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by as many as twenty six and go on to win one twenty five to
one seventeen in Portland over the Blazers. They go two to zero in the
two game mini series up North. Welcome into your postgame show, am Ida
Moslin if you want to get in early for Clippers Talk eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy. But first back out to Motives Center with the
radio voice of the Clippers and Carlo Jimenez. Carlo didn't love the fourth quarter,
but obviously the Clippers had their second and third string guys out there and
the game was out of hand. But overall, when the starters were in,
that was one of the more focused, spirited efforts by this Clippers team
against lesser competition all season long. Yeah, it was really impressive Adam.
I felt like from the get go, they enforced their will. They played
their game. You talked about them playing fast, getting out in transition,
twenty six assists in this one. I think those hot shooting obviously got them
going to start, but they did all the right things on the offensive end.
The ball didn't stick, they rebounded well, they got into the paint.
Fifty two points in the paint in this one. All those boxes we
look for them the jack they did in this game. It was impressive stuff
from the Clippers, really dominating from the gank go, not letting their foot
off the gas. Credit time Lou, I mean, he helped them accountable
whenever there was a little bit of slippage of an immediate timeout and immediate opportunity
to refocus. They continued to answer his call when he called those timeouts and
played better out of them. I thought this was one of the more impressive
wins of the season for the Clippers and a great opportunity to get some momentum
because the schedule turns and it does not get any easier. The end of
March might be the hardest part of March. With what's coming up. We
talked a lot about Paul's coming into this one. Last ten ball games,
he was getting twenty four points per game while shooting fifty two percent from the
field and forty four percent from the outside, And in this one was just
on a heater, thirty one points on just fourteen shout attempts. He goes
four to eight from the outside, but was aggressive with looking for his offense.
They were calling atos for him. A team high plus twenty four.
Just a spectacular performance from PG thirteen, the first thirty point games since February
tenth. I mean, he was excellent seven for seven for the free throw
line, two blocks and two steals as well, and I'm doing it on
both ends. I thought he got to his spots. I don't think he
missed in that second in that third quarter. I'm still still gonna I'm trying
to figure that out, but I did not think he missed. Only twenty
eight minutes too to get the thirty one points. Talk about being efficient.
That was one of the better games all season for Paul George, who continues
at him with a ball in his hands to thrive for this Clippers team.
I believe you are correct. I don't think he missed in the third quarter
either or he ended up going and what four for four from the field,
but Kawhi Leonard also joining him. There was a play against Abertey Simons in
the first half where I thought Kawhi looked as quick as ever defensively and Simon's
just threw up an airball. One of the better scores in the league.
Just saw Kawhi completely locked in defensively, and that defensive Player of the Year
winner two times over just looked scary and intimidating to this young Portland Trail Blazers
team. I mean he was in their grill early. That intensity he brought
on the offensive end translated immediately to the defensive end. I thought he took
that challenge to heart. Simon's finishes with three points on one for six,
had to leave the game dealing with that lingering hamstring injury that he was on
the injury report for before the game, So maybe just got to be too
much for him. But Leonard's defense was excellent once again. Also, he's
under thirty minutes. That's back to back games with under thirty minutes for the
Claw the Clippers. This is how you want to script there, right,
You jump into a big lead for the most part, you keep your superstars
under the minutes total and everybody eats in this one. It was a great
performance. Find everybody out there for the Clippers. Maybe accept our players to
watch Clippers win one twenty five to one seventeen in Portland over the Trailblazers.
On Sunday. They'll be back home at the Crypt. Taken on the Philadelphia
seventy six ers. Well Matinee ballgame, probably some Mattinee madness. Tiptime is
at twelve thirty. We'll have your pregame show starting at eleven thirty. No
time change this time. Carlo great call is always safe travels. We'll talk
to you on Sunday. My friend, talk to you Sunday. Adam shout
out the crew back in the stew I like it, my man with the
rhymes. Let's go Carlo heim Z. Coming up next, we'll get to
the second half highlights. What was a blowout, looked a little bit closer
with the final score one twenty five to one seventeen. Clippers win in Portland
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Second half highlights. Clippers led big of the half. It was seventy
to fifty three as Paul George had twenty points in the first half, Kawhi
Leonard had thirteen, and the two Pine three connection would continue their stellar play
in the third quarter. Kawhi Pump fixing the paint fly by Redman dunks it
with the right hand, oh Pump, Vick and Jam Georgian on the front
court stops on the dime. Polls are Signna three if there is it,
so George of the free throw line jams right. Henderson is Way pulls from
eighteen, rips the ropes it's twenty five, takes it down. The left
channel pulls up for the mid range drops it in. George is unconscious.
Eight thirty three to go. Here comes Leonard to the rim. The fallon
of finish. George free throw line jumper true, Paul George has yet to
miss in the quarter. Paul George was four for four for fourteen points since
he got to the free throw line as well, didn't miss there either.
