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but today marks the nineteenth anniversary of the death of R and B star Aliyah,
and I thought this song was appropriate after what we just saw from PG
thirteen Paul George, after having just thirty four points total in his last three
games, he shows up with all the pressure on his shoulders and puts up
thirty five points in twenty five minutes on twelve of eighteen shooting, and the
Clippers win Game five, one fifty four to one eleven over the Dallas Mavericks.
Welcome in to Clipper Stock. I'm at a Moslin coming up. We'll
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at follow Adam a coming up you'll hear from Doc Rivers and the players.
After a record setting game, record setting performance, the Clippers win by forty
three. It's their largest point differential in the postseason by sixteen points. Or
excuse me, they outdid their one hundred and thirty eight points scored back in
twenty fourteen on the Golden State Warriors by sixteen points. Was scoring one hundred
and fifty four points in this game. And that's the third most points scored
in a playoff game in NBA history. And now let's talk about the damage
they did from three. They go twenty two of thirty five from beyond the
arc since the eighty three eighty four season. That is the highest three point
percentage with a minimum of thirty attempted in an NBA playoff game period. Nobody's
been more efficient from three in a playoff game. Not the Golden State Warriors,
not the Houston Rockets when they missed twenty seventh straight. It's your Los
Angeles Clippers twenty two to thirty five, and Mons de Trez hit his first
three pointer of the season. What a bounce back. What a response.
It was the perfect performance at the right time when they needed it, and
I think it's gonna have legs and carry over into Game six and hopefully beyond.
But Paul George, for him to play at this level when everybody was
talking about him all the playoff, Pea talk, the pandemic piece to Pea
talk ridiculous, and he puts up one of his most efficient games of his
career, thirty five points in twenty five minutes on just eighteen shots, four
of eight from distance. Had nine points in the first quarter, nine in
the second, nine in the third, eight in the fourth. If not
for being in foul trouble, he likely goes for forty plus he had four
fouls early on. He was spectacular. He answered all the criticism and now
I'm wondering what is this gonna do for him moving forward? When you get
over a mental hurdle like this, when you break through, because it was
real. Things were so bad for him the last three games, not since
the sixties had anyone in the playoffs had three straight games where they shot twenty
five percent or less from the field. Ten for forty seven was where he
was at, and it had to be mental. It had to be in
his head. We talked about it last show, but Jamichael Greene brought it
up yesterday at practice. He said, we're just telling him to get out
of your own head. Well, he was out of his mind with his
shooting efficiency tonight. But you could see the camaraderie and the chemistry with this
Clippers team and guys cheering each other on and creating their own energy, which
is what you have to do without a crowd. You saw Patrick Beverly still
not playing in this game, and Joe Kim Noah, these six eleven,
Patrick Beverly cheering guys on the entire time. Monster Tress, who ended up
with a huge game, needed it badly, finally looked like himself knocked off
all the rust had all those minutes played in the fourth quarter because the Clippers
were up huge, and he stayed out there. And I thought he played
well in the first three quarters. I thought he played well in the first
half. He just wasn't scoring much. He had one and one play on
Bob and Marianovitch and the Clippers were going at Boby early and often. It
started with PG. Then it was Monster Tress and Sweet Lou Williams went after
devastator as well, but Harold had sixteen of his nineteen points in the fourth
quarter, had eleven rebounds. That's a playoff high for him. It was
a plus thirty four. You wonder if now we get Monster Trez consistently in
the playoffs, and how scary can this Clippers team be because we talked about
it postgame with Noah Eagle. When they're playing like this at this level,
with all the talent they have, I truly believe they're an underground super team.
They're built differently. They don't have three superstars, they have two,
but they're two way superstars, play both ends of the court. And then
they have the best bench in NBA history that's starting to play like it.
Reggie Jackson, who a lot of people pinned the last loss on, responded
as well. Three or four from distance, shooting over fifty percent from three
in the series. Patrick Patterson comes in and knocks down three three pointers,
goes three o three. It was an onslot. It was target practice for
the Clippers. It was nuts to see. You watched history tonight winning by
forty three. Had never beaten an opponent down like that before in a playoff
game, putting up one hundred and fifty four points. That's an all time
franchise high in a playoff game, third in NBA history, third most points
scored in a playoff game in NBA history. And then the efficiency from three
shooting sixty three percent on thirty five attempts. Oh yeah, I've gone too
long without talking about Kawhi Leonard had fifteen points in the first quarter, started
six of six. The mid range was on, it was never off.
