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and he would not let go of a lead where the Clippers are up by
as many as eighteen. They go on to beat the New Orleans Pelicans one
eleven to one oh six at Staples Center. Welcome in a Clipper suck.
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the Clippers. You'll also hear from the head coach to Ron lou postgame,
and I think we have audio coming from Patrick Beverley as well. But the
Clippers were tested. They were up eighteen at the half. It looked like
a game they could run away with. Didn't happen, and it was because
of Alexander Walker for the New Orleans Pelicans, who did his best Steph Curry
impersonation in the third quarter where he had fifteen of his thirty seven points there.
He had twenty six of his total thirty seven points in the second half.
He was unbelievable. They are down three starters and that opens up opportunities
for players who are trying to show off for the new head coach stan Van
Gundi there in New Orleans, and I thought Alexander Walker, cousin of SGA
Shay Gil just Alexander put on an unreal performance, especially in the second half
and down the stretch. But Kawhi Leonard was just a little bit better.
He had twelve of his twenty eight points in the fourth quarter, Alexander Walker
eleven. Kawhi outscored him and had almost half the Clippers points in the fourth.
They finished with twenty eight points, but they were outscored by New Orleans
who had thirty five. It was just a four point game three minutes into
the fourth quarter, and I thought, here we go again. And I
know, Clipper Nation, you have PTSD with blown leads from this team over
the years, but now this is the fourth game so far this season and
they've only been twelve Clippers rating. Four were they had to push back late
where they had to throw that punch after they were on the canvas for a
second where there was almost a ten count, and then they ended up closing
out the ball game. We saw it against the Los Angeles Lakers opening night,
then against the Denver Nuggets, then against the Phoenix Suns on the road.
In each of those games there was some adversity where the Clippers led by
as many as twenty points, just up by eighteen in this one, but
you wanted to see them close it out with a flurry. There was some
of that. When Kawhi Leonard came back in he had nine points in his
first four minutes back on the floor in the fourth quarter, and the Clippers
went from being just up four to back up twelve. But the Pelicans simply
didn't go away. Even though brandon Ingram overall only had twenty two points,
he had I think thirteen of those in the second half, and they were
making big shots, and they were hitting threes all of a sudden. They
finished with ten three pointers the Clippers eighteen of thirty seven. We've talked about
off in this season. This maybe the six games so far where the Clippers
have shot better from three than they did from two. And there were huge
three pointers, the old school three point play, first from PG thirteen,
who hit a ridiculous Steve Nash esque circus shot where it hit off the top
of the backboard and rolled in. He'd get the a one. Then he
hit a three pointer late in the game. Kawhi Leonard, who hadn't hit
a three pointer going into the fourth would hit one, and so would Patrick
Beverly, who was prone to hitting a three pointer late and fourth quarters.
When they need a big play, a winning play late in the game.
Patrick Beverly is there for you, and he finished with ten points. Also
two steals, two blocks where his assignment just lost track of him and Patrick
Beverley was able to swipe it away from behind the guy who was on offense.
Just incredible stuff. Plus one of those steals came in the fourth quarter.
It was a big momentum play and he would end up passing into Serge
Ibaka for the easy two on a fast break. But the Pelicans still had
it close down six late and they got into a fast break situation after the
Clippers miss, and I thought the Clippers defense really clamped down. There were
some signs of clamp City. And it was Kawhi Leonard who was all over
the place defensively on that final possession for the New Orleans Pelicans because they had
numbers for a second. And then I think it was Kawhi and Brandon Ingram
in the corner and he caused them and their offense to completely slow down and
be stuck in mud. And this is one of these slower offenses in the
league when it comes to pace. Same with the Clippers, but this was
also a team in the New Orleans Pelicans that was giving up a lot of
three pointers. In fact, no one gives up more three point attempts than
they have this season, and teams are shooting a high percentage against them too.
