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Why Leonard post game after this series win and the head coach Doc Rivers.
But the terminator activated himself in that fourth quarter. It was just a six
point lead for the Clippers after being up by as many as twenty three in
the third, also because Kawhi Leonard had fourteen points in that third quarter,
but Luca don in the Dallas Mavericks and they were not going away. Luca
had sixteen points in the third. He had twenty three points in the second
half. Kawhi had twenty two. But the game was in danger without Kawhi
Leonard on the court to start off the fourth quarter. But you're in very
safe and capable hands when you give the ball to the claw. He comes
back sham it hits a three. And then Kawhi scores eight straight points in
the fourth quarter, and all of a sudden, the Clippers are up fifteen
again, and Reggie Jackson went to hit a couple of three pointers to close
it out. And that's all she wrote for the Dallas Mavericks this season.
Tip of the cat to Dallas. They were great in this series. They
took the Clippers to six with some spectacular play from Luca Donchich, but it
was also the others Trey Burke, Seth Curry, Tim Hardaway, Junior,
Bobon Marianovitch our old friend who played heavy minutes in this one. But as
Noah Eagle pointed out postgame, the Clippers did a much better job against those
guys. Trey Burke just two of ten in this one. Tim Hardaway Junior
four for fifteen, Seth Curry three of seven, and he had been on
fire all series long against the Clippers. Stray Burke had a twenty five point
game where he was ten for fourteen. Tim Hardaway Junior was money from distance.
But in this game, after starting three of six in the first quarter
from three, all of a sudden, the Clippers defense, that vaunted perimeter
defense that we've talked about all season long, even without Patrick Beverley, really
showed up in the final three quarters. There was a stretch from the second
quarter into the third quarter where Dallas was one for seventeen from three, and
some of it was just miss shots, but a lot of it was better
defense by the Clippers rotations, covering for the guy next to you, playing
five guys on a string. It was beautiful to watch that level of defense
against the number one offense in NBA history, the most efficient regular season offense
in NBA history, and they had showed that offense in the six game series
against the Clippers at times. But the thing that hurt them early on in
the series was the three points shooting from the Dallas Mavericks and their role players
and contributors, and the Clippers finally figured it out by the end, and
that's why they were able to hold Dallas to just ninety seven points. But
Kawhi Leonard, he set the tone. He had three steals in the first
three minutes of the game, finished with five steals, thirty three points,
fourteen rebounds. He joins, Oh, I don't know this guy named Michael
Jeffrey Jordan who did it back in nineteen eighty nine in a playoff game.
Only two players in NBA history to have at least thirty three points, fourteen
boards, seven assists in five steals in a playoff game Kawhi and Michael Jordan.
The guy I've been comparing Kawhi Leonard two at least in the mid range.
It's not just the hands, it's the arsenal of moves he has.
It's the way he can close out a game and take over and know when
two while getting the others involved. Kawhi Leonard is special. He's the best
player in the game, and he plays for your Los Angeles Clippers. And
this is why you always have to be confident when he's on the floor for
them, You are the best team on the planet when Kawhi Leonard is playing
like this, when he is making sure and refusing to lose. And I
thought he smelled blood in the water in the second half, and the Clippers
came out with the right mindset. They were only up six at the half,
and then early in the third quarter, all of a sudden, they're
up by twenty three. It wasn't all just Kawhi Leonard, a Viza Zoo.
Boss was really good in the third really good in the game. He
was great in the game. Actually played thirty three minutes big Zoo playing big
minutes, fifteen points, eleven boards. In those thirty three minutes, he
was a plus thirty three on the court. Nobody else was even close to
that. His impact was huge on both ends when he plays this big,
and it's something we've seen all season long. But he's got a nasty streak
in him now that we didn't see before the last couple of years. Last
year with the Clippers and with the Lakers before that. He plays to his
size now and that's why he's one of the biggest or best rim protectors in
the league. He is the second best when it comes to opponents shooting percentage
within six feet. He's holding guys to about forty percent in that stricted area.
