WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.679 The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:10.160 reaction has just begot Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range. This 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:14.279 is Clippers Locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead on 4 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.160 your hope for LA Clippers basketball. And now your host, You, sir, 5 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:24.199 are a bad man, Adam Ausley. Clippers head into the all Star 6 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:29.199 breaking style with a one sixteen one oh seven victory and Phoenix over the Suns. 7 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.920 Welcome into your postgame show. I'm not a Maslin coming up second half 8 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.479 highlights, your final box score. You'll hear from the head coach and the 9 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.719 players after this one. But first we go back out to Noah Eagle. 10 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:43.280 Noah, who do you want to start? With a lot of good performances 11 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:45.759 and some clutch ones late, I thought this may have been the best fourth 12 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.439 quarter for the Clippers all season. Yeah, it was certainly up there because 13 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:51.600 defensively they locked in when they needed to. Offensively, they still put up 14 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.079 twenty five points, and I thought, Paul George, I think we should 15 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.119 start there. I felt like he was really the closer in this one. 16 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:59.960 You know, Kawhi was struggling all night we finished, it was sixteen point. 17 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.520 It's all of them in the second half and somehow did it when they 18 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:07.319 needed it the most. But I really think Paul George hit some massive jump 19 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.239 shots in that fourth quarter, got to the rim as well, just kept 20 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:14.120 forcing the issue, kept attacking, recognizing the mismatches when he had them, 21 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:15.560 and he wasn't scared of the moment. And that's what you need to see 22 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:19.200 out of Paul George, who look, let's face it, had been struggling 23 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:21.560 a little bit over the last couple of games. He just didn't look like 24 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.599 the all star version of himself. Well, today I thought he was every 25 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:27.319 bit an all star. Twenty six six five and a steal in thirty seven 26 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:30.560 minutes, and that steal was critical that ended up in that jump ball too 27 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.719 with Chris Paul. He was just awesome to me. Yeah, Terrence Man 28 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.000 also a twenty six points. You talked with him post game, but when 29 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.359 he wasn't getting to the basket at will, he was knocking down shots from 30 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:42.959 the outside. One of the best games of his young career in the regular 31 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.439 season. Yeah, no doubt, three or four from downtown, ten of 32 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.560 twelve overall, and you heard what he said I actually loved what he said. 33 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.599 He knows that because of who he's starting with on the floor, it's 34 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.760 him, Paul, George Kawhi, Leonard Marcus Morrison of eats his zoobots. 35 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.439 He believes he's getting the worst defender on the opposing team, so he needs 36 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:02.280 to take advantage. And today that was Chris Paul. And guess what, 37 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.480 Chris Paul just didn't have a match for him because the size advantage was so 38 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.280 evident for Terrence, and he bullied his way in the paint time and time 39 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:14.479 again, and when that three balls falling, there's nothing you can do because 40 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.120 he's so athletic, he's so active, he's so energetic, he's just good. 41 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.759 He's just a good basketball player. And I know that there are a 42 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:24.919 lot of opportunities potentially for the Clippers to maybe swing for a superstar like a 43 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:28.960 Kyrie Irving or somebody and give up team man in the process. But I 44 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.479 think most of Clipper Nation is incredibly thankful that he is still on this team. 45 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:36.840 And I'm gonna give it a step further here that he has really embraced 46 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.000 this point guard role because he has played excellent basketball as the starting point guard 47 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:43.280 for this team, no doubt. I thought it beats the Zubats. You 48 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:47.039 mentioned there had a great ball game played outplayed DeAndre eight and it also had 49 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:51.879 a beautiful passive terrist Man cutting baseline in the fourth that was massive. Thirteen 50 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:54.159 points, twelve rebounds for Big Zoo in twenty nine minutes, and with him 51 00:02:54.159 --> 00:03:00.080 and Plumbly together because Zoo played twenty nine, Plumbly played eighteen. So you 52 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.759 combine those two, that is forty seven of the forty eight minutes. Just 53 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.280 think about the difference from what the Clippers have had to do. And you're 54 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.479 going up against the guy and DeAndre Ayton who can put the ball in the 55 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.240 basket in a hurry, and he's averaging nineteen and ten on the season. 56 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:16.919 He finished with eighteen and six today. Well, if the Clippers don't have 57 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.840 that second center, they don't have that second big body, they're not restricting 58 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.439 DeAndre Ayton and Biambo and even Landelle who had a big game early this season 59 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:28.479 against the Clippers because they just didn't have the size. Well now they do. 60 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.759 And not only do they have the size, they have a skilled big 61 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.680 man too. We saw it with Plumbly, We've seen it with Zubots. 62 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:37.000 I think Zobots is showing more and more of just how well rounded of a 63 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.319 player he is on both ends of the floor. So exciting to see his 64 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:44.680 continued growth. And now I'm looking forward to seeing what the two of them 65 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:46.960 can do together with a little extra practice time, not just during All Star 66 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:50.919 Break, but then in the second half of the season, where the Clippers 67 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:54.560 only have twenty one games spread way out over the course of the last couple 68 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:58.680 months, A spread formation will do them some good. Last one for you 69 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:00.919 here, Noah Kawhi Leonard started off the ball game oh for nine. Didn't 70 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.960 get his first points to the five minute mark of the third quarter, but 71 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:10.400 he picked up that could be turned over by Paul George Lade put it in 72 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:15.719 plus the and one. The closer was there late. He's like State Farm 73 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:17.319 in so many ways. He's like a good neighbor. You know, he's 74 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.439 always there or all State. You're just in good hands when you've got Kawhi 75 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:24.240 in there, or Pedro Serranto from Major League. I still don't know, 76 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:28.240 but I do know this. When Kawhi Leonard saw a couple of those free 77 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.000 throws go down, let's not forget he started this game, what Adam over 78 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:35.319 nine over ten. Yeah, so his last eight or so shot attempts all 79 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:39.160 went. He went five of eight, I mean six or six from the 80 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.399 free throw line. That was a Kawhi Leonard performance. And you mentioned it 81 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.439 five minutes to go in the thirds when he got his last his first point. 