But the Clippers forty eight percent from three, seven percent from the field,
and I think it correlates with what Paul George has been doing. He
had six crucial points six of his twenty seven in the fourth quarter. I
mentioned the three in the N one, but he goes five of nine from
distance. He's shooting better from three than he is from two, and he's
shooting forty nine points something from two. So he's shooting over fifty percent from
three on the season, seventy percent from three from the corners. He looks
as good as he ever has in his career at the age of thirty,
and to me, he looks even better than he did two years ago when
he was third in MVP voting. It's early, but the stat lines and
the shooting percentages that he is putting up right now, we're talking about somebody
that's going for fifty fifty ninety, which is what Jamal Murray did at times
in the bubble, and he said, ah bubble effect. We'll see if
it translates back and things get a little bit more normal here in this regular
season, but Paul George has just been as good as anyone in the league
so far. And I saw this on NBA dot Com. I think it
was late last week where they had him top five or top three in MVP
voting. Once again, it's early to be talking about this, but if
he continues to play like this and look, nobody, I don't know if
anyone with a number of attempts that he has taken, has ever shot fifty
percent from three in a season when you're taking at least one hundred three pointers.
I don't think that's ever happened. But he's taking over eight per game.
Took nine in this one and made five. What he's doing is special,
the efficiency, and we saw some of it last season and he was
very good in limitsed minutes. He just wasn't playing as many played thirty eight
tonight. He's healthy, Kawhi Leonard's healthier. He's played back to backs now
and Kawhi would just go eight of eighteen but hit two three pointers. I
think both of those came in the fourth quarter. And then once again and
it maybe the fifth time so far this season this has happened where it's your
two superstars leading you and assists. Kauai had nine that led everyone. Paul
George had six. Of their thirty five made shots, twenty six of them
were assisted. That's seventy five percent of your maid shots assisted. So they're
doing some real good things offensively. When it comes to ball moving right now,
especially in the first half, I thought it was spectacular. The only
issue was the New Orleans Pelicans were doing what they do best out rebounding the
Clippers. They would finish a plus twelve on the boards, but they would
get twelve offensive rebounds. Here's the good news, though, the Clippers were
much better in that area in the second half. The Pelicans had ten offensive
rebounds on the first half, just two in the second half, So the
Clippers did clean things up on the boards eventually. But even though New Orleans
they weren't shooting very well in the first quarter and a half, they were
able to get up more shots due to offensive rebounds. We knew that was
one of the keys coming into this one. The Clippers eventually corrected that,
but the Clippers also ended up attempting twenty seven free throws. That is what
you want to see, because that's about the amount they averaged the last two
years when they led the league in free throw attempts while shooting it very efficiently
from the charity stripe. I believe they were top ten, but they were
bottom five in free throw attempts coming into tonight's game. There's been a shift
there that's starting to change, and head coach Toront Lewis talked about this recently.
He said, quote, when we get into the paint, we're a
different team. It's not just that they're scoring in the paint. They only
had twenty points in the paint tonight compared to fifty two for the Pelicans,
but it leads to kickouts in those open three point shots, and the passing
on the perimeter has been so good. I credit Nicholas Batum a lot for
that. He had two of their first four assists. I think it was
he had or two of the two assists to two mate three pointers to start
off the ball game by Patrick Beverley. He went three of seven from distance,
but hit his first two and then hit the big one late in the
fourth quarter, and Nicholas batoum assisted him on his first two three pointers.
They get off to good starts offensively because I think Nicholas Batum Saint Nick has
just been a godsend for this team. I've been saying it over and over
again, but you can't say enough about what he's been able to do with
this offense and keep them in the flow of their offense more often now than
what we saw last season. Yes, they were second offensively, but there
were still times where they go into these lolls. It was strange and they'd
have these hiccups. And he has smoothed out the wrinkles in the offense so
far this season. Where the Clippers starting unit with Nick Batum in it,
next to Kawhi Leonard, Sergebaka, Patrick Beverly and Paul George, they're a
plus thirty out there with their net rating Pearl one hundred possessions. That's at
the top in the NBA. Someone else, who I thought, and this
is huge for the bench, has to start playing better. And we just
heard about this abdominal injury going into the game with a visa zoobots and maybe
that accounts for why the last week and a half he has struggled. But
I thought he played his best game in his last six Now nine points,
seven boards off the bench in twenty two minutes was three of three from the
field, and when things started to turn in their favor on the boards,
he was a part of that. Big Zoo played to his size more so
in the second half. Clippers win one eleven to one oh six over the
New Orleans Pelicans, even with an unreal effort by Alexander Walker. Continue to
pay attention to him moving forward. I know stan Van Gundhi's taking notes.
