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send them back to Charlotte with a fourteen point loss. Welcome into Clippers Talk.
After Los Angeles Clippers win one twenty to one oh six at Staples Center
over the Hornets, and the Clippers have won four straight now Charlotte has lost
four straight. Noah Eagles said it during the pregame show. Both these teams
were going in opposite directions and they continue on those paths. If you'd like
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you. You can also get to me at follow Adam A clamp City traveled
back to Staples Center. We talked about them in Minnesota. They held the
Timberwolves to going scoreless for six straight minutes Friday night. That was in the
third quarter. Tonight, they do the exact same thing to the Charlotte Hornets
in the fourth where the Hornets did not score after being up nine from the
seven o nine mark of the fourth quarter to the one o nine mark of
the fourth quarter. An unbelievable defensive effort and that his starting to be this
Clipper's identity. After getting off to a slow start once again, Charlotte had
thirty nine points on the first quarter, they went six of eight from three.
After that, they would hit just four of their next twenty five.
That Clippers defense settled in and it was over. And then offensively, the
Clippers go on a twenty two to o run during that six minute stretch where
Charlotte did not score point in the fourth quarter, that was the ball game.
The three pointers came back around after they missed their first six. In
the fourth quarter, they would hit three in a row. Reggie Jackson had
two, Luke Kennard hit one. He would hit two more to put a
bow on this one, and in between their Terren's Man had a huge throwdown.
Paul George had a couple of nice makes in the mid range. Had
six of his twenty points in that fourth quarter. Finishes nine of twenty two,
just two for ten from deep. Another game where Paul George struggles when
four of twenty Friday in Minnesota, doesn't matter because the Clippers are leaning on
their defense, They're finding other ways to win. Charlotte led the league in
points per game coming into this one, scoring one to fourteen per game.
Tonight they scored just one oh six. Miles Bridges has been off the charts
to start off this season, averaging twenty two, scoring ten more points per
game this season, had twenty one points, but on seven of nineteen shooting
and just two of six from three. LaMelo Ball, who I believe had
sixteen points in the first half, finished with just twenty one. He goes
two of five. Terry Rozier shot one of nine from three. My two
keys coming into this one, or first of all, getting back in transition
and clamping down with your transition defense, but just on the perimeter in general,
because that's where the Charlotte Hornets have been thriving. They were second in
three point shooting at almost forty percent coming into tonight. They go ten of
thirty three, but got off to that hot start six of eight, four
of twenty five after that. This Clippers team is turning into they were third
defensively third best defensive rating coming into this game, or turning into a defensive
juggernaut right now. And they're doing so when they just got Sergeibacca back tonight.
He struggled, did have a nice block in the early in the fourth
quarter, I want to say it was, but had five personal fouls in
just eight minutes. Hartenstein had eight points in the second quarter that were huge
when the Clippers were down by as many as thirteen early in this one.
Remember, they just came back down twenty in a game to win by twenty.
Before that, they used a seventeen to three run to come back down
fifteen at home against OKC. Are you seeing the pattern here? The comeback
clips are alive and well, this is what they've been doing for years now.
But this group has been reconfigured a little bit. Eric Bledsoe in the
starting lineup, struggled a little bit, but did make his first three in
the last seventeen quarters in this one. It was a big one though they
needed it. Had seven points in twenty four minutes, did have five boards,
a couple of assists, miss some gimmes at the basket tonight, just
uncharacteristically missing some easy ones, but on a night where Paul George again is
nine of twenty two. Nicholas Batoum hits four three pointers, has sixteen points.
Nick Batoum, Saint Nick, since he's been inserted back into the starting
lineup, has been incredible. He's been hitting about fifty percent of his three
pointers the last five games. Now, the Clipper is getting better from the
outside, slowly but surely has coincided with Nick Batoum and how well he has
shot it from there. Terrence Man has seventeen points. A huge throwdown momentum
play dunk in the fourth quarter, but in the third, I believe had
five straight points. At one point, had the end one on Kelly Ubre
where he just took him to school, and then the very next possession basically
went coast to coast, was hunting Ubre at the basket and got another layup.