82 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:47.759 So in the final seventeen minutes of this game, in which he only 83 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:54.120 played about eleven ten minutes of it, he had sixteen points. That's Kawhi 84 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:57.240 Leonard. So yeah, the one thing that you can always say about him, 85 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:00.000 there's a lot of guys around the league who they just know they don't 86 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:00.839 have it. They say, I don't have it, I gotta I gotta 87 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:04.040 defer. Not him. He's gonna keep attacking. And that's what you want 88 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:09.160 out of your number one, your alpha dog, your superstar on both sides 89 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:12.000 of the floor. I think he proved that once again to day sixteen points, 90 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:15.600 nine boards, four assist, a blocking the steel thirty six minutes and 91 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.639 he never quite quit. He just always attacks. Even before the shots started 92 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:23.519 falling, he was still playing elite defense on the other end. Clippers hold 93 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.839 the Suns one hundred and seven points in Phoenix, they win one sixteen to 94 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.600 one oh seven. They're heading into the All Star break in the four spot 95 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.839 in the West. Now, Noah, you're a superstitious guy. You drink 96 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:40.279 a protein drink and the Clippers get a big victory. Rest of the year. 97 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.519 Two grams and all forty two of them, All of them went down 98 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.040 smooth. I don't know. Maybe I'm gonna have to join the hype train. 99 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:50.759 I don't know. Well, we'll be back together Friday, the twenty 100 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:56.000 fourth. Clippers taken on the gigs. Oh Adam, enjoy your break, 101 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.920 Enjoy wherever you may be, wherever the wind takes you, and I'll leave 102 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:03.639 you with one thing and one thing only can't wait. Coming up next, 103 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:08.879 second half highlights. Clippers win one sixteen to one oh seven and Phoenix over 104 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:14.240 the Suns, and that completes the pre All Star break. All right, 105 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.160 coming up next, we got second half highlights right here on the Los Angeles 106 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:23.839 Clippers Radio Network. Hind I got up on my right side. Some goods 107 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:29.399 left, and next, Clippers win one sixteen to one oh seven and Phoenix 108 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.600 over the Suns. So it's the All Star break the right way, feeling 109 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:38.360 good. Welcome back into your post game show. I'm at a moslan to 110 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.720 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven 111 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.680 two five seventy is the phone number if you want to get on. We 112 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:48.040 got Clipper Stock coming up on the M five seventy LA Sports. But first 113 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:53.800 let's get to your second half highlights. Clippers Lad at the half by two 114 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:57.279 fifty four to fifty two was the score Terrence Man at eleven points in the 115 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:01.240 first half. He would duplicate that in the third quarter alone Man driving middle 116 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:06.319 swooping delivery gets it to go. Oh, what a finish Terrence Man the 117 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:13.560 full extension sixty three fifty five LA two minutes into the third rebounded George get 118 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:15.639 it up ahead and oh, Leonard, he does get into him on the 119 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.879 baseball pass attacking on Chris Taul leaves it for Man with a two handed flush. 120 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.959 Man thought he was fouled. Leonard with another assist. Man. Now 121 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.639 with the game high seventeen, it's sixty nine sixty eight LA, facing up 122 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.079 Jap's death bounce pass outside Gordon swing it for man, ball big and drive 123 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:34.879 middle man to the rim and he slams on the right a man's chair inside. 124 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:39.759 He's got nineteen and ties the game at seventy one. Lumley, top 125 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.639 of the keep, bakes the hand off for Man's looking for an Outlett finds 126 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:46.720 Man left wing, fires up on the three and Man's got it. Terrence 127 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:51.120 Man, Bull's eye twenty two tonight and it's eighty two seventy five LA, 128 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:54.800 three and a half to go on the third is third three of the night 129 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:00.600 Terrence Man with eleven points in the third quarter. Kawhi Leonard was scoreless until 130 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.680 the five minute mark of the third quarter. Scoreless in the ball game, 131 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.000 but he started to take over down the stretch. Leonard into the front quarter, 132 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.560 attacking on eight and once again, Leonard pulls it back for a ten 133 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:15.519 foot fade away and that falls on the four side again. All Kawai needs 134 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.959 is to see it go through seventy nine seventy six, three fifty to play 135 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:22.240 third quarter, He'll move it from right to left with the Clippers up by 136 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.399 five, into the front court. Leonard on the right wing office screen to 137 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.360 his right, drives baseline is bump, puts it up, puts it in, 138 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:33.200 count it in a foul for Kawai. Leonard on the right wing drive 139 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.759 in middle right elbow pull up and he responds Kawai now with nine eighty seven 140 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:43.399 seventy nine Kawhi Leonard also at eleven points in that third quarter. Clippers led 141 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.759 after three ninety one to eighty four. In the fourth, Paul George was 142 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:52.360 taken over. George faced up jumper from eighteen it's true over a kogie Pg 143 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.759 thirteen. He's got eighteen ninety five eighty six, who fumbly keeps it in 144 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:00.519 his grasp and hands it off. Now for George, drive into his left. 145 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.440 George the side step off Yambo floats it up in and with a right 146 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:09.960 hand PG thirteen, twenty points nine ninety one La back to George right link 147 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.840 down the right alley. George with a basket up and under reverse lay up 148 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:18.559 goes twenty four for George one O five ninety eight. Four and a half 149 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:20.960 to play. Jordan gets it in top of the key. George drives down 150 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:26.720 the left alley, pulls up left elbow and hit the jay PG thirteen, 151 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:33.279 smooth operator one O nine one hundred Clippers twenty six for George, two fifty 152 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.120 to play. Kawhi Leonard would cap things off with an in one play, 153 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.159 but Paul George with ten of his twenty six points there in the fourth Clippers 154 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:45.360 win one sixteen to one oh seven in Phoenix over the Suns. Coming up 155 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:50.519 next, oh preview a game that's over a week from now. We're looking 156 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:54.080 for post game audio two from the head coach and the players. Clippers in 157 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:58.759 the fourth spot at the All Star break in the Western Conference after everything that's 158 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.399 train haspired so far this season. There's sixty one games in now, it's 159 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.399 twenty one left to play. You're listening to the Los Angeles Clippers radio network. 