That is someone who who may pick up some playing time now with the Pelicans.
But the Clippers didn't play play around and get burnt here. It was
a four point game in the fourth quarter. The Clippers held on to win
by five over New Orleans. Coming up next, we'll get to your phone
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Again, I appreciate it. Man. Jamal is at Clippers twenty four
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Clippers team. Jamal, what did you see in this game? Because once
again the Clippers, well they had a little bit of a let up,
but once again, like three other games so far this season, they were
able to hold on late and this time it was just Kawhi Leonard really taking
over. Man. First off, yeah, I definitely appreciate it. I
heard the party's over as we were getting started and bad just blew me away.
That was a great man. I appreciate it. Man, you got
But yeah, me personally, many they've best some work to do defensively for
sure. However, I'm not too worried to kill Alexander is the story tonight.
He was awesome. If anybody's really in tune with like the Pelicans,
like he has some ability, like he can really go, So him going
off like this is a surprise. But like you know, with no Zion,
with no Alonzo, I kind of expected him to be pretty good tonight.
And I was saying this on Twitter. In this climate, there aren't
gonna be many easy games, Like it's it's a season unlike any other,
so especially we don't even know the next game might be postponed, So you
gotta take your wins when you can get him. I thought Kawai and Paul
George were fantastic in terms of shutting the door. Them too. They've just
been great to Stark a year man, especially Paul George right, like he's
he's been incredible to Stark a year. But yeah, it's a process.
It's a say they've got I really want them to improve on the defensive end,
and I really do need them to find a way to start generating more
threes. Those are the two biggest glaring things to me to start the year.
But it's a process. It's January. You want to be your best
at April and Ford instead of like in January. You know. Jamal Christopher
is our guest here on Clippers Talk. Follow him on Twitter at Clippers the
number twenty four, the words seven, Jamal, you bring up PG thirteen
who has been otherworldly with his shooting from three so far. And when you
talk about this team, maybe it's tempting more three pointers per game. Even
though they got up thirty seven in this one. They are the best shooting
team from three so so far this season. A lot of that is PG
thirteen, But even him taking nine, you kind of look at and go
when you're that hot as he's been these first twelve games. Take eleven,
take twelve, take fifteen. Do what Danny Green did the other night.
Do we want to? I say, more from Paul George, just on
the outside, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it. He hasn't
cooled off yet. Yeah, yeah, I mean, and not just him,
Luke Kahnar can stand to be a little bit more aggressive. I think
Kawai it may come a little bit harder for him to generate threes. And
just because like his shot, Die is different from Paul George, and I
think just mechanically his shot doesn't may not allow him to do it as much.
But I think he can stand to shoot more. But yeah, when
it comes to Paul George, man like man like, we need him to
be that dynamic guy for us, like he is the one guy on the
Clippers that can generate twelve to thirteen threes by himself. You know, I
don't mean to like jump ahead or like I don't know, but like the
Nets just got James Harden today, Like James Hardy will shoot thirteen fourteen threes,
right, like the Lakers have Lebron and ad Like, we need Paul
George to be at that tier. And so far he has been. He's
been great. But going forward, I do it expects some regression when it
regression when it comes to shooting. He's gonna like tell off a little bit
because he's just out of He's having an out of body experience to start the
year. But what does that look like when when you know, he kind
of cools down a bit, and so we need him to start shooting more
threes. I need the Clippers to get from like seventeenth or sixteenth, I
don't know what it is in terms of three point attempts in the league.