In the third. He finishes with thirty one. Kawhi Leonard had nine points
in the third quarter, finishes with twenty two. The Clippers were up big
heading into the fourth quarter. It was one on one to eighty. They
let go of the rope just a little bit with the backups being in there.
They still go on to win one twenty five to one seventeen in Portland
over the Trailblazers, as they get ready for a showdown back at Crypto on
Sunday, or they'll be taken on the Philadelphia seventy six ers. More on
that coming up, plus postgame audio you're gonna hear from Terrence Man, You're
head coach as well. Clippers hold on after leading by twenty six in win
by eight. They have won two in a row. Now there are thirteen
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seven two five seventy. Clippers were led by Paul George with thirty one points
on ten to fourteen shooting four of eight from distance, seven to seven from
the free throw line, four boards, three assists, two steals, two
blocks, and he was a plus twenty four led the leade, led the
team in the plus mind this category. Kawhi Leonard behind him with twenty two
points, nine of fifteen shooting. Terrence Man had twenty. Terrence Man back
in the fold, missed one game with the shoulder injury suffered at practice,
dropped twenty points on seven or twelve shooting, was getting downhill, also knocked
down one three pointer James Harden. He had fifteen points, ten assists,
and just two turnovers. Clippers led by Asminias twenty six. They held on
late with the backups. They would win one twenty five to one seventeen over
the Blazers in Portland. Next ball game back at Crypto on Sunday twelve thirty
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host on your home for the Clippers. They were in attack mode, Adam
Ousley, is that what flipping a switch looks? Like I don't know.
Clippers go on to win once twenty five to one seventeen, but it wasn't
even that close. In Portland, they led by twenty six. The starters
more than handle their business. They look extremely focused. They won the first
quarter forty two to twenty seven. They were not messing around against the Blazers
Tonight. They win both games up in Portland. Now they've won two in
a row. Welcome into Clippers to and Madame Moslin. Eight sixty six ninety
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X coming up on the show. I think we're gonna have Chuck Mockler on.
We'll also here from Terence Man and coach Lou But I want to highlight
the stars here two point three because they looked different tonight. You can say
it's Portland. That's fine, I get it. They were without DeAndre Ayton.
They got a ton of guys on the injury list right now, into
reserved, into reserve. But what I noticed was a different level of energy
and quickness and explosiveness to Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. That's not about the
opponent, that's about how they're feeling physically, and the way they were moving
tonight was different, very noticeably different. Kawhi Leonard, he had a couple
of plays that I don't know if I've seen him look that quick all season
long. When he was weaving through the defense getting into the lane, getting
fouled as he split the defense, going behind the back, fading away with
middies. He was just so quick with it, so decisive, no wasted
movement. He looked fantastic. The play that really stood out to me was
him going out to the right wing to defend Anthony Simons early on in the
first half, and it looked like and this was a nickname for Kawhi Leonard
before Simon's had seen a ghost. Oh, this is the two time defensive
Player of the Year, Kawhi Leonard on me. Now he's fully locked in,
he's given on, he's getting ready for the playoffs. That's what I
like tonight, not just from Kawhi, but also Paul George. An early
and one, slithering through the lane, a three, then a layup,
a fade away, just a turnaround, fade away in the second quarter.
Just beautiful basketball, just effortless basketball by him. When people say he is
one of the most esthetically pleasing games out there with how smooth it can look
when he's on. Tonight was one of those nights. He tried to dunk
it on Moses Brown was fouled. Very explosive play from Paul George. The
block to end the first half, the defense as he was the low man
breaking up a lob just like he did last game. Another three in the
fourth, then a mini, another one, a jumper. He went four
four in the third quarter for fourteen points. He had thirty one on just
fourteen shots, seven of seven from the free throw line. The downhill attack
was there. He was getting calls plus two steals and two blocks. These
guys looked, I almost say it, like they hit the fountain of youth
before the game. They looked young. They looked in the middle of their
prime. PG. Thirteen's thirty three, Kaui's thirty two. They're near the
back end of their prime. But tonight they had that juice, I don't
know, the gummy bear juice bouncing around like I haven't seen the while it
was impressive eye opening revealing that, oh they do have an extra gear.
This is what they can do when they feel like it. And now with
thirteen games left, I think it was them getting prepped for the playoffs.
The attention to detail, possession to possession was there. Guys were connected on
defense. I mean, you put up forty two points in the first quarter
and hold Portland twenty seven, that's not nothing. That looked like a well
olned machine tonight. Of course the system was out there too. James Harden
Tennis sis just a beautiful in the second half behind the back pass to a
Visa Zubats for a floater Big Zoo just six and eight, three of three
shooting. Wasn't as involved as I would have liked, But it's because Paul
George and Kawhi Leonard were just in takeover mode from the very beginning. They
just weren't messing around. The level of seriousness by this Clippers team tonight.