His first misshot was a three pointer. He only went two of four from
three. He was under the team average in this game, but he finished
with thirty two points, had twenty two at the half, had ten more
in the third quarter. I don't believe had to even play in the fourth.
But when Paul George is this locked in and you could see it right
away, there was some intensity about him. You know that meme everybody uses
for Lebron James. In that game six in twenty twelve against the Boston Celtics,
when they were down three games to two they had to win, he
comes up big, has forty points. I saw that. I don't want
to say, there's a real game face and we're talking about intangibles and things
like that, and just guys playing angry doesn't always work, but PG thirteen
looked like he was taking out his aggression and frustration from the last few games
on the basket. His first shot was a twelve footer. Hit another mid
range shot, and Noah Eagle took note of it. It dropped after clanking
around shooters touch we thought, oh, here we go. Then he missed
a shot but got his own rebound and got the n one with the layup,
and it was off from there. And he was consistently being aggressive looking
for contact. I tweeted out earlier at follow out of May when he's going
at the basket like that, when he's taken on someone the giant of the
league, the gentle giant, Bobo and Marianovitch, everyone's favorite player, he's
just one of mine. When he's attacking him, you know he's feeling good.
But now, what's this gonna do for him moving forward? Because I
think this is gonna unleash the same Paul George we saw tonight, but also
the same guy we've seen since he's been healthy in the bubble. He got
over this mental block, this hurdle, the naysayers, everyone doubting him,
and this may be the most significant playoff game he's had so far in his
career to be able to answer the call like this with thirty five in twenty
five minutes. Clippers win by forty three. Coming up next, we'll get
to your phone calls eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty. They lead this best of seven series with the
Dallas Mavericks three games to two, and I believe that means eighty two point
two percent of the time you end up winning the series. You'll hear from
PG thirteen post game, as well as Sweet Loew Williams and Doc Rivers.
More Clippers dock coming up next right here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty and
the Clippers Radio network here. Los Angeles Clippers win Game five, four to
one eleven over the Dallas Mavericks. Game six is Thursday night. Coming up.
You'll hear from PG thirteen after he responds with thirty five points in just
twenty five minutes and is the first player in the shot clock era to have
at least thirty five points and under twenty five minutes played in a postseason game
history was made and multiple levels. Tonight for this Clippers franchise. They set
the all time mark with three points shooting efficiency in a playoff game. Now,
I believe there was a game two years ago. Okay, I know
that part. But the Clippers went eighteen of twenty three from distance in the
regular season and that was an all time efficient game from distance in NBA history.
They set a regular season record there. They lost that game on a
three pointer unfortunately missed by to buy his hairs because they were up at Oracle
Arena taking on the Golden State Warriors. They were that good and they still
ended up losing that game somehow. But a ten twenty three there twenty two
of thirty five tonight, all time playoff record. Nobody's ever been hotter from
beyond the yark and Monster Tres even hit his first three point shot of the
season and then get a dunk right after that. I joked with Noah Eagle,
we were talking about PG. Thirteen struggling with his shot. We'll get
to the basket, get to the basket, get some easy ones. See
the ball go through the net for Monster Tres. He was missing at the
rim and then he got going by hitting a shot from the perimeter. Am
I the only one that gives a damn about the rules? It just it
felt like the upside down world. I don't know. Denny in La Denny,
what's up? You're on Clippers Stop without of Maslin? How are you
hey? How's it going? As my first time in in the show.
Been listening for about two three years now, I'm excited living a dream.
You haven't said first time long time. I'm proud of you for that.
That's a radio cliche, Danny, No need to. Yeah, I'm just
a lea say I'm just living a dream. Man's been a Clippers fans in
ninety seven, and we've got my favorite player on the team, Paul George.
I'm excited what he did today. You shut everybody up. It was
a special performance. Denny call again on Thursday. Become a regular here on
Clippers Talk. But with all the chatter, with every pundit on TV doubting
him to come through in this way, not just to play well, to
play great, to do something nobody's ever even done in the playoffs. Before
thirty five points and in twenty five minutes or less in twelve of eighteen from
the field four of eight from distance, and he was leading them early.