They've got to get that up. They're too good of a shooting team to
do it, and a lot of that falls on Paul George. Clippers win
one eleven to one oh six over the New Orleans Pelicans. One of the
other aspects we're seeing with PG thirteen and just from everyone, including Kawhi Leonard
Tonight, who led them with nine assists, is having your superstars be more
of your playmakers. This season, the clipp has ended up with twenty six
assists to just ten turnovers. The ten turnovers probably saved them in the Paul
game overall, because it's not like the New Orleans Pelicans were turning the ball
over and they were getting more shots off of offensive rebounds. But a lot
of the talk coming into this year and it's continued and people have called me
here on Clipper's talk, is about do they still need a more traditional point
guard with the way they've been moving the basketball? Though, to me,
it's harder to defend a team when you don't know where the attack is coming
from, and I'm not sure they need that prototypical point guard. If PG
thirteen is going to be passing like this, and if Kawhi Leonard's doing the
same, I totally agree. I think Tylu has done a great job in
terms of putting the ball in Kawaii and Paul George's hands. I like to
take the long view on things, and I do think Paul George as great
as he's been with the ball in his hands to start the year, I
think it'll even be better in April and May because of the reps that he's
getting right now. So I look forward to that. And my whole thing
with the Clippers need in a point guard is, for one, if you
just look at any metric with Pat Beverley in the lineup, the Clippers are
are world world beaters. And this goes back to last year, right,
Like their starters are are awesome. So the answer isn't to find another point
guard, it's to find somebody to back up Pat bed. My whole thing
when it comes to the point guard issue is like even dating back to the
off season, like you look at some of the names that people were throwing
around for the Clippers to get, and I'm just like, so you'd rather
that guy have the ball in a playoff series instead of Paul Georgia Kauai,
Like why not just let Paul George and Kauai make the play. It's gonna
end up in their hands anyway, right, especially when you're running that triangle
at times? Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's like, you know
when Phil ran the triangle. Who was the point guard? Right it was
it was Ron Harper, it was Derek Fisher, like these and you wont
championships with it, right Like, you don't need the dynamic point guard.
Now, if we could have got like Chris Paul or something like you obviously
do it like that'd be fantastic. But you know, I'm some of the
names that were out there, Like, I'd rather have the ball in the
hands of Paul George, and so I do look forward to like how Paul
George looks as the point guard come playoff time. I think the turnovers will
come down. I think the chemistry it looks great, and I think it'll
get even better. But yeah, I just like I like the playoff process,
right Like, I like, those guys are gonna have the ball in
their hands come playoff time. Let's give it to them. Now, get
the reps up. I think Kawaii and Paul George both played around thirty eight
minutes tonight. Again, I like ty Lou just saying, hey, you
guys are are franchise guys and we're gonna ride you like you because we're gonna
need it. So yeah, I'm not a big fan of the whole Clippers
need a point guard thing. Pgs it to me. Hey, we've been
on the same page, cut from the same cloth, going back a year
now since we found each other on Twitter. We're arguing with other people.
We're the two one three connection at times bodying bad takes on Twitter. It's
Jamal Christopher. He's my guest here on Clippers Talk. Clippers twenty four seven
is his handle on Twitter. Finally, Jamal because when they have relinquished leads,
when they lost that game to the Golden State Warriors, when they have
played poorly, it's been the bench that struggled. And I asked LA Clippers
film this the other day too, But how long do you think it's going
to take for this bench to really come together and crystallize? When you take
into account that Marcus Morris, this is just his fourth game so far now
a Visa Zoobots is also someone who's a former starter now coming off the bench.
Oh, I think it's going to be a season long thing, seasonal
thing, I tweeted. I tweeted about it after we blew the lead to
go to State, like the Clippers aren't ready were Like I think when it's
all said and done, the Clippers will be the best team in basketball.
I do like the role players they have in the acquisitions that they've made this
past all season, but they aren't there yet. In a big part of
that is a bitch, But I personally believe that a lot of that has
to do with the way the roster is constructed this year. They're just a
lot less dynamic, and that's because it looks like they're placing their instasis.
It's on process that's more likely to be replicated in the playoffs. Right,
So it's gonna be tougher in a regular season because you don't have somebody who
can get you eighteen and seven in his sleep, like Montrez right, Like,
you don't have that, So it's it's it's a process, but you
keep grinding it out. I don't worry about wins and losses with this group.
They'll be fine. They'll end up with a hop to a top three
seed. I really do think they need to shoot for the one seed.
It's very important. But yeah, it's gonna be a year long process.