That's incredible. That was right behind brook Lopez. In the regular season
for the Milwaukee Bucks, Paul George finishes with fifteen points. Didn't shoot the
ball great, but still was out there doing other things. Was in foul
trouble through most of it. He was a plus twenty two, had fourteen
of those points in the first half. He got off to a hot start,
had seven points early on, but got into foul trouble. And then
one of the storylines was Marcus Morris Senior being ejected. He had nine points
in the first eleven minutes, but in that final minute of the first quarter,
he had a hard foul on Luca Danchich where he hit him over the
left shoulder, and he was ejected. They called it a flagrant two.
I think their history in this series preceded the call. I think that played
a role and it wasn't a play on the basketball, and obviously that can't
happen in a big game like this. Well, my guess is Marcus Morris
is going to own it and move on. Those two guys were drawing back
and forth really from Game one on because Marcus was one of their most effective,
if not their most effective defender on Luca Donchich when not many guys were
able to make a difference because well, he had a ridiculous, historic coming
out party type series that elevated him from I think a top ten players and
now people talking about him being a top five player in the league at just
twenty one years of age, especially after that Game four comeback where he hit
the three pointer, the twenty seven footer. But overall, the Clippers were
able to weather the storm, only up six a couple minutes into the fourth
quarter, and it was Kawhi Leonard leading them, and Landry Shammon hit a
big three. Reggie Jackson hit three three pointers in the fourth. Jamichael Green
had his moments. When Marcus Morris went out at the end of that first
quarter, Jamichael Green was inserted and he had seven points early in the second
energy and was a spark out there for them. And he didn't even score
in Game five. I thought his fifteen minutes. To have seven points in
fifteen minutes, those were huge five boards and we saw this. I think
it was back in Game four, but when he had a smaller defender on
him on the block, he punished him. He had Luca Donchag on him
and he went right through him to the basket. And there was another play
in the second quarter where Kawhi Leonard and this is what you gotta like about
the Clippers. They have two superstars that are two way superstars that also do
the little things. They are on the floor and that both of them were
in this game. They were getting elbow burns on the floor going for loose
balls. Kawhi Leonard in the second quarter recovered one and founder Michael Greene for
a dunk. And then in the fourth quarter Pg. Thirteen, with about
five minutes left, was going on to the floor like he was Dennis Rodman
for a loose ball. You'll love to see that. It's going to take
that type of mindset to win a championship. Clippers take a step in that
direction with a six game series victory over the Dallas Mavericks. They win one
eleven to ninety seven. Coming up next, we'll get to your phone calls
here at eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two
zero eleven fifty, and you'll hear from the head coach Doc Rivers postgame.
Clippers win in six games over the Dallas Mavericks. They move on. We
don't know about their second round opponent yet. If Utah wins tonight, it'll
be them, and Game one of the second round will take place Tuesday night.
If Denver extends that series out, who knows? All right, more
Clipper stock coming up next right here on the Patriot Am eleven fifty. Your
Los Angeles Clippers are moving on after a one eleven to ninety seven series,
closing out victory in Game six over the Dallas Mavericks. Welcome back into Clippers
Stock. I'm out of Moslin to eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty
eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. Coming up this segment, you'll
hear from the head coach Doc Rivers post game. Well, let's go to
He's sham in Fountain Valley, he sham? What's up here on Clipper Stock?
Hey Adam, thanks for taking my call and thanks for interacting with all
of clippernessition on Twitter. I just wanted to make a comment that it seems
like there's like this recurring theme of you know Clippers, you know, taking
strong control of games and then slowly, you know, kind of giving us
all a hard heart attack with the you know, lead losses. And then
there also seems to be this you know, correlating observation that like this lineup
of Harold Williams and Jackson just not working out. So it's not so much
that I have a question, but I'm just like, I would love to
be like a fly on the wall in one of those coaches meetings. He's
sham, I appreciate the phone call. It's a good observation. Monster Trez
has struggled defensively overall since returning, but remember he just got back into the
bubble right before this series started, so he's still rounding into form, rounding
into shape. And he was a minus nineteen out there, and when Dallas
made their runs, he was on the court. And give credit to Rick
Carlisle, he was one of my X factors in this series coming into it.
