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thirteen. Make him hashtag PG thirteen as he wills the Clippers to victory,
has fifteen of his thirty two points in the fourth quarter and the Clippers escape
with a ninety nine to ninety four victory over the OKC thunder and improved a
two and four on this young season. And welcome into Clippers Talk. I'm
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the man of the hour, plus your phone calls, and I got a
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the Portland Trailblazers. If you can answer this question, with apologies to Nick
Nixon on King's Talk. I'm ripping it from him. Clippers trivia tonight for
two tickets, which Clipper led the league in scoring for three consecutive seasons.
That is the question eight six nine, eight seven, two five seventy,
which Clipper led the league in scoring for three consecutive seasons. And I need
you to do something else for me, because it's a one man show tonight.
I just gotta throw you on hold immediately. If you're on hold,
wait for it. I will get to you. I will screen you during
the break. Clippers, though, look to be on hold offensively once again.
In the first half, just had forty points and a holding pattern,
you could say forty points in the first half it was forty four to forty.
But finally, after starting one per sixteen from distance, they would hit
fourteen of their next twenty six from three. That's fifty six percent. That's
what we've been waiting for, the law of averages to go back in their
favor. It just didn't make any sense. It was confounding watching how cold
they were from the outside to start off this season, at least after the
first two games. So going back about four and a half quarters now,
till the second half of this one. They went through a stretch where they
were in a deep funk from distance. They were shooting thirty one percent from
three. Coming into tonight's game. They end up still just shooting thirty five
percent. But again, they did most of their damage in the second half
and then the last three quarters when they turned things around. In fact,
they only had three made three pointers. I believe they were three of twenty
one in the first half. They hit six three pointers to double that up
in the third quarter alone. But there were some heroics down the stretch because
the Clippers, and we talked about it with Noah Eagle during the game,
when it's not one thing, it's another. Right now, when they were
getting their offense clicking in that third quarter, where they at least scored twenty
six points, they gave up thirty. So their defense kept them in it.
They were just down by four after the first twenty four minutes, even
though they had just scored forty points in the first half. It was forty
four forty ok se thunder at the half, But in that third quarter they
gave up a thirty spot and fifteen of those thirty points were from Shay Gilis
Alexander, the former Clipper, and Paul George had twelve points in the third
quarter, but Clippers were down eight heading into the fourth. They were down
by nine though with two forty four left in the ball game. They were
staring at starting off this season one in five. But then they found themselves
when their backs were against the wall, like we saw throughout last season,
like we saw a couple of years ago, the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen Clippers
crew, they found that grit that refused to lose mentality. I know it's
cliche, but they have certainly had it over the years, and they would
outscore After being down ninety one to eighty two, they would outscore the Okse
Thunder the rest of the way, seventeen to three. They win ninety nine
to ninety four, and it was Paul George coming up huge back to back
three pointers. You know what, I'm just gonna let you hear it from
Noah Eagle. Here's a highlight package I just threw together. Hopefully it sounds
all right of the end of this game, chronicling how the Clippers were able
to come back down nine with two forty four left. Back to his left
step back twenty footer over Terrence Man missed it. Shorge rebound collected by George.
With two fifteen remaining in the Clippers down six, George straight away steps
to back same spot for three save results PG thirteen bulls Eye Clippers within three
ninety one eighty eight is George has thirty on his former team. Two minutes
left, Gilchris Alexander driving left, out of flocks and out of bounds.
George with a hand on it. Jackson was there as well as Man Giddy
underhand pass inside bu Scoll at the rim. All great defense by George Toll
force the mess in. Here come the Clippers a chance to get it to
within one or tie the game. With one forty five left, George driving
left, had its stripped by Kitty three games control outside Canard freight wink three
for the tie, bulls Eye Luke Canard is perfect. We are tied at
ninety one. George felling instead at Jupper from eighteens. It's good pull George
with thirty two and the Clippers lead ninety three ninety two, one oh five
to play, basically driving him in on how to stripped by George, picked
up by Jackson, and the Clippers will look to trains and clog. With
a minute remaining, get it to George thirty two for the man tonight Pg.
