The game is over. Paul George money in the pain, but the postgame
reaction has just begun. Kawhi Leonard is so smooth in the mid range.
This is Clippers locker Room, a recap of today's game and a look ahead
on your hope for LA Clippers basketball at now your host, You, sir,
are a bad man, Adam Ausley. The Clippers went in Shytown one
oh eight to one oh three over the Chicago Bulls. Welcome into your post
game show coming up. You'll hear from the head coach and the players.
We'll get the second half highlights. But first back ass of your voice of
the Clippers in Noah Eagle, Noah, only fitting that Kawhi Leonard puts on
a Jordan like performance at back in Chicago. Oh yeah, he was awesome
at thirty three points, five assists, five steals. Just ridiculous effort on
both ends of the floor. But again, it was the defense that really
stood out to me. Just found a way to impact the game at the
highest level on the defensive end, which is what he's done from day one
since he got to San Antonio and embarked on this unbelievable NBA journey. That
he's had. He is He's just that guy Pal simply, he is that
guy Pal. He's just him. He is Himothy, whatever, himy,
neutron, whatever you want to call him. That's what he does. Thirty
three points, but he did it on twenty four shots, and whenever they
needed something from him like that, that big three in the fourth quarter,
Clippers couldn't make it three all night. Step back puts them up three after
they just led by one, and then you know, Chicago has chances late,
steal, rip, all the little things, rebound, just everything the
Clippers needed. He's there to provide it. And the Clippers win a game
where they're twelve of forty four from the outside, they find another way to
win. I thought Norman Pale at those twenty points in the first half and
those two free throws late, we're used to Oh, he was awesome today.
Twenty seven points overall. You mentioned the twenty in the first half,
four rebounds, four assists, three of seven from three, So he was
with the one guy. Him and Kauai actually went a combined six or thirteen
from three. So the rest of the team when it combined for thirty one,
that's the difference. Right there. So those two guys had it rolling.
You knew how to find. They combine for sixty points between the two
of them. You add in PG and Aviza zoobots and they combined four ninety
of the one oh eight for the Clippers. It was just an overall team
effort. Those four guys got it done, but everybody chipped in a little
something that did get in there. Even Robert Covington in his eight minutes,
provided some good energy, good spark on the defensive end, shot it with
confidence when he did get his opportunities. I just liked what I saw overall,
and I thought this was a well coached game by Toronto and his staff.
And it's funny because the Clippers did such a good job of erasing the
deficits so quickly in the first half, you almost forget that they were down
nineteen in this game and Chicago wasn't missing and the Clippers weren't making. But
that's the grid of this team. And when they've got Kawai and PG now
they are fifteen and seven on the year, they're hard to beat. When
they've got those guys out there, and when they don't turn the basketball over
in a game, where they shot twenty six free throws. The Clippers ended
up getting sixteen more shots up than the Chicago Bulls in this one. Yeah,
it's just that's how you have to do it. If you're going to
find a way to win in a game that you shoot just twenty seven percent
from three, you have to find a way to dominate in the shot category
and maybe more importantly, dominate the turnover category. Points off turnovers, total
turnovers. Chicago turned it over twenty times twenty four points off turnovers for the
Clippers. The Clippers turn it over only eight times three in the second half,
eleven points off turnovers for the Bulls. That's a thirteen point difference and
a five point Clipper win. That's huge, big time clutch victory for the
Clippers. Up next, they'll be in Milwaukee taking one couper Thursday night late
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Kawhi Leonard will's the Clippers to a victory down the stretch. They win one
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Clippers win in Chicago one o eight to one oh three over the Bulls.
Business. Welcome back into your post game show. I'm Adam Oslin coming up
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six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six sixty nine eight seven two
five seventy or tweet at me at follow Adam A. Clippers were down by
four at a half, but they were down by nineteen in that second quarter,
made a fast and furious run where they tied the game five minutes later,
just to be down by four at fifty eight to fifty four twenty four
minutes into this one. But Kawhi Leonard, he had eleven points in the
first half and started to get it going in the third letter top of the
key, drives Meil cats in the paint and slams with the right hand.
Kawhi Leonard has been mister third quarter six thirty five and go on the third
Levine driving right. Had it stripped George scooped up the loose ball. No
real numbers, so we'll get left to right anyway. Chelle's hit Leonard to
the rim, bakes it in with the right Kawhi with fifteen. George with
another assist his sixth sixty seven sixty six pull up hop Kawhi Leonard that is
smooth from the near side shot corner ties the game at sixty nine. Caruso
gotta get it in. Caruso bounces Levine with a tough catch, ripped away,
fluttered with a steel up ahead Leonard into the front Courtage fouled his fifth
steel of the night and the claw may have just sealed it for La.
Well we zoomed ahead there, but yeah. Kawhi Leonard also very good down
the stretch in the fourth quarter, had twelve points late there and the Clippers
would hold on to win this one one oh eight to one oh three.