160 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:20.240 Just one I can get enough, and every time I've up in the 161 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:28.440 fielding, everybody go up. Clippers one one sixteen and one seven, one 162 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:33.759 oh seven over the Phoenix Suns in the Valley. To complete, I want 163 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.399 to say the first half of the season, but a little more. Note 164 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.159 the do't have twenty five percent of this season left, just twenty one games 165 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.399 left now, but they're in the fourth spot in the West, in a 166 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:50.559 good position after getting a big victory over the Suns. Clippers next ball game 167 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:56.000 coming up next Friday, that's twenty fourth, when they're hosting the Sacramento Kings. 168 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:00.679 First two games out of the gate post All Star Break. Eight Kings 169 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.519 in Denver Nuggets. Now it's gonna be easy. King's right in front of 170 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.080 them in that three spot in the West. Before we get out of here, 171 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.240 I do want to remind you. Coming up on AM five seventy LA 172 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:15.240 Sports, we got Clippers Talk eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy 173 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.679 eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy or get to me at follow 174 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:24.440 Adam A outside of Los Angeles. We were leaving you until Friday the twenty 175 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.200 fourth at six thirty with a pregame show when the Culprits are taking on the 176 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:28.639 Kings. Coming out next year on AMPI seventy on Sports, we got Clipper 177 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:41.759 Stop fixed the day. I do it please? You're going what welcome into 178 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:46.440 Clipper Stock. Here's a new sheriff from town. You won't be able to 179 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.399 deny if we're going to go to the NBA Finals. I believe it in 180 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.960 my heart. This is the best team in the history of the franchise. 181 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:58.600 I am all about the Clipper Nation. This is Clippers Talk. They're trying 182 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:03.240 to win the whole thing. A postgame look, it's your LA Clippers recapping 183 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:07.679 the game, the stars and looking ahead to What's next. To hear episodes 184 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:13.519 you've missed, Subscribe to Clippers Talk on iHeart Radio or wherever you podcast. 185 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:20.960 Now your host of Clippers Talk. Here's Adam oswin Man with that. The 186 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:24.480 sun has set on the first half of the NBA season as we enter into 187 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:26.679 the All Star break. Is the Clippers do so in style with a one 188 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:33.759 sixteen one oh seven victory over the Phoenix Suns. Welcome into your postgame show. 189 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.320 This is Clippers Talk. I'm Adam Oslin eight six six nine eight seven 190 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:41.440 two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy coming up your 191 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.480 phone calls, Plus Charles Mockler from Clips and Dip will be here looking for 192 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:50.440 postgame audio from Coach Low and the players. The Clippers are embedded in that 193 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:54.679 four spot for now. But what a good place to be after everything they've 194 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.799 been through so far this season, where at one point they had lost six 195 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:05.080 straight and they just had a ton of roster turnover and so far the three 196 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.240 players that they have brought in had paid dividends their last two games now beating 197 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:15.320 the Warriors, beating the Phoenix Suns, who they just sleep frogged over to 198 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.399 get into the fourth spot in the West. Now Phoenix is still waiting for 199 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:24.600 Kevin Durant to come back. And that was the biggest move so far during 200 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:26.919 the year, one of the biggest moves we've seen in years. Actually, 201 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:31.440 can't really undersell that, biggest move they've had for their franchise since bringing in 202 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:37.000 Charles Barkley. But meanwhile, the Clippers, this was one of their more 203 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:43.360 laser focused games we've seen this year, especially in the second half, where 204 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.799 I thought they might have had their best fourth quarter of the season, where 205 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:54.159 they continued to execute, just methodical with guys getting some good looks, Paul 206 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:58.519 George having ten of his twenty six and the fourth quarter Kawhi Leonard having a 207 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.960 big throw down and then the and one shot he made to put the Cherry 208 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:09.200 on top after Paul George had lost the basketball with fifty seven seconds left to 209 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.679 put it out of reach at one sixteen, one oh seven. Your final 210 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.440 in a game where Kawhi Leonard starts over nine and doesn't score until the five 211 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:22.440 minute mark of the third quarter, unbelievable. I'm guessing I'm trying to see 212 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.679 when he came back in in the fourth it was around the seven minute mark. 213 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:31.879 Yes, yes, it was exactly at seven minutes, so it makes 214 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:35.320 the math easy. So that means in the last twelve minutes of game time 215 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:43.279 where he was out there on the court, Kawhi Leonard had sixteen points after 216 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:48.600 starting zero of nine. He would then hit five of his next nine that 217 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.720 he took finished five of eighteen O five from the outside, doesn't matter. 218 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:56.840 He gets ten boards, four assists, a couple of blocks of steal. 219 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.519 The defense was elite. Devin Booker ended up with nineteen points on six of 220 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.840 seventeen shooting. Chris Paul, her old friend had was two of eight with 221 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:11.720 five points, still had eleven assists, but those two guys were held down 222 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:20.120 and DeAndre Aiden, I thought, got handily dominated by Vizza Zubots for the 223 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.679 most part. Mason Plumbly a little bit too, but big Zoo with twelve 224 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:31.840 boards, six offensive rebounds, Eighten with just six boards total zero offensive rebounds, 225 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.559 give it up to a Vizza Zubots. I want to say he had 226 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.039 eleven of his twelve boards in the first half, ended up with thirteen and 227 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.559 twelve. Had a great feed inside the terraces man who was probably the player 228 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:48.679 of the game. If it's not Paul George because he matched PG thirteen with 229 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.960 twenty six points, but on just twelve shots, ten of twelve from the 230 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:58.720 field. He had eleven of those points in the third quarter. Was aggressive 231 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.159 every time out, either getting to the basket or not thinking about it when 232 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:06.879 he was putting them up from distance where he went three for four. That 233 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.679 was playing with purpose out there. I thought his energy and his intensity helped 234 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:17.519 carry this team. They needed Terrence Man in a game like this. He 235 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:21.320 plays thirty five minutes. You can always have a foot out the door going 236 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:25.360 into the All Star Break and let one slip. The Clippers couldn't afford to 237 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:27.679 have that happen. They needed to take some good momentum into the break. 