That's what you want to see against a bad team. That's exactly how you
should play. They exploited every weakness with the Portland trail Blazers. They just
looked like they didn't even belong on the court. With the Clippers, and
they don't. If the Clippers are at this level, not many can meet
them there. Now it's just two straight victories up in Portland. I want
to see what they got back to back Sunday and then Monday night, starting
with the Philadelphia seventy six ers in an afternoon start on Sunday at Crypto,
and then they got the Pacers at home on Monday night. But some encouraging
signs with just game plan, discipline and guys being better connected. But the
thing that stood out to me was two point three really looking spry, I
mean big time bounce. Kawhi Leonard looked like he hurt the right wrist a
little bit but kept playing afterwards Wednesday night was the left wrist after he went
at Moses Brown for an and one got the layup but fell to the floor,
had to brace himself. The only real blemish. There's a couple of
them, I guess. The second and third string didn't exactly hold down the
fort in the last four and a half minutes, when I think at that
point all the starters were out. They struggled and Daniel Tice got banged up,
was limping, looked like something with his right knee concern there, but
outside that, I'd be concerned for the rest of the league. If the
Clippers are gonna start engaging like this, where they're treating every possession, I
guess their last. That is a different team tonight. That is the team
that went on that run and won twenty six to thirty one ball games.
And again it's Portland, okay, but it's still not easy in this league.
For the best four hundred and fifty players in the world to beat a
team twice in a row, two times and three nights, it's never that
easy. You could let up. You cant have a let down. And
the Clippers came out after all these struggles in first quarters and they just threw
down the gauntlet. Kawhi was shot out of a cannon. And when those
two lead like this, everybody else falls in line. Terrence Man was back,
had twenty, got to the bucket, got easy ones. Everyone was
just intent on going out there and executing quickly. They had a plan of
attack. The offense was being run to perfection. They shot fifty six percent
from the field and they were well, let's see at the half, I
know they were over sixty percent from the outside. I want to see where
they were after the third quarter. Before you know, it's natural, the
backups are in, you let up a little bit. But heading into the
fourth with a twenty one point lead, they were shooting sixty two percent from
the field and we're twelve of twenty six from three. That's forty six percent
from the outside. It is good. It's very good. Just the effectiveness,
the Christmas crispness, the sharpness to this team, the level of professionalism.
When you know, and we warned about it, and we've warned about
it before against lesser competition, you can't let up. You can't let them
feel like it's their night. A young Portland team, guys having stuff to
prove, and Anferty's diamonds goes one of six. He was even worse than
he was on Wednesday. Anberty Simons is a bucket. Guys, if you're
a Clipper fan, you know this because he's had some big nights against them.
I mean he's a flamethrower when he gets hot. And the Clippers just
said, nope, it is not going to be your night. Sick Kawhi
on them and just put a little bit of fear and intimidation into the opposition.
It's not easy to come out and win a quarter by fifteen right off
the bat on the road, no matter who it is. So definitely a
little bit of progress tonight, better process, better habits. This is more
like it. Okay, Clippers, let's see if they can roll this into
a winning streak. Now. Philadelphia, as I mentioned on Sunday, back
at home, and they're without Joe ellenb Still they haven't been playing well,
but I want to see this continue. Thirteen games left. Gotta hold onto
the four seed. Pelicans won again earlier. Okay, see one, Minnesota
one. You're not catching I don't think anybody for a top three seed,
but you can be caught in the four spot by the Pelicans brandon Ingram.
They got some good news earlier today. I was thankful to see it.
He's one of my favorite players to watch. B I underrated just a bone
contusion when it looked like when he went down, I think it was left
knee injury last night that you know, you fear the worst, you thought
season ending type of injury ACL meniscus. So he's gonna be reevaluated in two
weeks. It looks like it's still gonna be the Pelicans in the first round.
There's a good chance of that. The Clippers know what the assignment is.
I thought Pga Tucker also played pretty well tonight, knock down a three
pointer. He's gonna be used against Zion should that be that first round best
as seven series. But this team, okay, it looks like whatever happened
against the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday got their attention. Maybe that was the wake
up call. Time will tell. Thirteen games left. I want to see
them continue to be this focused, especially back at home a week after losing
that game in miserable fashion to the Atlanta Hawks. They get a chance to
redeem themselves and for other home home fans and Clipper Nation on Sunday against Philadelphia.
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the Clippers win by just eight, but they were up by twenty six.
Paul George and Kawhi neither of them played more than twenty nine minutes. That's
the type of taking care of business victory with some style points that you wanted
to see. But again two, one three, moving differently out there,
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This is the LA Clippers audio network. I don't want to say I'm shocked,
not by the victory, but just how good Paul George and Kawhi Leonard
looked. We know Kawhi and the numbers have been there all season long.