Kawhi an unbelievable performance. Thirty three points on twenty four shots plus five assists
plus five steals a couple of blocks in this one as well. Also with
the Clippers, they got twenty seven off the bench from Norman Powell, who
had twenty of those twenty seven points in the first half, first player off
the bench for them to have twenty points and a half since Monster trans Monstrez
Harold did so in twenty twenty. Clippers have now won six of their last
seven and sixth straight with the two one three connection Kawhi Leonard and Paul George
playing. Also, their longest streak of the season with those two together was
during that five game winning streak. All Right, more postgame coming up,
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I'm all away up. Clippers win by five in Chicago. Final score
one oh eight one oh three in favor of your Los Angeles Clippers, as
Kawhi gives them thirty three and has a clutch steal late on Zach Levine to
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have won six of their last seven now, the only loss coming when they
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victory tonight after they were tired with Charlotte at the half. They went on
to win one twenty four to one fifteen over the Hornets, one of the
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Well, he's at the podium right now. We'll hear from him in just
a bit. The head coach Ron Lou the player's postgame plus William Updyke from
Clips and Dip will join me. Big time victory for the Clippers, Just
as you thought they might lose some of that momentum they had after losing on
Sunday missing six key players to the Cleveland Cavaliers and stay, Kawhi Leonard ripped
back that momentum and took the game away from Zach Lavine and the Chicago Bulls
late with that steal, as he had twelve of his twenty three points in
the fourth quarter to finish with thirty three, five steals, five assists in
two blocks. Just a virtuoso performance from one of the best players of his
generation, any generation. He's a top seventy five player all time. But
I asked you this after the victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Are we seeing
the best version of Kawhi Leonard once again? Coming off a severe injury,
Just like after the one in San Antonio, he comes back and wins a
championship in Toronto, plays better than ever during that playoff run. Then he
was playing his best basketball during the twenty twenty one run by the Clippers to
the Western Conference Finals before tearing the right acl comes back a year later and
is playing you can at least argue some of his best basketball in the regular
season that he ever has before. Because this was Kawai's eleventh straight game with
at least twenty four points scored. That's the longest such streak in his career.
That is saying something I said it about a week and a half ago.
You better throw this guy back in the top five conversation right now,
because it's happening now. We're talking top three. With the way he's ended
up playing this entire month of January. Could be Player of the Month,
could come down between him and Lebron James. But the Clippers have won six
of seven and they're starting to round into form with twenty eight games left to
go, and this is such a critical road trip. But as I've told
you all season long, nothing is more important than the return of Kawhi Leonard
to form to that elite level because they can't win a championship unless he's playing
this high level basketball. And we saw it again him just willing them to
a victory. Clippers didn't have a great fourth quarter. They had some bad
turnovers where Paul George was trying to get it to him and then eventually found
him for a jam, and Kawai had four dunks, just like he did
against San Antonio recently. He is getting up. If you put the side
by side video before and after now the ACL tear, it looks like he's
jumping as high as ever. It is unbelievable to see him play this well
this soon this season after missing twenty of the first twenty five games, And
to anyone who still thinks the way they load managed him or not playing him
on back to backs was the wrong move, how can you say that when
the results are him back at that twenty twenty one level this soon. He's
playing this well, has this must bounce athleticism, turning the corner on guys,
and the mid range looks better than ever. And I told you this
also, the one thing you could get better at when you have lower leg
injuries because you can't do much else, is refine you're shooting. And we're
starting to see that a little bit because over the last eleven games now Kawhi's
shooting over fifty five percent from the field over forty five percent from three,
scoring thirty per game. The efficiency is off the charts. This is special
and it could turn out to be a special season because Kawhi learn has returned
to form for this team. But the will to win that he has in
him, that steal late and he had two of his five steals in the
fourth quarter, it's just that's what he does. He has the highest rear
winning percentage in the history of the league in the regular season, started in
San Antonio, then Toronto, and he's brought that mentality to the Clippers and
gives them a chance to win it all because well, he's one of the
best players in the league. And not many have a better playoff resume than
Kawhi Leonard. Ever, not many players take their game to another notch like
he can ever in the history of the league. The stuff he does in
the playoffs, the forty five spot he had against Dallas and a must win
Game six on the road, is one of the greatest performances you'll ever see.
And I'm ready for more of it, and he looks ready himself.
Plays the season high forty minutes. Clippers were not messing around early in that
fourth quarter when they led by one heading into the fourth, and there were
some big shots in the third by Kawhi two where he had ten of his
thirty three, but also to end the third a three pointer from Terrence Man,
who had a rough ball game overall shooting wise, and a three pointer
from Nicholas Patoum, who had a tough one. You win a game where
you go twelve of forty four from the outside to a team that's twelve of
twenty four from three, that's un heard of. Let me tell you how
rare that is, because I retweeted it from Justin Rousseau, who is at
Fly by Night on Twitter. The Clippers took forty four three point attempts to
Night only made twenty eight percent of them. Chicago Bulls at fifty percent on
their three point takes. Teams were one in twenty seven all time prior to
Tonight's game when they shot under thirty percent from three of at least forty takes
from the outside, when their opponent ended up shooting fifty percent on threes.
