscoring them without Kawai out there and with

531
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:20.920
Lebron James out there for the Lakers, that was some really impressive basketball,

532
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:23.680
next level stuff for sure. Sean
and Inglewood, Sean, what's up?

533
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:27.640
You're on Clippers tack? Noah Eagle
your voice that the Clippers is with you?

534
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.319
Hello, Double A and no Egle, good to talk to you.

535
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:37.640
Met you before. Noah, you
had persony gentleman. I just want to

536
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:42.279
say a couple of things. As
far as I'm concerned, Zoobach had a

537
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:46.759
almost perfect game. I mean,
his defense was there, he was very

538
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:52.559
intimidating on the boards, and I
love the way that the Coopers kept getting

539
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:57.480
into the chest of Anthony Davis before
he can actually get into his rhythm,

540
00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:02.079
as you spoke of before. But
also I saw a nice increase in the

541
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:08.199
way that Tylo was coaching games lately, because he's not going by some set

542
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:16.079
formula and preconceived time for one guy
and one guy, set changes or set

543
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:21.639
substitutions. He actually just takes you
if you're not hot, if you're not

544
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.679
producing, you come out the game, like he did Russell Westbrook. So

545
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:29.559
I mean, if Bones got it
going, okay, let's get Bones in

546
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:34.760
there. And that made a big
difference in this game because Clippers go into

547
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.400
a couple of lows, especially sometimes
when they get a big League and you

548
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:40.239
know, everybody was saying, oh, I hope they don't blow this big

549
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:45.599
league like I was saying, And
a few times they had some downtimes in

550
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:51.480
the game. But ty did good
getting the people out who weren't productive and

551
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:55.920
keeping people on the floor who were
product So in this case, he coached

552
00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:01.079
this game, not a formula for
you know, games to come. And

553
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:06.320
so at this point of the season, you just got to go with whoever's

554
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:09.760
producing. When you get into the
playoffs, you start or some guy that

555
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:13.880
you think you're gonna get a lot
of points from a lot of productions.

556
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:16.960
He may have a bad game.
Some guys just waiting to go in there

557
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:20.920
saying if I get in, I'm
gonna tear it up. You have to

558
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.079
play these guys, Sean, we
hear you. We hear your coach Lew

559
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:29.039
heard you. Obviously unbelievable performers coaching
wise, No, Sean, I think

560
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:32.239
Sean, it's honestly, it's probably
a pretty common viewpoint in a lot of

561
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:37.039
ways. And just let me,
I guess, give you my perspective as

562
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:42.920
someone who's around the team. I
think that everybody looks at how Toront Lewis

563
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.880
coached this year and said, why
is he sticking to X, Y and

564
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:50.760
Z for the majority of the year. He's had guys on minutes restrictions And

565
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.760
what that does is basically he gets
told, hey, you have to play

566
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:58.760
this guy at this period of the
game. So, especially when you're trying

567
00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:01.599
to work a guy back in,
that's hard because you have to get him

568
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:06.159
in and so you can't break away
from that. So now we're gotten to

569
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:09.239
the point of the season where one
the Clippers don't have anyone currently who's playing,

570
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:13.039
and if Paul George makes his way
back soon then held up be on

571
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:15.119
a minute's restriction at some point.
But they don't have anyone right now,

572
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:19.159
who's currently playing on a minute's restriction. A case in point, Kawhi Leonard

573
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.519
in this game played forty three minutes
after playing it back to back just a

574
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:24.719
couple of days ago. They understand
now is the time. It's go time

575
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:29.639
and come playoff time. No minutes
restrictions. You play the playoffs. You

576
00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:31.800
just play quiet starting that fourth quarter. By the way, another great move.

577
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:37.320
One hundred percent, one hundred percent. So Norman Powell missed eleven straight

578
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:39.679
games and played thirty five and a
half minutes tonight. So I think that's

579
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:44.719
what we're seeing now is that he's
more. He's Telou has the freedom to

580
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:47.000
actually coach it. Telou has the
freedom to go buy feel as he likes

581
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.280
to say. He didn't have that
necessarily all a year. And that's really

582
00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:53.800
the peel behind the curtain is a
lot of times he gets dictated, and

583
00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:58.559
coaching staffs from all around the league
get dictated. But with that being said,

584
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:00.039
I don't want you to look at
that as a bad thing. It's

585
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:04.920
a good thing because you're preserving guys
for when it matters most, for this

586
00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:07.719
time of year. And guess what, Kawhi Leonard, who over the course

587
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:12.199
of the year, has had minutes
restrictions, is looking like the best version

588
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.599
of himself now as we're getting towards
the postseason, and that's a scary thought.

