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it three straight and they've won seventeen of the last twenty two ball games.
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Los Angeles and iHeartRadio station. Clippers win running away with this one. Carlo
Jimenez, your radio voice. The Clippers rejoins us here as the Clippers dominate
the fourth quarter, win it twenty six to nineteen, and really dominated the
entire second half of this one. Carlos, they were excellent. It all
starts sentence with Kawhi Leonard, his ability to set the tone on the defensive
end, to keep up in transition to run with this team, Adam,
they were so good once he started to take control of this game, able
to push a one point lead to ten air in that third quarter. They
end up going up by seventeen to get it done. This is Miami Heat
team that came in scorching hot, that came in hitting all of their shots,
that was up twelve after the first quarter. The Clippers shut that down
quick and flex their muscles. It's not the first time in this long streak
of winning for the Clippers that they have had a slow start. But when
things pick up, they look like the best team in the NBA, and
Kawhi Leonard looks like the best player in the NBA when he's doing it like
this. Picked up right where he left off, but kind of eased into
the game in the first quarter, just a couple of takes. But then
in that second there was a different level of aggression out there, where he
had thirteen points on five of six shooting, found his rhythm, kept it
going early in the fourth, a couple of big throwdowns, a big three
pointer, and that opened the game wide up. Yeah it did, and
the team continued to rally behind him. I mean, he played so well
at him that they were taking him out with The game was over in the
fourth and we had team man say, ain't a one come out of game?
Keep playing thirty five flaw when you make him angry. I know,
I know you don't. You gotta imagine he's gonna be a little more acressive
next time out against the Phoenix Suns. But man, it was so incredible
to watch him get this team going of each a zubots at another twelve rebound
game. Clippers got contributors from everywhere, all up and down this lineup.
The turnovers weren't great tonight, but the Clippers fought through those and they were
able to take advantage of Miami's turnovers. Something we talked about pregame at him
that utah I had twenty six points off the nineteen Miami turnovers. Clippers had
twenty four points off the fourteen Miami turnovers. Tonight. That was huge.
But his Clippers team, yeah, they were able to get in transition get
some easy ones. You talk with te Man postgam and he said, I'm
just getting back to playing my style of basketball. You can see even though
yeah, he knocked down his first three pointer, couldn't get the other one
to go. But just him getting into the paint and transition and getting down
hill and that driving ability and that rim pressure. That is a big part
of his game. That has been I would say, the most reliable part
of his offense since he has come into the league five years ago. That's
what team Man brings. So when he's feeling good like that and having put
backs and easy layups defensively, he just becomes even better on that ends as
it just fuels you. Once you get your offense going, you're a little
bit more locked in out there. Clippers is a team. Same thing.
When they started knocking down shots and Paul George got on that heater in the
third quarter with back to back three pointers, a tough turnaround jumper, I
just felt the floodgates started to open up and the Clippers started to slow down.
Bam Aute Bio and Kevin Love at the basket as they were trying to
feast on the Clippers playing smaller. An underrated part of this game, Adam
is, I think the Clippers' ability to defend without fouling as the game went
on. I mean, this Miami team, especially out of Bio, was
doing all of their work at the free throw line to start this ballgame into
the early parts of the second half, but the Clippers were able to lock
down on the defensive end, not allow them to get to the line with
ease and really make it tough for a Miami team who shot thirty two percent
from three, when in reality their rotations got twenty eight percent for three.
Came coming into the night, they were tied for the NBA lead in three
point percentage and thirty nine percent. Yeah, Clippers fourteen of twenty nine from
the outside. Not too shabby in that area either, And they've slowly been
getting better and better and creeping up in the NBA stat statistical category of three
point percentage. And this is a team that has been top three three point
shooting team for years now under coach lou they have the ability to be I
think even better with the personnel they have now. James Harden once again three
to five from the outside. He's been shooting over forty three percent from three.