238 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.399 We'll see if it carries over. They're taking on the Kings in their first 239 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:37.080 game out of it next Friday, and then the Denver Nuggets. But some 240 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:42.240 great signs already, great returns, early returns from Plumley, Eric Gordon, 241 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:47.519 and Bones Highland, who hit a tough floater, hit a three pointer in 242 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.960 this one, did have three turnovers, struggle a little bit more in sixteen 243 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:56.960 minutes. Eric Gordon, though he hit a thirty foot steph curry Land three 244 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:03.039 pointer, hit another one, got to the basket for an and one, 245 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:08.240 and then once again created a steal late off an inbounds pass that eventually I 246 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:14.559 think ended And I sure if that was a Paul George jumper or if that 247 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:18.319 was Kawhi Leonard who had a thunderous two handed dunk in the last two minutes 248 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.799 of the ball game two. But so many guys played well, and I 249 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:29.359 thought superstars in terms of Paul George and Kawhi Leonard when they needed them in 250 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.759 that fourth quarter, Kawhi with five points, Paul George would ten and was 251 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.559 so steady throughout the fourth and just aggressive. PG thirteen is the best. 252 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:41.480 PG thirteen when he's coming out of timeouts and firing and not thinking about it 253 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:47.000 and getting up good looks over multiple defenders. It doesn't matter he's six nine, 254 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:52.240 he can rise above him. Love seeing that the play though, where 255 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.559 he ended up on the floor after creating a steal and a jump ball against 256 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:02.319 CP three that he would win huge after the Clippers had just had three straight 257 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:07.519 turnovers. He thought, oh, here comes another fourth quarter collapse. Clippers 258 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.119 weren't having it. They stayed locked in. Terrence Man would get a lay 259 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:15.319 up that next play, Zoo next time down gets a foul on Booker, 260 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.839 and then Paul George has that tough Falloway over multiple defenders. The Kawhi dunk, 261 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.640 a man lay up off a great feed from Zoo, the Gordon steel 262 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:27.720 and then it was PG losing the basketball. Looked like he got fouled by 263 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.519 CB three by the way, he certainly warnted. And then Kawahi picked it 264 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:36.039 up. Look what I found. Drew the foul and hit a tough leaner. 265 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.440 Just a great way to head into the All Star Break for the Clippers. 266 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.920 Can't ask for much better than this one. Sixteen one oh seven your 267 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.960 final in Phoenix. While we have a moment before we get to your phone 268 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.720 calls, let's pause ten seconds for station identification. Here on seventy l A 269 00:18:52.799 --> 00:19:00.440 Sports, this is LA Clippers Basketball KLAC Los Angeles seven k HD to Los 270 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:07.079 Angeles, an iHeart radio station, James in Utah, your first up tonight 271 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:10.559 on Clipper Stock. Hey, how you doing, ad. I'm glad to 272 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.960 see you're doing better after missing Chips and Jip I missed you, Thanks, 273 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:18.000 my friend. I'll be back on with those guys soon. Awesome. I 274 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:22.519 wanted to bring up two things. One you brought up last week and I 275 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.559 brought up last time. I was on about how we need to be able 276 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:33.039 to pick up Leonard when he's not in you know, terminator mode, which 277 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:34.920 is exactly how we are tonight. And I feel like we have a team 278 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:40.440 that can do that now and let Paul Jordan's do what he does best. 279 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:45.960 And then plumbly, I think it's so big for us in the second unit 280 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:49.599 because now we play the same way as when Zubos is there, instead of 281 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:56.480 having to adjust to playing small or not having that having that big man in 282 00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:57.799 the middle, you have to change the way you play d you have to 283 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:03.160 change the way you play offense. And it just feels like the second unit 284 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.680 knows now we have a big man in the back, we can you know, 285 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.400 they know how to like rotate on the defense defensive end, and know 286 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.359 how to play on the offensive win as well. Yeah, I agree with 287 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:18.079 you, Josh Mason Plumley start things off with that big block in the first 288 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.440 quarter. Then he had a drive and kick out to Bones for a three 289 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:26.640 pointer. It almost looked like a no look pass. Second quarter went to 290 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.000 work in the pain immediately drew a foul, went to the basket for a 291 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:33.079 layup, and then that reverse layup he had that was tough in the fourth 292 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.119 quarter where he also brought it up the court and did a little sham god 293 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.400 CP three like a tripling move. I asked on Twitter, I wonder like 294 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.039 if with Bones Highland, if Hot Sauce is his favorite player? Was his 295 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.680 favorite player growing up as well from the N one Mixtape tour. Because Mason 296 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:52.960 Plumley showed it all off, the well rounded game in this one. It 297 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:59.160 is just a site for sore eyes to have a really season traditional backup that's 298 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.599 also a very good passer on a team that doesn't have a traditional point guard. 299 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.559 But when you have someone like Mason Plumley out there who was averaging four 300 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:11.000 assist per game in January, that's huge. Was keeping the ball hopping definitely, 301 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:14.079 Josh pre stay the phone call. We'll talk to you after the break, 302 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:18.440 my friend. Let's get you Raoul and Baldwin Park before we break here. 303 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.440 Raoul, what's up? You're on? Clipper stop with that. I'im 304 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:26.559 awesome. No, don't matter, what's good? Raoul? Heymy oh, 305 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.519 it's all good. It's it's always good. News when I'm when I'm working 306 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:37.480 here in that here Clipper victory, yes sir, and yeah what a what 307 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.279 a? What's? What's that's a good team team win? No, no, 308 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:47.920 no, Norman, no problem. Eg stepped up, Jimmy Bones Highland 309 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:52.279 stepped up, and team man, you gotta give him tops and marin this 310 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.480 this this Clipper team. You got some mut too, if you think about 311 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.759 it. Got Brandon Boston zoos only that twenties early twenties is like a veteran. 312 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:04.000 But he's like I was like twenty three years old or somebody. Oh 313 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:10.079 he looks like nineteen. Yeah. So all I have to say is that 314 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:15.000 the Clippers lead the SmackDown on the Phoenix Suns. Candy Asses not sue for 315 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:18.680 me. That's all I'm saying. Later for how old I appreciate it. 316 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.240 Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven 317 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:26.880 two five seventy. Big Zoo was so good in this game. But he 318 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:32.200 had a tip in in the third quarter on a PG miss a hook over 319 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:37.599 Eighten. He broke up a lob to DeAndre Eighten from CP three, and 320 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.039 it made me think of the Valley oop. And this time Big Zoo was 321 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:45.480 able to get in front of it and knock it away. But the way 322 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:51.079 he cleared the boards in this one, the physicality. You can see a 323 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:53.799 lot of guys just getting that shot in the arm that second win, because 324 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:59.039 I think they see how productive the guys they brought in are. When Big 325 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:03.440 