He scored the first bucket of the game, and give credit to Doc Rivers
who made all the right adjustments and had a set play for Paul George to
get to one of his sweet spots to get going, to get in rhythm
to start the game, and then again to start the third quarter, Kawhi
Leonard hit him for a layup lob. This team is coming together, I
think at the right time. Now they can start peaking, but there's still
work to be done in this series. They still have a game six,
and like Noah Eagles said, they have to carry this over those forty three
points that you beat the Dallas Mavericks by. It's not a rollover minutes type
thing like with your cell phone and maybe that's from like the early two thousand
now and very dated. But you start zero zero in game six, they
have to come out with that same intensity, that same focus, and regardless
if shots are falling to this rate, and considering this was a legendary shooting
performance, they likely won't be. But rely on your defense, your ball
pressure, and not having the same miscues we saw in Game four to let
a twenty one point leads slip away. Let's go to Rick in La Rick,
what's up? You're on? Clippers? Stop without in Austin, how
are you? And what's going on? And finally gonna be positive tonight.
Love the way the attitude the Clippers came out just stepped on their next didn't
give the lethal offense of the Mavericks to get going there really locked everybody down.
Luca had his worst game as serious. Nobody else could get anything going.
And while the Clippers everybody across the board from the starters from Kawhi most
importantly PG. Thirteen, we were waiting for him to reappear, the bench
from Montrese, Reggie Jackson, just complete team efforts. That's what we expect
to see with this team in a big game. They finally got it done.
Now we got to finish it out. I don't want to have to
see now the Clippers just come out, lack the day's school and give the
MAVs hope on Thursday night. Allow him to get because this year's not over.
The Stallas team, even without Porzenis, can still manage to steal a
game with those guys out with Luca, and then they got the seaters there
with Hardaway, Hurry and Burke. So I want to see the Clippers do
the same thing and this series. Don't give them another game and have to
go to a game seven. So all in all great games. This is
the championship fall. We want to see out of the Clippers, and when
they're focused on locked in, we know they're the best team in the league.
It's just a matter of ben consistent and tonight they showed everybody when they
when they're when they're in the mood, they can do that. So game
both everybody and to Doc Rivers having these guys focus after the way they lost
on Sunday, Rick, thank you for the phone call. Great phone call.
As always, Rick is regular, he's calling in after every game.
And remember, if the Dodgers are on AM five seventy, we'll be right
here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty and that's where we'll be Thursday night for
Game six. Yes, you cannot get complacent, and especially against this Dallas
team, because no lead feels safe. They're up by thirty three early in
the third quarter and I'm thinking pour it on, keep going, keep pushing.
But that is the beauty of now having Monster Trez back in rhythm offensively.
I think things clicked in for him in the fourth quarter because he finally
got more on court reps. He played twenty three minutes and had sixteen points
in the fourth quarter early in the season, even going back to last year,
whenever there was a blowout and the Clippers were up big and the opposition
is still having to deal with Monster Trez and Sweet Lew Williams out there,
the best bench duo in NBA history. It's not even fair. Those guys
are always going hard. Those guys are playing hard for forty eight minutes and
then some they leave it all out there. Monster Trez is that energy guy
they've needed him without Patrick Beverley. Still think about that they didn't have Patrick
Beverly, somebody who's been shooting forty five percent from three since December, and
the heart and hoole, the heart and hustle, heart and soul player for
this team. And I think the way that the bench and starters and guys
who were out were cheering each other on that's also huge. That's gonna pay
dividends. That just brings this team even closer together. And Patrick Beverley was
leading that with his smack talk of course with Luca don Chis. They were
chirping back and forth. But on the court, Marcus Morris, who went
four of six from distance, started three of three from three. He's played
with that edge, that nasty. He's been an agitator, a pest,
and I mean that affectionately. The Clippers have needed that. Without Patrick Beverley
out there on the court, Marcus Morris has been playoff Marcus been shooting about
fifty percent himself from three in the playoffs and hit that huge three. Didn't
end up being the game winner. There were still nine more seconds left in
Game four, but still good to see they have another clutch player late in
the game who's likely going to play a lot of crunch time minutes in.