589
00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:20.079
Forever plays this team. So I
get it. It's frustrating over the

590
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:22.280
course of a season. But from
toront Loo's perspective, when he has the

591
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.320
freedom like today and he can coach
by fuel, this is the result.

592
00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:30.599
Jose in Southgate, you're on Clipper
stock with Noah Eagle, your voice of

593
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.480
the Clippers. Jose, what's good? First off, Pop, thank you

594
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:39.119
for having me as the most important
to related game of the date. Second,

595
00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:45.599
Noah, did you give Adam before
the game started? Did I give

596
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.360
him one? Oh? The oh? Yes I did. I said that

597
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:52.840
he's the best I did. I
did see you? That was that was

598
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:55.000
nicely you to stop by, by
the way, and your beard is quite

599
00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:02.239
impressive, he did. Oh.
Oh, Mama, I saw I saw

600
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:06.000
you over the game. The good
dude, Ready Adam fucking interrupt you.

601
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:09.559
Anyways, I'm gonna man who First
off, that was a whole lot of

602
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:17.159
yellow right boys. Whoo man,
thank you man bon Thailand? Why Leonards?

603
00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:21.400
Towards the end, I saw him, you know from anger. I

604
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.000
was sitting I saw that play where
he came a kind of limping shout the

605
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:29.000
free throws, but then he did
that last It was amazing. I have

606
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:34.760
so much to say, but Clippers. Look, you're with the voice of

607
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.199
the Clippers. You get a little
bit of stage fright, you get overwhelmed.

608
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:40.280
Jose came right up. He wished
us both a great show before the

609
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:45.360
game started today. He was in
great spirits and I think that his positivity

610
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.039
carried us through, not just on
the broadcast, but on the court as

611
00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:53.320
well. Clipper nations showed up big
time. This team rallies around the energy

612
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:57.480
they feed off of it from the
crowd here and going up against the Lakers,

613
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:00.119
where these there's these wild swings of
momentum because you got Lakers fans in

614
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.760
the house, Clippers fans in the
house. When a team goes on a

615
00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:07.280
run, you hear their fans,
they come through easily, Oh no,

616
00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:10.320
no doubt. Yeah. But I
would say that Jose would have wanted to

617
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:14.679
say, those fans that were in
the building that were from the opposing team,

618
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:17.719
they left pretty sad. Someone left
early too. They did leave pretty

619
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:21.480
early. Yeah, even when even
when the Purple and gold tried to make

620
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:23.400
their run late. Felt like some
of those fans already shuffled out a little

621
00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:28.960
bit. Ali, it Lancaster,
your odd Clippers. Talk with your voice

622
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.400
and the Clippers and noa eagle.
Allie, what's up? Yeah, I'm

623
00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:36.639
good. I'm good man. Thank
you for taking my call. Yeah.

624
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.280
To be honest with you, this
game, I was so nervous. I

625
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:49.440
was so nervous because for the long
time would be taking Lakers then never have

626
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:54.599
a good team like this time.
The Clippers may give them credit, and

627
00:39:54.840 --> 00:40:04.199
thank you to Magic Johnson to give
the Clippers zubas he is my favorite player

628
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.920
of all time, Magic Johnson,
not just for that reason. Ali,

629
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:12.760
You're absolutely correct, though a visa
Zubats has been I don't think anybody could

630
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:15.880
have expected this level of impact from
him when he first got traded to the

631
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:16.880
Clippers. I think everybody thought,
oh, he's got a chance to be

632
00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:20.920
a decent center in the NBA.
But to average a double double over the

633
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:23.079
course of a season, and to
do it averaging just about eleven and ten,

634
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:27.800
now, I mean that's the step
that he takes each year. And

635
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:31.079
he just turned twenty six at the
end of March. So young player,

636
00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.400
someone who is still just entering the
prime of his career, of his athletic

637
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:42.000
lifetime. And every single season he
comes back, he gets a little bit

638
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:44.639
better than the last season, and
then next season a little bit better than

639
00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:46.679
the next season, and then a
little bit better. And if he improves

640
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:50.440
even from what he's doing this year
to next year, I mean, think

641
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:52.760
about how much better that makes this
team. And especially you know, Mason

642
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.679
Plumley is going to be a free
agent at the end of the year,

643
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:58.719
but they continue to get a secondary
big in there with him, so he

644
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.000
doesn't have to do all the work
self like they had with Isaiah Hartenstein last

645
00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:06.960
year. It just it makes this
team so dangerous. And I think his

646
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:09.679
rim protection actually gets lost in the
shuffle. He's a great rim protector.