So they can compete with the best in the league. And you mentioned
their perimeter defense pretty good tonight against the Miami Heat, And I was a
little bit concerned coming in because I figured the Heat would be able to bounce
back after having a four to three point shooting night against the Utah Jazz,
and that lob of averagers will be in their favor. But going up against
this Clippers defense, with the way they've been playing last month, now,
it's just different. And now here in twenty twenty four, this Clippers team
looks very dangerous. Carlos, They look very, very dangerous. You mentioned
it during the broadcast. But since November seventeenth, only three teams have a
better record than the Clippers, the Celtics, the Timberwolves, and the Bucks,
and all those three teams are in conversations for a championship, and the
Clippers are joining that conversation. You heard team man mention they've had a couple
games now, three straight games. They have two days off before it starts
to get busy for the Clippers coming up. You talked about Adam nine to
sixteen. We'll see how that affects this team if they can keep the rhythm
going. Kawhi did get the eleven days off. He's coming from injury,
but that's a lot of time off for the claw. We'll see how much
he's able to play in that stretch. And the good thing was he looked
to be back in rhythm once he kind of forced the issue a little bit
more in that second quarter. Paul George in that third quarter was special Ofviza
Zubas continues to feast. I know he only had six points, but twelve
boards, and he was more impactful to me in the second half. And
I want to give credit to Russell Westbrook coming in the game and guarding Kevin
Love when they needed somebody to try to slow him down. He was taking
it out on some of the UCLA guys for the Miami Heat and this one
a little Ucla UCLA crime going on. Yeah, I'm sure those guys probably
see each other every summer in the runs that they hold over their UCLA's practice
facility. Reuss was excellent, especially in the second half at him. I
thought his energy set the tone defensively with those back to back steals. He
then forced the twenty four second violation at the top of the arc. Working
on out of bay, I had to throw up a prayer that didn't hit
the rim. Look to the crowd. The crowd, for whatever reason,
seems a lot more into it when he Russell Westbrook is out there making defensive
plays, trying to prove that he's one of the elite defensive players in the
NBA. He's pulling off that old Patrick Beverly like defensive move where whard he
locks up a guy, he puts up the index finger to indicate all first
team defense, and you look on the season, I think he's holding the
fenders to around forty percent in his primary matchups. He's been that good,
and he's taken a lot of pride in his defense. He wants to be
recognized for that. And it's a great thing to see a guy as his
game later on in his career. The ball doesn't need to be in his
hands as much when he's affecting the game on both ends of the court like
this. Yeah, he's able to run to the rim. Fine guys cutting
underneath the iron. Three assists tonight. This season. So far, Russ
has been averaging about five assists, which is second on this team. The
three point shot didn't go down from but it has his late knockdown two threes
in each of the prime or two games before this one. Continues to be
that spark plug off the bench and continues to be a part of that bench
unit along with Norman Powell that is just excellent. I mean Norm might have
had his best game is a Clipper tonight, nine for eleven from the field
a season I twenty two points, four for five from three he barely missed
to go along with a pair of steels and a pair of rebounds. He
was fantastic for the Clippers and continues to get it done in fourth quarters.
I believe he was three of three from the field. He came into this
one shooting fifty seven percent from the field in fourth quarters. Something you have
kept your eye on, Carlo Jimenez and a stude observation by you. The
Palell Rangers being led by Norman Palette times and just his otherworldly shooting down the
stretch of ball games. Yeah, it's it's been such a huge advantage for
this Clipper team because threes late in games, when you can swing from eight
to eleven, from five to eight, from eleven to fourteen. Those threes
are huge. They swing games, multiple possessions, and Norman pal Can he
used to deliver with those jumpers in the corners, feels like he has so
much confidence, supreme confidence. A guy off the bench who's averaging twenty six
minutes a game, but he plays thirty three tonight, makes nine field goals
and all of a sudden, I don't know what more he has to do.
I think oftentimes six Minute of the Year just comes down to a points
conversation. Who's having those points per game? And Norman Palell is creeping that
scoring average more and more. The last thirteen games, he's averaging over fourteen
points a game. I don't know how what he has to do to get
into the six minut of the year conversation, but it feels like he should
be in it with the way he's playing. And he was the only player
tonight off the bench that had a positive plus minus in that category of plus
thirteen and a game. The Clippers win one twenty one to one tozh four
over the Miami Heat. I'm with you. Start the campaign now, Norman
pal six Man of the Year, not just a candidate. Put him as
one of the front runners. normOn Palell special with twenty two points nine of
eleven shooting and it has been troublesome for the opposition to try to slow him
down. Clippers next game coming up. As Carlo mentioned, it gets tough,
a couple of tough ones on the road. They'll be in Phoenix on
Wednesday. Tip off for that once at six. Well of your pregame show
starting at five against the Phoenix Suns team that is starting to get it together
a little bit when it comes to health. Bradley Beal is back, but
Kevin Durant in play tonight they would take down the Portland Trail Blazers. Anyways,
expect him to be available on Wednesday. So a big matchup in the
West, a big matchup in the Pacific Division. Clippers in Phoenix on Wednesday.
Carlo, my friend great call is always looking forward to doing it all
over on Wednesday. Let's go back at it. We got the Phoenix Suns.
Clippers just trying to continue to show the league that they're at the top.
There at the top. Let's keep it rolling. Huh, We're putting
the league on notice. Let's go Clippers win once on one oh four here
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At follow out of May on X Clippers led by one at the half.
It was fifty nine to fifty eight after trailing by fourteen early in the
second quarter, but then Kawhi Leonard had thirteen points on five of six shooting.