Thirteen draining some clock. Crowd is in twenty wants a one on one
with Beasley with tennis shoot George dancing on basically driving right, cross over left,
George back at forth, he goes to Jackson left wing, sat the
feet, doesn't take the three with two seconds left, floater on the way
at the horn, rolls through Big Government with the fill out with thirty six
point seven seconds remaining, and George creech Jackson with a fair hug at mid
court. The Clippers take on ninety five ninety two lead on a thirteen to
one run and with thirty six point seven seconds remaining, Oklahoma City calls the
time out. How about that moment and great call by Noah Eagle as always
between Paul George and Reggie Jackson coming through Paul George with a jumper, Reggie
with the floater that falls through at the end of the shot clock. Noah
Eagle appropriately gives him the Big Government bailout nickname. There and nobody has struggled
more than Reggie Jackson for this team to start the Sea and uncharacteristically was shooting
just thirty percent from the field coming into to the night's game. Still goes
five of seventeen, but would hit a big three pointer. Had fifteen points.
No shot bigger than that one, though he needed it badly. The
Clippers needed this victory badly. They needed to find that identity once again and
who they are in this league because they've been that team that can come back
no matter the odds. They were down fifteen in this one in the first
half, down nine with two forty four left, and they would hit their
free throws late. Luke Kenard two, Reggie Jackson would hit two. They
executed and out executed the Okase Thunder when they needed to. Now it's still
just the Thunder team that we don't expect to be a playoff team or a
play in team this year. They're young, they're building. They do have
Shay Gildra's Alexander, who was fantastic. We already knew that he had twenty
eight points on eleven of twenty three shooting, but that big fifteen point explosion
in that third quarter to match Paul George. But George was better in the
fourth where he had fifteen of his thirty two and showed that leadership that we've
been talking about that's going to have to be there without Kawhi Leonard right now,
and that same willingness to accept that role, just like he did when
Kawhi went down into the playoffs last year. But I thought there were some
other really good performances, even in a game that was obviously tough to watch,
especially in the first half of the Clippers only scoring forty points, but
Nicholas Batoum was consistent, hit four three pointers, had four of their fifteen,
had fourteen points, and it was the hustle place a couple of big
steals when they couldn't get anything going from the outside. Starting one of sixteen,
he had a steal in a pass and I think it was to Terrence
Man for an easy lay up. Early on. Man had all ten of
his points in the first half, eight of them in the second quarter.
He gave them a bird a boost when they were down by fifteen. He
was good. And Luke Kennard obviously late where he hit all four of his
three pointers in the second half. The Clippers you can't say this early in
the season that is a must win game even if they did drop to one
in five. But did they need it? Did they need to win in
this style? I think so. I think they reminded themselves of who they
are in this league and how things can turn around quickly, even when you
start one for sixteen from three. And with how bad they were shooting coming
into this game, the weight of the world was on their shoulders from the
outside. But remember the law of averages was in their favor because coming into
tonight they were shooting just thirty four percent on open to wide open threes.
Last year in those same situations they shot forty four percent. It was bound
to happen. They were going to progress to the mean. I wasn't overly
concerned with it, but one for sixteen to start things off, it looked
like it was in their head. You know, you never want to play
armchair psychologists with guys, but it's just human nature that if you're not playing
well well in baseball, you start gripping the battle a little bit tighter.
In basketball, we saw Reggie Jackson being more hesitant than we're used to seeing
from the outside. Some indecisiveness out there by the Clippers, but they were
getting open shots. They just couldn't get them to fall the last three games.
