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Breaking down today's action with the pre
and post game voice. If you're LA

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Clippers, they're locking in every game, every night. Adam Oslin market eight

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dude, eight straight victories for the
Clippers after they take down the Pacers in

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Indiana one fifty one to one twenty
seven. The Clippers remain the hottest team

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in the league is they have won
thirteen of sixteen. Welcome into Clippers post

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game locker room show. I'm Adam
Oslin coming up. We got second half

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highlight, your post game box score. Clippers coming up on the M five

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to seventy LAS Sports. But first
back out to your radio voice of the

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Clippers in Carlo Jimenez. Carlo,
what domination by this Clippers over this stretch.

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But James Harden in that fourth quarter
just the cherry on top. I

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mean, he was so so good
and Adam Well will get overlooked about that

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twenty one performances. It was needed. I mean, the Pacers had it

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down to fifteen, it was looking
like they might come back in this ballgame,

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and James said, hang on,
everybody, not so fast, and

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was able to rattle off twenty one, a new career high, in a

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fourth quarter for Harden in which he
hit six three pointers. He was unbelievable,

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He was unconscious, he was untouchable. He was incredible. And how

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much fun was it to watch this
team be so good? He got almost

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ninety points from Harden, George and
Leonard scratched that at him. You got

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ninety points from Harden, Leonard and
George. And when the Clippers do that,

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they are going to be tough to
beat. This year, the Clippers

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put up one hundred and fifty one
points, a new season high after they

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just said it at won forty four
on Saturday night. This team is just

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getting better and better, and I
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But Kawhi Leonard starts off eight for
eight, unreal stretch that he has

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been on. I just ran the
numbers last ten games. Kawhi is one

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oh nine for one point seventy three
from the field. That's sixty three percent.

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He's twenty seven for forty seven from
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don't know if there's been a more
efficient stretch in NBA history by a non

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big man, a non center,
And if anybody can find it, please

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at follow Adam A the only guy
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in twenty twelve or twenty thirteen with
the Miami Heat. But what Kawhi Leonard

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is doing in the mid range and
basically all his shots jump shots, and

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he's knocking them all down right now, Carlo, just a heater like we've

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never seen before. Yeah, you
make it such a good point because these

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shots aren't all at the rim,
they're not all in the paint. Heck,

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most of them are not in the
paint. That was what's so incredible

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is Kawhi is getting to his spots
and just burying jumper after jumper. Sometimes

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you're surprised when guys make shots.
We are surprised every time Kawhi Leonard misses

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a shot because it just feels like
everything he touches is turning to gold right

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now for this Clipper team. And
it showed out in a big way tonight.

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Once again. Adam a tone setter
early got this team going and they

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ran away with things here in the
Raceway City. So many guys to praise

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in this one. I thought,
when you talk about tone setter Avitza,

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Zobots also helped in that area.
Another huge throwdown. And this is something

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we used to talk about a lot
with Noah Eagles. Sometimes a dunk isn't

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just a dunk. It energizes the
entire team. He's seven of ten,

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has eighteen points, sixteen boards,
four offensive rebounds, three blocks. Just

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like Kawhi, He's doing it now
on both ends. It's not just Big

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Zoo on defense. He's making an
impact on offense. He is he is.

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I mean I tried to ask TYLERU
why is this working out so much

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with James Harden and he just said, I think Zubats is getting in the

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right spot and he's making it,
taking advantage of his opportunities. And he's

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doing that tonight. I mean,
any other team at him in which your

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center has eighteen and sixteen, you'd
probably say, Wow, that is a

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guy who's making an impact. He's
playing at an all star level. He

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is probably one of their best players. But Zubats is the fourth storyline in

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this game. Among these Clippers starters. Unreal effort from Big Zoo, who

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just continues to be an X factor
for this team. Kind of a barameter

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a back wall as he's able to
defend the rim so excellent from the field,

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does his dirty work and in only
twenty six minutes. That might be

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the sweetest thing about this one is
the minute total, Adam, because you

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got two tough games on a back
to back, and the way they have

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manhandled New York and now man handled
Indiana, you have saved up some minutes

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for this OKC Dallas run. We're
talking about a team that had lost six

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straight at one point five straight at
first with James Harden, but since the

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new starting lineup, they have won
thirteen of sixteen. And it's about the

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sacrifice for multiple guys, but especially
Russell Westbrook coming off the bench and once

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again especially in the second half,
with that put back and then drawing an

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offensive foul on consecutive possessions. Russell
Westbrook's showing the heart, the spark plug

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off the bench. This is a
guy that has taken to his new role

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and is thriving. He is thriving, and I think what I love about

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it is his attitude and energy hasn't
changed at all. Like you mentioned at

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him, he continues to be smiling
him on the bench, hyping up his

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teammates. He only played nine first
half minutes, and when Harden threw that

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pass all the way down to the
other court to find Zobots for a missed

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layup, Russe was the first guy
over with a huge smile on his face,

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hyping up James, giving him props. I mean, the Klippers were

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excellent tonight, but it's so easy
when guys like Russ's sacrifice and then their

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attitude doesn't change. No one else
has any excuse about how they approach the

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game with their attitude. He sets
a standard. He sets a standard for

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this team, the way he has
his body language, the way he approaches

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the game every night, and the
Clippers following line, and to your question

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earlier, Carlo, I'm gonna say
this right now, what we're witnessing is

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the most dominant stretch in the regular
season in the two to one three era

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when you put it on context with
the opponents James Harden having just played twenty

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one games so far as a Clipper, the way they're scoring the basketball,

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and the way they're setting the tone
defensively. I haven't seen anything like this

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since Kawhi and Paul George came over
in twenty nineteen. This is that best

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run by this Clippers group so far. Here, Carlos, it's been so

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much fun to watch twenty five games
together, and man, it has been

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good as goal. This Clipper team
can do nothing wrong, and they're gonna

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have to keep it going on probably
their toughest road back to back this season.

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One more thing out of before I
hop on Ada here. We talked

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so much about the offense and obviously
one hundred and fifty one points they held

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Tyrese Halliburton, who came in averaging
a top ten points total at twenty six

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a game, to eight eight points
tonight for Tyrese, he was a non

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factor. The defense once again almost
perfect. They continue to find a way

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to slow down the head of the
snake, whether it's Steph Curry, Dearon

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Fox, or Tyrese Halliburton tonight,
as the Clippers win in Indiana in game

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one of this three game road trip
one fifty one to one twenty seven.

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As Carlo mentioned earlier, they'll be
in Dallas for the front end of a

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back to back Dallas then OKC.
Wednesday, we got tip off from Big

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D at five thirty. Clippers County
on your pregame show starting at four thirty,

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Carlo. I don't know if I
want a day off, but I

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guess we'll get one. We'll talk
to you on Wednesday. My friend Greg

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calls always. Thank you. Adam
Wison, talk to you Wednesday. Let's

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keep it going, baby, Oh
yeah, Clipper Nation. How about now?