Man. There's no short there's no shortcuts. You can't short any corners when
you're trying to win a championship. But the thing I like to say is
it's okay, it's just work like I feel like a lot of times last
year, that was one of the biggest criticisms with the Clippers is they didn't
take the regular season seriously. They did take kind of a short cut type
of method where it's like, Okay, once we get to the playoffs,
we'll be the team we want to be. And it didn't turn out like
that. So why not just enjoy the process, enjoy the grind. This
is gonna be a year long thing, but you can already see. I
think Luke Canard has been solid, Abaca has been great, Pat Beverley it's
been awesome. There's has been a lot of great things going on. We
got a great Blue game against Chicago. I hope he's good. I think
he was a little bit banged up tonight. But yeah, yeah, it's
a process, man, It's a process, and we're moving through it.
But I think in the end we'll be satisfied with the result for sure.
But yeah, it'll take a lot sixty games left here in the regular season.
We'll enjoy the entire journey. Enjoying listening to Jamal Christopher here on Clippers
Stock again. Follow him at Clippers twenty four seven on Twitter. Jamal,
thanks for the knowledge spoken knowledge. This time around. We normally just do
it on Twitter. Thanks for coming on clipper Stock tonight. Nah, thank
you, bro. I hope this isn't the last time. Man. This
has been great. Man. I sincerely want to do it again. Let's
do it next week. I've called call just let me know. You know,
I'm be my own producer. I'm gonna say you're coming on next week?
All right? Sound good? But there he goes Jamal Christopher. Follow
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to one oh six over the New Orleans Pelicans I got some New Orleans horns
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five seventy l A Sports the Clippers drop that M eighty three from three.
They go eighteen of thirty seven. That's almost fifty percent from dis eleven three
pointers made in the first half, seven more in the second half, some
clutch ones late from Kawhi Leonard, who else, Paul George and Patrick Beverley.
They win one eleven to one oh six over the New Orleans Pelicans.
This is Clipper suck. I'm atam oslind eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number Dale in Pasadena. Dale, I'm sorry for
hanging up on you earlier. That's my bad. Good what's up? Dale?
Hi? Yeah, that's Benn Show. I just have a quick,
quick, quick concern with this Clippers team right now, and it's just players
going off with these high numbers. I know it's early, but Steph had
thirty eighth the other night, Zach forty five, and Alexander Walker tonight with
thirty seven. That's the problem. We had last year in the playoffs.
We couldn't stop players when I got hot, Luca and Jamal and then even
Yoke it's it's I don't like it. And then by the time we put
Kawaan a guy who's already written, and I think that we definitely did need
to dress it. I liked the Tombs links, but his lateral quickness from
my eye, doesn't look like how it used to be his Portland day's early
Charlotte days. And I'm wondering if he switched more into the starting lineup,
would that be a better defensively with his side And he's like Grit that's just
concerned to mine. Other players getting really really hot and we can't really st
them down. I don't like it. Dale. I like your phone call,
a little bit of negativity, but some good points the Clippers. Now,
overall in this game, Nikkila Alexander Walker was insane. It was Walker
Texas Rangers around house kicked to the Clippers with the thirty seven points, but
they did hold down brandon Ingram. He finished under his average of twenty four,
just had twenty two on eight of nineteen shooting, started two of eleven
in the first half, and in Game one against Steph he was I want
to say five of seventeen from the field. They held down Devin Booker,
So they good against stars at times. And I do love head coach Tron
Lu's philosophy as of you have to give them different looks. So even if
you're talking about Nicholas batoum there and if he's at thirty one lacking a little
bit of that lateral movement that he had back in his Portland days, I
still think the onslaught of defenders they can throw your way, can throw off
teams and superstars. With the strategy that head coach toront Lou uses, I
think it's the right move to just give them different looks because eventually you put
one guy on them, you'll get figured out. Clippers win one eleven to
one oh six over the New Orleans Pelicans. Let's hear from the head coach
t Lou postgame speaking with the media. Lou's all right, I saw that
he didn't play in the second half. Was that hip bothering him? And
do you know how he's gonna feel moving forward? Is he going to be
available? Not sure yet. I mean, he just has some hip sorts
tonight, I'll be trying to play and at half time I just said it
was it was pretty sore, so we don't want to chance it and put
him in in that second half. Okay, we'll move over to Jamie Hey,
coach said, how would you assess the team's performance tonight? My thought
was good. I thought first half, you know, I thought the fifth
will we were really good. I thought, you know, first half,
we really had the ball hopping and moving. In that third quarter, I
just thought we got away from what we've been doing. You know, they
was blitzing and we was making the extra pass, making the flow pass,
and he was able to pick them apart. And then that third quarter,
I thought, we trying to force it and try to beat the double team.