Welcome back Kawhi. In that second quarter, Clippers with that one point
Heading into the third where Pg. Thirteen started to get it going, Paul
George dribbles to the right hand in and out cross gets by your a frithrow
line jumper is in Pg. Thirteen seven on the shock like George near wing
three bottoms Pg. Thirteen of four three George your angle an open three ken
beg thirteen island from long distance, holding out left hand. Fine to shoot,
he might not have a choice. It spins to a Frito line holds
out eighteen quarter at the best top all cords. Paul George is the first
player in twenty points. He's got twenty one. Paul George with twelve of
his eventual twenty three in that third quarter, and all of a sudden,
the Clippers were up by twenty heading into the fourth. Seen this story before
happened on Friday night too, but this time the Clippers kept the foot on
the gas and it was Kawhi Leonard with the pedal to the medals to start
the fourth. Clippers left the right rush Lasers Leonard right Block'll rock the rin
to him. Westbrook looking for Leonard, finds him near baseline, drives the
baseline, gets maun A file Rippers plunging right handed himmer. Here comes the
Claw, bleeding the Troops into the front court top of the R three Yes,
twenty four. Kaw Kawhi ended up the Claw with seven more points in
that fourth quarter, a couple of throwdowns as you heard there, a huge
three pointer that put him up by sixteen. Eventually he was taking out,
taken out of the game for playing too well. You could say, Terrence
Man came in for him. Kawhi's knight would end at thirty four minutes.
Had twenty four points on ten of nineteen, shooting two of five from the
outside, a couple of highlight dunks plus five assists, and the Clippers go
on to win one twenty one, so one oh four here at Crypto dot
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Get in a little extra work post game working with a trainer. Didn't end
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Miami Heat. They've won three in a row. They've won seventeen of their
last twenty two since the new starting lineup. Everything seems to be working and
coming up roses right now for you Los Angeles Clippers. Kawhi Leonard return and
had twenty four and did big work in the fourth quarter. A huge two
handed throwdown, a great feed from Russell Westbrook, just lobbed it over the
defense. Not easy to throw it down with two hands without a runway.
Kawhi Leonard, looking spry, picked up where he left off ten of nineteen,
two of five from the outside, twenty four six and five assists,
and the Clippers win one twenty one to one oh four over the Miami Heat.
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Welcome into twenty twenty four. Clippers make it three straight, seventeen of
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got postgame audio from the players and coach Lou. We'll get your phone calls.
I promise it was the return of Kawhi Leonard, something I predicted a
week ago. I get lucky once in a while. Once in a while.
I know it's not supposed to be received season, it's humility season.
But I'm having a relapse because I think it was Wednesday or Thursday on Cliffs
and Dip or we're going through our player predictions, player of the game predictions
for the upcoming two games in Memphis, or against the Memphis Grizzlies here at
Crypto and then the Clippers hosts of the Miami Heat. Against Memphis. I
took Terrence Man. He was in double figures, looks better and better,
got a three pointer to go tonight in the first quarter. But then I
said, I'm going bold with it. I'm predicting Kawhi Leonard's gonna be the
player of the game against Miami, which means he'd have to be back after
missing the last eleven days the last four games, and boy was he back.
And then some twenty four points ten of nineteen shooting and just explosive dunk
after explosive dunk in the fourth quarter, a two hand in rim Rocker,
then the dunk on Bam out of Bio took a baseline a three pointer,
and Kawhi was a little upset getting pulled out of the game. He want
to keep going. He loves the game. He missed the game, but
he made his presence felt in his return and helped the Clippers pull away in
this one. They led by as many as twenty two, they win by
seventeen, and they have won seventeen of twenty two. You're into numerology.
Since November seventeenth, Why is that date important or significant? Because that's when
they made the starting lineup change. That is when Russell Westbrook started coming off
the bench. The self sacrifice too, as VTB would say, him offering
to come off the bench as it wasn't working in the starting unit with him
and James Harden. Terrence May got into the starting unit, and since then
the Clippers are seventeen and five, even with Kawhi missing four games during that
run, even with Paul George missing a couple, pg's been struggling a little
bit more compared to his performance to start off the year, where the first
three weeks you could easily say he was their best player. But Kawhi has
just been not just the Clippers' best player, looking like the best player in
the NBA. But he started slow Tonight, just took two shots in the
first eight minutes of the first quarter. In the second, though, is
when Kawhi got it going, and wouldn't you know it would start with a
mid range jumper over Haimi Hakez, who played well tonight, had fifteen points,
a little fifteen footer his first points of the ball game, then a
three at the end of the shot clock in the second. Then he went
around Tyler Herro could not guard him and bam out of Bio for a layup,
and then had a putback on a mislayup by Harden in transition for an
and one as he fell to his backside a floater over Tyler Hero He had
a block that led to a hardened lob to a Viza zubots a fade away
in the third. It was nasty, it was money. Kawhi even lost
the ball at one point and had that found money as Carlo Jimenez would say,
picking it back up for an easy layup. But then in the fourth
the two handed jam without a runway. That tells you how good he's feeling
with his legs underneath him. And then the dunk on Bam a Kawhi three.