Now it's happened twice. The Clippers just did it. They were miserable from
distance throughout pretty much the entire ball game. They had great looks, they
couldn't get them to go. Over the last twenty games outside of the game
against Cleveland, which just seems like an outline or we gonna throw out considering
who was unavailable, They've been shooting over forty percent from the outside over the
last twenty games, best in the league, and they go with twelve forty
four. Luke Kennard was oh for five. I don't know if he's ever
gone over five from three in a game. They gave him good look after
good look in the first quarter, he couldn't get him to go. It
was just baffling. Nick Batoum had a couple of kill shots he couldn't get
to go late in the fourth. After hitting a big one in the fourth,
he was two for nine, Paul George two for eight, Terence Mann
one for three. But even in a game where I would say Paul George
struggled overall with just sixteen points after having twelve of those in the first half,
he scores just four points in the second half. Well, you got
backup. Now you got Norman Powell who can get it going and just can
score it will in bunches. He had twenty points in the first half,
first player off the bench for the Clippers to have a twenty point half or
a twenty point first half off the bench since Montrez Herald did it back in
twenty twenty. Norman Powell finishes with twenty seven and helped finish off the Bulls
with two clutch free throws. Late. He was ten up ten from the
line and the Clippers took care of the basketball. They have just eight turnovers
total. Paul George had a rough one five turnovers, seven assists, but
five turnovers. Gotta be better that one to Kawai and the fourth quarters just
inexcusable. It can't happen. It's just one of those head scratchers that Paul
George usually gives you once a game. But it just can't. It's too
easy of a pass to make. Just get it over the defender. He
threw it right to him. But he made up for it two possessions later
with a nice pocket passed to Kauai for one of his fourth rowdowns and he
got up threw it down with two hands. I'm just in awe watching the
bunnies. The bounce that Kauai has, the explosiveness but they have eight turnovers
to twenty for the Chicago Bulls, partly because of those five steals from Kawhi
Leonards. So in a game where the Clippers shoot under forty percent from the
field, under thirty percent from the outside to a team that shot fifty percent
from the field of fifty percent from three, you know what the difference is
taking care of the basketball and therefore getting more possessions and more shots up.
The Clippers ended up taking sixteen more shots than the Chicago Bulls, and there
were money at the free throw line. They attempt at twenty six free throws,
they hit twenty two of them. The only guy that missed was a
Visa Zubas, who had some really big moments in that second quarter where it
looked like the Clippers defense just wasn't showing up. Gave up thirty two in
the first were down of the first quarter, down by nineteen, and all
of a sudden, they get Big Zoo involved and the defense gets better too,
and he had a play where he had a block on one end and
then ended up getting a tip in on the other. But the Clippers came
back to tie it down nineteen within a five minute stretch just absurd. You
cut into a lead down nineteen in five minutes. That shows you the potential
of this team when they need it, when they have to have it.
But I'm telling you the terminator, Kawhi Leonard just said, come with me
if you want to win. Because the Clippers weren't very good in that fourth
quarter, but they were better than the Chicago They only gave up nineteen points.
I just love this type of victory because it was gritty and it showed
Kawhi Leonard once again telling everyone who's not listening and Brian Winhorse and guys who
are saying, oh, he doesn't look the same, No, no,
no, he might be better than ever. I don't know how he does
it coming off these serious injuries. But the machine you can rebuild him.
He can't be stronger. It's Kawhi Leonard. That's just what he does,
somehow, some way, just pulling them across the finish line late and they
win one Oho eight to one oh three. They're two and one on this
six game road trip. They're going to Milwaukee on Thursday night. Let's start
with Lenny in Inglewood. Oh, Lenny, what's up? Man? Sorry?
Man, I'm with you. Hear me, I got you now,
the good, the bad and the other. The good. Obviously, Kawhi
is like you said, man, he he is proving the daughters and the
naysayers who questioned the strategy of keeping him out, including you know some times,
including a lot of people e clip the nation. But wow, it
says him about a guy who knows his body. He knows his capabilities,
and he knows he knows his body, and he listens to the doctors and
the experts too, like what concept? Why don't we go with that?
Hope, we're just well. Back in my day, guys used to play
like this. Why why don't we go with that instead? I agree?
The bad obviously that fourth quarter and man didn't really have a game. But
book, man, the ugly is the elephant in your room. Here to
remember that play called waiting for Godard, Well it's waiting for Kennard. And
I'm man, what is going on? He hasn't put together three money consisting
games all year money. He literally just came back after missing three weeks.
He's played four games since he returned. I'm not that worried about it.
And in one of those games he went three for three. He had a
bad game tonight. It's an outlier. Well, let's just hope, man,
because like I said, we're not gonna go deep if if we don't
have the We got the best deep ball shooter in the game. And if
he doesn't show up come May and June, it's gonna be the it's gonna
be a sad song because we need him when we go deep, and it's
just not gonna happen. Pyle is phenomenal there every night, and uh,
you know, we just uh we need canar man. He's got to be
consistent. Wasn't good against Cleveland either, just like Nard. I mean,
well, you allow the game off of it, but I'm just saying overall,
I mean, the dude hit twenty seven points on eleven shots. Ain't
nobody else doing that in the NBA. I mean the only days Post was
on the team with You're appreciate to the choir. I've been talking about Norman
Powell since they got him. I thought he was the perfect fit next of
these two guys. Nobody scored more points off the bench since early November than
Norman Powell. He's got a great chance to win six Man of the Year
Award. I'm just saying I wouldn't overreact to Luke Kennard. You just missed
three three weeks and came back the last four games. He's still over the
last month and a half shooting forty seven percent from three. All right,
all right, but we need him, man, we did like I said,
we need him. We're not gonna go deep if the deep ball man
don't show up. I agree. Here. Here's the good news, though.
Even when he misses, guys usually load up and his gravity pulls the
defense his way and other guys get slashing lanes or open shots because of it.
But I don't know if he's ever gone over five from three before.
This is a it's a throwaway, I'm telling you, all right, because
man, the shots of the to be there doing what he's doing. Could
George George doing what he's doing attacking the rim. The shots are gonna be
there, deep moll Man, he gotta step up, bruh. He had
three shots in the first couple of minutes, good looks and just couldn't make
them. But it's just it's one game. He shouldn't from three the last
month and a half taking them right at least he's taking them. You're right,
okay, all right, man, let's do it all right. Let
I'm with you. I appreciate the phone call Clippers when one o eight to
one oh three in Chicago over the Bulls, double Bulls. Kawhi Leonard has
thirty three points in the win. You know I mentioned this on Twitter.