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Are you believing in the move for
James Harden? They put up one

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hundred and fifty one points over the
Pacers. They win one fifty one to

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one twenty seven. More post game
second half highlights next, and a big

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time fourth quarter a historic one from
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is it real big? In Indianapolis? They put up one hundred and

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fifty one points, a season high. They win one fifty one to one

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twenty seven over the Indiana Pacers,
and let me tell you it wasn't even

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that close. Welcome back into your
postgame locker room show I'm ada Oslin Clippers

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winners of eight straight thirteen of sixteen
with the new starting lineup, Let's get

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to second half highlights. Clippers led
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In that third quarter more from the
two point three k I'm George top

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of the arc, three ball bottoms
PG rocking the rim and a quick timeout

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for the Pacers. Ni Smith in
his shadow loses some left elbo Purowanz fades

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fires. Yes, Sir fuck Claw
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He'll try from fifteen rainbows in PG. Thirteen is cooking with the heat

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on high, looking for help.
Gives it up. Westbrook timing to the

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rim with three to shoot. Gotta
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gosh Kawhi with a bailout bucket double
team. He rips through Leonard to the

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rim a left him and Himmer elevation
sensation from the claw. Gam Flat takes

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a faceline spin through a double team. They're right handed, Florid true the

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claw with a masterclass Kawhi Leonard with
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nine Clippers led one fourteen to ninety
four heading into that fourth quarter. But

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you never know if a lead is
safe against the number one scoring team the

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NBA, at least for nown until
the Clippers get a couple more weeks in

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him. The Indiana Pacers were hanging
around until James Harden did this. Harden

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at the top puts his right foot
into the ground, frustrated with the off

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ball movement, pulls the string straight
away. Three all chords, pillar from

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James Harden. George collects near black
double team back out Harden left angle,

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three ball perfect. James Harden another
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Pulls it out with left hand,
sizing up heels. He wants this dance.

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The bearded one gets by downhill drive
the layup, upping in James Harden

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with twenty two, staring into his
soul with five to shoot, with four,

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step back three, Harden buckets another
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It's Obie topping in his blender again, A step back three, why not

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James Harden dancing step back left wing
a three nylone. James Harden pit on

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miss this shit his head, He's
unconscious. Here comes Harden into the front

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court, dancing double team comedy,
dribbles away near wing another three. Yes,

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I'm about James Pardon is on fire. Paul George doesn't score in the

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fourth quarter, Kawhi Leonard doesn't play
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James Harden will go for a career
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He finished with thirty five and finished
off the Indiana Pacers as the Clippers would

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win one fifty one to one twenty
seven. Coming up next to your final

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box score, Clippers winners of eighth
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hundred and fifty one points on the
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one twenty seven in Indianapolis. Clippers
end up shooting fifty seven percent from the

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floor, fifty percent on nineteen of
thirty eight from three and they get thirty

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five out of James Harden, twenty
eight out of Kawai in just twenty seven

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minutes, twenty seven from PG thirteen
and just thirty one minutes. That's how

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you start off a three game roady
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your home for the Clippers. They were

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in attack mode. Adam Osley.
It ain't March, but I'm looking at

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the Elite eight right now is the
Clippers win eight straight as they put up

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one hundred and fifty one on the
Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis. They win one

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fifty one to one twenty seven,
and the Clippers have won thirteen of sixteen

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since the new starting lineup. How
about them Clippers Clipper Nation if you want

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to get on tonight, eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy eight

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six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number we had people

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calling in before the game was even
over in this one, after James Harden

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detonated and hit the powder keg in
that fourth quarter where he dropped twenty one

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points, a career high the fourth
and that is saying something because this guy

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has had a month before where he's
averaged over forty points per game. He

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ends up with thirty five twelve of
sixteen, shooting eight of eleven from three

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and most of them coming in the
fourth. Kawhi Leonard didn't even even didn't

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even have to play in the final
period. He goes twelve of eighteen after

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starting off eight of eight from the
floor. He has twenty eight points.

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Paul George only plays thirty one minutes. He had twenty seven on his former

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team, and the Clippers set a
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one points on the highest scoring team
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pace in the league. And the
Clippers just beat him at their own game.

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Yeah, welcome into Clippers Talk.
Coming up, we'll have Will updike

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You can get to me at follow
Adam a on x as. I was

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running the numbers earlier, because what
Kawhi Leonard has done over the last ten

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games, it may be unprecedented,
unprecedented efficiency. Specifically, in the last

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ten ballgames, Kawhi is one oh
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That's sixty three percent shooting, and
twenty seven for forty seven from three

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that's fifty seven percent from the outside. You try to find me a more

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efficient ten game stretch by a non
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Pull it up. I want to
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mj ever did it. I'm not
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it's him in Miami. He had
some crazy runs. But then when you

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take into account that probably the average
shot Kawhi Leonard is taking right now is

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probably around fifteen feet out, and
he's shooting sixty three percent in ten games

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in a sample size that big of
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knocks down one toh nine of them. Yeah, he had a big dunk

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with a left hand, but he's
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just mid range mastery mixed in with
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anything like it. Three weeks ago, people were telling me he was washed.

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They lose to Denver in a game
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and Reggie Jackson and DeAndre Jordan beat
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the last ten games, Kawhi Leonard
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in the NBA and playing some of
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regular season stretch right now of his
career. But you know what he was

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asked this last game Saturday night against
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hot streak a stretch. He's got
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team is doing big things. They're
building the correct championship habits, and it

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is not a coincidence that you're seeing
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they brought in James Harden. I
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I just posted the video from CND
when we did an emergency podcast after the

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trade was finally consummated with the Philadelphia
seventy six ers. This was on October

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thirty first. I said, then, James Harden is gonna unlock the best

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version of the two to three connection, and that's what we're seeing right now.

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All they had to do was bring
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asked, and Russ is thriving too. But don't tell me that James Harden

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isn't the biggest reason right now for
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And what we're seeing is the best
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era. It's definitive. It's a
fact. One hundred fire emoji. That's

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what it is. There's no debate, undisputed, Hell Skip Bayless. This

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team is playing the best basketball since
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also not a coincidence that it's happening
after Kawhi Leonard just played his twenty sixth

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straight game to start off this season. Paul George has played twenty five of

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twenty six. James Harden has played
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But I love the energy these guys
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with right now. Carlo Jimenez talked
with Daniel Ty's postgame. He spoke about

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how fun it is to be on
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He was an Indiana pacer, wasn't
getting any run, and now he looks

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like Isaiah Hartenstein light with this Clippers
team, with the minutes he has given

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them without Mason Plumley, by the
way, they still don't have Big plumb

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got injured in James Harden's first game
against the Knicks. Think back to that

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now, how long ago does it
feel that six game losing streak, five

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straight in the first five games with
James Harden. Now they've won eight straight,

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thirteen of sixteen. Nobody's looked better. It's all coming together. Now.

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We're still around thirty percent of the
way through the season. There's a

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lot more games to play, But
if anything, that should have you more

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encouraged, because I'm telling you this
team hasn't peaked yet James is just getting

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started. He only had fourteen entering
the fourth. You want to put a

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team away. You want to keep
Kawhi Leonard Fresh standing on the bench in

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the fourth quarter, just like they
did Saturday night against the Knicks. You

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gotta pour it on late. You
gotta hit big shots. You know what

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I want to hear The highlight mixed
by Katie Newton of James Harden's personal best

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in a fourth quarter of twenty one
points against the Pacers where the Clippers put

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up one point fifty one. Here
were those buckets by James the Bearded Wonder.

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Harden at the top, puts his
right foot into the ground, frustrated

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with the off ball movement, pulls
the string straight away. Three all cords

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pillar from James Harden, George Collex
near black, double team back out Harden,

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left angle, three ball perfect,
James Harden another three, his fourth

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of the night. Pulls it out
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He wants this dance. The bearded
one gets by downhill, drive the lay

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up, upp and in James Harden
with twenty two, staring into his soul

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with five to shoot, with four
step back. Three Harden buckets another triple

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dribbling with the right hand. It's
Obie Toughen in his blender again, A

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step back three, why not?
James Harden dancing step back left wing,

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A three nyl one. James Harden
bed on miss. He shakes his head,

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he's unconscious. Here comes Harden into
the front court, dancing double team

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comedy, dribbles away near wing.
Another three, Yes, the bowel.