Finally, and Lucas Hands said this on Twitter. He was wondering when
the floodgates were going to open up with the Clippers, and we thought it
was when they started six of six in Portland, but then they couldn't hit
anything afterwards from the outside. But after starting one for sixteen, they go
fourteen of their next twenty six from three. And believe me, in this
league right now, three points shooting. It's never been a bigger part of
the game, and it's a huge part of what the Clippers do. And
that touched the paint, spray it out, make the extra pass, swing
it to the next guy. That has been part of their DNA going back
to last year since head coach Tron Lewis taken over. They pass up good
shots for great ones. Problem was they were getting great ones, they just
couldn't hit them. They were averaging I believe Brian Semen had this stat because
t Lou brought it up in the pregame pressor. They were averaging seven more
open three pointers per game then they did last year. They just weren't hitting
and they're not the only team. There is an unusual amount of poor shooting
going on in this league, where as a whole in the NBA. Right
now, teams haven't shot this poorly from three since the ninety nine two thousand
season. They're shooting just thirty four percent on average. Typically it's around thirty
six and a half. That's what teams shoot on average from distance last last
few years. This year, I don't know if it's the new Wilson ball
tired legs. That's what Terrence Man thought it was, just with the schedule
being thrown off for multiple years due to COVID. But guys like Damian Lillard
has struggled mightily. I think he's shooting about twenty percent from three. Jason
Tatum, Bradley Beale, Marksman just could not hit. But Paul George has
been the saving grace for the Clippers. I believe he's gone for thirty or
more in four of their first six games. Now as they improved to two
and four in the season, they come back late. They win ninety nine
to ninety four over the OKAC Thunder. Let's start things off with what he
called him first, Eric and the Lancaster Eric, what's up here on Clippers
stock without Hmuslin. Hi, I's a god good Eric. Can you breathe
again? I know a lot of Clipper Nation was dreading them falling to one
and five and losing to the Okase thunder. Yeah, Athan, Paul,
George, there you go. So what do you want to say, Eric?
Or do you just want to go after the trivia question? Uh?
Down? Then go Clippers. That's it. You don't want to take a
guess at the trivia question? Which Clipper led the league in scoring for three
consecutive seasons? That was Bob, that could do? You got it?
You're the winner. You're going to the Clippers game at Staples Center on November
eleventh. Eric, thank you for the phone call. Thank you so much.
Let's keep moving here. Some of these I'm man sure, Jeff,
Jeff, you're on Clippers stop with Adam Oslin. Jeff? Where are you
calling from? I'm sorry, I wrote it down. I came and read
my own handwriting chicken scratch, All right, you get it. I'm from
me. It's Hollywood. That's right, Jeff. What do you want to
say about tonight? It was great, man. It was good to see
the team kind of find themselves a little bit. It's been such a frustrating
first few games, but you know, I been beating this drum since the
opener that you know, Paul George is you know, granted everything goes our
way, which it hasn't been, you know, in the past, but
hopefully this year is the years. I think he has a real strong,
you know, argument for MVP, the way he's been playing, and I
think as long as the guys around him can start hitting their shots, I
think, you know, he's been playing out of his mind. And I
also just think, you know, I'm just really excited for what the future
holds. Luke Kennard has been great, Terrence Mann defensively has been awesome,
but I don't know Man as a team. I think this is just it's
gonna gel. I really do field it's gonna eventually gel, and just give
it some time. Thank you for the phone called, Jeff. I agree
with you. We knew it was going to take some time to adjust.
Even after what happened in the playoffs last year. You get a new starter
and Eric Bledsoe just winslows on this team. They still don't have Marcus Morris
or Serge Ibaka. They were going to be some growing pains. But even
to find a win against a team like the Okac Thunder at home, where
you're down by fifteen, down by nine late and they just figure it out
when they needed to. This could be something to build off of. We'll
see. They're going to Minnesota. They've been playing very good basketball. They
got a two game miniseries on Wednesday and Friday against the Timberwolves. More on
that coming up. Plus we got postgame audio. Stay out, hold,
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I'm at a Moslin after they come back, and when ninety nine to
ninety four over the OKC thunder at Staples Center, sending them to one and
six, the Clippers improved the two and four. More importantly, it's the
way that they won this game where they looked to still not have it offensively,
at least in the first half, and then their defense slipped when they
started get it going on offense in the second half. But down by nine
with two forty four left, Paul George would hit back to back three pointers.