I was wondering what's gonna happen, first, Zach Lavine wakes up or the
Clippers three point shooting does Zach had nine of his eighteen in the third quarter,
but then got fouled on a three point or late and only made one
of the three free rose. The Clippers survived shooting twenty seven percent from the
outside. It's unbelievable. But it's Kawhi Leonard's that defense, those hands,
He's getting a swiping score or swiping slam. It seems like every single game
now the defense is back to it's all there, and that's what gives them
the potential to win a championship. So if you can play this bad offensively
and still win a ball game against a good ball club that was that hot,
that tells you the potential of this Clippers team as well. More Clippers
Dock coming up next right here on the up by seventy OLiS force get me
on the court and I'm troubled. Last week messed around and got a trip
in double freaking brothers everywhere like in jay, I can't believe today. Good
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I got kilburn n about smoking. Children's on the boat, just smoked listening
in the music at the Buyer Rowans children Boat. Clippers come back down nineteen,
win by five. GWI Leonard has thirty three and they take down the
bowls one o eight to one oh three. I mentioned that quick turnaround down
nineteen. They had it tied up five minutes later in the second quarter.
In the third quarter, that zach Levine stretch where he started to catch fire
and had nine points in the third the Clippers went from being down seven so
then up three two minutes later. So they had these quick offensive explosions within
a game where they were down multiple times, down big by nineteen. Good
to see it. Welcome back into Clipper stock. I'm out of Maslin eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety two five seventy
is the phone number. Let's go to Rex in La Rex here on Clippers
stop. Hey Adam, Wow, what a win. I am sorry about
the bluetooth earlier and I had to quote Kendrick Lamar take it off. Anyway,
I wanted to just comment on how insane we are we have been in
the past. I think now it's going back five years or so. I
don't know what is with this team, the resilience. Never see this to
amaze me. I want just to like, if you have a reason why
we have just been so resilient even before Kwai and PG. We're actually afraid
we're going to fall off with them. According to my knowledge, I think
that we were afraid we were going to be a little too cocky or whatnot.
But that did not happen, and we stayed resilient even after the lou
William Montras Herald era. And I think Terence Man was a good bridge between
those eras, keeping him over because he embodies some of that resiliency. Typically
in a big comeback, he's a catalyst and you know his mentor being Patrick
Beverly, he would help rally the squad. But yeah, exactly, I
was gonna say, I feel like Terrence Man started interrupted. I feel like
Terrence Men is definitely I would just say, like Patrick Beverly is exactly like
you said, his student. He gave him over everything he had and now
turns Man's using I would say he's better Patrick Beverly if correct me if I'm
wrong, But he does a lot of things Beverly does. Plus I would
like to say more now because he's just well, he's a better scorer.
Certainly, he's better at getting into the basket, getting in transition, being
a slasher like that, and helping other guys get involved. I've really liked
what I've seen from him in the starting lineup outside of his shooting. You
know, he just had a rough ball game overall. He Lukeannard and Nicholas
Batoum, but Terrence Man still hit a big three pointer in that third quarter.
They needed one and he hit it, and Nicholas Batoum hit a big
three point at the end of the third, and then he had a big
one in the fourth and it gave them I want to say, yeah,
an eight point lead was six eight left. Clippers were up ninety nine to
ninety one. After that, Saint Nick three pointer off and assist from who
else Kawhi Leonard just knowing how to balance wouldn't take over, went to get
other guys involved. But after that, Demarrow wrote, DeMar de rozen started
to get things going. He had a big dunk, went to the free
throw one, only made one of two, but then hit a jumper and
he would end up with a big turnover. Late. I want to say
it was Norman Powell on him as he went to the floor, and he
might have pulled the chair on him. He might have pulled the old you
know, Dennis Rodman on Karl Malone like him like move where DEMARDA Rosen was
looking to back him down and eventually there was too much space there and he
slipped and turned the basketball over. So the Clippers had to withstand runs from
the Chicago Bulls as well to pull this one out. And I mentioned those
clutch free throws from Norman Powell late that was huge. But anything else here,
Rex, Yeah, I mean I just want to say, let's go
Clippers, and I would like to call back in the future. Rex.
This is your first phone call on Clipper stock. Yes, Sir Adam,
don't make it the last. My friend, you'd be killing my vibes.
To quote Kendrick Lamar on the way out, appreciate it. Thanks for the
phone call. All right, let's go to Ali Une in Lancaster. Ali,
you and I hope I pronounced your first name right there? Ali?
And what's up? Yeah? Hi, how you doing? Thank you to
taking my call? What's up? What did you think of the ball game?
Yeah? It was a good not good game. The win is win.
That's how you always say, right, Yeah, I think it matters
how you play and who you beat and all that. And it's impressive to
me that the Clippers could shoot this poorly. The Bulls could be that hot
and they still find a way to win. They took care of the basketball
and that was the difference in this one. Along with Kawhi Leonard, Yeah,
I would say this. I was lucky, but scup play against Middlewaukee.
If you go Lessen forty Norway, it would compete them. You know.
Yeah, I'm with you on that. Milwaukee is going to be a
tough challenge. Joanness and Denni Kompo is still playing at an MVP level.
But I don't expect the Clippers to shoot this poorly from three. I mean
this is certainly Yeah, what's that? I said? Not back to back
weekend now, not in back to back games, And Luke Kennard and I
appreciate the phone call. Al Yun going over five. That just tells you
he's due. Nicholas Beatum going two of nine, he's due. The team
going twelve of forty four. They're much better than this, and I think
they will be. But winning six of seven now and their last six games
with Kawai and Paul George out there, this team has turned a corner.