Clippers were up sixteen, went up by twenty two, end up winning
by seventeen. They just looked dominant. They're looking like a well oiled machine.
And the scary part is this, I don't think they're close to peaking
with James Harden yet. Harden had I tests would tell you an okay game.
He only took eight shots, but he was five of eight. Three
of those makes were three pointers, but ten assists to just two turnovers.
On a night where the Clippers had seventeen of them, most of them coming
in the first half, Harden had just two. Even with the ball being
in his hands. A Ton only had to play thirty one minutes as opposed
to the forty two he played Friday night against Memphis. But guys, I
told you he'd unlock the best version of two pine three. He's doing it.
His first bucket was a layup, then a three or another layup in
transition, to tie the game in the second quarter, where the Clippers were
down by fourteen early on the second not a good first quarter. Kawhi just
kind of eased his way in. Paul George did have eight points in the
first, but the Clippers were down thirty five to twenty three, down twelve
after the first twelve minutes. Harden had a nasty, nasty passed to a
Viza Zubas for a reverse layup to put them up sixteen in the fourth.
Then he just lobbed it over the defense again to Zoo for a layup over
Duncan Robinson. He just it's mortar fire. With some of his passes over
the defense, he was being doubled and he thought, oh, he's gonna
have to find somebody else near him on the perimeter to get out of this
one. No, he just threw it over the top of the double team
and somehow found to Beata Zubas. He is a savant, a basketball savant.
How people could have been against them bringing in James Harden. It's not
a head scratcher. That is mouth the gape baffling to the nth degree.
It's just how would you not want the guy or why would you not want
the guy who led the league in assists last season. He has made the
Clippers infinitely better. He has made everyone's life easier. And this is what
he's been doing the last couple of seasons. Joe el Embiid was the MVP
last year partially because James Harden helped him set the table, got him to
his spots, and then rush tonight. You know, I thought he had
a rough stint in the first half. He had a turnover early on,
then he got a jumper over Kevin Love, then a spin move around Heimi
Hawk as he was torching his UCLA brethren. But he went up in the
second quarter or near the end of the first, he was trying to draw
fouls when they weren't being called. They basically were turnovers, just forcing it,
taking difficult shots, thinking he'd get a foul called. Didn't happen.
But then in the third his post defense on Kevin who probably has fifty pounds
on him, and back to back possessions was insane, ended up with steeles
for us, got a layup out of one of them. He was defending
Bam to start the fourth. He's priding himself on the defensive end right now.
He wants you to know this is what he can do. He had
a lockdown defensive play on the perimeter against bam Adebayo, resulting in I want
to say that was the twenty four second shot clock violation for the Mammi Heat,
A team that doesn't make a lot of mistakes like that. It's either
here Tyler Harrell. He got it on special guys accepting new roles, starring
in them, showing off different parts of their game. Russ has never made
a defensive all defensive team. I don't believe could be time he keeps playing
like this just seventeen minutes, but I thought they were impactful. Eight points,
four of ten, shooting, four boards, three assists, those turnovers,
But defensively is where I thought he'd shine tonight. And now let's talk
about Norman Powell. Immediately a three and then a steal, but a floater
to start the second quarter. Another three in the second, a three off
a Kawhi pass in the second as the double team came, Kawhi found him.
Norm had a nice runner in the third going to his right, a
quick jumper in the fourth, a dunk out of a timeout when they sicked
the Power Rangers line about there basically norm replacing Terrence Mann with the rest of
the starters. That's the Powell Rangers lineup. Another floater. He went three
or three in the fourth quarter from the field. He came into this game
shooting fifty seven percent from the field and fourth quarters in over fifty one percent
from three and fourth quarters this year. Ridiculous. So this Clippers team surging,
but really good to see them come back down fourteen where they looked out
of rhythm, out of soorts. Kawhi wasn't aggressive early, and then in
that second quarter when he was, everything kind of fell into place. They
stopped turning the basketball over as much as they were in the first quarter,
where they had seven of their seventeen turnovers, they had just two in the
second. Things just got more serious for this team once Kawhi Leonard upped his
level of play and announced his return. Big night for him, big night
for the Clippers, another dominating performance, and they are now twenty and twelve
on the season. I'll update you on the standings coming up. We'll get
to your phone calls. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight
ninety seven two five seventy quick timeout here from Crypto dot Com. As I
continue to watch Mason Plumley put in that postgame work far side corner, Big
plum showing off the three point shooting with the left hand. Just knock one
down, rattled home. Now he's going to the left wing. This team
is focused, oh bottom, straight down the strings for Big Plum. Back
to back three pointers in the left wing. Now now he's going to the
right wing. Let it fly, big man ah rattling it out. Clippers
win once forty one to one oh four here at Crypto over the Miami Heat.