Marcus Morris Senior. All right, we'll take a quick break. We'll get
back to your phone calls. You'll hear from Paul George next after he has
thirty five points and the Clippers win by forty three, put up a franchise
best one hundred and fifty four points in a playoff game. With their backs
against the wall, with everyone's starting to doubt them, and especially Paul George,
we'll come back we'll have tomare Azarrely on from clutch points. You'll hear
from PG. Thirteen, and we'll get to your phone calls at eight seven
seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty.
This is Clipper Stock. I'm atam Oslin and here listening to the Patriot am
eleven fifty. George, I'd open for eighteen, buttering cans it from the
near side. Paul George's six foot ten and the Clippers late fifteen to thirty
one PG. Thirteen with thirteen Paul George heard the noise and then made some
of his own with thirty five points in just twenty five minutes. Nobody has
ever scored at that high a rate and that few of minutes in the playoffs
before and the Clippers win by forty three with the final score one fifty four
to one to eleven in Game five over the Dallas Mavericks. Coming up,
we'll get back to your phone calls, and you'll hear from PG. Thirteen
post game eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two
zero eleven fifty. But I do want to bring him my friend Tomair Azarrely
from Clutch Points Tomaer, I'm not sure I've seen a performance this good,
a response this powerful from a player who was in such a bad place shooting
wise, than what I saw tonight from PG thirteen. Yeah, we saw
a very candid Paul George post game on the t podcast talking about how he
was in a in a dark place. You know, he talked to a
couple the team therapists about the anxiety and the expression that he was going through.
He admitted to us post game that he underestimated mental health and being in
the bubble for about fifty fifty days now or forty days now, whatever it
is, they've been there over a month, and it's it's it's it's taken
the toll on some guys, and Paul George is no exception. And I
think that, you know, when you consider social media and everything else that
goes on in the world, all the all the access these people are fans
up to players, it's sort of hard to get that out of your head
sometimes, you know. Again, tags away from his family's two kids for
over a month. So this is the Paul George we expected to see throughout
the bubble that we stopped about the bubble and the one we expected to see
in the playoffs. We saw it in game one, game two. You
could tell almost in game three or four, when he wasn't even being as
aggressive anymore, that it was just a confidence issue. You know. I
posted a couple of clips that I'm sure you've seen them of him just sort
of passing up, passing up open shots and just looking headitant in his decisions.
And today it looked like he was back to his normal self, you
know, aggressive, quick first step, going to the rim, getting drawings.
You know, he said he was going to go to the post and
work his way from there, and he drew a couple of fouls early,
got a post a fadeaway today and that opened up the three point game for
him. So this is Apaul dry to expect, and hopefully this is the
one we get moving forward, because he's a really fun version to watch.
Like you said, historic numbers to night thirty five points in under twenty five
minutes, first there to ever do that in playoff history. Is this also
the type of game where the Clippers work out the chemistry kinks because defensively they
were obviously much better, and they stayed that way. They kept that same
intensity, and I feel like what happened in Game four could be a blessing
in disguise because now they've learned that lesson of how you cannot get comfortable at
any point even when you're up twenty one, especially against a team like these
Dallas Mavericks and Luca don But going forward, are there things they can learn
from this being a more difficult first round series than what I think a lot
of people anticipated going in. I think absolutely. You know, it's funny
when you look at I looked at sort of in the first half, it
was almost an identical score to the to the Game four in terms of the
biggest lead. The Clippers had a twenty one point leader, was a twenty
two point leader with about the same score this time, and you know,
the Mass rushed back and made it an eight point game and a half time.