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James Harden is on fire. He
went seven for eight in the fourth to

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get those twenty one points again,
a career high for him in the fourth

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quarter, and that is saying something
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He hit let me count him here, make sure I get this right.

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Six threes in the fourth, and
the Clippers just outdueled the highest scoring

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team in the league with the best
offensive rating in NBA history, in the

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Indiana Pacers. They were one twenty
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Nobody's been more lethal. But it
starts with defense and cutting off the

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head of the snake. This time
it was Tyrese Haliburton. He goes just

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three of twelve. You know who
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He's been doing it to Steph Jamal
Murray, the Aaron Fox. He's wrecking

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guys. If he's not in the
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something is wrong. And I know
the national media they've been hesitant to

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jump back on the Clippers. They
feel like they've been wrong in the past

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when they picked them to win the
championship. But they're gonna come around in

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droves now. Hordes of national media
members will now be talking about, Oh,

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maybe that James Harden trade was the
right move. How about that?

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Catch me outside while we have a
moment. Let's pause ten seconds for station

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identification on a five to seven E
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AM five seventy KLAC Los Angeles,
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Angeles and iHeartRadio station. I mean, do you remember the conversation we were

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having just about the speculation of them
getting James Harden. If you listen to

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clips and dip, people were telling
us stop talking about it's stupid. They're

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not gonna get them. We don't
want them. How about now? James

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Harden is a T seventy five player
for a reason, and on nights like

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tonight where he shows off the scoring
with his Clippers high of thirty five with

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a twenty one point fourth quarter to
go along with nine assists to one turnover.

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Little known secret about this team during
this stretch, winners of thirteen of

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sixteen, nobody's been better when it
comes to limiting turnovers. The Clippers are

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at about eleven per game over the
last sixteen hmm. I wonder if that

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has something to do with one of
the greatest playmakers of all time, who

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makes pinpoint accurate passes, drops dimes
out there and doesn't turn the basketball over.

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I wonder if that has something to
do with Russell Westbrook playing less minutes,

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who at times is not always one
of his strengths limiting turnovers. James

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Harden in his last few games in
this one nine assists, one turnover,

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twelve assists won turnover against the Knicks, fifteen assists, four turnovers against Golden

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State. Did you not know who
James Harden was? Do I haveter Kevin

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Durant? You does he have to
do? You know who the hell he

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is? He's always been one of
the lead assist guys. He just led

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the league and assists last season.
But your pigeonholed him. You said he's

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just an ISO scorer, can't play
within a team concept. He just helped

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Joe Ellenbiid getting MVP. He just
played next to Kyrie and KD. This

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isn't Rockets, James Harden, and
you don't got to be a rocket scientist

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to realize. Yeah, it's a
good fit with Kawhi and Paul George,

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as I tried to tell you from
day one when I was taking calls here

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from people who didn't want them.
Not getting those anymore, let's start things

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off with Javier and the Horber Heights. Javier, what's up? You're on

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Clippers stock without Amazend. Hey,
what's up? A thank you for taking

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my call again? Man, I'm
shocked. I mean I called you the

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other day against the Warriors and I
said I was wrong with Tylu. But

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now it's like what eight nine in
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eight thirteen of sixteen, I know, and I'm just like, I mean,

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one hundred and fifty one points at
Indiana, I mean that's your dicls

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DI can probably scored one hundred and
seventy. It just I'm I'm just I'm

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so happy and I'm just like wow, I mean so if James Harden could

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play the way he played today,
I mean, watch, ain't nobody gonna

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beat the Clippers in the He's not
gonna put up twenty one points every fourth

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quarter. Javier, he doesn't need
to play the way he did today with

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the embarrassment of riches the Clippers have. It could be Kawhi's night one night.

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It could be Paul George George's night
one night. It could be James

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Harden's. It could be Norman Pals, it could be it's a zoo boxes.

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They have so many talented guys that
if any one of them has a

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big night, good night to the
competition. No, no doubt, you're

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right about that. And then you
said earlier too making Plumby he's not even

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playing. Imagine when he comes back
the bench they're going to have with him

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Plumbley, Daniel Diaz and then uh
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I mean, they're that's a deep
bench. I mean, honestly,

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they could you know, they can
pull up like what twelve in a row

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real quick. Just just just just
a thought here, Adam, before I

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let you go. I know they
played Dallas on Wednesday and then they played

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the thunder the next day. Would
you go all out and play though you

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know uh Kawhi and Paul George.
Would you rest them the next day because

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they've been put on a lot of
minutes tonight, you oh not tak them.

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I appreciate the phone call Javier.
Depends on how they're feeling. If

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they feel this good. They went
into training camp healthy for the first time,

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and it shows they were doing the
two A days, the three A

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days, all the tough running pat
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This time around, they don't have
tired legs. Kawhi has looked better

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as the season has gone along.
Paul George missed one game. He said

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it was like the check engine light
went on for his body with that little

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hip issue. Missed the game against
Golden State Warriors, came back, played

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well against the Knicks, played well
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He only had to play thirty one
minutes. Kawhi only had to play

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twenty seven. Harden was at twenty
eight when Paul George led them in minutes

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at thirty one tonight. You don't
have to worry as much when you're blowing

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teams out. When you can in
game load manage, so to speak,

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you're good. So if they're feeling
good, you gotta keep playing them.

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Now I have stressed before. Yeah, they can't play thirty eight minutes per

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night. Eventually you will get burnt
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has already said they're not gonna run
him into the ground. But when you

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outpace the Pacers and beat them at
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one to one twenty seven and look
like the fresher team, the team that

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just continues to push things. Russell
Westbrook comes in, has some great plays

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in the third quarter. I think
it was with the put back on a

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misshot I want to say from Daniel
Tice. Then Russ miss won and then

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eventually got it to go and then
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Those type of hustle plays. Russ
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five assists, just one turnover himself. Russ stands, stand down,

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it's working. This is the formula. This is how you win. This

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is how you maximize the talent of
James Harden and Russell Westbrook I know there's

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gonna be times where they need Russ
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some point, there's gonna be injuries. Guys are gonna get banged up.

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It's a long season. We've seen
it a little bit. But he'll be

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ready. He'll be fine, and
until then, be the spark plug,

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be the sixth man, find other
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He's doing a great job with that. Sean and Ingle would Sean,

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you're on clipper stock with Adam Haslin. What's up, Sean? What's up,

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mister Adam Man. I'll tell you
that was a great game to watch,

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and they were so fluid. I
thought that maybe they would get there,

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maybe twenty games from now, and
they're already there. Did you think

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that, Sean is sorry? Did
you think that, because I'm pretty sure

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you didn't want James Harden, did
you think that I did think that I

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didn't want James. You're right,
but he's not doing the things that I

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said I didn't want him to do. He's not overdribbling and he's playing defense.

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Those are two things that he I
didn't think he would do. He's

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doing that very well. I'm happy
to have him on the team, So

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okay, I'm happy he's a Clipper, and I'm happy to see our progress.