647
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:13.840
He had five blocks in the first
matchup with the Lakers this year, and

648
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:16.119
he might not have had a huge
number of blocks today, but he patrolled

649
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:20.599
the paint very very well. He
did a good job of just going out

650
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:24.280
there and deferring some players from going
all the way inside. So another great

651
00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:28.960
game from Aviza Zubats, another great
win for the Clippers over the Lakers.

652
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:32.800
Playing and simple wasn't assist from Magic
on that one. I mean, Josiah

653
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:37.320
Downey, you're on Clippers stock with
Noah Eagle. Hey, guys, hope

654
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:40.679
you are doing great. It was
great. It was a good win.

655
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:49.119
I was really really impressed with zubos
play in the middle. Matched Anthony Davids

656
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.119
minutes, got a couple more rebounds
than him, and matched his points.

657
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:58.480
I think that was big. Plumny's
fourteen minutes it was big too, But

658
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:05.920
just that ty Lou played Zuba double
of what plumb played. That was a

659
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.440
big difference there. You know,
I had some calls earlier after the trade

660
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:13.960
deadline. For some reason, there's
a contingent of Clippers fans that aren't sold

661
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.480
on a Vizza Zuba. What they
think, well, he doesn't have great

662
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:20.599
hands. They forget the fact that
he was playing with broken hands when he

663
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:22.880
first came over, which is crazy
by the way he played through it.

664
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.519
He's a tough guy. He's an
iron man for this team, and he

665
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:30.480
is easily the best defensive center on
this team, as good as Mason Plumbly

666
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.000
can be at times. I Vizza
Zubats has proven he's one of the best

667
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:36.239
in the league on that end.
Yeah, No, he is just under

668
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:39.599
the radar, doesn't do it anything
flashy, just very much in position high

669
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:45.400
basketball IQ hardest worker you're gonna find. You know, his teammates love him.

670
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:47.440
His teammates all love him. Going
back to when he first got here,

671
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:52.239
Patrick Beverley fell in love quickly,
Lou Williams fell in love quickly,

672
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.920
Mantras Harold because he was battling with
them in practice and he wasn't afraid,

673
00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:00.880
he wasn't backing down, and he
felt galvanized by that group. And so

674
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:05.360
now over time Kawhi Leonard, he
loves him. I mean every I've not

675
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:07.599
met a single person who doesn't like
a viza Zoobots, not just on this

676
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:12.119
team, but on every team.
You know, all of that Balkan Region

677
00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.639
basketball startop that's around the NBA.
I remember they got they got dinner.

678
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:19.239
I think it was either in the
bubble or right after the bubble or around

679
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.199
that time. And all those guys
like him, I mean some of them

680
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:28.840
from nations that don't necessarily get along, and still he's well like Nicole Yokich

681
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:35.280
is Serbian, the viz Zoobots his
Croatian, and they get along because you

682
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:38.599
can't dislike this guy. He's just
one of those guys who he's lovable in

683
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:43.039
so many ways. He's a kind
soul. He works his tail off,

684
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:45.320
does everything the right way, does
whatever the team needs to try to win.

685
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:50.239
He's gonna play through pain. He's
gonna just do anything because he's so

686
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:53.760
happy and blessed to be here to
do this and call this his his job.

687
00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:57.800
And he got to learn from his
cousins. Or On Planinich, who

688
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.880
played in the NBA many years ago
for the New Jersey Nets big Z Baby

689
00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:07.320
Big can make it happen. Nice
hair too. R J r J got

690
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:09.840
him on the Dave Chappelle's Show pretty
early. Okay, that's how that was

691
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:14.320
how he learned English, So you
can try to figure out what phrases he

692
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:20.679
knew. Greg, I'm rich,
Greg, Newport Beach. You're on Clippers

693
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:23.480
Talk with your voice and the Clippers
and Noah Eagle and what's up? Salt

694
00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:28.920
the Egg? What's up? Noah
Ego? What up? Listen? Fellas

695
00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:37.239
great win, meaningful win, Uh
eleventh straight? Who owns La? Who

696
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:43.519
La R Way La R Way?
Listen, uh Adam listen tomorrow. I'm

697
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:51.480
gonna enjoy listening to Fred Rogan because
we know Fred's a Laker homer on the

698
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:57.760
Clippers station, talking non stop about
the Lakers and giving the Clippers maybe three

699
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:01.480
minutes when you there, I've actually
booked for tomorrow, so maybe we'll play

700
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:06.360
your phone call. So good,
good, Adam good, because listen today,

701
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:10.360
Fred that he had the Lakers tonight, so this game was not only

702
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:15.960
important for the Clippers, but I'm
just gonna enjoy tomorrow listening to Fred Rady.