He's been outstanding, but uh, they were moving with some purpose. There
were some real explosive plays from two to one three tonight. If this is
the squad we're going to see in the playoffs, if they can move like
this, with this level of quickness within the half court, oh my goodness.
Clippers win once twenty five to one to seventeen in Portland, second straight
game over the Trailblazers. Going back to Wednesday, Welcome back into Clippers talk.
I'm at a Moslim to eight six six ninety seven two five seventy eight
six six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number I want to hear
from Coach Loop post game and his assessment of his stars because the decision making,
but also just the uh fast twitch muscle movement going on tonight. That
was special. That was really encouraging. I put it that follow out of
May earlier today. But Kawhi showed some burst on that crazy play he had
on Wednesday where he had the two handed volleyball block above the net basically to
then get to the ball before Anthony Simons did for that, and one where
he just flipped it up and didn't even see the ball go in off the
backboard where he was fouled and he got to it so quickly. The acceleration
from Kawhi to get to that basketball, and I kept Suppruvor filming it and
replaying it, and I put it up on Twitter on x AD follow out
of May, and I was like, you know, this is really encouraging.
Kawai still having this much burst tonight, though, Man, I'm I'm
floored. I couldn't be happier with the way these two guys looked, especially
Paul George, considering the left knee injury, the growing injury. My goodness,
thirty one points in twenty eight minutes and just made it look so easy.
Here was coach lou post game after the Clippers won one twenty five to
one seventeen in Portland over the Blazers. Was a great game. We did
a good job. It was great about it. What'd you guys do that
was so good? We talked in a huddle. We clean up our mistakes.
We knew when we actually made a mistake. Defensively, we knew coming
to halftime we had to take care of the ball and take care to offensive
rebounds. But down stretch of the game, like I said, they played
hard, competed it. Challenge did a good job of just making sure they
kept playing through the game. You know, so we didn't make shots.
We had some turnovers down the stretch with that last unit, but you know,
makes Aine played the whole game and you know, Bones hadn't played and
so but like I said, Challenge did a good job just make sure the
guys kept scrapping, kept competing. So we got to win, and that's
the most important thing. But we did some good things when we had our
guys on the floor, that's one of the competia. And finished the games,
you know, and you know they won't help you. So you mean,
what's wrong with them? Just you know as good if you feel like
he's gonna be okay, I mean hope, So yeah, I mean I
don't I mean strength a little I think a mile stream CAF or something like
that sort this whatever. Yeah, so hopefully it'll be back sooner than later.
Game So didn't pull up. He just bumped knees, bang knees.
So wasn't anything serious like about Paul. His last two games here, he's
pretty efficient book games. Yeah, I think the last seven games he's been
efficient. You know, just like I said, they're in a really good
rhythm, takeing what the defense gives them, running pick and roll, getting
to the free throw line, attacking the basket, you know, doing a
little bit of everything. And so it's good to see them getting the rhythm
he's in right now going down the stretch, you know, going into the
playoffs, and so that's good to see, you know, getting all the
guys on the on the right page, you know, and that's what it's
gonna take, you know, for us to go deep, you know,
deep into the playoffs and having a strong run. So look pretty good.
Again tonight with the pelt right behind you. Guys, do you follow them
at all what they're doing to see? I saw they want tonight. Yeah,
but whatever does that kind of get you? Guys to lock in a
little bit more though, and you know that they're on you. No,
I just want to lock in to be healthy. I mean, it doesn't
matter, you know whoever we play, and you know we gotta play.
The West is tough anyway, no matter who you play, where you play,
you start on the road, start at home, it's gonna be tough.
So that doesn't really bother me or phase me in any way. Just
gotta be healthy for me. How do you I, I how do you
uh see Terrence uh kind of helping James out the court so you you kind
of ash the events at least in the total they played before the corner gunner,
like Terrence was bringing the ball up a lot more even with James on
for if nothing else, just to help James get into successful him. Like,
is that something that tests right done? Yeah, something we've been working
on and you're talking about when teams are gonna pressure James, uh, how
to get him off the ball and get the ball back you know, with
a live dribble, So yes, h doesn't have to constantly, you know,
face that pressure the whole game to try to wear him down and wear
him out. And so like we've been working on it and then tonight was
a good you know, a good time to try and it was okay,
Still gotta get better. What do you wanna see? Uh improof from within
that within what within you know, ways to get James off the board all
that, Well, the guys is hanling the ball. The guys that hairing
the ball with James off the ball, do a better job of handling the
pressure as well. You know. So I may be telling Kawa's gonna be
in, Pg's gonna be in. Somebody can initiate. And so that's why
we've been working on the new stuff open and just running different things out of
open to you know, take the pressure up of James and you know guys
and teams and oppression pressure on ball handlers. We just get it to our
center and then we kind of play out of that. So it's been good,
but we got to get better. Coach Lou their post game after the
Clippers win one twenty five seventeen in Portland over the Trailblazers. He uh liked
the performance overall. Has some interesting comments that were regarding the standings and just
scoreboard watching. You saw the Pelicans had one. They're trying to chase the
Clippers down for the four seed, and he talked about how no matter who
you play in the first round, is gonna be tough in the West.