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And I'll tell you the defense played
so well. And I even said

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in the first quarter, I said, one hundred and fifty points tonight and

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they're just killing him defense and offense. So I think it was a good

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win for us. I look forward
to the next game and I can't tell

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you how much that I see the
ball moving, and that's the most important

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thing. That is the most important
thing. And there was just one play

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in the third quarter when they had
eighty three points and they did this kind

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of Harlem globe trotter, loop it
around, loop it around, and then

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they did the aliu to everybody touched
the ball and then Zoo slam dunted on

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the aliu. That was just so
beautiful, beautiful basketball. Here's what's amazing

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to me. On a night where
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they still only had twenty six assists. They still were taking turns attacking.

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There was still plenty of iso ball, but it didn't throw them out of

403
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a rhythm. And that's what I
think is most impressive, because come the

404
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:58.000
playoffs, it reverts often to isolation
basketball. Now, to James's credit,

405
00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:02.720
he hasn't slowed things down much.
Everybody said, oh, you already have

406
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:07.719
enough ISO ball with Paul George and
Kawhi Leonard. Now you add James Harden,

407
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the ball's not gonna be hopping.
Well that's not just not true.

408
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:17.119
It's been, as you mentioned,
a beautiful thing to watch. But it

409
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:20.679
does start with the defense. Sean, I'm glad you brought that up.

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00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:24.079
Defensively, they've been so good on
that end. Even when they gave up

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00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:29.800
thirty eight points in the first quarter, I felt like the effort was solid.

412
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.159
They had a couple of lapses.
That Buddy Healed three pointer was well

413
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.239
defended by a mere coffee to end
the first quarter. But when you hold

414
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:44.199
Tyrese Haliburt in a three of twelve
for just eight points, that's their engine,

415
00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:47.840
that's their guy, that's the catalyst. And they've been slowing down and

416
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:53.360
taking away the opposition's best player most
nights. And you know, I was

417
00:34:53.440 --> 00:35:00.039
thinking before the game too, who's
gonna hold down Halliberg? No, he

418
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.360
did it. He's gonna have the
worst game of the of the year,

419
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.000
you know, And that was that
was just beautiful defense all the way round.

420
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:09.599
I'm with you. Good phone call, Sean. I know I owe

421
00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:13.000
you tickets. I'll get him to
you at some point. Don't worry about

422
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.400
that. I'm a man of my
word. You know this. You know

423
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:20.239
this, Sean. I'll get you
those tickets eventually. You're a good guy,

424
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.880
Adam. I don't care what anybody
else says about you. Let's say

425
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:28.440
a lot, thanks, Sean.
They said a lot about James Harden,

426
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:34.400
a lot of nonsense, a lot
of talk. You know, I got

427
00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:39.000
some receipts. Clippers win one fifty
one to one twenty seven over the Indiana

428
00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:43.199
Pacers. Speaking to James. We'll
hear from him coming up. We'll get

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back to your phone calls. Eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy

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eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy. Clippers team impressing the doubters,

431
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:01.119
the haters. If he can't see
the vision, as I always say,

432
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:07.679
I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you just don't know ball.

433
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:16.719
Sorry if you thought James Harden was
gonna make the Clippers worse, sorry,

434
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:25.360
I heard enough of that. So
what now? Clippers win thirteen of

435
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:30.559
sixteen, eight straight hottest team in
the league. They'll be in Dallas on

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00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:34.480
Wednesday. I'm Ata Oslin and you're
listening to Clippers hock here on M five

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00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.480
seven LA Sports. They want to
bring a banner with them to the Into

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00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:45.400
It Dawn more LA Clippers basketball on
the LA Clippers Audio Network. The California

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00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:51.719
Love Crew is rolling right now.
You got four stars from SoCal and James

440
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:55.119
Harden, Russell Westbrook, Paul George
and Kawhi Leonard. And they have won

441
00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:06.559
eight straight and thirteen of sixteen.
It all started with Russ saying, I'll

442
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:14.360
come off the bench. I'll sacrifice
the old VTB self sacrifice. Since then,

443
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.039
Clippers winners of thirteen of sixteen and
tonight they put up one hundred and

444
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:23.119
fifty one points on the Indiana Pacers. They win one fifty one to one

445
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.679
twenty seven. Welcome back in the
Clippers stock. I'm at a Maslin still

446
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:31.360
to come. We we'll updike on. You'll also hear from James Harden.

447
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:37.159
Let's get to Zoriana. In La
Zoriana. You're on Clipper stock without a

448
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:42.119
Maaslin. What's up? Hi?
Hi Adam, Yes you got me,

449
00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:47.280
Hi, I really thank you so
much for everything what you say about Clippers.

450
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:51.960
I'm crazy about them and I love
them so much. I started to

451
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.719
hold basketball since nineteen eighty five,
and I came to the United States from

452
00:37:54.800 --> 00:38:00.199
Ukraine because of Michael Jordan because he's
lost, and I think Leonards right now

453
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:07.079
is very very similar because his he
looks so healthy and his body is amazing

454
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:13.119
to compare to every You know,
he's a very very healthy person and he's

455
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:16.800
gonna do the best, probably what
he can. I also know pretty well

456
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.400
Lou Williams, and I missed him
so much. I wish he can be

457
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:28.079
still in that team because he was
amazing too. So Michael Jordan, Louvi

458
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:34.840
Williams, Iverson Kawhi Leonard, how
about that? Patrick Beverly, Hey,

459
00:38:35.119 --> 00:38:38.159
those are some of my favorites too, Ziana, And you're right, I

460
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:43.880
call Kawhi MJ ninety six all the
time because the similarities. He's the closest

461
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:49.039
we have to MJ in today's game
with the mid range attack that he uses

462
00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:54.480
almost exclusively some nights. But I
also say that we should make the monument

463
00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:59.719
of his body because nobody has,
you know, figureus. Kawhi Leonard his

464
00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:06.519
absolutely healthy guy. No compare to
anybody else. If he can stay healthy,

465
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:12.360
this team, the sky is the
limit. What is your perspective in

466
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.400
the future games, the songs and
everything. What do you think on what

467
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:22.239
upcoming Clippers games? Yes, Lakers
and sons. I mean, what do

468
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:27.880
you think who's gonna be like,
who's gonna be leading team? Well?

469
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:30.039
I can talk about the West a
little bit. I appreciate the phone calls

470
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:35.840
Oriana first time caller. I believe
here on Clippers Talk eight sixty six,

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00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.719
nine eight seven, two five seventy. We talked about this yesterday on Clips

472
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:45.440
and Dip. But the West does
look somewhat wide open now. The Denver

473
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:50.760
Nuggets have had their struggles here and
there. Jamal Murray missed a month for

474
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.760
them, They've had some injury issues. Nikolo Jokis went through a funk.

475
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.039
But to me, they're still the
champs. They're still the team to beat.

476
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:01.519
Luckily, the Clippers finally did get
a victory against them after they had

477
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:06.760
won eight straight over the Clippers,
and they beat them fully healthy. They

478
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:09.519
had Jokic, they had Aaron Gordon, they had Michael Porter Junior, they

479
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:15.119
had Jamal Murray and the Clippers took
him down. During this eight game winning

480
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:21.079
streak. Huge victory there. They're
still seventeen and ten though on the season,

481
00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:23.440
Clippers improved to sixteen and ten.
That has them in the sixth spot

482
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:28.320
in the West. Currently, Sacramento's
right in front of them. Clippers beat

483
00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:31.400
him twice already, they'll see him
again. They're in the Pac DIV Sacramento

484
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:36.920
at fifteen and nine, the Dallas
Mavericks are at sixty and nine, and

485
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:38.559
the Clippers are one and one against
them so far this season. So that

486
00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:46.039
game coming up on Wednesday, huge
Western Conference standings implications. Dallas, though,

487
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:51.280
looks like they'll be without Kyrie Irving
for that game. He's banged up.