Zoo does have to play over thirty minutes, and I think he was at 326 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.599 twenty nine in this one. Because Mason Plumbly can come in and give you 327 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:11.079 a strong eighteen minutes where he was a plus nine out there, that changes 328 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.920 things. It just adds a little bit more energy to your shift when you're 329 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.880 out there, knowing that you got a guy that can cover for you when 330 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:21.599 you got to hit the bench. All right, speaking of we will do 331 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:25.359 that. Be back in a couple of minutes here eight six sixty ninety eight 332 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:27.920 seven two five seventy eight six sixty ninety seven two five seventy. If you're 333 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:32.119 on hold, stay there, we'll get to you. A Clippers win one 334 00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:34.519 sixteen to one on seven over the Suns and you're listening to Clippers topam by 335 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:41.960 seventy Boss asked me how I fail successful street touching the first mails? All 336 00:23:41.039 --> 00:24:00.200 my life now was gone up. Clippers winning one sixteen to one O seven 337 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.480 in Phoenix over the Suns. Welcome back into Clipper stock. I'm out of 338 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.200 Moslem eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight 339 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:12.319 seven two five seventy All Star break couldn't come in a better time. If 340 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:17.799 you can hear the hoarseness and doc rivers like voice I have tonight, Clippers 341 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:21.240 get the victory heading into the All Star Break, They're in the fourth spot. 342 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:23.599 Phoenix was a game or a half game up on them coming into this 343 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:29.559 one. Clippers now a half game up on them and just a game back 344 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.119 of the Sacramento Kings in that three spot. Let me tell you you want 345 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:38.640 the three spot in the West. Why because that means you could avoid playing 346 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:45.519 not just Denver in the second round, but the Phoenix Suns in the first 347 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:48.920 round. Who could be in that four five matchup. You don't want to 348 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:53.640 have to play both of them and it runs of the finals. That makes 349 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:57.440 it all the much more difficult path of least resistance. Remember that, Sean 350 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:00.480 and Inglewood, you are Clipper. Stop with that. I'm awesome. Sean, 351 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:06.799 Hey Anama, buddy, how are you I'm good, Sean, how 352 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:11.039 are you? I'm okay. I got about four really good points to bring 353 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:15.720 out. I'll be the judge of that, all right. But anyway, 354 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:22.759 I don't know if anybody if you rewind their first quarter, DeAndre Abel was 355 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:26.319 riding Zoo's back. He must have followed him about four times, agree, 356 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:32.680 and Zoo kept his composure and had a good game. So I appreciate that 357 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:37.279 out of Zoo. The second thing is that the Clippers are more north and 358 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.799 south now. They're not like somebody dribbling around and dribbling around. And I 359 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:48.920 don't think I saw one stand still three pointer at the end of the shot 360 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:52.799 clock like we were getting out of Ready Jackson a lot. You know who 361 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:56.000 led them and assist in this game was seven, Sean. Do you want 362 00:25:56.039 --> 00:26:00.920 to take a guess? Don't be looking at the box score. No, 363 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.200 I'm not looking. I'm not looking. Let me think zoom. Eric Gordon. 364 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:10.480 Eric Gordon was seven assists in twenty six minutes. But he's someone zero 365 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:14.359 turnovers, by the way, who gets into the paint and it's just a 366 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:18.880 bully in there. For his size, he moves bodies. He's a mini 367 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:25.160 tank and he's able to start that drive kick out and the Clippers ended up 368 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:27.880 only eleven or thirty four from three after starting off hot from there. But 369 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.440 I love what Eric Gordon breaks to this team. And that's a segue to 370 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:37.200 something else. I was gonna say. He died up Booker book six to 371 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:44.440 sixteen. He played a great defense on Devin Booker, who he had nineteen. 372 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:47.680 That's about as quiet of nineteen points as you could have one of six 373 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:52.400 from the outside. Yeah, And the thing they won the game without much 374 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:57.200 of a contribution from Moors but Tune and of course Powell wasn't even there. 375 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:02.640 And those are three of your major contributors that you usually get. And we 376 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:06.559 know who Phoenix is missing. But you know, I'm not going to have 377 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:11.319 pity on a team that wants to go super team and bring Kevin Durant and 378 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:12.920 then doesn't have him, and you know says, oh, well we didn't 379 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:17.480 have Kevin Durant, you still had your big three out there and CP three 380 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:22.119 Devin Booker deadre eight. That still is formidable, right, And that's the 381 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.759 segue to my other point. A Kogi went crazy, so he actually was 382 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:30.359 the points that they would have got from Kevin Durant. They got from a 383 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.720 kokee anyway. I don't know he totally made up for it, but six 384 00:27:34.839 --> 00:27:37.920 three pointers was a career high for him. He had twenty four. It 385 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:41.880 was something right, that was part of it. So I mean, no, 386 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.519 they played a good game against a really good team, and that's you 387 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.359 know, they're gonna have to keep doing it because the schedule now, they're 388 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.279 gonna pay all the good teams now, so you know they have the depth 389 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:57.400 now. I like it, and I just hope I see more improvements. 390 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:00.799 And you know, I'm what do you think a big plumb? You love 391 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:07.680 big man, big plum. Okay, I'm a guy. Have to say 392 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:12.119 this because the other night nor Eagles said in the pregame, Hey Adam, 393 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:15.440 we really needed a big man. You didn't say anything, but when I 394 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.000 used to say it, you used to get it on me all the time. 395 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.359 And oh, you know two years ago when they put the small guy 396 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:26.359 in against U. I've said a million times this season, the biggest lock 397 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:32.559 at the trade deadline is that the Clippers get a back up big I've never 398 00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:34.240 heard you say that, but okay, I'll give you credit for it if 399 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:38.440 you did, And I really I appreciate plumb Lee. I kind of wanted 400 00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:44.319 more bumbled, but I do see some of the other things that Plumbly can 401 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:47.480 do that I didn't see before, So I like them. You know. 402 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:52.799 I'm glad we have a board about it. But whatever, Okay, all 403 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.039 right, Sean, I appreciate the phone call, my friend. I appreciate 404 00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:59.519 you, my friend. We'll talk to you after the All Star break, 405 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:04.839 all right, absolutely, that way. Javier and Lahabra heights from one regular 406 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:08.680 to another. Javier, what's up? What's up? Bad? I'm thank 407 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:12.000 you for taking my call. I think this is one of the biggest wins. 408 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.480 