Luke Kennard would tie it at ninety one with a three pointer of his
own. PG thirteen would hit a jumper, and then it was Reggie Jackson
nailing the floater to put them up by three. At ninety five to ninety
two, they would play some good defense down the stretch. They would do
just enough, they would hit their free throws, and they would come away
with a comeback win. And I know it's over the OKASE thunder, but
right now, I mean Clippers can't take anyone lightly. Obviously, other teams
may be looking at them like food being two and four as the slain goes
around on NBA Twitter. But welcome back in. I'm adam oslind tot eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Let's go to Dean in Highland? Dean,
what's up here on Clippers Stoft? Without a moslind? Hey? That
just to go back to the trivia question that guy Google but he couldn't even
he couldn't even pronounced Bob Mackint's day. Don't be better, Dean. I'll
have some more tickets down the line that maybe you can win. Okay,
Yeah, I just wanted to comment on how big of a loss it was
to get rid of Patrick Beverley, and even Boogie Cousins would have been a
nice pick up this year too. I think they lost a lot of toughness
from just those two alone. Well, how do you like Isaiah Hartenstein who
led the Clippers with twelve rebounds on this one? Yeah, and he hit
a three pointer. He'll have to work his way in. I'm I'm a
big Boogie fan, so I I saw him make some some really good moves
in that series against Utah and he can score. Yeah, I appreciate the
phone call, Dean calling again, well, some more tickets down the line.
Look, Boogie Cousins did good things for the Clippers at times, but
he was also a liability defensively at times, just because he lost so much
of his athleticism over the years with so many injuries, starting with that achilles
injury back when he was with New Orleans. I really like the way that
this Clippers front line stacks up when healthy. Visa Zubots has struggled overall early
this season, he just played thirteen minutes. Hartenstein actually played more at eighteen.
But when they get Searge Ibaka back. With those two, they have
different guys for different situations. I just I love the pickup of Hartenstein if
he could just slow down with the fouls, and tonight he was much better
in that area, only committed one personal foul. He's been in foul trouble
seemingly every game in limited minutes, so he's too aggressive for his own good
at times. But I'd rather have that than somebody who was playing soft in
there. Again. Thanks for the phone called, Dean. Let's go to
to Sean and Inglewood. Sean, what's up here on Clippers stop without a
Marslon after they come back and win ninety nine to ninety four over Okay,
see, I just really you're about to steal my thunder. I was about
to give Hartenstein a really big compliment because I kind of feel I have more
confidence when he's on the offensive side of the floor than Zuba. It seems
like he gives them more options, better passing, and I think he's a
little bit more offensively inclined. I also want to give a shout out to
Paul George. I think he's going to be a starter on the All Star
team this year, and I just wanted to mention I think I really hope
that that was the worst game that Eric bletso has this year, and that
could possibly be because he did not have a good game at all, and
hopefully he'll get better. I'm trying to be nice and so go Clippers,
and thank you for the call, all right, Sean. Eric Bledsoe really
since the first game and a half has struggled, and I don't know if
it's just getting acclimented and building up chemistry with this team, but I would
not be surprised if at some point maybe in the near future. Because of
the way they closed this game. That coach lu Tinkers with the starting lineup
and you either see Luke Kennard or Terrence Man in there. I just wouldn't
be surprised. Now, I still have faith in Eric Bledsoe because the first
game he looks great. He looked great, and he does hustle. But
he had four turnovers in this one and went two of eight from the field
and took four three pointers. That's just not his game. He has to
drive, get downhill and get to the basket. He and Terrence Man,
by the way, he went oh five from distance. I mean, most
of the Clippers struggled early on, but they could never get it going from
the outside. Now. Man shot forty one percent from three last year on
about only one attempt per game, but still he got about seventy five three
pointers up and showed a propensity to hit from the outside when teams leave him
open in the corner, similar to what we saw with Patrick Beverley over the
years, who they'll see on Wednesday and Friday in Minnesota. But I do
think there's a learning curve for Eric Bledsoe, and maybe he's just not in
the best position currently. But we'll see coach lew is going to figure out
the right mix for all of these guys. You have to have faith in
that at least because what we saw in the playoffs last year. He mixes
and matches, he finds the energy, he finds the right lineups, and
eventually the Clippers, you know, they have one more move than the opposition
had. That's that's how they were able to come back down two OHO last
year, down two OHO to the Dallas Mavericks in the first round and then
the Utah Jazz in the second round. And they did that without Kawhi Leonard.