He's such a great strategist. What he was doing is whenever Zoobos was
on the floor, he wouldn't put Boban out there to match up with him.
He'd wait for them to go small. He'd wait to see Monster Trez
and then he'd attack with Bobi and that was effective for the most part in
this series for the Dallas Mavericks. I thought last game Monster Trez was much
better in that area, but he definitely struggled to a four four points last
game. He was doing some of these little things. It's still gonna take
time. But the good thing is as the Clippers are still building that chemistry
and guys are coming back together and we're still waiting for Patrick Beverley, they're
winning games because margin for error, as the great Don McClain would say,
is so wide. It's a chasm between them and I think everybody else in
the league. When they're playing the right way, when they're moving the basketball,
when they're shooting like they did in Game five, which of course was
historic and tough to replicate. But still they went eleven of twenty nine,
that's thirty eight percent from three in this game, and they hit timely threes
when they needed them to keep the Dallas Mavericks at arm's length. Let's go
to Tagis, Tajis and Walnut. You're on Clippers stock with Adam Aslin.
Hey, Adam, when you speak of timely threes, I think I think
Reggie Jackson made a lot throughout the series. I know he had his bad
moments, but when he wasn't forcing the issue, and when he caught the
ball and he was just letting it go, not doing too much, his
three point shot was actually he had a lot of key three throughout the series.
So shout out to Reggie for you know, staying in there and not
keeping his head down like you said, Joe Michael. He scored those five
points in a row when Morris got ejected. I thought that kind of you
know, kept them even kill and taking the pressure off. And I like
what they did is they exploited a lot of the mismatches. When things got
slow, they would either post up Kauai, Paul George, and I think
Marcus did a lot throughout the series when he had the ball, and I
think they will keep doing that going forward because they have mismatches pretty much against
all the short guards and I think that's really a big advantage that they have.
And I wanted to see what you thought about Utah and Denver. Who
do you like for the Clippers? Tayges, thank you for the phone call.
I think both teams are dangerous, but The one team I've talked about
all really season long when I came on with Rogan and Rodney was the Utah
Jazz. If any team, and I don't think it's possible, if any
team could upset the Western Conference that we're all looking forward to, hopefully with
the Clippers taking on the Los Angeles Lakers, I think Utah could be that
team, but they lost Bockdanovitch and that really hurt them. However, once
again, Donovan Mitchell has taken his game to another level in the playoffs,
similar to what we've seen with Luca don Chich. Donovan Mitchell had fifty seven
points in Game one of that series. They lost, but he looks like
the same guy from two years ago when they took out the Okse Thunder in
the first round in six games. I think Utah's the better team there,
but both teams present problems, of course, and Rudy Gobert is a unique
player that and we talked about this postgame with Noah Eagle. The differences between
him and Nikola Yokich are pretty stark. One is an offensive savant and the
other is the stifle tower and one of the best defensive players modern best defense
really big men that we've seen. We'll take a quick break here, we'll
come back. We'll get some more of your phone calls. Eight seven seven
five two zero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. The
Clippers win and win the series against the Dallas Mavericks after winning Game six one
eleven to ninety seven. More Clipper stock coming up right here on the Patriot
Am eleven fifty, Leonard backing him down with the left hedy drible double comes
from Burke. Blop it to the nearside corner, Shammon outside Jackson, A
left wink three is on the way. He got it to go. Reggie
Jackson his third three of the game and the Clippers lead one oh five eighty
nine. George goes into his chest outside Jackson, all right, wink three,
he's open, and he got it again. Reggie Jackson confidence shooter,
his four three of the game and the Clippers lead one to eleven ninety six.
Reggie Jackson had three of his four three pointers in the fourth quarter that
helped put this one away in this series away. The Clippers are moving on
to the second round. They win one eleven to ninety seven in Game six
over the Dallas Mavericks and our color Tagus here on Clippers Stock, I'm out
of Maslin eight seven seven five two zero eleven fifty. But Tagus brought up
a good point about Reggie Jackson and just how hot he was from distance in
the series, even though yes, he struggled defensively at times, but he
ended up going sixteen of twenty eight from deep in this six game series.