I think now. The road trip is still treacherous. The road trip is
dark and full of terror. We brought that up last time. And they
still have three games left and their toughest test will come Thursday in Milwaukee.
Obviously, but I like the Clippers chances with the way they've been playing,
and especially because Kauai. I'm not gonna say he's peaking, but he's on
a run. He's on a special stretch. I can say, the best
scoring stretch of his career, eleven straight games of twenty four or more.
First time he's ever done that. All Right, let's go to Let's we
got a quill in Carson, A quill what's up. You're on Clippers stock
without Amassin. What's going on? Adam glad to be back on the show.
I haven't talked to you in a while. Well, let's not do
that again, man. I just have something on my mind and I had
to call and share it with you. I'm gonna be honest with you.
I'm I'm a die hard Clipper fan, been down with the Clippers a long
time. But this was the first time that we had our Superstars league,
and I begin to cringe. And the reason why I was cringe because what
I've noticed is a trend. Every time we have both of our superstars played
at the exact same time, we never play hard until recent this stretch of
six or seven games. Now they're finding their stride and now playing hard at
a high level. But in the beginning, every time they both will play,
it will be a soft game, and it makes me cringe. Adam,
Well, I'll say this. I think there's a sense of urgency that
wasn't there earlier in the season, or even just three weeks ago, because
they put themselves in a position. They're four games above five hundred, and
you can start to see the finish line and you can start to see where
you stack up in the West, how close you are to being the three
seat. They know they got to get wins, So I think there's something
to that, A Quill, What you're talking about here? Yes, Yes,
I love our squad, I love our chances, and I'm gonna go
back to my wish list. I wish I wish your five self way to
go back and get star boy A Quill. Yes, they don't have Paul
George and Kauai. Thing that. It doesn't make any sense. That level
of time travel doesn't work. I know, I know, I know,
Hey, Quill, let me know ahn SGA wins a playoff series, just
let me know. Let me know. I love SGA, But let me
know when he wins a playoff series as a number one option. What are
we talking about. I know he's having a great year. I know he's
having a great year. But you know a thing he's changed in a seven
game series. I know, I know, I know. But I love
that guy, man, I love that guy'll do I love Paul Georgia Kawai.
Though I love the chance the Clippers have of winning it all. What
about our backup center that's in New York now Isaiah Harten sign yeap, how
do we let him go? They couldn't afford him. He got eight million
per year. They could only pay him six at the mid level exception.
Oh man, hey, I hate that guy. Leave them too, Adam.
I'm not gonna hate on anybody getting their money. He earned it.
He hasn't been playing much though. We'll see what happens with him at the
trade deadline. I wouldn't be shocked if he ended up somewhere else. I
know a lot of Clipper Nation they'd love to see him back in a uniform,
backing up of eats the zoo Bots once again, because he was such
a spark off the bench. He was so good for this team, playing
hard all the time. But yeah, a different level of energy from the
Clippers. And there's also just better rotations right now. I think overall they've
been tightening things up there. They've only been playing nine nine man rotations lately.
We'll see if that changes in the future, because guys are still out.
No Marcus Morris, no John Wall. Not easy to figure out stuff
like that. Okay, let's go to Jose and Downey before we break here.
Jose, what's up are you doing man, great wind, great wind.
I gotta say, I love seeing them close it out on the defensive
side, not letting the Bulls get a shot off in the last possession.
They had plutch defense down the stretch. They had to lock them up.
I mean, Chicago only shoots. They only score one hundred and three points,
I should say, and it's because of all the turnovers they gave away
so many possessions. They were shooting the ball really efficiently when they got them
up, but they had twenty turnovers, right and then after the first half
where they just could the Clippers couldn't buy it three. I was happy to
see them step in, drive the lane, get those files, get themselves
in the game, and then limit their three point shots in the second half.
But taking the right three point shots when they had to, well,
I'll say this, the three point shots I thought they took in the first
half, or the right shots too. There was good process. If you're
getting wide open threes and you're a forty percent shooter, you gotta let it
fly. I'm sorry. Eventually the odds are gonna come back in your favor.
That is a part of the Clippers offense. Drive kick, swing,
find an open man for a three pointer. They just weren't falling. They
got a couple of big ones in the second half to go. In fact,
they ended up I want to say, they only hit three three pointers
in the first half, so they ended up hitting nine in the second half.
But yeah, they took a lot of them. They did. But
if you're getting those good looks, you gotta take those shots. Yeah,
that's true, that's true. That's what that's what design is. But I
just sometimes I dread those threes when they're just not falling. But oh yeah,
we all don't like them when they're not falling, but when they are,
the Clippers offense is a machine who can stop this team. So you
know, it's a quick question before you have to hang up, what do
you think they do in the trade deadline with maybe Marcus Morris and uh Covington
especially hearing out there that Ibaka might be available, or Harkenstein even willing to
maybe let them go for a second round. I'll touch on that on the
way back after the break. Thanks for helping me with the t's there,
I'll say in downy, appreciate you. Eight six six ninety eight seven two
five seventy eight six, six ninety eight seven two five seventy is the phone
number. Clippers win one oho eight to one oh three over the Bulls in
Chicago. They're two and one so far in the six game road trip.