So the Clippers come back tonight, not just without Kawhai I, no
Marcus Moore, snow surge of Baka. They're down some guys that they desperately
need. The good news is as bad as they have been offensively overall to
start this season, they have played very good defense. They hold Okay Seed
to ninety four points, They held them to twenty points in that fourth quarter.
They outscored them by thirteen because PG thirteen Paul George had fifteen of his
thirty two points in the fourth and was playing spectacular defense too. A two
way player at a block had three steals. So we talked about the top
seventy five player voting for the seventy fifth Anniversary and All NBA Team and him
not making it and Damian Lollard making it, and maybe you put in Paul
George for him, but my preference is to have a guy who plays on
both ends, who can defend at this high of the level. He finished
third and Defensive Player of the Year voting just a couple of years ago.
But he gave everything tonight, played forty minutes. He was averaging just thirty
three coming into this game, and that was something Luke talked about. Coach
Luke talked about in the pregame presser as well that he was going to tweak
some things with how he has and how he allocates minutes with Paul George out
there, that he was going to leave him off for six minute stretches anymore,
because we've seen that just be disastrous for this Clippers team because too many
guys are struggling offensively and Paul George is the one guy you can most definitely
rely on on that end to the floor. Even though he only had five
points in the first half, had twenty seven and the second half. So
I noticed he took him out early in the first quarter and then brought him
back in before the first quarter was over. Something to monitor the way he
uses Paul George in spurts now, to make sure there aren't any long stretches
without him, because the Clippers have not been surviving with him not on the
floor in those minutes. Clippers survived tonight. They escape with a victory over
the Okaysee Thunder. They win ninety nine ninety four at Staples Center. Coming
up, speaking of coach Lou will have some postgame audio and my friend Bill
horrenda NBA analysts, will be here. Clippers two and four in this young
season. I'm not saying it was a must win tonight, but they needed
to win in a fashion like this. I think it was huge. Oh,
I think Jose is calling in from south Gate. I'll get to your
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the Oklahoma City thunder Clippers. Now two and four on this young season.
They're going to Minnesota for two game miniseries Wednesday and Friday. Eight six six
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of the phone number still to come. You're gonna hear from the head coach
Shron Lou and Paul George post game after he has twenty seven of his thirty
two points on the second half, fifteen of those came in the fourth quarter
and willed them to victory down the stretch, Tagius, hold on, We'll
get to you, and Jose and Southgate will get to you as well.
But first I want to get to my friend Bill Horrenda, who is an
NBA expert and does very well with the advanced analytics. I might add he
knows how to deep dive into some of those stats on NBA dot com.
Bill, thanks for coming on Clippers Talk tonight. So what did you find
out about tonight's game and how the Clippers were able to pull this off?
Laid outside of just Paul George and his brilliance, Adam always great to be
with you in Clipper Nation. As Hubie Brown says, an NBA game is
never over. The seventeen to three run over the final two forty four terrific
offensively, but how about defensively? The Clippers allowed just twenty fourth quarter points
to Oklahoma City and they've defended without fouling only one personal foul in the final
Stanza. Now listen turning the page here, no somnambulance in Minnesota. They
were popped at home tonight by Orlando, And like you said, there are
no must win scenarios. But you could see the body language. Hey,
even self confidence among the best four hundred and fifty players in the world can
be somewhat fragile. A lot of positives to the Clippers early. It's better
to be two and four than one in five. Yeah, at times with
this team, going back to last year in the playoffs, the confidence from
Reggie Jackson that emanates from him, it permeates throughout the entire team. And
the fact that he was struggling to this degree. I wonder if that also
had a ripple off, but him hitting that shot late after Paul George's jumper
to put the Clippers up by three, do you think that's something that has
carry over that can get Reggie Jackson out of this funk? Because coming into
this season after what he did in the playoffs, when Kawhi Leonard went down,
everybody thought for sure he was going to be the second option on most
nights, right, And you know what, Adam, when you take a
step back, you're without Kawai, You're without Marcus Morris Seni, You're without
a Baca, and you're also incorporating Bledsoe, Winslow, Hartenstein into the mix.