488
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:54.000
Doesn't matter. They still got Luca. We know he averages what thirty

489
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:58.000
four points I think it is against
the Clippers over the last two seasons,

490
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.239
But the last time out, Clippers
held Dallas to eighty eight points total.

491
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.280
The defense has been special. So
big game coming up on Wednesday, and

492
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.400
then they'll see Okay see for the
first time on Thursday. And you know,

493
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:14.840
they scare me, maybe more than
anyone right now, just because they

494
00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:17.360
have the assets to go out there
and still make a huge move. Aquilla

495
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:22.280
and Carson Aquila. I hope I
got that right. You're on clippersoc without

496
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:27.519
Amasen. You said it perfectly.
You said it perfectly, and I wanted

497
00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:32.679
to say one thing that started out. It's Clips versus Clips. We don't

498
00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:38.159
have a We're fighting our sales.
We're playing our sales, and I love

499
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:45.119
it. We're dominating in great fashion. But here's the thing, though,

500
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:51.039
I disagree with you when it comes
to dimver being the team to beat.

501
00:41:52.199 --> 00:42:00.719
I think the reason why repeating is
so tough is because it's hard to keep

502
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:07.599
up the energy for one season to
the next, so repeating is very tough

503
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:15.480
to do him but won't repeat this
year the Clippers is playing. I've been

504
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:21.280
a die hard Clipper fans. My
kids are Clipper fans, die hard.

505
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:30.039
So we have a Clipper family,
Clipper life, Clipper everything in our house.

506
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:34.159
And I think we're the team to
beat. I think we'll go four

507
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.519
and old this week. Well,
that would be impressive. That would take

508
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:45.519
them to twelve straight or eleven straight
victories. Since you're including today, Yes,

509
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.920
I understand your point about going back
to back and how difficult it is.

510
00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:54.559
The last team to do so would
be the Golden State Warriors with Kevin

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00:42:54.599 --> 00:43:01.280
Durant. So that was twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. Miami barely did it.

512
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:07.400
When they had the Big Three,
they barely did it. It's a

513
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:13.119
very tough thing to do. You
have to be almost you gotta have one

514
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:21.800
of those guys that's literally obsessed,
or like a Kobe or Michael Jordan,

515
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:28.880
or you must do it by a
complete team like the Golden State Warriors.

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00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:32.079
And Denver is just not that.
As much as I love the Denver as

517
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:37.760
much as I love Denver, I
don't think they built strong enough because they

518
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:43.440
got rid of some key pieces that
they needed in order to do it this

519
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:45.320
year. Well, one of them
we saw tonight in Bruce Brown. That

520
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:51.119
was a big loss for them.
It's a fair point of quill. I

521
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:57.000
like the entergy you're coming with and
I'm with you your show. We love

522
00:43:57.159 --> 00:44:01.880
you, thank you, do not
love We need you here when we make

523
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:08.719
this run and we move into our
new arena. And I don't know if

524
00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:14.760
you've heard that they're gonna change Crypto
Crypto arena as soon as we move.

525
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:19.480
As soon as we move, did
you hear about the new name? No,

526
00:44:19.639 --> 00:44:22.360
But I'm guessing you've got a joke
here and I want it. I

527
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:30.760
do have a joke. It's gonna
be called the sports arena too. It's

528
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.719
gotta be the new sports arena.
Laker fans aren't gonna like hearing this a

529
00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:39.960
quill, which makes me like it
even more a quill. Thank you for

530
00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:45.440
the phone call, Hey calling on
Wednesday, it's been too long. Thank

531
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:49.119
you for the great show. Adam, all right, appreciate you. Let's

532
00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.400
go to Daniel in Echo Park.
Daniel, you're on clipper sack without a

533
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:54.679
Maslin. After they make it eight
straight, they win in Indiana one fifty

534
00:44:54.719 --> 00:45:00.159
one to one twenty seven over the
Pacers, Daniel, what's up? Is

535
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:04.119
great? Adam is great, But
I do at the point, and I

536
00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:07.199
don't know if you caught that at
the end of the third quarter when Kawai

537
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:10.840
actually looked really mad, he like
kind of like made some kind of gesture

538
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.880
towards the to the official when he
didn't get a foul called, and I,

539
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:17.880
oh, he was mad. In
the first quarter he got called for

540
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:22.199
an offensive foul right off the bat, and he was upset. He has

541
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:25.360
been intense the last couple of weeks. Yeah, and you know what,

542
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:30.800
it made me fake? You know
about players who with that kind of intensity.

543
00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:35.239
You have his airness, Michael Jordan's
Kobe, you know, Lebron never

544
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.599
had that, and I think he
probably would have won more chips if you

545
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:42.000
had. But I saw that in
quiet a day or if a Golden State

546
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:46.199
just didn't get Kevin Durant. But
yeah, well he's pretty intense too,

547
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:51.800
but yeah, he needed some help. I don't know, man, I

548
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:53.679
think this is our year. I
think this is our year. And you

549
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:58.800
know what he what he did tonight
twenty seven minutes like twelve or eighteen.

550
00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:02.920
I mean, it's that's been sick
the past, like what like seven eight

551
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.519
games, like ten ridiculous, going
back ten games since they lost to Denver.

552
00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:14.440
Kawhi Leonard said enough and since then
he's he has shot sixty three percent

553
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:20.559
from the field that I mean,
you can't and they're mostly Mitch mid range

554
00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:25.960
shots and he's shooting sixty if it's
at the foul line or a foot you

555
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:30.079
know, even closer it's in.
Like there's no question. It's just crazy.

556
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:34.079
As Kobe would say, as Kobe
would say, the late Gray Kobe

557
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:38.320
Bryant would say, easy money,
easy money, money baby, easy money

558
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:42.480
baby. I can't wait. I
hope you d's up, Luke. I

559
00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.679
know I'm getting ahead of myself right
there, but uh man, I hope

560
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.440
you go perfect in December. All
right, thanks, thank you, Daniel,

561
00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.559
appreciate the phone call. All Right, we'll say you a quick time

562
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:55.400
out eight six six nine eighty seven
two five seventy eight six six ninety seven

563
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:59.280
two five seventy. We'll get back
to your phone calls while we'll Updike on.

564
00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:04.199
We'll hear from James Harden post game
after he dropped twenty one of his

565
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.840
thirty five points on the fourth quarter. Clippers win one fifty one to one

566
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:15.559
twenty seven over the Pacers, and
to a Quinn's question, not trying to

567
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.880
go Wolf of Wall Street, but
as long as they'll have me, I'm

568
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:30.679
not going nowhere. Uh I'm gonna
get my Leodardo DiCaprio on Clippers, deal

569
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.559
with the painting right now. Just
a beautiful thing to watch, this team,

570
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:42.679
just masterpiece after masterpiece. Clippers have
won eight straight thirteen to fifteen.

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00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.559
Who hottest team in the NBA?
More Clippers sock next here on MFI seven

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You're listening to the LA Clippers on
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00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:02.840
back at Clippers Talk. Having trouble
getting a hold of Will Updyke of C

575
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:08.320
and D. Call him out on
Twitter at Will Updyke on X. We're

576
00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:15.000
friends like that. We can point
fun at one another. Clippers win ain't

577
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:17.480
nothing funny about what they've been doing
to the league one fifty one to one

578
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:23.800
twenty seven over the Indiana Pacers.
Welcome back into clipperstock. I'm Adam Oslin.