703
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.559
I want to see what his excuse
is gonna be tomorrow for the Clippers

704
00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:24.360
whooping the Lakers behind again tonight.
Yeah, good night, bring the energy,

705
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:29.559
let's go. I just hope Fred
still shows up to work tomorrow after

706
00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:30.880
this phone calling. Oh he will, come on, come on now,

707
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:35.400
come on now, you gotta you
gotta face the music. Fred has done

708
00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:38.679
it. Many's he faces the music. He knows he's directly pointed at the

709
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:42.840
horns that are blowing towards him.
He knows. Craig and Newport, what

710
00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:45.719
a call, Chris in La,
you're odd Clippers. Stop with your voice

711
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:51.280
of the Clippers. No Eagle,
Hey, what's going on? So I'll

712
00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:53.400
be a little sporadic, but I'll
try to be quick with my with my

713
00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:58.119
thoughts. A couple of things.
I just wanna say, shout out to

714
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:01.199
Bones, Highland, Terrence Man.
Terrence Mann reminds me of when we drafted

715
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:07.480
Eric Bledsoe and then when we drafted
Sga and Bones reminds me of Jamal Crawford

716
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.920
and Lou Williams. We need to
get that combination off the bench more and

717
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:17.119
keep him in the game through the
mistakes. I'm I'm just routing for this

718
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.039
team. Another thing is Marcus Morris. I know the whole situation, how

719
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:23.760
everybody feels, but we got to
get him back on the bench at least

720
00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:29.039
because he was our enforcer for a
few years and just his vibe, his

721
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:34.039
chemistry. We got great personalities and
we just need to click on all forms

722
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:38.280
and and and the last thing is
I was nervous about tonight because it's been

723
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:42.800
tough not having that killer instinct for
the Clippers, and these last few games

724
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:45.199
have been rough. So being able
to I know it's a back to back

725
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:47.519
for the Lakers, but being able
to have that killer instinct tonight, it

726
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.440
just it gets me ready for the
playoffs. I'm motivated, baby, I

727
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:54.800
like that. I will say Marcus
Morris was there today he was on the

728
00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:59.239
bench. He just wasn't suited up. He was inactive because of backspasms.

729
00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:00.960
But he was in the bill,
which was good to see after he was

730
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:06.159
dealing with with COVID nineteen and in
the health and safety protocols. So he

731
00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:08.280
is around the team, which is
helpful and a good first step there.

732
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:12.400
But yeah, I like the I
like the mentality and the energy. This

733
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.480
was a nice tune up in the
sense of, Okay, can we put

734
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:17.000
a team away, not just a
team, but a team playing very good

735
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:21.480
basketball, winners of four in a
row to get three games over five hundred.

736
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:24.559
Lakers hadn't been five hundred or better
all of last season and you had

737
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:29.079
to dip back to the year before. That was just getting there was a

738
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:30.280
big deal for them, but then
getting over the hump, it felt like,

739
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:32.880
oh, they've got some real momentum. So to put a team like

740
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.679
that away, and you might say
the back to back thing and whatnot,

741
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:38.760
Well, guess what. Sacramento Kings
came in on a back to back and

742
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.679
won one seventy six, one seventy
five and the second highest scoring game in

743
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:46.320
NBA history earlier this year. That
was the game after the All star break.

744
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:50.199
So I don't look at any team
after a back to back anymore and

745
00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:52.559
just say it's a win or they're
gonna be gas. Because the Kings didn't

746
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:55.320
have They had plenty of gas in
the tank. They could have gone a

747
00:47:55.320 --> 00:47:59.159
four overtimes. They didn't care.
And no one has ever felt sorry for

748
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:01.400
the Clippers when they were on the
second end of a bat back and they

749
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:07.199
had some tired legs out there.
True Clippers win tonight one twenty five to

750
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:12.440
one eighteen over the Lakers. Their
next game is coming up on Saturday against

751
00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:15.360
the Portland Trail Blazers. Noah,
thanks for doing this to night on Clippers

752
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:21.159
Talk. Great call as always,
and maybe we could do this some more

753
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.400
throughout the playoffs. I don't know. We'll playoffs time. Come on,

754
00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:27.880
let's get there first. Let's get
the victory on Saturday. Come on,

755
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.400
let's not. Let's not get to
our ahead of ourselves right now. They

756
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:34.000
put themselves in good position. But
come playoff time, you need me around,

757
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:36.800
I'll be there. Let's get the
get the eagle symbol. It's like

758
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:38.960
the bat symbol, but it's an
eagle in this guy. Well, that's

759
00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:44.679
not an eagle, all right,
can't wait, can't wait? That is

760
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:47.320
an Eagle. Well, take a
quick time out eight six six nine eight

761
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.039
seven two five seventy. I'll come
back here. We'll Updyke from cliffs and

762
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:55.719
dip. We'll join us. More
of your phone calls. Yeah, there

763
00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:00.440
we go. Sound effects from Zacho
Caldy and the Philosopher is in the house.