So some of the young guys, now, Luke Kennard, Terrence Man,
you wanted to see that growth from them. You saw it in this
game. You've been seeing it over the last week, and all of a
sudden, the Clippers of one four straight. They're five and four, and
as their offense is starting to come around and they scored one twenty in this
game. Their defense is what they've been hanging their hat on, and that
is a wonderful sight to see. By the way, the Clippers had twenty
turnovers. They overcome twenty turnovers in this game. We're averaging just over thirteen
per game coming into this one. Twenty turnovers that lead to thirty points for
the Charlotte Hornets, who were getting out in transition, and they took care
of the basketball themselves. They just had thirteen turnovers. But the Clippers didn't
even play their best basketball. But they had a six minute stretch holding Charlotte
scoreless where they went on that twenty two to zero run and that's all they
needed down nine with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, and they absolutely
put them away. Luke Kennard went back to back three pointers late. What
he's been able to do carrying over shooting well from three last year and I
believe forty four percent, but now doing it at a much higher clip where
he's attempting in this one eleven threes. All six of his makes were threes
to get to those eighteen points. For Luke Kennard. That's perfect cool hand
Luke good, Luke hunting by the Clippers. That's what they need from him.
And he actually led them in the plus minus category. Was a plus
twenty four. Man was a plus twenty two. He was second in that
in that category, Isaiah Hartenstein a plus eight. The lit crew Luke,
Isaiah Terrence Man. And you can't say enough about the type of plays that
Man makes. Their momentum shifting place, but it starts from the defensive end
right now for the Clippers, and I don't know if a lot of people
expected that coming into this season, for them to be this dominant without Kawhi
Leonard, without Marcus Morris. Right now, they just get Serge Ibacca back,
and when they've needed to play their best, when they get down big,
and of course we've seen that before, but down nine with seven minutes
left, to hold a team scoreless for six minutes, a team with this
good the best beast offense when it comes to points per game in the NBA,
and the Clippers hold them scoreless for six minutes, and it really came
out of nowhere. Charlotte just went on a run to start that fourth quarter.
They were down two heading into the fourth, and all of a sudden
they go on a seven oh run and the Clippers absorbed it, and they
flew back with a twenty two oh run on their own. This this Clipper
stock, I'm out of Maslin eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy
eight six six ninety eight seven two seventy is the phone number, Seawn,
Start things off, Sean and Inglewood. What's up, hey, Adam.
It appears that every game it gets better than the next game. It's ridiculous
than the last game. I mean it's ridiculous. I mean the defense has
never played as well disconsistently, and they appear to be doing things offensively to
where, hey, when Kawai comes back, we're not just going to stand
around and watch Kauai. He's gonna have to speed up his game a little
bit and work with us too. And if so many people contribute it offensively
and defensively, is that they're beginning to really develop a personality and a swagger
and a reputation for being able to shut other teams down. I really like
today's game, And as you mentioned, Paul George didn't really contribute that much
offensively and still no matter, the next guy up, next guy with the
ball will make it happen. So I really like how the offense is flowing.
It seems like they figure out the other teams at least by halftime and
then they shut them down. I like the momentum that they're going with.
And you can't say enough about Hartenstein and the way Zubo played. Did they
end the way but Tune played today? So it's gonna get nothing but better
and Baca will be in shape? Sil Is it really going to get nothing
but better? Luke, Clippers of us say to take the entire Western Conference
and being a final, That's what I'm saying. Sean, thank you for
the phone call and always being consistent here calling into Clippers Talk post game.
You mentioned a couple of different guys there. Vizza Zubots put another poster on
Miles Bridges. Remember last season he got Davis Burton's at the basket. He
also got Demontes Sabonis and he's put together two really good games, two straight
games where it looks like he's back in sync, back and rhythm. Zubots
finished this with fourteen and eleven after having fourteen and fourteen Friday in Minnesota.
That's a great sign. He's kind of been rounding into shape coming off that
knee injury he had in Game two against the Phoenix Suns. Remember in that
series in the Western Conference Finals, they weren't just missing Kawhi Leonard, they
were missing a Vizza zu Bots. Kind of a big deal going up against
eight, and you might want need to guy like that. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy. I'll screen your calls during the break.
Clippers make it four straight. They win one twenty to one oh six late
against Charlotte because they had a twenty two to zero run where they put clamp
City down back at Staples Center and held Charlotte's scoreless for six straight minutes.
One of the best offenses in the league. As Seawan says, it's a
feeling out process early in the game and then it's a figuring out process how
to play their opponent. That's what we've seen from the Clippers. Now,
four straight victory. They're five and to four in the year. More Clipper
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Clippers basketball continue safe time shot down the stretch. This is the official home
of the Los Angeles Clip. Clippers win one twenty to one oh six over
the Charlotte Hornets. They make it four straight and by the way, they
have twelve o their next fourteen I believe at Staples Center, so you can
really start to get that home cooking going. Clippers, though, defensively,
another unbelievable effort after holding the Minnesota Timberwolves. There's just twenty seven points in
the second half Friday night to come back down twenty to win by twenty.