Definitely, there's just no easy out. You could be the one or two
seed and have to deal with Phoenix in the first round, or the Lakers
or the Warriors. Are you kidding me? So it is a pick your
poison situation. But I still would like to see if the Clippers get the
four seed and at least have home court in the first round of the playoffs.
Let's start things off tonight with John in La John, you're on Clipper
staff without a Mason. What's up? John? You know Adam you're You're
a sacrament A Kings fan through and through right. I mean you grew up
in Sack Right. You went to al Camino High School. You know,
No, you don't know. You don't know me, John. I went
to Rio Americano. You went to Molganahskin. I went to del Ol John,
Why you got an Appa David like, what are you trying to pull?
Here? Am I being docked? Do you want to know what the
street that I grew up on? You're the man, No matter what,
Well, I grew up a Kings fan. I no longer have those strong
feelings outside of nostalgia for the Sacramento Kings when the Clippers are playing him.
No, no, it's all Clippers. You're a Kings fan no matter what.
No, John, you know yourself this Friday night. You enjoying yourself
this Friday night? Well, can I ask you a personal question? It
seems like that's all you're asking. Okay, okay? Have you ever thought
in a million years that the Clippers would lose to the Blazers in Portland or
in La? Never? Right, never in a million years in my years
on this earth. I mean, I think they're fifteen to one or something
like that. Their last sixteen games against Portland, they've been dominating them.
It's been one sided. Even when Portland was good. Would Dame and CJ.
McCollum and Nurkic and all those guys. So, in my opinion,
the biggest disappointment was Zubats. Subats only played eighteen minutes. He scored six
points and he had eight rebounds, and that is uncalled for against the Blazers
because the Blazers have they had a center named Reeth who doubled that that guy,
he doubled that guy. Well, he's got to get the ball to
score more. And he didn't get that many touches, but when he did
he went three or three from the field. He had eight boards. I
mean, six and eight in just eighteen minutes isn't bad considering the defense he
played too. What do you think of Scoot Henderson? He had twenty four
and ten. That was pretty awesome. Huh, it's all right. I
mean it's on eight of eighteen shooting, and I appreciate the phone call.
John. I like Scoot. I've compared him to a young Baron Davis with
Charlotte. I think body type, the way he moves out there. Obviously
we saw Baron Davis at UCLA here too, But he's got a bright future,
as they say, I know, he got off to such a slow
start this season. The game's different. Even playing at the G League level,
which you would think would have more prepared than coming out of college because
it's just higher level of basketball. But Scoot Henderson, he'll get there.
I'm confident in that he's been progressively getting better over the last couple of months.
But twenty four ten points, knock down three three pointers, and Portland
made a little bit of a run at the end with the Clippers backups out
there. Coach who talked about it earlier, but you know, Mason Plumley
just got into the ball game out of nowhere because Daniel Tice bying knees.
He's okay. PJ. Tucker sounded like it was a calf strain. That's
why he only played eight minutes. So a little bit of a concern with
two of your backups. But if Daniel Tye just had a knee to knee
injury there, that's something he'll be ready to go on Sunday. From not
too concerned about it. Clippers led by as Manias twenty six, didn't get
too concerned when they were were letting Portland back into it. It's just one
of those games were down the stretch, you pull your starters and a bunch
of guys who aren't familiar with one another or out there on the court,
and they looked very much disconnected. Young players out there Clippers, though,
hold on, and I just want to see him keep the same energy and
focus for the game on Sunday against Philly, who ended up losing tonight to
the Los Angeles Lakers. So they're gonna be hungry. But they're under man
right now too. They've been beat up no Joel Embiid still and they just
look like a completely different team without him, as you would expect. You're
missing the regular season MVP from last season, one of the best players over
the last five years. We'll take a quick time out, we'll come back.