764
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:05.800
Tonight after the Clippers get their biggest
victory over the Lakers Feeling good too

765
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:13.079
ever, which was called earlier today
by big Brother Jake Warner. Big time

766
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:15.400
victory Clipper Nation. More coming up
here on Clippers stock at a five seventy

767
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:22.719
l A Sports and a Steel Pelli
takes a away for Vanderbilt left the ready

768
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:30.480
lost enough flinterard skies high Kawai with
the biggest Kawai light of the season time

769
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:37.119
out Lakers one twelve ninety two called
the season for Noah Eagle. In contention,

770
00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:43.760
Clippers win tonight one twenty five to
one eighteen over the Lakers and put

771
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:47.519
themselves in a great spot where they're
currently in the fifth seed in the West.

772
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:52.199
They have the tiebreaker over the Golden
State Warriors. They obviously have the

773
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:57.000
tiebreaker over the Lakers. The Pelicans
they do not. Pelicans though a game

774
00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:02.760
back currently of the Clippers. They
w earlier in overtime over the Memphis Grizzlies

775
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.960
after they tried to give it away
up six with eleven seconds left, and

776
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.639
somehow that game went into overtime.
But New Orleans prevailed and they're good and

777
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:14.039
they just took down the Clippers on
Saturday. But tonight the Clippers make it

778
00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:20.239
eleven straight victories over the Lakers.
And during this eleven game win streak,

779
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.760
this comes from our statisticians to the
Stars, Dennis Degastino. Their average win

780
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:30.840
margin is eleven. They've had five
ten plus point wins, two twenty plus

781
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.719
point wins, four wire to wire
wins over the Lakers. Then the Clippers

782
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:39.639
led by ten plus in all eleven
games during this winning streak. The biggest

783
00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:45.280
lead the Lakers have had in those
eleven games, including tonight, has been

784
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:52.440
six points. Clippers have absolutely dominated
this matchup going back a decade now.

785
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:58.760
Thirty six of the last forty three
games have been won by your Los Angeles

786
00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:01.440
Clippers. Let's hear from the head
coach though, who was not lost to

787
00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:06.960
the Lakers as your coach of the
Clippers into Ron Loop post game after this

788
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.920
one. Now, you guys knew
the magnitude of this game coming into it,

789
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:14.840
obviously, I guess started the game, Uh pretty well. How were

790
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:21.559
you able to kind of hold on
wire to wire for this one? I

791
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:23.920
thought our bench came in, Norman
Bones, I came in and changed the

792
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:28.239
pace and the tempo of the game. I thought, you know, Rus

793
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:30.400
did a good job getting started him
and Eg. And then in that second

794
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.119
half, I thought Bones and Norm
came in and really gave us a lift.

795
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:37.360
Didn't like how we finished it.
You know, they was trying to

796
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:40.239
knock Kawi draped all over and we
got to do a better job getting open

797
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:43.719
for one. You know, but
if he doesn't, it makes an offense

798
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:45.440
stagnant. And so just kind of
you know, got lost, you know,

799
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:49.400
and then we had some turn over, some bad shots. Then Bron

800
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.480
was able to you know kind of
get down hill getting in transition, and

801
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:53.679
then you know, to start a
third quarter. I told him I'll let

802
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:57.119
him know that Brown's gonna come out. You know, guns are blazing.

803
00:51:57.199 --> 00:51:59.920
You know, he only had three
points, and he makes some hero shot,

804
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:01.760
you know, one deep one from
damn to a half court and then

805
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:05.800
a couple of other touch shots to
kind of get him going and get him

806
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.239
some momentum. But I liked,
you know, finishing the game and just

807
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:13.159
having our composure to build our lead
back up to twenty. And you know,

808
00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:15.000
it was it was a good It
was a good thing to see,

809
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:17.000
you know, for our team to
go through a little adversary through that game

810
00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:21.280
and then come back and still build
a lead back up to twenty and win

811
00:52:21.480 --> 00:52:23.920
win a big game. A lot
of uys were obviously on Russell for for

812
00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:28.000
this one. I think he had
ten points in the first quarter. For

813
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:30.920
you guys, uh, he was
taking a lot of n rhythm shots.

814
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.599
Just where do you think of the
control he had on this game and the

815
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:36.039
starting up to you guys, get
out now it it was huge for us.