They hold Charlotte scoreless for six minutes in the fourth quarter. The Clippers have
twenty turnovers. They still win by fourteen. They're finding different ways to win.
And they did get hot from distance in the second and half, where
I want to say they had twelve of their eighteen threes in the second half
of this one. They put Charlotte away with some three pointers late, but
it was the defense, the defense, the defense, the defense. It's
incredible watching how well that they are in sync on that end of the floor
right now. The chemistry, the ability to find ways to come back late
just because they can apply clamp city anytime they want to. It seems like
they flip that switch. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm at a masl
in eight six six nine to eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy. Paul George had six of his twenty points in
the fourth quarter. Luke Kennard had nine of his eighteen in the fourth Reggie
Jackson had eleven of his nineteen points in the fourth quarter. Clippers outscored Charlotte
thirty one to nineteen in the fourth. Let's go to a quill in Carson,
A quill, you're on Clippers stock without a mass and how are you,
oh doing well? Just leaving a Staples Center, My family and I
and we had a blast at him. We had a blast. What was
clamp city like in person? Those six minutes where Charlotte went scoreless and the
Clippers just poured it on. What was that like? What was the atmosphere
like in Staples? Oh, it was like electric. It was amazing to
see them clamp down and just do what they do at this point. But
you know what, us the thing and our daughter Canny was with us tonight
and she loved, We loved fifty five Hurkins Seine is our new favorite player.
That guy is a has a motor, has an engine worth paying attention
to. Because when we need a jump start, you can put fifty five
hurkins Steine in the dame and he's gonna give us some energy. I like
that. A Quill Hartenstein in that second quarter when the Clippers coming out of
the first quarter were down eight, had eight points in the second quarter,
a huge putback jam. He fits right in with the mold of being a
Clipper. He just plays hard. And you talk about that motor, it
doesn't stop. Then you know what. After we lost montres I was wondering
who was gonna be that big energy guy that replaces Montreans, And I think
again, just five Gy is our man. He's gonna bring that energy that
replaces Montrands that we had last season. A quill I liked the phone call.
I like the comparison. There as an interesting thought. They look,
Terrence Man supplies that energy. But with Patrick Beverlely now in Minnesota, if
you want to replace two guys that bring it like that, as Montrez Harrold
would for the Clippers and we wish him well now in Washington with the Wizards,
He's actually been playing from really good basketball. Washington has as well,
surprising some people. But if you need two guys like that, Hartenstein maybe
the other because in eleven minutes out there and he didn't get into foul trouble
this time. But now he's splitting minutes with not just Sirgebacca, but of
course the Iron Man invitsa zoobots. Abaca came back tonight, but Hartenstein did
give him that lift in the second quarter. Look for Abacca to ease his
way in and get back into rhythm. The good thing is he was moving
well, timing was off. He had a turnover in the first half where
he threw it to somebody in the first row. There wasn't a Clipper in
sight. That type of stuff is to be expected. He'll get more comfortable
as he gets acclimated with some new teammates as well. But I love their
big man rotation. Now. All these guys just have their own way of
impacting the game. They're all a little bit different out there. I do
want to hear from the head coach Toronto lu though post game here on Clippers
talk as afterwards. We have some audio, I believe, and this comes
from Bally's Sports. Here was coach lu post game after the Clippers win one
twenty to one oh four over the Charlotte Hornets at Staples. I didn't think
they had much of advantage playing small against us, and I thought Zoo was
really doing a good job with just clogging up to paint and you know,
he was rebound in the basketball so if the smallest pop was gonna be able
to veer back to him and just forced the guards in the Zoo and you
know, he either blocked the shot and he used his verdic county and I
thought he did a good job with that tonight. So it really wasn't really
a reason. I mean, they got up I think it was up nine,
like eight minutes ago, and we're ran to play for Luke Konard.
We got the flagrant foul, got two free throws and ran to play for
Lucanard and he made the three and kind of cut to four. So we
kind of stayed where we had going, and we just you know, decided
to stay big. Ye I think you know, you see runs over the
course of the game, but in a quarter where you allow a fifteen to
four run and then go twenty two straight. Have you seen anything like that?