That's fifty seven percent. Rick in La Rick. What's up here? On
Clippers Stock? How are you hey? What's up? Man? I?
I like the way the Clippers came out, didn't give MAVs a chance to
really extend the series, just like though the intensity they played with Kawai obviously
once again the MVP of probably not only the series right now, key of
the playoffs, with the way he's playing. I'd just like to see the
consistency once again. Pg uh still struggling there. I know you have the
breakout game last night, tonight's today's really struggle. Right about Reggie Jackson,
I like seeing that out of him. Hopefully we get Beverly back soon.
I think they're gonna need it. As far as the Mavericks, never,
I think a much better team than conceded. If you're the Mavericks, you
gotta be concerned. You've gotta get yourself a number two guys, because I
think they can be right up there with the Clippers and Lakers the team being
contended. You can't rely on the Porzingis. As far as the next series,
I think I think Utah would actually be the better, easier matchup for
the Clippers because I just think they're They're not as explosive offensive as great as
Mitchell is. I just think without having a shooter like Barzanovitch and Go Bears
more of a in the flow offensive guy. I just think that you want
them to see them in the next series as supposed to the Nuggets, who
I think can be a lot more explosive and they have the weapons, who
can who can stay with the Clippers And I think a guy like uh Michael
Porter Junior and Joke Kits and a guy like Murray who can drop forty plus
on any given game. I just think they are tougher matchups. So if
you're the Clippers, don't you think Utah You're rooting for Utah to win the
series? The smash year and see they're gonna win. I think that Denver
gagged a couple of those games there. They should probably be up three to
two right now. What are your thoughts in terms of the next run.
I really do think that Utah's is the easier series to me. Your thoughts
on that. Here's what's interesting, Rick, You bring up a good point.
All that firepower with the Denver Nuggets, it would more closely simulate what
we saw with this Dallas Mavericks team compared to the Utah Jazz that play a
more contrasting defensive style of ball. The game would be slowed down. We'd
see a lot more more. I think of Visa zoobots consistently in that series
because of Rudy Gobert. But yeah, they are lacking offense. Although Mike
Conley Junior has been much better than he was all season long once he got
inside the bubble. We'll see. Be careful what you wish for. I
think both teams are very dangerous, but I think the Clippers can get to
a level that no other team can match them at when they're playing their best
basketball. Let's hear from the head coach, Doc Rivers. First. We
will get back to your phone calls. Mitch hold On, Jeff hold On,
But I want to hear from Doc Rivers post game after the Clippers win
Game six and this series over the Dallas Mavericks with a one eleven to ninety
seven victory. Hey, Doc, congrats on the series. When just your
overall thoughts on I guess some of the challenges Dallas presenting, how you guys
counted them throughout the series. It looks like their bench gave you a lot
of trouble throughout the series, but you guys found ways, especially trapping Luca,
to make it difficult for them. Yeah. I mean, I though
you ever want to have a great opponent, but they are the most efficient
offensive team in league history, and they're a ell of an organization. They
got a great coach, and they have Luca, a great scoring So for
us, they've presented all those challenges, and I will I thought we grew
through the through the series. You know, the little bit of adversity early
on was very good for us. We haven't had any all year, so
I look at that as good positive growth. And then I thought our guys
really start focusing in on the last two games, especially with the different schemes
coming out of timeouts. I mean, Rex and Tied did a great job
every time out. We tried to show them a different look, and I
thought it was attractive. I'm over to home and Doc, congrats on the
win. How do you feel you guys are at where you guys are at
right now entering the second round? Are they where you want to be at
this point in the playoffs? You know, it's hard to tell because we
keep having these guys out. You know, hopefully we can get past back
from game one, we can get back to our normal rotations. But there
was a lot of little guys. I mean, Kauhi was phenomenal throughout this
whole series. I thought he was dominant, and then PG picked it up,
you know, greatly after the first two games. But there were so
many other little other things of guys that I thought marks Out was not only
just a good player, was an instigator. You know, Zoom had the
playoff of his life, so Sham and Reggie makes a big shots. So
I liked how we looked in that way that other guys contributed. Your Los
Angeles Clippers seemed to be peaking at the right time. They dealt with some
adversity that Game four loss with Luca Doncher just going off for forty three points
and that three pointer to win it. It was a best of three,
but they would win two in a row and close this thing out looking like
a dominant, elite basketball team that can win it all this season. I
don't think they're satisfied just getting to the second round. They're just getting started.