816
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:37.719
I think the start of the game, like I said, him and

817
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:42.159
eg to start the game gave us, you know, some really good offensive

818
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:45.000
confidence to start the game. And
you know, Egs just you know,

819
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.119
he tempted it out for us.
He was you know, banged up,

820
00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:49.800
but he wanted to be on the
floor. He knew it was a big

821
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:52.719
game, and so I try to
arrest Eg as much as possible and got

822
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:55.119
rust out early to bring him back
for Kauhad. But then we went on

823
00:52:55.199 --> 00:52:58.719
a hell of a run and you
know, went up twenty four, and

824
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:01.280
we went up twenty and so like
I said, I just you know,

825
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:05.159
happy for Bones and know I'm coming
off the bench and give us a huge

826
00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:08.280
spark and I was able to see
the game. Those two have been magnificent

827
00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:15.119
for the Clippers. Bones Highland and
Terrence bent Man, that combination, it

828
00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:20.960
completely changes the complexion of who this
team is. They play at a much

829
00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:23.840
slower pace, typically their bottom ten
in that area. They've been there throughout

830
00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:30.559
the two on three era, they
haven't had pop like this with Bones and

831
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:36.039
Terrence Man out there over the last
four seasons. Bones is just relentless getting

832
00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:42.440
into the paint. But he's not
doing too much meaning just fallen in love

833
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:45.639
with his own shots. He's getting
other guys involved, He's playing within the

834
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:52.719
offense. And I thought Tonight's in
his fourteen points on the fourth quarter to

835
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:57.039
rise to the occasion against the Lakers
in a big game like this, that

836
00:53:57.239 --> 00:54:01.639
was special growth for the young man
in Bones Highland, who the Clippers picked

837
00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:06.920
up for just two second round picks. This is a guy that can be

838
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:10.480
the kind of spark that can win
you a playoff game. Clippers still have

839
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:16.679
two games left in the regular season
Saturday against Portland's Sunday against the Phoenix Suns,

840
00:54:16.719 --> 00:54:22.440
but they are currently in that five
spot behind the Suns. Can't catch

841
00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:28.119
them, but you gotta finish outside
of the play in and tonight's victory over

842
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.480
the Lakers goes a long way in
favor of the Clippers being able to do

843
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:36.880
just that. Coming up next,
while we'll updike On from Clips and Dip

844
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:45.000
Clippers Wine one eighteen in the biggest
game between the two teams in LA in

845
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:50.679
their history. Can't overstate set it
throughout the pregame, would have set it

846
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.119
still if the Clippers had lost.
So I'm gonna be fair and they want

847
00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:57.679
it, and I'm gonna tell you
that this was the biggest game and remind

848
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:02.360
you in the history of the Hallway
regular season series. But this one more

849
00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:06.039
like a plan to stay out of
the plan, much more like it.

850
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:09.920
I mean, it's uncanny. We'll
Clipper Stock next and we'll Updyke from Clips

851
00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:15.480
and Dip here on a five seventy
l A Sports. Clippers win one twenty

852
00:55:15.559 --> 00:55:22.159
five to one eighteen over the Lakers, here in downtown Los Angeles. It

853
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:27.719
was the biggest game between the two
ball clubs in their history. It's definitive,

854
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:31.559
there's no doubt about it. They've
never had a situation like this where

855
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:37.880
you gotta win to trying to stay
out of the play in tournament, and

856
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.440
the Clippers got it in a game
they led by twenty four, they win

857
00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:45.440
one twenty five to one eighteen.
Welcome back in This is Clipper Stock.

858
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:47.840
I'm Adam Oslin. If you missed
the show earlier, we had your voice

859
00:55:47.880 --> 00:55:52.760
of the Clippers on in Noah Eagle. That will all be podcasted about a

860
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:57.079
half hour after we're done here.
Before we get out, we got will

861
00:55:57.239 --> 00:56:01.719
Updyke from Clips and Dip Fame does
the podcast with myself and Chuck Mockler.

862
00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:06.519
Now we're on YouTube. Check it
out. We had some predictions for this

863
00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:09.880
one, Well, who was your
player to watch? I had Norman Powell.

864
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:13.840
I felt pretty good about that.
But I felt like we all had

865
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:16.559
really good picks. Who was your
surprise performer in this one, because chances

866
00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:25.719
are they performed. I did Bone
Pilan. I was oh huge. I

867
00:56:25.880 --> 00:56:31.280
was really excited. This is this
is an opportunity for him that he's never

868
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:37.159
really had in a regular season game, and you know, with where the

869
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:40.559
Nuggets were at last postseason, this
is one of the bigger games. I

870
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:45.639
think that he's gotten the chance to
actually show out. And not only did

871
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:50.039
he step up to the moment,
he got the pick to be in the

872
00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:52.960
closing lineup in this one. And
I think that this goes into what was

873
00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:57.639
one of my favorite things of this
win. And I just think that we