We know what happened in the third quarter. This time, the Clippers
kept their foot on the gas and leading up that lead to twenty five thirty
thirty three I think was the highest at some point, but they just really
stepped on the Mass throat and didn't let them come back. And I think,
look, I think a lot of us maybe expected this to be a
lot easier for the Clippers because of the you know, the two seven matchup
Towardzingis has been out, Donche's has been dealing with an injury. But we
have to remember this is the this is the most prolific scoring team in NBA
history, best opens in NBA history in the Mavericks, they scored a high
level and the Clippers held them down to eighty six or three quarters is pretty
good before the reserves came in. It's a challenge because this is a great
offensive team and when it looks things going to be the Utah Jazz next,
right, if the Clippers can get out, that's gonna be the defensive minded
game. The Jazz are a good offensive team, but they're getting get done
defensively as well. So this is the great first round for the Clippers,
just in terms of the adversity they need to face, the challenges, the
game plan, the schemes that they need to execute. And I think that's
been the biggest word that's been thrown around by Doctorphers and the players executing their
plays, executing their game plan in terms of defensively switching on guys, switching
correctly, and I think, yeah, you mentioned this is just a great
first round for them. Hopefully they can win on Thursday night and advanced in
the second round. Adversity builds character, and I thought the Clippers showed their
character and identity. It's shine through in this game where nothing is given,
everything is earned and you have to play hard for forty eight minutes and we
hadn't seen maybe all season long, but definitely with the stakes this high,
then play this complete of a ball game where even in the fourth quarter they
were not letting go. The backups came in and they put it on Dallas
as well. You could tell Roddy McGruder, Patrick Patterson. They were itching
for minutes and they made the most of them. But Mons de Trez,
who had struggled in this series, understandably because he just got back into the
bubble before this series started, he got a lot of run in that fourth
quarter. He had sixteen points in that fourth quarter. Do you think for
him this is going to jump start that engine that he has to where he's
back to being himself now. Well, I think there's been a combination of
things in terms of why he's been struggling. For one, obviously, he
had to deal with things away from the team for a month. He was
obviously away from basketball for five months, and so you know, his first
first game for his game action run five on five game one, that was
about a little over a week ago, so you know, you don't get
into game shape right away. And I think the second thing that's contributed to
it is we know about him best. Mount Bobon is very hard to go
up against when he's defending. Thermy can block shots with that jumping. He's
just a big body, and so I think tread has really tried to figure
out his way to play against Boban. And you know, Doc said,
the best post game he tries is still young. He gave he gave Tres
a hug after the game because it was just good to see Tress finally get
going, get back to the sixth Man of the Year candidate that we've seen
every single game this year, whatever it was, sixty sixty four games.
We saw the three point artists Tres as well. Yes, yes, first
career postseason three pointer, and when when that went down, you sort of
knew that it was just that kind of night for them. So good to
see Tred's get back into it. He's going to be important for the Clippers
in the following rounds if they can get there. But just all around terrific
efforts from everyone today. He is tomare Azarrely. He covers the Clippers for
points. Follow him on Twitter at t O M E R A Z A
r l Y. One of the reasons he's such a good follow is because
he posts all the clips post game and then I believe even sometimes pregame.
He has that type of access and that type of skill with final cut pro
or something. But Temara, thanks so much for doing this tonight. Man.
Great work is always of course, of course, thank you, Vera.
I just want to say, did you guys haven't checked out doctors postgame
press conference? Please do? He had a very moving press conference. To
check it out. Thanks Adam, thank you Temara. Coming up next.
I don't know if we're gonna have enough time because we're out at ten,
but I concur I encourage everyone to listen to the message from Doc Rivers tonight,
only because I've seen some quotes from it, some excerpts. It's powerful,
it's profound, it's needed right now. Clippers were looking for a big
win. They got it in game five, Paul George was looking to turn
around his playing the series. We saw that as well, and you'll hear
from PG thirteen next right here on Clippers talk on the Patriot Amlem fifty.
Everything's bigger, not just in Dallas, but against Dallas, and the Clippers
take them out and win by forty three points in Game five with a one
fifty four to one to eleven final score. And Paul George comes back after
all those struggles the last three games, last three games, he scored thirty
four points total. Tonight he had thirty five and just twenty five minutes hadn't
been done in the shot clock era before. And here he was postgame speaking
with the media. Hey, Paul, obviously you had a breakout game today
with thirty five points. What were kind of the mentality difference for you today
versus the last three games. I just got into a different places. I
just locked into a different point of details. But I just I got into
a different place of different mentality, said Max's own. Hey, Paul,
you were incredibly candid in the postgame interview with TMT, and one of the
things you said was that you were in a dark place and you really kind
of struggled with that in the bubble, and also the environment of having no
fans, no staple center to really energize. You can you can you talk
about what you meant by being in a dark place and how how difficult these
last three games were for you. It was just a little bit of everything.