We'll have Chuck Mockler on from Clips and Dip. But well, we
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tonight for the most part and more impressive fashion. I would say the backups
let up the twenty six point lead late. They still won one twenty five
to one seventeen over the Blazers. Welcome back into Clippers stock. I'm out
of Mosland. Eight six six ninety seven two five seventy is the phone number
if you want to talk about I don't know the elementary school I went to
Franklin or anything like that, if you're like that color John. But right
now we got a guy from Montana on and big Chuck Mackler. I hope
that wasn't TMI or giving out too much info there. It's well known,
right Chuck, Come on Montana forever. Yeah at all, not at all,
absolutely up with Montana. Let's talk about this Clippers team and just what
occurred tonight, because a big takeaway for me was Paul George and Kawhi Leonard
looked about as quick as I had seen them in the two to one three
era. Yeah, I mean it was. It was great to see the
process. You know, you mentioned the lead getting blown, which your tweet
was great too because when the starters played, you know, think things were
good in this game, but you're right, Kawhi and Paul George are moving
so well. Kawhi hit like a little crossover between the legs move that had
so much force and agility with it, right because he always has the force
on those jab steps and stuff. But he had the quickness after it too,
which was really cool to see. And yeah, Paul George, he
was putting his head down early in this one. Paul George had seven free
throws. I would bet in most games where Paul George has you know,
over five free throws or six free throws, the Clippers probably win most of
those games because it means he's getting into the paint. It meaning if he's
not getting pre throws, that just means the balls in the paint anyway for
the Clippers. So a lot of good stuff from you know, two and
three tonight. Obviously want to see hard and hit a couple more shots here
and there, but this was, you know, a game that they were
going to win, but we wanted to see them build good process and I
thought for the most part we saw that. Yeah, and two one three,
they kind of led the way when it came to building good habits.
Paul George, by the way, his last eleven games now is getting almost
twenty five points on fifty three percent from the field and forty four percent from
three So, uh, maybe he's feeling much better because that Dunky almost had
on Moses Brown, and he's had a lot of almost dumps. Yeah,
like that was nasty. Just the explosiveness tonight from those two just was very
noticeable, uh to me, and very encouraging to see. Of course,
we love it, but I do want to talk about Big Zoo. Can
he get more than three shots? Chuck. You know, I'm going to
be upset about that. You know, I'm going to be upset about that.
I know we want to played eighteen minutes, but still yeah, so
that's you know, we talked about the stars being really good light and the
process was good for the most But I do think in in the playoffs,
yes, obviously Kawhi, Paul George's and James Harden's field goal attempts of minutes,
they're all going to go up. Zoos might you know, stay the
same, But I'm wondering if they're kind of maybe getting Zoo used to a
playoff diet of shops or something like that, right, because I hope not
I need more than three. I hope it's more than three too. I
don't want to make it seem like that, but I yeah, we hopefully
the pick and roll maybe has some more emphasis against different competition. No disrespect
to the Blazers, but that roster they put out there tonight, just from
the guys they had available because of the injuries and everything, it's kind of
a weird one, I think, to take a lot away from when it
comes to, you know, stringent half court offense. So we'll see how
it looks at twelve thirty on Sunday, you know, against the Sixers who
are also down obviously very you know, a key piece. But I hope
he gets more than three. But he did look good otherwise, right he
did? He did? I don't know. I guess I'm looking for something
just to give the full scope of what happened tonight and make sure, Okay,
you're chasing perfection, but it could still be more perfect than it was
tonight. The one thing I will say, though, even though it was
Portland, what I saw from Kawhi and Paul George really has nothing to do
with that, with their individual movement and just looking very healthy and fresh out
there. And also the Clippers were attacking so quickly they didn't play with their
food at all. I mean, being up forty two to twenty seven over
the Portland Trailblazers, most people would think, Okay, they're gonna slow roll
into this one. They're gonna slow drip into this one. Maybe lead by
a couple points heading into the second quarter. I mean I think they were
down by one or two heading into the second quarter on Wednesday night. No,
no, no, they hit the ground running tonight. There was purpose
out there. Yeah, and I was I don't know if I was underwhelmed
by the first game against Portland this week. I think I guess I was
whelmed to quote ten things I hate about you, but I was pleasant.
You know. I liked the process in this one, right, because you're
right they were. It was foot on the throat. They did what they
were there to do. There was kind of a hiccup there. PJ.
Tucker only played eight minutes, and I say that because he's played a lot
of minutes lately. So TYLERU had to deal with that calf injury. It
sounded like I was, Yeah, we hope it's just the calf. And
then you kind of have this weird thing too with with Bones. He you
know, the body language has been rough from Bone lately. Obviously his roles
changed a lot, but that's odd for him to deal with it seems,
so we hope that gets figured out. But yeah, just you know,
just I hope Bones is doing all right because he I think he does have
a future with the Sea. The last two games coming into this one,
uh yeah, some bad body language. You could see it out there.
He just looked a little bit unfocused, a little bit checked out. And
I'm not sure why, because you know, he starts alarad a couple of
games, and I thought for the most part, especially that game in Chicago
where he looked fantastic, But even in the loss of the Pelicans, I
didn't think he played bad. Uh. I thought it was up and down,
but you expect that from a young player. And then he didn't look
good against Atlanta. He definitely didn't look good and he was pulled early in
that game Wednesday for Brandon Boston, as I think coach Lew saw he just
the energy wasn't right there, and then tonight what he played for in consequential
minutes very late in the ballgame, like, yeah, it was I mean
Moon was in there before he was, So that kind of says it all.