They've won six of seven, six straight with Kawhi and Paul George out there,
and gets twenty seven off the bench from Norman Powell. I beats the
zoo bots was a four set times. Get him involved, get him some
easy buckets. They're always better off for it. Dump it off in a
big zoo. He can go to work on the block. He with six
of seven, with fourteen and twelve and three blocks more Clippers stop coming up
next while William Updyke on from Clips and Dip right here on the Los Angeles
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twenty nine and five as they win one o eight to one oh three in
Chicago over the Bulls. Welcome back in this is clippers Stock. I'm out
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eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy eight six six ninety eight seven
two five seventy. But joining the show now is William up Dyke from Clips
and did does the pod with myself and Chuck Mockler. Will Kawhi. Leonard
is all the way back last time that I checked. I don't know what
else we're waiting for, like outside of that extra gear he has in the
playoffs, which we obviously can't see right now, it's all there, Oh
absolutely. I mean the we talked about a while back, how the three
point shooting was returning, seemed like his legs were back under him, and
this one he get four dunks. I mean, it's just yeah, he's
back. He's fully back. Everybody pokes the bear. He's woken up now
and I can't wait to see that extra gear. Yeah, that extra gear
is going to be special, but there is still work to be done before
then. With the way things stack up in the West. But this was
one of those games where you know, the Clippers were that bad shooting wise,
outside of Kawai Norman Powell, they still find a way to win because
they created so many turnovers with steals. And you know, Paul George didn't
have his best ball game and he had sixteen points, but it took him
sixteen shots to get there. I do think he hit a couple of key
ones early in that fourth quarter when Kawhi Leonard was on the bench. He
crossed over a crusoe a couple of times and put him to the floor,
made him touch earth there and also hit a big jumper. But Norman Powell
and that surge off the bench, he's become so reliable and consistent. We're
not talking about a hot streak anymore. This is just who he is.
He's been doing this since early November now, Oh yeah, absolutely. I
mean when your guy who's like the sixth man up, I mean he can
waltzon to thirty points. He had ten free throw attempts, like it's just
I mean, it's just easy for him, which is great to see.
I mean, it just bolsters all of those lines, It bolsters any lineup
that he's in, especially when Kawhi and Paul George are both have to rest.
Like he can tread water or even carve out a leave. Yeah,
Norman Powell at twenty seven points on eleven shots. Twenty seven on eleven shots.
He had twenty points in the first goal percentage. It's an unreal He
also had a couple of those fifteen steals the Clippers ended up with in this
one. But as I was going out to the break, you know,
Big Zoo in twenty eight minutes with fourteen and twelve, and the last couple
of games with the two on three connection out there, they've looked for him
more. And I thought when he got involved offensively and was more active in
that second quarter, all of a sudden they got better defensively. He was
a force there. He had that big block and then hip in on the
other end. But he's six of seven from the field, Like they have
somebody they can exploit there with the way he can punish guys on offense.
And I just love seeing it finally more consistently the last three games next to
Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, he's been so good. Yeah, I'm glad
you bring up Big Zoo because he was like a key to me in that
second quarter comeback where they finally started to turn it around. They went to
him and it started, like I believe, it was a seven and oh
run, And as good as Kawhi and Norm Powell had been, they couldn't
get anything else going offensively. I mean, like the three point shooting terrible,
but to have that in your back pocket where you're big man cannot only
defend at an elite level, but there are times when you can lean on
him in certain matchups a little bit offensively, and that definitely like that.
That to me, like was the spark that like got everything kind of going.
And I also just feel like there's a vibe when big how's it going,
Like when Big Zoo is in that double double territory when he's getting to
eat on the offensive vent. It picked everything up, and I do feel
like it's another one of those things that's sort of contagious for this team.
Yeah, he had six of his fourteen points in that second quarter where things
started to turn down nineteen for the Clippers. Of course they've been there before,
but a lot of this season has been Okay, they're down big,
they make a comeback, but then they come up short in the fourth quarter,
not in this one because Kawhi Leonard and his clutch play late. But
I did just get a call on this. I'm gonna pass this question off
to you because I did ask Chuck this the other night too, a caller
asking what moves do you think could come with the Clippers. I just want
to know what camp you're in right now? Will with should they stand pat
and see what they have here with this squad that we thought on paper was
a championship team, this roster they put together coming into this year. Do
they still need a traditional point guard? Do they need that backup big more?
How do you see it right now? With the trade deadline just about
a little of our week away? Wow? I mean my thing is I
thought we should stand pat and now with the way that Kawhi Leonard is playing,
I just feel like you should take the biggest swing that you can.
Like that makes sense too, right. I'm not saying that we'll necessarily get
Fred van Vleied or something like that, but I mean in a game like
this, you know, Luke Kennard has regressed a little bit since that he
came back from that injury who was out since was six Marcus Morris. You
know not with the team right now, we're still able to get things done.
So what it does kind of get the wheel spin in on are you
able to make another move? I think consolidating, consolidating a guard makes makes
a lot of sense. I'm not in the camp of like, I don't
want to give up an asset for a backup center. I just don't think
that it's I don't think that it's necessary in terms of playoff matchups other than
someone who can just eat up a few fouls. How do you see the
game Thursday night playing out? This is the toughest game I think of this
road trip in Milwaukee against the honest and Dennick COOPO. But the Clippers are
playing so well right now. How do you feel about the matchup? Man?
The Bucks have had our number, our number, They've had a lot
of people's numbers, though they got a rolla decks on them. Look,
I like where the team's at right now. I think that you know,
we will rebound from this terrible three point shooting performance. And yeah, I
mean I think they I think they got a chance. I feel certainly much
more confident than I did a couple of weeks ago. But yeah, the
Bucks is a hard matchup. Uh yeah on the road. I don't know.