You know. I underestimated mental health. Honestly, I had anxiety,
a little bit of depression just being locked in here, and you know,
just I just wasn't there. I checked out. It was you know,
games two, three, four, I wasn't there. I felt like I
wasn't there, you know. Shout out to the people that was in my
corner, from people that gave me the words big time right back experience.
I can't think them enough. There was PG thirteen postgame the Clippers win by
forty three. We weren't able to get to Doc Rivers. But here's what
I'm gonna do, because I didn't want to cut out and just take snippets
from that interview. It's too important and I know it's about eight minutes long,
so in the podcast, I will make sure to attach it at the
end. So if you're listening to the podcast right now, stick around.
You're going to hear from Doc Rivers and his important message on the situation going
on in Wisconsin and the social justice issues that the NBA is trying to address.
That's part of this mission going on right now in the bubble. Game
six for the Clippers is coming up on Thursday. We'll have Clippers campdown starting
here on the Patriot AM eleven fifty at five pm, tip off at six.
Before we get out of here, I do want to thank Noah Eagle,
Brian Seman, Ralph Lawler, and back here in Burbank the fantastic sam
Zia. Until Thursday for Game six between your Clippers and Dallas Mavericks. I'm
at a Maslin. We will talk to you then. Hey, Doc,
I wanted to ask you about the defensive adjustments against Luca tonight. You guys
did a bit of trapping on the sidelines and above the arc. Wanted to
ask what went into that decision and how you thought that went well. I
mean, we we it's just overall the intensity defensively, it was so much
more attentive, you know, through the series, like we've made just a
lot of game play miss things, when our switching, when our trapping,
we actually did travel and gained previous and it's just so poor it was hard
to notice. I thought Kson and Tie lou both of him, just did
a terrific job just game playing and mixing it up. We didn't we didn't
just have one coverage, which I thought was important. Yeah. I just
thought we played harder and we played right and played with a great severe NeXT's
own the doc Paul just said in the postgame interview that he was in a
pretty dark place his last three games and having trouble adjusting to the environment of
no fans in the game. I was won't did you notice that that you
see any of that? And also you said you would h comment about the
Jacob Blake situation, how you truly felt about it after the game. Yeah,
you know this is not a normal environment. Okay, it just is
it. Uh, but it's it's good like didnb has done a terrific job.
But Loue made a great point, like, you know, you lose
a lot of games and the game that the night was tough. Usually you
go home to your family, you go home, or you go back to
your rooms and you're you're with each other and then you actually see the other
teams. Uh, It's just a strange thing, man, I tell you,
it's just different. And I thought it was a guys are great though,
Like you know, PG and I said in the room in my room
after the game and we just had a long talk ut all about basketball really
and you know, several players did it. Guys were knocking on his door.
Now this team is, you know, we're growing still, you can
see it. We've not had the normal time together like most things, and
so like things like that, they happened. And I thought our guys at
all the players spurs the spurs the other situation. It's just so sad.
You know. What stands out to me is just just watching the Republican revengetion
y'all convention and this this viewing this fear right right all you hear Donald Trump
and all of them talking about fear. We're the ones getting killed, we're
the ones getting shot. We're the ones that we're denied to live in certain
communities. We've been home, we've been shot, and all you do is
keep hearing a fear. It's it's amazing why we keep loving this country and
this country doesn't not left his back. And it's just it's really so sad,
like I should just be a coach, and it's so often reminded of
my color. You know, it's just really sad. We got to do
better, but we gotta demand better like we got. You know, it's
funny. We protest and they send riot guards, right, they send people
in riot outfits. They go to Michigan with guns and they're spinning on cops
and nothing happens. The training has to change in the police force. The
unions have to be taken down in the police force. My dad was a
cop. I believe in good cops. We're not trying to defund the police
and take all their money away. We're trying to get them to protect us,
just like they protect everybody else. I didn't want to talk about it
before the game because it's so hard, like to just keep watching that that
video. If you watch that video, you don't need to be black to
be outrage. You don't you need to be American and outrage. And how
dare the Republicans talk about fear. We're the ones that need to be scared.