That is disappointing, especially for a skeleton keyholder like myself. But I
about Terren's Man back back in the starting lineup with a bullet like Terror's Man
looked fin. I was a little bit worried because you know, he gets
hurt in practice after talking about having that ankle injury before that practice took place
and being one hundred percent finally and then he has a shoulder issue, but
he missed one game, came back, he looked fantastic tonight. Yeah,
Terrence Man is hitting the exact kind of you know upswing that you need a
player like Terrence Man to hit for a playoff team. Right. He is
a starter, but he's very much the fifth option for the starting lineup offensively.
So he was wildly efficient tonight, which is great if the ball's gonna
somehow find his way to him on offense. I don't think any of us
are super worried about that. You want him to, you know, make
some quicker decisions when it comes to shooting. But you know, in the
playoffs, I think he's gonna be okay. But he's he handled Scoot right
like he's that's their point of attack guy, right, So he's kind of
got to handle him well enough to shuffle him off to two point three in
the playoffs. So his point of attack defense is looking solid and his offense
is looking decisive, which is the best possible version of Terrence Man and the
version of the Clippers are going to need depending who they play in the first
round. Speaking of that, they're currently a game and a half up on
the New Orleans Pelicans Clippers in the four spot. New Orleans in the five
they won earlier tonight, Dallas Mavericks. There are a couple games behind the
Pelicans. We saw the brandon Ingram injury. Thankfully, it's not as bad
as it looked last night. That's great news for Pelicans fans. For the
entire NBA, he's one of my favorite players to watch because he embraces the
mid range game. It's just fun. He looks he looks very similar,
you know, because the expectations were so high with him coming out of Duke
and they were talking about him being Kevin Durant, and at this point,
you know, he's like seventy percent at least of what Kevin Durant is,
and that's a pretty damn good player, and he's been an All Star before.
But what will it take for your faith to be rewarded in this Clippers
team with just thirteen games left to say, Okay, they're back. They
had that rut, they had that bump in the road, They're now ten
to ten post Grammy road trip last twenty games. What's it gonna take for
you to really start believing again that they can get back to that level they
were for two months. So I'm not so much worried about the record,
right because if good process, which is what I'm you know, it's a
pretty broad term, but that's just what I'm worried about because this Clippers team,
you know, you know, we had the nine game win stream,
but outside of that, it's been a little disjointed. So I want to
see good process. With good process comes wins for a roster like this and
a team that we have seen kind of hit close to its peak this season.
So I just want to see good process down the line. I would
love to see Paul George continue this up swing on offense and you know,
on the other side of the wall too, and tylu I hope we see
some not playoff rotations, you know what I mean, necessarily, but maybe
the playoff rotation a little more figured out because right now, you know,
we have Russell Westbrook coming back for the Pacers the game on Monday, which
he's going to get some playoff minutes, so he's got to get back into
the rotation and things like that. So I'm going to be looking at Tyler's
rotations mostly this last a little bit because that's also going to dictate, you
know, how good of process the Clippers aren't able to have with who's out
there. I like that. That's a good point. Do we have a
YouTube coming up tomorrow? We're gonna preview the back to back tomorrow. Chuck,
Yeah, I believe we are. Okay, that's pretty cool too.
Here's Chuck Mofler of Clips and Dip. Look for that YouTube. Not sure
if it'll be alive or not, but it will be on the YouTube channel
at Clippers Podcast is where you can find that for Clips and Dip. Charles,
thanks for doing a little double dip tonight here on Clipper sock. Hey,
always a good time to come on when they win. It's usually not
your thing. Will so jealous right now, so jelly, thank you,
Chuck. I'm a good one. Clippers whin once twenty five to one,
seventeen in Portland over the Blazers. Okay, they're coming back to take on
the Philadelphia seventy six ers next coming up here on Clippers Talk final segment.
You're gonna hear from Terrence Man. We'll get back to your phone calls.
Eight six six ninety seven two five seventy. This is Clippers stock here on
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Clippers win once forenty five to one's seventeen up North over the Blazers. They
sweep the two game mini series. It's a good way to get tuned up
for a real playoff series coming up. Thirteen games left. That's it in
the regular season for the Clippers, and then the first round of the playoffs
start, although there's playing now before that, so they'll get about a week
off. I'm at a mazle and this is Clipperstock. Let's get to Mark
in Hunson Beach before we get out of here. Mark, what's up?
Hey? I think I figured it out. They had a good win on
Wednesday. They're up in that beautiful fresher era of Oregon. Maybe they even
had some fresh salmon right out of the good old Columbia River. And I
don't know how many Pisces players we have on the team, but if you're
a Paceason, you're by water, you just feel more energized. So I'd
be curious to see what the zodiac composition of our team is. But I
think it was just the environment that they were in. They just got relaxed.