But you know, overall, I think, you know, our guys
kind of probably got a little tired because Louis out of the rotation and guys
had to play a little bit more minutes. So took away from all that
extra ball handling and our playmaker and guys had to play a little bit more
minutes. Let's move over to Nick Camilson. Hey, coach, it seemed
like the New Orleans Pelicans really took you guys away from the basket quite a
bit as you're normally accustomed to wild make them so successful in how we still
like to overcome and still get the W. Tonight I was like, can
you say it again? Please? No, I said, it seemed like
tonight the New Orleans Pelicans defense really kept you guys out of the paint as
far as being able to score in the paint. But you guys are still
able to prevail and get the W. Would make them so difficult to keep
you guys out of the paint like that. I think Adam's being up on
a pick and roll and blitzen, you know. I think picking rolls a
big part of our game, and with him being up the floor and blitzen
all the time, it's made it a little tougher to get into the paint.
You know. But I thought we did a good job. I'm still
trying to attack and still making the right play in the right past, you
know. Having twenty six assist at night, you know, it's pretty good
for us. Let's move over to Miriam. It's right. Obviously you guys
had a bunch of threes again today and have to shot. You guys took
with threes is a matter of confidence building. Obviously, he's a bunch of
good three point shooters on this team, but the more you guys hit him,
you can hit him. I just think taking the right threes. I
think playing the right way it's the biggest thing for us. And we really
had the ball hopping tonight early on, and we still have some possession in
the fourth I mean in the second half when the ball moved as well.
But we just got continue to play the right way through the game. And
you know, I thought, you know, Walker was really good tonight.
We did a good job on Ingram Toomba really really did a good job on
him. And you know, I was in the Walker had one of those
games and those are the dangerous games when guy's gonna get more touches, gonna
get more minutes, and they're playing free. And he had a hell of
a game tonight. Let's move over to Lot Murray. It's I congratulations on
the win. And you mentioned before the game that just because certain guys are
out doesn't mean that it's not going to be a tough game. And even
with the Clippers going up eighteen at half time, that's kind of how the
second half played out. You've seen a lot of these games already where a
team has its playing from behind, they get some momentum, and you've seen
a lot of games where a guard in particular the field tonight, you get
taught. How do you balance that poise that you want to project to your
team and whatever frustration that you they have with this feeling of here it is,
it's happening again. We have to like push through a tougher game than
what might have been anticipated earlier. Yeah, just think games like this are
dangerous, you know, when key guys are out, Like you said,
you really you know, sometimes you let your guard down. I thought the
first half we really didn't. I thought we really did a good job of
coming out with a professional focus. And I just thought that third quarter we
got some shots. We didn't make it early, and like I said on
Walker just really kept him in the game single handling. I thought he made
threes, he made lay ups, he made in between pull ups. He
pretty much got everything he wanted tonight. But you know, we stuck with
our game plan or try and take Ingram mind of the game, which I
thought we did a decent job of. And like you said, Walker had
a good had a good game. Clippers win one eleven to one oh six
over the New Orleans Pelicans. There was the head coach Toron Loup. Post
game. Clippers ended up getting to the line twenty seven times with they attempted
twenty seven free throws. They ended up making eleven more free throws than New
Orleans. That's been a key part of this team's game the last two years
with the Clippers. They have to keep that going, even if you aren't
scoring as much in the paint. Getting in there leads to fouls and kickouts
for open threes. We've seen a lot of that. They have to continue
to play downhill and to play with force, and I thought they did when
they had too late to hold on more Clippers stock coming up next, I'm
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of your LA Clippers. Final segment or the last dance here on Clippers Talk
tonight. Eight six six nine, two seventy is the phone number after the
Clippers win one eleven to one oh six over the New Orleans Pelicans. New
Orleans ends up taking fourteen more shots from the field than the Clippers, with
the Clippers hit heat more three pointers, take eleven more or hit eleven more
shots at the free throw line, and they improved to eight and four on
the season. Jeff and Tarzana, Jeff, you're on Clippers stock with Adam
Moslin. Sorry for making you weight, Okay, Adam, you've already done
that a few times this year. Well, if you're used to it,
then yeah, I want to apologize. I've conditioned to you. I'm happy
with the Clippers winning. But when a team like New Orleans has got three
of the top guys out and you have an eighteen point lead and a half,
remember I told you earlier this year, Adam, they don't have the
killer instinct. Somehow they lit up, and I know they're not the only
team that does that. But you know, if they lived at consistent where
they don't live up, Kawhii and Paul George won't have to be playing as
many minutes as they have and they could be healthier. And now I was
wondering. I was wondering if you think that the Clippers, like I've told
you for a couple of years now that they played down to the competition level
of the team they're playing against. I mean, it depends on what team
you're talking about. This team, this iteration, this version of the Clippers
has really only come about since last year with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.