Here. You've lost Beverly Rondo Cousins as well as Patterson. So from
that standpoint, you're right. You get to a point where, well,
who's the closer here? What are our roles? And for ty Low and
the coaching staff, you know, Steve Clifford says this frequently, the erstwhile
coach of Charlotte and Orlando. The NBA is a game of adaptation and change,
and you know what, if you're not watching film, you have no
idea what's going on. So there'll be some terrific teachable moments here for the
Clippers. As this scroup gels, the coaching staff learns about roles as well
as different types of playing groups. Now I think personally that Tyler is going
to stick with Bledsoe in the starting lineup, but he'll learn more about you
know, Kennard of course, and Man and you know, just some of
these role players and how this is going to look like. As of course
you're expecting Mars and Abaca back soon. Bill Horrenda is our guest here.
NBA analysts follow him at Bill Horrenda on Twitter at r E n d A.
Bill, how do you assess the play from Paul George so far?
Because people were kind of downplaying his forty one and forty two point games because
the Clippers lost, But he did absolutely everything he could during stretches where nobody
else can make a shot outside of maybe Luke Kennard. To me, he's
played like a top ten player at least so far in this early season.
Absolutely, and am i concur I mean he comes in averaging twenty eight per
night, shooting fifty percent from the floor thirty eight percent from three. The
other thing to look at tonight scintillating in the final stands is six of seven,
three to three from three and only two turnovers. And as you mentioned
before the break, of course, one of the best two way players in
the game. So I think for Paul George, it's like anything else.
You know, his actions will speak much louder than his words. And this
is you know, the reactionary bloggerd demagoguery that we'll talk about his inability to
close or his flaws. We saw it last season and we will continue to
see it this season. So it's like anything else, you just have to
block out the noise and you know, just take care of business on a
nightly basis. And if they were going to be haters out there, listen
let them. Hey, you let your game do your talking. I don't
know what else he has to do. After dragging the Clippers of the Western
Conference Finals without Kawhi Leonard for the first time in the history of this franchise,
like he did last year with a forty point game. Also in that
Game five to extend that series against the Phoenix Suns in a thirty nine point
game, a brilliant game in that Game five against the Utah Jazz in the
second round. I think he's answered the critics, at least in my mind.
That stuff doesn't hold much water anymore. Somebody else I wanted to ask
you about, because he has been struggling right now recently, and he is
coming back from a knee injury in that Phoenix series a visa Zoobots hasn't exactly
looked like himself so far this season outside of one game. How important do
you think that big man position is for the Clippers because he only plays thirteen
minutes tonight, And how much can he help raise their ceiling when he's back
on his game. Yeah, absolutely do. He does so many things,
not everything that counts can be counted, as Einstein said, and you know
this screening ability of zoobots, and you know, you look at Hartenstein tonight
and and you know he has twelve rebounds, four of them offensive. And
again it's very early. We have to add that caveat to everything. But
this is a team dead last and rebounding. So when you say what can
Zubats do to raise the ceiling for the Clippers, it can be immeasurable because
I do like their toughness, the intangibles, the burly nature, and again,
you know, the meek may inherit the earth. They're not going to
make it beyond the Western Conference finals, and I think Zubots will be key
to that. And again, the coaching staff is not going to overreact.
They know what they have in him. They have seen him in the past,
and I think it's just a matter of time before he finds his groove.
And I think it's similar with Bledsoe, but in a different way as
he's now, you know, trying to congeal with this new culture, with
this new roster, new teammates. So those guys will be fine. They've
got a good body of work. I'm not going to worry about them.
I'm gonna sleep well. You know a lot of coaches in this league,
now I'm not a coach in the league, they sleep like babies. They
wake up every half hour crying. I can. I can sleep well at
night, and I think they should with these guys with du Bots in particular
and Bloodsow. Hopefully coach Luke can finally sleep a little bit better tonight after
this victory. But one more for you here, Bill, because you cover
the entire NBA nationally. How do you think this team stacks up in the
Western Conference? I know a lot of it is dependent on whether or not
Kawhi Leonard can come back later in this season, but let's say at least
till March. If he's not back before then, how good do you think
or how much can the Clippers do aside from just treading water in the West.
How do you think they stack up? Yeah? I think you know.