579
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:30.440
Clippers winners of eight straight. They've
been that good. And one of

580
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:36.320
the things that has stood out during
this run of thirteen wins in their last

581
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:42.159
sixteen ball games is maybe what could
be their new death lineup. It was

582
00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:50.360
very successful tonight. Once again.
We call it the Powell Rangers because it's

583
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:54.960
the starters, but with Norman Powell
in for Terrence Mann, so norm next

584
00:48:54.960 --> 00:49:00.920
to James Hard and Paul George Kawhi
Leonard and Aviza Zubats In four six minutes

585
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:07.199
so far this season in just eight
games where they have played them, that

586
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:13.400
lineup is shooting fifty three percent from
the field, forty four percent from three,

587
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:21.559
and is a plus forty four in
forty six minutes. That's unbelievable.

588
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:28.039
That is something I'm sure Zach Lowe
will be bringing up soon on the low

589
00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:32.480
post as he loves lineup data like
that. And who's got the most unstoppable

590
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:37.199
lineup in the game. The Clippers
got options, But that's a pretty damn

591
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:42.360
good one. Jose in Southgate,
You're on Clippers stock without a Mazland.

592
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:50.239
What's up? Adam Well shot out
Roko and beat it on Batoon and Morias

593
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:55.079
and Kenyon. But when we're not
winning the game or or I say shout

594
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:59.079
out to because we have been,
you know, we were of games with

595
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:01.960
them. But when Paul George doesn't
score in the fourth court and Crunning doesn't

596
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:06.519
play and James Harden does what he
does, then you know, all the

597
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:08.960
naysayers, even me. I know
I'm not I wasn't the naysayer, but

598
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:13.079
I've been holding my turns because I've
been thinking of But we're starting to see

599
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:17.079
it, and you know, I
didn't want to see Macon Plummer get hurt.

600
00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:22.840
But this was a preper opportunity for
Zoobaka to step up because we needed

601
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:25.039
them to step up, and he's
just getting all this undeath his belt.

602
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:28.800
So when we do get plumbing back, we haven't even seen harder than plumbing

603
00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:36.800
yet. I'm loving its clip parts, He'll say in Southgate. I like

604
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:38.559
how he kind of springs it on
me with the old Oakie doough, like

605
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:43.119
he's not done talking, and then
all of a sudden, let's go Clippers.

606
00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:46.639
Are they been going? Yo?
Go? Powell Rangers has been going

607
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:51.360
as well. And I'm just about
to put a post up because I can

608
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:55.480
multitask like that on x at follow
Adam A about some of that lineup data

609
00:50:55.599 --> 00:51:01.360
now with the Powell Rangers, because
I'm shocked they haven't gone to it more.

610
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:07.519
I'm guessing that's Coach Lou playing things
close to the vest, close to

611
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:12.960
the chest. He wants to hold
this back until the playoffs or until big

612
00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:15.280
moments in the regular season when he
needs it most. Norman Powell in the

613
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:24.280
starting backcourt next to James Harden because
they are a one thirty one offensive rating,

614
00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:29.840
a ninety two point six defensive rating. That's a plus thirty eight point

615
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:37.920
four net rating. That's elite.
If you didn't know, it's God tier,

616
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:42.199
it's unbelievable, you know what.
Speaking of God, tier. Let's

617
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:46.039
hear from James Harden postgame after he
dropped twenty one points, a personal high

618
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:50.159
in the fourth quarter. Twenty one
of his thirty five, where he hit

619
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:53.920
six three pointers, was fouled on
one looked at the camera. Oh the

620
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:59.000
Beard was all up in it late
and kept Kawhi Leonard on the bench.

621
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:06.400
He was postgame on Ballet Sports Letter
in the clips eight straight as we are

622
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.519
standing by with James Harden, Alrianna, take it away, James, what

623
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.039
an amazing performance tonight, thirty five
points, nine assists. I saw that

624
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:20.400
little snow angel impression after your four
point play there on the ground. How

625
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:23.440
does it feel to get this road
win and go off? We're playing very

626
00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:27.719
very well right now, so just
contine to be consistent on what we do.

627
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:30.840
Take an approach of every game is
a new challenge for us as a

628
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:32.719
unit. And you know, tod
I was another another I for us.

629
00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:37.199
This does make eight straight wins for
the team. What does that say about

630
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.760
how well you guys are gelling and
the potential you guys have figuring out you

631
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.559
know, I mean we're figuring it
out. We're coming together where chemistry is

632
00:52:44.559 --> 00:52:46.960
building game by game. We still
have a long way to go, but

633
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:52.119
you know, I mean we're definitely
heading in the regression there. Indeed were

634
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:55.840
defensively. You guys were able to
hold Tyrese Halliburton to eight points tonight.

635
00:52:55.960 --> 00:52:59.880
So what do you guys need to
carry over to get it done in Dallas?

636
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.039
We know how effective he is,
you know, I mean generating points

637
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:05.800
for his teammates. So you know, it was really really crucial for us

638
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:08.000
from the beginning a game be on
him and make sure he don't get anything

639
00:53:08.119 --> 00:53:13.159
easy. And so we just that
fourth quarters and we had a great outcome.

640
00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:17.239
All right, thank you, great
job there was. James Harden post

641
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:22.840
game, has twenty one points in
the fourth quarter. Unreal stretch for him

642
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.519
to put this one away. Clippers
score one fifty one, they take down

643
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:30.880
the Indiana Pacers, really beat him
at their own game. Pacers were the

644
00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:37.280
highest scoring offense in the NBA.
Clipper's starting to catch up on that end.

645
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:38.800
The defense had been there, believe
it or not. The defense with

646
00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:43.840
James Harden was ahead of the offense. Now the offense is starting to catch

647
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:46.559
up. When you score one fifty
one and shoot fifty percent from the outside

648
00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:52.199
on thirty eight attempts. Yeah,
that's gonna happen. Coming up next will

649
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.920
updyke of clips and dip if I
can get ahold of them. But we

650
00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:00.679
can also get back to your phone
calls at eight sixty six, nine seventy

651
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:05.159
eight, six six ninety seven,
two five seventy Clippers winners of thirteen of

652
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:10.159
sixteen. Since the new starting lineup, they're starting to create a lot of

653
00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:16.360
buzz around the league. Again.
Maybe I'll just play me saying on October

654
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:20.320
thirty first, when they made the
trade for James Harden, he will unlock

655
00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:24.079
the best version of the two one
three connection. The best stretch of the

656
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:28.719
two to one three era is upon
us. Let's see if they can keep

657
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:30.440
it going Wednesday in Dallas. We'll
preview you that as well. Right here

658
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:35.400
on Clippers stock on AMPI seventy LA
Sports. They want to bring a banner

659
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:40.039
with them to the into It Dawn
more LA Clippers Basketball on the LA Clippers

660
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:45.880
Audio Network. Well, deja'voo in
multiple ways, same song, same story

661
00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:51.239
with the Clippers. They win,
make it eight straight, one f one

662
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.039
twenty seven over the Indiana Pacers was
the final score. Welcome back in I'm

663
00:54:55.039 --> 00:55:00.320
out of Mosland. It listening to
Clippers talk. You just heard from James

664
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:05.480
Harden who had twenty one points in
the fourth quarter alone, and now you're

665
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:09.599
gonna hear from will Updyke of clips
and dip made mistake, didn't have my