I think that the Bucks still might come out on top, but I'm
hoping for a hell of a fight. I at least guarantee the Clippers are
not going twelve or forty four from three. Again, it could be bad,
but twelve or forty four is just an extremely bad night from beyond the
arc. Luconard going oh five, that's not gonna happen. Not what the
looks that they got. All right, Well, I appreciate you coming on
tonight. I believe we'll have a tripod coming tomorrow with a fat, meaty
preview of that game in Milwaukee on Thursday with the Clips and Dip crew with
yourself and Charles Mockler as well. We'll appreciate it tonight, my friend,
Oh why dare coming up? Next final segment you'll hear from Coach Low and
Kawhi Island, and plus we'll get back to your phone calls. Clippers win
one o eight to one oh three in Chicago over the Bulls. And you're
listening to the Los Angeles Clippers Radio Network here on AMP five seventy o list
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slip quick Slickers wiel Street happen. Next Clippers will be in Brooklyn coming up
on this road trip. Next game, though, is in Milwaukee. They
win tonight Chicago one O eight to one h three over the Bulls thanks to
Kawai's brilliance. He had multiple blocks in this game that led to layups on
the other end, one in the first quarter that led to a Paul George
lay up, another in the second that led to a Norman Powell layup.
Just all world defense while giving you an efficient thirty three and the last eleven
games. Now it's twenty nine points while shooting over fifty five percent from the
field and over forty five percent from three as he goes three of six from
distance, and may have hit the biggest shot of the ball game, a
three pointer when they were up by one. I want to say it was
late in the fourth quarter. I'm gonna get the exact time for you,
because it merits that it warrants that. Yeah, Kawhi Leonard. It's one
oh one, one hundred with three minutes left, and the Bulls made their
pushes. I mean he had a steal to Martin Rose and two that was
big and got fouled going the other way. But that three pointer to make
it one oh four, one hunch or did you give them just a little
bit a breathing room? Huge for this Clippers team. If there was a
big play down the stretch, it was mostly just Kawhi Leonard making it.
But two free throws also when they were only up by one by Norman Powell,
who ended up ten for ten from the free throw line. Clippers win
by five in Chicago. Let's hear from coach Lou before you get back to
your phone calls post game. Just a critical, gritty type of ball game
where the Clippers didn't shoot it well, they just found ways to pull it
out though are down nineteen in the second quarter. Shooting really wasn't there all
night. Defense, I thought Zu did a good job, and then you
know it's tough with a picking pop five. You know, a guy us
on the run, on the move can come off, you know, down
screens and shoot threes. And then we went small, and I thought a
small unit really did a good job of getting us back in the game.
Norman Powell, I thought Roco was great. I thought Ni go He didn't
shoot the ball well, but defensively he was really good, and so defensively
it got us back in the game. He was able to get out in
transition, get a couple of easy ones, and it kind of got us
going. He got a normal He's done this so many times. I'll score
entire teams, bench units, and he had such a big second quarter getting
to the free throw line, beating his band repeated league, how much of
an advantage is that when you know that who girls of how games starts,
you got a guy who can not just outscore the entire teams to be able
to get hot quickly, Like yeah, I mean he's instant offense, you
know, like Vinnie Johnson, you know, just just come in the game.
He can get it going quick, and he can get to the free
throw line, he can make threes, he can tack down, he'll get
to the basket, and so he was huge for us tonight. I think
he's scoring with that small unit really helped us to get back in that game
and to be down I think four at halftime. That was huge after being
down nineteen. So his play was really good, like I said today off
the bench, and it has been for a while when when Reggie was struggling
shooting the ball like he was, what would made you want to stick with
And it was kind of clus because I know he can make big shots down
the stretch. And then I just thought we needed a ball him to initiate
the offense. I thought he did a good job picking PG up full court,
you know, and trying to wear him down, and so I just
thought we needed a traditional point guard in the game to just kind of initiate
and get us into our stuff. And like I said, Kawhi got some
really good shots down the stretch and he didn't make, but then he made
the big three and then the big two. But we got him to her
spots, got him the ball, and pgs some shots too that he normally
makes. And so I just felt that just orchestrating the offense, really getting
us into our sets, and whether we make the shot or not, just
getting good possession every time. And I thought we did that for the most
part, outside like two possessions in that fourth quarter. So some things we
gotta continue to keep working on. But it was a big win for us.
You know, like the fourth quarter against Atlanta, it wasn't pretty.
They didn't run away with it up one heading into the fourth and they led
by eight, and then Chicago battled back to have it to within one.
But the Clippers did enough. They made those plays when they needed to.
So those are type of victories you're gonna remember where and maybe the Atlanta game
even had an effect on this one. It just happened on Saturday. Okay,
you're on the road, you're in the lines. Then things aren't going
your way. The crowd is back into it. Demarduo's and starting to heat
up now and Kawhi calms him down. He hits a big three pointer.
The Clippers get some steals, they hit free throws down the stretch because they've
been there and done that. Poisonder noise. That's big for this team.
You'll hear from Kawuhi coming up here. But first, Morrison, Lombach,
Morris, what's up in the National Basketball Association? What do they call the
guy that has more steals than fouls? Kawhi Leonard they call him. They
call him the claw baby. They call him the Claw, and I guarantee
it. I haven't done no research on this. I love fact checking,
but I don't have no access to this kind of inflammation. I don't think
the guys ever suited up in the NBA and had more steals than he had
fouls at him. I ain't trying to be no company man on this one.