I love the analogy you guys used during the broadcast, the one with
Noah Eagle. You know Denver last year, right one in four twelve and
eleven, sixteen and fourteen, forty seven and twenty five, and they lost
Murray Porters stepped up. Yokich is the MVP. So I think here you're
looking at Utah the Lakers. You know, Phoenix of course is struggling.
I love Denver, and of course they're in a similar scenario with Murray,
so I think it's going to be a dog fight. And the Clippers should
be right in the mix. And I mean there are some dark horses as
well. I mean Memphis, Dallas, Sacramento has improved. How about the
Warriors and Curry and Thompson looming there. So it's going to be a fascinating
season, particularly in the West, and I know we don't have time for
it, but the East has got some people making noise Chicago, namely now
six and one. The East has gotten so much more interesting with teams that
were at the bottom last year, like the Charlotte Hornets. Even the Washington
Wizards are playing much better, even though Bradley Beal is struggling right now,
which tells you how good maybe they could be and how much maybe they feel
like they won that trade with the Lakers for Westbrook. But he is Bill
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will do this again very as soon, my friend. I appreciate it absolutely,
add of my pleasure anytime. Eight six six ninety eight seven two seventy
is the phone number before we break here. Jose and south Gate. You're
on Clipper stop with that. I'm Austin, Hey, Ida, how are
you doing did I even screen you. I just know your phone number at
this point because the Clippers had a big victory. I expected you. Oh
you already know. I was at the game today and man, shout out
kiper Nation. We stuck around, we got to win. And those last
two and a half minutes, I just I just wanted Ralph Lawda there.
I just wanted to hear a bingo with those threes. Man, it was
beautiful, and I just want to get this call Lin because I want to
sleep. Well, let's go clipfies. You talk about the threes there,
and there was a point from the eight minute mark eight fifty maybe it was
in the third quarter till the nine fifty mark of the fourth quarter or the
nine minute mark where the Clippers basically went about twelve minutes where they didn't hit
anything but threes. They didn't hit a two point field goal during that time.
Now, maybe some Lappers fans don't like that. You want a little
bit of a better mix offensively. But Paul George came through. He book
ended, hitting a two point or to start that trend and a two point
winner to end it there. But of course, fifteen of his thirty two
points in the fourth quarter, Clippers come back down nine late coming up.
We'll get back to your phone calls eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy and we got coach Loop postgame audio for you as well. I think
I'm going on Valley's Twitter right now to find it. I'm out of Moslin
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While in their first four losses, the Clippers could not get over the hump.
They couldn't close, they couldn't finish well. To night against the OKAC
Thunder, they come back nine with two forty four left and go on a
seventeen to three run to finish off OKAC and they win ninety nine to ninety
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What's up? Hey? Adam? Is the tins and neel type of
wins. But I'm glad we got the win we needed it. Didn't think
you're gonna say that tonight, did you? No? I didn't for a
while. We had two things to say. But the first thing you talked
about the top seventy five list, and I just wanted to say, I
think twenty Parkers should be in there. People don't really mention him. I
think Dominique Wilkin should be in there. He didn't make the top the top
fifty. Yeah, he didn't make the top fifty. He didn't make the
top seventy five. Yeah. I would have had him before James Worthy and
uh I I would take Tony Parker as my starting point guard for my team
over in Russell Westbrook any day. That's just me. What if What if
Russell Westbrook wasn't wearing the purple and gold though? I man, would it
be different? No? Because I think he just he just brings a lot
of value. Four championships, right, So, Tony Parker's a winner.
He's just stud He's underrated. What about the Clippers though, tonight? All
right? Today, when the Clippers struggle offensively, I think, you know,
when they had even bad shooting games last year, I think we were
able to balance out some of that with Kawaie, you know, shooting those
mid range and with Morris and back out. I feel like both of them
will help provide some of that inside shooting where they can post up either one
outside of PG. So the three of them I think can help U kind
of fill that gap that Kawai would provide. Not like what Kwai can do
obviously, but at least they could kind of balance the attack of having to
shoot a lot of outside shots. And I think once they're all back and
healthy, it will I think it will help improve their outside shooting. That's
a good point today. Just I appreciate it. Especially Marcus Morris. He
has shown a propensity to be deadly in the mid range. When he was
number one or number two option next to Julius Randall in that half season with
the New York Knicks, he got an efficient twenty per game shout forty three
percent from three last year with the Clippers, I believe was second in the
league at forty seven percent from three. So do not underestimate or undervalue how
big Marcus Morris could be for them when he returns. And it sounds like
he and Sir Jebaker are on the mend. They should be back quickly.