It was almost like being on vacation with that wonderful Oregon weather out there
and the fish, and I think that's probably some of it. That kind
of just played into the fact that, you know, we feel real good,
let's do it. Maybe God's country. Well, they were living right,
I get it. I've been to organ. I like it there.
Shout out Eugene. Yeah. And then and then the salmon. If they're
lucky enough, if any of them like fish, I mettioned, they could
have got some of the best salmon dinners that they you know, could possibly
get right there. You know, But how about how about this for a
plot twist, Mark, Maybe they just ate a lot of voodoo donuts.
They were powered by those bad boys, the old dirty Bassard donut. Yeah,
that could be too. Yeah, I never thought of that. Okay,
I'm gonna have to look up the zodiac scans of all the team just
so I can do a star chart for the team in general. You know
what I would like to hear about that. That's your research project. A
little bit of homework here, all right? Mark? Okay? And yeah,
and unfortunately we got that mattin a on Sunday. But you know what,
I think this time it's gonna be different. We're not gonna I don't
think we're gonna come out all half of sleep. I think for some I
just got this feeling we're gonna do what we did tonight first quarter. But
it's gonna be different for us. It could be different for us, the
Tobias Fumek, the rest of development gif. I like the positivity. Mark.
Let's hear some more from Terrence Man postgame, who dropped twenty seven of
twelve shooting in thirty six minutes. Welcome back to man. Here he was
on Bally Sports with Christina Pink. Here he was on bally Sports. Come
on computer, upgrade, upgrade, AI get back wins for this group.
But really, you guys putting a lot of effort aggressiveness together in that first
half. What'd you like about the energy you guys played with. We talked
about it and went out there and did it, and that's something that's been
on our minds. We wanted to get more effort and energy, especially on
the defensive end. So it's good to see. I know you do not
like to miss games. What you're back and you've played with a ton of
aggressiveness yourself. What got you going twenty points for you tonight? I think
these guys aggression. I just fed off their energy. Also, Kawhi PG
and Jane started a game off really aggression, So it was good to see
and I just fed off that. How do you guys carry this one?
The energy you played with tonight back home? Keep it on our minds as
we go back home. We got a tough stretch coming up, so's keep
it on our minds and play hard. Can't just talk about it, got
to be about it. That's how I interpreted that. But yes, they
played with much more energy, much more effort. That word has been coming
up a lot in a negative connotation way over the last couple of weeks with
this Clippers team. Tonight things look different from the outset. Hopefully it carries
over Philadelphia on Sunday. Yes it's Mattine. Yes, it's the front end
of a back to back Pacers on Monday night. Tip time on Sunday against
the Philadelphia seventy six Ers is at twelve thirty. We'll have your pregame show
starting at eleven thirty. Before we get out of here, though, let's
get to old Katie Newton in Katie Newton's casual NBA corner. Let's see if
she actually has a question for me tonight. I do have a question,
but it's not really about the NBA at all. But you kind of touched
on it there because we were talking, you know, we talked to Carlo
and we're like, all right, what have you been doing. He's like,
man, I went to Voodoo Donuts. Oh yeah, but you know
that's where they're from, Oregon, Oregon, and uh, you up there
too, and you just special ketchup in Portland special ketchup, A special ketchup.
You'll get them. You know it's Oregon, Idaho, Oregon's biggest export.
I think it's potatoes anyway. Fun fact. Yeah, okay, what
we got? What's the question? It's your favorite donut from Voodoo Donut,
an old dirty bastard. What is it it is? I think? I
mean it's a standard looking donut, but the topping is chocolate icing and I
think peanut butter drizzle on it and then crumpled up Oreos. I got to
book my flights, so not just chocolate peanut butter, which is amazing,
but Oreos on top of that for Carlo to bring us some back. I
think they got food Doo donuts down here, now, Katie, they got
premium donuts all over the place. There's a Randy's Donuts around It's like five
minutes from here. What are you talking about? Maybe we'll get them on
Sunday morning, if you're good, maybe I'll bring us some of these crazy
extravagant donuts. I start my day with a donut. I'm done. Well,
what a better way to start your day than just want to go back
to bed right afterwards? Because you hate yourself because you ate a bunch of
sugar, all right before we get out of here. I also want to
thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seman, Noah Ego, Carlo
Jimenez on the call Odb's freeze driving and bring them over. Being brother Jake
Warner, I had engineer who was in the building. Zacho Kaldy was here
too. Katie Dude, our producer, the callers, the listeners until Sunday
morning, we'll play the No Doubt song with the pre game show start again
eleven thirty. Mister Clippers sixers, I Meta moms, and we'll talk to
you about why he was doing his thing. And all they want to do
is win in La. I win. I thought they gave everything they had.
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