874
00:56:57.880 --> 00:57:01.880
saw Tyler being a lot more malleable
and adjustable with his mine up. I

875
00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:05.559
know there's some people who are probably
still going to be critical of the Robert

876
00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:09.639
Covington DNP, but I gotta say
I thought this was a very well coached

877
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:14.480
game by Tie and I'd love the
trust to go with bones late in this

878
00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:17.760
one. And I know the Lakers
scored one hundred and eighteen, but I

879
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:22.119
thought the defensive effort overall in the
forty eight minutes was one of the best

880
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.800
we've seen from the Clippers all season
long. When they would have these great

881
00:57:25.880 --> 00:57:30.119
starts to games at times, but
then they would let up and they start

882
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:32.079
playing last day days, it called
defense, and they would let a team

883
00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.039
back into the ball game. And
while the Lakers did fight down the stretch.

884
00:57:36.119 --> 00:57:37.639
In this one, the Clippers were
good enough, and I thought it

885
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:42.239
started on the defensive end. They
were swarming. They looked like the team

886
00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:45.159
who has been top three in defense
post All Star Break, not the Lakers.

887
00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:50.679
No, absolutely, absolutely, And
that's the thing. I just feel

888
00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:53.599
like that's gotta be the thing that's
been so frustrating, you know, like,

889
00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:57.679
not even as someone who covers a
team, but as a span it's

890
00:57:57.719 --> 00:58:01.360
just you get these games and I
would say that this was probably three quarters

891
00:58:01.519 --> 00:58:06.760
probably of some of the best Clippers
basketball we've seen, and we just know

892
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:12.039
how much they're capable of even down
guide even happen to like even with tight

893
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:15.719
rotations and down their their second best
player, that kind of performances that we

894
00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:21.679
can get, and it's just it's
just been so frustrating this season because it

895
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:24.960
feels like we these have kind of
been the diamond and the rough. These

896
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:30.440
have not been the sort of assured
performances that we thought we could get out

897
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:32.599
of this squad in year four.
And I think that that's that's just the

898
00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:37.679
that's the overarching sort of story of
this Clipper's season is it's been so difficult

899
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:42.639
because at points it is so good
and you can see it, and they

900
00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:47.800
look so dominant in some stretches,
and then it just they just look like

901
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:52.000
a completely different, completely different team. To be honest, at times,

902
00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:55.920
I thought even Norman Powell had his
best defensive game in the season. He

903
00:58:57.079 --> 00:59:00.039
was contesting everything, he was getting
some stelc got couple of bad calls against

904
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:05.119
him, but he had a block
at the rim. I love the way

905
00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:08.199
he played. Everybody was playing defense. But when if Visa Zoobots is playing

906
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:13.760
like that on both ends with his
seventeen and thirteen and playing with force out

907
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:16.000
there. This may have been Chuck's
pick for surprise performer at the game.

908
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:23.000
Big Zoo I thought was the most
important guy out there defensively, Oh absolutely,

909
00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:27.519
I mean he sets the tone on
that end, I thought, you

910
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:30.079
know, I also like that he
fought through a couple of kind of rough

911
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:36.880
calls, especially late in the game
there when when he and Gabriel tackled him

912
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:43.039
underneath the basket. Absolutely absolutely,
And we I mean like it's the thing

913
00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:45.280
though, right like we And it's
not just the Clippers. Tons of teams

914
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:51.440
can fall apart in those moments when
things start to unravel a little bit but

915
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:52.800
to see that composure was great.
I mean, I believe this was why

916
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:57.679
he's twenty six that will double the
season. It's a season high or a

917
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.760
career high for him in a season, and it just shows we you know,

918
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:06.199
we talked about Zoo. I think
the fan base sometimes goes up and

919
01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:12.679
down on him, but his incremental
improvement every season has been completely undeniable.

920
01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:19.199
And where he's at right now,
I mean he could start for He could

921
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.719
start for. I mean other than
what like the Nuggets or the Sixers like

922
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:27.239
that, there's not a whole lot
of teams that if visa Zoo Bats could

923
01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:30.719
not be as starting center or have
a strong argument to be a starting center

924
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:36.400
on nearly any team in this league. And all I saw yesterday after that

925
01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:40.320
quote came out from coach Lou granted
it was gamesmanship. He said he was

926
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:45.119
gonna have Zoo guardian Anthony Davis straight
up. That didn't exactly happen. They

927
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:50.679
collectively guarded him, but when Zubats
was on him, he played well and

928
01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:52.920
he punished a d a couple of
times. On the other end, Big

929
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:58.719
Zoo was not barbecue chicken whatsoever,
like everybody I saw on Twitter say was

930
01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:02.079
going to happen if it was just
him locked up with Anthony Davis. No,

931
01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:07.719
I love that too. I've kind
of loved some of Tylo's coy things

932
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:12.000
this season, but that quote goes
up there for me because I love the

933
01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:15.440
way that they threw aggressive doubles and
a bunch of different looks at Anthony Davis.