Maybe Coach Lou was asked that post game, but here he was head coach
Ron Lou after the Clippers come back and win ninety nine to ninety four over
the okayse Thunders, beeking with the media. It's kind of rare to see
such a progression to the meme over the course of the game, like this
one from the first half or from the second half of the first half.
Did you feel the like it didn't seem like your offense changed all that much.
Did it just finally feel like you've got the weight off your shoulders of
the team making shots? Kind of I thought earlier on, to be honest,
Jess, I just thought early on we had great looks. We generated
a lot of good shots early on. And it was kind of funny because
on the beach of guys was you know, just like team man and Reggie
started laughing like, I can't believe, like we're getting wide up in shots
and can't make I just said, just keep taking with confidence. And I
thought in the first half we really really got good shots. Second half,
I adn't think we got so much like far as good shots because we got
to play small and we really offensively. We really don't know how to play
small right now, but I know we're better defensively because we can switch and
then we can fire and rotate. So we just gotta keep working with that
small lineup and just find out what works and what we can run. But
like I said, guys, they kept competing defensively, they were great.
I thought our fires was great on Shade when he had it going, and
then PG just brought us home with some with some great miraculous shots. You
guys started to run more in the fourth Like transition wise, is that well,
we got stops, so you know when you get stops, Luke's gonna
be open and transition, Pg's gonna be able to you know, come down
attack one on one in transition, and you know, teams are doing a
good job of trying to stay attached to loop now so he can't get open
and have court set. So in transition, you know, you really don't
have a man, So everybody's just trying to sprint back and protect the paint
and that's when Luke's getting shots. And that's how PG got going, you
know, late in that fourth to bring us home time. Hell sustainable?
Do you feel is your defense with the way that guys are just going out
there, forced turnover, scrambling fire and just to just a final way to
win a game. Yeah, I mean, we just gotta, you know,
continue to do what we can do to try to win. And you
know, I thought Nico was great at sending tone with that picking up full
court shotowing in the back court, you know, so you know, what
do we have to do to try to make it work. We gotta do
it. And just the biggest thing is offensively, we've got to catch up
with our defense, and I think with the small lineup, just getting better
with the small lineup of how we want to play and what's style we want
to play. So I got to do a better job with that. There
was head coach Toronto lou after the Clippers come back they win ninety nine to
ninety four over the OKAC Thunder thanks to, as he put it, some
miraculous shots down the stretch by Paul George, who has been Yeah, nothing
short of miraculous so far for this team. Forty one point game of forty
two point game thirty two tonight, but fifteen of those came when they needed
them most, at the very end of the game. And I saw this
from my friend Lucas hand from the Lob of the Jam podcast. He'll be
joining us Friday night after the Clippers play their second game against the Minnesota Timberwolves,
but he put this tweet out. This was during a two minute stretch.
Paul George three, Paul George three, Paul George block, Paul or
assist for Luke and Arthree, Paul George turnaround jumper to take the lead,
and a Paul George Steele. He absolutely took over this one. And the
Clippers are now two and four. Can they string some wins together? Can
this turn into something bigger than just one victory because of how they won?
That's what I'm looking forward to see. It's looking forward to see if they
can do that Wednesday night against the Minnesota Timberwolves, team that has played much
better so far this season. We'll see Pat beb, They'll see Carl Anthony
Towns, the High flying rookie Anthony Edwards, well second year player. Now,
before we get out of here, I do want to thank Noah Eagle,
Bryan Seaman, Ralph Lawler, the Clippers organization, the callers. Tonight,
we'll try to get some more tickets for you coming up until Wednesday,
starting at four pm with the Clippers in Minnesota, and your pregame show will
be then I'm at a Moslin. We'll talk to you a couple of days.
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