I know, you know through the seats that you say, all this 409 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.599 big game or there's a good win, but this one before the All Star 410 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:23.400 break, especially against Phoenix at their at their stadium. I mean that's at 411 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:26.839 their arena. Sorry, it's a big win. I mean. And then, 412 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:33.000 like you said, they have Sacramento after the All Star break, so 413 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.119 they could caring him up to the thirst spot. And that's just telling you 414 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:40.880 you need the three spot. You do not want to be in the four 415 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.359 or five matchup. What you want is to send Phoenix there so they end 416 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.799 up having to play the winner of the one eight matchup in the second round, 417 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.119 which will likely be the Denver Nuggets, and one of those teams get 418 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:56.640 taken out. Yeah, now you're you're right about that. Now, A 419 00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:00.680 couple of things for the key of this game. Number one, real quick 420 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:07.039 Terrence Mann would he had twenty twenty twenty six points, so he took some 421 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:12.079 of the slack off Norman Pale, so that was huge. Number two is 422 00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:17.720 the turnovers. The second quarter. I couldn't believe those, what three turnovers 423 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:21.559 in a minute, But in the second half, I believe they had the 424 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:25.359 Clippers only have like, what four turnovers in the second half they had five, 425 00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:29.279 but they were much better. They did have three straight at one point, 426 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:33.440 including one after a time out in the fourth quarter. Or it looked 427 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.279 like they could unravel here. But they had some awful ones. The one 428 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.200 from the tomb on the inbounds class to Paul George who wasn't looking, was 429 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.799 just inexcusable in the second quarter. Yeah for a minute, I'm like, 430 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:49.119 oh my god, what's going on here? But that was huge. And 431 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:57.400 the last thing is during the stretch Aaron Gordon was planning for for Marcus Morris. 432 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:02.319 I mean that was big too. I mean you called it a her 433 00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.759 gender pre game and say, oh, Marks Morris has to have a good 434 00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:07.440 game, blah blah blah, the games he's gonna have at the game. 435 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.960 But I've been telling you all a year. You know, he had four 436 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.200 points, but it just you know, he didn't have a great game, 437 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.440 picked up a technical too, got into foul trouble. Yeah, but it's 438 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.119 a good thing you have Eric Gordon to pick you up. Yeah, you're 439 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.759 right, You're right. So blast thing is a normal power, real quick, 440 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:29.720 it's just something minor. Right, he'll be he'll be back in the 441 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.400 back in the game after the astar break, Right, that's the hope. 442 00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:37.599 I don't know the extent of it, but I think it's the same right 443 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:42.240 knee injury he's been dealing with a little bit going back to January. I 444 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:47.440 think he heard it again in a game against Utah where he had thirty. 445 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.440 So I'm not overly concerned about it. And I see the logic of we 446 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.039 can give him even more extended rest because the All Star Games coming up. 447 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:00.200 Yeah, you've got an opportunity to get some of these other guys more run, 448 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:04.279 like Eric Gordon, who you just brought in. Yeah, you're right, 449 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.599 So, so you've got to get that win against Seacramento after the All 450 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:13.240 Star Thanks hap here, we'll talk to you after the All Star break before 451 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:19.920 will you break Lenny in Inglewood? What's up? Listen? A good game 452 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:25.240 tonight, Because when I found out ignoring problem wasn't wasn't playing, I wasn't 453 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:30.279 even next time about watching the games of the fourth quarter because just I just 454 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.960 I'm just saying, I'm just I like what he does. Man, we 455 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.039 all do. He should be the sixth of the year. There's no question 456 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.480 about it. Right now. Nobody's scored more points off the bench since early 457 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:45.880 November. Nope, And he's right, he's the most he's gotta be the 458 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:51.480 most efficient score in the NBA system since since January two. I just, 459 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:53.119 like I said, I just don't see nobody he canna do. Who can 460 00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:54.920 put it the kind of points he does, with the kind of shops and 461 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.200 dudes pull up twenty seven points on them levin shops to all stop him? 462 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:04.880 You don't you don't care about that, man? But okay, so Mace, 463 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.279 you know, the big man thing was a dressed and I'm glad, 464 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:12.359 but it wasn't just a big man. It was an athletic big man. 465 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.160 That's what you have with Mason Plumber. You gotta have somebody can move the 466 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:17.440 seat, because we know these big men can move. And they tell me 467 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.279 these guys like the pop up and take the three. Eric Gordon, you 468 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:30.000 know he he's not as a reliable deep ball shooter as uh, you know 469 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.880 Luke when he gets going, but he brings so many other things to the 470 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:37.240 game. And like you said, when he when right around the playoffs, 471 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.039 he's gonna begin hitting them them deep threes and he's gonna give us a couple 472 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:45.000 of twenty points. And he's just talking about he has less holes in this 473 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:50.000 game than Luke Kennard, who I love and I think he's he's gonna do 474 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:55.160 big things in Memphis, no doubt, no doubt. And uh, but 475 00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:00.680 the defense that Eric brings to the game, Luke r. It's not Guarden 476 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.039 Devin Booker like Eron Gore did tonight. No no. And he's got that 477 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.519 big body and he puts that waste on you man, all those things common 478 00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:10.519 man, da man. When you when you got some like you kids trying 479 00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:13.960 to get the name and gets his shot and he gets that bump, you 480 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.000 know with that body is that that countistry. But the one thing that I 481 00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:20.000 don't hear you saying, and I know we can't say because I hear yet, 482 00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:22.920 but we're talking about chemistry, man, and we're talking about bringing in 483 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:29.239 Westbrook. I just don't doubt that that means we talk. I mean, 484 00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:32.360 we were gonna take minutes away from Man. I mean, I don't, 485 00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:36.039 I don't. I don't know what's happened with the front office. I mean, 486 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:40.039 I know he's a he's a buyout prospect, but right now, to 487 00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:46.280 me, chemistry is key. We know what Westbrook does with chemistry. He's 488 00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:51.400 a he's a fantastic athlete. But we know what this dude can do if 489 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:55.320 he doesn't feel he's getting the play that he wants. So I don't know 490 00:34:55.360 --> 00:35:00.559 how this is gonna work. But I just hope the clips, you know, 491 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.679 really really weigh it out, because the most important thing going from right 492 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:08.800 now is chemistry, and which you got Man getting his confidence coming around. 