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NBA's standings after the Clippers win one twenty one to one oh four here at
Crypto o the Miami Heat, with Kawhi returning to lead them with twenty four
points in just thirty three minutes. Clippers currently still in that fourth spot as
they are just two and a half games behind the three seed in the Denver
Nuggets. Clippers win tonight make it three straight seventeen of their last twenty two
they have won since the new starting lineup. Welcome back into the Clippers stock.
I'm Adam Oslin eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy. Well here from Kawhi Leonard post game.
But let's start things off with Morris in Long Beach. I think he
called in first. Morris was up here on clipperstock. Hey, Adam,
I'm a happy New Year. Let me tell you something, Hey, Adam,
these guys are good. No, seriously, I'm not saying that as
a Clippers fan. I'm saying that as a gambler. These guys are really
good. Kawhi Leonard coin of reminds me of the guy across town and that
guy in New Orleans. Just he gets into the paint and he just bullies
people. The Clippers don't have to ride him, they don't have to ride
anybody, but they could. Kawhi is very, very strong. I don't
think people realize how strong he is. One of the things that I was
looking for tonight to sing in this game was out of bio. With respect
to the offense, rebound because that always been the Uchillities heels for us.
But my boy, Zubab, my goodness, I know he didn't finish the
game, but we got the inside play. We got the inside play.
The team is deep. The team is deep. You saw tonight, you
saw Powell. But when they get on that road tip going back and each
you know it's going to be tough coffee. I'm impressed with him in Bones
Highland. He's gonna get a shot. And I know I know that Tyron
new he's got to get the Coach of the Month man for the month of
December. Okay, he's got These guys played like you were talking about how
people were against James Harden when he first came to the Clippers. Now,
Adam, let's stee here. When you're losing, you know, and you're
dealing with fans, that's how we learned out. That's just how they him
to the Clippers to start with many of them more, not just when they
got off to that slow start losing five straight. Well, they must not
know basketball. But these guys are good. And let me tell you why.
I say these guys are good. And two quarters you were watching the
game, they did a thirty three point turnaround. Did they do it or
not? I believe you are correct. And two come on, that's that's
something else for us two and a half quarter. And but like I said,
they don't have to ride Kawhi. They could, they could, they
don't have to, and they're saving him for the playoffs. Adam, We're
good this year, man. I really think this is the year. They've
got all the pieces. Everybody's acting right, like you say, everybody's paying
their role. And I'm telling them one more time. If Tyron Lew does
not get the Coach of the Month for December, the step sight up thepth.
But let me let you go to get another call. But if y'all
gamblers out there, bet on the Clippers man that they're good. Happy New
year, Morris. I appreciate the phone call. Yeah, yeah, they're
good. I put it out a tweet that was just kind of tongue in
cheek obviously, matter of fact, said the Clippers in twenty twenty four are
dangerous. It's been one game. They got a tough road trip coming up,
but great victory when you see Kawhi Leonard back like this. In fact,
somebody predicted that Kawhi would be returning tonight. It was me cutting the
umbilical cord every night, five every major category. I just I don't know.
I think it's a little bit here on clips and dip audio here,
Katie, just a little bit, just a little bit, hit that little
right arrow. We can go up five seconds here. That was an interesting
way, you know what. I'm not even gonna play the clip because the
more I think about it, we say some things on clips and dip that
may not be appropriate on Clippers talk. But take my word for it or
just follow me at follow Adam a on X. It was last Wednesday or
Thursday, and I went out on a limbs. I Thinkawhi is going to
be back for the Miami Heat game and he'll be the player of the game.
He was. Let's hear from him post game before we get to more
phone calls. Speaking with Christina Pink on Valley Sports so much, Brian Kawhi,
you know, even with a shorthanded Heat team that they were going to
be competitive, how are you guys able to blow the doors open in the
fourth quarter just with our defense. I think we came in the fourth quarter
up team, and you know we wanted to, you know, keep proud
on ourselves about you know, nine landing teams back into the game. So
our defense as well went well, and then we started making shots, showing
your presence all over the floor. But it looked like you really got your
rhythm going in that second quarter. What allows you to get comfortable just start
playing hard. I mean now probably the last nine or ten day. So
you know, first my first few minutes, I'll just running up and down
the court, and I just told myself to play harder and eventually things came
my way. All right, you guys start twenty twenty four in the win
column. When this team is coole, when this team is playing its best
basketball, what does it look like? Oh, looks like this. You
know, we come in, share the ball, knockdown shots, and play
great defense. All right, Thanks Kawhi. Happy New Year, Brian,
Happy New year. Kawhi Clippers win one twenty one to one oh four over
the Miami Heat. Love seeing Kawhi Leonard. He talked about it there.
He just started playing harder in the second quarter. Basically, want to see
his wind. I guess in the first quarter where he was at physically felt
good, All systems go and then he would help put this Miami Heat team
away in that fourth quarter, just detonating at the rim with multiple throwdowns.