But you're right, there were times last season where they had let downs and
teams came back on them in the same manner that the Clippers team with Lou
Williams and Montrez Harrold and Patrick Beverlely, that team from the year before would
come back on everybody else. So I think there's something to being the hunted
more often than not, and these Clippers have to adjust to it. But
I still think it's encouraging Jeff that the fourth time or this has happened five
times this season where the Clippers have let a team get back in to it,
but in four of those five times they find a way to close out
the game. Now, long term, do they need to get better?
Do they need to extend leads out of the half? Do they need to
put their pedal to the metal and put their foot on the guy's neck so
to speak? As the saying goes, yes, I think it'll come.
I think it's a lot of chemistry stuff right now. And one other things.
With the trade of James Harden today and all the players at Houston got,
you expect them to improve and what you thought they might have been if
they kept hard the whole season. And I really believe, and I'll tell
you something and mine might be wrong. I think the Clippers are gonna make
a trade before the trade deadline. Well I wouldn't be shocked to see that
they've done it the last couple of trade deadlines. This front office always keeps
us guessing. They always got something up their sleeve. Pertaining to the Houston
Rockets. Well, I'll put it like this, if James Harden stayed and
continued to play at the level that he was, which wasn't at that high
of a level, he seemed disinterested. If you saw some of his play
last night against the Lakers, right before the postgame press conference, where he
made it clear he wanted to be traded, that's not James Harden at his
best. So yeah, I do think with Victor Oladipo meshing with John Wall
and Christian Wood, they could be a little bit better this season than they
would have been with James Harden not giving it his all. However, in
Brooklyn, I think he's gonna flip the switch. You're gonna see him lose
ten pounds in the next two weeks. He's gonna get in gear. And
I thought the Brooklyn Nets already were right there with the Lakers and the Clippers
as being one of the top three teams in the league if fully healthy.
To me, their ceiling is higher. I also think their floor could be
a little bit lower because of combustible personalities and we don't know what's happening with
Kyrie Irving. Well, it's gonna be fascinating watching that team though. I'm
just happy Duran is healthy, like really healthy, like Dominique coming off the
Achilles and making it look like nothing healthy. That's just good for the game.
Clippers. This is good for Clipper Nation. They win one eleven to
one oh six over the New Orleans Pelicans. That their next game is coming
up Friday in Sacramento, tip times at seven pm. We'll have Clippers countdown
starting at six pm before we get out of here. I do want to
thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler, Jake
Horner Big Brother Jake Podcast. He's our head engineer, a safehol Center back
here in Burbank. Zach Attack was on the board. All that great music
you heard, all the sound, everything that was Zach. Also big thanks
to Jamal Christopher for coming on until Friday with their Clippers pregame shows starting at
six when they're taking on the Sacramento Kings in North cal. I'm out of
maslins. We will top to you. That gave you a little borrow while,
but your chest maintained. Been on some days you see the sun in
the sky wh