493 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:14.519 That dude's needs his touches, he needs his minutes, and he needs his 494 00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:17.159 rhythm. So you can take it from there, all right, Lenny, 495 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:22.719 I appreciate it. It's amazing to think about Terrence Man getting dnps earlier in 496 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:28.480 the season, and now he's your starting point guard. And I thought Paul 497 00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:32.280 George took him home with those ten points in the fourth, and Kawhi hit 498 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:38.360 some big ones late too. But Terrence Man was the best player for the 499 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:43.880 majority of this ballgame for the Clippers tonight, and just the spirit that he 500 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:47.360 plays with. I've told you this before, but Patrick Beverlely used to turn 501 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:52.519 a regular season game into a playoff game with his intensity, and I think 502 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:54.199 Terrence Man has picked up on some of that. I was one of his 503 00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:59.159 mentors and he's brought it now. Clippers win one sixteen to one oh seven. 504 00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.159 Coming up next break, we'll have Charles Mackler on from clips in dip 505 00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:13.519 here on Clippers Talk on five seventy only Sports. Yeah, hey here records 506 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:19.679 timmo did yap would not get the memo. I do nest they had to 507 00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:25.719 cut last time. That's fun a way to go into the break, said 508 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:30.760 toa schlewis he head to the post game podium after the Clippers would win one 509 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:37.840 sixteen, one oh seven in Phoenix over the Suns. On that little blurb 510 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.519 from Andrew Griffe of the La Times on Twitter, welcome back into Clippers Talk. 511 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:45.679 I'm out of Moslin. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy 512 00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:47.840 is the phone number you hear the music, you know what's up? Some 513 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:52.440 clips and double dip here with Charles Mockler joining us. Chuck, let me 514 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.400 ask you, is this the biggest victory of the season. I thought it 515 00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:59.119 might have been their best fourth quarter of the year, even though they only 516 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:04.039 scored twenty five. It felt more like a playoff type of back and forth 517 00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:08.480 fourth quarter where they just out executed Phoenix. Yeah. I think this is 518 00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:13.000 maybe the win of the season for the Clippers. We saw a really good 519 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:16.199 process through the whole game for the most part, and when the process wasn't 520 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:21.079 working, we saw justice from Tylou that fixed it right. So Marcus Morris 521 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:23.239 Kotton, the foul trouble played night teammates as soon as he was off the 522 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:27.559 floor, I hate to say it. And Terence Mann and some of these 523 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.360 others guys got some more playing times. Things look great. We got unbelievable 524 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:37.760 contributions from Mason Pumley and you know, Eric Gordon justin kind of all the 525 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:42.119 intangible ways that you want to see from you guys. And yeah, I 526 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:45.800 mean this just we got an elite game from Paul George, we got a 527 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.760 slow start but a great close from Kawhi Leonard, and Terence Mann had his 528 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.920 best game of not his career obviously with the Clippers, but on this entire 529 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:58.079 season. So yeah, this is the best way I feel great going in 530 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.960 as the fourth seed sawtar break And if you're Phoenix, you gotta be kicking 531 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:07.239 yourself because not only do you give up the four seed, they didn't have 532 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:13.280 Kawhi Leonard getting a shot down until the five minute mark of the third quarter. 533 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:15.159 The Suns have to be feeling like we had to win that game. 534 00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:21.320 For the Clippers to overcome that level of ice cold from Kawhi Leonard that says 535 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:25.679 something. Well, I mean, the Sun's wasted a twenty four point forty 536 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:31.679 one minute performance from Josha Kogi. This was a game where usually the Clippers 537 00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:36.039 lose one. No disrespect to a guy like Josha Coogi, who's very good, 538 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:38.920 but when he goes for twenty four on a wildly efficient night, usually 539 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:42.159 it's one of those nights where it feels like the Clippers are gonna lose. 540 00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:45.280 But I mean, you know, Chris Paul couldn't really get anything going. 541 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:50.480 I know we had eleven assist but he was a minus seventh overall. Zoo, 542 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:53.760 you know, does his best against him Like this felt great, you 543 00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:59.880 know, even despite Kawai's horrific start for this one. We were carried by 544 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.079 our role players, which is what we were told all year, and it 545 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:07.320 really took until the trade deadline to shore up some of the inefficiencies that Tylo 546 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.440 kept going with to get us to really kick into the gear. Get what 547 00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:15.400 we need, which is a legitimate backup five and Mason Plumley, who might 548 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:17.559 be the best backup center in the league. And then a guy like Eric 549 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:22.280 Gordon who plays good defense in both Thailand, who I only only played fifteen 550 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.599 minutes, but add a little spark to just the whole thing. The roster 551 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.199 just feels so much more balanced now, and the second unit just looks so 552 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:34.559 much stronger with Mason Plumbly as the anchor, and even when he's playing with 553 00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:38.760 the starters out there, he just looks extremely comfortable already in just his second 554 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:42.519 game. But I did get a call about this. I wanted to ask 555 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.360 you, Chuck, with a game like this from Terrence Man getting twenty six 556 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:51.880 ten of twelve shooting. The Russell Westbrook rumors still out there and apparently the 557 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:57.239 Clippers are kicking the tires on that situation. To Corey Lamarra and sham Sharania, 558 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:01.639 where are you at with the possibility of them bring and Ross? I 559 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:06.960 just don't think we need it. I don't know how you can watch a 560 00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.280 game where Kawhi Leonard has a slow start, he doesn't make us three, 561 00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:16.800 Marcus Morris gets into foul trouble, you know, and even when that is 562 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:21.440 happening, it's not like if we have Russell Westbrook that things would have gone 563 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:25.039 exceptionally better tonight or anything like that. He has a really bad assistant turnover 564 00:40:25.199 --> 00:40:29.719 ratio, which is one thing he'd be doing for this climberstie looking to distribute, 565 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:37.400 and it just someone's getting squeezed out if we add Russell Westbrook to a 566 00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:43.880 team that's already getting DMPs from Robert Covington, Like, who are we squeezing 567 00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:45.920 out of this rotation for Russell Westbrook. I know that it's only been two 568 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:50.239 games with the trade death pipe. Sure, maybe it's bones Highland, but 569 00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:53.119 do you want Russell Westbrook playing sixteen minutes to night on this team and if 570 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:58.880 law Murray what he wrote today the Clippers Russell Westbrook is maybe a starter, 571 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:04.239 not a closer, but the idea that a contender would bring in Russell Westbrook 572 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.360 to start. I just I think if you frame it like that, you 573 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:09.599 have to you kind of have to say, what are we doing here? 574 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:15.840 And interesting, tough decisions to be made, no doubt. But until then, 575 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.519 I love this game from Paul George. I know he had a couple 576 00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:25.239 of bad turnovers five assists of four turnovers, but he played angry at times. 