666
00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:13.880
guys on last time. Clippers were
still able to win somehow, but they

667
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:16.039
didn't win like they did tonight.
I mean they only had one hundred and

668
00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:20.000
forty four points against the New York
Knicks. Now that we got big Will

669
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:23.960
for big dubs coming on, the
Clippers put up one fifty one Will What

670
00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:29.679
were you most impressed with in this
one by the Clippers? I gotta start

671
00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:34.400
with what I'm least impressed with?
What? Yeah, that's right, We're

672
00:55:34.440 --> 00:55:37.480
eight games into a win streak.
It's time to be a little bit more

673
00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:42.360
critical. Adham, Oh god,
is this sewn and inglewood again? I

674
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.239
said? I said they needed to
hold the Pacers under one hundred and twenty

675
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:50.239
points. What did The Pacers scored
one hundred and twenty seven, but the

676
00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:54.639
Clippers called off the dogs laying in
the fourth it might as well be a

677
00:55:54.760 --> 00:56:00.199
loss to me. Well, William
up to like with a high standard of

678
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:04.800
Clippers basketball, even though they're probably
playing the best in the two and three

679
00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:07.280
era, not even a probably anymore. Come on, well, be serious

680
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:10.880
level with me. This is the
best they have ever looked in the regular

681
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:14.639
season with Kawi and Paul George,
now that they have I don't know,

682
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:19.639
James hard and Russell Westbrook as well. Yeah, it's it's absolutely unreal.

683
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:23.280
I love James Harden's aggression. I
think anytime we can get both him and

684
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:28.199
Paul George eleven three point attempts,
especially when it's coming in the flow of

685
00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:30.960
the offense. You know, nothing
was forced, even James explosion there in

686
00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:37.039
the fourth quarter. I mean,
I thought that it's looking so cohesive that

687
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:38.480
you know, we talked about this
a little bit. It's it's a little

688
00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:42.239
scary. It's like it's almost,
I don't want to say, too good

689
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:45.760
to be true, but it's it's
looking like a it's looking like a unit

690
00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:49.840
that I did not think that this
team could put together just a few weeks

691
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:55.360
ago. And I don't know,
it's how are you feeling about the sustainability

692
00:56:55.400 --> 00:57:00.360
because I'm not really seeing I mean, like tonight, we have some great

693
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:05.239
shooting splits, I don't expect us
to score over one fifty on a nightly

694
00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:10.079
basis, But I'm not really seeing
anything that's like a massive outlier for this

695
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:15.199
team right now? Where are you
those shooting splits fifty seven fifty eighty seven

696
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:21.079
from the field and from the three
are allowed there? No, I'm with

697
00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:28.719
you. I understand that it's an
outlier. I guess scoring wise, scoring

698
00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:31.679
one hundred and fifty one, you
can't rely on that. But they did

699
00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:37.880
just score one forty four. And
I still think James Harden what he did

700
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:40.719
in the fourth quarter, Yes that
is not repeatable. That was an all

701
00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:45.760
time performance, but he can still
play better with this team. I mean,

702
00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:49.960
I get the skepticism because we've never
seen him play this well in the

703
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:55.519
regular season before together and take things
this seriously and not just be locked in

704
00:57:55.719 --> 00:58:01.519
game to game, but quarter to
quarter, possession to possession. And it

705
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:06.000
makes you feel as a Clippers fan
that has some scar tissue built up of

706
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:08.480
oh, just waiting for the other
shoe to drop. Well, instead,

707
00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:13.119
the shoe is up. The opponents
took us right now, That's what it

708
00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:16.599
looks like out there from this team. Will they're given a lot of shoes,

709
00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:22.280
but would you say they're given no
quarters? They gave one in this

710
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:25.280
game, none last game. One
in the first quarter and it took that

711
00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:30.360
Buddy Healed three pointer at the very
end of the buzzer to get the Pacers

712
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:36.920
that first quarter win. But I
mean, Big Zoo is just getting better

713
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:40.400
and he's having his moment, and
it's due to James Harden. How can

714
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:45.079
you guys not see it? I
know you see it will there's a correlation

715
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:49.000
there. The reason Big Zoo is
playing like this is because he has one

716
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:52.880
of the ultimate playmaking point guards next
to him. Oh one d per Look

717
00:58:53.159 --> 00:59:00.039
last year, the clippers entire defensive
rating for the entire season was because it

718
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:05.119
was about a ten game stretch of
Visa Zubots playing other worldly defense. What

719
00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:07.440
did we see throughout the stretch of
the season. It didn't carry up he

720
00:59:08.039 --> 00:59:10.880
things. There were too many gaps
to fill. He was asked to do

721
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:15.880
too much. The body language changed. He was completely ignored on offense.

722
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:20.039
And now we're addressing both things.
Right. We have a lot more defenders

723
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:22.920
around him, so he can stay
locked in and do what he does well

724
00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:28.360
and then he's getting rewarded at a
level. Fir scene, He's never had

725
00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:30.440
a pick and roll partner like James
Harden, He's never gotten these kind of

726
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:34.719
lobs like it is. It is
unreal. And I think we're gonna see

727
00:59:34.840 --> 00:59:37.280
a different Zoo, you know,
I talked about it the other night.

728
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:39.679
I think he's gonna be a double
double machine for the rest of the season.

729
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:45.119
And I think that this is gonna
like I think that his his focus

730
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:49.599
and intensity is only gonna stay locked
in for the rest of the season in

731
00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:52.199
a way that we I don't think
we've gotten, to be honest with you,

732
00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:55.400
I'm a Zoo supporter. I don't
think we've gotten a full season at

733
00:59:55.440 --> 00:59:59.239
a zoo like what I am predicting
we're gonna see for the rest of this

734
00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:04.320
One first bucket, a little runner
off the glass, was from a great

735
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:07.639
shovel pass from James Harden. I
think that was the first bucket of the

736
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:12.360
ballgame, actually, But then he
had a floater. Another one in the

737
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:15.320
second quarter when he came in back
in for Daniel Tice, he blocked a

738
01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:19.800
layup. He's been a force defensively
still, It's not like the offense is

739
01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:22.880
going to his head and he's forgot
about his number one priority out there.

740
01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:27.159
But a dunk in the second quarter
huge throwdown once again, second straight game

741
01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:30.039
with big time jams and then an
end one to start the third quarter.

742
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:36.519
Aviatza zubats I think the point here
is and why this is a little bit

743
01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:40.280
perplexing with just how good they've been, I would point to this, they

744
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:45.159
just have so many ways to beat
you right now, and there's so many

745
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:49.280
different guys that could have a big
night and you only need really one or

746
01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:52.360
two of them too, and it
turns into a blowout. It can be

747
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:57.159
that simple. Does it feel like
because it's feeling like to me like this

748
01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:00.239
season and I don't want to put
it down because things aren't going so well,

749
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:05.800
but it to me feels like there's
an urgency intensity where in the locker

750
01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:08.840
room, I feel like, top
to bottom of the roster, everybody feels

751
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:13.280
like this could be our shot.
And it's not like it was in twenty

752
01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:15.400
twenty. It's not even like it
was in twenty twenty one. They see

753
01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:20.480
now how short windows can be and
how everything has to click, and there's

754
01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:25.159
just a different I don't know,
there's just a there's a different intensity to

755
01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:29.840
it that I haven't seen from this
team. Yeah, there's a level of

756
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:35.400
poise out there and intensity and urgency
Coahi's thirty two, Paul George's thirty three.