Let's go to Lenny in Inglewood. Lenny, what's up your clippers? Talk
with that Amazon? What's up Adam good Man? Goodwin? I you know
the thing that I'm just a little concerned about it, But I guess it's
a good I guess a good problem to have is that even gets in Memphis,
we do play a lot of io ball, and I know that works
during the regular season and it works during the postseason too. Io Ball is
mostly what you see later in a series because teams know each other, they
know exactly what's going to happen, and eventually it's your best against their best
in a lot of one on one matchups. Watch any game seven, you
know how you know how poor or how low scoring Game sevens typically are is
because it turns into a ton of iso pol because both teams have seen everything
once you get to that point in the series. Yeah, yeah, that's
a good point. I think norm Pole is really the chip that's going to
push us, you know, into that final into that final phase, man,
because like I said, there's no win in the league like him.
His efficiency, and it's not just the fact you can't key on him from
outside because he can blow by you. He's got he's got hops, he's
got penetration and that, and that one hand floater is just as deadly as
at three. So you know, hopefully Paul Paul George gets a little more
locked in. He's it takes him ten shots to kind of get going.
But once he's locked in, man, I only see I only see Denver
and Celtics being being able to give us, give us some serious run because
we just got too many weapons. Man, it's just too many weapons in
the fact, and now you've got, like you said, Russell Westbrook establishes
himself on d it's just phenomenal, man. I mean, that's that's the
role that the other team want him to play. And he refused to.
He didn't want to do that, but he came. He came to the
to the cliffs and he's he's doing you know, like like too Short said,
you get in where you fit in, and that's what he's doing,
man. And you know, I'm glad that team. Man looks like he's
coming around a little bit. But once again, it's not like we need
it because we got normal Powell off the bench and Kobe Brown, So yeah,
we looking good. Man. I think that as we get closer to
the closer into the deep into the season, you're really going to see Tyler
Lowe begin to, you know, do his chest his chest thing, and
begin to get to the boys ready. But like I said, it looks
good, It looks good. That was a good wedin to night, all
right, Lenny, appreciate the phone call. Agree with you in a game
where the Miammi Heat got up fifteen more free throws than the Clippers, who
still win by seventeen. But you started off there talking about Norman Powell.
He's so damn efficient when he's making quick decisions, specially that's when you know
he's feeling good and he's caught a great rhythm. And that's what we've seen
really since the first couple of weeks of the season. The dunk he had
out of the time out off the assist from James Harden when it was just
just a twelve point game with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter that ignited
a run that was special. And he just makes it look so easy when
he's going to his right, He's almost unstoppable. He is a professional scorer
in the same way Sweet Lou Williams was for this team. Jose In Downey
here on Clipper stocked with out of Maslin. What's up, Josey? Adam,
Hey Adam, how you doing? Happy New Year? Brother, Yeah,
Happy New Year. I've been gone for a couple of days. Keep
the disappearing that going quick as lot as the Clippers don't. Yeah, yeah,
exactly, exactly. Quick question for you man, for Paul George and
Tea men, I know they've been having offensive struggles, and I really do
think, you know, obviously Kawhi is gonna be the guy that they're gonna
focus on on the you know, on the defense on the other side of
the other team's gonna be on him. What do you think the early struggles
that Paul George is having, man, in the last week and a half,
I don't think much of it. He was seven or fourteen tonight,
he hit three three points, he was at fifty, he had twenty three
points. He had eight points in the first quarter, and then I want
to say, in the third he ended up grabbing twelve points. And when
he got it going in the third, he knocked down back to back three
pointers. I think I'm both on the right wing, and then had a
tough fade away jumper. I'm just not that worried about Paul George. I
think the reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated. However you want to put
it. He was their best player in the first three weeks of the season.
Then he gets then Kawhi takes over. Then Paul George gets injured,
then he gets an illness. I think he's just working his way back into
a rhythm that there are times where I felt like he's lost focus here and
there, he's gotten too caught up with the officials. But you see him
start one for eleven Friday night and then go seven of ten the rest of
the way and knock down big shots in the fourth quarter when they needed him
to. That to me, is more meaningful when you're facing that adversity,
when you're not playing your best, and you can turn it around. That's
the type of stuff that I think you can draw from later on in the
season and in the playoffs when you're having off nights, they're gonna happen.
Especially with Paul George. This is who he is. He's a rhythm shooter.
He goes through some slumps. But again, what are you talking about
seven or fourteen? Fifty three points? Twenty three points on fourteen shots.
That's not bad, Jose. It's not it's not you know, And I'm
looking forward to this. I think they play eight games in the next sit
from here to the sixteenth, and it's some good some good teams in between
there. You know. I'm really looking forward to it, man. I
want to see where we land after these eight games and then finally I think
they get like multiple days off after that that game on the sixteenth. I'm
really looking forward to this. Yeah, they'll be tested. It's a good
point. Appreciate the phone call, Jose. Hope to hear from you on
Wednesday as well. Clippers twelve and two over the last fourteen games, Rick
leaving the game, Rick, what's up? You're on Clipper staff with Adam?