And and I guess how were you able to do anything in particular you
were able to do to go on that twenty two run. It was our
defense. I think our defense really picked up. Collegensicality, attention to detail
was a lot better on our you know, I thought our focus in the
first half defensively was was pretty bad. We made a lot of mistakes,
a lot of game playing mistakes, and that could come from some fatigue.
But you know, I thought, you know, in that fourth quarter,
I thought we really did a good job of just locking into what we was
trying to do, and we was able to do it. So when we
got stops, we got out in transition where we have to be a whole
hell of a lot better in transition of converting because we're getting opportunities, we're
not capitalizing, and you know, that's kind of kind of set us back
a little bit offensively because we're getting stops, you know. And then we
had a three on one we didn't we didn't convert, and then they come
down the way and Zoo gets a flagant foul, gets his fourth foul and
that was big. So you know, we just gotta start taking advantage of
those, you know, converting those plays when we had the advantage. Tyler,
you came in here and you looked at the score sheet. You were
shaking your head. Twenty turnovers for thirty four twenty turnovers. But then you
guys just stopped turning the ball over. Did did you feel like they were
just absolutely at that point of the game, decided not to be as kind
of careless with their passes at that point. Well, they do a lot
of different things defensively. You know, sometimes they bless and pulled the single
side guy and sometimes they they pull in the double side guys. So when
we show them filming for the game, we're kind of just trying to show
them where they're coming from. And you know, sometimes we made the past
blindly thinking that it was gonna be in a different spot and they weren't.
So, I mean, it happens. But just the careless turnovers, we
gotta do a better job with like the base side of bounds, side line
of bounds, like we can't have those turnovers. And then three on ones,
you know, two on ones, we gotta make sure we convert,
so we gotta be better with that. What makes characters looks so good together?
I got asked them, Well, no, I mean just you know,
two high energy guys. You know, I think like they they feed
out one another. Team. Man could be down to basketball and look the
Luke in transition. You know, I don't know. They just they played
well together, so they got a good thing going. We'll see if we
have some audio coming up from Terrence Mann or Luke Kennard. That was coach
lu talking about the defense during that six minute stretch where the Charlotte Hornets went
scoreless. They did have some careless turnovers, obviously when you have twenty leading
to thirty points. Eight of those came in the third quarter. But the
Clippers couldn't get out of their own way. They were their own worst enemy.
They led by as many as eight, but they had eight turnovers in
that quarter and only led by two going into the fourth. But as brought
up by I think Justin Russo, there in the last seven minutes when they
went on that huge run, they didn't turn it over once. They locked
in on offense there too, they were much more crisp. They were passing
with purpose, Guys were finding one another because there were some sloppy passes in
the third quarter. There's no doubt about that. Coach Lu brought up them
having two on one plays that we're broken up by themselves. Guys is not
being able to find one another. But the Clippers find their fourth straight victory.
They win once twenty to one oh six. More Clippers talk coming up
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Lock. It was with seven oh nine left, Terry Rozero Scary Rozio hits
a three pointer. Charlotte's up in one o two to ninety three. The
next time they would score would be at the one oh nine mark when Miles
Bridges made a driving layup, and at that point Clippers are already up by
eleven. They go on to win by fourteen after a twenty two to h
run. They start slow, but they finished in style. They won four
straight. Now they improved a five and four on the season. That's the
first time they've been above five hundred. Welcome back into Clippers Stock. I'm
at on oslon to eight six six ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy. Let's go to Tagus and wall Nut.
Tagus here on Clippers stock without Hi Awsome ay Adam. I think that
team Man's dunk, who was a Clipper Dunk of the Year, that's in
the fourth quarter. Would you think he just went straight down the lane?
I don't know. I kind of like Zubos dunk over Miles Bridges gave him
a taste of his own medicine. For once since Bridges has been yam it
on everyone. Yeah, I was gonna before I make my point, I
was gonna ask you was I was just thinking about it. I'm like,
Miko was playing so well in the first half he's usually in there to close
the game, but I don't think he was in there in that last when
they need that run. Was he I know he didn't hit a three pointer
during that run. I think he was there at the beginning of it.
No, they stayed they stayed big with a Vizza Zoobots at center, and
obviously it worked. And in fact, that flagrant on Kelly Uber that sent
Big zeus the line two shots on the ball, he hit both and that's
when I believe it was Luke Kennard hit that three pointers. So that was
the big five points swing there and the Clippers favor that started off the run
for them, that got them going. But a Vizza zoo Bots was fantastic,
right right. I like with their great defense that they've been playing.