757
01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:38.679
You wouldn't know it by their play
right now, but their basketball mortality

758
01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:45.119
of their prime is somewhat approaching.
I mean, guys have extended primes in

759
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:49.039
this league today. We see it
all the time, but it's at least

760
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:54.599
worth pointing out. Of course,
they are playing possibly for contracts right now.

761
01:01:54.760 --> 01:02:00.639
I think that has to be brought
up. Coach lou Extension eligis well,

762
01:02:00.239 --> 01:02:06.039
all these guys know that this could
be the last dance with this group.

763
01:02:06.199 --> 01:02:08.760
I don't believe it will be by
any stretch of the imagination, especially

764
01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:12.440
with the way they're playing now and
by bringing in James Harden and giving up

765
01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:15.800
a first round pick for him.
I think you're committed to this. But

766
01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:20.960
they have a great opportunity here to
put it together to be a much better

767
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:23.320
regular season team, which can make
you a better postseason team. We talk

768
01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:27.559
about it all the time, but
outside of the ninety five Houston Rockets,

769
01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:30.039
you've got to be a top three
seed to win the championship. That's what

770
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:35.079
has been in the modern era.
normOn patis that's not feeling out of it

771
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:38.440
like that's just not feeling out of
hand right now, like that seems very

772
01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:42.199
approachable. And I do want to
say I do want to say one thing,

773
01:02:42.280 --> 01:02:45.800
just because you brought up the contract
and I think that that's fair.

774
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:50.280
You know, we haven't seen anything
official. I would be shocked if there

775
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:54.039
wasn't something there wasn't at least a
tentative agreement behind towards because there's no way

776
01:02:54.079 --> 01:02:58.639
that we opened into it without There's
no way that we opened into it without

777
01:02:58.719 --> 01:03:01.039
Kawhi, Paul George and and Jans
Harden. I'm sorry that's just not happening.

778
01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:04.679
But I think Kawhi said it best
in the postseason the other night,

779
01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:07.440
or in the post game press of
the other night. Someone asked him about

780
01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:12.480
this insane stretch of play that he
that he's on right now, and he

781
01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:14.880
said, yeah, I mean the
numbers are great, but I'm playing for

782
01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:20.360
something bigger and I think that that
is just so evident. It's very palpable

783
01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.840
with this team this year. Yeah, and we'll play that audio. Thanks

784
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:27.360
for reminding me of that will at
the very end of the show, because

785
01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.559
it was almost kind of ominous.
I mean, Kawhi is laconic when he

786
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:36.039
says something, it has more weight
because obviously he's not that vocal, at

787
01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:43.079
least off the court, but that
comment that kind of underscores his mindset the

788
01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:46.440
play of this team why they look
so much more focused now. But I

789
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:52.280
think they also can see, oh, we have everything we need and if

790
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:57.599
we can just come together and guys
continue to sacrifice, it's there for the

791
01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:00.400
taking, and they can have special
nights like tonight, and they can have

792
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:05.119
special runs like we've seen over the
last three weeks because of the level of

793
01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:10.599
talent. When you stack talent like
this, you have an opportunity to do

794
01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:14.119
something that no other team has with
the Los Angeles Clippers, and right now

795
01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:16.480
they're on a run that I don't
know. I know they won seventeen straight

796
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:21.159
in the Lob City era at one
point, but this just feels like domination

797
01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:26.000
right now because of the teams they're
playing and the way they're putting them away

798
01:04:27.239 --> 01:04:29.800
well, and I love, I
mean, I love what you said about

799
01:04:29.840 --> 01:04:32.760
stacking the talent and everybody feels it. But they're not. They're not winning

800
01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:36.239
on the margins. They're not waiting
to just get by on talent. What

801
01:04:36.320 --> 01:04:42.000
we're seeing is a like combined team
wide greatness, you know what I mean.

802
01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:45.360
Like, we've seen games where this
team has had a lot of talent

803
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:47.920
and they've known that they have that
in their back pocket, and sometimes they

804
01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:51.480
wait to turn that on. And
that's just that's not what I'm seeing right

805
01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:56.599
now through through these eight games.
Yeah, there is a different mentality.

806
01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:02.599
If you thought it was just lip
service when they said they were gonna take

807
01:05:02.599 --> 01:05:08.280
the regular season more seriously, I
think it's been cool. Can we be

808
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.320
honest, it looked like it was
there. Well, they got off to

809
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:15.679
a decent start. Then you bring
in James Harden, you lose six straight

810
01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:19.639
and there's this learning curve and it's
hard to know, Okay, is it

811
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:24.800
because they're just figuring things out or
if they let their foot off the gas

812
01:05:24.920 --> 01:05:29.360
and they're not playing the same way
as they were, you know, talking

813
01:05:29.400 --> 01:05:32.800
about playing coming into training camp.
It's it's crazy, but it's been a

814
01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:35.920
great run. It's been a fun
time on clips and dip as well.

815
01:05:36.400 --> 01:05:40.639
I don't know, maybe we should
do another YouTube tomorrow after a game like

816
01:05:40.719 --> 01:05:43.800
this tonight. We'll see. It's
the holidays, I get it, but

817
01:05:43.920 --> 01:05:46.079
well, thanks for coming on and
doing a little double dip tonight, and

818
01:05:46.119 --> 01:05:51.039
I apologize for the other night and
not calling you. Absolutely my pleasure next

819
01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:55.119
time, come on, Clippers,
let's hold the Pacers under one twenty.

820
01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:59.159
Come on, guys, have some
shame, show some pride out there.

821
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:04.000
I first score one hundred and fifty
one points. They win in Indianapolis,

822
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:08.719
won fifty one to twenty seven over
the Pacers. Next game coming up on

823
01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:13.559
Wednesday. We'll play that Kawhi Leonard
audio at the very end here on the

824
01:06:13.599 --> 01:06:15.440
way out. But before we get
out of here, I do want to

825
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:19.519
thank the Clippers organization, Ralph Lawler, Bryan Seeman, know It EGO,

826
01:06:19.599 --> 01:06:23.440
Carlo Amennez on the call tonight,
Big b O, Jake Warner, head

827
01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:27.719
engineer, Katie Newton, our producer. Great job Katie. Until Wednesday with

828
01:06:27.800 --> 01:06:31.159
their pregame show from Dallas starting at
four point thirty, I'm Adam Moslam.

829
01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:34.360
We'll talk to you, then listen
to Kawhi Leonard here twy. This is

830
01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:38.559
one hundred and sixty nine points for
you, one hundred and seventy seven minutes

831
01:06:38.599 --> 01:06:42.159
on sixty five percent. It's the
best kind of stretch of your career here,

832
01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:45.519
I mean, if you want to
put it in numbers wise, but

833
01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:50.559
uh, you know, Uh,
I'm more focused on something bigger than just

834
01:06:50.920 --> 01:06:56.559
stretch. Kawhi was doing his thing. All they want to do is win

835
01:06:56.719 --> 01:07:00.920
in La, I win. I
thought they gave everything they had. This

836
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:05.239
has been Clippers Talk, the official
postgame reaction of the LA Clippers. God

837
01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:10.039
Bless Paul George. Are you know
It's a change. Don't miss an episode

838
01:07:10.199 --> 01:07:14.320
all season law. Go to wherever
you podcast and subscribe today. Well the

839
01:07:14.320 --> 01:07:15.880
show I got you on the iHeart
Radio. You guys are great. Thank

840
01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:20.599
you for joining us for another exciting
broadcast of LA Clippers basketball