Awesome? Rick, do you hear us? Am? Hello? Oh?
I can hear you? Do? You got me though? Man?
Just to hey, yeah, guess so. You just want to make it
short and quick that my octolve year old Max and I left the game today.
We were on a really bad streak. From the twenty one Phoenix series
to the series last year, to the Oklahoma game last year where PG got
hurt, and then the game against the Pelicans this year when we locked in
in that anties and tournament game. So we were really iffy about going tonight.
But you know what, for some reason mid second half, we switched
seat you know, from ten to SEE nine, and then for some reason
they went on the run. So we're feeling good that we saw win finally,
but just wanted to make it short and sweet and happy New Year,
Cu and the rest of the team. Happy New Year, Rick, I'm
glad the old swishero with the seats brought the Clippers some luck. If you
believe in that sort of thing in superstitions like that, I don't, which
means Rick, it's not your fault. It's not your fault. Those losses
before the Paul George injury nothing to do with you, my friend. This
is a players deciding things out there on the court, and uh yeah,
deciding their own destiny. Clippers win one twenty one to one oh four tonight
because they're the ones that put in the work. I understand. It's fun
to be a fan like that sometimes and that think, oh I jinxed them
in this, But there's somebody doing the exact same thing on the other side
of the equation. So who the basketball gods of the sports gods go with?
The players put in the work, and they put in work. Tonight
they win one twenty one to one oh four over the Miami Heat final timeouts.
We'll come back, We'll close things out. More phone calls eight six
six, ninety eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy Howie tags others. We got coach Loupo's Game two, Kawhi made
his triumphant return, had twenty four on nineteen shots. That is that is
so inefficient for him to only go ten of nineteen. He just doesn't look
right. Guys, I don't know it's Kawhi okay, you only shot fifty
two percent from the field, and sad the sixty two percent he was shooting
the last eleven games. Oh, those dunks in the fourth quarter. I'm
gonna have to watch those again during the break a dunkover bam special. More
clipperstock. Next here on ampire seventy LA Sports. They want to bring a
banner with them to the into it down more LA Clippers Basketball on the LA
Clippers Audio Network. Clippers win one twenty one to one oh four over the
Miami Heat. Welcome back into Crypto dot com arena. Mayson Plumbley has finished
his postgame workout. How was your roving reporter? Not really roving? Stationary
sedentary? Clippers win by seventeen over Miami. Kawhi returns drops twenty four in
thirty three minutes and was upset about being taken out of the game. It's
the right move. You're up big. Come on. You gotta protect players
from themselves at times, but also love that mentality. Kawhi hadn't played the
last four games, missed the last eleven days, eleven days since he last
played against the Dallas Mavericks. Picked right back up where he left off.
Uh, we still have one more time out before we get to it.
Sook in full or two. Sook your on Clipper style without a manslim.
What's up, Adam? How are you a happy New Year? New You're
sick? Good way to start things off by the Clippers. Huh oh most
definitely, you know what great game. I thought everybody had an imprint on
this game, Every single player made themselves known, starting off with Kawhi Leonard.
You know, quiet first quarter, but you can see what happens when
he elevates his game, the entire team steps up. I feel like,
this is what they say about great basketball players is you know, yeah,
they make everybody better. But man, when he stepped up his energy,
everybody follows suit. James Harden. I think there was a moment in the
third quarter where you could just see it in his eyes where he could just
like smell blood. And I don't think we've had that type of energy on
the Clippers for a while, where you've got a player who just wants to
demolish the other team. Russell Westbrook, oh my god, when he fronted
Kevin Love back to back that energy so and you know, one of the
things I've been thinking about is, you know, how we've changed so much
from last year. But one of the things that we don't talk about much
is how much coach Lou has changed. I think he even mentioned last year
he had some like personal issues, maybe a death in the family, But
this year he's coaching so differently. I love what he said about team Man,
where he basically just gave t Man license like he's not expecting him to
play offense, just wants them to focus defensively. What did that do?