934
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:19.159
And it's so funny because if you
didn't, if you didn't catch the

935
01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:22.280
context from him actually saying that,
and you just kind of read the quotes,

936
01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:29.159
you didn't miss a little bit of
a little bit of the tongue in

937
01:01:29.239 --> 01:01:32.320
cheapness there from Tid. Yeah,
maybe some poker face, maybe shades of

938
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:37.480
things to come from coach lu if
the Clippers can get into a playoff series,

939
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:39.679
and they are in great position to
do so now, but him only

940
01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:44.519
playing Russell Westbrook five minutes in the
second half, I thought that was very

941
01:01:44.599 --> 01:01:47.360
talent considering what this game means for
Russ and he helped him get off to

942
01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:52.400
that great start where they were up
twelve early in the first quarter, knocking

943
01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:54.880
down Threes had ten of his fourteen
in the first quarter, but early in

944
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:59.119
the third, when the Lakers were
pushing back, Coach Lou went back to

945
01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:02.239
the bench, went to Powell,
went back to terrorist man bones Higland I

946
01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:05.920
think, came in late in the
third quarter and played the entire fourth.

947
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:10.119
This was a masterful performance from coach
Low. Yeah, I think that that

948
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:13.719
was you know, like I said
at the time, that was one of

949
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:17.800
the most encouraging things from this win, was just being willing to switch things

950
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.119
up. And you know, this
is a team that had so many new

951
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:25.639
faces post All Star Break. There's
there's no reason to think that anything should

952
01:02:25.639 --> 01:02:30.559
be set in stone. But you
know, Russ performing as well as he

953
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:32.840
did early, which I think is
great. I don't want to be you

954
01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:37.000
know, down on Russ or anything, but when things when when composure was

955
01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:39.840
a little bit lacking, and I
thought the I thought the Lakers, despite

956
01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:43.000
me on a second night of a
back back and that third quarter, were

957
01:02:43.039 --> 01:02:46.159
really able to up the physicality of
their defense as well. Clips had five

958
01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:51.159
turnovers early in that third quarter.
I think he made the right move of

959
01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:54.679
of needing to switch something up and
being aware of that and being able to

960
01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:58.800
change that. And I don't think
the best thing any way, and indictment

961
01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:00.639
on Russ. I hope this is
still viewed as his you know, his

962
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:05.840
revenge victory or or whatever you want
to call it, but it was it

963
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.440
was ultimately the right call because it
was the call that got the men.

964
01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:13.360
We made the right call to will
Updyke after a win because that's the only

965
01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:15.400
way he comes on now post game
only for wins. Baby. He is

966
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:20.480
William Updyke from Clips and Dip Pod
does it with myself and Charles Mackler.

967
01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:22.480
We got a new one coming for
you on Friday, I believe will Thanks

968
01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:27.679
for doing this late tonight. Absolutely, thanks for having me. Always a

969
01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.840
pleasure. Let's go quick before we
get out of here quickly. Positive moments

970
01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:34.960
with a fake philosopher, Big Brother
Jake Warner, Jake, what's up?

971
01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:42.119
Difficult and meaningful will always bring more
satisfaction than easy and meaningless. The Clippers

972
01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:45.119
faced their adversity, they took the
lakers best punch in the second half,

973
01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:51.039
they fought back, they got it. And I do think you're more battle

974
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:55.119
tested heading into a playoff series.
Through games like this, you find out

975
01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:59.599
who you are your character. Great
call, Big Brother Jake Warner, Great

976
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:02.840
calls all night, as he was
very certain about the Clippers getting the victory.

977
01:04:03.119 --> 01:04:06.079
They do once twenty five to one
eighteen. Before we get out of

978
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:10.159
here, I do want to thank
the Clippers organization, Noah Hugo, Brian

979
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.159
Semen, Ralph Waller, Katie Newton. But we had Zach o'caldy as our

980
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:16.800
producer tonight in the bank, Big
brother Jake Warner head engineer. Here,

981
01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:21.159
the callers, the listener, Dennis
Agustino or statistician to the stars. Clippers

982
01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:24.960
taken out Portland on Saturday. I'm
Adam Oslin. We will talk to you

983
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:32.159
at noon then. Yeah, this
has been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation

984
01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:38.000
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985
01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:42.440
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986
01:04:42.599 --> 01:04:45.960
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987
01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:50.920
DNA. You can see it.
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988
01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:54.719
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