Clippers win and close out this series over the Dallas Mavericks with a one
eleven ninety seven victory in Game six. Coming up next, we'll get back
to your phone calls eight seven, seven, five two zero eleven fifty.
You're listening to Clipper Stock here on the Patriot Am eleven fifty. Your Los
Angeles Clippers are advancing to the second round of the twenty twenty NBA Playoffs after
they win in six games over the Dallas Mavericks. In Game six, they
would win one eleven to ninety seven. Before we get out of here,
Mitch in New Jersey, you're on Clippers Stock with Adam Oslin time. Mitch,
Hey, hey, do an animal cripps beans? Good? I agree
with that fathers the Utah because with Michael Porter they got a lot of the
power. But to me, he's long and support George to be himself.
And he's only had a really one good game. And when I see I
think when Mantrez Harold has a double double and Zubak had a double double,
I think we're sitting pretty and I don't. And then I don't think the
Lakers might not be able to handle that. The Rockets. I didn't.
The Rockets got the best backcourt with Gordon ex Clipper there. I didn't thinks
are just looking at the Clippers is so deep. It's incredible match. Thank
you for the phone call. You know what, I'm rooting for the Utah
Jazz and Denver Nuggets to beat each other up and take that series to seven
games. I think that's what I'm rooting for, and giving the Clippers then
a little more time off before that second round Stars, before we get out
of here. Jeff in Tarzana, Jeff, Yeah, that's right, Jeff.
Where you've been, Well, you know what, you had the Dodgers
Man Factor station, No, no, no, When the Dodgers are on,
they're on five seventy and we'll be right here on the Patriot AM eleven
fifty. I'd rather have the Dodgers look the Clippers are gonna win the championship.
The Dodgers are gonna show. Oh, Jeff, why are you gotta
be like that? Can't both teams win this year? Pardon? Both teams
can win this year. The Dodgers are just as deep as the Clippers,
Adam, I'm a Clipper fan. I'm not a Dodgers fan, all right,
Jeff, Well, let's stick with the Clippers. Then? What'd you
like from the seie? You know what? You know what? I don't
understand? Landry Shammon's one of the best shooters, am I correct? He
is. He's been a little bit inconsistent at times a season in and out
of the lineup, with various injuries, and he's a better defensive player than
Reggie Jackson Myles so correct. H Yeah, I'd say for the most party
years. Okay, Now, Reggie did a fantastic job, but I don't
think Doc is giving Landry enough minutes to play well. He played thirty eight
tonight. That's pretty good. He played thirty eight minutes tonight, Yes,
he did. What game were you watching, Jeff? Do you know what
I must have been? He was practically invisible compared to Reggie Jackson. I
thought at the research he would be off the bench before Reggie Jackson would be
what were They were plush with Reggie in the lineup and a minus with Landry
in the lineup. I appreciate the phone call, Jeff. They were a
plus twenty one with Landry Shammitt a minus five with Reggie Jackson. But he
did hit three three pointers in the fourth quarter. He closed out the game.
Landry's been starting with Pat Beverly out for now. Hopefully the Wolverine mister
ninety four feet will be all healed up by the time the second round starts.
It is dependent on what happens between Utah and the Denver Nuggets of Utah
wednesdnight, we'll have gained one of the second round starting on Tuesday. Before
we get out of here, I do want to thank the Clippers organization.
Be great, Noah Eagle, Brian Seaman, Ralph Lawler. Back here in
Burbank, we had the fantastic Sam Zea and Zach attack cutting up that post
game sound until the second round starts. I'm Adam Oslin, your Clippers are
advancing. We'll talk to you in the second round.