Took all the pressure off of te Man and all of a sudden t Man
is now stepping up offensively. And I wouldn't be surprised if team if coach
Lou also had a hand in talking to Westbrook and asking Westbrook to come off
the bench. Like great coaching this year, very different from how he was
last year. And a man, what a game. Every single player made
their presence felt, every single play made their imprint on this game. It
was amazing. What a great start to the year, sir. I'm with
you. Appreciate the phone call call back on Wednesday. I don't think we've
heard from you before. Sok and Fullerton. Nice little breakdown there and giving
coach Lou love deservedly so pushing all the right buttons. Clippers win once twenty
one to one oh four here at Crypto over Miami, Quick time out,
we'll come back. We'll close things out with your phone calls. Big brother
Jake Warner is here as well. You know what that means. More Clippers
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Kawhi Leonard dropping twenty four. Clippers win one twenty one to one oh four
over the Miami Heat here at Crypto dot Com Arena tonight. Got to meet
a friend, met him on the phone plenty of times, phone a friend,
but gott to meet him in person. Finally met the whole family,
tagus and Walnut was in the building. I don't even know if he knew
that Kawhi Leonard was going to be playing tonight, and boy did he ever
tags not a bad ball game to come to. Huh. Oh, it
was awesome had him and Happy New Year. Was great meeting you. Uh,
it was pretty loud. I was. I was showing you the underground
goat shoes. I was, I was sporting I eventually caught on those are
the Lou Williams special. Yeah, I'm gonna ask you something about him at
the end of uh what I'm glad to say. But uh, after that
first quarter looked like it, you know, the Clippers, you know,
got over there New Year's Eve hangover. Uh, they actually just started playing
smart basketball, and I knew that Kawhi was going to pick it up,
and they they kept attacking Tyler Hero. And this is what I've noticed throughout
the games. They they scope out the opponents defender and they keep going to
him. So you saw Kawai in the second quarter do that, and then
you saw Powell go at him, and I think it was hardened a few
times, and the Hero had no answer for anyone on the Clippers, and
they just they're just playing smart basketball. I quoted Goodwill Hunting earlier. That
was matchup hunting though by the Clippers. Yeah, And you know, when
you look at the team overall, when the casuals were worried about Hard and
Harden coming and we lost our glue, guys, amre Coffee has filled that
gap so well. You saw him in that second quarter make a lot of
open shots and him and Kui kind of kept they kind of you know,
got that fourteen point hole and we took a one point lead. But he
was so instrumental in that. And amre Coffee doesn't get a praise, but
he's been playing so well. And nice fade away in the second hit a
three pointer in the second quarter. I hope he continues to get fifteen minutes
around on their night, depending on the matchup. But even with Kawhi and
this team fully healthy, Emir, he's needed, Oh, he is needed.
And uh, you know when when I look at their offense and there's
still a lot of fine tuning left. But the other opposing teams they have
to prepare for either hard and doing a pick and roll or him to step
back three. And I'm with you, but we got to get out here
soon. You got thirty seconds, okay, And uh, you know,
it's just we got a lot of fine tuning, but we're going to be
really dangerous. And speaking on Lou Williams, and in the spirit of him,
where do you rank him as all time clutch clippers? Like last moment
shot, you gotta have someone What I got Lou Williams. I don't got
anyone else other than Lou Williams taking that shot. Where do you got Lou
swelu? Yeah, lose a bad man. What he did in the playoff
thirty one point comeback against the Golden State Warriors, hitting tough shot after tough
shot. But I remember game winner over I want to say it was the
nets here he got one against Toronto. I think love sweet Lou Williams.
All right, Mark in Huyington, quickly, you got thirty seconds. Mark
here on clippersack. Okay, I don't want anyone to take this the wrong
way. I love Terrence Man, but I watched the game tonight and when
he tried to do his threes, two of the times he had an open
shot to run it to the basket. And I know coach Lou likes to
tell him to, you know, take an open shot. But I until
its three falls, and I know you got to take the threes to make
him fall. But for the meantime, just run it to the rim.
Everything else he does is perfect. It's just that he when he gets after
he misses one or two, it's like I should have taken that to the
basket. That's all I'm gonna say. Constructive Lias, all right, Mark,
I appreciate the phone call. He was one of two from the outside
hit his first three after missing his last thirteen over the last three games.
Before we get out of here, we got Big Brother Jake Warner Big Brother
Jake podcast in the podcast one network. The Fake Philosophers, one of his
nicknames, one of many, Big Bro, how are you doing? Happy
new ya Adam? And this everything's great man. We want tonight? Oh
yeah, I said, we so I get a paycheck. I don't care
mat now. This is a big moment because this is the first of twenty
twenty four positive moments with the fake philosopher big Brother Jake Morner. Here we
go. Just the fact we don't know our due date on death should be
enough motivation to live every day to your highest potential. Just should I spend
all the money I have later tonight? No? Okay, okay with it?
Maybe tomorrow, but not tomorrow Vegas. Thanks, big Bro, good
to see you. Before we get out of here, I want to think
the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Brian Seeman, Noah Ego, Carlo Jimenez
on the call, Katie Newton, our producer, back in the bank,
the callers, the listeners, the people I gotta see here at Crypto.
Tonight, Clippers win one twenty one to one oh four over the Miami Heat.
Kawhi Leonard is back Clippers in Phoenix on Wednesday, tip off at six.
Your pregame show starting at five I'm outa Oslin. We'll talk to you.
Then Kawhi was doing his thing. All they want to do is win
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