I like when they pushed that ball up and they're able to kind of get
those open threes and transition. I think Luke Kennard feasts on those. And
I was gonna say when they don't have that opportunity, I think in the
crunch time, like in the final minute, their best play is. I
love when PG kind of gets the bought that free throw line where he posted
up and then he usually jabs once or twice and then pulls up or he
takes a dribble, and I think that mid range right there is like pretty
hard to defend because he's so tall and he's just so good. I think
that's the go to play at the end of the games. He saw that
Game five, that's year in Utah where he hit over Royce O'Neil, and
I think this year against the Thunder they were down one with one minute left
and he hit that free throw jump shot put him up one. And even
today I think when I think there was a play where Reggie was isoled and
he shot a far three. The next play down they put they posted up
George and he hit that free throw again. The free throw jump shot,
you'll I think you'll see that throughout the ye that's they're going to be their
go to play at the end of games. It's an unstoppable play at agis
and I think all six of his points in the fourth quarter were in the
mid range. I know the one you're talking about. He hit falling away,
tough shot for anyone else, I guess, but guys like maybe he
Kevin Durant, some of the taller players, Jason Tatum when he's playing better,
and he will be eventually. Even someone like Devin Booker can make a
shot like that. Those are the shots that separate guys, that put them
in an elite category, tough shot makers. But Paul George can get that
off over pretty much anyone because he's the six nine Steph Curry. We'd like
to call him sometimes anything else ages. Oh that's it. I mean,
let's keep it going, see if they can make it five straight. Their
next game is coming up back at Staples Center Tuesday night against the Portland Trail
Blazers. It's the rubber match because well they beat him by thirty the first
time around, and then the Blazers get the victory up in Portland. Damian
Lillard on they found some dame time late in that fourth quarter. Should be
a good one. But the Clippers. This was game one of a six
game homestand but I believe twelve of their next fourteen twelve of their next fourteen
games are at Staples Center. I want to say, so, plenty of
opportunities to see your Clippers, by the way, Clipper Nation, and I
know you'd make a difference when you see a team lockdown like this at home
late. That's energy from the crowd they're feeding off of saw that for the
TV on Valley tonight. You can't wait to get back to Staples. More
Clipper stock coming up next. All right here on the AMPI seventy l A
Sports need a plane. I explained it till I broke the three bots in
the top official home of the Los Angeles Clippers. Clippers making four straight.
They win one twenty to one oh six over the Charlotte Hornets. Welcome back
into Clipper Stock. I'm out of Maslin. Eight six six nine eight seven
two seventy is the phone number I do want to hear from Terrence Man post
game. He was on Valley Sports speaking with Christina Pink and Terrence. This
was back and forth game until you guys went on a twenty two to nothing
run late in the fourth quarter that spanned about six minutes. How would you
describe the way you guys closed this game? Energy, A lot of energy.
You know, we got down, We knew we had to pick it
up, and that's what we did. PG did a great job of leading
us on the offensive end and defensive end. We kept together and came back.
Well, you did a little bit of both as well. Seventeen points
but timely dunk, some timely defensive rebounds during that stretch. What was your
approach throughout this game? Just stay locked in, be aggressive on the offensive
end and defensive end. I played my game. You know you talk to
me about the defense before the game. That spurred you guys during this streak.
What have you learned about this team throughout this four game win streak?
That we play hard, we get right too. On defensive end, we
communicate, We got our guys and we rebound all Terence this who all right?
Ain't Groundhog Day? Thanks to Valley Sports for that. Terrence Man finished
with seventeen points on five of eight shooting, hit a couple of three pointers,
had ten boards, showing off the well rounded game. As always,
Clippers showing their scoring prowess late, but defensively. Coming into this one,
they had the third best defensive rating in the NBA. I'm interested in going
NBA dot com and see if they've updated things yet. I want to see
if they are the number one defense. Who would have thought that coming into
this season without Kawhi Leonard just got Serge Ibaca back. Good to see Serge
out there look for him to slowly get more and more comfortable. Clippers though
five and four on the season. Their next game back at Staples seven pm
tip time against the Portland Trail Blazers Tuesday night. We'll have your Clippers Countown
show starting at six before we get out of here. I do want to
thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eaglet, semen, Ralph Lawler, the callers,
the listeners. Tonight until Tuesday at six pm, I metams and we'll
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