577 00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:29.639 It looked like I think the matchup against CP three may have brought out 578 00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:34.320 the best in him ever since he crossed Chris Paul into the underground world or 579 00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:38.039 whatever in the Western Conference finals. But getting on the floor for that steal 580 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:42.960 and the jump ball, and then having ten points in the fourth quarter alone, 581 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:46.599 sticking some tough jumpers, having a tough reverse layup. I just love 582 00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:52.000 the grittiness in his play tonight well, and you love to see him score 583 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:53.679 in the paint. Right in the first half, I think he might have 584 00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:58.559 only had one attempt on the paint. In the second half, he started 585 00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:00.639 being more aggressive with his drive and that's when we saw good things happening, 586 00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:04.079 and we got through the free from line. You know, only a couple 587 00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:06.880 of times, but in Paul George's world, that's quite a bit, even 588 00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:09.880 how the rest call it. But I was really impressed with the second half. 589 00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:14.320 It almost felt like I'd send this on Twitter, but it almost felt 590 00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:16.639 like he was like he didn't play angry, but it was almost like he 591 00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:22.280 was angry at himself and he had to get himself up to like tell himself 592 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:25.360 that he can still be this guy who can and should score twenty six a 593 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:30.079 night for the Clipper. So I mean, yeah, this is a great 594 00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:32.480 way to end it. I can't imagine this game going andy better from the 595 00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:37.119 clips. You know, maybe Kawhi scores twenty and we went by ten more 596 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.559 points. But this was a fantastic way to go out, especially being led 597 00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:44.079 by Terence Man and you know, two on three, I'd rather see it 598 00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:45.840 like this. Honestly, I think you learn more from a game like this 599 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.880 where Kawhi doesn't have it going Paul George has to step up. Terrence Man, 600 00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:53.840 is that good? The new guys played fantastic basketball. I eats a 601 00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:59.360 Zoo boss dominate in the post. I almost prefer them have to dig it 602 00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:02.519 out, uh in a way where it's not all going their way and they 603 00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:06.199 still find a way to get a victory. I think that's big for this 604 00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.039 team. But all right, Chuck, I appreciate you coming on tonight here 605 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:14.519 on Clips and double dip on Clippers stock my friend, of course, always 606 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:17.480 a good time. We'll talk soon coming up next batch your phone calls eight 607 00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:22.280 six six ninety seven, two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two 608 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:27.360 five seventy. Clippers win one sixty one oh seven Phoenix over the Suns. 609 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:31.280 Close things out before the All Star break coming next. The whole didn't turn 610 00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:52.719 the kid a little bare down in the low Keys. Clippers win one sixteen 611 00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:58.599 and one oh seven in Phoenix over the Suns. The next game coming up 612 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:02.239 a long time from I don't know what he's taken on the sacrament of King's 613 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:08.760 hosting them next Friday twenty four Mike, last call before the All Star break, 614 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:15.239 Adam, Thank you, Adam. All right, I was just calling 615 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:20.199 to say, you know, to me, the buyout market answer is easy 616 00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:23.599 and obvious, and as Patrick Beverley, he will to use a Star Wars 617 00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:30.119 phrase complete Terrence Man's training. There will be a great influence on the younger 618 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:35.440 players on Bones Highland. I'm Brandon Boston, Moussa, Jason Preston, and 619 00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:38.360 just it just seems to me like he fits in, like he's the perfect 620 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.480 addition to this team. At this point, you're talking about team man, 621 00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:46.400 what do you think? No, I'm talking about Patrick. I'm saying Patrick 622 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:52.320 Beverley. I'm the buyout market. You want Patrick Beverley in back in? 623 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:54.199 I want, I want. I want to bring Pat home. I want 624 00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:58.320 to bring Pat Beverley back where he belongs to Good for your home, I 625 00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:02.239 get it. He he is beloved still with Clipper fans. I'm a big 626 00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:06.679 fan of Patrick Beverly as well. We will see, all right, one 627 00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:08.400 more call before we got out of here. Wild card line, Paul, 628 00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:19.159 you're on Clipper Stock, You're on Man, that's you. It's you Man. 629 00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.719 We'll try to screen it here for one second. But Patrick Beverley is 630 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:30.440 out there. Obviously, he is an all time favorite and we'll remain one 631 00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:35.119 regardless of the Clippers pick him up or not. But they have decisions to 632 00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:38.719 make. We'll see where they go from here, whether it's Russell Westbrook or 633 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:43.880 Pat Bev as we head into the All Star break. But the good news 634 00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.840 is the Clippers are in the fourth spot. After everything that has transpired so 635 00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:52.039 far this season, they faced a ton of adversity. Kawhi miss is twenty 636 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.679 of the first twenty five games, ends up getting back to right where he 637 00:45:54.960 --> 00:46:00.679 was pre acl tear. Paul George misses a dozen games games the trade deadline 638 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:05.440 comes. It's tough to see some guys go. But the guys who came 639 00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:09.920 in have certainly performed at a high level, including tonight with their one sixteen, 640 00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:14.800 one oh seven victory in Phoenix over the Suns. Before we get out 641 00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:19.159 of here again, we'll be off with you guys till Friday. The twenty 642 00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:23.199 fourth Clippers back home, taken on the Sacramento Kings a battle for the three 643 00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:28.679 spot. But I do want to thank the Clippers organization. Noah Eagle, 644 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:30.920 Brian Seman, Ralph Lawlor, big brother, Jake Morner, head engineer, 645 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.599 producer, Katie Newton back here into bank, the callers, the listeners. 646 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:42.519 I'm Adam Osland Datia. In a little over a week is the Clippers have 647 00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:45.840 completed not the first half of the season. There's seventy five percent of the 648 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:50.719 season. There's just twenty one games left now down the stretch. They come 649 00:46:50.880 --> 00:47:07.719 Tatia next Friday. This has been Clippers Talk, a postgame conversation about your 650 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:13.440 LA Clippers with Adam oslap. 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