But when I heard Noel talking about that, when I said, what
I mean, come on, man, and then to show you how how
it is probably is true. It's probably true. The man had five steals
tonight, I said, you might not want to ask him that question.
More so after the man already had five steals. He really had no five
fouls to night had five steals in one game? Gee wiz? I mean,
come on, man, so the team is ready at didn't have one
foul. You didn't have five steals to zero fouls. Okay, you ain't
got the fact Chicket, you ain't got the fact check. We got evidence
tonight on that. We got Adam. Listen, these guys are on the
road. They got some intensity to him when they get back in town after
they win two more games. On this though, you're not gonna be all
the fourteen tickets. They're gonna be the highest ticket in the NBA. At
him, get me in the building. I will stand up. I will
sweep the house for you. Okay, but just get them mushers. Tell
me leave me alone and I'll just stand up, and you gotta get me
in that building. At him, come on, man, these guys are
rolling now. And you know a lot of people were kind of freaked out,
right, but Kawhi is not playing. Kawhi is not playing well.
Something you said a few weeks ago. Ain't nobody running away with the West.
Now we've got two teams that's doing pretty good and the Clippers that can
be darn good for the three spot. I mean, that's impressive considering where
we were the first ten games of the year. At him, give me
in them and I got to see the claud Okay, I'll stand up.
You ain't got to give me on the floor because you don't think you're gonna
be able to fog you tickets. Man, when they come back after this
road game, they're not the same team then left. When they come back,
they won't be the same team that left. The team that left,
we would have some doubts about the team that's coming back or we ain't got
no doubts, ain't nobody got no doubts, no more and no negativity.
And you know the brother calling burning abou kawai kawai. But about Canard going
oh for five, no problem. That means he went three for eight the
last two games. Is that right? Uh, it's somewhere in that range.
I'm not worried about Luke Kennard one bit one game where he went oh
for five, it's not gonna happen. Telling you if he goes over for
five to eight, that means he's gonna have when them games where he's gonna
shoot lights out, because that's just how this business is. But Adam hit
me in there, man, I will stand up. I'll sweep the fourth
for you guys, because when they get back to Los Angeles after this road
trip, because they're about to make a statement, don't let him beat Milwaukee.
And then I'm not worried about Brooklyn. Detroit beat Brooklyn. That's gonna
be a big game against Milwaukee. Right, But they got himself bad to
combo is the chiropractor got self from him and no trade nobody. We got
the team that you got, right, now we're gonna win with him or
we're gonna lose with him. We'll wait for the off season, Okay,
Adam, give me that building. Man, I'll talk to you later,
Morris, not about begging. I think I've done it before when he went
through this and we got him in. It'll happen at some point, Morris,
I promise. But they're still on the road for another week. Jose
and Southgate before we hear from Kauai. Jose, what's up, dumb?
Oh man, I gotta emphasize that second part there, but whatever. Oh
look, Adam, you know usually me, do you save me for last?
I'm a hot take, But today I want to listen to you.
But at the same time, I can't because we just want tonight and to
be honest, Thank you are Heart Radio. Thank you Ralph Lawler. You
know what I'm gonna say, Adam. We're on this, like said,
when we come back, practics are out of this. We're out of this,
all right, Adam. Let's go Clippers. I'mn't sure what he said
there at the end, but I liked it somehow. All Right, Clippers
win by five thanks to the man with the five longest fingers. Kawhi Leonard.
Is that princess broad I forget long fingers and four fingers, three fingers
like an introl Kawhi Leonard with five steals? How about that? And they
win by five? And here he was post game with Jamie Maggio. Yeah,
because Christina pink was in the championship game. Are night finish yer?
Close game? Definitely towards the end. Take me through those last few minutes
and how you guys we're able to close this out? Getting stops down in
limited him the one shot, getting that rebound, coming down with pace and
making shots. I'm not sure who got that steal at the end? Was
it you were Nico? I grabbed the ball, but out of like Zach
Lavinia's hands, but Nico end up getting a loose ball. You finished with
a game high thirty three points. But the team collectively had a very slow
start shooting the ball, some wide open looks that just we're not going How
do you guys shoot yourself out of a slow start like that? Just keep
a talking to pain, trying to get to the free ball line and knowing
that we're getting good looks and keep shooting the wide open shots. So you
guys have no one six of the last seven games. Are you closer to
where this team needs to be or wants to be? Uh? No,
we know we had a slow start. Assault we got a lot of catching
up to do, but we're making the right starts all right, quite thank
you. I love Kawai, the never satisfied chasing perfection. He always said,
no, we can get better. We can get better, We can
be much better, can be more consistent. But they're seven and three their
last ten games. They've won six of seven, and all six of those
victories coming with the two one three connection out there. Clippers in the fourth
spot currently in the West, a game and a half back of the Sacramento
Kings, who are in the three spot. They still play them two more
times. Those are gonna be huge games. But just like that, the
Golden State Warriors in the five spot, in one game back of the Clippers.
They've started to pick things up. They've won three in a row.
That's the longest losing or winning streak in the West right now. Three not
so much teams have beat each other up. Coming up there on Thursday,
the Clippers are taking on the two seed in the East, the thirty four
and seventeen Milwaukee Bucks and Janison Dina Kompo, the Greek Freak should be a
good one. Tip times seven PM. We'll have Clippers countown for you at
six on Thursday. Before we get out of here, I do want to
thank the Clippers organization, Noah Eagle, Brian Semen, Ralph Waller, s
Big Brothers, Jake Warner, Ahead engineer, producer, Katie Newton. Here
in the bank, the callers, the listeners until Thursday night, starting at
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