We're the ones having to talk every to every black child. What white
father has to give his son a talk about being careful if you get pulled
over. It's it's just ridiculous. And it just keeps getting it keeps going
out. There's no charges, Brianna Taylor, no charges, nothing. All
we're asking is you live up to the constitution. That's all we're asking for
everybody, for everyone, Thank you. I want to go back to basketball
real quick. I mean there's been players in the rafters in the Celtic sort
of way. Do you playing? How play? You said? How?
I think one thing I said, I think you always play. You know
what, We can fight for justice, but we still should do our jobs.
I really believe that because during our jobs, people are seeing excellence from
from Americans, Black Americans and white Americans. So I don't I would still
do my job. That's just my opinion. But if my players told me
no, would it would be no. I can tell you that. It's
when you watch that video, it's sickny, it's signal. You know,
it's kids were in the card. How do they ever get that out of
their mind? How are those kids ever normal? You have decided bott not
boycott. What would your message be to players who are in this situation weighing
these kinds of questions? You're like my messages go out to your dreams.
You don't allow anything to take you away from your dreams. Uh. Doing
the Donald Sterling thing, you know, were Matt Barnes and Chris Paul,
DJ and Blake and all those guys, JJ Reddick, they all pooled together
and at the end of the day, the one thing we decided when we
were little kids, and we're in the backyard by ourselves, and we have
these dreams if I winning the championship. Donald Sterling was not in our dreams,
and neither were these cops. And so they're not going to take anybody.
They're not taking our dreams away, all right, And so that would
be my message. I have a few questions here left on Zoom. We're
gonna go to tomare Doc. It feels a bit wrong to go back to
basketball, but you know, it's what we do. Like I should be
talking about basketball, and so it's what we do. Just did you feel
like the team, I mean connected more emotionally. You talked about it being
emotionally the week last game. Uh, did you feel like the team really
connected on that level? Today? Yeah? We did. We did all
things well today. Tomorrow we just played together. We played hard, we're
aggressive and more importantly, like it is a human game and you make mistakes,
but we just had so few game plan the states, Uh that I
thought it was. It was awesome. Next is Maria sorry? Next is
Mariam? Hey? Doc, thanks for sharing your thoughts and congrats on the
wind. Obviously you say you want to play and and obviously excellence. There
was a lot of excellence today. But how hard is it for you to
like focus on game planning and the playoffs when when you're you know, this
troubling stuff is happening. You know, it's because we have to, like
our jobs are we are basketball players, we're fathers, we're businessmen, and
we should still be able to do our jobs. But it's hard sometimes like
today it was hard. It really was for everybody, every team. But
I still think, like when we can't stop doing our jobs because it's what
we do and and it allows us honestly three hours of solitude, like you
know it does once we're on stage, we can kind of get in our
jobs and forget what's going on. Oh, you know, so I think
that's it. Next is Dank kind of along the solitude lines. I think
Treads played five minutes in the first quarter or something like that. He might
have only had two points, but the way you greeted him when he came
off the court was a genuine like you seem really happy with that stratch.
What did you like so much about that? And did you feel like he
kind of finally looked a little bit sort of like himself. Yeah, I
told him I was proud of him because I think he had two points,
right, but he made a difference. And I think you know, Tress
is steal y'all right, and so when you when you come back, you're
not in great shape. I think you put so much pressure on scoring that
you forget who you are. And Tress is energy player that can score points,
that can do everything, and you know, he just needed that.
So I was just happy that he he helped our team without scoring. And
that's what I was selling. Can hey, coach, I appreciate that passion,
that energy that you you just conveyed there, and I think that's what
deplete your players played with tonight. That helped you guys to get that big
win. I would like to ask you, Duck, if you could expound
on when you had the first have that conversation with your son about driving and
being safe and kind of his dealing with the law that, as you mentioned,
some other people don't have to have that conversation. Can you touch on
that for a moment. Basically when they get the driver's license, all of
them, you know, you know, and you know I have an adopted
child, you know, you just you just share with them. Be careful,
show your hands, be respectful. You know. It's funny though even
through that, sometimes you still get shot. So I don't know, it's
just it's just really tough. All right, Doc, Thank you so much.
That's all the questions.